The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-02-13
CHAPTER IX.-CoNrrNUEr

CHAPTER IX.-CoSTISUED.
Miss Brewster looked up languidly
from her book during the first part OF
this recital. Then she sprang sudden
ly TO her feet and threw the book on the
deck.
"Who is IL that will take the tele-
grams?" she asked the steward.
1.-THE mate, miss. There he is stand
ing yonder, miss"
She made her way quickly to that
official.
"Will you take cable dispatch to be
sent TO New York ?"
"Yes. miss. Is it long one?" he
asked.
Eyes, il is n very long one"
"Well, miss" was the answer. you
haven't much time 90 write it. We
leave now in n few minutes"
ut is all written out; have only to
add few words to it," Miss Brewster
at once flew 20 her stateroom. The
telegram about the mine was soon be-
fore her with the words counted, and
the silver and gold that were to pay for
il piled on the table. She resolved TO
run no risk of delay by having the
message sent ito collect" Then she
dashed off, as quickly rs she could, n
brief and very graphic account OF the
disaster which had oyertaken the
Caloric. If this account was slightly
exaggerated, Miss brewster had no
time TO tone IL down. Picturesque and
dramatic description was what she
aimed at. Her pen flew over the paper
with great rapidity, and she looked up
every now and then, through her state
room window, TO see dangling from the
ropes the boat that was 10 make the at
tempt TO reach the Irish coast. AS she
could thus see how the preparations for
the departure were going forward, she
fingered longer than she might other
wise have done, and added line after line
to the dispatch which told OF the dis
aster. At last she saw the men take
their places in the long boat. She
hurriedly counted the words in the new
dispatch she had written, and quickly
frcm her purse piled the gold that was
necessary to pay for their transmission.
Then she sealed the two dispatches in
an envelope, put the two piles of gold
into one. after rapidly counting them
again, east u quick look up at the still
motionlcss boat, grasped the gold in one
hand, the envelope in the other, AMI
sprang TO her feet, but as she did so she
gave a shrek and took a step back
ward
Standing with her back 10 the door
was Edith Longworth. When she
had entered the stateroom Miss Brews-
ter did not know, but her heart beat
wildly as she saw the girl standing
silently there, as IL she had risen up
through the floor.
what are you doing hcre?" she de-
manded.
IL am here" said Miss Longworth,
because wish TO talk with you"
"Stand aside; have no time 10 talk
with you just now. told you didn't
want to see you again. Stand aside. /
tell YOU"
II shall not stand aside"
"What do you mean?"
81 mean that shall not standasde."
"Then i shall ring the bell and have
yon thrust out of here for your impu-
dcnce."
"You shall not ring the bell" said
Edith calmly, putting her hand over the
white china arrangement that held in
it's center the black electric button.
DO YOU mean 10 tell me that you in
tend TO keep me from leaving my own
stateroom?"
II mean to tell you exactly Tint"
"Do you know that you can be Inn
prisoned for attempting such thing?"
II don't care"
stand aside, you vixen. or 1 will
strike you
do it,"
For a moment the two girls stood
there, the one flushed and excited, the
other apparently calm, with her back
against the door and her hand over the
electric button. A glance through the
window showed Miss Brewster that the
mate had got into the boat, and that
they were steadily lowering away.
''Let me pass, you-you wretch"
"All in good time" replied Edith
Longworth, whose gaze was also upon
the boat swinging in midair. Jenny
brewster saw at once that II IL came
TO hand-to-hand encounter she would
have no chance whatever against the
English girl. who was in every way her
physical superior. She had her en-
yelopc IN one hand and the gold In the
other. She thrust both of them into
her pocket. which, nftersomc fumbling.
she found. Then she raised her voice
IN ons Of the most appalling screams