Show The Mutiny of the Albatross by WYNDHAM St IN TIlE U II So I I ITHE THE STORY I Floyd Unwin and Howard How I take tk dinner with an anold anold anold old college oolite chum Alfred Altred Alfr d Gibbons magnate te Unwin pro pro- produces pro pro-ducos ducos duces a a written pledge taken by byI bytho bytho tho three o At college to help each ench I other In lt explaining I thAt he h needs need financial assist once anoe nc to educate his bis son Bob Dob and andI daughter Mary Gibbons scoffs coff I at t the th legality of ot tho the pledge but agrees acree to make a a place for tor forthe forth the daughter In his bla hl organization ore CHAPTER I II 2 The Planning of the Cruise c The Tho be place stilled me said UnwIn when he was alone In the street with Walk Wall as far tar as my studio Bet Bettington Bettington et suggest suggested ell Isn't It strange that we e should have ha lost sight of one another I feel teel guilty It s true I Im m not often In New York Tubby not lose sight of you Bettington's studio was more a col collection of ot marine objects a museum of the sea than a place to work In TH There re were two rooms at the top of an old brown stone house on the north Bide side of ot East Thirty fourth street He had a yearly lease of the place and used It but rarely There were quaint figureheads of old sailing shIps now long broken up or sunk I I have base not always ays led the sImple uneventful unc life Ute Gibbons assigned to tome tome tome me me the painter said smiling when he noted doted his friends s Interest Sit down Tubby while I make real coffee Later he begin I I had a n small fortune when I left Harvard ard I spent most moct of It in la seeing the world what was gas left and some small savIngs I have bought a camp At present Im I'm hard up but there s plenty of money In this very ery room If It Im I'm ener energetic energetic getic enough to get it It I have sold very ery few of ot my paintings I lun have e been able oble to at afford ord not to I ha have hale e commis lions for a n number which I ha have base e not filled That was selfish of ot me I Ill II execute them and sell some of these camases Your girl Mary shall go to Smith and your boy shall have hale the Tech Seawater and paint shall take them both there It has been a for fortunate fortunate e evening for tor me I needed wak waking ing up Unwin thought of ot how soon this miracle might be accomplished should give e his children their opportunities The narrow things at home bad trained him to calculate wIth great niceness such adjustments Bet Bettington planned to start for the paint painting Ing expedition within two days time He would start at Gloucester and wan wander wander wander der up the coast reaching his new camp In far tar northern Maine In a month months s time It were sere ere wise he thought to send Mary to Gibbons office The pictures might not sell Gibbons might offer the girl a splendid stipend Ue lie might seek to make mahe amends for his brusqueness by une unee kindnesses Perhaps they had wronged Alfred Gibbons 0 Mary looked at him next morning over the breakfast table tahle and her eyes a r I IC C a 4 Sh a Sit Down Tubby While I Make Real Coffee asked the question her ber lips ups did not formulate Smith must wait walt Just a little he be said but don t be bo cast down Mary There Is hope you will yet win to S toS Take an hour off ocr this very day and go and see ee the great Alfred Allred Gibbons lIe Ue scants v ants to see you ou Commercially speaking your fortune is made lie ly Is I ejecting you e e e e e e eMary Mary Unwin had bad been almost a 3 vearan ear earan nn an Inmate of ot the office of ot Elgur Elgar Radway Radway Rad Had Hadway way she had bad quickly accommodated II herself to the routine of her ber work She worked always s at top speed as did her ber employer himself and was paId eighteen dollars weekly The were kindly nn and Radway- Radway Radway II notorious as a man about town never town mixed his pleasures with his work ork She was as ass is s free from harm wh when n tal takIng Ing his dictation as ns she he he would base ha been heen with a decent minded manIt man manIt It was wag to him liiro slit she preferred the re request request request quest for tor or an hour off of lie was not pleased Im Im I'm Lu he I m off ocr for tor tora fora forn a vacation soon and theres there's a n lot to todo todo todo do Dont Don't be larger pr than an nn hour He lie looked at her curiously as ac she went ent from rom the office As i a connoisseur ur of women he admired her charm chirm but Lut She he was ns worth orth more to him In the theoffice theoffice theoffice office thin than out of ot It Radway ny was wis 19 a of sixty slaty sl ty who was as finding out that hit he 11 Used lived ed now v In n a soberer a age e and could not adapt himself elf to It Gibbons victory pointed the moral Ue tie did not greatly fear Gibbons lIe comforted himself that after aner n Ii few weeks on the sea ea he would come orne refreshed for tor the he big game HP was wis thinking of Gibbons trl triumph over o the Memphis and Toledo road only made po possible hv by the treachery ery of ot a trusted mann manager er when MIry Mary Un In entered tI tl e a office chice of her fa father's father's fathers father's ther's one time friend Gibbons was often n It m matter of spec speculation pec among the Radway H stiff It was known n that he had once been Radway's s 's clerk cieri and had left suddenly breathing threats against a his Ills em employ plo ploy er cr And It seemed he had de devoted devoted voted his life to getting even for some grievance ance of whose origin none In his office bad had any an definite Idea Mary Alary looked at him with a curiosity that had nothing to do with his fin n financial cIal position She looked at him as one who had In the other years beena been a close friend of her poor clever er but unstable nn father whom she 10 ed the more because she saw v hIs need Gibbons was not prepared for a beauty It was as true Unwin lint had fine features and brilliant eyes eves es but one remembered Un Unwin In as fiS the man who vho perpetually failed and looked apolo apologetic apologetic getic There was a cloud of ot depres depression depressIon sion Ion about Unwin which seemed to tomake tomake make mahe his carriage mean and Incon Mary Alary was wis slim and held beld herself herselt as though no failure or self depreciation had ever er come near her ber There was as something fine about her And the brown eyes e es which looked at him un under under under der level le brows raised a doubt In his mind as to the successful ful outcome of the scheme which was working In his crafty head TIe lie first set himself to disarm her by the adoption of the air ot of an old and privileged friend So So this Is little Mary Unwin he exclaimed shaking her hand Well Well 1 I It was a banal beginning the girl thought But nut she smiled There must be something good In a n man whom horn her father hind hid liked So So you want allt to go to Smith l he heu u ent onlIe onlie on lIe He could see her ber vh vivid Id Interest now More lore than anything on earth she answered I I don t suppose you can canever canever canever ever guess how ho much I want It Perhaps I can he smiled Your father helped me to understand Ills air was one of ot delight In well doing There was vas born Lorn In her heart a fluttering hope that for tor old friend friendship's friendship's friendships friendship's ships ship's sake he be was going to help herThe her herThe herThe The checks that were ere usually pale tool took to themselves es a lovely flush She could not bring herself to ask what he be bemeant meant for tear feir of meeting disappoint disappointment meat It was good to hope bope after so much despair I told your father I would help you The world orld knows me as a hard man but It knows me for a n man of my cord ord I m to help you rou and your brother Oh Oil Oh Mr Ir Gibbons she cried 1 can cant t belfe believe e it It It Is one of those things too good to be true truel I 1 How can noL Bob and I e ever eser er thank you vou enough lIe He I looked ell at her keenly This as tile the ripe moment lou would like to feel you vou ou earned earnell the money rather than be under a monetary obligation to LD me mc 1 Is that shat hat you mean mein Of Of course she replied I I should expect to earn it It But tut how cm n I I lie He leaned leanell over o the tile glass topped table lou You lou can he said ou lou can cnn sery ery easily reply me for the few thousand dollars your education will III cost You are Hallay Hall ay s private ate Very well ell you mU must t 1 lave ave taken many letters from him to three men named Harrod Harte and Cuford Buford uford Ua tins ent you Yes she admitted Wh Whit Whet It I want Is I wish you OU to lea leave lease e Radway and bring to this the notebooks with the letters written rItten since the fifth of the month to these men You will find a t types typewritIng Pe rit Ing machine In the adjoining office You will transcribe the letters and then forget tor all nil about it It I orgel she answered forget all about It t 1 That s a the Idea IlIen he be said delight delightedly edly He lIe was very much relieved lIe had bad dreaded th the Idea of tempting lien her Forget It entirely Go to Smith and feel that you tease have ha e earned the money till your father It Is aloan a loan lonn so he will feel teel satisfied She She rose listle listlessly sly the color had gone from her cheek check bbc he felt flit phys ph physIcally s kally we After Arter all It VMS IS to tobe tobe he be n a life of office drudgery GIbbons did not understand this sudden alter atlon W hats hat's the matter he said it Ir Oh Oh not very much mUth she slie Slid said I 1 wag only wondering how v my father could ever eser ha have e called ll you his friend What What hat he e exclaimed You lou lou are boing to throw a away ay a chance like lIce that 1 She made a little g gesture sture of despair I am going to throw It awa away lIe He w is Iq now thoroughly angry lIe had not Dot been so upset for month months You lou deserve e to starve stan he snapped with Ith that d-d d d d fool of a n father of yours and will will too She he shook her h head aol I I shan t starve but I 1 think Id I'd rather stan starve startle e than do that C e e e e Gibbons hid had been heen wron wrong In declarIng declaring Ing that the Memphis and Toledo road had ll been taken from Radway use because he was drunk Gibbons had bid so high that one on whom horn Radway ny relied wholly had sold him Well that would not happen again For the mo moment moment meat ment there was a lull In n the warfare It was not until some allies of Gib Gibbons Gibbons bons returned from Europe that the struggle would begin again And be before before before fore that happened there would be one month on shipboard where he could till fill himself with alcohol and feel he was not ruining hIs Ills prospects It was as the debauch of an alcoholic long de denied nied his pleasure Elgar Rad Radway Raday ay ah s deceived ed him himself himself self and others about this annual soy 0 age But nut he never deceived his wIfe There had been a day ten years ye earlier when he was a national figure In politics The death of a governor go had made him a little heard of lieu lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant tenant gO governor the held he of ot a great state te Ills His financial knowledge ledge was wasat wasat wasat at the service of ot the W White bite House at ata ata ata a moment when hen a black panic seemed about to devastate de the country Senator W of his own state looked upon Radway as his Ills own dis covert ery and talked of him so much that his daughter carried by bv that spirit which Is found so much In W n society found the dis disparity parity In years vears ears more than offset by hIs name prominence and promise From the beginning the marrIage was unhappy lIe He had found that thit the scandals discovered by a political rival rl were ere not to be lived liked Ih ed do down n In an era when women were po powers lie had gone back bach to his financing In to NewYork V e lorl lork Evelyn Had vav was wis a splendid hostess She was beautiful and she was clever er The Radway Hadway dinner par parties ties were ere Internationally famous lIe was as bound to admit that she had been beena a great asset to him It was wis at nt a dinner party that he an announced announced announced his Intention of taking u a month months s There were as guests some foreign financiers lie He knew that his wife realized why hy he was going II lie had ne never neer er been able wholly to met toe the glance of ot those almond shaped violet lolet e eyes es with the calmness he wished In ten years she had learned most of or his secrets One One hears slid said the president of ofa ofa ofa a Paris banking house that that you work e esen een en when making holiday v but I ne never neer er belle e that hiO o no Its It's whit shit you call the bluff blut I Im m taking a secretary and a wire wireless wireless wireless less operator Radway Hadway retorted and th tl re there for business And my m wife Ife will probably bly come too that too that is 19 IsIf If she cares to Thank you vou ou LIgar she answered ans to his Ills e extreme surprise the change n- n will nill ill do me ule good lie smiled as though the prospect entranced him lie Ue now saw himself committed to at least two eltra eitra e tra guests hat on earth hold had he lie wanted anted to talk about taking a secretary for II Ho was c esen cen en mOl mote moie e astonished to find that hl hi wife Ife consented to come She did dill not care for the ocean as a u rule lIe rather suspected tint that his physician Jh hall had been warning her that thit this trip might wight be lie dangerous If lie he reverted to his old habits hibits She was coming to see that he kept t within thin bounds I am gild gl id td you vou ou are coming g clyn he said when hen his guests had gone It It will sill do you good goodou lou ou 1 ou are really taLin a secretary secretary I she demanded demanded- Certainly he said ald a trifle trl Ibis 1 his Is a business trip as asI asI asI I told Monsieur I theres here s accommodation for wy my maid 1 she slie S slid 1111 mple lie he answered uns hit answered W ii h It t secretary will yon iou ou take lIe thought a In The two men In his office who answer er were cre well ssell ell enough In their wa way way but the enforced Intimacy of shipboard n- n would probably discover er unsuspected shortcomings Would you sou ou be annoyed If I took n a pretty girl Do Do you mean that slight dark hint hintI I have hale seen Oh I wish wl h you would It would be such company for me If It you yon can arrange It I Il take h liar li r Probably her tier people wouldn t let her come tomO If It I suggested It I ll 11 phone yoU her address from the office tomorrow tomorrow- and you cm can go and see ece her mother It if she has one Tell her ber she will get twenty five dollars a n week She ought to jump at It It was with the hope the girl would go that Mrs Radway Had way ruled next morn mornIng mornIng Ing at the Unwin home Mr Un Unwin Unwin Unwin win recognized her Instantly At her marriage e Sargents Sargent's portrait had helped to make h her r famous since that time the society columns and find Lavery s painting of her had kept her In the public eve ese e The fhe Un Ins wire were HO delighted at the idea Iden of Mary lary getting n a whole month on shipboard And An 1 the additional sa say saying savIng v vIng Ing meant something to them It was as Mary herself who ho teemed She confide 1 In her brother I I hive have a n feeling she slid said that that I ought not to bO feo It II s a kind of pre presentment I wish Ish you could come I I wish they would world find a Job joh for forme forme forme me In the engine room he ex cx exclaim exclaimed claim claimed ell 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