The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-28
Nell's Golden
Galleora
BY cLARrssA MAcKIE

4
t9 1921, by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
''When my ship comes In" sighed
Maud Blont as she slipped another
sheet of paper into the typewriter, 4
shall throw this wretched machine out
of the window"
'With never a thought Of the limo
cent passerby, who might be the tar
getf" smiled Nell Woods. looking up
from her work.
"0h, welll No danger Of my ship
coming init has probably foundered
somewhere of the coast of Nowhere
A-too heavily freighted with gold, per-
haps. What's the use Of wishing for
money and love and everything
nothing ever happens to mel"
Never mind, Maud, don't worry.
and some day 1t will come sailing into
port"
Maud lifted her shoulders express
lively, found a package Of chewing
gum, and went back to her typing.
Nell raised great. dark eyes, soft with
much dreaming, and looked out Of her
window at the panorama Of New York
harbor on sunny May morning.
From her window on one of the upper
floors Of a tall Office building she
could see the ships come sailing home
| she could see them set sail again
| for foreign shores. She loved them
all, even the busy little tugs that bull
lied their way about the other craft;
she built many strange fancies about
| the ships, and the most elusive one of
| all was her ship that some day would
come sailing home through the mar
rows.
It was no ordinary ship, this one
| of Nell's dreams--it had grown to
be a wonderful old Spanish galleon,
freighted with gold and silver and
jewels, and its steersman was a dash
ing lover who would bear her away
from the tedious Office forever-she
would never see another hall bedroom
again--never eat another meal In a
cheap restaurant. She never said
"When my ship comes in" but "When
my golden galleon comes home"
A Sometimes she wondered why she
was so anxious to leave New York
; She had been just as anxious to leave
Support, where she had been born
When her parents died and her aun'
offered her home, Nell refused.
81 must see the world, auntie," she
explained. II cannot be buried alive
here. Some day will come home
agaiR-now I must CO."
{ So they let her go, and two years
/ had passed away. She had tired Of
{ New York with its fictitious air o.
{ friendliness to the stranger within IT.
gates "New York is Support grow
! up" declared Neil whimsically on
, day. This summer she was going Il
Support for her vacation. "Perhap
=, my golden galleon will come sailing
a through the inlet and find harbo
= there" and so Nell took her dream
!, with her to Support.
Every day she went out on tn
!, beach beyond her aunt's house ant
!, read and sewed, and sometime
d dreamed Mrs. Lynn scoiueu hef ~
3 her solitary haoits. Lem BARKER wa
looking for your coming Nell II III
!. had been home you would not nav
been alone, III warrant Inc goo
woman nouoed wisely over tiiis II
hinder OF Nelrs OLD adnlfef
where is Lem! asked Nell iaZil!
T. went TO the nshlhg GROUNDS W.T.
the heet-hes making money nan
= over fst-he's bought your ola piac
n from Adam Marsh ana hxeu ~ all III
e Some foiKs say mes gong 10 De MAJ
?, rieu'
# Neh shrugged Lem DARKER sun
nsherman-she thought OIL the slhartl
It dressed men VINO had occupied the o.
it ices in New YORK some OF them wer
e her co-Workers' HOW hey "ou,
= iaugh 10 see Lem--to near MS ura"'
4 wen, must get IN one iast sunDat
y on the peach, auntie, she said
t. thhK II Is gong 10 storhi'
" MRS Lynn hiteu weatherwise eS
to the SKY baa dow she pr
dlcteo' WIN worried iook oh li'
o. imotheriy race. nope the poats WI
get In pefofe IL strikes
] II none So returned Nell,