The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-21
JOHN INGERFIELD.
By JEROME K. JEROME.
ICopyright, 1851
CHAPTER I.

tram cars that start from that point and
60 down the Commercial road past the
George, in front of which stands--or
used TO stand--a high flagstaff, at the
base ct which sits-or used to sit-an
elderly female purveyor Of pigs trottcrs
at ha'pence apiece, until you como 60
where railway arch crosses the road
obliquely, and there get down and turn
to the right up narrow noisy street
lending to the river, and then to the
right again up still narrower street,
which YOU may know by its having a
public house at one corner Gas is III the
nature Of things) and marine store
dealers at the other, outside which
strangely stiff and unaccommodating
garments Of gigantic size fluttcr ghost
like i'll the wind, you will come to a
dingy rallied in churchyard, surrounded
on all sides by cherries, many peoplcd
houses. Sad looking little old houses
they are. in spite Of the tumult of life
about their ever open doors. They and
the ancient church in their midst seem
weary Of the ceaseless jangle around
them. Perhaps, standing there so many
years, listening to the long silence Of
the dead, the fretful voices Of the liv-
ing sound foolish in their ears.
Peering through the ratings on the
side nearest the river, you will see be-
meath the shadow of the SCOT grimed
church S SCOT grimed porch-that is, if
the sun happen, by rare chance, to be
high enough and strong enough TO cast
any shadow at all III that region of gray
light-a curiously high and narrow
headstone that once was white and
straight, not lettering and bent with
age as it is now. There is upon this
stone carving in bas relief, as you will
see for yourself if you make your way
to it through the gateway on the oppo-
site side of the square. 1t represents, so
far as can be made out, for it is much
worn by time and dirt, figure lying
on the ground with another figure bend
ing over it, while at little distance
stands third object. But this last is so
indistinct that it might be almost any
thing, from an angel to a horse
And below the carving are the words
(already half Abliterated) that l have
uSbu IOT tuo llllt VI lUlS SuOTy.
Should you ever wander of Sunday
morning within sound Of the cracked
bell that calls few habit bound, old
fashioned folk to worship within those
damp stained walls, and drop into talk
with the old men who ON such days sit,
each in his brass buttoned long brown
coat, upon the low stone coping under
,a,tl, tLoca b,.oL,ap rai1ippS vo,, mi ,,bt
hear this tale from them, as did, more
years ago than care to recollect
But lest you do not choose to go to all
this trouble or lest the old men who
could tell it you have grown tired Of all
| talk, and are not to be reused ever again
into the telling of tales, and you yet
wish for the story, will here set it
down for you.
But cannot recount it to you as they
told it to me, for to me irwas only tale
that heard and remembered, thinking
to tell it again for profit, while to them
it was thing that had been, and the
| threads of it were interviewer with the
wool of their own life. AS they talked
faces that did not see passed by among
| the crowd and turned and looked at
them, and voices that I did not hear
spoke to them below the clamor Of the
street, SO that through their thin, pip
ing voices there quivered the deep mu.
sic of life and death, and my tale must
be to theirs but as a gossip's chatter to
the story of him whose breast has felt
the press of battle.
John Ingerfield, oil and tallow re-
comes Of hard headed, hard listed
stock The first of the race that the eye
of record, piercing the deepening mists
upon the centuries behind her, is able
to discern with any clearness is a long
haired. sea bronzed parsonage, whom
men call variously Inge or Unger. Out
of the wild North sea he has come. Rec
ord observes him, one Of small, fierce
group. standing on the sands of desc
late Northumbria, staring landward, his
worldly wealth upon his back. This
consists of two handed battleax, value
perhaps some 40 stycas in the currency
of the time A careful man, with bust
ness capabilities, may, however, manip
ulate small capital to great advan
tage. In what would appear, to those
accustomed to our slow modern meth
DDS, an incredibly short space of time
Inge's two handed battleax has devel
oped into wide lands and many head OF
cattle, which latter continue to multi
ply with a rapidity beyond the dreams
of present day breeders. mges descend
ants would seem to have inherited the
genius of their ancestor, for they pros
per and their worldly goods increase
They are money making race. In al
times, out of all things, by all means
they make money They fight for mon
ey, marry for money, live for money
are ready to die for money.
In the days when the most saleabl'
and the highest priced article in thu
markets of Europe was "a strong arm
and cool head then each Ingerfield Ca
Inge, long rooted in Yorkshire soil, haC
grown to) was a soldier of fortune, an(