, 1913-07-03

hIfctu anu Gct siEIouhu DCioic 5tCudy
breeze comes up and spoils b ma
neuver. I'll send my boats the mo-
ment you strike.'"
"And we went and,did it." Sparrow
hawk said solemnly and then emit
ted a series of chuckling noises. miss
Lakeland transferred the recruits. and
the trick was done"
CHAPTER XVII.
AN oFFER OF alARRIAaE.
ss@ UT where was she during the
western" Sheldon asked.
AT L~angaIanga. Ran up
there as it was coming on
and laidn there the whole week and
traded for grub with the niggers.
When we got to Tulagi there she was
waiting for us and scrapping with
Burnett. i tell you. Mr.. Sheldon, she's
a wonder. that girl, perfect won
der"
Munster refilled his glass, and while
Sheldon glanced across al Joan's
house, anxious for her coming. Spar
rowhGwk took up THE tale.
Gritty! She's the grittiest thing,
man or woman. that eve blew into
the Solomons. You should have seen
Poonga-Poonga the morning we arriv-
= ed-Sniders popping On the beach II
4 In the m~angroues, war drums booming
In the bushs and signal smokes raising
everywhere. TITS all up says Cap
tain Munster. Up your granrA she
says to him. 'Sparrowhawk Went oil.
why, we haven't arrived yet, much
less got started Wait till the IN
4 cbnr,s Aoxyn haforo,uoVr oof afraid "
"That'sf what she said to me" Nun
ster proclaimed "And Of course 1t
made me mad, so that i didn't care
what happened. We tried to send a
bont ashore for ahpowwow, but 1t was
fred upon. What we want says
MissFLackland, 1s.'a, hostage. Pm 60
ing ashore tonightsto fetch Kina-Kina
himself on board, and I'm not asking
WHO'S game to go with me-. for I've
| got ieVery mans work arranged for
him I'm taking my sailors with me
and one white man. OF course I'm
that white man. i said, for by that
time l was mad. OF course you're
not says she. You'll have charge of
the covering boat. Curtis stands by
the landing boat. Fowler goes with
me. Brahms 'takes'charge OF the F1ib-
berty, and Sparrowhawk oftthe Emily.
And we start at / o'clock
My word. it was a toughF1ob lying
there in the covering boat. / never
thought doing nothing could be such
hard work. We stopped about fifty
fathoms on and watched the other
boat go in.
"Of course there was arrow. 1t had
to come, and l knew 1t, but 1t startled
me just the same. i never heard such
screeching and yelling in my life. The
niggers must have just Owed for the
bush without looking to see what was
up. while her Tahitians let loose, shoot
ing in the-air and yelling to hurry 'em
on. And then j heard them coming
through the mangroves and an oar
strike on a gunwale and Miss Lack
land laugh, and / knew everything
was all right. We pulled or board
without IA shot being fired. And there
was old Kina-Kina himself. being
hoisted yer the rail, shivering and
chattering like an ape. The rest was
easy. Kina-Kina's word was law,
n he was scared to death. And we
kept him Oh board issuing proclama-
tons all Sthe time we. were in Poonga-
Poonga.
ut was n good move too, in other
ways. She made Kina-Kina order his
people TO return all the gear they'd
stripped from the Martha. She-here
she comes now"
1t WINS with II shock of surprise that
Sheldon greeted her appearance. The
ready mude clothes from Sydney had
tansfarmed her. "A ample skirt and