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A STEAMER SMOKING \\
? ROOM STORY. |:
[Original.]
In the smoking room of an ocean
liner they were tailing stories of dis
appearances at aea. This Is one of
them by an elderly American gentle
man:
"I was crossing from Southampton
to Xew York. We had araoug the pas
seugers a Jolly devil may care young
Englishman named Trevor, who was
the life of the ship. lie was especially
a favorite with the ladles, though he
seemed to prefer the society of men,
spending a lot of time in the smoking
room.
"There was a middle aged passenger
aboard, with a wife twenty years his
Junior. We hadn't been out three days
before the young wife was daft about
Trevor and the Knsband green with
Jealousy. Then there was an old maid
who would sit moping on deck till
Trevor appeared, when she would lan
guish till he Joined her and look inex
pressibly happy if he did so for even
a few minutes. And so I could go on
mentioning various women, all of
whom were more or less affected.
Trevor singled me out for his principal
companion, and we used to sit In his
stateroom by the hour chatting aad
smoking. On one occasion I rallied
hlui on the preference shown him by
the young married woman.
"One morning after the breakfast
hour we missed Trevor In the smok
ing room. At noon a steward came to I
me as Trevor's most Intimate asxo
date and told me that my friend's
room was locked and no amount of
knocking could elicit a reply. The
ship's carpenter was called. I went
with him. and he forced the door.
The room was empty.
"There* could have own no means ?i
?>zress for the occupant except the port
holes. It seemed to ine that he would
have had difficulty In getting through
one of them, but there Is no knowln**
"?Sat one may nccompll"!) In crawlln
through small spaf'e, especially If given
i-.bnornial str?:vx'h li.v imauity. t:. >;tg!i
?o:ue r!it 'lVevor had <r.sv.i.-! o".;'
in hh rleep.
??We wen? a dull company for the
????j of i: ? voyage. The young wl.*?
: s't r.t;?:n;)^ t > conceal her emotion,
?tl her hr.sV. '.l looked as If he would
? e !i!:ed to help Trevor make wa;
. 'i hi.'.ueif, Some of t!ie tuen even
' . ! t'.i:: ; the husband had somethluu'
> do with Trevor's disappearance. l/,ii
:*r;?;wv!'.ion did not gain favor
?v ' 'i th.- i <st. Indeed, It was absurd
?k\ i:n fa.e.
??\Ve r:? ;'!:i'd New York without the
???Tats -e of the favorite or a sol 1
in ) of the .proMcn. The purser broke
>: :> Trevor':; trunk In the hope of
' ?tr:\l::jr more Of his Identity than lie*
?:.? -re name. but the Information was
>t forthcoming. So the ease was re!
".o;vn as onv of three mysterious disap
"e.srances that are never to be ex
pl-.lae 1.
"Now con.es one of the strangest
hcppeulngs of all my life. Talk of co
incidences, 1 never have heard or read
of anything to beat what I'm going to
tell you. Three years later I went from
my home In Connecticut to the Pacific
co.ist partly on business and partly to
attend the wedding of^n nL'ce of mine.
I reached her home r ever.-. I days ltefore
th? wedding and when Introduced to
ths groom expectant stoo?l paralyzed
wLh astonishment'
"He was Trevor. - '
"He turned red and white and was
evidently at first bent wn denying hi :
Identity. Then he laughed and said:
"Yes; we've met before. There's asi
explanation not much to my credit 1
cojfess. but It might have been more
to my discredit If 1 hadn't done what
I did, though to tell the truth I chose
a method that was rather acceptable to
a young scapegrace than an older man
Do you remember the young married
woman who"?
'"fit her husband wild by golnj;
wild herself about you? Yes; go on.'
" She was wild true enough? so
wild I couldn't control her. She was
bent ou ruining three persons, her
husband, herself and me. I made a
CQntldant of the captain and pro|>osed
to make a stowaway of myself for the
rest of the voyage to get oat of bar
way. Ho offered to stow me in his
cabin instead, and I accepted the offer.
Mighty good man, the captain, and
tint class at keeping a secret, k ar
ranged the disappearance and, to pre
vent the news reaching home before I
could cable, removed anything that
would point to my address. But.
heavens, how did 1 come to get en
gaged to your niece V v
" "Why didn't you confide In me?' 1
a.ked.
" 'Captain said confide In no one or
he would have nothing to do with the
matter.'
"To all this the bride expectant
listened with eyes and ears wide open
?Well, I declare!' Bhe said at the flnlsh.
'If I had heard that story without tlJe^
name of the principal, I would have
knowu It wus you. Uncle, do you
think I'm safe In marrying such a
man?' Then to her fiance, 'Why
haven't you confessed this to me with
other things?'
"How would It look for me to tell
you that I had to dlsapi>ear to get i
away from a woman?'
" 'Right you are,' said I. 'No truly
modest man could have done It.'
"I found that my niece's father (my
sister's husband) had been furnished
all the evidence required to prove that
Trevor was a younger son of a British
nobleman. He had been a ranchman
since coming to America and would
not go back to England on any ac
count."
"Next."' cried one of the listeners.
"That was a good one If It was made
i?ut of whole cloth."
EUGENE HOLMES BURT.
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p. ; ? : 4
The Fortnne Hunters.
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(Original.]
Raymond P.lsgi, a rich bachelor, find -
ing the uneather oppressive lu the city,
concluded to run down to tbe seashore.
He. found there a bevy of girl .1. i'je
most of whom, havlug worn themselves
out during the gay social season lu
town, were endeavoring to put the
rose* back Into their cheeks tinder the
Influence of oceau breezes. Neverthe
less there was not one of them bui
could spare the time to secure "an es
tablishment."
Itayiiiond Klggs was a key to the
wealth he possessed. All a girl had to
do to unlock the door to It was to snare
him. He hud fought off a regiment of
them during the previous season and
had hoped for a rest at the seashore.
He was doomed to disappointment
They attacked him by platoons and
companies. To get rid of them he
went off one day several miles up the
bcach and sat down on the sand. The
wa%~es rolled lazily lu, broke on n bar
and slid up on the sand with an effer
vescing sound. The sky was blue aud
cloudless. The ships out at <teif sailed
on as silently as If they were painted
Instead of real. It was all very restful
and In marked contrast with being
hunted down by a flock of? women, he
should have said, but he preferred the
word harpies.
A glass l>ottle was thrown up by the
waves, rolled about on the sand and
carried out When It came up again
Raymond noticed that It was corked.
He seized it took out the cork and
with the blade of his knife managed
to extricate through the narrow neck a
enrd. On it was written in pnle ink.
"Aline Eliot." The address was given
at a town a hundred miles down the
coast, then followed, "Dear finder, 1
am lonely."
? ror neuvens saKe, exeiuiuieu iin.v
raond. "are nil the women In the world
hunting lovers? I escape from a (loci;
of them back on the shore only to be
met by an advance from the o<cun."
But as be gazed at this singular con
trlvance for mating, as he regarded It.
it seemed far different to him from
the advances he had received from the
fortune hunters. He fancied the
writer to be some Innocent girl who
craved ouly to obey the Instincts
mother nature had planted In her pure
bosom. Perhaps she had sat alone bv
the ocean as he. was sitting, yielding
to a natural Inclination to mate,
and had sent out her message with
blind confidence that It would fall
Into the hands of the man who was
destined to be all lu nil to her. Was
this the explanation, or was she, too,
limiting for a fortune? He would open
a corres|>ondcnce with her. In this
way he could tind out what he wished
to know.
He Inclosed the card with his own
name and address and the words, "1.
too, am lonely." In a few days he re
ceived a letter. There 'was nothing lu
It about lovo or marriage. It was an
unsophisticated epistle from a young
girl about nothing. Raymond read be
tween the Hues, "Perhaps you are' lie
for whom I intended my message."
But it did not say, "You may be some
rascal who will take a mean advnu
tage of what I have doue." What re
freshing Innocence! Fancy one of the
fortune hunters reposing such confi
dence In the average man. Raymond
was an imaginative fellow and would
sit long on the dunes or on the beaeb
mentally contemplating this Innocence.
If he could see her likeness he could
Judge of her motive with more cer
taluty.
ne thought he would send a picture
of some man about bis own age and
nsk hers In return, but the girl's guile
lessness had affected hlm.and he shrank
from such deception. Then, confident
that he could not be mistakcu. he in
closed his photograph. As soon as- he
had done so the thought occurred to
him that he was a fool. The danger
of a society fortune huuter was noth
ing beside one he had never seen pos
sessing letters from him and bis photo
graph.
However, lu exchange came a like
ness. It was the likeness of one a
painter would seize upou as a model
for a Madonna. There was innocence
personified. A pair of soft eyes looked
out from an oval face. The lips were
sensatlve, and Raymond considered
them especially klssable. He thought
of the faces of the fortune hunters,
restored to their natural appearance
by cosmetics. There was none of
them who would not consider herself
flagrantly immodest to thus advertise
for a husband. Yet hero was the
Madonna-like face looking at him with
a modesty that none ofx these could
nave assumed.
One day Raymond was missed at the'
seashore. There was a flutter anion?
the fortune hunters, for, though none
of them had secured a foothold, every
one hojHjd for herself, not for the oth
ers. Had he returned to the city? No.
Inquiries elicited the fact that his bag
crape, like our flag, was "still there."
So they waited and watched and
hoped. Rut Raymond did not return.
In time he directed that his baggage
be sent to the city, and neither the
waves nor the trulls nor the ships nor
the fortune hunters saw him more? at
least not that summer.
Hut the next summer all these saw
him again and saw a very different
man. He waB no longer pursued by
the harplea, for his estate had boon
pre-empted. A slender, oval faced wife
was with him, whose presence kept
them nil at a distance. They were
willing to admit there was a certnln
placid beauty about her, though she
had no style. Rut there was evidence
that her figure was not built out or
driven in. Indeed, she was as God,
not dress, had made her.
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