The Princeton union., 1900-01-04


with Wentworth. who now had gone.
below. q
II have heard said Kenyon, 2 .'that
they intend trying to reach the coast"
Exactly. Now, why should you not
send a telegram to your people in! Lon
don, end have the reports forwarded
at once? The chances are that Miss
Brewster will never think Of sending
her cablegram with the officer who is
going to make the trip; then you will
be clear day or two ahead of her, and
everything will be all right. In fact,
when she understands what has been
done, she probably will not send her
message at ALL"
"By George!" cried Kenyon. ''that is
good idea. I will see the mate at
once and find out whether he will take
the telegram -. ,5<...@
He went accordingly and spoke to
the mate about sending a message with
him. The officer said that any passen-
ger who wished to send telegraphic
message would be at liberty to do so.
He would take charge Of the kilograms
very gladly. Kenyon went down to
his stateroom and told Wentworth
what was going to be done. For the
first time in days George Wentworth
exhibited something like energy. He
went to the steward and bought the
stamps to put on the telegram while
John Kenyon wrote it. .-.a ...
The message was given to the man,
who put it into his inside pocket, and
then Kenyon thought all was safe, but
Miss Longworth was not so sure Of
that. Jennie Brewster sat in her deck
chair, calmly reading her usual paper
covered novel. She apparently knew
nothing of what was going on, and
Edith Longworth, nervous with sup
pressed excitement, sat near her
watching her narrowly while prepara-
tions for launching the boat were being
completed. Suddenly, to her horror,
the deck steward appeared, and in q
loud voice cried: 'tLadies and gentle.
men, anyone wishing to send kilograms
, to friends have few minutes now to
write them. The mate will take them
ashore with him, and will send them
from the first Office that he reaches.
No letters can be taken, only tele-
grams. ~.f,..4.5,.s E:.E.. j.. =. ...-,..< Z
Miss Brewster looked up languidly
from her book during the first part OF
! this recital. Then she sprang sudden
ly to her feet and threw the book on the
deck. = '.E..
''"'Who is it that will take the tele-
grams?" she asked the steward.
'The mate, miss. There he is stand
ing yonder, miss"
She made her way quickly to that
official.
'sWill you take a cable dispatch to be
sent to New York;"
Eyes, miss. Is it long one?" hi
asked.
Eyes, it is a very long one"
well, MISS was the answer, "you
haven't much time to write it, We
leave now in a few minutes
''It is all written out; I have only tc
add a few words to it." Miss Brewster
at once few to her stateroom. The
telegram about the mine was soon be-
fore her with the words counted, anC
/ the silver and gold that were to pay fol
it piled on the table. She resolved tx
run no risk of delay by having the
message sent ''to Collect Then shs
dashed off, as quickly as she could, {
brief and very graphic account of the
disaster which had overtaken thu
Caloric. If this account was slightl,
exaggerated, Miss Brewster had M
time to tone it down. Picturesque anc
dramatic description was what she
aimed at. Her pen flew over the paper
with great rapidity, and she looked W
every now and then, through her state
room window, to see dangling from the
ropes the boat that was to make the at
tempt to reach the Irish coast. As sh.
could thus see how the preparations fo1
the departure were going forward, shs
fingered longer than she might other
wise have done, and added line after lin.
to the dispatch which told of the dis
aster. At last she saw the men talk,
their places in the long boat. Sht
hurriedly counted the words in the new
dispatch she had written, and quickly
from her purse piled the gold that wa
Then she sealed the two dispatches il
an envelope, put the two piles of golt
into one, after rapidly counting then
again, cast u quick look up at the still
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