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44 M L. AONF.W.
A MI1)DMAGF.D LOTT-STOUT.
Tliey lisit pomp, a little group of
f Ion 11 y fncps. to wiitcH mo off, with
wiivlnj liniulkorchlels and kindly
good-byes ; mid I stood on tlio stern
nodding and waving buck, till tho
steamer swept down tho river out of
their ie.ht.
I knew I should have their prayers
that tho groat sea might be gcutlo
with mo; 1 knew they would watch
tlio weather, and look for the telegram
of the arrival of our ship ; yet I knew
I was taking nothing from their lives,
ftud that they each would go homo
hardly missing nie; go it was with no
great wrench of heart thnt I saw tho
pilot put off from us, and took (ho
lust look at my native shores.
During moBt of the passage I wns
Just romforlnbly seasick, so I sal all
the day long iu a rcclining-chair on
deck, watching tho white caps on the
purple and green and blue waves that
mounted and full, down and tip, up
and down, away out to tho fair liori
lon. I saw the shining nautiluses
float by, and now and then a whale, or
a shoal of porpoises, or a sail, speed
ing white full across tho water.
1 saw alfo a good many other things
nearer by; for I didn't put my eyes
in my pocket along with my short
sighted gliiMes ; n:id nobody was
much likely to mlt.d a lnbldlc-ngcd
Woman in hood and waU'rproof.
The first thing I s iw was n young
girl with dirk ryc., and brown
huir that rippled itelf into a tanglo
of rough curls whenever she look off
bcr net. She was not so very pretty,
nor so very brilliant ; but there wus a
piquant t harm about her that attract
ed half the passengers before
tho first day whs over. II y tho end
of the second day, everybody, from the
captain to the ship's giu-gcon, and
from tho siirgouu to tho cabin-boy,
wns eager to show her attention ; and
everybody was met by the same gonial
smilomid lively letoit.
She won her way at once into my
heart by tho kindly thought that led
her to bring little relishes from the
tablo to tempi my sickly appetite, and
to soothe my forehead with bny-wntcr
and gcutlo touches of her shapely
brown hands, where a great emerald
glittered, encircled by diamonds.
Very soon she got into the hubitof
drawing her rug beside my chair, and
sitting on the dock leaning agann-t me,
so that 1 might "pet her,'' as uho
suid.
This was how it happened that my
quiet, out-ol'-t lie-way corner catno to
bo the centre of the life and gayety
and romauoa of tho whole chip
board. it seemed litis young girl, Rosa
Amour, was an only child, and an
orphan, going to an uncle iu Gernmiiy,
her nearest of kin.
" Dear heart ! 1 hope her uncle
w ill bo wine as well as loving," suid
I to myself very often ; forhho seemed
too fragile n bubble of humanity to
drift on through life alone.
Tho tips of her brown curls" were
lighter than tho rest ; and hero and
there were little bright touches all
over bur hair, as though thu suu was
shining in spots on it. One morning
I sat coiling tlio.-e gleams of sunshino
around my fingers, and watching a
flock of Mother Carey's chickens skint
restlessly over tho reBtloss water,
thinking these thoughts about Hosa,
and having hnr foft presence alone to
myself for a few moments. Not many,
however ; soon, up camo a Now Zca
lauder; of courso there was a New
Zetifxndcr, or an Australian, on our
b at.
' i'ou are very lowly, Miss Ar
mour," said ho. " Let me bring you
a chair."
Thank you; I prefer to sit here ou
my rug, and lmvo Miss WcIIb pet
ine," replied Rosa turning up hcreyus
languidly. The deek U my favorite
seat, if I can only have au excuse to
sit on it."
'But you need Komcthiug over
you," persUtcd tho New Zcalandcr,
going away, and coining back directly
with his own heavy gray wrap. Thou
he scaled himself ou n low camp-stool
beside her, folding tho wrap ovor the
two. " I never mv so rough a sea as
this all the way from Honolulu to San
Francisco," said he, looking out upon
the gentle swell of the lazily-mounting
waves.
" Rough !" cried Miss Armour. u I
ant sure tho ocean is as smooth as a
mill-pond 1"
"CM but not as compared to the
Pucitic peaceful ; it wus rightly
named, We have never such gales
ou that as sweep tho Atbmtic, but
only tho gentlest westerly breezes."
The New Zealander shivered as he
spoke, and drew his wrap closer over
his knees. We have the most chnrm
ing climaio iu New Zealand," he
went ou ; " we are never too hot, and
never too cold. In f.mi, wo never
think of thu weather. And the soil is
the moft fertile iu the world."'
"Pity ills such nu out-of-the-way
part of the earth that nobody can live
there," said Miss Armour.
" Ueg your pardon, miss; there aro
several English towns of thirty
thousand inhabitants- each ; and wo
never think of ourselves as being out-of-iho-way,
but rather feel sorry for
those who live so far ofl," returned
tho other, bending his tall figure
earnestly forward.
Rosa leaned her pretty head towards
hint in a confiding altitude of in
tcrest, and laughed : " Oh, so you nro
tho people, and wixdom is going to
dio with you !" raid fhe. ""iJut
what do you do out there in the heart
of tho universe ?"
" We dig gold for one thing, and
raise sheep for another millions anil
millions of them ; from thirty tolorty
vessels aro constantly plying to Eng
land with the tallow mid pressed
wool."
"What do you do with all that
mutton ' asked looking idly at
the light lu her ring, and then as idly
at tho light in the speaker's eyes.
" We use what wo can," waa tho
reply ; "and sometimes, 1 am sorry to
say, wo bury the flesh not usually ;
but sometimes an order will coino to
one fanner for a thousand sheep, if
you please ; and all ho can do is to clip
off tho wool, get out the fat, and bury
tho carcasses."
" What a pity the meat can't be
sent to tho hungry poor at home I
Why don't somebody condense it as
they do tho beef in Texas?" 1 said
in my practical way.
" In good time, I dure nay somebody
will; but wo can't do everything at
once," replied the New Zealander,
looking wilh sudden interest at tho
gamo of shuMri-boai-d being played
beside us.
Just then nlongcanie tho ship's sur
geon, a blonde youth iu uniform with
with his hair parted in thu middle.
"Miss Armour," said ha, " tho gun
Is to be fired at tho bow; will you
eomo ami 6co it done ?''
Miss Armour started up at onco,
turning tho t.ame half-confiding glance
and ready smile upou him she had
been giving us.
" I nm going lo Have my rug wilh
you ; I shall come back," said she,
beaming over her shoulder upon me
as she took the surgeon's arm iml
went away.
The New Zealander looked after
her, tried to console himself by draw
ing his wrap in another fold across his
knees, did not succeed, and finally got
tip and went awny. Of courso it was
not worth his while to make himself
agrccble to a middle-aged woman in
hood and waterproof. So I eat, and
looked at the likene.ds of a lake among
the sunset clouds, lend tried to decide
Whether I had better take oatmeal
gruel or biscuit-tea lor my supper;
wondering the while, half uncon
sciously, about tho old chord in my
memory that was iilway being struck:
by a certain musical .ring in the New
Zealan dor's voice.
After an hour or so the gun was
fired ; aud presently Miss Armour
came back, with tho disorder of the
strong sea-wind in her, and its fresh
ness iu her pretty pink checks.
"I've come ns 1 said," sho mur
niered, dropping at mv feel again, and
Sinilihg up, as though sho had got
irherc sha best loved to be just such
a smile as she would have given lo the
stokers dowu in flic enyine-room, or
to tho ship's cat. Hut it was lovely to
look upon whilo it lattcd; and wo
iniddlo-uged people have learned to
warm ourselves in any chance lay of
sunlight, without stopping to consider
Whether it is likely to be perpetual.
This time the bit of sunshine did nt
slay long; for there came up an artist
with his sketch-book ; and when Mi-s
Armour hud su.Hclently admired his
graphic pencilling of the captain and
tho quarter-master, ami tlio sea sick
occupant of au upper berth, it was
timo to throw the log; and so ho
loro her off, to find out by her own
eyes whether we wore actually going
at the rote of thirteen knot or only
twelve and a half.
That wo how the days went. Tho
passenger read and paced the deck,
played games mid guessed riddles, aud
were always hungry; tho pilot stood
steady aud firm at tho wheel ; the sail
ors ran up and down about the rigging
like overgrown spiders, and were for
ever scouring and scrubbing, tying
and untying, drawing up and kiting
down. Thus at last wo had coniu
safely almost to our desired haven.
With fair sailing, ve were only one
day out from port ; and, fond as wo
bad grown to be of each other, we
were getting impatient lo part.
MIks Armour, during all the voy
age, had kept on ns she began, beguil
ing every ono with her trick of lip
and eye. They ran after her like boys
at the string of a kilo. Well, they had
nothing bettor to do jtiht then; aud
when she hail faded i ill, as a rainbow
fades, 1 made nu doubt she would be
as easily forgotten, or only remem
bered as a midsummer's day-dream,
by all, miles it might bo a solitary,
warm-hearted man like the New Zea
lander. To tell the truth, I was a lit
tle sorry for him. Evidently life had
not brought him all it might, and ho
was hungry for the love and con
fidence that had never been his. So I
was afinld ho would miss this little
sparkle of girlhood and warm youth,
and find tho void deeper when it had
gone out.
To the very lost day, Rosa kept her
place by my chair; and to tho very
last tho New Zealander kept his placo
by her. when no one younger stepped
in to curry her off, which was pretty
oflen, to bo 6tirc. Then he always
quietly wont away himself, with a
kind of gravo regret in his face. On
this last morning, Miss Armour had
just lef t us along with a young lawyer,
to drop oranges and lemons among
the steerage passengers, when I uo
tlced the New Zealander looking after
her with a sadder regret than usual
almost a pain in his eyes. Ho had
such handsome dark eyes ! I could
siio that without my glasses.
" Now," said I to myself, " I hopo
ho isn't going to get sott a scnsihlo,
gentlemanly, agreeable man like him,
and quite old enough to bo her fa
ther!" And so 1 looked at him to see
if ho wa, w hen suddenly he turned
upon mo.
At least you might have written,
Agatha Wells!" said he, sharply.
I started, you may think, to hear
my own name spoken so familiarly by
a stranger; when, looking again, be
hold I I saw beneath tho bronze, and
under the wrinkles and behind the
beard, a face that twenty years before
was the dearest iu the world to mo
tho face of Duncan Ashley I We
parted ono day, expecting to meet on
the next; but that evening ho was
called nwny, mid wroto instead of
coming. In the letter he said what he
had said boloro with his eyes yes,
those same beautiful eyes that I was
tho choice of his heart and tho dcslro
of his life.
" Answer mo," said lie ; " I cannot
wait till I see you."
So I onswerod a long, foolish let
ter, though there was no need of
writing, for ho had read all I could
Eay long before, with those eyes of his.
Then I watched and waited for him,
but never saw him or heard ono word
moro. If you are young, you can im
agine tho slow dying-out of hope and
expectation; and if you aro old, you
know how euch things can bo lived
over, and hidden iu secret graves.
But now, ns though tho graves had
been opened and tho judgment set,
camo this sudden reproachful question
up from tlio buriod past. I fairly
caught my breath, as I turned back
my eyes, and looked him iu the faca
again.
"Forgivo me," said ho directly, in a
gentler tone. " I did not mean to
speak. You brought it out with your
eyes ; that questioning turn was so
familiar. Of course you were quilo
light, and I never blamed you. I
never meant you should see mo again;
but the temptation lo feel myself be
side you, only to bo in tho soothing
charm of your presence, was too great.
It has been a blessing I shall carry
wilh me all the rest of my life."
Ho was rising to go away, but I put
out mv hand. " 1 did write, Duncan
Ashley," said I; "tho letter must
have gone wrong."
" You did ! You wrote I" he cried,
sinking back in his chair again, and
looking at mo eagerly. " What did
you say ?"
'There was only ono thing I could
say, aud I said that," I nnswered,
blushing as though I had just written
tho letter.
A niiddle-agod woman in hood and
waterproof I liut, dear mo I it was
only my face that was niiddlc-ugcd,
alter all; my heart was as young and
silly us ever. And us for Duncan's
lace, tho marks of care, aud thought,
mid time, fell off, leaving iu it only
tho eternal youth of love.
It was the old story of a lost let
ter, and tho older story of a proud
man believing himself rejected and
bumilitated, and fleeing to the cuds
of the earth with his pain.
'Twenty precious years wasted 1"
said my Now Zeulander. " We will
not bo separated another day while
we both live. Thcro is a clergyman
among our passengers, and we will be
married this very hour."
Thut was so liko his headlong de
cisions ! Certainly ho did need a so
ber second thought like ine for ballast,
"That cannot bo," I cried; "the
eereinony wouldn't bo legal without
a license or something. Aud I would
by uo meuiis do unything so sensa
tional aud conspicuous."
Hut, ble.s your heart I 1 might as
Well have tried to wipo up tho Allan
tic with my pocket-handkerchief. Uo
was so t't'icved, nud so impatient, aud
so rcolulc (.uml, indeed, when one
cullies to think of it, twenty years U
long enough for an cnguo.mcnt), that
I finally dropped off my waterproof
and my sen-sickness, und stood up be
hind the binnacle, find was married
before eight bells that very uioralnrf
ring and all. Duncan produced it
from a small casket, whore ho had car
ried it in his waistcoat pocket for the
Whole twenty years.
" I could never bear to put tho lit
tle thing away," said ho, looking at It
tenderly.
The next day we came (o port, with
tho tun shining ami our Hags llylnj.
There was n flurry of good-byes, tv
hoisting of tratiks, a welcoming of
friends on the shore, and a glad hur
rying lo and fro.
Among the reU wns an instant's
nestling of Miss Armour's lips on my
check, and a little ding of her hand la
mine, tho vanishing of a smile, and
sho was gone, liko liio fla-di of a fire
fly, out of my sight forever. Rut
wherever he and howevor slm
fares, sho has I ho daily blessing of
two middio-aged hearts, whoso way
to each other sho uncjiisoloujly
lighted.
Idiots ix CnuitiTu. A clergyman
was recently annoyed by people talk
Ing and giggling. Ho paused, looked
at fho disturbers, and said ' I am
always afraid, lo reprovo thoso wha
misbehave, for thia reason. Somo
years sinco,ns Iwnspreaching, a young1
man who sat beforo mo wasconstantly
laughing, talking and making uncouth,
grimaces. I paused and administered it
sovero rebuke. After the close of tho
service, a gentleman said to mc, 'Sir,
you have made a great mistake. That
young man you reproved Is an Idiot.'
Since that 1 have always been nftnid
to reprovo those who misbehave them
selves iu chapel, lest I should repent
that mistake, and reprove another
Idiot." During tho rest of the servica
there was good order.
Dr. Chalmers beautifully saidt
" The little I have seen In tho world,
and known of the history of mankind,
teaches mo to look at their' errors In
ftr ow, and not In anger. When I
take the history of one poor heart that
has siuuml and suffered, and represent
to myself tho struggles and tctnptc
tious it has passed through the brief
pulsations of joy; tho tears of regret ;
tho feebleness of purpose; tho scorn
of tho world that has little charity;
the desolation of the soul's Knnctuaiy,
and thrcotoniiig voices within ; health
gone, happiness gone I would fuira
leave thu erring soul of my fellow-,
man with Him from whose hands it.
came."
The ChvMian Union tells a good'
story: Tho Rev. Mr. Laurie, ot Eric,
exchanged with Dr. Chupiu on Sun
day, and soon after he appciuvu iu tiie
desk people began to go aivay. He
watchod tho exodus a few minutes,
aud then rising, said iu a deep voice,
clearly heard throughout tho church,
aud with just sufficient Scotch brogue
In his voice to givo rucinesg to his
words : "All those who came here to
worship Almighty God will please
join in singing a hymn, and while
they are doing so, those, who came
hero to worship E. II. Chapln will
have an opportunity to leave the
church." His audienco did not dim
inish after that.
A gentleman in Bombay, seeing an
anchorite silting under a cocoauut
tree, asked for an interest in his pray
ers. Tho unchorilo replied ho would
with pleasure grant tho request, but
he scarce knew what best to aslc for
him. " I have seen you often." said
he, aud you appear to enjoy good
health, and to have everything that
ran conduce to human happiness ; per-,
baps tho best thing I can ask for you
will bo a yrv.h fu. heart.
I If the general tendencies to ecclesi
astical union are the manifestations of
an "epidemic," as somo assert, it ia
not tho less providential. Certainly
thcro is no grout sorrow of death iu it.
A recent traveler savs: "What al
ways impresses mo nioro than any
thing else in Egypt and Palestine has
been the entire alieucc of cheerful or
exhilarating music, especially from
children. Yon never hour them sing
ing In the huts. 1 never heard a song
thut deserves tlio name in thu streets
or houses of Jerusalem. )no heavy
burden of voiceless sadness reds upon
that forsaken land. The daughters of
music have been brought low. The
mirth of tahrels eeuselh, tho noise of
them thut rejoice cndelh? tho joy of
tho harp ceuseth.' "
IfGoilueedod worship Ho would
not bo God. It is you thut need t4
worship Him.
Many w ho ilcem death too sacred a
subject f n- jc' l do not ho-itrttc to Ji's
about l.ud.