The Detroit times., 1912-12-06
4M TIE MARRIAGE OF
!A': CAPIAINKETTLE 90
IN IN 7.HH n Romance OfHe Sea FSN|
ta1. BY. BY S Ut !. s,,sl hrs Ne 49,
n ROmaDceT He Sea
By CUTCLIFN HYNE

plug you through the nver-just-
there-dyou feel? And II that won't
make you run straight. I'll attend TO
you some more. Understand"
Yes, SIR"
Are the passages to this strong
room lighted?"
They are"
Captain Kettles foot shot out. They
are-what7"
They are, sir"
You're improving. Now let me
warn you not TO get tempted to slip
on into any nice, quiet, gloomy cor
ner. I've got eyes like q cat for the
dark, and III shoot you, if you try
that or any other game, before you
have time to think. Quite under
stand?"
Yes, sir"
There's just one thing more. lr
you meet any of your friends on the
way and the nature OF the procession
isn't clear to them, l leave you to
make the necessary explanations. Ana
look here, my lad, maybe you have
not heard me talk In the tongues or
this part OF the world, but I'm a sea.
Il Il
a working knowledge OF more Ian
guages than you ever heard Of. Got
thatY
yes, sir"
Then quick march, Miss Dubbs, /
ask your pardon for walking In front
of you, but for the moment 1t seems
necessary. You needn't carry your
finger on that trigger while you're
walking. Rest II on the trigger guaro
yes, like that-and then 1t will slip
handily on to the place when It's
wanted. That rife pulls OF trife
easily. Go steady. Bergash. This is
the rogue's goose-step you're giving
US, not a footrace."
Mahommed Bergash, Cambridge
graduate, kaid OF the Western Atlas
Berbers, and saint OF the stock of the
prophet. was cowed. Up till now he
had seen In Captain Kettle the some
what acid shipmaster and the creature
of whimsical owner; but OF sud-
den he recognised in him the incar-
nation OF energy, and, II needs be,
tragedy.
He fully grasped that Kettle would
II occasion demanded II, shoot him
with as little conjunction as he, Sid
Mahommed Bergash, would order the
extinction OF an inconvenient tribes.
man; and, In spite Of himself, he was
mastered.
The kaid was no coward. In ordi-
nary tribal fighting with the Moroc-
can Moors he had stared death in the
face dozen times before, without
awe and without tremor. But this
~
death was a minor item; 1t was the
sailors tremendous personality that
made his spirit bend.
He walked ahead as a docile guide.
Twice in the wandering alleys of he
house he met members OF his house
hold. and dismissed them elsewhere
with a word: and finally, THAT is the
door, sir" he said. May | drop one
hand from my neck to open it?"
YES" said Captain Kettle. open
the door, hook up your hand again,
and then march inside ahead OF u.s."
In this ungracious procession then,
Captain Kettle once more came into
the society OF his owner and his own
er's sister, and Sir George Chester
man. on his part, could not have been
more surprised X the emperor or
China had walked In to pay an even
ing call.
Miss Chesterman. 1t was clear, was
on the verge Of demonstration. The
affair, it Ia true, had gone much fur
Their than she ever intended; she had,
in fact, been horribly frightened land
with very good cause); but her pas
sion for Captain Kettle was still hot,
nj hn haA II hnr ~ hax
wild arms of gratitude round his neck,
and hailed him az her world and her
preserver.
But the sight Of that acid, little
precise man with the red torpedo
beard had a damping effect on hys-
terics, and something she caught In
the eye Of her fellow-woman clenched
her selfrestraint. Miss Dubbs might
be In mortal danger, but to her en-
ployer's shrewd vision she was glori-
GUS with triumph.
Sir" said Captain Kettle to Sir
George, II gather that this swine of
a saint has been misbehaving himself.
That being the case, take IL you will
not care TO stay longer under his
roof"
Sir George Cnesterman laugneo
ruefully. $50 great Ia my distaste for
his hospitality that I'd give all | pos
sess to be back once more among the
friendly cock-roaches on the Wanga.
roo. But I suppose one might as well
wish TO be In the moon How in the
world did you get here. Skipper"
walked, sir. II struck me that
might be useful to you, as owner. SO
I came. propose we ride back, and
that is q thing this man Bergash Is
going to arrange, II you will author
ize him to do so. But before letting
him proceed to that, want TO know
IL you have any complaints to make
that you would like me to take pay
ment for out OF his skim"
Il will cancel everything for a free
passage to the sea-"
And you. miss?'
mo. no. Only get me away"
Right, miss. Then II you, sir, and
your sister, and Miss Dubbs will kind
ly make the most OF this uncomfort-
able room for the next ten minutes, |
will take Bergash outside again and
have a little heart-to-heart talk with
him over certain arrangements for the
comfort OF all OF us. You have the
winchester. I'll leave you also this
UHopkins-Allen, which find too
straight In the stock for my particu-
lar brand of fancy shooting"