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.SYNOPSIS: . . . A luxurious five-(didn’t full in love with every youth >men in the smoking-room, the women
.month cruise around the world aboard who danced well or beat her at ten-1 on deck. No one would have a scrap
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group of passengers for adventures, [failing greater excitement, he seemed,
romantic, entertaining , . and tragic ’ ’ ‘
*, Like in “Grand Hotel” these pas
sengers offer a, study in. human ac
tions and reactions, which uncon
sciously bare their souls. . . , These
characters are aboard the ship: Mac
duff, dour Scotchman, single, of mid
dle age; Miss Mudge, school teacher^
spending the savings of 20 years;
/Angela, faithful wife of Lovat,. gigolo;
Dick Charlton, first officer; Claire, a
person of experience; Joan, a dissi
pated flapper; Jenny, run-away wife,
and' Peter; Captain Baring, master of
the ship . . . and his soul. . , NOW,
GO ON WITH THE STORY.
* * * *
SECOND INSTALMENT
A slight girl strode past with
youth at her heels. She was all
yellow, and her pale gold hair burned
in the day’s afterglow.. Dick’s glance
swung from Clare's opulence to the
figure in primrose, moving with the
careless grace of inexperience.
“Ingenue!" commented the chief of
ficer, his gaze settling again on the
figure beside him.
“Yes”—she darted a fast
him—“and how one has to
oneself from the young!”
He looked at his watch.
half-past five. “Sorry. Seamen must
"work. No time for dalliance now.”
“But now is always a lovely time.”
Clare stretched languorously in the
depths of her deck chair.
Dick swung along the deck, a tall,
blue figure tacking against the wind.
. Clare watched day melt into night.
She could see Macduff roaming -up
and down, puffing at his pipe.- “I
wonder if 1 could make him talk,’’
she speculated idly. But he looked
so forbidding that she decided to
leave him alone and go down to dress.
In three days Clare had begun, to
hear the histories of some of her fel
low passengers. She knew that the
woman with silver hair, sitting to her
right, was taking her husband around
. the world for his health. • Clare de
cided that her face suggested an in
teresting past, although gloom was
blotting her out for the time being.
At the next table, like a modernist
doll propped beside a dowager, sat
Patty Arundel. Patty had summed up
her fellow passengers with the hard
disfavour of twenty. She thought
them old and stuffy. Clare she re
garded as a Victorian siren, a silly
woman who did not know that love
was’ never mentioned by name be
tween two modern young people.
■“Sticky!" thought Patty to herself.
“Johnny"—Patty raised her voice—
“there goes Mrs. Langford.”
She found that she was not draw
ing Johnny’s attention to Clare—it
was already there. He blushed slight
ly, surprised in his own thoughts. He
had just arrived at the conclusion
that he had never seen
curves, and what was it that lurked
in those yellowish eyes?
fresh from college; his
sending him around the world before
"he settled down to being a broker.
Patty was fresh from Vassar, and she
a
in
look at
protect
It was
a godsend on the Marenja,
■f C1’ * ’ ’ -■ -
inoperative. “You're mooning,
me your attention, all of it, and
other dry Martini.”
(' “Forgive
wandering,
Martinis,”
“I was
thought about Mrs. Langford, but I’ll
not ask you now.”
“If you really want to know,. I
’think she’s a knock-out,” said Johnny
with surprising fervour.” ,
Patty snuggled deep in her leather
chair and looked a little moodily at
the figure in gold. What a lovely
gown! She wished that she knew
what men could see in women who
were as transparent as glass to their
own sex.
Patty’s thoughts were interrupted
by. the sudden appearance of her aurit
who had walked over to their table
to pick her up. She was small and
slight, carefully groomed and faintly
bored, a woman who knew the worst
and the best that were- to be had
from life,
“I shall want one, two, three, four,
possibly even five dances tonight,"
said Johnny, jumping smartly to at
tention in defernce to Patty’s aunt.
“Try to get them,”, retorted Patty,
as she slipped through the door.
‘‘Johnny!” This time her voice was
.Give
an-
- • ■ * n
me, Patty. My wits
Here, steward, two
wondering what
■<
such lovely
Johnny was
father was
are
dry
you
Clare saw Macduff roaming up and
down, puffing his pipe.
Johnny lingered over his cocktail,
reflecting that it was luck to have
found a girl like Patty on a trip like
this. Clare walked past his table on
her way to the dining-room, leaving
a trail of perfume that made John
ny’s nostrils contract with excite
ment. Wonder what she was doing
on this trip, and who her husband
was. Probably a divorcee. He would
soon know, for it seemed that every
thing was getting about — too much
so for his taste. It rather sickened
Johnny, the way people talked, the
of privacy left by the time they had
reached India,
Macduff, was walking out and tfie
bar was clearing, Johnny decided that
it was time to go down to dinner.
The orchestra was playing as fie en
tered, and the boat was rolling so
much that he staggered on the way
to his table. He had drawn agreeable
dinipg companions — a loose-boned
Westerner, Bill Laird, with a charm
ing wife whom he teased unmerciful
ly. Bill was getting a reputation al
ready for being the practical joker
of the boat. Patty waved blithely
across the room.
“Not • feeling well?” enquired Bill,
solicitously.
“Never felt, better,” said Johnny.
“If you want to try a remedy on
some one, you’d better watch out for
Patty Arundel. She threatens' to be
sick whenever the boat rolls.’ ’
“Oh, Mrs. Langford!” Bill shouted,
half an hour later, seeing that Clare
had finished dinner and was passing
out at a leisurely gait. “Join us for
coffee and liqueurs.”
She had already had some deck
chair conversation with the Lairds
and liked them both. Drawling in his
'lazy way, Bill introduced Johnny,
who jumped to .his feet 'and stood
staring down at her in a tongue-tied
manner. They all went upstairs to
the salon and settled down to fines
and cigarettes. Clare chatted idly and
Bill baited her, but grew bored when
he failed to find resistance in her
shallow retorts. -She had no repartee,
but her voice had a husky note that
Johnny found alluring. He talked to
Mrs. Laird, but kept his eyes glued
on Clare. She ignored him most of
the time, but when the dancing began
she slid into his arms, and he sud
denly knew that she had been think
ing of him all the time. She danced
divinely. Her hand felt alive in his
clasp. . •
“I think I’m going to enjoy this
trip,” murmured Clare. “7
seeing.you about the boat,
very strenuous, aren’t you?
swimming, games.”
Clare smiled and her hair
his chin. He had never held a wo
man in< his arms who magnetized him
like this. It was not like dancing
with the girls he knew at home.
Johnny began, to feel like a man of
the world.
At last he gave her up reluctantly,
for the music had come to an end.
It was hard to wait for his next dance
with her to begin. Patty had come
into the room with her aunt, but he
had forgotten that she existed. She
had found other partners and. was
dancing now with Dick, the chief of
ficer.
Dick danced with the swing of the
sea, and entertained Patty by telling
her about some of the things she
would see on the trip. The third time
he danced with her he suddenly saw
that she Was not. listening to a word
he was saying, but was looking over
his shoulder with the expression of
a hurt child. With tile next turn he
could see why—Mrs. Langford was
adrift in a sea of self-intoxication, her
wide lips an inch from the check of
the boy whom Dick had seen pursu
ing Patty around the desks 'ever since
they had sailed, So that was the way!
Well, a good thing it happened quick
ly, before she had. got fond of him,
He swung her hastily down the other
side and out for a breath of fresh
air. The promenade deck was en
closed with glass, and she suggested
that they go still higher, “J should
Jove to feel the wind on the top
deck,” she said. They climbed up the«
companionway. Patting hugging her.
white
frock,
The
on a
waves
Patty had a dim idea that the woman
.in gold hovered like a shadow be
tween a carefree yesterday and an
ominous tomorrow. It was the look
in Johnny’s eyes that had appalled
her. How did a woman make a mere
boy, whom she scarcely knew, look
like that?
Dick kept quiet, preserving a sym
pathetic air, He was thinking: “A
lovely child, but she’s in for more
of it, if she feels that way about the
boy. It’s just another case of what
I the sea does to a woman.”
fur jacket around her thin
moon was a crescent swung
chain of diamonds, and the
dashed foam against the bow-
Curio and take a turn in the Casino
to see what his fellow passengers
were doing. ...
Hot and stuffy inside, as usual, with
anannoying buzzing of subdued voic
es, like a swarm of bees zooming in a
distant grove. The merciless lights
dug seams in yveary faces, He thought
he had never seen so many pairs of
tired eyes. Wherever he < looked, he
could spot some one from the Mar-
enia, but very few werk throwing
| counters on the tables. They were a
cautious lot and ill at ease, He was
surprised to see Miss Mudge—little
Miss Muffet, he called her in his own
mind—tossing two counters on the
baize with quite a flourish. He would
watch to see what happened. The
coupler raked up’ her counters. She
looked anxiously at his pasty face,
not-quite sure which way her luck
had gone, but he did not raise his
eyes from, the table.
(Continued Next Week)
Clare smiled and her hair brushed
his chin.
I’ve been
You’re
Tennis,
brushed
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maintain sound financial conditions in
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esepension.
He felt her clutching at his arm;
all of a sudden she had decided to
go down to her stateroom. Telling
him to let her aunt know that she
had gone to bed. Patty went below
and tried to read. The type danced
before her eyes .and she wondered if
she were getting'’ a little seasick.
When her aunt came in, she found
her fast asleep.
"Bertrand Russell’s Marriage and
Morals,” said Mrs. Minton, picking
up the book and covering her gently.
“The child is growing up.”
« * *
The Marenia lay at anchor at Ville-
franche, her flags strung like a gar
land of autumn leaves over the sap
phire stretch of the, bay. Monte Car
lo was snugly bucked ‘in the green
curve of Monaco. After eleven days
at sea, Macduff blinked at the brill
iance of the scene before him. He
had his own plans for the day. He
would give Monte Carlo a wide berth
and stretch his legs in one of his fav
orite walks. He had a poor opinion
of the place and had never tossed a
penny on the table. Any time he
went into the Casino, it was simply
to see what fools human beings could
make of themselves over a gambling
wheel.
I-Ie strode along, with his .arms
swinging like windmills. More pas
sengers were getting on at Ville-
franche. That was a pity. There were
altogether too many on board already.
Things seemed to be happening on'
the ship, some of which he did not
altogether approve, Soon they would
all be bickering, where now they
were gushing and flirting, It was
bound to turn out that way when peo
ple saw too much of on/; another.
, He hoped they wouldn’t get anoth
er Mrs. Langford on board; one of
her kind was enough. She was be
ginning to get under his skin, spoil
ing his pleasure on the top deck, al-
l ways up- to her tricks, and how rop
ing in the American boy, Macduff
I thought that his sex should be pro-
| tected from such influences. The Fos-
: ter girl was showing up badly, too.
(He never went into the bar that he
1 did not find her there. The high
jinks of the boat extended even to
jiffs own alley, where a diamond mer
chant across the way was continual
ly entertaining women in his state
room.
He came down off the breakwater
and followed the toad to the Italian
border, stopping at a restaurant that
(stood on stilts in the sea,
I The short Riveria day was passing,
(and the chill of three o’clock was
creeping in from the sparkling wat
ers. It was short-lived at its best,
warm and vivifying, but swift in its
decline. He remembered that he had
to be on board the Marenia by Stev
en, He‘might motor back to Mo^e
I
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
A MOTHER’S SONG.
Sunday, Jan. 5.—Luke 1.
Golden Text:
My soul doth magnify the Lord,
and iiiy spirit hath rejoiced in God my
•Saviour. (Luke 1:46, 37.)
Luke is called by Paul “the belov
ed physician,” and was a medical and
scientific man of high standing. The
opening verses of his Gospel show
what a scrupulously careful, scientific
observer and student he was.
The four Gospels, Matthew, Mark;
Luke and John, have different objec
tives and emphases, but no contra
dictions. “In all alike is revealed the
one unique Personality. The one Je
sus is King in Matthew, Servant in
Mark, Man in Luke, and God in John.
But- not only so; for Matthew’s King
Is also Servant, Man/and God; and
Mark’s Servant is also King, .’and
Man, and God; Luke’s Man is also
King, and Servant, and God; and
John’s eternal Son is also King,, and
Servant, and Man.”' • ■ ■
' Again, it has been noted that Luke
is the Gospel of the human-divine
One, as John is of the divine-human
One. Scofield suggests as the key
phrase of Luke’s Gospel, “Son of
man,” and the key-verse (19:10), “For
the Son of man is come to seek and
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to save that which was lost.”
It will be well worth while for
those following the six months’ i
course in the Gospel of Lyke to read
this. Gospel through at a sitting, and
then read it through again and again
between now and next June. This
course of Sunday school lessons in
cludes every verse of the twenty-four
chapters, Let vs study in such a way
as to get a real understanding of the
book as a whole, working out our
own outline of its plan and divisions,
and studying to master the Gospel—
that is, to be able to think it through
with our Bible closed.
The time had come, in the history
of the world, for the consummating
of the eternal purpose of mankind
and of the created universe, AU his
tory and all heaven, and God Himself,
had been looking forward from the
foundation of the world to what was
now •about to occur. All subsequent
history, and, all eternity, will look
back at what occurred in the events
recorded in the four Gospels.
Luke’s first chapter tells of the pre
paration for the coming o'f Christ by
the birth of His divinely . appointed,
forerunner, John the Baptist, which
was accomplished by a miracle. His
mother was Elisabeth, the cousin of]
Mary, the mother of Jesus. John’s'
father, Zacharias, was told by the an
gel Gabriel before. John’s birth what
his name and life-mission should be,
Six months later “the angel Gabriel
was sent from God unto a city of
Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin
espoused to a man whose name was
Joseph, of the house .of David; and
the virgin’s name was Mary.”
Ever since God had told Eve, after
her sin in the garden, of Eden, that
her seed should destroy Satan and re-
'deem the human race, undoing the
consequences of the sin of Adam and
Eve, human mothers had. hoped that
their son might be the Redeemer;
Peculiarly, was this true of the hopes
and longings of. Jewish mothers. How
Mary’s heart must have leaped as the
angel said to her: “Hail, thou
art highly favored, the Lord is
thee: blessed art thou among
men.”
Then came the great, unique
nunciation, which no other woman in
the history of the human race has
ever had. Gabriel brought Mary sev
en divinely given prophecies or prom
ises :
Thou shalt’ conceive 'in thy womb,
And bring forth a son,
And shalt call His name Jesus.
He shall, be great.
And shall be called the Son of the
Highest.
_ And the Lord God shall give unto
Him! the throne of his father David.
And he shall reign over the H°use
of Jacob for ever, and of His King
dom there shall be no end.
It should Ke noted that, “of these
that
with
wo-
seven plain prophecie^,. five have been,
fulfilled and two still ^wait fulfilment.
The first five were fulfilled during
Mary's life, in the earthly life and
ministry of her Son, Jesus Christ.
But the last two await fulfilment.
God has not yet given Jesus Christ
“the- throne of His, father Dayid”
Nor has Christ yet begun His reign
over Israel; He has not yet taken His-
everlasting kingdom.
The last two prophecies are as im- ’
mutably certain of fulfilment as were
the first five, So we look for the se
cond coming of Christ* to take
throne and reign over Israel and
whole world.
The: angel told Mary plainly
her Son was to be born, not of a hu
man father, but of God Himself, the-
Holy Spirit. This is but; one off sev
eral Scripture/passages plainly dec
laring the virgin birth Of Christ. Iff
cannot- be denied except by denying
the truthfulness and inspiration of’
God’s Word. . . “
When, soon after this, Elizabeth
visited Mary, both women lifted their
voices to God in worship and 'thanks-
' giving; and Mary’s spng, The Magni
ficat, is the “Mother’s Song” of tiffs-
lesson. Mary uttered truths far be
yond her human knowledge, given to
iler by God Himself.
“’My spirit hath rejoiced in God my
Saviour,” she sang. She did not then<-
know all that she learned years later
as to how her own babe, yet unborn,. .
was to become her Saviour and the
Saviour of the world.
Her song proclaimed God’s grace,,
or undeserved love and mercy, “He ’(
hath put down the mighty from their
seats, and exalted them of low de
gree.” Those who had no sense of
need. cannot receive Christ as their
Saviour. Those who know that they
are desperately needy can be saved,,
and are saved as they receive this
Saviour.
And let us remember: “Christ came,
not to preach the Gospel, but that
there might be a Gospel to preach.”-
His-
this,
that:
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