The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-17
Chapter IL
GETTING SETTLED

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GETTING SETTLED
TIE turned his smiling face to Miss
i Green. "The cabins are pretty
bad" he said. "You can have mine
II you prefer IT. but it's no better.
Mostly, I sleep on a mattress out.
side the wireless-room. It's lots
cooler on deck than below"
personally" said Bowers. 81 am
going TO use my cabin or cabins as
dressing-rooms and parcel-rooms. I
understand that you are a part
owner. It's therefore with regret
that l must report that your ship
seems to have been built for the
convenience Of e0ckroaches and
worse"
I'VE do the best we can" said
Flint. Every now and then we close
all the ports. batten down all the
matches. and do a great extermina-
ton act with sulphur or Tornado
hyde. The only trouble is we don't
exlerninate. They seem to like it."
"The bathroom" said Bowers,
sought 10 have been a de luxe cabin.
Il IL only a shower, but It has two
portfolios and an open transom over
the door. The bolt. with which the
door was formerly fastened, has
shorn OF. and the key to the lock is
doubtless in the collection OF some
souvenir hunter.
''The bath Is airy I'm more ways
than this. The curtain, which for
merry may have contained a per
eentage OF rubber. now resembles
that material which. in the best
dressmaklng establishments. goes
By the name OF 'PeekabOO.'"
The best way" said Flint, ito
battle on this ship is to come on
deck aud have some OF the crew
douae you with buckets of sea.
waler."
4 think" said Miss Green. that
~ have 10 give the shower a fair
trial first"
4 had an idea" said Bowers.
that the sleeping accommodations
on the noldero might not be as rep
resented In the company's recent
worldwide advertising campaign. so
bought two mattresses at trad
iug.store. They ma: be a little hard
and little thin. but they are clean.
! bought also some pillows. pillow
shaIns and sheets. I thought Miss
Green would probably wish to sleep
on deck"
= ought 90 sleep somewhere near
The animals" said she.
"You pick the place." said Bow.
eFs, "and we'll do the rest"
There is no place like this place."
said she. What do you cali it?"
THE forecastle-head." said Flint.
IL there Is any breeze. you'll get 1t.
aud II there Is. as sometimes.
strong jungle smell. IL will be car
Tiod aft"
~what will I do If it rains?" she
asked.
"You will go below" said Bowers,
sin a drowning condition: but II is
not apt 20 rain. II shouldn't rain for
several weeks. and the sea ought to
be like glass"
TIVE sun had long since gone down
behind the mountains which
we're back OF Sinbao. and the short
tFOpie twilight was coming to an
cad. Fl" 80
I'VE dine early" said Flint. "DOes
anyone mind?"
do we dress?" asked Miss Green.
''Not the first night out" said
Flint. I'VE borrow our manners and
customs from the best English lin
efs. In about two minutes. the Get
Ready gong will be sounded. and
twenty minutes later the Come eat
gong"
"And where" asked Bowers. us
the dining saloon?"
Nobody knows" said Flint. ut
was abandoned years and years ago.
Captain Wong 30 has asked you to !
sit az his table. Except in bad
weather he Is always served on
deck. usually Just aft Of the bridge |
structure; but you can always To-
cate his table by ear"
lis II one OF those tables that
rapsY" asked the girl.
enc" said Flint. "The table itself
is unusually quiet. Il has been very
nicely brought up. The sound that
1 refer 10 Is made by a cork coming
cut o. a champagne bottle. At lunch
con and dinner. instead OF soup. we J