Milford chronicle., 1905-05-05


the horizon that ever fled before his
following RrOw; so he told himself, so
he believed. What attractions could
the city offer him, what amusements,
what excitements? He had been flung
off the smoothly spinning circumfer-
ence of well ordered life out into the
void.
He had known romance and the spell
Of the great, simple and primitive emo
tions; he had sat down to eat with buc-
cancers; he had seen the fierce, quick
leap Of unleashed passions and had
felt death swoop close at his nape and
pass like swift spHrt of cold air.
City life, his old life. had no charm for
him now. Wilbur honestly believed
that he was changed to his hearts
core. He thought that, like lIoran he
was henceforth to be a sailor of the
sea, rover, and he saw the rest of
his existence passed with her aboard
their faithful little schooner. They
would have the whole round world as
their playground; they held the earth /
and the great seas in fief; there was
no one to let or to hinder. They two /
belonged to each other. Once outside !
the Heads again and they swept the /
land Of cities and of little things be-
hind them, and they two were left
alone once more, alone in the great
world of romance.
About an hour after her arrival off
the station. while Hoang and the hands
were furling the jib and foresail and
getting the dOry over the side, Moran
to Wilbur:
Its good we came in when we did.
mate. The glass is gBing down fast.
and the winds breezing up from the
west. We're going to have a blow.
The tide will be going out in a little
while, and we never could have come
in against wind and tide"
Moran" said Wilbur, I'm going
ashOre-intO the station here. There's
a telephone line there. See the wires?
can't so much as turn my hand over
before 1 have some shore going clothes.
What do you suppose they would do :
% me if 1 appeared on Kearney street ,,
n this outfit? I'll ring up the whole ,
iale chemists in town and have an :
lgent come out here and talk business
o us about our ambergris. We've got
o pay the men their prize money. Z,
Then as soon as we get our own mon :
Y in hand we can talk about over
Iauling and outftting the Bertha
Moran refused to accompany him
shore aud into the lifebOat station.
Ioofed houses were an object of sus-
iciOn to her. Already she had begun
o be uneasy at the distant sight of a
he city of San Francisco, Mob, Tele- :
raph, Russian and Rincon hills, all -
with buildings and groOved :,
18th streets. Even the landlocked ~
he felt imprisoned, confined. When | =
e had pointed out the Palace hotel to q
era vast gray cube in the distance. | "
the surrounding rOofs-she -
nd sworn under her breath.
"And people can live there! Good .,
eavens! Why not rabbit burrows and
2 done with it? Mate, how soon can
e be out to sea again? I hate this L.
ace" W
wilbur found the captain of the life
,at station in the act of sitting down
a dinner of boiled beef and cabbage "
e was a strongly built, well looking a. a.
an, with the air more of a soldier ~
an 4 sailor. He had already been
ldying the schooner through his front
ndOw and had recognized her and L"
once asked Wilbur news of Captain ~
tchell. Wilbur told him as much of 1moi m
5 story as was necessary, but from ~ ~
e captains talk he gathered that tn'
2 news of his return had long since eiS
en- wired from Coronado and that it siu
,uld be impossible to avoid a nine an
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