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NEW YORK— Bank of Neto York, ONTARIO wb»JwX>J^**ilP-^ m purchased by "Avon Hotel," e of beauty and )vinces, putting Light, Electric )old Water Bath tes, nne Sitting oom, and every cum7ie will be a ill find large and ind Pool Rooms. On the day that the headquarters of the 8 — regiment left Edinburgh in 1854, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel R , a young drummer-boy presented himself to him, and requested to be allowed to go with the regiment, instead of remaining with the depot. The Colonel told him it was too late ; the boy, who was but twelve years of age, replied, "I wish to go," then turned and walked slowly away ; afterwards, when the train had proceeded twenty-five miles on its way south, the young drummer-boy was found to have concealed himself on board. He wac brought before the Colonel, who asked him what could have induced him to do such a thing, when the lad replied, "Oh, sir, I want to go to battle with you." The Colonel, who looked all over the true soldier that he was, replied in presence of some of his men, "My young hero, you shall come with us." c A Seraph on the Sea. The brave lad was much gratified on being told that he might accompany the regiment. A few minutes later he took up the kettle-drum, placed it in position, and beat a lively air to the accompaniment of a cornet, at the conclusion of which he took off his cap and calmly said, "Now, men, three cheers for Lieutenant- Colonel R . I will beat you all to victory." Tlie men gave three hearty cheers, then sev eral of them caught up the little hero in their arms and said, " Wo are glad you go with us to the war." Near the close of the campaign in the Crimea, and after Sebastopol had fallen, an American lady visited many of the places which had recently been scenes of terrible fighting, suffering and death. One fine afternoon, in company with her little daughter, she visited the ruins of the Malakoff ; their escort was a Frenchman. It was late when the party returned to the deserted city, the moon appeared to throw its rays in solemn light over the fields and ruined battlements, and as deep blue clouds silently passed beneath its face, momentary shadows rested over the homes of the slain. The evening was quite cold, and the roadway was strewn with shot and the remains of exploded shells. A short time after they had left the Malakoff and were wandering about in its vicinity, the French guide, who was loaded down with relics gathered from the ruins, remarked : " We had better quicken our pace, as there is a risk ; stray shots and shells have been occasionally falling altout here all day." : ing told that 'ew minutes in position, b of a cornet, his cap and Lieutenant- to victory." eral of them d said, "We Crimea, and lady visite«l en scenes of li her little akoff; their 3n the party appeared to e fields and )uds silently dows rested ig was quite ihot and the lalakoff" and 'rench guide, ed from the ere is a risk ; [lally falling A Seraph on the Sea. The words had scarcely escaped his lips, when whiz in the air above their heads Hew a shell, and in a moment they heard a tremendous explosion, which occurred l>etween themselves and the ruins of the Malakoff". The explosion made the solid ground all uround tremhle. They (juickened their pace, hut at tliis moment another shell hui-st about two hundred and fifty yards in advance of them, and quite near their pathway. They halted for a moment, not know- ing whether to advance or retreat. The guide was fif the opinion that it was better to advance than retreat: His advice wa.^ followed. On they walked, near the city recently evacuated by the Russians, realizing that at any moment they might l>e blown to pieces, and there was but a step between life and death. They had not proceeded far, when they came near two youthful forms lying side by .side near the path- way. The guide turned off* a few steps to see who the two were, the lady, holding the hn,nd of her trembling child, followed. At this moment a shell burst over their heads high in the air, when one of the forma moved and raised itself to a sitting posture. The guide spoke, and was answered in French. After con- versing for a minute or two, the guide turned to the lady and said : "It is a wounded vivandiere who has been roaming I )ver the field searching for any wounded French. The ther is a boy badly wounded in the right leg, the same shell that wounded the French girl also struck the British soldier boy. The vivandiere is not dangerously hurt, her wound is a scalp one, a splinter of the shell <)t ^Bl 8 A Seraph on the Sea. striking her on the Hide of the head and knocking her iDHensible. She says she saw us approaching, having regained consciousnr^ss a few moments before we ap- peared in sight." After the guide had finished speaking to the Amen- can lady, the vivandiere took from her skirt pocket a bandage, and, with the assistance of the guide, bound up the wound of the English soldier boy. The American lady aiid her daughter had arrived at Sebastopol on the previous day fr. > » Kamiesch. As the lady stooped down to view more closely the pale face of the vivandiere, she noticed crimson drops fol- lowing each other down the long, loose black hair of the wounded girl. She said to the soldier lass, "Does your head feel badly ? The wound is long, but does not appear deep. Will you remain beside this younp soldier boy until I go with my little girl and guide into the city and send out my conveyance to take you and the lad in ?" She replied in her own language, which the guide translated, that she would not leave the British boy alone on the field; thai; the shot that had wounded him had hurt her, they being but a few yards apart at the time, and the boy had crawled to her side, where she found him, weak and exhausted, as she opened hei- eyes. The lady, accompanied by her daughter and the guide, hastened into Sebastopol, and, arriving there, sent out her driver, who was a Pole, with her team and French guide. In a short time the wounded bov and the vivan- cuocking her hing, having Eifore we ap- A) the Aineri- irt pocket a guide, \}omvi had arriveii iiniesch. As lely the pale on drops t*ol- •lack hair of !r lass, "Does ng, but does e this young rl and guide I to take yon ch the guide British l)oy lad wounded ards apart at ? side, where e opened hei- iter and the riving there, her team ami d the vivan- A Seraph on the Sea. 9 diero were brought in to the city. The lady had them convened to a room in the house at which she had apartments. The room in which the lad was placet! presented a sail sight. Several things lay about in confusion that told of a once happy home. Near a window, on a small stand, stood a vase of withered flowers, above it hung a cage inside of which lay still and stift* in death a canary. On the floor were several volumes of novels, also a few copies of Russian, German and English newspapers ; beneath a lounge lay a thin wounded spaniel, dying with starvation, around its neck was a costly leather collar, fastened with a small silver lock ; all around the collar was a circlet of silver links ; on the top was a silver plate, upon which was engraved the words "Catherina Leprandi." A hand- some clock, with ebon case, trimmed with silver, stood upon a marble shelf in a recess; its hands were still, one pointing to X, the other to V, (ter minutes to five). A painting of the battle of Boridino stood on the floor against the opposite wall, over which, in a recess, was a bust in Parian marble of Peter the Great. On the wall opposite the picture was a splendid piece of workman- ship, — it was enclosed in a plate glass case four and a half feet square, — it was made to represent an ice palace. The material used in its construction resem- bled mother of pearl. The little blocks looked like ice. It must have cost quite a sum of money. The lady had the French girl cared for in the room which she and her daughter occupied, and after a sur- geon of the British forces had been summoned to dress the boy's wounded limb, the lady arranged with the 10 A Seraph on the Sea. French guide to nurse him. The surgeon, after he had attended to the boy, stitched up and dressed the cut in the liead of the French lass, who remained in the room with the lady during the night. In the morning the vivandiere stepped into the room where lay the wound- ed soldier boy. Not many minutes later the American lady also we at to tho room to see the young lad. That day the lady had arranged to leave Sebastopol. She tohl the boy she hoped he would soon recover and be about again, took nim by the hand and bade him good-bye. He asked the vivandiere to hand him his cap. She at once did so. He put his hand inside the cap and drew from its lining a small jewelled gold cross. "I took that," he said, as he handed the cross to the lady, "from the breast oi a dead Russian officer lying near the ruins of the Redan. I have had it about two vveeks^ • now, lady, take it, it is all a poor drummer-boy has to give you for your kindness to him." She did not wish to take the gift from the lad, but he insisted upon her doing so. She thanked him le.'ined ovor him and kissed his white forehead, and calling hei little daughter, asked her to do likewise, and then said, as she looked toward the vivandiere, who stood quite near : "I do trust when this war is completely ended and you two young people retu)-n to your own homes, that lionor will be done by the French Emperor and English Queen to all alike, — that some may not be greeted like the stars of a theatre, while others, with equally stout and brave hearts, may be neglected, — and all in the English and French armies shall receive the honors and i v^ Seraph on the Sea. 11 after he had eel the cut in in the room morning the r the wounrl- he American y lad. That stopol. She over and be d bade him and him his d inside the >d gold cross, cross to the officer lying it about two t'ummer-boy the lad, but anked him reliead, and lio likewise, vivandiere, ended and homes, that md English greeted like [ually stout all in the honors and i rewards to which their valor entitles them. Youths like you to leave your homes for the small pay you receive, to face the dangers and hardships of active warfare, show to me that noble hearts beat within your breasts." The lady, with her daughter, then left the roout the French girl, clad in her half-military costume, alone remaining with the drummer-boy. When the lady had reached her own apartment, she at once prepared to depart from the city. They left the place of desolation, and arriving at the front door, found their conveyance already in waiting. A tew minutes later they were on their way back to Kamiesch, being driven thither by the Pole, who was well acquainted with the road. In the conveyance were many relics found upon the fields of blood and death, of victory and defeat. Oru of these was a cigar case made of the finest Russian leather. On one side, worked in gold threads, was a cannon crossed by two swords ; on the other a Cossack officer on horseback ; inside the case were four cigars, one of which was tut in two by a bullet which had parsed through the case just over the Cossack's head. After a tire.some ride in the stiff, jolty old vehicle, and without any serious accident, the mother and daughter arrived at their destination, glad to be re- lieved of the jabbering of the Pole, and the mist which thickened during the journey until it at last became difficult to see the horse's head. 12 A Seraph on the Sea. ■ lit CHAPTER II. A Captured Cossack. Tv'O days after the arrival of the American lady and her daughter at Kamiesch, they left for their home in the United States. The woman was the wife of a wealthy Pennsylvania ship-owner and broker. She had left her home in company with her twelve- year-old child in one of her husband's ships to recruit their health. The vessel arrived at London, and mother and daughter were much benefitted by the sea voyaii^e. They left London and sailed up the Mediterranean, landing at several points on their way, till at length they arrived at Constantinople in September, 1855. Fi*om the latter place they went to visit the scenes of the terrible struggle in the Crimea between the allied forces and the Russians. Her husband met them in London, he having crossed the Atlantic by the Cunard line. He accompanied then\ as far as Constantinople : but there he parted from thtui, having to return to London on urgent business. His wife, being of a liter- A Seraph on the Sea. 13 merican lady }ft for their was the wife and broker. her twelve- ips to recruit mother and sea voyai^e. 3diterranean, ill at lengtli jmber, 1855. the scenes of 3n the allied net them in ' the Cunard istantinople : bo return to ng of a liter- ary turn of mind, and fond of travelling, had set her heart upon visiting the locality of the great war. Be- fore returning to her home, she visited many places whicfi at the present day are of great historic interest. Shortly after the Russians had evacuated Sebasto- pol, a party of Zouaves had penetrated the interior to see all that was to be seen in the city of destruction, and possibly to carry off any trophy of the victory — any- thing they took a fancy to. They found a living trophy — a pretty, lively little Muscovite, dressed up in true military fashion, (a Cos- sack in miniature). The little fellow was found sitting at the entrance of a deserted dwelling, and, without any show of resistance, surrendered to his conquerors, and seemed highly delighted with them — as pleased as they with him. The little boy was petted and grew in favour with all in the camp. His tiny uniform, great coat, l(jng boots and Cossack cap was a far pleasanter sight to the soldiers than many whom they had been called upon to face in deadly conflict. The little fellow was about ten years old, and handsome. From his appear- ance the Zouaves supposed that he belonged to a well- to-do family, and had been left behind or lost in the retreat. He was afterward placed under the charge of the vivandiere (Josie E. Metmain). who was found on field beside the wounded drummer lad. Up to the the final evacuation of Sebastopol by the allied army the vivandiere had kept charge of the little Russian, look- ing after his comfort and teaching him to talk in her own tongue. 14 A Seraph on the Sea. After the American woman had left Sebastopol, the vivandiere took a deep interest in the welfare of the boy who had been found on the field beside her. She frequently visited him daring his illness ; and when he was able to ^et about, they often met, sometimes acci- dentally, and sometimes by arrangement, until, before sailing for their native lands, a warm attachment had sprung up l)etween them. Josie Metmain was several years the boy's senior, she being in her eighteenth year. The vivaiidieres were in very high repute, b(^th with the French and English soldiers, and no one was allowed to insult them with impunity. As a rule, these girls were gay, light-hearted, and tender-hearted as well. They were not all as young as Josie Metmain, neither were they all as pretty ; but they were general favourites. They helped to keep alive the spirit of chivalry in the breast of many a rugged soldier. Dur- ing the war they exerted theniselves in a spirit worth}- of respect and admii-ation, to render tliat help which was so essentially necessary for the wounded and dying men. Their bright "^^jyes and their neat figures, in half- military costume, and their bravery and coolness in the midst of danger and death, were enough to make a hei'o of any coward. When one of these girls was killed or wounded by the enemy, the Zouaves swore vengeance upcm the whole Russian host. Josie Metmain was s.^iid to have been the prettiest vivandiere in the Crimea. She was lithe, active, and as bright as the morning star ; she was brave, witty, cheerful and generous, and never seemed to complain lebastopol, the velfare of the ide her. She and when he metirnes acci- , until, before lachment had ti was several Br eighteenth repute, botli d no one was As a rule, nder-hearted ysie Metinain, were general the spirit of oldier. Dur- spirit worthy t help which ed and dying jures, in half- )olness in the I make a hei'<^ was killed or re vengeance the prettiest , active, and brave, witty, to complain A S^rapk on the Sea. 15 ir tire in her mission of love. In her half-military iniforni she looked beautiful and graceful. Her hair kras magnificently black ; her skin was beautifully fair, ,nd her face presented a delicate bloom of youth ; hei- yelashes were long and silky, and her eyebrows were beautifully formed; her forehead was of medium height, ,nd the manner in which she at times allowed her hair o loosely fiow beneath her jaunty cap, gave the top of ler forehead much the appearance of an ol>tuse angle ; ler neck was rather short and stout. In her sparkling )lAck eye, with all its fire, there was at times a sort of reaminess ; and at such times one could imagine that le could discern that divine charm of purity and intel- joeuce, so noticeable in the cultivated and Christian vomen of England. Hei.- limbs were shapely and attractive ; they were round, with a gradually increas- ng circumference. An English officer walking along a street near the }uay one fine autunni niorning in Sebastopol, met Josie Metraain ; on one side of her was the little Mus- ovite in his Cossack uniform, and on the other the Irunnner-boy limping along on two sticks. He st(jpped nd spoke to the vivandiere, and he was so charmed ivith her voice, manner, expression of her eyes and her eauty and tasty attire, that he told a fellow officer f terwards, that among all the beauties he had seen, in taly, France or Spain, he had never seen a girl so enerally attractive as Josie Metmain, the vivandiere. I' If she is not a born Princess, ' continued he, "in stjde, form and features she is far, far superior to very many who can boast of royal birth or of royal connections." 16 A Seraph on the Sea. Her hands and feet were delicately formed ; and, perhaps, after all has been said, nothing was more attractive about her than her pretty step and graceful carriage. She appeared to raove only from the hips downward, and step as to thf tune of a perfect march, with head erect, shoulders ^/ell set back, and her full breast beating with fiery a .limation. With Josie Metmain no time had been spent in her youthful years for accomplishments, yet she possesse were greater. " Oh, great heart ! worn ami pale, Gooil Florence Nightingale, Thanks, lovely thanks, for thy large work and will ! England is glad of thee — Christ for thy charity Take thee to joy when head and heart are atill." When the army returned to France, Josie Metnuiin returned with it, taking with her the little Cossack. No owner could be found for him, and he was place*! under the charge of the vivandiere. She had l)econi( deeply attached to the boy, and to part with him sin said would cause her deep sorrow to the end of her days. The little Cossack also became eciually attacheil to her. He seemed to forget all about his past life, and when Josie Metmain had taught him to talk a littl<' French, he proved to those about him by his question^ and conversation, that he was a bright and promising lad. All that could be learned from him respecting his parents, wa.s that they had resided in Sebastopol, and he got astray from them among a big crowd oi people. one very dark night, and never saw them afterward This was a day or two before the fall of the place. After the army had arrived at home, Miss Metmain placed her charge under the care of an uncle and aunt whose home was childless. The little Russian was sent A Seraph on the Sea. 11) school, and at the age of sixteen entered a mercantile balilishment in an eastern town of the Empire. His jlination led him into business pursuits. A few years ber he was considered one of the best accountants in le jbown ; and at that time many men of the place [nsulted him in matters of business and speculation, conmianded a fair salary. He was frank, honour- |)le, and deeply respected by all who came in contact ith him. Miss Metmain retired from the position she liad [cupied in connection with the Freach arniy shortly [ter she had returned to her own country, and went Paris to reside with an only brother, who was a seller in that city. Occasionally she visited her icle, and ( n several occasions brought back witli her her brother's the Russian lad. During; his school- lys the little fellow invariably spent his vacations in iris. As the youthful Cossack grew in years and educa- )n, he was more and more admired by the fair sex. [e grew to be a man of medium height and rather )ut, and was also noted for his quiet and unobtrusive lanner. He was persevering and moderately quick pick up his lessons at school. He was steady in his ibits, and possessed a quiet pride and rather strong ibition. In many respects, his was a character forthy of imitation. Nothing could swerve him from is course of life, and he steadily forged ahead as a isiness man. 20 A Seraph on the Sea. CHAPTER III. Returns to His Native Land. When Josie Metmain lei't the Crimea with tlu, French army, she requested permission to take hoiiii' with her the picture she had seen in the room when the American lady had lodged. Many times she aiidj the drummer-boy had admired it. She had taken it into the room where the boy lay wounded, and then it remained. No one turning up to claim the things ir the house, she was allowed to take the painting alonj: j with her to her native country. As she was preparing the picture for shipment, she picked up several trinkets that were lying about the; place, also an ink-bottle made from a horse's hoof, rest- ing on a silver plate, a pair of gold-mounted spurs and: a large double-barrelled silver-mounted pistol found in ; a drawer of the table upon which stood the vase oi withered flowers. These articles she also carried away with her as mementos of the siege. The young Cossack, after he had resided in Frances about eleven years, and had accumulated alx)ut fourj A Seraph on the Sea. •21 lousand francs, was met one afternoon, while visitiiij; [r a few days in Paris, by an ex-Russian officer. The (eeting took place in John Metmain's jewelry store. »e ex-officer, who was having his watch regulated, on iinjf the Cossack, said : "Sir, I believe you are a countryman of mine ?" The young Cossack replied, "I may be one of your |>untrymen ; I came to France from Sebastopol with ie Zouaves." The ex-officer said, "Is not your name Gurkitt'." The Cossack replied that he did not know his Rus- |an name, that he was only nine years of age when lu' ime from the Crimea, and he had forgotten all about fs home and name ; but the name he had mentioned ^ight be his proper one. He told the ex-officer tlie )ry of his career. The ex-officer, who gave his name as Colonel luvvandoff, said, "I am persuaded that your mother is Iving in Odessa ; you very much resemble her. She t>st one of her children during the retreat from on«> irt of Sebastopol to another ; and since that time she [as never heard of her boy, and has long ago given up fll hope of ever seeing him again. If you are really le lost boy, I can assure you that if you return to [our mother you will find a splenJid home. Your ither was an officer in the Russian army, and has Jen dead about nine years." The manner of the ex-Russian officer seemed to con- vey the impression that he was speaking honestly, and lat he recognized in the looks of the young Cossack Jhose of the hitter's mother. He invited young Gurkitf, 00 A Seraph on the Sea. as he called him, to accompany liim to Odessa, but Josi. Metinain would not consent to this proposal till tlv ex-officer proved to her entire Hatist'action that li. was all he professe:> wife. He frankly told her thatj for two years past he had been engaged to a French girl, who had been to him as a mother, sister, frien( from the day he became a captive in the hands of tlu] Zouaves at Sebastopol. a. A Seraph on the Sea. 23 Klessa, but Josi. roposal till t)i> 'action that li did beyond young Cos.sacl avo her aSvS(fiit le Cossack an bi.. inie the Cossacl eturn with him oung Cossack y twelve yeai> r son as soon a- The mother replied, "You have my consent to marry jer, and I shall love \\v.v for your sake ; nnd when I see ler I may also love her for her personal charms and leiidid character. I may see and admire these latter you, my dear son, see them and admire them." After Alexander Uurkift' had arrived in France, he L>nsulted with the woman who was soon to become his 'ife, and finding her agreed to his mother's proposal, «' solicited immediate marriage. Three weeks after his arrival in France, Alexander ^as united in marriage to Josie Metmain. They were ^lai-ried at the home of Josie's uncle, and ac once pro- ijeded on their journey to Odessa. Alexander had given the lad was he, 'Mosie only a partial account of his visit to his niother,and opt her completely in ignorance of the princely style wiiich his mother lived. He, however, had informed osie that Colonel Suwandoft* was his mother's youngest I'other. A few hours after the marriage, Josie said to her ushand, "We now are about to strike out on life's nniey ; our means are quite limited, and in the land hither we go to settle, we may possibly find more ifficulties in the way than in my own country, where x\ liave been, on a small scale, successful." Josie was brave, full of hope, active and pei-severing. ler experience in the Crimea had taught her to be eiituresome and determined in facing difficulties. She 'as excellently suited to a man of Alexander's tempera- iient. He was cautious, — it may be said that he was iniid until thoroughly roused, then he appeared enter- n-ising and full of life. He was what is called a safe ^ arm and shov 1 the wrist aiii horn you seek, wid continuinj: e to his mother' together couli md son. to France, lii? k and live witi n within thi'M b he would pro T told her that ed to a Frencl ^ sister, friend le hands of tin 24 A Seraph on the Sea. man. He had periodical days of gloom. His witV never. When Alexander and his wife arrived at Odessii they were niet by Alexander's mother and Colonel Suwandoff, and were at once driven to the residence of Mrs. Gurkiff. Josie was amazed as she was driven l-v domes, columns, steeples and spires. One huge donu was blue, topped by a gilt cupola ; another bright green surmounted by a golden star. Here v/as a Greek temple there a Tartaresque mosque and e Byzantine church, &c Their route lay along a broad esplanade, or boulevard lined with trees toward the sea-shore ; in the rear w a background ot stately mansions, worthy of the best rows in the finest European cities. There were magniti cent public buildings and splendid residences with pil- lared porticos and ornamental peristyles. At one ot the former the carriage stopped. Mrs. Gurkitf, Senr.,turning to Josie as they aiighte "My dear mother, you do." The day after their arrival Alexander and his bridt drove out to see the city. Before they had risen in tlh morning, Josie said to her husband : "My dear, I could not sleep last night, it was so difficult while lying here to bring my mind to accept Ba all this change as reality. Everything seems so vastly | A Seraph on tke Sea. 26 )m. His wift ^ed at Odessa • and Colont'l le residence of was driven \<\ ne huge donn r bright green Greek tempi t line church, dirt , or boulevard n the rear wa> hy of the best J were magniti 3nces with pil 3s. At one ni they aiighteii ome you to ;i ation and tlu e, that she felt | so differently )uld reply, wa> • and his bri(l< ad risen in tli- ^ht, it was s( nind to accept I eems so vasth perent from what I anticipated, I feel as one lost, ife now appears as a pleasant dream." They were driven from one end of the city to tlie ^her. First they went through the districts where le poorer sort of people liv'ed. This district is situ- ?d at the extreme right of the city. From there they rove to the extreme left, a district surrounded l>y foods and bestudded with the houses of Princes and )unts. In the afternoon they went to view the harbour company with Mrs. Gurkiff, Senr., and Colonels peprandi and Suwandoff. The Queen of the Euxine mds on the curve of a high sea-shore, with descend- ig terraces and broad flights of steps to the beach ilong these terraces, and down and up these steps they randered and rested until the daylight was fast giving [lace to the evening shades. In the morning they had arranged to view the city rom the sea. The same party at ten o'clock next lorring — a lovely September day — were sailing over le bosom of the beautiful bay in a magniticent yacht ^amed "Cajeta," that Liirly Hew over the water. Col. luwandoff and Josie entered in earnest conversation as Ihe yacht was running back toward the city. Their dk was about battles and battle-Helds. Said the Colonel, "There are many persons wlio lave never seen a battle or battle-field, and some wIkj lave never seen a soldier, who like, yea, love to talk lind read of battles, — Ijattles on sea and battles on md." Josie replied, "When my husband and I were on 26 A Seraph on the Sea. m our journey here, we remained over a day or two at a pretty Italian town. At the hotel where we lodged were several English students. One of these entered into conversation with my husband, whom he took to be a German. The young student looked as though it would be difficult for him to properly digest half-a- dozen light-weight oysters, yet he possessed a military air, and seemed to have perfect confidence in his own- powers and in the ability of his countrymen to perform as brave and valiant deeds now a? ever. He said, 'J am not a soldier, but I believe I have the qualities of a good soldier ; I love to hear of war, read of battles ; I am an Englishman. Why,' he went on to say, 'Fortv yenrs of peace did not subdue the British spirH, ?v Russia, when she trusted in her mighty fortress, proved when it crumbled to the ground. Our army in the Crimea, though numerically small, astonished the world by the greatness of its strength. Our common soldiers proved themselves heroes in the trenches and on tlie field of battle, and if England at that time did not possess a (general equal to the greatness of the emer- gency, all the more praise be given those gallant men. who fought so well notwithstanding.' "That student, Colonel," said Josie, "did not look ns thougii he had strength to steady a rifle, yet his de- cided look and military manner gave me an assuranci that the young fellow would make a true soldier. Ht was largely spirit, for his body would not weigh mucli over one hundred pounds. He was one of those sort of ethereal beings, who go about acting in the spirit wiiile dragging along a corporeal nature. And, Colonel. a. lay or two at a lere we lodged f these entered horn he took to ed as though it r digest half-a- | !ssed a military 3nce in his own men to perfonii | \Y. He said, 1 le qualities oi: a | id of battles ; I i to say, 'Forty | 'itish spirit, ?v fortress, proved ir army in tho | ished the world Dmmon soldiers hes and on tlie t time did not 5S of the emer- se gallant men. | did not look as tie, yet his do- le an assurance ae soldier. He ot weigh much e of those sort ig in the spirit J And, Colonel A Seraph on the Sea. 27 lis spirit of the student is what makes the English )ldier, who not only, as I believe, from what I have Jen of him, loves to fight, but also loves a hard fight." The Colonel here pulled a paper out of his pocket ; wao a well-worn newspaper. He said, "In support what you say, I shall, with your permission, read rom this paper of Dec. 15th, 1855, a very few lines." [e read as follows : — "With deep regret we learn that gallant General Williams and is noble band have been forced at length to sucouinb to a stronger tlian the Rnssians. Famine has effected what the fiercest on- lughts of the Czar's best troops, in overwhelming numbers, failed accomplish. Literally starved out, the garrison has been obliged capitulate." "Now, I was avnong the Czar's troops at Kars, and \i) better or braver men ever laid siege to a place. And le gallantry which distinguished General Williams' [efence of Kars has not been overrated by the remark another part of this paper, 'that the admiration of ill Europe was vividly excited at the wonderful de- fence of Kars, at the almost superhuman valour which lurled back, for seven hours of incessant attack, and icredible slaughter, a brave and well-disciplined army.' often feel that we forget that the men who accom- )lisb ^ these prodigies were mortal and destructible, [f \ ; v could have fed these men, and intrepidity lui^ps , ' lem with drink. General Mouraviii' would lever hav? taken Kars. "In all consideration for the bravery of your coun- trymen, — and yours is a brave nation, — I must admit that my countrymen have never met as stubborn and etermined a foe as the Englisli. Their | seemed to rivet his attention. The painting was hanj. ^ ing against the wall opposite the clerk's desk. Jfic "° left his seat and walked a step or two toward the pi( ^^ ture, and there he stood statue-like for some tini- ^^ never taking his eyes from the painting, on which tl * sun was shining through a window at the end of tli *^»P office. Ctl The clerk, seeing how intently the sailor-lad look( at the picture, said to him, "You appear to be great! *°f interested in that work of art." "Yes, sir," replied Jack, "that one looks to me vei ^^ much the same as a painting I saw at Sebastopol near! * P seventeen years ago." ^ "You have been in Sebastopol?" said the cleii "Oh, yes," answered Jack, "I was there when the cit; was captured. I was conveyed into the forsaken cit;! while wounded, and placed in a deserted room by tli kindness of a lady who had that day been visiting tli ruined Malakoff, and a day or two later a vivandiert as she was called, — I called her a French lass, — brougli a picture, exactly like this one, into the room where lay. This one is called the 'Battle of Borodino,' the oir I saw there was called the same." ^^ As Jack was finishing speaking, Alexander Gurkit^ a. d Seraph on tke iSea. 33 Jack did as li ;ated in a lari: r person in tli inspect the t'ur turning aroun a picture wliic! titing was hani; ■k's desk. J.icl toward the })i( for some tini' ig, on which tli t the end of tli sailor-lad looko | ar to be greatl; ooks to me vei; ebastopol nearl; said the clerk | ;re when the cit; he forsaken cit; ted room by tli 3een visiting tli er a vivandiert h lass, — brou^li le room where lorodino,' the on' exander Gurkif! iered the office. The clerk told him that the sailor a message from Captain Cardrick, but had orders deliver it to no one but the firm. Jack at once de- jred the message, and taking up his hat, departed his ship. Shortly after the sailor had left, the clerk told his )loyer how deeply interested the second officer had \n in looking at the painting "Battle of Borodino." ie told me," continued the clerk, "that ho thought it )e a picture he saw within the niins of Sebastopol ^enteen years ago." Alexander GurkifF looked serious as he asked his rk if the lad had said he was there during the (mean war. The clerk replied, "Yes, he said that he was there saw that picture, or one exactly like it. Gurkiff said nothing more, and the conversation )pped. He immediately sat down at his desk, penned kote, called in an errand boy, and sent him with it to )tain Cardrick's vessel. The note read as follows : Captain Cardrick: — Please send your second officer to my office to-morrow ^ning at eleven o'clock, I desire to speak with him for a short I shall not delay him long. Yours tnUy, Alexander Guhxiff, of the firm of Gurkiflt" & Keprandi. At the appointed hour Jack McKelvin walked into office of Gurkiff & Keprandi, and, to his utter mishment, he saw sitting there a handsome lady bssed in fashionable attire. Alexander Gurkifl* shook lad's hand and asked him to be seated. Jack won- 3 ! 34 A Seraph on the Sea. 'II III:! flered what was up. Without further ado the propritt smI said : a|| "Mr. McKelvin, I have been told by my accountiii ren that you were in the war in the.se parts some seventt > lopj years ago." "I wa.s, sir," replied McKelvin. He faltered in 1 fi speech as his e^es caught those of the woman, who w sitting directly opposite him. . cg| "You think you have seen that painting represt i ing the 'Battle of Borodino' ?" said Gurkift', as he point- with his hand toward the picture on the wall. "Yes," replied the sailor, "I have either seen tli roih one before yesterday, or one so much like it that ^i$ could not tell them apart." sal, "You think then you saw this one in Sebastopol the close o^ the siege there?" said Gurkitf. o© "Yes, sir," answered Jack, "when I was a lad in ti Queen's army I was wounded by a splinter tVom w|e shell, while roaming over the field not very far fi^ h#< the city, and was conveyed with a French lass, wi was also wounded, to a deserted house within the tov oft walls, and in that house I saw a painting very like tl one." lfi^« Said Gurkiii', "Do you think that you would kiiii^ the French lass if you should see her now?" Jack smiled, as he replied, "Well, seventeen ytail is a long time, and it makes considerable change if people's appeamnce. She may be dead or marrici now; but wherever she is, she has never been t'oi"| gotten by me. I never go through a storm at sea Ir'ip I think of the evening I lay on the cold field side 'a. \o the proprict y my accouiiiin ; some seveiitt . Le faltered in 1 woman, who u ^ inting repres( ir cift',ashepoiiit' he wall, either seen tli: h like it that in Sebastopol kitr. was a lad in ti splinter tVom )t very far fi" ^'rench lass, \\\ within the tivQl ing very like tli J \i you would km now?" seventeen y;''^ rable change ilead or marii never been t'u' storm at sea li '| old field side A Seraph on the Sea. 35 with the French lass. I often think of her as she ared in her half-soldier dress. Why should I not ^ember her? that memory is sweet, and it will never its sweetness while I live. She was the first to up my wounded limb with a ban . "^ nounce an impassioned and ardent temperamt^.^ aiK ®^ great degree of sincerity ; they seemed to express t ^ feelings of a noble, loving nature, and betray evi ♦** shade of feeling, courage, benevolence, joy and pity. *^ at a glance. "»1 Alexander (lurkiff invited Jack, as he was ulw '^ leaving the office to go on board his ship, to spi ^ next day at his home. At first Jack demurred al« ^ accepting the invitation, but the soft, winning mam ^ of Josie Gurkiff was such that McKelvin could i * muster up courage to decline, and he stepped out, at W a hearty shake of hands all round. At ten a. m. next day a carriage and pair st( quite near the ship, and a message was delivered la. d Serapli on the Sea. 37 i bright as wlir >*iinean war. make a remnrk peak away." ine of any otli eyelashes, wliii your sparklii' jr. I now rcc( and all the loi ly showing tiui a soft and plci jbrows cannot to have a gn ice, and to he ;s appear > f imperaniL^.^ u in: ed to expres.s t and betray evi e, joy and pity, as he was alx lis ship, to spi i demurred alx ,, winning manr iKelvin could r stepped out, aft re and pair sto ! was delivered by the eri^and-boy. McKelvin was all read}', ami •ped on shore with more of a military than nautical Ho accompanied the boy to the carriage, and both d themselves in the softly cushioned vehicle, Jack ing sideways at the boy and saying : "My lad, if you had not come here in this carriage, ling would have persuaded me to enter it." |"()h," said tiie boy, "I have orders to go to Mr. kitf's residence with you." And off went the team. »i#Jack said, as they were driven along, "My lad, I e been in many cities of the world, some much ;er than this, (Odessa at that time had a population ofvalKJut 150,000), but I never set foot in one so beau- |(|pl in every way." i* Arriving at the residence, McKelvin was received Mrs. Gurkiff, Jr., in the most affable manner, and [is. (jrurkiff, Senr., received him as a mother u ould her In a short time Jack felt (juite at home. He had much time to feel awkward in presence of the Hies, for they kept him on the move, taking him 11 one department of the house to another, showing the pictures, statuettes, library, and last, but not it, a small fortress about eighteen inches in diameter, to have been made after the style of a fortress It by the Russians in the year 1793 on the site of captured from the Turks in 1789. Two' years r houses were built about this fortress, and the e received the name Odessa. After he had l;)een •wn through the palatial residence, he was given in rge of a groom, who conducted him through the ibles. < !' 11 \k l!i'-l 38 A Seraph on the Sea. « After lunch Jack wa3 taken for a« drive, acconi panied by the three Gurkiffs. He was shown throug the entire city, and everything of historical ii terest pointed out to him. Late in the afteniod tlie partyspent two hours viewing the magnificeii harbour and promenade alqng the face of tli cliff, this spot being a favourite resort of the ii. habitants. Jack, with his friends, lingered for some time nu;; the monument of the Due de Richelieu, to whose abilit and energy, it is said, the town is in a great part ii. debted for its prosperity. At last, as evening bega, to throw its shades about, they sat down to rest Alexander entertained his mother, and Josie Gurki^ and Jack McKelvin sat together conversing of foriiu daj'-s, and tracing, for the information of each otlm tlieir careers to that hour. ^ "Mr. McKelvin," said Josie, "you see how comfort ably I am settled. I never expected, when flying o\ » Crimean fields and attending to sick and wounded nieii that my lot in life would attain this happiness I nov enjoy. I have a husband who lives for great object> and whose spirit is so firmly knit, that it is not difficuli for him to encounter the storms of life, when he v roused to do so." "If your energy and disposition are the same nov Madame," replied Jack, "as they were when I first nic you in Sebastopol, (and allow me to say they seem tlit same), w\\y should not your husband live for great oli jects,^wh(:n he has such a wife as you at his side, whosi deptii and warmth of feeling resemble the current of a. ^ drive, accoiii shown throus historical ii the aftei'iioo: he magnificeii face of tli ort of the ii; some time nt!; ic whose abilit . great part ii. evening begai down to rest I Josie Gurkir rsing of forim; of each otliti se how comfort hen %ing om I wounded men appiness I now [• great objects : is not difRcul; fe, when lie i- the same noM hen I first met they seem iXv e for great oli- his side, whos. the current of A Seraph on the Sea. 39 thuit beautiful bay, and not the bubbles and ripples on iti^surface, as we sailors say?" "My husband," replied Josie, "was once a little J\il|scovite picked up in Sebastopol, while dressed in tree Cossack style, and I have often walked along the riVer front in Sebastopol with him holding my hand oa (lie side and you on the other, limping from your wound." ' Well, well," replied the sailor, "strange things occur ill some people's lives; but no stranger circumstance ever happened to a man since Flora McDonald and b?|nnie Prince Charlie parted, than has happened to Htf , a poor sailor lad, WHiat brought me here ? A v^scl. you will say. Yes, but what directed me to (Rt vessel? I had shipped in two others, — one was ized for debt when she was about to sail, and I did turn up in time to board the other. I had no de- 'e to come here, and do not know that I ever heard \ the place till the day I shipped. Some spirit, or etliing, had determined that wo three should meet 'ain, and met we have. I must step over an "Mother would like' you to come to her cabin and sii,. while I play." The officer thanked her, and remarked that he wa afraid he could not sing correctly enough to keep ii tune with such an accomplished player as he and tli. Captain had just had the pleasure of listening to ; tlia; he had never been professionally trained, but ha picked up what little he knew of singing, and h;v learned most of the pieces he sang on shipboard, niv at concert halls. The youiig lady replied, "There are many pro to sional singers who would give all, and more than il they possess to have such a voice as we have been de lighted in listening to just now. Now, won't you pleas step in and let us hear it once tigain, at least, Vjefore W' retire for the night ?" The officer thanking the young lady for her com plimentary reraarks; rose and followed her to tlu piano. The Captain preferred to listen where h was sitting. For an hour the whole cabin was tilli er cabin and sii.. Tked that he wa nough to keep ii er as he and tli listening to; tliu trained, but ha singing, and lui 3n shipboard, aiii are many profo |id more tlian il we have been ^'*' could do to keep the ship on her course during tin "^ singing of the closing song, the words so took hold ni/-- his whole nature that his arms trembled and weakentd while the ship seemed restless under his charge. The last song was a midnight one ; the clock hai finished striking twelve just as the last words, "Wallact bled," were trembling on the lips of the singers. Th. wind had increased, and the waters swelled. The ladii> went outside to view the sea at midnight ; they wei« accompanied by the commander of the " Western Star. They sat upon their camp stools on the quarter deck As the moon in minor majesty seemed to ride in tii umph through retreating clouds, showers of soft light appeared to flit in soleinn glory all around the ship white caps rose and settled with every wave of the sea causing the near waters to appear as covered witli plumes of warriors, who were vainly struggling fnm a nether world in an attempt to march toward the fai m ■-'-':'■■■ ■ tl SI ■V f^l ? A Seraph on the Sea. 47 rone, 1. le shipwi'eckt y were ScoU-li en in the caliin bin door. Th told the secoii' it he had all li rse durinof tli |S0 took hold n! and weakeiu'il s charge. the clock lia vords, " Wallace 2 singers. Tli. led. Theladit< yht ; they wti' ' Western Star 3 quarter deck 1 to ride in in IS of soft liglit ound the ship vave of the .sea 5 covered witli truggling freii toward the I'm and attack the battlements of an unseen city. The secoml officer had now become (juite intimate with the two lady passengers. The next afternoon, as tho ladies came into the main cabin from the deck, wiiere they had been for an airing, they saw the second officer there, and entered into conversation with him. Tih*i afternoon seemed to be an out one for the women : tbey were dressed in their Ijest. The mother looked anxiously and earnestly at the officer for fully two minutes, and then asked, " Were ySiiu ever a druunner-boy in the Crimea?" The officer replied, "I was, madame, and was taken iB^ Sebastopol in the conveyance of a most no1)le- ll0ft.rted American lady, who, in company witii her cl|fiM, was visiting the scenes of the war, and who, : the slain, but upon the broad waters of an ocean." you Jack hung down his head, and in silent though: ma: wondered how it all could be. He had met the Frond sini lass ; now he was in company with the mother an daughter who had found him wounded on the field He had ne\ cr expected to see them again. He looke up and said : "Madanio, how strange these meetings seem ! Thcv are purely accidental — most unexpected. Why is it thus?" The lady replied, "Just now don't think too mucli over these meetings ; go and rest yourself, you look am sad and worn, and come this evening to our room and sht sing with my daughter." by The mother and daughter went to their room, pri After being seated, the mother said, "My dear, I can th* blai wir gre do> "M we t. mtetl to me li r^-ance that Im This steel can ti sword l>la A Serajjli on the Sea. again permitted to meet the donor, and in my ship is being carried safely from shipwreck, as in my \v«. gon he was safely conveyed from the field of dial Now, Jean, (the daughter's name), let us bury t past, for the present, in singing these four lines. " "And the night ahull be filled with music, And the caroH that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as ^silently steal away." They all sang. =1= I: York came h(nn< bant proc^ heal invi< and to monl f- ■.- A Seraph on the Sea. n in my ship aH in my wi field of (lia: )t us bury t mr lines." « music, y )8, ■f ■J. CHAPTER VI Elopement. |n due time the "Western Star" arrived at New Yonek. Mr. Telparson arrived the day after the ship came into port. On the Telparsons leaving for their honie, Mrs. Telparson received the consent of her hus- balid to extend an invitation to Jack McKelvin to proceed to Philadelphia and call and see them before he shipped on another voyage. McKelvin accepted the invitation, and in a few days proceeded to Philadelphia and put up at a good hotel, Mrs. Telparson promising to pay his expenses, as the poor fellow was without mofey. After Jack had arrived and spent a few days in the QtUEkker City, he received an appointment as an em- ploye in the warehouse of Gistiff' & Telparson. The iir^ four months of Jack's employment gave entire satisfaction to his employers, and he was about to be appointed to a higher grade of work ; but he unfortu- na^ly fell away from grace. During the time he kept hiV'body erect and mind clear, he was frequently in- 62 A Seraph on the Sea. vited to Telparson's liouse, where he spent an hour cotu|] two singing with the ladies in the evenings. Occasii verb- ally a few friends were invited in to join in t Tber snigmg. comn Tlie Telparson family consisted of the fatli like mother, a son, and Jean. The son was chief clii their in his father's office. amor xVlmost as suddenly as a blizzard something pass chun over Jack, and he fell from his high estate. He siiii] t^e ? got drunk, — as some kings, emperors, statesmen, m the ^ chants, clergymen and others have been doing i at th generations past. While on a message from the ott I] to the dock, he got intoxicated ; he could give no sat flow factory explanation why or how he did so. Wli eaiis asked to explain, he gave answer as follows : wate "All I know about it is, that I was taken aback' the a sudden squall, which I did not see approacliing, a; did not realize that I had been on my beam ends uii: for I was partly righted." man This would have been a very satisfactorj'' explni. for tion to some people, but it was not so to Mr. Telpars' riag Jack was severely cautioned, and promised not to t like again. lov< Jean Telparson had formed an attacliment for t wit^~ sailor lad. She seemed to love him when she f\\ af heard him sing on board the "Western Star"; and sail] was through her solicitation that her mother was y froij suaded to have him go to Philadelphia. John McKelvin continued to fill his position ^s\\ di^ entire satisfaction to his employers. He was a com mo: an(j sense lad, and kept himself respectable, and in go in A Seraph on the Sea. 53 it an hour rs. Occasi< join in t the fatli IS chief clc ething pas> le. He simp tatesmen, im een doing ! from the ott \ give no sat :lid so. Wli lows : iaken aback ' ^proaching, ai Deam ends uii! ictory explaii i Mr. Telparsi lised not to f ,chment for t when she fii 11 Star" ; and iiother was pi is position \vii was a comiiio: le, and in go colt^any. He regularly attended church. Jean grew vekf fond of his company, and he loved to be near her. TlWii^^ were busy bodies in that city as well as in othei- communities; like sin, they abound everywhere, — and, life gross sin, they blast the lives and prospects of thetr victims. Some of the biggest tattlers were founr lad except at her own house, or cm the way home from church, or at her father's business establishment. However, at la.st matters came to a crisis. Jack dilfe not leave the city, and Jean and he corresponde red. One of tli ician — measure e. She ordere ', saying it was I three girls lia inses and suppl )eing complete ended from h J, and met Jac )ve near by. • s^rt distance from the latter place a cab was ready and waiting. Jack and Jean were soon seated side by side in the carriage. Laura Cempton — one of the young ladies— was chosen to accompany them. The three were driven to a village a few miles distant, where Jack and Jean, through the services of a well- paid clergyman, were legally made man and wife. The driver was an Irishman named James P. O'Hullehan. He was given a glass of wine by the officiating clergy - mail. As he put the glass to his lips, he said : "I dhrinks to yer healths ; and as I have found love fiwhens by an oocasional shmile, and takes root and exphands in a moist atmosphere, so may it iver be wid ye, me friends." From the village where the pair were made one they left next morning for New York, and Laura Cempton was driven back to Philadelphia. Next day Jack and Jean arrived at New York. Jack becomes a little shady. He was seen by one of Talparson's shipping agents, who had been wired to keep a lookout for the runaways. Jembs (the agent) followed Jack to his hotel, treated him, got full particu- lars from the hotel proprietor, left Jack in a drunken aiapor, and immediately after telegr nhed full particu- lars to old Telparson. Next day the father of Jean arrived, — found Jack at t e hotel, still under the cloud, — had his daughter arresi 1, and took her away with him. Jack was shipped wh e he was intoxicated. He was put on board the barijue "Annie Chapman," bound i > that class of men who manage to keep command r themselves for years — who move about like elephant Jack, though a Scotchman, was of a different temi)irfi ment ; he was like an Arabian steed ; he was all drat and blaze. The other Scotchman was like a bankt tire. The latter would, in all probability, punish niui tire-water in a year than Jack would in tive. Jacr was one of those subjects who have brought scores >■ temperance lecturers into prominence among a certai class. Sucli lecturers, by their imitations of the nolil who have fallen, and their blatherings, have at tli same time disgusted another class, and put a brak upon the progress of temperance. The (Scotchman, who was second otRcer of tli bar(|ue, always carried a limited stock of whisky wit! thi him. Jack was very ill and dispirited. He attempts cas to close his troubles by going overboard, and resting hi- weary frame in the bosom of the deep. The Scotch man knew his man, and knew the medicine he needf Jack was placed in irons. As soon as the second mat. could (juietly approach Jack, he gave him a stitt'driui; of cold Scotch, and the following day managed to ni WJ him another. The sunlight soon crept into Jack's mi ii wi and soul, and in a few hours he was himself aofain. in( At length, after a passage of one hundred an ga twenty -one days, the "Annie Chapman," in a S. W w gale, ran into port and anchored in Mansford Bay. ch When away from the evil intluences of drink, Jh( gt A Seraph on the Sea. 57 a Scotchiurtii ,ke his whisk) s. He was uii D com man* 1 (!» like elephant^ rent teinperii i e was all draft like a banke;^ y, punish nior" in five. Jac^ )Ught scores < tnong a certa ns of the nolil 's, have at tli' d put a ]»rnk officer of til Df whisky \vitl He attempti- and restinji' lii> ). The Scotcl, cine he needei he second mat' ini a stiff' driui^ lanaged to <:iv' nto Jack's miii' mself again. e hundred an m," in a S. ^^ nsford Bay. s of drink, J ark MfeKelvin was as free and happy a man as one would ^trlifti to meet. He was a most intelligent young fellow. 'he Captain of the barque was a teetotallei, He always had been one. Jack said, one evening when passing the meridian of Cape Leawin, in lat, 43 45 S., *^M is very easy for the Captain to talk : lie has no plly for a poor follow who is as apt to burst as a tfemder cloud, when all seems calm and peaceful in his life. But there are Cape Leawins in every man's life ; W&LQ are better fitted to weather the storms of these Oll|)es than others. The best ships have gone ashore Ottthe Cape, while poorer ones have escaped. So is it wUh mankind. There are the wise of mankind who storm and rant and rage, when anything goes wrong with one of then- fellow-beings in whom they have a t^ or pretended interest. It is just possible that niany a poor besotteth sure relief. And ever after, he never went to sea irithout a bottle or two of the one and a box or two of Iftie other. ^y* The tribe among which, at length. Jack found him- ijjelf, were called Arancanians. About one month after McKelvin had sojourned among these natives, he one ete-y, while sitting in the hut of one of the upper ten, Was watching the females as they were engaged at ^eir various occupations. One of them brought out a ish partly filled with meal, slightly moistened, and a 60 A Seraph on the Sea. small earthenware jug, both of wliich she sat dowi upon the ground. One of the girls approached, took , handful of meal, and made it into a ball, which sh, stutfed into her mouth, and with both cheeks distenilm she returned to her work. Another followed, iini another, until all — from the young children to tin toothless old women — were busy munching and chew ing, with their faces puffed out like balls, but .stili managing to keep up x ceaseless jabbering. In a ivw minutes the first returned, and, lifting up the jui; emptied into it the whole contents of her mouth. Sib took another mouthful of meal and went off chewini; as before. The rest followed in due time, and so it went on until the meal was exhausted, and the jii;' was full. Jack, being puzzled to comprehend such singular proceedings, approached one of the women, and point ing to the jug, inquired : "Chom tua?" (What is thatO "Mudai," she answered. "What! Mudai?" "Yes," she answered ; and, laughing at his surprint added, "Cuini ! Cumi !" (Good ! Good !) Mudai is made by the natives in the following man ner: A bushel or more of wheat is boiled over a slow fire for several hours, at the end of which time tlu- decoction is strained off and set aside to cool. To thi> a jug full of masticated grain is added, in order to prcv duce a rapid fermentation. When this liquor was ready for use, Jack had his eye and his heart set upon it His season of late had been a dry one, and he tV!t A Seraph on the Sett. 61 lu sat dowii iched, took , 1, whicli n1i, cs flisteinifM )llovved, iini dren to t\v ^ and chew lis, but .still y. In a ivw up the jui! mouth. Sib oft* chewini; le, and so it and the jiii; uch sinoiilai n, and point his .* surprint ilowing man I over a slow ich time tlu- 3ol. To thi^ Qrder to piv. or was rea»] V set upon it and he tVlt Iteenly for a sprinklinfr. He was desperately tiiirsty, and the very thou^l\t of some moisture fairly parched ||ie tongue. To use his own expression, he felt all over M though he could drain a stream. Jack, on heing invited to partake, went for the umdai like a steed to the charge, and finally fell headlong into the breach. He and old Skuktadi, (the chief), at whose hut Jack was at the time sojourning, drank the major part of the brewing. They got badly drunk. The natives ^t alarmed. Jack and Skuktadi rolled over and over on the flcor of the hut. kissed and hugged each other,, ftnd were two of the jolliest companions ;ver seen by ihe tribe. One of the women suggested that the mudai be hid in the bush, but on consulting with the house- hold in general, it was decided not to do so, as the chief Hfould be very angry. , Jack and the old chief, heedless of results, kept at the mudai ; the stock on hand still consisted of about two gallons. Two days later the last drop of the Kquor had passed into the life of the Scotchman and ^at of the savage. Then came the crisis. The next Bdorning Jack and the savage, feeling very badlj'', wan- dered about the woods and by-places, seeking relief — ^ey knew not how or where. Mudai they craved, but BQudai they found not ; there was not a drop to be found ^ the locality. It was a dry time among the natives,, jteid the oldest inhabitants said they could not remem- her a time when some mudai was not to be had in the Neighbourhood. It was a season of accidental prohi- bition, and terrible suffering for Jack and the chief, 4l"he night came, and with it the sufferings of the two- I 62 A Seraph on the Sea, wretched men increased : it was to them a burnini' thirsty desert; they could not sleep, but ran, howltMl swore and tore about the hut all night. Early in the morning both sots went out and tridi U) rest in the shade of some trees, near a rippling brcxA They drank from the stream, but not a drop of the p\iri fresh water touched the thirsty, burning, crying spnt> in the old savage's or Jack's stomach. Then they lay down side by side and fell into a drunkard's sleep, their nerves kept twitching, and now and again either man would give a jump and catch for breath. An hour later the natives in the vicinity were startled by a terrible noise, — hooting, yelling, and frantic shriek- succeeded each other in (juick succession. The natives rushed to the spot whence c- o the unearthly souiiil> and, to their surprise anrl horror, they found oM Skuktadi and Jack bareheaded, and running from tree to tree, howling and tossing their arms in great excitement. The native men got hold of Jack, and the women secured old Skuktadi. After their captun they appeared to cool a little, but still they were very boisterous. After they had got to the hut. Jack stretched him self on the floor, and the old savage tried to explain what had been the matter. He said, while lying asleeji they saw the branches of all the trees about them tilled with snakes, hanging by their twisted tails to the limi»> with their heads downward and their ten thousand tongues of forked fire spitting sparks, till the whol* woods seemed in a blaze. They were so terrified that they jumped up suddenly and thought they were in f^. a burninir ran, howle out and tridl ppling brook p of the pun crying spot> len they lay karri's sleep: 1 again either breath. An •e startled by •antic shriek> The nativL> irthly soun 3y found old cunning from irms in great of Jack, ami • their captuiv ley were very stretched him ed to explain le lying asleeji )ut them lilleil Is to the liml'> ten thousaml till the whol* > terrified that they were in A iSerafjh on the Sea. (53 ih» infernal region. All of a Hud«k'n the blaze went away, and in place of tlu; serpents ten thousand mon- keys appeared to V>e swinging, jumping, grinning; and tlieir eyes looked like small balls of fire. Tlu»y were mnning from ti'ee to tree to drive these monkeys away, when, all of a sudden, the monkeys seemed to skip into the clouds, and tho\isands of snakes appeared to U; forcing their way into the ground all about them. Next day there was great lamentation and wailing in Skuktadi's hut ; the old fellow became fearfully d^irious, and it took Jack and .several stalwart natives to hold him. Sometimes ho would remain for ten minutes as though dead ; then a »mivei*sal wail arose. The head and shook him violently, saying as he did so, "^^\ ya, tumela, kuwe, mfundi, si wami, otandekago, kuku^u, kimi, nakubo, bonki, abazalwane, ngi, ti, mina, ngi, y\." Every time Jacl administered a dose of the lini- ment or gave his jatient a pill, or rubbed his wrists an each otan- \ ng-i, i' the tJien Ano- l the ff as ami, ane, Tlie a.sseinlilo(^ wuviiircs luuktMl a^ mpnouM ah |^)U|» onts at a rovival Moi'vice, One hour <\i'itn* «laok had athniuint- ve«l the rtr4 (lose, old SkuktadI l>eiran to nhuw nigHH o was (hawu toif«*th»»»' witi< a Ii4»l fcehn^ below hin waist, .laok ruhhod Idlu and n<- rubbed him. At last tike old Hava/^o waH eojmid«»iitl>ly relieved, and sat up in a vejy wenkeiunl condition. His i'Xpel'ioUiH^ Imd been t\ terribli> ou«,--i|<| \\\\h, lour dos(^s of liniment, an^ian intrigue, may never be fully known. The result of the Ameer's decision not to admit the mission, brought the two countries to war ; hence, at the time of the Uurkilfs arrival at the Russian advanced military post, war was imminent, and they were advised by their Russian friends to remain at or near the ad- vanced posts of the Czar's troops, as there would be A Seraph on the Sea. 75 ^'reat risk in crossing the Afghan country at that time. While the Gurkiffs were resting on the Russian frontier, their nurse, a handsome girl of eighteen sum- mers, was fallen in love with by a young Russian who occupied a position in the Commissariat of the Russian army. Everything possible was done by the Gurkiffs and by those who exercised authority over the young Russian to keep the young lovers apart. In this they succeeded for a while ; but it was like damming a stream, only to flow with greater force when an outlet was found. Love runs as deeply in the desert, as it does in the city. The pair met and eloped. The nurse was a kind of half-breed, her father being an English sailor, and her mother a njitive of Odessa. Josie Gurkiff said of her nurse, that she was a prize for any man; she was a natural-born housekeeper, and had a strong and lovable character. Though un- educated.she was a gem of a girl in full p»)sses.sion of all the virtues of her childhood. It being impossible to replace the nurse, Josie GurkifF to(.k upon herself the entire care of her child. The overland journey had considerably iniproved the health of the Gurkiffs, and they were quite cheered on account of restored spirits. They were obliged to remain several months on the frontier : but Alexander received a letter from his partner, telling of a heavy loss by the tirm in a large speculation. He decided, in the face of all obstacles, to attempt to cross over to 76 A Sevaph on tke Sea, the Indian frontier, and from tlicro start at once for Odessa. The attempt re(|uirod <^reat conrapfe. They left the banks of tlie Oxns. Tlie Russian Connnander pro- cured a pass for the party. After pushinjij through Khiva, they arrived at Herat, meetinn^, so far, witli no difficulties worth mentionin<^. Alexander jrrevv deject- ed, and this was sensibly injuring his health. His wife did all in her power to brace him up : but business trouble, causing sleepless nights and daily worry, which he seemed una!)le to shake off', were telling fast upon his mind as well as body. Josie hoped from Herat to •make a bold and speedy push on to the Queen's domin- ions, and after a short rest, they pushed on toward Cabul. A Seraph on the Sea. 77 CHAPTER X. A Race Acros.s the Lines. When Alexander Gurkifi" and his wife arrived at Herat, they found Ayoob Khan making preparations to assert, by force of arms, his own claims to the Ameership. They took the opportunity of viewing the forming camp outside the walls of the city, after which they started on their journey toward Cabul. They carried with them a pass, secured for them by the Commander of the Russian troops stationed near the northern frontier of Afghanistan. From Cabul, where they left their luggage and team, they proceeded on horseback toward the Indian frontier. It was with great difficulty tiiat they secured fresh horses at Cabul. Their plan was to overtake the rear of General Roberts' advancing army, and hang on to it until they reached the Empress of India's possess- ions. They had been delayed at Cabul lov some wcf^ks, owing to a severe illness with which Alexander had been attacked. When they had got fairly on the road leading V IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) «^ /- t/. f/- 1.0 I.I 1.25 i^y^ ■2.5 ISO ^^ * ■■ ^ i^ 12.2 IIIIM 1.4 1.6 6" 7a *j^\,> y ^# Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MS80 (716) S72-4503 T^v ^_J1 1 %o 78 A Seraph on the Sea, toward Kandahar, they found to their dismay that Ayoob Khan was already in advance of them, and had enffa^ed and defeated the British General, Burrows. Tliey were assured that Roberts' army was on the march, but it was impossible for them to get positive information of its whereabouts. For some reason or other they altered their line of march, and struck off toward Quetta. When they had arrived at the latter place, they found out that they had in part been re- tracing their steps, rather than advancing. At Quetta they rested a few days, and then resumed their jour- ney, heading as sti-aight for Kandahar as possible. Their horses became tired, principally for the want of proper food and care. They decided to head for Ghanzi, and arriving there, they rested for a few^ days. When they left this post, they were soon made aware that they were in the rear of the British army. They determined to press forward at all hazards, and press they did ; but delays here and there made their advance slow. The energy they exhibited in order to reach the rear of General Roberts' army seemed almost supei'- human. The pace told greatly upon their horses and themselves. A sudden calamity bef el them ; Alexander's horse dropped dead from sheer fatigue. They were now obliged to take turns in riding the remaining animal, either parent carrying the child on horseback. Not many hours later their only remaining horse dropped, and was left dying in the roadway. Their situation was deplorable in the extreme. They found \i utterly impossible tj procure a horse or conveyance of any kind. Weary, worn, sad and footsore, they trudged A Seraph on the Sea. along' as best they could. Their little f'our-year-oM child, the most cheery and lively of the trio, was hourly becoming more burdenso\ne, and Alexander was fast succumbing to the climate and !ieavy tramp. The wife and mother was only kept up by her indomitable pluck and energy. First to fall by the way was the husband and father He dropped, finishing the journey of life about eight miles from Kandahar. He breathed out his life on n small mound quite near the roadside, and al)out si.xty feet from where he had fallen. His last words, accom- panied by a sigh, were — "Oet nie within the British lines, but hold fast to my dear child." She kissed his sunburnt cheek, watched on the mound beside his still form for two hours, then, with her little child, resumed the march toward Kandahar. The next morning she came up with tlie rear guard of Ayoob Khan's forces, and was greatly distressed anrl disappointed to find she had missed the British. To- gether with her child, she entered the village of Mazra, and on a piece of sloping ground leading from "^i coctage, they sat down to rest. She was at a loss how to proceed. She knew not what to do or whither t(; flee. She wished, to die. Her child was completely exhausted. After resting undisturliod for two hours, flickering hope returned. She rose,, taking lier child in her arms, and staggering and plunging alciig like an ocean tram}) in a storm, she entered a village filled with Afghan troops moving to action. Soon after this she heard the report of artillery, 80 A Seraph on the Sea. m and then shells begavi to fly into the village. She feared a fight had commenced. She crawled into a deserted house. In one of the rooms a table was set, and upon it was a substantial meal. She and her little one ate the food prepared for others. They were very hungry, for no food had entered their lips for two •lays. When they had eaten and rested for a short time in the lonely house, she took her child and went out. The battle seemed to be at its height. After she had walked a hundred yards or so, she retraced her steps, and once more entered the vacant house. Shot was ploughing the ground, and shells were whizzing by and bursting all about the house. A riderless steed galloped by the door in which she was sitting. She put hor hand into her small black silk bag that hung at her side, and pulled out the Cri- mean spurs and pistol. She adjusted the spurs to the heels of her well-worn boots. The pistol was loaded in its two barrels. She put the pistol back into the bag, took her child in her arms and left the house. As she proceeded up the roadway, she saw Afghan soldiers running hither and thither in great confusion. They seemed indifferent to her approach. She feared the Afghans were beginning to retreat, and in the rush she and her child might be overborne and killed. While stopping a moment to consider what was best for her to do, she saw a horse coming down the way at full speed ; its rider had fallen, and was being dragged along at a terrific pace. She placed her child at her side, and holding it by one hand, she stepped out to try d Seraph on the Sea. 81 anolted and jumped over a wall into a kind of enclosure or garden. She fol- lowed the beast as quickly as she could, leaving her child without the wall. With difficulty she caught the bridle of the prancing, trendjling steed, as he jumped from siack to the vacant house, where she completely wrapped her child in her skirt, which she had taken off', and wound the bundle round and round with a strong black silken cord she had seen in the room on her ffrst visit ; she put the bundle on the horses shoulders, close against the saddle; holding to the bridle and bundle with both hands, she at last, after many unsuccessful at- tempts, succeeded in mounting the fiery steed. Sprang from the ground the winds to pait, And ride the fighting lines athwart. 6 fM 82 A Seraph on the Sea. She sat on the saddle like a true warrior, iier short inside skirt just covering her knees. She drove tlu- bright spurs into the horse's tianks; lie jumped to the side of the road and went o^t'at a bound. Again and again she pressed the spurs to his sides. In a few nionients she was passing through the broken ranks of some retreating Afghans, while holding to the bundle with one hand, and tightly grasping the bridle with the other. She knew the horse was running away. The retreating soldiers gave him as wide a berth as possible. As the animal struck the crest of a hill, and was going over it like a huge bird, its rider caught a glimpse of the front of the Afghans retreating up the slope in good order. She also saw the scarlet uniforms of the advancing Eritons. As she passed like the wind through the front lines of the Afghans, many bullets went whizzing by her head and body; one of these struck the racing steed in the neck, and spots from the crimson stream sprinkled the garments of the rider. On, on, she flew, and the chars^er, running close by an officer of Ayoob's army who was rushing along on horseback, the Afghan lifted his sword and made a des- perate stroke at her neck ; quick as a flash, she threw her head forward and downward, pressing the weight of her body finnly on the bundle, and glancing to her left, she pointed the pistol with her right hand over the horse's neck and lired ; the officer reeled in his saddle., threw up his arms, and fell from his horse. Her hair had broken loose as she dodged her head from the sabre, the point of which touched the living threads ; all at once they shot out in heavy black folds, A Seraph on the Sea. 83 find waved in the wind, sliining like a raven's wini]f beneath the noonday sun. Sb.e appeared as a rteeint>f spirit, leapt aloft, flapping his dusky wing, as the dark charger was carrying her full upon the British line. Xo bold rider of the plain ever looked more rt*s<»- lute than JosieGurkiff, as two of the 92nd Highlanders stepped to the rear and let the racing charger tlpough the scarlet line. The sunlight clanceil upon her ebon hair, And longed to rest, yet conld but sparkle there ; Her cheeks were deathly pale, her lips compressed, As th»'ougli the bleeding ranks she quickly pressed. She flew by as an arrow from a bow ; the men fell in again and closed the gap. Passing through the line, she drew a white handkerchief from her waist, and fastened one of its cornei-s flrmiy between her teeth. This signal, as a flag of truce, flapping in the breeze close beside her sparkling black locks, gave her the appearance of a plumed warrior riding on the border lands of life and death. The blood in crimson streams was flowing from the horse's neck and nostrils. He was running unsteadily ; his limbs seemed to sha)s:e and his sides flap and (|uiver. His rider grasped the bridle with her other hand, as she pillowed her breast upon her child. The horse reeled ; the bundle fell. She steadied the beast by a strong and sudden pull upon the bits. The weakening charger was covering the ground won by the 92nd. On, on, he ran, trembling in every nerve and sweating at every pore. A half-mile separated the horse and its rider from 84 A Seraph on the Sea. the Gaelic Rocks. The charger reeled, stumbled, fell ; wounded and exhausted he lay dying on the victor's fielil, along with the noble slain, after he had carried his brave rider triumphantly through the lines of the defeated and victorious. Unconscious beside the dead charger lay its rider, her right arm around its neck, and her pale cheek close beside its head. The end came, ami to the earth they fell, side by side, Thus closed tlie daring, dashing, dangerous ride. There lay the dark horse anal, an.l when »nn^ of the troops were returning over the ground hey l;-.d won they saw in the bright n.oonlight a hundh- lying TtLe gLnd. It was foun.l near the place where the Highland lads stepped aside to let the ir joy aniorning the wounded rider became consci- ous, and conversed with the surgeon, who told her that her condition had been critical, principally through loss of l)lood ; but in a few days, with (juiet and care, she would be her.sclf amiin. The Highlander who had charge of the child on the field, made it a bed in his lap, where it quietly rested during the night. In the morning he was relieved by a conn-ade. Little Joie cried often for the man who had carried A Sf'/'((/jh ON the Sea. 89 her over the battletield, nnd in wliose urius she liad slept all ni^})t. At noon the siirc^eoii ealleil in to see low tlie la r.leep. For an \ our or move her rest was tl'.at granv'ent in. It was the wounded rider talk- ing in her sleep; he listened, presently his eor caught tile following words, — "Alexander, dear, you have come t'> see me. I knew you \v(»uld come l)ack ; and John McKelvin, the Crimean drummer lad, was here this morning. Won't you ask him to sail down the har- bour in tlie yacht with us this afternoon?" The surgeon came in just as ,he commenced speak- ing, and translated to the soldier wdiat she was savina', for she spoke in French. The surgeon remained beside her for an hour. She moved, to rest on her side, and as she diu so, opened her eyes, looked up at the doctor, and said : "Oh ! I thought I saw my le band who sleep in deathless glory." "Yes," replied the Major, "the cause for which those noble men suffered, and for which they gave their lives, I believe, was adjudged by a higher and fuller wisdom than that of Queens, Empresses, Governors-General or Parliaments. The Onmiscient God was over all ; guided by Him, we swept the would-be invader back. And by His wisdom, not grasped by mortid minds, your dear husband sleeps with the glorious and victorious deay want ami woniids, havinn HscapiMi as a striekoii deer witli its younff to the liosom of its friends. My wounds were houn'I up and my saddened spirit c'leered, till my sufferings almost seemed pleasant. The chief of friends I found in Major Beechei-. May England and India always po.ssess in their armies many more such as iie." Josie (iurkiff", with lier daughter and maid, left Calcutta, after a few weeks* stay there, for lie^* home in Odessa. Her maid's name was Annie E. Clephane. Her father was a Scotchman, who hail married a beau- tiful girl in the Island of Guernsey, and a few years afterward settled in India, having gone there to repre- sent some English capitalists. Both her parents had died in India. Annie had been well educated, partly in Scotland and partly in India. She was earning her own living in Calcutta, being a governess in an English family, when she engaged with Mrs. Gurkift*. She was but twenty years of age — quite handsome in form and feature. In hei nature she possessed all the fire of the French and stability of the Scotch. Josie Gurkiff could not have found a better companion fcr herself and a better instructor for her child, if she had sailed the world around in search of one. I Scntfili on Ikv Sea. 103 CHAITICR XrV. Jack IN' DiFKrcii/rv S(iME TIME jit'tor Josie (iuikif!' had arrived at Odessa, she received a letter from her agent in Cal- cutta, in which it was stated that he hoped to inform her soon of John McKelvin's release from the 02nd rej^iment. At length Jack McKelvin received his discharge and arrived at Calcutta, and called upon the agent, as directed by Mrs. Gurkitt' in her last letter of instruc- tions to him just before her departure from India. The agent, as instructed, gave Jack ten pounds for ordinary expenses, such as buying clothes, kiC, and promised to secure him a passage by the first out-going steamer to Suez. The next day Jack turned up at the agent's office in a dilapidated, dirty, drunken condition ; his face was cut and bruised, and his right arm in a sling. He could give no intelligent account of himself — where he had been or what he had been doing. The agent ordered a cab, and went with Jack to Spence's hotel, 104 A Seraph on the Sect. IM's where, after much difficulty, he procuretl good (juartei for his man, promising;- to call in the morning and look after his charge. Jde'\ was watcluMl and kindly treated at the hotel. The hou.^.e was one of the most respectable in the East- ern Hemisphei'e, and Jack would never have received an apartment tluMe if Mr.s. C- arkiff's agent had wot been known to the proprietor as one of the most respectable men of C^alcutta. Tlie agent fulfilled his promise by calling next morning to look after Jack's interest. It was (piite late when he arrived, but the ex-soldier liad not turned out. He was shown to his roonj. Jack, upon hearing the agent's voice at the door, asked him to please wait a moment till he put on some clothes. Then the agent was admitted. He fountl the poor Highlander in a desperately nervous state. Said the agent to him : "Jack, you are in one of the worst possible shapes to sit for a photograph." Jack was dejected ; he had lost all his money, and knew nothing of its whereabouts ; he was also sick at heai't, weak and faint, with a desperately throbbing head and jumping pulse — twitching in every nerve; his stomach agitated, and liis words fell trembling from his lips. He i-elated, with catching breath, a sad story to the Hgeiit,— a man who sympathized with the fallen, and a man of common-sense and liberal views. The agent saw the complete distress of the Highlander. He .sai.l to him : A Sei'ciph oil the Sea. Kt") "Mv dear fellow, sit on the bed for a few minutes, till I return ; you want a 'baek-stay.' " Jack was very obedient, and sat, trend)linj>;, waitinjjf, burning, twitching, praying for some li(|nid relief to loosen iiis parched tongue and set the niachineiy of his botiy in working order. In less than ten minutes the agent re-api)eared. fol- lowed by a waiter holding a tray on which was a stitt' glass of cold Scotch. The sight of the moving licjuid appeared to put fire in Jack's eyes, and new life in his frame. He rose from the bed and reached for the glass before \\q. was invited to do so. "Hold!" said the agent: but before the word was out from his lips, Jtick caught him around the neck, took him by the hand, patte.s one. I thank you for this little gift, and may continued luck to you and me follow. Louis Napoleon had f rni reliance on a certain 'luck}' penny' given to him by a Norwood gipsy, representing herself as the grand- daughter of that Zingara who foretold that Josephine would be an Empress. Describing his acquisition of that enclianted coin one day, shortly after his escape from Ham, v/hen a very disconsolate-looking man about that town, and being asked what he thought would become of him, he replied he had not the small- est doubt the prediction of the fortune-teller would ha fulfilled, that he should become Emperor of the French, And the arbiter of Europe." "Well, sir," replied Jack, "may it be to you as a guiding star of honoured destiny !" They parted, and not long afterward the ex-High- lanil soldier was steaming down the Bay of Bengal. Notwithstanding McKelvin's faults, the agent had become deeply impressed in his favour; he admired his open, manly heart, and thorough common sense. He saw in the man something beside the drunkard. A Scni])h oil the Sea. Ill CHAPTER XV. A Seraph ox the 8ea. On the passage Jack became acriuainted with a couple of passengers of like temperainent to his own. One beautiful evening, when the moon was shini.Hr in all her force and beauty through a cloudless sk^" and the sliip was steaming majestically through the Red 8ea, Jack McKelvin became terribly excited" For two or three days tlie three chums had been quite moist, and the moisture had turned into a very hifdi pressure of steam. Something had to give waj-, and Jack's machinery was first to crack and explode. A lady passenger who had been watching the move- ments of the three men for the last few days, prevailed upon one of McKelvin's friends to fasten an inflated rubber pillow to Jack's shoulders: he had ali-eady made an attempt to go overboard. The lady carried this pillow with her when travelling It was very light, and she said, as she handed it to Jack man will 'It is so lijrht the s companion : scarcely know it if 112 A Seraph on the Sea^ fastened to him. With it I once saved a passenger's lie. Groups of passengers were sitting here and there upon the ship's deck, chatting, smoking, and lounging, when, all of a sudden, a man ran among them shouting : "Ah! oh! ou! catch them!" Two stalwart passengers caught hold of the man, and — being immediately assisted by several others — the frantic individual was secured. As the passengers gathered round to see what was going on, they beheld a group of persons standing about a man who was trembling like a secured "run- away" steed ; the perspiration ran down his face from every pore, he breathed quick and short, and his eyes were bright and wild. "Look! look!" he shouted, "See them!"— as he pointed his hand toward the sea, his arm trembling like a branch shaken in the wind — "They are the spirits of the ancient Egyptians coming to the surface ! See the chariots of fire driving and rattling around the ship!" He made a bound as tht passengers were off their guard, and, like a frightened charger, bolted into the sea. A boat was made ready, and was soon launched ; the ship had been steaming fifteen knots, and the man could not be seen when the boat pulled off from the ship. .As the boat was rowed along, the man on the look-out at the bow sang out : "I see him ! Pull hearty boys !" He was rescued, but did not speak. His sudden baptism had somewhat sobered him, yet he was verj^ 1 Seraph on the Sea. 113 lirup and weak. He was taken to his state-room, wliere the ship's surgeon attended liini and gave him a stiff' dose of stimulant, and next morning repeated the medicine. The patient hecame (juite himself. He then hegan to eat liis reguhir nieals, regain liis strength, and also feel ashamed of his conduct, as it was revealed to him by one and anothei- on hoard. He quietly rtdated his experience to his two moist chums after he had ivcovered. He said he thought lie saw ten thousand stars dart out of the skies and fall into the sea all about the ship, and these, as they struck the water, turned it to blood. Tlien a thousand chariots and horsemen secnxMl to rise out of the deep. The wheels of the chariots, as they revolved ai-ound the ship, appeared to emit a whizzing Hame, and 4\c drivers seemed to be lashing their black, shiniucj steeds throuoh a sea of blood. Then the ship ajijieared wrapped in a blaze. As the flames neared the group of people where he was standing, he made a desperate bound to jum]) into them. After Jack got around, a clergyman on board thought it his duty to remind Jaek of his awful sin — the sin of drink. He approached the man of sin with sacred step, and words of rumbling, solemn sound. His counten- ance was angular, and his manners were of the most sanctified class. "Young man," he said, "do you believe in a God?" "I was taught, sir, to believe in one," replied Jack. "Then," said the divine, "Why do you disobey His word and commit sin?" 8 114 A Sci'dpli on the Se((. "Well, sir," rej)iie(l the Hi^lilaiidcr. "I did it wln'ii I was not thinking' of His word." "All! yer you with those predestined to evil !" replied fhe man of Ciod. "And, please sii", who are these persons T' inquired the Highlander. With lengthening jaw antl increasing solemnit}-, the divine said, in trembling but measured tones: "They are those who are, by God, in His inscrutable wisdom, condemned already to eternal misery." "Well, sir," answered Jack, "if I be one of this class, I might as well drink as pray." "No, no!" replied the clergyman; "all must strive, but few are chosen ; and you, possibly, may be among the few." "Well, sir, if what you say is true," replied Jack, 'God has laid out a way toward a better world by which one is carried along without much difficulty, and sure to safely land ; another toils and struggles to ad- vance, but is unable to do so. If your theory is true, one class of men must be created angels, the other made devils, — and the two classes never could have conic from the one Adam. "No, sir!" continued Jack, getting warmed, "your ■ I A Seraph on the Sea. lir> Jack, Id hy ami lo ad- iriu', mans, Yes, sir I I might have now been eonnnuning, throngh a strong ti'iist in the* goodness and glory of my (}ounted mother at rest among spirits made perfect, — as far as perfcjction is to 1h! obtainfid in the flesh, — and whose influence in life, though counteracted and dimme(l by \\\y sin, has never left me : and to-day, as a medium b(>tween my (jod and myself, is striving to draw me, silently and unseen, though felt in a way that my tongue is unable to express. Call this deception, or, in othei* words, say I am deceived — call it what you may — yet J cherish it, and believe, fully believe it, to be the influence of nn' Creator — imiirect though it may be — striving, through her spirit, to turn me into a right path, which, if I yield, will help me on to a l)etter state and bettd- future — a better and brighter worhl. "If your doctrine be true, you are a useless man in the hands of your (Jod. Your calling useless, niy drinking hannless, for nothing that I do, or you do can alter the eternal decree. Who, sir, are the lost ? Are they the elect ? If not, who ai dojic," said .lack. "YcR," sho said, "tlu'fuifjh my tiitaifjjhtfulnoss you were kept from ^'oing dovvfi fon.'ver ht-ncath the sur- face of the waters, where the whole sea would have l)cen your ^rave, and your last restin^-plac(! unknown to your relatives and friends. Now, my dear lian, I am your sister, an 1 for you I bear a sister's love. You have a mother or a sister in j^flory, — or at least I feel that you have, — for after you were rescued and brought on board the ship, and as I stood at the side of the ves- sel, something, I do not know what it was, Imt a feeling quickly passed through my mind that a mother or sister of yours stood near mc ; and not the words, but the impression, "Well done," tixed itself securely within my soul. This is why I approach you now. And could I but do something that would be the means of rcjscuing you for all future time from your l>esetting sin, I would give my life to do so." As the woman spoke tliese last words Jack leaned over the rail of the ship ; his hands rested upon it, and large tears rolled from his eyes into the sea that had all but embraced him in death. She continued : "I, my deal man, am a willing worker in the 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the World,' and I feel at this moment, that the spirit of your sainted mother or sister is pressing me to do all I can to win you from your conquering habit." As the woman spoke these words, Jack looked earnestly and thoughtfully at her. She saw determi- nation in his looks, and said : 118 A Seraph on the Sea. "My dear man, now do come over on my side, and wlien tliis voyage is over and we part, I shall have faith in you, as a soldier who honours his word and sticks closely to liis duty." He (juietly and decidedly put out his hand, and said : "1 will not refuse the invitation of so kind and true a lady as you appear to be. I am now sober and in iny right mind. I am with you — will h^. with you ; and as we sail down life's journey, may the great Cap- tain of our Salvation help this new recruit to become a worthy soldier, and march under the banner which you bear, from this victory to another, and on, on, till by- and-by I may ha\'e overcome all the battlements of sin and march triumphant under the banner of the cross to attain a peaceful camping-ground beneath a sky unceasingly bright with the glory of God." She took a pledge from her satchel, read it to him, and invited him to the cabin, where he signed it, and as she folded it together, she said : "I shall open this ple ,fi' .er I could never rise. With the teachings of that gooti voman — that Seraph on the Sea — a clear pathway is opened. Now, to my temperance I can add all other virtues. Give me, ever after this hour, neither dogma nor doctrine, but a right and understanding mind, and pure living, and the broad world for a church. "Hereafter 1 shall pray that the time may speedily 122 A Seraph on the Sea. come, when every passenger ship that ci'osses the ocean or runs the circuit of the world, may have one or more such women among tlieir passengers as that dear one wliose letter of simple instructions lies before nie. It could then truly be said, 'there are many bright and shining lights upon the sea to lighten and brighten the pathway of benighted travellers. Election darkens and debars. Love lightens and invites. Give me, oh ! give me love !" "Dewdrop that weepest on the sharp barbed thorn, Why didst tJiou fall from day's golden chalice? .\ly tears bathed the thorn, said the dewdrop. To nourisli the bloon) of the i'0s»\'' 4 Seraph on the Sea. 123 CHAPTER XVJ. Visits America. John McKelnin remaine.l in Odessa for six years ami gradually rose to a responsible position in tl,e firm of Gurkjff & Keprandi. He beean.e .reatly respected as a busmess man and as a citizen. He bad kept up a correspondence with his wife, pronnsing to return to her when he had saved money enough, the interest of which would give then, a eonifortable living He had arranged with Mrs. Mary Cortesi Macandie to n.eet that lady m America in tlie spring of 18. Mrs. Macandie at the tnne was resting at her bon.e in the islany will, twenty-five thousand dollars. She had not again lived with Iiini, and was I'ree to dispose of her money as she pleased. Her act displeased her brother, who threatened legal proceedings, but soon found any proceedings would be in vain. He reluctantly let the matter drop. John McKelvin, during his six years in Odessa, had wonderfully improved his mind by reading and study , and was, at Mrs. Gurkiff' s request, carefully instructed l)y the governess. John was invited while in Philadelphia to address a large gathering of Temperance workers and others. In his opening ri^marks, he said he owed his life to woman, and he had been carefully instructed by womanly advice. God forever bless them ! He had mounted the bridge above the flood, while on the Aral)ian sea. Previously he had for years wandered in a most torrid zone, but for six years he had been sailing over life's journey on a pure crystal stream, which, peacefully meandering between the golden lines of a temperate zone, carried him along in erect man- hood, as gentle breezes phiyed in refreshing circlets around his brow. "Here! here!" he exclaimed "have I found steadiness of nerve, vigour of body, expansion of mind and liberty of soul ! He concluded his touching address with the follow- ing beautiful lines : — .d Seraph on the Sea. 125 "Hail Liberty ! a glorious word, In other oountried scarcely heard, Or heard but aa a thing of course Without, or energy or force. Here felt, enjoyed, adored, she springs, Fai', far beyond the reach of Kings, Fresh blooming from this western earth ! ^V'ith pride and joy she owns her birth, Derived from you, and in return Uids in your breasts her gloiy burn ! Bids us with all those blessings live Which liberty alone can give. Or nobly with that spirit die Which makes deatli more than victory. Then hail the women on whose tongue Reform anxmg the masses I'ung, Whilst they the sacred cause maintained And one by one tlie uplifted trained. Who spread, when otlier methods failed, ('hrist's peaceful banner and prevailed. Their deeds sliall live, and each fair name Recorded in tlie book of fame Founded on honour's basis fast As the round earth to ages last. Some virtues vanisli with our l)reath ! Virtues like tliese live after death.'' A few days later he loft Philadelphia for New York en rout'^ to Scotland. While in Scotland he purchased a few acres of land in a sequestered s]>ot of peculiar beauty. This place he intended for a lionie for Mrs. Cortesi Macandie.* There was a snug cottage on the property, and from the hillside on which it stood was scenery of excessive *Mrs. Cortesi Macandie was a wealthy lady, born at Orenville, France, and married to a gentleman of an old Scotch family wlien ([uite young. Her husband was s vept from the deck of a steam.ship during a hurricane at sea, a few n>onths after they were married. She accepted the place in Scotland only uijon the condition, that, when opportunity offered, a siun eoual to its cost be given by her to aid some rescue work. In November, 1890, after carefully reading "In Darkest England," she decided to give a sum equal to the value of the property toward furthering (Jeneral Booth's great rescue scheme. 126 A Hevaph on the l^^ea. lovc'lincHS. Below was a glen, and a perfectly level tmet for about three miles, covered with tlie richest herbage, through which ran -i small meandering river Mowing into a lake. The place has many natural attractions. All around the glen is encompassed hy steep mountains, with well wooded faces. McK(^lvin named the place "Seraph's Rest." A land of l)ro\Yii lieatli and .>ihagyy wood. Laud of the iiioiintain and the Hood. From Scotland he went over to the Island of Guern- sey, where he met Mrs. Cortesi Macandie on her return from America. He delivered an address before leaving, on Moral Reform, and sixty-two persons joined the teetotal ranks in the presence of one of the largest audiences that ever assendiled on the Island. A few days afterward he left for Odessa. •^ ^^eniplt. on the ^ca. 127 CHAPTKK XVli Love ox thk Cajeta. Fm>M the tinu. M.lvel^;.\veut into tU. ...p,,,, ,., instruction i , En-^lil R- " ii ■""• '"", """'''"' t),le<,Mi. hvo l,o«,-.s a .lay we,-. ,lovotocl to instruction m the al«ve Lranchcs. M... .^ux-kirt secured Wi l.e tnne and pa.d all the ..xpenses. In the eveni^ he was fre.,ue,.tly instructed by the s-nerness „ | and elocution. At the conclusion of Hve years h- v ! * hrst-rate .^holar, with a cultivated ndnd.' He lee , -lUite a leader of history an,l «cti<,„, and was T"* eouve..at.onal,st and puhlie speaker. He had also^ be- come, through h.s mdustry, a fair reporter of speeches and proccedniss at public n.,,.etin.rs "^ ' AtW his return from An.eriea, the governess v.s.ted Scotland. She had .son,e relatives tl,:.. ^Z l^y McKel y„, a very pressing invitation to Annie E. Clephane t,. !,eeonie a guest at "The Seraphs Rest" 128 A Serctf)h on the Sea. when slie came to the lan«l of her fathers. In July, l.S(S7, slie arrived in Scotland, luiving been granted six month's leave, with all her expenses paid by Mrs. Ciurkirt'. 'i'his was the first real vacation she had had since slie engaged with Mrs. (Jurkift'in India. In August tiie agent left India for England. At the time it was said he was the bearer of important despatches from the Indian to the British Ciovernnient. The (Jhilzai rebellion had just collapsed, and it was reporterl that the principal rebel leaders were fleeing to Lohana, north of the Zhob valley, while the Ameer's troops were inarching back to Cabul and Kandahar. Following close on the settlement, for the time being, of the Afghan Boundary dispute, the close of the Uhilzai rebellion, it was thought, would very materi- ally simplify the British position on their North -West frontier. But if the defeated rebels continued to take refuge in large nundjers in British territory, there seemed danger of troublesome complications with the Ameer. It was thought that Abdul Rahman would not approve of England or India affording shelter to his rebel subjects. It was hintetl that the agent's visit to England was to place fully before the English Ministry the real situation in Afghanistan consequent upon the rebellion. Whatever may have been th'- agent's real business to Britain, whether on an import- ant mission, or for pleasure, matters little ; it is enough for our purpose to know that he arrived in England late in the summer of lcS87. Early in November, after having visited some friends in Ireland, he left for Scotland to spend a A Seraph on the Sea. 129 few «.layH with a brotlicr an«l sister livirifj in (Jlas^ovv. One fine afternoon, wlien walkinc;' witli his sister, lie met Annie E. (IMephime, in company witli Mrs. Macandie. He recognized tiie governess at a ghmce, turned short and s|>r)ke to lier. In a moment after she recognized the agent. He and his sister walked back a short distance. Tlie agent promised to call at "The Seraph's Rest" the* last of tlu; week. The gover- ness walked beside him, while the otlu^r ladies walked on in front. She said : "I would like to see you before you return to India: I wish to send a very small jmrcel to a friend in that country." On the following Saturday the agent called at the "Rest," and wishing to see the locality, he proposed a short walk. The ladies agreed to accompany him. Occasional showers had fallen during the afternoon, and the air was quite cool. The ladies were wrapped in their long, closely-buttoned cloaks, an I their heads and faces were well protected by a kind of regulation head-dress. After walking some distance, they passed over a river spanned by a tincly consti'ucted brid to London, and the governess was to leave in a days for Odessa. Although the agent and Annie had not become betrotherl, thev ai-ranjred to meet again at the latter city. Two weeks later the governess, accompanied by Mrs. Macandie, set out for Odessa, where they arrived in due time. A week later, the agent, who had in the meantime received an important appointment under the British Government, arrived at the same place. Mrs. Gurkiflfgave him a reception becoming his station, and did all in her power to make his visit a plea.sant one. He wtis delighted to meet McKelvin, and ex- pressed his great satisfaction at finding him so well advanced socially and intellectually. John McKelvin replied : "My dear sir, I owe my present happiness to that 132 A Seraph on the Sect. dear lady, Mrs. Cortesi Macandie. And much of the information I now possess is due to the kindness of Mrs. Gurkiff, and the fair lady, Miss Clephane," One beautiful evening while sailing down the bay a few miles from Odessa, with McKelvin in charge of the "Cajeta/' the agent, Annie, Mrs. Gurkift", Mrs. Macandie and several other friends composing the party, the agent said to Annie, as she sat beside Mrs. Macandie : "There are the masts of a vessel." She turned her head slightly to look in the direction where the agent pointed. He watched every feature of her beautiful face intently, as he said : "You do not see the spars." She quickly and mildly replied : "I do." He thought he detected a very slight cast in her lovely blue eye, which seemed not to be looking in the exact direction of the ship. Her massive light brown hair lay loosely beneath her bonnet, and in places hung in short curly pendants over her prettily formed forehead. A something divinely pure seemed to enter his soul and gently coil itself about his being. He imagined he felt the blending of a purer nature with his own. He was almost tempted to clasp her gently to his breast, but wisdom at length triumphed. He reflected for a moment, and quick as the lightning's flash the thought entered his mind: — Has my spir't laid itself as quickly and gently and with such sweetly soothing power about her life ? Does she feel as I do i Can she enjoy sueh ecstacy of soul i If so, surely we A Seraph on the Sea. 133 lings reetly [ly we two have not met to part again, but to enjoy unfading, undying happiness in time, and time cannot limit its duration. The "Cajeta" was now nearing the city. The sun was silently disappearing, and tliere moved in the west, in almost unnoticeable motion, banks of clouds of deepest orange and pink, merging in their upper- most borders into purple ; at the horizon lay banks of brightest gold, with here and there open spaces looking like small calm seas of cerulean blue. The agent pointed toward the west, and said : "Miss Clephane, what a beautiful sunset crowns the pleasures of this delightful day." She replied not. He took hold of her hand and led her to a seat in the forward part of the yacht. She sat down, and, kneeling beside her, he read to her some words from a small sheet of paper he took from his pocket. Tears started from his eyes as they looked iirst at her face and then upon her bright dress. She said : "Destroy that paper!" He did so. She was calm and loving in her man- ner. To him she appeared more beautiful than ever. He felt all at once that she loved him as he loved her. He caught another glance of her thoughtful eye, wet with living, loving drops, that rolleil in little pearls on either side of her shapely nose. Her small mouth, tightly compressed, kept within the emotions of \wv soul. He whispered : "Annie 1" She replied not. He whispered again : 134 A Seraph on the Sect. "Annie!" as he took hold of her hand. "Do the quiet breezes make you sleep?" She answered not a word. He then said : "Oh, dearest to nie of all on earth; may zephyr breezes ever play in downy circlets about thy lovely brow, and sunlight, purer than that of a May morning, pour continued melody into thy soul, and dew-drops, as they well up from a pure heart, refresh thy li+*e, and unspoken thoughts, tilled with purest desires, flash from thine eyes and lift into ecstacy the heart thou hast taken. A pen plucked from an eagle's wing and dipped in a sea of gold, could not trace in words my love. Together at the streams of the valley or by the torrents on the mountain's side, — together on the restless ocean or on the placid main, a temporal heaven nmst be ours, scarcely alloyed by the mortal about us. Shall it be so, Annie ? " "Yes," she whispered, and gently pressed his hand. Two weeks later they were married. Mi-s. Cortesi Macandie, to whom John McKelvin imparted many things he told to no other friend, used her influence with the governess to persuade the agent to take McKelvin to India with him, and secure for him a position under the Government, or in some other good department. Next to Mrs. Macandie, there was no woman living that John had more respect for, and thought more of, than Mrs. Gurkift'; but he and Colonel Keprandi were not on the best terms. He could not get along smooth- ly with the Colonel, and had informed Mrs. Gurkiff' on several occasions of his inclination to leave the employ 1 Seraph on the Sea. 135 and return to liis native land. It was oidy tlu'ough the solicitations of Mrs. Giirkitt' that he was still in the employ. He was doing quite well, receiving a salary of about twt) hundred pounds per year. Mrs. Macandie was cpiite a young widow, — being in her thirty-secontl year, — and full of tire and deter- mination in (loins: ijood. She wished to see McKelvin fully happy and continually rise in the world. At length she approached the agent, saying : "I have but one I'ecjuest to mak;i ; it is in the interest of my friend, Mr. McKelvin, and I believe you will grant it. I make it not at his desire, neither has he ever mentioned the matter to me. It is, my dear sir, that you would use your influence to secure for him an appointment in India or elsewhere. I want to see him I'ise step by step in the world." The agent replied : "My dear Mrs. Macandie, I shall never forget your kindness to me at 'The Rest' : and was it not there I met Miss Annie, and in your company? I met her only to love her. I have loved other women, but not with love like thi.-> . it is with love eternal, inunortal, unchangeable that I love her. No other words will apply to such love as I bear for her. Your request shall be grante<], it is in accord with that of Annie E. Clephane. John must go with us; he shall be my private secretary, at a salary of three hundred pounds per annum." Mrs.Gurkitl', when approached concerning the affair, utterly refused to consent to John's going away. But, after weigliing the matter well, she at last con- ' ') D' I 136 A Seraph on the Sea. sentecl. Josie and Colonel Keprantli were to be married during the year, and she felt that perhaps, after all, the retention of John might cause some dissatisfaction ; and now, as McKelvin had an opportunity of getting a good situation, it might be best to let him accept it. The day that John McKelvin retired from his situation, the firm presented him with a cheque for five hundred pounds. A Sevaph on the Sea. 137 CHAPTER XVIII. Maurief). The agent and Annie were privately married at Odessa, and at once left for India, John McKelvin going with them. A month later, Mrs.Cortesi Macandie returned to Scotia* id, and four months afterward Col. Keprandi and Josie Gurkiff were united as man and wife. The establishment of (furkiff & Keprandi was «oId to other parties, and the newly-married couple retired from Inisiness, to spend the remainder of their lives on an income of £2,500 per year. On arriving in India a reception by the Ripon Club was given to the agent, Sir Jamstjee Jejeebhoy, Bart., •C. S. I., presiding. After drinking the health of the Queen Empress, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Royal Family, Mr. Cowasjee Jehangeer gave that of His Excellency tlie \ iceroy and (Jo\eriior-General of India. Then came the toast "Our Guests." The agent, in rising to respond, said, after thanking the members of the club for the honour done to him : a 138 1 Seraph on the Sea, "Her Majesty's representative in India, to whom you have paid in your remarks such glowing tributes, will doubtless be as honoured and useful as he was in that young but great and growing Dominion of the West, — Canada, I mean. (Great Cheers.) In that country, I, some j^ears since, spent a few of the happiest months of my life. The people there are among the foremost of British subjects in their loyalty to the English Crown. It has been my lot to visit, angress> nor in their attachment to the British Throne. "It has been said that the Swiss peasants, for five hundred years after the establishment of their inde- pendence, assembled on the fields of Morgarten and Laupen, and spread garlands over the graves of tlie fallen warriors and prayed for the souls of those who had died for their country's freedom. And with equal gratitude are those Canadians, in a somewhat different manner, continually remembering the spirit, the deeds and the sufferings of those who endured in laying the foundations of a New England, under the shadow of the British Throne. That people, in developing, in A Seraph op. the Sect. 139 enriching, in extending and beautifying tlieir countr}- under a common constitution, are yearly building an everlasting nmnument to the virtues of their fathers. Differing in some respects from the Mother Country in its social customs, it has no aristocracy of birtli or descent, but its commercial and industrial population is the true aristocracy of the land. In a vord, it is worth there instead of birth. And the records of ancient, medieval or njodern times, v/ill be searched in vain to find a country of equal age and population, that has producer! more eminent statesmen. India and Canada are bright jewels in the British ('rown. The nobleness of the Canadian people, the triumphs of their inter-communici on and commerce, are the pio- neers of greater glories yet to come. A similar feelinc- seems mdissolubly wound up with the progress of the Anglo-Colonial race ; it is spreading over Australia, in- vading Africa, and expanding under the star of India, and must continue to expand with the growth of a Colonial Empire which encircles the earth." Cheers. uo A Seraph on the Sea. CHAPTER XIX. City of Roses. After a few days' rest, the agent and his bride paid a short visit to a few places of interest in the country. They were accompanied by the private secretary. The first station at which they remained they held a reception, and the elite of the district came to welcome them. Among those that paid their respects to the wedded lovers were C. R. G. D. Bhug- ratsingee, De^ai Heerikrushna, Erachjee Cowasjee, Mahomedate Vullebhoy, Salshunker Javei-ilal, &c. The day following the reception, the party left the station, and as the train was about to leave, Mrs. Cowasjee Salshunker decorated the bride with a gar- land of beautiful flowers. Then Ras Adumjee Bahadoor, who had been a most intimate friend of the bride's father, stepped forward and presented her with a lovely bouquet fastened with a band of pure gold set with precious stones. After a few weeks of travelling, the wedded pair arrived at the City of Roses (Luc know); thirty A Sera /J h on the Sea. 141 years before a city of desolation ami despair; now a place of 300,000 inhabitants, and sometimes called the city of magnificent distances, so widely spread an; the European dwellings all around it. As they visited tlu' ruins of the Residency, Annie said : "James," (her husband's name), "the spirit of Briga- dier Inglis, that gallant conunander, seems to rise before me from the ashes of the ruins. I visited this place fifteen years after it was relieved, in company with my dear father, when he took me all about the city and pointed out every spot of historic interest, including Phillips' house and the spot where the brave MacNeil was shot. I also walked with him over (ieneral Havelock's line of march from Alum Bagh to Char Bridge, and along the can.il. I'he day was a beau- tiful one, and my father's heart was light. Ho was then at the height of prosperity ; trouble and sorrow- had not weighed him downi. He was wealthy — he was talented — he was kind. A year or two later he was unfortunate in speculation. One l»y one his many friends drew from him : he had not the magnetic influ- ence of gold to attract their cold, selfish hearts. James, how much at a discount is W(n-th in this world i and at how much of a premium is material thrift:' Yet I see the light advancing ; wisdom and goodness are crowd- ing out ignorance and selfishness. What twin angels are Honesty and Poverty, compared with the twin demons— Rascality and Riches. The former are often companions, the latter fre(piently so." "Yes," replied James, "wealth brings power to many inferior men, but the power and popularity is U2 A Herapli on the Sed. usually as uncertain as richos. I tell you, Annie, that the estate of a Rothschihl couhl not have made a hero of Ini(lis, nor the vvealtli of an Astor commanders of Outraiii and Havelock. They were composed of material that uold can never bring: to man. And their names will go down through history, as unfading as the Assyrian purple, while those of the former will dim as the couimon prints." "This visit," replierave men," replied James, "set the star of India tinnly in the crown of our Queen, and last year when the Sudars went from this country as delegates to England in connection with the great Jubilee, they laid their swords at the feet of the Queen, as a token that their ruler was a loyal and tributary sovereign of Her Majesty." As James and Annie prepared to leave the spot, Annie lingered a minute after James had risen fi'om his seat. She wrote in her note-book : — "AT LUCKNOW. " We rest where gallant Inglis fought And Britons nobly died ; We rest in solemn, silent tliought, Of namea long glorified." She handed her book to James, who, as they silently walked away, said : A Seraitli on the Sea. 143 )t, "Annie, to-day I liave more fully noticed the sterling qualities by which you are distinguished among women; your earnestness of purpose, your stiviightforwardness. your kindliness and your warm love — your keen percep- tion — make me cherish your companionship even more, if that he possible, as we are leaving these ruins, than when we approached them." The wedded pair walked hand in hand, and tinu- passed so sweetly away, they scarcely notictid the fleet- ing hours till they stood on the bank of the Coomtee river. As Ainiie looked into the .stream, a houtpiet of flowers fell fi-om her breast and floated gently away on the waters. The circunistance suggested to her husband's mind the couplet: — "Ami the Nelumbo bud that ttoats forever With Indian Cupid down the river." He immediately repeated the lines, then said : "My dear Annie," as he placed her beautiful wliite hand in his own, "pei-haps you do not know that it is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen floating in one of these buds down the river Ganges, brightly sparkling in the sunlight, and that he still loves the cradle of his childhood. "The passage of that little Ijunch of flowers on the waters," he continued, "may be a sort of message to us, that you and I shall go smoothly down the stream of time beneath ever-bi-ightening skies, our lives filled with pure and lofty desires, and our love ever as fresh and sweet as it is at this moment in the cradle of its existence." There on the bank of the river, beneath an Indian 144 A SprapJi on the Sea. hun, tliey each si^iitMl a ple«ljfo placed in their liands hy Mary Cortesi Mncainlie, as she luule thoiu farewell at Odessa. "Tu-day," said Annie, "we make a surrender as an example to the fallen. Let us be true, and in the position w«; are about to fill, we may attract by our example one or more obscured by deep darkness, to increasing light and liberty. What has been ro])lied, "are not n correct index of my whole fe^^lin^s. My nature at times partakes of severest passions, and I often think that women, as a rule, do not nuike sutficiont allowanc*- for tliose dear, youno;, 'ut untrained anlack facts so often recorded in tlie closing years of the nineteenth century, go to show that cluyactei- is no less in danger in some pcjrtions of high-toned .society than in that .strata where inunorality is paradee. Their combined action is continually adding a word to a Prohibitory Licpior Act, which will at no very distant time adorn the Statute Book of this Dominion. While the people of a nation allow intoxicating liquors to l)e manufactured, aneing made l»y noble spirits of both sexes, is to i'ouse by example and precept the con.sciences of many who make no eff()rt at all to reform and elevate their fellow-beings ; and to improve and enlarge the at- tempts already made; and to strengthen the whol»! by the powerful pi-inciple of mutual association. The weakness of tlie temperance cause in Canada, as well as in the United States, has been the jealousies existing among temperance societies and the unwise and abor- tive attempts to form new political parties. The time is at hand when men will not be i-ecjuired to state what their views are on this and the other «]uestions of the day, imless there is a suspicion as to the soundness of their national honour; they will be left free to be guided by the dictates of tlieir con- sciences as to which of the two great political parties they will ally themselves, but they will be required to show a pure private temperance career, one that will command the support, respect and confidence for all i 154 A Seraph on the Sea. time of enlightened, united and determined temperance constituents. And such trust, if once betrayed, will meet with positive censure and condemnation, and tlie betrayers will be forever swept from public life, as they will well deserve to be. 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