Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-08

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mel know not why, only for the
young Gween Lanai dake lofe for
myself" Here he sighed aulibly. and
stroked his long beard. while Alva,
drawing near, bent loving eyes upon
the speaker.
I'VE was married after the customs
of the tribe he continued, land
| when my Alva came, Lanai died. Her
peoples make me chief ruler forbid
them canabalism. On the island.
here. they obey. But often they make
war barties against other islands.
They nefer bring back prisoners.
| They all are thus gone now. These
beneath comes from Wontai, one of
| the Solomon group. When my beo-
| Piles come back you will see a sgrina-
nigel
Curiously enough this brief bit of
| history. which seemed in such accord
| with the romantic environments. did
not seem particularly strange to
peared. 1t was all part of his night
mare which had suddenly woven
itself into the warp and wool of
! beautiful dream.
And so when Wolften pointed out
the perfect impregnability of their
leafy retreat the store of food spe-
cially prepared for such emergen cies.
the well-tilled water jars of porous
clay ranged in order by themselves,
and finally, the little heaps of Jagged
rocks symetrically piled along inside
the balustrade, ready to be dropped
or hurled upon the heads of tho foe
neither Harry or Hiram seemed in the
least surprised. The former, for the
reasons just alleged-the latter. be-
cause having followed the sea from
cabin boy to able seaman, he had ap-
parently outgrown that emotion.
Well, calmly. unmindful of the mad
dened foe beneath them, a feast W as
prepared and partaken Of
There was a sort of rich cream
cheesy paste, composed of banana.
plantain and taro. pounded together
with spices, which would keep for
months when wrapped in banana
leaves There was dried turtle flesh,
rendered tender and succulent by
| SOIHe pIOCCSS h1o"1 W luC oOA'lilOh
Islander, cassava-root bread in crispy
rolls. preserved supi, closely allied in
taste to oysters, with delicious figs for
dessert.
Il donno a thing I've eat" Hiram
declared, drawing a great sigh OF
satisfied repletion, "but I'm free to
c'nfess it's better'n any Thanks giving
turkey ever I sot down to-"
His remark, intended for Harry, fell
upon idle ears. Herr Wolften, whose
phlegmatic temperament accepted the
unexpected with true German phi
losophy, had retired to hammock on
the opposite side of the tree trunk.
Alva herself occupied her own, in a
half recumbent attitude. Harry, not
unaffected by the unconventional at
mosphere, had thrown himself on n
grass pillow stuffed with thistle-down
beside the girl, who. in her delicious
fragmentary Anglo-English, was un-
consciously revealing to the young
stranger the innocent secrets of her
primitive life.
HE don't hear no thin but her
who d drem' p of such thing" NUT
tered Hiram. leaning drowsily back
against the heaped-up ladder as the
tree-top swayed gently from side to
side in the signing wind which swept
through the tree-top.
"Rock-a-bye baby upon the tree
top" he drowsily murmured, and
then his eyes closed Hiram was
asleep.
Accused of crime of which he
was as innocent as your own pure self,
Alva, he endured the agony of a six
years. Imprisonment at hard labor.
When he came out into the open light
of freedom a prem aturelv- aged man,
it was to learn that his parents had
died broken-h he arted. the girl to whom
he had been betrothed had married.
and the friends of his youth turned
the cold shoulder to him. that the y
might not see the prison brand upon
his forehead. Now, he has turned his
back on the world and civilization.
and would spend his remaining days
where that which has embittered his
life thus far can not follow him."
Was practical matter-of-fac Hiram
Bowers dreaming. or did he. in his half
waking slumbers. really hear Harry
Aldred saying words very much to the
foregoing effect
If his ears were deceived, his eyes
were not-at least so he stoutly AYERS.
and according to the testimony of
those optics, the round arms of Alva
had somehow fallen about the neck of
the handsome young fellow at her feet
while their lips met
''Yum-yum!''
This disgraceful interruption in YER
bal shape proceeded from Hiram. who
yawned and opened his eyes to their
widest extent But opportunity. per-
haps, another fearful chorus of yells
from beneath created a diversion.
my Peoples have g ONE back; now
you will see der sgrinsnaig5." placidly
observed Herr Wolften. who had left
his hammock and stood looking down.
ward at two opposing elements of cot
fee and crea m-colored humanity be-
meath.