FINAL INSTALLMENT
could hepr the rending,!
sound of Maggie sobbing
bitterly, deeply, as a child sobs and
as If her heart wouM break.
Hie three exchanfed glances, and
presently. OJiabeth said slowly: "It
seems like we have the worst luck
of any famly In this city-"
Her mother took the theme up
readily.
{Pop, up to this point, had been
silent, as Pop generally was.
Wow, suddenly, he rose th his feet
and dashed to the ground the
striped tea cloth he had been us
ing as a napkin.
' "Maggie!" he shouted. ,
Immediately she wa< In the
kitchen.
"Maggie, we've .had enough of
this!" said Leonard Johnson, in a
loud, authoritative voice. "I can t
stand no more of It, and I alnt (
a-goin' to I You take that towel
there and wash your eyes and fix
your hair. And, Liz. you pack your f
sister some clothes! She's got seven
fecn minutes? if that clock's right
to catch the steamer, and she's
^oln' to catch It! She's goln' to
Het married on board today, or may
bes in San Francisco or Los Angeles
tomorrow or next day ? you help her
out there. Ma. Quick, now? whU?
I phone for a taxi!"
"Len, are you crazy?" Ma began
royally. But Pop, crazy or not,
was vat least unafraid.
"You quit talking, Minnie," he
said sharply, "and get up and stir
yourself." Pop staid tenderly soli
citously. to Maggie, guiding her to
the sink, switching on the cold
water, the furious glare in his eyes
as he looked at the other women
In courlous contrast to the gentle
ness of his voice when he addressed
her. "In this envelope is my half-"!
month's pay, dearie," he said?
"You keep your mouth closed,
Tilzabcth, till I give you leave to
sp^k!" Pop Interpolated fiercely
? *^d you can* get yourself s?me
clothe* first place you stop. Hurry '
up there. Ma? the taxi's li'ble to
get here any minute."
"Len? it seems like I'm going to
faint," said Mrs. Johnson, pausing
pathetically in the act of rushing
Maggie's black silk dres and her
new clothes into a suitcase and
adding 'Lizabeth'S best nightgown
and the Chinese wrapper she her
self had won at a fair.
"Well, you faint, then, but let
roe get Maggie off first!" Len said
- briskly and heartlessly.
"Len, don't yell that way!" Ma
said, weeping as she put on her
black-veiled hat.
"And we ain't going to miss you.
* Maggie, and we ain't going to;
slump," Len Interrupted the fright
ened chorus to say loudly. "Now.
? you come on out ? put your gloves
on In the taxi? we ain't got but
fourteen minutes."
Laughing, crying, but always
clinging tight to this newly found
and amazing parent, Mary Mar
garet had only time to leave a hys
terlcl goodbye with the dog, and
the t&t, and the beloved, despised,
^hhabby kitchen, with its cooling
H>ffee and congealing sausages and
^lmp dish towels and greasy sink.
Then Ihey were all four jammed
Into a taxi, and racketing through
the Saturday morning streets, past
the church, and the market, down
the Schoclhouse way ? among the
- warehouses
Their tajk was Incoherent? Incon
sequential? monosyllabic.
"Can he make It?"
"He says he doesn't know. De
pends on the traffic on River Street
"This ain't exactly an ideel wed
dih', dearie."
"Ah, don't. Pop. You 11 make me
cry!"
"Driver, we goln' to make it?"
"How much time have we? ? Lean
forward there, "Pop, and see can
you see the clock at Rubenstein's?"
And then, down outside the big
free-market, suddenly the agony
of a'halt.
An officer's imperative whistle and
a blue-coated figure approaching.
But Ma. even though speechless,
was not entirely without resources
She dismounted from the taxi, met
- the policeman, and as an interested
little crowd gathered, and before
that offloer could speak, fainted
from sheer emotion, heavily, into
his arms.
"She's an right? go on." Pop 4atd
in an undertone.
Maggie sat back on the seat,
holding LI* '5. hand, beginning to
breathe again. f '
"Pop. can we make it?"
"We could, dearie, if nothing
-happens," Pop was beginning doubt
fully. when another wlstle, this time
a toothing long breath, as of relief,
Interrupted him, and the driver,
muttering something unintelligible
that sounded like a prayer. turAed
In to a curb, stopped the car, and
uttered aloud the single disgusted
word. 'TtaV'
TJiabeUi Johnson had sprang
from the machine, hailed another
taxi, pushed her fattier and lister
into it. and shouted feverishly: To
the. Allegria. Dock Seventeen.
Quick, now! IH stay here and pay j
this man. Pop," she said, hurrying
them on. "Good-bye, Maggie, dad- 1
in g, forgive me if I've been mean,
to you, and have a good time, and
don't worry."
Thfn Maggie and her father
were rushfng on again; they
had reached the piers at last, Pier
Eleven, Pier" Thirteen? still so far
to go! And they could see the big
clock saying that the hour bad
come and gone. It was three min
utes past eleven.
Maggie turned deadly white, but
she managed an agonized smile of
reassurance for her father.
"That's all right, Pop. We did
our best!"
"Maybe they dldnt sail on the
minute," said the new driver en
couragingly. "I've seen 'em twen- '
ty minutes late!" ,
, "Oh, go on, then-r?o ah!" the
girl said- feverishly.
"I cant go no faster than this,
lady!" the driver said, hurt. .'There
ain't many of these cars can jump
ove*~ or under trucks, you know.
You'd do better to take your little
suitcase and run for it."
pathetically. ^
The girl did not stir. Her pjta
fixed on the Allegria, her hands
clasped. , : ,
Somebody touched her arm, and
she looked up and saw It was Joe's
fatter. With him was Joe's moth
er; die had teen crying, and his
father's face looked grave, and his
lashes were wet, too.
But Maggie did not cry. She
gulped, and her wan little face
twisted into a smile as she Aid
simply:
- "I was going with him. I couldn't
? I couldnt tear it. But It seems ?
he's gone."
"You were going with him!" his
father said, sharply. -
"Here! Where are the launches,
boy? ? Mayne's launches ? they're
somewhere around here! This girt
and boy arent going to be any use
apart, Lillian," he said to his wife,
smiling, yet blinking tears from his
eyes. "Let 'em both go off to
Japan and console each other!"
He was hurrying them along the
dock, and Maggie found her hands
filled with big green bills from Joe's
father, and found herself kissing
him, and liking the firm, fatherly
embrace, and ? much more amaz
ing!? received a perfumed, powdery,
half -crying kiss from Joe's magnifi
There was a double scream of "Maggie!" and "Joe!" and the two
young things were iiu each other's arms.
"Do that, Maggie!" said the new
ly authoritative and decisive man
who was her father. "Ill stay with
him, dear. Look out where you go
? ah, God bless you, my- darling!"
"Ood bless you ? and thank yofi,
Pop deareit!" she whispered.
Then Maggie was' running? run
ning like mad toward the big
arched tntrance that said, "Ffer
Seventeen." A baggage boy had
caught her bag and coat, and was
running along beside her.
"The Davenport Line, miss?"
"No? the Allegria!"
"Oh " And his feet stopped,
and hers, too, and they stared
blankly at each other. "She's sailed,
miss: she went out on time, this
morning," the boy rfaid. "Thatls
her? out there in the bay."
As in a dream, Maggie stood still,
on the rough, thick, splintery boards
of the dock, and lookfe^ through
the great arched opening, and saw
the vessel, balanced like a beauti
ful great swan, not moving now, but
far out on the blue water.
"The pilot's going to drop her any
minute, now, miss. Ain't that a
shame!" said the baggage boy, sym
Restless,
could not sleep
MTHERE were" days
when I felt like I
could not get my work
done. I would get so
nervous and 'trembly'
I would have to lie
down. I was very rest
less, and could not
sleep at night.
My mother advised
me to ' take Cardul,
and I certainly am
glad she did. It la
the first thing that
seemed to give me
any strength. I felt
better after the first
bottle. I kept It up
and am now feel
ing fine."? mi* t.
R. Qlboon, Port
2VW. Ala.
* Black-Draught
tot Omtlpatton, Indication,
Ma Blllouroww.
cent mother, too.
She was helped Into a dancing
little launch, the dirty surface of
the water was bubbling close be
side her. They were cleaving a
straight track toward the big liner,
and Maggie, leaning over the bow
of the launch, was straining toward
It, was clapping her two hands over
her head to attract its attention, to
hold It one minute? one half- min
ut? more!
The pilot's tug was alongside,
ready to cast o B from the sheer
great side of the steamer; a rope
ladder dangled from the high ateer- 1
age deck at the one, to curl loosely
among the hatches and marlinapUtea
of the other.
And everyone who could find a j
place by the long rail*, first cabin,
tourist cabin, steerage alike, saw a r
launch racing ?out from the city,
and a small girl standing bare
headed? in the launch, an aureole
of gold bloving about her bead, and
her hands clasped high above it,
like the han/in of s martyr
at the stake. ~
And suddenly, in their own ranks
on the steamer's decks, there was
a corresponding commotion, and a
tall, lean boy, with a dftsperav* and
anxious look upon his fa<ie, broke
through them, ran down a com
panion way, and another compan
ionway, to the break In the railing
where the pilot's ladder hung, and
: shouted:
| ? "Walt a minute, down there! I"re
| got to go back! Don't take that lad
j der down ? wait a minute!"
j Then? so quickly that even dur
; ing the whole long voyage, with the
' blissful young bride and groom af
fording a reminder before their very
eyes, some of the passengers could
n't remember In exactly wfeat order
it all occurred ? then the flying
launch had reached the pilot's tug,
and the boy had jlesoended the rope
ladder, and the girl had sprung
from the launch to the tug:, and
there was a double scream of
"Maggie!" and "Joe!" and the two
young things were in each other's
arms, and crying ? not but what
everyone else was crying, too.
They stood there on the rocking
. tug for whole minutes ? minutes ?
minutes, and the world looked on,
and laughed, and wiped lta eyes, and
they neither knew nor cared And
M was only when' tha great AUegria.
actually blew her whistle and the lit
tle tug blew hers that Joe put his
arm about Mary Margaret Johnson
and said, dazedly and happily, with
out moving -bis hungry eye* from '
her equlsite and radiant face:
"Come , on, darling, we've got a
lot to "do ? we've gait to tftart to'
Japan, and get married, and have'
lunch, and talk, and everything!" I
And/ then they negotiated the ,
rope-and-plant ladder and the pas
sengers made an aisle across the
deck for them.
"We're going to have % wedding,
some time this afternoon," Joe
said excitedly, and proudly and
youthfully, to the lingering groups
that simply couldnt disperse in the
face of this fascinating drama and
comedy in one. "And you're all i
invited!"
"Oh, thank you ? thank you ? thank
you!" Maggie whispered.
And Joe showed her boattf and
ropes and writing rooms and din
ing rooms and a Japanese baby In
the steerage 'and his own big cabin
? their cabin, with its bath.
"You'll hear the bugle for lunch,
soon," he exulted, as the cool sweet
ocean air began to blow over the
ship, and she careened slightly, and
the color was whipped into Mag
gie's face, and the gulls and the
city dropped farther behind? and
farther behind ? and farther behind.
"You don't mind that rocking?
You're a wonder! You're going to
love It"
"I shouldn't wonder if It's the
ideal life, Joe," said Mary Mar
garet. THE END
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