The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-12-27
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MR.. MORGAN AND MIR. RAFT.

sharp. imperious whistle, the
call she always used for her sailors
and that always made him vince.
"They're gone up the Balesuna.
shooting fish," he explained. But there
comes Oleson with his boats crew.
He's an old warhorse when he gets
started See him banging the boys.
They don't pull fast enough for him"
"And now what's TO be doner she
asked. you've freed your game, but
you can't keep it freed"
mo. but can teach them lesson"
Sheldon walked over TO the big bell.
at is all right" he replied to her
gesture of protest my boys are prac-
tically all bushmen. while these chaps
are salt water men. and there's no love
lost between them. You watch the
fun"
He rang a general call, and by the
time the 200 laborers trooped into the
compound Satan was once more
penned in the living room. complaining
to high heaven at his abominable
treatm The plantation hands were
dancing war dances around the base
of every tree and filling the air with
abuse and vituperation of their heredi-
tary enemies The skipper of the
Flibberty Gibbet arrived in the thick
Of it, in the first throes of oncoming
fever. staggering rs he walked and
shivering so severely that he could
scarcely hold the rife he carried. His
face was CHASTITY blue. his teeth clicked
and chartered, and the violent sun
shine through which he walked could
not warm him.
"I'll s-s-it down and k-k-keep
guard on EN-" he chartered. "D-d-dash
it all, ! always g-get f-fever when
there's any excitement. W-w-wh-what
are you going to do?'
"Gather up the guns first of ALL"
Under SheIdOn's direction the house
boys and gang bosses collected the
scattered arms and piled them in a
heap on the veranda. The modern
rifles, stolen from Lunga, Sheldon set
aside, the Sniders he smashed into
fragments, the pile of spears. clubs
and tomahawks he presented to Joan.
Down on the beach he built bon.
fire out of the contents of the canoes.
his blacks smashing, breaking and
looting everything they laid hands on.
The canoes themselves, splintered and
broken, filled with sand and coral
powders, were towed out to ten faith
oms of water and sunk
"Ten fathoms will be deep enough
for them to work in," Sheldon said as
they walked back to the compound.
Here saturnalia had broken loose.
The war songs and dances were more
unrestrained. and from abuse the plan.
tation blacks had turned to pelting
their helpless foes with pieces of wood.
handfuls Of pebbles and chunks of
coral rock. And the seventy-tive lusty
cannibals chung stoically to their tree
perches, enduring the rain of missiles
and snarling down promises Of venge
ance.
"There'll be wars for forty years OF
Malaita on account of this" Sheldon
laughed. But | fancy Old Telepasse
will never again attempt TO rush
plantation.
"Eh, you Old scOundrel." ne added.
turning to the old chief. who sat glib
boring in impotent rage ut the foot
Of the steps Now head belong you
bang IN too. Come on, Miss Lack
land, bang IN just once. 1t will be the
browning indignity."
ugh, he's too dirty. I'd rather give
him n bath. Here you, Adamu Adam.
give this devil wash Soap aud
water! Fiji that washtub. Ornliri, run
and fetch IN scrub brush"
The Tahitians. back from their fish
ing and grinning at the bcdlam of the
compound. entered into the joke.
"Tambo! Tambo!' shrieked the can.
nibals from the trees. appalled, at SO
awful a Dissertation, as they saw their
chief tumbled into the tub and the
sacred dirt rubbed and soused from
his body.
Joan, who had gone into the bunga.
low, tossed down strip of white
''alico, in which old Telepasse was
promptly wrapped. and he stood forth.
esplendent and purified. withal he
still spat and strangled from the soap
Suds with which Noa Noah had gargled
Ills throat.
The house boys were directed 10 fetch
handouts. aud. one by one. the Lnnga
unaways were bauled down out OF
heir trees and made fast. Sheldon
'rOned them In pairs and ran a steel
chain through the links of the irons
Gogoomy was given lecture for his
nutinous conduct and locked up for the
fternoon. Then Sheldon rewarded the
plantation hands with an afternoons
holiday. aud when they had with
drawn from the compound permitted
he Port Adams men TO descend from
The trees And all afternoon be and
loan loafed In the cool OF the veranda
sDd watched them diving down and