The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-09

captain COtoDepDef lOOkC0 gu tle farmer.
and his little pigs eyes wandered over
her from hair to slipper People al
ways did seem to have confoundedly
rude habit of staring at Miss Colepep-
per, thought Guthrie angrily; but, to
tell the truth. she seemed rather to like
it than otherwise. On this particular
occasion, however, after she had been
gazed at fxedly for five speechless min
utes, she did have the good taste to
blush, and, turning away, began to ex-
anime one of the doctor skeletons. OBJ
serving this sign of grace in the lady
Guthrie suddenly realized that the or
deal had been really somewhat cruel
one, and SO he concluded that it was
time to draw the farmer into conyersa
ton.
"Mr. Cain, he began-but the man
interrupted him with wave of one of
his huge hands.
'Just Cain, if ee please, zur, he
said. abel zee he master now, an 20
ee be the master in our warm. y
This was disconcerting, and it was
now Miss Colepepper S turn to come to
the rescue. She plunged, therefore, into
the topic of chickens and the enormous
difficulty of rearing them Ia subject of
which she afterward confessed that she
knew nothing), and very soon she man
aged to work the farmer up into quite
an animated conversat ton. Before three
minutes had passed he had given her
an invitation to come down and stay a
month at the farmhouse and assured
her that though Abel was a hard
| mouthed man to most of his species, he
knew what was due to his betters and
would behave as though it were Queen
Victoria herself who was visiting him
! In fact, Cain almost became voluble
derful testimonial to Miss Dolly's pow
ers.
When DR.. Tring returned, he brought
his partner with him. Captain Colepep-
per looked at the farmer, said nothing
for about minute, and then, turning
to the doctor, remarked shortly in an
undertone, "No sailor, doctor, and
crank of yours.
"Then you think we had better ac-
cept the gentleman 8 offer p
eyes.
And thus Cain Laversha's name was
written under that of Tom Jelly, and
i the ketch Eureka added another and
surely the strangest specimen of all 10
her collection of nautical curios. No,
Captain Colepepper was not proud of
his crew.
But the captain, the doctor, the un-
Aergraduate the two Jellys, the waiter
md Cain Laversha made up only seven
of crew, and just now it was stated
that there were eight. Who. then, was
the other?
1t was Miss Dolly Colepepper. AS DR..
Tring had prophesied that she would,
she claimed to benefit by the precedent
which had been set up by their accept
ance of Mrs. Jelly; if one woman wal
eligible. their arguments. she declared.
fell to the ground And so they nigh
do as they pleased about giving her per
mission, for she meant to go At Thu
declaration her father fumed, the doctor
demurred argumentatively, and Guth
RE, with the mistaken daring of mex
perlence, ventured to support her appli
cation. She in'return. snubbed the IN
dergraduate, laughed at the doctor ant
kissed her father, and that was the enc
of it, The opposition though thorough
ly disorganized, of course made SHOW
Of further resistance, but the younl
lady had her way, and perhaps, if tn
truth had been spoken, neither her ia
ther nor DR.. Tring was in his hear
sorry that his authority was thus de
rided. And, as for the undergraduate
he was openly and shamelessly glad.
After ALL Captain Colepepper remark
ed jesuitically to the doctor, Henriett
was woman, and, as Dolly said. sh
was accepted; So
And then the sailor had the grace t
blush, for his ally was actually laugh
ing at him.
/ CHAPTER Nv.
A JUGGERNAUT OF TEE OCEAN
The Eureka was rounding the islam
of Ushant and entering the bay of Bis