The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-07-14
think It II well that should be
friepds with your father?"

HOh, yes, good friends, Enriquito
milo; but not so noticeable you should
it make. The Spanish etiquette you
do not understand. When particular
attention the gentleman has paid to the
young girl as but yesterday aud the
days before you have doue. he so boldly
should not go to her father. On the
land. the liberty to see you SO much
alone of the time as on ell vapor we
have done I never should have; it is
not the custom. That is why las Sc
noritas the gentlemen like to be so
friendly. when tbe-the opportunity
they do have; it so seldom is. But when
to the senorita's father the gentleman
80 boldly does go, people do think that
for his wife he does wish her."
"Well, suppose they do. I guess
can stand it if you can"
"Ah, but Enrique milo. you do not
me wish. Not now. am quite sure.
But if the people you do make to think
so, you would me have to take OF else
the duello to fight with mi padre. They
would say: Behold, ei senior the gran
admiration has for la senorita. But un
honorable he is; the respects he does
not pay to su padre; much alone it is
permitido that he does her see. Then
he does find that she is not as he did
think; remain he will not with her;
and su padre must the senior then kill
por la honra de la familia.' Do you not
see, Enriquito mlo?"
I'm beginning to. dimly. You
know I'm not as familiar with your
Andalusian customs as / should be.
But see, the sun must be at the zenith.
Here. let Inc adjust the sextant for
you. Now look. Isn't the lower edge
just touching the water?"
AS she peeped through the glass. Hal
stead, on the bridge, took the sextant
from his eye and said: Strike eight
bells. quarternaster." Then he and
the mates went into the wheel-house
to figure up the reckoning.
For perhaps half an hour longer we
stood talking in the shadow Of the for
ward life-boat. Then. just as the stew
ard came along with the lunch-gong,
there was the muffled sound of
crash from the engine-room gratings.
and the machinery stopped. In an in
slant heads appeared at various win
dows and doors; the passengers, with
pale faces and questioning looks, crowd
ed out upon the decks. Echoes of
voices shouting excited orders came
from somewhere below, and the good
old ship, having lost her Roadway.
rolled uneasily upon the long. CLASSY
swell. Haistead stepped quickly down
the starboar1 ladder and aft to the
engine-room gany~ay. The senorira
chung tightly % ny arm with one hand,
while with tue other she fished her
beads from. their warm concealment
and held them ready for instant use.
Her bosom WAS pressed SO closely
against my side that ! could feel Der
heart beating about hundred and
forty to the minute. She looked aft
with dilated eyes toward where the
captain mad disappeared, then beseech-
ingly into NY face, as she whispered:
''Madre de Dios. Eprique! what is
it? Shall Ell vapor in the water sink?
Is it la n,uerre? Ricardito-why goes
he below into the danger? tell me!
Por Dios, tell mel"
was beginning to think. my self. that
for a bluff ii was pretty realistic. Per-
haps l may have caught some of the
senorita's nervousness. The crash be-
low was what puzzled me; that hadn't
been on the programme. I comforted
the girl as well as 1 could by saying
l didn't think the steamer was likely
to sink right away, though there was
certainly something wrong with the
machinery. and then suggested Que go
ing along to the engine-room. where
we might look down and See what the
trouble was. I was considerably more
shaken up than l cared to admit, es-
pecially as the quartermasrers and
stewards, in obedience to the disci-
pIine which Halstead always enforced
at sea, had taken their stations for the
signal: "All hands stand by to aban-
don ship"
When it came to actually approach.
ing the vicinity Of danger, the senior.
ita's curiosity, with possibly an I'M
confessed anxiety for the captain. got
the better of her fears, and she fol-
lowed me as far as the gratings over
the cylinders. No one else had the
tcmerity to accompany us, If, indeed,
they knew where the gangway led to.
fro BE Continued