The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-06-02
Captains Double
BY LILLIAS CAMPBELL DAVIDSONz
CHAPTER VI. (Continued.)

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CHAPTER VI. (continued)
Il thought him so when he arrived
on the scene Of my Distress"
Come to the fire and tell your ad-
ventures. before we go to dress. I was
!ust beginning 10 have visions of you
with broken neck, or something as
cheerful. Did Merrylegs throw you, Or
aid YOU get down, or what?"
Alas. l was unseated, like Percy at
Chevy Chase. I never knew the extrem-
:;y Of abject helplessness until I saw
somebody else's mare vanishing into
the faint distance and felt the vanity
Of pursuit. If Capt. Winstanley hadn't
come out Of his own road, I might have
been wandering around those cross
roads now, coming nearer TO a. Tbber-
lnS idiot every step. l neverffelt so
fond of anybody as did Of him, never
= before I saw whether he was a hun
rirel. or sul1inIed, or had had small
!'ON- it was his mere role of deliverer
tina; uadH him dear"
He's quite worth liking on his own
account" retortcd Freda, as she nes-
tied down among the cushions on the
old settle in the corner "I met him at
the Mort ons' dance and thought him
delightful. He's only down here on
:ravc, worse luck. We don't often get
such a good dancer and hockey player
and all-round man altogether in these
parts"
Doesn't he come from Poltsmouth?''
Hes \. d. G.. to the commandant
there. Rather a good billet, I should
think. Except that, personally, should
h:li e to be an A. D. G. to anybody; one
always seems like an upper footman.
To write notes and leave cards and
get everybody's blame, that's about
The sun-toral Of the duties. When;
things go wrong at the entertainments
it's always the A. D. c.. and when girls
,it out at Government House dances or
people don't get cards after they've
written their names in the book, it is
always the wretched A. D. G. that gets
the scowls and the hatred"
II should think one could put up
with that il it wasn't deserved"
''Franllly, I think it mostly is. How
s"ver. I'm quite sure that if people don't
get their due at Government House at
Portsmouth it. isn't the fault of that
nice Capt Winstanley. BY the way I
wonder he was allowed to get any
leave at all just now. I should have
thought he couldn't be spared a min
ute from duty at the generals side"
why now more than usually?" Ur-
s,1la found a peculiar interest in dis
t:ussing Capt. Winstanley. His first
claim TO her liking and her gratitude
might have been earned by his playing
The rescuer: but she had found in him
on that long homeward drive some
.hiny that made her want to know
more Of him for his own sake.
oh, because of this wonderful new
discovery of Gen Kenyon's. Haven t
sou heard of the new explosive that S
going to revolutionize warfare and
make England the invincible owner of
the world? The eyes of the world are
npon Portsmouth Government House
Just now I should have thought you
must have seen the hints in the pa
pers, at least
Perhaps they were so dark that
didn't grasp their meaning. At any
rate, don't know anything about this
discovery
Really" Freda settled herself in
her corner with satisfaction. She
loved to tell a story and rather fiat
tered herself that she did it with ral-
ent.
Have you heard Of Gen. Kenyon at
all? Not heard uncle speak of him, or
anything? Oh, we'll" as Ursula shook
her head, he's dabbler in SCIENCE
They say, and has passion for expert.
ments. People think he does too
much of it sometimes-a paternal war
office doesn't look with benevo1ence on
special cleverneSs. But, anyway, they
say don't know with how much
fact in it--that when he was in Switz-
erland last summer he came across an
American scientist who was trying to
perfect d new explosive, but hadn't the
money to carry out the >chen1e Of ex-
periments Gen. Kenyon was struck
with what he saw of it, and offered to
bear the expense if he might claim a
share of the result. The sequel was
that between them they are supposed
to have found out the secret of some
perfectly marvellous explosive, far SUI
perior to anything ever used or even
dreamed Of up till now"
How appalling!"
''Not at all. They say 1t will do
more to insure universal amity than
all the peace councils ever. devised. No
one will ever go to war again-they
won't dare to. when we possess a;thing
that could reduce every other nation
to atoms at a turn Of the wrist! : '=sz:4.:
"But can it?' 'f s%ss;:..: MI -: !. .:
''They say so. Of course; It's All SUP