Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-20

I biness more years than I care to think
| about; but you've way of carrying them
| that makes them look well-fitting and quite
| new. Well, L tell you, I'm pleased to see
| spruce man on this ship. Come into the
| cabin now and peck bit. I ordered you a
! meal and saw the steward as L came past
| the door trying TO hold it down in the fd-
| dies The old girl can roll bit, can't she?'
should say your farm yards getting
| well churned up"
| You should just go into those cattle
| decks and see. It's just hades for the poor
| brutes- We're out of the River Platte, you
know. and we've carried bad weather with
| US ever since We got our anchors. The
/ beasts We're badly slowed, and there were
| too many of them put aboard Fhe old
| man grunbled, but the shippers didn't take
| any notice of him. They'd signed for the
| whole ship, and they just crammed as
! many sheep and cows into her as she'd
| hold"
| You'll have the cruelty to animals peo-
/ pie on board of you before you're locked
! ana then your skipper had better look out y
ne knows that, captain, quite as well
as you Go, and there isn't man more sor-
ny Tor himself in all the western ocean.
| he IL De fined heavily and have his name
| dlrued' SO sure as ever he sets a foot
| ashore Legally, L suppose, he's RESPONSE
BILE; but really he's no more to blame than
| you He is part of the ship as the table,
| spoons are, and the mates and the whole
Dag O tricks was let by wire from Liver
pool to South American daeo. If he'd
| talked he'd have got the straight kickout
from the owners and no further argument.
! You see they e bits of owners
| They re the worst sort
| IT doesn't matter who thew are sl.;n
| pers got to do as he's told
| Yes" said Kettle with q sich ..1 ,-
| that" hiio"
Vel. en-. said the mate, you may thank
your best little star that you're only here
as d passenger The grub's beastiy. the
sLiip sthks, the cooks fool and every
! thnre.s a uncomfortable as can be. But
! nd .h one me amusement ahead of you,
| passenger" Np 'Ae othef
| StoWaway?"
f,,as, 40. bona noe passenger, if you can
imagine any one being mug enough to book
| d room on foul, cattie-loaded tramn like
| tbls; But l guess it was because she wa
nafa up. She was a governess. or some
tiiIls Oh that sort in Buenos Ayres lost
! LiSr oerta, and wanted to get back again
| cheap. l guess we could afford to cut ratas
ana make profit there"
| Poor lady
I've I've not seen much of her myself. The
| aScoiiu mate and | are most of the crew of
| ms ship. as the old man objects to onr
urlVlhg the regular deck hands. and when
we re not at work we're asleep. / can't
on orop 1 ana introduce you. You must chum
! on. Her names Carnegie
! Miss Carnegie% Kettle reneatad .rrho :
Spu I Ianllilar Does she write postry?''
Inc mate yawned- Don't know. Never
| looks i'll enough, olie
Inc mate went off to his room then
turned IN all standing, and was proxnntIv
asleep; Kettle, with memories of the IA st
~ esneu' TOOK paper and a scratchy pen
| ana Ieh 10 connecting, verse.
lie wondered, and at the Same t;rra he
.dI dreaded whether this was the Same
MISS carnegie whom he had known before
IN oays past she had given him a commits
SION 10 ifberate her lover from the French
| penal settlement of CAYENNE With ininifa
danger and difficulty he had wrenched the
man free from his warders and then 6nd0
ing MN a worthless fellow had by force
married MN to an old Jamaican negress
| ana sent the girl their marriage lines as n
| token OF her release. He had had no wnrI
or sign from her since, and was in some
I teaU now lest she might bitterly resent
tno hoeTty ne mad taken in meddling so ia
with her affairs w A'-'
however, like it or not, there was no
avoiding the meeting now and so he went
Oi1 SsoIne what teverishly) with his writing.
Inc squalid meal entitled tea came on.
ana he mad to move his papers A grtnv
steward spread dirty cloth, wetted II lib
eraHJ with water, and shipped fddIes to
-, ~ anu iu lnuuce the table ware to keep in
pidce despite the rolling. The steward mem
| Ioned that none Of the officers would he
uo"n, mat the two passengers would meal
tosether, and. IN fact, did his best to he
anapIe' puI hettle listened with cold mat
teuuor' ana the steward began to wish hlm
| over the side whence he had come
The laying OF the table was ended at last
me steward put on his jacket Changed n
pei IN the aieyway, and then came back
| ana stood swaying in the middle of the
| cabih' armed with large tin teapot. ali
reauy 10 commence business. So heavy
was the roll that at times he had to put his
hand on the floor for supp, t.
capt Kettle watched the door with n
naSsard face He was beginning to realize
tnal an emotion was stirred within him that
should have had no place in his systen.
| lie told himself sternly that he was a
married man with family; that he had a
Geep affection for both his wife and chill
ureh' that, in cold fact he had seen Miss
carnegie in the flesh but once before Rut
| there was no getting over the memory that
| she MADE poetry, a craft that he adored
| and ne could not forget that she had al
| ready lived in his mind for more months
| than he dared count
his conscience took him by the ear, and
| signed out the word. love- On the instant
| all MS pride of manhood was up in arms,
ana ne rejected the imputation with scoru:
ana then after some thought formulated his,
hiking for the girl in the term interest But
/ ne knew full well that his sentiment was
something deeper than that His chest
! heaVed when he thought of her
/ Then IN the distance he heard her an
| preaching. He wiped the moisture from
| his face with the