The Washington times., 1913-07-28

, Z lston's desk. 1t was the derelict raw
ing. The dramatic spirit of his speech
picture of ship fighting to lea against
all odds and she could see the stranger
in the next room somewhere In the
| foreground OF q ragged shore urging
others-men under him-to cheer her on.
A silence followed the outburst and
Emily tiptoed into the alleyway. She
listened for Paul. but no sound came
| from him aft. She had been below
about a halr-hour. He must be asleep.
The gold woman entered the derelict s
| door softly and discovered him sitting
| upright in his berth, peering from
| under his two hands as II at something
| long distance away. There was some
thing heroic in the posture of him and
in the set of his scraggly white-bearded
jaw.
She's clear-clear." came from him
the threshold. He dropped his hands.
Hello, nurse" he said, discovering
the girl She turned up the light :,
You're feeling much better. aren't
She held a glass of water to his lips
and he drained 1t.
'Thankee, nurse, thankee. ANOTHER
long drink, please. Thats-ahi That's
FIJI be comm out O. drydock soon. All
need Is t get my headgear over
hauled an these ribs spliced: Nurse,
sailormen orter have good hackmat;
humor rippled across his face. It's
mighty long way from a foreupper-
tawpsI yard Z tn foc'sle head-a
mighty long way.
The distener gathered that the old
NAN believed he war suffering from
the offects of a fan. He lay back
obediently at her suggestion; his
eyes appeared quite rational; Although
his hands were still scorching to the
toucn, there had been an abatement
| Of tie fever Yet his pulse was ex-
tremely weak. When Emily felt y
she felt surprised at the strength of
Nurse" he said after a short pause,
when that ERE sky-pilot comes roun,
| in tn mornin' I wants you e stand
by" A twinkle DANCED In his sea. a
PiTes PiSesnsp up its | dead. I'll be afther askin,'
tn gintleman how he knows; feIl
hear him shputter. It'll be fair joke
He i stopped seriously. His gaze
sought the doorway. In a whisper
fraught with a note of bitter fatahsin
! he said:
The sea gives nothin' back nurse,
When it takes annythin ~ kHpsS H.
TIL sky-pilots are but pretenoln
! Emily sensed that the sailor minG y!
was groping around the appearance OF
paul earlier in the evening. she leaEeu
| that il would do him harm TO ies
his mind rest on this, and that II %ou''
/ be better to induce him to sleep.
Don't YOU think II 1 turned down tne
light you might be able to sleep again
| The suggestion startled him.
NO. no. nurse. Place lave tn, ngnt;;
I'll be afther stayin' awake Ior III
ould man-thats my own @ sAlRpet Re"
Mother av Godr' he cried. He seized
her hand and held It IN great stress
Thin yez saw him, too! Yez saw La
veIle!' His eyes, filled with awe, leap
ed from Emily's face to .Tia the open qOE5 TOin
colleen, t be snuggln' down-t' make
everythin' tight.
The thing she had wished not to do
she had done unwittingly. She hau
| turned his poor brain back to his men,
| ory of Paurs father.
Did yez hear, him shPake t me!
Did he shpake { anybody else!
TT was not the Captain Lavelle you
think. It was his son."
mot Prince Lavelle? His son?' The
derelict shook his head in doubt, ana
as he did so he looked around the stare
room. His eyes picked up each arucie
in II in a bewildered way.
| Yes, his son. You must have no
fears. Can't you think where you are!
Do try. You're aboard the bark Daphne
The Daphne. .os
| NO. Tn DdpnHe wash
was tn Trenton. tn Nipsic, IN van,
lad6a, a Dutchman called IN Adler, IN
ally-ope-not Daphne. It was pIani
! that the past was ruling his memory
Twas only yestiddy tn home mails
come in an brought n prince 5oik-
ness av his little bhoy-littul Paul
| saws tn prince t me: Dan, an tbs
home with tn littul feller I loike { be
| He says that [ me, an him tn first
luff' an me common sallorman an
| capt'n ay tn foretcp be grace av three
| eniIstments an sthayin' shtraight three
monds on ind. Now he's lyin' out there
| In thin God-forsaken wathers an all
| because of a lot of Dootchmin an nay
gurs. Come along L tn mass with me
am nray for Gods kindness [ tn
nInce's sowL Yez'll niver sail agin,
! my bullies, under an oficher man loike
| the prince. ,,,-
but 10 men who were not in the room.
| The sweet, tender praise of the father
Of the man she loved with all the soul
Of her wrung tears from the listener.
| She could see the prince showing this
| sailor the Iicture of Paul. She could
hear him speaking. :,
| And he called ycu Dan-the prince,
FmiIv managed to say, and with the
hope that possibly 1t might suggest the
| dereliCt's identity.
| 'Dan? T. be sure he called me Dan.
| .Rid-headed bunch av sin he called me
| whin | wint on tn bind. had a thatch
J in thin days as rid as tn British mer
chant flag" A gnarled hand wandered
10 his bald crown. and as it touched II