Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-06-20

the cops,gnor and made a tidy penny
out of that, and I shall similarly let
slip from my memory Il trifilng squeeze
of $500 which you made out OF a
stevedore In New Orleans before you
let him touch your ship in the fall of
1881"
You can't make anything out OF
those,' said Kettle. They're the ordi-
nary customs Of the trade"
Ship masters perquisites for which
pay. Exactly. l know shippers
consider these trifes to be their lawful
right. but IL court OF law might be
ignorant enough to set them down as
robbery"
Il should like to know where've you
got all these things from" Captain
Kettle demanded. facing Cambel with
nearly a foot from its stepping. Il
should like to know. too. how you're
here? I'd a fancy you were dead"
"Other people have labored under
that impression. But I've an awk-
ward knack Of keeping alive. You've
the same. The faculty may prove use
full to us both in the course of the next
fusa $500"
"Ho' That's the game we've got
about. is it? What old vino jammer
do you want me to lose
Sir" Numbered Shelf. lifting his
voice for the first time. This is pretty
language. would have you remember
that but a short time ago you We're In
my employ"
and Il fat lot of good 1t did me- re-
torted the sailor. But he added,
with the sudden recollection that 1t is
never wise OF a master mariner to fr-
ritate shipowner. but. sir. 1 wasn't
talking to you. l fancied 1t was Mr..
Camhol here who was wanting to deal
with me-
Then your fancy carried you astray
captain" said Shelf. Come, come.
don't let US get angry with II another.
AS l repeatedly impress on all who
come in contact with me, there is never
any good born out of words voiced in
Mr.. Cambel has seen fit to
mention a few of %your-shall 1 say
eccentricities, just to Show-er-that
we understand one another"
TO show he's got his knife in me.
Mr.. Shelf, and can wraggle it il he
chooses"
What a fractions pepper box it is"
said Cannbel, with a laugh. Man. dear.
if I've got to be shipmates with you
for a solid month. dye hin I'd put
your back more up than is necessary?
III you remember me at all, you must
know I'm the deuce of a stickler for
my OWL PERSONAL comfort and
ence. You can bet l haven't been
talking at you through gratuitous
cruelty. But Mr.. Shelf and l have got
a yarn to bring out directly, which is
a bit of Il coarse, tough tibered yarn,
and we idn't want you to give it a
top dressing of varnish. So, by way of
safeguard. 1 pointed out to you that if
we show ourselves to be sinners you
needn't sing out that you find yourself
in evil company for the first time"
Mr.. Theodore Shelf had been Snuff
ling his feet uneasily for some time.
Cambels method of speech Jared him
to the verge of profanity. His own
sa%intliness was a garb which he never
threw entirely away at any moment.
His voice had always the oily drone Of
the convertible. His SNUG hypocrisy
was a perennial source of pride and
comfort to him. without which he
would have felt very lonely and aban-
dcned.
At this point he drew the conversa-
ton into his own hands. 1t had been
said of him that he always addressed
the house of commons as though 1t
were the congregation of his own tin
tabernacle. n he preached out his
scheme of plumber, violence and other
moral ~uncleanness with similar fervent
JUNCTION. Cambel was openly amused
and once broke out into a hooking
laugh. He was never at n pain to
conceal his contempt for Mr.. Theodore
Shelf, which was more honest than
Judicious on his part. Kettle, on the
other hand, wore the puckered face of
a puzzled man. The combination of
cant and criminality was not alto
gether new to him. Men Of his own
profession are very apt to behave like
devils unbooted at sea and then grovel
In Humorous piety among the pews of
some obscure dissenting chapel the mo-
ment they get ashore. It Is a peculiar
trait. but the average sea captain be-
lieves that he can lay up a stock of
fire insurance of this sort which will
comfortably see him through future eff
forts. But in Kettles mind ship
owners were a vastly different class of
beings. n so 1t lever occurred to him
that the same might apply to them.
In this attitude Captain Kettle listen
ed to the sermon which was reeled
out to him and rather gathered that the
project he was exhorted to take part
sionary enterprise promoted solely in
the honor n glory of Mr.. Theodore
Shells w particular narrow little
deity. n had Mr.. Shelf made any APP
preciable pause between his sonorcus
periods Kettle would have felt 1t his
respectful duty to slip in a humble
amen" But the dictator of the great
shipping firm was too fearful Of in
t%erruptions from his partner to give
m opening for a syllable Of comment.
$50, gentlemen. you are standing in
partners over this precious business?
And because you know me to be a
poor, broke nan with wife and family
you naturally think you can buy me to
work for you of the straight. Well.
perhaps that's possible, but there are
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