The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-24
A STEAMER SMOKING
 ROOM STORY.
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l0 tue SulOAA4b A0SAA VI eA NNSt-@ liner they were telling stories of dis appearances at sea. This is one of them by an elderly American gentle man;
 q was crossing from Southampton 10 New York We had among the pas sengers a jolly devil may care young Englishman named Trevor, who was the life of the ship. He was especially q favorlte with the ladies, though he seemed to prefer the society of men, spending a lot of time in the smoking room.
 "There was middle aged passenger aboard, with a wife twenty years his junior. We hadn't been out three days before the young wife was daft about Trevor and the husband green with Jealousy. Then there was an old maid who would sit moping on deck till Trevor appeared, when she would lam guish till he joined her and look mex pressibly happy if he did so for even q few minutes. And so l could go on mentioning various women, all of whom were more or less affected. Trevor singled me out for his principal companion, and we used to sit in his stateroom by the hour chatting and smoking. On one occasion l rallied him on the preference shown him by the young married woman.
 "One morning after the breakfast hour we missed Trevor in the smo6- ing room. At noon steward came to me as Trevor's most intimate asso ciate and told me that my friends room was locked and no amount of knocking could elicit reply. The ships carpenter was called. l went with him. and he forced the door.
 The room was empty.
 "There could have been no means Of egress for the occupant except the port, holes. It seemed to me that be would have had difficulty In getting through ore of them. but there Is no lnowiA1 nat one may accomplish in crawlin' Trough small space. especially if given abao?aal strength ny insanity, t&ouGh ,o.na I.aYgit Trevor had crayicl oj. iA lis sleep.
 We wee a dull compaay for the -,-s Of C., vo~age. Thc young wi''
 ....'t atsea2s to conceal her emotion.
 .,d her husb&2l loo!;cl as if he wo"ld .~-c G;2d to help Trevor make wa,
 .;i h!nycr Some Of the men even ,.. 9! taa the husband had something , Go y,ith Tgevor's disappearance, Lut sia composition did not gain favo" wtsl th, rest. Indeed, it was absurd oa i.a fac.
 We r23c,.cd New York without the .rar2ro-arrc of the favorite or solu ion of thr problem. The purscr broke ,@,a TTeyor'a trunk in the hope Of ',srniag moro of his identity than his ,a,ra name. bat thc Information was .ot forthcoming. So the ease was set own as ona of those mysterious diSap. naa"auccs that are never to he ey, rleiacI.
 NOW cones one of the Strangest happenings of all my life. Talk of co. iucldenccs. never have heard or read of anything to beat what I'm going to tell you. Three years late" I went from my home in Connecticut to the Pacific coast partly on business and partly to attend the wedding of,a niece of mine. ! reached her home Ccvcral GaTs before tho wedding and when Introduced to the groom cxpectant stood paraly2ed wjth astonishment.
 He was Trevor.
 He turned red and white and was evidently at first bent en denying his identity. Then be laughed and said:
 "Ycs: we've met before, There's an explanation-not much to my credit ] coafeSs, but 1t might have been more to my discredit if l hadn't done what did, though to tell the truth chose a method that was rather acceptable to a young scapegrace than an older man Do you remember the young marricl woman who
 "Sct her husband wild by going wild herself about you? Yes; go on
 "She was wild true enough-so wild I couldn't control her. She was bent on running three persons, her husband, herself and me. I made confdant of the captain and proposed to make stowaway of myself for the rest of the voyage to get out of her way He offered to stow me in his cabin instead. and accepted the offer. Mighty good man, the captain, and first class at keeping a secret lar. ranged the disappearance and, to pre- vent the news reaching home before l could cable, removed anything that would point to my address. But heavens, how did I come to get en- gagged to your nieceT
 "'Why didn't you confde in me" l asked.
 "'Captaln said conGde in no one or he would have nothing to do with the matter
 ITO all this the bride expectant listened with eyes and ears wide open. Well. I declarer she said at the finish. If I had heard that story without the. name of the principal, I would have