The Yale expositor., 1895-03-15

given out, 10 DfluS ucr the WuOlo OF
his allowance. And as she drank the
mans keart had beaten with duh
sense Of pdty, the while his baser ma
ture called out: "Fooll it Is his place,
not yours TO suffer for her."
At daylight the boat was close in to
the land, and Langton, In his cool,
cynical fashion told his wife and En-
derby TO finish mp the last Of the meat
and biscuit-"for II they capsized get
ting through into the lagoon he said
''they would never want any more"
He had eaten all he wanted unknown
TO the others, and looked with an un-
moved face at Enderby, soaking some
biscuit In the tin for his wife. Then,
with the ragged sail fiuttering to the
! wind LangtOn headed the boat through
the passage into the CLASSY waters OF
the lagoon, and the two tottering men,
leading the woman between them,
sought the shelter of thlcket scrub,
impenetrable to the rays Of the sun,
| and slept.
And then for week Bnderby went
and secured the reefs for food for her.
One day at noon Enderby awoke.
The woman still slept heavily, the first
sign of returning strength showing as
n faint tinge in the pallor OF her cheek.
! LangtOn was gone. A sudedn chill
J passed over him-had Langton taken
the boat and left them TO die ON lonely
Ducie? With hasty steps Enderby hur-
rled to the beach. The boat was there,
safe. And at the farther end or the
beach he saw LangtOn, sitting on the
sand eating.
Selfish brutew muttered Enderby.
''I wonder what's he got p Just then
he saw, close overhead, huge. ripe
pandanus and picking up heavy
piece of coral, he tried to ascend the
IMPLICATED bole OF the tree, and ham,
mer off some of the fruit Langton
looked up at him and showed his white
teeth in mockfng smile ut the futile
effort. Enderby walked over to him,
stone in hand. He was not vindic-
tive man, but he had grown to hate
Langton fiercely during the past week
for his selfish neglect of his wife. And
here was the fellow gorging himself
on turtle eggs, and his delicate wife
living on shell fish and pandanus.
"Lapgton." he said, speaking thick.
ly and pretending not to notice the re-
mainder of the eggs, "the tide is out,
and we may get n turtle in one OF the
pools if you come with me. Mrs. Lang
ton needs something better than that
Internal pondonus fruit Her lips
are quite sore and bleeding from eat
ing It,
The inner nature came out "Are
they? Ny wife's lips seem to give you
a great deal of concern. She has not
said ANYTHING to me. And i have an
idea" The look In Enderby's face
shamed into silence the slander he was
about to utter. Then he added coolly:
But as to going with you after tur-
tie. thanks, won't. I've found nest
here, and have n good square feed. If
the man-o'-war hawks and boobies
hadn't been here before me I'D have
got the whole lot" Then he tore the
skin off another egg with his teeth.
With curious gutteTal voice, En-
derby asked: "How many eggs were
left%
Thirty or sO-perhaps forty"
"And you have eaten all but those?"
pointing with savage contempt to five
OF the round, white balls; give me
those for your wife,"
my dear man, Louise has too much
island blood in her not to be able to do
better than I-or you-in ac ase Ike
ours. And as you have kindly con-
stituted yourself her provider, you had
better 60 and look for nest yourself.
lyon d0g!'-and the sharp-edged cor
al stone crashed into his brain.
When Enderby returned he found
Mrs. Langton sitting up on the creeper-
covered mound that overlooked the
beach, where he had left LAngton.
Come away from here" he said,
Unto the shade. / have found few
turtle eggs"
They walked back little and sat
down. But for the wild riot in his
brain, Enderby would have noted that
every vestige of color had left her face.
"You must be hungry" he thought
he was saying 10 her and he placed the
white objects in her lap.
She turned them slowly over and
over in her hands and then dropped
them with shudder. Some were feck
ed with red.
For Gods sake" the man cried,
"tell me what you knowp
IL saw it ALL" she answered.
Il swear to you. Mrs. Ian" (the-
name stuck in his throat, "I never
meant 1t. AS God is my witness, 1
swear ii. If we ever escape from here
/ will give myself up to justice as a
murderer.
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her face, shook her head from side TO
side, and sobbed. Then she spoke.
81 loved him once. I" Yet II was
for me and you saved my life
over and over again in the boat. All
sinners are forgiven, we are told.
Why should not You be,
and II was for me you did It, And
won't let you give yourself up to jus
tlce or any one. I'll say he died in the
boat and then the laughter OF hys-
terics
When, some months later, the Jose
phine, whaler, of New London, picked
them ND on her way to Japan, via the
Carolines and Pelews, the captain sat
isfactorily answered the query made
by Enderby IL he could marry them.
He rather thought he could. A man
who was used ter ketcbin' and kllhn'
whales, the powerfulest. creatures or
Almighty Gawd's creation, was ekal
to marryi' pair of unfortunit human
beans In sich n pre-carus situation as
theirs"
And. by the irony Of fate, the Ender-
bys THAT isn't their name) are now
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