The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-28

sunset q small ketch famed
"a in to snchorage, and a little
~ later the skipper came ashore.
He was a soft spoken. gentle
voiced young fellow Of twenty. but he
won Joan's admiration In advance
when Sheldon told her that he ran the
ketch all alone with a black crew
from Malaita. And romance lured ana
beckoned before Joan's eyes when she
learned be was Christian Young, a
Norfolk islander. but direct descend
ant of John Young. one Of the original
Bounty mutineers. The blended Ia
hitian and English blood showed in his
soft eyes and tawny skin. but the Eng
lish hardness seemed to have disap-
pesred. Yet the hardness was there.
ard It was what enabled him to run
his ketch single handed and to wiring
a livelihood out Of the fighting Solo
mons.
Joan's unexpected presence embar-
raised BIN until she herself put him
out at hrs ease by a frank. comradely
manner that offended Sheldon's sense
OF the fitness Of things feminine.
News from the world Young had not.
lbut be was nlled with news OF the
Solonons. Fifteen boys had stolen
rifles and run away into the bush
from Lunga plantation. which was
farther east on the GuadaIcanar coast.
And from the bush they had sent word
that they were coming back TO wipe
out the three white men in charge,
rr-h;fo <xvo - 49, kh.o- --hs%. 49,, e.
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 q wkaleboat
81 forgot to tell you that your trader
at Ugi has been murdered" he said to
Sheldon. ''S1va 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
Agi. was at Mbon when the news
came"
al think IN have TO abandon Ugi,"
Sheldon remarked.
Its the second trader you've lost
there In a year." Young cOncUrred
''To mako It safe. there ought to be
two white men at least. I've got
dog for you. Tommy Jones sent it
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 lagoonr' Joan
asked.
New Georgia. a couple OF hundred
miles to the westward" Sheldon an
swered. "Bougainville Hes just be-
yond"
'sHis own house boys did It." Young
went on; but they were put up to IL
by the Marovo natives. bis Santa
Cruz boats crew escaped in the whale
boat TO Choiseul. and Mather. in the
Lily. sailed over to Marovo. He burn
ed village and got Henley's head
back. He found it in one of the houses
where the niggers had it drying. And
that's all the news I've got. except
that there's q lot OF new Lee Enields
loose ON the eastern end OF Ysabel 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 Bfna-on account OF the Mi.
ilota. you know-and shelled the bush
Then she went to Sio to straighten out
things there"
The conversation became general
aud just before Young left to go on
board Joan asked:
How can you manage all alone,
DIR. YoungT'
His large. almost girlish eyes rested
% her for moment before he re-