Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-27

be There wernt no ghost mp III that
tree. I could make very sure, seeing as
how could see every branch of it and
nearly count every leaf on II in the
clear moonlight. and there was no
where else for ghost to harbor
"Then looks down at the men. think.
ing as how perhaps some on them was
a-rlaying OF trick ON us, but they
was all useep-if ever see men asleep
in my life | say they was all asleep.
and go they was minute before. but
even as looked at them they all with
one accord springs up, some sitting,
some standing. some rubbing their eyes,
some cursing and swearing. and two
on en- falling TO afghting.
"'Stop this here. says |, a-interTos-
ing between the two fighting ones.
IN have no fighting here. I'm in COM
mand on this island Stop, sayr
He pulled me mp out of my sleep,
says one You're liar, Gays the 9th.
er. You pulled me mp. And another
on 'em sits mp right straight, and says,
says he, God, feels like DEATH and
all the others mumbled and muttered
to themselves
Mates, says to them, listen to
me. There's a something on this island
as amt right. Whether it's i'm the air
or whether it's in the soil or whether
it's in the sea around us l know not.
But there's something here as should
not be. You was all a-sleeping peaceful
two moments ago and nobody pulled
any on you. and yet here you all are
saying as how some one did do so, and
one on you says as how he feels like
death.
land 40 do. Gays the man--Will
Winter by name Il feel death upon
me.
d" TO the fend with death, says /;
get mp and walk about.
81 cant. says he; Il can't. cant
move And he couldn't. Friends all,
that man was in kind of parlytic
state. as the doctors call 1t, and he
could not move.
&" Then. says I, this won't do. men.
This here is worse nor the storm Let's
hail the ship. And with that we hailed
her. What cheer2' | sings out to the
man | could see on the fO'castle
What cheer. shipmates' And he sings
back AIS well aboard. What cheer.
sbipmate. ashorep'
Bad. answered I. We think this
land is infected. Tell the captain Will
Winter says he's dying Well. with
that we hears voices on the ship and
see lantern moving, and then the cap.
tain halls us. What's this. l hear,
Buncef' he calls to me.
will Winter took with sickness,
skipper. replies, and I think we
are all going mad, captain. We can
feel something as we can't see a-catch.
ing hold on us and a.dragging Of us.
"'Come aboard. halloos back the
skipper. all on you, at onst.' But here
was difficulty We others could oil
have clambered mp the ship's side--sll
on MS excepting viii Winter. But. a
for him. he couldn't move. and there
wern't no moving Of him-and naterel.
and sailorlike. We wasn't a-going to
leave him there-the more 90 as there
was no doubt that he was like to die.
You could see 1t in his face friends. a
he lay there under the tree-mateys.
you could see 1t In the horror Of his
eyesi
"However. l sends all the Others
down to the ship, and l halloos oft te
the captain. telling him that all my
men was coming on board, excepting
only Will Winter, who couldn't move
and myself. who was a.going to stand
by with him and help him. And Of thi'
the captain approved.
$50 off they goes to the ship. and righI
glad, think, they was to do 1t. and
although the Loving Friend weren'
s-lying more nor two cables CT two ca
bles and half's length from the shore
felt bit lonesome and creepylike n
I recollected that here was ! on islant
about which there was something mos
certainly strange and with man mark
ed for death alongside Of me. However
tried to dismiss them thoughts fron
my mind and to sec what ! could d.
for Will. He, poor man, was now ally
ing fiat on his back, with his eyes star
ing up to the stars through the branch
es of the tree, and with his hands
twitching convulsivelike. and he was
muttering something Of which coul'
catch no words. or only the wor'
tree But what he was talking a bout
or what he wanted to say. have neve
known.
"'What Is 1t. shipmateT ! said
attending over him and moistening hi
lips with some rum and water. 'Wha
cheer9 What can do for youf Blu
he give no answer as | could under
stand, SO made him as comfortable a
could, and then lay down near him
but away from'him bit and nearer I
the sea. and so. sometimes raising my sci
to look Mt him. and wondering Us I
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