HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1928-1-26, Page 6n Thursday, Januayry'1,4 19211•
THE SIGNAL,
The Wreck of the "Redwing"
By
Beatrice Grimshaw
1
by overbold prophecies. Within to
(Oontage. from last wthe) s. hour, i was destined to know ao much;
The village. sup the
1 to The, They to find myself feeling as 'cutely.
long any up the Fly. counting chances with as bitter anxi-
ety as ever 1 had done in mJ
life. , • .
We were now within a few hours of
the village; before sunset we expected
to know whether our wild chase up
they Bald succinctly, m from Farewell Island had been suPceS"
for the fleet time (though I was h. ful or not; whether Pith had at•
from new to the Papuan refusal Note i he had! towrecruit
at had happenedt M him•and tf
not visited It, but they were at tine 1n
conuldet4ng it a ami that•�tritnsure-potation
place:" It app'
bad travelled far. Nevertheless' they
were quite phllosnlrhlcel about ening
there. "Suppose you talk. we go."
aking me realise
great is the responsiblllty
marcs terries in these places'. "Suppose
you talk, we go . . . " to certaid
risk, possible murder; torture not im-
probable: outside the world as known
to coastal natives: away team home
ane
and food -garden, and brown
wife babies in the little brawn beach hon
"We go • " whither we know not;
you, who are thousands of years older
and wiser than we simple folk of the
Stone Age, have the word.
As the Inferior. old -pattern 'digin
(1 ass yon to remember, and keep
remembering, that this was many
years poet) went ct+umng up the lower
reaches of the Fly, through the inevit-
able sequence of New GUInea rivers,
from yellow felt water to tea -colored
fresh, from mangrove and nip* palm.
ruffling it In spangled shallows, on to
snake-Rtemmed sago of marsh -lands, to
sinister, dusk foreets, Phonldering
along banks now high and solid. dar-
ing you, mutely. to invade by Po much
se a foot their Itlaebeard's-Chamber
PPPretP—aa we went on, upon our alt
but desperate quest, 1' bad much time
to think. and utile Interruption.
In the bowher face set ever
forward like the chiselled. eager tags . ••et
of a ship's flgnrehnd, had nougat to ( two short stops for.Gudu to whittle of
say; Phe was melted Info one emotion. tb bearings or [ie Irl
drown) In one Bingle thought—On.
nn'
1. colder and more (simplex. thought
of many things. Of the day when
Herod Pa aay hos
Well I knew that his (tuners were
slight. Not only the tales of terror
that come down every now and then
to Treeding furtherraits from e Fly. confirmed It.
this: m}"
I_ knew about attacks on .the Govern -
* out fife mu.der of ten'se'
r
explorers, done to revenge. years after--
light-hearted Lieutenant Juke,' had
killed natlre pigs end stolen native
.curios. and gaily sailed away. The
death of Iliehop Selwyn among the
New Hebrides, in pn>utent for another
debt, was still fresh in men's minds;
the death of Chalthers, near the Fly.
had yet to crime, hut there were those -
who already predicted it
aiy memory presentedinstances t0-
m
nuerable; 1 could tare wished—but
for the deedne5R that lay like a mist
on all thought. all feeling—hat 1 had
remembered less. For ae we tattled
steadily on ngnlnet the increasing
strength of the stream. 1 became more
and more conclned that all was not
well. 'Bowen, it seemed. had started
some ten hours before us. up the Fly.
We were making about the came time
as the 5chdoner would do. We had
e on without a break (save one or
e e fresh
ginger on a trouhleteme valve); and
if anything in this mess of uncertain-
ties and improbabilities was eertain.
It wes certain that Bowen would not
bad followed advoPwgo etraight on. Some of the best vil-
lower down
as I bad iithert away from all 11 * t esfor e 'ri 'river; be was bound to have
world bad alike early,life,
quiet pee. touched at these. in tbe two days of
as unlike my
feRmoriel days as the earth Is unlit[! our going• the ten hours last must
the moon. Of the years that had
changed me to a man, from a mere
thing: Hat lead brought me strength
and 'character, even love—late, too
fate:—that had thrown me, during
these past weeks, into a cauldron of
fierce potash -me. terrible happenings,
and mat me out. at last, in this black
wilderness of tete Fly, with m7 Hie
and three more lives, likely to be for-
feit
orfelt of the least weakness or mis-
take. , . •
1, Albert Polson. who had yesterday
—or long ago: what Is the difference?
—[teen the rays of col sunlighthant
ting through the windows of -
borough School, in English summer-
time. while I corrected pap' mer-
ing to the drone of boys bumming over
their afternoon "prep" and debuted
"rarely'. anxiously, with myself. dbould
_ I. or should I not, give mark* to Brad-
shaw Minimum, wal-&11d them from
young Jones?
We had {easel vfllagee;
nightmare places with giant communal
busses as lig as barna. set on piles
as long and many as a Sentipnde's
legs: with naked dark brown men.
ann Pullen dark women "taring out of
the hush ns we went by. Once. et
night. are came round A bend- of Ihe_Tia-i-here was out= in
river upon a sudden fico of lurched, longing to au older ddlizxtion than
And n Plrcl, of 1'ngrtinns, naked. Pave that of today --one of the girls who
for Rhr•Ii nrnnmen t And head -feathers. can, and d0. 111P simply of love unsnap -
dancing madly. Acr.. the stretch of fled. i1 the wild savages of this elver
venter. they looked lik,• black toy devils tad had their will of Pauh—if his
in a hat they- :herd et realise them brown bead Were banging, now, in one
for what they were -actual and don- I4 the dark, cruel commode) houses--
horn
ouses—hors would not long remain above the
earth; like a crushed flower, it would
tail. and never rise.
These were the thoughts that held
me. R5 we went on and on up the end-
less river. I was wake[ from dreams
by u remark on the pert of Heki.
aubada, tenter he as-erv,d
GODERICH, ONT.
NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD FRIENDS
bare been more than picked up again.
'Then why, with tbe village almost in
Right. had we seen nothing of the
Susan?
I was glad that Laurie's eakulatlons
—1f wile had made any—did not lead
her to the same conclusions. All that
she wanted to know. from day to day
and hour to. __tour, was the distance
that still separated us from the vil-
lage; and as the miles lessened, she
seemed to bloom and expand, like a
flower that feels. through clouds. the
coming sun. I watched ber in amaze-
ment,
This woman. with the round cheek
and the drooped. full tips of one who
bas been shaken by the storm, of love
—with dark finger -touches of passion
unsated, beneath her dreaming eyes,
and the walk. the carriage of maturity
—bad pix weeks ago been my little -
girl pupil Laurie, playing over her les-
sons. sucking toffee, and screaming and
scampering about the beach. . . . All
for a word of love, for a promise and
a kiss, from Paul'
"If they never marry," went on my
thoughts, "he will 1* hardened, In-
jnred, certainly—but hid-�Lrviye.
though spoiled. She—"
Into my mind it came with certainty
By Peggy Harvey
"TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S 50N
Tom ,Tom , the piper's Son,
Once gave the so amp folk lots of fun
Uhen he t,)enT to the lakes pnd bogs
And ployed the forgh and ihng°
OgS
The "frog soon oil began
lo dance,
To hop and leap and jig
t and . prpnce ;
4.h—_fun they'd never
hod before
And danced they'trll their
-feet were sore.
frog's—marching me. Mattes you sack.
They've got the guns. So bag as 1
can stick to my automatic. there's
chance. . Oh—tbe valisge. Didn't
mean to see it l see like thin earkely be h. flatter
last thing 1'
r
than have I.aurle into the middle of
the mesa—sorcerer, ceremonies and re-
venge on Herod all together, wouldn't
leave un earthly . Torture; 1s it
as had as one thinks? Nothing 1*.
Thousands of people—long *go—If
they bump my head on the ground like
this, I shall . . .
They did. and did. 1 woke to the
knowledge of the feet. later in the day,
with a terrific headache. According to
the cations of adventure. I should have
been hound, and in a dungeon;
er was
wasn't tied In any way, ge
Heiti ; we were out In the open, lying to
the ground to the middle of a lot of
hotues:" long houses. very long in-
deed, like railway siding sheds. with
multiple lets underneath them, and a
phptform at the door of each. There
were lasiple moving about—women
clad In a mere wisp of gram, ugh
venomous -looking creatures, u
,'hates heads. and skins like the looped
loose hide of a rhinoceros—men who
seemed not to he engaged in the por-
cerer eeremnitters who wandered about
Idly. naked. decked with ?hells and
dogs teeth. etnring and chewing boetel-
nut; a few very mucid Cloys, entirely
UDC a,, w
I faces. These bier were the only ones
who took am• notice, of u'. and I mast
allow that they nade,my Rion creep.
hovering ave they 41.1 shout the "gait
where Hai sat and. 1hl�e y. uutlll headd-
ahcy and dazed, npm
1 knew well whet the fnnetion of the
younc boys would be. In the trotttle
that might be ahead of us. They
"blood" them. in. the river town`. . ,
The pain and confutbmin me M
were abating 1 found myself able
sit ep " 1leki.'" I said. "yfn-me rut
can 1111.1 away?"
"You -me no get away. Tualatin." was
his reply "Man him look out all the
ache
Guinea, beard and read ton much
about the country, to suffer from com-
mon delusions about savages and can-
nibals. i knew that, like the "enter
prising burglar not a -burgling." they
could be ordinary folks at ttmlk—
moat of the time. no doubt. Savage down on us In a 'tinging fog, covering
life, even up the Fly. was not. could not I us with drops of our own blood, and
be. an affair of continuous raids and driving us crazy
and with irritation
en, s. Pah-
murders. There were all the peaceful rots, geranium
arts to occupy time as well as all the ing overhead ;1 was afraid they might
buwarn the village. I was afraid of
can a ca vbn farad -garden making. and fishing and dancing variolic things; among others, of the
canoe cresting and t
and dressing up. the marrying and dansmell rthatrrosetand 41 .1 away every
y
giving to f marriage a inseparable.I from now and then about us, proclaiming
the life of n great village. If one the presence of one or more of the
struck the phare at a time when it was P
huge river crocodiles that are the ter-
ary
eed with some one of these surely roe of New Guinea But all this was
Part' harmless eulpoyment,', surely
there was a chance of peaceful ap-
proach?
We guarantee our Hydro 'snips
for 15110 hours use.
You couldn't see ahead. as 1t turned � time..
I Whit G/shioi, they ma los along
about a good deal. and you bad to
watch constantly, lest you ran right in- Jnu n1e9"
to the reeds, and made a fearful Heki'it dart face seemed to grow a
me raxmo». it was hot as a furnace; shade darker. He looked down at
the Rqultoee almost at once settled the ground. and made no reply. i WAR
answered.
in5tlnctively 1 felt for the automa-
tic. it was gone in my insensibility
they had taken It from me without the
fight 1 should certainly have puup
t one
to keep it 1 might even have tr
or two of them No nee now
The uihnrp•st Poing lay In the fact
that i could not. now. pit a shot
through the head of Held when things
began to look ha
d
.
—
a
' had I had ifiiltl
meant to do. For myself
no
worse rendition than before et had de-
eidde
as nothing, when I rounded a corner. I efdet. in roti bland, Ra
felt, rather than knew, the village to be 1dc arguments wouldn't appeal to any
near at hand, and at tbe same time exieept those who know them and hold
11/1W, 'talking In the sunlight, huge, un-
to the principled they embeds; PO i
canny as a monster out of a dream, a will take rap no time in enumerating
native man, dressed up to feathers ah1 them. It 1e ennngh to Ray that WP
Dtreamers, and wearing an artificial found ovrielvet In a very tight place.
and that i could dee nn way out of 11.
'Perhaps 1 might not have cared very
much. bad not .Held been invedve+t with
me. But the thought of that white
snni In dark body, that plucky. nn -
complaining eompanbn nt our trip. 1n
grave danger. troubled me terribly. 1
would have eared him at my own ex-
pense. hart It been prowthle. it was
not.
With every minute the fact became
more clear. One hese. larger and
longer than the others, (i have wince
paced 1t : it was six hundred and four-
teen feet) deemed to be the prnfee-
t part *tonal lodge of the eoreerreI'M_ A low
the growing murmur romp from It now and
dotage at the usual route would be t'Pribet1 horrors
A forest hen then. n5 from n giant hive of Tees:
d
probably
by pace w hanother ingly.recruiter.
probang deatt with accordingly. 1. its own e.iming green'leayes and fruits. wide: onceeet or tw'iee,nacd few nwild figures.
In -
slipping In at the beck of the town, five g
tht s the intense black of its busk'[ worked d-
amazingly
re a ofteeet in n1nfentherls. and
wearing 'trans' animal motto. came
nut on the platform. and stood with'
with certainty, it came to me that
tberec was one feasible plan.
^'Heki," I said, "you know this
river?"
"True, Taubada, I know him."
"Wbere'e the small -fellow road be
go along tide village?" _B7' Ude I
meant tbe secret entrance wbkeb—m7
hooka had taught me—was the almost
invariable "property" of New Guinea
fighting towns, hereit world probably
be a water entrance.
grills men. . . .
We passed. rind not long after. there
came. leaping and hounding like 'kip-
- ping 5144(1.5 airing the eurfaoe of the
shallow. widening water, yell after yell
--a well in army.
Then a )bull -like mer from a hundred
throats together; and then el' The engine chuffed and panted, as 1f I turning the quid of betelnut in his
wild to get away; (ludo in the engine' mouth. and spitting red into the river.
room Mimed up strange mecha111R0R "thass village atop e1050 up. Me get -
with hie toes. muttering "Tooaueb- tem gen. (lush' gettem gun? i want 1
no -gnat." Laurie .at with her face A5 I blow 'em , . inside . . . oft of thaws
white an the foamy wake of the man. llee-fore, he catchem girl be-
Iaaneb. and her fingers driven into ' long inc. he bnrnsm along hug pirc. he
ber earl. She did not take them out 1 make one Christmas along my girl."
again, till long after. As for me, 1 I 'Wlint docs he mean?" asked I,aurle.
reckoned the number of shots in my '•I think," said i, "he means that
antasnRtic—a new toy then—and con- the people of the village ruptured a
w idened, not for the first time. the i awei'tttenrt of hiss and madc•'a feast of
ethics of s'iiMde and murder. And L her. They always sa,v Y9trl'tnms' for
looted at the black forret walls that I tried. it's an interesting—"
hemmed ns lo. sinister, holding their
' 1 "Do you enpp,se they've made A—
n er•rrtP clom. and at leurfe, with her rl---nf Paul?"
strange tropic beauty. a flower welt I saw my mistake.
Mt 1n these wild lands; and i thought I "No." 1 Raid boldly. "I'm sum they
of Herod. and of Paul. And ell the I haven't. But ft's time to settle what der chance. that lay ahead.
time i felt myself as cold and inei rings we'rv' ening in dn. We can't }fist Rn. I
"Girl be eayvy steer. MP go. Me
d
Held. for answer, stared up and
down the banks, his eyes deep shelter-
ed beneath the heavy orbital arches
typical of his race. No shade hat
needed Heki.
"There," he pronounced at last.
pointing to something almost lnvislhiP.
1 awning the glans on to it, and saw the
t1g test pos*lhte cleft among huge
reeds tbat bordered the Stream.
"Piing out the dingy."
I told'him.
"Are we goingasked
"We are not," 1 answered. 'I' am.
I wont to run up to the back door of
Ibe village, and reconnoitre. 2r-ti_nd
the boys will stay here. and when 1
bacdt_ I,11 .tell_ you how things
stand."
"But if Ton—If 7ea—"
"I1. I, don't come beck within 11 tlrna
potable time—nay an hour—,
the river again as fast
I didn't think Paul ---if he had really
gone there—would have had much
chance. because, if there was one thing
more than another that the M'ly native
of those days feared and hated, it was bead with a toothed snout and staring
a recruiting boat. There had been a I eyes, that raised his stature up to full
good bit of blackbinlinR done there of I
recent years; Sir William Macgregor.
now many hundreds of miles away at
Port Moresby, was frying his best to
put it down ,but It was by no means
extinct yet, SP Herod's actions showed
i wes almost eertain_kno ingarrying off him—
that ns death for any ,women to look on them.
he bad been bytreacberg. when Death, probably, to any stranger as
tives of the p well. I writhed him farther. . . .
the fight occurred that bad resulted in
the death or many Fly River folk. and There was something. too, in tbe Molt
the estahltahment of what modern M the place, that chilled my blood. I
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eight feet.
Heti let out a grunt of dismay at
the sight. and I felt my courage un-
comfortably shaken. This was a
Shiva Keku, a sorcerer dressed up In
ma* and gaud' ao sacred that 1t was
folk would call a "revenge complex" on
the rt of the Purvi'vors.
A boat, a big boat, coming up to
had never before seen, at elope quar-
ters, a sago swamp. and I found. as
others fiat'' To11ift That the often de-
" of a mangrove forest
pale before it. mangrove
might have a chance of setting n& IStems, remhlnP Into something very
right before the people got t was thetly like beauty. Within a mangrove for-
est »p to attack That was the i tart • the Run sifts
L. FUCK
Telephone 1 7 rij Uoderich
wo est, it s never d
Idea, and even now, I Pay 11 was a tninilt in ¢offs of slicer; the waters. their inclPihiP faoem turned fovea s
thehed one. The only thing w• which I r agate -green. reflect and multiply f Hekl and hies l Theywrere clearly
element of chance, on which T I' chance rays. 'Bid the sago swamp is ennetilting
with eRch could not reeknn. black mud with just a gleaming eye of nave mune of the ceremony In whl, h
For 1t hap{ienPcl to rn+ as it hal II, ntd here and there; with thick. rep- they were engaged wits broken up: nli
nPd, come years inter. to a man titian tntnks scaled like giant ver- the might of the village intellect, smell
as it woe; ell the power of its angers.
grudges, and prejudices, 1t* fierce ve•n
(leans and Its erne) fear,, was conceit-
trnted on n5 and ns alone. f had but
one grain of comfort : the men plainly I
were disagreed nbet something, and
se long a5 they remained at oddA, we 1
had a chance.
The women ended it. i don't know
where the young ones were—In hiding.
probably: they are generally sent
when there iP ugly work about—but the
old ones were very much on the spot.
and very eo111bIP indeed. They had
coven to chstter not senses and ng thelrter I re -
chatter
covered m7
had now Dwelled to something ss like
a dog -Rhos In full swing an one pea 1s
like another. i eonld not hove be-
lieved anything human could howl like
them; could keep up a yapping.
whining. high note of angry talk an
long and wn fiercely. The very dog, of
the village were moved by it, ami.
skulking underneath the boueel, Rave
vent to wolf -like cries.
No man, Ravage or civilized, could
have ,food op against that homhard-
(Continued on page 7)
and run down
R5 yon can go, because It wmildn't be whose shoes I was not worthy to tie --i tants. iifting out of the films, and an
Any gond doing anything e1DP. Heki. Clulmer•., the famous missionary. indescribable raffle of imtnens dead
(loth: can hear me. Don't yon mind killed at Goarl-Buri. down the coast. leaves sinking into Malodorous delay•
any orders hut mine Snppnv i no i.ike him I rarer In at the wenn¢ •11ooe' then, is a root of exquisite
eome .back when Pun he Ptop on tap of time • like him. i knew nothing of my i t1 auto, fronded and laced green
that tree, yon run like bell for Darts" h tale.
01140 nodded. Held made no eom
•
meat. He was a PhortIPhl, stn ky hly '
low, with deep, avnial
dark face, and a humorous eye• I
liked Heki. Stolidly he swung out *be
dingy. wtolid1v leaned overboard oa da too
pick up a mann of floating gooses,
with them muffled the rowlock. and
the nerd. Then he looked up at me,
and uttered one brief remark—"Cole
on."
"Heti, get hart into tbe launch. 1
don't want yon."
"Me go."
"You're not to go. i want 7ou-_to
stay "
"Me go"
"Hekt, i* sensible. What can roll
do? if 1 don't come hack you'll he
wanted to iter the lanrc•h." 1 did not
think him nhsiletely IndiRpe0SAble to
that capacity, but i (vas not minder) to
rink any life wave my own on the filen-
mistake until It was too late. But, un-
like Chalmers, i live to tell t
We had been gliding. with the tit -
meet caution. through the reeds. There
wu_ a narrow waterway, evill'0t17 I lore: a place for tit deeds an
the
Open tole test- such jonrnPyp. t p
to urge our sure hiding of them when done; a
along which WO >aanaRed place not land, not water, not real, as
craft without any nolle to 'peak of oneknows reality elsewhere—yet, like
all'unreal things. obi/cutely terrifying.
And, in the mldet of the swamp. that
flgnre stalking. eight feet high,
snouted, nnhhman. . . .
palms shutting out the eky : but if you
would ce'ape being enffoeated in Mirk -
ening mud. you can hardly !pare a look
fir what may he overhead. An evil
AP If the wfinle dram were one that chor before the place nm} take nor
I had long ago rend. or seen played ,•hnnc,es."
Minn the stage So 1t had been with "What do you think of doing?" she
me erer since the enters of Torres asked. and now her eyes offered tart 111 -
closed above the dearest head In the I welcome homage. i wet the man. the
world. ilo. i thought, it was likely to Iruler; 1 bad to lead. 011411 not Ibeki
be until the end. however late or anon 1 stared In eager faience. They were all
that might be waiting. • • •
1 don't know whether. in common A minute before, 1 Lind heti very lit -
parlance. you can "tempt Proyidenee," ile notion, 1f nn7. as to what 1 should
or not ; but assuredly. there Is word- do. 1f we arrived at the village. and
thing. wnrnewhcre, that 1s*"tempted" 101101 no Susan there. lint muldenl7,
"Orange Pekoe" Is only the name given to a size ,*
of leaf Some good, many poor, Orange Pekoes
are sold The most economical and yet the finest
flavoured Is "SALADA" Orange Pekoe Sealed In
metal pure fresh delicious 43c per i -Ib.
Lila. TAi
bowem (strong Pcpresslon1 an
these (frightful epithet) man belong
riling', MP bike." And then again.
anally—"Me go."
I gave in. i put two rifles Into the
dingy, looked to Pee that my automatic
was In its place on m7 belt, slung a
bancolfer to HekI. and 'lipped one over
my own dhonlder. i .*w 10 it titan the
launch had proper holding ground. and
that Groin was ready with a knife to
curt the cable. If neeerenry. L dropped
Into the (Mngy, and with muffled) oars,
glided away. "eerie. Inside the tiny
cabin, watched me with an expression
i conk" not translate. But 1 thought
there was astonishment to It. drug -
Ong with a certain shamefaced "intim-
faction.
"She'd see me - 'burn along lig Ore'
—without thought. If
Andwas then theweeds
Paul,"
closed round nm.and we were off on nor
adventure---enrely the moot Innpproprt-
ate that ever prnfeasor ARA engagoa
In sine, Me beglnntngm of atoeation.
i had my plan clear 1n my mind. i
meant to *pprnnch the vflhete hr
st..)ih. Ped. whether the men were at
hoarse or notand take note of any reign
of dlstnrhdnce if thing" looked peace -
fill. i wneld try to nanag'fat bilk
with
T had
the villager*. Held interpreting.
rived too long within touch of New
TOP it beforeit efts
on to your
t.
Peps, the breatheable
medicine in handy tablet
form, will save you from
'flu and bronchitis and
quickly dispel any
cough
or cold Peps
ut
every enemy germ.
tying Willi ...awl.. ho rail Pim
dr rase mieran
MON UC. M:.M U T►sIm
It's the gap between these otone<'ge
eves -titres and ourselves—the certainty
tint we are denting with something at -
most as prehistoric ad the mastodon,
as little comprehensible at a crocodile,
that makes the horror. NO Apache
committing frightful deeds of violenOP.
no shlpwrceked sailor driven to crime
against his fellow by the goad of
deadly hunger, horrifies us like the
ennnlbal snyage of New Guinea. We
understand those other.; had as they
are. they belong to our own nee. they
fare mnnlded of the 5n1P stuff Re you
and 1. But this painted. masked tan-
sy of a New Guinea savAge. h*hbted
I1}ke A Carnival figure, behavintt like a
devil from hell. trivolone and terrible,
affeett et like a spectre. We don't
nnderatatol ; our habits of thought
are dashed out M piece; we suffer
from molten of the Boni. . • •
1 support' it will after—tong atter—
`thnt 1 thought these things; th��h it
seems to me now as' if they
ell
gone racing through m7 bead
brafore the
the
few moment* that pasted be
tall masked Retire flnithest his mea*nr-
ed pacing front end to end of a patch
of greet. And "nddenly—A5 soddenly AP
a charging buffalo --turned upon ilek1
and myself. i am sure he had mcen ns
from the ly conilnue‘i his
we k to put us us nR no. and nvr guard At n11
events, he caught nm. .He bad 11.k1.
the stronger. by the throat before eith-
et of ne could utter a cry ; and .hmol t
In the "ams Iastent, half -a dawn other
painted, masked devils" --whence 414
they came? -_long themselves all over
me and ore!. the Panne, *nd drseteed the
whole outfit nn to the 'nowt
"fernier' was the flr5t thought
that ',imbed Into mr mind. ")lope to
God she'll cut and run for 11. . . .
As for Pant Inow.'ns he mien take care
M Mm,elt. Bad basinsas fhla. They're
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