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CAST OF. CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded ifn London when war breaks out. JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee who sees her through. CABELL BANKS, privateer captain, 8 #2 8 Yesterday: Arriving too late at Cherbotirg to sall back to America, Jerry and Polly are married while they zwait Banks’ plans to procure a ship of his own.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
T the end of a week Cabell . Banks arrived at the hotel and asked to see “Monsieur Jeremiah Whitfield.” “Le voici!” said the innkeeper, and he pointed out Jerry just coming in at the door with his wife. - Cabell wrung Jerry's hand and kissed Polly on both cheeks to the intense pleasure of .some native onlookers who had ‘supposed all Americans to be cold and restrained. Jerry asked Cabell to come. with them ‘to their room, and presently the two men were deep in conversation at a window looking toward the harbor, while Polly sat across the room with her knitting. She would not, she mentally vowed, intrude on the friendship of Jerry and Cabell Banks. - It was a strong masculine thing, built of mutual misfortunes and shared dangers. Their three futures were cradled in this friendship. The two young men had a plan, and Cabell was impatient to get on with it. And so was Jerry, Polly admitted, trying to feel no jealousy. | Cabell said, “I've found the ship for us, Jerry! She's tied up at Carteret. We'd be able to get out of Carteret.” Jerry mentally located the little port 20 miles to the south. “We might get out of there all right. Yes, I think we soul; What's the ship like?” “A clipper. Built in Baltimore.” Jerry's face fell. | “New. Englegs don’t hold with those ships, Cabell. They're too flimsy.” “They're the fastest things on water.” “I doubt if I could handle one. .No, I don’t believe I could bring one home right side up,” Jerry declared. Cabell hooted in disagreement. “My friend, I've been hearing things about you. There are a number of
stranded American sailors in this|-
port and some of them are from down Connecticut way. They tell me you saved Capt. Cobb’s barkentine Eliza from the rocks in a hurricane on a trip around the ‘Horn.
_ You were us, 20 at the time.”
2 a poy vie up quickly. There was so much Jerry had never gold her. “How did; you do it, Jerry?” “It was It was the trip we lost our first mate in a ee second mate from a fever. apn Cobb was down in his bunk with a broken leg .and I had to take charge. Thé bosun or -the galley cook could have done just as well, if they'd been put to it. Cap’n Cobb made me first mate afterward. But there are better and older sailors than me that've never had the chance.” ““Maybe,” Cabell - ggreed dryly. “Look out, or you'll get conceited over your modesty. . oe This clipper now. . . “What's wrong with her? What's she doing in a little port like Carteret? How long has’ she been rotting there?” “She’s been there only a couple of months and she’s sound. Her captain died of a fever the day they put in there. Her owner’s a Baltimore merchant who's financially pressed. He wants to sell her.” “That means he wants ready
~money. -You could hardly get her
on credit, I reckon?” “I reckon not. But wait till you hear this! His agent’s the same French banker here in Cherbourg my father transacts business with. I've convinced this banker that Mr.
| Cabeli Bank® Sr. of | Boston would . want me to have the ship to get
home in, and that he’d like me to outfit the clipper and pay the crew for five weeks. | The chief expense will be a pair of long guns, probably mounted; but he'll stand for it. Jt's a perfect situation, friend Whitfield. Whore we to snipe at fate?” { “A Baltimore clipper’s not safe, Banks. Those Marylanders are mad 1 ull them. Toa flimsy. Too ast .. . “Too flimsy, I grant you. But not too fast. Nothing could be too fast for us now. Do you realize, Jerry, we've got no right to fight the British till we get our commissions? If we tried it we’d be|pirates instead of privateers. We've got to get home, ajid quick. We'll be a hare pursued by 2 hundred hounds, this crossing.” “You've convinced me,” Jerry said. It had occurred to him that no ship could be too fast to get Polly home in. After [they'd made America they could trade the thing for a stout New England craft that wouldn’t topple in a gale or crush like an eggshell when fired on. ar » 8 I ’ EN days later in| the small harbor of Carteret Polly Whitfield went. aboard the | clipper giay Gull owned and captained by Mr. Banks, junior, of Boston, and whose first te. was Jeremiah Whitfield o Newburyport, Massachusetts.” i “Wé've kept her old name,” Cabell explained - to Polly as he es corted her aboard. name Revenge, that we had such a hanker for, is already in use “Gray Gull seems suitabl
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at, the - remarkably | tall ‘ masts, so different - from Cousin Tim’s stout, heavy ones. These masts seemed to’; dwarf the slender hull from
"which they sprang.. There was so tittle freeboard visible that the Gray
seemed" shallow as well as slender; when Polly, mentioned this to” Jerry, who had ‘come from below to take her’ in tcharge, he asgustd her that the Gull’ belied her
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years ago he grieved for her as he grieved for his wife, who. died the same year. "Not the least of Jerry’s pride in the Gray Gull was the beautiful quarters for Polly. He took her there now and watched her anxjously as she looked around her. When she exclaimed with delight over the white: painted walls and the warm carpet on the floor he was touched. and pleased. “It’s none too good for you,” he ‘said. He told her that there had been o e long cabin, but Cabell had Sart tion built, generously giving hw the larger quarters and reserving the smaller for himself.
Jerry left her, and a sailor brought her little trunk into the cabin and stowed it beneath the bunk, “That’s shipshape!” she told the shy lad. He seemed very young, not over 17, and Polly opened a box of French pastry was. carrying and gave him some. \When she was alone she took off her bonnet and sea coat, feeling that she was at one with all the women on earth who had followed their men to sea. Though she was the least of them, she would not shame them.
For those on board the Gray Gull the hard part must come now. The waiting. The watchful waiting. The run to sea when the time came. Though no English vessels patroled ‘the insignificant harbor, one knew that they lurked to the north, watching Cherbourg, and: to the southwest, blockading Brest. The Gray Gull must take her chance. Her 50-odd sailors were impatient to be off —Americans, most, weary of an enforced sojourn on the wrong side of the Atlantic. Polly sensed the tenseness that first night aboard. The second night was worse, for a sharp breeze was blowing like a clarion call. Jerry and Cabell stood at the wheel, staring toward the west and talking earnestly. No one seemed to remember her existence. That, too, was part of being a seaman’s wife. . . . Then came .Cabell’'s low called
commands, relayed by Jerry. Sailors |
began running, ropes were hauled . . . Polly looking up into the starlight saw the masts bloom with canvas, saw sails fill and spread, The Gray Gull, like an eager bird, was running out to sea.
(To Be Continued) (All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fititions,)
Daily Short Story
NEW HERO—By Ted Leitzel
YRNA HARDING kept her diminutive nose in the air as she followed the porter to her section in the streamliner. She watched while he stowed her baggage, tipped him and then settled into her seat with a sigh of relief. At last she had made the plunge and was on her way to Reno. There would be no more Chuck to cause embarrassment with his awkward, cringing tactlessness, no more episodes like the last one where he had carelessly dropped that silly cane of his on a neighboring table, cringed abjectly when the drunken occupant showered them both with abuse, submitted weakly when the head waiter ejected them. What a romantic little fool she must have been, how completely she had misjudged his character! Imagine interpreting his vacuous stodginess as a symbol of strength, his instant acquiescence to every wish as a sign of devotion. Strong, silent man, eh? Stuff and nonsense. He was a wishy-washy sissy, bullied by everyone from the servants on up. He needed a nurse, not a wife. So what if he was handsome in: spite of his silly grin? What if he was wealthy? He was no husband for her and it wouldn’t take long now to win back ner fred?
HE train Slided froin the. station and then Myrna sat up straight in amazement. Strolling down the aisle, ‘grinning at her like a delighted puppy, came Chuck. She could almost see’ him wiggling his delight. And he was carrying that confounded cane. Where would he park it now? “Why Myrna, darling, where are you going? I wouldn’t have known you were on this train if the station hadn't called at home about your reservations.” She looked at him in contempt. “It’s just like you to find out what train I'm taking and then tag along. Well, it won’t do you a bit of good to pretend you don’t know I'm going to Reno for a divorce. I've had all of your milk-toast manners I can stand. Now don’t talk to. me any more.” } “But, Myrna, my dear,
Mind Your Manners |
Test your knowledge. of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. At what hour. does a hostess usually invite guests for lunch? . 2. Do women usually keep their hats on while guests at a luncheon? 3. Is a formal dinner ever given before 7 o'clock? - 4, When cigarets .are on the dinner table, should they be in open-top containers? _ 5. Is it correct. to serve sugar with after-dinner inner coffee?
What would you you do if— You have an unexpected house guest who arrives at dinner time when you’ are expecting to have only a “snack” for the family that night?— A. Take him toa restaurant for dinner? - B. Explain briefly and ie. clude him in the “snack.” C. Apologize for the delay - and attempt to prepare a - dinner? : ’
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‘2 = = Answers 1. One or one-thirty. : . 2. Yes, except in a small . group .of intimate friends.’ 3. Not unless guests are going to the theater or some place afterward. : . 4. Yes. ~ 8. Yes.
Best “What Wot Would You. Do” jolution—~(B): or A). :
“This train is going to be held up.”
wrong? Haven't I treated you nice?” “Yes, yes, yes,” she answered impatiently. “You've been so damned nice I could scream. If you were half a. man instead of a big sissy you'd be a wonderful husband. But you're not, and I'm through. Now don’t- talk to me any more.” “But, Myrna—" he began, and she interrupted fiercely. “I told you to shut up. If you say one more word to me I'm going to call the conductor and say you’ re annoying me.” She leaped to her feet, and Chuck sat down very suddenly as she swept down the aisle. In the ladies’ dressing room she sat down.to smoke and compdse her thoughts. " Two women seated across the room stopped talking as she entered. One looked vaguely famil=iar, but she paid little ‘attention. Then the woman said to her companion: “We reach Alden about 20 minutes after Jackson.” They left the room and Myrna began 0 wonder. 2 2 » HE first stop was scheduled for Bensonville, nearly 100° miles the other side of Alden. And that woman, who was she? Something frightening tugged at her memory, But she could not place it. What was there about those dark beady eyes that made her think something sinister was in the air? Her forehead was wrinkled in. a pretty frown as she walked back through the car. At the far end she saw the conductor, but he stopped suddenly and began to back into the vestibule. Over his shoulder she saw a man’s face, and suddenly she knew what was- happening. That man was the desperado, John Kaplan, who was being hunted by police all over the country, and the woman was Nelly Hanson, who helped in his bold exploits. Could it be that they were going to rob the train? - Was he forcing the conductor to back through the vestibule while others, perhaps Nelly Hanson and her companion, went forward through the train to the mail coach? Were they going to be met by confederates at Alden for the getaway? Myrna almost ran to Chuck’s section. She saw that they were in the outskirts. of Jaeisn, racing along ‘at an 80-mile clip. “Chuck,” she gasped, “this train is going to be held up. Is there any way we can get the engineer to stop before the hoodlums get to him?” “Why ...why...uh... said Chuck, waving ‘his cane wildly. “I might have known that’s all you'd think of.” Myra was more contemptuous than ever. She jumped from the seat and stepped toward her own section, but a sudden jerk threw her to the floor. She heard the brakes squeal as the train jolted to a stop. . Men and women screamed in fear. Myrna tried to get up, and was knocked ‘down again by a heavy body. There was another shock, a scuffle, a blow on the side of her head, and a pistol smashed on the floor before her ‘eyes. “Now stay put.” said a voice that sounded like Chuck. Then, “I have him Myrna. See it you can get up.”
HE wiggled free and stared in:
amazement. Chuck was sitting on John Kaplan, one hand pushing the bandit’s face tight against the floor, ‘the other holding Kaplan's left wrist about six inches from where the vicious looking pistol had dropped. Then she looked up, dnd saw Chuck’s cane hanging from the emergency stop cord. :
. Police came down’ the aisle, with. handcuffs on Nelly Hanson and | three others who proved to be ac-
complices. They had been easily
.| captured by the train crew when
ihrown off their feet by the sudden “That certainly was fast think-
| ing,” the conductor said to Chuck.
“There .was.a big shipment of currency by registered mail, and they would ‘have had it except for your ony. what?” asked Chuck, but
they only laughed. Chuck. grinned in the same fool |
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looked over Myrna’s shoulder. She | smiled happily and snuggled closer | in his arms. Later she thoroughly agreed with newspapermen who called Chuck a
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wonder how in the devil my’ cane got caught on that funny cord.”
(THE END)
(All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)
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