Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-12-15

calls with forty men.
He returns Arunga. a runaway iaborel
Sheldon has Arunga and Billy whipped t
quell q mutiny. His sickness increases
His partner. Hughie. ana many iaoorer
die.
Joan Lakeland. q pretty girl. arrive
with her crew Of Tahitians. Sheldon be
comes unconscious. and she takes charg
Of things.
She u . self reliant American girl. ,
lover Of adventure. a native of Hawai-
and an orphan. Her ship has beer
wrecked. She proves to Sheldon that Oh,
can shoot.
She resents his friendly suggestions ant
they quarrel. She makes 1t plain that she
is not matrimonially inclined. She anc
Sheldon save two black women from
death.
The savage laborers demand the women
Sheldon attempts to discipline them. and
Joan shoots q native and saves his life
She scolds him for making her shoot
Satan. . savage dog. arrives. Despite
| 6heldon's warnings Joan goes to explore
an island she contemplates buying. Finan'
cial difficulties threaten Sheldon.
He falls In love. with Joan. Left alone
by Sheldon. Joan has trouble with Go
Roomy and other natives. Armed savageu
arrive. and danger threatens Sheldon and
Joan.
Joan routs them with fake dynamite
cartridge, and satan drives them into
trees. Their chief is punished Morgan
ard Raff have Sheldon In their power.
CHAPTER NJ.
Mr.. MORGAN AND MR.. RAFT.
~ He put her fingers into hel
- mouth. and Sheldon WINGED as
he saw her blow. like a boy, q
sharp. imperious whistle, the
call she always used for her sailors
and that always made him vince.
They're gone up the BaIesuna.
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 done?" she
asked. You've freed your game. but
you can't keep 1t freed"
mo, but can teach them lesson"
Sheldon walked over to the big bell.
1T is all right" he replied to her
gesture Of protest. 'My boys are prac-
dcally 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 abominabe
treatment 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 cncoming
fever. staggering as 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.
"1'll s-s-it down and k-k-keep a
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
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. spiintered 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 q saturnaIia had broken loose.
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 scventy-flve lusty
chung stoicaily to their tree
perches. enduring the rain Of missiles
md snarling down promises Of venge-
lnce.
'There'll be wars for forty years OIL
on account Of this" Sheldon
aughed. But l fancy old Telepasse
will never again attempt to rush a
plantation.
"Eh. you old scoundrcl." ne added.
urning to the old chief. who sat glib
,ering in impotent rage at the foot
# the steps. Now head belong you
'ang m too. Come on. Miss Lack
and. bang m just once. 1t will be the
indignity."
ugh. he's too dirty Id rather give
lin a bath. Here you. Adamu Adam.
give this devil wash. Soap and
water! Fill that washtub. Orntiri. run
md fetch IN scrub brush"
The Tahitians. back from their fish
ng and grinning at the bediam of the
compound. entered into the joke.
"Tambo! Tambo!' shrieked the can
libals from the trees. appalled, at SO
lwful a dissertation. as they saw their
hief tumbled into the tub and the
acred dirt rubbed and soused from
lis body.
Joan, who had gone into the bunga-
ow, tossed down a strip of white
alico, in which old Teepasse was
wrapped. and he stood forth.