The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07

and he told me all sorts OF wonderful
! things. 1t was like reading the very
best detective stories. only ever SO much
better-so much more vivid. you know"
more personal INTEREST,""
"a thousand times. And IL was fun.
too, at meals, and when there was a
concert. and so on. / used to find him
looking at me with his eyes all full Of
laughter. and I looked back at him, en-
joying the secret and the way he was
making fools Of all the rest. We were
just like two children with some game
that the grown up people know nothing
about
"He had waved your morality over
board with vengeance" said l.
1T was the jolliest time I ever had
in my life" said Mrs. Pryce. He re-
cited beautifully at the concert The
Ballad of Beau Brocade.
well done for him." l said approx
ingly. | began rather to like the fellow
myself.
And at the end he made little
| speech. thanking the captain. and say
| ing how sorry we should all be when
the voyage ended. And nobody sorrier
than myself he said with one of his
looks at me-such twinkling look
and a tiny wave of those hands"
He must have been the most popular
man on board"
We'll. the men thought him rather
| standofiish; he snubbed some of them,
think. Well, YOU do meet some queer
men on n liner, don't you? And Mr..
Walsh said that out of business hours
he claimed to choose his acquaintance.
| But the women all worshipped him
not that he ran after them, but his
manner was always just right to them
IT'S really pity his manner of life
was so-well. so unconventional
| Yes. wasn't it?" she said. welcoming
my sympathy. Because of course II
meant that our acquaintance had to end
with the voyage"
| had perhaps been thinking of some
what broader considerations, but | re-
Trained from advancing them. In fact
| we had somewhat got away from ordi-
nary standards and restraints-the
memory Of Slim Fingered Jim had
waved them away. We fell into silence
! for moment ar two until I asked
And the manner of the end? Tell me
| that"
81 didn't believe in the end. had got
not To- believe in 1t at al. | thought We
might go on sailing forever over the
| beautiful sea and having the most
splendid fun. lie could make you feel
| that everything was just splendid fun
| that there WAS nothing else in the
world. He made me feel that sup
| pose he knew he could or he'd never
have told me his secret at all. But OF
| course the end had tu come" She
sighed and gave a little shiver-not that
1t was cold in the Major's garden. Then
she turned to me again. 1--WE told
you good deal" she said land you're
| not "A chicken, are YOU"
l ruefully admitted that ! was nc
| chicken
Then ! needn't say anything more
about myself" said she
And what about him."
Il think he liked me Tremendously
but he wasn't in love-"
Not at all?"
| Il don't think SO. He was lust the
most perfect Of good comrades to me
and in that way the finest gentleman
I've ever met. Because. you know,
can see now that ! gave him opportuni.
ties of being something else. Wen.
was only 10, and"
quite so. The hands, of course"
at seems possible to be good and bad
ln-in compartments, doesn't IL? That's
rather curious"
"If true"
"Oh you know it's true"
perhaps | debut I never contradic,
the preacher" She laughed again. but
now a trinc fretfully.
"In his own business l believe he's
thoroughly bad"
"Not even the chvalrous highway.
man."
"No. Just bad-bad-bad."
"Ah, well, business is one thing ant
charity another. as somebody once OBJ
served. And now for the end. please
because ends do come even though ",
don't believe in them"
Yes. they do-and this one came.
she said. But for an instant or two sh,