Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-10-26

the excitement it does relieve the strain But what
have you there, Nikitin Osn:"
1T is suit of clothes, and | am looking for
cord to tie them up
Clothes! Have you not your undercothcs, and
will they not be enough to swim in when the time
comes"
NO, no, a suit of clothes to dress properly after
wards shall stow these somewhere on the gun
deck and afterwards-'
And how if there is no afterwards How if
of your guns blows up and you with it,?
"Ah-h!' and Nikitin Osin shrugged his shoulders.
Then shall will them to you.
Two or three laughed, and by the pianola,
who had stopped his playing to catch the retor set
the machine in motion again
Three Others were gathered at table on the
starboard side, while a fourth was playing solitaire
under the center cluster OF incandescent lights. The
dftccr with the bundle by a gesture indicated the
solitaire player. Look at him now"
you Ncoas os P Vice Admra Msanr ~5 cheer
up! Apd fixing his eyes the bundles OF cloth
ing Hou are wise, too, Nicolas Osin. To-morrow
morning when ! go off watch, | will enveop myself
in the newest of underclotlinE, even to socks,
all Of silk The doctor says that ii one is dressed
ing from a wound is much lessened. | should
like to die that way-by blood poisoning.
'Docors,, said the officer at the pianola, doctors
give useful advice, sometime,
"As to that" began the solitaire player, Il could
tell you-' But did not, for just then Of the
three officers OF the starboard side began to unroll
plan of something.
clio. there" the solitaire player scooped his cards
into one pile What have you there, Aexa Fati-
scheh; Plans OF battle evolutions, revolutions, revo-
lutions?'
at is plan of my estate"
W i%a hd Lucky man to haEe an an estae
1--WE shall all be lucky, my friend, il by this time
tomorrow night"
room. half-dozcn questions assacd him at once;
the carehahts still payng P Yes Only for tho
dozen times tonight And the enemy" NO
telling but our wireless operator has been picking
up wireless messages regularly
Then to-morrow?'
1T looks like it," and he passed on.
ManniXs division officer came along then. "Ah-h.'
he sped ManniX, gave him rapid instructions
in the event OF battle on the morrow, and then
dismissed him
At noon Mannix called to the bridge and
given the wheel; and more than had hold of it
when he saw emerging from out of the haze long.
fast-moving steamer All the signamcn in the fleet
jumped their long glasses but while they were
yet trying distinguish her cOOrs she disappeared.
She could not have been more than four thousand
yards away and Mannix speculated what would
have happened to her il his own China squadron
were involved \ challenge II would have been,
and at once explanation or a seven.inch shell
would then and there have ended her cruising days.
The haze thinncd, and Mannix still to the
wheel OF the "Krcmlin" when they came into view.
Up to the norhward they were and for them clearly
the "Kremlins" bridge they had swung into column
and headed westerly across the Russian course
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