A Bit Of Romance

One of the romances of the .ustralia tells i a niiii ruil pair ppearing on shipbo.ird it the niuiueut the gangway plnuk was being pulled in at the doek iu New York. A stato room bad been pro in some tnysterious manner, and huge tiuiiks followed; hut tbc owuera i i last, and the captain was soniewhat puzzlcil to find that the name on tl gfer liet and the occupants of the state room wer not the same. After the ship, rer, lost sight of land, the ca] was taken into t c nfi !em:e of thiu gentleman and told of au ulopenient. The groom wiis a man al. out furty years i age, a foreignei and a ( uut. with a ooal black aioustache ou bis faoe and a castle on the lvhine. He had the hard, handsuaiü face common lo ilississippi gamblers, imd dressed himself in the samo gorgeous style. Tho brido, without bemg handsome, had largo winning blue eyes, that in their helpless, confiding sort of expression won thü sympathy of all ou board. Tha Count treated his wifo with elabórate oourtesy, alwaya gotting out of the way when tbe poor thing suffered trom sca-sickuess and nt'tor oxprossing bis concern for madame in the choicest phvase. He expressed himself ennuied terribly with the nionotony of the sea, and tried bard to inveigle oertain gentlemen into games of chance, only to pass the time, howcver. He was Btrongly avene to gomb'iing. At the end of the voyage the pair disuppearod, and the two i'ugitives were heard of no more until months after when the Australia was on her way back to New York, when the kind-hearted captain hemd that a woman traveling alone was very ill in the Bteerage. Seein' her with the ship's physician, he was astonished to tind in tho siele sieeragopassenger the Count's bride c.f a few months before. He vacated his stateroom lor tho poor woman in her faded flnery, and littïe by little he learned her story. It was the old, old story ot' offended paren ta and a cruel husband, who, fluding ü helpK'88 wite, without money, on his hand-, íirst abusad and thín dessrted her. She had parted with the few bits of jewelry left her by the brute, and wa-i iiow getting back as best slie could, ruined and broken hearted, to her old home. The ship wns approaching New York. The weary passenger colleoted on deck, saw the poor crea ture, with littla remaining of her former self but the wistful, oonfiding luuk ut' Uur large blue eyes, that trom out the palq, sunkea face seerned lurger thun ever. Tliose who watched her more elosely t,aw at times a wild gleam in thetn, as ii' tor a secoud lui poor, nuiubed iacülties were unbingcd and crazy. The vetsel, aided by wind and -team, was dashing on, nearing every soond the entrence to the bay, wheu suddeuly the startled passengere heurd a wild Bcreatu, s.nv a flash ui white grraents, a splash, and tin a the wild cry i sume one overboard The steuncr was stopped, the boats lowered, and ai'ter au hour's search the body of the poor womau was recovered and brought on board.