The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-23
Adventure
A Romance of The South Seas
BY JACK kLONDON
Copyright. 1910. by Street 6 Smifn Copyright. 1914. by the MaemiNaa CompAn

tat1on blacks had turned to pelting their helpless foes with pieces of wood, handfuls of pebbles and chunks of coral rock. And the seventy-five lusty cannibals chung stoicaIly to their tree perches. enduring. the rain of missiles and snarling down promises of venge- ance.
 "There'll be wars for forty years on Malaita on account of this." Sheldon laughed. -"ButI fancy old Telepasse will never again attempt to rush plantation.
 "Eh, you old scoundrel," he added, turning to the old chief who sat gib- bering in impcsent rage at the foot bang m too. Come on, Miss Lack land, bang 'm just once. It will be the crowning indignity."
 Ugh. he's too dirty. I'd rather give him bath. Here you, Adamu Adam, give this devil a wash. Soap and water! Fill that washtub. Ornfiri. run and fetch 'm scrub brush."
 The Tahitians. back from their fish ing and grinning at the bediam of the compound. entered into the joke
 "Tambe! Tamboy' shrieked the can- nibals from the trees. appalled, at so awful 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 calico. in which old Telepasse was promptly wrapped. and he stood forth. resplendent and purified. withal he still spat and strangied from the soap suds with which Noa Noah had gargled his throat.
 The house boys were directed to fetch handcufrs. and. one by one. the Lunga runaways were hauled down out of their trees and made fast Sheldon ironed them in pairs and ran steel chain through the links of the irons. Gogoomy was given lecture for his mutinous conduct and locked up for the afternoon. Then Sheldon rewarded the plantation hands with an afternoons holiday, and when they had with drawn from the compound permitted eho | OiS AOVhhS thCn tO 0SDSSAA AAOAAA the trees. And all afternoon he and Joan ioafed in the cool of the veranda and watched them diving down and emptying their sunken canoes of tho sand and rocks. 1t was twilight when they embarked and padded away with a few broken paddles. A breeze had sprung up, and the Flibberty GibDet had already sailed for Lunga to return the runaways.
 Sheldon was back in the plantation experimenting the building of a bridge when the schooner Malakula ran in close and dropped anchor. Joan watch ed the taking in of sail and the swing ing out of tie boat with sailors inter- est, and herself met the two men who came ashore.
 They seemed awkward and constrafn- ed in her preeence, and she caught first one and then the other looking at her with secret curiosity. She felt that they were weighing her. appraisine her, x and for the 6rst time the anomalous position she occupied on Berande sank sharply hon.e 10 her. On the other hand, they puzzled her.
 The elder one. Morgan. was huge man, bronzed aud mustached. with a deep bass voice and an almost gutteral speech. and the other, Raff. was slight and effeminate. with nervous hands and watery washed out gray eyes.
 She watched Sheldon closely when he arrived and divined that he was not particularly delighted to see them. But see them he must. and so pressing was the need that he led the two men into the stuffy office. Later in the afternoon she asked Lalaperu where they had gone.
 My word" quoth Lalaperu. plenty walk about. plenty look m. Look 'm tree; look 'm ground belong tree; look Tn all fella bridge; look m copra