The evening world., 1914-12-31

leaned further over the rail and
peercd inland.
Does 1t look like home" he asked
the girl ut his side, a little absently,
a little bitterly.
1T will never seem home to me
again." she answered. Yet | used
to think 1t was most beautiful. The
movement and color and mystery OF
It. The hestas, and the music, the
glitter and pomp Of its little court
life that 80 satisfied my foolish van
i.y. the riding and the freedom, the
passion and warmth of everything--I
can remember when It used to make
me almost drunk, especially at
night"
lie turned his anxious eyes to tho
tug swinging authoritatively in under
the Laminian's quarter. He knew only
TOO well. from the gasconading atti-
tudes OF It's uniformed officials, from
the sober effrontery with which they
swung in and overhauled the bigger
steamship. that he was at last behold
ing the local instruments of the new
Liberal" Dictatorship. And he knew
that with their advent the curtain was
about to rise on q new aet or the
tangled drama. lie racked his brain
to understand what Ganley's move
would be. He knew that all day long
the gun runner had kept TO his cabin.
A steward had reported that his head
was bad and was causing him much
pain. lie had eaten nothing; he had
kept to his berth, cursing the Lam
inian and tho heat Of her coninlike
cabins. Yet Mckinnon knew II would
take more than sore head to keep
him from acting when the moment for
action arrived. The one thing that
puzzled the operator was what form
that first move Of Ganley's was to
take.
The solution OF that problem came
even as he stood there at the ships
rail watching IL came In the form Of
a shoe. flung from an open portfolio OF
the Laminian TO the deck OF the In
drawing tug. This shoot was q lu-
dtcrous. Wide toed. we'll worn thing Of
humble calfskin-was picked ZIP by
tho epauletted officer Of tho local COM
andante, looked at with open disgust,
But Nckinnon noticed that before
this took place. tho officer In question
had extracted from ITS wide toed IN
terror a slip OF closely folded paper.
He promptly disappeared from sight,
In the wheel house. and when he re-
appeared. his tug was grating and
humping along the Laminian's side
and stentorian imprecations OF Cap
tain Yandel believing and sestic ula-
ting from his bridge lend.
McKinnon. however. was busy
watching the port hole. from which
the shoe had appeared. He saw n
boat hook swung carelessly up 10 II.
red hand reach out and lift some-
thing from the end OF II, and the boat
hook continue TO scratch along the
ships side plates az though searching
for hold Then the tug made fast.
Two minutes later a coffee colored
official wearing cavalry boots. red
striped. blue denim trousers, "A yellow
braided white jacket and gold
braided cap. came aboard. He carried
a sword. held AT his side by n red sash.
and was followed by an alert-eyed.
narrow -shouldered. yellow faced youth
IN blue denim striped with red. Tho
Officer with the sword brought his
heels toget her and saluted Captain
Yandel. That worthy seaman, de-
scending from his bridge. demanded
10 know. in English, why he was 50
slow about getting pratique. and what
AL the fuss was about.
That was all that McKnnon heard.
for the talk was resumed in the cap
tain's stateroom. with thundcrous vol
leys OF broken Spanish on the one
side. with calm and dictatorial inso-
lence on the other. II was TO this talk
that Alicia Boynton. az she leaned
over the ships rail. listened no atten-
lively.
"What IL ~" asked McKinnon. no.
ticing her wide and terrified eyes.
I'VE are In quarantine" she an
swered.
do they say why7"
1.-THE COmmandante has ordered rs
detachment Of soldiers to watch the
ship. We are to be held here, pris-
onsgs. inside t1seiP dead line"