"UNDESIRABLE."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 549, 2 July 1909, Page 5

"UNDESIRABLE."

A PATHETIC PICTURE. • A large liner from Home has just moored at the wharf, and all is bflstlo ami eicitemtal. The passengers, cooped up during tho sea voyage of two moutns, are now eager to set foot on land, and try their,fortunes in the Dominion—whatevor that fortune may bo. Joy and hope ure expressed on all countonAnccs— nil save one. In tno saloon Btatcrooni there is a pathotio littk Boene. The port health officer, a nurso, and a young man are sitting at a table, and a dead silence prevnth. The young man is an undesirable lmnnzrnht—a couenniptive, Two months ago he left England anxious to get away/from tho smoky, fog-fidden cities, to breathe fresh colonial air that would restore his health. The voyage had been a trying one, but the waves whispered continual hope to him, and higher hopes as he neared toe Dominion. Hovy fresh t and green the hills looked B9 they steamed'into the harbour yesterday, how frosh the air they breathed, und how bright the sunlight that occasionally danced through the clouds, But hdw everything is darkness, the air is oppressive, his hopes are dashed to the ground, and he is u prisoner till ho ban return to tho land he left. The doctor has previously had experience of this kind, but he is not to it, and, m one notices plainly enough, it hurts to forbid the landing, ilys nurse is a brave soul, but she can*find no words of comfort now, wid tho doctor takes Ms 'leave amid a thick heavy silcnee. It will be a cold, eheerloss voyage homo again, Ims hops, less company, and another cold foiiey If inter to face. Theru lit a good deal ef pathos behind ,