The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-10
THE DOUBLE SQUEEZE
BY Henry Beach Needham
Copyright, 1915. Doubleday. Page 4 Co.

| (contlnucd From Our Last issue)
Immediately a new ships game
was started-find tho fugitive.
Tho search was carried on BY a
process OF elimination. FirAt the
sailing list was combed for n
mother and daughter IL turned
out. unfortunately. that in the first
cabin there were exactly twenty
ons pairs of mothers and daugh'
ters. As TO whether these twenty
one motherod maidens were hand.
some and clever. opinions differed
markedly Some OF tho daughters
wero Food.looking but doniably
dull. others we're clever but plain.
Not half dozen could come within
range OF tho specifications.
When tho consensus OF opinion
vas about 10 pounce upon Miss
Riley. who headed tho list OF "sus.
poets. another bit OF Information
leaked out The woman wanted
vas a atenographsr.
Here tho search for the guilty
one began all over Miss Riley was
wealthy. 40 Il must be some one
else. Hut after considering the
qualifications OF other possibilities
for hours on end. Mistress Conhen.
suH again lowered about Miss Riley.
Thus tho first cabin divided Itself
into tao camps-the partisAna Of
Miss Riley and those OF the field
The ship got hectic about II. and
because OF Il Win shuie 20, into
trouble.
Ito was watching the poker
game IN tho smoking room. when
the loose jolnted conversation
switched TO tho unsolyed mystery
Of the ship. Eventually there was
an argument over the domcrits OF
Miss Riley.
Win Shute was angry nj mention
OF her name In such a place. Two
men-one an ordinarily decent chap
who had taken a little too much.
and the other a cynical. Aelf-con-
tAinsd man. the best poker player
at tho tahle-brought the unmanly
discussion To a prccipi,A,o conclu.
sion.
There had been many references
to Miss Riley. most OF them compli.
mentary In nature. and the decent
but tank ed.up chap had proved her
champion. A. clincher he asked:
THAT girl has the fines, rooms
on the boat Does that look like
she iH a HtenographorT
The cynical man answered:
II Hhe rs the stcnog Of one OF
them Pittsburg millionRires. It's the
kind OF a suite you'd expect to find
her In. Get me-
There was a coarse laugh, which
changed in the middle into an OK
preston q concern. What hap.
pcned was swift.
Win Shuie said something In the /
gamblers ear and neatly slapped /
his face. The gambler. raging. |
jumped to his feet. scattering |
glasses and chips. which went clat- |
tcring To tho floor. and made a
vicious pass at the interloper. with |
the celebrity of lodging n Wild pitch. !
Win Shute avoided tho first. and. |
catching the gambler off his bal |
ance, floorod him with pretty up. |
percut. Then the gambler, blind |
with rage. seized whisky bottle |
from the wrectaEe. Brt before he I
could use II his arms were pinlonod I
from behind. and Shutc was pushed /
out OF the smoking room.
As the loss in rum and glassware. |
generously estimated. was made !
good. and as the smoking room |
steward was properly rewarded for |
his future reticence. the episode did /
not come officially before tho cap
tain.
But unoffIcially. thru the human |
wireless system, the story went all /
over the ship. In It's travel II be |
came emhellished with the ships !
doctors account. based on personal /
observation. OF James arrival on
the ship dead drunk. a
Tho story did not get to Miss
Riley In expurgated form. An I'M
remark had been
made about her-"Oh. nothing OF |
any consequence-bless your heart.
no." and James" had thought him. |