‘MR DAILY EXAMINER, Cl: ARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY 29, 1898

SOMEBODY'S DARLING.

Trto the w ard o? the whitewashed walle Where the dead and the dying lay— Wounded bv bayonets, shefis and balls— Somebody's darling was borne one day Bomebed v's darling, 50 young and so brava, Wearing still on his pale, sweet face— Seen to be hid by the dust of the grave— The lingering light of his bey heod's grace

Matted and damp are the curls of gold Kissing the snow of that fair young brow.

ft le are the ira of deiics e mold. Somebedr’s darling is dying now. | Ba. ix from the beautiful dlue veined face Brush every wandering, silken thread.

' Cross his hands as a sign of race. 1 Somebody's darling ts still ena dead.

m once tnore for somebody's sake, Murmur a prayer, % ft and low One bright curi from the cluster take. Ther were somebody's pride, you know, femebeods's hand hath rested there. Was .t a mother’s, soft and white? And have the lips of a sister fair Been baptized in those waves of light?

God knows best. He was somebody's love Somebody's heart enshrined him near. Bomebody wafted his name above Night and morn on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave and grand. Somebody's kiss on His forehead lay. Semebody clung to his parting hand.

Bomelety's watching and waiting for him, Yearning to hold him again to her heart. There he lies with the blue eyes dim, And amiling, childlike, lips apart. Tenderly bury the fair young dead, Pausing to drop on his grave a tear. Carve on the wooden slab at his head, “Semebody'’s darling lies buried here.” ~—New York Ledger.

RUNAWAYS.

BY CHARLES B. LEWIS.

Yor may think it queer that I cannot give yon the real names of the principal actors in the drama lam about to re- late. but such is the fact. Things were managed 80 nicely that no public scan- da! resulted, and as for names we were only sailor men and had uo business to inquire or to know them. What I heard and saw and passed through, however, I can tell you all about and with the hope to interest you.

The Count D'Charny, as I will cali him, was an old man with a young wife. That his honor was safe in her hands he never for an instant doubted, and she came and went as she pleased. Aside from his 60 years of life he was gouty and dyspeptic, and, though he had millions of money and a title, the last was not an offset for the first. Three or four years after her marriage the countess met an English gentleman whore name I must give as Kane. He was as fine looking a man as I ever saw, aged about 35, and ewry word and ac-

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tion showed the gentleman. It was said © that he had a mint of money and from .

the expenses he met i am inclined to be- lieve the statement.

For a year he lived in Paris in the most expensive manner and danced at- tendance on the countess Then they agreed to elope together, and their plans were carried out in the coolest and most businesslike manner. The countess went at it to sell all the property in her own right and to get as much cash out of the count as she could, and at the end of three months she was ready for flight and had something like $1,000,000 in money and jewelry to take with her.

Meanwhile Kane had gone to England and purchased a large and handsome schooner yacht and given out that he was going on a long pleasrre cruise to the Indi« \ocean. He took acrew aboard and brou,at up in the port of Cherbourg, and there the schooner was provisioned and some alterations made to her cabins. She was called the handsomest craft in the harbor, and it needed only a glance at ber finely molded lines to tell that she could sail like a witch.

One afternoon in June the master of the Sylph, as the schooner was called, came aboard with his wife, and a great lot of baggage followed. I do not think any man on the schooner knew whether the owner was married or single, nor did any one question that the lady be brought aboard was his wife.

Two hours after their arrival tho ves- sel sailed, and she had been gone three days when the Count D’Charay turned up at Cherbourg with three or four friends and began an investigation. Mr. Kane and the countess had eloped to- gether and had a good start. Most bus- bands, aud especially old and decrepit husbands, would have given way to in- dignation for awhile and then made up their minds to let the woman go, but not so with the old count.

If she bad run away with a French- man, it might have been different, but she had gone with an Englishman, and he hated the English with all his heart. He didn’t blame the countess, as she was young and giddy, but as for Kane he must be overtaken aud shot down or run throux! to satisfy a husband's venge- ance. The only way to overbaul the schooner was to charter another vessel, and this was done as speedily as men could move.

Lying in the eame harbor, with ber fargo just discharged, was the American bark Meteor, of which I was second Mate. The Meteor was one of the fastest craft afloat at the time, and the count’s friends came aboard and told the story of the elopement and offered Captain Black his own price if he would charter.

The idea was to go in pursuit of the Sylph, taking the count and his friends along, and to cruise until we found her. We might be gone a month or a year. I don’t know tke price paid, but it was @ steep one, and as soon as the terms Were settled we set about making ready. Our complement of men wes_]4 all told.

: ' but here he was, an old man, lame, ill

of 22.

While we were getting water and pro- visions aboard carpenters were at work in the cabin, a gun was being mounted en deck, and cutlasses and muskets were brozught aboard to arm the crew. In three duysa we were out to sea aud in the wake of the Sylph. The captair of the schooner was the only man aboard of her except the owner who knew that she was bound to the Indian ocean, and meeting with an old friend in pert and taking a glass too much he bad let cut the secret. That was the way we came to know the destination.

It was a foolish idea in the count to chase his wife under any circumstances,

and had never even crossea the channel. We were a small craft with a big crew, and all hands were crowded, but the old fellow was willing to suffer any incon- venience and run any risks for the sake of overbavling the elopers.

He had two friends and a doctor wit? him, and it was his lavish use of money which prepared use for sea so quickly. The elopers had a fast craft, plenty of money and would not be overhauled if they could help it. The count had plen- ty of money, a craft equally as fast and

our coronometer was Ott of order. If she lay to the captain would board her with three or four men and seek to de- tain her until the count could foliow. We signaled the schooner as soon as we could make her out, bus she gave us no attention. As we approached her sa¢ took the alarm and made more sail, aud then began the real adventure.

Witb a man like the count to back him our captain did not besitate to open fire 6h the other craft, and sho was strur:k twice before she got out of range. The count was on deck and fair to be seen and on our side we plainly saw Kane and the countess aboard of the schooner. If the latter had been armed, there would have been a pretty fight, but she did not even «ave muskets for the men. Her game was flight in- stead of fight, and by and by she gained a position about two miles ahead of us and kept it. No twocraft could be more evenly matched. Both were racers and both carried about the same amount of sail.

From 7 o’clock in the morning until night closed down each craft held its own, neither Icsing nor gaining by a hundred fect. We knew that she would seek to escape us during the night, and but few men slept. Three different times the schocuer altered her course,

had yowed to hunt them down if it took five years. That was the way things stood as we sailed out of the harbor. ‘*Bound for the Indian ocean’’ meant &@ great deal, and yet it meant nothing. It meant arun of thousands of miles down the coast, around the cape of Good Hope, Australia, India or a dozen other piaces. As the schooner had six days the start of us and the winds had been fair she was at least 800 miles ahead. Our only hope of getting on her track before reaching the Cape was in speak- ing vessels coming up from the south. As soon as we were clear of tke land all sail was piled on to the bark, with orders to furl nothing except tosave her sticks. For 86 hours we ran to the south in a gale of wind which kept her lee rail under the foam, and the run we made has never yet been beaten by asteamer. Then we spoke our first ship, but no schooner had been seen. We got

down to the Madeiras without getting |

word of her, and after a race to the Ca- naries were again disappointed. It was two days after leaving the latter group, and while holding for Cape Verde, that we got our first news. It came trom an English man-of-war which had come upon the schooner to the south of the cape while she was re- pairing damages received aloft during a squall. She did not need assistance, and her captain received the offer ina very churlish manner. She was not boarded, but her name was recorded in the logbook, and that was the way we got track of her.

She was still four days ahead of us. But for this information we should have tonched at the islands to make in- quiries and thus iost ancther day. As it was we gave the bark all the sail she could stagger under and twice refased to answer the signals of ships wishing

to speak us. Kane would not even sus- |

pect that the count was after him, and having his ladylove aboard and seeing

no cause for haste he would take his | So we reasoned, but there was |

time. not much consolation in it.

We migbt run a parallel course with him for a week and neither craft sight the other. We might pass him by in the night, or we might shorten sail while be cracked on. Luck was with ns, however. One morning when well down the African coast we spoke an English brig which had passed the schooner the day before and so closely as to catch her name. She reported Kane driving along at an easy pace, and then we felt that we must overhaul him within a couple of days.

Just before sundown next day we eaught sight of a sail ahead of us which we believed to be the schooner, and that night none of our passengers slept. You know how excitable the French are. The count and his friends spent the night drinking and jabbering and walk- ing about, and before midnight it was known'throughout the bark that they meant to sink the schooner rather than let her get away from us.

We meani to gain on her that aight, |

but mot too much, as it was dark and rainy and we feared to overrun her.

Men were on watch alow and aloft all night, and when morning came the | Syiph was dead ahead and only two |

miles away. It bad been planned that we wonld speak her_and gjvo out that

but we detected the game each time and hung te her trail. When morning came, we had gained half a mile, but before 7 o’clock she had picked up her lost distance and run up the English flag in defiance.

That was the beginning of a race which had its end weeks later at a point thousands of miles away. When sailing close hauled, the schooner had the heels of us, but we could beat her on ahy other wind. While we never came within gunshot of her again until the last day we followed her around the cape, up the Mozambique channei, and finally found her waiting for us off one ef the Comoro islands. We had gales and high winds; we’ had beauti-

ful moonlight nights and beastly dark | ones. But for Kane’s defiance of the count we could not have kept the trail as we did

In those long weeks he could have evaded us a dozen times over, but he

had nailed his flag to the mast, as it were. He gave orders to set the schoon- er’s course and keep it and to pay no attention to us, and if we lost him in squall or fog or . the darkness of night we knew where to find him again. We passed the cape only ten miles behind him; we sailed up the Madagascar coast in his wake. closed in that we should find him on the mcrrew. The Count D’Charny got sick and got well again. He had furi- ous moods and weeping moods.

One day he would forgive his wife and the next he would be impatient to take her life. He never faltered in his intention to kill the Englishman, how- ever. That was what he lived for and what held him up. One morning we | found the schooner lying to, as I have | said, and on nearing her ber captain boarded us in a boat and sought out the count and said:

‘“‘The countess is aboard of the schooner. You have followed us for weeks. If you wish for satisfaction, you have gly to row ashore and Mr. Kane will give it to you.”’

The count and dis friends jumped at the chance, taking both pistols and swords. Iwas ordered to take charge of the boat which set them ashore. The count was at first inclined to rush upon the Englishman and kill bim out of hand, but he was restrained, and pretty soon a duel with pistols was arranged.

As Kane had no second one of the Frenchmen’ gallantly offered to act as such. The ground was paced off in full view of the people ou both cratt, and one couldn’t help admiring Kane for his coolness and gentlemauiy bearing. | He had no taunts, no hard words. A good natured smile rested on his face, | and he was as calm as if getting ready for a game of billiards. The countess | was the only one on shipboard who didn’t watch matters.

By and by the two men took their places, the word was given and they |

fired together. The count was unhurt, but his bullet penetrated Kane’s heart, and the Englishman was dead before he reached the ground. We buried him on the island that afternoon and did it de- eently, and at sundown the count went a@board the Sylph, and both craft laid 4 course for home.

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forgiven and that sé expressed all proper humility and returned to Paris to live with her husband, but I cannot vouch for this. I only remember that there was no public scandal and that every sailor was paid for keeping quiet and baa nothing to say. Kane’s body was afterward taken to England by his

relatives, and they at least must have

been among the outsiders who kuew more or less of the affair.

Conversion by Marriage.

A correspondent sends a story about @ conversion by marriage. A colored woman came to his office to solicit 5 and 10 cent subscriptions for & new car- pet and organ for her church. A young lady in the office gave the woman 19 cents, whereupon the correspondent sug- gested that ‘*both she and the colored lady were probably good Baptists.’’ ‘‘Ohb,’’ said the colored woman, ‘‘I used to be a Baptis’, but I married a Mefo- dis’ minister, and then of course I was a Mefodis’.’’ This is not the first case on record of conversicn by marriage. One case is known in which both parties were converted.

A certain governor of Rhode Island who lived in Newport and was a mem- ber of the Congregational church mar- ried a woman who was 4 Baptist with- out any understanding as to the arrange- ment of religious matters. The first Sunday morning after the marriage the pair started out at church time togeth- er. They walked side by side as far as the corner of Church and Spring s‘reets, where their accustomed ways to church diverged, and there they stopped. He stood with a little dogged leaning to- ward his church, she with the same leaning toward hers. ‘‘Well, wife,’’ said the governor, ‘‘which way shall we go?”’ She made no answer, nor did she make any sign of going his way. The governor looked up at the beautiful spire and cheery door of Trinity church, under the shadow of which they stood. ‘*Ha,’’ said the governor, ‘‘let’s throw up both our churches and go in here.”’ And into Trinity they went and were devoted Episcopalians ever after.—Bos-

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