Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-11-22

h'ads across the bills Of Crete which
iai To- tile north un our port beam. /
~lood on The stlrb0ard side of the
hridr" aud the third officer came and
Joined me there.
AL day we're Ike this. doctor. %
h" aid. the s,a'd he lie worth
h'iHg. one could forget the storms
sud the food aud the tiies aud the cock
reaches Iud the doctors we get ON
board aud one could enjoy life ~
Wa just -ucli morning ~ this. aud
Just shout here. too. that old Iloskins
ram' up 10 me on the Lively Mary
some ten years ago. We We're taking
her oulirom England Tor thu first time.
aud i/Eas a good .iS years before We
saw The old country again.
I bad letter from the owners NJ
CD George he said. We're 10 take
passenger 40 Port Said
a passenger. sirT
IgNo.. q young woman. George. N
skcp' she's going out TO Singapore ~
r"yerness shes bit stort Of funds.
'Sorgp. bat her people have some iu.
fueucc with our crowd So I've got
Instructions to take her from the T..
and -. boat ai Port said. and she
saves her passage money Tor the rest
~ Tie way Seey
see sir says. lin bit sorry
for the girl though Shcll not tak.
kindly 10 ihi, .hlp after the T.. aud -.
That's 100 You know. Gcoggc says
The old man. I'm going To make this
ship q home for that poor .irl. I'm
Guiug tu Dee q father IN her
Well. sir ! answered. 10 ought 20
come easy enough. You've had some
practice since I've known you quite
O. nice little family you've had
Tie grluucd moment and then be-
went ou. Don't you make no mistake.
George; I'm going 10 protect this
Young girl look upon u ~ sacred
duty. That. why lm speaking 20
you about b now. ! know the sort
~ man you are aud how little you're
90 10" trusted when there's Girl
about: su ! want you ~ understand /
thar this one is under my protection.
Just then 'hc cook ramc forward |
to report that the second engineer va, /
100. aud had TO go To- Doll. bunk. We |
didn't carry doctor on the Lively /
Mary aId Iloskius went on 10 see /
what he could do By and BY be sent /
Tor me a. his cabin and ! found him 1
scratching Doll, head over his medicine
chest
The poor chap, pretty had he
said but I'm hanged 10 can tell .
what's the matter with him Here's
cough mixture but he's got mo- cough
Here's stomach mixture. but he's got
Io stomach Tor food or anything
else This ink stun look. nice. bur
ibc lbels come of. and I can't tell
what De-. meant f.r Here's salts
They can't do any harm ut any rate
] fancy u can mix up some salts
with drop ~ brandy aud some ken
nedy's raukilIer' that ought TO tx
him
IL did.
"Of course I can't be- sure that 10
was that that lid II. bat the poor chap
d.ed next day. lie was nobody,
enemy but Dol, own. and we 40 missed
.im. lie went over the side under the
Union Jack. Ike many another good
man has gone before him. and It's
comfort 90 think that. wherever De
went be- wa. likely 10 dud % cooler
Than We did az Port Said when wc got
there
At Port said lloskins went ashor,
first. o. telegraph 10 the owners: see.
ondly. 90 go On board the T. aud o.
boat and find the girl who was coming
along with us. After about au hour
he came back. bringing her with him.
and showed her into the spare cabin
he'd had prepared for her.
Her nam" was Mary Price. She
was q pretty girl With nice figure.
aud black hair that curlcd about her ,
temples aud around her ears. She
looked bit sick when she Jaw the ,
ship. but when she heard that She was .
'o De- the only passenger she bright.
cned ~ wonderfully. guess size was ,
d girl who liked bit of attention. aud
now she knew she was going 10 get /
TO- :
4 went into the old mans cabin Tor I
some orders aud found him very
busy taking down q lot of photographs G
from the walls and putting them away d
= drawc~ I
N'Clearlng the decks Tor action.
George be- says. rhc only girls ! q
ever loved
What about The engineer. sir:'
skcd q
oh. thats all right BE- said I've o
wired the owners and wen hear some.
hing at Suez
We went through the canal aud AZ Z
Suez the old man got his wire. We il
were instructed 10 call a. Perrin Isl. II
mi 70 pick up man there 10 take
he place ~ the one we'd lost. Tn. Il
Ian's name was Wilson. aud he'd only :
'ccently been engaged 10y the firm. |
inc I'D been az Perrin carrying out II
'onie repairs 10 one of the boats that Il
lad got piled up there a
IT'S n biz rough on the chief en-.
,ineer sir said. Hen have TO take {,
he ship through the Red Sea short h
landed | don't envy him. n
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