The evening world., 1914-03-30
A Sea Story With a Mystery
That No Reader Can S0lpe


now. Ask the captain to give me Il
mans work. This-ths In = house
maids occupation"
I'VE prefer TO have you here" she
said coldly: and then, evidently re
pentins her manner: We need u man
here. Leslie. BETTER stay. Are YOU
comfortable In the forscas,le y"
"Yes. Miss Lee"
And the food IL all right"
The cook says ] am eating two
mems rations."
she turned 10 leave. smiling. It was
the first time she had thrown even "a
hseting smile my way. and II went to
my head.
"And willisms7 7 am to submit to
his insoience?"
she stopped and turned, and the
"Ths next time" sh. said. "you are
to drop him"
I wont aft TO chat. as I often did,
with the stsersman. On this DC
casion II happened to be charlie
Jones. Jones was not his name. 40
far az I know. 1t was some inordi-
nately long and different German in
hAritance, and 20. with tho facility
OF the average crow. he had been
called Jones. lilo was a benevolent
little man. highly religious. and some
thing of a philosopher. And because
could understand German. and even
essay It In limited way, he was FOND
OF me.
sets du dich," he said. and moved
/, over SO that could sit On the grating
on which he stood. The sky Is fine
Tonight. wundcr.choen."
ut always looks good to me-"
observed, filling my pipe and passing
my tobacco-bag to him. II may
have my doubts now and then on
land, Charlie; but here. between the
sky and the sea, I'm q believer, right
enough"
"'In tho beginning He created tho
heaven and the EARTH" said Charlie
reverently.
We we're silent for . time. Tho
ship rolled easily: now ana then she
dipped her bowsprit with q soft swish
OF spray; n school Of dolphins played
astern. and the lort OF the land birds
that had followed us out flew In cir
clea around the masts.
''Sometimes." said Charlie Jones',
~ think tho Good Man should have
left II the way II was after the flood
} lust sky and water What's the land.
) ANYHOW? Noise and confusion. wick
ednens and crime. robbing tho widow
n and the orphan. eat or be ct
WELL" I argued, tho seas that
WNH. w INV tUVro ttSt WV 'uVs "
hying for but to ret out Of the way
Of bigger fish?"
:. Charley Jones surveyed mo over his
v "True enough. younyster." he said
:. but the Lords given 'em wings "a
:. nv with. lie amt been so careful
= with tho widow and the orphan"
The door into the main cabin be
II yond the chart room was open. u
nh
II except for the four rose shaded can
dies on the table. now laid for dinner
A curious effect II had-'the white
cloth and CLEANING pink an island o
j. cheer in q twilight sea, and To ant
u from, this rosy island, making shor
10 excursions, advancing. retreatina
disappearing ut times. the oval whit
% ship that was Williams shirt bosom
II Charlie Jones, bending TO the RICH
and raised TO my own height by IN
grating on which he stood. LOOKED
over my shoulder. Dinner was abou
70 20 be served. The women had COM
~ out The table lamps threw thei
% rosy glow over white necks and un
" covered arms. and REVEALED. higher II
the shadows. tho faces OF the men
smug, clean shaver. assured, rathe
: heavy.
n had been the guest 81 honor on
steam yaCnt year w 'Wo o'''''
after n game. There had been PM
lights on the table. I remembered
= and the place cnrda ut dinner tn
n frat night ont had been caricature
10 ~ mo in fighting trim. There hn'
been n rirl, too. For three days q
l. that week lend cruise ! had been MAJ
about her; before that first dinner
. when 7 hnd known her two hours.
- had Kissed her hand and told her
, loved h0i',
a Vail and Miss Lee had loft IN
q others and come into the chart room
/. As Charlie Jones and ! looked he ben
=, over and kissed her hand.
= Tho sun had gone down. My pip
y; VIA empty. and from the galley, for
ward, came the odor OF the forecasts
sumner. Charlie was coughing.
rackipR paroxysm that shook his
u wirv body. lie leaned over an,
70 caught my shoulder as was movin,
>. away.
" "New paint and new canvas don
u make p new ship" he said. chokin'
L. back tn" cough, shes afiIl the OIL
Ella, The she-devil OF the Turner line
Pink lights below and not rat u
10 tho hold. They left her before W
II sailed. bov. Every rope was crawlin'
with EN-"
. "The very rats
" Tnstinctivcly had ter ".
IN 7 quoted. But Charlie, rln'ching ~
wheel, wsR coughing again ard "'!r'
n ing rsathlessly az he coughed