The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-18

~Aots GACSpI lot the man at the
wheel they had the bridge to them
selves. and Captain Wong Bo made
use Of the opportunity.
Il think" he remarked In a friend
~ and casual tone. you talk too
damn much"
"Yeah?" said Mr.. Flint. How
conner"
You tell Mclean girl Boidero bad
ilthy ship. Not safe. Maybe sink"
Flint could not deny that b. had
done his best to persuade Miss
Green not to sail on the doomed
ship. He had not Of course told her
that the ship was doomed: but he
had, as Captain Wong 30 sale talked
too much.
II he had not aroused the girls
suspicious, It was not through any
fault OF his own. He defended him
self sulkily.
Il don't want to see an American
GIRL" he said, cor any ether girl,
mixed up with shipwreck."
Wong 30 chuckled remini3cently.
Mclean girl, black girl, yellow girl,
all same. Heap meet"
There is one thing" said Flint.
that's got to be understood here
and now: that girl comes to no harm,
not while this ship floats, or IL she
goes down. When we make our get
away she goes with u.s."
Bowers man he come along too?"
asked Wong Bo with malice.
Flint considered this question for
some moments. He was infatuated
with Ivy.
Wen cross that bridge when we
come to It." he said finally.
you lika that Mclean girl" said
the Chinaman.
II think she is wonderful"
"A FTER the coming Of daylight
\ sleep was no longer possible.
Having promised not to come ON
deck until she was called, Ivy went
below to shower and dress.
Flint and Bowers, as they had ar
ranged, were sluiced down with
buckets Of sea-water thrown at them
by half a dozen seamen with play.
full violence. Others fished up fresh
bucketfuls, and II the water itself
had been a little cooler, it would
have been splendid way to battle.
While the two young men were
dressing-that is to say getting into
shirts and shorts-Bowers suggest
ed that 1t would be good thing II
tLey had a medicine ball to throw
around.
You're sticky enough when you
wake up" he said. But what a man
needs is |. sweat. That would make
this damned ocean water feel
cooler"
There wasn't of course anything
In the nature of a medicine ball on
board. but Flint said he would have
something of the kind made for them
with cotton rope.
Flint's incipient jealousy had
cooled. n the truth were told, he
had not slept we'll during the night,
and had crept forward a number OF
times to spy on thu sleepers IN the
bow.
Once during the night each had
found that the other was awake, It
Is not known how, and Flint had
heard the interchange of a few dis
arming phrases. A more jealous man
than Flint would have learned from
this interchange that between the
bis-game hunter and the tiger-tamer
there was only the most casual re-
lationship.
That Flint had played the spy and
was ashamed of himself was no
proof that he would not play the spy
again. At the moment. his most de-
cent traits were to the fore. This
fellow Bowers was obviously on the
level. The crew on the Boldero were
a bad lot.
The sleeping arrangements were
such that nobody could modest Ivy
without stumbling ever Bowers and
waking him. Bowers had explained
this to Flint on the previous eve
ming; but Flint had been skeptical
of the mans good faith. He was no
longer skeptical. He had friendly
feeling.
During that first day Ivy worked
out a routine for the care of the
menagerie. Bowers had had plenty
of experience with animals in state
of nature where they took care Of
He had also visited most
of the great ZOOS, but never when
the collections were not on public
exhibition. He had never in short
been behind the scenes. He had told
Ivy to tell him what to do. and that
he would do it the best he could, and
from the first she worked him like
a day laborer: the work, being more
varied than ditch-digging or stone
breaking. was more interesting.
(cotwiShf. 1854. BY GOEUsrnsr M0rris)
Tomorrow, Wong 30 discovers
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