The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-10

run ashore" he said by way OF ex-
PLANTATION. a4
The vessel slowly stopped. The GOV.
ers We're whipped Off the gig. She was
lioisted out and lowered, the crew
dropping down the ladder into their
places at the peep-peep-peep of the
whistle. b. .s#.rr
Il leave the ship" said Sir John, not
to convey fact patiently obvious. but
In obedience to a naval formula.
lie was landed nc little cove where
In bygone days he had often whiIcd
away an hour In charge of Hadow's
boat. II gave him singular sensation
to feel the keel crate against the shin
gle and to say to himself that this was
Lihua! He drew deep breath as he
looked about and noticed how un-
changed 1t al was. There were some
new houses In new places and grass
% the sites OF others that were ell
deared to him In recollection, but II
was Lihua after all, the Lihua OF his
boyhood. the Lihua of his dreams. For
awhile he strolled about nj random,
walking with the phantoms Of the past.
hearing their laughter. seeing their
faces. recalling thousand things he
had forgotten.
IL came over him with start that
the village was empty. Then he re-
memberei II was Sunday. and they
were all In church. Thank God there
were none to watch him, no prying.
curious eyes TO disturb his thoughts.
But they would soon he out again. and
{ beho0ved him TO make the best us,
Of his solitude while he might. He
struck inland. his heart beating with u
curious expectancy. At every sound
he held his breath. and he would turn
quickly and look back with a haunting
sense that Tehea was near him; that
perhaps she was gazing at him through
the trees.
He approached his old home through
pyersrown plantations. II awcd him Ia
part the branches and TO feel hiE2'elf
drawing nearer at every step 10 the
only house he had ever called ills own.
As he heard the spiashing waterfall
he stopped. not daring for the moment
10 go on When At last be did so, ami
mounted the little hill, he found ns
house at all Nothing but ferns and
weeds. man high, lie moved about
here and there. up 20 the arinpits Ia
verdurr. In Consideration at Discover
Ing II gone.
His foot struck against a towlder
lie hal forgotten there were any rocks
or the hill. lie moved along and his
foot stIuck again. lie pressed the
wee'is hack and locked down.
lie saw tomb Of crumbiing cement.
green with age and buried out OF
sight under the tangIe.
II had never occurred TO him before
that Tehea might lie dead.
He held hack the underground again
and pceTed Into The depths. Yes. II
vas the grave OF chief or a woman
OF rank. one Of those artiess mounds
OF cement and rock that the natives.
VITA poetic fancy, used 10 call
-falelauasI." houses Of sandalwood.
''ollolisanga." or the plsre where
birds sing: or. In vulgar speech. sim.
ply 'TuUngamau." or tOmbs. Thes,
words. unspoken, unthought OF for
forty years-lost. ovcriaid. and for.
gotten In some recess Of his brain
now n~turneI 10 him with tSrmentlnc
recollection. Tie laid both hands on
the Thick stem Of n shrub and tore
Il from the ground. lie SEIZED anothe-
and dragged II out with the aame fe-
rocliy.
II was intolerable that ske should
suysnte under nil this warm. wet
jungle that intruded Itself. IKE hor.
rihle szinGllle. where there was none
20 dire II back. lie would giae her
air and sunshine. she that had loved
them both: lie would uncover the poDr
stones that marked her last resting
place: he would lay bare the earth that
wrapped her dead beauty.
lie worried with desperation until
his hnnds were tlecClng. unri his eyes
were stnng aud blinded with the
streaming sweat. Dizzy with the heat.
parched with thirst and sick with the
steam that rose from The damp ground
ne was forced again and again TO de-.
sist and INST. lie cut his wSistcoat
into slips and bound them round his
bloody hands: be broke the blades Of
his pcnknife on recalcitrant roots thst
dcaed the strength q his arms: be