Francis Lynde

Name: Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1
Author: Francis Lynde

Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

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“Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1”, published in 1923, is a work by Francis Lynde. It explores elements such as Alison, Wickham Jeffreys and Miami.

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ The trim little ship, ghostlike in its spotless white paint, was riding at anchor a few hundred yards from the water front and almost at my feet I found her dinghy with a single sailor—a Provincetown Portuguese from his looks—waiting as if for a passenger.
“You are from the Waikiki?” I asked.
“Si, senhor. I wait for wan Meestaire Onslee-e-e.”
It was quite like Alison to send a boat for me; no girl was ever more thoughtful for other people's comfort. So I got aboard, telling the sailor that I was his man; and a few minutes later I had climbed the accommodation ladder to the yacht's deck. ”

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ But to wind it up and tuck the end in I may add that I didn't go to Peru or even to San Francisco. There were two night trains leaving Denver at about the same hour; one for the West and another for the Southeast. I took the latter and within a fortnight had landed a job as assistant engineer on a drainage project in the Florida Everglades—in a region where nobody knew me or had ever heard of me; a grave deep enough in all conscience, but not so deep as an exile's in Peru. I was still in America and on the same continent at least with Alison. ”

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ There may have been more beautiful things in a world of beauty than she was, standing there in the softened light of the shaded awning electrics, white-clad in yachting flannels and with a round little white hat devoid of trimmings of any sort crushed down over her masses of red-gold hair—there might have been, I say, but I doubted it. ”

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ If you are not too far away can't you manage to come to dinner with us to-night? We are here at Miami in the yacht and I'll see to it that you get enough to eat. I suppose you haven't any dinner coat, but never mind that; come just as you are.
Alison. P. S. Why haven't you written me in a whole half year?
If the sluggish drainage canal we were cutting through the black, peaty soil had suddenly changed its course to ooze the wrong way I could scarcely have been more astonished. In the first place I hadn't the slightest idea that Alison was in Florida or within a thousand miles of it ”

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ But including myself there were only eleven to gather about the dinner table in the white-and-gold saloon; five men and six women. With a single exception they were all strangers to me and in the wholesale introduction I didn't even get the names straight. That was partly because of the exception. Wickham Jeffreys was the one person that I knew and his blank astoundment at seeing me was only equaled by mine at finding him posing as the host of the party in the Carter yacht.
At once I realized that Alison had not only failed to give Jeffreys her true reason for wishing to stop at Miami ”

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ As I hoped she might, Alison herself met me as I set foot on deck, and she was alone.
“Dick!” she exclaimed, giving me both of her hands. “I knew you'd come if the place where you had buried yourself were not more than a thousand miles away! When did you get my letter?”
“A little before noon. It came up in the company launch.”
“And the launch brought you down?”
“No; I came in a skiff—and I've been all afternoon on the job. But never mind about me. Tell me about yourself. Are you feeling as fit as you look?” ”

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Francis Lynde, Somewhere in the Caribbean — Chapter 1 (1923)

“ Good people to work for—those Englishmen. What are you doing in Miami?”
I considered it very pointedly none of his business what I was doing but for Alison's sake I couldn't quarrel openly with him on the deck of her father's yacht. So I told him briefly about the drainage canal project. He left us at that, but before we could resume anything like a confidential talk the little Sefton brute came to us and though we saw nothing more of Jeffreys the young woman stuck to us like a leech ”

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