The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-23

Jack was called upon to make q pay ment. When he had come ashore he had brought all his wages during q long voyage, expecting to spend them on the liberty party. But his meeting with Apple Blossom had turned him into different channel from his ship
 mates, and he had spent very little.
 So he produced the money, consider. i ing 1t marriage portion that would remain in the family, So it did-in the
 wife's family. for Jack was informed that in the marriage by which he had been tied to Apple Blossom fund was required by the groom. which was paid | to the parents of the bride.
 | This was unwelCOme news to Jack, who so far as he had looked into the fu- ture expected that this money would at least last him through the honey moon. However, the amount required for his father and mother in law was i not large, and he was assured that he would not be expected to take care Of them any further or be bothered with them in any way. He had enough mon- ey over to last him two weeks, and he gave himself up to the sweets of ln- cipient matrimony,
 When his money was gone, Jack real iziug that there was no way for him to make living in Japan-or on land anywhere for that matter-was obliged to return to the sea His bride as we'll as he bewailed the situation. but there was nothing else to be done. So he signed with an American ship trading between the east and the west and, bidding adieu to his Apple Blossom, sailed away to be gone the greater part of a year at least and possibly indef- nitely.
 It has been said that a sailor has sweetheart in every port. Jack Hav- ersham had a wife in Tokyo, and It was not long before temptation came to have another in his native coun- try. The truth is that for constancy everything was against him. He was, as has been said, especially attractive 10 women and waS constantly beset by them. On returning to America the crew of the vessel in which he had sailed from Tokyo was discharged, and Jack concluded 10 pay visit to his birthplace OH Long Island before ship ping again.
 The day hc arrived at home the first person he met was Maggie Pixley. whose complexion of white and red had been ripened under the sun and sea brceZes. Maggie noticed the hand some young sailor, and there was ad- miration in her eyes. They had known each other as children, but had great ly changed since Jack when a boy of fourteen had gone to sea. But each saw something familiar in the other and turned at the same time for anoth- CT look.
 Aren't you Jack uavcrsham?"
 "Yes. And you are Maggie Pixley!
 Jack turned from the way he was Eoing and walked Maggie'S way. That was the right way for him, because they had been lovers as children, and when he had parted with her years ago he had sworn to he true to her. He did not consider it necessary to say that he had left wife in Japan. He walked on. chatting gibly. asking after this person and that person, Mag gie the while looking up into his face through her brown eyes, revealing by her smiles a dhnpIe in each cheek and her white teeth.
 The loves of an inconStant man are very much the same. Jacks were as- suredly so. He fell in love as easily as ship will rise and fall on q gently undulating sea. Naturally he was trou- bled at remembering that there was barrier between him and Maggie in his marriage with the geiSha girl, but any thing that interfercs with what we de- sire only renders that desire more keen.
 Jack couldn't stay at home forever, for. in the first place, he had nothing
 laid up and. in the second, we all need occupation. He and Maggie became lovers. she knowing nothing of his marriage till he left her to sign on new ship: then, when she naturally showed that she expected him to speak his mind and intentions toward her, not being able to do so honOrably. he made his confession.
 It was a great blow to Maggie. She did not blame him, She only regretted