The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
KATE MEREDITH, FINANcIER.

across L Well, Ill finish tho DO tie II
you won't You're open, Just us IL mat
ter OF form, to giving u men ON tlat
cargo you're shipping! Just as IL mat
ter OF form of course, in case you peg
out before things Cat be squared up."
Certainly, and I'm VIKING to give
Two per cent. per month cor the nc-
commodation.'
ooh, come now. mc-lad, ten per cents
tho usual. But i don't want TO be stiff
with an old friend like you, SO well
call It seven and halt" Captain
Image went to the drawer under tne
chart table and unlocked it. Come,
now say what you want Anywhere up
to fifty pounds"
II couldn't possibly do with less than
a hundred" said Carter detinitciy. and
with that they began openly to wran-
gle. But 1t turned out that Captain
Image, even with the help OF his imam
eiai partner, could only raise seventy
four soycreigns, and with that the
other had to be content. He gave his
bond, and stood at the head OF the
boat. But Captain Image with genuine
hospitality dragged him back.
mo aS I've one turkey &c ieft N in ' the
wards up those bcastly rivers, I'd al
WAYS like to think ia ss99a yon one
my way. Come now, Cartcr-me lad;
turkey chop? There's not another skip.
an offer like that"
Carter laughed and gave In, and
turned towards the fesh-pots. He did
not like turkey. Once in Upper Whar-
fedale his father had come home from
Skipton with thirty turkey poults,
which the family reared with very vast
care. and thereafter had to eat. Tur-
key once per annum Is luXuary; twice
clogs; but thirty times when legs fol-
low breast, and wings are succeeded by
sidc-bones, would weary any man Nv
ing. But by custom in West Africa,
turkey from q steamers refrigerator Is
the height of luxury, and Garter recog-
nized the hospitable motive.
food and wine that night. talked of
Miss Kate O'Nelil. and Carter behind an
elaborate Indifference listened with
hungry interest. She was floating rub
Der companies 1t appeared with enor-
nous success. She had very nearly
been engaged to a law sharp named
She was reporcd in Liverpool to be
struck on some palm-oil clerk on the
Coast. but Captain Image proclaimed
lad think?
said Carter judiciaily but ! |, d .nn see
of the men she met out here We're either
married or engaged"
But George Carter whtstled cheer-t
fully to the stars as his boat-boys pad
died him up through the steaming man
groves to his abiding place that nisnt,
and Mr.. Balgarnie and Saptatin .naage ~,
nudged one another delightfully."- as theS
listened to his music.
Dutton and Maidson's launch, that
ought to have served the factory IN
Copper River turned out upon inspec-
ton TO be even worse than Captain
image had forecasted, and the asent
in charge was most enthusiastic IN az
uepting the two fivc-pound notes tnas
were offered for her. And therent , yer
for Carter and White Mans-Trouple De-
gan a period of savage toll!
The w hite man was a mechanic porn,
hut he had never seen an oil engine
in his life, knew nothing of clutch; wa,
ter-jackets. or reversing gear, t anu naI
a carburetor. The men at the factory
were frankly ignorant OF the launehs
mechanism; said so indeed before they
"Bu it 1 know we have got plan
thing OF tho works slowed away some
where" the agent stated can you
understand machine from secin5
y " sRatthf1" said Garter -
"Well. wen find it." said the agent
over every scrap of paper the factory
contained, but the blue prints refused
to discover th n,G elves bargain II YOU
like !" said the agent ruefully. when the
place had been searched through Will
out success ar ,a ,,a /,
couple of boys and I'll take those en-, en-,
r;nes down and learn 'em for lnysei.
Now. to any one who does not Know
the hot. steamv climate of West ATT IT.
can river from personal experience, the
manner in which uasu are,,, ir ,ha hnrs
derland Of fact nut left long enough
on bolt in that r9 5nst stsW often q ne as
not. when one takes hold OF II Win a
spanner the whole thing crumbles away
into oxide.
The forty -hvc-foot launch, when Car
ter first took her over; lay nan "a sl INV
creek. She was an open boat with her
engines Housed under WOODEN ieil,f nr.en
BY some rotten tarpaulin; She had no
in board reversing gear, but was ntteq
with fcathcring propeller, when II
ali i, Went Well would drive her astern;
,>;e AS s"o Of What could be done by ne
giect ana gnorant handl nan ges ana th an
Ter. that cncrvating West African Gil
mate who would haH hay Cart therg ha1 e eot
lust that logged dron in him that WINGS
men out to the front and he nro . tanil
to clean UP the lnunch's meagrc Tools
and her spares. to borrow what others
he could from the factory, and then 70
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