Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-10-17

A'"hS lihISs III NhO La HouI j uOlI
kno S I'm sartin whether I'm on m.
head or my heels"
The captain went upstairs in a daZe0
state. AS he passed through what haf
been his room he vaguely noticed tina
the bureau top was clean and tina
most of the rubbish that had ornament
ed it had disappeared.
The sick man lay Just as he had lcf
him. his white face as colorless II
the clean pillowcase against which
rested. Captain Fri remembered tbal
the pillowcases in the spare room ha.
looked little yellow the night be
fore, possibly owing to the fact tha'
as the room had not been occupied fos
months they had not been changed
He reasoned that the Improvement wa
another one of the reforms Instituted
by the lady from Nantucket.
He sat down in the rocker by thu
bed and thought, with a shiver, of the
missing coat. There were nine chance>
out of ten that whoever found it woultl
recognize it as belonging to the ole.
Come OUTER The contents of the
pocket would be almost certain to re
veal the secret if the coat itself did not
It remained to be seen who the finder
was and what he would do Mean
while there was no use worrying. Hav-
ing come to this conclusion, the cap
tain. with customary philosophy, re-
solved to thil.k of something else.
Mrs. Snow entered and announced
that breakfast was ready and that he
must go down at once and eat it while
it Was hot. s.,e. having breakfasted
"oiile time before, would stay with the
"a. eat rn'.l the meal was over. Cap
1;.in Lfl II t.ist fatty declined to listen
TO ally s,;; i arrangement but the caiill
..isi>tcnce Of lle Nantucket visitor pre-
vailed, "a usual. The captain realized
tlat the capacity for "bo sin things.
hat he had aisecrLed in the letter. was
tnc ;h.i,g he did insist upon. how
ever. ;.i,i this was that Mrs. Snow
!.,;ild 'l,.l1l in'' as soon as breakfas!
was over One of the three would take
he watch in the sickroom while the
Ather two washed the dishes.
Captain Fri found his friends seate>'
at tie table and feasting on hot BIS
cults, eggs and clear, appetizing cof
fee They greeted him joyously.
"Hey, Eri.' hailed Captain Perez.
Amt this gay: Look at them eggs.
b'iled jest to a 7. Amt much like Jer
rvs ha'f raw kind
"Humph. Ycu needn't say notlin
Perez" observed Captain Jerry, his
mouth full of biscuit when you was
cook you alters billed 'em so hard
they'd dent the barn if you'd fired 'en
ut it. How's John, Eri:'
Captain Fri gave his and the doctors
opinion of his friends condition and
then said Now, we've got to have
some kind of settlement on this mar
ryin' question. Last night when l was
up in the room there it come acrost
me all of sudden that from what I'd
seen Of this Nantucket woman she'd
be jest the sort of nurse that John
feliers was busy with the doctor, found
her at the hotel, explained things to
her and got her to come down. That's
all there is to that. l amt made no
arrangement with her, and somethin's
got to be done. What do you think of
her. jedgin' by what you've seen?"
Captain Perez gave it as his opinion
that she was "all right and added.
"lf Jerry here want so pgheu:ed
all at once he'd marry her without
waitin' another minute"
Fri nodded "Ihat's my idee.' h.
said emphatically
But Captain Jerry was as obstina,'
as ever. He simply would not consia'
marriage. In vain his COM
rntles reminded him of the origina
compact and the fact that the vote wa
two to one against him. He announce
that he had changed his mind. and thai
that Was all there was about it.
''rell you what we might do" said
Perez slowly. 1--WE might explain to
her that Jerry don't feel that 'twould
he right TO think of marryin' With
CaDn Baxter so sick in the house. and
IIldl ii SIIV > .iih we IL put ~ VII I'LL
he dies or gifts better. Meantime We'll
pay her SO much to stay here and
nuss. Seems to me that's about the
only way out Of it,"
So they agreed to lay this proposal
before the Nantucket lady, Captain
Jerry reluctantly consenting. Then
Captain Fri took up another subject.
John Baxter, as has been said, had
one relative, granddaughter. living
near Boston. Captain Fri
felt that this granddaughter should be
notified of the old mans illness at
once. The difficulty was that none of
them knew the young lady's address.
"Her fust names Elizabeth, same
as her mothers was" said Fri. land
her dads name was Preston. They
called her Elsie. John used to write
to her every once in awhile. Praps
Sam would know where she lived"
"Jest cause Sans postmaster" OBJ
served Perez, ut don't foller that he
reads the name on every letter that