The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-15

drawing as well as his engine, fires. and he
had wrapped himself in an old p. & o.
white duck jacket to show what he had
been before he sank to the level of a
c~oasting steamer. They admired the clerk.
like neatness OF the report he had jus,
/. finished. and in return he promised. them
the fastest run on record. and showed them
the portrait of his wife. and of their tiny
cottage on the Isle of Wight. and his jade
idols from Korea. and carved cocoanut
gourds from Brazil. and a picture from the
Graphic of Lord Salisbury. tacksd to the
partition and looking delightedly down be-
tween two highly oolored Autographs vi
Miss Ellen Terry and the Princess May.
Then they called upon the captain. and
Clay asked him why captains always hung
so much lace about their beds when they
| Invariably slept on a red velvet sofa with
! their boots on. and the captain ordered his
Chinese steward 10 mix them a queer drink
and offered them the choice Of a six months
accumulation of paJnar novels. and free i'd
! mittance to his dbrjise at all hours. And
then they passed on to the door of the
smoking-room and beckonel MacWiIliams
| to come out and Join them. His manner az
he did so bristled with importance. and he
drew them eagerly to the rail-
I've just been having a chat with Cap
tain Burke he said in an undertone., Hes
been telling Langham and me about a rev
| game that's better than running railroads.
4 lie Sd.S lntIt d country Cdllcu IdGe-
donna that's got IA native prince who wants
to be free from Turkey. and the Turks
| won't let him. and Burke says If We'll each
| put up a thousand dollars he'll guarantee 10
get the prince free in six months. fIe's
made an estimate of the cost and submitted
| II 10 the Russian Embassy ut Washington,
, and he says they will help him s~ee~e-'y. ana
he knows a man who has just paterrsl i
new rifle and who VII supply I'm with u
thousand of them for the sake OF The adver-
, tisement. He says it's d mountainous Cour-
try. and all you have to do is TO stand on
the passes and roll rocks down OH .he Turks
as they come in. 1t sounds easy. doesn't
it?"
.'Then you're thinking OF turning profess
| sional flibustcr yourseIf?' said Ctiy.
well, I don't know. 1t sounds more IN
| teresting than engineering. Burke say. /
! beat him on this last fight. and Il d like to
have me with him in the next one--sort NJ
| Observation-Disclosures idea-and he caicu-
larcs that we can go about setting people
free and upsetting governments for some
time to come. He says there is always scme-
| thing to fight about II YOU look for il. And
| must say the condition of ti,ose I1or
Macedonians does appeal to me. Thinh ~
| them all alcne down there bullied ~ tnat
Sultan of Turkey and wanting To he tree
! and independent. That's not light. Ycu. as
| an American citizen. ought to be the last
person In the world TO throw cold water IN
an Undertaking like that. In the name OF
| Liberty now?
81 don't object; set them free, of course"
| laughed Clay. But how long have You en-
tertained this feeling for the enslav.d Mace
DOMAINS. Mace"
well. 1 never heard of them .ul;il Il quar-
ter of an hour ago. but they oughtn't to
suffer through my ignorance"
Certainly not. Let me know when you're
going to do 1t. and Hope and will run over
and look on. / should like to see you AMI
| Burke and the Prince of Macedonia rolling
down rocks on the Turkish Empire"
/ Hope and Clay passed on up the deck
| laughing. and MacWilliams oeked after
! them with a fond and p~aternal smile. The
| lamp. In the wheelhouse. threw a, broad
\ belt of light across the forward dech
as they passed through 1t into
| the darkness of the bow. where the lonely
; lookout turned and started at them sus-