The Mena weekly star., 1912-01-11
Continued from last lssue)
CHAPTER VIII.
LOCAL COLOR.

won loans admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with black crew From Malaita. And romance lured and beck0ned before loans eyes when she learned he was Christian Young. a Norfolk islander. but direct descend ant of John Young. one of the original Bounty mutineers. The blended Ia hifian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and 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
 loans unexpected presence embar- rassed him until she herself put him out at his ease by frank. comradely manner that offended Sheldon's sense or the fitness of things feminine. News from the world Young had not but he was filled with news of the Solomons. Fifteen boys had stolen rifles and run away into the bush from Lunga plantation. which was further 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 a 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 whaleboat.
 Fl 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 fin the night time and caught Oscar asleep. What they didn't steal they burned. The Flibberty Gibbet got the news at Mboll pass and ran down to Agi. was at Mboli when the news came"
 q think I'll have to abandon Ugi." Sheldon remarked
 Its the second trader you've lost there in year." Young concurred ITO make it safe. there ought to be two white men nt least. I've got q dog for you. Tommy Jones sent 1t up from Neal island. He said he q promised 1t to you. it's first class nigger 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' Joan afked
 New Georgia. couple of hundred miles 10 the westward" sheldon an swered. "Bougainville lies fliGt be- yond"
 "His own house boys did it." Young went on; but they were put up~,o it by the Marovo natives. His Santa C7iz boats crew escaped in the whale boat 10 Choiseul, and Mather. in the Lily. sailed over to Marovo. He burn ed a village and got Henley's head back. He found 1t in one of the houses where the niggers had if drying. Ana that's all the news I've got. except Fhat there's lot of new Lee Enhelds loose on the eastern end of YsabeI No body knows how the natives got them
 government ought to investigate. An4oh. yes-a war vessels in the gr0up, the Cambrian. She burned three villages at Bina-on account of the Mi. not0. you know-and sbelled the bush. Then she went to Sio to straighten out things there.'
 Tne conversation became general. and just before Young left to go on board Joan asked
 "How can you manage all alone, Hr. YoungT'
 His large. almost girlish eyes rested on her for a moment before he re- piled. and then it was in the softest and genflest of voices.
 ''Oh. 1 get along pretty well with them. Of course. there is bit of trouble once in awhile. but that must Dc 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 'All the Norfolk islanders that have descended from the Bounty crowd are that way. But look at Young. Only three years ago. when he frst got the Minerva, he was lying in Suu. on Malaita There are 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 a white mans head was oyring to Suu--any white man. 1t didn't matter who. so iong as they got ffe head. And Young was only lad mo they made sure 10 get his easily Fber decoyed bis whaieboat ashore ~lth q promise Of recruits and killed 1Il nsnds At the same instant the Szni gang that was on hoard ihe Mi 3efsa jumped Young. He WIS irs' pfpfaring dynamite stick for sstb arl he lighted ii and tossed q iu fHnat them ene can't gei hln te
 -gui II. but the fuse was shprf survivors icaped oFerboard, whilt 1e slipped his anchor and got away Tteyxe get To fnthoma of sbei