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girl, you've been asleep and in slavery
again!''
Il think was,' admitted Dorothy
with sigh. q. -
CHAPTER vi.
From Sea to Mountain

even pause at Bar Harbor, but sent
wireless telegram to the CONSERVATION,
which pulled up anchor and Joined the ;
fleet outside, and so the warships de-
parted for another port.
Katherine stood by the broad win
dow in the sewing room in her favor1te
attitude, her head sideways against
the pane, her eyes languidly gazing
upon the bay, fingers drumming this
time a very slow march on the WINDOW
sill. Dorothy sat in rockingham,
reading a letter for the second time.
There had been silence in the room
for some minutes, accentuated rather
than broken by the quiet drumming OF
the girls fingers on the window sill.
Finally Katherine breathed a deep
sigh and s,,d mu1m n to - herse sI;v
On dune and headland sinks the fire,
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre
wonder if I've got the lines right"
she whispered to herself. She had for
gotten there was anyone else In the
room, and was quite startled when Dor
othy spoke. '-
tSKate, that's solemn change, from
Gilbert to Kipling. I always judge
your mood by your quotations. Has
life suddenly become too serious for
Pinafore' or the 'Mikade'?'
"oh, don't know said az Kather,
humorous all, and 50 each furnishes
something suitable for the saddened
mind Wisdom comes thru understand
ing your alphabet properly For in
stance, first there was Gilbert, and that
gave US G.. then came Kipling, and he
gave US K. thus we get an algebraic
formula, OK, which are the Initials OF
Chesterton, still later arrival, and as
the mind increases in dependency it
sinks lower and lower down the alpha
bet until it comes to S, and thus we
have Barn-yard Shaw, an Improvement
on the Kail-yard school, who takes the
oh pshaH view Of life. And relaxing
hold Of him I sink deeper until / come
to XIV. W. Jacobs-how I wish he
wrote poetry! He should be-the humor-
list of all sailors, and perhaps some time
he will desert barges for battleships.
Then I shall read him with increased
enjoyment
II wouldn't. give Mark Twain. for
the. lot,'' commented Dorothy with de-
cision.
"Mark Twain ism It yours to give, my
dear. He belongs to me also. You we
forgotten that comparisons are odious.
Our meter is not to compare, but to
take what pleases us from each.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day .-
From every opening flower
Watts. You see, I IN still down among
the WIS. Oh, Dorothy, how can you sit
there so placidly when the Consterna-
ton has just faded from sight9 Selfish
creature!
oh give me tears for others woes
And patience for mine own
I don It know who wrote that, but YOU
have no tears for others Woes merely
greeting them with ribald laughter"
for Dorothy, with the well;read let
ring with her merriment, something
that had never before happened during
her long tenancy of that room. Kate
turned her head slowly round, and the
expression on her face was half -indig-
nant, half-humorous. while her eyes
gave equal indication of sunshine OF
rain.
"Why, katherine, you look like a
tragedy queen, rather than the spirit
of comedy! Is it really a case of Tit
willow, tit-willow, tit-wiillow'9 You
tom Of the alphabet, and bringing you
up to the Gilbert plane, where I am
stand you better. Is this dependency
due. to the departure of the Conster-
nation, and the fact that she carries
smith,; D'0 - ~ A' -. |<el>
-. The long sigh terminated in a woe
full Eyes, ..~ - - = -,
'The ship that has gone out with
him we call she. If he had .eloped with
real she, then wearing the willow, or
singing it, however futile, might be
understandable. AS it is, ] See nothing
in the situation to call for sigh - =
"That is because You are a hardened
sinner, Dorothy. You have no heart, or
at least if you have, it is untouched,
and therefore you cannot understand,
y If that note in your hand weresa love
<missive, instead of letter from your
lawyers, you would be more human,
| Dorothy. - * J.. 4. ss j. -.
= The hand which held the paper crum-
| pied it up slightly as Katherine spoke.
Cuisines letters are quite necessary,
and belong to the world we live in, -
said Dorothy, a glow of brighter color