The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-02

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The pretty girl in the blue toque is his
twin sister"
Meanwhile the great steamships per-
feet machinery Of discipline took it's or
binary routine. Twenty five thousand
horse power was cut oft from the engines.
and they stopped and presently, after adj
Justments, turned astern The boots of nm
seen sailor men pounded on the shade
deck over head a pair Of boat dayits
creakcd cupboard: and, after q decent
pause, n fully manned lfeboat jerked down
towards the water with its tackles suucal-
ing like a parcel of angry cats The 10
oaks hrcd clicking volleys at it as il
passed the rail; more vollcys as IL touched
the water. unlocked. and pushed off: and
then they resorted to independent firing as
1t rowed away, till the films were ex.
hausted. Mr.. Mornington had retrieved the
stoker towed him to a life buoy and hung
there till the lifeboat gathered the pair of
them and ferried them back to the steam
or. The passengers howed in fine STYLE as
the dripping pair clambercd inboard up n
Jacobs ladder. and Mr. DAILY sworc for
no apparent cause. and presently scow :od
at his old acquaintance the smoke room
steward. and ordered from him a whiskev
hlShhail. The passengers generally were
elated by the scene Of hcroism that they
had witnessed, and thought better of hu.
man nature accordingly. Daily alone glow.
cred.
DAILY sulkcd through the dinner i'm spite
Of the bcauN yeuN OF the pretty Miss Morn
inSton opposite to him, and later ,in-
bos"mcd himself to Captain Mcdonald
when they were alone.
Look here, skipper said he You
know me. and know YOU We've neither
OF us got many obtrusvc nerves. but
frankly I've never been so uneasy i'm all
my sea travelling. I've got fcclin. some
where inside me that this packets never
going TO see Liverpool again tell you
straight that If there was way of leay-
ing her tonight. I'd forfeit my massage :
money and do it, If YOU can call New
tcundland hshing schooner up alongside
and she'd take me, I'd rather cross in
her"
Captain Mcdonald laughed. He was a
big man. and cnvous shipmasers said he
had got his present command largely be-
cause of the reassuring effect his large
comfortable laugh had on nervous passcn
gerS.-"lts only because you're prcjudiccd
bloomington. You didn't jump overheard"
was not my job. 1t was not his for the
of that And anyway there was no risk.
yer was as smooth as a rink, and he obvi-
can swim like "A trout
n, don't know Besides Won must rcncm
ere's a good sporting chance of being tam
p with the propellcrs."
lie engines had stopped before he jumped:
ed that 1t was sheer playing to the gal,
And II you want a further plain fact, here's
could have borne II with cquanimity if
opellers had churned him up. The mans
you can tell it from his eyes,
ptnn Mcdonald took out his cigar and
at his passenger. Look here, old man:
rn in. and sleep it off. l don't want to
t that you've been looking too often on the
j when II Is red, but you're talking a bit
tonight, and you'll be dead sorry for il
you cool down and remember. However
'ou'vc said goes no further than me-"
wish" said DAILY savagely, you'd spread
TVS over the whole ship"
OF ut ALL" said the Captain. mot at ALL
you go below and turn in. l wish could
S all night on the bridge for mine There.
light old man. Good night"
~ had wit enough to sec that he had
MS t"rcboding to the wrong market. but he
NJ none better. In nlnin fact tho Nnr,,inn