HARK FORRARD! 31 



Lina Lancelot, of course, saw how fond of 

 her both men were becoming, and though she 

 enjoyed the society of both immensely, she 

 began to behave in a markedly different manner 

 to each. She did not mind how much she 

 was left alone with Acton, but if she and 

 Reginald happened to be by themselves, she 

 was always inventing excuses to go below or 

 into the drawing-room, or to romp with the 

 children. 



The truth of the matter was, she began to 

 dread whether this were not only a mere board- 

 ship flirtation on his part, whose trammels he 

 would, as so many men do, throw off at the 

 expiration of the voyage with as little ado as 

 lie cast aside his deck shoes. 



In truth, as day succeeded day, and she felt 

 her own heart slipping away from her control, 

 her manner to Reginald became almost cold. 

 No girl who is worth a row of pins, even if she 

 does give her heart away, will ever let the man 

 who has stolen it have the least idea of his 

 conquest until he first has spoken, and many 



