Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-04
bockers, or you'll get spanked"

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seems as though we must be such
lot of amateurs. But when I went owe
! the side of the New York l felt lik
kneeling down on her decks and beg
ging every jacky to kick me. fel
about as useless as a fly on a locomo
tive engine. Amateurs! Why, the!
might have been at the business sine
the days of the ark; all Of them nigh
have been descended from bloody pi
rates; they twisted those eight incl
guns around for us just as though the!
were bicycles, and the whole ship NOV
ed and breathed and thought, too, lik
.. human being, and all the captains o
the other warships about her wer
watching for her to give the word. Al
of them stripped and eager and read!
like a lot of Jockeys holding In TIT
big race-horses, and each Of them will
his eyes on the starter. And I Liked
the way they talked about Sampson
and the way the ships move over th'
stations like parts Of one machine, JUS
as he had told them to do.
"Scudder introduced me 10 him. ant
he listened while we did the talking
but it was easy to see who was th'
man in the coming tower. Keating-
my boy!" Claiming cried, sitting up
right in his enthusiasm, hes put
combination lock on that harbor tha
can't be picked-and It'll work wheth'
or SIMPSONS asleep in his berth, ol
fifteen miles away, or killed on tht
bridge. He doesn't have to worry, HI
knows his trap will work-he ought to
he set It,"
Heating shrugged his shoulders, toll
erantly.
"Oh, see that side Of It," he assent.
ed. II see all there Is in 1t for you, the
sort of stuff you write. Sunday -specia
stuff, but there's no news in 1t. I'm moi
paid to write mail letters, I'm not dowr
here to interview palm-tre either"
"Why, you old fraud!" laughed Chan.
ming. "You know you're having tn;
time of your life here You're the pc,
of Kingston society-you know you are
I only wish I were half so popular.
don't seem to belong, do I? I guess it's
my clothes. That English colonel al
Kingston always scowls at me a
though he'd like to put me in irons
and whenever meet our consul he seei
something very peculiar on the hori-
zon- line"
Heating frowned for a moment ir
silence, and then coughed, consciously
"Channing," he began, uncomforta.
bly,, you ought to brace up"
Brace up?" asked Charming.
well, it isn't fair to the rest of US.
protested Heating, launching into hi:
grievance. There's only a few Of u:
here, and we've think you ought te
see that and not give the crowd bad
name. All the other correspondent
have some regard for-for their posi-
ton and for the paper, and you LOAF
around here looking like an old tramp
like any old Northumberland II
tie IC0l VI uo. "AJb sAfNSA
English artillerymen at the club asked
me about you, and when told then
you were a New York correspondent
they made all sorts Of jokes about
American newspapers, and what could
I say?"
Charming eyed the other man with
keen delight.
81 see, by Jove! I'm sorry" he said
But the next moment he laughed, and
then apologized, remorsefully.
Indeed, 1 beg your pardon" he beg
ged, but 1t struck me as a sort Of
had no idea you fellows were such
swells-I knew l was a social outcast
but / didn't know my being a social
outcast was hurting any one else Tel
me some more"
We'll, that's ALL" said Keatlng, sus-
piciously. THE fellows asked me tc
speak to you about 1t and to tell you
to take a brace. Now, for instance. we
have a sort of mess-t table at the hotel
and we'd like to ask you to belong, but
-well-you see how 1t is-we have the
officers to lunch whenever they're or
shore, and you're so disreputable"-
Heating scowled at Claiming. and con-
cluded, impotently, why don't you gel
yourself some decent clothes and-anc
a new hat?"
Charming removed his hat to his
knee and stroked 1t with affectionate
pity.
IT'S a shocking bad hat" he said
well, go on"
"Oh, it's none of my business" ex.
claimed Heating, impatiently. Tn
just telling you what they're saying
Now, there's the Cuban refugees, fol
instance. No one knows what they're
doing here, or whether they're real Gu
bans or Spaniards."
well, what Of IT."
why, the way you go round with
them and visit them, It's no wonder
they say you're spy"
Charming stared incredulously, an6
tnen QTeW DUCK Ills ntdu anu iauShNN
with a shout Of delight.
"They don't, do they?" he asked.
"Yes, they do, since you think It's
so funny. II 1t hadn't been for us, the
day you went over to Guantanamo tho
marines would have had you arrested
and court -martialed."
Channings face clouded with a quicF
frown. "Oh," he exclaimed, In a hur'
voice. they couldn't have though'
that"
well, no." Heating admitted grudg-
ingly, mot after the fight, perhaps, but
before that, when you were snoopine
around the camp like Cuban after ra'
tions." Charming recognized the pic
ture with laugh.
II do" he said, 81 do. But you
should have had me court-martialec
and shot; 1t would have made q gooe
story. Our reporter shot as a spy, his
last words we're What were my las
words. Keating?"
Heating turned upon him with impa'
thence, But why 10 you do it?" he de-
manded why don't you act like me
rest of us? Why do you hang out witt
all those filibusters and runaway Gu