Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-17

her streaming eyes. Yet I think the ex-
ercise did her good; and then for a while
after she did not say a single word, but
alternately touched her eyes with her
kerchief and paued my cheek with her
thin fingers.
Then presently. the vessel lurching vio-
lently to one side, 1 was thrown on the
cushions, and. upon recovering myself, L
found myself face 10 face with Anna Mark,
who greeted me with bright and reassur-
ing smile.
"Anna!' cried 1; ut is good to see you,
Anna!"
For. indeed. I felt that nothing could
long go amiss where she was. Nay, the
very dancing light in her eyes helped me to
be brave. And sosit was always. l have
In my time set up for respectable, cour-
ageous man, but l have never evened my
self to Anna Mark.
Philip she said, Il have been speak
ing to your mother. We are friends now"
For this my wcndrous lass had instantly
assumed the care of our poor mother upon
her first comirg on board She had forgot
ten her own terror in little delicate MINIS
trations to the woman who misliked her.
All this was so like Anna that the tears
came into mine eyes, and could not even
ind in me the courtesy to thank her. NOT
that she thought of that, for it was always
a pleasure to her to take the burden OF the
troubles OF others upon her shoulders.
Then came my father in. For he had
gone about his business as seon as he had
seen my mother lay her mead on my Shout
ueI, duu Hedru tne nrSl ol Hei SiuCNiiiS
sobs. Shame it is to speak so of my
mother but l must use the word which tells
the exactitude of the thing.)
Mistress Mary he said, will you he
pleased to come en- deck? The motion is
easier. and methiEks the air will do you
eood!'
He spoke with a courtesy which was GER
tainly new and strange My mother hftad
her head, and answered, Il thank YOU!
with little molten of the head which was
strange to Gee. 1t was taught to all we'll
bred maids in my mothers time, and was
considered of the highest breeding before
the invention of the more graceful courtesy
of modern times.
And then what sight l saw! l, town.
bred boy, whose view of the sea had never
been more than might be gotten from a
rowboat in a harbor, glimpse of the
white-dotted blue plain of the sea from a
forth-looking mountain top, saw nothing
on every side of me but the chasing blue
pillows tipped with white, and far away to
the right the loom of the land through the
midday heat.
And the Corramantee. which last night
had been only a turmoil of tortured black
ness, was now a beautiful ship. square-rig-
ged before, schooner-rigged aft, with a
clean-cut bow. i broadsh beam, a shape
that tapered aft She sat low in the water,
leaning over a little in the light wind. Then
what III mountain of snowy canvas f1oated
above How long and beautifully taperng
was her mainmast, how stanch and sturdy
her bowsprit and foremost! And then the
winking brasses, each was new poem.
The decks were white as those of
, one of his majesty's ships For, to do
him Justice, Provost Gregory had spared
no expense on her outfit, and the imperious
angers of Capt. Stansfield and the seaman-
ship of Saul Mark kept all in the primest
order.
When the Corramantee put into port, as