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Such a child to be married" cried all the village gossips, when they heard that the hand- some young sailor who had been paying a fare: well visit to his mole, the Rector of Clovermend, was intending to carry off the fairest flower of the local garden of girls" as his bride. Yes, seventeen we very young to assume the oares of wedlock, and Aunt Margaret long resisted the pleadings of the lovers, and wished for delay But Harry Ainslie would take no denial: not oven although he would be obliged to leave his young wife, a month after their wedding, to sail apon the expedition to which he had plodged him- self before the sudden death of a distant relativa F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
had placed him in such comfortable pecuniary Navy Contractors, Shipchouders, Sail-uireumstances as to make him quite independent makers, Provision and Coal Merchants, of his profession. Lieutenant Ainslie had now
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Wait to be married until you retura," cried Aunt Margaret, in her capacity of guardian to MORE & SETMUND,
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mission Agents and General Store- private interview with the old lady, he earnestly keepers, 43 and 45, Praya Central. wished to feel that should any outward accident occur on this set cruise, he had at least left his darling Minnie secured against poverty "It is better that I should leave her all I pos- Boss when she is my wife, instead of merely my Naval, Military and Court, 16, Queen's Road, betrothed." urged the lover, and Miss Leslie
Opposite Kala's Curio Store,
could but agree.
Marian herself had nothing-Miss Leslie's little annuity died with her there was some reason in Harry's argument; though the old lady eshaped, in other words, the sucient pagan cry of Ahsit Oman," as Harry spoke of the possibility of his non-retur:
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| bride, and a peaceful round of charitable works and innocent occupationa and interents filled up the quiet day; until Minnie experienced the shock which comes to all parents when they suddenly realise that their "children"-sell so youthful in the eyes of their fathers and mothers -are grown to man and womanhood, and, it their turn, are wooing and being woood.
• Whon the new Restor of the parish, a most worthy and astimable man, frat told Mrs. Ains lie of his lops and desire that Marian ("little Marian," as har mother still called her) might became the mistress of his home, as the was already of his heart, Minnie almost school the
Horbert half smilingly reminded the gossips cry regarding her own early wedlock: mather that her daughter-if she married him at once would be an elder bride than the her- self had a
and Mr.
Again, in the second generation, the lovers' pleading overhora the hesitation of the ciders. The Rector was all that was good and estimable he had, bass familiar visitor in the Ainslie household ever since his induction into the parish some four years previously, and if his own years (some thirty-two in number) were rather in ad- eighteen now," na Marian said) it was a fanit upon the right side, and another reason against delay," Mr. Horbert urged. Marian's father had been but twenty-four when he had wedded a yet more girlish bride.
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And you will not lose your daughter; she will be class by you still," pleaded the prospec tive bridegrooms; se Minnie yielded.
The wedding was to be a village festival. The Rector had become very popolar with all classes of his flock, Mrs. Ainslie was greatly beloved by all who know her, so the villagers roused themselves to do honour to both bride and bridegroom. A lower-wreathed arch spanned the entrance of the village street, schoolchildres. olad in their bost, lined the churchyard path along which the wedded pair must pass, Back ohiki armed with a basket of flowers to scatter before the feet of the bride, and mind, chil drea, you are to scatter them before her, not to polt her with them." were the schoolmistress's wise instructions-counsels too often forgotten by enthusiastic ricu scatterers at many a fashion- able wedding, when the luckless bride and bride groom are treated with a stinging shower of the grain aimed directly at. their porous, often at their faces.
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As Miss Leslie was wont to say in the later bells ringing marrily, "ererything appropriate The sun was bright, the day warm, the joy years, it almost seemed as if the young man's for a wedding, as the schoolmist rear remark- precaution had been prophetic. The quieted. Every inhabitant who could do so had Poking bridal took place, and Harry and Marina were flocked to the church to behold the interesting Tintain linked together for weal and woe; then cam ceremony; and the village street looked lonely Pelaiho a few week happy tour together, the installs and desertod, as a stranger walked up it, and Taku tion of the young wife in a pretty konse, not good about him, as if desirous of making Nowchwung far from her old abode, where she and her aunt soms enquiry. were to pass the year of her husband's absence, then followed an agonised parting, and then "the rest www silence,"
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The ill-fated Calliope sailed away to the Western seas and was heard of no more. needless to droll upon the sal tale of the months and years that followed the doubts, the suspense, the rain hopes, the catching at and Calle Anlage, Manila.
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"Retsrood missing," with its harassing doubt and uncertainty, is. in many rospects, a crueller pain to bear than the actual knowledge that our loved ones are taken away from earth. For how many years did Marian (Minnie, as her house. hold name ran) listen for a familiar footfall on the threshold, watch auxiously for the village postman, eagerly scan the newspapers for any chance account of.
**Some strange returning
»
On a amp of stones at a corner of the roul sat old Roger, as he was popularly called, one of the most rensable inhabitants of the village. very dead, partially blind, and therefore prob- ably lows footed by the general excitement than were the rest of bis neighbours. The grand-daughter, with whom the old man resided, had gone off to the church with all her children, but old Roger found the walk uphill rather long one, and had wisely deposited himself comfortably upon this convenient stone
heap to wait the return of the sightseers.
"I be sure to hear all the news from Polly she hare a long- tongue, like all the women," philosophically reflected the old man.
You have gay doings here to-day, friend,” remarked the stranger, as he came up.
"Aye, to be sure; it's the pusson's weddin* day, and Madam Ainslie, she's put of her monis ad
A sadden spasm passed across the bronzed countenance of the stranger.
“Madam Ainslie-do you mean the lady who lives at the Knoll ?"
Of one whom all thought dead But five, ten, fifteen, eighteen years passed away
Aye," responded Roger, "I do, and a good without one word or token from the mis sing one; and even Minnis had bean forced kind lady she is, as as poor folks know well. outwardly abanden hope, to assume a widow's Twas mostly to see her I was going to the dress, to take legal possession of her husband's weddin. Passon's well enough, but I've know
And she-Marina Ainslie-is going to be property in the interests of the baby who haded Madam the longest." come to biens and comfort her in her desolation and sorrow, the child whose face its futher married to-day, you say!" naked the stranger
the young mother often said engerly.
Roger nodded.
|
“Marian Ainslie that be the bride's name right enough. It's been cried out in church these last three Sundays"
never saw, with tears.
It was a long time before Minnie would con- sant to own herself a widow; and even when, in deference to the wishes of relatives, she agreed to submit to the outward marks of so doing, in her own heart the girl cherished some wildly vague hope still.
The stranger, stall fine-looking man, absolute- staggered for a moment, as if he had received. blow; then sat down by Roger's side.
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Old Rogor, half blind, and wholly self-en- grossed, did not note his companion's agitation. “There be fine doings in the village to-day,” maundered on the old man," ten to all the too old to go to thicky feather flat. The
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We shall never meet our lad again until the ses gives up its dead," said the old Rector kindly, but firmly, for ho believed it would be [496 better for the young widow to accept the fact, of her bereavement;" and Minnie was silent. CHONG LOONG,
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More than once in the later years had Min-home. The weddin's going on now," se Roger, zio received an offer to change her condition, remembering the meal that was to fellow it, offers which aven the Rector, very aged and awoke to a great vivacity," man and wife the broken now, had gently blared her for refusing. friend of passon's, who comed over to do the job, is makin' of 'em now-why, sir, you do look "Child, it is over sixteen years now since our poor boy-and all the crew-tailed sway, and bad, as the stranger's ghamily face attracted not ons word ir line has ever come from any, evan Roger's attention, "be you took ill?"
Na. I only hurried a little too much in this one on board the Calliope. There is no possible doubt in mid-ocean in hot sun," "said the stranger, suddenly rising to
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Harry, for the neweomer was no other than the long lost sailor, had now overcome his mo
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But Minnie was constant is the love of her youth, to the husband of one brief sweet month'sies.” time, and the cars and education of her little daughter filled up much of the blank in her heart. Marian the younger was a sweet and lovable child, unspoiled by all the devotion lavished upon her by her mother, and great sunt, and great andle; and, as the little on grow into girlhood, she and her young mother (int sighteen years. distance of age between the pair), became such complete and perfect companions as to greatly soften Minnie sense of increased loveliness, as first the old Rector, and then Miss Leslie, were laid to rest under the lime tree in the churchyard. The young widow and her child lived on sill
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SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 14th February, 1901.
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OVANITARY APPLIANCES (UPPLIEɔ and FIXED. DRAINS, TRAPS, WASTE PIPES, &, CLEANSED d REPAIRED.
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1858, Tar Agreement and Rules, 1858; SHANGHAI Convention, 1860; Rules for Joint InvestigaTSINTAU. tion of Customs Seizures, 1889; Chefoo, CHEPOO 1876, with Additional Article; Opium Con- vontion, 1886; Chungking Convention, 1891 PORT ARTHUR..Messrs. Biotas, Block & Co. Thibet Sikkim Convention, 1890, Burmsh FORMOJA. Mr. A. W. Gillingham, Tunswi Convention, 1897; Kowloon Extension, 1898; CORRA..." Nagasaki Fress" Office.
NAGABAKI Weihaiwel Convention, 1898.
"Nagasaki Tress" Office France-Tientsin, 1858; Convention, 1860; KOBE-09&KA...Kobe Chronicle" Office
Tientain, 1885; Conventions, 1886, 1887, and 1 YOKOHAMA Mers Kelly & Walsh, Id. 1885; Freatier Trade Regulations.
TOKYO ... Mesara, Z. P. Maraya & Co.
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