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ner table. He was not the
ships doctor. The Kansas,
built for freight rather than passen-
gers, did not carry a surgeon on her
roll. Or. Christobal's presence was
due to Mr.. BarinS's solicitude in his
daughters behalf. 1t CHANGED that the
courtly and gray haired Spanish ply
stefan had relinquished his practice in
Chile and was about to pay long
promised visit to a married daughter
in Barcelona. Friendship, not unaided
by a good fee, induced him to travel
by the Kansas.
He had been called on to attend Mr..
Boyle and the wounded Chilean, and
he reported now that the chief officers
injury was trifiing, but the Chilean's
wound might incapacitate him during
the remainder Of the voyage.
$50 far as I can gather he said,
"Mr. Boyle had narrow escape. Cap.
tain Courtenay fired as the knife fell;
otherwise our first mate would have
attended his own funeral this even
ing"
What was the cause Of the AFFAIR.""
Isobel asked.
1.-THE man is not one Of the ships
crew, I understand. His name is
Frascuelo and it appears that he was
engaged to place some bunker coal
aboard early this morning. He says
that he was druggcd and his clothes
stolen. that he came off to the ship at
late hour and that some one flung
him headlong into n hold which, luck
fly for him, was nearly full of cotton
bales. He was stunned by the fall
and were 1t not for Captain Courte-
nays custom of having all matches
taken off and thorough examination
of the cargo made before the holds
are finally battened down for the voy-
nge Frascueo might now be in a tight
place in more than one sense"
DR.. Christobal was proud Of his
idiomatic English. He spoke the Ian
Euage with the careless freedom Of n
Londoner..
"Frascuelo seerxS to have passed an
eventful day. said the little French
count who had been waiting anxious
ly for chance to join in the conversa-
ton.
but why should he want to kill
poor Mr.. Boyle" inquired Isobel after
giving the Frenchman an encouraging
glance. incidentally she smiled at FL
sic. "Why puzzle ones brains over
foreign tongues when all the world
speaks English?" she tceGraphed.
''Ar, Boyle is II peculiar person.
Uni1 .,
have known him during some years
You and might regard him as Il man
of few words, but he has acquired a
wonderful vocabulary for the benefit
of sailor men. believe he can swear
in every known lingo. His accom-
plishment in that direction no doubt
annoyed Frascuelo. who became fran
tic when he heard that the ship would
not call at any South American port
] imagine, too, that the unfortunate
fellow is still suffering from the drug
which, he says, was administered tC
him, Anyhow. you know how the af
fair terminated"
II. for one, think some consideration
might have been shown him." said
Elsie.
"There is No time for argument whcI
Chilean draws knife, Miss Max
we'll"
"But II his story is true
There never yet was stowaway
who did not invent "A plausible yarn
Nevertheless l believe, and Mr.. Boyle
agrees with me. that the man is no
lying"
They felt the ship swing around OF
anew course, and the rays Of the set
ting sun lit up the salon table through
the open starboard ports.
due south now, ladies" cried DR.
Christobal cheerily. I'VE have rounded
Cape Cardones. We practically FOLLOW
the seventy-sixth degree until we ap
proacb Evangelistas Island. Thus IA