Show Z 1 t to D I IThe 0 I The Woman ThOU Gayest Me Mes' Mes s' s BEING BENG THE STORY OF MARY ONEILL O'NEILL Written by HALL GAI CAUTE E Cop ht 1911 b by H Hearst's Mag Marine Copyright In Great I by 07 J. J B. B Co t dl a 0 I BY MARTIN CONRAD CON RAD RAP i f Wy y dear little woman was Tra ri right ht 5 in more ways than she aho know knew At that very timo I was in Moral litoral truth hurrying home to her ner her as fast ai as asIt tr the tho fastest available carry me AH As soon as we had boarded the tUo Scotia at the tho cape and greeted faceted our old shipmates ship It mates we e shouted for or our letters Jetters There were somo omo for tor all at of us and ani ana leaps heaps for me mc so 30 I scuttled down own to roi my ro- i cabin where I sorted the tho envelopes liKo like f a pack Jaek of cards card lookin looking for th the small fe delicate hand that used to write my if I Betters n and d speeches che it not there thore and ana j To ray DJ dismay was 1 5 realizing that fact fiet I bundled the letters it into a a locker and never neer looked at them thema a terrain again until we were two da dayS day'S o out out out- tI t- t 1 ft whon I found they thoy were chiefly I illations l from m my committee the tho pro pro- fa rictor of my m newspaper and tho the Royal g Geographical society all welcome ft r enough in their way Wa but Dead sea fruit tt i to a man with an nn em empty tv caving ing heart 5 Going up ou oti d deck ck I round found every cry face g about bout me shining like Wee tho the aurora for p tile the men had had haa- hood good news all ar around und 9 one ono ha having come como info into n a fortune an ana and anCl another an- an R other into the oo l of or twins ins and Cl both hein being in a state of joy and ex c ite ite- J fc merit f 1 But all an the good fellows were like liko 5 boys 5 Some of o them with laughter f t seasoned by b a few tears read me mo funny bits of their wives letters Bits Bit too 6 M f a tha that wore were fO not funn funny about about- ha ing a aU U pretty fit of or Hysterics at reading had hadr r now v of us a and wanting to kiss the jj when ahen he hc brought the paper contradicting it v J 1 T did did DI my hc best t to o phi play the game of of r rejoicing pretending I J Karl hall hall had good gooda oo a Hans n ms also and everything thing was vas But I 1 found it hard hud enough 1 h I It t k to keep it it going goin especially while whilo hilo we to wire railing jailing back to the tho world orIel as wo I z ei called it it and hearing from tb the crew efe the news of what had happened while I i c Wt had been away way l l t. t First th there rc was ns the thc r rf reason on for or tho the i r. r delav d d lav h hin in tho the arrival of tho s lp which h f. f j f-j has bas been 1 due not to failure of tho the wire wire- i It 11 loss t at Rt our but to a breakdown ont on i It t Macquarie isla island nil I Sill And then there was th the account of oft off t f the report of the loss JOE Jos o of the Scotia in k L the ilc c going foin out which hail had been be- be e I Ili f cd li cd on insufficient ov ei as I Iy I y thought ht but recorded in generous words of regret that sent the blood t p bulling to a ratan mans man's s face and aud made mado 11 him ft wish tc to tp heaven they could bo lIe true truc 1 rj i f rc c were only 1 five C or six si days das sailing J r lp 0 o New Zealand calami but the strain to me mc meS I It t S was 3 terrible C for Or r the thought was nl alwa al al- wa ways s 's s t l E. E I Why Vh h t t she write a word Hord of r welcome to tu reach reach me on mv nn my return to tor r c civilization r B When W cn 1 was as not talking to somebody that question was wa constantly haunting inc me n C. C To escape front from jt it T 1 5 joined the i of or n m v tc i who with ith joy joy- o t ful HI n in their hearts aile and rr fresh li h fool food in in their stomachs wore oro feeling as good goodas as as now in in of all they had bad suf stif But the morning wo we smelled laud land the tho morning tho the clout cloud banks above the tho eastern horizon came camo out hard and fast and sure no dreamland this this' time timo I 1 stood at the snips ships bow 4 saying nothing to anybody only straining g my oyes for for tho the yet distant world wo we were coming back to out of that dc desolate late white waste and thinking Surely Ill I'll have ha news s from her before before be be- fore foro nightfall There was a n. bi big warm hearted crowd on tho the pier vier at Port L Treacle I said paid I ri lawn I didn didn't t know kno there was wasso wasso Guvnor so 80 man many mant people in tho the world I And O'Sullivan 0 catching sight t. t of a pretty prett figure ligure under a sunshade e t tugged n at t my arm arnt and cried in the voice Olce of or Tin pin astronomer who has discovered a planet I A air rl Almost Imo t. t before we had been brought to a n company compan of scientific visitors came aboard aboard- but I was more concerned about the hc telegrams that had come at atthe atthe the same moment to so hurrying down doWIl to tom tomy tomy m my cabin I tore them open like a n. nul ul ture ro riving its prey proy always Va looking at atthe tho the signature fir t and newer never touching an envelope without thinking Oh God od what will he be im inside de of it There Thera was nothing from my dear one Invitations to dine dinc to lecture to toTite write Tite books hooks to do this and that and heaven knows know what but bilt never a word from her who was more to me than all aU the world besides This made marIc me mo more than over suro sure suroor of or tho the voices that had called me mo meb meck b ck from the tho latitude so I decided do de crded instantly to to- Ja c our ship in New Zt Zealand in in readiness for our nest effort and getting gottin across to Sydney SIdney to take tho the fir first t fast steamer mer homo home Tha Th They hood good people at Port Lyttelton L were loath to let Jet us po go o. o But after I had made mj my JJ excuses es f crazy to get ct back to wives wises and Bisect sweethearts carts you know t thc hc sent a R school chool of bows stunning litt little char chap in Eton suits to sing sins ua us I Years fears On which off with ith Forty Fort Drought brought more of or my mother into my oyes o-C's than I l knew nm to bo ho left there At Sydney 6 wo wo we h had d the same experience ence the tho the same samo hearty crowds tho the same sarno I welcome th the same invitations in to which we made mado the same ame replies and aud then got ot otaway away by 0 a a fast liner which happened to be bc ready to sail On the wa way back to the tho would world I T Thad had slang slung together tog a sort of a n dispatch for tho the newspaper pa r which had promoted our expedition a lame lam limping lim ing thing thin for want of 1113 my darlings darling s 5 he help to make it go o Ra saying int something about abou the little we had Been ficen able to tolo do tie but hut more about what we wc meant please God to do somo some d day da- t. t Shell She'll see that nn anyway wa and know we were we're r cousin coining bid back ck I thought Put nut to make malc sure suro 1 I sent fent two t.-o personal ono one to my lD dear clear on one oneat at Castle astle Ran Raa an and the tho other to tH nn my old people o le at homo hom I asking a ki g for answers to tc Port or Said Out on the sea again a ain I Iwas was Waft tormented by by tho old dream of the crevassed cro gla glacier I cier Clor if anybody wonders why a hulking chap who had not been afraid of a e aD D ninety mile blizzard in the region of the tho I polo pole allowed himself to be kept awakE vake at night b. b by A 8 buzzing in the tho brain an all J I Ican can 61 say is that it was so gO and I know nothing moro about it Perhaps my recent ez with tho the wireless s persuaded persuade mo rite that 1 If 11 f two sticks Btu stuck k in the iho earth could be mado to communicate with each other othero o over r hundreds hundred of miles milE two hearts that loved each other knew no limitations of time tim In any case cac I was now so suro sura that my rny dear one dear ono had bad called me home from tho the tho Antarctic that b by the tho timo we wo reached Port Said an and tele telegrams ams were wore pouring in on roe roe- I 1 had worked myself myself my my- self elf u n up to such a lear hear fear that 1 dared not open thorn them N From sheer dr dread ad of the joy or sorrow that might be bo in tho the jellow cHow covers I got Sullivan an down 11 jn my cabin to read my telegrams whIle while whilo 1 s scanned his faco Paco and nearly choked with ith my own tobacco O'Sullivan got it into his head that 1 was worrying about In my parents parent and tried to by hy saying that old folks never no dream dreamed cd of tole telegraphing aphin but by bv the tho holy immaculate mother ho hod hodo tl I Io go o b bail il there would bo be a letter for me rite before long Thorp There was We Ye stayed two eternal days at Port Said wh who while o the tho vessel was taking coal for the rest of the age and almost at tho the moment of sa sailing lin a letter arrived arrived ar ar- ar rived from Elian Ellan which fallin falling into o O'Sullivan's s hands first sent him flying flying fly fly- ing hig through h the steamer and shouting at atthe atthe the top of his Voice c n Tho The passengers gave gae room for him and tot told me mo afterward of his beaming face And when he burst into m my cabin I too Jelt sul suie e h he had brou brought ht mo me good news which ho lie had j though it was not all that I 1 wanted Tho The wa way I was sure thorn thoro l would 1 be bea a letter f for r you soon soon and by tho the holy ll St. St Patrick and St. St Thomas hero it i is he be cried Tho letter was from froIn my father and I 1 had to brace myself before beton I could read it It was full of fatherly love Jo motherly love loyc too and aud the extravagant pride m- m my dear good old people had of me I R tai talking in o of you jou m my boy hoy and theres there's nothing else elso 1 in the newspapers newspapers pers but hut not word sword about m m- m my mal Mary al alor or or only one and that seemed worse than none noue at atalL all You heard of olf the tho trouble trou lo loat at Castle Raa Very sad but hut this happy hour is not the time hmo to say anything about it I II I Nothing more Only reams and I reams of sweet chatter which God forgive me met I I would have gladly given cn over a and d o er again a ain for one plain sentence about my darling daring Being now more than e over er r sure that some kind of catastrophe had overtaken 0 my poor little wom woman n I telegraphed to her again thi this Limo Hmo without knowing what mischief I was nas making at tho the house of Daniel 0 telling ONeill J telling myself that thou though h the main man was a n brute bruto who had sacrificed his daughter r to his lust of rank and power power an and all aU the rest of his rotten aspirations ho 40 was her father and and if her h r reprobate of a 11 husband hall had turned her out he must surely have taken ber herin Cable Ca le rc reply 1 to Malta alta Altogether too bad ball not hearing from you ou f 1 1 said A A blind bUnd ha hasty t tyl cruel t telegram Je am but thank God she never ne' received r it M. M C. C END OF MARTIN CONK CONRADS CONRAD'S ADS AD'S MEMORANDUM r r |