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CHAPTER VL
“It was the last word I heard from
you,” said Ij “you shouted it to mo
when your vessel was going away for
the last time. It has caused me a
world of misery. It may have been
followed by others words, but I did not
catch them. 1 asked you if you had
told her that I loved her and you an
swered: ‘Yes, bat—*”
Captain Guy slapped his leg. “By
George!” he said, “that was enough to
put a man on the rack. Mary, you
should have told him more than that.”
Mary Phillips wrinkled her forehead
and gazed steadfastly into her lap.
Suddenly she looked up.
“I remember it,” she said, “I remem
ber exactly what I answered or tried to
answer. I said: ‘Yes, but she knew it
before.’"
I sprang to my feet “What do you
mean?” I cried.
“Of course she knew it” she cried;
“we must both have been very stupid il
we naan’t known that. We knew is
fore we left New York; and, for my
part, I wondered why you diin t tell
her. But, as you never mentioned it
of course it wasn't for us to bring np the
subject.”
“Bertha knew I loved her?” I ejacu
lated. “And what—and how—what did
she say of it? What did she think of it?”
“Well,'’sail Mary Phillips, laughing,
“I could never see that she dreaded you.
I could never seo that she objected to it.
In fact, from what she said, and, being
just us two, of course she had to say a
good many things to me. I think she j
was very glad to find out that you knew ]
it as well as we lid.”
“Mary Phlllipsl" I cried, “where is
she? Tell me this moment!”
“Look here,” said Captain Guy,
“you’re leaving me out of this business
altogether. This is Mrs. MaryChesters.”
“Mr. Rockwell will be all right when
he gets over this flurry," said Mary to
her husband.
I acknowledged the correction with a
nod, for I had no time then for words
on the subject.
"Don’t get yourself flustered, sir,”
said Mary, “you can't go to her yet, it’s
too early. You must give the family
time to come down and have breakfast.
I am not going to be party to a scene
before breakfast nor in the middle of a
meal. I know the ways and manners
of that house and I’ll send you at ex
actly the right time.”
I sat down. “Mary—Mrs.—”
“Don't bother about names just now,”
she Interrupted, “I know who you’re
speaking to.”
"Do you believe,” I continued, look
ing steadfastly at her, “that Bertha
Nugent loves mo?”
“I don’t know,” she said, “that it’s
exactly my business to give this infor
mation, but under the circumstances 1
take it on myself to say that she most
certainly does. And I tell you, and you
may tell her if you like, that I would
not have said this to you if I hadn't be
lieved that this thing ought to be
clinched the minute there was a chance
to do it It’s been hanging off and on
long enough. Love you? Why, bless
my soul, sir! She’s been thinking of
nothing else for the past two or three
days but the coming of the postman, ex
pecting a letter from you, not consider
ing that you didn’t know where to ad
dress her, or that it was rather scant
time fora letter to come from La Guayra,
where Captain Stearns would take you
if he succeeded in picking you up.”
“The whole affair had a scanty air
about it,” said Captain Guy. “At least
that’s the way I look at it”
“You’ve never said any thing like that
before,” said Mary, rather sharply.
“Of course not” replied the captain.
“I wanted to keep you as merry and
cheerful as I could."
"Love you,” continued Mary Phil
lips, “I should say so. I should have
brought her on deck to wave her hand
kerchief to you and kiss her hand—per
haps, when you blew the state of your
feelings through a trumpet; but she
wasn’t strong enough. She was a pretty
weak woman in body and mind about
that time. But from the moment I told
her, and she knew that you not only
loved her, but were willing to say so,
she began to mend. And how she did
talk about you, and how she did long
that the two ships might come together
again. She kept asking me what I
thought about the condition of your ves
sel and whether it would bo likely to
sink if a storm came on. I couldn’t help
thinking that, as far as I knew any
thing about ships, you’d be likely to
float for weeks after we’d gone down
but I didn’t say that to her. And then
she began to wonder if you had under
stood that she had received your mes
sage and was glad to get it- And I told
she wrote, but ane must nave sain a
good deal, for she took a long time
about it. I wrapped it up perfectly
water-tight She made the flag herself
out of one of hgr own handkerchiefs
with her initial in the corner. She said
she thought you would like that”
“Oh, that it had come to me!” I cried.
“I wish from the bottom of my sou’
that it had,” said Mary, compassionate
ly. “It would have done you a lot of
good on that lonely ship.”
“Instead of which,” observed Captain
Guy, “some shark probably swallowed
it and little good it did him.”
“It put a lotof affection and consider
ation into him,” said Mary, a little
brusquely, “and there are other creat
ures connected with the sea who
wouldn't be hurt by that sort of thing.”
“There's a shot into me!” cried the
captain. “Don’t do it again. I cry
quarter!”
“I must go," T said, rising. “I can
wait no longer.”
“Well,” said Mary, “you may not be
much too soon, if you go slowly.”
“But beioie i go, ■ • tell mj
this: Why d d she not seui mo some
word trom Lisbon? Why dii she not
give Captain Stearns a line on a piece
of paper or some message?”
“A line! a message!” exclaimed Mary.
“She sent you a note; she sent you a
dozen messages by Captain Steams.”
"And I’ll wager a month’s pay," said
Captain Guy, “that he never delivered
one of them.”
“He gave me no note," I cried.
"It’s in the pocket of his pea-jacket
now,” said Captain Chesters.
“He did deliver some messages,” I
said, “after I questioned him; but they
were such as these: Keep up a good
heart; every thing’s bound to be right
in the end; the last to get back gets the
heartiest welcome. Now, anybody could
have sent such words as those.”
“Upon my word,” cried Mary Phil
lips, “those were the messages I sent.
I remember particularly the one about
the last one back and the heartiest wel
come.’’
“Confound that Steams!” cried Cap
tain Guy, “what did he mean by giv
ing *11 his attention to you and none to
the lady that he was sent for to see?”
“Good-bye, Mrs. Chesters,” I said,
taking her by the hand. “I can never
thank you enough for what yon have
snip, wita plans ior meeting agerr.
Every thing seemed to have turned
out in the best possible way.
We had each other and Mary Phillips
had some or. j to manage.
We should have been grieved if we
bad been obliged to leave her without
occupation.
At the moment of parting I drew her
aside. “Mary.” 1 said, “we have had
some strange experiences together and
I Shall never forget them.”
“Nor shall I, sir,” sho answered.
“Some of them were so harrowing and
:lose-shavod, and such heart breaking
disappointments I never had. The
worst of all was when you threw that
rope clean over our ship without hold
ing on to your end cf It. I had been
dead sure that the rope was going to
bring us all together.”
“That was a terrible mishap,” I an-
iwered; “what did Bertha think of it?”
“Bless my soul!” ejaculated Mary
Phillips, “uhe wasn’t on deck and she
never knew any thing about it. When
I am nursing up a love match I don't
mention that sort of thing.”
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ft Good Story
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Seasonable.
This time we have a splendid one
—though for that matter our stories
are all good. But this one is particu
larly so. Its title Is
In the iYUdst
of Alarms!
Bo Robert Barr, better Known
bytbe nom tie plume o!
Luke Stiarp.
If you expect to read It,
You will do well to
Keep • sharp look out.
Will Begii? Soop.
THE OCEAN HONEYMOON,
her over and over again that you must
have heard mo, for 1 screamed my very
loudest. I am very glad that I didn’t
know that you only oaught those two
words."
“Dear girl I” I ejaculated. "And did
she send mo a message on a life-pro
-Aerver?”
“You mean to say that you got it?”
cried Mary Phillips.
“No,” said I; “1JL floated away from
me. What was It?”
“I got up that little scheme,” said
Mary PhlUips, “to quiet her. I told her
that a letter might be fl ated to you
that way, and that, any way, It would
do uo harm to try. I don’t know wha (
UNITED.
done for her and for me. But how you
could leave her I really do not under
stand."
“Well,” said Mary, coloring a little,
“I can scarcely understand It myself;
but that man would have it so and he’s
terribly obstinate. But I don’t feel that
I've left her. She's in the best of hands
and I soe her nearly every day. Here’s
her address, and when you see her, Mr.
Rockwell, yon il find that In every way
I’ve told you truly."
I took a hearty leave of Captain Guy.
shook Mary by the hand once more,
rushed down-stairs, roused the sleeping
cabby, and glancing at the card or
dered him to gallop to 9 Ravlsdook ter
race, I'armley square.
I do not remember how I got Into the
house, what I said nor what I asked, nor
whether the family had had their break
fast or not, but the moment my eyes fell
upon my beloved Bertha I knew that In
every thing Mary Phillips had told me
truly. She came Into the room with
beaming eyes and both hands extended
With outstretched arms I rushed to
meet her and folded her to my breast.
This time there was no one to object
For some moments we were speechless
with joyful emotion, but there was no
need of our saying any thing, no need
of statements nor explanations. Mary
Phillips had attended to all that
When we had cooled down to the point
of speech I was surprised to find that I
had been expected, that Bertha knew
I was coming. When Mary Phillips had
left me that morning to prepare my
breakfast she had sent a message to
Bertha, and ‘hen she had detained me
until she thought it had been received
and Bertha was prepared to meet me.
"I did not want a:.y slips or misses.”
she said, when she exp ained the matter
to mo afterwards. “I don’t want to say
anyjthlng about your personal appoar-
r-nce. Mr. Rockwell, but there are plenty
cf servants In London who, if they
hadn't had their orders, would shut the
front door In the face of a much less
wild-eyed person than you wore, sir,
that morning.”
Bertha and I were married In London,
and two weeka afterward we returned to
America In the new ship Olancus, com-
Mnded by Captain Guy Chesters and
tm wife.
Our marriage in England instead of
America was largely due to the influ
ence of Mary Phillips, who thought It
would be much safer and more prudent
for us to be married before w* again un
dertook the risks of a aea voyage.
“Nobody knows what may happen on
the ocean,"she said, “but If you’re onoe
1 fairly married that much la aocom-
! pllshed, any way."
1 Our choice of a sailing vessel In which
1 to make the passage was duo in great
j part to our desire to keep company u
i long as possible with Captain Chesters
! and his wife, to whom wo truly believed
we owed each other.
| When we reached New York and
Bertha and I were about to start for the
| Catskill mountains, where wo proposed
I to spend the rest of the summer, we
| took leave of Captain Guy and his wife
with the warmest expression* of friend-
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Valuable farms in Florence and
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opposite Broad. Visit
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Seuring Machines,
Some of them almost as good as new
are now offered at the Darlington
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XTART8VILLE RAILROAD.
June 8, 1894.
MIXED TRAIN
Leave Hartsville 4.30 a m
Jovauu 4.45 a m
Floyd’s 5.05 a m
Darlington 5.25 am
Palmetto 5.40 a m
Arrive Florence 6.00 a m
Leave Floret: ce 7.85 p m
Palmetto. 7.60 p m
Darlington .... 8.20 pm
Floyds 8.35 p m
Jovaun 8.55 p n.
Hartsville 9.10 pm
J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt,
CHARLESTON, SUMTER AND
^ NORTHERN RAILROAD
CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receiver.
In Effect Jan. 16, 1894
NORTH. SOUTH.
9 8
P.M. P.M.
Lv 4.(0 Charleston 2.30 Ar
5.20 Pregnall’s 1.10
7.25 Sumter 11.02
8.37 Darlington 9.60
9 29 Bennettsville 9.00
9.52 Gibson 8.37
Ar 10.20 Hamlet 8.10 Lv
P.M A.M
No. 9 connects at Hamlet with S. A.
L. Vestibule train for Raleigh, Rich
mond. Washington. Baltimore, Phil
adelphia and New York.
No 8 connects with S. A. L. Vesti
bule train/rom above named points.
Trains run solid to and from Charles
ton.
C. MILLARD, Superintendent.
c.
A D. and C. A 8. RAILROADS.
In effect June 8, 1894.
MIXED TRAIN
Leave Wadesboro
2.00 p m
Bennett's
Morven’s
McFarland
(be raw
Cash's
4 10 p In
Society Hill
Dove’s
Floyd's
Darlington
Palmetto
Arrive Florence
Leave Florence
Palmetto
Darlington
Floyd’s
Dove’s
Society Hill
Cash's
Cheraw
McFarland
Morven's
Bennett’s
Arrive Wadesboro
Local Freight.
Ix-ave Darlington
Palmetto
Arrive Florence
Leave Florence
8.80 a m
Palmetto
Arrive Darlington
A. F. RAVENEL, President.
KJORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
* In effect June 3,1894'.
SOUTH BOUND.
N j. 85.
I.eave Florence
. 8.10a m
Lanes
4.05 a m
Arrive Charleston
0.10 a m
No. 23.
Jieave Florence
Kingstree
9.02 p in
Lanes
9.23 p m
Arrive Charleston
No. 53.
Leave Lanes
7 10 p m
Arrive Charleston
NORTH BOUND.
b.40 p m
No. 78.
Leave Charleston
Lanes
5.40 am
Kingstree
6 00 a m
Arrive Florence
7 10am
No. 82.
Leave Charleston
3.30 p m
Lane*
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Kingstree
. 5.67 p id
Arrive Florence
7.05 p in
No. 62.
Leave Charleston
7.15 a in
Arrive Lanes
No. 52 runs through to Columbia
via Central R. R. of S. C.
Train Nos. 78 and 14 runs via Wilson
and Fayetteville—Short Line—and
makes close connection for all points
North.
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* V AUGUSTA RALROAD.
In effect June 8, 1894.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 55.
Leave Wilmington 8 40 pm
Marion 6 81 p u
Arrive Florence 7.10 p m
No. 50.
Leave Florence 7.35 p m
Sumter 8.46 p m
Leave Sumter 8.48 p in
Arrive Columbia 10.10 p m
No. 58.
Leave Florence 3.15 a m
Arrive Sumter 4 21 a m
No. 52.
Leave Sumter 10.00 a m
Arrive Columbia 11.20 a m
No. 52 runs through from Charles
ton via Central Railroad; leaving
Lanes 8.48 a m, Manning 9 25 a in.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 51.
Leave ColumbU . 4.80a m
Sumter... . 5.53 a ju
Arrive Florence . 7.10 a m
No. 68.
Leave Florence 7.40 a m
Marion 8.23 a m
Arrive Wilmington 11.10am
No. 58.
Leave Columbia 4.20 p m
Arrive Sumter 5.50 p m
No. 59.
Leave Columbia
Sumter 5.55 p m
Arrive Florence 7.05 p m
No. 53 runs thiougu vo cnarleston
via central Railroad, arriving Man
ning 6.28 p m Lanes 7.06 p m,
charleston8-40 pm.
Trains on Manchester and Angnsta
B. R-, leave Florence daily except Sun
day, 3.15 a. m., arrive Denmark 8.17
a. m. Returning leave Denmark S.iiS
p. m., arrive Florence 7.06 p. m.
Trains on Wilmington, Chadhoum
and Copway Railroad leave Chad-
bourn at 10.10 a m, arrive at C< nway
12 30 p in, returning leave Conway at
2:00 p. m., arrive Cbadbouru 4:50 p.
m. Leave Cbadbouru 8.85 p in
arrive at Hub 8 20 p. m. Re
turning leave Hub 8.15 a m, arrive at
Chadbourn 9.00 a in. Daily exopet
Sunday.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Genl I