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AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS.
BY HESTER E. SHIPLEY.
“ All ashore,” rings loudly over the
crowd hurrying to and from the
steamer—the bell peals out its warn
ing, and friends Hasten to imprint
farewell kisses on lips which may
never again respond. Hore a hus
band holds in a close embrace the
wife over whose grave the daisies may
be growing ere his return. There a
mother sobs out an hysterical good
bye to the son so dearly loved.
Yonder a merry group and
jest trs if life! were a certainty, and
death a myth, and so with many a
bon voyage , given in smiles or tears,
the crowd separates—fhe engine
throws up a whirlpool of foam, and
the boat slowly leaves the pier.
Handkerchiefs are waved from the
deck, and friends gaze Jinga-rincJy
from the shore as they wave their
own in response, then turn to their
several . duties or pleasures. Tho
boat slowly glides out of the harbor,
the city gradually fades from sight
until it becomes a mere streak above
tho horizon, then the passengers
turn to take the gauge mental, moral,
physical, and last, but by no means
least, special, of their companions de
voyage. There is the usual respecta
ble gentleman, fat and forty, with an
immense watch-chain which dangles
helplessly from his eapacious waist
coat —the saucy homeward-bound
school-girls with their jaunty hats
and bright eyes—tho intolerable .ex
quisite, with his air of insufferable su
periority, for whom one will scarcely
feel pity when he is seized, as he
surely will be, by the demon of the
waters, sea-sickness—the nervous old
lady—the terrible enfant , and, in
short, the infinite variety of charac
ters and faces which compose the or
dinary company of a steamboat.
A little apart from the crowd, two
gentlemen are conversing with the
animation of newly re-united friends.
They would have been singled out as
gentlemen in the highest epnse pf the
word, in any crowd. Irie elder of
the two, with his athletic form and
somewhat military bearing, closely
cut sandy hair, and kind but penetra
ting blue eve, is Capt. Howard of the
Morning Star. The gentleman with
whom ho is conversing is Paul Leices
ter, Not handsome, there is still an
indefinable attraction about this
graceful inltn, with Ids cosmopolitan
manner., as he looks in a calm uninter
ested way over the miscellaneous
crowd; the hand which he runs
carelessly through his clustering
brown hair is white and soft as a
woman’s, while on it a magnifietnt
solitaire glitters and sparkles as it
catches the last rays of tho sun,
which sinks, a fiery mass, into tho
waste of waters. But if you infer
from this that Paul Leicester is either
weak or effeminate, you have but to
look at his dark eye, or the firm-set
lips to discern your mistake.
Capt. Howard was saying :
“I am glad to know that you are
going out with us; you could met
lave selected a more pleasant season
fur a trip South.”
“Yes,” Mr. Leicester had
11 and the Morning Star moves with
Abe poetry of motion—you are justly
proud of her. But Howard, Ido not
quite like that dark line just above
the horizon; we may have a blow be
fore morning.”
“IlartJly,” was the reply in a non
chalant manner; nevertheless Capt.
Howard looked keenly in the direc
tion indicated. Just then a breeze
came over the water cool and strong,
and lifting a gossimer vail from the
hat of a stylish, well dressed lady who
was seated not far from them, wafted
it directly toward Captain Howard,
to whose coat sleeve it clung tena
ciously. Its owner had been gazing
dreamily out upon the water, appar
ently oblivious of the crowd about
her. Her gray travelling suit of
some lustrous fabiic fell about her in
graceful undulations, arid the ribbon
at licr throat sought in vain to rival
in softness and beauty the violet eyes
above. She turned smilingly to the
Captain as the vail floated to him.
“Ah Ia friend in need is one in
deed,” she said. “May I trouble
you to return the truant to rightful
custody I”
What a sweet sensitive face it .was,
with its dewy eyes and tender lips,
and air of nobility and refinement.
Past its premier jeuneeee, as the
French express it, .evidently—and
vet possessed of a charpi as infinitely
superior 4o the budding beauties of
girlhood, as are the glories of autumn
to the pleasures of spring.
At tho sound of her voico Mr. Lei
cester turned quickly, and a mingled
expression of pain and pleasure swept
over his face.
“ Gertrude —Mrs. Laign! ” he cried,
advancing eagerly toward her.
But at the sight of him all color
fled from her face, and iho smile died
on her lips. It was not until he
caught her cold hand in his, that she
found breath to articulate:
“ Paul, oh! Paul.”
“ I am glad to see we are ‘ mutual
friends,’ ’* said Captain Howard, very
iriVich mystified bjT this linexpoeteif’
display of emotion on the part of two
persons whom lie thought entire
strangers to each other, and instantly
perceiving himself de trep.
“Mrs. Laign, my duties calling
me elsewhere, I am only too happy
to resign you pro tern, to the care of
Mr. Leicester,” and lie bowed him
self away with all possible expe
dition.
But his words fell on licedless ears.
They were gazing at each other, those
two, looking down the long vista of
fifteen years, recalling the vows.then
made in tlio sweet spring-time of
youth and hope. She was thinking
of the bright May morning—was it
not ages ago ?—when she, in her far
away home, stood with him under
the drooping vines ladened with their
wealth of jessamines and roses, and
playfully shook over him from the
golden chalices a perfumed shower;
she seemed to inhalo again their odor
and even to hear again the joyous
note of a lark, whose upward flight
into the deep-blue, cloudless sky, slie
marked as they stood together, so
many years ago, when he asked her
to bo his wife. Just sixteen, she was
so young, and life was so sweet.
“ Anti he? But his remembrances
were of a less pleasant nature, if Jho
pained face was an index to liis
thoughts.
“ Gertrude,” lie said, seating him
self beside her and breaking a silence
which had become painful, “have
you nothing to say to me after all
these years of misery on my part —
these years of ceaseless wandering to
and fro over tho earth, in a vain en
deavor to forget the past; but my life
is one unceasing thdught of you.
Can you, though tho wife of another,
deny my right to ask even at this
distant day an explanation of con
duct which wrecked my life?”
“It may be unwise to exhume tho
buried past,” she replied, while the
color came and went iu her cheek,
“ but I must tell you, I newer did you
an intentional w rong, Paul.”
"Never did me an intentional
wrong! “ho cried poßnionatcjly.
“Cau you say this to mo? You
who sitould have been my wife; w r ho
pledged yourself to ine in the wight
of ITcavon, by vows the most holy—
who broke them by marriage with
another man—who —”
“Paul,” she interrupted gravely,
“you must control yourself and listen
to an explanation which I make be
cause I feel it is due you—i.t kan
obligation whieh outweighs my duty
to my husband. Neither of us are to
blame for the unfortunate termination
of our engagement. ’’
“Great Heu.v-enl“ be cried exci
tedly, “ who could have done Uijs
great wrong?”
“ Calm yourself and hear the story.
You have not forgotten that we had
just amicably adjusted one of our
frequout differences—we wore both
so impetuous in those days—when
you telegraphed to me that being
hurriedly summoned to London by
the extreme illness of your father, you
had only time to see mo an hour, and
catch an outward bound steamer.”
“ Ah 1 do I not?” lie groaned.
“That telegram I never received.
1 had left home only a few hours pre
vious to its arrival, for a visit to my
sister in the interior of the State,.
Annie Elmer, whom you remember
as my foster sister, always loved yon,
though 1 did not then suspect it.
She had been long watching her op
portnnity, and was not slow to seize
upon it. She wrote the note which
she gave you on your arrival, saying
I had left after rhe receipt of the tel
egram, to avoid a parting scene with
you, as I hud mistaken jwy feelings,
and wished the engagement broken.”
“Ah! yes, I remember well her
sympathy, .and j> nonuse to write me
.of you/’
“She then wrote me an account of
your visit, and said you had made
the same request of me, as you were
tired of my exactions—that you had
——*— TX * -
told her confidentially, though you
WGre really going to London on ac
count of your father’s illness, yon
were rejoiced, as it would
preclude any unpleasant meeting hi
future. It was very cleverly done,
and might have deceived one better
versed in the arts of deception than
myself. She told me your love for
her wa3 the cause of the change in
you; a story which your subsequent
correspondence with her, confirmed
in my mind. Stung to the quick by
your treatment, I was too proud to
ask an explanation, and after a few
months of Meriting, did what
proud, Sensitive gjrlTfaa done before
atid since—married in haste lo repent
at leisure.”
“ Where is she?” said ho under
his breath,” this arch traitress, this
fiend in human form?”
“ Hush! Paul, file is dead, so lot,
her rest in pcnco. This is the secret
which she scut for rue on her death
bed two years ago, to disclose. For
this sin 1 freely forgive her: will you
not do the same?”
“Never!” he critd hotly. “May
her tortured soul —*’
A soft hnnd was placed over his
mouth an instant, to stem the tide of
fiery words; he seized it and pressed
it passionately to his lips; it was
gently withdrawn. “ Paul,” she said
in answer to his look of reproach,
“ this is very hard for you to bear, us
it was for me when I first learned
how cruelly we had been wronged,
nntl I ntn afraid I noted as wildly as
you do now; but time, great soother
of every sorrow, will blunt tho sharp
ness of (ibis anguish i*y you as for
tne.”
“No, no,” he cried passionately,
springing up and pacing about the
deck. “ Oh, my darling, to lose you
thus! To know we must drift
apart down the stream of life, when
we might have been so happy. Can
you ever have loved me when you sit
there so calmly, and know this? I
fool it pressing on my heart aud
brain.”
“Haul,” she said solemnly, “ this
hour, ns that of death, shall be a
truthful one; for we must after this
let the dead past bury its dead. Hut
I will say to you now, that at this
moment I love you as dearly as when
I pledged myself to you years ago.”
“ Then why may wo not he happy
yet ? ” he asked, stopping in his walk
and coming towards her eagerly.
“ Oh! Gertrude, yours can bo no true
marriage, since, as you acknowledge,
your heart is mine. Dissolve this
cruel bond which separates us. Take
the life, so worthless without you, in
your own hands, and let mo forget,
in tho joy of the future, the misery
of the past. My darling, you alone
can make a noble tuau of mo. Oh!
do not refuse me ”
He was gazing into lier face with
wild eyes, iu which hope struggled
madly with misery for supremacy.
She drew away the hand which he
had taken and said tremulously:
“ You do not understand me, and
are too wild with grief to know what;
you are saying.” Then, as he drop
ped his face in his hands with a groan,
she scented to rise above her own
unhappiness in view of his, "My
poor Paul,” she said tenderly smooth
ing the brown hair, just ns a mother
might soothe a passionate child, “it
very hard, and I pity yon so, but
we only learn strength through suff
ering. You meant, of course, that I
should procure a divorce, now so ea
sily granted; but, Paul, I do not feel
that I would have any moral right to
become your wife while my husband
lives. I think, for many reasons, a
wife may separate from her husband,
and, fur jir own protection, be le.
gaily divorced; but while she has a
legal right, she certainly lias no moral
one, to marry again during the life
of her husband. ‘ Until death do ns
part,’ is a vow beyond the power of
law to annul. And though I did
you an .unintentional wrung iu mar
rying another, yet, by so doing, I ns
sumed duties aud obligations I may
not lightly throw off.”
He had been regarding bur earn
estly as slie uttered these last words,
sometimes drawing in her breath
oaitifidly, but all through, speaking'
with a calmness to him incomprehen
sible.
“ Gertrude,’ 5 he (did, when she had
finished, •“I do not understand how
you can speak so calmly of a subject
which lashes me to fury. I almost
fiud it in iny heart to think you never
loved me,”
“ Paul!” She looked at him, and
tbo tsars she had been resolutely
$2 A TEAR.
keeping back Tolled down her pale
face.
“ Forgive me, Gertrude,” He cried
penitently. It was most ungeneri
ons ol me to say this. You, who (#8
so pure and good—so for above mo
in your purity and beauty as those
stars above us. I was wild to sjtealf
as 1 did, but yon do not know how
my soul is torn. Yon aro right—
yon always are—do with me as yog
will. I have no hope on earth.”
“ Can you not conceive how ontf
may suffer and bo stftfng? This fe
of life so small a part. OH! Pad;
pm jou not look beyond ?”
“I will try —oh, Ttelp me!” It
was almost a wail.
Ho had taken her hand, and this
time it was not withdrawn. Her
head bowed low on the railing: she
was praying for him, ho knew. Then
peace fell on him, and his soul waa
tilled with a wondrous resignation*
which, a few moments before, be
thought impossible, fie watched the
clouds gather and drift: over the
moon, and the sailing of the shadows
across the nearly deserted deck,
wishing to break the silence, yet
daring not, feeling it was hallowed
ground, upon which ho might not
intrude.
The breeze freshened and ble#
keenly across tho deck. Gertrude
raised her head, and drawing hffif
shawl more closely about her, said?
“My heart has been too full for
words, but now I feel strong to live
on unvepiging t tho end, since I
know I shall share eternity with you
—I shall be yours at last. I do not
mean I shall be yonr wife there; for
in that world there ia no marrying or
giving in marriage; lint loving you
supremely hero, I shall love you next
to God (there —is proportion, not fa
relation, as I did here.”
“ Yes, that is tho hope which will
sustain me in all the coming years of
my probation. Let us pray that this
life, which is so full of misery, may
be short.”
“ Let ns pray, ‘Thy will be done,* *
she replied gravely and softly; and
with the moonbeams resting; on her
lovely, upturned face, it seembd $0
face of an angol—at Jt st, Haul
thought so.
“Jt ig late,” she said, after a few
moments of silenoe.: “I mnst do
what I should have done some tint*
ago— say good bye— not to Mr. Lei*
cester—l shall see him to-morrow,
and often afterwards, I hope—but to
Paul—mi/ Paul.”
This was said with all the fimmiMs
and calmness which she could ilot*-
mand; she dared not let one inflec
tion of weakness betray her to him,
“ Come,” she said, gently placing
her h.ad on his arm, as he, witfa'firm;
set lips, gazed steadily out upon tbo
silver-tipped waves. “WBJ you con
duct me to my state-room, Paul?”
Then he rose up, and, without *
word, obeyed her request, but when
she had reached the door, and turned
to offer her hand, he caught her to
his heart with alj the passion of his
Htroug nature, lu iip# touched bey
brow just once, and he was gone.
Gertrude went iu, .dosed the door*
and sauk upon her knees, “Oh!
Futlier, was it wrong?” she cried,
lifting up her hands appealing/,
“ Thou who seest and pilioat the most
——i -
lowly, pity u$ —oh, pity us!” and
sobs which shook her frame choked
her Utterance. Gradually calmness
stole over her, and as she arose
her knees she noticed for die first
time the steady tramp of some o*
overhead. She needed no oraoU to
tell her who it wan, and her soul wens
out in earnest petition for him, and
witii his name upon her lips site fell
asleep. It seemed to her that she
had not slept an hour when she was
awakened l>y screams and cries of
human voices, and she felt the via*
lent rolling and pitching of the vessel,
Stic sat up and listened. Was shs
dreaming? Surely someone called
her.
“Gertmdcl”
She sprang up, and hastily throws
ing on a dressing-gown, opened the
dour, it was Paul who stood with
out
“Olr! Paul, what is the matter ?*■
said she, trying to steady as
the vessel gave a terrible lurch.
“ lie quiet, darling,” ho Baid calm
ly. “ The storm wo feared has sud
denly burst upon us with the strength
and fury of a hurricane, and we are
being driven rapidly aud helplessly
upon the breakers.”
She shivered convulsively.
“Aud you let mo sleep Uu'uugh it,
all?”