The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-17


wheelhouse, and even while we had
been speaking the pilot had taken pos
session of the bridge. AS we descend
ed, the tender left us, with flying hand
kerchiefs and shrill goodbys, and as
we bowed to Miss Werner in the
promenade deck there came deep,
slow throbbing underfoot and our voy-
age had begun.
1t did not begin pleasantly between
Raffles and me. On deck he had over
borne my stubborn perplexity by dint
Of forced though forceful joviality.
In his cabin the gloves We're off.
"You idiot" he snarled, you've
given me away again!"
"How have I given you away?"
ignored the separate insult in his
last word.
"How? should have thought any
clod could see that meant us to meet
by chance"
"After taking both tickets yourself?"
"They know nothing about that on
board. Besides, hadn't decided when
took the tickets"
"Then you should have let me know
when you did decide. You lay your
plans and never say word and ex-
pect me to tumble to them by light Of
nature. How was to know you had
anything on?"
had turned the tables with some
effect. Ratfies almost hung his head.
"The fact is, Bunny. didn't mean
you to know. You-you've grown such
a pious rabbit in your old age"
My nickname and his tone went far
| to mollify me- Other things went far
Their, but l had much to forgive him
still.
"If you were afraid of writing" I
pursued, SIT was your business to give
me the tip the moment 1 set foot on
board. l would have taken it all right.
l am not so virtuous as all that"
Was it my Imagination or did Raffles
look slightly ashamed? If so it was
for the first and last time in all the
years l knew him, nor can swear to
1t even now"
Chat" said he, twas the very thing
1 meant to do-to lie in wait in my
room and get you as you passed, but
/ LOU We're UelleI euSdSeu.
"Say otherwise"
"The charming Miss Werner?"
"She is quite charming"
Most Australian girls are" said l.
Glow did you know she was one?"
he cried
81 heard her speak,
"Brute." said Raff1es, laughing. "She
has no more twang than you have.
Her people are German; she has been
to school in Dresden and is on her
way out alone"
Money!" l inquired.
"Confound your he said and, though
he was laughing, l thought it was a
point at which the subject might be
changed.
WELL" 1 said, sit wasn't for Miss
Werner you wanted us to play stran-
gers, was it? You have some deeper
game than that, eh?"
81 suppose l have"
"Then hadn't you better tell me
what it is?:"
Raffles treated me to the old, cautious
scrutiny that l knew so we'll. The
very familiarity Of it, after all these
months, set me smiling in way thai
might have treasured him, for dimly
already OWNED his enterprise.
at won't send you off in the pilots
boat, Bunny?'
mot quite"
''rhen-you remember the pearl yor
wrote the
did not wait for him to finish his
sentence.
you've got it," cried. my face OF
fire. for caught sight Of it that mo
ment in the stateroom mirror.
Rallies seemed taken aback.
, Not yet" said he, "but mean tt
have it before we get to Naples"
as it Oh board?"
r Eyes"
3 "But Notwithstanding got it?'
3 "a little German officer, whipper
. snapper with perpendicular mus
taches."
!. 81 saw him in the smoke ROOM"
'That's the chap. He's always there
J, Herr Captain Wilhelm Won Heumann
: yOu AOOh Ut lue llSI. w ell lie 3 lu
special envoy of the emperor, and he
z taking the pearl out with him.
you found this out in Bremen?"
mo, in Berlin, from newspape
man I know there. I'm ashamed t
tell you, Bunny, that went there o.
f purpose!"
: burst out laughing
"You needn't be ashamed. You ar
/, doing the very thing was. rather hop
>. ing you We're going to propose tn
: other day on the river"
+ you were hoping it?" said Rallies
b with his eyes wide open. Indeed,
l. was his turn to show surprise am
mine to be much more ashamed thai
G l felt.
"Yes." answered, 81 was quite kee
d on the idea. but l wasn't going to pre-
pose it."
!? 'Yet you would have listened to m
y the other day."
q Certainly I wOrld and 7 told him 6