The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-04-27
CHAPTER XVIII.

CHAPTER XVIII
the old days. the great day
.lII Of sailing ships aud merchan
I'LL fleets. Bayport was com
~ munity OF travellers, Ever!
ambitious man went to sea and even
tunlly. II he lived. became a captain
Then he took his wife and. In mos
cases. his children with him on Ions
voyages. To the stay at homes came
letters with odd foreign stamps anC
postnarks. Our whatnots and parlo
mantels were filled with carved bits O
ivory, gorgeous shells. alabnster can
I dlestIcks and plaster miniatures OF Tn,
leaning tower at Pisa or the Coli
scum at Rome We usually began q
conversation with. when my husband
and were at Hongkong the last time
-or. II remember nj Mauritins they
always New Orleans and Frisco
were the nearest domestic ports the
mention OF which was considered
worth while.
But this is so no longer. A trip to
Boston Is. OF course. no novelty TO the
most OF us. but when we visit New
York we take care TO advertise II be-
forehand. And the few who avail
themselves of the spring 'cut rates"
and go on excursions TO Washington
plan definite programmes for each day
at the capital and discuss them with
envious friends for weeks In advance
And II the prearranged program Is
not scrupulously carried out we feel
that we have been defrauded. II was
the regret of Aunt sophronla Hallett's
llfe that on her Washington excursion
she had not seen the diplomatic
corpse" She saw the president and
the monument and congress and 1.-THE
relics In the Smithsonian institution
but the corpse" was not on view
Aunt Sophronia never quite got over
the disappointment
Probably no other Bayporter in re
cent years has started for Washing
ton on such short notice or with so
81 defined program as Captain Cy. He
went because he felt that he must go
somewhere, After the conversation
with Asaph he simply could not re-
main at home. II Phoebe Dawes called
he knew that he must see her. and II
he saw her what should he say to
her? lie could not tell her that she
must not visit the Cy Whitaker place
again. II be did she would insist
upon the reason. III he told her Of the
town talk" he felt sure, knowing her
that she would Indignantly refuse to
was firmly resolved not to permit her
TO compromise her life and her future |
by friendship with social outcast |
ike himself As for anything deeper |
and more sacred than friendship, that |
was ridiculous II for a moment a /
remark OF hers had led him to dream
IF such thing II was because he was,
rs he had so often declared. an "old
tool"
SO Captain Cy had resolved upon
ilght, and he fed to Washington be-
'ause the business OF the committee
II one" offered legitimate excuse for
yolng there The blunt message he
lad lntrusted 10 Georglanna would. he
arouse Phoebes indignation.
Che would not call again. And when
le returned to Bos'n 1t would be to
AXE up the chlld's fight alone. IL he
ost that fight. or when he lost II. he
would close the Cy Whitaker place
nd leave Bayport for good.
He had been in Washington once be-
ore, years ago. when he was first mate
ave Then he went there on pleas
re trip with some seagoing friends
nd had jolly time. But there was
reeious little jollity in the present
lsit. He had never felt so thoroughly
iiserable. In order TO forget he made
p his mind to work his hardest to dis
over why the harbor appropriation
'as not TO be given TO Bayport.
The city had changed greatly. He
'ould scarcely have known IL. He |
'ent to the hotei where he had stayed !
efore and found big modern build
TX III lls plhte. Inc clerk was ln-
ined 10 be rather curt and perfume
Try at first. but when he learned that
10 captain was not anxious concern
u the price OF accommodations. but
erely wanted conf table berth
on the saloon deck" and
opeared to have plenty OF money he
Few polite. Captain Cy was shown
his room. where he left his yalise.
hen he went down 10 dinner
After the meal was over be seated
mself in one Of the big leather chairs
the hotel lobby, smoked and
fought. In the summer, before Bos'n
lme and before her father had arisen
upset every calculation and wreck
] his plans. the captain had given
,rious thought to what he should do
Congressman Atkins failed, as even
len he seemed likely to do, In secur-
* that appropriation. The obvious
ling, of course, would have been to
unit up Mr.. Atkins and question him.
ut this was altogether too obvious.
1 the first place the strained relations
etween them would make the inter-
lew uncomfortable. and in the second .
there vas anything underhand In