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As no land had yet been seen, they stood on for the greater part of the night; but towards morning, Captain Tracy; afraid of running further, hove the ship to, to wait for daylight. Even before the first streaks of dawn appeared above the eastern horizon, the two mates, followed by Captain O'Brien, went aloft, eager to catch the expected sight of land.
"Oh, I beg your pardon," Joe hastened to say. "I mean a chocolate nut sundae. I was thinking of goldfish that's all." "That's different," laughed the clerk. "I thought you were trying to jolly me with the name of a new drink." And while Joe ate his cream his thoughts were busy with the idea which had suddenly come to him. "I wonder if Jim Tracy will stand for it," he mused.
But this woman of the world did nothing rashly. She was always acting from motive and though apparently unconcerned was keenly alive to the situation of the hour. Such was the tenor of Phillip Lawson's thoughts as he chatted to Hubert Tracy for more than half an hour, when the latter departed less satisfied than when he entered.
Tom could not tell just when he began to look upon Jerrie as the loveliest girl he had ever seen, and to contemplate the feasibility of making her Mrs. Tom Tracy. His admiration for her had been of slow growth, for she was worse than a nobody a child of the Tramp House, of whose antecedents nothing was known, while he was a Tracy, of Tracy Park, whom a duchess might be proud to wed.
When you meet your man he'll recognize the rest of his suit. That's a mighty embarrassing hat, you know, in a centre of civilization like this. I don't believe an angel could get employment in Washington in a halo like that." Tracy agreed to replace the hat with something of a modester form, and they stepped aboard a crowded car and stood with others on the rear platform.
Captain Tracy accordingly gave Larry an order to be received on board as one of the crew, while he himself returned homeward, to make further arrangements and to wait for a reply to the letter he had despatched to Ferris, Twigg, and Cash. He and Norah paid Mrs Massey a farewell visit. Norah had already carefully told her the information which had been so curiously gained.
So he went down town, and put in his advertisement, then went to a bank and handed in the $500 for deposit. "What name?" He hesitated and colored a little; he had forgotten to make a selection. He now brought out the first one that suggested itself: "Howard Tracy." When he was gone the clerks, marveling, said: "The cowboy blushed." The first step was accomplished.
That was the same party where the hostess and her daughters 'dispensed with the refreshments in the dining-room! But I am not going to keep you laughing over the Courier all the afternoon," and Mrs. Tracy tried to take the book away from Hannah. "Just one more," she begged. "Listen! 'Mrs. Gray's speech was replete with wit, wisdom and winsome ways. O dear, Mrs. Tracy!
He thought of having the seal do a series of juggling and other tricks on a platform near the tank, either before or after the under-water work. "But I guess we'd better wait until next season for that," said Jim Tracy when Joe spoke of it. "You see every act is timed now to occupy just so much of the programme.
It had all happened so suddenly, and the prospects were not very bright for the young circus performer. "What's to be done?" asked Helen. "I don't know," Joe was frank enough to say. "I'll have to have a talk with Jim Tracy." The ring-master shook his head when Joe reported to him the unsatisfactory result of the visit to the hospital. "It looks bad, Joe," said Jim. "That's what I think."
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