The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1922-03-10
Mcaufrey leaned against the gun.

| TO eat MIN up. On, GID, GID, OLD man,
why wouldn't you listen to mef Now
they've got you, and what in blazes
I'm going to do to get you back, dead
or alive, ! dunno"
1t was fully half an hour before poor
McGuffey could pull himself together,
and when he did, his grief was super
seeded by a fit Of rage that was ter
rible to behold.
"Step lively. you blasted scum Of
the seas" he bawled to the mate, and
the crew gathered around the gun.
Lug up case Of ammunition and
Wen shell that bush until even a par
rot won't be left alive in It."
AYE, aye, sir" responded the crew
! to man, and sprang to their task.
"I'm an old navy gunner" said the
| first mate quietly. "Tll handle the
gun. With 'pom-pom' gun It's just
like playing garden hose on them,
only it's high-exploslve shell instead Of
water. I can search out every nook
and Granny in the coast Of this island.
Those guns are sighted up to 1000
yards"
xii 'em ALL" raved McGuffey, "kill
all the blasted niggers.'
When Mr.. Gibney fell under the i'm
pact of the earthenware pot he was
only partially stunned. AS he tried to
struggle to his feet half dozen hands
were laid on him and In trice he was
lifted and carried back of the wari to
clear space where dozen heavy
teakwood posts stood In a row about
four feet apart. Mr.. Gibney was quick
ly stripped of his clothing and bound
hand and foot to one Of these posts.
Three minutes later another delega-
ton of cannibals arrived, bearing the
limp, naked body Of Captain Scraggs,
whom they bound in similar fashion to
the post beside Mr.. Gibney. Scraggs
was very white and bloody, but con-
scious, and his pale-blue eyes were
Pickering like snakes.
"What's-what's-th meanin' of
this, Gib" he gasped.
at means" replied the commodore,
"that It's all of but the shouting with
me and you, Scraggsy. This fellow
Tabu-Tabu Is a id traitor, and his
people are still cannibals. He's the
decoy to get white mel ashore. They
schemed to treat us nice and be friend
ly until they could get the whole crew
ashore. or enough Of them to leave the
ship helpless, and then-O Gawd,
Scraggsy, old man, can you ever for
give me for gettin' you into this2p
Captain Scraggs hung his head and
duivered like a hooked fish.
"will they-eat-us?" he quavered,
finally.
Mr.. Gibney did not answer, only
Captain Scraggs looked into his hor-
rified eyes and read the verdict.
"Die game, Scraggsy," was all Mr.
Gibney could say. "Don't show the
white feather"
"D'ye think McGuffey could hear us
from here II we was to yell for helpT
inquired Captain Scraggs hopefully.
Don't yelp, for Gawd's sake" i'm
plored Mr.. Gibney. "We got ourselves
into this, so let's pay the fiddler our
selves. II we let out one zip and Nc
Guffey hears 1t, he'll come ashore with
his crew and tackle this outfit, even II
he knows he'll get killed. And that's
just what will happen to him II he
comes. Let poor Mac stay aboard
When we don't come back, he'll know
It's all off, and II he has time to think
over II he'll realize 1t would be foolish
to try to do anything. But right now
Macs mad as wet hen, and II we
holler for help-Scraggsy, please don't
holler. Die game"
Captain Scraggs turned his terrified
I glance on Mr.. Gibney's tortured face.
Scraggs was certainly a coward at
heart, but there was something in Mr..
Gibney's unselfishness that touched a
spot in his hard nature-a something
he never knew he possessed. He
bowed his head and two big tears stole
down his weatherbeaten face.
"God bless you, Glib, my dear boy
he said brokenly. you're man."
At this juncture the king came up
and thoughtfully felt Of Captain
scraggs in the short ribs, while Tabu.
Tabu calculated the precise amount
of luscious tissue on Mr.. Gibney's we'll
upholstered frame.
"Bimeby we eat white man." said
Tabu-Tabu cheerfully.
III you eat me. you bloody-handed
beggar," snapped Captain Scraggs,
"rll pizen you. I've chawed tobacco
all my life, and my meats as bitter as
NORWOOD"
II was too funny to hear Scraggs
testing with death. Mr.. Gibney forgot
his own mental agony and roared with
laughter in Tabu-T abu's face. The
cannibal stood or q few feet and
looked searchingly in the commodore's
eyes. He was not used to the brand
Of white man who could laugh under
such circumstances, and he suspected
treachery Of some kind. He hurried
over to join the king and the two held
i q hurried conversation. Al result Of
their conference. q huge savage was
called over and given some insruc.
tiona Tabu-Tabu handed him . war
club and Mr.. 0lbney. rightly conjsetur-
Ing that this was the o6lcial execu-