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Show A Stared Young Woman. ' Itut even with low runs our trip was bound to come to an e:i I. One night It wsannt-unced that tliecext day we would be In San Framisru. I tell a feverish excitement, and many were the speculatIoi,s as to whether there would be a iioir blockade to hinder my trip acroM tliu continent. A bopefuluers (hat, bad not known rue fur many days had come back, w hen iu rushed tl el purser, his face a snow white, crj log, "My God, the bill of health v. . s lefl behind In Vokohnma." VeII,welI,wbatdoesthat nieao?" i I demanded, fearing romo mlrfnr-' tune, Iknew not what '-Itnitans,", ho said, dropj-lng nrvc!es iulo a chair, "that no one will be primit ted to land until tile next ship or rives lrom Japan. Tliat wlllbetwo weeks." The thought of being I elJ two weeks In sight of Sau Francisco, in sight of New Vork. aim st, and the goal fur which I had been striving, striv-ing, and pjnrrleojJ to move, was maddenlug. "I woold cut my tlimat for LcoulJ u;t Iiveto m-'ure, it," 1 said quietly, aud thatspurreil him on to make another search, which resulted In finding the repast re-past safely lodged In tho doctor's desk. .Veii Illy' ISool. i |
