Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 21, 1912, Page 6

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Rowiand lifted the W osaid tenderly, “Well, tist run back | \'..u‘n- in bad company. ledd it lis own, | weeeding, which | to mamma. The innocent eyes sini and then—a foo | only bachelors : ¥ of-he held her above the rail n. jost menace “Shall I drop you over to the llshem baby?* he asked, while his features | softened to an unwonted smile. The child gave a little scream of fright, and at that instant a young woman ap- peared around the corner. She sprang toward Rowland like a ti s, snatch- ed the child, stared at him for a mo- ment with dilated eyes and then dis- appeared, leaving him limp and nerve- less, breathing hard. “It is her child,” he groaned. “That i3 used to make the flour which | | best methods only are employed l‘v.! was the mother look. She is married, married.” He resumed his work with near the color of the paint crubbing as the tanned skin lor nray become. Ten minutes later the captain in his office was listening to a complaint from a very excited man and woman, “And you aid the cap- tain, “tha enemy " “lle is—or mirer of M know of him . That is all l nt ll|.|t he has hint- ed at revenge. My wife is certain of what she . and | think the man should be confined.” “Why, captain,” said the woman ve- hemently as she hngeed her child, *you should have scen him! [Ile was just about to drop Myra over as [ selzed her, and he had such a frightful leer on his face ton. Oh, it was hideous! I shall not sleep another wink in this ship, 1 know " “I beg you will give yourself no un- easiness, madam,” said the captain gravely, 1 have already learned something of his antecedents—that he 18 a disgraced and broken down naval officer. But as nhe has sailed three voyages with us 1 had credited his willingness to work before the mast to his eraving for liquor, which he could not satisfy without money. How- ever, as you think, he may be follow ing you. Was he able to learn of vour movements—that you were to take passage In this ship?” “Why nol exclaimed the husband, “He must know some of Mrs. Self- ridge's friends.” “Yes, yes," she said eagerly. *1 heard him spoken of several times “Then 1t is il the captain. “If you will n , madam, to testify against him in the English courts 1 will immediately pm him in irons for attempted n “0h, do, v.xpl:lin?" she exclaimed. “1 cannot feel safe while he is at lib- erty. Of course 1 will testify.” “Whatever you do, captain | the hushand ely, “rest hat 1 shall put a bullet thr if he meddles with me or mine n, ‘Then you ean put we in irons,” | when 1 “1 will see that he is attended to, colonel,” replied the captain as he bLowed them out of his oflice. But as a murder charge is not al ways the best way to discredit a man and as the captain did not believe that the man who had detied him would murder a child and as the charge would be difficult to prove In any case and would cause him much trouble and annoyance, he did not order the arrest of John Rowland, but merely directed that for the time he should be kept at work by day in the 'tween deck out of sight of the passengers. Rowland, surprised at his sudden transfer from the disagreeable scrub- bing to a “soldier’s job" of pa life buoys In the warm ‘tween deck, was shrewd enough to know that he was being closely’ watched by the boatswain that morning, but mnot shrewd enough to affect any syn toms of intoxication or dru, which might have satisfied his anx superiors and brought him more whis. ky. As a result of his brighter eves and steadier voice—due to the curative the sea alr—when he turned out for first dog watch on deck at 4 o'l the captain and boatswain held terview In the chart room, the former sald: “Do not be It 1s not poison. He is h: the horrors now, and this w bring them on. He will se ghosts, gobling, shipwrecks, ¢ all sorts of things. It works three hours. Just drop it drinking pot whiie the port is empty.” There was a fizlt castle—to which Rowland bels cod= at supper tin tich need not be de- scribed h-\‘nv! mention of the fact that Rowland, who was not partici- paut, had bis pot of tea d ‘1 from his hand before he had taker 1y into merely in the port fore- syallows. s supper, then, fak- s watch mates’ open . fizht and gunarded s, rolled into his «1 until eizht bells, ont with the rest, 1 the biz bo: «1 on deck, + lookout.” boats'n,” said “It is not wy 1 in st 0 from lho bridge. tr Row!a Get up there.” tow nbled, as sailors may ved, and obeyed. The man «d reported his name and dis- The first oflicer sauntered uttered the official Le 1 appeared. down the bridze, “Keep a good lookout” and returned to his post: then the silence and loneli- ness of a night watch at sea, intensi- fied by the never ceasing hum of the engines and relieved only by the sounds of distant music and laughter from the theater, descended on the forward part of the ship, for the fresh westerly wind coming with the Titan made nearly a calm on her desk, and the dense fog, though overshone L/ N O AIS e S— She Sprang Toward Rowland Like a Tigress, by a brigh! star specked sky, was so chilly that the last talkative passenget had fled to the light and life within, When three bells—9:30—had sounded and Rowland had given in his turn the required call, “All's well!” the first of- ficer left his post and approached him. “Rowland,” he said as he drew near, “lI hear you've walked the quarter- deck.” “I cannot imagine how you learned it, sir,” replied Rowland. “I am not in the habit of referring to it.” “You told the captain. I suppose the curriculum is as complete at Annapolis as at the Royal Naval college. What do you think of Maury's theories of currents?"* “They seem plausible,” said Row- ‘and, unconsciously dropping the *sir,” “but I think that in most particulars he has been proved wrong.” “Yes, I think so myself. Did you ever follow up another idea of his— that of locating the position of ice in a fog by the rate of decrease in tem- perature as approached?” “Not to any definite result. But it scems to be only a matter of calcula- tion and time to calculate. Cold is neg- ative heat and can be treated like ra- diant energy, decreasing as the square of the distance.” The officer stood a moment looking ahead and humming a tune to himself, then, saying, “Yes; that's s0,” returned to his place. “Must have a cast iron stomach,” he muttered as he peered into the bluna- cle, “or else the boatsw'n dosed the wrong man’s pot.” Row!and glanced after the retreating officer with a cynical smile. “I won der,” he said to himself, “why he comes down here talking navigation to a fore- mast hand. Why am I up here—out of my turn? Is this something in line with that bottle?” He resumed the short pacing back and forth on the end of the bridge, and the rather gloomy train of thought which the officer had interrupted. “How long.,” he mused, “would his ambition and love of profession last him after he had met and won and lost the only woman on earth to him? Why is it that failure to hold the af- fections of one among the millions of women who live and love can outweigh every blessing in life and turn a man's nature into a hell to consume him? Who did she marry? Some one, prob- ably a stranger, long after my banish- ment, who came to her possessed of a few qualities of mind or physique that pleased her, who did not need to love her—his chances were better. without that—ard he steps coolly and easily into my heaven. And they tell us that ‘God doeth all things well' and that there is a heaven where all our unsatisfied wants are attended to—pro- vided we have the necessary faith in it. That means, if it means anything, that_after a lifetime of unrecognized (Contlnued on Page 7.) THE POPULARITY OF IN. MAN BLUNT cigyp is not due to their price 4. - quality. Many men who paid a nickel more for th ir now prefer the Inman Bly;, count of the splendid s, they afford. Not to try is - treat. 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