Arizona republican., 1898-08-10

SomeDody to have drink with him, which he promptly did.
 Miss Brewster made her way to the captains room and rapPed at the door. On being told to enter she found that officer seated at his table with some charts before him, and haggard look upon his face, which might have warned her that this was not the proper time to air any personal grievances.
 "Well?" he said briefly as she entered
 Il came to see you, captain,' she be- gan, because an outrageous thing has been done on board this ship, and I de- sire reDaraticn-what is more. I will have itl''
 'What is the outrageous thing?'' ' asked the captain.
 T had some dispatches to send to New York to tho New York Argus, on whose staff am.'' --~-e------ -~-e~ 1 -"Yos," sad thc captain, with interest: ]: l dispatches relating to what has hap
 pened to the ship?'
 ''One of them did, the other did not. > | Well, hope,' said the captain, 'you 1 have not given an exaggerated account of the condition we are in''
 T have given noaccount at all simply because l was prevented from sending the cablegrams'
 'Ah, indeed,'' said the captain, a look of relief coming over his face in spite of his efforts to conceal it. "and pray, what prevented you from sending
 your cablegrams? The mate woull have taken any messages that were given to him.
 'I know that" cried the young woman; "and when 1 was in my room writing the last of the dispatches. q person who is on beard as q passenger l hcre-Miss Longworth-came into my room and held me prisoner there until the boat had left the ship"
 The captain arched his eyebrows in astonisEment.
 My dear madam,'' he said, "you i make very serious charge. Miss Long l worth has crossed several times with me, and I am bound to say that more well-behaved young lady I never had OF board my ship"
 Extremely well-behaved she isl" cried the correspondent angrily "She stood against my door and prevented me from going out. 1 screamed for help, but my screams were drowned in the cheers of the passengers when the boat left
 Why did you not ring your bell?"
 T couldn't ring my bell because she prevented me. Besides. if had reached ( l..,ll have answered it; everybody seemed to be g:,wking after the boat that was leaving.'
 You can hardly blame them for that \ great deal depends on the safety of that boat. In fact, if you come to think about it, you will see that what ever grievance you may have, it is, after all, a very trivial one compared to the burden that weighs on me just now. and I very much prefer not to have any thing to do with disputes between the passengers until we are out of our pres ent predicament.'
 'The predicament has nothing what, ever to do with it. tell you fact. l tell you that one of your passengers came and imprisoned me in my stat, room. 1 come to you for redress. Now there must tc -so1nc law on shipboari that takes tic place of ordinary law oil land. 1 make this demand officially te you. If you refuse to hear me, and re fuse to redress my wrong, then have T large republic to which I can appe.l through my paper, and perhaps there will also be a chance of obtaining just ice through the law of the land to which l am going
 My dear madam" said the captain. calmly, you must not use threats to ne. 1 am not accustomed to be talked to in the way you have taken upon yourself to speak. Now tell me what ii is you wish me to do." ''It is for you to say what you will do. am a passenger on board thi.; ship. and am supposed to be under the protection of it's captain. I therefore tell you have been forcibly detained i:l my stateroorn, and l demand that the person who did this shall be punished
 You say that Miss Longworth was the person who did this?' "Yes, do.''
 NO" uO you knOW you make very serious charge against that young lady? A charge that find it very diff ficult to believe. May I ask you what reason she had for doing what you say she has done?'
 That is long story. lam quite pre- pared to show that she tried to bribe | me not to send a dispatch. and, finding herself unsuccessful, she fOrcibly de- tained me in my room until too late to send the telegram" l The captain pondered over what had been said to him.