The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-21

master that he had arranged matters
with his few Honolulu creditors. but |
the harbormaster replied that Jack |
hadn't arranged anything with the pair |
of half-kanakas, whose cop brother |
Jack had trounced. Jack owed that |
half-kanaka firm the sum of $3.50, the !
harbormaster said, and until the
amount was paid Jack wouldn't be per-
mitted to leave the islands. Twenty |
men who were on board the ship to
help give Jack his send-off hoped to
the center and offered to square the
$3.50 debt then and there, but Jack
wouldn't have it that way.
"'Not much he said. These taro-
chewers are just trying to work an
edge on me, and they're not going to
get away with it. They're not my pre-
ferred creditors-not that I know Of
and they're no more entitled to frame
up a game like this on me than anv
of the others. I'll just POSTPONE my
trip up for while, that's ALL
Three days later the Miowera.
bound up to Victoria from Australia,
dropped in. Jack got in with a couple
of the Miowera's firemen and made the
rifle to stow away on her for the ride
up to the Coast They helped him to
get a grip containing a few buds on
board and slowed away in one of the
coal bunkers, and then they tucked
Jack in a waste-locker in the engine
room.
"But he didn't get away with the
scheme The half-kanaka harbormas
ter, who was on the side of the pair Of
Ihalf-kanaka grocers, suspected that the
independent Mr.. Boland would be try
ing to stow away, and an hour before
the Miowera's banked fires were uoked
up for the cruise, he went aboard the
steamer and after searching her from
cathead to mizzen-rail and from signal
yard to rolling checks, he nailed Jack
huddled up under the waste in the en-
gine-room locker. Jack didn't say any
thing. He squared his jaw, kept his
tongue between his teeth, and went
ashore.
!. From that hour the determination
!, to get away from Honolulu without
!, asking the by-your-leave of the pair of
half kanaka grocery keepers became
all but an obsession with Jack Boland.
| His Honolulu friends begged him to
. allow them to square up the measly
$3.50 debt, but he wouldn't listen to
| them.
"'Not by a damsite, not giving you
good-natured ducks a short answer,
: was Jacks invariable reply to such
suggestions. If it is the will of God
/ that I remain here for a million wears,
all o. X, but I'm not going to knuckle
nv forehead and pull my spit-lock to
, a couple of Polynesian niggers for per-
mission to get off these islands-nix
But I'll get away, all right. Just you
! watch me.
, Not long after the harbormaster had
: corralled Jack in the act of making his
: escape as a stowaway on the Miowera
? a trading schooner from San francisco
put into Honolulu for water. The
schooner was owned and commanded
by a young San Franciscan and he
was on his way down to the Fills with
cargo of calico and beads and such
, like to trade with the natives. Jack
, got in with this young schooner skip
per and asked to be allowed to work
his way down to the Fills, where he
would be able to catch one of the up-
bound Australia steamers and work his
way to the Pacific coast by that means
The schooner skipper sized Jack III
i, and told him that he wouldn't let him
: work his way to the Fijis or anywhere
else. but that he would gladly give him
a free ride down to the Fills.
Amy old way, SOS get away from
f here Jack said, and he got his gear or
board the schooner. The schooner had
her clearing papers all right, and tbs
harbormaster never suspected that