The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13

champagne IN this chart house To car
Ter, and sit and listen whilst ho stTutted
influence IN West Africa
II would be pretty tough" AR. Pal
Earhe admitted. "hut you said there
was another roason you wanted him tQ
Wen. ] do. I liko that sih. / kncv
her when hrst camo down The Coast
as mate. remsmber the first time l
saw her a. n 70 Was yesterday VAS
standing up against tie tally desk ll-
side number three hatch, tickling N ,he
S'r8o list as they hove stun 40 ana
dropped X In tho slrf-boafs II was on
me Old Fernando Pc. that beat her
bottom out afterwards when WJnlarrls
utsu 20 drive her over Monk bar at half
double diamond that was O'Se1i ard
CraVen's constgning all right but with
-s sane o. Si factory know old swi1-
enough already. and I didn't know SHADE
ana 80 naturally thought Smith Should
nv, IT. a. ana oFoeIed the case back again
INTO me hold. But Just then up car1o
little nipper OF about eight o. ton
years old. a. self possessed as YOU Ike
ana says. Are you Mr.. Inaze7' That's
On no message, says she, only daddy
says that II I can find you and stand by
p 800 h. Ie1, s. ana not bother / may stay
the next boat and get on with nv ies-
SOM. Wen. Il didn't take much seeing
through what was meant there"
BY an accounts old C.SpDie Vr1liarS.
was the hardest case they ever knew
Ing n lot. only knew him Tor a wear
and wasn't particular In those DAYS.
but ne WAS more than even could
he was the limit Wen. mo Lad that
was the first time ] saw Laura. and she
stoon beside me half the day az tho
taily desk there. and thanked me for
the Entertainment when Slade sent N
a boy 20 take her ashore She gave me
a kiss when she turned 10 20 down DE
forgotten that kiss BaiRarnie me lad %
know, skipper. said Mr.. Balgarne
rather thickfy. a KID once kissed me-.
II sort Of burnt IN / beg your pardon.
sir. for interuptInE
Not at all. me Lad Here you. stow
ard. III. Bras Pan
A Krooboy ran Up
We At for two cocktail. plcnty-long
ones. Well as was saving. Balgarnie.
me lad. I've always had q biz OF soft
place for Laura though / suppose she
rightly Is snur and butter. by Crumbs.
you'd never guess IL from her looks
unless you went over her with q lens.
and I'd Just feel all broken Up II she wa
10 go the way that lot usually do 60.
So II this young Cnrter. who seems a
nice. clean-run fort Of lad. Will marry
her with a ring. I'm going 10 weigh in
with at least a best silver plate teapot
FOR "a wedding present"
You can put me down for the ditto
sugar and cream said the purser with
emotion. 1t was a kiddie just Ike
Iaura was fond Of myself Only
many Of US are biackguArcs down here
the Coast Why the sulphur docsn I
your boy bring those cOcktails.'
But at this point Capt'..n Image broke
said he. here's Ms Kate" And then
he did a thing that made Mr.. Balgarnie
whistle with sheer surprise lie went
down the ladder 10 help his passenger
on hoard
Now. IL I had done that" the purser
unused 70 himself, 1T would have meant
thought I should live to see old Cappie
Image trotting down onto the front door
steps TO receive mere female p-assen
ger The old man must see enough sohd
dollars in that girl To buy himself that
hen farm outside Cardiff he hopes TO
retire upon"
At the foot Of the ladder and waved his
panama IN respectful salstation. The
beer-coIorcd river swfried along the
him and the Sunsent smell Of crushed
marigolds which It carried made him
cough. The sun sninnnnered exactly
overhead in sky OF the most extraya-
CANT blue. and the greenery which
fenced IN the Shiny mud banks hung in
the breatiLess heat without so much as
Miss Kate OMEN was seated in
Madeira chair which stood on the 4ooT
81 big green surf boat. and the gieaIn-
ing hrOopoys perched on mo gun 49,
padded with more than their usual IN
dustry. The headman. who stFaddled al
the steering oar in the stern, wore a
tsil-coat Of an extremely sDorting cut
and pattern. and woven grass skull-cap
In honor Of the occasion And all this
pounp and circumstance was unlimited
But. somehow people had the knaek OF
Offering special service and Difference 10
Miss O'Neiil.
The only other woman on the Mposo.
the austere wife OF a Benin trader,
looked over the steamers rail IN gloomy
disaDprOval. These were no modes Tor
Coast wear A bnlOwy erass-gree mus
lin dress that no Krooboy launcryman
could wash twice without spelling; neat