Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

ship"
Scandal" she cried eve will soon see
whether there will be a scandal or not. At
tract the attention of those on deck! That Is
exactly what | am going to do until | show
up the villainy Of this man you are talking
to. He was the concocter Of It, and he knows
it. She never had brains enough to think
of It. He was too much Of a coward to carry
it out himself, and so he set her to do his
dastardly piece Of work"
well, well said Fleming "even II he has
done all that, whatever it is, it will do no
good to attract attention to 1t here on deck.
See how everybody is listening to what you
are saying. My dear girl, you are too angry
to talk just now; the best thing you can do
Is to 20 to your stateroom"
You shut your silly mouth, will you?' she
cried, turning furously upon him. "I'll
thank you to mind your own business, and
let me attend to mine. should have
thought that you would have found
out before this that am capable of attend
ing to my own affairs"
Certainly, certainly, my dear girl" an
| swered the politician, soothingly; I'm sorry
| can't get you all to come and have a drink
| with me and talk this matter over quietly.
! That's the correct way to do things. Not to
| stand here screeching on the deck with every
body listening. Now If you will quietly dis
! cusS the matter with John here I'm sure
| everything will be all right"
you don't know what you are talking
about" replied the young lady. "Do you know
| that | had an important dispatch to send to
| the Argus, and that this mans friend, doubt
| less at his instigation. came into my room
and practically held me prisoner there until
| the boat had left, so that | could not send
! the dispatch? Think of the cheek and viii
lainy of that, and then speak to me of talk
| ing wildly!'
A look of relief and astonishment came into
| Kenyon's face that quite convinced the news
paper woman, more than all his protesta-
| inpG tyn,tlH hoya hat ho lynau npth hipuy
of the escapade whatever.
And who kept you from coming out?"
asked Fleming.
at is none of your business" she replied
! tartly.
"If you will believe me-" said Kenyon at
! last 81 knew nothing whatever of all this
! so you see there is no use speaking to me
| about it. | won't pretend am sorry, because
| l am not"
| This added fuel to the flames, and she was
| about to blaze out again when Kenyon turned
| on his heel and left her and Fleming stand
| ing facing each other Then the young
woman herself turned and quickly departed,
| leaving the astonished politician entirely
alone, so that there was nothing for him to
do but to go into the smoking room and ask
somebody to have drink with him, which
he promptly did
Miss Brewster made her way to the cap
| tain's room and raped at the door. On be
ing told to enter she found that officer seated
at his table with some charts before him and
a haggard look upon his face, which might
have warned her that this was not the proper
time to air any personal grievances.
"Well?" he said briefly, as she entered.
81 came to see you, captain" she began,
because an outrageous thing has been done
on board this ship, and | desire reparation-
what is more, l will have it,"
what is the Outrageous thing? asked
the captain.
II had some dispatches to send to New
York to the New York Argus, on whose staff
am"
yes" said the captain with interest; dis
patches relating 10 lwhat happened to the
ship?" &
Zone of them did. the other did not"
"Well, / hoper said the captain, "you have
not given an eXaggera ed account of the con-
dition we arc ih"-
II have givenGno afcount at ALL simply be-
cause | was pseTehted from sending the
cablegrams." III
"Ah, indeed" said the captain, a look of
relief coming oyer his face in spite of his
efforts to conceal it, 'and pray, what pre-
| vented you from sehding your cablegrams?
The mate would have taken any messages
that were given 70 him" E..
81 know that cried the young woman,
| "and when | was'in my room writing the last
| Of the dispatches a person who is on board
| as a passenger here-Mss Longworth-came
| into my room and held me prisoner there
until the boat had left the ship"
| The captain arched his eyebrows in aston
! ishment.
| My dear madam" he said, ''you make a
very serious charge. Miss Longworth has
| crossed several times with me, and | am
bound to say that a more we'll behaved young
lady | never had on board my ship"
| Extremely well behaved she is!' cried the
correspondent angrily "She stood against
my door and prevented me from going out.
| | screamed for help, but my screams were
drowned in the cheers of the passengers when
the boat left"
why did you not ring your bell?'
81 couldn't ring any bell because she pre-
vented me. Besides, if l had reached the
bell it io not likely anybody would have
answered it; everybody seemed to be gawking
after the boat that was leaving"
you can hardly blame them for that. A
great deal depends on the safety of that boat.
In fact, if you come to think about it, you
will SEQ that whatever grievance you may
have, it is, after al, a very trivial COM
pared to the burden that weighs on me just
now, and / very much prefer not to have
anything to do with disputes between the
passengers until out of our present
predicament."
"The predicament has nothing whatever to
do with it.. | tell you fact l tell you that
one of your passengers came and imprisoned
me in my stateroom. | come to you for re-
dress. Now there must be some law on
| shipboard that takes the place of ordinary
| law on land. | make this demand officially
| to you. II you refuse to hear me. and refuse
| to redress my wrong then i have large
republic to which l can appeal through my
paper, and perhaps there will also be a
chance of obtaining justice through the law
of the land to which / am going"
My dear madam" said the captain.
calmly, ''you must not use threats to me.
| | am not accustomed to be talked TO in the
way you have taken upon yourself to speak
Now tell me what it is you wish me to do
! 1T is for YOU to say what you will do
| | am a passenger on board this ship, and
| am supposed to be under the protection of its
! captain. | therefore tell you | have been
forcibly detained in my stateroom, and I
demand that the person who did this shall
be punished"
you say that Miss Longworth was the
| person who did this?"
"Yes, | do"
"Now, do you know you make a very
| serious charge against that young lady. A
charge that | find is very difficult to be
lieve, May | ask you what reason she had
for doing what you say she has done?"
That is long story. | am quite prepared
to show that she tried to bribe me not to
send a dispatch. and, finding herself unsuc-
cessful she forfibly detained me in my
room until too late 70 send the telegram"
The captain pqndefed over what had been
Have you any proof of this charge?"
Proof; ,WhaSto you mean? Do you doubt
my word"
II mean exactly what I say Have you
anything to prove the very serious charge
| "CertainIy not T have no nroof If there