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Show I The End of a Cruiao X ALAS for the frailty of heroic aspirations! There is a deep pit beside the pathway that leads to romantic achievement, and nothing is sadder or more melancholy than the way in which those who try to follgw that pathway keep tumbling into it. Some time ao one Nicholas Georgt Gongopolus of Miami, Fla., decided to sail hack to his native Greece. He contrived for himself a sixteen-foot cutter, sent the Greek Uig fluttering to the masthead and set sail It was to be a gallant, glamorous cruise one man in a skiff defying the Atlantic. Ulysses himself, or Jason, might have approved ap-proved of this sturdy countryman. But now the voyage has ended. It ended three days out, when Gongopolus asked a tramp steamer to pick him up, thereupon abandoning his cruise. He was not out of supplies or In danger from the elements but he was horribly seasick) A more melancholy end for a gallant adventure would be bard to imagine. t |