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From Paris I branched out and walked through Holland and Belgium, procuring an occasional lift by rail or canal when tired, and I had a tolerably good time of it "by and large." I worked Spain and other regions through agents to save time and shoe-leather. We crossed to England, and then made the homeward passage in the Cunarder GALLIA, a very fine ship.
But assuming that Liane had booked passages for New York by a Cunarder, a White Star or American Line Boat all three touched regularly at Cherbourg, west bound from Southampton he expected presently to go aboard a tender and be ferried out to one of the steamers whose riding lights were to be seen in the roadstead. Meanwhile he was lazily content....
So when I knew you were coming, I wired my agent in Baltimo' to go to Lexington market and to send me down on ice the best steak he could buy fo' money. It is now befo' you. "Jack, shall I cut you a piece of the tenderloin?" It was in the smoking-room of a Cunarder two days out.
The little shelf with its five telephones was no more like the marvellous exchanges of to-day than a canoe is like a Cunarder, but it was unquestionably the first place where several telephone wires came together and could be united. Soon afterwards, Holmes took his telephones out of the banks, and started a real telephone business among the express companies of Boston.
He said, "Wall now, whin I bring in a Cunarder and back her into her stall, it stands them in a few pennies." "You said something," I told him. "'N I don't suppose your troop has got as much money as the Cunard Line," he said. "Gee, we've only got about four dollars now," I told him; "I suppose we couldn't get towed as much as a mile for that, hey?"
It was easily enough explained, and before they went to bed that night every one understood it all. It was simply this Claudius had come by another steamer, one of the German line, and had chanced to arrive a couple of hours before the Cunarder. Margaret had received the Duke's message, as Lady Victoria had said, and, as Claudius appeared soon afterwards, she saw no discrepancy.
Therefore I delivered myself, in blind faith, to the casual gods who are apt to wake up and by a series of deft little miracles get things done fitly in America when all seems lost and the traveller has even bared his resigned neck to the stroke. But I had not the least hope of seeing New York and a Cunarder; not with such an unpropitious start as that.
About five o'clock of an evening in April the Cunarder Caronia, four hours out from Queenstown and buckling down to a night's hard work against the northwesterly gale, shipped a sea.
The passenger on a Cunarder felt himself amply compensated for poor attendance, coarse food, and bad coffee by learning from the officers on the promenade deck how far the ships of their line were superior to all others in strength of hull, ability of captain, and discipline of crew. Things have changed on both sides since then.
Five years later Westover came home in the first week of a gasping August, whose hot breath thickened round the Cunarder before she got half-way up the harbor. He waited only to see his pictures through the custom-house, and then he left for the mountains.
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