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

or those plcaSc-buck-up letters from
o s,,Ni and Craven. that didn't care
humbng clean took me in. He was Mr.
Crewdson. to be sure; no, no was not
Mr.. X o'Neiil; no, couldn't sec Mr.. Il.
Just then; no, he couldn't mako an ap-
pointmcnt for me with the gentleman;
anything 1 wanted he would attend to
personally. II ! rcread the letters he
was sure should find that they wcro
not unreasonable. but. on the other hand,
would put mo In tho way of earning
extra commission on cargo for myself.
SO 1t ended in my being civil to him..
and he was really nothing more than q
clerk You can just picture to your
SELF. Purser. what felt when I found
out that I'd been civil to clerk BY
mistake
ut was pretty hard lines, sir" -
"Of course. a West African merchants
business Is rum contract for a young
Miss Kate was wrong in keeping in the
background to start with. In fact I'll
owl own up straight that she was right. and
the proofs s1 plain In in the way that firms
you bottle Of Emo that o'Neil and
Craven are doing just double the turn
over now they did twelve months ago."
You'll know best about that, SIR
said Mr.. BalgarnIe with sigh, rs he
remembered that only Captain Image
touched commission on the cargo which
the M'poso collected on the Coast. but
viii own UP that she has got the knack
OF making all the smarter men In the
firm. both on the Coast and at Liverpool
keen on her when they thought she was
a man. OF course 1t was bit unlikely
that the timer palm-oil ruIians like
Swizzle-stlck Smith and Owe-it- slade
would take to new ways that meant more
work, all at once. though for that matter
I'll bet Slade put or making up his
mind for SO long as to whether he liked
hustling or ne didn't, that finally he
1fNOnnnd nau xrgS, nit ,n,,
knowing IT,
SHADES gone on up-country to find the
nrm rubber property. Purser, me lad.
Laura told me about It last night. She
out OF Smooth River. and she's very
anxious about him hope none OF those
ip-countty hushmen have chopped slade.
should be sorry to lose that man. He
and that old Holland gun Of mine that
he borrowed for half an hour eighteen
months ago has gone up-courJry with
him. / believe he's In the -h- - %
flyer"
-Four serenteen-n I've given both
Chips and the bos'n a rare dressing
down about it. They've no business to
as much tick as that. Tho bo's'n's new
to the coast-our bo's'ns always do
seem to die. sir-but old Chips ought
to know that's no way to run a fo'c'sle
shop. They. can chuck away their own
money as. they choose. but I told them
both plainly that can't afford to drop
my share In a sum like that"
Nor can T. said the other sleeping
partner. You can let both Chips and
the bos'n understand thai, unless gee
good round sum in hard cash as my
share OF profits when we get back to
Liverpool. they don't ride in the old
Mposo next trip They can put nelr
"Miss Kate. by the way. was mighty
anxious to know what profits there were
heard of them on other boats. but we'd
never allow such a thing on the
Um," said Captain Image thought
passengers. but 7 don't think I'd have
riskcd 1t with Miss Kate. She strikes
mo AS being a young woman who likes
to hear ones opinion on things. but gem
orally has her own information on the
hand. I'D her last night how sorry
]. was to see all that cargo waiting at
the factor with no krooboys to work
i out OF their creek to the steamboat.
nipped OF back TO the M'poso here, and
had hired our own blessed deck passen-
ger boys for the job before you could
say gin" You know what an indie
money in their pockets. bet you box
OF oranges you couldn't name me two
White men on the Coast who could have
persuaded them But she did it. one
time. and only paid regular wages, too.
Dressed for dinner In the evening when
she'd finished. Just rs IL she was merely
a trpper going home from the Islands
and hadn't an object in life outside try
ing to tickle the boys with her looks.
l tell you. Miss kates very remark
able young woman Balgarnic, me lad
and if she doesn't peg out here on the
Coast. Or go broke over floating~a rubber
swinde, or get married and chuck it,
I shall feather my nest very nicely over
the cargo she gets shipped"
II say. Captain, what's between her
md Laura? They seem to know one
another pretty intimately
met in Las Palnas when they were
Riddles. Pass me the conlpasses of the
chart table. My pipe's damned. Thank
you. mo lad. Owe-it-Slade got two
years tick at that convent school out on
the Teldc road for Laura. and Miss Kate
was running about the islands a good
deal then with old Godfrey. Godfrey had
= tomato farm out past Santa Brigida.
and they used to have LAURA up there
for all her holidays. BY Crumbs. Purser,
me lad. how that little girls shot up,