The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-02-26

guerrilla parties: and nobody
would ever be able to get them to-
gether again.
/ understood all that. But Just
then | cared .esS than nothing
about IL There was going 10 be a
dead man IN he river. floating
down through the crOcs. AnC ne
was going TO be the hOmelieSt dead
man anyone had ever seen When
MalayS xiii man. every one of
them tries the blade OF his kris on
the corpse before 1t IS cold. until
what Is left will hardly hold to-
gether to be dragged away Moth
ing of James Clyde would ever
reach the sea But that was all the
more reason Why ! had to keep on
fighting to get him out
What you're telling me IS this"
| said. You're not going to help
US"
Her eyes wavered. ard her
mouth was t9rmented- i want -.
There must De some way" Her
voice traiIed of
had already made my decision
IL | waited IOr this girl to send
word to the OyakS To help me. /
might be delayed until It was too
late And | could see now that her
decision might well be against me-.
1t was hard for me to understand
that with James Clyde's life at
stake any English woman would
prefer to carry out dead mans
fantastic dream But thought that
Christine Forester might be one
who would.
On the other hand. IL ! should
strike at once, without any further
parley. It might well be that the
Dyaks would still be confused as
10 my purpose. | might be able to
get the Linkang within firing dis
lance OF their 5tOckadeS for the
same reasons that Clyde had orlgi-
nally been able 80 reach Mantu-
sens xith our whaIeDoat / stin
was uncertain how much influence
this girl had. But in any case. / de-
cided to appeal to her no further.
Racing With Time
CHE got up presently. speaking
- of her brother He had been IN
the delirium If MS fever when she
left the Avon; but his mind should
be clear again in a few hours. IL
this was one of his typical ssages.
She wanted to talk TO him and see
what he thought ought TO be done
IL would come to tea IN the late
afternoon, she would be able to
tell me what they had decided
| graveIy told her that | would
see how things went
Though did not say so, | had no
intention of going aboard the
Avon again. | do not think ; would
have changed my mind Ii was be-
cause circumstances changed IN a
way | had not foreseen that twi-
light saw m swinging over the
Avon's rail.
The reason ! went back to the
Avon again. when ] had not ex-
pected to. was that had found the
Linka1s was never going to enter
the SiderOng river.
Our SoundingS showed US that.
Three times our longboat went
out, and the third time was han
ding the lead line myself Our Ade
tables were very skefchy and IN
accurate, and our experience here
not much better, out the answer
we got was very plain Even If we
unShipped everything that would
come loose. the Linkang exceeded
by more than half fathOm the
highest tide TO be expected on the
delta bar that famed out from the
mouth of the Siderong Scores of
little twisting channels cut their
way through the oaI. taking care
of the flow Of the stream. but none
of them we're wide enough nor
straight enough TO give the Link
ang any hope
/ began TO think about landing a
gun, or two guns. on the chance of
working them through the Jungle
to position from which the Dyak
stOckadeS would be under fire
from the land My uncle had ex-
preSsly forbidden this under any
circumstances. but IN an extremi-
" would have ignored his order.
II was the complete hopeleSsncss
OF such move which made me
discard the notion
One other possible means still
remained: The Avon could prob
ably be worked over the car.
1 had 10 have the Avon To OBJ
tain the Avon was ms only hope.
It was probably gong 10 De I'M
possible 10 OBTAIN the Forresters'
cooperation. but u was so long
now since my really plausible
plan OF action had been open 10
me that there vas nothing to do
but go ahead. trying and racing
with time
So | shaved carefully and put
on the best white uniform that !
owned. What with my thorough
soundIngs. pursued long after
there Was no further hope. the day
was used up. ard night was COM
ing down fast when I al last went
the ysWl
l was grooming myself 10 talk
as ! had never talked before. / had
10 get that yaWI Whenever | tried
% think out Just how | would do
this. faitered: for I could no. BE-
Leve that there was any way.
In the end ! threw aside all
plans. willing 20 twist my argu-
ment as Il came. holding only 10
the single. Interchangeable purpose
II had 70 have tha- ship.
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