Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-11-24

ers n.a ior story telling, sthfle If vfek
els was Sometimes dull, Frere was al.
ways noarty. Moreover, the table wa.
wen served, and the sultry evan,ng zoe
passed away with a rapidity Of which
Tue "lld beasts tween decks had M
conception. On this particular even.
lns' however, the cuddy was dull. Dir-
her Tell hat, and conversation lanonisb.
oa, no signs of breeze, Mr.. Bestw
and took his seat ~ o'Ai' IL
None, sir.''
:. Ihese-he he!-awful Gains. sovs
Mrs. Vickers. "a week ;s Il No. g.
tain Blunt?" " = no'' zap
Thirteen days, num-" growlad R,nn+
It IS infamous the way thew crowd
.nese SHIPS. Here we have over two
hundred souls on board, and not boat
room for half of 'em."
Two hundred souls! Surely NOT ("
says Vlckers. "By the regulations
one hundred and eighty conv;c+s
nfty soldiers, thirty in ships crew ali
told, and-how many?-ona two +hroa
seven in the cuddy. How many do
you make that?'
49,; ,, JuoI Httle crowded this
Time, says Best.
II Is very wrong" says vickers,
i po.npously, very wrong. By the regu-
But the subject of the regulations was
even more distasteful to the cuddy than
r!nes lnterminable anecdotes. and Mrs
ioAers hastened to change the subject.
are you not heartily tired of this
dreadful life, Mr.. Frere?'
WelL 1t is not exactly the life
nao hoped to lead" said Frere rub
png freckled hand over his stubborn
req mar; but l must make the hest
of it," o0S'
Yes, indeed said the lady, in that
suodued manner with which one COM
ments upon well-known incident, ct
must have been a great shock to YOU to
De SO suddenly deprived of so large q
fortune"
Not only that, but to find that the
Dlack sheep who got it all sailed for
Ihdla within week of my uncle's death!
Lazy DeVlne got a letter from him on
tne day OF the funeral to say that he
nad taken his passage in the Hydaspes
Tor Calcutta, and never meant to come
back again.
Sir Richard Devine left no other
children?"
No; only this mysterious Dick, whom
never saw, but who must have hated
me-"
Dear, dear! These family uuarrels
are dreadful things. Poor Lady Devine,
to lose in one day a husband and
sonr'
And the next morning to hear of the
murder of her cousin! You know that
we are connected with the Belasis fam
lily. My aunt's father married a sister
of the second Lord Bellasis."
Indeed. That was horrible MUIR
der. So you think that the dreadful mar
you pointed out the other day did it?'
The jury seemed to think not" said
Mr.. Frere, with a laugh; "but / don't
know anybody else who could have a
motive for it. However, I'll go on deck
and have smoke"
II wonder what induced that old
hunks of a shipbuilder to try and cut
off his only son in favor of a cub Of
that Sort" said Surgeon Pine to Cap
tain Vickers, as the broad back of Mr..
Maurice Frere disappeared up the COM
panion
'Some boyish follies abroad, 1 believe;
self-made men are always impatient Of
extravaganza. But it is hard upon
Frere. He is not a bad sort of fellow,
for all his roughness; and when young
man finds that an accident deprives him
of a quarter of a million of money and
leaves him without a sixpence beyond
his commission in a marching regiment
under orders for a convict settlement,
he has some reason to rail against fate"
"How was it that the son came in
for the money, after all, then?"
"Why, it seems that when old Devine
returned from sending for his lawyer to
alter his will, he got fit of apoplexy
the result of his rage, l suppose-and
when they opened his room door in the
morning they found him dead"
"And the sons away on the sea some
where" said Mr.. Vickers, land knows
nothing of his good fortune. 1t is quite
a romance"
81 am glad that Frere did not get
the money" said Pine, grimly sticking
to his prejudice; Il have seldom seen
a face liked less, even among my yell
low jackets yonder."
ooh. dear, Doctor Pine! How can
you?" interrupted Mrs. Vickers. John,
1 will go on deck
At the signal, the party rose.
CTo pe continued.)