The daily tribune., 1907-07-20

vcnt subjss.t to the hostile infinsnca
of the abbess and her duenna. What
might result from this influence? Your
ardent lover easily becomes a pessl-
mist.
II only the arrival of the two ships
was coincident, and he could 60 hand
In hand with Juanita to Leon and
plead their case.
II the Patricia could only b Dc.
layed. Lawler swore at the calm sea,
at the soft trade winds blowing to.
wards Spain, He damned the ma
chinery working with the precision OF
watch and damned Capt Ybarra for
boasting of his ships progress.
There are several happenings
which delay steamer-dense fogs.
storms, breaking of shafts or ma.
| chinery, but the Patricia seemed I'M
mune from all such incidents.
At breakfast Capt. Ybarra an.
nounced with complacency that they
we're passing Gibraltar, and that he
expected the following morning to be
very near his home port Sonora Es.
pinosa sent upward prayer of thanks
giving, and Juanita looked sad. Mr..
LAWYERS face exhibited no emo.
| ton.
1t was when. the straits being pass.
| ed, the PROV of the Patricia had been
directed to the northward that there
was sense of something wrong
among the passengers on the boat.
Then 1t was whispered that man
was sick forward; that his face had
a yellowish tinge: that the officers
were worried, then, like thunderclap.
the news. man was sick with yellow
fever. Pip of Majoie, stormed
Capt. Ybarra, "to fall sick Just before
! enter port"
But poor Majoie was not to bear all
| the censure, for just as the captain
was debating how long he must lay in
quarantine the news reached him that
Mr.. Lawler was sick. Capt, Ybarru
spore deeply and Sonora Espinosa
made 1uanita remain In her stateroom
and wore many scapulars
In the offing of Barcelona the ship
lay to and awaited the physician. He
came in his boat and at once went into
the cabin. His diagnosis of the case
of Lawler was long. then he visited
Majoie. His report was that the
cabin passenger had indigestion, and
the sailor what looked like vomlto.
The yellow flag went up. and the Pat.
ricia was in quarantine indefinitely.
Never had the bewildered Cant.
| Ybarra heard OF such a case of vou,.
| ito, for, while the doctor came daily,
he seemed averse to pronouncing the
| disease vomito Ii was ever awaitip.
developments.
On the thirteenth day long black
merchant steamer came into port
When Lawler hailing a passing boat.
man asked who she was, he learned
that the Trinidad from Madras had ar.
rived. Coincidently the doctor dlscov.
cred the same day that Majoie had
jaundlce, and was rapidly mending.
The Patricia went up to her dock.
A couple were spending their hon.
eymoon in BiarritZ The man was evil
| IDENTIFY an American; the woman
Spaniard She had hidden her lord
dress himself for walk and he
obeyed. The action OF dressing caused
piece of gold to fall from pocket
OF his trousers and drop OF the floor.
Thomas Lawler picked it up and apos-
| trophised II.
What a wonderful thing is gold II
can make a sailor rub his face with
chrome and play sick; 1t can induce a
doctor to pronounce the man sick
with threatened vomto and can make
full powered steamer lay idle In
the harbor for l3 days. Incidentally,
1t procured a man the most charming
wife in the world