The Detroit times., 1912-11-22

sign my billet OF idle passenger ana
critic OF cocktails. l ask TO serve
lnder you. aud am ready to take up
any job you think I'm capable or.
from personal aidede-camp down TO
| assistant cook. Miss Chesterman also,
II | know anything about her, will do
every ounce she can, and II. unfortu-
nately. any one gets hurt. we'll be-
lieve she once picked up some hos
pital training the month, she tired or
the sensation OF being sweet on a doc
tor. The ship and all that's inside
her is at your entire disposal, and II
you want another ship and more men.
say the word. and I'll get them for
YOU. I'd no idea when left England
we were going to come UP against
what looks uncommonly like a private
war, but, by God, now we're In for IL
I'm going TO see IL through"
The blood OF the ChNetermans is
evidently stirred" said Violet Il call
upon you all 10 hear me deliberately
utter the word Hooroo. Captain Ket-
tie, | echo my newly awakened broth
er's words. | am yours TO command"
"Sir and miss" said the little sailor.
you shall never regret the confidence
shown In me, and I'll pull that steam
boat out, IL have 10 murder halI
the Niggers in Africa to get her clear.
It's not business, OF course. to sax
such a thing, but Job like this al
ways comes In sweeter to one when
II turns out a lot harder than one haa
any decent reason to expect. l tell
you there were nights In the surf
boat when we crept In TO see what
they were up to, when l could have
sung TO think what a hard nut that
White man ashore was baking for me
to crack"
But thought you were TO make a
camp on one OF the islets, and sleep
In tent?'
That was the scheme, miss, but
you see with these Moors all over the
place II occurred TO me that they
could either swim or raft themselves
across TO the islands at the other side
OF the lagoon II they felt that way in.
clined, and it's unpleasant having
ones sleep disturbed So we lived IL
out In the boat and the watch below
had the floor boards. Those bags OF
coal weren't wasted either. We USED
them as anchors for three of our marx
buoys. You see | didn't think II was
worth while TO 60 ashore and build
those leading marks | spoke about be
cause 1t was as likely as not with q
smart white man to put them up to f.
the Moors would pull them down ana
build them in other spots. so that any
one relying on them TO run In by
would pile up his ship on some reeI
he'd calculated TO avoid. You see,
the trouble about the shore over yon-
der Is that it's all made to pattern,
with no outstanding features that one
can pick up TO base bearing on"
But you took no stove on the boat
How did you cook?"
I'VE didn't. We just ate our tucker
as II came, and were glad 1t was
there. But | must say the hands did
get riled with one thing. and that was
the gulls. The gulls on this station
had evidently not seen a boat before,
and they thought we were in trouble,
and would presently be chop for
them; and they followed us day ana
night with their tired iap-fiapping, or
else swimming beside the boat, never
winking, never sleeping, till the hands
began to lose temper and want to use
their rifles. OF course, wasn't go
ing to let them waste your cartridges,
sir, for matter Of sentiment, ana
told them that II they kept alive,
which was what they were paid for,
the birds wouldn't want to pick their
eyes out. But never could get them