The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-12-27
ADVENTURE
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Iudor-talked purely enunciated Eng
Ilsh such as any cultured American
would talk. save for the fact that 1t
was most deicately and subtly touched
By faint German accent.
Won Blk was rough and boorish. but
Iudor was gracefully easy in every
hing he did. or looked. or said.
They were on n gold hunting ex-
pedition. He was the leader and Tudor
Vas his lieutenant. All hands-and
There were twenty-eight-w share
holders. in varying proportions. in the
adventure. Several were sailors, but
The large majority were miners, culled
from all the camps from Mexico to
the Arctic ocean. 1t was the old and
ever untiring pursuit of gold and they
Aame to the Solomons to get it. Part
<6f them, under the leadership Of Tudor,
were to go up the Balesuna and pene-
ttrate the mountainous heart of Guadal-
'canar, while the Martha, under Won
Blk, sailed away for Malaita to put
Through similar exploration.
n "And So said Won Blk, for Mr..
Tudor's expedition we must have some
black boys. Can we get them from
you?'
|'Tn the first place we can't spare
HEM" Sheldon answered. I'VE are
hort of them on the plantation as II
"We?" Tudor asked quickly. Then
~ ou are firm or a partnership?
understood at Guvutu that you were
.hlone, that you had lost your partner"
Sheldon inclined his head toward
Joan, and as he spoke she felt that he
had become a trihe stiff.
"NIiss Lakeland has become inter
ested in the plantation since then. But
to return to the boys. We can't spare
them. and. besides, they would be of
little use. You couldn't get them to
accompany you beyond Binu, which is
a short days work with the boats from
here. They are Malaita men, and they
are afraid of being eaten. They would
desert you at the first opportunity
You could get the Binu men to ac-
company you another days journey
through the grass lands, but at the first
roll of the foothills look for them to
turn back. They likewise are disn
cllned to being eaten"
as it as bad as that?" asked Won
Bnx.
"The interior of Guadalcanar has
never been explored" Sheldon explain
ed 'The bushmen are as wild men
as are to be found anywhere in the
world today. have never seen one
l have never seen man who has seel
one. The Austrian expedition-scient
lists, you know-got part way in before
it was cut to pieces. The monument
Is up the beach there several miles
Only one man got back to the coast to
tell the tale. And now you have all
] or any other man knows Of the inside
Of Guadalcanar."
"But gold-have you heard of gold?
Tudor asked impatiently. do you
know anything about gold?'
Sheldon smiled. while the two visitors
hung eagerly upon his words.
you can so two miles up the Bale
tuEd anu WISH colOIS rum tuS SiaNSi
I've done it often. There is gold I'M
aoubtedly back in the mountains"
Tudor and Won Blk looked trium
phantly at each other.
"Old Wheatsheafs yarn was true
then" Tudor said. and Won Blk nod
ded. "And If Malaita turns out as
we'll
Tudor broke off and looked at Joan
ut was the tale of this old beach
comber that brought us here" he ex
planned. "Von Blk befriended him
and was told the secret" He turned
and addressed Sheldon. II think We
shall prove that white men have beer
through the heart of Gundalcanai
long before the time of the Austrian
expedition"
Sheldon shrugged his shoulders.
sWe have never heard of 1t dowI