Smyrna times., 1901-01-02

It'll be me or the powder I'll do the
best know. I'll be trying to win, any
how. Much obliged to you all the
same
bad job breaking it off all of a sud-
den,' told him. Dangerous. at that. !
Yet you're pretty husky looking fell
low. You may beat it.
81 was pretty skeptical about it, but !
l didn't want to discourage him. Well, |
the mudhOOk came up ten days later,
and away we went for Honolulu. We
started in the morning. didn't see
Kingsley until along toward night. He
looked pretty bad too. knew that he
was making the fight.
'Kingsley'll be coming to me for the
stuff tonight l thought. He's been
taking 80 or 40 grains a day, and he
won't be able to stand it. But I'll be
beached if it's found out that I've Civ
en- him n sixteenth of grain. I'm sor-
ry for Kingsley, but l wouldn't be able
| to help him out
"Well, Kingsley didn't come to me
until along toward o'clock Oh the fol-
lowing morning.
"'Just an injection he whispered to
me hOarsely. I'm going insane
81 couldn't and told Kingsley so as
decently as | could. 1t hurt me to turn
him down, but l couldn't take the
chance. He shuddered all over and
staggered out of my little StOrerOOm.
Fright for'ard of my storeroOm was
the stOrerOOm of Wang Woo, the skip
per's steward. Wang, of course, hit
the pipe. Most Cinnamon in the navy
do in the midnight privacy of their
storerooms, but no official notice is TAX
en- of that. It's looked upon as part of
the Chinaman's game. Well. Kingsley
stumbled into Wang Woo's storeroom
Woo was cooking himself pill in the
dark. | heard Kingsley beg the Chink
for little of the gummy stuff. Offering
to give up months wages for it. Woo
passed him up, and Kingsley STUN
bled forward, almost mad, as he had Il
right to be. He'd already have been
insane had it not been for his great
natural strength.
"At 0 o'clock that morning, the hour
of sick call. saw Kingsley come down
the after ladder, looking frightful. His
face was drawn to a knot from his suf-
ferings. One of the gun divisions was
breaking out the after magazines, the
matches to which were right at the foot
of the after ladders. The matches were
wide open. Kingsley. coming down the
after ladder. saw that they were open
But Wang Woo, coming around from
the wardroOm at little lOpe to answe:
the call of the shippers messenger
above, was looking aloft through the
main hatch to see the messenger boy
and he didn't see the open magazine
I hatches Well. he had one foot alread!
over one of the matches and was jus
about to plunge to the bottom of tn
fixed ammunition magazine when tn,
} collar of his blouse was gripped by tn
2 hand of a man whose muscles wer
D like iron. | mean Kingsley. Kingsle.
+ raised Wang Woo bodily to the ladde
j steps. Wang Woo almost tainted whel
he saw the danger he had been in, bu
he smiled blandly at Kingsley, ant
| Kingsley followed him into the China
5 mans stOrerOom.
= "Why. of course, Cinnamon are CRATE
e full. Kingsley didn't report himsel
: sick at all. He emerged from th
e Chinamans storeroom ten minutes la
) er looking quite clipper, comparative
;, ly, and his eyes were focused to pi
It points until we got to Honolulu. The
:, Kingsley went ashore, took an owe
dose with all the deliberation in lii
l. and was found dead in bed at litt
It hotel in Waikiki, with suitable letter
telling about his people. sealed and a,
e, dressed to the skipper, on the table b
side him.
"a Chinaman'll always make good fl
t favors received. Washington Star.