The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-07-31

AASS RV~ASS anu os'No~ w ~
expectations to rome over irst instead
Of second. would things have turned
out differently! She looked as II she
didn't mind 70 very much my having
detained her to talk about whales. /
wonder IT,
But what was the use OF wondering
anything about q woman be would
probably never e AGAIN.
So this Englishman who bad lived
% long In the States that he could not
keep away from them re-embarked for
his adopted country 10 a trst cabin
deck room and tried to be happy In
spite Of a handicap that he couldn't
forget
During the first night out 1t came OF
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 nit
him squarely in the face.
1t was soft and red. with gold
threads running through 1t. and
"Great Scott!' calculated Roberts,
starting up In his berth. "Her TAM!
Surely there could 10 be W of
them-at least, he hoped there couldn't
But how had it come into his cabin!
1t could not be possible that she
knew he vas there and had taken this
e Of appristng him Of her pres
ence? Why. she had scarcely spoken
half a dozen words to him In her life.
But the cap was hers Enthusiastically.
He fondled it foolishly for q min.
ute or two and then got up and pro-
ceeded to dress with all speed, or at
beast with as much speed as was con-.
sistent with the rolling Of the vessel.
All day he haunted the ladies' room
and the decks. almost deserted on &C.
count of the storm. and had begun to
read the cards affixed beside each
stateroom door when he suddenly re-
the fOOlishness of this plan
find IA woman whose name he did
not know.
''This is simply maddening," he told
himself after a day Of fine weather
and still nc sight Of the tam's owner
AT this rate she will escape me again"
Then be bethought him OF a brilliant
expedient
He took a pen and wrote the follow
ing notice:
Found A lady's red tam. shot with
gold Owner may have same by applying
at cabin q between bugles any evening
This he affixed to the bulletin board
in the companionway and that night
dressed u 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 inn
patient waiting in the stuffy state
room on the third day of the notice.
and, quite discouraged. threw open his
door to go to dinner, when he stepped
emerged from her DON just opposite
in the narrow entryway.
Il beg your pardon said Roberts.
and then he fairly gasped as he real
tied that the other person was the
lady of the tam
Il have something of yours" he
blurted uut-''that red tam you lost
once before"
The girls cheeks suddenly took on
the hue of the cap that hung owe
Roberts berth.
oh" she said. was it your port |
flung it into? | didn't know. 1t start
ed to blow away again that first norm
ing. and | thought ! was tossing it
into my W cabin"
And you've been just across that
FIVE foot space" Roberts rejoined.
while I've been r%ansacking the ship
for you-to restore the tam" he has
tened to add. Didn't you see the no.
tice on the bulletin board?"
"No. This is the first I've been out
since the storm. 1t 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 fine" 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
of on the voyage over.
II suppose I must pin the cap II
tightly this time." she remarked. "You
won't be there to catch it II it dies Cd
again." And she glanced Ove at the
second cabin.
He looked up at the one she wa.
wearing.
That's a very pretty TAM" be Oh
served irr~elevantly. II trust It d
skewered in tightly"
Whether she read his inner mean
ing. she gave no token then. but sug
gested that It was nigh time they both
went down to dinner. The next night
was the dance. and after the 6nal two
step she reminded him that In thu
morning there would be the hustle o.
landing.