The daily Alaskan., 1914-09-24

Z my pOckeL anu borrowed enough on III, expectations to come over first instead of second, would things have turned out differently? She looked as if sht didn't mind so very much my having detained her to talk about whales. wonder tf'-
 J But what was the use of wondering anything about a woman he would probably never see again? So this Englishman who had lived so long in the States that he could ,not keep away from them re-embarked fol 4 his adopted country in first cabin deck room and tried to be happy iI spite of a handicap that he couldn't forget
 During the first night out it came on to blow great guns. Roberts lay in his berth late, debating whether to get up or not, when suddenly something shot through his open port and hit him squarely in the face.
 It was soft and red, with gold threads running through it, and
 Great ScOttp calculated Roberts, starting up ill his berth. "Her tamp' Surely there could not be two of them-at least, he hoped there couldn't. But how had itscOme into his cabin?
 It could not be possible that she knew he was there and had taken this means of apprising him of her pres ence? Why, she had scarcely spoken half a dozen words to him in her life. But the cap was hers unmistakably.
 He fondled it foOlishly for a min ute or two and then got up and pro- ceeded to dress with all speed, or at least with as much speed as was con- slstent with the rolling of the vessel.
 All day Ie haunted the ladies' room and the decks, almost deserted on ac- count of the storm, and had begun to read the cards affixed beside each stateroom door when he suddenly re- membered the foolishness of this plan to find a woman whose name he did not know.
 ''This Is simply maddening," he told himself after q day of fine weather and still no sight of the tam's owner. "At this rate she will escape me again"
 Then he bethought him of a brilliant expedient.
 He took pen and wrote the follow ing notice:
 Found. A lady's red tam, shot with gold. Owner may have same by applying at cabin g between bugles any evening.
 This he affixed to the bulletin board in the companionway and that night dressed a half hour before the first bugle sounded so as to be in readiness to receive company during the period named.
 But nobody appeared that evening nor the next, and now there were only two days left on the voyage.
 He had passed a half hour of i'm patient waiting in the stuffy state room on the third day of the notice, and, quite discouraged, threw open ffS door to go to dinner, when he stepped squarely into the person who had emerged from her room just opposite in the narrow entryway.
 q beg your pardon" said Roberts, and then he fairly gasPed as he real ized that the other person was the lady of the tam.
 q have something of yours," he blurted out-"that red tam you lost once before"
 The girls cheeks suddenly took on the hue of the cap that hung over Roberts berth.
 "Oh," she said, twas it your port l flung it into? didn't know. It start ed to blow away again that first morn ing, and I thought was tossing 1t into my own cabin"
 And you've been just across that five foot space" Roberts rejoined, while I've been ransacking the ship for you-to restore the tam," he has tened to add. Didn't you see the no- tice on the bulletin boardT
 "No. This is the first I've been out since the storm. It left me with a nasty reminder of the shaking we all received. I'm so glad to be on deck again! Did you have a pleasant trip on the other side"
 "Jolly fne," answered Roberts.
 But he wasn't thinking of the other side at all when he said it, but of the woman he had lost and found again.
 Unconsciously they had walked to that part of the deck where Dorothy had been standing when the tam blew off on the voyage over.
 q suppose must pin the cap in tightly this time," she remarked. "You won't be there to catch, it if it flies off again" And she glanced over at the second cabin.
 He looked up at the one she was wearing.
 That's a very pretty tam," he ob- served irrelevantly. q trust 1t IS skewered in tightly
 Whether she read his inner mean ing, she gave nc token then, but sug- gested that 1t was nigh time they both went down to dinner. The next night | was the dance, and after the final two | ;a kho