this thing now i am going straight to and when i come back watch out he never looked at us but started for the door you wait here john he said waving me back from accompanying him we stood around like a group of ghosts it is the truth said you could see it for yourselves they looked at me and i nodded harry lifted his glass to his lips but lowered it he half of it over the bar his lips were the of like a child that is about to cry ned made a clatter in the ice chest he wasn t looking for anything i don t think he knew what he was doing nobody spoke harry s lips were trembling harder than ever suddenly with a most horrible malignant expression he drove his fist into s face he followed it up we made no attempt to separate them we didn t care if he killed the half caste it was a terrible beating we weren t interested i don t even remember when ceased and let the poor devil crawl away we were all too dazed told me about it afterward he was working late over a report when came into his office had already recovered his and came swinging in a trifle angry the of with to be sure but very certain of himself what could i do asked me i knew he had it i had seen it coming on for months i couldn t answer him i couldn t say yes i don t mind telling you i broke down and cried he pleaded for the test out a piece he said over and over out a piece of skin and make the test the way cried must have convinced the was leaving next morning for we caught him when he was going aboard you see he was headed for to give himself up to the board of health we could do nothing with him he had sent too many to to hang back himself we argued for but he wouldn t hear of it i ve got to take my the of medicine fellows was all he would say and he said it over and over he was with the idea he wound up all his affairs from the receiving station at and went down to he didn t get on well there the resident physician wrote us that he was a shadow of his old self you see he was about his wife and the he knew we were taking care of them but it hurt him just the same after six months or so i went down to i sat on one side a plate glass window and he on the other we looked at each other through the glass and talked through what might be called a speaking but it was hopeless he had made up his mind to remain four mortal hours i argued i was exhausted at the end my steamer was whistling for me too the of but we couldn t stand for it months later we the she was an and she sailed like a witch her master was a who would do anything for money and we made a to china worth his while he sailed from san and a few days later we took out s for a she was only a five ton but we her fifty miles to into the trade i never suffered so in my life out of sight of land we picked up the and and i went aboard we ran down to arriving about eleven at night the to and we landed through the surf in a whale boat at � the place you know where father died q the of that was game with a couple of on him he came right along the three of us crossed the to something like two miles just imagine hunting in the dead of night for a man in a settlement of over a thousand you see if the alarm was given it was all off with us it was strange ground and pitch dark the dogs came out and at us and we stumbled around till we got lost the solved it he led the way into the first detached house we shut the door after us and struck a light there were six we them up and i talked in native what i wanted was a a is literally a a native who is clean that lives in the settlement and is paid the of by the board of health to nurse the dress their and such things we stayed in the house to keep track of the inmates while the square head led one of them off to find a he got him and he brought him along at the point of his revolver but the was all right while the guarded the house and i were guided by the to s house he was all alone i thought you fellows would come said don t touch me john how s ned and and all the crowd never mind tell me afterward i am ready to go now i ve had nine months of it where s the boat we started back for the other house to pick up the but the alarm had got out lights were showing in the of the houses and doors were we had agreed that there was to be no shooting unless absolutely necessary and when we were halted we went at it with our fists and the of our i found myself tangled up with a big man i couldn t keep him off of me though twice i smashed him fairly in the face with my fist he with me and we went down rolling and and struggling for he was getting away with me when some one came running up with a lantern then i saw his 