The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-06-30

governor himself-free of charge,
mind you. Fortunately. happen to
know Col. De Garma; Ferdinand Jose
Felipe Jesus de Garma y de Lopez is his
everyday name. You want to commit
it to memory, too; because if you hap
pen to get it De Some thing-or-othes
wrong, it might make considerable
hard feeling. I've been thinking over
the matter a little. and have concluded
tina. your staying in the government
house as his guest will be rather favor
able to our plan than otherwise. He's
one Of the most hospitable men l ever
met-give you anything he's got, ex-
cept his daughter, and she's pretty
enough to eat. Here's picture of
them, with the officers of the colonel's
staff. taken with the patio It's pref
ty fair likeness of the crowd, consider
ing the size. What do you think of
them?"
1 examined the photograph care
fully.
why. they're full-blooded Span
iards. aren't they? They look like
educated people"
"Hmpfl II it comes to blood. De
Garma can trace his family back to q
branch of the Braganzas on the distaff
side; the family are Portuguese, not
Spanish, though they've lived in Ora
NADIA for generations. But what do
you think of the girl-Senorita Doro-
tea? Isn't she peach?"
"She is beauty, isn't she? What an
internal pity to hide away a girl like
that in a forgotten hole where all the
advantages she should have are de-
MED herI"
II think, myself. that Agana is no
place for her; yet she won't stay there
always, and she isn't by any means the
untutored barbarian you imagine her
to be. They lived in Granada and Mad
rid until she was IT,"
"Then what the devil did they
ever"
"Come to the Ladrones forP Bust
ness; all in the line of business. AS
lieutenant colonel, the old mans or
binary salary of 2.7O0 year didn't cut
much ice in Madrid. Out here, as
gobernador of the Ladrones, he gets
about 400 more. besides the pickings."
"Pickings?"
Eyes. What he can squeeze out OF
the barrangays, or tax districts.
Gobernadors don't work for their
health. any more than United States
senator's. Then Guajan is one of the
most delightful islands in the Pacific,
and il costs them little or nothing to
live there. At the end of his six years
they get their passage home at gov
eminent expense, and carry with them
quite respectable pot of savings.
which means opera, cafes, bull-fghts,
wine, and innumerable cigarrillos, for
several years. 1t takes good deal of
genius to work an influential rcla tive
in the cortes."
His six years must have nearly ex-
pired by this time; ] notice the SEN
orita's gown isn't exactly up to date"
That's the fault of her blasted
cousins in Manila. l lost my temper,
the day before we left. when they sent
a lot of clothes down 10 the steamer
for me to take to her. There was moth
ing but a;msy string around the pack
age, aud when the quartermaster ac-
cidentally dropped it on deck it
bursted open; so ] had the fun of rak-
ing together those female belongings
and trying 10 guess which matched and
which didn't. If the girl finds out that
l saw some of the things, I'm afraid
there'll be GOODNESS between US. You
see, they're-well, mixed gear, should
say. What makes me SO mad is the
fact that those women in Manila have
spent the money she sent last voyage
on their own new clothes, and have
sent her a lot of buds four years out
CT style. l suppose they think that,
being out of the world in those islands.
she'll never know the difference, and
that they are plenty good enough"
what a beastly shamei"
Eyes; isn't it devilishl And that Lit.
tie girl likes to be well dressed Just
as much as they do. Got a heap bet
ter taste. too. Here, just look al these
things in the box, will you?-they're
almost as antiquated as the dress she's
wearing in the picture" We gingerly
lifted out one garment after another.
specializing as to the use of those we
were not sure about.
"Look here, Dick; you don't happen
to have any nice, stylish dresses on
board, do your"
mo. l don't. I'm carrying hard.
ware and stores this trip"
Afterward the conversation drifted
into a description of the kind of life
l might expect to find among the is
lands, suggestions in regard to the
OF catamarans at sea. and