Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-19

"How In the world did he come to
,wn land there?"
1T was a gift from the Naquilla
/ tribe. He defeated an attempt made
/ to GUST them by big land company.
| The company has since asked me to
/ sell the property and offered me
/ fair price, too, as the cultivable land
is very small strip, but 1t would be
almost like betraying the cause for
which he fought, would it not?"
"Yes, indeed" agreed the doctor.
| though his heart and not his head die
tated the reply. May I ask you to
tell me your plans for the futureY he
went on.
"Well, when Mr.. Barring heard was
going to England he was good enough
to promise me employment in his Lon
don agency as Spanish correspondent.
That will fill in two days week The
rest | can devote to art. | paint a
little and draw with sufficient prom
Use to warrant study, am told. Any
how, am weary of teaching. pre-
fer to be a pupil"
81 cannot imagine what the young
men of Valparaiso were thinking Of to
allow a girl like you to slip off in
| this fashion," said Christobal. with a
smile
Most of them hold firmly to the be-
lief that a wife's wedding dress should
be made of gilt edged scrip"
Poor material-very poor material
out of which to construct welded hap
piness. And as to my young friend,
Isobel-she joins her aunt in London.
hearY
'That is the present arrangement.
She means to have good time, espe-
cially In Paris. I should like to live
in Paris myself. Dear old smoke laden
London does not appeal so thoroughly
to the artist. Yet / am content-yes.
quite content
"Then you have gained the best
thing in the worldr' cried the doctor,
throwing out his arms expansively.
| The two became good friends as the
voyage progressed. Christobal was
exceedingly we'll informed and delight
ed in thoughtful listener like Elsie.
Isobel, firing at times of the count,
would join in their conversation and
display a spasmodic interest In the
topics they discussed There were
only six other passengers-a Baptist
missionary and his wife, three mining
engineers and an English globe trot-
ter, singular being who appeared to
| have roamed the entire earth, but
whose experiences were summed up In
one of two words-every place he had
Iseen was either fair or rotten
| Even Isobel failed to draw him fur
Their, and she said one day in a temper,
after a spirited attempt to extract
some of his stored Impressions: sThe
man reminds me of one Of those dunn
my books you see occasionally, bound
in calf and labeled Gazetteer of the
World When you try to open vol
ume you End that it is made of
| wood
/ So they nicknamed him MIR. Wood"
and Elsie once inadvertently addressed
him by the name.
"What do you think Of the weather.
Mr.. Wood?" she asked him at break
fast.
/ He CHANGED to notice that she was
speaking to him.
Rotten" he said.
Perhaps he wondered why Miss Max
well flushed and the others laughed.
But in actual fact he was not far
wrong In his curious choice Of an adj
jective that morning. DR.. Christoba's
dismal foreboding had been justified
on the second day out. Leaden clouds.
a sullen sea and occasional puffs of a
singing breeze from the southwest
offered sorry exchange for the sunny
skies of Chile.
Though the Kansas was not a f.st
ship. she could have made the entrance
/ to the strait of Magellan on the even
ing of the fourth day had not Cap
tain Courtenay wished to navigate
the most dangerous part of the mar
rows by daylight. His intent. there
FORE was to pick up the Evangelistas
light about midnight and then crack
| ahead at fourteen knots. so as 10 be or
Felix point on Desolation island by
dawn.