El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-13
a 1A A ROMANCE OF THE
HA " y = IA IA y SOUTH SEAS
By Jack London o s'9E 1911 3 rs s as a
By Jack London
Continued from Saturday.
SYNOPSIS.

CONTINUED f
SYNOPSIS.
Sheldon, owner of Berande pIanta-
ton, though desperately i'll, OVera ives
and controls 200 head hunting Solo
mon islanders by force of will and
weapons. Chief Selee calls with 40
men.
He returns Arunga, a runaway Ia
bOrer Sheldon has Arunga and Billy
whipped to queu mutiny. HIS SEX ,5.
ness increases. His partner. HuShle,
and many labOrers die.
Joan Lakeland, a pretty girl, arrives
with her crew of Tahluans, ShelQon
becomes unconscious, and she takes
charge Of things.
She is a self reliant American girl a
lover Of adventure, native OF HaWall
and an orphan. Her ship has been
wrecked. She proves to Sheldon that she
can shoot.
avon had been in the army, and dad
was an old seadog, and they were both
stern disciplinarians-Only Von's girls
had no mother, and neither had I, AID
they were two men, after all. They
spoiled US terribly. You see, they
didn't have any wives, and they made
chums out Of us-when our tasks were
done. We had to learn to do every
thing about the house twice as we'll as
the native servants did it-that was so
that we should know how to manage
some day.
ssBIore than once one or the 9th
or of US had our rifles taken away
for q week just because Of a tiny
speck Of rust. We had to know how
to build fires in the driving rain, too,
ont of wet wood when we camped out,
which was the hardest thing of all
exceDt grammar. I do believe We
learned more from dad and Won than
from the governesses; dad taught US
French and Won German We learned
both languages passably well, and we
learned them wholly in the saddle OF
in camp. When 1 was sixteen we three
girls were all sent up to California TO
Mills seminary. which was quite fash
ionable and sitting. How we used to
long for home! We didn't chum with
the other girls. who called US little
cannibals, Just because we came from
the Sandwich Islands and who made
invidfOus remarks about our ancestors
banuueting on Captain COOk-which
was historically untrue, and. besides.
our ancestors hadn't lived in Hawaii
81 was three years at Mills sem
mary, with trips home, Of course, and
two years in New York. and then dad
went smash in q sugar plantation on
Maui. Dad had nothing left, and
he decided to return to the sea He'd
always loved it, and I half believe that
he was glad things had happened as
they did He was like a boy again
busy with plans and preparations from
morning till night He used to sit up
half the night talking things over
with me- That was after had shown
him that 1 was really resolved to 90
along. We were ready to start to Ia
hiL where a lot Of repairs and reft-
ting for the Miele were necessary,
when poor dad came down sick and
died"
"And You were left all alone?'
Joan nodded
Every much alone. I had no broth
ers or sisters. and all dads people
were drowned in a Kansas cloudbUrst.
That happened when he was a little
boy. Of course I could go back to
Won. There's always a home there
waiting for me But why should I go?
Besides. there were dads plans, and
felt that it devolved upon me to carry
them out. It seemed a fine thing to
do; also 1 wanted to carry them out
And here I am.
''Take my advice and never go to
Tahiti. II is a lovely place, and so
are the natives, but the white people!
Now, Barabbas lived in Tahiti
Thieves, robbers and li8rs-that is
what they are. The honest men
wouldn't require the fingers Of one
hand to count. The fact that 1 was
a woman only stmpli6ed matters with
them. They robbed me on every pre-
lext. and they lied without pretext or
need. Poor Bfr. Ericsson was corrupt
ed He Joined the robbers and o. KID
all their demands, even up to a thou
sand per cent. If they robbed me Of
10 francs his share -0as s.
But when the robbers fell to cheat
ing one another l got my first clews
to the state OF affairs. One Of the
robbed robbers came to me after dark
with facts, figures and assertions. 1
knew 1 was ruined if 1 went to law.
The judges were. corrupt like every
thing else. But 1 did do one thing.
In the dead Of night L went to Eric
sons house. 1 had the same revolver
I've got now, and 1 made him stay in
bed while overhauIed things. Nine
teen hundred and odd francs was