Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-11-05

story of danger and distress The rival claimant
of the throne had demanded her hand in mar
rfage, and had promised to spare the life of her
father if she would consent to become his queen.
1t but matter of. weeks, possibly of days,
till his force would be strong enough to back his
arrogant demands. In the end the white man
knew that the island beauty had fallen in love
with him. She pleaded with him to stay and help
her escape from the clutches of the oppressor.
1t is possible that Thompson would have lin
gered for time if his companions had not been
to get away from the island before the civil
war began. They were traders, and as such they
did not to take sides in the dispute. 1t
might hurt their business chances in they
ever made another trip to the island. The anchor
was lifted, the brown sails spread and the ugly
little schooner slipped out of the harbor of Mai
keva while Thompson stood on her deck and
waved farewell to the imperious little island
beauty. At the very last she had reminded him
of his promise to return to Naikeva
1t weeks after the departure of the ship
from Naikeva that Thompson dramatically
reminded of his promise to the Princess Laka-
nita The sun had just set one night and Thomp
lying deck smoking and watching the
swift tropic dark up out of the east. A
tive canoe scraped against the schooners side
and native heard calling for 1.-The white
man with the blue eyes" He brought aboard
and proved to be the faithful messenger of the
distressed princess. He had followed the schoon-
across leagues of unknown in his open
searching for the only upon whom she
could rely for aid.
The end at hand in Naikeva, and Laka-
nita and her father about be put to death
Help must come quickly, and it than
possible that it too late. That night the
stanch little trading vessel pointed her prov
= toward Naikeva. In the final melee along the
sands the old king and his rival both slain
and Thompson stunned by a blow from a
club in the hands of a savage fighting man.
When he revived he and his men began hunt
of determination for all the revoters. They were
wiped out and their villages fired before the party
returned to the kings village, where the schooner
lay anchored. Then the white hero was stricken
by of the malignant island fevers, brought
on by his injury the beach.
1t many days before he able to rec
ognize his free-trading companions. The princess
had been his devoted through his danger
attack of tropical fever. Now that he about
to leave the island forever she grew sorrowful
and listless. She dropped like dying flower as
made. All his promises to return brought on fits
of passionate weeping the part of the little
princess. She wanted him to stay.
Il fought that fever when it tried to take you
away from me, and it all for nothing" was
her constant reply, "and now that you are well
the white men are taking you away where Laka-
nita can never hope to you again"
In the end her pleadngs After all there
was nothing in the outer world to which he cared
to go back
The good news spread quickly over the little
their princess and rule them in the wise ways of
the white
After twenty-five years of fdyllic happiness
Thompson, the ioye-lorn youth who fed from
the covert jeers of the town of his birth died a
king in far-of Naikeva- The princess still lives
and his two sons will reign in his place The
silence of twenty-five years has been broken by
the news of his passing away surrounded to the
last by his dusky retainers