The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21

find out If her surnises were we'll found
ed. Two of the spies never came back.
They were reported as having been
drowned. In reality they enlisted in Tin
digs array of lighting men, but tho one
VINO did return said that the pirate was
Emd1g the Shell-worker. and that the
two wives We're Nipa and Sepa, who had
formerly been Slaves
The princess became wild with rage
/ and rushed into her fathers presence,
He shared her anger, but with his usual
! s!oth put off declaring war against the
SnelI-Worker. He even went further in
his folly. He sent a letter to Tindig,
telling him to come to Paluan and 6e
! liver UP his Slips and his TWO slave maid
! ems, or, in default, he, the king of "a
! it wilderness
The message was delivered, and T1ndig
| would have sent back a sharp and de-
| hant answer. but Nina interviewed and
| sent message, instead, which was the
| letter OF coward and woman In it
| T1nd1g craved mercy of the king Of
| PaaIun, begged for his life, and prom
lsed to come in the next simmer mon
soon with his ships, as commanded The
KING received the message and read it
| with the ccTnplacencY which always goes
! with folly, but the princess, who was
cunning. read between the lines, and
| said:
20. my fakaer, that is not the mes
wise Asaid. 5S1'hey do not intend to come,
and VIII not come. She seeks to delay,
| hoping that as the moons pass by your
anger will vanish and their presumption
| be forgotten.
Now Buya was artful and wise in her
own way. but her wisdom was nothing
to that of Nipas. Nipa and Tfndig did
not want a deleay, neither did they fear
the anger of the king of Palaun While
they sent the cowardly message. and
while they loaded the messengers with
rich presents, and implored them to
speak well of Tindig to the king Of Pa
luan, in their hearts were different
thoughts. The moment the messengers
had left, in fact the very dav OF their
departure, the war cry had been sent out
in every direction. Provisions were ac-
cumulated, and within g week Tindig,
Nipa and Sepa, at the head of a great
feet, filled with their best lighting men,
We're sailing soutbwestWard to the great
hill Of CalaVite.
One-half of the fleet stopped Just be-
yond the hill of Bacto and 1900 Of the
best warriors, under the command of a
skilled leader, marched overland through
the hills. until they were behind the
royal city. The other half sailed around
the Cape to the bay, and reached there
in the early morning before sunrise
The feet of Paluan lay in front of them,
some of the junks at anchor and some
hauled up on the shore. There were no
sentrieS out and no guards on duty.
From ship to ship Tindig Nipa and Sepa
passed, each at the head of stalwart
q
ing soul was on board
At sunrise the barking Of the dogs IN
the palace aroused the sleeping soldiers
and the people Of the city. Warriors
sprang to their arms. and the king, who
was brave, In spite of his folly, was the
first to appear ready for battle. AS he
ran, bolo in one hand and a creese in
the other out of the palace into the great
and outbnildings, through the gateway
came the men Of Batangas, and at their
head two huge figures that looked moro
like gods than men. One was q man
ana the ether a woman, and behind them
were warriors armed to the teeth, who
bad fought on every sea. The men OF
Paluan resisted but even before they
could inf1ict injury upon the invaders
there came roar and then Wild shrieks
from back Of the palace, where the half
OF the huge army had scaled the walls,
and We're now entering the doomed place.
The king Of Paluan fell and aroun,i
him hundred fighting men. who proved
true to their old master; but the rest
surrendered.
and there held court, as years before the
king had held it, in his presence. On one
side sat Nipa, and on the other Sepa,
and the first to be brought before them
was the Princess Buya. In spite of her
misfortune, she was still as proud as
beautiful. She knew that she had little to
eXpect-death or to become one OF the
slaves OF a rough pirate, was doubtless
the alternative. She was about to insult
Tindig, but upon her there came a GU
rlous sense OF the mans majesty. She
realized in vague way that, for the
first time in her life she looked upon a
real king.
Tindig asked her If she had any re-
quest to make. She drew herself proudly
up. and said:
mo. You can kill me or marry me to
whomsoever you please, or sell me as a
slave. You have the power, and I am
powerless."
What Tindig would have said is UNI
known, but Nipa whispered, and the good
natured giant smiled and replied:
ut shall be none of these. You shall
be Nipa's maid henceforth and forever"
And Buya became the maid, and. as
the moons came and went, made a better
servant than even Nipa had been to her
In the long-gone years. and some old
men say that she remained maid until
she died Of ripe old age: but others say
that when her arrogance had gone and
only her wisdom was left she won the
confidence of master and mistress and
became the third wife Of the king Of Ba-
tangas and Paluan.