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The
Christmas
Ship
By'
VIRGINIA BLAIR
(Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.)
It was not until Capt. Amos
Bruce fell in love with Miss Pris
cilla Duguid that he ever thought of
his fellow men. The captain had al
ways been a crusty follow, even in
his youth. But underneath his
crustiness there had been a sensitive
soul, and, strange as it may seem,
the captain s failure to do good had
been a matter of ignorance rather
than of evil intent.
When he fell in love with Miss
Priscilla everything was changed.
The captain, in spite of his forty-five
years, had never been in love before,
and at once his head became as full
of dreams as a boy.
“I want the whole world to know
how happy I am,” the captain said,
and Miss Priscilla laughed softly,
and said, “then the way to do it, is
to make the world happy.”
The captain rubbed his gray hair
until it stood up like a spiky crown.
‘‘But how?” he demanded.
“Oh, I’ve thought of something,”
said Priscilla. “I believe our spe
cial mission is to lovers—there are
so many unhappy ones.”
“But how in the world?” asked
the astonished captain.
“Well,” said Miss Priscilla, who
had a mind of her own, in spite of
her gentle manner, “there’s Jack
Dobbs, for example. He’s in love
with Amelia Marston, and she won’t
have a thing to do with him, and
then there’s Mary Macy, who is
growing thin and pale because Ar
thur Green is too dense to know that
he really cares for her. Now what I
propose to do, is for you to fit out a
Christmas ship and ask them to take
ft voyage with us.”
“I’ll do anything you say, Priscil
la,” he said, adoringly.
“Os course.” Miss Priscilla said,
ioubtfully, “there’s the trouble about
doing a thing of that kind at this
time of the year. I’m not sure that
Mary Macy is a good sailor.”
The captain thought it over.
“Why go outside of the harbor,
my dear?” he asked. “We can an
chor the Wanderer just inside and
have a house party.”
“There—l knew you’d think of
something, Amos.” said Miss Pris
cilla.
The captain and Miss Priscilla
were married in November. They
same back from their honeymoon on
Christmas eve, and the next day the
whole town was startled to see a
ship riding at anchor in the quiet
harbor, with a red flag flying on
which in white letters was the greet
ing, “A Merry Christmas.”
The four unsuspecting young
people were welcomed on board by
the captain and his wife.
“It was such a jolly idea,” said
Tack Dobbs, “to think of having us
on your Christmas ship,” and little
Mary Macy glowed and sparkled as
she echoed, “Oh, it was a lovely idea.
Captain Amos.”
“You can thank the first mate,”
mid the captain, waving his hand
toward his radiant bride, “she’s got
it in her head that because we are
happy she’s got to make a lot of
other people—” He stopped, for
his wife was winking and nodding at
him.
“It will never do,” she told him
afterward, “to have them think we
are trying to marry them off. Just
as sure as they suspect, they'll get
self-conscious and then everything
will be spoiled.
“You don’t suppose,” said the cap
tain that night as he came in from
a, walk on deck with Arthur Green,
“you don’t suppose they’ll pair off
wrong, do you ? Arthur seems to be
taken mightily with that little Mars
ton girl.
“Arthur is in love with Mary
Macy,” said Mrs. Priscilla decidedly.
“Only he’s got to be waked up to
the fact, and I don’t know go
ing to do it.”
“You leave it to me," said Cap
tain Amos. “This ship isn’t called
a Christmas ship for nothing. If
that little Mary Macy wants Arthur
she shall have him, Priscilla. And
vou know when I say that, that I
mean it. I’m a man of my word.”
The next morning the captain
hung a great bunch of mistletoe in
the main cabin. Arthur strolled, up
<ind watched him.
t suppose,” he said, loftily,
‘that you expect me to kiss some
body under that, captain. Well, I’m
not sentimental—so you needn’t be
setting any traps.”
The captain peered at him over
the big bow of red ribbon. “You ?”
he questioned, “I’m not setting my
traps for you. It's Jack that will
jump at the chance.”
“What chance?”
“To kiss Mary Macy?”
For a moment Arthur was silent.
Then he asked with some effort, “Do
you mean to say that Jack Dobbs is
in love with Mary Macy?”
“Looks like it,” said the captain.
“But—Mary isn’t in love with
him." securely.
“She isn't ?” the captain demand
ed. “Why, where are vour eyes,
boy ?”
Arthur stared at him. “But—
but!" he stammered. “Mary—•”
"Mary's like all other girls,” said
the captain, decidedly, “when she
knows that a man worships her, she
likes it. No girl is going to waste
her love on a man who doesn’t take
any pains to keep it.”
Meantime Mrs. Priscilla was help
ing the plot along. Just before din
ner she carried a bunch of crimson
carnations to Mary. “When you go
into the dining room,” she said, “you
pin one of these on Jack’s coat.”
“Jack’s?” asked Mary, doubtfully.
“Yes. I know you’d rather pin
one on Arthur’s—but—l want to
bring Amelia to her senses. She has
flirted outrageously lately with Ar
thur. And poor Jack is miserable.
Perhaps she’ll realize what she’s do
ing when she thinks some other girl
likes him.”
Wire-pulling on the part of the
captain and his wife made possible
a pretty tableau which greeted the
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The Next Morning the Captain Hung
a Great Bunch of Mistletoe in the
Main Cabin.
eyes of four of the party as they
came out into the main cabin on
their way to dinner.
Mary and Jack stood under the
mistletoe. Her face was raised to
his, and he was smiling down at her
as she pinned a red flower on the
lapel of his coat.
“It couldn’t be better,” said the
captain gleefully, as his wife took
his arm.
“Look at Amelia and Arthur.”
was Mrs. Priscilla’s happy response.
“They are positively struck dumb!”
The Christmas feast was not a
hilarious one. Blushing Mary and
puzzled Jack, indignant Amelia and
irate Arthur ate silently through six
courses.
Coffee was served in the main sab
in. And when the captain came to
get his cup, he found his wife alone.
“Arthur has carried Mary away
for a walk on the forward deck, and
Amelia and Jack are aft.” she an
nounced.
And on the forward deck Arthur
was demanding of Mary, who looked
like the spirit of Christmas in her
big white coat, with a bit of holly in
her buttonhole, “Did he kiss you?”
Mary blushed. Her lashes dropped
over her eyes. “Why—?”
“Because nobody else has a
right—” Arthur floundered. “I
I mean—will you kiss me, Mary?”
And somewhere astern. Amelia
was asking. “Did you kiss her. Jack”
Jack, rising to the occasion asked,
loftily, “What if I did? But—l
couldn’t—there are no other lips for
me. but yours, dear heart.”
And the captain, having made
short excursions fore and aft. came
back and reported to Mrs. Priscilla.
“There’ll be two more weddings
when the Christmas ship sails into
port,” he said, “and now, my dear,
if you’ll step this way. I’ll claim
privilege and kiss you under the
mistletoe.”
For Congressman H|
1 respectfully announce myself a candidate
for Representative in the Sixty-third Congress
of the Uuited States from the Ninth Congres
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I will gratefully appreciate vour support.
W. A. CHARTERS.
In my race tor the Sixty-third Congress from
the Ninth Congressional District of Georgia,
in the Democratic primary to be held this year.
I will be profoundly grateful to the white
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J NO. N. HOLDER.
Jefferson. Jackson Countv. Ga.
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ATLANTIC BEACH CUMBERLAND ISLAND
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OFFICIAL ROUTE
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Rome $21.35 Albany *26.7®
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