The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-04-15

fleets. Batport was com
49, munity of travellers. Every
ambitious man went to sea and even
tually, If he lived. became n captain
Then he took his wife and. In most
cases, his children with him on long
voyages. To the stay ut homes came
letters with odd foreign stamps and
postmarks. Our whatnots and parlor
mantels were filed with carved bits OF
ivory, gorgeous shells, alabaster can
dlesticks and plaster miniatures Of the
leaning tower at Pisa or the Coli
scum at Rome. We usually began a
conversation with. When my husband
and were at Hongkong the last time"
or, 81 remember at Mauritius they
always New Orleans and Frisco
were the nearest domestic ports the
mention OF which was considered
worth while
But this il 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 It be-
forehand. And the few who avail
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 IL
not scrupulously carried out we feel
that we have been defrauded. 1t was
the regret of Aunt Sophronia Hallett's
life that on her Washington excursion
she had not seen the diplomatic
corpse" She saw the president and
the monument and congress and "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
iii defined Il program as Captain Cy. lie
went because he felt that he must go
somewhere After the conversation
with Asaph he simply could not re-
he knew that he must seedhcr and II
he saw her what should he say To
her? He could not tell her that she
must not visit the Cy Whitaker place
again If he did she would insist
upon the reason. If he told her of the
'town talk" he felt sure. knowing her.
that st~A ould Indignantly refuse 20
heed the malicious gossip. And he
was firmly resolved not to permit her
to compromise her life and her future
by friendship with social ouicast
like himself. As for anything deeper
and more sacred than friendship, that
was ridiculous. If for moment a
remark of hers had led him TO dream
OF such Il. thing IL was because he was
as he had So often declared, an cold
fool"
SO Captain Cy had resolved upon
flight, and he fed to Washington he
cause the business off the committee
OF one" offered II legitimate excuse for
going there. The blunt message he
had intrusted TO Georgianna would, he
She would not call again. And when
he returned to Bos'n II would be Ia
take up the chld's fight alone. If he
lost that fight, or when he lost it, lac
would close the Cy Whitaker place
and leave Bayport for good
He had been in Washington once be,
fore, years ago, when he was FIRST mate
OF ship and had a few weeks shore
leave. Then he went there on "A pleas
ure trip with some seagoing friends
and had a jolly time. But there waH
precious little jollity in the present
visit He had never felt 80 thoroughly
miserable. In order to forget he made
up his mind to work his hardest to dis
cover why the harbor appropriation
was not to he given to Bayport
The city had changed greatly He
would scarcely have known II. He
went TO the hotel where he had stayed
before and found big modern build
ing In its place, The clerk was in
clined 10 he rather curt and perfume
tory at first. but when he learned that
the captain was not anxious concern
ing the price Of Accommodations, hut
merely wanted "comftablc berth
somewheres on the saloon deck" and
appeared 10 have plenty of money nc
grew polite Captain Cy was shown
to his room. where he left his valisc
Then he went down to dinner
After the meal was over he seated
himself in one of the big leather chairs
In the hotel lobby, smoked and
thought. In the summer, before Bos'n
came and before her father had arisen
to upset every calculation and wreck
all his plans, the captain had given
| anrlnIis fhnnrht 10 Mnaf he ahnnld do