The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-25
Adventure
BY JACK LONDON
Copyzikt,t. 1910. by Street 6 Smith
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 Shey wet. = .v.A> hunting ex- eedition- He was the leader and Tudor gas his lieutenant. All hands-and .here were twenty-eight-were share holders. in varying proportions. in the adventure. Several were sailors. but the large majority were miners. culled from all the camps from Mexico to the Arctic ocean. 1t was the old and ever untiring pursuit of gold and they came to the Solomons to get it. Part of them, under the leadership of Tudor. were to go up the Balesuna and pene- trate the mountainous heart of Guadal- canar, while the Martha, under Von Blk. sailed away for Malaita to put through similar exploration.
 "And so," said Won Blk, "foF Mir. Tudor's expedition we must have some black boys. Can we get them from youY' ~Tn the first place we can't spare them," Sheldon answered. We are short of them on the plantation as it Is"
 ~wer Tudor asked quickly. "Then you are . firm or a partnership7 l understood at Guvutu that you were alone, that you had lost your partner" Sheldon inclined hfs head toward Joan, and as he spoke she felt that he had become rff1e stiff.
 Miss Lackland has become inter- ested in the plantation since then. But to return to the boys. We can't spare them, and, besides. they wouid be of little use. You couldn't get them to accompany you beyond -Binu, which is n short days work with the boats from here. They gre Malxita men, ard they are afraid of being eaten. They would d9ert you at the Hfse opportunity. You could get the Binu men to ac- company you: another day'a Journey through the grass lands. but at the first roll of the foothills look fer them C turn back. They likewise are disin- clined ts being eaten.''
 "Is it as bad as that" asked Won Blk.
 ~The interior of Guadalcanar has never been explored" sheldon exp3ain- .C0s AAC DoShAiCA dkC dS WAA0 AnCA as are to ba found anywhese in the world today. I have never seen one. have never seen man who has seen one The. Austrian expedition-scientr ists, you know-g0t part way in before 1t was cut to pieces The monument is up the beach there several miles. Only one man got back te the eeasA t0 tell the tale. And now you have aH I or any other man known of the fnSide of Guadalcanar."
 @But .gold-have you heard of gold?" Tudor asked impatiently. Do you know anything about Goldr Sheldon smiled. while the two visitors hung eagerly upon his words
 You can go two miles up the Bale suna and wash colors ffom the sF1veL I've done 1t often There is gold un- doubtedly back in the mountains"
 Tudor and Won BIfx looked frium- phantly at each other.
 "Old Wheatsheafs yarn was true. then" Tudor said. and von Blk nod led sAnd if Malaita turns out as Hells-
 Tudor broke of and looked at Joan. Tt was the tale of this old beach, comber that brought us here" he ex- plained ~Von Blk befriended him and was told the secretr He turned and addressed Sheldon. "I think we shall prove that white men have been through the heart of Guadalcanar long before the time of the Austrian expedition"
 Sheldon shrugged his shoulders.
 we have never heard of 1t down here" he said simply. Then he ad. dressed Won Blk. -A9 to the boys, you couldn't use them fartheY than Bina, ard Pl lend yeu as many aA you want as far as that. How many of your party are going and how soou will you start?"
 Ten" said Tudor; mine men and myself"
 '.Ant you should be able to start day utter tomorrow" Von Blk said o him. .'The boats should practically be knocked together this afternoon. Tomorrow should see the outfit DOT toned and packed. As for the Martha Mir. Sheldon. we'll rush the stuff ashore his afternoon and sail by sundown."
 AS the two men returned down the path to their boat Sheldon regarded 2 Joan Quizzically.
 '.There's romance for you.' he said "and adventure-gold hunting among the eanuibaIs. Aren't you sorry you became cocoanut planterT
 What do you think of them?" she asked.
 "Oh. old von Blk is all right, g solid sort of chap in his fashion; but Tudor Is a fyaway-too much on the surface. you know. If it can1e to being wrecked on a desert island I'd prefer von Blk"
 ''I don't quite understand" Joan ob jected. What have you against Tudor?
 "A man of Tudor's type gets on my nerves. One demands more repose from a man."
 Joan felt that she did not quite agree with his judgment, and. some how, Sheldon caught her feeling and was disturbed. He remembered noting how her eyes had frightened as she .aiiaaed with the newcomer.
 A second boat had been lowered, and