The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-02-02
CHAPTER XII.

MR.. MORGAN AND MR.. RAFT.
~ HE put her fingers into her
- mouth. and Sheldon WINGED as
4 he saw her blow. like boy, a
sharp, imperious whistle. the
call she always used for her sailors
and that always made him vince.
They're gone up the Balesuna.
shooting fish," he explained. "But there
comes Oleson with his boats crew.
He's an old warhorse when he gets
started. See him banging the boys.
They don't pull fast enough for him."
"And now what's to be done?" she
asked. you've freed your game, but
you can't keep 1t freed"
mo. but | can teach them a lesson"
Sheldon walked over to the big bell.
"1t is all right" he replied to her
gesture of protest. "My boys are prac
tcally all bushmen. while these chaps
are salt water men, and there's no love
lost between them. You watch the
fun"
He rang a general call, and by the
time the 200 laborers trooped into the
compound Satan was once more
penned in the living room. complaining
to high heaven at his abominable
treatment. The plantation hands were
dancing war dances around the base
of every tree and filing the air with
abuse and vituperation of their heredi-
tary enemies. The skipper of the
Flibberty Gibbet arrived in the thick
Of it, in the first throes of oncoming
fever. staggering as he walked and
shivering so severely that he could
scarcely hold the rife he carried. His
face was CHASTITY blue, his teeth clicked
and chartered. and the violent sun
shine through which he walked could
not warm him.
"I'll s-s-it down and k-k-keep a
guard on EN-" he chartered. "D-d-dash
it all, always g-get f-fever when
there's any excitement. Wwwh-what
are you going to do?"
"Gather up the guns first Of ALL"
Under SheldOn's direction the house
boys and gang bosses collected the
scattered arms and piled them in a
heap on the veranda. The modern
rifles. stolen from Lunga, Sheldon set
aside. the Sniders he smashed into
fragments, the pile Of spears. clubs
and tomahawks he presented to Joan.
Down on the beach he built bon
fire out Of the contents of the canoes,
his blacks smashing. breaking and
looting everything they laid hands on
The canoes themselves. splintered and
broken, filled with sand and coral
powders, were towed out to ten faith
oms of water and sunk.
"Ten fathoms will be deep enough
for them to work in" Sheldon said as
they walked back to the compound
Here saturnalia had broken loose.
The war songs and dances were more
unrestrained. and from abuse the plan.
tation blacks had turned to pelting
their helpless foes with pieces of wood
handfulS of pebbles and chunks OF
coral rock. And the seventy-five lusty
cannibals chung stoically to their tree
perches, enduring the rain of missiles
and snarling down promises of venge.
ance.
"There'll be wars for forty years or
Malaita on account of this" Sheldon
laughed But l fancy old Telepasse
will never again attempt to rush a
plantation.
"Eh, you old scoundrel." he added
turning to the old chief. who sat glib
bering in impotent rage at the foo,
Of the steps. Nov head belong you
bang m too. Come on. Miss Lack
land. bang IN just once. 1t will be the
browning indignity."
ugh. he's too dirty. I'd rather give
him q bath. Here you. Adamu Adam
give this devil a wash Soap and
water! Fill that washtub. Ornfiri. ruI
and fetch IN scrub brush"
The Tahitians. back from their fsh
ing and grinning at the bcdlam of tn,
compound. entered into the joke.
"Tambo! Tambor' shrieked the can
! nibals from the trees. appalled, at s,
awful q dissertation. as they saw thei
chief tumbled into the tub and tn,
! sacred dirt rubbed and soused from
his body.
Joan, who had gone into the bunga
low. tossed down strip of Whit
calico. In which old Telepasse wa
promptly wrapped. and he stood forth
respondent and purified. withal h