The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-01-03

IF Acarufso in his dreamy. aopey way
his way. that is to say when he. wes
! III duty Wen. I edged over to Kings
ey- We Were quite apart from the
-est of the men.
Buckle said I. in as kindly a way
IS could felt sorry for Kingsley.
| who was most obviously gentleman
you want to cut 1T out. You do for
fact It'll nail you. It's game you
SAINT beat Nobody can beat it, I can
reduce YOU grsdually-eight of
grain day Better let me take hold
Of You. TIN be the quiet
That's good of you. pail replied
Kingsley, never taking his eyes away
from the horizon . look at me. i
won't forget it. But I've tried reduc-
ing before I'm going to make the
fight alone I'm going to hang if
it kills me- Death is only little thing,
anyhow, compared to this slavery
When we hike away from here for the
Stands next week, I'm going to heave
AL I've got of the stuff over the side
Then i'm be me or the powder. I'll do
he best know. III be trying t o win.
anyhow Much obliged to you, all the
| same
-sBad job, breaking it off all of a
sudden 1 told him. Dangerous at
that Yet you're pretty husky lock-
ing fellow. You may beat it
IT was pretty skeptical about it, but
| T didn't want to discourage him. Well,
1.-THE nudhook came up ten days later.
and away we went to Honolulu We
started in the morning I didn't see
Kingsley until along toward night. He
looked pretty bad, too 1 knew that
he was making the fight.
Kin gsley'I be coming to me for
the stuff tonight I thought He's
been taking so or 40 grains day. and
he won't be able to stand it. But I'll
be beached if it's found out that I've
rir ivfa Of
sorry for Kingsley, but wouldn't be
able to help him out
well, Kingsley didn't come to me
until along toward two o'clock on the
| following morning
Just an injection,' he whispered to
me- hoarse1y. I'm going insane
IT couldn't, and I told Kingsley SO as
decently I could. 1t hurt me to turn
him down, but I couldn't take the
chance. He shuddered all over, and
| staggered out of my little st ore room
Fright for'ard of my store room was
| the store room 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
! store rooms. but no official notice il
! taken of that It's looked upon as
| part of the Chinaman's game Well,
| Kingsley stumbled into Wang Woo $
| store room. Woo was cooking him
self a pill in the dark 1 heard Kings
| ley beg the Chink for a little of the
| eummy stuff, Offering to give up n
! months wages for it. Woo passed him
up, and Kingsley stumbled forward,
! almost mad, he had right to be.
He'd already have been insane had it
| not been for his great natural siren 9Th.
| AT nine o'clock that morning, the
| hour for sick call, I Kingsley
! come down the after ladder, lookin 8
| frightfu1. His face was drawn to a knot
| from his sufferings. One of the gun
| divisions was breaking out the after
| ma gazines the matches to which We're
right at the foot of the after ladders.
| The matches were wide open. King s-
/ ley, coming down the after ladder. saw
| that they were open But Wang Woo,
| coming around from the ward room
! at a little 1oPe, to answer the call OF
| the shippers messen ger above, was
| looking aIoft through the main hatch
| to see the messenger boy, and he didn
see the open ma gazine matches Well
| he had one foot already over one of the
| matches, and was Just about to plung gre
| to the bottom of the fixed ammunition
| ma gazine, when the collar of his blouse
| was gripPed by the hand of a man
| whose muscles were like iron I mean
| Kingsley. ings1ey raised Wang Woo
| bodily to the ladder steps Wang Woo
| almost tainted when he saw the dan
| ger b e had been in, hut h smiled bland
| ly at Kingsley, and Kingsley followed
! him into the Chinare ans store room.
"Why, of course, Cinnamon are crate
| full. Kingsley didn't report himself
| sick at all. He emerged from the Chi
naman,S store room ten min ut es later
| looking quite clipper, comparatively
| and his eyes were focused to pin points
| until got to Honolulu Then Kings
ley went ashore, took an overdose with
| all the elaboration in life, and was
| found dead in bed at a little hotel in
| Waikiki, with suitable letters, telling
| about his people, sealed and addressed
| to the skipper, the table beside him.
| "a Chinaman II always make good fol
| favors received ''-Washing ton Star.
| Hunting