The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-06-17

1 pc1SOuS cAO1L themselves.
too vicarious for me-
It was a decided shock to Win that
Miss Riley didn't care for the Ma
tional game.
IF anything were needed to enhance
Miss Riley's charm, it was the mys-
terry that developed about or envel-
Oped her the third day out. Win
Shute heard of it from his room stew
ard, who had picked it up from the
waiter at the pursers table. The
purser was the agent Of publicity, and
1t was surmised that he had cleaned
| his intelligence from the captain. Any
how, it was matter that the captain
and the purser would naturally talk
over
Via wireless had come an inquiry to
| the captain of the COlonia about q
| passenger. The inquiry was from the
| United States gOvernment-sO much
was known. It concerned a young
woman who was travelling with her
mother. She was described in the
general terms of StriEfngly handsome
and clever From this the descriptions
varied according to the within or
the morsel of gossip. The nub Of the
tale was that the young woman was
fugitive from Justice!
Immediately a new ships game was
started-fnd the fugitive. The search
was carried on by a process of eIim1-
nation. First the sailing list was
colnbed for mother and daughter. It
turned out, unfortunately, that in the
first cabin there were exactly twen-
ty-one pairs of mothers and daugh-
tiers. AS to whether these twenty-one
mothered maidens were handsome and
clever, opinions differed markedly.
Some Of the daughters were cookbook
ing but undeniably dull; others were
clever but plain. Not half a dozen
could come within range Of the speci-
: ficationS.
When the consensus of opinion was
about to pounce upon Miss Riley, who
headed the list of suspects" another
bit of information leaked out. The
woman wanted was a stenOgrapher,
Here the search for the guilty one be-
gan all over. Miss Riley was wealthy
her ship accommodations and her
dress denoted that-so it must be
some one else. But after considering
the qualifications Of other pOSSibili-
ties for hours on end. Mistress Con-
sensus again lowered about Miss Riley.
Thus the first cabin divided itself into
two camps-the partisans Of Miss
Riley and those of 1.-The field" But
paradoxically, in this instance, par.
tisan meant enemy.
The ship got hectic about it, and be-
cause Of it Win Shute got into trouble.
He was watching the poker game in
the smoking room when the loose
jointed conversation switched to the
unsolved mystery of the ship-the
identity Of the fugitive from justice.
Eventually there was an ARGUMENT |
over the dement's Of Miss Riley.
Win Shute was angry at mention Of
her name. To him it was cOntempti- |
BILE that it should be dragged In and |
banded about over booze and poker
chips.
Two men-One an ordinarily decent
chap who had taken a little too much,
and the other cynical. self-contained /
man, the best poker player at the
sion to precipitate conclusion. There
had been many references to Miss
Riley, most of them complimentary in
and the decent but tanked-up
chap had proved her champion. AS
clincher he asked:
'That girl has the finest rooms on
the boat. Does that look like she is
a stenographer?"
The cynical man answered:
eff she is the stenog of one Of them
millionaires. it's the kind
If a suite you'd expect to find her in.
Get me?"
There was a coarse laugh, which
changed in the middle into an express
sion Of concern. What happened was
swift.
Win Shute said something in the
gamblers ear and neatly slapped his
ace. The gambler, raging, jumped to
lis feet, scattering glasses and chips.
which went gathering to the floor, and
made vicious pass at the interloper.
With the celebrity of lodging a wild
itch, Win Shute avoided the first,
nd, catching the gambler off his bal
nee, f1oored him with a pretty upper
ut. Then the gambler, blind with
age, seized a whisky bottles from the
7reckage. But before he could use
; his arms were pinioned from behind
nd Shute was pushed out of the
moking room.
AS the loss in rum and glassware,
estimated, was made good,
nd as the smoking-roOm steward was
roper1y rewarded for his future reti-
ence, the episode did not come Off
ally before the captain. But unof- "
cially, through the human wireless