Year: 1873

A Romance Beguu In the heDriues


and Continued ON the Pacih


COnst.


From the Concord IN. H. Patriot.l


Twenty.six years ago James Sander
son, a respectable person residing in the
Scottish Hebrides, then verging on forty
years, made court to a girl some sixteen
years of age, and was accepted; but a
rival much younger interfered, and bore
off the prize. This made Sanderson
feel revengeful; and the girls new lover
having been engaged in smuggling San
derson informed upon him, and he had
to leave the islands, to which he never
came back. The people were so violent
against Sanlerson that he, too, was
forced 10 leave, but had married before
doing so, his wife being taken to spite
his old mistress, who had not got mar
ried. u.


Arriving on the American Pacific
coast in safety, he purchased a large
tract of land few miles north of Fort
Langley, and devoted himself to its
agricultural development with so much
energy and skill that few years made
him comparatively wealthy Better than
this, however the new life brought with
it such endearment of the woman whom
he had welded without other love than
he had been able to simulate for her de-
ception, that the increase OF their chill
dren was his conversion into the fondest
of husbands; and when, in 1861, he be-
came a widower, he remained so ten
years, when he sent home to a sister in
the Hebrides to engage wife Tor him.
His cid flame was selected, and said she
was willing to 90 to him whom she had
Tilted twenty-five years before.


From the time OF her second lover 5
hasty flight under the denunciation OF
his enemy, the smugglers sweetheart
had never heard Of that individual
again; and the lapse of time and the
increasing burdens of her lowly estate
made her much less imperious at forty
than she was at sixteen. The wealthy
farmer of British Columbia sent her
ample means for her outfit and voyage,
and the long voyage was accomplished
without incident as far az San Francisco.
From the latter city she was to proceed
ND the coast to her destination on q
steamer In which passage was specl-
ally secured for her, and while awaiting
this vessel she was seen and recognized
at hotel by the accepted lover of her
youth, who had been in CalifornIs aver
SINCE his gntiMely departure from Hebrl-
des, There was dramatic meeting, a
long story on either side, and-alas, for
the waiting widow-a full revival OF the
old love,


Both lovers, however, were much
sobered by the discipline of maturer
years; and the lady, having explained
by whose wish and means she was in
America, declared that she must go on
ward as she had promised, and fulfill her
engagement if it was still exacted. She
woald Faithfully tell all TO him who
awaited her at the end Of her journey,
confess that she could never love him
now as she had lately thought possible,
aud abide by his own decision. If he
vet claimed her he must be obeyed; if
not, che would return to San Francisco.
As the story ends With hsr temperance
in the Californian city few days ago,
and quiet marriage there to the former
smuggler, it may be inferred that the
Columbian widower was at once sensible
and magnanimous under his last disap-
pointment, and finally proved himself
The friend Of the woman with whom fate
Asd twioe denied him a nearer, dearer
relatioDshIR,