MR STANLEYS LOVE ADVENTURE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 75, 12 April 1879, Page 2

MR STANLEYS LOVE ADVENTURE.

Mr. I Ivury Stanley's, career, if! am to. believe tlie New Yoik Grapliic,. savs. '• Ban about Town'"in the- Sporting Ga-. zette, has, been awn nathetically romantic in its domestic maiiliiuts than tinworld geneiaUy is aware. "We know him» as thi> dfecaverer ef Liviigstone, as the, horo of tlie- daringjourney across the dark continent, as the itlventnnus and enterprising _war corrospowlent; but till the. New York Graphic lifted th» veil we did not know him as the hero of two touching love episodes. The first sireu who. begpUed the heart of tliis modern Ulysses was a young Greek moidbn whom the tardier met in Crete. He saw the. young lady.from his window one nioni~ iugs walking in the garden, as litovid saw Bathsheba, and fn>in that luontsnt, like, the peccant Jewish monarch h*selt, that, his bip was sealed: but I noil Uti theGraphic tall the romantic storyin its own way. " Sue was about fifteen years oId„ and Mr. Stanley has. sineo declared that never before or siiuse- has he- beheld so. sweet and beautiful at ereatm». He at, once sought out the- American oousuL and revetifed to him the state of his. heart. , The consul, who had himself; marriedi a Greek lady, bode him not despair ; took biui forthwith to tl» house of his inamorata, and presented him to heimotlier, w.ko. was a widow. Staulcy could speak i*> Greek, the. another uo. English ; the consul was th» interpreter.. tie did Ids work so well that at the end oi half an hour was sent, for. Stanley was forbidden even to. touch her hand, but he conversed with her by his eyes; they soon understood each, other well. At the end «| a week he was an accepted lover; at the end of a fortnight the day Sor the wedding arrived. All this while- he had seen the. young lady once a-day, always in the, presence of her mother. On the day before the wedding h* bail been permitted for the first time to take her hand and imprint upon it a chaste kiss. The, morning of the wedding arrived. Stanley was dressed fur the ceremony, audi wa* awaiting the happy moment. There, entered to hint three Greeks whom ho had never seen before, ami an interpreter. They are* introduced as brothers of the bride, and they produce a pare Went, which the interpreter explains. It is a. deed el settlement, which bind* Stanley to pay so much a year to the mother, so. much to each brother, aud so much to bis. wife, and to plant daws the shut j lu tai. menu on the spot. In rain Stanley explains that he is worth nothing and cannot pay; tbefantben look damn, the interpreter frame and the scene closes, by the arrival of the consul, who with difficulty gets Stanley out of tha dutches of his tormentors and ships him off to. Athens. He never saw hie beatif ul Grecian maiden again." The itirtjerillehiiil explorer's next love affair happened just beLre hie second expedition to Africa. " He met," saya my informant "e»d fell madly in love with a charming M|> lady, the daughter of a wealthy eitiwu of .owiah extraction, whose name, ia perhaps beat known in connection with the erection of an extensive but nnfortunato opera-house.'* Here, too, I fee) that the New York journalist had better he left to tell his own story in hie own words:— ' Mr. Stanley's pastion Wat deep md vic~

lent; bat he vu told thai, at least, he mast wait, ami thai an immediate marriage was out of the question. He was anxious to wilt even greater fame and fortune, and lay them at the feet of his beloved. It was at this moment that the second African expedition was proposed to him. lu it he saw the coveted opportunity for the distinction and reword, and lie eagerly embraced the perilous commission. Throughout the whole- of tUt terrible jouruey through the jungles of Africa,'amidst all bis toils, dangers, sickness, and disappointments, he was sustained by the thought of his love, and by the confident hope of receiving the reward which was dearer to him than the applause of the world or the riohes of uolcouda. He gave the name of the young lady to the moat beautiful lake which he discovered, as be gave it afterwards to the handsome boat in which he made a portion of his exploration—the Lady Alice. At lungth the source of the Congo was found—the great deed was accomplished, and Stanley returned with a proud and heuvy huart to the coast. At Zanzibar a pocket of letters were awaiting him, and he hastened to open them, hoping to find some messages of love and fll'eetion from the mistress of his soul. A fatal blow struck him. One of the letters contained the intelligence that Miss Alice had been married several months."