Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-01-07
CHAPTER Y.

! After Edith Longworth left her
/ Jennie Brewster INDUCED in a briei
/ 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 i'm
prison her. She dimly remembered
| that she thought Of a fierce onslaught
/ at the time, and she also remembered
1 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 grieved uu-
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 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 her
own conduct in language that one
would not have expected to have heard
from the lips OF daughter of a million
aire, her anger against Edith Long
worth became more intense, and n
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
/.
tion to the affair by tearing Edith
Lougworth from her deck chair, and
in her present state OF mind she had
no doubt she had the strength to do it.
With the yearning for revenge fierce
and strong upon her, the newspaper
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 vis-
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 calmCd 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 moodily 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
n drink since we came on board the ship.
| want TO drink with everybody 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
nle?"
Not even ale"
We'll, l am astonished to hear thar.
Thought every EngIishman dtdnle ale"
There is at least one Engiishman
who docs not"
"All right, then, no harm done, and
no offcnae given. l hone. l may say.
Ho"eVer, tbbt you Mss q lot q fun III
this world"
i presume / miss few headaches,
also"
"Oh, ,notnecessarily. I have one great
recipe for not having a 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
F..s,. -. 4 I,..
Il have sure plan for avoiding
headache. You see, when you look into
the matter, it is this way. The head
ache only comes when you arc sober.
Very well, then. 1t is as simple as A j
c. Never get sober; that's the way 1
do. l simply keep on andnever get sober,
so have no headaches. Ifpeople who
drink would avoid the disagreeablc
necessity Of ever getting sober, they
would be all right. Don't you see what
] mcan?"
"Aud how about their brains In the
mean timer"
"Oh, their brains arc all right. Good
liquor sharpens a mans brains wonder
fully Now you try it some time. Let
me have them mix n cocktail for you.
tell you, John, u 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 cock
tail, but he didn't know even the rudi-
ments. I have taught him how TO do
it, and / tell you that secret viii be
worth "A fortune 10 him, because if there
Is anything Americans like it Is 10 have
their cocktails mixed correctly. There's
no one man in all England can do 1t,
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"
"Im sure / don't gee how l should
lnow, for never taste any Of them"
"Ah, true; / had forgotten that. Well,
/ took this barkeeper here in hand, and
he knows now how TO make q reasonably
good cocktail; and, rs say, that secret
viii be worth money to him from Amer
ican passengers"
John Kenyon was revolving in his
mind the problem Of how to get rid Of
this loquacious and generous individual,
when be 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. lie thought that she in
tended 10 address the American poll
ticiau, but he was mistaken. She came
directly at him, and, with her fist
clenchcd, said in n loud voice:
"Wcn, John Kenyon, what do you
think Of your worlS?'
"What worl?" asked the bcwildercd
nun.
"You know very well what work ]
Jncun. a fine specimen of man you
arei without the courage yourself to
prevent my sending that telegram, you
Induced your dupc 20 come down to my
gtuteroom and brazcnly keep me from
Ecndiug it,"
Tho look of utter ustonishmcnt that
came upon the face Of honest John Ken
you would have convinced any woman
in her senses That hc knew nothing at
all Of what she was speaking a dim
idea Of this, indeed, flashed across the
young woman'g heated brain. But be-
fore she could speak Fleming said;
"Tut, tut, my dear girl, you arc talk
ing too loud altogether. DO you want
to attract The attention OF everybody
on tho deck? You mustn't make a
scandal in this way on board ship"
Scandal" she cried. eve win soon
p.p ,yI,ci1,rr There will bc Il rcaudal or