Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-31

hope of life l do not think that any spot can have
been overlooked. Also the pin was certainly in
place at starting cannot account for it. and the
whole affair is utterly inComprehenslble
The men hunted briskly at first, latterly IN sud
den fits and starts One is at present actually pre-
pairing food with the electric heat in the tiny galley
AS sit here on the cushion of the lateral lockers
occasionallv with the relaxed discipline, man
strays in to search lstlessly, and l have stopped
from time to time endeavor1ng to think OF some
means of coming what is lost.
THE chronometer marks o'clock. l wonder
what you may be doing: Surely you Will soon
be going to have Yourself dressed for dnne- here
will YOU be dining tonight? Who will take you IN
and sit talking to you as l did when had the
longest time that was ever mine to be with you.
that and the time you went with me out through
the Blandics pergola under the thick red stars OF
the summer night? The waning moons ray over
the trees had dissolute look as it had stayed up
too late. ,
don't want though, to put on any heroic airs, and
l must tell you the truth that IN tact the present
moment is pretty grim. l have thought OF the way
men have died at sea,-tempest driven on heaV1ng
RATS. maddened with thirst; vessels on flre
driven back by fame: and smoke until the only
choice was between fiery death and watery one
Of course there the turets with the ship stripped
for action and the shells bursting and tearing
through steel and flesh. That would be what we all
expect and the other something for which sailors
have ever been prepared To sit, though. IN what
is practically small we'll furnished we'll Int apart
ment, staring at slowly moving dia inaeS Ma,eh
en+ cannot exactly saw that l am afraid but
am awed and inundated and numbed with the I'M
possibility of action l can only Jump up ana iran,
tcal1v and aimessy look for the missing bit OF steel
not an inch long that might set us free.
Il have lust made another round OF the CABIN
and come back to my letter, which they Will nnd
here and deliver to YOU when this shell is brought
to the surface and opened Years ago read a
erisy tale called The Iron Shroud, -of captive IN
cell which is so contrved that each day the ce1l1ng
drops an inch, the iron walls draw an inch closer
and he knows and can count the time until they
will touch him and close upon him and crush MIN.
The aerometer tells moment by moment the
the verv breath of life When the quantity now
left is exhausted, shall be here gaspng like hsh
out of water; but no,-more gradually than that,
the foul air will overcome us with asphyxlaton.
We shall drop into Inconsistencies While the elec-
trio lights burn more dmly, and when they find US
''Of Breton Reef, twenty fathoms under
meath the sea; Thursday, August Fl.
FOR MISS RosAMoND LEE;
Withdene Bellevue Avenue.
"RosAMoND, DEAREsI-l stopped sl; because was
:" In beginning my letter l did not think OF the
proper heading for it,-faed to put any place or
date ! doing that now. Perhaps you may
think that am wrong even now IN telling you,
Rosamond. / should not if did not know that
there was absolutely chance for release, and
/ do it for the first time and the last Forgive me
for this now darling, forgive me for all that say
for telling you that love you, for sending you this
love letter for which there is justification, for
which you have given me no right You do not
know how bold am beloved What thoughts come
to me which l am too weak minded to drive back!
imagine myself as have never dared to do hith
erto, holding you in my arms and touching your
hair which is wonderfully, mysteriously dark. l
have even had the temerity to thnk-with my
pulse throbbng while my heart seems almost to
stand stl-of kissing your cheek, even your lips;
for believe that have been at moments little
mad
81 have always approached you with embarrass-
ment,-in tongued tied silence, almost have