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CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, - heroine; stranded in London when war breaks out. JERRY , herogjihe Yankee who sees her through. CABELL BANKS, privateer captain. Yesterday: Banks finds his ship, the Gray Gull, and so Polly, Jerry and he sail for the States.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE .Gray Gull was crowding on sail now, for they were in open water. * Polly stood quietly at the dark rail, wrapped in her sea cloak. By starlight, she could see three figures at the wheel. Jerry and Cabell and the old French pilot they had picked up in Cherbourg. It. was the old man who held the wheel, for he knew the Channel Islands through which they must thread their way, knew them like the features on his own face. Four times

this ancient French sailor had been.

wounded in Napoleon’s service, and he had thought to retire and enjoy his vegetable garden near Caen until Cabell Banks had persuaded him otherwise. . ; i Now and then Polly saw Jerry or Cabell raise a hooded lantern from deck and study the compass and charts, after which they . would argue exhaustively. .She knew that Cabell had no feeling of being a superior in command over Jerry. It was natural and proper for him to captain his own vessel, but he made no pretense of being as good a seaman as Jerry Whitfield.- Navigation and astronomy he knew, for he had learned them at Harvard, but concerning the things a skipper must know about sails he was not too well informed. They carried no second mate, but for “bosun” they were fortunate in having the Gray Gull’s former boatswain, Bill Gill, a rough and reliable young giant from the Baltimore waterfront who knew his rigging and anchors as a woman knows her knitting needles

‘and who could bellow orders like a

Spanish bull. ; Tonight, however, the bosun’s orders to the crew were muted.

Sailors spoke to one another in quick rasping whispers that made Polly’s flesh creep a little. i . s EJ = ABELL passed her as he was going below to his cabin. He was startled when she spoke to him.

“What are you doing here, Polly? Didn’t Jerry tell you to go to bed?” “No,” Polly answered, “he didn’t tell me anything. He’s forgotten I'm alive, Cabell. . . . Not that Pm sulking about it,” she -added with a low laugh. “I'm too excited to be sulking. Do you think the British will see us tonight, Cabell?” | “I'm sure they won't if they're as sleepy as I am. The old French pilot tells me he. never knew the English to attack at night. By morning we'll be in the Atlantic. I'm going to get some sleep now so I can relieve Jerry later on. , . . Good night, sea bride! You're fetching in that coat. I can quote a verse of Horace, in tribute, if you want me to.” : It would be wasted on me,” Polly

said. “My brother Dick’s the only one that’s studied Lafin in my family » .

“You're fond of him, aren’t you? What’s he like, Polly?” “He’s quiet and lame and he wants to study medicine. . . . Maybe Jerry told you why I came over here? It was to get money from my grandfather's estate so Dick could go to medical school. I'm going home without the money but with a husband. . . . Or will I_.get home, Cabell? What .are the chances?” “Frightened, Polly?” “A little. The sea’s so dark tonight. . . . The two long guns look important. Will we use them?” “Not aggressively, because - we carry no letter of marque. And not even defensively if we're outclassed.! Jerry wouldn’t run the risk of be-

- ing raked, with you aboard.”

“Just what will we do if we meet an English man-of-war?” “Run for it.” “Of course. But if we can’t outsail them?” “We'd surrender and be boarded. There’d be some pretty formalities, after which we’d all be taken aboard <ohnny Bull’s ship. You'd be treated with courtesy. Jerry and I would be locked in a stinking hold with the crew.” 2 2 2 ” ND what then, Cabell?” “We'd cruise a while, and when Johnny Bull had taken another American vessel or two, or maybe a French one, the hold would be rather full and they'd take us to Portsmouth, a port we're off just about now, over there to northward.” i “What's at Portsmouth?” * “The worst prison on God’s earth, Dartmoor. They built it for their French prisoners about six years ago. It's a rock tomb on a bleak moor where 10,000 men can be buried alive with no trouble at all. « « « But if you think I'll tell you

tales about Dartmoor prison, you're

mistaken, my girl.” “You don’t need to,” Polly an-

* swered fiercely. “I've got imagina-

tion, haven't I? . . . Wait, don’t go, Cabell! . . . Isn't there some place else they might corifine Americans?”

“I hear the hulks aren’t full yet.” |

“What are they?” “Qld ships without rigging, turned into prisons. There's a fleet of them near Chatham where the Medway joins the Thames. His Majesty’s admirals don’t consider a hulk properly used until the hammocks

are touching. At night the ports

_« « » But don’t worry, Polly.

are closed and the hatches.grated down. Where 900 men get air to breathe at night on a well-filled hulk is one of the world’s wonders. What man has done, man can do. Your Jerry would come back to you out of

“Youre trying to pull the wool my eyes,” Polly said forlornly/ “Men don’t escape front" Dart.or the hulks, I reckon.” “Who brought up this subject anyway?” asked Cabell irritably. “I stopped to’ tell you you looked ‘there in your blown

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Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Ine. headed as my father, and here I've already turned Democrat! I may even end up as a beach comber!”. Polly laughed. “Well, I hope my nagging tonight hasn't turned you against marrying. Isn't there any girl at all? - Isn’t there some one in Boston?” : “If I arrive there I shall probably propose to a young lady named Prudence Winthrop whose father is in business with mine.” ‘ “Oh! e one you bought the other coral necklace for! . . . Do you ‘love her, Cabell? And does she love you?” “We .don’t set each other aflame the way you and Jerry do, if that’s what you mean. But we respect each other: greatly and have a congenial sense of humor. . . .

night, young Mrs. Whitfield. .

After he had gone below, Polly ran lightly along the quarter-deck to where Jerry steod, alone for the moment, at the ship’s wheel. “Jerry!” she whispered, and clung to him, her cheek pressed hard against his

“What are you doing here, Polly? Have you lost your mind?” “I'm bothering the first mate. I'm telling you good night, my darling. So much could happen while I sleep. . +.« When some one relieves you here will you waken me and take me in your arms, before you sleep?” “I'm apt to, Polly. . . . Go now ”»

(To Be Continued)

(All events, names. and characters in’

this story are wholly fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

RESOLUTION—By Virginia Chatham

| FARGARET slipped inside the deserted dressing room. and. sinking . down on the lounge, put her fingers tighfly to her ears to shut ‘out the sounds from beyond the wall. She pressed her eyelids down against her eyes as if to hold them in. No. use—she could still hear the incessant beat of the orchestra, the tinkle of glass, the small noises of society making merry in the salon of the Victoria.

She sat back against the couch and glanced at her watch. Twelvethirty. . Half an Hour of acting: the fascinating artist, the singer supreme, the “Nightingale of the Airways.” . Half .an hour? She shuddered a little, thinking of the endless years ahead. An enormous chasm, those years, filled with all these things, with ‘agonizing performances of Carmen, ‘Aida, with the ringing in her head and the sick fear in her heart. Strange, that after 15—no, 17 years—she- should feel stage fright. Seventeen years. “I'm tired,” she said aloud. “So tired.” 8 ® 2

HE stood up suddenly and went to the mirror. “I don't 1 45,” she| told her slim reflection. With the same gesture she looked at her watch again and drew her lipstick from her bag. Jimmy would be here soon, she thought, refreshed. ‘She drew a carmine outline on her lips, smoothing it in carefully with the tip of her little finger. She straightened, a worried little furrow between her brows. Would: :he be alone? Evelyn, she mused — then pushed the name away. It was nothing — just a passing fancy. She did have moments like these, when life was |a little too brittle, but so long as Jimmy was happy . . . she smiled at herself a little ruefully! He was so like his father. It seemed so long since she had stood beside Paul and promised to give their sons the things she had denied him. She had always reproached herself for forcing Paul to quell his roving, spirit, repress that wanderlust that was in his soul, so that she might have the peace and security that she had wanted. Still wanted, for that matter. But Jimmy was sufficient. His happiness, and his presence, were enough compensation. It was enough to know that she would never see in his ‘eyes the longing that had been in Pauls, ' She brushed the thought away and gathered up her things. The crowd in the salon milled confusedly to and fro. Margaret stood by the door a: leng time, shrinking instinctively away from the noise, searching for her son’s face. Then, finally, she saw him across the room, tall and straight. He looked so like his father. He turned then and she saw his eyes, Paul's eyes, with that same hungry look that Paul had had . . . she caught her breath when she realized that young Evelyn stood by his side, looking strangely out of place in this| cosmopolitan company. Vaguely | uneasy, Margaret took a firm hold of herself and moved gaily toward them, smiling. Ee s 8 = ; : “N/ OU don’t mind if I kidnap my baby for a minute, do you. dear?” she asked Evelyn, taking Jimmy's hand. As. they. made their way through the throng she chattered brightly. " “I'm so awfully happy tonight, darling,” she laughed up at him as they went onto the dock. “Imagine! A marvelous contract for

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two years in Europe, a marvelous night for sailing and a marvelous 25-year-old son! What more could I ask?” 3 : Jimmy looked at her solemnly, his eyes very blue and earnest. “Didn't you ever want anything else, mother?” : Margaret went suddenly cold. He had never called her mother before —always Margaret. She forced herself to laugh. “Silly boy! Of course not! What alse is there to want?” : : “I don’t know,” he said slowly. “I just thought maybe.” «“Nonsense!” she ' interrupted quickly. “I'd rather go adventuring off to Europe with you than anything else in the world!” Jimmy turned his face away. = “I Jught to go back,” he said. “Evelyn ...” ‘ “She won’t mind,” Margaret said hastily. .- j “You don’t like Evelyn, do you, Margaret?” . . She ‘peered through the darkness of the deck to see his face. “Oh, it’s not that, Jimmy. She just isn’t—well, she isn’t our kind of people.” “But you don’t like her,” he repeated. “Does .it make any difference to you, Jimmy?” He took a deep breath. “I love her, Margaret.”

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ARGARET stood very still, her blood pounding in her temples. “Jimmy, think, darling. Evelyn's a nice girl, and she’s very attractive, but . . . Could you be happy with a girl who doesn’t like the things you like? Why, I just can’t imagine Evelyn climbing Alps with you in Switzerland, and riding in funny little rickshas in China. Shed want to stay at home all the time— and knit, or something.” Jimmy swung around. “Reporters.” * She turned and was met by a flood of questions. How long would she be away, and was it true that she was to marry a foreign nobleman, and would she pose for pictures, please? - A million years later, when they had all gone, she leaned against the railing, alone, her hand to her head. It ached so. A messenger tapped her on the arm, and she took the letter from him without looking ‘at it. Behind her the lights burned like a string of jewels along the shore. As the ship moved ponderously away from the pier she walked carefully down the stairs and through the companionway to her stateroom, trying to calm the trip-hammer in her head. She called to Jimmy as she entered. The room was empty. Margaret began to slit the letter open, at first mechanically, then frantically. 2

“MARGARET: “I'm sorry, but this seems to be the only way. When this reaches you’ you'll be out at sea, and Evelyn ht I will be on our way to be mared. “You see, Margaret, I'm not like you ate... All my life I've been rushed from one place to another, from school in Switzerland to vacation in Hawaii, and—well, I'd like a little: peace and quiet for a change. I know that you need all this life and excitement to be happy, and I love you too much to ask you to give it up for me. Evelyn understands, and she doesn’t mind. I'm very grateful to you. It was you, I think, who made me realize that she would understand. I love you.

(THE END.) (All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

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