The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-31

Boy after uuy. ne called the of lenders out and gave them their choice, and boy by boy each one elected to pay the fine imposed.
 Gogoomy and his five tribesmen were fined three pounds each. and at Go goomy's guttural command they re fused to pay.
 "S'pose you go along Tulagi." Shel- don warned him; you catch 'm strong fella whipping and you stop along Jail three feIla year. Savvee?"
 Gogoony wavered
 'You take m three fella pound along me-" Gogoomy muttered. at the same time scowiing his hatred at Sheldon and transferring half the scowl to Joan snd Kwaque. 'Me finish along you, you catch m big fella trouble, my word. Father belong me big fella chief along Fort Adams"
 That will do.'', Sheldon warned him. "You shut mouth belong you.'
 ''Me no fright the son of chief retorted. by his insolence increasing his stature in. the eyes of his fellows.
 Lock him up for tonight" Sheldon said to Kwaque. '.Sun he come up put m, that fella and five fella belong him along grass cutting. Savveer'
 There will be trouble with Gogoomy yet" Sheldon said to Joan. asNthe boss boys marsaalled their gangs and led them away to their work. Keep an eye on him. Be careful when you are riding alone on the plantation. The loss of those Winchesters and all that ammunition has hit him harder than your cuhing did. He is dead ripe for mischief"
 "I wonder what has become of Tu- dor. It's two months since he disap- peared into the bush, and not a word of him after he left Binu..'
 Joan Lackland was sitting astride her horse by, the bank of the Balesuna, where: the sweet corn had been plant ed. and Sheldon was leaning against her horses shoulder.
 '4Yes, 1t is a long time for no news to have trickled down. he answered, watching her keenly from under his hat brim and wondering as to the measure of her anxiety for the ad- will come out all right. He did a thing at the start that wouldn't have given him or any other man credit for-per- suaded Binu Charley to go along with him. I'll wager no other Binu nfgger has ever gone so far into the bush unless to be kai kai'd." =
 Look! Lookw Joan cried in a low voice. pointing across the narrow stream to slack eddy. where a huge crocodile drifted like a log awash. Ugh! The filthy beasts! hate them! I hate themr'
 And yet you go diving among sharks" Sheldon chided. Just the same, l wish could swim as we'll as Iou. Maybe it would beget confidence such as you have"
 Do you know I think it would be nice to be married to a nan such as you seem to be becoming" She remark ed. with one of her abrupt changes that always astounded him. 'I should think you could be trained into a very good husband-you know, not one of the domineering kind, but one who con- sidered his wife was just as much m individual as himself and just as much free agent. Really, you know, l think you are improving"
 She laughed and rode away, leav- ing him greatly cast down. If he had thought there bad been one bit of coy- ness in her words, one feminine futter, one womanly attempt at deliberate lure and encouragement he would have been eIated. But he knew absolutely that it was the boy and not the woman who had so dAringiy spoken,
 Joan rode through twenty acres of uncleared cane The grass was waist high and higher. and as she rode along rie remembered that Gogoomy was oae of a gang of boys that had been detailed to the grass cutting. A little farther on she heard voices and reined in. and listened. It was Go | soomy talking.
 Dog he stop m along house, night time he walk about" Gogoomy was saying. "You fella boy catch m one fella pig, put 'm kai-kai, belong him dog along one big fella fish hook. Spose dog he walk about catch m kali kai. you fella boy catch m dog alice same one shark. Dog he finish close up. Big fella marster sleep along big fella house. White Mary sleep along pickaninny house. One fella Adamu he stop along outside pickaninny house You feiia boy finish m dog. finish m Adamu. finish m big fella marster, finish m white Mary. finish m alto yether. Plenty musket he stop, plenty powder. plenty tomahawk, plenty knife fee. Sun he come up we long way too much"
 Me catch m pig sun he go down" spoke up one whose thin falsetto voice Joan recognized as belonging to Cosse, : 'ne of Gogoomy's tfibesmen.
 Me catch m dog" said another.
 And me catch I'm white fella Mary" Gogoomy cried triumphantly. Me catch m Kwaque he die along him quick"
 This much Joan heard of the plan to -e-rder. and then her rising wrath proved too much for her discretion She spurred her horse into the grass, cfying
 What name you feIIa boy, ehs What
 They arose. scramblinr and scatter