Things were stirring around pretty lively then, and I wanted to be in the show and sing “Good by girls, we're going to Mexico,” too. Yes, I had a bad case of the “boys-in-khaki” feeling when General Pershing started on a hike over the border. It was patriotism that first got me going.
Kempton is one of those stiff, uniformed ducks with a mind as exact as the crease in his pants but he stuck by me in a tight place, and I'm grateful. So I guess if anybody's going to get busy and tell what really happened, it might as well be me.Īnyway, I want to see Kempton, who is just out of Annapolis, get the credit that's coming to him. The papers never printed a line about it. You can't find an account of it in the reports of three navies, and the Blue Belt line skippers aren't volunteering information. Now about what happened there in the jumping-off place. We thought it was curious that we didn't see any passengers on her decks, but it was none of our business.
All hands lined the rail of the gunboat and watched the Dunstan until she faded to a trail of smoke on the horizon. She was a big passenger ship of the Blue Belt line, and the first ship of the kind we had seen at the jumping-off place. IT all began when we first sighted the Dunstan.
