The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-12-26
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sort eyes ana taWny Skin, but the Eng
lish hardness seemed to have disap-
peared. Yet the hardness was there,
and 1t was what enabled him to run
his ketch single handed and to wiring
livelihood out of the fighting Solo
mons.
Joan's unexpected presence embar-
rassed him until she herself put him
out at his ease by frank. comradely
manner that offended Sheldon's sense
Of the fitness of things feminine
News from the world Young had not.
but he was filed with news of the
Solomons. Fifteen boys had stolen
rifles and run away into the bush
from Lunga plantation. which was
farther east on the Guadalcanar coast.
And from the bush they had sent word
that they were coming back to wipe
out the three white men in charge,
while two Of the three white men. in
turn. were hunting them through the
bush. There was strong possibility,
Young volunteered, that if they were
not caught, they might circle around
and tap the coast at Berande in order
to steal or capture a whaleboat.
Il forgot to tell you that your trader
at Ugi has been murdered" he said to
Sheldon. Five big canoes came
down from Port Adams. They landed
in the night time and caught Oscar
asleep. What they didn't steal they
burned. The Flibberty Gibbet got the
news at Mboli pass and ran down to
AT
came''
81 think I'll have to abandon Ugi."
Sheldon remarked
"It's the second trader you've lost
there in a year." Young concurred
''TO make it safe, there ought to be
two white men at least I've got a
dog for you. Tommy Jones sent II
up from Neal island. He said he'd
promised it to you. It's a first class
niger chaser. Hadn't been on board
two minutes when he had my whole
boats crew in the rigging. Tommy
calls him Satan. Jack Henley was
killed at Marovo lagoon two months
ago. The news just came down on
the Apostle"
"Where is Marovo lagoonT' Joar
asked
New Georgia, a couple of hundred
miles to the westward" Sheldon an
swered "Bougainville lies just be
yond."
"His own house boys did it, Young
went on; 'but they were put up to II
by the Marovo natives. His SAINTS
Cruz boats crew escaped in the whale
boat to ChoiseuI. and Mather. in the
Lily. sailed over to Marovo. He burn
ed village and got Henley's heat
back. He found it in one of the houses
where the niggers had 1t drying. Ant
that's all the news I've got. except
that there's lot OF new Lee Enfield:
loose on the eastern end Of ISABEL. No
body knows how the natives got them
The government ought to Investigate.
Ah-Oh, yes-a war vessels in the
group, the Cambrian. She burned three
villages at Bina-on account Of the Mi
Then she went to Sio to straighten out
things there
The conversation became general,
and just before Young left to go on
board Joan asked:
How can you manage all alone,
Mr.. YoungY'
His large, almost girlish eyes rested
on her for moment before he re-
piled. and then 1t was in the softest
and gentlest of voices.
"Oh. l get along pretty we'll with
them. Of course. there is bit of
trouble once in awhile. but that must
be expected. You must never let them
think you are afraid. I've been afraid
plenty of times. but they never knew
It."
"You would think he wouldn't strike
mosquito that was biting him.,
Sheldon said when Young had gone
on board. IAN the Norfolk islanders
that have descended from the Bounty
crowd are that way. But look at
Young. Only three years ago, when
he first got the Minerva. he was lying
in SUI, on Malaita There are q lot
OF returned Queenslanders there-a
rough crowd. They planned to get
his head. The son of their chief, old
One Eyed Billy. had recruited on
Lunga and died of dysentery. That
meant that white mans head was
owing to Suu-any white man. 1t
didn't matter who. SO long as they got
the head. And Young was only a lad
and they made sure to get his easily.
They decoyed his whaleboat ashore
with a promise Of recruits and killed
all hands. At the same instant the
SUI gang that was on board the. MI
nerva jumped Young. He was just
preparing a dynamite stick for fish,
| and he lighted it and tossed 1t in
among them. One CAMP get him to
talk about it, but the fuse was short,
the survivors Ieaped overheard. while
he slipped his anchor and got away.
They've got 100 fathoms of shell
money on his head now. which is
| worth f1OO. Yet he goes into SUI reg.
ularly. He was there q short time ago.
returning thirty boys from Cape Marsh
that's the Fulcrum brothers pianta-
| uon"
AT any rate. his news tonight has