The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-10

Ugh, he's too dirty. I'd rather give
him q bath. Here you, Adamu Adam,
give this devil wash Soap and
wsteri Fill that washtub. Ornfiri. run
and fetch 70 scrub brush"
The Tah:tiaas. back from their nsh-
ing and gr \ ing q. the bedIam Of the
compound. Uttered int the Joke
'-Tamboi Tambcs shrieked the can
nibaIs from the trees appalled, at so
awful dissertation, as they saw their
chief tumbied into the tub and the
sacred dirt rubbed and soused from
his body.
Joan, who had gone into the bunga-
low, tossed down a strip Of white
calico, In which old Telepasge was
promptly wrapped, and he stood forth.
Respondent and purified, withal he
still spat and strangled from the soap
suds with which Noa Noah had gargled
his throat.
The house boys were directed TO fetch
handcuffs. and. one by one, the Lunga
7unaways were hauled down out Of
their trees and made fast Sheldon
ironed them In pairs and ran q steel
chain through the links of the irons.
Gogoomy was given q lecture for his
mutinous conduct and locked up for the
afternoon. Then Sheldon rewarded the
plantation hands with an afternoons
holiday. and when they had with
drawn from tbs compound permitted
the Port Adams men to descend from
he kr< Nd oil on he Nd
Joan l0afed In the cool of the veranda
and watched them diving down and
emptyina their sunken canoes Of the
sand and rocks. 1t was twilight when
they embarked and padded away with
a few broken paddles. A breeze had
sprung up, and the F1ibberty Gibbet
had already sailed fer Lunga to return
the runaways.
Sheldon was back IN the plantation
experimenting the building Of bridge
when the schooner Malakula ran In
close and dropped anchor Joan watch
| ed the taking In Of sail and the swing
Ing out Of the boat with a sailors inter
est and herself met the two men who
came ashore.
They seemed awkward and constrafn-
ed In her precence and she caught FIRST
one and then the other looking at her
with secret curiosity. She felt that
they were weighing hsr, appraising her
and for the frst time the anomalous
| position she occupied On Berande sank
sharply home 20 her. On the other
hand, they puzzled her.
ThA elder one, Morgan, was q huge
man. bren1ed and mustached, with a
deep bass voice and an almost gutteral
speech. and the other. Ran, was slight
and effemiaste. with nervous bands
and watery washed out gray eyes.
She watched Sheldon closely when
he arrived and OWNED that he was nos
particularly delighted TO see them. But
sec them he must, and SO pressing was
the need that he led the two men into
the study Office Later In the Afternoon
she asked Lalaperu where they had
gone.
'My word quoth Lalapcru, "pienty
walk about plenty look m Look n
tree; look IN ground belong tree; Eooh
IN all feIla bridge; look m cops
house; look IN grass land; look n
river; look IN whAleboat-my weird
pleaGy big fssl~ look M too much"
10y hat fslla man them two felIa r
sles qusrieca
'Big fetla nargtsr s4ezs white Ezan,'
Ess the extent Of MS description.
But Jean decided thee trey wore naer
of Importance In. the soiom0rs ant
thar their examination OF the pianta
ton and OF its accounts was OF sinis
ter signidcrnee.
At dinner no word was dropped tina
gave a hint of their errand The con
versaticn was on general topics. bu
JOSH could not help noticing tn,
troubled, absent expression that occa
sionally came into SheldoR's eyes. Aft
or coffee she left them, and ut mid
night. from across the compound, sh,
could hear the low murmur OF thet