Chapter XL.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 59, 28 July 1880, Page 4

Chapter XL.

jPeople rarely, if ever, fall m love with, those they have known Jung. jl had b«cf» known 'to Clarie HaTy wood lor years— since her girlhood almost. We nad loved each dkher and i been separated by misfortune, but to meet again under sudden and extraordinary circumstances, JSovr, once more were we parted, to her apnaivntly :. for ever, by my supposed dt>ath,fQr so sure were all of that eyent, that \ Doughiii's company of the 74th.- bad fired throe volleys over the remains of J-Ca'na Brume Kasteei as 1 mine- ' ■''. ; '.r^vr ,y ■.-.■: - ' jPercival Gravo^^asiwithher, and he though £ fop, was insinuating id manner handsome m figure, and every 'w*y an eligible person. She Was v? alot}e m the' w prld ; her only sister war married again i and what more probable-than-thafc now she might love with tliis new suitor^and o^tnTnifc-tp oblivion, ifjsha could, the memory .of the old P Ijeven imagined all that my -old friend Djouiflas might have, to urge upon the,: subject. ;i|l\«n, what weight was J, to attach. to tlye mention of that' obnoxious name of IS[iukerque m .conjuuetion .wjtlv hers ? Was "it reality, or the friere ran|ipdle of 'I^ontein© and the ; ! though tlesi. boy, Oalder-,* vtbat ;«t;c'h a /person; hovered about,^Clarice, &aA, had jatst^ully Bailed with her, to the 1 West .Indies.? .4p4 w^hd was he, the UhpVejioi^esihgstran'ger who' Had so suddenly' tunied ;up; and m thd neighbourliood of fGraham'a Town, 'too?^ •. „..;.; :■■'/■ ... -. : ....... tTManff^. feature m. .. o.ytr- fortunes filled' me trith perplexing thoughii froni which' l sought (b shrink ; but they would not be cast aside, and rose hydrabeaded m ray mind. • ;, f [if •yertheless, whatever might happen,liw|s; bound to fpllpw her, and I t>urned npw with lodging ajnd . iiripatienae to r^ach tlie coast, to enibark arid set forth uppii tb;e' sea ; but -when thihlcing of the di«tanc» to' be traversed by land, and. ■till 'more by water, my heart sank, within me",, for; the time that (t would consume might r >erve to, destroy all. I From the Orange River to Algoat Say w*s| a 'distance of two. hundred and fif ty, miles ; thence to Cape Town, where alone 1 could hope to find a vessel' for the Weit Indies, was four hundred and filEty miles by coaster, and then' four thousand two hundred mqr*, at least, w,ere to f ol low by «ea, and there were neither railroad nor telegraphs ai yet itt that;, wmote^l and, . | Every Tiiiie of that ; long royage would b# ;twtyfraed by . OlariceloniJ before, in.e^ wJ I reballed '\r'}.tU:..jej^q^''^Hid^ii»n; and irritation the hintr that Bonteine h_ad f given of the manifold ppportunitifti afforded by a loug voyage for terfderness amd lover li^e attentipnr -■'' J My homtward nfarc^ with the little band 6t itiralid soldiers r wS»|'ljU'£ the W ginmng- of !aii end tHat;I f tfb^id^oifQre. <cc;: to be' pafjwit^tb b« re^ signed, and to persevere.' l ' : We had egw c»petl with pur liver from the laid* of the Qafft'ea, and thtere^ wa'i^el i hope; r : j - :„.. (ft *&*&*s»s£ ji 7.zi:--'i