32 HARK FORRARD! 



a man has gone away lacking tlie courage to 

 cast the die, when, had he only dared to do so, 

 his answer would have been all that he could 

 wish. 



As to Reginald Miller and Acton they 

 neither of them spoke a word to each other 

 on the subject, in fact they held but little con- 

 verse. Reginald would patrol the decks till 

 late at night smoking cigar after cigar, and 

 thinking of Lina, and as Acton was invariably 

 fast asleep when he turned in, and got up very 

 early, they did not come much in contact with 

 each other. 



The last day or two of the passage were 

 almost unbearable to Reginald, and he could 

 not but acknowledge that he hourly lost 

 ground, and for some reason or other Lina 

 Lancelot positively shunned his society. As 

 to Acton he was in the seventh heaven ; he 

 was very sorry for Reginald, as he saw that he 

 too loved this girl, but he felt that he had at 

 least as much right to enter the lists as had 

 Reginald, and though he inwardly wondered 



