Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-06
SYNOPSIS OF CAPTAIN KETTLE.

ueturuay e'arniBS, nndB ITSELF, htr0ugh
the Sargossa Sea without coal while on
route from Mexico to Liverpool.
CHAPTER 1.-THE lrst mate. owen
Kettle. sets off In the lifeboat with .
rS.s Of ssp tSa w WI. the BART noDs ts
sSough of It's coal to enable the disabled
vessel TO reach Liverpool. BE meets the
CHAPTER III-But the Rhein refuses
10 stop. A woman on board. Miss Violet
Chesterman, sees the dirty deed, and Ia
nuences fireman, McTodd. to disable
the engines.
CHAPTER Iv-oweR Kettle then
side with yis crew, forcIbiy assumes
20 the point where the Norman Towers
In drifting, and which he re-coals.
CHAPTER v-Arrival OF the Norma
Rowers at Liverpool. Mate Kettle sur
the river Mersey In order to save his
saptain from possible scandal because
OF the inadequacy of his coal supply
pirates assault and rob Kettle and ieet.
him badly Injured. 1s rescued ana
nursed back to health by Miss Duhh-
bermaid at the Mason'B Arms
CHAPTER Woven Kettle engages
with Sir George Chesterman to go as
captain of the Wangaroo and search the
African coast for an abandoned ship
CHAPTER vII-In Liverpool Captain
Kettle meets McTodd. the man who had
disabled the engines of the Rhein. and
signs him as one of the crew Of the
Wangaroo.
CHAPTER vIII-In Las Palmas har-
bor Miss Dubbs appears on board the
kangaroo sstewardess. ostensibly at
the suggestion. of Sir George, but really
because she wished to be near Captain
Kettle. with whom she Is In love and to
whom she is engaged. Miss Violet
Ckesterman also becomes a passenger.
.-GIsas GIHAPTER TT Re IXmThe Wangar9o cruises
peaboard. and Captain Kettle finally To-
Gates the missing treasure ship In an
to be the old Norman Towers.
CHAPTER X-Distracted with jeal-
ousy caused by Miss Chesterman. Miss
Dubbs cancels her engagement with
Captain Kettle.
CHAPTER XI--Captain Kettle peril
ously navigateg the Kangaroo into the
harbor where lies the Norman Towers
which Is In possession It natives, who
nre on the Wangaroo.
CHAPTER XII-Chief Bergash ap-
pears on shore at the head of a troop of
invited aboard the ship. He proves to
yersity. Captain, Kettle heartily dis
that they cannot take the Norman Tow
ers away. Miss Dubbs recognizes Ber-
cash as one whom she had helped in
In England.
castle in the Atlas mountains. Why his
son was sent to England to be edu-
Gated.
(Now go on with the story.
On three sides OF the castle the
rock drops practically sheer into the
valley, which is trifle of twelve
hundred feet below. The causeway.
which was the only road by which
one :ould get into the castle, WAS
quite a notable feature in its way.
Two COWS abreast can get along that
oauseway, if they are not fat; or
two horsemen, il they crook up their
outside legs so as not to interfere
with the parapet; or three footmen,
II the middle man does not swing
out his elbows. The length of 1t,
from the little gateway in the big
wall to where it fans out into bare
hillside, Is somo two hundred and
fifty feet to two hundreds and eighty
yards, and the drop over the parapet
averages anything between fifty and
ninety feet sheer Furthermore, 1t
Is an exception to all modern Moroc-
can rules, of architecture, in that 1t
Is kept in excellent repair.
Now, Sidi Ibrahim Bergash (of
pious memory had one wife who oc-
cupied all of his tender affections,
and as she continued at decent in
tervals to bear him sons, he took no
other. In the course of his reign he
learned that there were things
abroad which threatened the exis-
tence of the Berber nation in the
Atlas. and the origin of them must
be sought out Only one way of ef-
fecting this showed itself; he must
send son to the land of the Yai-
ours to learn the Yaiours ways.
With moody eyes he inspected his
infant brood and wondered which
one of the six to send. But soon he
decided that there could be no ques-
ton about the choice 1t must be
the apple of his eye. his eldest, the
going-to-be-saint, who would follow
him in the saintship, who must de-
part to the accurst shore to learn
how saints in these modern days
kept up their state and dignity.
The case was laid before a great
banker in London, and he, as though
every day business made the arrange
ments. This banker sent out, first
of all, tutor to Mogador. The man
was to take a house, furnish and
staff 1t efficiently, and give the
mountain boy the first course of his
new education. In other words, he
was to teach him working modi-
cum of the English language, intro
duce him to trousers and hard
collar. and break him In to knife
and fork. The tutor was paid five
hundred pounds a year over and
above expenses-and earned 1t.
Next came couple Of years al
carefully chosen preparatory school
and '.hen. when the boy was do
scribed by an expert as unmistpk
ably English. he went tn Charter
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