Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY IS. 1909

Capri now? The Baby will be getting hungry soon.
Miss Marshall don't be alarmed but fear
shall have to stay here for awhile longer. PletrO
forms that the is rising under wind outside
and it will not be best to attempt to go out until 1T
gets lower. 1t may subside at any time. In the
meantime you II be perfectly safe inside and the only
virtue you will have to exercise is patience:
oh, said Mary, l am not frightened on my
own account. 1t is the Baby.
is it not possible. Captain Hamilton. that we
may be compelled to remain here for several hours"
Frauein Lechner asked anxiously.
.'Of course one can never tell about these sudden
storms, Fraulen Lechner. BY all rules we should
have had fair weather to-day. the wind was from
the east We have good boatmen here, and the first
moment it practicable for you ladies and the Baby
to risk it they will take you out in perfect safety
Poor Roxe went pale and white eyed at all this.
She began to rock to and fro and moan We'll all be
drownded, Miss May! My pore Baby'll be drown
ded. | knowed when come wah hyah I'd nevah
get back ag I'M Wen all be drownded, drownded,
drownded
,Roxie, do be still and understand that you your
self are in no danger whatever! Think about this
poor Baby 1t is almost time for his milk, and you
know we intended to buy him milk when we got back
to Capri l could endure all this cheerfuly, if it was
not for the Baby. I'm afraid he will cry himself sick
He is beginning to get restless now.
HAMILTON grasped this opportunity of proving
IL his devotion. Miss Marshall he said Petro
lay in the boat properly 1t is only for the sake of
you ladies and the Baby that the boatmen will not
go out. Now | shall let Pietro take me out. Well
row to Capri and bring back milk for the baby and
also some food and wine for yourselves
Il couldn't think of letting you take SO great
risk, Captain Hamilton. lou most kind to offer
to go. Perhaps we won't have to stay more than an
hour and the Baby will cry himself to Sleep
There were tears now in Marys eyes. The Ameri-
can Baby began to raise the loud imperous cry that
Hamilton knew so well. The was flashing against
the walls of the cavern.
After whispering for a moment with Petro who
smiled confidently and seized his oars, Hamilton
turned again to Mary and said. Miss Marshall Pie
skill He says to tell you we'll be back here in half
an hour with milk. Don't give our venture mo-
ment's anxiety: for these boatmen know the grotto
and the sea like book and they all say there is alb
soutelv no danger Goodby. Wish me luck.
MARY could not speak, SO moved was she by con-
A'A aicting emotions,-the anxiety about relieving
the Baby hunger, and her fear of sending Captain
Hamilton into danger.
Pietro rowed quickly into the middle of the
ern. Salvatore and Giovanni watched him intenty
He brought his boat the entrance and, having
directed Hamilton to bend low, waited, with
raised for the next incoming of the wind dashed
How changed the scene now that storm and dis
tress and danger had penetrated the grotto!
Mary and Frau1en Lechner pale and fearful
watched Hamilton's boat. A big billow, frothing
and curling, rolled through the entrance. As the
to its crest, Pietro gave mighty stroke
with the oars which swept the boat into the hollow
left by the bilow, and on beneath the threatening
low portal. Salvatore and Giovanni chartered and