The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-25
CONTINUED from Yesterday

| CONTINUED from yesterday
When Jeanne went on speaking
| now 1t was In the same tone of lazy
enjoyment. which she had employed
! before.
I'm afraid of myself" she said,
"and that isn't joke I've been in
terror all the voyage for fear I'd do
something dreadfui--stretcn out at
full length on the deck. aftcr dinner.
or something Of that sort. In "a long
skirt l feel as I remember / used to
when / was about ten years old and
/ was allowed to dress. up IN my
mothers clothes. And Philip, nov
| that we are nearly home--neariy oak
to the world am afraid ca II, really
afraid-afraid I'll hate it. the people
IL don't mean friends, just people
and being polite and behaving respec
tably, and having nothing really par
/ ticular to do" As she finished her
voice had a deeper note ia it, and,
| looking quickly up at her, PHILIP
saw that she was in earnest.
II suppose we shall feel that" he
said, but we can come back grad
ally. We can build us i bungalow,
somewhere up on mountain side,
! where we can be quite by ourselN es--
| with no servants. or anything. mean
and then We can take humanity III
! small doses. little at q Tina
! You will have your wings" enc
supplemented, and you can go tow.
! ering up. Tar up in the sunshine, 10
I where the air il rs cold as that you
/ flew down through the night you first
came to me-so high that the world
I will look deserted, even though it isn't
and you can believe it empty, just
/ as once ii was. Oniy--only--then
/ you'll have to come back TO me-"
She saw he meant to speak, but she
forestalled him. Philip, haven't you
a little fear all Of your own? Wont
you wish that YOU could fly unfam-
pered? | don't mean always, bur
sometimes. Won't you regret the days
when the world was really empty OF
me and everybody eise-regret that
night when you came flashing down
upon the ice foe beside me-"
This time she would have let him
answer her. but they We're Interrupted
just then by football close by on
the deck. and. looking up they saw
one of the junior officers standing
close beside them. He was a dark
haired. dark-eyed. good-Iooking
youngster. whose frank alteration OF
Jeanne ever since they had come
aboard had amused the Fanshaws and
secretly pleased and touched Philip.
although he pretended to be amused,
too.
1HeF boIn rose and tpuNEeQ pack
against the rail az he came up.
Glad to be nearly home. MIR. cald-
welI?" said Jeanne. Your navy peo-
pie regard any port in the States as
home. don't you %
"Oh. I'd be glad enough of
months shore leave" he said. If IL
weren't this particular voyage.
mean--I mean II 1t didn't mean that
we are going to lose you.''
She gave him a friendly little
smile. but made no other answer. He
turned to Philip.
| I'll have TO confess he said, ito
the rudest sort Of inqufsitiye curiosity
about the strange looking bundle you
( brought aboard with you from the
Aurora II looks like some primitive
4 Eskimo's attempt to build a flying
machine"
1T is something like that" said
/ Philip. .tff you'll have 1t brought UP
/ here on deck I'll open 1t out for
/ you"
I The young fellows pleasure was al
most boyish. I'm have ii brought
I at once" he said.