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"No," he said, "I don't suppose you can tell me much. Except " "Eh?" said Mr. Howland. "Except you read the despatch. It speaks of Captain Merrithew as Miss Howland's fiancé." "Yes." Mr. Howland's years of business resource and acumen were beginning to assert themselves. "Oh, fiancé! I see. Romance will help your article. Well, there isn't any.
"Captain Merrithew are you coming?" The first officer's voice arose in impatient cadence. "Yes hold there a minute!" replied Dan, twisting the knob of the door. It was locked. He ran back a few paces and sprang at it with his shoulder. It trembled and gave. He rushed again and the door crashed inward. The room was filling with smoke.
"To-night?" "To-morrow." He was full of a plan to take her and Mrs. Merrithew to the Lido that same evening to have dinner, and to come home after moonrise, to discover Venice. She agreed to that, subject to Mrs. Merrithew's consent, and they went out to find that lady at a bead shop where she spent a great many hours in a state of delightful indecision. Mrs.
"Yes," resumed Mr. Howland, "what I am getting at is this, Captain Merrithew. The Coastwise Transportation Company is looking for men like you. We want you with us, in short. As you probably know, we have a fleet consisting of steamers of various sizes, but all pretty much the same type; that is to say, seaworthy, comfortable, and well engined.
The girl was laughing excitedly as she led the way to the dining-cabin and seated herself in front of a great, steaming nickel coffee-pot. Blushing radiantly she pointed to the other chair. "Sit down, Captain Merrithew." But Dan protested. "Now, really, Miss Howland," he laughed, "I can just as " "Captain," interrupted Virginia, sharply, "don't be a goose. There " She began to pour the coffee.
But as it turned out Mrs. Merrithew thought very well of it. "On a United States boat with a United States minister there is one here I've found out it seems a lot safer than to trust to these foreign ways. If you was to be married in Italian I should never be certain you wouldn't wake up some morning and find yourself not married. And then how should I feel!"
Merrithew on forever, you know," he suggested, "and we've such a lot to do there's Greece and Egypt and the Holy Land " "But can we be married in Venice, I mean?" "That," said Peter, "is what I'm waiting your permission to find out." He spent the greater part of the afternoon at that business without, however, getting satisfaction.
But he tore past, his horse still on the run, the wagon swaying wildly as he turned the corner beyond the Merrithew sugar orchard. "Well, I swow," grunted Mr. Nute, and licked on. The usual crowd of horse-swappers was gathered in the town-house yard, and beheld this tumultuous passage with professional interest.
The old feeling of aloofness filled him, and all the self-assurance which had characterized his attitude with Miss Howland a half-hour before vanished. He was angry with himself for having dared to maintain such an attitude. He turned to look at the hotel and bowed gravely. "It seems that one Daniel Merrithew has been forgetting he is a mere steamship captain.
Merrithew will accept it as evidence that I am a suitable person to take you out in a gondola this evening. You haven't seen Venice by night?" "Only as we came from the station. I'm sure she would like you to call, and I hope she will like the gondola." "Oh, she will like it," Peter assured Miss Dassonville as he helped her out in front of the Casa Frolli; "it will remind her of a rocking chair."
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