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

Herberts her ladyships brother, that might
aave been Sir Hereerts twin look al; but wasn't
,ainx some years younger. and OF how his body was
.rourh, back to island he ruled over by
he brown men and there ana the Barvest Moon
wrought back there too. had been the cause OF
ais death ;e Princess Aiaia nre now round
asr neck for love and remembrance OK han she had
Hoped
SIR Herbert decided that he must make tine
o,,xmase 10 his brothers grave IN schooner
we had hired Auckland Her Iaayshp didn't want 10
&C. don& quite know why. and she couldn't explain
Maybe knowing taat the Harvest was at Tuva"a
sas was afraid to go cant For O; eo"rse
ever since We coe Of the equator We had all
heard that tremendous great wicked pear That
had done SO and wrecked aud killed so many
people-eyery haa anything 10 do With
IT. And now 81 smashed poor Mr. Ar(hnr, too cor
Havos as he called hiueeIf nereahoats or Fe T-Vana-
rs the natives called him. Ithaa smashed BIN ike al"
the rest, 20 Iadyshp rct superautoas about the
thing and dreaded to go it I'm sure don't
wonder But Sir Herbert stubborn gentleman enc"
his mind was made Up and he'd got it into his head
that kind OK solemn duty 10 visit p9or MT Ar
thurs grave went
At Aaapaf We took on board ths schooner q brown
boy who had been one Of MT Arthur's' people and we
got the of the island and set sail
We had a southeriy trade. and lifted TIJUANA ~
dawn o. the day 1t is high island, but sur
rounded by reef high Islands sometimes are IN
parts and dropped anchor inside tho lagoon al
sunrise.
1t 81 very pretty picture, must say-tae ehs
eky blue water OF the lagoon ana tho strap o.
yellow beach with palm standing thick ana close
Behind. and the little mountain a~to~eFhs up "'e'f@',
pretty picture as youu often see even N
tropics; but uneasy and cast down. ana o'oh
admire 1t.
No more dld her ladyship fancy. for size seemed
20 nervous a cat in a strange garnet enough
I'm sure beg pardon using such words OF herr
and Sir Herbert-dt WAS ~hile we were
IN the small boat going of-she said.
II wish hadn't here Herbert. I'm afraid Of
something. creeps" But SIR Herbert laughed
and pointed to the shore where there was ue
knot of native people gathering TO welcome rs
So landed at Tu*ana- that had teeh poor @f'
Arthurs horne and. you might say, kingdom
The peopac On the beach when they ST. i4erbers
face that extraordinarily like MI Nthurs'
though older and II may say 80. bit harder began
10 shrek and carry and OF them was ali Tor
running away thinking they shost but the brown
boy with us made kind OF Grafton. eh-
planning who were. 1t appeared, ana then they
stopped their noise, gathered round as wanting 10
hold our hands. and grinned and made signs 10 sho"
how glad they Some OF them could speak little
Enelshjust single words Ike 80 many OF the NATIVES
hereahouts from the copra traders and SAIL
these said all the words they knew over ana
and everybody got down on thtar Knees 10
Sir Herbert didn IKE II, and looked very red ana
uncomfortable
The brown boy that sailed with us from Haapa had
slipped away while standing about on the beach
being made much of few minutes he eane back
unaerstandfer he could speak more ina a.
hi OF English too. when he wasn't exc!ted~tha the
Tua Mata princess chieftalne*s or what
ever you may like say tua means. was waiting to
ID.
palm kind Of procession the brown people
following after.
We went along sort lane where the sunlight
didn't reach the ground and past little clean thached
walls made out OF plated nber and at
slope. to house like the others put
bigger and walls rolled like the flaps
Of tent the native people had stopped
. yards away under The trees and wondered why.
but after stopped wondering altogether and
lust stared, say eyehaiis was a-popplng
out like frogs a bulldogs
Tho Tsaa Mata standing in the wall OF that
plated house alone. except that distance back In
the shadows, there have been half dozen other
women like the marble ladies in the pic
galleries. If only they was painted golden brown
Of red silk twisted round their h1ps 80
that the shereabouts She was far too
beautiful Mata for me TO try to describe
her I didn't brown could be Ike that
no. nor white neither though in my time have
seen great ladies as had their pictures IN the
weekly papers pearls-or even strawberry
eaves-and swept about house like peacocks with the
gif, Of speech.
She was no moro a gtri-not yet %, III swear
bu, she stood up Herbert and her ladyship
like duchess train and ooroHet instead OF
a brown girl yard OF thin red silk and uumpery
brass locket hung from her neck
/ her aayship give little, cry under her
breath and SIR Herbert he aloud; by Jovc''
Then the Mata, Sho had been gazing very proud
and still heads, looked down at SIR Her
bert's face.
She must poor Mr.. Arthur, that called him
self Hayes a-standlng there before her II he had
stepped grave she began 10 saver all over
turned her head slow, and put both
her up her face 1t terrible thing TO
see and much than II Sne had screamed or
carried either women might 40 don't
mind confessing that il turned sick for bit
Her ladyshp cried out. and went step nearer TO
where girl stood. She her arms about
the girls shoulders. and she
.Dh, my dear! Were his brother and his sister
Won't welcome for his sake?' Nobody could
ever resist iaayshp when Sae spoke like hat-not
the Tua Maa, VINO turned her face for an instant
TO kissed hia 1t on her ladyship's bosom
But presently she stood up straight again, ana You
would known that anything mad happened.
very good English. bat sounding, that
doubt Mr. Arthur had taught her; Y bid you wei
and stretched her hand so Sir Herbert but
she didn't look al him again just then
SIR Herbert hesitate 10 what he should do
Then and Kissed the Tua Mata's hand~and
glad
ind II isn't nothing like to write about
things thought il would be II ! should try to
down all that happened In the days Sir Her
bert and her adyship and spent Tuyana 1t would
take m 8 month or even must pick out II