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Updated: June 20, 2025
Harford, the instructor in outfit for the Royal Geographical Society, recommends a steamer-chair, because it can be used on shipboard and "can be easily carried afterward." If there be anything less easy to carry than a deck-chair I have not met it. One might as soon think of packing a folding step-ladder.
The evenings were even worse: midnight often found him wrapped in his rug in his steamer-chair or morosely pacing the deck, waiting for some festivity in which Bobby was engaged to come to an end. The shocking lack of chaperonage and the liberty allowed young girls in the States served as themes for more than one bitter letter home. But his cold aloofness was not destined to last.
It was a tiny affair with a rug in front of it, and upon the rug stood a steamer-chair. "Hello, inside!" I shouted, then ran forward, straddling papooses and shouldering squaws out of my way. "Hello!" came an answer, and out through the flap was thrust the head of my friend, the Government doctor. "Gee! I'm glad to see you!" I said as I shook his hand.
But Ross felt very lazy. He had buried himself deep in his steamer-chair and refused to budge an inch when Elinor had suggested that they might join that strolling throng. "I'm a married man now," he said, "and I don't have to worry about exercising to keep my figure. Besides, I had much rather sit here in the corner and hold your hand under the rug."
Chinese deck-stewards glided about in their felt slippers, trying to attach the right person to the right steamer-chair. Cabin-boys scurried about with baskets of fruit and flowers and other sea-going impedimenta that, after one appreciative glance from the recipient, are usually consigned to the ice-box. All was noise and confusion.
As for the others, Louise is a model, too, and so is the coachman. The footman is discharged. When we return, nobody in my house will have ever known you except as Elizabeth Blair." Miss Blair went out of the state-room walking easily with the motion of the ship. She was a good sailor. The next afternoon Maria was able to sit out on deck. She leaned back in her steamer-chair, and wept silently.
"For exercise!" groaned Hilda, sinking down in her hammock. "For exercise!" echoed Edna, subsiding at full length in a steamer-chair. "For exercise!" said Eunice, briskly, looking half inclined to follow her, when Edna pulled her down beside her. "No, you don't want to go at all. Cricket will be back in a few moments. She can't go far, on account of the tide."
Captain Auckland played the billiards first, and it was not until he was comfortably seated in a steamer-chair, his second whisky securely in his hand, that he let off his bomb. "A great piece, that Miss Lackland of yours," he chuckled. "Claims to be a part-owner of Berande. Says she's your partner. Is that straight?" Sheldon nodded coldly. "You don't say? That is a surprise!
At ten o'clock they went below, but not until I had quietly located every member of the crew. I had the watch from eight to twelve that night, and at half after ten Mrs. Johns came on deck again. She did not speak to me, but dropped into a steamer-chair and yawned, stretching out her arms.
The instant his throat was released, Sheldon struck out with his fist, and Carin-Jama joined his brother on the ground. The mutiny was quelled, and five minutes more saw the brothers being carried to the hospital, and the mutineers, marshalled by the gang-bosses, on the way to the fields. When Sheldon came up on the veranda, he found Joan collapsed on the steamer-chair and in tears.
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