The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-03

and turning back, she let Eulalie take
off her dress and brush her hair. sur
rendering herself to the warmth and
perfume of materalism. and trying to
think she was better so.
Far into the night Helen lay. ,piiysi-
cal1y at rest, inhalins the pure air
from her open window feeling the gen
tie uplift of the sea as the huge bulk
of the ship family answered to It's i'm
pulse. listening to the bells challenging
one another from afar. but she could
not sleep. Tirelcssy her memory went
over every incident of her acquaint-
anceship with Glynn. and of the virtual
break with her father since the terrible
substitution of the woman she sus-
pected into her old place at home. TO
the last she had kept q brave front,
and no one shohd ever know what
this past year had cost her. She was
leaving America, without temptation to
return. The secret glimmerinE hope
that had kept alight within her. that
some day John Glynn and she might
come together again, was now finally
eNtinguished. 1t was as IL Il new era
of life We're opening, and the question
was, how best should she shape it?
For the twentieth time Miss Car
stairs had come around to the knottiest
problem of all those that kept her
wakeful in her giant cradle of the sea.
She was wondering how duty and dig
nifty might combine to inspire her ac-
ton toward her successor in Glynns
affections Her chief apprehension re-
garding Pamela Winstanlcy. was that
Jonn Glynn should have made her ever
so little aware Of that prior bond. a
cold terror had possessed her at thought
of the eXubcrant creature sharing or
even suspecting her sacred secret. But
in the girls helter- skeltcr attempts
at speech with every one at table, she
had given no hint that she had pre-
vious.y heard of Miss Carstairs. Helen
could only hope that Glynn's name
would never come up between them.
And. at this point, soft, swabbinS
sound and tho tread of muhled feet
upon the deck beneath her window,
gave notice that the sailors were at
their carly morning tasks. The weird,
self-pitying note af the parrot in n
cabin hard by seemed to grow fainter
upon her pillows, she let sleep take her
into its merciful embrace.
Certainly. Mariol, you have found
your American types ready to hand up
on this voyage Lord Clandonald was
saying, us the two men walked up and
down with their cigars upon the deck
decried by Miss Carstairs' chaperon.
''The most obvious one is, of course,
the astonishing young person who
aroused us from the spiritual lethargy
of a first meal at sea. when one is al
ways on guard not to be too access-
BILE
"She is like one of those Eastern
shops, where everything is in the win
dow Mariol answered. "I3ut adorably
fresh and naive and pretty. No other
continent could produce her than the
wide and liberal one we are just quit
tim
Might we but keep her to oursclves"
said Clandonald, mockingly. But
foresee that she will be the wonder and
the joy Of the entire ships company on
our run over. And the mild old boy
who retires into the background to
give his Wonder every chance! rather
like the old boy. think"
my own taste would be for the
young lady who is protected by Buddha
reincarnate. in the person of the dis
approving chaperon. Her beauty is
sarer, more subtle, than the others; sh,
IS clearly on the fine gfleur of the Ameri.
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