The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-24
I" Really9 Does he talk as well as
Iacl I.a1nant did 21l ~ - - = .

ne calkS less eECne IFOy# lecnHl- =
cal Institute, and more like the Home
journal than poor Prince Jack did, and
then he has much greater sense of hui
NOR. When I told him that the oath
of an insurance man should be- bet your
life!' he laughed. Now, Jack would
never have seen the point Of that. Any
how, the hour is too late, and am too
Jokes either. Goodnight - =
Next morning s mail brought Dorothy
stamps. She locked the door, tore
open the. envelope, and found many
sheets of thin paper bearing the head
ing of the Bluewater club, Pail Mall.
7sI am reminded Of an old adage,y
she read, tsto the effect that one should
never cross a bridge before arriving at
it. Since I bade goodbye to you,- up
to this very evening, have been plod-
ding over bridge that didn't exist,
much to my own discomfort: You
were with me when ], received the mes
sage ordering me home to England, and
I don It know whether or not | succeed
ed in suppressing all signs of my own
perturbation, but we have in the navy
now a man who does not hesitate to
overturn courtmartial, and SO I
feared a re-opening of the Rock in the !
Baltic question, which might have
meant the wrecking of my career: l
ndu Qu1Ie u1duc up NY Il1uo, IL 'iiC
worst came to the worst, to 20 out west .
and become a cowboy, but a passenger
with whom 7 became acquainted on the
: Enthusiana informed me, to my regret,
: that the cowboy is largely a being of
. the past, to be met with only in the
writings of Stewart Edward White,
Owen Wister, and several other famous
went across the ocean tolerably de-
pressed, finding my present occupation
= threatened: and my future uncertain.
+, "When 7 arrived in London took
room at this club, of which have been
a member for some years, and reported
Immediately at the admiralty. But
. there, in spite Of all diligence on my
part, I was, quite unable to learn what
was wanted Of me. Of course,EI could
have gone to my uncle, who is in the
government and perhaps he might have
Enlightened me, altho he has nothing to
do with the navy, but I rather like to
avoid Uncle Metgurne. He brought me
m since I was a small boy, and seems
unnecessarily ashamed of the result. 1t
il his son who is the attache in St:
Petersburg that I spoke to you about. ~
Dorothy ceased reading for a mo-
ment.
- "Metgurne, Metgurne, she said to
herself. - Surely I know that name?'H
She laid down the letter, pressed, the
When the servant came. she said:
HWill you ask at the office # they
have any biographical book of reference
relating to Great Britain, and if so,
please bring it to me-,
The. servant appeared shortly after
English HWho's Who dated two
years back, Turning the pages she
'Anf Me ct twelfth duke of. created
1881. Herbert George, Alan.' Here
followed a number Of other titles, the
information that the son and heir was
marquis of Thaxted, and belonged to
o1rne was II. M. secretary of state for
royal dependencies; finally a list OF
residences and clubs. She put down the
book and resumed the letter.
ssI think I ought to have told you
that when L reach ST. Petersburg L
| shall be as anxious to avoid my cousin
| Thaxted as am to steer clear OF his
father in London. So : sat IN my
| club and read the papers. Dear me, this
/! is evidently going e to- be a very long
/, letter I hope you won t mind. think
| nerhans YOU may be interested in learn
! Inc how they do things over here.
s. 7tAfter two or three days of anxious
I waiting there came a crushing com
munication from the admiralty which
| confirmed my WoIst leals INV oeo ~
E at crossing the bridge again. was or,
dered to report next morning at IL, at
committee room 5, in the admiralty
and bring with me full particulars per
tanning to the firing Of gun number so
! and-so of the CONSERVATION s equip
ment on such date. I wonder since
that + did not take to drink. We have
every facility for that sort of thing IN
in this club. However,a at II next day,
presented myself at the committee room
and found in session :. the grimmest
looking five men I have ever yet beer
called upon to face. Collectively they
f. were about ten times worse in appear
t. ance than the court-martial L had preyi
T ously encountered. Four of the men
did not know, but the fifth I recognized
t. at once, having often seen his portrait
He is. Admiral Sir John Pendergest
popularity known in the service as OF
! Crouch, blue terror who knows alb
col,foJ1, Of yporor Tho 1o6c IL