The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
copyrlahs. 1900

that O'Keefe was the benefactor OF
their kind. O'Keefe while he was there
had changed their lot, which was a
hard one, to a life comparatively easy
and comfortable. Things went well for
a week or two, and then the inhab-
itants of Swat began to pine for the
man of the Coiled Snake They need
ed the guidance of born leader and
an intelligent man. They had begun
TO taste civilization, and they liked it:
they wanted more.
''Oh Keefe! Oh Keefei" was the cry
where is Oh Keefe?"
Now Ellington O'Keefe had evolved,
with reference to Constitutional Smith,
great and glorious scheme In the
rev months that O'Keefe had been
away from Monroe he had suffered the
fortunes of a lifetime. He had come
into contact too many times with
brutal strength and unrelenting cruel
W. He had determined to get even
with the man who had set the wheels
In motion. He wanted to put the
screws on this man Smith. He wanted
smith to have taste of what he him.
self had suffered. He knew that IL he
himself had attempted to sail again
with Noteworthy Jenkins in the Sarah
margaret he would be utterly anni-a
Inflated. 1t was his purpose that Smith
should take his place. He knew that
II Smith did survive the fury of Capt.
jerks that he could not escape the
battle with the Akoond, who would
brook no rivalry. An ordinary man
would have delivered Smith up to JUS
uce, but Okeefe was different. He
felt that ultimately Smith would he
delivered up to justice anyway, and in
the meantime he preferred that his
personal vengeance be Wreaked upon
the strong-arm man. He had so ar.
ranged his scheme that if Smith did
escape before he reached the vessel
he would probably be seized by the
ofhcers OF the law; if he were not, that
Capt. jerks would reckon with him;
and II by any hook or crook he escaped
the wrath of jerks, the Akoond and his
gang would finish him up in style. 1t
Was not bad scheme this scheme of
Ellington O'Keefe's.
But the one thing that he did not
know was that down in the Isle of
Swat the people were calling constant
ly and yearningly upon the name of
"Oh Keefe, Oh Keefe."
The natives of the Island of Swat
had observed the Sarah Margaret
when, pursuant to the orders of Con-
stitutional Smith, she had anchored
just outside. The Akoond sent num-
per OF his warriors down upon the
beach to make hostile showing, and
they stood there, drawn up in battle
array, as small boat approached the
shore. There was something about this
army that distinguished 1t from other
armies. Later it will appear jrst what
this was. Suffice it to say that but
one other army in history or fiction
had made the strange showing that this
army did.
The boat drew nearer. A big man
In the bow sat shading his eyes and
glancing anxiously toward the group
upon the shore. But he did not falter.
The boat came on.
Suddenly from those on shoressthereX
came a wild shout Of recognition of
welcome, of gladness.
oh Keefe!" they yelled. ooh Keefe.i
Oh Keefe has come again" .
Their shouts attracted others, and
the populace rushed pell nell down to
the beach.
Constitutional Smith, in the little
boat, was somewhat dazed. He had
been somewhat feazed by the peculiar
appearance of the Isle of Swat. For
above it, and about fifteen feet higher
than the ground, there hung a thin
black cloud. 1t was this cloud that
puzzled Smith. AS he drew nearer this
cloud seemed to undulate; here and
there it swooped down toward the
earth; here and there 1t rose much
higher.
But the strange thing was that the
inhabitants of Swat, including every
soldier in the army, waved in his hand
good sized bough covered with green
leaves. Smith had mistaken this pecu-
liar demonstration, at first, for a fresh
growth Of small trees upon the Shore
And he noticed that where this Shout
ing, bowling, laughing mob stood the
thin black cloud had disappeared.
Ever and anon, in their frenzy of de-
light, the inhabitants of Swat smote
their faces, their arms and breasts,
and those Of their fellows. And con-,
tinually they kept up steady move
ment Of the fresh green boughs. f.Itt mr.
"Oh Keefe!" they yelled. "Oh
Keefe!" .ls