New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-03-31

Blye, with frown on his dark,
handsome face, walked across and
spoke to Cunningham. Grin nodded
and, his eyes twinkling, went to the
portable buffet, where, he selected a
long stemmed, gracefully shaped, gold
incrusted goblet of Venetian glass He
filed 1t with ice and set it to one SIDE
Then while the others watched him,
Tommy Thomas, with half sneer, and
4 Mrs. Willard, with shocked concern, he
took from a locked case tiny stone
bottle. Now he emptied the ice from
the beautiful goblet and poured into 1t
la few blood red drops. Mrs. Willard
half rose and looked toward Gilbert
i Blye; then, with catch in her breath.
she sat down and was silent. M
Blye went to the door as the stew
ardesS came up the gangway and call
ed her In with a jerk of his head. On
1.-THE lips of Edwards there had come
firm set, and his heavy lidded eyes had
narrowed. Without word Cunning
ham handed the glass to the steward
ess, but between the two there passed
a look which was full of meaning
Blye, with his glowing eyes on the
glass, smiled suavely.
II brought you the water, dearie,"
said the stewardess, entering June's
stateroom.
+ "Oh!' An exclamation of delight
i from June as her eyes widened with
the beauty of the delicate Venetian
goblet.
THAT'S something else 1 made for
you in the pantry, dearie," explained
the stewardess, in her coaxing whine,
and bobbed her neck. cts fine slim
ulant and soothing to the nerves.
June took the fragile glass in her
hand. Its sheer beauty had won her.
She inhaled daintily. The fragrance
was most appealing. She looked at it
again and smiled. She did feel faint
and weak. She lifted the glass to her
lips, and the tip of her tongue caught
the delicious flavor. Suddenly, as she
tilted the glass to drink, she caught
the pallid eyes of the stewardess fixed
#eagerly upon her. The woman's
mouth was half open, and she was
breathing hard.
With flash of intuition June jerked
her lips from the glass and threw it,
crashing and splintering, into the fire
| place.
"Why, dearie!" exclaimed the stew
ardess, and in great agitation she
pushed button at the side Of the
mantel.
l. nun10ShNo 1nuy0Cn1 fo,> IN,
slant, and her lips set then quietly
she went into the little blue boudoir
and sat thoughtfully upon the daintily
upholstered settee
The steward came pompously in.
:. well, you've done 1t again, your he
growled as he surveyed the splintered
| fragments of the delicate Venetian
glass.
mo, Percy whined the woman and
glared toward the boudoir door with
her pallid eyes. She jerked her thumb
in that direction, and then she winked
chats you," snarled Wilkins. "You
always say it's guest
GLOW much?' whispered the woman
in sibilant hiss, which carried as it
was intended to do.
Then glasses is $12 apiece, and it'll
be taken from your wages. That
comes out of my pocketv
June bit her lips. Twelve dollars!
It was a lot of money to a girl who
had found dollars coming slowly and
/ independence hard to win, but she
! picked up her purse. After all, she had
no proof that the woman meant any
thing but kindness
SIS this breakage charged against
] you?" asked June.
why, yes. dearfe'' A sn1ff1e went
with the whine.
"How much viii it cost you?''
'Twelve dollarsv" Sniff1e. "But it's
all a part of our job, so never mind.
dearie."
II do not wish you to lose the
money" and quite thoughtfully June
counted SIP from her slender store
She added another for the customary
| tip and gave one to the man. and they
thanked her most obsequiously. As
June returned to the boudoir their sup
pressed voices broke out again.
NO" protested the woman in that
whining hiss; chats my money-the
dollars mine, anyhow"
i Nothing yours except what give
you," stated Percy Wilkins gruf1ly.
That's the law, and you know it.
Clean up that mess. you." and he left
| the room.
The woman's whining humble could
be heard all the while she was cleaning
Il up the fireplace. She was going when
June returned to the staterOOm, but OH
the floor near the door was yellow
leather bound blank book, its side
worn like glass from the constant fric-
ton Of pocket. June picked it up
and opened it with idle curiosity. On
the first inside page, at the top, was
the big scrawled word From At
the top Of the opposite page was the
i word ''To." The first item on the