The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-25


civilized beings. p CURE to Yourself.
mademoiselle," he said, with true
French etfusiOn -''fguge TO yourself
the JOY aud surp Use with which /. this
morning, receive monsieur, your
friend, a. my humble cottage For the
first time after nine years on this hate
full island, ! see again a European face;
| hear again French language. My
emo ion, believe me, was too profound
for words. When monsieur was gone.
| retired 10 my hut, | sat down on the
floor / gave myself Owe to tears. tears
of Joy and gratitude. 10 think | should
once more each a glimpse oil civi ia
t on. l his afternoon, [ ask myself can
/ venture 10 90 out ana pay my re-
sDects, thus at.iycd, in these ags, to Il
European lady: For long time |
doubt, | wonder, | hesitate. In my
qua ity OF F'rennhman, | would have
wished TO call in civilized costume
upon civilized house hold. Bur wuat
would you have: Necessity knows no
law. 1 am compelled To envelope my
self in my savage robe of o / &c "a
fOiynesian god robe OF Office which,
for the rest. Is not without an int IRE t
of its own 70 the scientific emnolOgist.
1t belongs to me especially a. King q,
the Birds. ana in it, in effect is repre-
scented at least one feather of each
kind on color from every pa I of the
| ody Of every species OF bird that IN
habits BOupari. | thus sum up, pour
ainsi dire. in my official costume all
the bin d OF the island, "a Tu-Kila-
kila, the very high god, sums up, in
his quaint and curious dress. the land
an the ca, the trees and the stones.
earth, and air. and fire and water"
Familiarity with danger begets at
last a certain CalIous Indifference
Muriel was SUR rised in her own mind
TO discover how easily they could chat
with NJ. Peyron ON such Indifferent
subjects, with that awful doom OF an
approaching death hanging over them
SO short Y. But the fact was. terrOF-
of every kind had 20 encOmpaSsed them
rOund since their arrival on the island
that the mere additional certainty of a
date and mode OF execution was rather
4 relief to their minds than otherwise.
1t partoOk OF the nature Of a reprieve.
not Il sentence. BESIDES, n meeting
with another speaker OF a European
tongue seemed to them so fun OF
promise and hoTe that they almost for
got the terrOrs OF their threatened END
in their discussion Of possible schemes
for eS ape to freedO y. Even NJ. Pew
ron himself who had spent nine long
years of exile in the island, felt that
the arrival Of two new Europeans gave
him some hope OF etfeCting at last his
own retreat from this uncomfortable po-
sitlOn. His talk was all of passing
steamers. If the Australasian had
came near enough once to sight the
island, he argued, then the hOmeward
vessel, en- route for Honolulu. must
have begun to take a new course CON
sldcCably to the eastward Of the old
naylgaD.e channel. If this were so.
their obvious plan was TO keep watch.
day and night, for another passing Aus
trallan liner, and whenever one hove
IN sight, to steal away 10 the shore,
Sc e stray canoe. over over. if POS
-lbiC, their Shadows, or even give
them the slip, md make one bcld
stroke Tor freedom on the open ocean
None OF them could conceal from
their own minds. to be sure, the ex-
tremc difficulty OF carrying ont this
program. In the first place. il was a
tOs5-uD whether they ever sighted an
other steamer at all: for during the
weeks they had already passed on the
island. not sigh OF one had appeared
from any quarter. Then, again, even
sup posing Il steamer ever hove in
sight, what likelihood that they could
make out for her I an Opcn canoe in
time TO attract attention be ore she
had passed the i-Iand2 TU-kila-ki
would never willingly let them go:
their shadows would watch them with
UureaSlng care: the " hole tOdy Of ma
ives Wo't" 'oihnIh together 10 pre-
vent thelr departure. II they ran away
al an. tAey must run Tor their lives.
as Don as the Islanders discovered they
were zone, manne@ at once with
,n.oodfhlrstE saEagea. who would fol
low on 'helr track WITH relentless per
5IHtehce.
~ lor Nnricl. loss prepared for such
dangerous adventures than the two
men, she was rather inclined to attach
d certain rgmautip imuOrfancc as n
girl might DO to tho story of the par
rot and the possible disclosures which
ii could make if il could only commune
cate with them. The mysterious ele-
ment in the history of that unique
bird attracted her fancy. The only
one OF lis race now left alive She
said, with slow rctiectiveness. Like
Dolly pentrcath. the last old woman
" no COIld speak Cornish. | won
der how long parrots ever live: DO
YOU I.l Know AZ an monaleur: GU are
~ N'A2 o. me bIfds You Ought 70
~ on q iioi'O' =" tilelF hdoII7 "ho
L"Iiief9.
Inc fren"hman smiled gallant
smile: nhapplIy, mademoIaeIle,
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