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the high seas once more, leavng behind-Samoa, the beautiful! The, following 'five days were the longest. stre tch of. landless >sea during the entire cruise. However, al thougbts turned to, home now'and the time Nvent fast. -ChristmÉas -camne ere, were fecw and went. quietly. Th1 reminders that this w'as Christmas-I get my lait view of the isiancis. Would I ever see themh again? The wholë atmosphere.of the, sbip seemed té, change after we If H4awaii. Coinversation turned. to home and the end'of the voyage. Souvenirs were 'being packed-farewefl dinners wer-e being. given, everybody glad to get home., Some wiIl return with or the PrîM1us01 Egypt may tgke my fancy., WelItraveied Europe may see my wanderingk eyes and. the lens c f. my camiera before, 1 arn infirm wîth age or ready, to setule down. 'W'll 1 yield to the. cail of. the trails in 'the future? Will, the speil of the, tropics-the lure of wanderIust-grip mie again? Who knows?, Occul iidina *Wrth. avenue, Kenilworth, iau<1 bh« daughter, Mns. George M. -Comte, neturned last week froià a seven weehs trip to Europe. They went over 10 the lkex and visited in Itaty, FTmncee. Tby eyn-.: England and, Scotland. turned on the Normiandie. . iter, Loâkitq across thte harbor of Fago Pago, Samoa. fer ship of thte "Montercy," i sééj,,itte distance. 7The <'Mariposa," and although we were there fromn down for a littie. while tleast, to a 7 ýa.m. to 4 pm. thet ture went rapid-j péacefutli1fe on shore. ready! ly. 1 stayed near the ship te be Where ÏNext? for duty at lunch and tea time i As I sat on the deck musing over order to give a couple of the felIows some time off. I will bave my the events of the past seveti weeks, 1 time at Los Angeles on New Years mnarveled at life with its surprises Eve. At the time of. departure, I and its pleasures-its tragedies and watched through .a porthole at the its nîysteries. Little did I think a tbrongs of checry faces on the dock,. mionth previous toe etbarking that 1 Anderson, Ho*e,