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THE HONOLULU REPUBLICAN. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1901
FOR TIE L0E OF 4
FAITHLESS WOMIff
A Tale Part of Fact and
Just a Little Bit
oi jeicuon.
-Bwl. sir. Uie ship Is is no danger?
rgKersied the aarftting oScer. H
- eaa w no reaeoa for abandoning her
)r a mmoUi sa. when she has made
ah" two-feet of water." V
"Silence sir'" replied Commander
Henrrk.. -Have vt taken leave of
yew teases?"
Aa4 as he saM this he strode
ttf the weather side of the commanding
hridee of the United States
Maria Teresa and gazed out
over the stormy waters with an
on hi face that was not
pleasant to -
The narhrator stepped back under
the lee of the superstructure and when
ate coomaarior again approached he
"
wa out of sight
Wbat the deril does it all mean"'"
mumbled the navigator to himself.
"Prepare to abandon ship." came the
JHXI command from the -bridge of the
Maria, Jn a vary: short time, tlfe
temporary company of the lately
pride of the Spanish Navy, were
the cab I a length ofsull.
en b.ack water toward the little
lender, which was accompany-lag
the priz to the port n Virginia,
where h waf to
ln aadadjcrtlie trngtfiNof ''
the Navy
'ibere were tears in the eyes of a
boyish appearing naval cadet as he
sat In the stern-sheets of the
engfaaads'lMxit andValcHSL'UrCIIhes '.
of the beautiful vessel grow indistinct
as she heeled over in the sea-way and
started to drift down upon the shore
of a low-lying island which was dimly
ialble about a league to leeward
"I wonder what ails the QUI Man."
he 'whispered a tie Up utenantjStlhis
Me. fj '" ! f
"Don't botha.ryouihed about matters
which dJinotcim'cernyou, !Jil-non.''
return tfle" oftlcer adtlrosspil.
But at the same time all the officers
of the ship were wondering whv Commander
Ienrvk adopted the action of
abandoning the cruiser under his command
and had taken to his boats when
there appeared to lie no very good reason
for ao dolus;
True, the ship had suffered from the
fearful shell-fire of Schley's licet and
wan not the seaworthy, dangerous
craft which had cawsed so much
Intho ooaet citios of the United
State She had a groat hole in her
starltoard bow and was considerably
damaged in her upper-works, but from
the standpoint of the safetv of the
crew there could be no valid reason
for cutting adrift this vessel of all
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The HARNESS
Tessele. that the American neon!"-
to have, handle and possess.
The commander sened to TtttHze
his position for he was, a thorough
navigator and had earned'hfs promotion
from the grade of Lieutenant by
his ganant conduct when on the U. 5.
ship Vandalia, In the harbor of Apia.
On that occasion, he was the oScex
who In a spirit of d2redeviltry had
ordered the ship's band to play "God
Save .the jQueen as the stoat British
the
distreessed Vandalia, unable to more
than maintain headway against the
typhoon which caused the undoing of
the American vessel. He was an
compHshed seaman, a officer
and be possessed another qualification
which fitted him eminently for the
command ot,the captured pride of the
iSpanlsb N"ary,
But the commander kept his own
counsel and said nothing and all the
while, the Maria was slower drifting
out of the range of vision.
.
Two weeks before the wave of disappointment
rolled over the' United
States as a result of the loss of the
ex-Spanish cruiser in a "storm" off
Cat island while she was proceeding to
the for repairs there was a
grand ball given in one of the legations
at Washington. It was not a
strict official function, but was largely
attended by the members of the various
legations. Among the guests, was
a beautiful dark-eyed girl whose semi-mourning
dressattractedas much attention
rfron jthetvfsltiris (diplomats
as those of the other hundred of Wash
ington's belles, who flitted through the
rooms of the building and laughed-and
flirted as pretty women will wherever
they are met
She of the dark eyes was
and returned thpsamp. answnr
tto all thelyoungjmen.who craved to
tread a measure with her.
"I have a headache, this evening."
sne said.
While an attache of the British
Uon"vaTstanilIngIand,'TaIking to her
and she in a bored sort of way was
attempting to listen to his inanities.
a door at the furiher end of thelroomr
opened 4nnd. Hobart Ellis of the 'avy
Department entered and walkedltow
ard the pair. The young Englishman
had not seen him come In and kept
up his endeavors at entertainment
Not" so with tlie lady, for as soon as
the door had opened she was on the
alert and when she caught a glimpse
of the official she dropped her eyes
and did not raise them again until Ellis"
stood close to her
"Of course it is a shame that the
ship Oh. how do von do Mr. Ellis."
said the Briton, when the American
made his presence known,
presence known
"We were just speaking about." but
ov tins time tills with the lady on.
his arm was halfway across the room
and headed for the conservatory-
"That's a rum go." said the deserted
one. "I wonder what's up."
"Ysabel, I cannot" Thus spoke
Ellis.
"I cannot do as you wish. I love you
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HARNESS MAKER, 'tnwii;"vr,v
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Sir.
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GosbyjlE'si Collars.
Wholeileml BetHil -Traders.
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with all ray heart, bat
which an oEcal or tins governsient
mast place abore evea thejWish of
the woman he would, iadly;.dle to
please.
"Ask me something else, ask me
aaythinar else but what might pro; e j
to bejreacb.erz.to -"y comlrr.
"Oh. TTmov'darllns glrl5,tbat yon i
wosld not cause me any trouble, that ;
it is only a whim of your dear little ,
head, but you must remember that
this country is at war with Spafo ,and
that the official ciphers and codes are
trusted to me in the department and
not even for you, I beso negligent
as to'Iose I fear nothing
for myself as you may prove if yon
will, but give up your dangerous study
of code ciphers and will test my statement
in some other way.
"Ysabelf you surely do not jneanit. f
You$wouId ratherjhave me ViolatSmy
better nature thanto give npjyour
jwhim?" "" Of
' "Think it over I love you your
form is always be'fore my eyes,, Could
you loe a mah who would violate his
own honor?"
He came even closer to her and extended
his arm over the back of the
settee upon which they were sitting.
He touched her shoulders with the
sleeve of his coat. The woman shuddered
at the contact, but as she felt
the strong arm encircling her. she settled
back and allowed him to do as he
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pleased.
She was beautiful. Her figure.
slightly less than the average in points
ui ueigui. was buuiy lasnionea. ane
was in the first flush of her glorious
womanhood perhaps 20 years old
perhaps 25. Whatoes it matter?
Her hair was that peculiar blue-black
tint, so frequently found among
the daughters of Castilian and so sel
dom anywhere elsein the world.
Her face was 'rather tbolbroad
across the brow and maybe Itf was
a little too much fullness of the lower
lip which might have indicated masculine
strength or possibly it was only
"ihe sign of another and a delightful
feminine characteristic.
Her face had blen colorless' except
Jas to her full lips during the early
portion of the evening. But now as she
rested her head against Ellis' shoulder.
with her fireful eyes half closed, as if
in anticipation, there was a delicate in
flush on the smooth cheeks and she
seemed to nestle closer within the circle
of his arm.
He bent his head toward her she
made a little inconsequential movement the
to release herself, but he held
her fast Her breath touched his cheek the
and neck and seemed to electrify "him-so
that he momentarily lost control of the
himself.
"But I will always love you if you
will do this for me. You are strongr mm
and you can do anything, why should
you hesitate to gratify the first request the
to you I have ever made?.' "She whispered
her words with an -his
lisp. In all our future life it is I who of
will obey." and she smiled up at him
with the expression of an angel from
heaven or else but why think of unpleasant had
things?
He was yielding, weak man. he was
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j actually-wavering his duty to Ms
country; 10 be sure it was only a
TszrsJess whim. His beantifs! bride-
wished to try his love
for her. She only wanted to test him
that was alL So man, even a
ernment oScial should have any se
crets from his wife, and Ysabel Carrara
to" "he" "his wife." There
coald surely be no harm In gratifying
her desire. Thus he reasoned with
himself; while hewas under the influence
of herpertnmy breath 3nd the
sensation of contact with her beautiful
form.
His head was swteminsHegasped
lips on hers and forgot that there was
anybody else in the. world.
Don Emilio Sanchez Iolledlback inj
ma jeasy oiaircajine veranaajorj jus
house, at Barcelona.! He wore
That was strange too. for a high cabinet
official of hard-pressed Spain, just
at the moment; when the conquering
Yankees Don Emilio called them by
another name, were forcing a "hard
bargain on his defeated country. He
was actually as near chuckling as the
Spaniard can come. He smiled and
smiled and whenever he took his cigarette
from his lips he really showed a
flash of his white teeth.
"Oh. this is too good," he
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"The little minx And sue loves me
arid wouldjrnot befhappy until she sees
me. again. j , ij
Well "Carissima .Mia!' it will likely
be a long time before you see me
again, and a longer time "if I see you
coming first." For Sanchez during his
long diplomatic service in the United
States had learned some of the picturesque
patois of the streets. "Oh. the
thick-headed pigs." he said to himself.
ijfet themselves be fooled
by a faugh "what's the use."
Of course Commander Henryk was
investigated and the circumstances of
his excuses were,marieTknmvn nt ;ho
time of the" rIa'l.r"ButtKe whole pri
vate official blame for the loss of the
Maria Teresa was shouldered on Hobart
Ellis. Henryk had received a dispatch,
odering him to abandon his ship
a place where she could not possibly
be extricated and after trying to
verify his instructions was obliged to
sail from Santiago without having
done so. on account of a broken link of
cable. -
He. had fulfilled, the instructions to
letter When he' arrived at Washington
he made a detailed 'report of
case.
For the sake of governmental pre
stige, the real facts were suppressed?
iue iuss ui me snip was auriouiea
just as it was by the public press of
country tos a -storm at sea
When-the body of Ellis was found in
apartments, the day after the news
the wrecking, of the 31aria Teresa
reached Washirigton. nobody but the
high officials suspected him of having
a hand in the matter. Did I say no
one? I meant.no one. but Ysabel Carrara.
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SATISFACTION GUSB&NTEEe.
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BUST WORK Of 1 '
TELEPIH GIRLS
They Sometimes Answer-Twelve
Thousand
Calls a Day.
NIBHT BUSINESS IS VERY QUIET
IMPORTERS, REVELERS AND THE
SICK TAKE UP MOST OF
THE TIME.
One Operator Says She Veuld Rather
Have Men Call Her "Dearie'' Than
To Be Real Mean and Swear at
rier.
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ONOLULU Is not a night j
town. The people go early
H to bed and when the midnight
hour is at hand, the
town is still with the stillness
of. a Kew England vil
lage. An occasional arc-light,
winking among' the
palms, is about all there is to let a belated
newspaperman or a late reveler
or a messenger in search of a physician,
know that the town is not dead
oniy sleeping.
After 11 o'clock, the pedestrians
are few and far between, the streets i
are deserted to the semi-occasional j
liceman and the owl-cab. and the quiet
respectable portion of the community,
except of course the newspapermen,
are wrapt in the first sweet slumber
of the night. Even the hello-girls at
the Mutual Telephone Company's office
have a little resting spell. The mere
fact that the hello-girls, after an early
hour of the evening are replaced by
hello-boys and they do the resting, really
makes no difference, except to the
girls who get no chance to do anything
in that line. The girls are kept very
busy during the day. especially on
steamer day. From the rising of the
sun even unto the going down of the
same, the buzz of the indicator and the
petulant can of the grumpy subscriber j other. They are pleasant and bright
makes her little life a burden to her. and in spite of statements to the con-But
during the dead watch from 1 trary, seen to ue perfectly satisfied
o'clock until 4. the liifts of the com- j with their positions. There are any
pany practically go out of business. ' number of applications for positions
Sometimes there is a lull for a period I on file with me. which would seem to
of two hours at a stretch, without a indicate that the job of hello-girls is
single switch, but more often the calls I not all thorns and without any sun-
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come in, about every 15 minutes all '
through the night It is very disagree- j
able to have to sit up and answer ,
these calls and if the boys play poker,
as some of the subscribers assert, it
must be very troublesome to get up ,
from the table to nnswena call when
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there Is a under discussion,
Superintendent Corcoran, says that
f iho An nnfnlav noker and in fact
never were introdaeed to the
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ies of the sinful jra&e. -
Mr Corcoran described the varying
amount of the business handled by the
company during the different hours of
the day. He said:
".V good average day's business dope j
by this office would be In the neighborhood
of 3000 switches. On steamer
days r sunrose that there are some-1 .
times as many as 12.00 calls. Fully
30 per cent of the calls are made be-
tweea S o'clock in the morains and 5 i
o'clock at night. After iJ o'clock, bus!-
f cab calls made np a portion of the
,' early morning trade. Of course some
ness with the telephone lines is very weeineart ana ne' -"" "
steady and regular but lessens in caQt even ter they are
' looking: or not Just imagine, there Is
by degrees, until about 10 o'clock
when it practical ceases until the I one man who In"nts a new
sun is up.
"The first calls in the morninsr hours
are from the residence districts and
nearly S o'clock there are few business
calls. But by 9 o'clock the men who
occupy the offices down town, the
cers and butchers and bakers In all j
parts of the city are ready for business i
and from that hour until the business
houses are closed for the day. the '
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little bell in the office is never silent
"At noontide the calls are almost '
incessant, but long about 3' o'clock .
mere comes a utUe lull except on I
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steamer day. and the operators have a
chance to breathe. People not engaged
in the telephone business can
hardly realize what it means to
one of the switch-boards and an-1
swer calls for hours at a time, but in I
the main the subscribers are considerate,
although sometimes I have no
doubt that both, the subscriber and the
operator think they are being misused.
The girls are only worked as a rule
for four hours at a stretch. The first
gang of the 2fi operators comes on at
7 o'clock and remains on dutv until
11. Then a relief watch takes their
places, while the first division sroes
to luncheon or to rest Some of the
first watch returns in the afternoon.
At S o'clock all the regular day force
is released and young men take the
positions at the boards. There are
three of them and they stay on duty
until the first watch is ready for busl 1-1
pness in the morning. I
We have a place prepared for the
girls to go and rest at anv time of the !
dav. and we keep a relief operator
wavs readv to take the place of an ,
absentee. The room is large and light (
ana there is a couch provided for their i
use. The girls are mostlv young and J
live with their parents. Thev are good '
girls, for this companv could not use
shine. (
"The character of the night business?
Oh. I could not think of passing
out professional secrets. What do you
think it is? Yes. I suppose there are
some 'dates' made early in the evening.
And I hould not wonder If the
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nhTsfrtnns are summoned over the
shoBs. rfwrinE these hours . but you
namnamr&lPB. do BlOSt Of the
ness after I o'clock.
One of, the operators was. seen, at
the foot of the stairs leading to the
office of the company and talked quite
freelr about way the people o this
city " carry on business over the
"phone: I
I have been, employed by
...... t ..kc -mil rfnr
V"& lor er e" u.
" m have nf fcad any,SL
to' complaint It is very trying
" nave men can joh u. ---
name lor me wnenever ne cans v
Its perfectly awfuL"
"Why don't I report it? Oh. I don't
know, t think It is much, better, than
to have them saying nasty things to
you and swearing at you."
"Well. I must be going to work so
lens."
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