The Jasper news., 1907-04-11
! A DEEP SEA CONSPIRACY
BY j. c. Plummer
Copyright. by Daily Story Pub. Co.,

love making AS a result, Juanita,
with cheeks ablush and eyes. down
cast, admitted her love to him, but
on one point she was immovable. She
would not permit any engagement un-
til Leon had given his consent
Then Lawler did some thinking.
Procuring from ,Juanita the date on
which Icons steamer, the Trinidad :.
was expected to sail from Madras, he
had talk with Capt. Ybarra and did
some poring' over charts. Barring &C.
cidents, the Patricia must reach Bar
celona two weeks ahead of the Trini-
dad, end during these two weeks
Juanita would be immured i'll tiiis ccc.
vent subject to the hostile influenca
Of the abbess and her duenna. What
might result from this influence? Your
ardent lover easily becomes pessi-
mist.
If only the arrival of the two ships
was coincident,. and he could go hand
in hand with JHanita to Leon and
plead their case.
If the Patricia could only be de.
layed. Lawler swore at the calm sea,
at the soft trade winds blowing to-
wards Spain. He damned the ma
chinery working with the precision of
watch and damned Capt. Ybarra for
boasting of his ships progress.
There are several happenings
which delay a steamer-dense fogs.
storms, breaking of shafts or ma.
| chinery, but the Patricia seemed i'm.
mune from all such incidents.
/ At breakfast Capt. Ybarra an
nounccd with complacency that they
were passing Gibraltar, and that he
expected the following morning to be
| very near his home port. Sonora Es-
| Dinosa sent upward prayer of thanks
giving, and Juanita looked sad. Mr..
Lawler's. face exhibited no emo
| ton. .
1t was when, the straits being pass
ed, the Prov of the Patricia had been
| directed to the northward that there
was sense of something wrong
among the passengers on the boat.
Then it was whispered that man
was sick forward; that his face had
a 'yellowish tinge; that the officers
were worried, then, like thunderclap.
the news, a man was sick with yellow
fever. Pip of Majoie,' stormed
Capt. Ybarra, Ito fall sick just before
/ enter port"
But poor Majoie was not to bear all
the censure, for just as the captain
was debating how long he must lay in
quarantine the news reached him that
Mr. Lawler was sick. Capt. Ybarra
spore deeply and Sonora Espinosa
made Juanita remain in her stateroom
and wore many scapulars.
In the offing of Barcelona the ship
lay to and awaited the physician. He
came in his boat and at once went into
the cabin. His diagnosis of the case
of Lawler was long, then he visited
Majoie. His report was that the
cabin passenger had indigestion, and
the sailor what looked like vomito
The yellow flag went up, and the Pat
ricia was in quarantine indefinitely
Never hao the bewildered Capt
Ybarra heard of such case of vom
ito, for, while the doctor came daily
he seemed averse to pronouncing the
disease vomito. 1t was ever awaiting
developments,
On the thirteenth day long black
merchant steamer came into port
When LawIer hailing passing boat
man asked who she was, he learned
that the Trinidad from Madras had ar
rived. Coincidently the doctor discov
cred the same day that Majoie had
jaundice, and was rapidly mending
The Patricia went up to her dock.
A couple were spending their hon
eymoon in Biarritz The man was evi
IDENTIFY an American; the woman 6
Spaniard. She had hidden her lore
dress himself for walk and ht
obeyed, The action of dressing causet
a piece of gold to fall from pocke
of his trousers and drop on the floor
Thomas Lawler picked 1t up and apos
trophised 1t.
!. What wonderful thing Is gold,
! can make a sailor rub his face will
chrome and play sick; 1t can induce
doctor to pronounce the man sicl
with threatened vomito and can max,
a full powered steamer lay idle II
/, the harbor for 13 days. Incidentally
1t procured man the most charming
| wifa In tha would