United States or Moldova ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He had come back to his wife; and he was prepared to fall in with any plan that she might propose. Accordingly, when she suggested the alternatives of a cruise down the Channel and up to the Hebrides, or a cruise to Norway, he left the decision to her. She chose Norway. Matheson, with the shipowner's agreement in his pocket to extend their truce to May 20th, raised no objection.
"I'll have my eyes open," answered the boy. "Good-by!" And then he started the car, put on more power, and swept from the spacious grounds in grand style. "My, but it is going to be a warm day!" remarked Phil, as they ran into a streak of hot air. "I hope it is only warm," replied Dave, as he looked at the sky. "Why, what do you mean, Dave?" asked the shipowner's son, quickly.
"Yes," was the shipowner's quiet retort. "I have decided that my daughter's happiness should be the chief consideration of my remaining years. All else must give way to it." The Earl's swarthy face grew sallow with fury. His eyes blazed, and there was a tense vibrato in his voice as he said "Then I must congratulate you, Miss Deane. You are fated to endure adventures.
It was his creed to take what he could get away with, provided that in the taking he broke no moral, legal or ethical code; and if any thought of the apparent incongruity of a sailor's aspiring to the hand of a millionaire shipowner's daughter had occurred to him which, by the way, it had not he would doubtless have analyzed it thusly: "There she is. Isn't she a queen?
"Maybe it's all right, but I'll take a look and make sure," he told himself, and excused himself to a girl to whom he had been talking. As he hurried across the lawn he passed Phil. "Come with me, will you?" he said, in a low voice. "See anything?" demanded the shipowner's son. "I saw somebody, but I am not sure who it was."
"I am done with you, Link," he said. "And I am done with Haskers, too. All I want you to do is to leave me alone in the future." "You let us go, or it will be the worse for you," growled Link Merwell. When his two hours' guard duty came to an end, Dave called Roger, who in turn called Phil. The shipowner's son was still very sleepy, and he yawned deeply as he arose.
Folks what a'n't acquainted with shipping troubles, and a shipowner's interests, think such things are very small affairs.
Word Of The Day