Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15


81 know what YOU have done for me, she
would say, with an adorable smile. "Those
long months in my service are worth count
less protestatiOnS. You went away for my
sake
"And have come back for my own. he
would interrupt. 81 cannot live without
you any longer. | have failed"
"But you have not failed, she would ex-
claim
Damon has not offered to give you a
share of the millions, he would say. Il
wanted you to have the money!
"That does not affect what you have done
for me, she would answer. repeating the
adorable smile. "You have gained for me
the greatest success, the success of knowing
that am perfectly loved.
"Angela!' he would cry, and then would
come the embrace. Damon's dreams shat
tered at the moment of the embrace. He
had no idea what it would feel like; but he
knew the thought of it was concrete enough
to bring him back to the realization that he
was half a world away from Angela.
Sometimes he would imagine himself go
ing to Angela with dragging feet. She
would not be with Mrs Beldon, but in an
apartment of her own a beautiful place in
which she would still be sitting by the win
dow, and still clad in black. The black
seemed somehow a symbol that she had him
in her thoughts.
Il have come to say goodby, Angela" he
would say.
"Goodby! But where are you going?" she
would ask, paling perceptibly.
81 don't know. Does it natter Any
where out of New York"
"But why must you go? You have just
come back"
"Need you ask" he would say bitterly.
damon has been just, and you have five
millions
give millions that you got for me-, she
would interject.
@You have this wealth, and II have
twenty thousand dollars!"
She would come as close to him as was
safe, and would say softly, "Does my
money natter
"Very much indeed" he would reply.
She would retreat to the window some
how Damon always had to have window
in his stage setting. She would look out for
a moment. and then she would turn to him
and say, with downcast eyes, Il am afraid
you have changed toward me. | am afraid
you could not really have meant your
your last words
a have not changed" he would cry i'm
petuously. 81 love you more than ever
more than everl"
She would come toward him with her
wonderful smile. Il will give Larrabee Da-
mon back the money, she would whisper.
Nothing must come between you and me-"
Then the embrace the shattering of
the dreams, and Damon would be looking
out on the blue Pacific, the sun flaming over
head out of brazen sky, the decks scorch-
ing underfoot, with the pitch all but seeth-
ing in the seams.
ONE morning Captain Barstowe's quiet
~ manner changed little; something al
most like excitement showed in his eyes He
told Henderson that they would sight the
Marshall Islands that afternoon. and that
by the next day he would be disposng of
part of his cargo, and, he hoped, getting
news of Captain Bates and the Urania. His
excitement communicated itself to the two
passengers. They could land here without
fear, since the islands had nothing to do
with the United States and since, besides.
they had no reason for thinking that the
officials at Maui need learn that they had
taken passage on the Simeon Bailey.
1t was good to feel the land under their
feet once more, and they enjoyed the languid
hustle that greeted their entrance to the
town. No boat, however inconsequentia,
can arrive at an island port without receiving
speculation, Judgment and welcome Da-