PAGE SIX P ROM First Instalment A whistle sounded across the harbour, the signal for tne Marenia tc 3lip from her moorings, its booming note spread tumult through the midnight. stillness and startled a flock of sea gulls into flight. Two snubnosed tugs prodded the shin's sides and eased her slowiniy into midstream, where she paused for a throbbing second, a dark monster riddled with rings of gold. Along her decks, passengers leaned at the rails. The band played and the music drifted faintly back to those who stood at the end of the pier, waving good-bye to their friends who were starting out on a cruise around the world. Keith Macduff turned a v.-ay from the rail and climbed to M e boat deck, where he could breathe the iced night air without distraction. The Wool worth Tower, eld and friendly, went shimmering' past, as the Marenia cleared the tip of Manhattan | Island. Macduff oreathei deeply and his chest swelled under his ulster. There I was no one in New York that he j would miss: that was one of the great I advantages of going through life I without ties. Ho had boasted to Ha-' mish Ingles that he would sail around ! the world and never speak to a soul. Hamish had laughed him to scorn, telling him that tiiere was nothing more difficult to down th&r. the overtures to one's fellow travellers on a cruise. As a solace, he had made him a list of the best cocktails of every port. A light breeze was ruffling the! water's surface and Macduff looked! back at the sparkling towers that were now no more than a trail of j phosphorescence. New York was the' place for work, he reflected, thinking \ of all the pleasant things that a man j could do when he lived by himself. lie would miss his peaceful exist- i er.ee in New York, and his pleasant eve rings with detective stories, un uei- uve nattered lamp mat Susannah wanted removed in favour of something she called a bridge stand. His thoughts ran back over his years in New York Finch one was locked in a dark chamber in his mind, and it was oniy at rare intervals, when something unusual was happening to mfn, that he switched on the lights: then tilings sprang to life like pictures on Macduff looked back towards New York. It was only a phantom of light on the water's edge now, but he knew that its tiers of stone and panes of glass aspired to (he drifting clouds. Etor a brief flash he could sec thru' it all, as if the walls had collapsed heier * his eyes?bright rooms ir.lia- 1 bit ad bv people chatteiug about nothing; men an! woman quarreling, making loye, reading and dancing; bands playing; radios spreading din; children making a noise. Such a race for huddling! They did not know what it was to spend an evening alcne. or to seek quiet with a book. Must have company, must make whoopee. Bah! He turned away. He saw a fur coat 1 and a huge hur.ch of orchids curled j rt-gixmst iae ran. Clare Laugford, lost in thought, watched his receding back for a mo-! ment, then turned her attention to j the sea. Dick Charlton, the chief officer, came stalking along the deck, and leaned against the railing, several yards away. His cap was tilted ; over a profile a3 shaip as the blade I of a knife. "Are we near Quarantine?" she asked, aware of his presence. "Just about there." He moved responsively in her direction. Clare turned her face towards him. It was pale and oval in the halflight. marked only by the full curve of her lips. "I'm so glad to be leaving New York!'* Her admission was as swift as the blaze of her eyes. Then she remembered herself and was quenched. She turned to the rail again and forgot that there was anyone else on the top deck. Dick moved quietly on his way. A shiver ran through her frame. She was glad to be leaving New York, and to be going around the world. It was an excellent thing to be getting away from Hugh. Four months were too many to have devoted to him. ; She looked back at the trail of light 1 that marked New York and could see hivn returnincr alom> tn ment. How had she ever come to throw in her lot with his? It was so V unlikely?a dusty scientist who had < turned to writing and worldJy living, ' after a lifetime in his laboratory. Her friends were continually telling her that his mind was gay and enterprising: they had discovered that : from his books. 1 "Poor Hugh!" she thought, as she i leaned over .the rail. "He looked so i mournful as the boat moved out. What will he do with himself now?" But Hugh was less at a loss than she imagined. Soon after meeting Clare, l one of his oldest friends had warn- ' Cd that she WAD the wrnnv wen)- fl an for him, and that he must not neglect his work for her. Clare was suddenly weary. Yes, she was glad to be getting away. There was no excitement for her in the ethereal beauty. "I think I shall turn in," she thought, looking around to see if anyone were in sight. "I won v\ 'E1SADE ISHBEL ROSS j der if I couldn't have my deck chair j ! up here. It would be quiet, and more I romantic under the stars." The passengers were disappearing ! for the night, until only a sprinkling remained on deck. The Marenia was heading* for the sea, and her four i jewelled strings of light were show ing blanks above the water line, as i one porthole after another went dark. i in a, minimum rate eauin on ij ut'tn Miss Alice Mudge bent with flutter- j j ing fingers over a straw suitcase ly- j j ing open on her narrow bed. Her! I black eyes gleamed from a nest of I j anxious folds, for she was ner r : sighted and had decided to avoid her j glasses as much as possible. Some where she had read that glasses were j ! a hindrance to romance, and nothing must interfere with the full -enjoyment of her trip around the world, j In a spasm of anxiety lier hand I moved to her waist. She took off her; belt, undid her skirt, and fumbled j for the small chamois bag that Ror-! | tense, the seamstress of Or.onto, Wis. j consm, had made for her. along with j her travei wardrobe. At last she had dug her way thru' I tapes and buttons and had reachedI the chamois bag. Twittering, she j turned it upside down on the bed,; having first made sure that the cabin 1 door was locked. Before her lay five hundred dollars in crackling bills which Mr. Brown, the banker, had given her with a flourish, remarking! that it was not every day that Onon-! to had a citizen leaving for a trip i around the world. Her ticket, which had cost two thousand was safe in her handbag, i ready to be turned over to the purser I tomorrow. It. had taken her twenty j years of saving and scrimping to ac-! i_uu,uiai.i; c%v?jrtcy-jiivt.* nvpiurea aouars: | though now it seemed like a day. By I being" very careful Miss Mudge would j see the world sumptuously on her' I surplus of $500 : The boat was beginning to heave j arid Miss Mudge wondered if she , should take her Scaoxyl now, or | wait until she felt ill. No, the direc! lions said to take it before feeling ! iil. Hail she been wise to have her j hair bobbed before sailing, or was | it frivolous and out of keeping with her years and occupation ? It was too j late to worry about it now. Besides. | she rather liked it, and, whatever i happened.. she was going to be utter7 (ly frivolous for the next five months. I No one could stop her. ! Her cabin was comfortable enough i although her bunk seemed perched at j a great height. She lay on her hack ; and at last she turned out her lights j and murmured a little prayer She j was so thankful to Providence tor letting her go round the world at | last. With the words slipping over her lips, she fell asleep, lulled by the poimd(ng of the engines. ] The Marema began to creak and roil in answer to the sea Sandy Hook was left behind and the pilot had ! taken off. Captain Mark Baring,! 1 nrr An t-Vn J-? - " ' ' ' mn unu^t', ana straining his eyes into the darkness that lay j ahead, was the least cheerful person on board. He saw five hard months ahead of him. care and responsibility, strange harbours and the monotony that drove crew and passengers to erratic behaviour. 1 A panorama of faces swept before him?middle-aged women starved for romance, travellers who had been everywhere and who made him a target for their ill-assorted knowledge, women who talked too much, women who laughed too much, and, above all. women who drank too much. He lived in a world of his own and escaped when he could from the ship's festivities, but the cock-tail parties, the teas and dinners, were a necessary part of ship routine that he could not avoid. Only his intimates know that he played a muted violin in his own quarters, and that there were times 1 when he wrote verse. None of the j crew suspected that the quiet, hard man who skippered the ship was an artist at heart. They thought he was made of ice?hard to chip, slow to melt, but a capital seaman. The Marenia creaked a slow refrain from bow to stern. His heart rose suddenly to the tune of the sea. Here, 1 j at least, was something that fitted i j his mood?master of his boat, sailing JI the seven, seas! ? i The Marenia was three days out and her passengers were settling down to the routine of life at sea. The unwary were rushing heedlessly into friendships which they were soon to regret. Clare had scarcely left the top deck since sailing. She sunned herself tiil her skin had the warmth of a pomegranate. The flame of the dying day flickered in her half-veiled eyes as Dick studied her attentively. "It's an odd .thing about sunsets," he was saying, "one can never remember them. They're marvelous for fifteen minutes and you think thatl ail your life you will hold their beauty, but try to summon up the picture the next day! It's gone." He was staring at the sky, and she thought with impatience that he was lost to her?a missionary like Hugh, the most tiresome kind of man. They were always floating off in their mental airships when one - 'AT AUG A DEMOCRAT?EVERY D ECK j most wanted their companionship. "How often have you been around the worid ?" she pursued. Dick looked at her suddenly and ! Iii3 thoughts receded like fading plc! tures. in the presence of this dazzling I creature with skin like honey. ''This is my seventh cruise with i the Marenia, and before that I knockj ed about, the world a bit on other Knntc- " She measured him with her eyes, i "What a wise young man you must be?knowing all about love!" "What rot! I scarcely believe in love." Clare laughed. Dick looked down at her. "Women are constantly building up the fiction of enduring love," he said, "but it really doesn't endure, unless one's life is so deadly dull that there's no chance for romance. Usually women destroy their own images by holding on for too long. They should always be first in knowing when things are over. However, it's an instinct in which thev are totally lacking." ?:You haven't told me half enough." she observed. "Tell me some more about women. Tell mo what you think | of American women." Dick threw back his head and laughed. "I wonder if you were wise to ask me that," lie said. "Shall you be offended if I tell von I think them a hi'Je overbearing?too intent on their looks, their clothes, their careers. their an bitions? And I haven't words to describe the .vay they treat l>ier men, nibbling at their self-respect, leading them by the noses, mak. \ ing them wait lor hours for the mer- j est whim." "You rather extreme, aren't you?" said Clare, lazily, amused by Dick's! tirade, '*and you're not very polite.! Take my word for it." she added de- i fensive.ly, "American women are be-j loved by the gods. Show me any women on earth who arc more clever and chic, more free and independent, or having*, so good a time." "That's it." .saiii pick, equally. They're self-sufficient, self-contain-: ed and frozen over with ambition/"j* He was watching her with a glimmer | of amusement. Clare's mood flashed to annoyance. Coiit inued Next Week PICTURES IN tOLOlUS Through the process of natural color printing, pictures itpw appear in all their brilliancy and clearness. Follow this new feature every Sunday in the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. Your newsdealer has your copy or by mail for 50 cents a month. East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Motor Transportation Company. 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Coming back to North arcvina lie married Mae Church on anuary 3, 1901. To this union was orn four children of which two died ! infancy. lie is survived by his widow, Mae alloway, two brothers, Harrison, nd Melvin, both of North Carolina, ne son, Arcillar Calloway, of Ame a, Ohio, two daughters, Mrs. Azaa Coffey of Shulls Mills, N. C., and !i-s. Udilii White of Amelia. Ohio; S' eight grandchildren. They took upon themselves the aring of an infant whose mother ;ed at birth, and which is now four bars of age. earing for him as ten;rly as if he was their very own. lay tho good Uord bless them for lis mercy act. In his eaiicr life he illowed the carpenter trade. For sveral years he was contractor for le Whiting Luniher Co.. working round the old Grandfather llouniin. in the shadow of which he was urn. lie came to AemHa, Ohio to his omc on Coles Road March 3, 1B2C here he resided until his death. He uictly went to rest after an illness r aliout u year. 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