Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-01-12

upon the regular easy ruls-Di@%
thinks Mac raced her to-day i'm order
TO get the stiffness out of that fresh
Babbitt metal-aud they figure on at
least sixty hours from the noon posi-
ton. tomorrow. into Toni! bay.
could cut the eighty hours 10 Guajan
down to s.xty-eight # he showed her"
And that cura. Juan, Is not only
chap who seems TO take things about
Is he finds them. but pretty good
sailor into the bargain. So that II any
Tow comes 0f lis i - ,.-rst likel! TO
be from people AT lap who are expect
ing mail and supplies or who are wait
ing to leave for Manila. How long be-
fore YOU will get back there?'
We'll, let's see" I'VE figured out
the approximate runs, peuciling them
on the chart, until the whole voyage
lay diagrammed before us.) We
would anchor off the landing wharf
at Apra about noon on Saturday;
that's the 4th of April. We ought 10
get away from there Sunday and drop
the padre at Saipan Monday morning.
. Then. running straight for husale,
with the uo'theas' trades helping us
on our port beam. she'd make Chab-
rol Harbor some time Saturday fore
IT, r. It's a short run from kusaie
10 rouynipete; we'd strike kittie har-
Dor about noon on Monday and leave
there next day; that's the nth. The
: navigation among these atolls in the
/ Carolincs is too dangerous to risk
the group has never been surveyed,
YOU see--so we go TO the no'th'ard OF
! them: but we ought to fetch INTO Zap
/ by the following Sunday, easy enough.
1 That would be the 19lh. wouldn't it?
Suppose US TO be due there next Fri
| day night, something under 16 days
| late. As a matter of actual fact, the
regular steamer used often 10 leave
| Manila several days over time; and
/ as the colonies are run on the "A
lnanana' principle, the mere being a
! couple of weeks behind wouldn't I make
| much difference. But if any of the
| goberuador's party should happen 10
/ be waiting for a comfortable trip on
| the steamer, with good meals and
baths, between Yap and POuynipete
or Guajan, they'd kick a good deal on
! having to wait until after the wet
monsoon had set in"
| We'll, but wait bit How many
hours is il from zap to 'inaian?'
Lets see. -Four hundred and fifty
two miles; call il So hours easy steam
ing"
THAT isn't so very much. and Mae
! has coal enough to make up a heap of
lost time over the regular nine knot
rate Suppose you find that any of
these Caroline people do want to run
up TO the Ladrones; what's the mat
ter with taking them from Yap? 1t
would make but little more than two
DAYS difference on the round voyage,
and Mac could reduce that materially.
Then they'd be under obligations to
you, as we'll as the padre"
That's pretty good suggestion,
Harry; I hadn't thought of it. You
| would have nearly three weeks to
work in, and could return with me if
you were unsuccessful. But you'd
| have TO take your chances on there be
| ing no one who wanted TO reach
| Guaian; in that case l wouldn't have
| an excuse for coming back. you know.
"Oh, I understand that, of course
I'm prepared to stay on that island for
six months, if necessary; it might take
all of that time to really accomplish
anything. When are you going to Of
fer the padre his passage to Saipant
after Macs little arrangement"
NO. I don't propose making any
advances at all to him; he's 900 slip
perry. I'm captain of this steamer, and
if anything occurs which seems 10 ne
cessitate a change in the navigation
I am supposed to use my own Judg-
ment. Any owner or any chartering
company would be obliged TO accept
my decision in such a case, unless they
could prove that the necessity did not
exist That is really where J lay my
self open, if there should be hitch II
Macs bluff. But he generally knows
what he's about, and has set :he thing
up pretty we'll; though until the en-
CINE actually stops it is impossible &c
say whether his scratch will look se-i
Gus enough to warrant the change OF
course. The only way 10 handle the
padre is to keep still. listen closely tc
what he says. and work the bluff fol
all it's worth. Unless am very mucl
mistaken, he'll make some kind of sug
gestion to me himself, especially if we
mind our own bu@iness and are not
seen much together. You'd better
hang around the lower deck and smok
ing-room all day tomorrow. Cultivate
Don Silvestrc as if you were trying tC
get solid with him en- his daughters
account, and spend the rest of the
time with the senorita. If she notices
anything suspicious about the padre
she'll certainly tell you"
After going over the prospective
runs on the chart again, we botl
turned it; but I found il difficult tC
sleep. The next day seemed likely tC
be an eventful one, and was worrier
by the conviction that my friend wa!
taking big chances of losing his com
mand through the crazy speculation
into which | had drawn him. Once
I even got out OF my bunk with the
intention of waking him to advise the
relinQuishmento of the whole affair, bu'
he was muttering about red lips, anc
Spain. and millions, In his sleep; 81
thought better of it, and turned il
again.