Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-10-27
A PLATA, MARYLAND, OCTOBER q, 1899.
C9tYD D99W@0W H4E3MWa a8G5
q TWO GENTLEMEN e
@ ~OF. HAWAII. @
@ --'- CD
O. BY SEWARD W. HOPKINS o.
6aMR @aRaRaRaG
by SEWARD w. HOPKINS.
@1@8@ a0a@aaa8a

led the way to tho Temple Of the
Glistening Rock.
"You must have had creepy sensa.
tons when you went through here
alone," said Gordon.
81 felt better than + do now. /
was full of hope. Now all is misery.
Look ont there, the road is rough and
the light poor"
'Confound that rockl" 1 heard
-6eaeamp sputter back of us. 'I'n
break my American neck over this
heather business before I get
through
1 walked more rapidly than I had
on my first visit. / seemed to know
the road perfectly. / found NJ diff
Guilty in picking my way. Gordon
came along splendidly, but Seacamp
and Chicot stumbled and fell and
cursed and grumbled as we hurried
them along.
81 see light ahead" Gordon said.
''It is the Temple of the Glistening
Rock, L said. "That is where wait.
ed for Nimolau, who took me before
Kaumai."
We quickened our steps.
'Therc is some one there" said
Gordon.
Irushed into the broad basin called
the Temple of the Glistening Rock.
A man sat with his back to the rock,
facing the gulf or entrance to the tenn
pie.
He was calmly eating a banana,
1t was Nimolau.
I sprang toward him and seized him.
"Hell-dogP' I roared, hardly able to
desist from staying him on the spot.
But that L needel his assistance to
find Helene, he would have died that
moment. ''You miserable curl You
worthless pup of Satanl Murderer
Do you know 1 have come to kill you?'
L shook him roughly. The soldiers
crowded around. They needed but a
word to put Nimolau ont of the world.
But Nimolau was the same calm
Nimolau.
81 thought you would come" he
said. 81 have been waiting for You. "
Waiting for mew 1 cried. elias
the place not done me harm enough
that it should wait for me again? But
I am here, and if your numbering
priestess lives, L want to see her"
''It is an easy thing" he said.
"Follow me-"
"Devilish coolW muttered Gordon.
Zone would think he had done you a
favor once"
Just So" said Nimolau, turning
to 0e. ''The last time you were here
You had some good cigars. Got anY
nova"
roared an oath at him.
''Nor" L said. "Lead us to Kaumai,
or I'll scatter your brains on this
Glistening Rock"
Come on" he said.
We followed him, as I had done be-
fore, through the dark passage-way,
the guide going ahead of us with his
lantern.
When We emerged from that pass
age aud came out on the mountain
side, 1 saw fresh lava here and there.
''There it is" 1 said. ''The erup-
ton was slight, after all "
''It was the sacrifice, said Nimolau,
looking at me. There was a curious
light in his eyes.
l clutched him by the throat
"Wait," said Gordon. "Let him
take us to Helene, and then we can
deal with him.
We followed him up the mountain
and down into the crater. He entered
the temple where 1 had seen so many
horrors. A cold shudder crept over
me. There was one relief Nopriests
could be seen.
"Where are the priests?" I asked
Nimolau.
"5ome are down there, he replied,
pointing into the lake oflava, no longer
rumbling or smoking, "The soldiers
killed them aud Patua and I buried
them in there. The others are wan
dering about the island. There was
no way to leave it, for Patua's boat
was broken in a storm.
"And the Observation-Disclosures"
I asked. "What of that?"
He did not answer He stepped
toward that chamber in which Kaumai
had sheltered me and had raised my
hopes and had bade me trust her.
Nimolau gave peculiar cry.
go in, he said.
Gordon aud /, with our nerves
braced. dragging Jean Chicot between
us, stepped into the chamber of the
priestess.
Tremblingiy, paralyzed in limb and
tongue, we stood there.
Two beautiful women came to greet
us.
One was Kaumai, more radiant, more
lovely than ever. The other-God open
my eyes clearer that may see!-was
Winnie.
"Winnier',,I cried at last, lost in a
fog of bewilderment. "Winniep My
voice was broken; my sight dim. I
could say no more than that. win
ME"
1T was no phantom. Ny sisters
arms were around my neck. She was
weeping and kissing me, and l was
weeping and kissing her.
"God be praised" / exclaimed at
last. "But l saw you thrown into tho
lava lake. How were you rescued
and by whom?"
A happy laugh drove ner tear
away.
81 wasn't thrown in, Tom dear, "
she said, aud now she found time tc
stretch out her hand to Gordon, whc
stood staring at her and at Kauma
aud at the room in which we stood
III was only bundle that was thrown
in, Tom. Kaumai was true, and
saved me. Nimolau and Patua wert
true to us aud her aud did not betraJ
the secret Now she lowered hel
voice to a whisper and Kaumn
loves you, Tom, aud saved me fol
You. and | love Kaunai
My eyes were swimming with tears
Through them could sea Kaumai,
beautiful Kalmai, crouching upon Q
cushion, her face buried in her hands
Gordon found his tongue, and with
tho hight of resurrectel love strug-