Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
CHATTER W.
METHUSELAH GIVES S.GN-

CHAPTER IKE
NETHUSELAH GIVES S.GN-'
AL the hopes of the three Europeans
were ncentrated now on the bare OF
chance of a passing steamer. M.
gcueon in Particular was fully con-
vinced that, if the Australasian had
found the inner channel practicable,
other ships in future would follow her
example. With this idea firmly fixed
In Eais head, he arranged with Felix
Gltat one or other of them should keep
watch alternately by night as far as
posi- BILE; and he also undertook that a
canoe should constantly be III readi-
ness 20 carry them away to the suppo-
ssitstiouS ship, it occasion arose for it.
Murie. took counsel with Mali on the
question of rOusing the Frenchman If
a. steamer appeared, and they were
tho first to sight it, and Mali, in whom
renewed intercourse with white peO-
ole had restored to some extent the
Civilized Queensland attitude of mind,
readily enough promised to assist in
their scheme, provided she was her.
self taken with them, and so relieved
from the terrible vengeance which
would otherwise OvertaKe her. eff
Eoupari man catch me-" she said, in
her simple, graphic, Polynesian way,
"Boupari man kill me, and lay me IN
leaves, and cook me very nice, and
make great feast OF me, like him do
with JAM" From that untimelv end
&Joth Felix and Muriel promised faith
fully, as far as in them lay, to protect
ler.
20 communicate with NJ. Peyro1 by
daytime, without arou5ing the ever
Col. r Nol
hit upon an excellent plan. He burn
lsbed his metal matchbox to the very
hig{9est Polish it was capable OF TAX
aug, and then photographed by means
pf snsR flashes on the Morse code. He
hud learned the code in III j in the
course of his official duties, and he
taught the Frenc Imam now readily
enough how toread and reply with the
other half of the box, torn off for the
pUcpOSe-
b. IL was three Or four days, however,
before the two English wanderers VEN
sEed to return M. Peyron's visit.
TSteY didn't wish to attract too greatly
the attemtion of the islanders. Grad
nally, as their stay on the island went
sgr, they learned the truth that Tu-
E ita-kila's eyes, as he himself had
1ocasted, were literally everywhere
For he had spies of his own, told Off in
every direction, who logged the steps
OF his victims unseen. sometimes, as
Felix and Muriel walked unsuspecting
Through the Jungle paths, closely fol-
lowed by their Shadows, q stealthy
brown figure, crouched low to the
ground. would cross the road for mo-
tacnt. behind them, and disappear
<2@ain nois essly into the dense mass of
oil nd
burning round, all hushed, W it'll a ter
rlfusts hook, would murmur low to them
ssety YES, or to one another: There goes
Que of the Eyes of Tu-Kila-K5l La 1t
vsas only by slow degrees that this
system OF espionage grew clear to the
strangers, but as soon as they had
learned its rea ity and ubiquity, they
Eelt at once how undesirable it would
Soc for them to excite the terrible man.
god = Jealous and suspicion by being
observed too often in close personal in
1k1Ecourse, with their felloweXlle and
gIctina, the Frenchman. 1t was this
that made them have recourse to the
device Of the Photograph.
$50 three or four days passed before
Mnriel dared TO approach NJ. Peyron's
cottage When she did at last go
there with Felix, it was in the early
ErstsrsstIug, before the fierce tropical sun,
that beat full on the island had begun
~ exert Its midday force and power
The path that led there lay through
the thick and tangled mass of brush
wood which covered the greater part
OF the island with its dense vegetation;
IL WAS overhung by huge tree-ferns
and Asrxaad-leaved Southern bushes, and
ssbutte3 at last on the little wind-swept
SEroiI where the King of the Bird S had
h is appropriate dwelling place. The
EeenShman received them with stud
led Partisan hospitality, He had dec
GRATED his arbo" with fresh flowers Tor
the occasion, and bright tropical fruits,
with their own green leaves, did duty
Tor the coffee or the abslnthe of his
Sutherland ON his homemade rustic ia
Ole Yet ia spite of all the rudeness of
the physical surroundings, they felt
themselves at home again with this one
esxiIed European; the faint flavor of
civilization peryaded and permeated
the krenchman's hut, after the I'M
mixed savagery to which they had
been 50 locg accustomed.
Muriei's curiosity, however, CEN
Sered most about the mysterious old
eharrot, of whose strange legend so
much had been said 10 her. After
ehey had sat for little under the
shade o. the spread nanyan, to cool
down from their walk-for 1t was an