Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-10-26
CHAPTER III

The liner Atlantic lay at her piel
with steam up and gangway down
ready for her trip to Southampton
| The hour of departure was near and
there was a good deal Of mixed activ-
ity going on. Sailors fiddled about with
ropes. Junior officers fitted to and
fro. White aeketed stewards wrestled
with trunks. Probably the captain,
though not visible, was also employed
on some useful work of a nautical
nature and not wasting his time. Men,
women, boxes, rugs dogs flowers and
baskets Of fruit were flowing on board
In a steady stream. The cavernous
customs shed was congested with
friends and relatives, and Sam Mar
lowe, heading for the gangplank, was
only able to make progress by en-
ploying all the muscle and energy
which Nature had bestowed upon him,
and which during the twenty-five years
of his life he had developed by ath-
letic exercise. However, after some
minutes of silent endeayor, now drIv-
ing his shoulder into the midriff of
some obstructing male, now courte-
ously lifting some stout female Off his
feet, he had succeeded In struggling to
within a few yards of his goal, when
suddenly sharp pain shot through
his right arm and he spun round with
a cry.
II seemed to Sam that he had been
bitten, and this puzzled him, for New
York crowds, though they may shove
and jostle, rarely bite.
He found himself face to face with
an extraordinarily pretty girl.
She was a red-haired girl with the
beautiful ivory skin which goes with
red hair. Her eyes, though they were
under the shadow of her hat, and he
could not be certain, he diagnosed as
green, or maybe blue, or possibly gray.
Not that II mattered, for he had
catholic taste In feminine eyes. So
long as they were large and bright,
as were the specimens under his i'm
mediate notice. he was not the man
IL QuibbiV dUOtt a Rcli4t VI NOlQI. IltT
nose was small, and on the very tip
of II there was tiny freckle. Her
mouth was nice and wide, her chin
soft and round
Nature abhors a vacuum. Samuel
Marlowe was a susceptible young man,
and for many long month his heart |
had been lying empty. all swept and |
garnished, with Welcome" on the mat.
This girl seemed to rush in and fill II. |
She was not the prettiest girl he had |
ever seen. She was the third prettlest.
He had an orderly mind, one capable
II classifying and docketing girls. He
swallowed convulsively. His we'll
developed chest swelled beneath It's
covering Of blue flannel and invisible
itripe. AT last. he told himself, he
vas In love. really In love, and at first
light, too, which made II all the more
Impressive. He doubted whether IN
he whole course OF history anything
Ike this had ever happened before
0 anybody. Oh, to clasp this girl 70
i'm and
But she had bitten him In the arm
'hat WAS hardly the right spirit. That
~ felt, constituted an obstacle.
"9h, I'm sorryw she cried
Wei, Of course, II she regretted her
ash act After all, an lmDui
I've elri might bite y man Ia The arm
D iAe excitement OF the moment and
lill haye Z sweet Womany nature
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