The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-31

on her side. I got over TO her the best way
| / was able. and when | got there she was
| broad awake and crying. and sobbing TO
| herself with no more noise than an insect.
| 1t appears she was afraid TO cry out loud,
/ because Of the uitus- Altogether she was
not much hurt, but scared be-
| yond belief: she had come
| TO her senses long while ago,
| cried out TO me. heard nothing IN reply,
/ made out We were both dead aud had lain
| there ever since, afraid TO bulge finger.
The bali had ploughed up her shoulder,
and she had lost main quantity of blood;
| but | soon had that tied up the way il
| ought TO be with the tail Of my shirt and a
| scarf had on. got her head on my sound
knee and my back against trunk, and
| settled down to wait for morning. Una
/ was for neither use nor ornament, and
| could only clutch hold OF me and shake
| and cry. / don't suppose there was ever
anybody worse scared. and to do her just
| ice she had had lively night OF il. As
| for me, | was in a good bit OF pain and
| fever, but not SO bad when | sat still and
| every time | looked over 10 Case | could
| have sung and whistled. Talk about meat
| and drink To see that man lying there
| dead as herring filled me full
The night birds stopped after a while;
| and then the light began TO change, the
east became orange the whole wood began
| 10 whirr with singing like musical box,
/ and there was the broad day.
didn't expect Maea for a long while
| yet; and, indeed, | thought there was an
| of-ehance he might 60 back on the whole
| idea and not come al all. / was the better
| pleased when. about an hour after day
| light, | heard sticks smashing and lot of
kanakas laughing and,singing out to keep
| their courage up. Una sat up quite brisk
| at the first word of it; and presently We
/ saw a party come s5rlnging out of the
rafh Naaa and behind hfry,
white man in pith helmet. It was Mr.
| Tarleton. who had turned up late last
| night in Ealesa, having left his boat and
| walked the last stage with a lantern.
| They buried Case upon the field of glory,
| right in the hole where he had kept the
| smoking head. | waited till the thing was
| done; and Mr.. Tarleton prayed. which I
| thought tomfooiery. but I'm bound TO say
| he gave pretty sick view of the dear de-
| parted's prospects, and seemed to have
| his own ideas of hell. had it out with
| him afterward, told him he had scamped
| his duty, and what he had ought to have
| done was to up like a man and tell the
| Kanakas plainly Case was damned, and
| good radiance; but / could never get him
| to see it my way. Then they made me a
| litter of poles and carried me down TO the
| station. Mr.. Tarleton set my leg, and
| made regular missionary splice Of it, so
| that | limp to this day. That done, he
| took down my evidence, and Uma's, and
| Maea's, wrote it ali out fine and had US
| sign it; and then he got the chiefs and
marched over TO Papa Randall's TO seize
| Cases papers.
All they found was bit of a diary, kept
for good many years. and all about the
price of copra and chickens being stolen
| and that; and the books of the business
| and the will | told you of in the Begin
ming. by both of which the whole thing
| tstock. lock and barre) appeared TO belong
to the Samoa woman. 1t was | that
bought her out, al a mighty reasonable
figure, for she " as in hurry to get home.
As for Randall and the black. they had to
tramp; got into some kind of station on
the Papa-malulu side; did very bad bust
ness. for the truth is neither of the pair
was fit for it; and lived mostly on fish,
which was the means of Randall's death.
1t seems there was a nice shoal in one day.
and papa went after them with the dyna-
mite; either the match burned too fast or
papa was full or both, but the shell went
off lin the usual way) before he threw
| it, and where was papa's hand? Well,
there's nothing to hurt in that; the islands
| up north are ali full OF one-handed men,
| like the parties in the Arabian Nights;''
| but either Randall was too old. or he drank
| too much, and the short and the long of il
was that he died. Pretty soon after, the
niger was turned out of the island for
| stealing from white men, and went off 10
TIE west, NntIc ne lUuHu futI Oi MS own
| color, in case he liked that, and the men
| of his own color took and ate him at some
| kind of a corroborree, and I'm sure | hone
| he Was 10 their fancyI
So there was |, left alone in my glory
at Falesa; and when the schooner came
round filled her up, and gave her deck.
cargo halt as high as the house. l must
say Mr. Tarleton did the right thing by
US; but he took q meanish kind of
| revenge.
Now, Mr.. Wiltshire" said he, "I've
| put you all square with everybody here. 1t
wasn't difficult TO do, Case being gone but
| have done 1t, and given my pledge be-
sides that you will deal fairly with the ma
tives l must ask YOU to keep my word"
Well, so did. l used to be bothered
/ about my balances, but | reasoned ii out
| this way. We all have queerish balances,
and the natives all know it and water
| their copra in a proportion so that it's fair
all round; but the truth is, it did use to
bother me, and, though l did we'll in
Falesa. | was half glad when the firm
| moved me on 10 another station, where |
| was under no kind OF a pledge and could
| look my balances in the face.
As for the old lady, you know her as well
as do. She's only the one fault. II you
don't keep your eve lifting she would give
| away the roof off the station. Well, it
| seems it's natural in kanakas. She's
| turned a powerful big woman now, and
| could throw London bobby over her
! shoulder. But that's natural in kanakas,
/ too. and there's no manner of doubt that
! she an A | wife.
| Mr.. Tarieton 5 gone home. his trick
| being over; he was the best missionary 1
! ever struck, and now, it seems. he's par
/ soning down Somerset way. Well, that's
! best for him; he'll have no kanakas there
| to get luny over.
| My public-house? Not bit of it. nor
| ever likely. I'm stuck here, l fancy. l
/ don't like 10 leave the kids, you see; and
| there's no use taiking-they better here
/ than what they would be in a white mans
| country, though Ben took the eldest up TO
! Auckland, where he's being schooled with
/ the best. But what bothers me is the
girls. They re only half-castes. OF course,
/ L know that as well as you do. and there's
! nobody thinks less of half-castes than do;
| but they're mine. and about all I've got.
! | can't reconcile my mind 10 their taking
| up with kanakas. and I'd like TO know
! where m 10 find the whites?
| THE END.
UNGUARDEO GATES.