The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24

even If his own haiI we're nothing
much to look at?
The Princess caught her breath
and sat up and her eyes came allght
egaln. Romance though II had sus-
tained nasty jolt, showed signs OF
recovering oensciousness. A dis.
guisel-so thnt he could escape his
kingdom and the horrible girl they
wanted 10 marry him tot She Won
dered what his own hair had been
like.
She had TO sustain another revul.
sion, another quite horrible sinking
OF the heart, ns the picture Of his
round head projecting out of that
mound Of blankets formed itself
again in her mind 1t wasn't the
sort of a trial that q heroine's con.
stancy could fairly be subjected to-
It was cruel and unusual, a flagrant
violation Of the constitutional laws
OF romance. But she drew q long
breath OF resolution and promised
herself to be game through every
thing. Shed never really contem'
plated anything else, not even In
those first black moments. Tho
picture OF herself climbing out
through that forward hatch, swim
ming ashore and leaving him to
fare as best he could had never
been anything but a panicky flash
of nightmare.
She got up brlskly and went to
work wringlng what water she
could out OF his saturated clothes
and spreading them out to dry upon
the sails. The money IN his trous-
ers pockets worried her, so she took
It out, Strengthened and counted it.
II came to exactly two thousand
nine hundred and eighty dollars
the three thousand dollars his uncle
had screamed about over the tele-
phone, minus tho twenty they had
given the taxi-driver. Not knowing
quite what to do with It she tucked
It into the pocket OF her trousers.
Then, shutting her eyes for
minute and stiffening her face for
the sight she must encounter, she
went back into the cabin and
looked at Bill. He was asleep. poor
dear, and wasn't somehow, liks
that, revolving object at all. An
unexpected wave of tenderness for
him took possession of her. She
might have been mother looking
down at her first baby in its crib.
They haven't any hair either as
matter of fact, and are seldom any.
thing wonderful for O critical eye
to look at.
She sat down very carefully on
the edge OF the bunk beside him.
Ho looked so helpless, so complete
ly at the mercy of her care! She
wanted. quite imperatively, to
touch his face with her fingers, 60
stroke his forehead; and before
Blstance to this impulse she found
herself doing It. After a minute
his eyes came open and he looked
up at her with a childlike. sleepy
smile, and she caught her breath
with scared little sob as she real
ized that she loved this cropped
head better, more poignantly, than
the lost beauty Of those romantic
tiesses.
whats your real hair like, Bill,
when Il grows outY'
you have seen," he said. THAT
Is my real hair in tho wig. When
they shave 1t off nay uncle he save
1t very carefully and nave It made
Just like. so that moo shall know.
And" he added, mo one does know
In all the world except you and
Yakov."
"Who." the Princess asked, as
Yakov2'
my valet" he told her. "He is
take care of me since when l am,
oh, just a little boy. AS soon as
can remember"
There were hundred questions
she wanted to ask. Foremost among
them, why they had shaved his
head; and IL his uncle knew about
it all the while, what good.
But she held them all back staunch-
ly. She wouldn't pryl
III you like" he said, 81 will keep
my hair short like this. / have
more comfort so and more fun.
VIII you permit that l shall do
that7"
well" she said noncommittally,
wen see. 1t will be q great big
help, though, getting you away
from the detectives. ! am sure
nobody would know you like this.
It's the most wonderful disguise |
ever saw"
Then with a sudden gleam Of ex.
citement-'-"Why, it's a disguise for
both Of us!' she cried. wait"
She shook down her own hair,
folded it back over tho top of her
head and put on the wig. A small
Enaylng-mirror was screwed into
the galley door, and with the aid of
this she got it tolerably well ad-
justed.
Look at me nowl" she cried
triumphantly won't I pass for a
boy, too? That's Low weIl get
away together; in sailors clothes.
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