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Updated: July 29, 2025
My own taxi had just broken down, and she found me, and she would have made a scene in the street and scenes are so vulgar, are they not? When I saw Nauru on your luggage, you seemed to me to have dropped from heaven." She looked at them, her pretty face pink, her eyes dancing with excitement.
The band of the Nauru was playing Home, Sweet Home, very low and tenderly, and there were lumps in many throats, and many a pipe went out unheeded. Slowly the great ship drew in to the pier, where officers in uniform waited, and messengers of welcome from the Government.
Kilda and all the foreshore were gay with flags, and all the ships in the harbour were dressed to welcome them; and beyond the pier were long lines of motors, each beflagged, waiting for the fighting men whom the Nauru was bringing home. "Us!" said a boy. "Why, it's us! Flags an' motors an' a blessed band playin' on the pier! Wot on earth are they fussin' over us for? Ain't it enough to get home?"
There were low voices everywhere; feet paced the decks; along the port railings on each deck soldiers were clustered thickly, looking out across the grey, tossing sea to a winking light that flashed and twinkled out of the darkness like a voice that cried "Greeting!" For it was the Point Lonsdale light, at the sea gate of Victoria; and the men of the Nauru were nearly home.
He sucked this gravely for the prescribed time, reversing it just as she reappeared; and, being marked normal and given a clean bill of health, returned to his berth to shiver and perspire between huge doses of quinine. More than one such hero evaded the searching eye of regulations; until finally the Nauru, free to land her passengers, steamed slowly up the Bay.
She's planning the very wildest cooking, of course do you remember what the table used to be the night we came home from school? And now she's gone round all the rooms to make sure she couldn't spend another sixpence on them, and she's sitting by her window trying to see us all on the Nauru. 'Specially you, old Nor." "'Tis the gift of second sight you have," said Jim admiringly.
They handed it over to the care of deck hands, and watched it loaded, with many other trunks, into a huge net, which the crane seized, swung to an enormous height and then lowered gently upon the deck of the Nauru. Just as the operation was finished two figures threaded their way through the crowd towards them; immensely tall young officers, with the badge of a British regiment on their caps.
He shook his head, and she realized that he was already engaged there was a pile of luggage beside him with big labels, and a familiar name struck her "H.M.T. Nauru." A girl, leaning from the window of the taxi, met her glance, and Cecilia took a sudden resolve. She sprang forward, her hand on the door. "I am a passenger by the Nauru. Could you take me in your car?" she gasped.
I've had all the heavy stuff handed over to a carrier to be put on the Nauru to-morrow morning." "You're the great manager," said Cecilia comfortably. "Where is the Nauru, by the way?" "Sitting out in the river, the transport officer says. She doesn't come alongside until the morning; and we haven't to be on board until three o'clock. She's supposed to pull out about six.
"Then you and Tommy will thankfully entrench yourselves in here at dusk, and listen to the singing hordes dashing themselves against the netting in the effort to get at you!" "That's the kind of thing they used to tell me on the Nauru," Bob said laughing; "but I didn't quite expect it from you, Mr. Linton!" The squatter chuckled. "Well, indeed, it's no great exaggeration in some years," he said.
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