Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-11-24

thing. Not all wimmen, III grant yOl
that. Not the kind OF woman I'd wan
for a steady mate. Thet's one thIni
I've found out can't be bought. N.
son, the honor of a good woman. An
thet's the sort Of woman I'm lookin
for.
This is my gold. an I'm goin' 1,
handle 1t. If emmy one tries TO swizzlC
me out Of It I'm goln' to swizzle back
an you can lay 10 that. Not forget
tin them that stands by me-"
Between Lund and Simms there ex
listed sort of armed truce. No open
reference was made to the desertlon
Of Lund on the foe. But Rainey knew
that 1t ranked In Lund's mind. The
five, Peggy Simms, her father, Carl
sen, Lund and Rainey, ostensibly
messed together, but Rainey's duties
generally kept him on deck until
Carlson had sufficiently completed his
own meal to relieve him. BY that
time the girl and the captain had left
the table
Lund invariably waited for Rainey.
Tamada kept the food hot for them.
To Rainey, Tamada seemed the
hardest worked man aboard ship. He
had three messes to cook and he was
busy from morning until night, eff
cient, tireless and even-tempered. The
crew, though they acknowledged his
skill, were Californians, either by
birth or adoption, and the racial
prejudice against the Japanese was
apparent.
A week of good wind was followed
by dirty weather. The persistence
and increasing opposition of the storm
seemed to have corresponding effect
upon Captain Simms.
He grew daily more irritable and
morose, even to his daughter. Only
the doctor appeared able to get along
with him on easy terms and Rainey
noticed that, to CarIsens the skipper
seemed coneiliatory evenSto Difference.
Peggy Simms watched her father
with worried eyes. The curious, tar
nished look Of his tanned skin grew
until the flesh seemed continually dry
and of an earthly CO pr; his lips
peeled, and more than ice he shook
as if with a chill.
On the eleventh day out, Rainey
went below in the middle Of the after
noon for his seaboots. In the main
cabin he found Simms seated in a
chair with his daughter leaning over
him, speaking to her In harsh, CON-
voice.
"No, you can't do thing for me-"
he was saying. cts this sciatica.
we got TO get Garrison"
AS Rainey passed through to his
,wn little stateroom neither OF them
loticed him. but he saw that the cap
ain was shivering, his hands picking |
almost convulsiyely at the tablecloth.
Where's Carlson, curse him! y
2ainey heard through his cabin parti-
ion. "Tell him can't stand this any
onger. He's got to help me. Got to-
lot to-"
AS Rainey appeared, walking
leaviIy in his boots, the girl looked
Ip. Her father was slumped In his
hair, his face buried on his folded
rms. The girl glanced at him doubt
ully, apparently uncertain whether
0 go herself to find Carlson or stay
nth her father.
Anything / can do, Miss Simmsf
our father seems quite ILL.,"
The hesitation of the girl even to
peak to him was very plain 10
,ainey. Suddenly she threw up her
hin.
kindly find Doctor Carlson" she
rdered, rather than requested. ASK
i'm TO come as soon as he can. +"
he turned uncertainty to her father.
"Can l help you to get him into the ,
abin" asked Rainey.
She thanked him with lips, not eyes,
nd he assisted her to shift the g.
lost helpless man into his room and
lnk He was like stuffed sack be-
veen them, save that his body
vitched. While Rainey took most of .
lie weight, he marveled at the
rength of the slender girl and the Q
ay In which she applied it, Simms
,emed to have tainted. to be on the Q
,rge of Inconsistencies or even utter
'llapse. Rainey felt his wrist, and {
e pulse was almost imperceptible.
"Tll get the doctor Immediately" he g
i'd.
"Mighty funny sort of sciatica." 1
n tnax, told him Golf 90 ho httrY.iad for. | &
ard. He knew where Carlson was.
the hunters coy quarters, playing II
ker. II
"The shippers ILL.," said Rainey. II
10 mise Almnst nncnnaciniian III