The Kentons

s. That had been her shapeless ambition, dreamily expressed with reference to some time, as they rose. Breckon asked, "Why not now?" and he promised to place her c

e saw her shawl and Lottie's among the others solemnly swaying from the top railing. "O

how Lottie is getting

s she explicitly renounced her ambition of going

earthly aid," Breckon ventured. "She'd better be

his piety, if not of his wisdom. "I don't

iscreetly kept silence, and, as no one offered to help her, she began to climb

the lee of the bulkhead, with Breckon bracing himself against it beside her, she showed no impatience to return. "Are t

running mountains high. Perhaps they used rather low mountains to measure them by. Or the meas

He thought it in good taste that she should not tell him he ought to go. She merely said, "I was there once wit

king is done on such points; the ship's officers never seem to kn

that Breckon instantly changed his first mind as to her words implying a pose. She took

" he assented, "there are not

seemed to become aware of something provisional in his attendance, and s

ly rather not," and as there was no chair immediat

eant the sea, "of the cold-white, heavy plunging foam in '

n to smile at the simple-heartedness of the literary

y do," she answered.

should like to know. Is Te

d Ellen. "I used to like Whither,

! Don't

a pause, behind which he fancied her secret lu

in your family," he sugges

e answered, dreami

d Breckon, and he began to laugh, and then checked hi

bout insects,"

cocoons. He seems to be afraid

" said Ellen, and t

ather a fine one. Doesn't that realize your idea of something

en't any in our part. It's all level. Do you b

now which the tenth wave is,

suppose it's like everything else in that. We hav

eory without it." She did not say anything, and he decided that the atomic theory was beyond the range of her reading. He tried to be more concrete. "We have

o when you find out you

lf altogether; but usually I give myself another chance. I dare say if I hadn't been s

h Lo

s I laugh

n't laugh if he feels like it. And

oughtn't we rather to cry?" He laughed in retreat from the serious proposition. "But it wouldn't do t

about it," said Ellen; and at this po

been of some use if I had m

M

ghed with your whole he

e had found him too personal. "I wonder if I c

own, she had slid down the reeling promenade half to the guard, over which she seemed about to plunge. He hurled himself after her; he could not have done otherwise; and it was as much in a

-stairs," she protes

hip righted herself with a counter-roll and plunge, and they were swung staggering back together against the bulkhead. The door

ng on the cushioned benching where usuall

ulkhead," he said. "Are you sure you're not hurt tha

terms to close the incident that he was not aware of the bruise on his own arm, which afterwards d

stationed himself to study the habits of the stormy petrel at a moment so favorable to the acquaintance of the petrel (having left a seasick bed for the

s always going on with fellows. An

wish to laugh at her son and the wish to box his ears, "how could she

s think that she did it just s

ould think that of Ellen,"

elves at them, and they will think anything, ministers and all. You ought to talk to Ellen, and caution her. Of course, she i

provisionally, "what sort

k he's kind o

ou, B

hardly get him to talk seriously about anything. And I just know he makes fun of Lottie. I don't m

do you

r? I told you abou

Breckon tha

't know who I was

t have told us before," said his mother, in

e jambs of her state-room door. She was keeping her berth, not so much because she was sea-sick as

Boyne," his mother snub

she motioned me away, and fairly screamed when I told her she ought

in their present gloom, looking out of it on the pillow of the upper berth, when he went to their room to freshen himself for the luncheon, and found Boyne averse even to serious conversation: He went to lunch without him. None of the Ke

," she replied, as if to

to say: "The doctor goes so far as to admit that its half a gale. I don't know just what measure the first officer would have for it. But I congratulate you on a very typical little storm, Miss Kenton; perfectly safe, but very decided. A great many people cross the At

tor think, y

han I am," said Breckon. "But I thought I h

e asked, as another dish interv

e answered: "I couldn't touch a morsel that conveyed confession of the least culpabil

ented, and he allowed

lease," he s

hat e

it up for me! My proud spirit draws the line at cutti

asked, but not apparently

ew. It seems to have come in with the Hun

ut I heard them at a restaurant in

ple seems to pervade both the Hungarian music and cooking-the same wandering

he could go with her sad consciousness before she should be aware that he was experimenting upon it. He put this temptation from him, and was in the enjo

if you were to take p

nd began to cut up the meat for him. "Am I making the b

" he returned, with a smile that out-meas

his honesty, at first sadly, and then indignantly. S

on!" he penite

sle and out of the reeling door