The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-25
LOG OF THE YACHT "TOLNk''
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1 suspected that Wickmann had gone
to my stateroom. l left the deck. l
crossed the cabin, where my footsteps
made no noise on the thick carpet. l
arrived at the door of my stateroom,
where 1 saw Wickmann. He did not
hear me. He had mis- hand on the
chronometer. He was just about to
change the chrOnometer as he had
changed the compass. 1 saw his face
reflected in the mirror. 1t had a
frightfuI expression, like that of the
poisoner as he pOurs his poisonous po-
ton into a glass. With cat-like tread
I withdrew to the cabin companion
way. Then, making some noise to
warn him, came into the cabin again,
giving Wickmann time to put the
chronometer back in it's place. 1t be-
came vital that I should not forget to
wind my watch. Henceforth, there
was nothing but my watch and my
pocket-compass to guide US through
the vast Pacific ocean.
At this point the most light-hearted
reader of Count TOMAS book begins
to have the creeps. But again the
question arises. Why did Countess
Festetics de Tolna leave Count Fes-
tetics de Tolna?
For several days nothing took place
aboard the yacht but this continual
watching and counter-watching. The
countess had not only learned to take
the sun, but she also cast an eye upon
the compass as she passed the bin
nacle; she went below occasionally, to
see that Wickmann had not changed
the chronometer again; she kept her
watch on deck while her husband was
below asleep. Thus, on their honey
moon trip, the Count and Countess
Festetics de Tolna kept watch and
watch like the first and second officers
OF a lumber schooner.
But why did the Countess Festetics
de Tolna leave the Count Festetics de
Tolna?
AS the yacht continued to near Homo
lulu, despite the efforts of Kidnapper
Wickmann, the count noticed that
"Wickmann, more fierce than ever,
walked the deck like a wild beast in a
cage. Sometimes he clenched his fists
and darted furious glances at me-
But the count, taking heart of grace,
began to laugh at him. One day, how
ever, Wickmann gave an order to bring
the yacht about unexpectedly when the
count was below and countess was on
deck, hoping by the sudden movement
to carry the countess overheard by
the swinging of the main boom. For
tunately he failed. But the countess
was knocked senseless. Thus the
count:
While I was asleep below I was
awakened by a frightful noise on deck.
1t seemed as if everything had been
reduced to kindling wood. I ran up
the companion-way There I found
my wife extended on the deck, un-
conscious, in the midst of some broken
top-hammer AS soon as I had con-
WINGED myself that she had received
no wounds and was only insensible
from the violence of the shock, I put
her in the hands of her negress, who
took her below. Then drawing my re-
yolver, I marched straight on Wick
mann.
''Who was at the wheel?" said i.
'"Tom, SIR
Take these letters: put them on
him Immediately, or I will blow out
your brains
Captain, it wasn't his fault
mo back talk. give you Two
minutes to put this man in irons an:
give me the key or ! will kill You
like a dog
wickmann at once took the lr;,n7
and put them on Tom, to whom he
whispered a few words. When h.
brought me back the key I threw il
into the sea, saying: "Those irons will
stay on him until some Honolulu lock-
smith can take them off. And now
listen to me. Things are guing on
here which would justify me in shoot
ing you all. I warn you that at the
first sign of mutiny from any mar 1
will blow his brains OUT
Again we ask, 'Why did the Coun-
tess FesteticS leave-' Bit to our
tale.
1T is a lamentable anti-clinaN to this
dreadful story-which sounds as if it
came from pirates own book-to
narrate that they arrived at Homo
lulu on the twenty-fourth of October
without anything further happening,
and that the count allowed W.Ckmann
to leave the ship without taking any
particular action concerning him.
The count describes his staJ at IIo-
nolulu, and speaks of social relations
there with startling frankness. EIe
mentions one eX-premier, Mr.. c.
as living Sin the most patriarchal re-
lations with his wife and other Worae
under the same roof" For example
he says, his host thus introduced his
feminine surroundings:
Mime. C, my legitimate wife;
Nine. E., my first mistress; Nine
NJ, my second mistress; k
my legitimate daughter; R, my
natural daughter, ETC. But" adds
the count, these. our hospitable
friends. women and young girls, un-
equal before the law, We're equal by
their hospitality"
More and more it becomes a mystery
to the reader why the Countess Fes-
tetfcs de Tolna should have left Count
Festetics de Tolna
AS the count takes US from island tC
island, all sorts of charming things
occur, calculated to appeal to a bride
For example, they go TO Tanning ISL
and, and there is a large photograph
of the count with ION my right, the
young maiden whom the king offered
to me, decorated for this occasion. !
am seated at the left" At this same
island the honeymooners were re-
called with the following sight:
Weird bursts of music were heard.
and a group of young girls. almost
nude and clad in girdIes of leaves, be-