The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-31

v " YIN SHE RUSHED THE sTARTnHD HORSE STRAIGHT AT GOGOOMY. sEfgnt, Joan counted. aIt was only one gun. It must be Papehara." They hurried on. but when they
 reached the spot they were in doubt.
 The two horses stood quietly tethered.
 and Papehara, squatted on bis hams,
 was having a peaceful smoke. Ad-
 vancing toward him, Sheldon tripped
 on body that lay in the grass, and as
 he saved himself from falling his eyes lighted on a second. Joan recognized
 this one. It was Cosse, one of Go | goomy's tribesmen. the one who had promised to catch at sunset the pig that was to have baited the hook for 1 Satan
 'sNo luck. missie." was Papehara's greeting. accompanied by a disconso-
 late shake of the head. Catch only I two boy. l have good shot at Go goomy, only miss"
 "But you Killed them." Joan chided.
 "You must catch them alive" The Tahitian smiled.
 "How?'' he queried. 1T am have 8 | smoke. think about Tahiti. and
 freadfruit. and jolly good time at Bora
 Bora. Quick. just like that, ten boy he run out of bush for me. Each boy have long knife. Gogoomy have long knife one hand and Kwaque's head in other hand. no stop to catch lem alive. l shoot like b.. How you catch lem alive. ten boy, ten long knife and Kwaque's head?"
 The scattered paths of the different boys. where they broke back after the disastrous attempt to rush the Ia hitian. soon led together. They traced it to the Berande. which the runaways had crossed with the clear intention of burying themselves in the huge man. grove swamp that lay beyond. ''There is no use our going any far 1 ther,' Sheldon said ''Seelee will turn out his village and hunt them out of | that l Never had runaways from Berande been more zealously hunted. The deeds of GogoOmy and his fellows had
 been a bad example for the 15O new recruits. One by one the boys were captured. Gogoomy alone remained at large. and, as the pursuit closed in on him, he conquered his fear of the bushmen and headed straight in for the mountainous backbone of the is- land. Sheldon. with four Tahitians. and Seelee, with thirty of his hunters. followed Gogoomy's trail dozen miles into the open grass lands, and then ! Seelee and his people lost heart He confessed that neither he nor any of
 his tribe had ever yentured so far in- land before. and he narrated for Shell don's benefit most horrible tales of the bushmen.
 "Gogoomy he finish along them fella bushmen." he assured Sheldon. My word. he finish close up, kai-kai alto gether."
 | So the expedition turned back. Noth- ing could persuade the coast natives to venture farther, and Sheldon, with his four Tahitians, knew that 1t was mad ness to go on alone.
 | That night, after dinner. Sheldon and Joan were playing billiards when Satan parked in the compound and Lalaperu. sent to see. brought back tired and travel stained native who wanted to talk with the "big fella white marster." Sheldon went out on the veranda, to see him.
 I What name you come along house belong me sun he go down?" | "Me Charley" the man muttered apologetically and wearily. Me stop along Binu."
 "Ah. Binu Charley, eh? We'll, what big fella marster along white man he stop?"
 Joan and Sheldon together listened to the tale Binu Charley had brought.
 He described Tudor's expedition up the Balesuna. the dragging of the boats up the rapids. the passage up the river where it threaded the grass lands. the innumerable washings of gravel by the
 white men in search of gold. the first
 rolling foothills. the man traps of spear staked pits in the jungle trails. the first meeting with the bushmen
 who had never seen tobacco and knew not the virtues of smoking, theira friend hness. the deeper penetration of the interior around the Hanks of the Lions Head, the bush sores and the levers of | the white men. and their madness in | trusting the bushmen. One morning Binu Charley noticed that the women and children had disappeared. Tudor. | at the time, was lying in a stupor with fever in late camp five miles away, the main camp having moved on those | five miles in order to prospect an out crop of likely quartz. Binu Charley ! was midway between the two camps l when the absence of the women and children struck him as suspicious. My word." he said. ''me savvee 600
 much trouble close up. Me run. My word. me run"
 | Tudor, quite unconscious. was slung across his shoulder and carried mile down the trail. Here. hiding new trail.
 Binu Charley had carried him for a quarter of mile into the heart of the deepest juns!Aand hidden him in big banyan tree. Here. and from the direc- ton of the main camp. he had heard