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THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
OUT OUR WAY
BY J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE
With MAJOR HOOPLfi
t:
Br RACHEL MACK
CAST Or CIIARACTKI15
POI.LY O 11 E L IS V. heroine,
trended la London when Tra
breaks out.
J1.1IRY WIIITFIKI.D, hero, tan
Yankee wko area her through.
OAHULL 11 AMI, privateer
aplnln.
Yeaterdart Arrlrlnar too late at
Cherbourg- to anil back to Amei
Ira. Jerry nnd Polly nro married
while they nnnll HnnnV pinna in
procure ablp of hie omu
CHAPTER XXII
' AT the end of a week Cabell
' Banks arrived at the hotel and
naked to see "Monsieur Jeremiah
Whitfield."
"Le volcil" said the Innkeeper,
; and he pointed out Jerry just com
ing In at the door with his wife.
! Cabell wrung Jerry's hand and
i kissed Polly on both cheeks to the
; intense pleasure of some native
onlookers who had supposed all
Americans to be cold and re
, strained. Jerry asked Cabell to
come with them to their room,
1 and presently the two men were
deep In conversation at a window
looking toward the harbor, while
Polly sat across the room with her
knitting.
: Cabell said, "I've found the
ship for us, Jerry! She's tied up
at Carteret We'd be able to get
out of Carteret."
. Jerry mentally located the little
port 20 miles to the south, "We
might get out of there all right.
Yes, I think we could. What's the
ahlp like?"
. "A dinner. Built in Baltimore.'
Jerry's face fell. "New Eng
enders don't hold with those
ships, Cabell. They're too flimsy.'
"They're the fastest things on
water."
"I doubt if I could handle one.
No, I don't believe I could bring
one home right side up," Jerry
declared.
Cabell hooted In disagreement
"My friend, I've been hearing
things about you. There are a
number of stranded American
sailors in this port and some of
them are from down Connecticut
way. They tell me you saved
Captain Cobb's barken tine Eliza
from the rocks in a hurricane on
a trip around the Horn. You were
Just 20 at the time."
"DOLLY looked up quickly. There
was so much Jerry had never
told her. "How did you do It,
Jerry!"
"It was Just chance, you might
say. It was the trip we lost our
first mate in a blow and our
second mate from a fever. Cap'n
Cobb was down in his bunk with
a broken leg and I had to take
charge. The bosun or the galley
cook could have done Just as well,
If they'd been put to it Cap'n
Cobb made me first mate after
ward. But there are better and
older sailors than me that've never
bad the chance."
; "Maybe," Cabell agreed dryly.
j"Look out, or youll get conceited
over your modesty. ... This clip
per now ..."
"What's wrong with her? What's
he doing in a little port like
Carteret? How long has she been
rotting there?"
"She's been there only a couple
of months and she's sound. Her
captain died of a fever the day
they put in there. Her owner's a
Baltimore merchant who's finan
cially pressed. He wants to sell
her."
"That means he wants ready
money. You could hardly get her
on credit, I reckon?"
"I reckon not But wait till you
hear this! His agent's the same
French banker here in Cherbourg
my father transacts business with.
I've convinced this banker that
Mr. Cabell Banks, senior, of Bos
ton would want me to have the
ship to get home in, and that he'd
like me to have enough money
advanced to outfit the clipper and
pay the crew for five weeks. The
chief expense will be a pair of
long guns, properly mounted, but
he'll stand for it. It's a perfect
situation, friend Whitfield. Who're
we to snipe at fate?"
"A Baltimore clipper's not safe.
Banks. Those Marylanders are
mad to build them. Too flimsy.
Too fast ..."
"Too flimsy, I grant you. But
not too fast. Nothing could be
too fast for us now. Do you real
ize. Jerry, we've got no right to
FLAPPER FANNY
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fight the British till we get our
commissions? If we tried it we'd
be pirates instead of privateers.
We've got to get home, and quick.
We'll be a hare pursued by a hun
dred hounds, this crossing."
"You've convinced me," Jerry
said. It had occurred to him that
no ship could be too fast to get
Polly home in. After they'd made
America they could trade the
thing for a stout New England
craft that wouldn't topple in a
gale or crush like an eggshell
when fired on.
'
""TEN days later in the small har
A bor of Carteret Polly Whitfield
went aboard the clipper Gray
Gull owned and captained by Mr.
Cabell Banks, junior, of Boston,
and whose first mate was Jere
miah Whitfield of Newburyport
Massachusetts.
"We've kept her old name,"
Cabell explained to Polly as he
escorted her aboard. "We heard
the name Revenge, that we had
such a hanker for, is already in
use."
Polly thought: "Even before
they've put to sea they're crazy
about their Gray Gull! How much
more Jerry's going to love her
after he's sailed her a while!" She
knew the way of men with ships,
for her father had been a typical
seafaring man. After he lost his
Proud Lyme 011 Nantucket five
years ago he grieved for her as
he grieved for his wife, who died
the same year. -
Not the least of Jerry's pride in
the Gray Gull was the beautiful
quarters for Polly. He took her
there now and watched her anx
iously as she looked around her.
When she exclaimed with delight
over the white painted walls and
the warm carpet on the floor he
was touched and pleased. "It's
none too good for you," he said.
He told her that .there had been
one long cabin, but Cabell had
had a partition built, generously
giving them the larger quarters
and reserving the smaller for him
self. Jerry left her, and a sailor
brought her little trunk into the
cabin and stowed it beneath the
bunk. "That's shipshape!" she
told the shy lad. He seemed very
young, not over 17, and Polly
opened a box of French pastry
she was carrying and gave him
some. When she was alone she
took off her bonnet and sea coat,
feeling that she was one with all
the women on earth who had fol
lowed their men to sea. Though
she was the least of them, she
would not shame them.
For those on board the Gray
Gull the hard part must come
now. The waiting. The watchful
waiting. The run to sea when the
time came. Though no English
vessels patroled the insignificant
harbor, one knew that they lurked
to the north, watching Cherbourg,
and to the southwest, blockading
Brest The Gray Gull must take
her chance. Her 50-odd sailors
were impatient to be off Ameri
cans, most weary of an enforced
sojourn on the wrong side of the
Atlantic.
Folly sensed the tenseness that
first night aboard. The second
night was worse, for a sharp
breeze. was blowing like a clarion
calL Jerry and Cabell stood at
the wheel, staring toward the
west and talking earnestly. No
one seemed to remember her ex
istence. That too, was part of
being a seaman's wife . . .
Then came Cabell s low called
commands, relayed by Jerry.
Sailors began running, ropes were
hauled . . . Polly looking up into
the starlight saw the masts bloom
with canvas, saw sails - fill and
spread. The Gray Gull, like an
eager bird, was running out to
sea.
(To Be Continued)
Fraternity boys at the Univer
sity of Washington, studying the
open door policy, learned first
hand when someone walked away
with their front door.
Indiana man who tattooed his
social security number on his
chest must have been playing
the old skin game.
An average of 20,000,000 peo
ple attend the movies every week
in England.
During 1928, the United States
Imported 56,307 parrots.
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