Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1926, Page 29

THE GIRL IN THE SECOND CABIN BY E. J. RATIL (Copyright, 1926, dy G. Howard Watt.) SYNOPSIS. . Spencer Trumbull. in Order to be nemr s girl in the Adirondacks inatead of tak- ing a heaith trip, hives his old college and war dase chum, Billy Trask. to make the 38 trip in hix placc and promises him $1,000 and expenkes if he takes his plac ander the cve and care of Keeler. a mal nursa. who is a stranger to both. and thus il the orders Trumbull’s father's physiefan. Trask a d “the Gulf sooner 1 e behokds oddess,” hie dubs t. a_society girl with mm. Meanwhile. Keeler valid. despite ber dragon of Miss Grimm. Meanwhile, Keeler hero to_Sidney s, 8 the second cabin, concealing ‘his Trask bounds and mee bsentm:nded 1 ¢ airt i dentity. Staney hoat. leaving her | pservitions of the ads to an ex- s | truck, was standing. When the vessel rack ies 10 defeat the captain & purpose ¥s aboard. in which Mise Sands aids b T served nearer Star.) Exploration. HE derelict loomed near. The buoy was closer to the se now, but although the water touched their feet several times, the rubbec boots still their purpose. Nearer and they appra the Gulf with 1 ceptible slackening of speed. Keeler was probably tiring. Once they halt- ed for half a minute; then a quiver of the line signaled the resumption of » slow and onerous journey. ask anxiously s d the bung side of the a lose within the lee of eé the buoy line now, sagzging sharp- over a bulwark. He doubted if Keeler could manage | the last few yards of the journey. The black barrier in front of them looked anything but hospitable. Al- though sunken low in the water, it seemed a formidable task to mount the rail. Yet the zea was almost calm as they got within the protec- tion of the drifting hulk. It was but a few yards aw: but the buoy moved sluggish! tried to climb the steep incline. Trask could imagine the great shoulders of Keecler toiling at their labor, yet he doubted if even the power that lay within them would be equal to the task. He reached up a on the line, cau e girl not to loosen her gri The buoy crawled forward with maddening in- decision, edging its way foot by foot now, halting, swinging, faltering, yet gaining a little with each b e upon the line. & | It touched the black side of the| bark and Trask looked with despair at the rail above him. They were at the end of their journey, yet the gate wus closed against them “Hold fast to the buoy!” he called. He hoisted himself out of it and balanced himself for several seconds, his feet on the edge, his hands grip- ping the line from which the buoy W Then he swung himself up- ward, throwing his legs forward un: til they reached the rail of the dere-| ict. For a breathless instant he hunfl‘ poised over the water, then squirmed | Jie way over the rail and disappeared | from sight. The girl in the buoy looked up at | the spot where he had vanished, her lps tightly compressed, her eyes anxious. He was gone for a perilous moment. Then she saw his head above the rafl and heard him shout: “Catch this!” A rope whistled down through the helf gloom and fell across her shoul- ders, She grasped it without need of Instruction. “Pass it under your arms and make low- an hauling She obeyed hin they came | He could | .| of h's grip, kept an arm linked tightly TH 0 G { cabin, while Trask busied himself at the task of lighting another. “Billy,” she called suddenly, “bring me that fat green book from the cup- board over there. The one under the That's it." sloshed his way back to her with the yolume. She glanced at the {cover, utfered an exclamat on of de- “There! That's done,” she said, us light and hugged the book against she returned the lamp to her pocket. her breast. {“I hope Keeler saw it. He said he'd | M(]‘kng‘;",:'l the m:n;n‘tflhl saw i !be watching.” cried. one of father's!” o ow] ‘Trask reached for it af opened It Never fear. And now pel what?"* i(u the title page. “Now we're going to explore.” “ ‘Meteorolog cal | Studies in the Trask looked about him on the deck | American Tropics,' " he read, *‘By | of the derelict. It was still wet ana! Philemon W. Sands, Ph.D., LL.D., slippery, yet surprisingly free from Bk the litter of spars and rigeing he had - ‘;f"l\\l :mffi'l perf expected to find there. The hurricane ' 'he & D! lind awept her clean, taking aa its| D€ the tamily; almost as it tather prise_a deckload of inahogany logs himsell were here. Part of him 18 that had been lashed into place with here, anvhow, because theres so {all human ingenulty, There was a | much of him in the book. And part et e ere | S oaiciotRed ot har withalnckeaulity | the st ad gone over the side. ot oy boked & - 9 | P Phe mizsentaast, up. to the main| “Do you mean to tell me you had ¢ It was upon this hand in writing all this solemn seien- | lonely spar that the crew had taken | e ",‘l"'v"""“‘];(‘r 56 ion e [tigs trom the prasiiat "'\"\’f‘;_,“,‘"[‘:; I typewriter,” she explained. ot that « point seven or eight feet above the | "“;”“?‘;“f‘““;‘m'(‘I““‘l‘””- "::"““m‘:fi:"‘: deck, while there was a mere stump of | M€ ¢ " oriine mubl }l’ & | the foremast. Not another spar was fMmanuscripts for the publishers. in_sight. i e i b | " The walley house was wrenched and |, She took the book again and cuddied {half shattered. Forward they could | it 2f “'_“"L"I"I‘ . | see the outlines of the forecastle| It :;p"_'\l.‘l‘”:w‘ 1 v el 0 seemed L uch’ attention to ihem, but now “She's f‘u" of water,” said Trask {they're tremendously interesting.” “They said that she'd opened a lot of | ¢ If your f“,‘ her Sycrs ot 'l""h-.‘,]"'l“‘(' seams. But, her hold is chockful of | Sition, . fhagter Sl | lumber, and she'll keep on floating | M¢ 244 & ch | . | “spie o § | until somebody makes an end of her— | Splendld: only=well, 1m afratd !o; until she makes an end of another | “%.pl N A LT turn the book ‘She helped to save us,” declared | M0 & w'm‘x! xl\l’lil “.xp. :tu; ;‘:m(," the girl loyally. “If there's any sense | , WOSL Wonld you put fnto ¥o T of justice in the sea, she ought to be | WERIYT . L allowed to reach a port again.” BhIS Sianss Inusted e They began moving forward, cau- | woulq be a very brief chapter | tiously vet without dificulty, for the | it JoHIQ D @ Mty Brict | hurricane-made sea was gone and the | [But very mportant. oo waterlogged condition of the hulkc 3 e |acted as a stabilizer. The moon gave Abd yer T e them a spooky light, casting dark ¥ Sl 0 shadows wherever an object lay upon the deck. Sidney, muffled to her ears, had thrown off her spell of fatigue and was eager in the quest of new ad- ventures, Trask, afraid to let her out she He'll see it. at home,” said t's just like meet pters on hurri | father.” statement, but checked himself. would sound rather banal, he thought. But she was important, net only to father. but to him. He realized it very clearly. As she sat cross-legged on the table, ! holding her candle, Sidney looked like a statuette of Mischief. Her oilskins hunzfshapexvssn about her; they N You'll have to tell that to some-| Were far too large, despite her asser- body else.” declared Trask, as they | tion that she was almost as big as kept onward. 1 ety The hatch over the forecastle was | tightly battened. Trask tried to move it, at her suggestion, but was unable | to achieve the feat. { “Nothing down there, anyhow,” he sald, as he rose from his effort. look, Sidney, at the steamer!” He pointed off across the water. The Gulf Stream was a brilliant spec- tacle. From stem to stern her cab ns were lighted as if with an unwonted gayety. Her two eyes, of red and green, stared steadily at the derelict, while her masthead light burned brightly against the sky. “And to think,” she exclaimed, “they don’t even know what we've done! Oh, won't we have a story to tell when we get back? Do you sup- pose Capt. Blodgett will do anylhing| within hers as they followed the rail toward the bow. . “I'm afraid I'm a little bit cowardly after all,”” she admitted, ruefully. (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) Big Game Increasing. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 30 | UP).—Some species of big game ap- parently are Increasing in Pennsyl- vania, There were 645 bears killed during the season just concluded against 470 last year. Bags of rabbits, ?qulrrels and birds, however, were far less. | to us? “I know what he ought to do to] both of us.” The girl laughed delightedly. “I suppose we've broken all the rules in the decalogue, Billy. But I wouldn't_have missed it for all the world. Would you?" “Come to think of it—no. I wonder if we can get into the cabin?” “'Let’s try!” Trask and the girl found the doors of the cabin companionway swinging wide. Below it was as dark as a cave. “Full of water, I suppose,” he said. ‘Hand me your light.” He flashed a white beam down the stalrway anl saw what he €xpécted, a sluggishly rolling pool that bore.on its surface bits of broken furniture Ready . ered. As she released her grip, Sidney felt herself lifted out of the canvas ring. She swung inboard toward the hulk as ‘it rolled heavily to port, striking against it with an impact that nearly drove the breath from her. She closed her eyes and waited the next shock as the motion of the derelict sent her swinging clear again. But there was none. ‘A swift heave of the rope that sus- pended her, a scraping of her body on the bulwark, and she was in Trask’s arms, held in a grip that as- tonished her by its violence. | “Hurt?” he cried. » | .She shook her head, then let it rest for an instant against his shoul- der. “Just a little tired,” she mur- mured. “There—I'm better now. You're holding me so tight, Billy! 1et me down.” “I--1 just wanted to make sure vou were safe,” he said a little shak- ily, as he placed her on her feet. She steadled herself against the rafl. “It was a little more than I bar- satned for,” she admitted, with an apologetic laugh, as she recovered her breath. “And thank you for coming, Billy. I'd never have made it alone.” “You never had a chance of trying it alone—from the very first."” “I'qd have trled it—if you hadn’t come. But I knew you would come!” He looked down at her and shook his head incredulously. “I'd never have believed it of you,” he muttered. “You've got heart enough for an Amazon.” “] guppose 1 ought to be one,” she admitted. “Never!” he cried with sudden ve- hemence. *“You're as much as I can manage now. he signal? she cried, suddenly. “We promised to give Keeler one flash when we reached here. fhe fumbled in the pocket of her sou'wester and drew forth a Lttle elec- trie torch. Holding it high above her head and waiting for the slow roll of the hulk to lift them, she sent forth a sing y of white light in the Jirection of the Gulf Stream. Open at 8:30 AM. Daily The Columbia 911 F Capital, $250,000.00 Take a Personal Inventory The first of the year is a good time to take a per- Sonal lnven(ory to de'efmifle net Wol‘th. wreng side of the ledger is short, start a Savings Account THIS PAY DAY, and you'll come out ahead next New Year's. One Dollar or count. fDividend Checks and Interes in Our Savings Dept. pending and other art.cles. “It doesn’t look very inviting,” he observed. “Want to go down?” “By all means.” placing his feet This | Trask was about to supplement her | AR, WASHINGTON, - BLOW WITH BOTTLE MAKES LOVE MATCH American Girl to Wed Frenchman Her Brother Hit on Head. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 30.—Love has found a way to make a new Franco- American match—a blow on the head with a champagne bottle. The French- man who was hit, Capt. Allain Lemer- dy, son of a French general, is going to marry Clothilde Vail, sister of the American who threw the bottle. Cupid did his work while the two fam- ilies, both -prominent, were fighting out the bottle-throwing episode, which occured in a Montparnasse cafe. Capt. | Lemerdy complained to the French court last March' that he had been hit on the head with a champagne bottle thrown by Lawrence Vail, American dramatist. Vail was sen- tenced to three months in jail and a 500-france fine. e appealed, hired a lawyer and sought also the aid of the American Ambassador, Myron T. Herrick. The Ambassador wrote a letter chich was brought into court yester- v, saying that the Vails were of a american family, friends of nee and descendants of one of the | Lafayette. ‘month: closest friends of Gen. It developed that in recent out of court and that was how captain met Clothilde. The court withdrew the prison sen- tence and let Vail off with the fine. His mother confirmed the en, ment, but said that no date has | been set for the wedding. Clothilde and Lawrence Vail are children of Eugene Lawrence Vail American _painter, officer of the Legion of Honor and long a resident | of Par AMERICAN, CAUGHT NEAR MUSSOLINI HOME, HELD | It | By the Associated Press. ROME, December 30.—James W, Carroll of Wheeling, W arrested several days ago for suspi- cious loitering near the home of Pre- | mier Mussolini, as declared last night to be in a mental condition which warranted temporary confine- ment in a hospital for observation. Mr. Carroll, who is 50 years of age, was employed by Father Keefe, an American priest. The American con- sulate interceded in his behalf. How Safely Are Your Securities Protected from Fire and Theft? 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Broken chairs, an overturned couch, some dis- lodged shelving, books, newspapers, several articles of clothing, a wooden b.rd cage and a box filled with water- soaked cigars were among the collec- tion of cabin gear that floated about || the feet of the explorers. 1 “Sit here, and I'll see if I can find a better light,” he said, lifting Sid- ney to the table, where she curled her feet beneath her and watched him as he began wading about the cabin. There were some cupboards that still clung to the walls, and Trask searchéd them. One was a medicine chest. More than half the bottles in it were broken. Another seemed to be given over to seafaring books and charts A third contained what appeared to be a mineral collection, perhaps & hobby of the captain’s. At last he came upon what he h:ul! i Semi- been searching for—candles. Then a long hunt for matches followed. 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