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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + + + +Title: Returning Home + + +Author: Anthony Trollope + + + +Release Date: January 16, 2015 [eBook #3720] +[This file was first posted on August 7, 2001] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RETURNING HOME*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1864 Chapman and Hall “Tales of All +Countries” edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>RETURNING HOME.</h1> +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> is generally supposed that +people who live at home,—good domestic people, who love tea +and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever +warm,—it is generally supposed that these are the people +who value home the most, and best appreciate all the comforts of +that cherished institution. I am inclined to doubt +this. It is, I think, to those who live farthest away from +home, to those who find the greatest difficulty in visiting home, +that the word conveys the sweetest idea. In some distant +parts of the world it may be that an Englishman acknowledges his +permanent resting place; but there are many others in which he +will not call his daily house, his home. He would, in his +own idea, desecrate the word by doing so. His home is +across the blue waters, in the little northern island, which +perhaps he may visit no more; which he has left, at any rate, for +half his life; from which circumstances, and the necessity of +living, have banished him. His home is still in England, +and when he speaks of home his thoughts are there.</p> +<p>No one can understand the intensity of this feeling who has +not seen or felt the absence of interest in life which falls to +the lot of many who have to eat their bread on distant +soils. We are all apt to think that a life in strange +countries will be a life of excitement, of stirring enterprise, +and varied scenes;—that in abandoning the comforts of home, +we shall receive in exchange more of movement and of adventure +than would come in our way in our own tame country; and this +feeling has, I am sure, sent many a young man roaming. Take +any spirited fellow of twenty, and ask him whether he would like +to go to Mexico for the next ten years! Prudence and his +father may ultimately save him from such banishment, but he will +not refuse without a pang of regret.</p> +<p>Alas! it is a mistake. Bread may be earned, and +fortunes, perhaps, made in such countries; and as it is the +destiny of our race to spread itself over the wide face of the +globe, it is well that there should be something to gild and +paint the outward face of that lot which so many are called upon +to choose. But for a life of daily excitement, there is no +life like life in England; and the farther that one goes from +England the more stagnant, I think, do the waters of existence +become.</p> +<p>But if it be so for men, it is ten times more so for +women. An Englishman, if he be at Guatemala or Belize, must +work for his bread, and that work will find him in thought and +excitement. But what of his wife? Where will she find +excitement? By what pursuit will she repay herself for all +that she has left behind her at her mother’s +fireside? She will love her husband. Yes; that at +least! If there be not that, there will be a hell, +indeed. Then she will nurse her children, and talk of +her—home. When the time shall come that her promised +return thither is within a year or two of its accomplishment, her +thoughts will all be fixed on that coming pleasure, as are the +thoughts of a young girl on her first ball for the fortnight +before that event comes off.</p> +<p>On the central plain of that portion of Central America which +is called Costa Rica stands the city of San José. It +is the capital of the Republic,—for Costa Rica is a +Republic,—and, for Central America, is a town of some +importance. It is in the middle of the coffee district, +surrounded by rich soil on which the sugar-cane is produced, is +blessed with a climate only moderately hot, and the native +inhabitants are neither cut-throats nor cannibals. It may +be said, therefore, that by comparison with some other spots to +which Englishmen and others are congregated for the gathering +together of money, San José may be considered as a happy +region; but, nevertheless, a life there is not in every way +desirable. It is a dull place, with little to interest +either the eye or the ear. Although the heat of the tropics +is but little felt there on account of its altitude, men and +women become too lifeless for much enterprise. There is no +society. There are a few Germans and a few Englishmen in +the place, who see each other on matters of business during the +day; but, sombre as life generally is, they seem to care little +for each other’s company on any other footing. I know +not to what point the aspirations of the Germans may stretch +themselves, but to the English the one idea that gives salt to +life is the idea of home. On some day, however distant it +may be, they will once more turn their faces towards the little +northern island, and then all will be well with them.</p> +<p>To a certain Englishman there, and to his dear little wife, +this prospect came some few years since somewhat suddenly. +Events and tidings, it matters not which or what, brought it +about that they resolved between themselves that they would start +immediately;—almost immediately. They would pack up +and leave San José within four months of the day on which +their purpose was first formed. At San José a period +of only four months for such a purpose was immediately. It +creates a feeling of instant excitement, a necessity for instant +doing, a consciousness that there was in those few weeks ample +work both for the hands and thoughts,—work almost more than +ample. The dear little wife, who for the last two years had +been so listless, felt herself flurried.</p> +<p>“Harry,” she said to her husband, “how shall +we ever be ready?” And her pretty face was lighted up +with unusual brightness at the happy thought of so much haste +with such an object. “And baby’s things +too,” she said, as she thought of all the various little +articles of dress that would be needed. A journey from San +José to Southampton cannot in truth be made as easily as +one from London to Liverpool. Let us think of a month to be +passed without any aid from the washerwoman, and the greatest +part of that month amidst the sweltering heats of the West Indian +tropics!</p> +<p>In the first month of her hurry and flurry Mrs. Arkwright was +a happy woman. She would see her mother again and her +sisters. It was now four years since she had left them on +the quay at Southampton, while all their hearts were broken at +the parting. She was a young bride then, going forth with +her new lord to meet the stern world. He had then been home +to look for a wife, and he had found what he looked for in the +younger sister of his partner. For he, Henry Arkwright, and +his wife’s brother, Abel Ring, had established themselves +together in San José. And now, she thought, how +there would be another meeting on those quays at which there +should be no broken hearts; at which there should be love without +sorrow, and kisses, sweet with the sweetness of welcome, not +bitter with the bitterness of parting. And people told +her,—the few neighbours around her,—how happy, how +fortunate she was to get home thus early in her life. They +had been out some ten,—some twenty years, and still the day +of their return was distant. And then she pressed her +living baby to her breast, and wiped away a tear as she thought +of the other darling whom she would leave beneath that distant +sod.</p> +<p>And then came the question as to the route home. San +José stands in the middle of the high plain of Costa Rica, +half way between the Pacific and the Atlantic. The journey +thence down to the Pacific is, by comparison, easy. There +is a road, and the mules on which the travellers must ride go +steadily and easily down to Punta Arenas, the port on that +ocean. There are inns, too, on the way,—places of +public entertainment at which refreshment may be obtained, and +beds, or fair substitutes for beds. But then by this route +the traveller must take a long additional sea voyage. He +must convey himself and his weary baggage down to that wretched +place on the Pacific, there wait for a steamer to take him to +Panamá, cross the isthmus, and reship himself in the other +waters for his long journey home. That terrible unshipping +and reshipping is a sore burden to the unaccustomed +traveller. When it is absolutely necessary,—then +indeed it is done without much thought; but in the case of the +Arkwrights it was not absolutely necessary. And there was +another reason which turned Mrs. Arkwright’s heart against +that journey by Punt’ Arenas. The place is unhealthy, +having at certain seasons a very bad name;—and here on +their outward journey her husband had been taken ill. She +had never ceased to think of the fortnight she had spent there +among uncouth strangers, during a portion of which his life had +trembled in the balance. Early, therefore, in those four +months she begged that she might not be taken round by +Punt’ Arenas. There was another route. +“Harry, if you love me, let me go by the +Serapiqui.” As to Harry’s loving her, there was +no doubt about that, as she well knew.</p> +<p>There was this other route by the Serapiqui river, and by +Greytown. Greytown, it is true, is quite as unhealthy as +Punt’ Arenas, and by that route one’s baggage must be +shipped and unshipped into small boats. There are all +manner of difficulties attached to it. Perhaps no direct +road to and from any city on the world’s surface is subject +to sharper fatigue while it lasts. Journeying by this route +also, the traveller leaves San José mounted on his mule, +and so mounted he makes his way through the vast primeval forests +down to the banks of the Serapiqui river. That there is a +track for him is of course true; but it is simply a track, and +during nine months of the twelve is so deep in mud that the mules +sink in it to their bellies. Then, when the river has been +reached, the traveller seats him in his canoe, and for two days +is paddled down,—down along the Serapiqui, into the San +Juan River, and down along the San Juan till he reaches Greytown, +passing one night at some hut on the river side. At +Greytown he waits for the steamer which will carry him his first +stage on his road towards Southampton. He must be a +connoisseur in disagreeables of every kind who can say with any +precision whether Greytown or Punt’ Arenas is the better +place for a week’s sojourn.</p> +<p>For a full month Mr. Arkwright would not give way to his +wife. At first he all but conquered her by declaring that +the Serapiqui journey would be dangerous for the baby; but she +heard from some one that it could be made less fatiguing for the +baby than the other route. A baby had been carried down in +a litter strapped on to a mule’s back. A guide at the +mule’s head would be necessary, and that was all. +When once in her boat the baby would be as well as in her +cradle. What purpose cannot a woman gain by +perseverance? Her purpose in this instance Mrs. Arkwright +did at last gain by persevering.</p> +<p>And then their preparations for the journey went on with much +flurrying and hot haste. To us at home, who live and feel +our life every day, the manufacture of endless baby-linen and the +packing of mountains of clothes does not give an idea of much +pleasurable excitement; but at San José, where there was +scarcely motion enough in existence to prevent its waters from +becoming foul with stagnation, this packing of baby-linen was +delightful, and for a month or so the days went by with happy +wings.</p> +<p>But by degrees reports began to reach both Arkwright and his +wife as to this new route, which made them uneasy. The wet +season had been prolonged, and even though they might not be +deluged by rain themselves, the path would be in such a state of +mud as to render the labour incessant. One or two people +declared that the road was unfit at any time for a +woman,—and then the river would be much swollen. +These tidings did not reach Arkwright and his wife together, or +at any rate not till late amidst their preparations, or a change +might still have been made. As it was, after all her +entreaties, Mrs. Arkwright did not like to ask him again to alter +his plans; and he, having altered them once, was averse to change +them again. So things went on till the mules and the boats +had been hired, and things had gone so far that no change could +then be made without much cost and trouble.</p> +<p>During the last ten days of their sojourn at San José, +Mrs. Arkwright had lost all that appearance of joy which had +cheered up her sweet face during the last few months. +Terror at that terrible journey obliterated in her mind all the +happiness which had arisen from the hope of being soon at +home. She was thoroughly cowed by the danger to be +encountered, and would gladly have gone down to Punt’ +Arenas, had it been now possible that she could so arrange +it. It rained, and rained, and still rained, when there was +now only a week from the time they started. Oh! if they +could only wait for another month! But this she said to no +one. After what had passed between her and her husband, she +had not the heart to say such words to him. Arkwright +himself was a man not given to much talking, a silent thoughtful +man, stern withal in his outward bearing, but tender-hearted and +loving in his nature. The sweet young wife who had left +all, and come with him out to that dull distant place, was very +dear to him,—dearer than she herself was aware, and in +these days he was thinking much of her coming troubles. Why +had he given way to her foolish prayers? Ah, why +indeed? And thus the last few days of their sojourn in San +José passed away from them. Once or twice during +these days she did speak out, expressing her fears. Her +feelings were too much for her, and she could not restrain +herself. “Poor mamma,” she said, “I shall +never see her!” And then again, “Harry, I know +I shall never reach home alive.”</p> +<p>“Fanny, my darling, that is nonsense.” But +in order that his spoken word might not sound stern to her, he +took her in his arms and kissed her.</p> +<p>“You must behave well, Fanny,” he said to her the +day before they started. Though her heart was then very low +within her, she promised him that she would do her best, and then +she made a great resolution. Though she should be dying on +the road, she would not complain beyond the absolute necessity of +her nature. She fully recognised his thoughtful tender +kindness, for though he thus cautioned her, he never told her +that the dangers which she feared were the result of her own +choice. He never threw in her teeth those prayers which she +had made, in yielding to which he knew that he had been weak.</p> +<p>Then came the morning of their departure. The party of +travellers consisted of four besides the baby. There was +Mr. Arkwright, his wife, and an English nurse, who was going to +England with them, and her brother, Abel Ring, who was to +accompany them as far as the Serapiqui River. When they had +reached that, the real labour of the journey would be over.</p> +<p>They had eight mules; four for the four travellers, one for +the baby, a spare mule laden simply with blankets, so that Mrs. +Arkwright might change in order that she should not be fatigued +by the fatigue of her beast, and two for their luggage. The +portion of their baggage had already been sent off by Punt’ +Arenas, and would meet them at the other side of the Isthmus of +Panamà.</p> +<p>For the last four days the rain had ceased,—had ceased +at any rate at San José. Those who knew the country +well, would know that it might still be raining over those vast +forests; but now as the matter was settled, they would hope for +the best. On that morning on which they started the sun +shone fairly, and they accepted this as an omen of good. +Baby seemed to lay comfortably on her pile of blankets on the +mule’s back, and the face of the tall Indian guide who took +his place at that mule’s head pleased the anxious +mother.</p> +<p>“Not leave him ever,” he said in Spanish, laying +his hand on the cord which was fastened to the beast’s +head; and not for one moment did he leave his charge, though the +labour of sticking close to him was very great.</p> +<p>They had four attendants or guides, all of whom made the +journey on foot. That they were all men of mixed race was +probable; but three of them would have been called Spaniards, +Spaniards, that is, of Costa Rica, and the other would be called +an Indian. One of the Spaniards was the leader, or chief +man of the party, but the others seemed to stand on an equal +footing with each other; and indeed the place of greatest care +had been given to the Indian.</p> +<p>For the first four or five miles their route lay along the +high road which leads from San José to Punt’ Arenas, +and so far a group of acquaintances followed them, all mounted on +mules. Here, where the ways forked, their road leading +through the great forests to the Atlantic, they separated, and +many tears were shed on each side. What might be the future +life of the Arkwrights had not been absolutely fixed, but there +was a strong hope on their part that they might never be forced +to return to Costa Rica. Those from whom they now parted +had not seemed to be dear to them in any especial degree while +they all lived together in the same small town, seeing each other +day by day; but now,—now that they might never meet again, +a certain love sprang up for the old familiar faces, and women +kissed each other who hitherto had hardly cared to enter each +other’s houses.</p> +<p>And then the party of the Arkwrights again started, and its +steady work began. In the whole of the first day the way +beneath their feet was tolerably good, and the weather continued +fine. It was one long gradual ascent from the plain where +the roads parted, but there was no real labour in +travelling. Mrs. Arkwright rode beside her baby’s +mule, at the head of which the Indian always walked, and the two +men went together in front. The husband had found that his +wife would prefer this, as long as the road allowed of such an +arrangement. Her heart was too full to admit of much +speaking, and so they went on in silence.</p> +<p>The first night was passed in a hut by the roadside, which +seemed to be deserted,—a hut or rancho as it is called in +that country. Their food they had, of course, brought with +them; and here, by common consent, they endeavoured in some sort +to make themselves merry.</p> +<p>“Fanny,” Arkwright said to her, “it is not +so bad after all; eh, my darling?”</p> +<p>“No,” she answered; “only that the mule +tires one so. Will all the days be as long as +that?”</p> +<p>He had not the heart to tell her that as regarded hours of +work, that first day must of necessity be the shortest. +They had risen to a considerable altitude, and the night was very +cold; but baby was enveloped among a pile of coloured blankets, +and things did not go very badly with them; only this, that when +Fanny Arkwright rose from her hard bed, her limbs were more weary +and much more stiff than they had been when Arkwright had lifted +her from her mule.</p> +<p>On the second morning they mounted before the day had quite +broken, in order that they might breakfast on the summit of the +ridge which separates the two oceans. At this spot the good +road comes to an end, and the forest track begins; and here also, +they would, in truth, enter the forest, though their path had for +some time been among straggling trees and bushes. And now, +again, they rode two and two, up to this place of halting, +Arkwright and Ring well knowing that from hence their labours +would in truth commence.</p> +<p>Poor Mrs. Arkwright, when she reached this resting-place, +would fain have remained there for the rest of the day. One +word, in her low, plaintive voice, she said, asking whether they +might not sleep in the large shed which stands there. But +this was manifestly impossible. At such a pace they would +never reach Greytown; and she spoke no further word when he told +her that they must go on.</p> +<p>At about noon that day the file of travellers formed itself +into the line which it afterwards kept during the whole of the +journey, and then started by the narrow path into the +forest. First walked the leader of the guides, then another +man following him; Abel Ring came next, and behind him the +maid-servant; then the baby’s mule, with the Indian ever at +its head; close at his heels followed Mrs. Arkwright, so that the +mother’s eye might be always on her child; and after her +her husband; then another guide on foot completed the number of +the travellers. In this way they went on and on, day after +day, till they reached the banks of the Serapiqui, never once +varying their places in the procession. As they started in +the morning, so they went on till their noon-day’s rest, +and so again they made their evening march. In that journey +there was no idea of variety, no searching after the pleasures of +scenery, no attempts at conversation with any object of interest +or amusement. What words were spoken were those simply +needful, or produced by sympathy for suffering. So they +journeyed, always in the same places, with one exception. +They began their work with two guides leading them, but before +the first day was over one of them had fallen back to the side of +Mrs. Arkwright, for she was unable to sit on her mule without +support.</p> +<p>Their daily work was divided into two stages, so as to give +some hours for rest in the middle of the day. It had been +arranged that the distance for each day should not be +long,—should be very short as was thought by them all when +they talked it over at San José; but now the hours which +they passed in the saddle seemed to be endless. Their +descent began from that ridge of which I have spoken, and they +had no sooner turned their faces down upon the mountain slopes +looking towards the Atlantic, than that passage of mud began to +which there was no cessation till they found themselves on the +banks of the Serapiqui river. I doubt whether it be +possible to convey in words an adequate idea of the labour of +riding over such a path. It is not that any active exertion +is necessary,—that there is anything which requires +doing. The traveller has before him the simple task of +sitting on his mule from hour to hour, and of seeing that his +knees do not get themselves jammed against the trees; but at +every step the beast he rides has to drag his legs out from the +deep clinging mud, and the body of the rider never knows one +moment of ease. Why the mules do not die on the road, I +cannot say. They live through it, and do not appear to +suffer. They have their own way in everything, for no +exertion on the rider’s part will make them walk either +faster or slower than is their wont.</p> +<p>On the day on which they entered the forest,—that being +the second of their journey,—Mrs. Arkwright had asked for +mercy, for permission to escape that second stage. On the +next she allowed herself to be lifted into her saddle after her +mid-day rest without a word. She had tried to sleep, but in +vain; and had sat within a little hut, looking out upon the +desolate scene before her, with her baby in her lap. She +had this one comfort, that of all the travellers, she, the baby, +suffered the least. They had now left the high grounds, and +the heat was becoming great, though not as yet intense. And +then, the Indian guide, looking out slowly over the forest, saw +that the rain was not yet over. He spoke a word or two to +one of his companions in a low voice and in a patois which Mrs. +Arkwright did not understand, and then going after the husband, +told him that the heavens were threatening.</p> +<p>“We have only two leagues,” said Arkwright, +“and it may perhaps hold up.”</p> +<p>“It will begin in an hour,” said the Indian, +“and the two leagues are four hours.”</p> +<p>“And to-morrow,” asked Arkwright.</p> +<p>“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow it will still +rain,” said the guide, looking as he spoke up over the huge +primeval forest.</p> +<p>“Then we had better start at once,” said +Arkwright, “before the first falling drops frighten the +women.” So the mules were brought out, and he lifted +his uncomplaining wife on to the blankets which formed her +pillion. The file again formed itself, and slowly they +wound their way out from the small enclosure by which the hut was +surrounded;—out from the enclosure on to a rough scrap of +undrained pasture ground from which the trees had been +cleared. In a few minutes they were once more struggling +through the mud.</p> +<p>The name of the spot which our travellers had just left is +Carablanco. There they found a woman living all +alone. Her husband was away, she told them, at San +José, but would be back to her when the dry weather came, +to look up the young cattle which were straying in the +forest. What a life for a woman! Nevertheless, in +talking with Mrs. Arkwright she made no complaint of her own lot, +but had done what little she could to comfort the poor lady who +was so little able to bear the fatigues of her journey.</p> +<p>“Is the road very bad?” Mrs. Arkwright asked her +in a whisper.</p> +<p>“Ah, yes; it is a bad road.”</p> +<p>“And when shall we be at the river?”</p> +<p>“It took me four days,” said the woman.</p> +<p>“Then I shall never see my mother again,” and as +she spoke Mrs. Arkwright pressed her baby to her bosom. +Immediately after that her husband came in, and they started.</p> +<p>Their path now led away across the slope of a mountain which +seemed to fall from the very top of that central ridge in an +unbroken descent down to the valley at its foot. Hitherto, +since they had entered the forest, they had had nothing before +their eyes but the trees and bushes which grew close around +them. But now a prospect of unrivalled grandeur was opened +before them, if only had they been able to enjoy it. At the +bottom of the valley ran a river, which, so great was the depth, +looked like a moving silver cord; and on the other side of this +there arose another mountain, steep but unbroken like that which +they were passing,—unbroken, so that the eye could stretch +from the river up to the very summit. Not a spot on that +mountain side or on their side either was left uncovered by thick +forest, which had stood there untouched by man since nature first +produced it.</p> +<p>But all this was nothing to our travellers, nor was the clang +of the macaws anything, or the roaring of the little congo +ape. Nothing was gained by them from beautiful scenery, nor +was there any fear from the beasts of prey. The immediate +pain of each step of the journey drove all other feelings from +them, and their thoughts were bounded by an intense desire for +the evening halt.</p> +<p>And then, as the guide had prophesied, the rain began. +At first it came in such small soft drops that it was found to be +refreshing, but the clouds soon gathered and poured forth their +collected waters as though it had not rained for months among +those mountains. Not that it came in big drops, or with the +violence which wind can give it, beating hither and thither, +breaking branches from the trees, and rising up again as it +pattered against the ground. There was no violence in the +rain. It fell softly in a long, continuous, noiseless +stream, sinking into everything that it touched, converting the +deep rich earth on all sides into mud.</p> +<p>Not a word was said by any of them as it came on. The +Indian covered the baby with her blanket, closer than she was +covered before, and the guide who walked by Mrs. +Arkwright’s side drew her cloak around her knees. But +such efforts were in vain. There is a rain that will +penetrate everything, and such was the rain which fell upon them +now. Nevertheless, as I have said, hardly a word was +spoken. The poor woman, finding that the heat of her cloak +increased her sufferings, threw it open again.</p> +<p>“Fanny,” said her husband, “you had better +let him protect you as well as he can.”</p> +<p>She answered him merely by an impatient wave of her hand, +intending to signify that she could not speak, but that in this +matter she must have her way.</p> +<p>After that her husband made no further attempt to control +her. He could see, however, that ever and again she would +have slipped forward from her mule and fallen, had not the man by +her side steadied her with his hand. At every tree he +protected her knees and feet, though there was hardly room for +him to move between the beast and the bank against which he was +thrust.</p> +<p>And then, at last, that day’s work was also over, and +Fanny Arkwright slipped from her pillion down into her +husband’s arms at the door of another rancho in the +forest. Here there lived a large family adding from year to +year to the patch of ground which they had rescued from the wood, +and valiantly doing their part in the extension of +civilisation. Our party was but a few steps from the door +when they left their mules, but Mrs. Arkwright did not now as +heretofore hasten to receive her baby in her arms. When +placed upon the ground, she still leaned against the mule, and +her husband saw that he must carry her into the hut. This +he did, and then, wet, mud-laden, dishevelled as she was, she +laid herself down upon the planks that were to form her bed, and +there stretched out her arms for her infant. On that +evening they undressed and tended her like a child; and then when +she was alone with her husband, she repeated to him her sad +foreboding.</p> +<p>“Harry,” she said, “I shall never see my +mother again.”</p> +<p>“Oh, yes, Fanny, you will see her and talk over all +these troubles with pleasure. It is very bad, I know; but +we shall live through it yet.”</p> +<p>“You will, of course; and you will take baby home to +her.”</p> +<p>“And face her without you! No, my darling. +Three more days’ riding, or rather two and a half, will +bring us to the river, and then your trouble will be over. +All will be easy after that.”</p> +<p>“Ah, Harry, you do not know.”</p> +<p>“I do know that it is very bad, my girl, but you must +cheer up. We shall be laughing at all this in a +month’s time.”</p> +<p>On the following morning she allowed herself to be lifted up, +speaking no word of remonstrance. Indeed she was like a +child in their hands, having dropped all the dignity and +authority of a woman’s demeanour. It rained again +during the whole of this day, and the heat was becoming +oppressive as every hour they were descending nearer and nearer +to the sea level. During this first stage hardly a word was +spoken by any one; but when she was again taken from her mule she +was in tears. The poor servant-girl, too, was almost +prostrate with fatigue, and absolutely unable to wait upon her +mistress, or even to do anything for herself. Nevertheless +they did make the second stage, seeing that their mid-day resting +place had been under the trees of the forest. Had there +been any hut there, they would have remained for the night.</p> +<p>On the following day they rested altogether, though the place +at which they remained had but few attractions. It was +another forest hut inhabited by an old Spanish couple who were by +no means willing to give them room, although they paid for their +accommodation at exorbitant rates. It is one singularity of +places strange and out of the way like such forest tracks as +these, that money in small sums is hardly valued. Dollars +there were not appreciated as sixpences are in this rich +country. But there they stayed for a day, and the guides +employed themselves in making a litter with long poles so that +they might carry Mrs. Arkwright over a portion of the +ground. Poor fellows! When once she had thus changed +her mode of conveyance, she never again was lifted on to the +mule.</p> +<p>There was strong reason against this day’s delay. +They were to go down the Serapiqui along with the post, which +would overtake them on its banks. But if the post should +pass them before they got there, it could not wait; and then they +would be deprived of the best canoe on the water. Then also +it was possible, if they encountered further delay, that the +steamer might sail from Greytown without them, and a +month’s residence at that frightful place be thus made +necessary.</p> +<p>The day’s rest apparently did little to relieve Mrs. +Arkwright’s sufferings. On the following day she +allowed herself to be put upon the mule, but after the first hour +the beasts were stopped and she was taken off it. During +that hour they had travelled hardly over half a league. At +that time she so sobbed and moaned that Arkwright absolutely +feared that she would perish in the forest, and he implored the +guides to use the poles which they had prepared. She had +declared to him over and over again that she felt sure that she +should die, and, half-delirious with weariness and suffering, had +begged him to leave her at the last hut. They had not yet +come to the flat ground over which a litter might be carried with +comparative ease; but nevertheless the men yielded, and she was +placed in a recumbent position upon blankets, supported by boughs +of trees. In this way she went through that day with +somewhat less of suffering than before, and without that +necessity for self-exertion which had been worse to her than any +suffering.</p> +<p>There were places between that and the river at which one +would have said that it was impossible that a litter should be +carried, or even impossible that a mule should walk with a load +on his back. But still they went on, and the men carried +their burden without complaining. Not a word was said about +money, or extra pay;—not a word, at least by them; and when +Arkwright was profuse in his offer, their leader told him that +they would not have done it for money. But for the poor +suffering Señora they would make exertions which no money +would have bought from them.</p> +<p>On the next day about noon the post did pass them, consisting +of three strong men carrying great weights on their backs, +suspended by bands from their foreheads. They travelled +much quicker than our friends, and would reach the banks of the +river that evening. In their ordinary course they would +start down the river close upon daybreak on the following day; +but, after some consultation with the guides, they agreed to wait +till noon. Poor Mrs. Arkwright knew nothing of hours or of +any such arrangements now, but her husband greatly doubted their +power of catching this mail despatch. However, it did not +much depend on their exertions that afternoon. Their +resting-place was marked out for them, and they could not go +beyond it, unless indeed they could make the whole journey, which +was impossible.</p> +<p>But towards evening matters seemed to improve with them. +They had now got on to ground which was more open, and the men +who carried the litter could walk with greater ease. Mrs. +Arkwright also complained less, and when they reached their +resting-place on that night, said nothing of a wish to be left +there to her fate. This was a place called Padregal, a +cacao plantation, which had been cleared in the forest with much +labour. There was a house here containing three rooms, and +some forty or fifty acres round it had been stripped of the +forest trees. But nevertheless the adventure had not been a +prosperous one, for the place was at that time deserted. +There were the cacao plants, but there was no one to pick the +cacao. There was a certain melancholy beauty about the +place. A few grand trees had been left standing near the +house, and the grass around was rich and park-like. But it +was deserted, and nothing was heard but the roaring of the +congos. Ah me! Indeed it was a melancholy place as it +was seen by some of that party afterwards.</p> +<p>On the following morning they were astir very early, and Mrs. +Arkwright was so much better that she offered to sit again upon +her mule. The men, however, declared that they would finish +their task, and she was placed again upon the litter. And +then with slow and weary step they did make their way to the +river bank. It was not yet noon when they saw the mud fort +which stands there, and as they drew into the enclosure round a +small house which stands close by the river side, they saw the +three postmen still busy about their packages.</p> +<p>“Thank God!” said Arkwright.</p> +<p>“Thank God, indeed!” said his brother. +“All will be right with you now.”</p> +<p>“Well, Fanny,” said her husband, as he took her +very gently from the litter and seated her on a bench which stood +outside the door. “It is all over now,—is it +not?”</p> +<p>She answered him by a shower of tears, but they were tears +which brought her relief. He was aware of this, and +therefore stood by her, still holding her by both her hands while +her head rested against his side. “You will find the +motion of the boat very gentle,” he said; “indeed +there will be no motion, and you and baby will sleep all the way +down to Greytown.” She did not answer him in words, +but she looked up into his face, and he could see that her spirit +was recovering itself.</p> +<p>There was almost a crowd of people collected on the spot, +preparatory to the departure of the canoes. In the first +place there was the commandant of the fort, to whom the small +house belonged. He was looking to the passports of our +friends, and with due diligence endeavouring to make something of +the occasion, by discovering fatal legal impediments to the +further prosecution of their voyage, which impediments would +disappear on the payment of certain dollars. And then there +were half a dozen Costa Rican soldiers, men with coloured caps +and old muskets, ready to support the dignity and authority of +the commandant. There were the guides taking payment from +Abel Ring for their past work, and the postmen preparing their +boats for the further journey. And then there was a certain +German there, with a German servant, to whom the boats +belonged. He also was very busy preparing for the river +voyage. He was not going down with them, but it was his +business to see them well started. A singular looking man +was he, with a huge shaggy beard, and shaggy uncombed hair, but +with bright blue eyes, which gave to his face a remarkable look +of sweetness. He was an uncouth man to the eye, and yet a +child would have trusted herself with him in a forest.</p> +<p>At this place they remained some two hours. Coffee was +prepared here, and Mrs. Arkwright refreshed herself and her +child. They washed and arranged their clothes, and when she +stepped down the steep bank, clinging to her husband’s arm +as she made her way towards the boat, she smiled upon him as he +looked at her.</p> +<p>“It is all over now,—is it not, my +girl?”—he said, encouraging her.</p> +<p>“Oh, Harry, do not talk about it,” she answered, +shuddering.</p> +<p>“But I want you to say a word to me to let me know that +you are better.”</p> +<p>“I am better,—much better.”</p> +<p>“And you will see your mother again; will you not; and +give baby to her yourself?”</p> +<p>To this she made no immediate answer, for she was on a level +with the river, and the canoe was close at her feet. And +then she had to bid farewell to her brother. He was now the +unfortunate one of the party, for his destiny required that he +should go back to San José alone,—go back and remain +there perhaps some ten years longer before he might look for the +happiness of home.</p> +<p>“God bless you, dearest Abel,” she said, kissing +him and sobbing as she spoke.</p> +<p>“Good-bye, Fanny,” he said, “and do not let +them forget me in England. It is a great comfort to think +that the worst of your troubles are over.”</p> +<p>“Oh,—she’s all right now,” said +Arkwright. “Good-bye, old boy,”—and the +two brothers-in-law grasped each other’s hands +heartily. “Keep up your spirits, and we’ll have +you home before long.”</p> +<p>“Oh, I’m all right,” said the other. +But from the tone of the voices, it was clear that poor Ring was +despondent at the thoughts of his coming solitude, and that +Arkwright was already triumphing in his emancipation.</p> +<p>And then, with much care, Fanny Arkwright was stowed away in +the boat. There was a great contest about the baby, but at +last it was arranged, that at any rate for the first few hours +she should be placed in the boat with the servant. The +mother was told that by this plan she would feel herself at +liberty to sleep during the heat of the day, and then she might +hope to have strength to look to the child when they should be on +shore during the night. In this way therefore they prepared +to start, while Abel Ring stood on the bank looking at them with +wishful eyes. In the first boat were two Indians paddling, +and a third man steering with another paddle. In the middle +there was much luggage, and near the luggage so as to be under +shade, was the baby’s soft bed. If nothing evil +happened to the boat, the child could not be more safe in the +best cradle that was ever rocked. With her was the +maid-servant and some stranger who was also going down to +Greytown.</p> +<p>In the second boat were the same number of men to paddle, the +Indian guide being one of them, and there were the mails +placed. Then there was a seat arranged with blankets, +cloaks, and cushions, for Mrs. Arkwright, so that she might lean +back and sleep without fatigue, and immediately opposite to her +her husband placed himself. “You all look very +comfortable,” said poor Abel from the bank.</p> +<p>“We shall do very well now,” said Arkwright.</p> +<p>“And I do think I shall see mamma again,” said his +wife.</p> +<p>“That’s right, old girl;—of course you will +see her. Now then,—we are all ready.” And +with some little assistance from the German on the bank, the +first boat was pushed off into the stream.</p> +<p>The river in this place is rapid, because the full course of +the water is somewhat impeded by a bank of earth jutting out from +the opposite side of the river into the stream; but it is not so +rapid as to make any recognised danger in the embarkation. +Below this bank, which is opposite to the spot at which the boats +were entered, there were four or five broken trees in the water, +some of the shattered boughs of which showed themselves above the +surface. These are called snags, and are very dangerous if +they are met with in the course of the stream; but in this +instance no danger was apprehended from them, as they lay +considerably to the left of the passage which the boats would +take. The first canoe was pushed off by the German, and +went rapidly away. The waters were strong with rain, and it +was pretty to see with what velocity the boat was carried on some +hundred of yards in advance of the other by the force of the +first effort of the paddle. The German, however, from the +bank holloaed to the first men in Spanish, bidding them relax +their efforts for awhile; and then he said a word or two of +caution to those who were now on the point of starting.</p> +<p>The boat then was pushed steadily forward, the man at the +stern keeping it with his paddle a little farther away from the +bank at which they had embarked. It was close under the +land that the stream ran the fastest, and in obedience to the +directions given to him he made his course somewhat nearer to the +sunken trees. It was but one turn of his hand that gave the +light boat its direction, but that turn of the hand was too +strong. Had the anxious master of the canoes been but a +thought less anxious, all might have been well; but, as it was, +the prow of the boat was caught by some slight hidden branch +which impeded its course and turned it round in the rapid +river. The whole lengths of the canoe was thus brought +against the sunken tree, and in half a minute the five occupants +of the boat were struggling in the stream.</p> +<p>Abel Ring and the German were both standing on the bank close +to the water when this happened, and each for a moment looked +into the other’s face. “Stand where you +are,” shouted the German, “so that you may assist +them from the shore. I will go in.” And then, +throwing from him his boots and coat, he plunged into the +river.</p> +<p>The canoe had been swept round so as to be brought by the +force of the waters absolutely in among the upturned roots and +broken stumps of the trees which impeded the river, and thus, +when the party was upset, they were at first to be seen +scrambling among the branches. But unfortunately there was +much more wood below the water than above it, and the force of +the stream was so great, that those who caught hold of the timber +were not able to support themselves by it above the +surface. Arkwright was soon to be seen some forty yards +down, having been carried clear of the trees, and here he got out +of the river on the farther bank. The distance to him was +not above forty yards, but from the nature of the ground he could +not get up towards his wife, unless he could have forced his way +against the stream.</p> +<p>The Indian who had had charge of the baby rose quickly to the +surface, was carried once round in the eddy, with his head high +above the water, and then was seen to throw himself among the +broken wood. He had seen the dress of the poor woman, and +made his effort to save her. The other two men were so +caught by the fragments of the boughs, that they could not +extricate themselves so as to make any exertions; ultimately, +however, they also got out on the further bank.</p> +<p>Mrs. Arkwright had sunk at once on being precipitated into the +water, but the buoyancy of her clothes had brought her for a +moment again to the surface. She had risen for a moment, +and then had again gone down, immediately below the forked trunk +of a huge tree;—had gone down, alas, alas! never to rise +again with life within her bosom. The poor Indian made two +attempts to save her, and then came up himself, incapable of +further effort.</p> +<p>It was then that the German, the owner of the canoes, who had +fought his way with great efforts across the violence of the +waters, and indeed up against the stream for some few yards, made +his effort to save the life of that poor frail creature. He +had watched the spot at which she had gone down, and even while +struggling across the river, had seen how the Indian had followed +her and had failed. It was now his turn. His life was +in his hand, and he was prepared to throw it away in that +attempt. Having succeeded in placing himself a little above +the large tree, he turned his face towards the bottom of the +river, and dived down among the branches. And he also, +after that, was never again seen with the life-blood flowing +round his heart.</p> +<p>When the sun set that night, the two swollen corpses were +lying in the Commandant’s hut, and Abel Ring and Arkwright +were sitting beside them. Arkwright had his baby sleeping +in his arms, but he sat there for hours,—into the middle of +the long night,—without speaking a word to any one.</p> +<p>“Harry,” said his brother at last, “come +away and lay down. It will be good for you to +sleep.”</p> +<p>“Nothing ever will be good again for me,” said +he.</p> +<p>“You must bear up against your sorrow as other men +do,” said Ring.</p> +<p>“Why am I not sleeping with her as the poor German +sleeps? Why did I let another man take my place in dying +for her?” And then he walked away that the other +might not see the tears on his face.</p> +<p>It was a sad night,—that at the Commandant’s hut, +and a sad morning followed upon it. It must be remembered +that they had there none of those appurtenances which are so +necessary to make woe decent and misfortune comfortable. +They sat through the night in the small hut, and in the morning +they came forth with their clothes still wet and dirty, with +their haggard faces, and weary stiff limbs, encumbered with the +horrid task of burying that loved body among the forest +trees. And then, to keep life in them till it was done, the +brandy flask passed from hand to hand; and after that, with slow +but resolute efforts, they reformed the litter on which the +living woman had been carried thither, and took her body back to +the wild plantation at Padregal. There they dug for her her +grave, and repeating over her some portion of the service for the +dead, left her to sleep the sleep of death. But before they +left her, they erected a pallisade of timber round the grave, so +that the beasts of the forest should not tear the body from its +resting-place.</p> +<p>When that was done Arkwright and his brother made their slow +journey back to San José. The widowed husband could +not face his darling’s mother with such a tale upon his +tongue as that.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RETURNING HOME***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 3720-h.htm or 3720-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/7/2/3720 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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