The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-30
THE OFFICERS COOK,

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held our lives, our digestions and on
peace Of mind In his hands. Our lives h
was pleased to spare. Once Scott, VIII
was the literary member Of the mess, de
termined to write him up, but when h
had got as far as "Ah Sin was char
aoter" and was looking at the assertion
with his pen poised in air ready to swooI
down, had been looking at 1t, In fact, fol
10 minutes, officers call sounded, and b.
had to go. An hour or 30 later, upon his
return, he found that Matthews had fin.
ished OIL the sentence with O full page
sketch Of Sin which was 80 much better
than the story promised to be that Scott
put the sheet Of foolscap on the wall with
two tacks and never resumed his effort.
| Bin had occasion to clean the room a
month later He saw the sketch and liked
1t 80 well that he dropped his broom and
| stood for some time looking at ii. Then
| he took the thumb tacks out, fastened the
paper straight, looked at 1t again, grunted
and went on with his sweeping.
Scotts room was In a fearful state, and
II put him in bad temper. The fact that
the disorder was due to q baby only
heightened his wrath, for Sin was not
fond Of babies. The lieutenant himself
WASH = an orderly man Lieutenants rare
iy are. They have so much tidiness forced
upon them at West Point that IL takes
them at least until their captaincy to get
over their hatred of It.. Yet no one man
no, nor 20 men-could have reduced room
to such state Of chaos. 1t had taken
child, and that child the Woods baby, to
accomplish the perfection of confusion.
The Woods baby was popular and much
sought after. 1t was commonly called the
foungster and was considered interest
Ing. just why Sin could not see. Nor
could he understand Soott's motive In let
ting 1t get into his books and desk and
bureau drawers. Even the ink was spilled.
Therefore Sin stopped short In the middle
OF the room once again and swore many
times oaths which would have discouraged
q trooper and which could only have been
learned in mining camp.
In truth the Chinaman had cooked for
miners for Is years. He coupled the name
OF the YouagSter with imprecations the
most horrible, and took his revenge at last
by emrtying two boxes of prettily colored |
capdy into the waste basket He knew
that Scott would not dare to say anything,
Chinannn was aware that 2-year- old ba-
Dies should not be fed on French candy |
and that should the Youngsters mother
once lcarn the nature of the attraction that
lured her son to ScOtt's room she would
put stop to his frequent and protracted
visits. Once Mrs. Wood had asked him
why the baby always called Justify the
talismanic word "more'' whenever he ap-
peared. SCOTT pleaded ignorance. Only
he and the Youngster knew that "more''
was anonymous with Candy" and they
Kept their own counsel.
or course 1t was not Sins business to
give the lieutenant's room cleaning, but
Fhe custom had been established in this
wise:
Sin had been hired by the mess in Sep
tember. At the end of September he had
,een paid his wages, to the amount of 1856.
The next afternoon he got up particu-
arly good dinner washed his dishes care
ully and went to look up Warner. War
Ter was out at theater party. He went
cross the hall to Latimer's quarters Lat
mer, too, was out. Then he betook him
elf to Maitland's house. Maitland was
q. He was studiously inclined, and had
AIKEN OF his blouse, put on a smoking
acket, lighted pipe and settled himself
own to his book. He sat and looked at
he apparition In the doorway for the &C.
'stial scorned the civilized proceeding of
apping before he entered "Well, SIM"
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