The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-03-02

I We were out into the open
moonlight now, and ! could see
him looking at me with strange
eyes. When he spoke MS words
were very quiet, as If no vocabu-
larry he knew was enough
Fool" he said at last. "Oh. you
fooll"
"Yes, sir"
We had 70 swing a jacobs lad
del TO get Clyde up over the Lin
hangs side. where ordinarily he
would have swaTmed il like a glib
bon
He had a nasty kris cut shat
laid open his back from shoulder
10 spine; il was his only wound.
but il was enough Part Of the cut
was so deep that it seemed TO ue
il must have reached the bone
but no important muscles SCENE
TO have been cut. | spent a lot o.
time picking seaWeed out Of this
and SWabbing II as clean as / could
and after that II took ne an hour
10 get il sewed up TO suit me. Ny
fingers were clumsy with a sur
geOn's needle, but tied II stitches,
where perhaps fewer would have
done. And strapped arm and
shoulder as tight as ! dared
While we took care Of that, he
told me how ne hao got out Of
the Malay stockade- He spoke N
ierky, angry sentences, begrudg-
ing his words, so that / never
/ learned all there was 20 know.
II seems that they had moved
him down to the end Of the ruai.
with three or four Malay guards,
and q little lamp This place was
not as well screened from the jun
| gle rifles as MantuSen's own. and
presently a single rife began snip
ing. Out Of the whole extraordi-
nary experience Clyde seemed 10
have brought away a single i'm
/ preston that filed him with Won
der. and that was the accuracy Of
the sniping rife
Work To Do
LIE told me, in tones OF incre-
II dulity, that someone was
working with the Dyaks who
knew how to shoot. For some rea-
son the rife was not working on
the men, whom Il could easily have
killed. but was picking on the
light. Over and over, during the
first half of the night, that rife
shot out the lamp. At first the
Malays thought if was an acct
dent. but when the third or fourth
lamp was broken they began TO
get furious. Somebody was playing
with them, not even hOnoring them
by attempting their lives. Once the
riieman. with what must have
been a lucky shot, actually snuffed
out the fame without breaking
the lamp.
In the end the Malays began 10
show nervousness = very close,
with them, to real fear. They gave
up the light.
Ny uncle watched his chance,
and after long time he was able
10 get his hands on a Jar. and he
cracked down Malay. Il was
pretty dark. and there was some
confusion due to the MalayS' idea
that one of Clyde's guards had
been shot. In this confusion Clyde
was able TO drop off the ruai. He
had stripped shirt and shoes. ruled
his trousers high on his thighs, and
twisted a turoan out of a rag of
/ his shirt: and what with the shad-
ows and the confusion Of the
alarm. he lodged his way 10 the
low walls and got outside. Once
into the jungle he had managed
70 lose himself. and the rest vas
matter Of avoiding the Dyaks.
| He was interested now only in
what We were going to do next,
and resented my persistent ques-
lions.
IT'S only a miracle" | said.
that you're alive"
He exploded at me. Damn IL
If it's any satisfaction 70 you |
was killed outright at the first
move That's why I'm not here
yet Forget il. viii your We've got
work to do"
He was sure that he knew what
Mantusen would do-and do i'm
mediateiy Mantusen would rush
the river with his praus. IN an ef-
fort 10 reach and take the Lin
kang- Once in possession Of the
Linking. its rail crowded with
krismen, Mantusen could whip all
lt1e Dyaks on earth. and he knew
PHI afT het4f
Now that the unaccountable
sntping was picking the sIalsys
+ osI IN their own stOckades. Mantll-
/ sen could hope fer no further ad-
vantage in WaitinL any longer.
+ v hatever hope Mantusen had held
that the Linking could and would
help him was gone with Clyde's
escape. Now that so many OF the
Malays had been killed. he had
prauS enough for what Malays
were left. and they could bring
/ their women with them OF course.
without ship. the attempt would
f De hopeless. even II he fought his
way 70 open water, because he
I would be overwhelmed BY the fast
praus Of the sea Dyaks. The Lin
kang-or at least the Avon-was
. necessity.
clyde thought that Mantusen
could probably still man between
% and 80 praus- II only 10 Of them
got out OF the river. they would
drive straight al the Linkang.s
The sight would be finished
when the last Malay was finished,
and not before.
fCesvtsss. 1855. xzss EeKsyI