| Show aft 1 A TYPHOON S ai t i y by SUSAN E CLAG CLAGETT t artl f A the rho two women lomeii sitting before the kopea alre regarded eadi each other othe r steadily in the eyes of on one there ethere shone a curl ous iw contempt i the other a woman oman of about thIrty was flushed ith an emotion sheva she vainly luly tried to hide yon think I 1 wits was wrong because you do not fully ghisa grasp the she said bald nt at last you know that 1 I lune broken my engagement of what led to that you have hav e not the fill faintest a test understanding true but it would seem that the lenson jason might have hae been descove discovered red within u w eck of your wedding day it waa vas scarcely fair to charles to atilt until then her friend answered cold ly Y ann thesley leaned forward and glive th the alre a poke that sent the lia ulmes mes up uli vic the chimney you cannot realize its as I 1 d do 0 the co comfort eifort oi of this she said irrelevantly nodding toward the ilie bin blazing zing logs q 1 I never thought to see cuchra such u again odd abit as it may sound I 1 nev or was vas as nearly frozen in my life its as in the tropics I 1 do fief not like to think of that time yet the memory Is always with in me e when I 1 sailed f for or agypt a year geniv ago it was with the uncertain thought thai binti I 1 might coif continue tintie the trip around thel theo world ild and when I 1 reached cairo ro 1 had fully determined on the longer journey I 1 rem remained alneil ln in egypt long enough it to absorb the mastery dyste ry of the country then I 1 took hiis passage i sage for the far east I 1 kept no track of the days I 1 just sat in my steamer chair and watched the polyglot crowd occasionally I 1 saw a man an american who was as interested a spectator as 1 I but chance never neer brought him near my corner one night we e were caught in the taibi till of it a typhoon if must have driven us upon a hidden reef for there was h horrible jar then the hurrying of feet and screams everything ans was dark but bui at last I 1 got into my clothes secured ray my money and letter of credit and snatching up a wrap stumbled to the deck there wa was s aa no one in sight buti but I 1 heard beard a man say ashes thes sinking fast we lye must get out af pf this theres a small boat that has been overlooked that we canman age between ua acas he wasal ready already outside and catching me by the hands swung me out and downward he had hooked his legs about the rails and leaning over he dropped nd me th boat the steamer er was sinking so fast ii it was not a far d drop rop hut buell it was sufficient to knock the breath out of me 1 when I 1 came to my senses he was rowing with all his lils strength t long wo we were rhth on the water wafer I 1 do not know it ft seemed an eternity before v we e f found 0 und ourselves upon a strip of benh beach with palms twisting twi sting and bending in a wind the like of which chic I 1 I 1 had never known before and hope never to know again 1 I can give you but the barest outline ellzabeth our exhaustion as we lay on that length of sand then when strength returned our search for food and water for a time we lived upon codoni ils necessity taught him how to arfi trap fish we built some sort of shelter but it was no protection from the storms that swept the atoll from time to time and that man whose name I 1 did not know took me into hla his arms and sheltered me from the wind my one effort was to keep keel between us such formality as would have been natural cuder different cl circumstances it se seemed emed to me the only means of saving the situation sliu atio n he was as a brilliant talker ver versatile saUle witty and lie he seconded my efforts to avoid the personal liers onal but as time passed lie he became less assured and the onus ol of it fell upon me reserve dignity dressed in one ragged garment that could not hide bide my nakedness I 1 and I 1 was afraid afraid when he left rne me af afraid v hen was with wath him wo we had I 1 lost 0 si all trace ot of time when we first clr t caught sight of smoke against the horizon such a tiny little smudge I 1 but after a little it grew grev clearer bigger he stood beside me his hand gripping rny my shoulder until it hurt burti looking at me not at the approaching st steamer eader at the time I 1 thought it was wag the bor horrible fear that the steamer m er would not see fir coir signal that thai made him regard me so strangely Afterward I 1 remembered his eyes and knew it was farewell ite ile left the vessel at singapore 1 our parting was conventional A A touch of the hand hafid a courteous wish wasl for a pleasant journey and he was w a a gone my soul was top scorched by memory to wish it 0 otherwise that was three months 1 ago I 1 was to have been married in juno I 1 had no thought other than the fulfilling of my promise then came a revulsion of feeling fe 9 ling 1 could not go bonwith on with it so far as possible I 1 told charles what I 1 have told you but lie he could not understand der stand he became angry and told me lic when I 1 f came to io my senses I 1 could send for him that will never be 1 I told you the indian ocean had burned all feeling 1 out abt of me that wa was s not noi true but I 1 bellei believed edit it true until today this afternoon I 1 saw him on the avenue a big broad shouldered athletic looking man man with steady eyes and a purposeful face I 1 do not even yet know his name in that he has the advantage ot of me for I 1 asked him to call this evening copyright 1917 la 17 the mcclure pr per syndicate |
