The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-13

q mania for story telling, while If Wick
ers was sometimes dull, Frere was al
ways hearty. Moreover, the table was
well served, and the sultry evenings
passed away with rapidity of which
the wild beasts tween decks had no
conception. On this particular even
ing, however, the cuddy was dull. Din
ner fell fat, and conversation anguish
ed.
mo signs of breeze, Mr.. Best? 2"
asked Blunt, as the first officer came In
and took his seat.
None, SIR"
"These-he he!-awtuI calms," says
Mrs. Vickers. "a week, is it not, Cap
tain .BluntT'
Thirteen days, num-" growled Blunt.
ut Is infamous the way they crowd
these ships. Here we have over two
hundred souls on board. and not boat
room for half of 'em."
1.-TWO hundred souls Surely not"
says Vickers. "By the regulations-"
Zone hundred and eighty convicts,
fifty soldiers, thirty. in ships crew, all
told, and-how many ?-one, two, three
seven in the cuddy. How many do
you make that?"
I'VE are just little crowded this
time" says Best.
1T Is very wrong" says Vickers,
pompously, Every wrong. By the regu-
lations-"
But the subject of the regulations was
even more distasteful to the cuddy than
Pines interminable anecdotes. and Mrs.
Vickers FASTENED to change the subject.
"Are you not heartily tired of this
dreadful life, Mr.. Frere?'
well, it is not exactly the life
had hoped to lead" said Frere, rub
bling a freckled hand over his stubborn
red hair; 'but l. must make the best
| of it."
Eyes. indeed" said the lady, in that
subdued manner with which one COM
ments upon a well-known incident, sit
must have been a great shock to you to
be SO suddenly deprived of so large a
fortune"
mot only that, but to find that the
black sheep who got it all sailed for
India within week of my uncle's death!
Lady Devine got a letter from him on
the day of the funeral to say that he
had taken his passage in the Hydaspes
for Calcutta, and never meant to come
back again"
''Sir Richard Devine left no other
children?'
mo; only this mysterious Dick, whom
l never saw, but who must have hated
me-"
Dear, dear! These family quarrels
are dreadful things. Poor Lady Devine
to lose in one day a husband and q
sonw
"And the next morning to hear of thu
murder of her cousin! You know thai
we are connected with the Bellasis fam
lily. My aunt's father married sistel
of the second Lord Bellasis."
"Indeed. That was a horrible muir
der So you think that the dreadful mai
you pointed out the other day did 1t p
"The jury seemed to think not" salt
Mr.. Frere, with a laugh; ''but dom
know anybody else who could have
motive for it. However, I'll go on dec
| and have smoke"
. II wonder what induced that oil
hunks of a shipbuilder to try and Gu
, off his only son in favor of cub o
J that Sort" said Surgeon Pine to CAP
tain Vickers, as the broad back of MI
3 Maurice Frere disappeared up the com
1 panion.
, "Some boyish follies abroad. believe
e self-made men are always impatient o
e extravaganza. But it is hard upo
4 Frere. He is not a bad sort of fellow
e for all his roughness: and when a youn
= man finds that an accident deprives hir
4 of quarter of million of money an
leaves him without a sixpence beyon
/ his commission in a marching regimen
/ under orders for a convict settlement
v he has some reason to rail against fate.
t How was it that the son came
for the money, after all. then?"
8 "Why, it seems that when old Devin
/ returned from sending for his lawyer I
alter his will, he got fit of apoplex
" the result of his rage, l suppose-an
n when they opened his room door in tn
|, morning they found him dead"
# ''And the sons away on the sea SOM
n where" said Mr.. Vickers, land know
d nothing of his good fortune. 1t is quit
II romance"
d II am glad that Frere did not g,
It the money" said Pine. grimly stickin
e, to his prejudice; II have seldom see
face liked less. even among my ye
h low jackets yonder."
" ooh, dear, Doctor Pine! How ca
d your interrupted Mrs. Vickers. "Jeh
s. l will 60 on deck"
r. At the signal, the party rose.
IL (To We continued.)