The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-23
By Dom Byrne.
Personally Directed by Robert
G.. VignOla.

(AuthOr Of Powerful Short Stories
and Novels of Sustained Interesto
I'D shoot" I says "Td bring him
In, alive or dead"
well, shoot her"
"Oh, gee. Chief!' I says. Il can't
shoot a woman" =
"'Well, then shoot yourself he
says. AT any rate. IL you come
home alone. come home cold stor-
age. I'll pay the freight And
that'll be ALL" he says
II goes to Paris, and from Paris
70 Marseilles"-
That's all right. Mccarthy the
District Attorney waved. at doesn't
matter how you went. Tell us what
happened at Tahiti"
I'm Tahiti something tells me all
Is not right. The steamer I come
on docks in the morning and leaves
that afternoon, and hopes to make
II with Jansen. Maybe it's because
j can't get their French and our
consul Is not well man but they
delay me until the steamer goes and
then I'm left flat. The extradition
papers must be in order. they say.
But there is too much Of this BELLE
prisoner stuff.
EVERYONE LAUGHS.
well. alls finished and they
takes me to her. Well, JANSEN /
says we got you Now that you
got me. what are you going to do
with meT she laughs, and everyone
laughs Right away I see they're
all roofing for her and they like mo
just like a souse likes water.
Honest judge, 1 don't blame
them. They's few white women In
that place, and, such as they are.
they're not lockers. And the Kanaka
girls, for all they are pretty. as a
picture, they amt human and they
amt healthy. you know. as we white
people think.
"Anna certainly had the looks,
and was white, and had the pep,
and they were all crazy about her.
The Frenchmen are daffy about
women, and they don't think moth
ing aboutsa woman shooting q man
nothing at all. $50
$50 they smiles at mo and they
says, You must see our beautiful
island before you sail away with
the belle prisoner'
Your island is flne,' I tells
them, aud no offense mesnt' but
it's got nothing on Manhattan Is
land. And as for the belle prisoner
says, an YOU IscllthS
something? This dame is as nifty
a little murderess as ever / sees
"It was crime passional,' they
says, and they shrugs their shoal-
ders.
"'Ten that to the judge says:
TIN only the copper
"'Well,' they say. unfortunately
monsieur will have to enjo,' our is
land for three weeks. The next
liner will not be here until then
"'Oh, is that So l laughs. Wen.
let me tell you something. While
you guys was examining the papers
for your belle prisoner / was doing
a little scouting around the harbor.
And they's schooner leaving to-
night for San Francisco. 1 guess
thatll do us all rightv
Tmpossibler They go wild A
lady cannot travel
Cut that lady stuff saws.
She's my prisoner
"She was a trading schooner,
dealing in copra oranges, cotton.
mother of pearl and such like, but
once she must have been a fine
yacht There Were Staterooms
still aboard her though now they
were filled with junk for trading.
but / made a deal with the captain
and he cleans one out and. fixes
1t up for Jansen And then 1
takes Jansen down to the docks.
"'Judge. you'd thought she'd
saved the country instead of killing
De Vries, the way they acted about
that woman. They lined UP on tho
decks OF Papeete, all the men and
Q good many women, too.
THOROUGHLY CURSED.
~And they sang and danced AMI
they said sood-by. When you get
off, come back they says to her.
They got on my nerves so much. ]