The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-06

all the West than these three as
they laughed and chatted their way by
boat, rail and foot to the powered sub
urban cottage, where they were warm
ly welcomed by an aging couple who,
with props and pruning hooks, were
administering to an invalid rose-tree
in the front yard.
A derelict of the tenements, Patrick
Kehoe had glimpsed in Jennie's eyes
green pastures and sun-kissed hills.
He came away from her home stirred
by strange abyssmal emotions. Also,
he returned aboard ship with breath
scented by taffy and chocolate instead
Of by liquor; and it was the evening
of the third day thereafter, and he had
not invited anybody to fight, a remark
able fact which did not escape the eX-
ecutive officer. He was permitted to
go ashore with Jimmie again; then his
restriction was lifted altogether Com
mander Keep had seen men come IN
der good influences before) and for
three weeks he and Jimmie were per-
mitted to go ashore every evening that
duty was not paramount.
When the Watchful sailed away from
Seattle, beautiful Something,
wrought Of the vapors of a joyous
mind, stood at the seaman's side and
never left him afterward. He had
been knighted, made Grant, with ia
vor. Jennie had given him photo
graph of her shepherd dog, Lancer, and
Jimmie had been placed in his charge
unreservedly.
ALREADY you have made better boy
Of him." crooned the mother.
f4I l., ~ 4
chuckled the father
81 know you'll take care Of him."
murmured Jennie.
And he took care Of Jimmie. By
connivance of the executive officer, the
boy was never allowed ashore except
when Patrick could accompany him.
He never permitted his ward to enter
a saloon, and had therefore to pass by
the swinging green doors himself. But
Jimmie aside, he could not have en-
tered them anyway, for the beautiful
Something that had linked itself to
him could not go into such places If
Jimmie's virile temperament effer-
vesced too strongly, Patrick took him
by the collar and pushed him into pri-
vacy, where they had it out-and jim
ME would be good for many days
thereafter.
you need discipline, lad" Patrick
would say.
When the six months training
cruise was over, by special request the
two were transferred to the same YES
sci, battleship bound for the Asiatic
station, where they remained for two
years, Patrick, now a petty officer,
shipping over on the ship in order to
stay with his charge. The home folks
complained to Patrick that Jimmie
neglected writing to them. Patrick
wrote for him sort of report of prog
ress. Jennie, secretary for the old
folks, answered him with ELUSIVE
thanks. These two soon became so
diligent in correspondence that their
letters were crossing each other on the
mid-Paciflc in bundles aboard liners.
After two years in the Orient, Pat
rick and Jimmie were sent home on a
gunboat, which to their delight was
scheduled to remain indefinitely on the
Pacific coast. The Pennington went
first to Puget Sound Navy Yard for
repairs, and for another several weeks
Patrick culled the bloom Of life in
nightly visits to the Colmer cottage.
During the following few years there
were trips to all the Pacific ports from
Alaska to Chile, including the target
ranges at Port Angeles in the Sound
and at Magdalena Bay in Mexico.
These voyages were frightened by fire.
quent stops in the intervals at Bremen
ton and Seattle, and happy pilgrimages
to the Seattle cottage Meantime, in
lieu of pugilism aboard ship and roys-
tering ashore, Kehoe bought books and
Inv - Nv !, IaoI
lost his Bowery dialect, and with 1t all
else unseemly that smacked of old
days; and he saw to it that Jimmie
likewise went in for the higher life.
Their enlistment periods expired
within week of each other while the
Pennington was policing the capital
harbor Of a turbulent Central Ameri-
can republic, and when a little later
the gunboat was relieved, they were in
state of jubilation. In every letter
from Jennie received during the last
year, Patrick had been urgently in
vited to spend his four months vaca-
ton with Jimmie, and it was under
stood that he would do so. Jimmie,
now man both in years and behavior,
was resolved to re-enlist Patrick's
future depended on a hallowed hope
which he had long noUrished. The
beautiful Shape at his side had never
deserted him; when he was in Seattle
1t was form of flesh In his heart
he knew that the joy ineffable would
be his for the asking, and he was that
much man that his only doubt was
of his own worthiness.
At Port Angeles, the Pennington,
her special duties necessitating that
she act singly, spent few days at tar
get practice. At last, however, fittings
were put to rights, decks rebabilitated
after the semi-annual shaking up,
boats were hoisted, the anchor was lift
ed. and the vessels nose was turned
up the Sound, her homeward-bound
pennant a 1uttering, tri-colored rain
bow trailing in the water astern. Ke
hoe, now a chief boatswain's mate,
quitting the bridge where he had
sought moments speech with the Of
ficer of the deck, passed close by jim
ME heaving the lead in the port
chains, and paused at the head of the
ladder to address his friend in - IN
dertone.
Sound 'em true, Jimmie boy" he
warned jokingly. I'VE don't want to