Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-07

breadth of water, with marshes on
| either side and a fair view of the sea,
and there, heaving a little to the
| flowing tide, and with a seagull float
iing over her mizzenmast, lay Mar
| tins ship
She was a wooden schooner. once a
/ Dundee whaler called the Mary, but
now rechristened the Scotia, and 1t
would be silly to say how my eyes
| filled at sight of her just because she
had taken Martin down into the deep
Antarctic and brought him safely back
again
shes beauty, Isn't she?" said
Martin.
, Isn't she?" I answered, and in spite
of all my troubles | felt entirely
happy.
| We had steamed down against a
| strong tide. so we were half an hour
late for luncheon, and the officers had
gone down to the saloon, but 1t was
! worth being little after time to see
the way they all leaped up and re-
/ ceived me like a queen-making mo
feel, as | never felt before, the differ
ence between the poiteness of the
| fashionable idlers and the manners of
the men who do things
"Holloa!" they cried.
| Excuse us, won't YouP We thought
! something had happened and perhaps
| you were not coming" said the COM
mander, and then he put me to sit
! between himself and Martin.
The strange thing was that l was
I at home in that company in a mo-
! ment and IL anybody imagines that /
/ must have been embarrassed because
/ was the only member of my sex
among so many men he does not
know the heart of a woman.
They were such big, bronzed manly
/ fellows with the note of health and
! the sense of space about them-large
! space--as If they had come out of the
heroic youth OF the world that they
set my blood atingllng to look at
them.
They we're very nice TO me too.
! though | knew that | only stood for
1 the womankind that each had got at
home and was soon to go back 10, but
none the less it was delightful to feel
! as if were taking the first fruits OF
their love for them.
So It came to pass that within a
! few minutes |, who had been called
/ insipid and was supposed to have no
| conversation, was chattering away
softly and happily making remarks
| about the things around me and ask
| ing all sorts of questions.
OF course, asked many foolish
ones, which made the men laugh very
much but their laughter did not hurt
me the least bit in the world. be-
| cause everybody laughed on that ship
even the sailors who served the
dishes. and especially one grizzly old
salt. cockney from Wrapping, who
for some unexplained reason was
called Treacle.
II made me happy to see how they
all deferred to Martin, saying; "Isn'i
that so, Doctor?" or Don't you agree
Doctorf" and though II was strange
and new to hear Martin (my Martin
of SpitzbergenO called Doctor" il
was also very charming.
After luncheon was over, and while
coffee was being served. the COM
mander sent Treacle TO his cabin for a
photograph of all hands which had
been taken when they were at The
foot OF Mount Erebus; and when il
came | was called upon to identity
one by one, the shaggy, tousled, un-
kempt. bearded, middle -aged men In
the picture with the smart. clean
shaven young officers who sat round
me at the table.
Naturally. | made shockingly bad
shots. and the worst Of them was
when l associated Treacle with the