The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-10-24

him.
"Jackr' cried Brady in a stif1ed voice
The lad took a step back. The girl
moaned n tried to run between
Hatch and Stanbury-Jones. The old
eaman caught and shook her like a
dog. tearing away the whistle she put
to her lips and dashing it on the floor.
Jack put up his hand and snatched a
pistol hidden in the thatch of the roof
Brady on the instant leveled his own
and Numbered out:
Drop it or I'll shoot!'
"Shoot and he hanged" returned Jack.
And with that he turned his pistol on
himself and, placing the muzzle against
his forehead, pulled The trigger.
1t missed fire.
Before he could try again Brady had
caught him round the neck, while
Hatch, resiening the girl to Stanbury-
Jones, ran in and snapped the hand
cuffs on his wrists.
Jack" cried Brady. 1--WE aren't GO
ing to hurt you! We're rescuing you
from the hill tribes! Man, you're saw
ed,'
Hatch.
III gOu DdCh uS upy III LciiONy
said Winterslea.
Give us m fin, boy" said Hotham.
1t was some time before Jack could
pull himself together. When at last
he did so and began to appreciate the
generosity of his captain and ship
mates and their astounding concern to
save him from the penalty Of his
crime, he underwent one of those reac-
lions when despair gives way to the
maddcst gayety. He SwOre at Hatch
and made him take off the iron; he
got out a bottle of white rum and
forced them all to drink his health: he
kept them in a roar with the story of
his adventures and laughed and cried
in turn as he described his life ashore.
what does she want?' demanded
Brady, as Tehea insistently repeated
some words in native.
"She says" said Jack calmly, pick
ing up the whistle from the fioOr and
touching it to his lips, Ssh says I've
only to blow this and you will all be
dead in five m%inutes!"
A hush fell upon the company.
Jack. with an oath, flung the whistle
from him.
Gentlemen he said, 81 am CRATE
full. l am ID grateful. If l live l
shall try to repay each one of you.
l shall try to be a better man. /
shall try to be worthy of your kind
ness" He went round and shook
hands solemnly with every one of
them.
"D-d grateful" he repeated.
Lets be off," said Brady.
"Now. lad. your word of honor"
said Winterslea.
Jack looked about him helplessIy.
II suppose I've no right to ask such
a thing" he said. Il know how good
you've been to m already, and all
that, But-but, gentlemen-she's my
wife. l love her. l shall never see
her again. May | not entreat a single
minute for myseIff"
NO" said Brady.
Jack went over to Tehea and took
her hand. He put his arms about her.
and, unashamed. before them all,
pressed her comedy head against his
breast. He tried to explain the in
exorable fate he was so powerless to
resist; in incoherent whispers he told
her he would break his chains and re-
turn to her, free in the years to come
10 devote MS lie 10 the woman ne
loved. He called her the dearest
anne and begged her not to forget
him. But she, with a perception
greater than his own, swept away
these despairing protestations with
disdain. The daughter of one king,
the sister of another, could b not
meet force by force? These fierce in
with their rough voices and
drawn pistols, who were they to
threaten a princess of the royal blood
and carry away her lover before her
eyes?
If they We're strong. she was
stronger, and what ship she
asked, however murderous or far rang
ing, could penetrate those mountain
recesses whittier she would carry
him before the morning? All, she
said. it was for him to choose between
her and them. between Britain and
the sland; between love or the service
of the white queen beyond the seas.
i have chosen" he said.
Her eyes dashed as she freed her
self from his arms.
Il am hateful in my own sight for
having loved YOU" she said.
"WIl you not V e wish me well,
Tehea e he asked.
Nor she cried. II hope you viii
die"
He turned away.
"Siati." she cried after him.
He came back to her. downcast and
silent.
@Remember,- she said in an agony
OF sweet relenting. -that wherever
thou goest. however many the years
that may divide us. however wide the
waters or the land. I shall be here
waiting for thee, here In this house
Of our happiness. ind IL 1 die before
thou contest. here thou wilt find my
grave