Part 5 (1/2)
”White's conspicuous,” Waltheered, and Evelyn noticed Grahalance ”A neutral tint stands better, and doesn't show the dirt You see, we have to think of our pockets”
”Then it isn't to be a pleasure trip Where are you going?”
”Up the Gulf Stream To Cuba first, and then south and west; wherever there's a chance of trade”
”But the boat is very s that coht catch turtles, for example”
”One understands that turtles are now farmed for the etYou couldn't carry lish and Aht charter us for trips”
”I' They'd expect nice berths and a good table Do you carry a good cook?”
Graharinned
”Modesty prevents , because ht be better; but our passengers wouldn't find that out until we got them away at sea”
Evelyn was frankly a very well, but she liked his huue,” she said
”They are, but one doesn't want a cut and dried program for a cruise about the Spanish Main One takes what co; in the old days it used to be rich plate shi+ps and windfalls of that kind, and I guess there's still soet off the liners'
track One expects to find adventures on the seas that Drake and Frobisher sailed”
Evelyn h to perceive that the , and they roused her curiosity, but she thought Waltheas right Romance was not dead, and the Spanish Main was a naht one visions of desolate keys where treasure was hidden, the rush of the lukewared inlets up which the pinnaces had crept to cut out Spanish galleons, and of old white cities that the buccaneers had sacked Tragic and heroic h luxurious mail boats plowed it now, the passions of the old desperados still burned in the hearts of enuous, and marked by boyish huht he could be determined He was no doubt proficient in sports that deth and nerve For all that, it was Grahahts dwelt ested that he had already found the adventures his co He was a soldier of fortune, who had taken wounds and perhaps still bore their scars She rement he had shohen he came to her rescue
Walthew disturbed her reflections
”It will be soaff, and there's no use in trying to hurry him,” he said ”He's an artist in metal, and never lets up until he's satisfied with a job So, as you e below, I can offer you some tea and I'd like your opinion of the biscuit I've been baking for supper”
Evelyn felt doubtful She was spending the afternoon in a way her et ashore until the gaff waswith the fresh sea breeze on her face and listen to the splash of the combers on the bows Then she was interested in her coers she would have been talking to had she stayed at the hotel
She let Walthew go and then turned to Graha?” she asked
”No; I o”
”I asked because he's a type that I'm well acquainted with,” Evelyn explained