Arizona republican., 1898-08-08
CHAPTER IN.

CHAPTER K.
 Most of the passengers awoIe next morning with a bewildering feeling of vague apprehension. sThe absence of all motion in the ship, the unusual and :n- tense silence, had a depressing effect. The engines had not yet started; that at least was evident. Kenyon was one of the first on deck. He noticed that the pumps were still working at their-full speed, and that the steamer had still the ominous list to port. Happily the weather continued good, So far as the quietness of the sea was concerned. slight drizzle of rain had set in, and the horizon was not many miles from the ship. There would not be much chance of sighting another liner while | such weather continued.
 Before Kenyon had been many min utes on deck Edith Longworth came up tie corupanionway. She approached him with smile On her face. "Well,'' he sad, you, at least, do not seem to be suffering any anxiety be- cause of our situation
 Really" she replied, q was not thinking of that at all, but about some thing else. Can you not guess what it is?'
 '.No." he answered, hssitatingly. What is it?'
 Have you forgotten that this is Sun day morning?"
 T s.Is it? Of course it is. So far as l am concerned, time seemed to stop W hen | the engines broke down. But l do not 1 understand why Sunday means any thing in particular"
 Don't you? Well, for a person who l has been thinking for the last two or three days very earnestly on one partic- ,llar subject, I am astonished at you. Sunday morning, and no land in sight! Reflect for a moment
 kenyon's face frightened. "Ah," he cried, T sec what you mean
 now. Miss Brewster's cable message
 will not appear in this mornings New
 York Argus"
 Of course it will not; and don't you see, also, that when we do arrive you
 will have an equal chance in the race.
 If we get in before next Sunday, your
 telegram to the London people will go
 
 New York; thus you will be saved the
 humiliation of seeing the substance of
 your report in the London papers be-
 fore the directors see the report itself.
 It is not much, to be sure, but still it
 puts you on equal terms, while if we
 had got into Queenstown last night that
 would have been impossible
 Kenyon laughed.
 "Well,'' he said, flor such a result the
 cause is rather tremendous, isn'ti it? It
 is something like burning down the
 house to roast the pig!" !, Shortly after ten o'clock the atmos- phere cleared and showed in the dis
 tance a steamer, westward bound. It evidently belonged to one of the great
 ocean lines. The moment it was sight ed there fiuttered up in the masthead a number of signal flags, and people ) crowded to the side of the ship to watch the effect on the outgoing vessel. Min ute after minute passed, but there was no response from the other liner. Peo- pie watched her with breathless anx- iety, as though their fate depended on their noticing their signals. Of course, CNOi J Oouy luOuSuU tlldt S1c uluSC SCe them, but still she steamed westward. |, A cloud of black smoke came out of her I funnel and then long, dark trail, like the tail of a comet, floated out behind ? her, but no notice was taken of the hut- s tering flags at the masthead. For more l than an hour the steamer was in sight; : then she gradually faded away into the g west. and finally disappeared. 9 This incident had very depressing effect on the passengers of the disabled . ship. Although every officer had main tained there was no danger, yet the floating away of that steamer seemed somehow to leave them alone, and peo-
 pie, after gazing toward the west, until
 not a vestige of her remained in the hor,
 izon, went back to their deck chairs !, feeling more Respondent than ever. Fleming, however, claimed that ii , people were to drown, it was just as 2 we'll to drown jolly as mournful, an6 so he invited everybody to take drink at his expense; a generous offer, whict n all the habitues of the smoking-roon n took advantage of.
 : My idea is this," said Fleming, as ht ,. slipped the cocktail which was brought e to him; If anything happens let i r happen; if nothing happens, why the1
 let nothing happen. There is no us'