In the Santa Cruz district of Manila lives a spanish widow of sixty. She calls herself a Castilian, a Catholic, and takes boarders at two dollars per day. Simple-minded, cheerful and friendly, she is a favourite with the young men who taught her the latest American slang avd English as it is swore," just for fun they said. Their applause and flattery so pleased the old Indy that she practised her'new vocabulary on her priest at the first opportunity. His Reverence shuddered, crossed himself, and meditated upon the Evils of the American Occupation."
He was a muscular wanderer with a mark like that of Cain on his face, a scoffer at men and a reviler of women," He boasted that female virtue of all nations was easy as his own, A bystander said, "suppose you hala wife aa pure as your own mother, with " big-eyed babe to look up to you as the strongest, noblest, best of men, could you feel that way?" A mist hid the flame that glared in his eyes, the brute divd down, the man rose up in hit, and he was decent for the rest of the trip.
The nostrils of the Cuptain on the bridge were smitten with a smell from the forward part of the ship. While he was waiting for s messenger to report the cause, a committee of six from the third-class cabin came to complain of codfish opend at Aden, sunned, soaked and then served to them. The ripe flavour bad expel led all who were able to walk into the open air, while those in their berths moaned for disinfectants. When the steward was eallod up he declared thit the codfish was there to be eaten, and if the passengers gave all their attention to smelling it was not his fault. The codfish promptly disappeared. Some of the survivors yet live to tell the story.
He was frown Australia, ran away from school to go to sea and had seen the world, Had much experience and no money. He was hard but not bitter, Urged to go home and start again he said, "my asvt have town up and. enjoy success, Iam a failure, but none of flem shall know it."
He came to Manila a patriot and poor. When his term expired he loft the ranks, and went to Work. Success exmo, then wealth was almost his when health fulled, He found that conscience lid slept during his prosperity. Back to the Sates for new start. The struggle between Policy and Principle came on afresh. A good wife anyed him. He was going around the world and told everybody. Called "boy" very loud when he wanted anything. His long chair, cigarettes and novel were prominent always. He was lot so severely alone that he grew tired of himself and yawned his jaw out of she joint. No one Vhanked the ship's surgeon for resetting it, "hey two had "roughed it" together on the western plains. The oldest loved and ost, but cherished a blade of grass once green on her grave. The younger married and moved across the Pacific. They met years after ut Manila. The younger would Tense the older, but a book of pain in the deep-set eyes topped him—time had not healed his brother's hurt.
She was just out of school, coming back to the East with her mother to join the father, She delighted like " child in everything by the way. Her happiness was so contagious that others flocked around her. When the ship stopped, a little, homely old man was almost smothered with kisses and tears of joy showered into the desert of his loneliness.
They came down to dinner together, she in diamonds, he a prisoner in a dress suit, She tried to coach hiw into good table manners, but. succeeded badly. The Captain separated them, one at his right, the
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