The Detroit times., 1912-11-19

! II tell YOU, dear, there wps M
real trouble. For a long time-in
fact, all the time since I've known
YOU, Captain. I've been a good deal
dissatisfied with business in the pub
| lie line, and when pa cot a bit fresh
with me the other night about not
serving a gentleman with another
glass when | said he'd had enough.
! thought IL was good opportunity
/ to quit, and handed i'm my resigna-
ton there and then on the spot.
may tell you ia had 1t In mind ever
since Sir George spoke 10 me.
My dear, you'd better tell me the
whole thing az once What's Sir
George 10 do with it,"
Hasn't he told you? Wen. how
over. | suppose he thought we were
too much In one another's confidence
/ TO have any secrets. anyway, all he
said was this. and mind. II was after
you had left Foston, and were work
| ing on the kangaroo at South
Shields, as you wrote me. He comes
In one day To the Mason's Arms, and
he says: Miss Dubbs, do you know
any reliable lady who'd 60 out on
our little steamer as sort OF maid
companion -stewardess 70 look after
my sister? ! don't want maid al
Together, because she's got one al
ready who's no good for this sort OF
trip; | want something more than
a stewardess; and | want something
a bit less than the ordinary useless
companion. | laughs and says
didn't think there were many ladies
7 yet born who were up 10 all those
requirements, ard he laughs and says
he supposed they could be made
He's always a very merry mana ger
with him. has Sir George, but he
knows where 10 stop. He's always
quite the gentleman"
I I've found that myself.
well. | said that IL came across
any lady who would fulfil all his re-
quirements | would leJ him know I"
THAT won't do, Miss Dubhs,
says he. ! sail tomorrow, and. ac-
eording 70 Captain Kettles calcu-
lations, our boats going 10 take a
most pleasantly long time TO reach
Grand Canary, which. is 10 be our
first port TO call My sisters got the
! date out OF me. and declares she's
going to follow by the mail boat,
and join at Las Palmas. | don I
think she will: it's a score 10 one
she changes her mind between now
and then: but IL she doesn't she sails
by the Cape mail boat from South
ampton today week Now, don {
want her TO go unless she has the
escort have been describing 10 you.
no "a. dfVNt
the young person, just drop her a
line 10 this address, and | shall be
Infinitely Obliged TO you.
,"Ah," said Captain Kettle, but
never thought OF your coming down
10 this sort OF business. dear"
and what sort Is that. please
well, stewardesse"
81 prefer To call it companion
But whatever il is. Captain my idea
is that, as was minister's, daugh-
ter and a lady once. lady l shall
always be. How's that?'
Right as usual" said the little
sailor with sigh. bat there may
be more complications in this than
you think
You mean the trips not safe
may bt AlOublf WIN ihOaC
tribesmen where the wreck is lying.
Well. I'm ready 10 take what comes.
Or. I'll put il this way II you like:
what's good enough for the gentle
man I'm engaged TO is good enough
for me. Besides, il seemed likely TO
be my only chance OF foreign travel.
We must look things in the face,
/ Captain; when we are married II is
quite possible | shall have to stay
at home from then afterward"
Captain Kettle tugged vexedly at
his red torpedo beard quite true.
my dear-quite true. But those
aren't the only complications. Does
it occur 20 you what am on this
ship? Do you understand that the
second mate. who's fifty-five, IL he's
day, refers TO me as the old man
and I'm twenty-seven? DO you
know that here on board ship you IL
have to give me respect, and say,
Yes, Captain. and No, Captain,
when you speak TO me? That's dis
cipline.'
Miss Dubbs rose TO the whole Of
her statuesque height. And pray
when" said she, have / ever done
anything else?"
mo, quite true" said Kettle mis-