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THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, N. C. lit MM aft "Tr,l ' i f f VT mwt MVV ' " V.- iLM "HE'S YOU! Mr. Horace Hlgnett, worM famous writer on theoaophv. au thor of The Spreading Ucht," etc., etc. arrival In New York on a lecturlnr tour. Eustace, her on, la with her. Wlndlea. ances tral home of the Hlsrnetta, la hla, ao her life la largely devoted to keeping him unmarried. Enter her nephew. Ram. eon of Sir Mal labjr Marlowe, the eminent Lon don lawyer. It la arranged that Sam and Euetaoe shall aall to gether on the Atlantic the next day. Enter Bream Mortimer. American, son of a friend of an Insufferable American named Bennett who haa been pestering Mrs. Hlgnett to lease Wlndles. Bream Informs her that Wll helmlna Bennett Is waiting for Eustace at the Little Church Round the Corner. Bream him self Is In love with Wllhelmlna. Mra. Hlgnett marches off to Bus tace'a room. The acene shifts to the Atlantic at her pier. Sam. heading for the gangplank, meets a glorious, red-headed girl, with whom he Inatantly falls In love, though her dog bltea him. Eue tace appeara. heart-broken. It appears that his mother had "pinched hla trousers" and de layed the ceremony, whereupon Wllhelmlna had declared the wed ding off. Sam la pushed over board, haa a desperate atrugglc In the water with another swim mer and rejoins the Atlantlo at quarantine. The red-headed girl la Wllhelmlna Bennett "Billie." She halls Sam aa a hero and In troduces Bream. Eustace, a poor sailor, keepa to his berth. He doesn't know Billie Is on board. Sam makes warm love. He pro poses and la accepted. CHAPTER IV Continued. She traced a pattern on the deck with her shoe. 'Tm afraid of myself, ton see, once ago I thought 1 had met my Ideal, but . . ." Sam laughed heartily. "Are you worrying abont that ab surd business of poor old Eustace Hlgnett r ihe started violently. Tou know I" - " "Of course 1 He told me himself." "Do you know him? Where did you meet hlmf" "I've known him all my life. He's my cousin. As a matter of fact, we are sharing a stateroom on board now." "Eustace Is on board I Oh, this is awful I What shall I do when I meet hlmr "Oh, pass It off with a light laugh and a genial quip. Just say : 'Oh, here you are !' or something. You know the aort of thing." . "It will be terrible." "Not a bit of It. Why should you feel embarrassed? He must have real ized by now that you acted In the only possible way. . It was absurd his ever expecting you to marry him. I mean to say, Just look at It dispassion ately . Eustace . . . poor old Eustace . . and you I . The Princess and the Swineherd!" "Does Mr. Hlgnett keep pigs?" she asked, surprised. "I mean that poor old Eustace .is o far below you, darling, that, with the most charitable Intentions, one can only look op his asking. you to marry him In the light of a record exhibition of pure nerve. A dear, good fellow., of course, but hopeless where the sterner realities of life are concerned. A man who can't even stop a dog-flght! In a world which Is practically one seething mass of fighting dogs, how could you trust yourself to such a one? Nobody Is fonder of Eustace Hlgnett than I am, but ... well, I mean to say 1" "I see what you mean. He really wasn't my Ideal." " "Not by a mile." : She mused, her chin In her hand. "Of course, he was quite a dear In a lot of ways." "Oh, a splendid chap," said Sam tol erantly. : - "Have you ever heard him sing? I think what first attracted me to him was his beautiful voice. He really alnga extraordinarily welL" A slight bub definite spasm of Jeal ousy afflicted Sam. He had bo ob jection to praising poor old Eustace within decent limits, but the conversa tion seemed to him to be confining , Iiseil too exclusively iu uuw auujevu . - i , jst. v i a Mm sing. Not lately. He does drawing-room' ballads and all that sort of thing still, I suppose?" Tfn vnn over heard htm alnar Hi love is like a glowing tulip that In an old-world garden grows'?" "I have not 'had7 that advantage, replied Sam stiffly.- "But anyone can sing a drawing-room 'v ballad. Now something funny, something that will make 'people laugh, something , that really needs putting across-, ., t . that's different thing altogether." . "Do you sing that sort of thing?' "People have been good enough to Mi J C-il vt X'Ul aoi4dlx, "to l A MAW - PG.Wodchouso Ifltratlm -h V aa tv v v s must certainty do something at the ship's concert tomorrow I The Idea r your trying to hide yur light undei u bushel! I will tell Bream to count on you. He la an excellent accom panist He can accompany you" "Yes, but . . . well, I don't know,1 said Sam doubtfully. He could not help remembering that the lust time he had sung In public had been at a supper at school, seven years before, and that on that occasion somebody whom It was a lasting grief to him that he bad been unable to Identify had thrown a pat of butter at him. "Of course you must sing," said Billie. "I'll tell Bream when I go down to lunch. What will you sing?" "Well er " "Well. I'm sure It will be wonderful whatever It Is. You are so wonderful in every way. You remind me of one of the heroes of old!" Sam's discomposure vanished. In the first place, this was much more the sort of conversation which be felt the situation Indicated. In the second place he had remembered that there was no need for him to ting at all. He could do that Imitation of Frank Tin ner which had been such a hit at the Trinity smoker. He was on safe1 ground there. He knew he was good. He clasped the girl to blm and kissed her sixteen times. Suddenly, as he released her, the cloud came back Into her face. "My angel," he asked solicitously, what's the matter?" "I was thinking of father," she said. The glowing splendor of the morn ing took on a touch of chill for Sam. "Father!" he said thoughtfully. "Yes, I see what you mean! He will think that we have been a little pre cipitate, eh? He will require a little time In order to learn to love me, you think?" "He Is sure to be pretty angry at first," agreed Billie. "You see I know be has always hoped that I would marry Bream." "Bream! Bream Mortimer! What a silly thing to hope!" "Well, you see, I told you that Mr. Mortimer was father's best friend. They are both over In England now, and are trying to get a bouse In the country for the summer which we can all shore. I rather think the Idea Is to bring me und Bream closer to gether." "How the deuce could that fellow be brought any closer to you? He's like a burr as It Is." Well, that was the Idea, I'm sure. Of course I could never look at Bream "I hate looking at him myself," said Sam feelingly. A group of afflicted persons, bent upon playing with long sticks and bits of wood, now Invaded the upper deck. Their weak-minded cries filled the air. Sam' and the girl rose. "Touching ' on your father once more," he said as they made their way below, "Is he a very formidable sort of man?" . "He can be a dear. But he's rather quick-tempered. You must be very Ingratiating." I will practice it In front of the glass every morning for the rest of the voyage," said Sam. , He went down to the stateroom in a mixed mood of elation and apprehen sion. He was engaged to the most wonderful girl in the world, but over the horizon loomed the menacing figure of Father. He wished lie could Induce Billie to allow him to waive the for mality of thawing Father. Eustace Hlgnett had apparently been able to do so. But that experience had pre sumably engendered a certain caution In her. The Hlgnett fiasco had spoiled her for runaway marriages. Well, If It had to be done. It must be done, and that was all there was to It . CHAPTER V "Good Q d I" cried Eustace Hlg nett . . : He stared at the figure which loomed above him in the fading light which came through the porthole of the stateroom. TJhe hour was seven thirty and he had Just woken from a troubled doze, full of strange night mares, and for the moment be thought that he must still be dreaming, for the figure before him could have walked straight Into any nightmare and no questions asked.,- Then suddenly he became aware that .It was his cousin, Samuel Marlowe. As In the historic case of father In the pigsty, he could tell him by his hat i But why was he looking like that? Was It simply some trick of the uncertain tight or wal hla face really black and had his mouth suddenly grown to six times It norma: size and become a vivid crimson? " Sam' turned. He had been looking at hlmoetf In the mirror with a satis faction, which, .to, the casual .observer, his appearance would not have. seemed to Justify. Hlgnett had 'not been suf fering from a delusion. ' His' cousin's face was black; and. even as he turned, he gave It a dub with a piece nil of burnt cork ant mud U blacker. "Hullo I You awake r he said and switched on the tight, . Eustace Hlgnett shied like a startled horse. His friend's profile, seen dimly, had been disconcerting enough. Full face, he was a revolting object Noth ing that Eustace Hlgnett had' encoun tered In his recent dreams and they had included such unusual fauna as elephants In top hats and running shorts had affected him so profound ly. Sam's appearance smote him like a blow. It seemed to take him straight Into a different and dreadful world. , "What ... what . . . what . . . r he gurgled.. . Sam squinted at himself In the glass and added a touch of black to bis Dose. "How do I lookr EiiRtace Hlgnett began to fear that his cousin's reason must have become unseated. He could not conceive of any really sane man, looking Ilka that, being anxious to be told how be looked, "Are my lips red enough? It'a for the ship's concert you know. It starts In half an hour, though I be lieve I'm not on till the second part Speaking as a friend, would you put a touch more black round the ears, or are they all right?" Curiosity replaced apprehension In Hlgnett's mind. "What on earth are you doing per forming at the ship's concert?" "Oh, they roped me In. It got about somehow that I was a valuable man and they wouldn't take no." Sam deepened the color of his ears. "As a matter of fact he said casually, "niy fiancee made rather a point of my doing something." A sharp yell from the lower berth proclaimed the fact that the signifi cance of the remark had not been lost on Eustace. , 1 "Your fiancee?" "The girl I'm engaged to. Didn't I tell you about that? Yes, Fm en gaged." Eustace sighed heavily. "I feared the worst Tell me, who Is she?" "Didn't I tell yon her name?" "No." "Curious! I must have forgotten." He hummed an airy strain as be black ened the tip of his nose. "It's rather a curious coincidence, really. Her name is Bennett." ' "She may be a relation." "That's true. Of course, girls do have relations." "What Is her first name?" "That is another rather remarkable thing. It's Wllhelmlna." . "Wllhelmlna!" "Of course, there must be hundreds of girls In the world called Wllhelmlna Bennett, but still It Is a coincidence." "What color Is her hair?" demanded Eustace Hlgnett In a hollow voice. Her hair! What color Is It?" "Her hair? Now, let me see. You ask me what Color Is her hair. Well, you might call It auburn . '. t. or russet ... or you might rail it Titian. . . ." 'Never mind what you might call It. Is It red?" "Red? Why, yes. Thnt Is a very good description of It Now that you put It to me like that It Is red." "Has she a trick of grabbing at you suddenly when she geu excited, like a kitten with a ball of wool?" "Yes. Yes. she has." Eustace Hlgnett uttered a sharp cry. "Sam," he said, "can you bear a shock?" "I'll have a dash at It" "Brace up!" "Thcglrl you are engaged to ta the same girl who promised to marry me." "Well, well !" said Sam. There was a silence. "Awfully sorry, of course, and all that," said Sam. 'Don't apologize to me!" said Eus tace. "My poor old chap, my only feeling toward you Is one of the purest Eustice Hlgnett Began to Fear That Hi Cousin's Reason Must Have Be come Unseated. and profoundest pity." ' He reached out and pressed Sam's hand. "I regard you as a toad beneath the harrow I" "Well. I suppose that's one way of offering congratulations and cheery good wlsheat," : "And on top of that, went on Eus tace, deeply moved, "you have got to sing at the ship's concert" ' "Wiry shouldn't I sing at the ship's concert?" . . . "My dear old man, you have many worthy qualities, but you must know that yon can't sing. ; Yon can't sing for nuts! I don't want to discourage you. but long ago as It Is, you cant have forgotten what an ass yon made of reuraeLf " ti4 auuper at achitot. Seeing you up against It like this, X regret that I threw a lump of butter at you on that occasion, though at the time It seemed the only course to pursue." Sam started, "Was It you who threw that bit of butter?" "It was.". "I wish I'd known I Yon silly chump, you ruined my collar." "Ah, well. It's seven years ago. You would have had to send It to the wash anyhow by this time. But don't let us brood on (he past Let us put our heads together and think, how we can get you out of this terrible situation." "I don't want to get out of It 1 confidently expect to be the hit of the evening." "The hit of the evening I You I Singing I" "I'm not going to sing. I'm going to do that Imitation of Frank Tlnney which I did at the Trinity smoker. Vou haven't forgotten that? You were at the piano taking the part of the conductor of the orchestra. Vbat a riot I was we were I I say, Eustace, old man, I suppose you don't feel well enough to come up now and take your old part? You could do It without a rehearsal. You remember bow It went 'Hullo, Ernest !' 'Hullo, Frank I' Why not come along?" "The only piano 1 will ever alt at will be one firmly fixed on a flour that does not heave and wobble under me." "Nonsense ! The boat's as steady as a rock now. The sea's like a mill pond." "Nevertheless, thanking you for the suggestion, no!" ' "Oh, welt, then I shall have to get on as best I can with that fellow Mor timer. We've been rehearsing all the afternoon and be seetts to have the hang of the tiling. But he won't be really right He has no pep, no vim. Still, If you won't ... , well, I think I'll be getting along ta bis state room. I told blm I would look In for a last rehearsal." , The door closed behind Sam, and Eustace Hlgnett, lying on his back, gave himself up to melancholy medita tion. He was deeply disturbed by his cousin's sad story. He knew what It meant being engaged to Wllhelmlna Bennett It was like being taken aloft In a balloon and dropped with a thud on the rocks. His reflections were broken by the abrupt opening of the door. Marlowe rushed In. Eustace peered anxiously out of his berth. There was too much cork on his cousin's face to allow of any real registering of emotion, but he could tell from his manner that all was not well. "What's the matter?" . Sam sank on the lounge. "The bounder has quit I" "The bounder? What bounder?" "There Is only one I Bream Morti mer, curse him ! There may be others whom thoughtless critics rank as bounders, but be Is the only man really deserving of the title. He refuses to appear! He has walked out on the act I He has left me flat ! I went Into his stateroom Jusi now, as arranged, and the man was lying on his bunk, groaning." "I thought you sold the sea waa like a mill-pond." "It wasn't that! He's perfectly fit But It seni8 that the silly ass took It Into his head to propose to Billie Just before dinner apparently he's loved her for years In a silent, self-effacing way and of course she told him that she was engaged to me. and the thing upset him to such an extent that be' says the Idea of sitting down at a piano and helping me give an Imita tion of Frank Tlnney revolts him. He saya he Intends to spend the evening In bed. reading Schopenhauer. I hope It chokes him." "But this Is splendid 1 This lets yon out." "What do you mean? Lets me out?. "Why, now you won't be able to appear. Oh, you will be thankful for this In years to come." "Won't I appear.! Won't I dashed well appear! Do you think I'm going to disappoint that dear girl -when she la relying on me? I would rather die?" "But you can't appear without a pianist" "I've got a pianist." "You haver ' "Yes. A little undersized 'shrimp of a fellow with a green (ace and ears tike Water-wings." "I don't think I know him." "Yea, you do. He's you IT .. "Mel". , "Yes, you." You are going to sit at the piano tonight." . , . i Tm sorry to disappoint you, but It's Impossible. I gave you my views on ,the subject Just now." "You've altered them." "1 haven't." A "Well, you soon will, and 111 tell yon why. If yon don't get up out of that d d berth you've been roosting to all your life. I'm going to ring for J. B. Mldgeley and I'm going to tell lilm to bring me a bit of dinner In here and Tm going to eat It before your eyes." , , , f "Darting, N waa like you to ask me to meet you here."- 'TO BE CONTINUED.) .. .. Origin of "Dumdum."" ,' v The hollow-nosed "dumdum- bullets got their name from the place where they were manufactured. 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