Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-20

'Youu have to wash decks proba. bly,"
 "l ann filled with wild longing Co wash decks" asserted. smiling at his disturbed face "l should probably also have Co polish brass There's a great deal or bruss un the boat"
 How do yon know thatT'
 When | told him he was much ex- cited. and. although 1t was dark and the Ella consisted Of three lights. be insisted on the opera glasses and was persuaded he saw her Finally be put down the glasses and came over co me
 Perhaps you are right Leslie" be said soberly. "YOu don't want charity any more than they want ships doe tor Wherever you go and whatever you do. whether you're swabbing decks in your bare feet or polishing brass ruilings with an old sock. you're a man"
 Soon after that he took his departure and the following day he telephoned Co say that if the sea was still calling me he could get a note Co the captain recommending me. asked him Co get the note
 Good old Mae. The sea was calling me. true enough. but only dire necessity was driving me to ship before the mast necessity and perhaps what for want of a better name, we call destiny. for what is fate but inevitable law, in. evitable consequence.
 The stirring of my blood. generations removed from a seafariug ancestor; my Illness, not cause, but a result; Me Whirter, filling prescriptions behind the glass screen of pharmacy. and 1t ting out. in porcelain jars. the medicine closet of the Ella: Turner and his wife. Schwartz, the mulatto Tom. Singleton and Elsa Lee: all thrown together, a hodgepodge of characters. motives, passions and hereditary tendencies. through an inevitable law working to- gether toward that terrible night of Aug. 12. when hell seemed loose on a painted sea.
 The Ella had been coasting vessel in the South American trade The firm of Turner & Sons owned the line of which the Ella was one of the smallest  vessels.
 The gradual elimination Of sailing ships and the substitution of steamers in the coasting trade, left the Ella. with others, out of commission. She was still seaworthy. rather fast, as such vessels go, and steady. Marshall Turner. the oldest son of old Elias Turner. the founder of the business, bought 1t in at a nominal sum, with the intention of using it as a private yacht. and. since 1t was a superstition of the house never to change the name Of one Of its vessels, the schooner Ella. odorous of fresh lumber or raw rubber as the case might be, dingy gray in col or. with slOvenly decks on which lines of seamen's clothing were generally hanging to dry. remained, in her meta morphosis, still the Ella.
 Marshall Turner was a wealthy man. but he equipped bis new pleasure boat very modestly. As few changes as were possible were made. He increased the size of the forward house, adding quarters for the captain and the two mates. and thus kept the after house for himself and his friends He fumi- gated the hold and the forecastle-a precaution that kept all the crew coughing for two days, and drove them out Of the odor of formaldehyde to the deck to sleep.
 The wheel. replaced by a new one. white and gilt. remained in its old po siti0n behind the after house, the steersman standing on a raised iron rra Linr nhnNn Lhn Mnsh nf lha deck