The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-12-13

III dITdlu YOU IL udVC w. La PCA
to know the stuff is worth good deal
more than the price you name; and,
rather than let you have it, I'll buy it
myself on speculation"
ooh, We will! What's ter purvent my
layin' down my money here on thur
sand an tellin' my men ter put it
aboard? reckon you an that dago
amt goin' ter stop me-"
sSThat's where you make another mis-
take. Senior Legaspe sent for the COB
ernador an hour ago, and he'll be here
with the officers of his staff very short
ly. In the meantime, if you or your
men lay finger on those bags, I'll
shoot you without seconds warning"
Qwas playing for millions, and meant
what I said) ''More than that, as you
have grossly insulted the senorita, I'll
kill you if you stay another five min
utes on shore"
I thought the man would have fit
of apoplexy; even his vast store of deep
sea profanity failed him for the mo-
ment. His crew were Germans, but
enough of them understood English to
keep the run of what was going on, and
I could see they were rather enjoying
tkesituation; evidently the skipper was
a thorough brute at sea. He was
speeches. with rage; but, as had the
advantage of him, there was nothing
to do but pull off to his schooner and
sail away. She was just standing out
past Orote when the carbonate jolted
up with the colonel and his two lieu
tenants. Dorotea saw that Legaspe
was likely to get a wigging for allowing
the visitors to leave before her father
saw them, and shrewdly put an entire
ly different light upon the affair by say
ing-in English, for my benefit:
"Padre milo, you the Senior Enrique
must thank for protecting me at the
risk of his life. Tn brute capitano did
land from la goleta and did order his
men to take away the copra, telling
the Senior Lepaspe that he would pay
but mere nothing; and when did
say that he could not have it, he in
suited me. Then the Senior Enrique
did give him five minutes to go away
before he killed him, though the brute
did have seven men from his goleta."
Well, that settled the stranger, and
made me the biggest man on the is
land. The gobernador's right arm
went over my shoulder, and his left
under my right, in a twinkling; then,
after three pats on the small Of my
back and moment or two of ecstatic
silence, he reversed the arms, left over
my right shoulder, ETC., three more
pats, more silence, kisses on both my
~, of
travagant protestations concerning his
lifelong obligation to me. had seen
the thing done many times before
among people of the Latin races, but
being kissed by man was, to say the
least, novelty. Even Legaspe ex-
! pressed himself in exaggerated terms
i concerning the way in which I had
) called the captains hand; and, as nc
mention was made of his supposed
mistake, he was our very humble serv
ant. Lest other dangers of similar
$ Dorotea mentioned to her father Hal
stead's assumed intention of buying
E the copra at high figure, on specula
1 ton, and suggested the ACCESSIBILITY O
h placing guard over it at night. TIL,
: colonel's cupidity was aroused, and tn
guard was set; but, owing to Br'e
!; Miguel's ghosty influence, the mos
) he could make his men do was to pa
n troll the shore each night in proa
o AS it was likely to be a three-months
D job, the soldiers didn't relish this; bu
O they had to obey orders.
1t was the 9th of May when we cam
it SO near losing the copra. On the thir
# morning after Halstead was to appear
Il if everything had gone right with him
L. and as the time approached becam
IT strangely apprehensive-so much S
Vt that I found it difficult to maintain a
air of careless ease. In fact had it nc
IT been for Dorotea. I might have b.
Is trayed my real interest in Guajan
D. dozen times. But with each day tn;
h passed it became more evident that
le had no rival in her heart. Sometim,
n she would speak with dread of Ha
N stead's return, and breathlessly as
ar me to promise that would surely Wis
r. them in Granada the following sprin
lie Still, July was yet SO far away thu
g my departure seemed only dim pc
e. sibility to her-a something which 81
le must not even think about. I wo.
I'd dered little what she would say whe
rt she knew, and how the colonel was g
or ing to feel.
re Sebastiano had fully recovered
this time, and had resumed his inves
ne cations. Bearing the old fellow real
lie no i'll will, one day suggested to hi
as the possibility that Santa Rosa mig
I'd be eight or ten miles to the eastwa.
he. of the charted position; and on t.
as evening of May 8 he burst into t
ed patio, where we were at dinner, wi
81 his oily countenance fairly shining.
had been out in his big proa all da
to and at last had been successful. The
n. were eXultation, greed, many thing
ms in the look he cast upon me; but t
ut man had suffered disappointment
n illness, and the Lord knows I did1
Mt feel like begrudging him this bit
IT. good luck. I listened to him, &C
pratulatex1 him heartily 11pon, his IRE