The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-04

she might die without seeing his face again Teet
she went away to shut herself into her own cabin Bni
Sir Herbert sat where he breathing hard and
very purple to his presently the other two
the skipper and the mate had got up when her }ady-
sh began to carry on sat down asasn and all three
them stared at that wonderful wicked the1
couldn't leave Of From where I deck over.
head, could see the mates face plainest and IL yAs
twitchng and his eyes standing frightened me
the mates face did. 1t terrible Once he nut oui
his big red hand toward the pearl. Ii turn oysr
but Sir Herbert says very sharp: 3
Don't touch it, And he drew his hand back, H
says in kind of whisper
Thousands and thousands OF pounds" And after 1
time he says II again. and his face dreadful. (
The old skipper away presently, shaking hiu
head but the two Sir Herbert ana the mate the
stayed quite STILL with pearl between them; ana
after bit couldn't bear It longer The sight 81
the Harvest Moon began to get and to play
ehs with my eyes i went away and watched the two
sharks circing about again. watched them
thought of that poor murdered tyes murdered and
4csed and robbed brown girl In her the
tansde. and fair shivering with rage at my
master. and / didn't see how 1 could possibly 10 on
asserting him @e - "a. Rid
He up deck presently with the mate close
after and began to walk up and down steady
on his feet but couldn't bear be him aud went
below remembered afterward that I'd just .Ae
three there on the schooners decksr Herbert the
and the kanaAa boy at the wheel s.
think must have dozed of In my cabin, 50 don't
know now long aferwaFd it WAS that heard feet
ming about overhead. and mates vpice belowine
Man overheard Man overooard," tasF'
hadn't undressed, and / up at once The skip-
per and the mate there, talking very excited ana
the crew was beginning tumble Of the focastls
companion.
Sir Herbert gone! Gone! Quite gonei Him faae
had served fer seven years Him as had ihlf
an hour back. sitting alive and staring the Harvest
Moon. Gone out OF the worid forevert
Like a shed ay
f" Il must ave missed liz footing" the mate was xa
ing e must ave missed is footing. being unsteady
hike with the drink and pitched straight over side.
Ia sent the boy below to get Is supper and was ID
the wheel meseif The first thing 1 knew hears !
splash, and then little shout Hike of the ard and
then great whopping splash where the shout cane
Rom ard nothing more. TAas' ave been them
sharks sir. got i'm"
So. very swift ana awful unlocked for Sir Her-
bert came to his end. Perhaps he deserved H. Yea
dare say did an uuus ial terrible END "a
come TO- and was sorry for the words I'd said Shout
him. even though they was 10 myself with no org 10
hear 181F2s
don't think the skipper believed word Of the mate 7
story perhaps about at the end and
know didn't for even in the dim glow from the
pinnacle lamp I'd caught sight OF mate.a rsht
hand which he tried hold behind him. and a. soon
might be. scrubbed off, hut there was no witness ana
no way or proving anything and skipper an ON
man that stood in terror OF his mate So nothing
done s4~Sr
The worst Of all telling her laayship, which
had to do She took 1t like and think II d4dn
come so hard on her IT would have fortnight
before II be had lived her ladyshn would hays
forgiven nm nor lived in his house again. I'll swe4r
And that night dreamed about the Harvest Noon.
The mate was holding II between his hands staring
AT ta great fiery. glowing shining thing ~ biz u III
head and it threw up light against his face as
was all twisted about, like it might have been lantsra
he holding. a. .ss
Twice l dreamt dream. and woke up a4ssr il
trembling And The next night dreamt 1t again. Bun
not the next night for during the third night Areadfa
thing occurred The disappeared like Sir Hssbsra
had done. Vanished And in the morning there vac
blood on the deck nearby tarail. he xonS
willing OF his accord A. gsss*s VA
The skipper examined crew. one by one
singly in his cabin couldn't anything. And
he searched them, too. the focasne even tho
hold. but didn't the thing which he knew sonnSs
body must have killed the (.
Then the next day, reached Suva. In the Fajs.
which at Sir Herberts death her iadyship had told ha
skipper to make for. and there left the and
paid ii of,
BY great good luck there was a steamer from tho
north7a lner-caiing Snva its way Australia %
day after landed, and ladyship went IN
very glad thankful or course she expected
sail with her but didn't. said any. nerve wAs
gone and that wanted to Ne up in the and rest
and take holiday and besides she didn't truly nsSd
me. Her ladyship was sorry, bur didn't urge long
She wanted TO give me present ct money but
wouldn't take that saying as had quite enough Ibid
by from my wages get back to England SITTER 8
biz Which was true -.
So size sailed away, and I was glad to see her ~
though she was OF the and please
ATTEST ladies have with, always thought.
ful OF her servants I'm wish happiness snd
no more trouble AMI things had been different
ways shouldn't have dreamed OF leaving until sho
safe in England more. @s sxse
Then. when her adyships out OF the 4h6f-
Dor and far away, came here TO In Ac1hef
McDonaids HOTEL and locked the door ana lst down
the window shutters and the Harvest Noon onf
the little bag the had kept in and laid II ~
the table before The red within Il burned w
and died out and burned crimson again. rnsa
II the Harvest Moon began swell and grosR
bigger until 1t big hand. big my head
big that little big the worlds erSat1
gigantic, shining, breathing thing that nled up the
space there is left shvernS my knees 49,
Il.
1t is always like that 1t has got into my head Anl
my blood and ali Of 1t bewtched lik6 Il am
the others 1t in the air before by day. and
by dream OF it. There's just and the EarveG
Moon In all the world sfs kss7s
= For all that when get back to Isondon mean N
sell the pearl. know N knows place whSft
IL done Then shall be rich Al . lord. ahA
never work any more. and will be my children ana
grandchildren will read this tale Of NJ
fortune. aS#
That H. If 4 ever to England 81 aArT
today II seemed to like was being followed 29
walked down the beach ROAD and yextsrday seafar&