The spectator., 1922-01-17

an bein' able to buy ennything 1 set my fancy on. The answer to that is Gold. With it you can buy most enny thing. Not all wimlnen, I'll grant you that Not the kind of woman I'd want for steady mate. Thet's one thing I've found out can't be bought, my son, the honor of good woman. An thet'S the sort of woman I'm lookin for.
 This is my gold, an I'm goin' 10 handle it. If enny one tries to swizzle me out of 1t I'm goin to swizzle back an you can lay to that. Not forget tin them that stands by me" Between Lund and Simms there ex- isted u sort of armed truce. No open reference was made to the desettion of Lund on the foe. But Rainey knew l that it ranked in Lund's mind. The five, Peggy Simms, her father, Carl sen. Lund and Rainey, ostensibly messed together, but Raineys duties 1 generally kept him on deck until | Garlsen had sufficiently completed his own meal to relieve him. By that time the girl and the captain had left l the table.
 Iund invariably waited for Rainey. l Tamada kept the food hot for them.
 To Rainey, Tamada seemed the l hardest worked man aboard ship. He l had three messes to cook and he was l busy from morning until night, elf cient. tirelesS and even-tempered. The crew, though they acknowledged his | skill. were Californians, either by birth or adoption, and the racial l prejudice against the Japanese wat apparent.
 A week of good wind was followed by dirty weather. The persistence l and increasing opposition of the storm seemed to have a corresponding effect upon Captain Simms.
 He grew daily more irritable and morose, even to his daughter. Only the doctor appeared able to get along | with him on easy terms, and Rainey noticed that, to Carlsen, the skipper seemed conciliatory even to difference. Peggy SiumS watched her father with worried eyes. The curious, tar
 
 until the flesh seemed continually dry and of an earthly color; his lips peeled, and more than once he shock as if with Chill.
 On the eleventh day out. Rainey went below in the middle of the after noon for his seaboots, In the main cabin he found Simms seated in q chair with his daughter leaning over 1 him. speaking to her in q harsh, com planing voice.
 No, you can't dc thing for me" he was saying. Its this sciatica. I've got to get Carlsen.'
 As Rainey passed through to his own little stateroom neither of them noticed him. but he saw that the cap tain was shivering. his hands picking almost convulSively at the tablecloth.
 'WhcreS Carlsen, curse him." Rainey heard through his cabin parti | ton. Tell him l can't stand this any longer He's got to help me. Got to. Got to-"
 AS Rainey appeared, walking heavily in his boots, the girl looked up Her father was slunped in his 1 chair his face buried on his folded arms. The girl glanced at him doubt fully. apparently uncertain whether to go herself to find CarlSen or stay with her father.
 "Anything I can dc, Miss Simms? Your father seems quite ill"
 The hesitation of the girl even 10 speak to him was very plain to Rainey. Suddenly she threw up her chin,
 kindly find Doctor Carsen," she l ordered, rather than requested. Ask i him to come as soon as he can r." She turned uncertainty to her father
 Gan help you to get him into the cabinT" asked Rainey.
 She thanked him with lips, not eyes, and he assisted her to shift the al- most helpless man into his room and bunk He was like stuffed sack be- i tween them, save that his hody twitched While Rainey took most of | the weight, he marveled at the strength of the slender girl and the 
 seemed to have falnted. to he on the verge of unconseiousnesS or even utter collapse. Raney felt his wrist, and the pulse was almost imperceptible
 "Ill get the doctor immediately" he said
 Mighty funny sort of sciatica," Rainey told himself as he hurried for ward He knew where Carlsen was In the hunters cozy quarters, playing | poker
 "The slippers Dl" said Ralney "No pulse. Almost unconscious"
 Carlsen raised his eyebrows, Didn't know you were physician" he said. Just one of his spells. I'll finish this hand Too good to lay down. The skipper can wait, for | once"
 The hunters grnned as Carlsen took his time to draw his cards. make