The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-07-07

| la senorita? do know from the pho
tograph that we the same complexion
are, and her dress like a glove does
fit me-"
"Please heri She'd be as happy as
the best-dressed woman in New York
church on Easter morning. If she had
a gown like that. And if she looks
as sweet as you do in it, the caballeros
will have a hard time"
"You-you think it becoming to me
is. Senior Enrique?"
II think that were it not for Capt.
Dick, couldn't resist the temptation
of kissing you. just as you are"
'Nombre de Dios! los Americanos
are bold! But pray you tell me. Senior
Enrique, why say you of eel Captain
Dik?' Que nombre, 'DikY"
"Ricardito in Spanish; it was Capt.
Halstead ! meant. I told him how
beautiful thought you were this aft
ernoon-beautiful enough to kiss
and he said that if attempted such
thing he'd punch my head"
''Ai! said he that, the violent mani
Ricardito-I like better that than
your Ingles Dix But why not should
he like to have you me kiss?'
| "Oh, ] don't know; he's a peculiar
man. Possibly he'd rather do it him
SELF"
'Ai, but never would the man dare.
He so quieet is-such "a But we must
talk of him not. ! shall be afraid. We
have the dresses about to decide. I
will another one wear at the dinner,
and tomorrow another; then shall we
see if for la senorita they will do"
If they will dol You mean if others
like them will do?"
mot SO, senior; why should la pobre
senorita a whole three months wait
for her dresses? She shall three of
mine have. We directly home do go.
on ell vapor Isla de Panay from Manila,
and l not shall need them; l plenty of
others have"
"And you will sell me your own
dresses for her. senorita! You are
even more generous than I hoped"
Il nothing said of selling them,
senior. Can you not me allow the pleas
.ure of giving, as yourself?"
! But, seuorita! where do the cap.
EtaiD and 7 come in? We can't allow
20 20 make such an expensive pres
snt, just o please us!"
1.-THE expense nothing is; many plan
tations papa has. You and ell captain
have yourselves shown los generosos.
1t will a pleasure be for me to do what
you would have done; if your friend
er. Every girl it is not with friends
| IL H.,
stranger"
She looked so cool and pretty, in the
shade under the awning, that I took
her little hand in mine and bent over
it for a moment. Then hurried to the
upper deck with my bundle, and told
Dick he had better take my place be-
fore she went below. He relished the
suggestion SO much that I had con-
siderable difficulty in first getting him
into white duck suit; being a power
fully built fellow, white and gold were
exceedingly becoming to Ha1stead.
After he left, l stretched myself in
one of the hammocks we had slunp
'thwartships, and felt rather jealous
for few moments. There is charm
about the Spanish temperament which
exer S a strong fascination over men
of colder nationalities; and the Senor-
tia Palacios, without necessarily be-
inc overload Of either Halstead or
myself, had a frank and cousinly
friendliness of manner that banished
all suggestion of ceremoniousness at
the outset and led US into saying
things which one usually says to ac-
quaintances of many years standing
only. There is also a popularity of
tropic life at sea which has often inn
pressed me. Wether it is the result
of forced inaction, or the relaxing in
fuence of the climate, is immaterial;
but under such conditions the formal
ity which custom has made inviolate
in temperate countries is simply out of
the question-as much so as tight or
cumbersome clothing.
My day with the senorita had been
such a pleasant one that it was diff
cult to fix my mind upon other mat
tiers, but I finally settled down to a
| careful examination of the charts
which Halstead had left upon the
table. Those dollars and doubloons
beneath the heaving bosom of the Pa
cific were, after all, chief mistresses
of our affections at that time.
CHAPTER v.
I pored over the charts until the
dinner-gong sounded; then the photo
graph, which Law directly under one