Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-05
DISCOVERS
AMERlGA \

DuC tnat needn't stand in yOur way.
You won't have to pay for your cabin
on the M%auretania. It's going beg
ging. A friend of mine who can't sail
has given his ticket to me to do with
l like, but as he's a man whose
movements make things in Wall street
jump upland down like a seesaw he
doesn't want 1t known that he's got
to stay behind because he's seedy;
that's all. II you van to go in his
place, go and say nothing till you get
on the other side. BY that time he'll
be on his way IN Il following ship,
At least that's what he hopes"
DO you mean that it I want to
cross in the Mauretania I must pass
Loveland.
"Oh. no. nothing Of the sort" an
swered Jim Marlborough. smiling his
pleasant smile. "Wha 7 meant was
don't go advertising the fact that
you've got Henry Vanderpot's cabin
because he's not we'll enough to sail.
All you'll have to do is # swagge
about as if you'd meant to be a pas.
senger on Me Mauretania from the be.
ginning of things"
Loveland vas prepared to do any
amount of staggering. though he did
not say SO to Jim or indeed acknowl-
edge it to himself. He replied that
if this were the only condition he
would accept the ticket and instruct
Foxham las he would not have time
himself to try to sell the passage
which he had paid for on the Baltic.
"Fox'll have several days to do it in.
and I'll tell him if he brings it off
there's 10 per cen for himself" said
Val. Meanwhile I'll be enjoying my
self on the Mauretania."
Meanwhile you'll be enjoying your
self on the M%auretania," echoed Jim.
II suppose there are SURE to be a lot
of ~millionaires on board?" suggested
Val.
Sure tc be. even at this time of
year"
with pretty daughters?" Love-
lands tone and air in making this ad-
dition were so conceited that Jim
would have wanted to kick him if he
had not looked so ridiculously like
Jim's own adored and beautiful Betty.
Besides, the car showed white on the
brown. This had been a brave boy.
Jim was inclined to believe that he
was worth reforming.
with pretty daughters" Harbor-
ough repeated, his tone quiet, though
his eyes showed a danger signal.
However. be prudent. Don't make
up your mind too soon. The best fish
aren't always caught in the deep sea.
One waits to have a look round the
markets."
Loveland grinned. Thank you for
the tip. l won't forget"
you'll hardly have time to let peo-
pie know your change of plan," said
Jim. But Of course if you don't
mind a little expense you can Marconi
to Lady Loveland from the ship"
"Of course" assented Lady Love-
lands son, who would not have
thought Of the attention had it not
been suggested to him. But it will
hardly be necessary"
Perhaps not" said Jim.
Loveland's only experience Of sea
life, except for a little yachting, had
been in going out to and returning
from South Africa, but he had learned
to take are Of himself on shipboard,
and, though his name was not on the
passenger list of the Mauretania, his
deck chair was soon placed by an at
tentive steward in a sheltered corner
nearly amidships. This advantage was
secured by a tempting tip, a tip out of
oil proportion to the giver's resources;
but, then, there were many people on
the Mauretania who came on board
more like clients returning to a hotel
where they had been known by the
management for years than passengers
travelling on a new ship, and Loveland
did not intend to be defeated in an nm
equal competition.
When the deck steward politely ask
ed if he wished to use a visiting card
as a chair marker Val told him to
write the name Of Loveland on a slip
of paper or a luggage label; anything
would do. So the steward did as he
was hidden. ignorant that he served a
"'lord."
Loveland did not feel that he needed
cheap advertisement. 1t would soon
leak out that he was a parsonage, and.
Ire enough, it did. When he had dis
creetly explained to the purser his pos
session of Mr.. Vanderpot's cabin the
Jews Of the change went round from
steward to steward and was promptly
spotted" as a titbit by the greatest
gossip OF the ship, who happened to
inhabit the stateroom opposite.
Major Cadwallader Hunter "a retired
major, Of course; he would not have
had time to develop his qualities while
on the active list was told that he had
Loveland for a neighbor and looked at
the cabin door with kindling interest.
Hunter was an American of a type
laughed Mt by the best Of his own "
vme Ho knew HIS Burke and DO,