The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-08-06

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of second. would things have turned
out differently! She looked as If she
didn't mind so very much my having
detained her to talk about whales.
wonder if
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 for
his adopted country In a first abin
deck room and tried to be happy In
spite of a handicap that he couldn I
forget.
During the first night out ii 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.
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 not be two of
them-at least, he hoped there couldn't
But how had 1t come into his cabin?
1t 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 dozen words to him In her life.
But the cap was hers Enthusiastically.
He fondled 1t foolishly for 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-
sistent with the rolling Of the vessel
All day he 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 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 % between bugles any evening.
This he affixed to the bulletin board
in the companionway and that night
dressed 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 half hour Of i'm
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
squarely into the person who had
emerged from her room just opposite
in the narrow entryway.
Il beg your pardon" said Roberts,
and then he fairly gasped as he real
lied that the other person was the
lady of the tam.
~ 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, was 1t your port /
flung 1t into? I didn't know. 1t start
ed to blow away again that first morn
ing, and l thought l was tossing 1t
into my own cabin"
And you've been just across that
Ave 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 board?"
mo. This is the first I've been out
since the storm. It left me with
nasty reminder OF the shaking we all
received. I'm so glad to be on deck
again! Did you have q pleasant trip
on the other slider"
"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
or on the voyage over.
II suppose i must pin the cap In
tightly this time" she remarked. "You
won't be there to catch II II 1t nies OF
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 OBJ
served irrelevantly. 81 trust It Ii
skewered in tightly"
Whether she read his inner mean
ing, she gave no 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
step she reminded him that in the
morning there would be the hustle Of
landing.
And l haven't relieved you Of that