The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

Meets, BaypOrt was com
~ munity OF travellers Every
ambitious man went to sea and even
tually, II be lived. became q captain
Then he took his wife and. 10 most
cases. his children with him on long
voyages To the stay mt homes came
letters with odd foreign stamps and
tpostmarks. Our whatnots and parlor
mantels were filed with carved bits of
ivory, gorgeous shells, alabaster can
dlesicks and plaster miniatures or 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 az Mauritius 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 1t be-
forehand And the few who avail
themselves Of the spring cut rates"
and 60 on excursions to Washington
plan definite programmes for each day
at the capital and discuss them with
envious friends for weeks In advance
And If the prearranged program is
not scrupulously carried out " feel
that we have been defrauded. 1t was
the regret az 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
Ill defined a program as Captain Cy. He
went because he felt that he must 60
somewhere. After the conversation
with Asaph he simply could not re-
main at home. IL Phoebe Dawes called
LIZ hAGN lIl'li liz LuuSI SET uCls anu -
he saw her what should he say to
herr He could not tell her that she
must-not visit the Cy Whitaker place
again. If he 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
heed the malicious gossip. And he
was firmly resolved not to permit her
to compromise her life and her future
BY friendship with social outcast
like himself. As for anything deeper
and more sacred than friendship. that
was ridiculous. If for a moment
remark OF hers had led him to dream
Oh such thing 1t was because he was,
as be had 30 often declared, an "old
fool"
So Captain Cy had resolved upon
fight, and he fed to Washington BE-
cause the business Of the committee
OF one" offered legitimate excuse for
going there The blunt message he
had Entrusted to Georgianna would, ne
believed. arouse Phoebe's indignation
She would not call again And when
he returned to Bos'n ii would be to
take up the child's fight alone. liz he
lost that fight. Or when be lost IL, ne
would close the Cy Whitaker place
and leave Rayport for good.
He had been i'm Washington once be-
fore, years ago. when he was first mate
OF ship and had few weeks shore
leave. Then " went there on pleas
ure trip with some seagoing friends
and had a jolly time But there vas
precious little jollity In the present
visit He had never felt so thoroughly
miserable. In order to forget he made
up bis mind u work bis hardest to dis
cover why the harbor appropriation
was not to b. given 70 Rapport.