The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-18

truth. don't want TO be bothered
I'm not feeling hospitable You and |
get along very dccently together.
skipper and a third might very cas-
lily upset the balance. III the worst
comes TO the worst. | have made ar
rangements that he-er--intruder
SHAFT be looked after. so yen needn't
worry your head about that Hut 4
most piOusly hope that one OF this eX-
cellent persons usual changes OF plan
VIII take place. and We shall find our
selves undisturbed. I'm going To
have cocktail VIII YOU join me-
Not al sea. sir II you'll excuse
me IN 20 and give the mate bit or
brisk.up. That mans not served
! with me long enough even vet TO learn
\ my ways. He's letting those hands
mutter while thoy paint.
Sir George ChesteTman turned his
! tired eyes 20 the sea and watched
the fleets OF pink-sailed Portuguese
meu-of.war that cruised plaeidly over
the dark blue swells alongside. "a
wonder" said he 20 himself. what
sort OF q time a nautilus has or n
Seems a nice easy life. No cables, or
| psrty whips writing unpleasant let
| ters. or wives. with n taste for every
thing YOU happen 10 dislike. or-Pah'
what a sickly.minded ass am. The
odds are they have the whole lot
especially the cables There must be
rum customs and inventions among
these navigating shetffsh- Cad, be-
ueve II I'd TIE chance OF swap I'd
risk t. The more | think back at
England. home and beauty, the more
sick seem to be OF the whole lot
OF it,"
The big retriever, seeming trouble,
muzzled a sympathetic wet nose into
his masters hand.
He drank the cocktail which the
steward brought him. and laughed at
a new idea. Cad. II would be great
Joke TO Jolly her, II she turns up, ano
leave her TO cool her heels among
the Liverpool eekend-trippers at
Las Palmas rye a monstrous great
mind 10 do IT, All. there's the lunch
con bell. Skipper, half moment
Sir"
II say couldn't you put in at Ian
zerote or one OF these other islands.
and do your coaling there"
1T would be long slow job, You
see Lanzerote has no harbors. only
open roadsteads. and as likely as not
we'd have 10 hang there rolling 10
our anchors for a good fortnight be
fore We could arrange with these ma
mana Spaniards TO md bottom which
would bring the coal across from
Grand Canary And then, you see,
you'd be fortnight's grub and water
TO the bad which would have 10 be re-
placed. not to mention fortnight on !
your charter and insurance. and a
fortnights wages. which would all be
10 the bad anyway, But | know what
you're thinking OF
"Oh. do YOU 30
Yes, sir. It's those cases OF rites
and the ammunition boxes in number
two hold
I'm afraid you're wrong. | hadn't |
given them thought But what's the
point
We'll. OF course. in spite or prom 4
Uses. some one at the English end may !
have blown the gan and told the GUS
toms at Las Palmas"
"Wen?"
If somebody definitely accuses us
OF attempting TO import arms OF pre-
csion into Africa, against interna-
tional law they'll try and stop us. BY
James, 7 should like TO see them do
IT."
The tired ewes frightened. Why,
would you kick"
Eyes. sir. I'd kick good and hard,
and I'd take the old girl out OF their
harbor in spite OF all the teeth they
could show"
That sounds interesting But isn't
there fort or something
II believe they've some guns. They
we're lying on one OF the quays with
their tails wrapped up in packing
cases when J was round there a
wear ago. They were going TO haur
them on to a hill at the back OF the
Catalina. and mount them-manana
know. because ! asked. You'll see ,
when we get there they'll still be on !
the quay, all except the packinE-caseS
which some one will have pinched for |
fre-wood "
But supposing somebody had in <
vented an energetic Spaniard. ann
they have been hauled up TO the hill /
top and mounted and there Is filled \
magazine alongside. and they gave ,
YOU fair warming that II you didn't
stop they'd blow you into the middle
OF next week. what then
II should steam out and !et them
see the red buster blowing at my
poop stan. and should break out two /
more at my fore and main trucks, ana
7 should like 70 sec the beastly Dagos
dare TO fire on those. And II they dIo.
by James. I'd let them fire and be
hanged 10 them, but Z should be
cock-surc they never could HIT mo.
And now. sir II YOU please, dinners
cooling
Il wish" thought Sir George wrist
fully Il had half this little mans ELI
thusiasm, though the Lord only knows
what mess he's going 70 land me in'o .
II h. has only half Ills. own way
(ContlBuedp
II Is a popular belief among chorus
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