Evening star., 1933-04-20
LUXURY LINER
BY Gina Kaus-
tooPYR1oHr. 1888. ~ OLA xAus,

anyhow. simply because you couldn't do
otherwise"
Stephanson's every word, every smile
implied bribery. He had never been 20
persuasive as he was this morning.
After lunch Thomas sat In solitude in
his cabin. He couldn't help but think
necessarily Of this little fortune for
which he had only to reach out his
hand. He visualized himself In New
York with an American doctors d.
ploma. He was q surgeon, As IN his
youth he dreamed he would be. one of
the most famous surgeons Of the New
World. He was earning huge sums Of
money-even more than Shortwell. He
had little palace Of his own and .
magnificent motor car-and Sybil.
Suddenly, he automatically awoke from
his dream and called himself q low
hound. Had he really built this castle
In the air where Sybn would be living
beside him?
His castle in the air collapsed. A
couple Of thousand dollars would sufhce
him to follow SYPHILIS trail on the other
side Of the ocean inexorably like the
bad conscience which she. with her
frivolous soul, never had had Inex-
orably he would follow her trail until
she gave him an opportunity to have Q
reckoning with her-or until she would
break down
Wolzogen was very happy He felt
himself the leader of . great movement.
There was nothing he would have en-
joyed better thsn to run from one per-
son to another and tell them that 1t was
he, Wolzogen, who was the FIRST who
had obtained the information about the
value OF shipping shares and that he
had been the first buyer.
But, OF course, he could not do that.
There was one human being. only one,
whose approval he wanted for his as
tuteness. and so he went to the third
class to see Mill Lensch. Mill was
neither IN her cabin nor on the deck.
He went to the lounge. where every
body was excited They were mostly
men and everybody was talking at once.
They had flushed faces and their eyes
were cleaning. The man with the hole
IN his chin seemed to be q sort Of chair
man. He sat on a sort of platform
with a sheet of blank paper in front Of
him: Wolzogen heard the following
words:
,". rich people always know what
they are doing. They always have In
tions"
Mill Lensch sat at another table be-
tween the eccentric old Marius, his for
mer EMPLOYER. and Vladimir. Wolzogen
asked: What Is going on?"
OF the hand
In spite of that Wolzogen knew in q
very Few minutes that these people here
mad, IN some way, got wind as to what
was going on in the first class. They
wanted to be participants, wanted to ret
Two hundred dollars for a hundred, but
none OF them had enough money to
supply the necessary cover to get a de-
cent block Of shares. The man with
the hole in his chin, therefore had pro-
posed that they should combine and put
their small spare cash together.
II you could only be sure that YOU
! would win" interjected some one.
All OF q sudden Wol0ogen could no
longer contain himself. He addressed
himself to Marius. but he talked 50
loudly that the people at the next table
could hear him
DO you know who was the FIRST one
to buy German Shipping, Ltd, this
morning? 1t was l."
There was sudden silence.
Where, II may ask further, did you
get your Information about German
Shipping, Ltd. ?" the people in the third
class asked Wol1ogen.
From the best-the very best source.
You can depend on that. I am not q
niockhead that I should want to risk
my money on mere surmise I am q
solid man OF business. I began in q
small way and made my money by the
sweat Of my brow. And all these men
IN the trst class, these business men
and bankers that ran after me. they
also know what they are doing"
The man with. the hole in his chin
surveyed the assembly with q look Of
victory IN his eye. Shall We now make
a list OF the orders?" he asked.
(To be continued tomorrow)