The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-12-21

IONS directions, the house bows hand.
CURED the prisoner. by hands and feet
around one of the pile supports of the
mousse. At eleven o'clock. when the
aOorers came in from the field, Shell.
uon mad them assembled in the com
pound before the veranda. Every able
man was there, including those who
were helping about the hospital Even
tne women and the several pickanin.
mes OF the plantation were lined up
win the rest two deep-a horde Of
naked savages Il trifle under two hun.
urea strong. Some wore penknives
clasped on their kinky locks for
sa1ety. On the chest Of one a china
doorknob was suspended, on the chest
OF another the brass wheel of an alarm
clock.
racing them, clinging to the railing
OF the veranda for support, stood the
SICK White man. Any one of them
could have knocked him over with
the blow of little finger. Despite his
firearms, the gang could have rushed
MN and delivered that blow, when his
mead and the plantation would have
been theirs. Hatred and murder and
lust for revenge they possessed to
overlooking. But one thing they
lacked, the thing that he possessed
the fame of mastery that would not
quench, that burned fiercely as ever
In the disease wasted body.
"Narada! Bilyr' Sheldon called
sharply.
Two men skunk unwillingly forward
and waited.
Sheldon gave the keys of the hand
cuffs to house boy, who went under
the house and loosed the prisoner.
You fella Narada, you fella Billy.
Ske um this fella boy along tree ana
make fast, hands high up" was Shell
don's command
While this was being done one of
the house boys fetched heavy han
died. heavy dashed whip. Sheldon be-
gan a speech.
This fella Arunga, me cross along
him too much. no steal this fela
Arunga. | no CANNON | say, AN
right, you come along me Berande,
work three fella year He say, 'All
right, me come along you work three
fella year. He come. He catch plenty
good fella kai kai food plenty good
fella money. What name he run
away? Me too much cross along him.
knock what name outa him fella.
pay Seelee, big fella master along
Balesuna, one case tobacco catch that
fella Arunga. All right Arunga pay
that fella case tobacco. Six pounds
that fella Arunga pay. ALE same one
year more that felIa Arunga work
Berande. All right. Now he catch ten
fella whip three times. You fella Billy
catch whip, give that fella Arunga ten
fella three times. All fella boys look
see, all fella Marys twomen) look see;
bime bye, they like run away they
think strong fella too much, no run
away. Billy, strong fella too much
ten fella three times"
The house boy extended the whip
to him, but Billy did not take it. Shel.
don waited quietly. The eyes of all
the cannibals were fixed upon him ia
doubt and fear and eagerness. 1t
was the moment of test, whereby the
lone white man was to live or be lost
''Ten fella three times, Billy" Shell
don said encouragingiy, though there
was a certain metallic rasp In his
voice.
Billy scowled, looked up and looked
down, but did not move.
"Billyv
Sheldon's voice exploded like pistol
shot. The savage startled physically
Grins overspread the grotesque feat
ures Of the audience, and there was
sound Of tittering.
"S'pose you like too much lash that
fella Arunga, you take him fella Tul-
agi," Billy said. Zone fella govern
ment agent make plenty lash. That
um fella law. Me savvee um fella
Jaw
1t was the law, and Sheldon knew
t. But he wanted to live this day