The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-09-17

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applauded so much2
I've sailed the blue seas all over.
In every port a fresh wife,
That is Just like jim
"Oh, mo- my dear ehild-not quite so
bad as that" l interrupted, feebly. !
was just then standing beside pretty
little Mrs. Jim Darrell, on the deck Of
her husbands yacht, the Suzanne.
Jim Darrell had always been a hand
ful, his wife had always been jealous
and I found my berth on board their
yacht by no means a bed Of roses. /
was playing the part on board the
Suzanne that Charles Wyndham so often
plays to such effect on the boards of his
theater-that OF the elderly, world
ly, but at the same time genial friend
who gets himself into hot water in the
first and second acts by his kindly in
reference, and pulls the hero and
heroine out Of the same scalding fluid
just before the fall Of the curtain. l
was only at the beginning of the piece
no., and 1t seemed to me rather to
drag.
Il think you are making much ado
about nothing was my next remark;
and she might have seen, ever in the
fading light, how %benevolently | looked
down On her. though l could not put.
much heart into a trlhe. why should
MT Jim land if he feels inclined? 1
daresay he has gone to the club, or per
haps he is taking a walk. A yachting
life certainly makes one feel rather
liverish."
"a walk!-Jim take a walk" and the
Idea struck her so comical that for the
moment her tears ceased to fall. mo
70; ne is not trudging along the hard
high road, or talking to strangers in the
club, either. He has landed to see some
one. He can't deceive me. To begin
with, why did we come over to Jersey
at all? l did my best to GO elsewhere
to Troutville, or to Dieppo, or som,
other nice CHEEKY place-but it was No
good. oYu think, like the writer Of thai
song. that it is all right to have III
every port a fresh wife
Indeed l do not. Mrs. Jim" l an
swered stoutly.
Mrs. Jim looked ~doubtfully at me;
she did not know my standard was such
a high one, and she was just a littlt
afraid that l was making fun Of her.
DO you happen to know If Jim hat
any friends in st. Heliers, or in the is
land OF Jersey . any womer
friends, l mean?"
81 really can't tell you" / answered
jesuitically. not having forgotten thai
only that morning, when he and land
ed together, he in the frankest manpei
had Let me see that if I took "the big,
road" he would be certain to take "thi
low road" but that We might as wei
meet on the yacht steps in time to &c
on board for luncheon.
l had fallen In with the plan that m!
host had laid down so clearly, but II
my efforts TO kill time in a strang,
place / had wandered along a roat
bordered by pretty hower-decked villas
and in the garden Of one Of the pref
test Of these houses, IN which roses ant
lilies bloomed with a luxuriance hardl
TO be found out Of these enchanted Is
lands, I had seen Jim Darrell standing
but not alone. 1 could not see the fac
Of the girl who was near hlm-so clos
TO him indeed. that her fair head lay OF
his shoulder, and her arms were roun.
him-for the lilies that stood like sen
tinels in a line were nearly as tall a.
herself. and seemed TO guard her from
prying eyes; but l knew instlnctiveh
tina, / had caught sight OF a very prett!
woman.
/ saw Jim's face just for a moment
lit up with love, or 1t might have beeI
pity: his worldliness, his mirth. has
deyil-may-care air were gone, and wer,
replaced by a tenderness that has
never seen on his face before, though Ia,
was very fond OF Mrs. Jim on the who'll
and. as times went did not make her
such a bad husband. That look on hi