Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-26

He turned and went of walking with
great strides.
First he had q period Of being very sad,
and then he had Il period when he was
pretty merry Last of all caIue the third,
when he was the most terrified man in
the four oceans.
The cause of the FIRST period was the
girl he had TO wife. lie was In doubt
about the island; and he might have
been in doubt about the speech of which
he had heard so little when he came
there with the wizard on the mat. But
about his wife there was no mistake
conceivable, for she was the same girl
that ran from him crying in the wood.
So he had sailed all this way, and might
as well have stayed In Molokai; and had
left home and wife and all bis friends
for no other cause but 10 escape his
enemy; and the place he had come to
was that wizards hunting ground, and
the place where he walked invisible. IL
was ut this period when he kept the
most close 20 the lagoon side, and, as fur
as he dared, abode In the cover Of his
hut.
The cause of the second period was
talk he heard from his wife and the
chief islanders. Ncola himself said little !;
he was never so sure Of his new friends
for he judged they were too civil to he
wholesome; and since he had grown
better acquainted with his fathcr-in-law
the man had grown more cautious So
he told them nothing of himself. but
only his name and descent, and that he
came from the Eight Islands, and what
line Islands these were, and about the
kings palace In Honolulu, aud how he
was II chief friend of the king and the
missionaries But he put many cues.
lions, and learned much. The islands
whore he was was called the Isle Of
NnipnHs hal Ia, Grill It,t 81
made their homo upon another, three
hours sail TO the southwark There
they lived and had their permanent
houses, aud II was rich island, wherc
were eggs and chickens and pigs, and
ships came trading with rum and tobacco.
IL was there the schooner had gone
after keOla deserted; there, TOO. the
mate had died, like q fool of a white
man as he was. II seems when the shin
came II was the beginning of tho sicLly
season In that isle, when the fish OF
the lagoons are poisonous. aud all who
cat Of them swell up and die. The mate
was told Of Il: hc saw the boats prepar.
ing because IN that season the people
| leave that island and sail TO the Isle of
Voices. But he was n fool OF n Whit
man, who would believe no stories but
his own; and he caught one Of thpe,
hsh, cooked II, and ate IT, and swellet
| w and died. which was good news I,
| heola.. AS for the Isle Of Voices, II
lay solitary the most part Of the year
only now and then a boats crew cam,
for eoPra; and In the bad season. whel
| the hsh at the main isle were poisonous
the tribe dwelt there IN a body. n I'M,
It's name from q marvel. For Il SCENE,
the seaside of IL was all beset with In
visible devils; day and night you hear,
them talking one with another /,
strange tongues; day and night littl
fires blazed up aud We're extihguished Or
these doings no man might conoeivc
Kcola asked them If il wore the same /,
their own island, whore they stayed. an,
they told him no, not there: nor Vet Il
any other of some hundred isles Inn
lay all about them Ia that sea; but
was thing peculiar to the Isle of Voices