Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 29

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THE GIRL IN THE SECOND CABIN 2 SIS R BY E. J. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. TUESDAY 29 * . RATH. (Copyright. 1926, by G. Howard Wart.) SYNOPSIS, Trumbull Adi 'llv. the Fearth tri dags chun o in place if he takes of Keele to both. and thus fulfil father's IT Stream in ‘pushed Rirl starts aboa bair, and Kebler the at once to the inter dragon of an aunt K ‘ desnite he anwhile daughter of a minded professor. who has misse caving her to continve his ns of the weather. H < to an makes woy it the invalic mental case. in threatens to nut them off when I reaches Key West, Trask deter mimes to defeat the cantain’s purpose and wboard. in which M it of n 4 br (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) The Stor RASK W delirtuin, t broken mumbline Once ghe « n captain came below fand After & whi hts low in ared auil Gets Out. drowsing king sometimes in ntenc incoherent things ught the sountl of went he | The Into his stateroom cabin boy turned th dingy saloon, yawned and disapp The ship we fet, save the throb of her en: Sidney rough tiptoed her way and we despair | wire with a arose the loomy cabin on_deck There ws in her heart, vet she was resolution to do something—she knew | not what Something must be done!} She walked to the stern and looked out into the darkness. N longer was | the hulk visible: yet she knew it was | there by the heavy. laboring piogres: of the steamship and the zroaning of the hawser that disappeared into the night. It was holding her sick man | from Galveston: clutch t him from behind like some sinister and giant hand | Perhaps it She shuddered, killing him: turned quickly and | walked forward There was a dim figure on the bridge. She climbed the ladder without hesitation and con- fronted the second officer. For an in- | stant he peered at her uacertainly, then recognized his visitor and sa- luted awkwardly. Sidney talked swiftly and carnestly, hands clasped tightly at her| east, her alight with pleading | and determination. The officer lis- | tened and shook hix head several | times, M { ““Sor I'd like to help you,| but 1 can't.” “It must be with a sob. “It'd mean my job, miss. Beside vou heard the captain's orders an't cut it adrift pleaded again, almost hysteri- The nd officer shifted un. on his feet, but continued t > his head. use, miss. It can't be And I think you'd better =o there's a_ bit of weather ‘coming Sidney’s heart sanl | Another cyclone?”’ she gasped. | Not that, miss; but a squall. We've | had lightning some time. Feel the| air? Itll blow some. It ain’t likely to last long, but I expect it'll be sharp. T'm real sorry for you, m And you won't—cut it adrift?" The ofticer merely shook his he: and turned to resume his pacin She crept down from the bridge to the deck and made_her way. slowlyj aft. Everybody was againsi he another storm coming! Perhaps would never reach Galveston; at leas for days and days. And by then he . might be dead! She scarcely noted of lightning that shot acr nor seemed to hear the thunder that followed swiftly. Near the entrance to the cabin she paused and leaned heavily inst the ceck- house. She felt that she could not 20 below and sit idly by the bedside, of her man: there seemed to be something criminal in inaction. Yet she knew not what to do. For several minutes she stood there, her mind trying to grapple with a problem that seemed fairly tragic. Not until the ship ceptibly did she awaken to the fact that the squall was upon them. THere was a sudden shrielk wind, a whitening of the hlack blinding electric flash that lighted the deck as if by day. and then a torrent of rain. Instinetively sha gripped the handrail and clung to it Full in the face the the tramp, and it came lik of a giant sledge paused and hung irr eral seconds the scre her almost steady done!" she exclaimed 3 done shivered per- of all struck » the blow he ship staggered, lute. For sev- | aming wind held motionle: despite the threshing of her screw. 7 asif lving from the first onslau the vessel plunged forward again There was a second shock where from out in the darkness e | # sharp, ominous noise, like the bark | of a quick-firing gun. An instant later a sinuous snakelike. object whizzed within a foot of the girl's| head and lashed viciously at the deck. | The lightning came u d - Sid ney, shrinking in terror against the deckhouse, saw at her feet the thi that had leaped at her out of th darknes: It was a Th now, s a broken hip was nd ga turn of her ast was gone! Bven with her the Sidney unde stant. The first blast had checked steamer and h enough to sl The derelict wind of her from hawser ashing into the squall hering speed at each screw. The Nemesis slight knowledge of tood in an i of th. slowly motionle: the towin, 1ched squall the movi 1d he e i vet had crawled sl the d tramp had gathered And when the line it snapped! Sidney & murmured a swift pr then groped trance to the The capt brushed her seeir an line. | by the forward n, freed den, the speed tautened ain— drail, | hanks- | sward | clinging the 1 ver of her way cabin, up aside, he teps, | ghly ircely heard him growling oath as he passed and disuppeared | There tramp. | out as sudd as a memory of soft, wz w nster: Jict, w By morn gone. While the possible gines wild the hour aboard th squall blew itself | it came, leaving a stea iy downpour | The salvage rkness, ¥ owin rch for it be, hopelessly rm s over. Of perhaps squall to st And At dawn th bhedside of T a stupor, '} steamship’s en irl was sitting by the . who hud fallen into forehead still burning with fever, his lips still malttering things that her ear could not catch She had ignored the futile storming of the captain. The derelict was gone the ship was moving faster. She cure for nothin save the h breathing form of the man who la in the berth, his closed, hil cheeks scarlet with a fire that ragel within. The day pa es ed thus, and at night- fall land was sighted. It wa; Sidney’s prayer for had been answered. She gave w « of thanksgiving as she looked through the grimy little porthole that lighted the cabin and realized that they were making a harber at last. Mise | it through | oftener | | followed | figure. | his profession for a while he lcses | A quarantine officer came aboard land was directed to the staterogin | where Trask lay. He examined t unconscious man almost perfunctori hospital for him,” he Who is he? belongs to me.” said quietly, “FIl go with him.” | | The transference of Trask from the tramp matter of routine te | the port authorities of Galve:ton. to | Sidney Sands it was a work of tense inxiety. She rode with hi tal: she pleaded successfu ance of rules, to be allowed main with him; bowed her head |in a silent prayer as he w bed between white héets in rly “He in de- | ve- | sain | put o | U little | ! [room that overlooked a grecn garden “Just | “But i fever,” said an intern over 104. If it break he'll come throush propped up again: In his iron bed, stared THE DUMBUNNIES —Doc Whitey Doesn’t Mean All He Says DORA HAD BETTER. LOOK OUT - THROWING HSOMEBODY WILL SLIP BY ALBERTINE RANDAEL “1 H | MEAN THAT MARRIAGE 1S A BANANA SKIN ON THE \-SIDEWALK OF ROMANCE ! THAT'S LIKE MARRIAGE . ISN'T 1T, MISS FLOEPY 2 WHY, DoCToR. WHITEY ! WHAT Do You MEAN? {around the -little room. down at his hands though they were unfamiliar objects, then tried to lift one. The weight of it asonished him; he was unable to stiv ‘t from the sheet where it lay. His mtinl wes - and dully. He did not He |@ark room all night, with handcufs lon him, for hours after the st |loose from the derelict, they touk him {up before Capt. Blodgett. And when the captain wouldn't turn the ship around to hunt for us, Mr. Keeler— [ What was it you did. please? “Gave him the one-two, witl {hands,” said Keeler modestly | thing had to be done. It best W But it was no \ise, after |all. They put irons on me again But you ought to have seen the pair of eyes I put on him, Mr. Trask!" There was a note of professicnal pride in the voice of the Tornado. she | Trask laughed weakl®, until at | tears trickled down his ks, Now you're ashore agai right on the job,” said Keele return of his professional m her| - figure entered d the door softly. garbed all in white. He frowmed in an effort at recollection: surely there was something familiar about it. Fhen the figure turned and he behdld i face that brought him back into thc world again. She went over to his bedside and looked down upon him. He ed now that she was beau tiful—if only to him. Suddenly loosed herself from the restiain held her, dropped to her knees buried her head in the pillow beside his “Billy!” she cried soft] arm crept around his ne He smiled and tried to stroke her hair, but his hand would not obey.|stmply. “I'm the nurse.” Still. he was happy. Keeler scratched his hefid and as- the room Tt was both Some- erued the the sic, I'm vith a nner. as shook her head emphatically. mine now,” she remarked Another day came, and he ‘alked to | sumed a mournful expression her T was afraid it would be that way “You're doing wonderfully,” she It always has been. I'm al smiled at him. “Perhaps we can move helping some one else to soma you tomorrow, or the next day.” But"—he sighed heavily once Ve're in_Galvestor more—*but, as it had to be, I'l sooner dney nodded. it would be vou two than any “Are we married yet I've taken a liking to you, sir, “Perhaps tomorrow,” don't mind my saying it. ly. “You're still sure happiness. When is it Sidney! T “I've done something ible,” she gonfessed s ready got a license.’ He reached fYor ipped it weak ‘The derelict”" he s one. she said soft-e vou want to to be, Mr. Tomorrow, The ~ girl nodded. “Tomorro repeated Keeler deringly. Well, you were alway: ked. doing things right off the handle, si “Gone,” she told him. “T hated it§]I guess it's the best way. It's the before it went. It seemed as thoughi| surest one, anyhow." it were trying to drag you away from Sidney laughed outrigh me. I hope they never find it.” May—may I see it, She told him the story then, and he You're invited to be my best man," listened in wonder. said Trask. “I hope you'll accept. “Did the Gulf Stream get in?" he| “Accept! Do vou think I'd miss asked. the chance, sir?" “The day ahead of us.” Then Keeler fell silent for a minute “What—what did they think?"’ ip awe and gratitude. She raised her finger to he: lips and “What about the other folks on looked 'mysterious. Then she rose|the Gulf Stream?” asked Trask pres: from her knees and tiptoed to the|ently. oor. She returned a minute later, “All well, sir: even by a bulky aud awiward{They've heard about it. It's been in the ‘papers. But the papers had it wrong, They said it was Mr. Trumbull, Sidney nodded confirmation. “You see, they gog it from Capt. Blodgett, sir, and he tok the that was on the passenger list, bein; rather “I've te said Trask blushed al-H faintly and her hand and the dragon. “Keeler!” cried Trask feebly. The Tennessee Tornado wa foolishly. “I'll never forgive myself,” he said. i “‘Never, Mr, Trask.” crying “For what?” " “Letting_five of them muckers lick me, sir. I did my best, Mr. Trask: but when a man’s been retired from Banking With the FEDERAL-AMERICAN . Means Much More Than Depositing Your: Money and Cashing Your Checks his judgment, sir. ment of distance. He don’t time_his punches just right. Two years dgo, sir, they couldn't have done it~-not the whole five, M. Trask.” “And that wasn’t all.” broke in Sidney. “After they kept him in a Q /r/ Jt's the new Reo Glying Cloud.. coming 1 mean his judg -"\i\ —— ; As refreshingly different as a saltwater breeze in @ sandy desert—new from stem to stern, proved from wheels totop. LAXATIVE For Sick, Bilious Children stipated Child “California Fig Syrup” If your little one_is out-of-sorts, won’t play, seems sick, languid, not natural—suspect the bowels! 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They've even had Mi icture, sir; and ion of the was an oreign com with an incli {laughed until his head thr ; his| “I—I think it rather upset Miss | Kent, sir,” ventured Keeler hesitat- | ingly 4 Trask glanced at Sidney. | “She told me—T met her faith had really been s she’s given up (he people, sir.” had turne TICKET LAW HELD VOID. Pennsylvania Transportation Act| Oswaldus Northingerus of Englana | Unconstitutional, Court Rules. that | has beem honored for turning out| The Pennsylvania attered. 11,600 ivory dishes, each complete and | the sale of transportation tickets was idea of | perfect in detail, but so small that all | declared void and unconstitutional | of them could be put into an ordi- | yesterday by the Supreme Court, sk ! nary e cup. In an opinion read by J merce. 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