The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-08

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tie typewriter, II shall throw TINS
W:etched machine out OF the win
dowi"
'sIYiEh never a thought OF the in
! nocent pasSerby, who might be the
,rEet?" smiled Nell Woods, look
ingNup from her work.
t1Oh, Welt No danger Of my ship
coming init has probably foun.
dared sonieWheer OF the coast OF
Sowhere-too heavily fre4ghted
with gold, perhaps. WHAT'S the use
81 Wishing for money and love ana
everyIhlng-nothiug ever haDpenE
70 mel"
''rIever mind, Maud, don't worry,
and some day 1t will come sailing
into port"
Maud lifted bOr shoulders ex-
pressiyely, found a package OF
chewing gum, and went back to her
typiug. Nell raised great dark
eyes, soft with much dreaming, and
looked out of hsr Hiha0T q :he
panorama OF New York harbof on
), sunny May morning. From nor
window on one OF the upper fqors
o II tall Office building she could
aee the ships come sailing home
she could see them set sail again
for foreign shores. She loved them
ali. even the busy little tugs that
buiHed their way about the other
craft: she built many strange IAN
cieS about the ships, and the most
elusive ono Of all was her ship that
some day would come sailing nome
through the narrows.
It was no ordinary ship, this one
OF NeIlies dreams-it had grown to
80 a wonderful old Spanish galleon.
fraiEhted with gold and silver and
Jewels, and It's Bteersman was
1Ashing loevr, who would bear her
AWAY from the tedious office for
S1er-she would never see another
FaH bedroom again-never eat an
iEher meal in n cheap restaurant
me never said "When my ship
,Faomes in" but when my golden
salleop comes home"
Sometimes she wondered why she
was so anxious to leave New York.
she had been just as anxious TO
cave Seaport, where she had been
norm When her parents died and
her aunt offered her home, Nell
refused. !,
II must see the world, auntie,"
she explained. II cannot be buried
alive here. Some day ! will come
homo again-now / must 60"
So they let her so, and two years
lad passed away. She had tired OF
New York with its fictitious air OK
.e1endlinesS to the stranger within
It's yates. New York 10 Seaport
EroWn up" said Nell Whimsicany
5ne day This summer she was
yoIne to Seaport for her vacation:
Perhaps my golden EGlleoh VIII
soade sailing through the mist ana
l1nd a harSor there" and SO Nell
look her dreams with her to Sea-
Every day she went out on the
beach beyond her aunt's house and
read and sewed, and sometimes
df6Amed. Mrs. Lynn scolded her
sFl5r her solitary habits. Lem Bar
5gar was looking for your coming
Nell, II he had been home you
would not have been alone, III war,
rant!'' The good woman nodded
wisely OVER this reminder OF NelIs
Did admirer.
dWhere is Lem asked Nell
went to the fishing grounds with,
ttta Aeet-he's making money hand
aver fist-he's bought your old
place from Adam Marsh and fixed
\ it an up. Some folks say he's going
k6 be married" H.,
Neil shrugged. Lem Barker, still
fisherman-she thought OF the
artly dressed men who had occu-
lstied the Offices in New York; some
5of them were her co-workers. How
\ they would laugh to see Lem-to
5 h6af him drawl.
ttVVeIl, must get in one last sun
bath on the beach, auntte, she
said; II think it Is going to storm
Mrs. Lynn lifted a weatherwtse
ere to the sky. IA bad blow" she
predicted, with a worried look on
her motherly face. II hope the
BOATS will got in before It strikes"
al hope Co." returned Nell, run
INK doWn to the beach and plung"
M mo the Churning gray waves
But the ships did not come home
before the storm broke. 1t was q
dreadful gale and not Il soul in Sea-
mort slept wink while i lasted.
Nearly every hoEe Lad a man out
among the fleet Of fishing vessels,
and hundreds of eyes were strained
toward the inlet as tho storm in
creased in fury.
Az last kilograms came struggling
in-msssagtS that carried Joy or
woe to many homes. A few Ses-
port men had gone down with their
0iittle boats, the rest were coming
nome. There Was one man missing
Lem Barker. No one had seen
him or his gallant little boat mel
lie" since the storm struck the
Neil woods felt oddly anxious
about the missing man. She had
feIt q tenderness for Lom in the
DAYS before she had felt the call OF
fhs city-he had been kind to her
parents during days of ilIEess, and
ifahe had remained she would have
married Lem Barker and remained
ii her own home.
But ambition had called; many
months intervened-and she could
nofT visualize Lem save as u blush
lne, bashful country youth with big
! hands, Though she shuddsred ut
nc recollection of her passing fan.
~ tor him, she watched for his sail
q did many OF her neighbors. Lcm