Lost Years (1912) Online
She was a wealthy politician's daughter and he was a rising officer of the navy, but that wasn't the best reason for the marriage; it was their love. The marriage date was set, but a few days before it reached the calendar, the government dispatched him on a secret mission to Europe, and the happy happening and the tender hopes were postponed. From the ship upon which he was returning a few weeks later he sent a wireless, bidding his bride-to-be to prepare for his arrival and the wedding on Thursday, at 2 o'clock. The impatient longing and uneasy waiting and suspense transformed into a busy happiness; the house was arranged; the bridal gown tried on a thousand times and a few, and the million and four thousand details accessory to a wedding ceremony were prepared and arranged, with delicious disorder and ardor. Thursday came, and the news that was parent to the dark disaster that followed. The ship had caught fire, had sunk, and the dismal report conveyed the tragic tidings that all ...