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qil a dine. '. hard in then
hgnor,
The men stood f s e viidrt time
tog(et her, atter the 1 -1 , e„ "Ilsd the
°Me, dt�rtg the creat eq is of
Ithe 1 . v, alt +eU " uheerf
till•, rs diirappMre{l' into their' d
!con's, �,...
Ao .hour Inter. Clay stood without
his stoat, and wit F 's nen in bit1 pant
him by t'heissl
houd Bedside and aback
not s hep,' sold MacWl1li4iPsip'
sitting rep- What is it? What hame-
you beenaptpg?" he demanded: "Not
working,
`"I'h'ercl ''Wave .some re sorts came in
after we left," said Clay, "ai►d'I' find
I wi'll have to see Kirkland to, -morrow
morning.. •Send them word to run
it
with some peculiar sentiment. So me dawn on an engineat five -thirty,
they suffered him to sing it in peace. will. you? I• am sorry to have to
MacWilliams went through hi' re- wake you, but I, co'-i!dn"t remember
pertain to tha ancon": ,led a nuse- in which "shack that en,.ineer lives."
nterts of young I,,'xh,.rn an l Hope. I MacWilliams 'umm-ed from his bed
When he had ftni$hcd he asked Hope and began kieloing about the floor for
if 'lir knew a ea. .lc sii,g of which he his boots "Oh, tth:,t's all right" he
had only heard by rep+'tati , i. One said. "I wasn't asrrep, 1 was just---"
of the men at the mines had gained he lowered this voice that Langham
le certain celebrity by c' -.i rung to have , might not hear him through the can -
beard it in the States, but ss he gave i vas ,partitions --"I was just lying a-
a
a completely new set of wor4s to the i wake .Playing duets with the Presi-
tur,e of the "Wearing of the Green" ; dent, and racing, for the International
as the true version, his veracity was ' Cup in my new centre aboard yacht,
doubted. Hope said who knew it, of that's all!"
course, and they all went into the MacWilliams buttoned a staterproof
drawing room, where the, men grouped coat over his pajamas sad "!tamped
n I this bare tfeet into hi! boots. "OL, I
tell you, Clay," he said with a grim
chuckle "we're mixit.;� right in aribh
t• (Continued tram last _ week.)
"Yee, .but you hadn't seen me Sir
tw'enty-two years then," she answer-
ed. "I don't think you have changed
much,", she went on. "I expeobed to
find you gray with cares: Ted wrote.
us about the way you .work all day
at the trines and sit up all night over
calculations and 'plans and reports.
But you don't show it. When are you
going to take us over the mines? To-
morrow? I am very anxious to see
them, but I suppose father will want
to inspect them first. Hope knows all
about them, I believe; she knows
their names, and how much you. have
taken out, and how mush you have
put in, too, and what MacWilliams'"
railroad cost, and who got the con-
tract for the ore pier. Ted told us
in his letters, and she used to work
it out on the map in -father's study.
She is a most energetic child: I think
sometimes she should have been a
boy. I wish I could be the help to
any one that she is to my father and
to me. Whene , er 1' am blue or down
she mafxes fun of tire, and—"
"Why should you ever be blue?"
eesked Clay, abrupt'y.
"There's no real reason, I suppose,
the girl are,/tired, smiling," "except
that life is so very easy for me that
I have to invest some woes. I should
be better for a few reverses." And
then she went on in a lower voice,
and turning her head away, "In our
family there is no woman older than I
air to whom I can go with questions '
that trouble n, Hope is like a boy,
as I said and plays with Ted, and
my father is very busy with his af-
fairs, and sine my mother died I
have been very much alone. A man
cannot unders' :u1. /Arid I cannot un- I
deratand why I should be speaking to
you about rn s,lf and my troubles,'
except—" she added, a little wistful-
ly, "that you orce said you were in-
terested in me, even if it was as long
as a year sago And because I want
you to be very ::ind to me, as you
have been to Ted, and I hope that we
are going to be very good friends."
She was so beautiful, standing in
the shadow with the moonlight about
her and with her hand held out to
him, that Clay felt as though the
scene were hardly real. He took her
hand in his'and held it for a moment.
His pleasure in the sweet friendliness
of her manner and in her beauty was ,
so great that it kept him silent: j
"Friends!" he laughed under hie'
breath. "I don't think there is much j
danger bf our not being friends. The
danger lies" he went on, smiling, "in
my not being able to stop there."
Miss Langham made no sign that
she had heard him, but turned and
walked out into the moonlight and
down the porch to where the others
were sitting.
Young Langlham had ordered a
native orchestra of guitars and reed
instruments from the town to seren-
ade his ,people, and they were stand-
ing in front of the house in the
moonlight as Miss Langham and
Clay came forward. They played
the shrill, eerie -music of their coun-
try with'a passion and feeling that
filled out the strange tropical scene
around them; but Clay heard them
only as an accompaniment to his own
thoughts, and as a part of the beauti-
ful night and the tall, beautiful girl
'Who lead dominated it. He .watched
her from the shadow as she sat lean-
ing easil forward and looking into
the night. 'Phe moonlight ,fell full
*pen her, and though s'he did not once
look at him or turn her head in his
direction, he fe'l't as though she must
he conscious of his presence, as though
there were already an understanding
between them which she herself had
established. She had asked him to be
her friend. That was only a pretty
speech, perhaps; but she had spoken
of herself, and had hinted at her per-
plexities and her lonliness, and be
argued that while it was no compli-
ment to be asked to share another's
pleasure, it must mean something
viten one was allowed to learn a little
of. another's troubles.
And while :his mind was flattered
and aroused by this promise of con-
isdbnce between them, he was rejoic-
ing in the rare quality of her beauty,
and in the thought that she wad to
be near him, and near him here, of
alt places. It.seemed a very wonder-
fui Wag to Clay—something that
ceuld only have happened in a novel
era play. For while the man and
the hour ftequenttly appeared togetle-
.er, ire 'bad found that the.one woman
in the world and the place and bha
taut was' a much more difficult com-
bination to bring into effect. No one
he assured himaelf, thankfully, could
have designed a more lovely settieg
for his love -story, and be' hoped it was,
than this into vesicle she bad come of
her own free will. • It was a land of
romance and adventure, of guitars
end latticed windows, of warm bril-
liant days and gorgeous silent nights,
under purple' heavens end white stars.
And he was to have her all to himself,
with no one near to interrupt, is oth-
er friends, even, and no possible rival.
She was not guarded now by a com-
plex socia? *system, with its respon-
sibilities. lie was the most lucky of
men. Others had only seen her in cher
drawing-roorn or in nn opera box, but
he was free to ford mountain -streams
at her side, or ride with her under it} g and laidliiag, but singiag the the four hundred,. we are! I'm sub-
archee of the great palms, or to play ; tsbngs of which the new -comers had stitute and understudy within anybody
a guitar boldly beneath her window% become so weary, but which the three gets ill. We're right in our own
He was free to come and go at any
hour; not only free to do so, but the
very nature of his duties made it nec-
essary that they should be thrown !
oonstantly together.
The music oef the violin moved him
and toughed him ,deeply, and stfrred
depths at which he had not guessed
It made him' humble and deeply grate-
ful, and he felt how mean and un-
worthy he was of such great happi-
ness. He had never loved any woman
as he felt that he could love this wo-
man, as he hoped that he was to love
her. For he was not so far blinded
by her beauty and by`what he guessed
her character to be, as to imagine that
the really knew her. Heonly knew
what he doped she was,- w'hat -he be-
lieved the soul must be that looked
out of those kind, beautiful eyes, and
that found utterance in that wonder-
ful voice which could control him and
move him by a word.
He felt, as he looked at the group
before him, show lonely his own life
had been, how hard he .had worked
for so little—for what other men
found ready at hand when they were
born into the world.ie felt almost
a touch of self-pity a his own irn-
penfectnees; and the po er of his will
and his confidence in 'himself, of
which the was so proud, seemed mis-
placed and little. And then he wond-
ered if he had not •neglected chances;
but in answer to this his injured self-
love rose to rebut the idea that he
had wasted any portion of his time,
and he assured himself that he had
done the work that he had cut out for
himself to do as best he could; no one
but himself knew with what courage
and spirit. And 3o he sat combating
with himself hoping one moment that
she would prove what he believed her
to be, and the next, scandalized at his
temerity in daring to think of her at
all.
The spell lifted as the music ceased
and Clay brought himself back to the
moment and looked about him as
though he were waking from a dream
and had expected to see the scene dis-
appear and the figures near him fade
into the moonlight.
Young Langham had taken a guitar
from one of the musiciar;s and press -
de it upon MacWilliams, with inoper-
ative directions to sing such and such
songs, of which, in their isolation, they
had grown to think most highly, and
MacWilliams was protesting in much
embarrassment.
MacWilliams had a tenor voice
which he maltreated in the most vil-
baneous manner by singing directly
through kis nose. He had a taste for
sentimental Bongs, in which "kiss"
rhymed with "bliss," and in which
"the people cry" was always sure to
be followed with "aa she ,goes by,
that's pretty Katie 'Moody," or "Rosie
MIcI.ntyre." He Thad gathered thiel
songs at the side of camp -fires, and in
canteen% at the first section house of
a new rail'road, and his original col-
lection of ballads had had but few ad-
ditions in several years. MacWilliams
at first was shy, wbieh was quite a
new developemext, until he made
diem promise to laugh if they wanted
to laugh, explaining that he wound
not mind that so much as he would
the idea that he thought he was
serious.
The song of which he was especially
fond was este called "He never cares
to wander from .his own Fireside,"
Adrlch was especially appropriate in
Doming from a man who had visited
almost every spot in the three Am-
ericas, exeept his thome,'in ten years.
'MacWilliams always ended the even-
ing's entertainment with this chorus,
no matter Chow many times it had
been sung previously, and seemed to
regard it with muck the same venera-
tion that the true Briton feels for his
national anthem.
The words of the chorus Were:
"He never carers to wander from his
own fireside,
He.never cares to wander or to roam,
With kis babies on his .knee,
He's as happy as can be,
For there's no place like Home, Sweet
themeelves about the pins o t was
a night they remembered long after-
ward. Hope sat at the piano protest -
Men heard open-eyed, and hailed with\ class at, last! Pure amateurs with no
sihouts of pleasure The others en- professional record a -ainst us. Me
joyed 'them and their delight, as ; and President Langham, I guess!"
tiheugh they were people in a play ex- ITe struck a match tied lit the smoky
pressing themselves in this extrava- wick in a tin lantern.
gent manner for their entertainment, "Bu't,'now," he s hid, cheerfully,
until they understood how ;poverty -"my time being too valuable for me
stricken their lives shad been and tht I to sleep, I will go wake up that nig-
they were not only enjoying the mus- ger engine -driver and set his alarm
is for itself, but because it was char- clock at five -thirty. Five -thirty, I be-
acteristic of a,'1 that Vie,' had left be -1 Neve you said. Al' right; good -
hind them. It was pathetic to hear night." And vwhistlin ' cheerfully to
them boast of having read of a cer- I himself MacWilliams disappeared up
tain song in such a paper, and of the the hill, his body hidden in the dark -
fact that they knew the plot of a late I nes and his legs a`u,wing fantasti-
cally in the light of the swingiag Un-
comic
had played in it. and that it had tern.
or had not been acceptable to the
New York public. .
"Dear me," Hope would cry, look-
ing over 'her shoulder with a despair-
ing glance at her sister and father,
"they don't even know `Tommy At-
kins'!"
It was a very happy evening for
them all, foreshadowing, as it did, a
continuation of just such evenings.
Young Langham was radiant with
pleasure at the good account which
Clay had given (sr him to his father,
and Mr. Langkam was gratified, and
proud of the manner in which his son
and heir had 'conducted himself; and
MacWilliams, who had never before
been taken so simply and sincerely
by people of a class that he had al-
ways held in 'humorous awe, felt a
sudden accession of dignity, and an
unthatp'py fear that when they laughed
at what he said, it was because its
sense was so utterly different from
their point of view, and not because
they saw the humor of it. He did
not know wlhat the word "snob" sig-
nified, and in his roughened, easy-go-
ing nature there was no touch of false
pride; but 'he could not help thinking .
how surprised his people would be if
Home."
MacWilliams loved accidental' and
Clay walked out upon the veranda
and stood with his back to one of the
pillars. MacWtilliams nd his pleas-
antries disturbed and troubled him.
Perhaps, after all, the be -y was right.
It seemed absurd, but it was true.
They were only employees of Lang-
ham—two of the thousands of young
men who were working all over the
United States to please him, to make
shim richer, to whom h,, was only a
name and a power, urhi-h meant an
increase of salary or the loss of place.
Clay laughed and shrugged his
shoulders. He knew that he was not
in that class; if he did good work it
was because his self-respect demand-
ed it of him; he dirt not work for
Langham or the Olanrh , Mining Co.
(Limited). And yet he turned with
almost a feeling of resentment toward
the white yacht lying calmly in mag-
nificent repose a hundred yards from
his porch.
He could see her as clearly in her
circle of electric lights as though she
were a picture and held in the light
of a stereopticon on a screen. He
could see her white decks, and the
rails of polished brass, and the com-
fortable wicker chairs and gay cush-
they could see him, whom they re- ionsand flat coils of !ceps, and the
,garded as a wanderer and renegade' tapering masts and intricate rigging.
on the face of the earth and the prod- How easy it was made for some men! that igal of the family, and for at reas- This one had tome like the prince in
on the best loved, leaning over a' the fairy tale on his magic carpet.
grand piano, while one daughter of If Alice Langham were to leave
his lnuch-revered president played Valencia that next day, Clay could
comic songs for his delectation, and not follow her. He had his duties
the other, who according to the news- , and responsibilities; he was at an -
papers refused princes daily, and who t other man's bidding.
was the most wonderful creature he : But this Prince Fortunatua had
had ever seen, poured out his coffee ! but to raise anchor and start in pur-
and brought it to him with Cher own ; suit, knowing that he would be wel-
hands. ,come wherever he found Cher. That
The evening came to az end itt lust, was the worst of it bo Clay, for he
and the new arrivals accompanied knew that men did not follow wo-
their visitors to the veranda as they . men from continent to continent with -
started to their cabin for the night... out sone assurance of a friendly
Clay was asking Mr. Lanham when greeting. Clay's mind went back to
he wished to visit the mines, and the the days when he was a boy, when
others were laughing over farewell his mother taught in a little school-
speeehes, when young Langham startl- house undor the shadow of Pike's
ed them all by hurrying down the Peak, and when Kit Carson was his
length of the veranda and calliag of hero. He thought of the poverty of
them to Pillow. those days—poverty so . meas and
"Look!" he cried, pointing down the! hopeless'tihaf it was almost something
inlet. "Hare comes a man-of-war, or to feel shame for; of the days that
a yacht. Isn't she smart -looking? followed when, an onahan and with -
They won't let them land. Can you out a home, he had sailed away from
make her out, MacWilliams?"; New Orleans to the Cape. How the
A long, white ship was steaming mind of the mathematician, which he
slowly wp the inlet, and passed with- had inherited from the Boston school-
isa few :hundred feet of the cliff on ' mistress, had been swayed by the
which they were standing. spirit of the soldier, which 'he had
"Why, it's the `Vesta'!" exclaimed inherited from his father, and which
Hope, wo'rideringly. "I thought eke t led him from the mines of South
wasn't coming for a week?" l Africa to little wars in Madagascar,
"It can't be this 'Vesta'!" said the Hgypt, and Algiers. It had been a
elder sitter; "ache -was not to have' life .as restless as the seaweed on a
sailed from Havana until to -day." rodk. But as 'he looked back to Its
"What do you mean?" asked Lang- , poor beginnings and admitted to him-
Iham. "Is it King's boat? Do you self its later successes )re gave a sigh
expect kion here? Oh, what fun! I of content, and ahgking off the mood
say, clay, here's the 'Vesta,' Reggie stood up and paced the length of the
Ring's yacht, and he's no end of a veranda.
sport. We can go all over the place ' Ile looked up the hill to the low -
now, and he can land us right at the 1 roofed bungalow witlh the palm -
door of the mines if we want to." leaves about it, outlined against the
"Is it the Ring I met at dinner aky, and as motionless as patterns
that night?" asked Clay, turning to cut in tin. He had built that hones.
Mise Langham. He had built. for her. - That was her
"Yes," ache said. "He wanted us to room where the light was shining out
come down on the yacht, but we from the black hulk of the house a -
thought the steamer would be faster; bout it like a star. And beyond the
so he sailed without us and was to house he saw 'his five great moun-
have touched at Havana, but be has , tains, the knuckles of the. giant band,
apparently ehanged his course, with its gauntlet of iron that lay shut
Doesn't she look like a phantom ship and clenched in the face of the sea
in the mooniest?" that swept up whimpering before
Young Langbam thought he could Clay felt a boyish, foolish pride rise
distinguish Ring among the will
what he stalled "barber -shop ,horde." figures on the bridge, and tossed fits
He used a beautiful accidental at the
bat and ztthouted,' and a man in the ,
very which w b he was tori, stern of the yacht replied with a
word "be,"
wave of leis kala
and he used to hang on that nota for "That ,must be Mr. Ring," said
a long time, so that those in the ex- Hope.'Ho didn't bring any one with
creme rear of the hall, as he was wont him, and be seems to be the only man
to explain, could get the full benefit „
of it. And it as is custom toaft.
as
empbasine "for" in the last line by she stopped ,hog stood with watching
a rattle of a the yacht htas
speaking instead of singing it, and
then cointog to a fu 1 stop before wins and a confusion of orders that
cams ah across the water, and
chalice mag�ain with tate excellent then the part separated and, the
truth titt dIle ere . NO place likee
three mea p down the hill,
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night toward the 'light on . the �1,
as be turned and walked bac 'into.
his bedroom. "And I think," he slur '
muredgrtm grimly, as h put onit the light,
'that she is worth fighting fox "`
(Continued next- week.)
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S. S. CANADIAN FISHtR
OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT MERCHANT MARINE
A party, numbering twenty-seven representative Canadian manufacturers and wives, sailed front Halitax
on Wednesday, February 15th, for a tour el the West Indies. the delegates left Toronto by Canadian National -
Grand Trunk route on Sunday evening, February 12th, travelling in 'glacial sleeping car direct to the ship's side. -
They arrived at Halifax On the evening of February 14th, sairmg the Wowing evening on the "5S. Canadian Fisher,"
one of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine's fine ships regularly in this service. They win arrive at Kings-
ton, Jamaica, on February ZSth, where they will be interviewed by Me Governor of Jamaica. Arrangements have
also been completed for the entertainment of the party at various other points en route by Government Trade Com-
missioners. Boards of Trade, and Chambers of Catnnterce.
The primary object of this trip is to consider how trade between Canada and the British West Indies caw
best be promoted. It is felt that tae trade agreement recently negotiated between Canada and the West ipdiea
should he very beneficial and should foster a large iatercbaege of ementeree. With the object in view of looking
into conditions geneimliy, to learn what goods the West ladies have is sell to Canada, and to describe what goals
Canada has to sell to the West Indies, this tour was organised by the Canadian Manufacturers Association.
The torr will occupy a month, during which time the following places will be visited: Nassau, 13.1., Kingston,'
Jamaica, Panama Canal, La Guaira (Caracas), Port of Spall, Trinidad, Demerara. Grenada. St. Vincent, Barbados.,
St. Lucas, Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts and Bermuda.
The Wowing is a list of thersons constitutin tete party: Sir Alexander and Lady Bertram, Jobe tn. Re
ram & Sons, Co. Ltd.. Msestreal, Quer C.I. and Mrs. RW. Leotard and Mr. Douglas Mitch, Cosisg*s Reduction'
Co. Ltd., St'. Catharines, Ont.; Mr. G. Clifford McAvity, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dividsoe, T. McAvity i
John, N.B.• Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stratton, Peterbero Review Co. Ltd., Pettibone, Oat.. Mr. feted Mn. G
pert, Geo. J. Lippert Table Co. Ltd., Kitchener, Ont.; Mr. and Mrs R. H. Terser, J )f: Turner. Ltd,
Ont.; Mr. and Mrs. H. Pocock, London Concrete Machinery Co. Ltd. Lone, Oast Mr. and Ides C. H. Payee„,
Secretary of the Commercial Intelligence Breech of the Department of Ltd.,
and Commerce el Came.". Col. Anther,
Hatchh,'Canada Steel Goods Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ont.; Mr. Jas. Anderson, reenacting the BerderCities Chani
ior
a Commerce, W taliser, Ont.; Mr. W. H: Shapley, Goad, Soviet, & Mae Co. Ltd>, Besetleed.'( ,
Greene Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd., Walkerviiia,ntt
O.; -Mr. i. D. Johann, Caviar Commit CO. Ltd., )
Que.; Col. H. L. Edmonds, John Merraw Screw sod Net Ca l td., Ingersoll, Opti:. Me W J
iron d: Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ont.; Mr. S. L. Gown, The Megery M a P' '` ,
Towers, Superintendent Foreign 'rade Deeps $iss 1, ROW . L •. w
Canadian Nodose! Railways padCa neat Miithan$.ih sine. R. 4
W trip by Mr. C. K. H"o"wl, art Twiigfittllfi'�'eerirs Meier