Mower County transcript., 1908-09-02

"You may go to your room now," he
finally said, forcing calmness. "But
I shall have something to say later on,
remember"
IF you insist on saying something.
father, say it now"
''You know we'll enough how I feel
towards Marsylla Bayless."
"And you know how I feel"
"Again you are unreasonable. You
will not listen. You are fighting
against the best thing that fate has in
store for you. You are more than in
dependent-you are downright bull
headed, sir!" Again the blood surged
in the fathers veins, and again the
ire and resentment fared up in Jerry.
II do not love Marsylla Bayless,"
snapped Jerry, "and the match you
would have made would be curse to
both of u.s.
again l say you are unreasonable;
you are displeaslng me NIGHTLY" and
the fathers tone had an ominous ring.
II am no longer boy, father"
"You may 60 to your room!" half
cried tho father. Let this stubborn
ness wear of and you'll come to see
that your father is right-that the
college-bred youngster IL wrong"
Jerry went to his room with brain
anre, and in a few minutes, from q re-
e1ining position on the couch, he was
rushing clouds of smoke across the
room. There was but one thing to do
to acquiesce to his fathers way Of
thinking or to take . determined stand
against It. Then thoughts Of the fu-
ture flashed across his brain. It was 4
question now of the supremacy Of
"colors''-of the old and the new.
Which should triumph?
Il said I'd show father" he angrily
mumbled, as he sprang to his feet,
''and I'll do it,"
He heard two strokes from the old
clock downstairs before he finally fell
% sleep. The first faint light Of morn
Ing aroused his troubled senses, ana
he arose and went into the street. He
walked to small park few blocks
away, where he brought himself a.
nearly as possible to a calm, dispas-
stonate way of thinking over the mat
ter. His father and mother were It
the breakfast table when he returned.
''sleep well, Jerry? asked Mr.. Cham
bers.
mot very" answered Jerry.
BED too new?"
Perhaps"
did you have pleasant dreams in
your old room, Jerry?" asked his
mother.
Really, don't think I slept long
enough to have dream"
Wallace Chambers smiled and Jerry
hdgeted in his chair.
The last day of the influence of the
sign of Gemini was but few days off,
Jerry all along had felt that he would
have difficulty In beginning the first
month of his absence, and he deter
mined that he could not act too quick
ly in laying his preliminary Strings"
Towards three o'clock in the after
noon he went to the foot of South
street, where freighters of all nations
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docks until he reached a place where
the boats were scattered and not
numerous. He stopped at one of the
piers, where he accosted an old,
pleasant-faced tar.
"Anybody around here need an extra
man." Jerry asked.
"By golly." laughed the sailor,
there don't seem to be no end to
you fellows that want places. You're
the tenth that's been long to-day
lookin' to ship. There amt vacancy
anywhere, I'll warrant. This is the
time when everything's taken. There's
a heap more men n there's places for
'em. But say" and he cast his eyes
over the young collegian, 'you don't
look like one that wants to ship.
You're too trim and tidy"
Don't count too strongly on ap-
pearances,' smiled Jerry II probably
want to go to sea more than any of
the other fellows that have been along
here"
"'Pears like you could buy passage
to any port"
$50 I could. But I must earn my
way. I must go to sea for a month
and land on another continent. Seems
strange, doesn't it?"
1T does that. What's up?"
"Oh, nothing much to-
"Trouble?"
mo trouble that would drive me
away. You see, IL am under con
tract to earn my way at sea for a
month-lost bet, you know"
Never shipped before?"
II have never been on freight yes
sci in my life, and never on anything
more pretentious than a sound steam
er."
by golly, there don't seem to be
much hope for you. Scores O. young
fellows that know all about shippin
can't get places"
Jerry went across to saloon ant
bought a quart of whisky, which h<
presented to the old sailor.
"Just to show there is no hard feel
ing" he laughed, as he handed hin