It is well that there is pleasure somewhere in the world. It is possible for those who have a fresh-air fund of their own to steam away in a yacht, out of the midsummer ennui1 and the weary gayety of the land. It is a costly2 pleasure, and probably all the more enjoyed on that account, for if everybody had a yacht there would be no more feeling of distinction in sailing one than in going to any of the second-rate resorts on the coast. There is, to be sure, some ennui in yachting on a rainy coast, and it might be dull but for the sensation created by arrivals at watering-places and the telegraphic reports of these sensations.
If there was any dullness on the Delancy yacht, means were taken to dispel3 it. While still in the Sound a society was formed for the suppression of total abstinence, and so successful was this that Point Judith was passed, in a rain and a high and chopping sea, with a kind of hilarious4 enjoyment5 of the commotion6, which is one of the things desired at sea. When the party came round to Newport it declared that it had had a lovely voyage, and inquiry7 brought out the great general principle, applicable to most coast navigation for pleasure, that the enjoyable way to pass Point Judith is not to know you are passing Point Judith.
Except when you land, and even after you have got your sea-legs on, there is a certain monotony in yachting, unless the weather is very bad, and unless there are women aboard. A party of lively women make even the sea fresh and entertaining. Otherwise, the game of poker8 is much what it is on land, and the constant consulting of charts and reckoning of speed evince the general desire to get somewhere--that is, to arrive at a harbor. In the recollections of this voyage, even in Jack9's recollections of it after he had paid the bills, it seemed that it had been simply glorious, free from care, generally a physical setting-up performance, and a lark10 of enormous magnitude. And everybody envied the fortunate sailors.
Mavick actually did enjoy it, for he had that brooding sort of nature, that self-satisfied attitude, that is able to appropriate to its own uses whatever comes. And being an unemotional and very tolerable sailor, he was able to be as cynical11 at sea as on land, and as much of an oracle12, in his wholly unobtrusive way. The perfect personal poise13 of Mavick, which gave him an air of patronizing the ocean, and his lightly held skeptical14 view of life, made his company as full of flavor on ship as it was on shore. He didn't know anything more about the weather than the Weather Bureau knows, yet the helmsman of the yacht used to consult him about the appearances of the sky and a change of wind with a confidence in his opinion that he gave to no one else on board. And Mavick never forfeited15 this respect by being too positive. It was so with everything; he evidently knew a great deal more than he cared to tell. It is pleasing to notice how much credit such men as Mavick obtain in the world by circumspect16 reticence17 and a knowing manner. Jack, blundering along in his free-hearted, emotional way, and never concealing18 his opinion, was really right twice where Mavick was right once, but he never had the least credit for wisdom.
It was late in August that the Delancy yacht steamed into the splendid Bar Harbor, making its way slowly through one of the rare fogs which are sometimes seen by people who do not own real estate there. Even before they could see an island those on board felt the combination of mountain and sea air that makes this favored place at once a tonic19 and a sedative20 to the fashionable world.
The party were expected at Bar Harbor. It had been announced that the yacht was on its way, and some of the projected gayeties were awaiting its coming, for the society reenforcement of the half-dozen men on board was not to be despised. The news went speedily round that Captain Delancy's flag was flying at the anchorage off the landing.
Among the first to welcome them as they landed and strolled up to the hotel was Major Fairfax.
"Oh yes," he said; "we are all here--that is, all who know where they ought to be at the right moment."
To the new-comers the scene was animated21. The exotic shops sparkled with cheap specialties22; landaus, pony-phaetons, and elaborate buckboards dashed through the streets; aquatic23 and law-tennis costumes abounded24. If there was not much rowing and lawn-tennis, there was a great deal of becoming morning dressing25 for these sports, and in all the rather aimless idleness there was an air of determined26 enjoyment. Even here it was evident that there was a surplus of women. These lovers of nature, in the summer season, who had retired27 to this wild place to be free from the importunities of society, betrayed, Mavick thought, the common instinct of curiosity over the new arrival, and he was glad to take it as an evidence that they loved not nature less but man more. Jack tripped up this ungallant speech by remarking that if Mavick was in this mood he did not know why he came ashore29. And Van Dam said that sooner or later all men went ashore. This thin sort of talk was perhaps pardonable after the weariness of a sea voyage, but the Major promptly30 said it wouldn't do. And the Major seemed to be in charge of the place.
"No epigrams are permitted. We are here to enjoy ourselves. I'm ordered to bring the whole crew of you to tea at the Tavish cottage."
"Anybody else there?" asked Jack, carelessly.
"Well, it's the most curious coincidence, but Mrs. Henderson arrived last night; Henderson has gone to Missouri."
"Yes, he wrote me to look out for his wife on this coast," said Mavick.
"You kept mighty31 still about it," said Jack.
"So did you," retorted Mavick.
"It is very curious," the Major explained, "how fashionable intelligence runs along this coast, apparently32 independent of the telegraph; everybody knows where everybody else is."
The Tavish cottage was a summer palace of the present fashion, but there was one good thing about it: it had no tower, nor any make-believe balconies hung on the outside like bird-cages. The rooms were spacious33, and had big fireplaces, and ample piazzas34 all round, so that the sun could be courted or the wind be avoided at all hours of the day. It was, in short, not a house for retirement36 and privacy, but for entertainment. It was furnished luxuriously37 but gayly, and with its rugs and portieres and divans38 it reminded Mavick of an Oriental marquee. Miss Tavish called it her tepee, an evolution of the aboriginal39 dwelling40. She liked to entertain, and she never appeared to better advantage than when her house was full, and something was going on continually-lively breakfasts and dinners, dances, theatricals41, or the usual flowing in and out of callers and guests, chattering42 groups, and flirtatious43 couples. It was her idea of repose44 from the winter's gayety, and in it she sustained the role of the non-fatigueable society girl. It is a performance that many working-girls regard with amazement45.
There was quite a flutter in the cottage, as there always is when those who know each other well meet under new circumstances after a short separation.
"We are very glad to see you," Miss Tavish said, cordially; "we have been awfully46 dull."
"That is complimentary47 to me," said the Major.
"You can judge the depths we have been in when even the Major couldn't pull us out," she retorted. "Without him we should have simply died."
"And it would have been the liveliest obsequies I ever attended."
Carmen was not effusive48 in her greeting; she left that role to Miss Tavish, taking for herself that of confidential49 friend. She was almost retiring in her manner, but she made Jack feel that she had a strong personal interest in his welfare, and she asked a hundred questions about the voyage and about town and about Edith.
"I'm going to chaperon you up here," she said, "for Miss Tavish will lead you into all sorts of wild adventures."
There was that in the manner of the demure50 little woman when she made this proposal that convinced Jack that under her care he would be perfectly51 safe--from Miss Tavish.
After cigarettes were lighted she contrived52 to draw Mavick away to the piazza35. She was very anxious to know what Henderson's latest moves were. Mavick was very communicative, and told her nothing that he knew she did not already know. And she was clever enough to see, without any apparent distrust, that whatever she got from him must be in what he did not say. As to Jack's speculations53, she made little more progress. Jack gave every sign of being prosperous; he entertained royally on his yacht.
Mavick himself was puzzled to know whether Carmen really cared for Jack, or whether she was only interested as in a game, one of the things that amused her life to play, to see how far he would go, and to watch his ascension or his tumble. Mavick would have been surprised if he had known that as a result of this wholly agreeable and confidential talk, Carmen wrote that night in a letter to her husband:
"Your friend Mavick is here. What a very clever man he is! If I were you I would keep an eye on him."
A dozen plans were started at the tea for relieving the tedium54 of the daily drives and the regulation teas and receptions. For one thing, weather permitting, they would all breakfast at twelve on the yacht, and then sail about the harbor, and come home in the sunset.
The day was indeed charming, so stimulating55 as to raise the value of real estate, and incite56 everybody to go off in search of adventure, in wagons57, in walking parties, in boats. There is no happiness like the anticipation58 of pleasure begot59 by such a morning. Those who live there said it was regular Bar Harbor weather.
Captain Delancy was on deck to receive his guests, who came out in small boats, chattering and fluttering and "ship-ahoying," as gay in spirits as in apparel. Anything but high spirits and nonsense would be unpardonable on such a morning. Breakfast was served on deck, under an awning60, in sight of the mountains, the green islands, the fringe of breaking sea in the distant opening, the shimmer61 and sparkle of the harbor, the white sails of pleasure-boats, the painted canoes, the schooners62 and coal-boats and steamers swinging at anchor just enough to make all the scene alive. "This is my idea," said the Major, "of going to sea in a yacht; it would be perfect if we were tied up at the dock."
"I move that we throw the Major overboard," cried Miss Tavish.
"No," Jack exclaimed; "it is against the law to throw anything into the harbor."
"Oh, I expected Miss Tavish would throw me overboard when Mavick appeared."
Mavick raised his glass and proposed the health of Miss Tavish.
"With all my heart," the Major said; "my life is passed in returning good for evil."
"I never knew before," and Miss Tavish bowed her acknowledgments, "the secret of the Major's attractions."
"Yes," said Carmen, sweetly, "he is all things to all women."
"You don't appear to have a friend here, Major," Mavick suggested.
"No; my friends are all foul-weather friends; come a bright day, they are all off like butterflies. That comes of being constant."
"That's no distinction," Carmen exclaimed; "all men are that till they get what they want."
"Alas63! that women also in these days here become cynical! It was not so when I was young. Here's to the ever young," and he bowed to Carmen and Miss Tavish.
"He's been with Ponce de Leon!" cried Miss Tavish.
"He's the dearest man living, except a few," echoed Carmen. "The Major's health."
The yellow wine sparkled in the glasses like the sparkling sea, the wind blew softly from the south, the sails in the bay darkened and flashed, and the breakfast, it seemed to go along of itself, and erelong the convives were eating ambrosia64 and sipping65 nectar. Van Dam told a shark story. Mavick demonstrated its innate66 improbability. The Major sang a song--a song of the forties, with a touch of sentiment. Jack, whose cheerful voice was a little of the cider-cellar order, and who never sang when he was sad, struck up the latest vaudeville67 ditty, and Carmen and Miss Tavish joined in the chorus.
"I like the sea," the Major declared. They all liked it. The breakfast lasted a long time, and when they rose from the table Jack said that presently they would take a course round the harbor. The Major remarked that that would suit him. He appeared to be ready to go round the world.
While they were preparing to start, Carmen and Jack strolled away to the bow, where she perched herself, holding on by the rigging. He thought he had never seen her look so pretty as at that moment, in her trim nautical68 costume, sitting up there, swinging her feet like a girl, and regarding him with half-mocking, half-admiring eyes.
What were they saying? Heaven only knows. What nonsense do people so situated69 usually talk? Perhaps she was warning him against Miss Tavish. Perhaps she was protesting that Julia Tavish was a very, very old friend. To an observer this admirable woman seemed to be on the defensive--her most alluring70 attitude. It was not, one could hear, exactly sober talk; there was laughter and raillery and earnestness mingled71. It might be said that they were good comrades. Carmen professed72 to like good comradeship and no nonsense. But she liked to be confidential.
Till late in the afternoon they cruised about among the islands, getting different points of view of the coast, and especially different points of view of each other, in the freedom of talk and repartee73 permitted on an excursion. Before sunset they were out in the open, and could feel the long ocean swell74. The wind had risen a little, and there was a low band of clouds in the south. The skipper told Mr. Delancy that it would be much fresher with the sinking of the sun, but Jack replied that it wouldn't amount to anything; the glass was all right.
"Now the great winds shoreward blow;
Now the salt tides seaward flow;
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe75 and toss in the spray."
Miss Tavish was in the wheel-house, and had taken the wheel. This clever girl knew her right hand from her left, instantly, without having to stop and think and look at her rings, and she knew what port and starboard meant, as orders, and exactly how to meet a wave with a turn of the wheel.
"I say, Captain Delancy," she cried out, "the steamer is about due. Let's go down and meet her, and race in."
"All right," replied Jack. "We can run round her three times and then beat her in."
The steamer's smoke was seen at that instant, and the yacht was headed for it. The wind was a little fresher, but the tight little craft took the waves like a duck, and all on board enjoyed the excitement of the change, except the Major, who said he didn't mind, but he didn't believe the steamer needed any escort.
By the time the steamer was reached the sun was going down in a band of clouds. There was no gale76, but the wind increased in occasional puffs77 of spite, and the waves were getting up. The skipper took the wheel to turn the yacht in a circle to her homeward course. As this operation created strange motions, and did not interest the Major, he said he would go below and reflect.
In turning, the yacht came round on the seaward side of the steamer, but far behind. But the little craft speedily showed her breeding and overhauled78 her big rival, and began to forge ahead. The little group on the yacht waved their handkerchiefs as if in good-by, and the passengers on the steamer cheered. As the wind was every moment increasing, the skipper sheered away to allow plenty of sea-room between the boats. The race appeared to be over.
"It's a pity," said Miss Tavish.
"Let's go round her," said Jack; "eh, skipper?"
"If you like, sir," responded the skipper. "She can do it."
The yacht was well ahead, but the change in the direction brought the vessels79 nearer together. But there was no danger. The speed they were going would easily bring her round away ahead of the steamer.
But just then something happened. The yacht would not answer to her helm. The wheel flew around without resistance. The wind, hauled now into the east, struck her with violence and drove her sideways. The little thing was like a chip on the sea. The rudder-chain had broken. The yacht seemed to fly towards the long, hulking steamer. The danger was seen there, and her helm was put hard down, and her nose began to turn towards the shore. But it was too late. It seemed all over in an instant. The yacht dashed bow on to the side of the steamer, quivered an instant, and then dropped away. At the same moment the steamer slowed down and began to turn to assist the wounded.
The skipper of the yacht and a couple of hands rushed below. A part of the bow had been carried away and a small hole made just above the waterline, through which the water spurted80 whenever she encountered a large wave. It was enough to waterlog her and sink her in such a sea. The two seamen81 grasped whatever bedding was in reach below, rammed82 it into the opening, and held it there. The skipper ran on deck, and by the aid of the men hauled out a couple of sails and dropped them over the bow. These would aid in keeping out the water. They could float now, but where were they going? "Going ashore," said Mavick, grimly. And so they were.
"Was there a panic on board?" it was asked afterwards. Not exactly. Among well-bred people a panic is never good form. But there were white faces and trembling knees and anxious looks. The steamer was coming towards them, and all eyes were fixed83 on that rather than on the rocks of the still distant shore.
The most striking incident of the moment--it seemed so to some of those who looked back upon it--was a singular test of character, or rather of woman's divination84 of character. Carmen instinctively85 flew to Jack and grasped and held his arm. She knew, without stopping to reason about it, that he would unhesitatingly imperil his life to save that of any woman. Whatever judgment87 is passed upon Jack, this should not be forgotten. And Miss Tavish; to whom did she fly in this peril86? To the gallant28 Major? No. To the cool and imperturbable88 Mavick, who was as strong and sinewy89 as he was cool? No. She ran without hesitation90 to Van Dam, and clung to him, recognizing instinctively, with the woman's feeling, the same quality that Jack had. There are such men, who may have no great gifts, but who will always fight rather than run under fire, and who will always protect a woman.
Mavick saw all this, and understood it perfectly, and didn't object to it at the time--but he did not forget it.
The task of rescue was not easy in that sea and wind, but it was dexterously91 done. The steamer approached and kept at a certain distance on the windward side. A boat was lowered, and a line was brought to the yacht, which was soon in tow with a stout92 cable hitched93 to the steamer's anchor windlass.
It was all done with much less excitement than appeared from the telegraphic accounts, and while the party were being towed home the peril seemed to have been exaggerated, and the affair to look like an ordinary sea incident. But the skipper said that it was one escape in a hundred.
The captain of the steamer raised his hat gravely in reply to the little cheer from the yacht, when Carmen and Miss Tavish fluttered their handkerchiefs towards him. The only chaff94 from the steamer was roared out by a fat Boston man, who made a funnel95 of his hands and shouted, "The race is not always to the swift."
As soon as Jack stepped ashore he telegraphed to Edith that the yacht had had an accident in the harbor, but that no one was hurt. When he reached the hotel he found a letter from Edith of such a tenor96 that he sent another despatch97, saying that she might expect him at once, leaving the yacht behind. There was a buzz of excitement in the town, and there were a hundred rumors98, which the sight of the yacht and its passengers landed in safety scarcely sufficed to allay99.
When Jack called at the Tavish cottage to say good-by, both the ladies were too upset to see him. He took a night train, and as he was whirled away in the darkness the events of the preceding forty-eight hours seemed like a dream. Even the voyage up the coast was a little unreal--an insubstantial episode in life. And the summer city by the sea, with its gayety and gossip and busy idleness, sank out of sight like a phantom100. He drew his cap over his eyes, and was impatient that the rattling101 train did not go faster, for Edith, waiting there in the Golden House, seemed to stretch out her arms for him to come. Still behind him rose a picture of that bacchanalian102 breakfast--the Major and Carmen and Mavick and Miss Tavish dancing a reel on the sloping deck, then the rising wind, the reckless daring of the race, and a vision of sudden death. He shuddered103 for the first time in a quick realization104 of how nearly it came to being all over with life and its pleasures.
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