The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-07


The skipper had a hard job to keer
track Of what the ship owed them.
II wish we was home" groaned ole
! Smith. ooh, he'll be terror of an
owneri'
It'll murder him. said Brose.
''Wot did I tell you chaps about the
'orrid effecs of sudden richness on a
MANI" asked the old fo'c's'le man
for'ard. George Potts was a good
sort, but Mr.. George Potts, Esquire is
| an oily terror. e raises hus hup and
cuts hus down like grass
And it presently came about that
the only time they had any peace was
| when Geordie was very much intoxi-
| Gated. But when they got into the
calms of Capricorn on the home stretch
| to the north he developed a taste for
gambling and made the old skipper sit
up all night playing Drag for huge
sums of money.
| IT lends you the dibs, and, win or
! Lore, it's all hunky for YOU said
| Geordie He made out orders to pay
the "old man. several thousand
pounds. and Smith began to feel rich.
Then Geordie raked Ware into the
game. At last even Brose succumbed
to the lure of 81 promise to pay Mr..
Brose five hundred on the nall" and
| joined the gamble.
! This is a dash comfortable ship
said Geordie. Whats a few thousand
tor me? I don't mind losin'. Stooard,
/ bring rum"
| By the time they picked up the north
east trades poor old Smith owed the
Owner ten thousand pounds. Ware
\ 6, Il 90 u
Brose, who had played poker in Cali
fornia, was worth fifteen thousand in
strange paper. He began to dream of a
row of houses with a public-house at
each end. He and Geordie grew quite
! thick and compared public-house
| ideals.
I'm goin' to buy a hotel" said
Geordie; there's one in Trafalgar
Square, London. as I've in my mind.
| I'll fit up the bar till it fair blazes with
golden bottles
He borrowed the mates clothes and
had a roaring time, and then they
came into the Channel and picked up
tug, and went round the Foreland
into London river
It'll bet lawyers and so on will be
down to meet me- said Geordie.
They'll be full up with gold. To
think of it! And to think I hit my
poor old uncle with brick!''
He mourned over his brutality.
HE wasn't half a bad chap he
said, 'tand I don't see what call my
dad had to call him a bloodsucker
after ALL
They locked in the Southwest
Dock, and sure enough they had not
been alongside their berth five minutes
before old Tyser's usual London agent
and very legal-Iooking person came
on board.
Let me introduce you to the new
owner said the obsequious skipper, as
he led up Geordie,. who had a smile OH
him large enough to cut a mainsail
out of.
oh" said the lawyer, then this is
Mr. Potts?''
That's me-" said Geordie. "Have
you brought any money with you? I
owes Mr.. Ware five thousand and Mr.
Brose fifteen
The lawyer smiled.
I'm afraid there's some mistake, Mr..
Potts Your uncle left a will after
all"
Geordie's jaw dropped and so did
Wares. But Brose's fell as falls the
barometer in the centre of a cyclone.
''And me-did he leave me nothin'?"
roared Geordie.
ooh. yes said the solicitor. ''Mr
Gray, viii you kindly give me that
cash-box you are carrying?'
And the agent handed him the cash
box.
HE. left you this" said the lawyer
and in this sealed envelope is the
key
Geordie grabbed the box cage ly.
It's heavy he said, 'tit's tolerable
heavy"
And putting it on the rail he opened
it with the key
There was half brick in it.