Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-12-27

not SO mucn rnat ne was a tan, DroAs1
shouldered. fine looking chap. who
completely outclassed the bunch ne
joined with in appearance and bear
ing. ms because saw what his trouble
was as soon as clapped my eye on
him. | understood as soon as ! MADE
the discovery why Kingsley was wear
ing the uniform of a buck private In the
marine corps. 1t was because slav-
cry to which he had become addicted IN
civil life had rendered him unfit and In
competent to keep up with the process
sion in civil life.
''That Is to say. didn't need two
looks at Kingsley to see that morphine
had him. His gray eyes focused to
pin points. and he had all OF the other
exterior indications of the man chaineo
in the morphia bondage.
| "At the inspection on the sunday |
following Kingsley's coming aboard l
watched my immediate chief, the ships
surgeon, narrowly to see II he was 60
ing to get on to Kingsley when he
passed by the marine in following aft
err the commanding officer. When the
surgeon passed by the row Of marines
drawn up in their mastering clothes,
eyes straight ahead. ! observed that
lie gave one sharp glance at Kingsley,
and that was all.
"Below, In my stateroom. after IN
spection the surgeon looked at me out
of the tail Of his eye.
"'Have you noticed that marine,
arothecaryY he asked me.
ayes. sir: replied.
"'.Ium! I'm glad to be corroborat-
ed. vet l was sure couldn't have been
mistaken said the surgeon. Better
, have an extra eye to your store OF
morpha. Keep it under cover
"However, Kingsley didn't become
incapable. He was an admirable SOL
? der of the sea. He was always right
on the minute. top notcher on guard
, duty, spick and span man always
The marine officer in charge OF the
guard never, of course, suspected that
there was anything wrong about Kings
p ley. and he thought SO much OF the
n mans faithfulness that he had MIN
= made a corporal a couple of months
>. after Kingsley joined us. Kingsley
was always under the influence OF the
drug of course. He never ran out OF
- the stuff. You know how morphine
- slaves provide against that awful con-
g tingency. He kept on edge all the
>, time and never appeared to overshoot
his limit. Kingsley surely was a man
of powerful self control In that respect
II However, l knew that It would gel
" him in time and throw him. 1t always
does throw it's victims II they give II
rome enough, you know, and morphine
is one of those things that just De
e mands all the rope it wants.
c. "Kingsley knew by intuition that
If knew about his habit, and he avoided
re ME very deliberately. One noon hour
however, happened to be smoking
y pipe ut the gangway. Kingsley wa
IN looking out over the beautiful harpo
" of Acapulco in his dreamy. dopy wa
Mt his way, that is to say, when he wa
le off duty. Well. l edged over to Kings
! lev. We were quite apart from tn
rest of the men.
"'Bucko.' said in as kindly wa
be ms | could-i felt sorry for Kingsle!
ed who was most obviously gentleman
er YOU want to cut it out. You 90 for
ID fact. It'll nail you. It's a game 20
er can't beat. Nobody can beat it. ! ca
reduce you gradually-e Of q graz
i'd a day. Better let me take hold OF yol
ag It'll be on the quiet
re "'Thats good of you. PAL replie
he Kingsley, never taking his eyes ava
ne from the horizon to look at me- ! won
en- forget it. but I've tried reducing o
fore. am going to make the ngl
alone. I'm going to hang on II 1t XII
me. Death is only little thing. an
us how. compared to this slavery. VINE
nu we hike away from here for the islant
II" next week. I'm going to heave all ~
Sc got of the stuff over the side. Iht
i'm til be me or the powder. I'll do tn
,ht hest I know. I'll be trying to win, an.
m. how. Much obliged to you all tt
,er same .
nd "'Rad Job breaking it off all of SUI
Nv dem | told him. Dangerous, at tina
tch Yet you're pretty husky looking fe
, a low. You may beat it,
81 was pretty skeptical about 1t, d
NV didn't want to discourage him. we
i'm the mudhook came up ten days late
,ul. and away we went for Honolulu. v
in started in the morning. didn't 8
ing Kingsley until along toward night. I
?" looked pretty bad too. l knew that
70. was making the fight.
kin 'Kingslev'll be coming to me TOT
otel ann. ,,,a,gu,, / lnougnt. mes uo
taking 30 or 40 grains day, ana
won't be able to stand it. But I'll
heoched if it's found out that I've g
all on him sixteenth of grain. I'm 81
,on, ry for Kingsley, but wouldn't be az
lrts to help him out
edi- "Well, Kingsley didn't come to
! in until along toward o'clock on the
stll lowing morning.
use ".Just an Injection he whispered
dis me hoarsely. I'm going insane
, of 81 couldn't and told Kingsley SO
The decently as could. 1t hurt me to u
re- him down. but l couldn't take
Ger. chance. He shuddered all over
edi- staggered out of my little storeroom'
'5-S. "Right for'ard of my storeroom "
.+os, | A., s+ororoom of Wang Woo, the SIX