The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18

The girl turned her head away.
"Then you know-you know"-she
stopped.
"Well, you see," he said hastily, "the
details of the affair were not-I went
to sea before the affair was definitely
your father" he ended desperately,
che is doing well?"
Doing well!'' She smiled bitterly.
"He is running a shooting gallery in
Rio"
But what became Of"
'The money? There was no money.
oh, yes, I know, it sounds like the old
story, but know. 1t would have been
far better If father had remained at
home and faced the exposure. / believe
he could have proved that he was the
dupe of that gang of bond forgers. He
honestly believed it was good paper
when he accepted 1t. But when the
bank closed its doors that day and so
many of his friends went down with
it lie could not bear to look them in
the face. His going away so suddenly
made it look like completely and they
indicted MIN. But oh, If you could see
him now, leaning over his counter,
reading old New York papers and fair
ly dying of inconsistencies. 1t was well
enough before mother died; he kept
up. Poor mother, l can see her yet,
standing in that dirty shed loading
guns for those disgusting, ogling,
Spanish-spitting bucks. Ughp'
The quartermaster was gazing with
half-closed eyes at the glare of the
sea. He said nothing and the girl con-
tinued:
And l am on my way homo to see
II the indictment can be quashed. I
believe it is the only way to save IA
theirs life. If it cannot be done shall
go back to Rio and take mothers
place"
From the depths of his chest the
man choked up a word, but suppressed
IL again before 1t got fairly out. She
locked at him inquiringly.
Il am sorry for you, Miss Annesley."
he said. Perhaps, however. you will
succeed IN your purpose when you
reach shore And, turning from her
somewhat abruptly, he walked away.
she thought him ill-mannered, but her
interest in her own story, which IL was
easy to see had become the chief NOV
ing impulse of her life, quickly obliter-
ated him from her mind, and she stood
there communing, until long after the
setting sun had spilled it's gold over
the sea to make for itself an easy path
below the horizon.
Early next morning, when the girl
went to prepare breakfast, she found
IT already on the table, and the quar-
termaster waiting to sit down with
her. No reference was made to the
conversation of the previous evening
but when the meal was over. Wade said
briefly:
Miss Annesley. on second Thought
1 have decided to try and reach shore
with this boat. have been working al
the engine, and ] believe l can get
enough steam to keep the old tub 90
ing at half speed. We might try at
any rate"
"We!"
Yes; you must be quartermaster and
COOK. III be engineer and stoker With
fair weather and the equatorial cur
rent to help us we should make the
American coast in few days. l can
not say just wherein not enough of
a navigator-but somewhere"
She looked at him curiously, won
dering what had suddenly caused him
TO give up his idea of floating in the
doldrums. He saw the look and add
ed hastily:
You had better put on old clothes
If you have them with you. And we
must hurry so as to make the most
of the days work" Then he hurried
out Of the saloon.
When she was ready she started af-
ter him. She looked down into the en-
CINE room from which strange BURST
ing noises periodically came forth and
finally started timidly to go down the
iron ladder that led to the gallery above