The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-09
DEEP SEA CONSPIRACY
Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
BY j. G. Plunnmer

Ao'o AonluS. AB q result, Ju3nlta,
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 a talk with Capt Ybarra ana did
some porting over charts. Barring &C.
cidents, the Patricia must reach Bar.
celona two weeks ahead of the Trini-
dad, and during these two weeks
Juanita would be immured in ;nJ ccc,
vent subject to the hostile inf1uaDca
OF the abbess and her duenna What
might result from this influence? Your
ardent lover easily becomes a pessi-
mist
IT only the arrival of the two chips
was coincident, and he could go hand
in hand with Juanita 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
chlnery working with the precision of
watch and damned Capt. Ybarra for
boasting of his ships progress.
There are several happenings
which delay steamer-dense fogs,
storms, breaking of shafts or ma
chlnery, but the Patricia seemed i'm
mune from all such incidents.
At breakfast Capt. Ybarra an
nounced with complacency that they
were passing Gibraltar, and that he
expected the following morning to be
very near his home port. Sonora Es-
pinosa sent upward a prayer of thanks
giving, and Juanita looked sad. Mr..
LAWYERS 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 a man
was sick forward; that his face had
a yellowish tinge; that the officers
we're worried, then, like thunderclap,
the news, 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 shin
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
rlcla was in quarantine Indefinitely.
Never had the bewildered Capt.
Ybarra heard of such a 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 a long black
merchant steamer came into port
When Lawler hailing a 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 a
Spaniard. She had hidden her lord
dress himself for a walk and he
obeyed. The action of dressing caused
piece of gold to fall from a pocket
OF his trousers and drop on the floor.
Thomas Lawler picked it up and apos-
trophised it,
What wonderful thing is gold. It
can make sailor rub his face with
chrome and play sick; it can induce a
doctor to pronounce the man sick
with threatened vomito and can make
full powered steamer lay idle in
the harbor for 13 days. Incidentally,
1t procured man the most charming
wife in the world"