Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-05
Cbe CHEVALIER , Bg C. B. L E WIS

HNS NANgs tAdl ne nad Wlthln hlS breast the instincts and sentiments of a chevalier of old. the speaker would have been suspected as up to some confidence game. And yet he would have been right. James Pen nington did not know himself. Those instincts and sentiments were lying dormant and waiting, like newly planted Early Rose potatoes, for their chance to grow and expand.
 Even the chevalier stunt comes to him who waits, and though 1t had lain In ambush for many long years, it finally appeared in. the open. Business called him to Liverpool. and he went to Montreal 10 take one of the slow steamers to that famous port. Friends of his warned him against many perils, but strangely enough they for got to warn him against the main one. His steamer had not sailed yet when he made .the acquaintance of Miss Ettie Clay. It was one of those simple events that are always occur ring aboard of a passenger steamer, even when she IS fast to her dock The lady dropped her handkerchief on deck and he picked it up and restored it, and To. they were acquainted. It was not until several hours later, how ever. that the young lady gave him her confidence. Then she was rather forced to do so. The passage had been booked for her aunt and her self, and some dreadful accident must have detained the aunt at the last moment Indeed, until the steamer was miles down the river, it was be heved that her relative was on board.
 The captain was of course appealed to, but he could do nothing. Owners and officers of ocean liners do not know aunts from uncles. and the tears and sobs of nieces have no effect on them. Miss Clays Aunt Sarah must come on the next boat or give up the trip. Miss Clay herself must wipe her weeping eyes and prepare them ready to see whales and icebergs. She must coofide in some one. and why not ia Chevalier Pennington? As they sat together in the moonlight she did not hesitate to tell hin that she had read romance, courage and nobility of char acter in his face at first glance. Mir. Pennington, in his home city, wes carrying on the business of selling sand. lime and guano at wholesale and retail, and the compliments of the young lady at his side made his heart swell, determining him to buy some adjacent property and add the cement h..esnaev ns<e ~F4arrr-arsfe ,,-bor ba {. eaples to +A4Hk of that moonlight talk on deck, he could remember that he told Miss Clay all there was to tell. even to his stealing egss when a boy, and that though she had talked whole lot she had really told him nothing.
 It cannot be truthfully said that Mir. Pennington fell in love at first sight, or that he fell in love at all He had got into the rut of the sand, lime and guano business, and he was not man who cared for changes. Miss Clay did not seek to arouse his love. She want cd to look on him as her cbevalier and knight for the yoyage-the sturdy oak from the shores of Lake Erie to which the clinging vine might cling, and that's how that moonlight night settled things.
 Almost within a day it was under stood by all that Mr. Pennington and Miss Clay were old acquaintances. and that when the aunt was first missed. he had volunteered to jump overheard and swim back and tell her that she had missed the boat. He did not do any boasting in regard to himself. but Miss Clay, who seemed perfectly at home and made acquaintances right and left, called general attention to his many noble qualities. She was so persistent about this that the purser felt that he had made great ulis- take in not seating the man at the captains table.
 The steamer did not collide nor founder nor attempt to stand <h her head She went ahead in a manner that called out encouiums. and ev- erybcdy was happy. Mfr. Pennington found himself in full charge of Miss Clay. and both of them rather liked the situation. The sturdy oak braced himself, and the clinging vine clung At the end Of the third day, however, something descended upon the decks of that ship with flop. It was as if c former had thrown 6 summer squash against the port side of an old brindle COW. One of the lady passengers had missed three diamond rings and bracelet from her state room They try to keep all such mat ters stiil on shiDboard. which is the reason why they are. speedily known 10 all
 There was talk, and talk and more talk, and then the theft was of course laid to a steward of the ship and nothing more done about t.
 Next day two other rings were missing. and on the next a bracelet and sI00 in bills. Then the passengers began 10 sit up and take notice. and every wcmsn had suspicion in her eye as she looked at her DessAher There was a thief aboard. and with great unanimity it was declared that the said thief must be a female The stewardesses were given the "thiId degree by the captain without avail. and then suspicion was turned loose