The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-17

{ since I had a yacht. That was when
 was sixteen years old. Some of them
 were legaeies-=the. sailed under my fla 1 ther in his yachting days i His eyes traveled to and fro between 1 t,.e yacht and the boat. We ere talking this morning of being 1 tired" he resumed. "l have sometimes 1 thought, when I was more than usually t, tired of the life l leaG, that with men l like that l could easily get up little ex-
 cltement. I think I'd like to be pirate. ] 1 m not joking, you know 1 She smiled. 'The trouble Is you | wouldn't last very long in these days of | fast government vessels.
 ''rhe Louisiana is very fast steamer | he said, gravely.
 Are we arguing?' she asked. Non
 sense!'
 The boat had reached the stage and
 a letter was handed to him. | Its from my mother l wonder what $ ! lp," he saiG, as he obtained her permls- | sion to open it.
 ] Here's your trip spolledl' he said. as 1 he read She can't go. Shes had to l go to New York with d friend of hers ] whose daughter has been taken ill there 1 It's too bad. We can't take q yachting ] trip alone together, you know l They returned to the hotel, putting off | the inspection Ol slle NesSel hi'tH 'htNi .
 and after breakfast she lost sight of ! him.
 1 Caancing across her just before lunch | con, in the beach road, he told her he
 had visited his yacht to arrange some affairs. his mothers non-arrval. he said l having made a difference in his plans
 At luncheon she accepted his invitation | to spend the afternoon on board the yes sel. He had some transplanted palms he | .l,A hor unI l talk, a run over the Sound.
 Boarding the steamer witt him in the | afternoon she found bower of palms
 had been arranged upon the afterdeck, l where, after glancing over the yacht, she | seated herself with sigh of content as | the vessel got under way and steamed | out across the Sound. | If had grown late They sat in silence until they came abreast of and past the
 Chandeleurs, as they watched the Jan
 uary sun sink down beyond the distant
 horizon in a blaze of light. I "I think your idea of marrying that
 man q very foolish one!' he said abrupt l ly.
 1 q shall inevitably marry him. never l f. .eless, just as l told you during our 1 walk this morning. My relatives insist
 upon it for one thing. Love has very It. I tie to do with marriages
 Has it?" he said.
 "yes You evidently hay had very lit- 1 tie experience with such things, or you l uyonld not speak so positively. Besides,
 it is too late to change anything. "Is it?" he asked.
 ..Yes. He arrives at Pass Christian | this afternoon to take me nome. l "Does he?" he said.
 | eyes. Why, then is the idea Of marry ] ing him a foolish one?'
 .Recause I'm here to tell you so,' he
 replied, accenting the first pronoun 1 She glanced away and then up at the
 luxuriant and beautiful foliage of the I palms above her head.
 You don't say in two ways this time" he remarked
 ..f tbin1, if, nevertheless You are here ! ves Here. 'en bas les painters, she said. rIa Daited for the last stroke before re- plying. . o,,,, .,.o hoo, ] the uuartermaster repeat chaiised cours4 as he received It from an officer I7le yacht, altering US course ana IeaV' inc fine Islands far away in the distance i raced on into the open sea.
 | .4e may be there when 1 get back ! sba went on Don't you think We had | better return IL Is twilight now | "I don't think you appreciated what ! eafd about the speed of this yacht this | morniug It has not taken us very long tn come out here. has il? And it wouldn't
 tal.e ms very long to get back, if we were
 to start to return.
 'Ife" she said
 ..yes .If.," he said. You know" bs | continued f''Im the sort of man that al
 ways does what he wants to do. You may
 not believe me, but was saving to my
 Self all the morning that nothing or