The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-18
CHAPTER Y.

CHAPTER Y.
After Edith Longworth left her
Jennie Brewster INDUCED in 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 not
assaulted the girl who had dared to inn
prison her. She dimly remembered
that she thought of fierce onslaught
nt the time, and she also remembered
that the fear of the boat leaving during
the row had stayed her hand. But now
that the boat had left, she bitterly re-
GREETED her inaction, and grievcd un-
avnilingly 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 well,
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 hcr
own conduct in language that one
would not have expected to have heard
from the lips of a daughter of a million
aire, her anger against Edith Long
worth became more intense, and q
fierce desire to have revenge took pos.
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and shame this woman before every
| body. She would attract public atter.
tion to the affair by tearing Edith
| Longworth from her deck chair. and
| in her present state of mind she hat
no doubt she had the strength to do it.
| With the ycarning for revenge fierc,
and strong upon her, the newspapel
woman put on her hat and departed fol
the deck. Like an enraged tigress sh,
passed up one side and down the other
but her would-be victim was not Wis
ihle. Tho rage of Miss Brewster in
creased when she found her prey wa
not where she expected. She had
fear that when she Gained down he
own good sense would assert itself, anC
her revenge would he lost. In goins
to and fro along the deck she met Ken
yon and Fleming walking together
Fleming had Just that moment come nj
to Kenyon, who was moodily pacin,
the deck alone, and, slapping him ol
the shoulder, asked him to have
drink.
''It seems tome, he SAID. that neve
have had the pleasure of Offering yo,
n drink since we came on board the shiE
l want TO drink with everybody who i
here, and especially now, when some
thing has happened to make it wort
while"
Il am very much obliged to YOU" sal,
John Kenyon, coldly. but never drinl
with anybody"
What, never touch it at all? Not eve
ale?"
Not even ale"
We'll, am astonished to hear thai
Thought every Englishman drank ale.
There is at least one Englishma
who docs not
"All right, then, no harm done, an
no offense given, hope. may say
however, that you miss lot of fun i
this world"
Il presume / miss few headaches
also"
"'Oh, not necessarily. have one grea
recipe for not having a headache. 70
see, this is the philosophy of heac
: aches" and then, much to Johns chi
grin, he linked arms with him an
changed his step 10 suit Kenyon's, tall
ing all the time as il they were the mos
intimate friends in the wrold.
II have sure plau for avoiding
headache. You see, when you look int
the matter, it is this way. The heaC
ache only comes when you are sobe
! Very well, then. 1t is rs simple as a
c. Never get sober; that's the way
do. | simply keep on and never get sobe
so have no headaches. Ifpeople VIII
drink would avoid the disagreeab
necessity of ever getting sober, the
would be all right. Don't you see wh'
j mean?"
"And how about their brains in IL
mean time?"
"Oh, their brains are all right. Goo
liquor sharpens mans brains wonde
fully. Now you try il some time. 1t
me have them mix cocktail for you.
tell you, John, a cocktail is one of I'll
finest drinks that ever was made, al
this man ut the bar, when 1 came @
. board he thought he could make cocl
tail, but he didn't know even the rud
ments. | have taught him how TO d
it, and | tell you that secret will
worth fortune to him, because if thel
is anything Americans like it is to ha'
their cocktails mixed correctly. There
no one man in all England can do
, and very few men on the Atlantic ser
. ice. But I'm gradually educating theI
, Been across six times. They pretend
give you American drinks over in En-
land, but you must know how disal
pointing they are"
I'm sure | don't see how shou
inow, for Inever taste any of them"
"Ah, true; ! had forgotten that. We
took this barkeeper here in hand, an
he knows now how to make reasonab
good cocktail; and, as l say, that seer
will be worth money to him from Anne
lean passengers"
, John Kenyon was revolving in h
, mind the problem of how to get rid I
this loquacious and generous individua
. when he saw, sailing down upon theI
; the irate figure of Miss Jennie Brewste
, and he wondered what was the cause
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