Your condition imperatively
demands it. To-morrow everything shall be done to relieve your anxiety.
We shall then receive Vicksburg papers, which will contain the names of
all who are lost."
"I will try to be quiet, but I cannot but be anxious till I know the
whole truth."
Dr. Vaudelier again applied a soothing balm to the scalded portions of
his body, and gave him a powerful narcotic, the effects of which were
soon visible in a deep, troubled slumber.
CHAPTER XV.
"But thou, a wretched, base, false, worthless coward!
All eyes must shun thee, and all hearts detest thee.
Prythee avoid, nor longer cling thus round me,
Like something baneful, that my nature's chilled at."
OTWAY.
In a small log-cabin, a few miles above "Cottage Island," reposing upon
a rude bed, on the morning of the Chalmetta's disaster, was a young and
beautiful female. She was pale and in tears, evidently suffering the
most excruciating mental agony. An old woman, from whose bosom her
half-civilized mode of life had not entirely banished those refined
sympathies which belong by intuition to her sex, was vainly striving to
impart comfort.
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