Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-18

not" said l. Hand it over to me at oncei"
He shock his head I'm gong G to tea tear it up he
do It. / might have done it before you came down;
but it ddn t seem fair. There aren't going to be
any pink letters, old man; there have been
too many OF them already.
l looked at Sud, and knew 1 ought to get mad;
but the old shump locked 50 serious about It that
great one 1e-- to preaeh - / SAID
I'm not preaching said Sud quietly: but
III say this, and ii YOU don't like it You can lump
a BANKED fool! And with that he tore up the let
ter and dropped the pieces in his coffee cup.
Atterward was glad OF it, because had been
thinking OF sending for that girl which would have
went back home and found the papers full OF
the engagement OF Doris Mosier to Lord Archer
FuTliss. That gave relapse, and Sud got me
to SO out to California with him: It's beastly
hole, though Sud swears by it. We got back home
The only comfort / got was that Doris's uncle
mad as halter about the engagement and
had sworn, folks said, that he wouldnt give her
a cent, and that if Lord Arche1-Furniss was looking
for money he'd get badly fooled. Doriss mother
WASH crazy about the business, either near
! could eaTn.-the old lady always had soft place
IN her heart for me bless her! 1t seemed that Doris
had just about made the match herself. l saw her
only once. and then got shock. She was looking
badly overturned, and had fallen off ten or twelve
pounds ] guess, though she swears she hadn' t.
Along the last OF May Sud and bought brand
new cruising launch which had been built the year
before by a who had gone smash before he had
put his loot on II. 1t was CaleQ the Hornet, ana
thiTty-eight feet all, with twin and
two twelVe-horse power gasOlene engines. She was
a beauty too; had two hunks IN the main cabin
and two IN the forward all smeared up with
mahogany and tapestry and silver plated fittings,
and was as nice you'd ask We shipped one
and up the coast to Bar Harbor. She carried
a hundred and eaghty gallons of gasolene, and so
could cruise a deuce OF a way without stocking
up; and had two engines, and needed to
only at a time, fixed. If it hadn t been
Tor Doris gong marry the Englishman I'd have
had pretty good time that two months. We went
into the and IN spite of the fact that they
socked handicaps onto hard we beat out almost
everything IN class.
Along about the middle of July started back,
stopping along the coast, and getting down to
Marb1ehead a few days ahead of the motor boat
races on the third Of August. We going to
have the Hornet pulled out and overhauled bit,
because the race a long one, from Marblehead
to Newport and We wanted to be IN shape for it.
Well, chugged around Mar -head Rock about
ten Clock ne nice hot morning and found the
harbor chock full of craft. We put over to the
public landing, and Sud and the went ashore.
Then / found out about moo1ng, and headed
the haTbor for it. / went at low speed be-
there all kinds of chug-chugs and knock
abouts and Towboats fussing around, and l didn t
want to get into trouble before the Pretty
soon passed the stern of big black steam yacht.
shouldn't have noticed her specially, for she wasn't
much different from half dozen others in the
harbor, if it hadn't been for big British flag at the