Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-04-18

the advice she had received from the
supeScargo. was about ready to sail
She had nothing 10 do in Portsmouth
save 10 purchase a few necessaries
and then she would order her shin to
be got under way fer Philadelphia at
once.
All Ellen's ready money. oxeept what
she carried os her persea. had been
left to Carrinstsn in the chequs en-
her desk. Sut she stu retained cen
troll OF several stout merchaatneu
which had come to hor frsz her father
and the New Eagle was the best Of
then Once she set feet on the decks
OF that ship. she would be perfectly
safe. Meanwhile. as she had been
up practically all the night before. she
felt that she must have sonne sluuhsr
She furled the sail OF thu little beat
turned the tiller over 10 Debbis with
Instructions for her t. let the shailop
drift and 10 wakez Eilea in two hours
By the watch. Then she stretched
cut her tires bedy beneath the
thwarts. pillSwed her head On her
ARA and went instantly to sleep with
the readiness OF a sailor who learns
- take his rest and refresbnent when
ever 10 can be had.
II was very lonely and miserable fer
poor Debbie. She was flying Ike
Ellen from that she lsved best. but
unlike Ellen there was ne reason on
earth fer her 10 break away. IL was
eAly the coRstraist put upon her BY
the stronger will that had brought hsr
f.
in tho stern sheets. holding tho tiller.
while the tears trickled down her
pretty red cheeks. She wished that
she we're anywhere else under heaven
than in this boat She looked at
Eliza almost mslevolently, surveying
her slight and boyish figure With a
Venomous glance and the thought that
since clothes or the other sex SO well
became her, ElleR should have been
bern a man.
Poor Debble felt very wretched and
very lonely tossing idly about in the
quiet seas under the calm stars. She
wondered II Sir Charles did really love
her as she had more than once indi-
Gated, or whether he we're like the
faithlsss Darlington and the insidious
Strsthgate. Was there no honor and
virtue among men in England. she
Queried. And alas. out or her er-
periencs. she found little comfortin-
assurance. Yet a man who could cit
for an hour with woman looking at
Bakers saints Best'-surely that
was the test OF love n ever there
could be onei
Deborah knew nothing about the
proverbial willingness OF the devil 20
steal the livery or heaven 20 deludo
mankind. and especially womankind.
and if she had. she would have
spurned the thought as doing an In
Justice 10 her ideal OF sir Charles.
And indeed whatever else Sir Charles
might be capable OF. he was really
in oarnest-not over Baxter. that was
a mere incidout-but over Debbie. To
he had not been. nothing on earth
could have induced him 90 toll and
sweat over an oar through half the
night three or four leagues behind
After a long while Debbie felt sorry
for Ellen. The latter had turned in
her sleep and Dcbbie could see her
face clearly go the rising moonlight
There were traces OF tears upon it,
Dcbbie forcot her own eriof which
was largely experimental. IN commits
Grafton for Ellen real misfortuncs
And $50 she rceolutcly kept herself
awake and lot Ellen sleep until LONG
past midnight Indeed. unused 90 the
hard bod in which she lay. Ellen at
last woke or her own moIon. and re-