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i
A MIDDLK-AGED LOYC-ST0KT.
They lind conic, a llttlo group of
fWon lly fnccs. to wnlcH ino off1, with
waving tinmlkorchicis and klndl'
gooil-byci ; and 'I stood on the stern
nodding and waving buck, till tho
steamer swept down the river out of
their sight.
I knew I should have their prayers
that tho great sea might be geullo
with mo; I knew they would watch
tho weather, and look for the telegram
of tho arrival of our ship; yet I knew
I was taking nothing from their lives,
and that they each would go homo
hardly missing me ; so it was with no
great wrench of heart Hint I saw the
pilot put off from us, and took tho
lost look at my native shores.
During most of the passage I was
Just comfortably seasick, so I sat all
the day long iu a reclining-chair on
deck, watching tho white caps on the
purple and green and blue waves that
mounted and fell, dowu and up, up
and down, away out to the fiiir hori
zon. 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.
I saw alo a good many other things
nearer by; for I didn't put my eyes'
in my pocket along wilh my short
sighted glasses ; mid nobody was
much likely la tnii.d a iniddle-ngcd
woman in hood nud waterproof.
The first thing I s:iw was a young
girl with dirk eyes, and brown
hair that rippled itself into a tauglo
of rough curls whenever she took off
her uot. She was not so very pretty,
nor so very brill hint ; but there wus a
piquant charm about her that attract
ed half the passengers beforo
tho first day wus over. By tho end
of the second day, everybody, from the
captain to the Bhip's surgeon, and
from tho surgoon to tho cabin-boy,
wus eager to show her attention ; and
everybody was met by the same gonial
smile and lively retoi t.
Bhe won her way at once into my
heart by tho kindly thought that led
her to bring little relishes from the
tablo to tempt my Mckly appetite, and
to soothe, my forehead with bay-water
and gcutlo touches of her shapely
brown hands, whore a great emerald
glittered, cneiivlcd by diamonds.
Very soon she got into the habit of
drawing her rug beside my chair, and
sitting on tho deck leaning aganiKt me,
so that 1 might "pet her,'' as sho
said.
Tliis was how it happoucd that my
quiet, out-of-the-way corner camo to
bo the centre of the life and gnycty
and roiiioiica of tho wholo ship
board. a seemed this young girl, Rosa
Ar nour, was an only child, and an
orphan, going to an uncle in Germany,
her nearest of kin.
" Dear heart I I hope her uncle
will bo wise m well as loving," said
I to myself very often ; for nho seemed
too fragile a bubble of humanity to
drift on through life alone.
The tips of her brown curls were
lighter than tho rest ; and hero and
there were little bright touches all
over hot" hair, as though tho suu was
shilling in spots on it. One morning
I sat coiling those gleams of sunshino
around my fingers, and watching a
flock of Mother Carey's chickens skim
restlessly over tho restless water,
thinking these thoughts about Rosa,
and having her soft presence alone to
myself for a few moments. Not many,
however; soon, up camo a Now Zea
laniler ; of courso there was a New
ZeVander, or an Australian, on our
b at.
" You are very lowly, Miss Ar
mour," said ho. " Let me bring you
a chair."
" Thank you ; I prefer to sit here on
my rug, and havo Hiss Wells pet
me," replied Rosa (Mining up hcroyus
languidly. The deck U niy favorite
seat, if I can only have ou excuse to
sit on it."
But you need something over
you," porsistcd tho New Zcalaudcr,
going away, and coining back directly
with his own heavy gray wrap. Then
he seated himself on n low camp-stool
beside her, folding tho wrap over the
two. " I never saw so rough a sea as
tlds 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
am sure tho ocean is as smooth as a
mill-pond I"
" O ! but not as compared to the
Pacific peaocftil ; It was rightly
named, We have nover such gales
ou that as sweep tho Athiuiic, but
only the gentlest westerly breezes."
The New Zcalandcr shivered as he
spoke, and drew his wrap eloser over
his knees. Wo iavc the most charm
ing cliiuuto in New Zealand," he
went on ; " wo are never too hot, and
never too eoUI. In f.wt, wo never
think of the weaiiiir. And the soil is
the most fertile in the world.''
"Pity It is such nil out-of-the-way
part of the earth Hint nobody can live
there," said Miss Armour.
' l!cg your pardon, miss; there are
several English towns of thirty,
thousand inhabitants each ; and wo
never think of oursclvca as being out-of-the-way,
but rather feel sorry for
those who live so far ofl'," returned
the other, bending his tall figure
earnestly forward.
Rosa leaned her pretty head towards
him in a confiding aitiimlo of in
terest, and laughed : Oh, so you are
tho people, and wisdom is going to
dio with you !" raid she. ""But
what do you do out there in the heart
of tho universe ?''
" Wo dig gold for one thing, and
raise sheep for another millions and
millions of them ; Iroin thirty toiorty
vessels aro constantly plying to Eng
land with the tallow- mid pressed
wool."
"What do you do with all that
mutton ? usked ltoa, looking idly at
the light In her ring, and then as idly
at tho light in the speaker's eyes.
" Wo uso what wo can," was tho
reply; "and sometimes, I am sorry to
say, wo bury the flesh not usually ;
but sometimes an order will conio to
ono farmer for a thousand sheep, if
you plcnso ; and all ho can do is to clip
off tho wool, get out the fat, and bury
tbo carcasses."
" What a pity the meat cau'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 timo I dare say somebody
will; but we cau't do everything at
once," replied the New Zcalandcr,
looking wilh sudden interest at tho
game of shuMs-boai'd being played
beside us.
Just then nlongcaino tho ship's sur
geon, a blonde youth in uniform with
with his hair parted in thu middle.
"Miss Armour," said he, " tho gun
Is to be fired at the bow; will you
como and sco it done ?"
Miss Armour started up at onco,
turning tho same half-conliding glance
and ready smile upou him sho hud
boen giving us.
" I am going to leave my rug with
you; I shall come bark," said she,
beaming over her shoulder upou ine
as she took the surgeon's arm mil
went away.
Tho New Zealander looked after
her, tried to console himielf by draw
ing his wrap in another fold across his
knees, did not succeed, and finally got
up and went away. Of courso it was
not worth his while to make himself
agrccble to a middle-aged woman in
hood and waterproof, fco I sat, and
looked at the likeness of a lake among
the sunset clotidn, und tried to decide
Whether I had better take oatmeal
gruel or biscuit-tea ior my supper;
woudoring tho while, half uncon
sciously, about tho old chord in my
memory that was olvvay being struck
by a certain musical .ring in the New"
Zealander's voice.
Alter an hour or so the gun was
fired; aud presently Miss Armour
came back, wilh the disorder of tho
strong sea-wiud in her, and its fresh
ness iu her pretty pink cheeks.
"I've come as 1 said," she mur
dered, dropping at ray feet again, aud
smiling up, as though she hud got
irhero sho best loved to be just such
a smile as she would have given to the
stokers down in the engine-room, or
to tho ship's cat. But it was lovely to
look upon whilo it lasted; aud wo
iniddio-aged people havo learned to
warm ourselves in any chance ray of
sunlight, without stopping to consider
whether it is likely to be porpctual.
This time the bit of sunshine did irt
stay long ; fur there came up an artist
with his sketch-book ; and when MUs
Armour had sufflciently admired hi
graphic pencilling of the captain and
tho quarter-master, ami tho sea-sick
occupant of an upper berth, it was
timo to throw thu log; and so ho
Lore her oO', to find out by her own
eyes whethor we wero actually going
at the rate of thirteen knots or only
twelve and a half.
That was how the days went. Tho
pasuiigeri read and pared the deck,
played games und guessod riddles, and
wero always hungry ; tho pilot stood
steady and firm at the 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 letting
down. Thus at hist we had comu
safely almost to our desired haven.
With fair sailing, wo were only one
day out from port ; and, fond as wo
had grown to be of each other, w
were getting impatient to part.
Miss Armour, during all the voy
age, had kept on as she began, beguil
ing ovcry ono with her trick of lip
and eye. They ran after her like boys
at the string of a kite. Well.tbey had
nothing better to do just then; aud
when he had faded c ut, as a rainbow
fades, 1 made uu doubt Ue would be
as ensily forgotten, or only remem
bered hs a midsummer's day-dream,
by all, unless it might bo a solitary,
warm-hearted man like the New Zea
lander. To tell tho 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. 8o I
was afraid he would miss this little
sparkle of girlhood and warm youth,
and find tho void deeper when it had
gone out.
To tho very last day, Rosa kept her
placo by my chair; and to tho very
last tho New Zealander kept his place
by her. when no ono younger stepped
in to carry her ofl', which was pretty
often, to bo sure. Then he always
quietly wont away himself, with a
kind of gravo regret in his face. On
this hist morning, Miss Armour had
Just left us along with a young lawyer,
to drop oranges and lemons among
tho steerage passengers, when I no
ticed tho Now Zealander looking after
her with a sadder regret than usual
almost a pain in his eyes. Ho had
such handsome dark eyes ! I could
soo that without my glasses.
" Now," said I to myself, " I hopo
ho hn't going to get soft a sensible,
gentlemanly, agreeable man like him,
and quite old enough to bo her fa
ther!" And so I looked at him to see
if ho wa, when suddenly he turned
upon mo.
' At least you might havo written,
Agatha AVells !' said he, sharply.
I started, 09 you may think, to hear
my own name spoken so familiarly by
a stranger; when, looking again, bo
hold I I saw beneath the bronze, and
under tho w rinkles and behind tho
beard, a face that twenty years before
was the dearest in tho world to me
the face of Duncan Ashley I We
parted one day, expecting to meet on
the next; but that evening ho was
called nwny, and wroto instead of
coming. In the letter he said what he
hud said bo lure with his eyes yes,
those same beautiful eyes that I was
the choice of his heart and the desire
of his life.
" Answer mc," said ho ; " I cannot
wait till I sco you."
So I answered a long, foolish let
ter, thoticrh thoro was no need of
writing, for ho had read all I could
say long before, with those eyes of his.
Then I watched and waited for him,
but never saw him or heard ono word
more. If you are young, yon can im
agine tho slow dying-out of hope and
expectation; and if you aro old, you
know how such things can be lived
over, and hidden iu secret graves.
But now, as though tho graves had
been opened aud tho judgment set,
camo this sudden reproachful question
up from the buriod past. I fairly
caught my breath, as I turned back
my eyes, an ' looked him iu tho faca
again.
"Forgiv. o,'' 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 wore qullo
right, aud I never blamed you. I
never meant you should see me again ;
but the temptation to fuel myself be
side you, only to be iu tho soothing
charm of your presence, was too great.
It has been a blessing I shall carry
With me all tho rest of my life."
Ho was rising to go away, but I put
out mv hand. "I did write, Duncan
Ashley," said I ; " tho letter must
have gouo wrong."
" You did ! You wrote !" ho cried,
sinking back in his i hiiir again, and
looking at mo eagerly. " What did
you say ?"
" There was only ono thing I could
say, and I said that," I answered,
blushing as though I had just written
tho letter.
A uiiddlc-agcd woman in hood and
waterproof I But, dear mo I it wus
only my face that was niiddlo-aged,
after all; my heart wus as young and
silly as ever. And as for Duncan's
face, tho marks of care, and thought,
and time, fell oil", 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
humilitatcd, and fleeing to the cuds
of the earth with hU pain.
"Twenty precious years wasted l"
said my New Zealander. "We will
not be separated another day while
we both live. There is a clergyman
among our passengers, and we will be
married this very hour."
That was so like his headlong de
cisions ! Certainly ho did need a so
ber second thought like me for ballast,
"That cannot bo," I cried; "tho
ceremony wouldn't bo legal without
"a license or something. And I would
by no means do anything so sensa
tional and conspicuous."
But, bloss your heart t 1 might as
well havo tried to wipe up the Atlantic-
w ith my pocket-handkerchief. Ho
was so grieved, und so irnpalicut, and
so resolute land, indeed, when one
comes to think of it, twenty years it
long enough for an engagement), that
I finally dropped oh" my w aterproof
and my sen-icknes, and stood up be
hind tho binnacle, and was married
before eight bells that very morning
ring and all. Duncan produced it
from a small casket, whore ho had car
ried it in his waistcoat pocket for tha
Wholo twenty years.
" I could never bear to put tho lit
tle thing away," said ho, looking at it
tenderly.
Tho next day we camo to port, witli
tho tuii shining and our Hags flying.
There was a flurry of good-byes, ft.
hoisting of trunk'', a welcoming of
friends on the shore, and a glad hur
rying lo and fro.
Among I ho ret was an Instant's
nestling of Miss Armour's lips on my
check, and a little cling of her hand lit
mine, tho vanishing of a smile, and
the was gone, liko tho flah of a fire
fly, out of my sight forever. But
wherever kIio and however sho.
fares, sho ha the daily Messing o
two middlo-aged hearts, whoso way
to each other sho uiiconsoloujly
lighted.
Idiots in Cnuitcii. A clergyman,
was recently annoyed by pcoplo tulk
lug and giggling. IIo paused, looked
at tho disturbers, and eaid ' I ani,
always afraid, lo reprove thoso wha
misbehave, for this reason. Somo
years siiico,os I was preaching, a young
man who E-at bcforo rao wasconstantly
laughing, talking and making uncouth,
grimaces. I paused and administered it
sevoro rebuke. After tho close of tho
service, a gcntloinan said to mc, ' Sir
you have made a great mUtako. That
young man you reproved U nn idiot
Siuco that I havo nlways been oftaidV
to reprove thoso who misbehave them
selves in chapel, lest I should repeat
that mistake, and reprove anothcr
idiot." During tho rest of the scrviea
there was good oSer.
Dr. Chalmers beautifully safdt
" The little I have seen in tho world,
and known of tho history of mankind,
teaches mo to look at their errors iu
Etrow, and not in anger. "When I
take llio history of one poor heart that
has sinned and suffered, und represent
to myself tho struggles aud temptc.
tious it has passed through tho brief
pulsations of joy; tho tears of regret ;
the feebleness of purpose ; the scorn
of tho world that has little charity;
the desolation of the soul's fmnctuaiy,
and threatening voices within ; health,
gone, happiness gouo I would fain,
leave tho erring soul of my fellow-,
man with Dim from whose hands it.
came."
The Christian Union tells a good'
story: Tho Rev. Mr. Laurie, ot F-ie,
exchanged with Dr. Chapin on Hun
day, and soon after he appeared in tiie
desk pcoplo began to go away. He
watehod tho exodus a few minutes,
aud then rising, said iu a deep voice,
clearly heard throughout tho church,,
and with just sufficient Scotch brogue
In his voice to give racines to his
words : "All thoso who camo here to
worship Almighty God will please
join in singing a hymn, and while m
they aro doing so, thoso who cams
hero to worship E. II. Chapin will
have an opportunity to leave tho
church." His audieuco did not dun
iuish after that.
A gentleman in Bombay, seeing an
anchorite sitting under a cocoaunt
tree, asked for an interest in his pray
ers. Tlio anehorilo replied ho would
with pleasure grant tho request, but
he scarce knew what best to ask for
him. " I have seen you often." said
he, and you appear to enjoy good
health, and to have everything that
ran conduce to human happiness; per-,
haps tho best thing I cau ask for you
Will bo a oratt ful hcurl.
If the general tendencies to ecclesi
astical union are the manifestations of
an "epidemic," as some assert, it is
not tho less providential. Certainly
the i-o is no great sorrow of death iu it,
.
A recent traveler savs: "What aU
ways impresses nto inoro than any
thing else iu Egypt and Pulestino has
Loen tho entire nhscuco of cheerful or
exhilarating liuuie, especially from
children. You never hear them Blng
ing lu thu huts. 1 never heard a song
that deserves tho name in the streets
or houses of Jerusalem. Ono heavy
burden of voiceless sadness roits upon
that forsaken laud. The daughters of
music have been brought low. Tho
mirth of tablets ceaselli, tho noise of
them that rejoice cudeth? tho joy of
tho harp coaseth.' "
IfGodueeded worship Ho would
not bo tioil. It is you that need tQ
Morship Hint.
Many who deem death too sacred- a
subject f ir je- l do not lic-itatc to je
about dod.