Argosy All-Story Weekly — "Sea Marauders" — page 16: what you’re looking at

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438 She was a horsewoman, an airplane pilot, a golfer of unusual skill, and a splendid swimmer. Her hair was red- dish yellow, and she was letting it grow long. It had attained a length of seven or eight inches, and she complained that she couldn't do a thing with it. Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Platt were in the party, rather a stupid pair in their fifties. Platt was fat and Mrs. Platt was stout. She had dyed her hair to approximate the color of Mi§uldred’s and the effect was incongruous. Mrs. Weldon Balch, a widow, was the lady whose attractions made Lover- ing wonder if he were too old to re- marry. She was about forty-five, but one of those modern miracles, a beau- tiful, slender, graceful, youthful-look- ing person, without a line or a wrinkle, teeming with energy, a sportswoman, an indefatigable golfer and tennis player and dancer. Mildred Lovering told her father that Mrs. Balch had had her face lift- ed; if so the work was superbly ac- complished. She was independently wealthy. Among the guests was Franklin Forbes, who wanted to marry Mildred Lovering and who had made some im- pression on her. He was about thirty, striking in appearance without being handsome, athletic, and unusually suc- cessful for so young a man. He had the approval of Mr. Lover- ing, for he was the sort of person who would not mishandle the Lovering for- tune when it came to his wife; and he had a reputation for gallantry which ought to offend a good girl but more often attracts her. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Higgins were a young couple, two years married, both born with silver spoons in_ their mouths. Mrs. Higgins was a school friend of Mildred’s. She was pretty, but getting too plump. Her husband was amiable but vacttous. He was about twenty-seven years old. Lovering’s legal adviser, Henry Courtleigh, was among the guests, a ARGOSY-ALLSTORY WEEKLY. heavy, red-faced man of sixty odd, brilliant in his line, but already voted a bore by all except the Platts, who were the same sort. Mrs. Laura Saunderson was the di- vorced wife of a wealthy Chicagoan. She had been a successful legitimate actress before her marriage, and was now about thirty-eight and looked her age. She drank too much. Frank Raleigh and Mrs. Raleigh completed the party which landed on Gascon Island from the yacht Adven- turer. He was a junior partner in Lovering’s firm, forty-five and looked thirty-five. His wife was thirty-five and looked forty-five. She was too fat. These and their manservants and their maid servants were settled in charming quarters in the gorgeous resi- dence, and were hysterical in praise of the exquisite island and of the extreme luxury they found in mid-Atlantic. | NE, other person landed from the yacht. He was a tall, thin youth of twenty-seven, who had a slight stoop to his broad shoulders. He was conducted to the wireless house, for he had been brought down to operate the radio apparatus. He also opened wide his pleasant brown eyes at the luxury of the quarters pro- vided for him in the wireless house. After several years of employment as an operator upon a_ second-rate transatlantic liner, he was overcome at the thoughtfulness of his new em- ployer. He immediately tested the plant and found everything in splendid shape. Lovering had built a big power house, installed the latest and most up-to-date machinery. Steve Reardon, the operator, got in touch with Nassau, Miami and Havana without the slightest difficulty. In en- gaging him Lovering had informed him that he expected a complete daily market report and full news bulletins. He would also transact considerable © business by radio. —- com - — ~ae 4 - - ee nal SF a ae Pos ie . : — = 4 Se ees : . d a : Fe eT SS, ee <a a toe , ib e - aS Tee ee ae AE OP OE ee a %. Sat ts oe ~ we * - ee ay i < “é & “ ~~ re ie nr eal — - wn ees Ra . mg wt og Lez Te ON > Smet cS - eer ~ hy a . b “ CO RS LO nD ee a AI LOS ag EO nS See SIT Ne eg Le ee Ee I Ry Ne er Te Re ee On: a LR iS ae Rae pT ner Satie — Ebooks.com