The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-03
A THRILLING ADVENTURE.
IInstigated by an ''OId soIdier's' Coat
Tall

Tall
The murky clouds were streaking
across the lurid sky like a scared dog
with a tin can attached to the extension
! OF his back bone. The sun paralyzed by
! such associations had retired to his
chamber in the west and bolted the door.
Now and then star fickered with a
flick similar to the electric lights. The
moon was doing the grand right-and-left
act amid the shadows that played DER
heavens field. A slight breeze, in the
absence of odors Of Araby the blest, dis
tributed the aroma of the slaughter house
with rigid impartiality and soughed
softly amid the clustering foliage OF the
stately taro tree. The yipwig piped
few sorrowful notes at sixty days, and
then subsidized into the night. The sea
beat against the shore with a long, low,
rumbling growl, as regular and mono
tonous as the growl of the Bulletin
against the Minister of the Interior.
What wonder that the uncanny scene
awed me. 1t would be odd if it didn't.
\ thousand weird fancies took possession
of my brain and served a writ of eject
ment on what little courage L boast. !
The dense gloom which permeated all
nature oppressed my soul with hydraulic |
pressure. Phantoms magnitied a thOus- |
and dameters seemed to my dyspeptic |
Imagination to pervade the air. Jno. NJ. !
HOrner's articles on rum hired a hall |
and stayed with me to some extent like |
a hideOus nightmare.
l moved aimlessly along in compliance
with the urgent request OF sundry police
men. A subtle and mysterious power,
equal to an enraged parents boot seemed
to impel me on my way. L drifted along
with listlessness akin to unconscious
ness, but with corns aching to conscious
ness. Like an embodied shadow l
threaded the mazes Of darkness. Stray
dogs at intervals came up and sampled
my emaciated shanks, retiring with the
fydrophobia.
Z In short, know not how long l walk
ed. Like Luning after delinquent
debtor | kept on my remOrseless course.
Sixteen lamp posts CarOmed against my
onward career but failed to impede it.
Under an overpowering spell seemed to
merge my identity in the sOmbre night.
Even my hat was sOmbrerO.
| asked the central for the time. 1t
vas II O'Clock. [ gazed about me with
lpathetic Indifference. l was at the
Nuuanu cemetery. / was at the home
If the dead with no one at home. An
occasional stream of light from the moon
is it emerged from behind the clouds
me of the curtain which
lrops on LIES tragedy. Tombstones
arge and tombstones small marked the
halfway houses to heaven. Our loved
mes have never been seen since enter
nc these houses. The forms which had
lifted to and fro on earth now slept 81
emily, part of the very earth which
hey had gladdened. Lovely flowers
Which had delighted the living now t
TODD as living monuments to the dead.
IN, beauteous sentinels that keep watch
n the boundary between earth and
eaven, We are indeed symbols of our
GREATER Beyond that boundary it is
OF given us to see. Each must pass it
efOre he can know the glories which lie \
eyond. BY different routes we shall !
Il arrive at this boundary. Some will
ross it almost unnoticed and the pas t
age of others will be commemorated by !
and aching hearts. But
e9e inequality ceases and equality be- t
ms. =
How long these reflections might have
| know not. My thoughts
ere unexpectedly diverted into another
hannel The light of the moon dis
osed to me another form, the sight OF
hich caused the blood to recede toward
~ heart with the speed of the Waikiki
Irs. My hair stood on end and my
,ngue Glove to the roof of my mouth. A
Did perspiration ran down my auburn
Usage like the Punchbowl river into 1
aeger's lot. For only few feet from @
he. l recognized the form and Inca ;
rents of Billy Patterson of New Jersey!
ooh, William" l intoned in harrow
lg yet cultivated accents, betraying the =
lost delicate phrasing, the most won
erlully accurate Interpretation and
vincing the most subtle yet mastery
,chnique, Oh, William, who struck
our" Objected to on the grounds OF
irrelevancy, immaterial-
y, Incompatible and incomprehensi- :
ility, and objection sustained. =
REEF ORME.
(To be continued.) a