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pT ' vWH U W, '" ' Wf tJW W V' Adventure w7Xb W m CIIAPTKIl XX. THF Jir Atl HINTUIS nr UIAT fella boy lie sick." ninu Charley said, polntltiR to a I'oonpi-I'ooiipi ninu whose nlioiililcr luifl been scratched by au arrow an hour before. The boy was Hlttlnp down and groan ing, his nrniH clnspIiiR Ills bent knees, his head drooped forward and rolling painfully back and forth. Kor fear of poison, Sheldon had Immediately scari fied the wound and Injected perman ganate of potash: but In spite of tho precniitlon the shoulder was swelling rapidly. "We'll take him on to where Tudor Is lying." .loan said. "The walking will help to keep up his circulation and scatter the po!on. Adamu Adam, you take hold that boy. Maybe he will want to sleep. Shake him up. If he sleep he die." The advance was more rapid now. for IJiiiu Charley placed tho captive bushnian In front of him and made him clear the runway of traps. Once, nt a sharp turn where a man's shoul der would unavoidably br.wh against a screen of leave, the bushman dis played great caution as he spread the leaves aside nnd exposed the head of u 'sharp pointed spear. o 3et 'hat the casual passerby would receive at the least a nasty scratch. The sun sinking behind a lofty west ern peak brought on an early but lin gering twilight, and the expedition plodded on through the evil forest the place of mystery and fear, of death swift and silent and horrible, of brutish appetite and degraded In stinct, of human life that still wallow ed In the primeval slime, of savagery degenerate and abysmal. They turned aside from the runway at n place indicated by Blnu Charley and cauic to an Immense banyan tree half an acre in extent that made In the innermost heart of the jungle a denser Jungle of Its own. From out of its black depths came the voice of a man singing in a cracked eerie voice. "My word, that big fella inarster he no die!" The singing stopped, and the voice, faint and weak, called out a hello Joan answered, and then the voice ex plained: "I'm not wandering. I was just sing ing to keep my spirits up. Have you got anything to eat?" Tudor, having pulled through the fever anil started to mend, was still frightfully weak and very much starv ed. So badly swollen was he from mosquito bites that his fate was un recognizable, .loan had her own oln ments along and she prefaced their application by fomenting Ills swollen features with hot clothes. Sheldon, with an eye to the camp and the preparations for the night, looked on and felt the pangs of jealousy at ev ery contact of her hands with Tndor's face ami body. Somehow, engaged In their healing ministrations, they no longer seemed to him lov s Iimii Is. The morning' aetlon had been set tled the night before Tudor was to stay behind hi hl banyan refuge anil gather strength while the expedition proceeded. On th" far eliau-e that they might re-cue even one solitary mrvlvor of Tudor's iwtv. .loan was fixed in her determination to push on. With Tudor, Adamu Adam and Arahu were to stop as guards. Itinu Chnrley led thu way, by proxy, however, for by means of the poison ed spear ho drove lliu cuptlvo bush mau ahead. They plodded on, pant lug and sweating In the humid, stag nant air. They were immersed in a ecu of wanton, prodigal vegetation. Caught by surprise fifteen feet In thu air above the path in thu forks of a many branched tree, a bushmau dropped like 11 shadow, naked as 011 his natal morn. It was hard for them to realize that It was a man, fur ho seemed a weird Jungle sprite, a goblin of the forest. Only ISInu Charley was not perturbed. He Hung his poisoned spear over the head of tho captive at tho tutting form. It was a mighty cast, well Intended, but the shadow, leaping, received the spear harmlessly botweeu the legs and, tripping upon It, was Hung sprawling, licforo ho could get away lllnti Charley was upon him, clutching him by his snow white hair. He was only a young man nd u dandy at that, his face black ened with charcoal, his hair whitened with wood ashes, with the freshly severed tall of a wild pig thrust through his perforated nose and two more thrust through tils ear's. Ills only other ornament was a necklace of human linger Ixnies. At sight of their other prisoner he chattered In a high tierulous falsetto, with pucker ed' brows and troubled, wild animal eyes. He was disposed of along tho middle of tho line, one of tho Poongu Poonga men leading him at tho end of u length of bark rope. "UIoso up ho stop," Binu Charley warned them in a whisper. . u uu uinkc. from high over A Romance of The South Seas BY Jack London Copyright, 1910. by Street O Smith Copyrifhl, 1911, by the Macmlllaa Company head came the deep resonant boom or a vlllnge drum Hut the beat was slow. There was no panic In the sound. The runwny now became a deeply worn path, rising so steeply that several times the party paused for breath. "One mnn with a rille could hold it against a thousand." Sheldon whisper ed to .loan. "And twenty men could hold It with spears and arrows." They came out on the village, sit uated on a small, upland plateau, grass covered anil with only occasional trees. There was a wild chorus of warning cries from the women, nnd spears nnd arrows began to fall among the In vaders. At Sheldon's commnnd the Tahltlans and I'oonga-I'oonga men got into action with their rifles. The spears nnd arrows ceased, the last bushmen disappeared, and the light was over al most as soon as It had begun. On their own side 110 one had been hurt, while hajf a dozen liiwlimeu had been killed. "Poor brutes." Joan said. "They act only according to their natures. To eat their kind and take heads Is good morality for them." "But they should be taught not to tnke white men s heads," Sheldon ar gued. She nodded approval and said: "If we find one bead we'll burn the vil lage. Hey, you. Charley! What fella place head he stop';" "S'pose he stop along devil-devil house," was the answer. "That big fella house, he devil-devil." It was the largest house In the vil lage. Into It they went. Crouched be 'fore a slow smoking fire. In the Uttered ashes of a thousand fires, was an old man who blinked apathetically at the Invaders. Ills task. It seemed, was to tend the fire, and, hung In the smoke, they found the object of their search Joan turned and stumbled out hastily, deathly sick reeling Into the sunshine and clutching at the air for support. "See If al! are there." she called back faintly and 'ottered aimlessly on for a few steps, breathing the air in great drafts and trying to forget the sight she had seen. Upon Sheldon fell the unpleasant task of tallying the heads. They wen all Micro, nine of them, white men' heads, the faces of which he had been familiar with when their owners had jumped In lierandc compound and set up the poling boats, ninu Charley hugely interested, lent a hand, turn Ing the beads around for Identification noting the hatchet strokes and remark Ing the distorted expressions. Other heads, thoiouglilv sun dried and smoke cured, were found In a bun dance, but. wlih two exceptions, thej were the heads of blacks "Me savvee black Mary, me savvee' white Mary." ipioth ltluu Charley "Me no savvee that fella Mary. What name belong hlinV .Sheldon looked. Ancient nnd with ered. blackened by many years of the smoke of the devil-devil house, never theless the shrunken, mununyllke face was uninlstnkably Chinese. How I: had come there was the mystery It was a woman's bead, and he had never heard of a Chinese woman In the his tory of the Solomons. I'rom the ear? I'uug two Inch long earrings, and at Sheldon's direction the ninu man rubbed away the accretions of smoke is'id dirt and from under his 11 inters anpeared the polished green of Jade, the sheen of pearl and the warm red of oriental gold The other head, enually ancient, was a white man's, and Sheljon wondered what forgotten beche-der-mer fisherman or sandalwood trader had gone to I'uwiNIi that gliast Iv trophy Telling ltluu Charley to remove the earrings and directing the I'ooii'.'a Poouga men fo carry out the old li'-'-tender. Sheldon cleared the devil devl house and set fire to It Soon even house was blazing inerrllv. while ih ancient tire tender -at uptight In Hi" sunshine, blinking at the destruction of his village I'verv member of Tu dor's expedition wtw accounted rot und It was a long, ilnl; wnv out of t'u head hunters' count rv Uclcnslu1.' ihe'i two prisoners, who h-uicd iiunv ir startled deer, they plunged down fb stoii path Into the sieaniliit? lungl" That night found them back In --ti with Tudor, and at high noun or tin' third day, traveling with tho current and shooting the rapids, tho expedi tion arrived at Hernnde. Joan, with a sigh, unbuckled her revolver belt nnd hung It on the nail In the living room, while Sheldon, who had been lurking about for the sheer Joy of seeing her perform that particular homecoming act, sighed, too, with satisfaction. Itut the homecoming was not all Joy to him. for Joan set about nursing Tudor und spent much time on the veranda when he lay In the hammock under tho mosquito netting. Tho ten days of Tudor's convales cence that followed were peaceful days on Uerande. The work of the plautatlou went ou like clockwork. With iIih crushing of the prematura outbreak of (Sogoomy and his follow ing nil Insubordination seemed to havo vanished. Twenty more of the old time boya, their term of service up. were enrtled nwny by the Martha, and the fresh stock of labor, treated fairly, was proving of excellent qual ity. As Sheldon rode about the plan tation acknowledging to himself the comfort and convenience of a horse nnd wondering why he had not thoug'it of getting one blnwlf. he pondered the various Improvements for which Joan was responsible. There were times when ho was dizzy with thought or her and love of her. when he would stop his horse and with closed eyes picture her us he had cph her that first day In the stern sneets of the whaielioat. dashing madly In to shore nnd matching belligerently along his veranda to remark that It was pretty hospitality, this letting strati gers sink or swim In his front yard. It was patent to Sheldon that Tu dor IlmI be"ome Interested In Joan I Often nfler his morning ride over the plantation or coming In from the I store or from Inspection of the copra ' drying. Sheldon found the pair of them together ot, the veranda, Joan listening Intent nnd excited and Tudor deep In some recital of personal adventure nt the ends of the earth. Sheldon noticed, too. the way Tudor looked at her and followed her about with his eyes, and In those eyes he noted :i certain hungry look and on the face a certain wistful expression, and lie wondered If on his own face he carried a similar involuntary ad vertisement, lie was sure of several things-first, that Tudor was not the right man for Joan and could not pos sibly make her permanently happy: next, that Joan was too sensible a girl really to fall in love with a man of such superficial stamp, and. finally, that Tudor would blunder Ills love making somehow. And at the same time, with true lover's anxiety. Shel don feared that tho other might some how fall to blunder and win the girl with purely fortuitous and successful meretricious show. The situation was very unsatisfac tory and perplexing. Sheldon played the difficult part of waiting and look ing on. while his rival devoted himself energetically to reaching out and grasping at the fluttering prize. He did not belong to Hernnde. and, now that he was well and strong again. It was time for him to go. Instead of which Tudor had settled himself down comfortably, resumed swimming, went dynamiting fish with Joan, spent hours with her hunting pigeons, trapping crocodiles and at target practice with rifle and revolver P,ul there were certain traditions of hospitality that prevented Sheldon from breathing a hint that It was time for his guet to take himself oft. And In similar fashion, feeling that It was uot'plnvlng the game, he fought down the temptation to warn Joan Had he known nnvthlug. not too serious, to Tudor's detriment, he would have been unable to titter It. but the worst of It was that he knew nothing nt all against the mnn. To bt continued Here is a message of hope and good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin, Boone Mill, Va , who is the mother of eight een children. 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