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CHAPTEH XVIII
THE soclnl climHX of the cruise.
M the Fancy Dresa Ball the
following evening. No passenger,
no matter how conservative, was
Immune to the excitement of it.
Few of them however, were pre
pared to the extent of having
brought their own costumes.
"But I haven't a thing to wear!"
Joyce protested to Dr. Gray, "and
I hate rented clothes."
"Never mind. Mrs. Bates will
fix you up with something. Why
a young girl like you can't stay
out of a Fancy Dress Ball!"
"I'm not going to dress up!"
Dick declared emphatically.
"Of course you arc," the doctor
ordered. "I've got just the suit for
you, down in my cabin. You come
along with me."
Their protests were of no avail.
They would go to the ball, and
they would be dressed up. Mrs.
Bates was waiting outside of
Joyce's cabin.
"The doctor said you wanted a
costume, miss," she offered cheer
fully. "The doctor said I had to have
costume," Joyce corrected with
smile.
Mrs. Bates nodded brightly.
"I'll fix you up right smart. The
doctor has a Pilgrim costume for
the young man a John Alden
outfit, you Americans call it. How
would you like to go along as
PriscMa?"
"Well, since I must dress up, I
cant think of anything that would
please me better. John Alden and
PrisciUa were practically next
door neighbors of mine."
So the stewardess was oft to
tome hidden recess in the linen
closet, from whence she returned
promptly with a quaint gray cos
tume, freshly laundered, volumi
nous with petticoats, and a stiff,
starched white shawl and bonnet
Within half an hour, Joyce
emerged as a demure Pilgrim
maid, lacking only her prayer
book and spinning wheel.
"Mind the petticoats," Mrs.
Bates cautioned. "They're only on
a draw-string. . . ."
Up In front of the purser's
office, she met a young man whose
costume, even to the high-crowned
bat and the buckle-boots, pro
claimed him a fitting companion
to her own sedate state, but
' whose bright blue eyes danced
with a happy abandon which
would have disbarred him ln
.' itantly from the stately ranks of
the old Puritan elders.
"So, my lovely Priscilla!" he
beamed. "Think not that I come
to speak of our Captain Miles
E tan dish this merry evening!"
She laughed. "You look as if
fou could speak for yourself,
John!"
TOGETHER they went up to the
lounge, all cleared now of fur
niture and rugs, with the hard
wood floor waxed and polished
for the dancing.
"Look, quickly, I dare you!"
Dick whispered as they came in
for the dancing. "Over there,
across the room."
Joyce looked. She saw the Im
perious Mrs. O'Hara coyly be
decked in the grassy trimmings
of a Hula maiden short straw
skirt, flowered lei, deep sun-tan
complexion.
"She looks like a round fat
shredded wheat biscuit, with
strawberries on top," Dick grinned.
"And look at the old man. . . .
Lord, is he a picture for Puck!"
Indeed, it was difficult to de
cipher Mr. O'Hara's characteriza
tion. They assumed that he was
a Boy of the Islands, fitting part
ner to his Sweet Lalanie wife. He
wore the flowery lei. But Mr.
O'Hara, for all his ventures from
the straight and narrow path of
temperance, was a modest man.
He did not expose his manly bos
om, Hawaiian style, to the stares
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"What's the score, Big Chief?"
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of thi multitude. Instead ha wore
a sort of Roman toga, perhaps the
foundation garment of the ancient
kings of the South Pacific, and
across his shining bald head he
wore, not the worthy laurel, but
handsome wreath of fresh gar
denias, wafting their heavy per
fume all over the room. He looked
miserable and timid.
They had gone around the floor
twice when Joyce was conscious of
a gradual loosening around her
waistline, a loosening which slow
ly translated itself into a busi
ness around the knees and a
lengthening of skirts. She looked
down In sudden alarm.
Hurrying down the empty cor
ridor, she collided with a heavy
figure backing out of one of the
staterooms. She recognized the
adipose Hawaiian princess, and
automatically murmured a care
less apology. But Mrs. O'Hara's
eyes were still unfriendly and ac
cusing; she stalked back to the
lounge as If Indignant that she
must walk the same corridors with
other mortals.
"The devil with her," Joyce
thought lightly. "I wonder if she
still thinks I'm out to lure that
gardenia-scented hoptoad of a
husband. , . ."
Five minutes later, securely tied
and adjusted, she rejoined Dick.
"How about a little Intermis
sion!" he suggested. "I asked Dr.
Gray and the chief officer to join
us on the Lido deck for bottle
of champagne."
They found the two men wait
ing for them, and Mr. Jones' face
was still convulsed In a spasm of
laughter. ,
"It's unkind," Joyce accused
them good-naturedly, "Insisting
that we dress up and make fools
of ourselves Just to give you a
good laugh. I wouldn t be at all
surprised if It was you, Mr. Jones,
who made a Hawaiian princess
out of Mrs. O'Hara."
He bent over again, holding his
sides, and shrieked.
rpHEY sat at a quiet table tar
astern, enjoying the cool night
breeze, and listened to the chief
officer's exaggerated accounts of
other Fancy Dress Balls and other
counterparts of Mrs. O'Hara.
Echoes of the music and gayety
drifted back to them, but Joyce
did not miss the dancing.
Mr. Jones was relating an
amusing Incident that had be
fallen one of the passengers at a
masquerade some four or five
cruises previous. "You remember,
doc, we had this fellow wound
round with some sort of feathers
on adhesive tape, and it took us
all of two days to dig him out of
his costume. I tell you, 'twas as
if the man had been tarred and
feathered"
A sudden scream, coming ap
parently from the lounge, cut him
short, and the music stopped on a
half note. There was a quick
babbling of voices raised in ques
tioning confusion, then absolute
stillness.
"Now what the devil ha hap
pened?" the doctor wondered.
Presently a long-faced steward
came down and stood before them.
"Captain's orders," he said
briefly. "All passengers will please
go into the main lounge Immedi
ately." "What's up?" the chief officer
demanded.
"One of the passengers has. had
some valuable jewels stolen from
her room, sir."
"Jewels?" they echoed in star
tled surprise.
Only one name flashed through
Joyce's mind, and she said it
aloud now, with dismal presenti
ment: "Mrs. O'Hara!"
(To Be Continued)
Displayed at the Cleveland
Great Lakes Exposition, a giant
refrigerator, 25 feet high and
170 times as large as an average
household model, held the rank
of world's largest Ice refrigerator.
A 350-mllllon-year-old monu
ment consisting of a petrified
tree stump from the Devonian
period, has been erected at Ada,
Okla., as a memorial to Dr.
David White, noted scientist.
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