Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-29

is there dangeri" she asked.
he hesitated.
Is theref Don't treat me as a child !.
she pleaded q can bear the truth
can, really"
think, great danger. You cannot trust
a Malay. Mat Han-well, he viii take
what he wants"
"0h!"
IF the Sikh police don't come or are
a httie late Petrie stopped and she
heard his hard-drawn breaths.
"Oh, we are risking our ives!D she
cried.
and your life-your life-is dearer-
dearer- | have only known you a
lew hours, but-but-" He held out
his arms, and Peg swayed a little to-
ward him. They were facing death per-
maps, but she wanted only him, and .ne
next second he was holding her in his
arms, his lips on hers, and the purest
bliss in life had come to Margaret Nor
land and Christian Petrie.
Presently Petrie held her away from
him and looked into her shy eyes.
My sweetheart, what am l to doY It
is harder now"
There came a loud trumpet call, clear
and long anu musical, and the two
sprang apart. Then he caught her hand
in his and drew her close to him.
1T Is Mat Ham," he said. "Come!"
You will not give us upP" But he
only looked at her, and she knew that
across his dead body the Malay might
take g dead woman to wait on the wife
he sought @'~-~--~-
The servants had fed into the Jungle
Three determined men stood on the We
ranea, and Ethel stood shrinking in the
doorway. That was what they saw as
they turned the corner of the veranda,
and Peg would have gone to the other
woman, but Petrie kept her hand clasped
in his.
IF we fight go inside" he whispered
But"
Don't be afraid / will come to you
before the end"
And then she saw coming out of the
jungle, along the path they had taken
the night before, long line of gaily
dressed natives. They were armed too;
she saw the flash of steel, and as they
filed out into the open they tossed up
their arms and began to chant a war
song And then they opened out, and
the white men suddenly raised their
rifles.
"If you come a step farther" said Pc
trie in Malay, Eve win firel"
1t seemed to Peg that the white men
braced themselves for the worst. But
the Malays were not prepared to 90 to
extremes yet. They thought they held
the white men easily, and they stood
hoo oh ND ! ~
one that seemed their leader; and then
Peg saw that, dressed in a gaily-striped
silk sarong, silk handkerchief arranged
over his head, and armed with a kris,
was the man whom she had known as
Douglas Stewart
He stepped forward, and very gravely,
though evidently REFRESHING great ex-
citement, he began to address Petrie in
Malay.
Speak English said Petrie tersely,
stepping forward.
"Tuan, want my wife. have come
for my wife"
''There is no wife of yours here"
There stands the woman who is my
promised wife,
There stands the woman whom you
deceived. You cannot possibly marry
her. You have four wives already"
Even by the Mohammedan law | can
divorce one and have herr
English women do not marry that
way, Mat Ham," said Petrie
'Tuan, it does not matter what Eng
lish women do. Here / am master, and
my way is right"
ct remains to be seen whether you
are master, and even if you are it can
only be till they hear of the outrage in
Singapore. England will not stand this
sort of thing"
"WiIl she not? I'll risk it." 1t was
evident he was putting strong force upon
himself. His desire was to set his fol-
lowers at these rash white mems threats,
and the four men standing there were
asking themselves silently, How long?'
"Tap, tap, tap" came the sound of
some bird in the jungle. Peg heard the
deep drawn breaths of the men who were
their defenders and the sobs of the girl
clinging to her and the sort Of rustling
movement that passed through the lines
of the Malays.
ethel, my flower" came Mat Hans
voice, come to me, and | will let the
Others 60"
mo, nor Ethel's voice rose almost to
scream Never"
"Then / will kill them. Assuredly /
will kill those four men"
THAT will not be so easy" said Pc.
tries voice, with touch of scorn in it,
raising his rifle "Come up here quietly,
and discuss this thing like civilized
man."
"Tuan, am Mat Ham," said the chief,
relapsing into the vernacular.
TAP! Tap! Tap!" Was it bird in
the Jungle? 1t was louder now. Then
suddenly she saw the tense look pass
from the white mems faces to one of
triumph. "Tap3" No, it was Tramp!
Tramp Tramp" and culver went
along the line of Malays. The superin.
tendent and his Silihs were coming. Peg
was watching now, watching intently.
1t seemed the tension was relaxed, but
the change in Mat Hans aspect was
frightful Little Aecks of foam ap-
peared on his lips and cheeks and his
whole face was disfgured. He was hand
some no longer He was like a wild
beast. He raised his kris above his