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By Wcathcrby Chesncy and Alick Monro
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CHAPTER IV
Three dnys had pnssod since our nd
vcnturc in Don Miguels house nnd ns
1 hnd lienrd no more nbout the broken
crucible I began to hope that If there
had been n storm It had blown over
But on the fourth morning after
brcakfnst my father told me to follow
him Into his study nnd 1 guessed that
nu uncomfortnble hnlf hour was lu
store for me I was not wrong
John said my father what were
you doing at Don Miguels house three
nights ago
I went to rod Inez I replied trem
bling but defiant
Do you often go
Yes father
WhyV
He wns looking at me so gravely and
he spoke so quietly I knew he was
very angry 1 thought however that
the boldest course wns the best so I
spoke the plain truth
Because Inez is my sweetheart
Your sweethenrt Ilm and he
stared at me harder than ever
Yes father I said twirling my
cap la my Augers nervously and anil
I want to marry her
Oh Is that so How old are you
Im In my nineteenth year
Quito true quite true Your state
ments are generally reliable John It
Is your one good point But I may re
mind you that it Is also tme that you
celebrated your eighteenth birthday
Just a month ago Youd forgotten
that for the moment
No father
No Well Just for the sake of argu
ment we will say you are 18 Bather
young to marry Isnt It
Yes father I answered but
Never mind the but John You
are too young to marry and thats one
point against you How do you pro
pose to support a wife Pardon my
asking its a very pertinent question
I thought perhaps that you
Well out with it John You thought
perhaps that I
That you would set me up In some
business
Good I was afraid that you were
going to suggest that I might share
my lnconle with you but Im glad to
find that I misjudged you Lot me
see What sort of business should you
prefer A fishermans You shake
your bead A poacher No Well
Im afraid I cant think of anything
else for which you are suited It is
very sad but really I dont think you
can support a wife at present Point
number two John
But father
Walt a minute I have two more
points to urge yet and then you can
have your say Point number three
the lady is a foreigner Point numbi r
four I have other views for you Now
let me hear what you have to urge on
our side
I love Inez -
Ah And
She loves me 1
And
Nothing else
Well John they are both no doubt
very cogent reasons I shouldnt ad-
vlBe you to trust too much to the see-
ond by the way but I am afraid they
are not sufficient Now sir listen to
me You arc an Idle good for nothing
scamp and from every side I hear
nothing but bnd reports of you You
and your companion In mischief Alex
ander Ireland nro a disgrace to the
town Don Miguel tells me that you
utterly ruined an experiment of his
which had taken months of constant
work nnd had cost him a large sum of
money He had Just brought It to n
successful conclusion when you caused
him to spill his precious liquid on the
floor and he demands that I shall
make good the damage What do you
Bay to that
That you wont do It I nnswered
for I knew my fnther
Well no I dont consider that he
was engaged on lnwful work so I shall
refuse to pay But that is not the
point Your conduct Is simply dis
graceful and I have resolved to put a
stop to it I have obtained a slzarshlp
for you at Clare Hall Cambridge and
you shall start off there In two days
But I want to go to sea I cried
I choose that you shall not
Am I to be n parson then
Certainly Have you any objec
tion
I hate the work I said sullenly
Oh thats unfortunate but Im
nfrald I cant alter my decision Now
go and remember I forbid you to speak
to Don Miguels daughter
But father
This discussion 1b at an end
Thus it hnppenod that two days aft
er the conversation with my father I
was on my way to Cambridge con
demned to fit myself by hard study
for the calling of a parson
My father was Inexorable The life
he said had proved a congenial one to
my ten brothers and must therefore
be the best for me too I combated
the theory vigorously but without pro
ducing any effect on his mind so I had
to submit nnd go
My father bought me a rough little
galloway anil having escorted me to
the town boundaries and seen me air
ly started on the road to York gave me
u paternal blessing and a not too heavy
purse and then turned back home
It was the last time 1 saw him for
when years afterward I returned to
Whitby he was dead He was a good
father to me though in those days 1
used not to think so But he lived by
rule IiluiKcIl and so he would have
had the rest of us do the same and
from that effort on his part arose what
ever there was of trouble among u
From what 1 have seen lu the case of
other families I should Imagine that we
were not In this respect unique
It was with a heavy heart thumping
beneath my Jacket thnt I rode slowly
along the queens highway I was
separated from my sworn shlptnnte I
was goliig to a life that In the pros
pect I loathed and 1 hnd not been al
lowed to see my sweetheart even to say
goodby sufficient reasons all of them
for gloomy thoughts
My meditations however received a
somewhat rude Interruption I had let
the reins fall on my horses neck nnd
he was Jogging along quietly with very
little guidance from me when the
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But I want to ao to sea 1 cried
Bound of something moving lu the
hedge at the side of the road made
him swerve violently to the other side
and start suddenly forward 1 was
taken unprepared nnd being nn un
skillful horseman at the best of times
was deposited with more violence than
grace on my hack lu the middle of the
rond I lay there for a few seconds
dazed with the shaking and when I
got up and looked about me to sec
what had caused my uncomfortably
rapid dismount there was Alec stand
ing looking at me with his face nil
twisted up In the effort to look con
cerned when as a matter of fact he
was shaking with laughter at my un
dignified maneuver
Hurt Jack he asked at length
with exaggerated solemnity
No I answered shortly Was It
you who frightened my horse
I suppose so but as youre not hurt
hdoes not matter
Doesnt It It only means that 1
shall have a pretty chase before I catch
him again Thats nothing is it
Willie has caught him said Alec
Willie Trehallon here too
Yes Oh Jack you did look ridicu
lous To see your big lumbering car
cass roll over the horses tall was a
sight for little fishes Dont bo angry
but I cant help laughing
Oh pray go on I nnswered loftily
and turned to take my horse from Wil
lie Trehallon who had come up while
we were talking
When I saw that his face too wore
a comically deprecating look of amuse
ment I was Just beginning to lose my
temper with them both when tLu
thought of the ludicrous figure I must
have presented struck me forcibly My
nuger suddenly melted nnd I laughed
as heartily as either of them
Come Master Topp said Willie
when we found our breath again bet
ter to laugh even If the Jokes ngIu
yourself than to wear that glum face
you were carrying before we came un
upset your gravity You might have
been attending your own funeral by
the look o you
Did you give Inez my message I
asked turning to Alec
Yes and very nearly fell foul of
the Spaniard In doing It
What did she say
She cried
But the message Didnt Bbe send
me a message I asked impatiently
No Bald Alec innocently Did
you expect one And then seeing
my look of disappointment be added
quickly There Jock I wont tease
you longer She didnt send a mes
sage but Bbe did better she gave me
a letter for vou
Now I dont intend to tell what was
In that letter It was the first one I
ever received from my sweetheart and
It kept me happy for the rest of the
Journey Need I say more
They waited patiently till I had fin
ished reading and then Alec asked mo
what my plans were
Cambridge I suppose I answered
ruefully
Parson he asked with a mis
chievous grin
So my father says
Are you quite resigned to your
fate
Resigned I cried impetuously
No but now thnt Pin separated from
Inez and you I dont much care
I am your sworn shipmate Jack
Dont forget that
I dont forget it Alec I said tak
lug his baud
Pardon me I think you do
How
You say that we shall be sepa
rated
Well so we shall Cambridge and
Whitby lire surely fnr enough apart
Im coming with you
A loci Do you mean It 1 cried In
delight
Never desalt n Rworn slilpninte
Master Topp put In Willie Trelmllon
sontentlously
Yes Im mining said Alec hut I
dont mean to turn parson for all that
Wish 1 neednt 1 grumbled
Why need you
Fathers commands What else takes
me to Cambridge
Why go to Cambridge nt nil 1 dont
menu to
What I cried 1 thought you said
you were coming with me
So 1 am but not to Cambridge
Where then
London
To Loudon What for 1 dont un
derstand you Alee
Ijottdnti Is a port
Well
Ports contain ships Ships go to sei
We go to sea Its simple enough
Why Jack you dont mean to say you
are willing to give up our plan of a sen
faring life without a struggle
No I s Id but 1 hadnt thought
of running away to sea
Why not Youll never go In anv
wmiwr way If your father Is set on put
ting you Into the church Now Is the
time to take our fortunes Into our own
hands
But Alee
WIH you do It
1 thought for a moment before I nn
Hwered A vision of the dull round of
books and lectures that was waiting
for me nt Cambridge rose before my
eyes 1 had Just succeeded lu throw
lug off the bondage of one schoolmas
ter nnd It seemed to me that 1 was on
my way to put myself Into the power
of seven others worse than the first
That thought decided me Yes 1
said I will go with you
Now during this discussion Willie
Trehallon hnd been darting question
lng glances at us out of his solitary eye
and rubbing his fur cap rellectlvely
backward and forward on his bald
pntc with his hook a habit lie had
when anything exercised his mind
Now he spoke
Masters he said shaking his head
vigorously It wont do TIs ten thou
sand shames that a lad like you
Master Topp should be made a parson
nn never wear Iron except to cut his
meat with but dont gi ugln your fa
ther lad No good ever came o doing
that Youll be a gould hunter some
day sure enough an Master Ireland
here a Spaniard killer but wait till the
proper time comes Making a scholar o
yourselfll do you no barm though
they do sny Better go to sen on n Fri
day than snll under a captain as has
book learning Seems to me though
that its the man as Is to blame an not
the learning an nobody can deny that
scraps o Latin scattered through a
bold speechll do a lot to hearten men
up when theyre down So Willie Tre
hallous advice to you is to obey your
fathers orders just now nn if you
keep up u stout heart an wait for your
chance to come to you youll slip the
cassock an live to rob the Spaniard
yet
This speech of Willies was a damper
on our enthusiasm We knew that lie
was thoroughly loyal to both of us and
his advice was on that account worth
consideration We argued the matter
out and in the end it wis decided that
I should continue on my road to Cam
bridge while the other two went back
to Whitby I promised to wait n day
or two at York and Alec would mean
while try to get his gunrdlans consent
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But finally an he was short handed he
aurced to take us
to accompany me to Cambridge If he
succeeded well and good If not he
would still Join me at York and we
would carry out our original plan of
going to sea
Willie demurred to this but In the
end he agreed to the compromise And
then we parted He gave me to wear
round my neck a charm which he had
brought from the Barbary coast a cei
tain preventive he assured me against
witchery of all kinds Then we Btood
In the road Joined hands and sang
three times the verse of Willies sea
eong
Ball away
Hack away
Plunder I Stamp with toot
Gather nil the valuable you can etc
And thus we parted
On the third day after this Alec Join
ed me nt York and announced that his
uncle who as his guardian had given
him leave to uccompnny me So to
Cambridge we went and the paternal
authority was not defied
In the end however It mndo little
difference beeaube though Alec made
good uso of his opportunities for ac
quiring knowledge I did nothing but
amuse myself lu the town with the re
sult thnt by a prolonged course of riot
lug and idleness made Clare Hull too
hot to hold me
1 had uot been in Cambridge two
mouths when the Inconvenient atten
tion of the university proctors made It
necessary for mo to leavo hurried
und as I had to go Alec said he would
uot stay either so one night we lied
with the proctors men after us We
eluded them boweverjb Bwunmlnv
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ncross the river and without getting
Into more than nn nveruge number of
scrapes on the rond made our way to
1ondon Three days In thin city suf
ficed to exhaust our small stock of
money and there was only one course
left open to us Fortunately It was
the ouu we both most wished to fol
low
In a low roofed tavern parlor lu Whip
ping we entered Into conversation with
a gnarled old shipmaster whom we
found drinking strong ale with a toat
In It and crunching raw onions as
though they wero nroinatlc sweet
meats To him we confided our wish
Want to go to sea eh he growled
Well Its a dogs life at first and not
much better after rancid salt pork to
eat and not a saory morsel like this
here onion to be had for love or money
hard work hard knocks and scurvy
thats what voull get If youre extra
strong you nuiy stand It If not better
steal a sheep and get comfortably
hanged ashoic
Anil so he went maundering on But
finally as he was short handed he
agreed to take us as ordinary seamen
promising promotion when wo deserv
ed it
On that very night we were entered
on the books of the brig Surrey Mills
and our life of adventure wns begun
TolioCimtlimiMl Nxt Week
OUR STfiTUTlN CUBA
Neil Cine Comet Ip 11fnto flic Supremo
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Washington Dec 11 The Neely ex
tradition case was argued yesterday
lu the supreme court All the Judges
weie present The argument devel
oped Interesting ami Important ques
tions of law with reference to the right
of the United States to extradite a fu
gitive criminal In the absence of an ex
tradition treaty and especially with
reference to the right of the president
shire the ratification of the treaty of
Paris to maintain a military form of
government In the island of Cuba Tim
hitter feature of the argument made
It the first of the arguments which
bring iqi for final decision by the su
preme court the constitutional rela
tions between this country and tho
territorial acquisitions which It has
gained as a result of the Spanish
American war The Neely case re
ferred exclusively to the character of
these relations so far as the Island of
Cuba was concerned and thus pre
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that which will be argued on Dec 17
when the character of these relations
with Porto Ulco and the Philippines
will be under consideration
The defendant sets up tho broad
claim that the United States has no
right to be In the Island of Cuba while
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