Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

JOpSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
daughter ada to take AUNT Mary Howard his hall
man. relative of Aunt Marys, his yacht Sphre to
ting the return Of the from shopping trip ashore
Instructions signed BY G5ards tsEs FIJI charge
Y, Ormonds secretary, to start on their voyage.
something to the Captain. The Captain adjusted
his glass and looked off to starboard while every
body else collected at the rail and looked off to
starboard too. At first there seemed nothing I'M
usual in the sight of an ugly little black tugboat
staggering through the waves; but when it came
into broadside line the spectators were rewarded
for their interest, for the somewhat restricted
stern deck there seemed to be quite connection
involving six men. five with voices and one with a
threatening coal shovel.
oh look" cried Valda, trembling with excite
1nent, Those men are ightingt
Good gracious! they are!" agreed Polly.
clingng to her arm What are they doing it for5'.
No one vouchsafed an answer; but the fact re-
NAMED that the six men in question had adequate
reasons, attested by wrthing tumble of arms
and legs and the fragments of personal disapproval
that came floating across the waters The entire
company grew humanity absorbed. Excited sailors
swarmed up into the rigging other points of con-
venient vantage while even the cook, in defiance Of
strict ORDERS rushed out deck, carrying smoking
pan with which he inadvertently burned the cockney
steward and was criticized soulfully therefor.
Then suddenly, before the very eyes of the yachts
company, reinacted old. old, biblical incl
dent. The FIVE boatmen seized upon a struggling
prophet, lifted him bodily, and cast
him to the whales.
The Jonah lit with splash sank,
shot upward, spat salt water, and
cursed his enemies with finish that
his original could never have achieved.
while the impudent tug spun round
on her impudent tail and staggered
away on her path of righteousness.
"Oh, dear!" shrilled Aunt Mary.
covering her eyes with both her hands.
They are leaving him TO drown!
stantly! Oh! OH"
The second mate, with the instinct of
. seafaring courtesy, had already jingled
I'm a bell for half speed, when Ormond
n called to the Captain the bridge:
mi time is valuable
60 But si1 -
Full steam ahead, I tell you!
IT Throw the man a life preserver, and
4 let him take of himself! I'm
sorry to give such order; but.
MR. ORMoND!" 1t was valda
AvA Girard that spoke. and her words
came like the crack of pistol shot,
with the powder of womanly wrath
behind it. She standing in her
fighting shoes. and even parental in
structions might wither and 60 hang.
Captain Larrs." she commanded.
! !: : !: !:
nv 1--WE will stop and pick up that man..
~ The seamen, who had listened in
So open mouthed wonder at Ormonds
apparently brutal orders, burst forth
- into rousng cheer, but bit it off
Ss~z6s3H quickly at the sound of the Captains
HH5&Se~ voice.
kTg Ave, ave., he. had answered
Valda. crisply and with joy, as he
leaped for a window Of the pilot house.
Ease her, Mr.. Lavine! Slow down!
= ! Wear away. three points north and
choke her!''
Again the human little bells jingled
sharply. The wheel spokes spun The
astonished propeller reversed itself