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lace," suiil Red Boh, twisting his inusache
and looking down at the house |
vith a thoughtful expression. "Seems
o have some sport going on, too." o
I had already seen what he pointed v
int to me with one linger: sentries?
rliite men. with riHes in their hands, n
incing up and down in front of the t
louse. u
It rained and rained as we went down t
he interminable zigzags of the path; d
ed waterfalls poured from every bank t
ind boulder; the ground sent up a spray v
if rainy spume. s
The people sat in their chairs and li
matched us. In front of the house, the a
.rmed sentries walked back and forward; s
re could see them at each end as we
rent down. ti
"Sachs! Hello, Sachs!" bellowed Red o
Job, in his great bull voice, as we came
in to the last turn. "Here's a lost party il
or you. Have you any room?" t
Sachs came out on to the veranda?a s
all, stout Prussian with a grizzly beard \
?and eyed us, with his hands in his r
lockets. j
"I don't know," he answered in Ger- \
nan. 1
I began to realize that something had f
lappened, but 1 could not for the life of
ne think what. "
r
"J.ORE did not seem entirely surprised.
He told me afterward that he had r
uessed at the state of the case as far ii
iack as the cannibal village. <:
U A t. T itl-l. t ? iJ ?
V7ii, i i'111 iiiv yuu nave, lie suiu I
hecrily. "We've got a lady with us, and f
ho is very badly done up. Can you let t
er go right off to bed?" a
"I suppose I can," answered Sachs, li
ltd ting a little. "There are four women v
ere; they can take care of her, no o
oubt."
We reached the house, and walked up s
n the veranda?three muddy, wretchedjoking
objects, with Bo, outside in the s
ain, very much at an advantage over us, s
wing to his lack of clothes. h
Sachs still remained in the same place, t
is hands in his pockets. He said nothing I
t all. s
The women exclaimed loudly when they t
aw Isola. k
"Why, it is Frau Riehter!" they cried, a
"Achl See, you there!" screamed the q
attest and lightest-haired. "See then, a
he is dying!"
Isola was not dying, but she had sunk s
ito the nearest chair and quietly fainted "
way. I
When one of the German women had q
fted her into a bedroom, shut the door, j;
ud ministered to her, I turned to o
iacns. c
"What's going on here?" I broke out. f;
t
PHAT something big had happened (
somewhere, I eould not doubt. Why, it il
veil seemed to prevent people from being a
uteres ted in our affairs! s
The answer came from an unexpected
ource.
Round the corner of the veranda walked h
, tall figure in military uniform, clinking
purs as it moved. It paused, looked, C
,nd greeted me with: a
"Powl!" h
"Why, Hahn, is it you?" I said, glad
o see him?I always had an odd sort of d
iking for the man who had so nearly sue- fi
eeded in shooting me, that morning in
Cronprinzhaven. "What's going on v
.bout here?" e
"War, my nut," said Hahn. g
"War! I did hear something about a
ot of fighting; but it was so confused? 1
vhicli of the tribes are out?"
"The tribes that are out, my nut,"
aid Hahn,?and, in spite of his slang, I n
ecoernized a new onivilv in tiia
i seriousness in the once gay and de- r
>onair young face,?"the tribes that are
>Ut are the Germans, the Austrians, the t
English, the French, the Belgians; the t
lussiaus, and the Servians." r
"Good Lord!" I said. "Are we at war h
vith you?"
"You are, Powl," said Hahn.
Next week a new Shorty
"Then I suppose Oore and I arc your <|
irisoners?" I,
"No," said Sachs, taking his hands out (
if his pockets at last and coming for- s
iard. "We are yours."
Sachs, I must say, hehavod decently <
nough, all things considered. He agreed a
o give us room for the night, and to sell n
is some elothes against a cheque on r
he hank of New South Wales. Next
lay, if Isola was rested enough, we in- i
ended to journey on down to Kahaul t
irith her (since persecution from the man 1
he had married was one of the least r
ikely things in the world to happen now) i
nd report ourselves to the troops in poscssion.
a
Things had changed considerably for a
is, and all to the good, in those months 1
if absence from telegrams and news. j
"We weren't pearl-poaching, after all, a
f we'd only known it," said Gore to me
hat night, when we had put up our cots I
ide by side in a quiet corner of the r
eranda. "And, by the way, you've t
lever asked me yet, you unbusinesslike
'oung beggar, what your share in the t
enture was to be. Of course we'll go t
lack and rake the place out as soon as c
lossible; there's a big fortune in it." t
"If I am entitled to anything," I said, t
it can be what you please; but I don't c
rant to be paid for?for?"
"For backing me out in a row or two? >
10, naturally. You will be paid for tak- t
rig your part in an illegal, dangerous,
liscreditable poaching adventure, which
ortunately turned up trumps. I pro- <
lose to give you twenty per cent, of the
akings, and, if I'm any judge of an
toll, it ought to be a pretty decent
ittle independence for you?-in ease you
rant such a thing for yourself or any
ne else."
"What do you mean?" I said excitedly,
itting up in my cot.
#It was late at night. The moon had
unk far down the sky, and shone in
treaks and patches through the grape?ss
vine that Sachs had trained about
he inclosing lattice, in memory of his
thineland home. The other men were
leeping on the side that looked down
oward the Herbertshohe road. I don't
:now what they expected in the way of
ttaek or surprise, but it was well for our
luiet conversation that they had left us
lone.
"I can't quite say what I mean myelf;
time must show that," said Gore.
But I got a curious admission out of
gnln nnt vopv loner otrn KKo
..w v? i ugui >JI1V IVtVllCiUf I
luite innocently, to the fact that her im- i
>ulsive Italian papa had overcome her
bjections to a marriage with a dying ;
holera patient by violent means. In 3
act, when he found she was disinclined
o do his bidding and secure the New 1
luinea plantation for her deserving famly,
he took her by the hair, shook her 1
nd boxed her ears, and threatened to 1
hut her up without food."
"The brute!" I said indignantly, s
Wish I had had the chance of boxing
lis ears?once!" 1
"Is that all you have to say?" asked
lore, turning on his pillow and looking
t me with the moon full on his strange,
irilliant eyes. [
"Well, that's about all you could have
one to a man who happened to be her *
ither." ' ,.
"I don't mean that. Do you not see? \
fhy, man, a marriage under compulsion,
specially if the parties don't live to- a
ether afterward, is breakable."
a
SPRANG out of my cot and nlumncd
myself down on the foot of Qoro's. t
"Say that again!" I exclaimed, drum- t
ling on his chest with my fists in my ex- a
itement. "Say it again! She isn't mar- r
ied?oh, Lord!"
"Stop acting the goat, or you'll have s
he sentries up here. I never said any- s
hing of the kind. She's married, all
ight, at this moment. You'll have to t
ring a suit in the Dutch courts." h
"I'll bring twenty," I said joyously. ii
"I don't think Richter will appeal to
story?"Getting Dora Into Hi
|Uit4t thai extent. II' you bring one or ?
wo, it'll probably meet the ease," said ,
lore dryly. "Whether it'll all be plain
ailing or not I can't say."
Next morn inn there was no question
if I sola going on. She was in bed,
ind, according to the good (iermun
vomen, bound in common prudence to
cmain there at least another day.
She sent me a pitiful little note lu>gging
is not to abundon her; and we decided
n u;oil t h/itinrVi K/il li no w/it?o *?
? .".v.. ... -r, v.,,.,, ...1.1 ID
M' down in Herbertshohe, seeing the
ncaning of war?perhaps even joining
n it.
As soon as Isola was able to travel
.gain we borrowed a horse and buggy,
md set off down the long road leading to
Jorbertshoho, with spirits excited by the
>rospeet of seeing real war, or at least its
iftormath.
An hour or two after leaving, we niet a
>ody of khakis-lad young Australians,
narehing up to the plantation country,
ind singing gaily as they went. %
We stopped to greet them and to hear
he news. There had t>een a skirmish
hat day?not much harm done to any
>ne. The soldiers thought it would be
,ho last: German New Guinea was setling
down peaceably enough to the new ~
tccupation.
"Is there anything to avoid on the
vay?" I asked of one young fellow,
iside.
He looked at Isola.
"No," he said. "They're burying some
lead men, but it's nothing. The cusuulios
have boon very small?very small inIced.
You needn't be uneasy about the
roung lady."
We drove on. The afternoon sun shot
ow among the ranks of palms, and laid
ong golden spears across the dusty road.
Jreen parrots chattered in the leaves,
I.~1 L..11?/!!__ - - ? ?
uiu Hum-, muw ouneriues sauna past, as
leacofully as if no war-storm had struck
ho isolated, far, strange island of New
Britain.
A few miles on, we came to a turn in
ho road, where some (lormans engaged in
arrying coffins to the grave-yard of
ierbertshohe had stopped to rest.
"There are three coffins," said Isola, her
lark eyes wide with horror. "It may be
>eople that I know, Paul. Will you stop
md let me ask?"
The men were strangers to all of us,
md they looked sullenly at the three
English people who wero driving freely
ibout the land, gloating, no doubt, over
he triumph of their countrymen. They
mswered shortly when Isola spoke.
"Right Germans, all three," was their
inswer. "But what can it matter to
rou?"
"Tell her," said Red Bob, leaning down
vith the reins in his hands.
And, because he was a man whom
nost peoplo obeyed, those men obeyed
ilso.
" Tt. i? Fri<ir)nri/ilio Dmiao n*i<l D"
m.v ? ? * ivwiiiuuo| iwuon, aiiu iviruiri ,
laid one of the bearers.
ISOLA sat still and white for a minute,
and then asked:
"Justus Schultz Riehtor?"
"Did you know him?" asked the man,
ooking up at her,
"I was married to him," she said.
Drive on!"
Red Bob whipix-d up the horse and
vo drove fast.
"I ean't feel sorry," said. Isola, looking ,
,t me piteously.
She drow out her poeket-handkerehief
,s she spoke, and began to cry.
Red Bob was sitting on the front seat of
ho buggy, .while Isola and I occupied the tack.
I put my arm round her waist
.nd consoled her as I liked best; and
iow she did not repulse me.
"It's like dancing on a grave," Isola
-I J . 1 ? -X- - - - *
am, uul Milt) cropi (tlosor to mt> OS Silt)
aid it.
And the sun sank low and goldon on
ho soa, whoro, Iwforo tho port of Horicrtshohf,
an Australian linor lay waitTIIK
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