Show the captain s daughter W disgusted la is no word in which to describe miss betts condition of mind the other day when she found she sho was to share her stateroom on a IL southbound south bound steamer with miss phillis brown she clenched her elderly fists flats and grit her elderly teeth and betook herself to the purser pursers s office there a a woman in my stateroom she announced acridly an you can jest put her soine wheres else I 1 don t want to have a stranger in the room with me I 1 in sorry madam but it cant can t be helped the boat Is so crowded said the purser I 1 wouldn t of come at all ef e I 1 ha be I 1 a known id I 1 d have some other horrid passenger in the room with me sulked the wizened little woman oh she isn lent t a horrid pases nger r soothed the purser good natu like her when you know her think so sniffed miss belts betts sar ear caustically castl casti cally you don dont t know me perhaps not responded the purser who knew miss brown a father but there are few ladles ladies who could help liking the captain a daughter the captains daughter daught ert exclaim ed miss betts somewhat mollified it might be an advantage to know the captains daughter it will be a great advantage said the purser confidently she shell 11 alt sit at the captain a table of course an shell she 11 know all the ship a officers I 1 a pose an maybe she it 11 take me round an show me the whole ship an I 1 never was through a ship in III my life remarked miss betts mus angly oh well I 1 guess she can stay concluded the little woman now completely restored to good humor then she bobbed away with her lit tie mincing steps and returning to her stateroom made herself pleasant in her own peculiar way to miss phillis brown drown whom she found sitting on the edge of the lower berth groping in her handbag for a box of candy it 11 be we real nice to have company re marked miss betts ingratiatingly I 1 s pose you won wont t mind taking the up per berth I 1 ain aln t so spry as I 1 was I 1 won t mind at all assented miss brown do you think your father d approve of your batin that candy just before out to sea seab I 1 I 1 ion bont t think he bed d mind replied miss brown wont you have somei some oh ob lor not no I 1 id d be sick as two cats et ef I 1 was to eat it does your father ever ver e git gi t seasick 9 I 1 believe he does sometimes re spondee the young lady looking cur bously at miss betts why do you ask oh bothin I 1 just wanted to know said miss betts 1 I 6 pose you have the run of the whole ship she continued no more than any one else re pud miss brown again looking curiously at her new acquaintance miss betts raised her already highly arched eyebrows til they were almost lost among the roots of her sparse hair but she merely said well any way debbe you 11 be able to take me round and show me the interesting Inte in parts of the ship the galleys an the bridge an the ingine room she con eluded vaguely yes indeed responded was bliss brown III show you all I 1 can later on she kept her word nobly and pi walked the little old woman JH about the ship telling her all she knew of ships in general and of this V A ship in particular but her explanations did not alpar antly satisfy mias miss betts for that night aa as they viere ere retiring she re marked I 1 should a thought your pa ra would a taught you all there was to know about ships he has told me a lot about them replied miss bliss brown well there was lots of things you t tell me about this one an seems to me you might of an down to the saloon when ben we was at din ncr ner we didn dian t sit at the captain captains s ta ble at all were you going to asked misa miss brown was I 1 coln to of course I 1 was goin to I 1 though that was one of the privileges of froomin with the captain captains s daughter that s what I 1 un der stood I 1 should think your father would want to have you sit with him at table an I 1 should think hed bed intro duce you to all the ships ship a officers I 1 m sure I 1 don t know what you re talking about returned miss brown with a bewildered look my father doesn doean t know any of the officers well he a a funny captain then not n ot to know the offers of his own ship I 1 think you must be dreaming miss betts exclaimed the girl aly 1 father has nothing to do with this ship nor its officers nor with seating the passengers at table my father happens ta to have served in the span ish war and held the rank of captain he never set toot foot on this ship that I 1 know of then the purser lied snapped miss betts indignantly yet the purser had not lied |