Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

doggedly determined to see it through, or.
in other words, to marry Laura, whatever
the cost and result might be. But from
that date onward he began to ask himself
inconvenient questions. He demanded OF
his inner conscience a definition of that i'm
palpable thing. love. He wished to be in
formed (from the same source and at the
shortest notice. IL he was exactly in love
with Miss Slade at that particular moment,
and when the phenomenon commenced, and
how long 1t was likely to endure. And when
Laura, who saw into a good deal more OF
all this than he expected, offered to release
him from his promise he abused her for the
suggestion, and protested his affection for
her with such warmth that he feared very
much after the interview that he had hope
lessly overdone 1t.
planned in a two-minute speech that Mr..
Flame-tipped Carter was violating the ETH
Quette of nations in daring to pollute that
upper bridge with his undesirable feet, with
out direct invitation, he rather welcomed
the opportunity and retorted in kind.
Now Capt. Image, as has been limited,
had made the most of the years he had
spent seagoing in the matter OF picking up
a vocabulary; he has to this day brothers
in Wales who are local preachers and re-
vivalist leaders, and there Is no doubt that
he was the inheritor of some ancestral
strain of burning eloQuence. Garter, on the
other hand, though not as a rule a man of
much speech, had not lived with Swizzle-
Stick Smith all those long months without
taking lessons in the art of vituperatton.
and though he was not conscious Of 1t at
the time, the education soaked in, and
when the moment Of stress arrived his
memory served him faithfully.
Miss Kate ONeill heard the discussion
and retired to her room below. Stewards
popped their heads round doorways and lis
tened appreciatively; deck hands took cover
round the angle Of the houses and strained
their ears, and the second engineer, who
was bred on Tyneside and openly claimed
to be a connoisseur. came out brazenly
onto the top of the fiddley three yards from
the speakers and did nothing to an unof-
Tending ventilator cowl with a three-Quar-
ter-inch Spanner.
From the present writer's point Of view
the remarks on both sides had the fatal
drawback that their point lay far more in
artistic delivery than in their subject mat
ter and SO to report them here verbatim
would give a totally unjust idea of their
weight and influence but 1t must be under
stood that Capt. Image. who never till now
had met a foeman SO worthy of his tongue,
surpassed himself, and Carter, who now for
the first time used these winged words in
hard vicious earnest, felt all q sports
mans pride In seeing MS VerpaI missiles
land and rankle.
1t is hard to award the victory, and, in
plain truth, each orator was SO warmed
with the effort of his own tongue that in
another second the British blood would
have reached fsticuff temperature and they
would have clinched; but luckily an inter-
ruption arrived to break the tension. The
third mate, that terribly abused young man
who was gaining a breathing space whilst
Carter stood up against Capt Images
tongue, at first conned the M'poso up the
winding channel with a sigh of relief and
was ably seconded by the quartermaster
at the wheel, who had also been suffering.
But by degrees their sporting instincts
drew them from the matter Immediately in
hand and made them interested spectators
Of the duel. In fact their interest absorbed