The Argosy, Vol. 81, No. 4 — page 116: what you’re looking at

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682 THE ARGOSY. It was all plain as print to him in his “ The man had reached for Danforth’s new dream; and he welcomed it because he face—had touched it even! knew, although he could not awaken, that It was only a dream and he did not know he was safe in the timber shed of Mother for a second that he was awake. His eyes Juliet where no one would intrude. were wide open, yet the room seemed The shadowy presence bent over him. blacker in darkness than before. He could almost see it now. A stified cry of terror had startled him It leaned down, just as the Portuguese from his dream. sailor had done when his knee was on Dan- He had caught his fancied antagonist, forth’s chest in the boat. Danforth struck not by the throat as he had taken the Por- out his arms for the sailor’s throat just as tuguese sailor, but under the arms. And he had done on the deserted sea with one it was no dreamed-of sailor, but a woman, bit of bread and some drops of water to lithe and strong, whose smooth cheek and share between them. fine hair lay against his bare breast. (To Be Continued.) ive | lg ' o oe George Rake FISHING TRIP off Sandy Hook, The cost had troubled Mr. Brenning not A during which the only thing he in the least. Travel to Europe, he had caught was a very coniplete educa- argued, is a more constant, reliable and tion in ma@l-de-mer, was the nearest to Eu- progressive commodity than the cotton rope that Richard Brenning had ever been. crop. Therefore he had taken no thought And yet Mr. Brenning probably knew more for the morrow. about Europe than any man in America. And the morrow brought the Great War. For forty years Mr. Brenning had spe- One morning, Vanron, the president of cialized on Europe in the Foreign Travel the agency, sent for him. department of the Universal Tourist “There isn’t much business in your de- Agency: He had studied not only the high- partment just now, Mr. Brenning,” he ways you can read of but the byways you began. can hear of. “The war has slowed things up a good He had absorbed Europe. He could tell deal,” agreed Brenning. “There'll be a big you, without confronting you with a stack rush when the war’s over, however.” of time-tables, the best way to get from “Precisely, but it doesn’t seem likely to Trieste to Nijninovgorod, and could call be over for quite a while yet, and in the every point of interest on the way by its meantime the agency has to live, and on first name. The education had provided much reduced profits. I’m afraid we shall him with an excellent livelihood, but it had have to cut down a good deal.” also cost’ money, for in acquiring it Mr. “T suppose so, though I hate to let any Brenning had done much entertaining. of my young men go.” ECOMMICGOOOKS (S@)