The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-03-19
CHAPTER Y.


Jennie Brewster INDUCED in a brief
spasm OF Mysteries. Her good sense.
however. speedily got her out of that,
and as she became more or less calm
she began to wonder why she had no:
assaulted the girl who had dared to i'm
prison her. She dimly remembered
that she thought of fierce onslaught
at the time and she also remembered
that the fear of the boat leaving Turing
The row had stayed her hand. But now
that the boat had left, she bitterly re-
GREETED her inaction, and grieved IN
availingly over the fact that she had
stopped to write the account of the dis
aster which befell the Caloric. Had she
not done so. all might have been we'll,
but her great ambition to be counted
the best newspaper woman in New
York, and to show the editor that she
was equal TO any emergency that might
arise, had undone her. While it would
have been possible for her to send away
one telegram. her desire to write the
second had resulted in her sending none
at all. Although she impugned hc-
! own conduct in language that one
would not have expected to have heard
from the lips OF 4 daughter of a million
aire, her anger against Edith Long
worth became more intense, and Il
fierce desire to have revenge took pos
session OF the fair correspondent. She
resolved that she would go up on deck
and shame this woman before every
body. She would attract public atten-
ton to the affair by tearing Edith
Iongworth from her deck chair. and
| III her present state of mind she had
no doubt she had the strength to do it,
With the ycarning for revenge fierce
and strong upon her, the newspap per
woman put on her hat and departed for
| the deck. Like an enraged tigreSS she
| passed up one side and down the other.
! but her would-be victim was not Wis
| ible. The rage of Miss Brewster in
creased when she found her prey was
! not where she expected. She had a
| fear that when she Gained down her
own good sense would assert itself, and
| her revenge would be lost. In going
to and fro along the deck she met Ken
yon and Fleming walking together
Fleming had just that moment come up
to Kenyon. who was moodilv pacing
the deck alone. and. slapping him on
the shoulder, asked him to have a
drink.
1T seems to me" he said, that never
have had the pleasure of Offering You
Il drink since we came on board the ship
l want to drink with every body who is
here, and especially now, when some
! thing has happened to make it worth
| while ---
Il am very much obliged to YOU" said
John Kenyon, coldly, but never drink
with anybody"
What, never touch it at all? Not even
ale?"
Not even ale
We'll. | am astonished to hear that
Thought every Englishman drank ale. =
There is at least one Englishman
who docs not
''All right, then, no harm done. and
no offense given, hope. l may say.
| however. that you miss a lot of fun in
| this world
Il presume 1 miss few headaches.
also"
'"Oh. not necessarily. have one great
recipe for not having headache. You
see. this is the philosophy of head
aches" and then, much to Johns cha
grin, he linked arms with him and
changed his step to suit kenyon's. talk
ing all the time as if they were the most
intimate friends in the wrold.
Il have a sure plan for avoiding a
headache. You see. when you look into
the matter, it is this way. The head
Very well. then. 1t is as simple as 4 3
c. Never get sober; that's the way l
do. l simply keep on and never get sober.
so have no headaches. If people who
| drink would avoid the disagreeablc
necessity of ever getting sober. they
would be all right. Don't you see what
/ mean"
And how about their brains in the
| mean time?'
''Oh. their brains are all right. Good
liquor sharpens a mans brains wonder
fully. Now you try it some time. Let
me have them mix a cocktail for you.
tell you. John. n cocktail is one of the
! finest drinks that ever was made. and
this man at the bar, when L came on
board, he thought he could make a cock
tail, but he didn't know even the rudi-
ments. l have taught him how to do
it, and L tell you that secret will be
worth fortune to him, because if there
is anything Americans like it is to have
! their cocktails mixed correctly. There's
no one man in all England can do it,
and very few men on the Atlantic serv-
ice. But I'm gradually educating them.
Been across six times. They pretend to
give you American drinks over in Eng
land, but you must know how disap-
pointing they are"
I'm sure 1 don't see how I should
know. for never taste any of them"
''Ah. true; I had forgotten that. Well.
I took this barkeeper here in hand, and
he knows now how to make a reasonably
good cocktail; and, as say, that secret
viii be worth money to him from Amer
lean passengers
John Kenyon was revolving in his
mind the problem of how to get rid of
this loquacious and generous individual.
when he saw, sailing down upon them,
the irate figure of Miss Jennie Brewster,
and he wondered what was the cause of
the look of bitter indignation flashing
from her eyes. He thought that she in
tended to address the American poll
tician, but he was mistaken. She came
directly at him, and. with her fist