The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-13

Atlantic. He won. and IT took him
a month to win.
He was three days and three nights
and another day in making sight Of
Brest; and he dropped anchor In
water on lee shore. too tired TO do
anything but let out every fathom
of chain he had and fling himself be-
low to sleep.
Nursing his asails'- strength Dick
bored close-hau1ed into the blackness.
luf1ng a little <and again when the
worst of the wrenching squalls took
hold of him, until a glimpse behind
him over one shoulder told him that
the lights of Brest were fifteen miles
away; they were growing paler ain
the first dim efforts of a watery dawn.
Then he hove to. Then, with the
spirit that had brought him out stilI
runaing high, and growing higher as
the promise of foul weather showed
the need of it, he reached for his bag
pipess. Should Aud Acquaintance
skirled aloud and louder, where the
gulls had days since ceased to dare.
So 1t was not gull that answered
him, as the last notes died away. And
the sea gives back no echo. They
were pipes!
Then. as the. gray dawn lifted, he
caught the Tilt and skirI and swing
of pipes. Then. as he rose on
giant comber and could see 'rounC
twice-as-wide horizon. a patched
gray lugsail showed. bellied tight and
bearing down on his at a terrific
pace.
In small French fishing boat, such
as poorer Bretons use, a giant of q
man sat perched with what certainly
were pipes across his knees. He sal
with his legs in water, and was steer
ing with evident intent of coming very
close indeed to Dick.
Il found We by wireless" he said
with a note of pride, as he dropped
into the cockpit later and accepted
bread and cheese.
Did you desert?" asked Dick: anc
those were the first words he hat
spoken.
II did not I bought ma dis.
char-r-ge. It was vera costly. but
broke into the hummer pound an
bought it."
"oh!"
so I'm at y'r ser-r-vice," with ar
air of triumph.
Very well, Andry Man the pump
So the two men went on from Brest
where one had started out alone, anC
through all that followed there wa.
never any more compact than that De.
tween them-three words of agreement
and an order-'fMan the pump" They
were enough.
cairene society is cosmopolitan. bu
Princess Olga Karageorgovich was on
OF place.
If she was more than two and TWEEN
ty, then the extra years were as art
fully concealed as were her motives
She had all junior oficialdom enthrall
ed-enraptured-hy by the ar
that glowed behind her eyes-attendan
on her. The seniors (and their wives) al
voted her nuisance.
The princess posed as a student o
institutions. And after Dick let &,
his anchor in the harbor of Alexan
dria and game on to Cairo by express
| she grew interested in purely British
/ things, asking a brand-new line O
questions. Offcialdom had hopes 70
a while that she even meant to visi
! Scotland.
The sunshine OF Dicks characte
had strengthened, now that he had
companion of kinds.
The Bay of Biscay had treated thel
according to tradition. Turn abou
they had to nurse the little ship da
and night. night and day. ceaselessly.
When Andry was despondent, OF
would come Dicks bagpipes, and
staggering refrain would answer bac
of them. But after that there 70,
lowed blue, sweet-sailing months 1
which they waddled leisurely along til
coast of Africa, oblivious of time an
unannoyed by the flag of England
For a few days Cairo swallowe
Dick. Oficialdom. for his fathers SAX
put him up at the SWEETEST clubs an
entertained him. Sharp-eared. wide
eyed of1cialdom in sweat-wet suits e1
1 n i'm nd 1lsz
In a manner all it's own.
It was on a club veranda that Prir
cess Karageorgovich heard Richar
say things which convinced her-whic
made her send a cablegram or two i
code.
She was not supposed to hear. ST
was supposed to be listening to II
admiring chatter of a little group
worshippers. Dick, never a lady
man. even when the lady had so
eyes and was twenty-five, would hay
WINGED at the thought of sharin
secrets with her. The hot, tired-eye
; Proconsu1 in starched white drill DIRE
Dick aside to where both thougl
themselves out of earshot He w,
) in quest of new. strong nerves-of III
mosquito bitten energy-of youth, al
> young idealism. and clean pride
: feed the government machinery at
per cent of market price.
: You must be reasona BILE, my boy
: It was clear that Dick had told hi
many things You must take VIII
= you can get. Because you failed f
the Indian Civil and couldn't nal
4 the regular army for some reason
e other is no reason why you shouldr
Y be a huge success with US. We wa
good men Go home and get nom
t nated-Tu give you letter that W
turn the trick"
4 Il wouldn't go home Il they'd gi
. me Egypt" answered Dick
He raised his hat and stalked ava
walking like a king and not at 1
T aware of It; he seemed to hims'
n more like a little, uninportant m
who had said a lot too much.
i? reached his hotel and a new dectsi
simultaneously.
p He found Andry on the bedroc
floor. crouched over the beryl-hilt
sword, cleaning 1t. and he watch
him for a while. half amused, HI
d wondering.
i Pack upp' said Dick. after waite
ing a little while. I'VE take the eve
d ing train for Alexandria"
s Nothing loath, Andry obeyed.
l.
k But il Dick imagined that he y
Is drawing back from a trap and that
ID quick retreat from Cairo would {
him free of the world again, he m