Show fl the mutiny mu ti ny of the albatross by WYNDHAM MARTYN MARTY i XH THE c U ri 16 service tf 7 THE STORY rloyd noyd unwin and howard B fettington I 1 take dinner with an old college chum alfred gibbons bon financial magnate unwin pro duce a writ written pledge pledge taken take n by bi the tb three abr at college whelp to help each other in adversity explaining that h he needs need financial assist ance to educate his bla son bob and daughter mazy mary gibbons gibbon scoffs at the legality bality 1 of the pledge I 1 but agrees to make a place for or the daughter in bli bin organization organisation CHAPTER II 11 2 the planning of the cruise the place stifled mi me 11 said eald when he was wa alone to the street with bettington walk as tar far as an my studio bettington i suggested it s strange iiran ge that we should havekost have lost Jost sight of one another I 1 feel guilty its true im not often in new york tubby rhinot ril not lose sight of you now io betting tons studio was more a cot col lection of marine objects a museum of the 86 sea thana than a place to work in there were two rooms it at the awe top of an old brown stone house on the north side ilde of east thirty fourth street he hid had a yearly tease lease of the place and used it but rarely irely there were quaint figureheads figure heads of bf old sailing ships chips now j long broken up or sunk 1 I it have nota not always lw ay s led the simple uneventful life gibbons assigned to me the painter said smiting anit ling when he noted his friends interest sit down tubby while I 1 make real coffie coffee clater later he vegan began 1 I had a small I 1 fortune whenn when I 1 left harvard I 1 spent most tofit of it in seeing the world with what was left and some small savings ii I 1 have bought a camp camp at present i im hard up tip but theres plenty of money in this very room if im energetic enough to get it I 1 have sold very few of my mi paintings I 1 have been able to afford not to I 1 have commas fora for a number which chave I 1 have not filled that was selfish of me ill execute them and sell some some of these canvases your 1 girl mary shall go goto to smith and your boy shall have the tech seawater and paint shall take them both there it has been a fortunate evening for an me Il I 1 needed waking up j thought of how soon this miracle might be accomplished which should give glye his fils children their opportunities tuni ties the narrow thin things at home bad trained him to calculate with great niceness nl ceness such adjustments bettington planned to start for the paint ing expedition within two days time he fre would start rt at gloucester and wander up the coast reaching his new camp in far northern maine in a months time it were wise he thought to send mary to gibbons office the pictures es might not sell gibbons might offer the girl a splendid he might seele seek to make maka amends for his brusqueness brusque nesa by unexpected kindnesses perhaps they had wronged longed alfred gibbons mary looked at him next rf over ever the breakfast table and her eyes AZ sit down tubby while 1 I make real 0 O coffee coffea asked the question her lle i lips did not formulate smith must wait lust just A a little he sal aid but dont be east cast down mary there Is in hope you will yet win fin to northampton take an hour off loff this very day and go and see the great alfred gibbons ili he wants waits to see you commercially speaking your fortune is made he to Is expecting you mary had b been een almost a year an inmate of the office of eliar elgar rodway badway she had quickly accommodated herself to the routine of it her work abe worked always at top speed as did her employer himself and was baid paid eighteen dollars weekly the people eople were kindly and badway notorious as a man about town never mixed his pleasures with his bla work she wasas was as free from harm when taking his dictation as she would would have bave bien been witha with a decent minded man it was tofila to him she preferred the request que at for an hour off he was not pleased tm im busy t he grunted im on tor a vacation soon BOOD and theres 9 lot to do dont donabe be longer than at an pour hour i he looked at her curiously aishe as she went f from rom the office As a connoisseur of women he be admired her charm but she was worth more 10 to him tn in the office than out of it radway was a voluptuary of sixty who was finding out that he lived now in a soberer age and could not adopt adapt himself to it gibbons victory pointed the moral he did not greatly tear fear gibbons he comforted himself that after a few weeks on the sea he fie would come back refreshed for the he big game he was thinking of gibbons triumph over the memphis and toledo road only made possible by P the treachery ofa of a trusted manager er when me mary ry unwin entered the office of her fathers onetime one time friend i gibbons was often a n matter of speculation among the radway staff it was was known that he lied had once been Kad ways clerk and had left suddenly breathing threats against his employer and it seemed he be had devoted his life to getting even tor for some grievance of whose origin none in 2 faia his office offic eliad had any definite idea mary looked ed at him with ac a curiosity urlo sity that had nothing jo to do with his financial position she looked at I 1 him as one who hadin had in theother the other years been aclise frien dofher dof her poor blundering cl clever ev er but unstable father whom she loved the more because she saw his need gibbons was not prepared for a beauty it was wai true unwin had fine features and brilliant e yes ees but one rem remembered ellered unwin as the man who perpetually failed and looked apologetic there was a cloud of d depression cepres about unwin which seemed to make his bis cair carriage lage mean mean and inconspicuous mary was slim and held herself as though no failure or self depreciation had ever come near her there Ther ewas was soi something fine about h her er and the ibe brown eyes which looked of at him under level brows raised a doubt in his to the successful lout outcome come of the scheme which was working in his crafty head he first set himself to disarm herby her by the adoption of the air of an old and privileged friend so this Is little mary unwin he exclaimed shaking her hand belll I 1 well I 1 it was a banal beginning the girl thought but she smiled there must be something good in a man whom her father had liked sol so you want to goto go to smith he went on he could see her vivid interest now more IMor ethan than anything on earth she answered 1 I dont suppose you can ever guess how much I 1 want lit it 11 perhaps I 1 can he smiled your father helped me to understand his airway air was oneff one of delight in well doing there was vas born in her heart a fluttering hope that tor old friend ships aake sake he was going to io help her the cheeks that were wera usually pale took to themselves nl a lovely unlovely flush she could not bring herself to ask what he be meant for fearon fear of meeting disappointment it was good to hope after so much despair 1 I told your father I 1 would help you the world knows me as a hard man but it knows me for tora a man of my word im going to hel help pyou you and your brother ohe oh mr gibbons she cried 1 I cant believe it it Is one of those thinks things too good to 10 be truel true I 1 how enin can bob and I 1 ever thank you enough 11 he looked f at her keenly this was ripe moment I 1 I 1 you would like to feel you earned 1 the money rather tha than n be L under a monetary obligation jo to me Is that what you mean of 01 course she replied 1 I 1 should eap exp expect act to earn it but how bow can 1 I he leaned over the glass topped table you can he be said you can an very easily repay me fofiu to the few thousand dollars houi your education will cost you are roadways Rad ways private stenographer Ve very well you must have taken many letters from him to three men named harrod harte and auf auford ord you I 1 yes she ofie admitted what I 1 want is this 1 wish you to leave radway and bring to this office the notebooks olis with the letters written writ tell since the fifth of the month to these men you will find a typewriting machine in the adjoining office you will transcribe the letters and then forget all about it 10 forget she answered forget an all abo about ut it I 1 the idea 1 he said delight edly he was very much relieved he had bad dreaded the idea of tempting her forget it entirely go to smith and feel that you have earned the money ill tell your yo r father it Is a loa loan n so be will feel satisfied satis fled she rose listlessly the color had bad gon gone i e from her cheek she tilt felt ph physically i ya weakened after all it ans to be a life of office drudgery gibbons pid did not understand this sudden alter 1 k atlon aaion the mat matter terl lie he said ir rit ably oh not very much she sald said 1 I ivas was only wondering how my father could ever have called you his friend what he bei i exclaimed you tou are going to throw away a chance like that Shenia she made de blittle a little gesture of despair biam going mothr to th away he was now thoroughly angry he i had not been BO upset for months mo atlis You deserve to starve he snapped with that d d d 1001 of ii a father of yo yours ursand and will will too she shook her head ai 1 I shant starve but I 1 think lid id rather starve than douthat doi dof that 11 gibbons had bad been wrong in declaring that the memphis and toledo roa road d had been taken from radway because he was drunk gibbons gibbone had bid so high that one radway relied I 1 wholly had sold him well that thal E again for the moment there wasla wasa lullen lull in the warfare jt was not until some alltis allies of bon s returned from europe that the struggle would begin again and be bei i fore that happened there would be one oae month on shipboard where he could fill himself alcohol and feel he was not ruining I 1 his I 1 prospects it was the debauch of an alcoholic long denied I 1 fils bis pleasure elgar radway always deceived himself and others about this annual voyage but i he never deceived his wife there had been a days day ten years earlier when he wasa national figure in politics the death of ota n governor had made him a little heard ot of lieu tenant governor the head of a great state his financial knowledge was at the service of the white house at i a moment when a black panic seemed about to i the country i senator whitburn of his own state looked upon radway as i his own discovery and talked of him so much that his daughter carried away by that spirit which to Is found so much in washington society found the dia I 1 parit yIn years leniw more than offset by his name prominence and promise from the beginning the marriage was unhappy he had found that the scandal scandals discovered by a political ryal riyal were noi not to be lived down in an era when women were powers ile he had gone back to his financing in new york evelyn Radway was asplend ld hostess she was beautiful and she wa was clever selever Thel The Radway dinner parties were internationally famous he was bound to admit that she had bad been a great assetto asset to him it was at ait a arinner dinner party that he announced his intention of taking a months vacation there were ns as guests some foreign financiers he knew that his wife realized why he was going he had never been able wholly to met the glance of those almond shaped violet eyes with the calmness he wished in ten years ashe she had learned most of his secrets one hears bears said the president of aparis a paris kinghouse ban banking house that you work Vork even when making holiday but I 1 never believe that thal no jno no its what you call the bluff J im taking a secretary and a wireless operator radway retort retorted bd and ihei ethere there for business and my my wife will probably come too that ls Is if i she cares to thank you elgar she answered to his extreme surprise the change will dome do i me good he smiled as though the prospect entranced him he now saw himself committed to io at t least two iwo extra guests what on earth had he wanted ito to talk 1 rubout taking a secretary aitor for ile he was even more astonished to find that his wife consented to come she did not care care for the ocean ds as a rule he rather suspected that hla his physician had been warning her that this trip might be dangerous it if he reverted to hasold habits she was coming to see that he be kept within bounds 11 1 am glud you are coming evelyn he fie said when his guests had gone it will do you good you iou are r really ally taking she demanded certainly he sald said a trifle impatiently tient ly this Is a business trip as I 1 told monsieur decamps Det amps theres accommodation for my mald maid she sald said ample be answered what secretary will you take he thought a moment the two men in his office who might answer were well enough to in their way but the enforced intimacy of shipboard would probably discover unsuspected shortcomings would yon be annoyed if I 1 took la a dodou do you mean that slight dark girl I 1 have seen oh ob elgar eiger I 1 wish you would it would be such company company forme for me it if you can arrange it ill take her heir probably her people let her come if I 1 suggested it ill phone you her a aldress from the office tomorrow and you can go and se see herti her mother iother if she has ane one tell her she ah will get gei twenty five dollars a week she ought to jump at it IV if was with the hope the girl would go that I 1 mrs called next neit morning at tb the home mr un wid vila recognized her instantly at her marriage sur Sar sargents gents portrait had helped to make her famous foT since that tha t time the society columns and laverys laveris La painting of f her had kept her in the public ey ee e the unwinds were delighted at the idea of mary getting ja a whole month on sl shipboard I 1 i andthil and the additional sav ing meant something to them lt it was mary herself who seemed dubious she confided in her hen brother 1 I have a fe feeling elfrig she said that I 1 ought not to go its a kind of presentment sent ment I 1 wish you could come 1 I wish they would find a job for me in the engine room he be exclaimed ills his eyes brightened at the prospect of such nearress to machinery it at work gee beel that he be 11 luck lick sis do you think it could be managed do you think theres something I 1 could do it if there she decided 1 I wont go I 1 radway Hadway was wag I 1 astounded at ather her demand what do I 1 want with an engine adoring boy aboard he snapped perhaps your father would like to go alsola also she colored a little H he e decided that when she flushed she was prettier than 0 any girt girl in the winter follies im rather relieved she said quietly 1 I want to go and now I 1 certainly shall not 1 I supposed suppo suppose I 1 shall have to find a place for him radway grumbled he took up sonia bome pt plans aasand an sand and glanced at them there are four boats carried I 1 see and one of rhems a twenty one foot launch ile he shall look laft after erAt it of course hellhake hell have tomes to mess with the crew tell him to report to captain i maln hallett Hallitt of the Mba albatross tross at the new york yacht club float at the foot of east twenty third street she leaves bar harbor tomorrow night and will be I 1 here by sunday when she was gone radway sank down into his padded chair and told himself he was getting old there were physical troubles multiplying with a frightening rapidity after all lie he might nota not be able to turn this trip into one of the old time ca rouses presently he rang a buzzer and mary came in take this telegram he sala said W clement S S albatross bar harbor maine ship competent doctor aboard for trip health not too good radway As she was leaving the room he called |