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“Wha’d he tell you, Mr Bell?”

Bell said, “Say it again, Professor I could never put it so eloquently”

“I shall atterateful look for going along with his dodge “Since men and women are such different types of creatures, their only hope of getting along with each other is to love each other”

“In other words,” said Isaac Bell, “The love they have in common is all they need in common”

Archie Abbott opened his watch “Assuan has not jumped ship, it’s time to test that theory”

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“Shipmates!” roared Captain William Turner, a short, square-jawed, squint-eyed reat ship’s prow of a nose and enormous ears His hearty seaman’s voice carried to every corner of the Mauretania’s Saloon Lounge, where hundreds of First Class passengers had co at sea

None were disappointed

The bride was bewitchingly beautiful in a daring, close-fitting creah waistline that suited her erect carriage and a sash of diaphanous silk that proe Her blond hair ept up high on her head, circled by an abbreviated veil that graced her high brow, and capped with a tiara reed, would have paled beside her dazzling eyes

Her golden-haired groom stood proudly at her side in a tailcoat He was tall and straight-backed as a cavalry officer Beneath his gold mustache, his lips parted in a srin

The beautiful matron of honor and handsoht for their friends The Mauretania’s falitter in the dress uniform of the Royal Naval Reserve, with buttons, belt, braid, and epaulets of gold, a sword at his side, and a hat cocked fore and aft on his

head

“We are gathered together in the sight of God and in the face of Mauretania’s passengers and ship’s company to join this man and this woman in matrimony, which is an honorable estate…”

With the attention of the entire ship riveted by the wedding, Professor Beiderbecke calculated it would be safe to visit the baggage hold, deep below and far to the back, to check on the well-being of his an, pleading that his seasickness orse, even though the sea had cal about with color restored to their faces

Clyde had barely noticed The young h state of excite entrance to the su seated next to an exotic Russian woman of Marion’s acquaintance Dark-eyed Mademoiselle Viorets was no exception to Beiderbecke’s experience that Russian wo like a Austrian Brandlbracke puppy