Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31


forward with her leisurely. careless grace.
We've been standing a long time she
said, as if the conversation had been about
the weather. Il want to sit down.
81 am in earnest!" he said very low
So am l." answered Lady Maud
They went on toward the wheelhouse side
by side, without haste, and not very near to-
gether, like two ordinary acquaintance.
CHAPTER XIV.
WHILE the Lancashire Lass was racing
" down to the Straits of Messina the
Erinna was heading for the same point from
the opposite direction, no longer dawdng
along at halfspeed, but going her full sixteen
knots, after coaling in Naples, and any navi-
gator that knew the positions and respective
speeds of the two yachts could have calculated
with approximate precision the point at which
they would probably sight each other.
Logotheti had given up. the idea Of taking
Baraka to Paris, if he had ever really enter
was great city too, and that there was a
first rate French dressmaking establishment
there, which would turn her out almost
smartly as Paris itself. He took Baraka
ashore and placed her for half day in the
hands of Madam Anna, who undertook to do
all that money could do in about fortnight.
He mad the effrontery to say that Baraka was
niece of his from Constantinople, whose
mother was on board the yacht, but had un-
fortunately sprained her ankle in falling down
could not accompany her daughter on shore.
The young woman, he said, spoke only Turkish.
Madam Anna had vague recollection OF
already having seen the handsome Oriental
with another niece, who spoke only French;
but that was none of her business. When
would the young lady try on the things! On
any day Madam Anna chose to name; but in
the meantime her uncle would take her down
to Sicily, as the weather was so wonderfully
fine and it was still so hot. Madam Anna
over, to see the best linen diapers and seam
stresses herself and to provide the young
woman with as complete an outfit as IT she
was going to be married. So that was settled
and Baraka was to be outwardly changed into
a beautiful Feringee lady without delay.
1t was nearly dark when the naphtha launch
took them out to the yacht, which lay under
the mole where the big English and German
passenger steamers and the men of war are
moored.
I OGOTHETI had at last received Margaret's
telegram asking him to meet her at once.
1t had failed to reach him in Gibraltar, and
had been telegraphed on thence to Naples,
and when he read it he was considerably dis
turbed. He wrote long message of explana-
tons and excuses, and sent it to the primo
donna at Bayreuth, TRIPPING the number o.
words she had prepaid for his answer. But
and nothing could reach her. He sent one
of his own men from the yacht to spend the
day at the telegraph Office, with instructions
to find him if any message came. The man
found him three times, and brought three
kilograms; and each time as he tore open the
little folded yellow paper he felt more uncom-
Portable; but he was relieved to find each time
that the message was only a business one from
London or Paris. When he reached the yacht
he sent another man to wait till midnight at
the Office
The diva angry, he thought. That was
clear; and perhaps she had some right to be.
The tone of her telegram had been peremptory
in the extreme, and now that he had answered
it after a delay of several days, she refused to
take any notice of him. 1t was not possible
that such parsonage as she was should have
left Bayreuth without leaving clear instruc-
lions for sending on any kilograms that might
come after she left At this time of year, as
he knew she was beset with offers of engage
ments to sing, and they had to be answered.
From eight o'clock in the morning to midnight
there were sixteen hours, ample time for
retransmitted message to reach her every
where in Europe and to be answered. Logo
theft felt sensation of deep relief when the
man came aboard and reported himself empty
handed at quarter-past midnight; but he
resolved to wait till the following evening be-
fore definitely leaving Naples for the ten days
that must elapse before Baraka could try
on her new clothes.
Logothet assured Baraka that kralinsky
was within easy reach and showed no inclina-
ton to travel far There was news of him in
the kilograms received that day. the Greek