The Holbrook news., 1911-01-13

he could make himself settle down in some quiet place with this girl as his wife. Surely there would be much that was pleasant in an existence with such a woman by his side. little fear that he could win her. They had been friends. always. and he did not doubt that he could rouse 9 deeper feeling.
 He voiced some of his feeling when. as they sat down at the table. he said. T wish your face might be always opposite me. Anne"
 She was pouring his tea and she smiled at him brightly. You must stay with father and me until you go away again"
 Perhaps I shall not go away" he said.
 She shook her head at him. You could never stay in one place long. |" she said.
 Perhaps if there was some one to keep me-" he said, significantly.
 But she refused to take his mean ing. You could never settle down." she insisted.
 It was not the time or the place to press his suit, but when he had been home a week he asked her to marry him, and she refused
 The spirit of the wanderer will come upon you" she said. Your ship sails next week. you will want to go with it. and 1 could never live the life that your mother lived, waiting with the candle In the window"
 q would stay with you" he said ardently. You would hold any man." But she persisted in her refusal.
 You will want to go with your ship" she repeated; you will grow restless, and I shall feel that l am second in your thoughts
 T shall not want to go," he de clared, but, when the time for sailing came, he found himself drawn ire sistibly to the dock The great steam CT was ready for her voyage. fresh with paint; and there was about her the atmosphere of mystery which be- longs to vessels that sail the tropic seas. The other end of her voyage would find her where dark-skinned people stood on white sands to wei come her. Back of them would be waving palms, where bright-hued birds made their nests-a land of indolence and allurement
 He realized that his love of Little Anne was a thing of recent growth. while, all his life. his passion for the hod h thing about this fair-haired girl which would keep him contented in future of inaction? T
 Even as he thought of her, she came and stood beside him on the dock.
 T want you to go away. Stephen" she said. and if. when you come back in two years. you still care for me. will believe that you know yourself better than you do now"
 It was not easy for him to go, yet he realized when he was once on his journey that it would not have been easy for him to stay. The spell of the sea was on him. and he was. be- fore everything else. sailor
 But he realized. as time went on. there was another spell upon nim-the tropic country. the lazy life did not satisfy. He found himself buying. not as he had bought before, useless trink- cts. but things which would beautify a home, a carved chest. embroideries and linens things that a woman would like. And when he bought r;po of o,,ri0,,. x,0-l,v,or,b4p of hoo+ en gold with a dull blue stone. he knew that he had made up his mind He knew, too, that he had made his last voyage.
 On the return trip his heart failed | him. What if Little Anne had not 1 been true? What if her love were not 1 waiting for him? Other men knew sailed away and left her.
 She was not on the dock when the i beat came in. and fearing to face the | things he dreaded he took his war to ! his mothers cottage. As he rounded 1 the jutting rock he looked for the | light And it was there. Anne was | waiting.
 T shall never go away again." he | said. as she welcomed him.
 But won't you long for the sea? | am jealous of it"
 He shook his head. T know now | that nothing has for me the charm of the lights of home. There is beau l ty to be found elsewhere and wonder 1 and adventure, but these things do not 1 count when weighed in the balance l with such women as you. have found | that out, and I know my mind now, Little Anne."
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