Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 37

THE EVENING THE GIRL IN THE SECOND CABIN Brans s siuna of a_ wealthy Spencer Trumbull. . son sather. Js ordered o take n ' tea ‘voyage 10 Galveston for his health when he'd rather #0 to the Adirondacks because of the pres- ©nce there of a certain girl, S0 he hires his 014 college and war-days chum. Billy Trask 10 take the sea trip in his place and promises him one thousand dollars and ex- penees if e takes his place under the ese and care of 4 male nurse, who in a strange; 1o both. and thus fulfilis the order of Trumbull's father's physician. and by hi impersonation ward | off any displeasurc Said stern father mizht see fit t defiant | and disovedient &0 ar the ‘steamshin m in a w Jushed on deck by Keeler. hi \o Leholds & girl at the rail—the he dubs her. (Continued from Yesterd: v's Star.) RASK slept late. When he awoke he turned his head l lazily and found Keeler sitting at a little distance and watch- ing him. “Morning, Keeler,” he said. “Good morning, sir.” There was that in Keeler's voice which conveyed less of greeting than reproach, “You look uphappy, Keeler.” “I am, sir. I've been having a bad fifteen minutes, Mr. Trumbull.” Vhere ?” “In the captain’'s office.” “What did he want?” “Well, sir, it seems he sort of blames me for what happened last night; at least, the part about your heing missing. He talked to me, sir, in a way that—well, in another place, | Mr. Trumbull, I wouldn't need to| stand for it.” | Keeler involuntaril clenched his | ample fists and set his jaw. “But, of course, you were to blame for part of it, you know,” observed Trask, sitting up in the bunk. | Keeler shook his head wearily. “Are you going to tell me all that azain, sir? It's no use, Mr. Trum- bull. Where were you last night?” “In my chalr, of course.’ 7 wouldn't like to have an argu- ment, sir, but—" Keeler shrugged his great shoul- vers and shook his head again. / “Well,” sald Trask with a laugh, “I'm sorry if T made you the goat, Perhaps you were right, . Keeler. Perhaps 1 walked a bit in fter all. my slee] 0; I'm afraid not, sir,” observed Keeler, gloomily. Trask looked at him in surprise. “Why, only last night you were in- sisting that it was undoubtedly the very thing I did!™ it was Miss Kent's idea, sir. You'll remember that she spoke of it first, Mr. Trumbull.” “What of it? You backed her up.” Keeler sighed heavily. “I was only trying to help you out of a hole, sir. I didn’t belleve it.” * Trask's jaw dropped. If ever he had been tempted to look upon Keeler as a person without guile, he 210 longer entertained such a wasted notion. “So you were trying to help me out?” “Yes, sir. And then you piled it onto me,” said Keeler, accusingly. “And you don’t believe I can walk in_my sleep?” “If you'll excuse me for saying it, Idon't.” < “Surely, then, you don’t accuse me of walking when I'm awake?” “I'm making no charges, Mr. Tx;mbufl, “Only—well, you see, it's difficult-‘to follow out the -doctor's unless you tell me all the that and the dressing got from the captain are all that worry you, 5 T'a advise you to cheer :I(Di ‘li‘° am a pretty falr patient, say it” “It's not that altogether, sir; there's something else.” “Go ahead with it, if it'Il ease “It's about Miss Sands.” Keeler looked sheepish and averted his_eyes. “The second-cabin lady you spoke of,” nodded Trask with awkward in- terest. “Have you seen her again?” “For a little while this morning, sir, while you were sgleeping.” Trask was about to venturea ques- tion concerning the evident ease with which Keeler flitted from cabin to cabin, but checked it. “I hope she’s well,” he observed. “Very well, sir. But it seems there’s another gentleman and—and —well, she spoke of him a good dea! this morning, Mr. Trumbull." “What of that? I drre say she knows a great many gen:lemen.” “That's very well for you to say, But—well, you see, I'm quite interested.” . Trask burst into a laugh. “You mean you're jealous!” he ex- claimed. Keeler flushed and nodded his head reluctantly, “What sort of a person is thir riva! of yours, Keeler?” “I've never met him, sir.” “Do you know who he is?” “She spoke of a Mr. Trask.” The patient in the berth sat up a little straighter, but betrayed no other sign of the fact that he was eagerly attentive. “And you krow how it is when they speak of persons in a certaln way, sir,” added Keeler, miserably. “What way?” “I couldn’t describe it very well, Mr. Trumbull. It wasn't the way so “much, either, 1 guess. It was just that she spoke of him at all.” Trask roared, but his merriment brought to the face of Keeler nothing but a look of melancholy rebuke. “Why, Keeler, you seem to have a tremendously bad case. I'd no idea you were so sentimental. Your imagination is working overtime. It's not likely she thinks anything about this person at all.” “You never can tell,” Keeler, lugubriously. “Well, what are you going to do about 1t?" “I don’t exactly know, Mr. Trui bull. But I put out a sort of feele How 2" I told her some things about him, sir” Trask grasped. “You told her some things about a man you don’t even know?” he ex- claimed 1 “Things that | said I'd heard, sir.| 1 had to do something, Mr. f'rum- | vui orders, sir, “Well, down you murmured ‘What kind of things?” demanded | peremptorily. Well, | said I'd heard he was no account: that his father disowned him for the way New York: that the papers had | things that are not always exactly so; he carried on in BY E. J. RATH. (Copyright, 1926, by G. Howerd Watt.) st aie ieBdanied conurol of him- self gradually, finally sat up and surveyed Keeler as though he had never seen that person before. “Right!” he repeated in a choking voice. “Why, you confounded old raud and hypocrite, do you call it vight to tell a bushel of lies about omebody you never saw, who may ‘e a perfectly decent person, for all ou know, just because he happened o meet a girl that you've lost your ead. over?” “But they say all's fair—" “In love, eh? Keeler, you're a vonder. I didn’t know it was in you. You are as delightfully unprincip ed 1s a Mexican bandit or a laughing avena. You'd doubtléss scuttle the skip if you thought it would set you ihead a bit with the lady. Before ‘ou get through I dare say you will have a complete criminal record fit- ted to this person and probably produce the thumb prifte and his Bertillon measurements to prove it. “Keeler, I salute you! I have the most intense admiration for you. You thrill me. You fill me with awe. You transport me to the seventh heaven of unholy joy. I am actually beginning to revere you. I aimost love you for vour sins. Keeler, my son—and this is from the heart—you are unques- tionably a bird!" “Er—thank you, sir,” said Keeler, deferentially. “I'm sorry that language fails me, or I'd give you the rest of it,” and Trask was plunged into another fit of mirth. “But, you know, sir,” ventured Keeler, presently, when the laughter of his patient became embarrassing, “that sometimes we have to say I mean when the ladies are involved. Now there's those bullets in your legs, sir.” Trask sobered abruptly. “But that's different. I didn't lie about somebody else. And they're my own legs. I can have bullets in them if I want to.” “‘Certainly, sir; as many as may be necessary. But they're not real bul- lets, any more than what I said about this gentleman was real facts. We have to do these things sometimes, | piercing glance. just for an effect, Mr. Trumbull.” “We! Where do you get that ‘we'? Are you classing me in with you?" “I meant no offense,” said Keeler hastily. *“What I meant was that cucres e and and Miss Kent. in a word for then.” Keeler sighed his chair. “Will you dress now, sir?"’ “Might as well, I suppose.” Miss Sands and you ‘We all have to put ourselves now and softly and rose from “If you'll just stand up, sir, I'll slip | your dressing gown on,” said l\'(‘eler.} reaching for that garment. Trask almost did it, so casual was the request. His feet were on the floor and he was half risen from his seat on the edge of the berth when he remembered. He dropped back quickly, just as Keeler turned his head. = “How do you expect me to stand up?” demanded Trask. “That's so, sir; 1 forgot. slipped -out.” Keeler's face was impassive and his volce imperturbable as he crossed thr room with the dressing gown. Hr never blinked as Trask bestowed a It just “Forgot! Yes, he did!" Trask. “The old fox nearly then. He'll bear watching.’ When Trask had been dressed for eeler brought him his break. had me d when that was finished the | antj, cd and silently vielded to a demand that he knew would be made by offering his patient a cigar- ette, “Dr. Van Norden'll be very proud | of your temperature chart, sir,” ob. servad Keeler, as he made a notation on the record. “He’s apt to write a special paper about it."” “As wonderful as that?" “Yes, sir; for a patient, it's been exactly normal from start.” Tragk looked upon his nurse and guardian in silent admiration. Keeler his visage as solemn as that of a anclent owl, had perpetrated a jol ““And now yvou'll go on deck, sir inquired Keeler, evenly, as he put away the history-making chart. “Yes, before you spring another one like that. Some day I'm going to bust you on the bean, Keeler.” Keeler permitted imself a shadowy and friendly little smile and trundled the chair out of the stateroom. The enemy, in the person of Aunt Mehetabel, was encountered with ap- palling suddenness. She was march- ing the sunlit deck resolutely, her um- brella tucked under her arm at an You see, the STAR, | muttered 've-.plercing angle. Trask verily be- eved she carried it as a weapon. As she saw the chair and its occu- pant she altered her course and halted directly im front of it. To spare her shins, Keeler stopped. “Well, young man, are you satis- fied?” With the weather? It's a fine morning.” “I'm not talking about weather. I'm talking about your conduct.” “Well, I'm satisfled with that, t0,” said Trask, modestly. “After last night? After keeping the ship in an uproar for an hour? “But that was scarcely my fault,” protested Trask. “I'm not so sure about that,” apped Aunt Mehetabel. “I've ad- d my niece never to speak to you again. “1 should be sorry if she took your wdvice.” “Don’t worry. She won't.”” “Do you know what I think?" she demanded. It was a habit of hers to hurl this peremptory question into conversa- tions without warning. Trask replied very truthfully that he had not the faintest inkling. “T think we would all be much bet- rctually In the place where you were supposed to have been,” she said. For answer, Aunt Mehctabel point- ed a rigid finger in the direction of the ocean. Then, with a dragonlike ort she stepped aside and resumed her walk. “Did that charming wish Keeler?” inquired Tra “And she told me yesterday that she always tried to be kind to people.” “I'd_ hate to have her wish me an unkindness, sir,” said Keeler, thought- ully, as the chalr moved onward. ‘She's a funny woman, sir,” It was a lazy morning and a lazy sea. Even the Gulf Stream seemed to be indolent and sluggish as she held her way southward, aithough she was doing her allotted 16 knots. Trask soon lost interest in the deck games. It was irritating to see people use thelr legs. Miss Kent evidently had not yet | made her appearance. 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He wondered how she was getting along with her absent-minded father's burometers and whether she had yet succeeded in accumulating enough readings to keep him busy ‘for the remainder of his years. He liked her frank craving for ad- venture, even if he did not wholly ap- prove of her enthusiasm for the ex- ploits of the marvelous Capt. Ferriss. He wanted to see her dance again. More than that, he wanted to dance with her. - Well, why not? She had taken the trouble to speak of him to Keeler. That flattered him. Of course, it probably signified noth- ing whatever, yet he was grateful for it. It impressed him as being a considerate act on her part. Possibly he had aroused something more than a casual interest. Beyond doubt he had given Keeler a black hour or so, and that pleased him immensely. Not that he wished Keeler harm; he was growing rather fond of him. But he loved to see Keeler jolted to the foundations of his smug hypocrisy. Some day he. felt that he was going to tear the mask from his curious companion, and he had a presenti- | ment that the revelation would be as- | tonishing. | Poor Keeler! He was as lovelorn as | a sentimental boy. Trask found it so | amusing that the extraordinary as-| pect of the matter never occurred to | him. Perhaps it was not so extraordi- | nary, either. He could readily con-| ceive that the labor of falling in love with Sidney Sands was not herculean. It occurred to him that he would | like to know to what extent his own reputation in the eyes of that young | woman had been impaired by the amazing . inventions of Keeler. The more he thought about it the more | curlous he became. Keeler had said | she simply turned her head away and | made no comment. That might mean belief,. disbellef, amusement, disap- pointment—anything. Well, there was one certain way to | find out. He must see her again. And | that involved another trip to the sec- ond cabin. Very good; he would make the trip. | And he would do it in daylight, too! (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) C. U. MISSION APPEAL. Funds Needed in Christmas Work for Children. ' The Central Uniom Mission has issued an appeal to the public for funds to carry on its Christmas charity work this year, which is to include the “providing of a generous Chrisymas to 1,200 children and the families they represent” and the serv- | ing of a Christmas dinner at the mis- sion for those unable to afford pur- chasing dinners elscwhere. The ap- peal was formally issued through E. H. DeGroot. jr., president of the mis- sion’s board of dlrectors. Both he and John S. Bennett, superintendent of the mission, point out the urgent necessity in order to carry on this year the work which the mission has success- fully attempted for the past 42 years. Contributions may be sent to the mission at 613 C street. for generous contributions | 31 SOCIETY TO OBSERVE PATRIOTS’ BIRTHDAYS Sons of American Revolution Pl to Honor Washington and | Franklin. l The observance of 'Weshington's an Franklin's birthdays was voted lu: night by members of the Sons of the | Amwerican Revolution at a meetin | La Fayette Hotel { discussion, which | by John Paul Earnet to another pa triotic society as wreathlaying and | photographic-posing, and | agreement as to the society | tion during Thrift week. Considerable discussion of canvass | ing methods also followed the | nquncement of the standing of mem | bership drive teams. of which the | D. A. R.-S. A. R. team was reported in the lead. Page McK. Etchison and | Raymond Bartlett Hodgeson were in stalled as new members with the so | clety's rites, at which Dr. George | Tully Vaughan, the president, pre sided. 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