Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-19
CHAPTER V.-continued.


CHAPTER V.-Continued.
presumed likely that 1 understood
more maybe that he thought l did.
Headache is a fair to middling excuse,
but l judged there was other things.
I'd seen them two look at each other
when they met, and-well, they say
a mods as good as a wink to a blind
horse, and l amt blind. I made a sort
OF note in my mind to get the pumps
to working again on Lord James next
time I got a chance at him alone.
Hartley left me and went over to
the railroad depot and l kept on
down the road to the shore 1 was
loating along, going over to myself
the doings of the afternoon and won
derinS what Van Brunt would say and
so on, when 1 come out into the clear
place at the top CT Meeting House hill
And the meeting house clock struck
four
I jumped like I'd set down on a
hot stove. l hadn't no idea it was as
late as that. The pig and the Page
girl and the rest of the miX-up had put
all notion of time out of my head /
yanked out my watch to make sure
that that clock was right, and then
l glanced at the sky. Over to the
BASTARD a big, fat. gray fog bank was
piling up. Twas high water at two,
Eastwich Port cove is a nasty place to
get out of at low tide, and here was an
easterly fog coming.
As general thing / don't take any-
body's wash whea it comes to han
ding boat or looking out for weather
and such, but now 1 was ready to
sing small A ten-year-o1d boy brought
up along shore would have known bet
ter than to do as I'd done. Don't make
no odds how good an excuse 1 had for
forgetting; no excuse is good where it
comes to sailboating. l went down
that hill like the man in the tin cof-
I'm went to Tophet, "clinketty jingle"
L Jumped fences and cut across lots
and I'm ready to swear right now that
there's more horse briars to the square
Inch in Eastwich Port than in any 9th
81 place on the Lords green earth
bust through the pines and come out
on the beach yelling: Hi, Turn out,
every body. Get aboard now. Live
ly."
And, by time, there want a soul in |
sight For no less than TWENTY-FIVE |
and a half minutes by my watch 1 !
ing the tide go out and bellering |
'Ahoy!" and Where are your" at |
the top of my lungs. And then. 10 |
and behold you, here comes Van
Brunt and Lord James. poking along
as if they had all the time there was. |
Van lad been over behind the point
taking swim and his lordship had
gone along to set on his boss trous-
ers and keep the creases in, or some
such mighty important job.
NAll right, skipper; all right"
Travis Van. cool as a Sunday school
boy at an ice cream sociable You've
got gooc lungs and you'd ought to be
careful of en- I've heard you whoop-
ng for the last ten minutes What
lid you and Martin have when YOU
we're up town? By the way, where is
Martini"
He was so everlasting comfortable
IND sassy and 1 was so bling hot and
nervous that it made me mad. +
Hes gone home on the train" 1
Mapped out. Got headache"
Headache. Ell? Humph, What
10 you have up town and where did
Gu get it?"
Never mind where we got it," saws
You'll get headache from setting ,
p stuck on a shoal air night if Won ,
ont get aboard that boat. Look at ,
hem Clouds
He looked at EN-. All" he saws; ,
very like whale
1 didn't know what he meant and 1
idn't care.
'-Whale," says L We'll. wen he :
'cky if we amt the Jonahs. Get
board with that basket, YOU Opper
hats-your-name, will you: if Won I
ant to fetch port tonight !
Lord James looked like he'd like to :
ut another "ead" on me, but his boss T
as round and he dassent talk back
etween US we loaded the dunpaee /.
hen Van got aboard. deliberate
aough to try parsons patience. and
cast loose and got sail on the Dora ;,
asset We'd made a start. ANYHOW :.
But it turned out tat was ali we'd .
ade- Van commenced to ask mo :,
ore about Hartley, and afore / could ,;
u him the news about the mig race :,
I'd the rest, the Dora Bassett run her