Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1898 — Page 10

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Guar&v® Hrase«T neu< [Copy' gbt, 1897, by J B. Lippincott Co.] CHAPTEB V. I pored over the charts until the dinner-gong- sounded'; then the photograph. which lay directly under one of the incandescent globes, caught my eye, and I examined it again. In the solitude of our cabin I had: a better opportunity to study the Senorita Dorotea’s face, and it attracted me strangely. If she had any of that charm of manner possessed by the Senorita Palacios, I thought, my stay upon the island of Guajan might be anything but unpleasant; so, between the anxiety to be accomplishing something and my speculations concerning the people at Agana. I was rather preoccupied at the dinner-table. Padre Sebastian began presently to chaff me a little as being poor company. I noticed that he was watching Pick and the senorita very closely, as if trying to detect a triangular under- , standing between us three, or at least some indication of rivalry between the captain and myself. The padre had kept track of my movements during the day, but 1 was positive he could ( not have overheard anything, so be- : gan to ply him with questions concern- > ing social conditions in the islands. He seemed to have accepted my reasons for making the voyage, but my sharing the captain’s quarters, also the fact of our being the only Americanos on board, evidently led him to favor us with a closer observation than if we had been his own country- : men. Your Spanish priest is the most - companionable and interesting manin the world when he wishes to be. and Padre Sebastiano was no exception to the rule. Having overcome my repug- 1 nance to him for obvious reasons, I found myself rather liking the man. He spoke so frankly upon even church matters that I began to consider him harmless, and fancied my first impres- , sion a mistake. Halstead was too reasonable a man to claim more than a fair share of the senorita’s society, much as he liked her; so, as Don Silvestre retired to the smoking-room after dinner for tobacco and cards, I took her aft, where we could' watch the phosphorescent foam from the screw and talk without being overheard; for I saw she had something to say. She had been listening attentively to my conversation with the padre, and had been trying to recall sundry scraps of talk which she had overheard between him and his Jesuit companion; but before mentioning them she -questioned me in regard to my proposed movements after leaving the .steamer. “I heard you the padre tell, Senor Enrique,” she said, “that you were this voyage merely taking as a siesta from your affairs, and I too many of los Americanos have seen to believe they do rest very long. They do work, work, work like slaves, all of the time. And when they get rich —oh, so very rich •till they do work, and no siesta, take. Yet the Senor Enrique does one take which, will last a month, surely, with his very good friend el capitan; and when he on land goes at el Guajan, it will three months be—such long, long months—before he will again see el vapor in which he may return. Now, un Americano, the senor will not rest for all these long months; not so! XVhat, then, will he do in el Guajan, where one never works? Make love perhaps to la senorita whom he -•ever has seen? But- even that- work is not. How —" ’ “One moment, senorita; why should you think I have any intention of staving in Guajan?” “Oh, but it so simple is! Amigo mio” (here she laid her pretty fingers on my arm), “los Americanosgenerosos are;

it so kind was of you to think of la pobrecita’s dresses. I doubt not that it. your goodness of heart was. yet. even such un hombre could not resist at- the least seeing la senorita when she does wear them. And she will not them wear before the steamer shall go away, do you not see? El Capitan ‘Dik* did for her feel. also, but it was not he who to think tried how he la senorita might help at once—ai. but he to see her was not; long enough!” “Well, that's a. pretty clever line of reasoning, mia senorita. But don't you think you are giving that photograph the credit of being a pretty strong attraction, to make, me think of leaving you to Capt. Dick, and burying myself among those out-of-the way islands for a whole three months, just to get acquainted with the original?” “That not isso. Enrique niio” (blushing warmly at this audacious familiarity). “I—l am alive, and —you shall to be with me have for two of the weeks yet. I think not you would me leave for but a photograph if I said you should not; have I la gran conceit?” (She looked so bewitching in the moonlight that to save my neck I couldn’t avoid g’ving her waist a gentle squeeze). "No! you some affair in el Guajan have —though never could I guess what it maybe. It something which of more worth is to you than your affairs in Manila, or you neglect them would not for so long. It something is which you do undertake for el Bicardito as well as yourself, and in which he does you trust as few men do trust each other, or your friendship I could make like a broken thread with jealousy of me. Un gran presuncion, is it not, amigo mio? But true, not the less. Else you embrace me would not, and el eapitan would look at me not with the eyes that talk, oh, so much—so much that the little shivers he does make come to me sometimes, and I am afraid. Well, then, if this something stronger is than love of woman, what it can be but the love of gold—such heaps of glittering, shining gold! Yet gold there is not in el Guajan, else el gobernador would in Madrid be with much of it. What then it can be?” “Quien sabe? Perhaps the elixir of life. But if Igo ashore there as you imagine, and if I find anything beyond health and rest. I'll come and see you some day—or, rather. I'll come and see you and Dick. Then I’ll tell you both all about it.” “You will com® to see me and el Ricardito? But I shall in Seville be.” “Exactly; so will Dick as soon as he can get there.” “Dios! qui temerario! But suppose —suppose I do permit him not—?” “He'll come ail the same; I think I know Dick.” (Here she placed the palm of her hand over my mouth, as if to keep me from saying more, but her bright eyes were swimming with delight.)

“ ’Sh! El padre may you hear. It waste speak of him I did wish when we on deck did come He has been of you speaking to el cura, Enrique, asking the questions ail about you —whether you really un comerciante were in Manila and Hong-Kong —why this voyage you were making. In some way he seems you to doubt, and he remarks upon the long talks in su camara you do have with el eapitan. He nothing knows of la senorita’s vestida, or your destination he would have suspected much sooner than did I and, surely, your object. You must so very careful be what you do say, no matter where. Everything the padres do know, and in Madrid much influence has el Sebastino. You will remember, will you not, Enrique? And-you must let him see not that of him you are suspicious, as last night you did; do not you see how quickly did he. notice, and did you make to him like in spite of yourself? Now take below me, and to el Capitan ’Dik’ explain.” The more I thought over what she had told me, the more I felt that my oleaginous clerical friend was likely to make trouble for ussooner or later; and when we were alone I repeated the conversation for Halstead’s benefit. He and McPherson, counting upon the padre’s good offices, had been | inclined to doubt his mischief-making , ability, though their experience in the ’ east had taught them better; but after digesting the senorita’s warning and ; recalling several remarks of Sebasti- | ano’s, he began to look thoughtful. “There’s going to be enough diffi-! culty as matters are,” he said, “with- ■ out having a suspicious priest to contend with. It begins to look as if there might be some connection be- j tween Parde Julian’s absence and Sebastiano’s trip out here. If what the i senorita told you is true, about his being influential at Madrid, it seems; mighty queer that so big a gun should waste his time in the Ladrones. You see, there aren't enough of the heathen to convert, nor are there any opportunities to wield influence in the Phil-1 ippines from such a base of operations, i The cura, now, might easily be com-1 ing out to practice on the natives; but neither the pickings nor the political pull are big enough to interest a man of any standing.” “It would be an odd coincidence, wouldn’t it, if old Julian and this chap had figured the thing out and were actually upon the same errand as our-1 selves?” “Hmpf! It would seem a heap queerer to them if. after the timetheymust have spent in studying the matter, two casual travelers like ourselves should happen' to hit on the same idea, yes, and by sheer fool luck to reach the islands better equipped for such a job than they can possibly be. But, by the great green turtle! Pm with you on getting that cash. I didn’t take much stock in the idea at first, and when I agreed to go in I was thinking more of you than of myself; but I’ve been seeing a good deal of Don Silvestre's daughter during the last 48 hours, and that makes a heap of dis-

ference. The old man owns too many vineyards and plantations to relish sailor men in his family; so I wouldn t mind having money enough to cruise through Spain like a gentleman when 1 go ashore.” -Well, I guess we're both interested enough now. We're getting right along, too. Mac .t old me he was making 11 knots today. When are you going to change the course?” "That's what I've been figuring on all day, but the padre complicates matters. Draw up your chair and ; let's have another go at the chart. ' I'll shut the windows, too: we’d better suffocate for an hour or two than i have Diaz and his mates guessing too | much. Xcw let's see. Jo-night's the 31st; here’s where we were at noon. Twelve degrees and thirty minutes ■ no'th latitude; hundred and twentyseven, thirty-t wo. eas'. Now, say Mac , keeps shoving her ten or eleven knots through the night and lets up a lit- 1 tie in the morning to cool down his bearings—one of ’em heated considerably to-day—we'll be somewhere eas’ of hundred and thirty-one by noon, and about a degree further south. Had to lay her on the regular course for Yap. you know—eas’ by sou’, quartersou'— or Diazand Moreno would have caught on. Weil, suppose we stick to that for another day—noon of the 2d; that’ll bring us within sixteen hours’ steaming of Yap and a good forty-five from Guajan. won’t it? Here. I’ll lay off the runs in pencil marks. Now even a fool landsman tvonld think it mighty queer to tackle i forty-five hour run with disabled machinery, no matter how much refitting he might do at the end of it, when there happens to be a safe harbor within a hundred and sixty miles.” "You will remember, will you not, Enrique? " This was a facer for me. The penciled course on the chart showed the absurdity of the proposition; but while I was puzzling over it the captain drew another line which gave the problem a more favorable aspect. “Suppose we should change about to-morrow,” he said. “Call it a hundred and thirty-one, twenty, eas’, by ’leven, fifty, no’th. On straight runs from there, we’d have forty-two hours to Yap and seventy-five or eighty to Guajan; that is, on a twelve-knot basis. But the mates are calculating upon the regular easy runs—Diaz thinks Mac raced her to-day in order to get the stiffness out of that fresh Babbitt metal —and they figure on at least sixty hours from the noon position, to-morrow, into Tomil bay. could cut the eighty hours to Guajan down to sixty-eight if he shoved her.” “And that cura, Juan, is not only a chap who seems to take things about as he finds them, but a pretty good sailor into the bargain. So that if any row comes of this it is most likely to be from people at Yap who are expesting mail and supplies, or who are waiting to leave for Manila. How long before you will get back there?” “Well, let's see.” (We figured out the approximate runs, penciling them on the chart, until the whole voyage lay diagrammed before us.) “We would anchor off the landing wharf at Apra about noon on Saturday; that’s the 4th of April. We ought to get away from there Sunday and drop the padre at Saipan Monday morning. Then, running straight for Kusaie, with the no’theas’ trades helping us on our port beam, she’d make Chabrol Harbor some time Saturday forenoon. It’s a short run from Kusaie to Pouynipete; we’d strike Kittie harbor about noon on Monday and leave there next day; that’s the 14th. The navigation among these atolls in the Carolines is too dangerous to risk—the group has never been surveyed, you see—so we go to the no’th'ard of them; but we ought to fetch into Yap by the following Sunday, easy enough. I That would be the 19th, wouldn’t it? ' Suppose us to be due there next Friday night, something under 16 days : late. As a matter of actual fact, the regular steamer used often to leave | Manila several days over time; and, ! as the colonies are run on the ‘a | manana’ principle, the mere being a couple of weeks behind wouldn’t make much difference. But if any of the gobernador’s party should happen to be waiting for a comfortable trip on the steamer, with good meals and baths, between Y’ap and Pouynipete i or Guajan, they'd kick a good deal on I having to wait until after the wet | monsoon had set in.” "Well, but wait a bit. How many | hours is it from Y’ap to Guajan?” “Let’s see. Four hundred and fiftytwCmiles; call it 36 hours' easy steaming. “That isn’t so very much, and Mac has coal enough to make up a heap of lost time over the regular nine-knot rate. Suppose you find that any of these Caroline people do want to run up to the Ladrones; what’s the matter with taking them from Yap? It would make but little more than two days’ difference on the round voyage, and Mac could reduce that materially. | Then they’d be under obligations to 1 you, as well as the padre.”

“That’s a pretty good suggestion, Harry; I hadn’t thought of it. You would have nearly three weeks to work in, and could return with me if you were unsuccessful. But youd have to take your chances on there being no one who wanted to reach Guajan; in that ease I wouldn t have an excuse for coming back, you know. “Oh. I understand that, of course. I’m prepared to stay on that island for six months, if necessary: it might take all of (hat time to really accomplish anything. When are you going to ofi fer the padre his passage to Saipan, after Mae's little arrangement? “No. I don’t propose making any I advances at all to him: he's too slippery. I’m eaptain of this steamer, and if anything occurs which seems to necessitate a change in the navigation. I am supposed to use my. own judgment. Any owner or any chartering company would be obliges to accept 1 my decision in such a case, unless they could prove that the necessity did not exist. That is really where I lay myself open, if there should be a hitch in Mac’s bluff. But he generally knows what he’s about, and has set the thing up pretty well: though until the engine actually stops it is impossible to say whether his scratch will look serious enough to warrant the change of course. The only way to handle the padre is to keep still, lister, closely' to what he says, and work the bluff for all it's worth. Unless lam very much mistaken, he’ll make some kind of suggestion to me himself, especially’ if we mind our own business and are not seen much together. Youd better hang around the lower deck and smok-ing-room all day to-morrow. ( ultivate Don Silvestre as if you were trying to get solid with him on his daughter’s account, and. spend the rest of the time with the senorita. If she notices anything suspicious about the padre, she’ll certainly tell you.” After going over the prospective runs on the chart again, we both turned it; but I found it difficult to sleep. The next day seemed likely to be an eventful one. and I was worried by the conviction that my friend was taking big chances of losing his command through the crazy speculation into which I had drawn him. Once I even got out of my bun»c with the intention of waking him to advise the relinquishment of the whole affair, but he was muttering about red lips, ar.d Spain, and millions, in hi® sleep; so I thought better of it, and turned in again. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Winter Excursion Rates to Southern Resorts via Southern Railway. Beginning October 15. winter excursion tickets to principle Southern resorts, including Asheville and Hot Springs, S. C., and Florida points, are on sale by connecting lines via Southern Railways. Tickets allow 15 days stop-overs, and are good to return un til May 31, 1899. The Southern Railway quickest and best. Write sot maps, schedules and rates. Win. H Taylor, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky. m3l-99 The Clover Leaf will sell extremely low rate winter tourists’ tickets to points south and southwest. Any agent Clover Leaf route will be glad to furnish full particulars, or address C. C. Jenkins, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. 38-4 It frequently rains on the just, because the unjust carried off the umbrella.

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