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'ADVEN
By
JACK LONDON
Copyright. 1910 by Street ft Smith
Coprrttbt I'll oy the Mjcminii
Company
SYNOPSIS
Sheldon, owner of Bcrtodt plantation,
though desperately til, overawes and eou
trola 200 bead hunting Solomon tsianura
by force of will and weapons. Chlet Beiee
caUs with forty men.
He returns Arunga. a runaway laoorer.
Bhetdon has Arunga and Billy whipped t
quell a mutiny His sickness increases.
His partner. Hufble, and many lafterers
die.
Joan Lacaiand. a pretty girl. arrives
with her crew of Tahltians, Sheldon Da
comes unconscious, and shs taxes charge
of things.
8h la a self-reliant American girl, a
lover of adventure, a native of Hawaii
and an orphan. Ber ship has been
wrecked. She proves to Sheldon that she
can shoot.
She resents bis friendly suggestions, and
they qua-rel. She makes It plain that she
Is not matrimonially Inclined. 6 he and
Sheldon save two black women from
death.
The savage laborers demand the women.
Sheldon attempts to discipline them, and
Joan shoots a native and saves his life.
She scolds him for making her shoot.
Satan, a savage dog. arrives. Despite
Sheldon's warnings Joan goes to explore
an island she contemplates buying. Fin an
clal difficulties threaten Sheldon.
He falls In .ore with Joan. Xeft alone
by Sheldon. Joan has trouble with Go
goomy and o ner natives. Armed savages
arrive, and tanger threatens Sheldon and
Joan.
Joan routs them with a fake dynamite
cartridge, a i Satan drives them into
trees. Their chief Is punished. Morgan
and Raff bar Sheldon In their power.
Joan offers to become his partner. His
mention of nnventlonsittles angers her.
. She needs no chaperon, she says. Sheldon
finally accep ber as bis partner.
Tudor and Von B1U, gold seekers, arrive
on the Martha. Joan and Tudor seem to
Interest each other. Sheldon becomes jeal
ous. Joan starts for Australia with ber crew
to buy a schooner, but stops at Ouvutu
and buys the Martha, which has been
wrecked, for a merer trifle.
Captain Auckland tells bow aha did It
and ; applauds hsr cleverness. Captain
Oleson tells how she took the Fllbberty
Gibbet away from him to save the Mar
tha, Joan returns with the Martha in good
condition. Her white assistant describe
ber business shrewdness. Sheldon refuses
to let her run the Martha.
Sheldon proposes marriage, but Joan re
buff Mm. Thev arras to continue as
partners and friends. They discover
large number ot bidden firearms.
Gogoomy attacks Joan, who escapes ana
warns Sheldon. Gogoomy Sees with other
savages, and Sheldon pursuea Bushmen
murder all ot Tudors party except Tudor.
chapter xvn.
ah orm oi HAKSZAGX.
"TTi UT where was she dnrlnar the
nor wester 7 Sheldon asked
"At Langa-L&nga. Ban cp
there as It was coming oa
and laid there the whole week and
traded for grub with the niggers.
"When we got to Tnlagl there she was
waiting for us and scrapping with
Burnett. I tell you, Mr. Sheldon, she's
a wonder, that girl, a perfect won
der." Munster refilled his glass, and while
Sheldon glanced across at Joan's
house, anxious for her coming. Spar
rowhawk took up the tale.
"Gritty I She's the grittiest thing,
man or woman, that ever blew into
the Solomons. . You should hare seen
Poonga-Poonga the morning we arriv
ed Sniders popping on the beach and
in the mangroves, war drums booming
In the bush and signal smokes raising
everywhere. 'It's all up,' says Qap
tain Monster. Up your granny,' she
says to him," Sparrowhawk went on.
" 'Why, we haven't arrived yet, much
less got started. Walt till the an
chor's down before you get afraid.' "
"That's what she said to me," Mon
ster proclaimed. "And of course It
made me mad, so that I didn't care
what happened. We tried to send a
boat ashore for a powwow, but It was
fired upon. "What we want,' says
Miss Lackland, Is a hostage. I'm go
ing athore tonight to fetch Klna-Klna
himself on board, and I'm not asking
' who't game to go with me. for I've
got every man's work arranged for
him. I'm taking my sailors with me
and one white man.' 'Of course I'm
that white man,' I said, for by that
time 1 was mad. 'Of course you're
not.' says she. 'You'll have charge of
the covering boat Curtis stands by
the landing boat. Fowler goes with
me. Brahms takes charge of the Fllb
lerty and Sparrowhawk of the Emily.
And we start at 1 o'clock.'
"My word, it was a tough Job lying
there in the covering boat I never
thought doing nothing could be such
bard work. We stopped about fifty
fathom off and watched the other
boat go in.
"Of course there was a row. It had
to tome, and I knew ft. but it startled
me Just the name. I never heard such
screeching and yelling In my life. The
, niggers must have Just dived for the
bush without looking to see what was
op. while her Tahltians let loose, shoot-"
leg In the air and yelling to hurry 'em
on. And then I beard them coming
through the mangroves and an oar
itrike on a gunwale and Miss Lack
land laugh, and I knew everything
was all right. We pulled on board
without a shot being fired. And there
was old Klna-Klna hieifjbeing
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hoisted over the rail, shivering and
chattering like an ape. The rest was
easy. Klna-Kica's word was law,
and he was scared to death. And we
kept him on board Issuing proclama
tions all the tlme we were In Poonga
Poonga. "It was a good move, too. In other
ways. She made Klna-Klna order his
people to return all the gear they'd
stripped from the Martha. She here
she comes now."
It was with a shock of surprise that
Sheldon greeted her appearance. The
ready made clothes from Sydney had
transformed her. A simple skirt and
shirt waist of some sort of wash goods
set off her trim figure with a hint of
elegant womanhood that was new to
him. Brown slippers peeped out as
she crossed the compound, and he
once caught a glimpse to the ankle of
brown openwork stockings. Some
how she bad been made many times
the woman by these mere extraneous
trappings.
"I've opened up a new field," she
said as she began pouring the coffee.
"Old Kina-Klna will never forget me,
I'm sure, and 1 can recruit there when
ever I want I saw Morgan at Guvutu.
He's willing to contract for a thousand
boys at 40 shillings per head.' Did I
tell you that I'd taken ont a recruiting
license for the Martha? I did. and the
Martha-, can sign eighty boys every
trip." v
Sheldon smiled a trifle bitterly to
himself. The wonderful woman who
had tripped across the compound In
her Sydney clothes was gone, and he
was listening to the boy come back
again.
"Well," Joan said, with a sigh, Tt
shown you hustling American meth
ods that succeed and get somewhere,
and here you are beginning your mud
dling again."
Joan stood beside Sheldon and sigh
ed as she watched the Martha beating
out to sea, old Kinross, brought over
from Savo, In command.
"My. but she is a witch! Look at
her eating up the water, and there's no
wind to speak of. Honestly, If Pd
dreamed of the chance waiting for me
at Guvutu when X bought her for less
than $300 I'd never have gone partners
with you. And in that case I'd be sail
ing her right now."
The Justice of her contention came
abruptly home to Sheldon.
"You make me feel like a big man
who has robbed a small child of a tol
ly," he said, with sudden contrition.
"And the small child is crying for it"
She looked at him, and he noted that
her Up was slightly trembling and that
her eyes were moist
"But the small child won't cry any
more for It" she was saying. "This
is the last sob. Bat some day I'm go
ing to sail the Martha again. I know
it I know It"
In reply, and Quite without premedi
tation, hii hand went ont to hers,
covering it as It lay on the railing.
But he knew beyond the shadow of a
doubt that It was the boy that return
ed the pressure he gave, the boy sor
rowing over the lost toy. The thought
chilled him.
"Never mind," he said. "Ton can
go sailing on the Martha any time yon
please recruiting on Maialta if you
want to."
it was a great concession he was
making, and he felt that he did it
against his better Judgment Her re
ception of it "was a surprise to him.
"With old Kinross In command?"
she queried. "No, thank yen. He'd
drive me to suicide. I couldn't stand
his handling of her. Ill never step
on the Martha again unless It is to
take charge of ber. I'm a sailor, like
my father, and he could never bear
to see a vessel mishandled."
An hour later. Just aa they were
riding but of the compound, Sheldon
glanced at her sharply and noted her
face mottling, even as he looked, and
turning orange and green.
"It's the fever," she said. Til hare
to turn back." t !
By the time they were in the com
pound she was shivering and shaking,
and he had to help her from her horse.
"Funny, Isn't it?" she said, with
chattering teeth. "Like seasickness
not serious, but horribly miserable
while it lasts. I'm going to bed. Send
Noa Noah and Viabnrt to me. Tell
Oraflrt to make hot water. Ill be ont
of my head in fifteen minutes. But
III be all right by evening. Short and
sharp Is the way it takes me."
Sheldon obeyed her instructions,
rushed hot water bottles along to her
and then sat on the veranda glancing
across the compound to the grass
bouse. Yes, he decided, the contention
of every white man in the islands was
right the Solomons was no place for
a woman.
lie clapped his hands and Lalaperu
came running.
"Here, you." he ordered; "go along
barracks, bring 'm black fella Mary,
plenty too much, altogether."
A few minutes later the dozen black
women of Berande were ranged before
him. He looked them over critically,
finally selecting one that was young,
comely as ' such creatures went and
whose body bore no signs of skin dis
ease. "What name, you," be demanded.
"Sangul?"
"Me Mabna." was the answer.
"All right, you fella Mabua. Yon
: finish cook along boys, f ou stop along
I white Mary. Ail the time you stop
along. You savveeY"
"Me savee," she grunted and obeyed
his gesture to go to the grass house
Immediately.
"What name?" he asked Yiaburi,
who had Just come out of the grass
house.
"Big fella sick," was the answer.
"White fella Mary talk m too much
allee time. Allee time talk m big fel
la schooner."
Sheldon nodded. He understood. It
was the loss of the Martha that had
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brought on the fever. He lighted a
cigarette, and In the curling smoke of
It caught visions of his English moth
er and wondered If she would under
stand how her son could love a wo
man who cried .because she could not
be skipper of a schooner In the can
nibal Isles.
The most patient man in the world is
prone to impatience In love, and Shel
don was in love.
But how to approach her? He di
vined the fanatical love ot freedom in
her. the deep seated antipathy for re
straint of any sort No man could
ever put his arm around her and win
her. She would flutter away like a
frightened bird. Approach by contact
that he realized, was the one thing
he must never da His hand clasp
must be what it had always been the
hand clasp of hearty friendship, and
nothing more. And then, one morning,
quite fortuitously the opportunity
came.
"My dearest wish Is the success of
Berande," Joan had Just said apropos
of a discussion about the cheapening
of freights oncopra te market
"Do yon rnhtd if I tell yon the dear
est wish of my heart?" he promptly
returned. "I long for it I dream
about It It is my dearest desire. It
Is for you some day when you are
ready to be my wife."
She started back from him as If she
bad been stung. Her face went white
on the Instant, not from maidenly em
barrassment but from the anger which
he could see flaming In her eyes.
"This taking for granted! This
when I am ready f she cried passion
ately. "Listen to me, Mr. Sheldon. I
like you Yry well, though you are
slow and a muddler, but I want yon to
understand once and for all that I did
not come to the Solomons to get mar
ried. Getting married Is not making
my way in the world. It may do for
some women, but not for me, thank
you. When I sit do am te talk over the
freight on copra I dont care to hare
proposals of marriage sandwiched In.
Besldes-besides"-
Her voice broke for the moment, and
when she went on there was a note of
appeal in It that well nigh convicted
him to himself of being a brute,
"Don't you see? It spoils everything.
It makes the whole situation impos
sible and and I so loved onr partner
chip and was proud ef it Don't you
ee? I can't go on being your partner
If you make love to me. And I .was
to happy!"
Tears ef disappointment were In her
eyes, and she caught a swift sob in her
throat
"I warned yon, be said grarery.
"Such unusual situations between men
and women cannot endure. I told yon
so at the beginning."
"Oh, yes; It Is quite clear to me what
yon did. You took good care to warn
me against every other man In the
Solomons except yourself."
It was a blow In the face to Sheldon.
He smarted with the truth of It and
at the same time be smarted with
what he was convinced was the injus
tice of it A gleam of triumph that
flickered in ner eye because of the
hit she had made decided him.
"It is not so one sided as yon seem
to think It la," he began. "I was do
ing very nicely on Berande before yon
came. I did not want yon to stay. I
wasn't In love with yon then. I want
ed yon to go to Sydney, to go back to
Hawaii. But yon insisted on staying.
Yon virtually"
He paused for a softer word than
the one that had risen to bis lips, and
she took it away from him.
"Forced myself on yon that s what
yon meant to say," she cried, the flags
of battle painting her cheeks, "fjto
ahead. Don't mind ray feelings."
"All right I wont" he said deci
sively, realizing that the discussion was
in danger of becoming a vituperative,
schoolboy argument "You have In
sisted on being considered as a man.
Consistency would demanl that you
talk like a man and like a man listen
to man talk. And listen yon shall.
It is not your fait that this unpleas
antness has arisen. I do not blame
you for anything remember that and
for the same reason you should not
blame me for anything.
"Yon can't help being yourself. You
can't help being a very desirable crea
tore so far as I am concerned. Yon
have made me want you. You didn't
Intend to; you didn't try to. You were
so made, that is all. And I was so
made that I was ripe to want you.
But I can't help being myself. 1 can't
by an effort of will cease from want
ing you any more than you by an ef
fort ot will can make yourself unde
sirable to me."
"Oh. this desire, this want want,
want!" she broke In rebelllously. "1
am not quite a fool. I understand
some things. I really think it would
be a good Idea for me to marry Noa
Noah or Adamu Adam or Lalaperu
there or any black boy. Then I could
give him orders and keep him penned
away from me and men like you would
leave me alone and not talk marriage
and 'I want I "want"
Sheldon laughed in spite of himself
and far from any genuine Impulse to
laugh.
"You are positively soulless." he said
savagely.
"Because Tve a sodl that doesn't
yearn for a man for master?' she toofe
up the gauge. "Very well. then, i am
! soulless, and what are you going to do
about lt7
"I am going to ask you why you look
like a woman? Why yon have the
form of a woman, the lips of a woman,
the wonderful hair of a woman? And
I am going to answer because you are
a woman, though the woman In yon Is
asleep and that some day the woman
will wake up."
"Heaven forbid !" she cried In such
sudden and genuine dismay as to make
him laugh and to bring a smile to ber
own lips against herself.
Pjre got some mprej:o say to yon"
JOURNAL SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1912.
Sheldon pursued. "I did try "to protect
you from every other man in the Solo
mons and from yourself as well. As
for me. I didn't dream that danger lay
In that quarter. So I failed to protect
you from myself. I failed to protect
you at all. You went your own wil
ful way Just as though I didn't exist
wrecking schooners, recruiting on Ma
ialta and sailing schooners, one lone,
unprotected girl In the company of
some of the worst scoundrels in the
Solomons. I love you for that too. 1
love you for all ot you. Just as you
are."
She made a moue of distaste and
raised a hand protestingly.
"Don't" be said. "You have no right
to recoil from the mention of my love
for you. Remember, this is a man
talk. From the point of view of the
talk, you are a man. The woman in
you is only incidental, accidental and
irrelevant You've got to listen to the
bald statement of fact strange though
it is. that 1 love you. You are better
off and safer on Berande. in spite of
the fact that I love you. than any
where else in the Solomons. But 1
want you. as a' final Item of man talk,
to remember from time to time that 1
love yon and that it will be the dear
est day of my life when yon consent
to marry me. 1 want yon to think of
it sometimes. And now we won't talk
about It any more. As between men.
there's my band."
He held out his hand. She hesitated,
then gripped it heartily and smiled
through her tears.
"I wish" she faltered, "1 wish. In
stead of that black Mary, you'd given
me somebody, to. swear for me."
And with this enigmatic utterance
she turned away.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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EiNG BUILT
CAPT. BENN1E EDMUNDSEN IS
PREPARING TO CARE FOR THE
SUMMER EXCURSION CROWDS
THIS SEASON.
A new boat thirty-five feet in
length by five feet in breadth. Is now
nearlns; completion for Capt. Bennie
F7dmundsen. It will bo equipped with
high power engines and will be used
by the- summer excursion promoter
for quick service for parties desiring
to make a trip to the Island for surf
bathing. It will be- ready for service
within three weeks.
Capt Edmundsen, who operates a
fleet of launches, aa well as the- steam
er Baldwin, inaugurated the summer
excursions of the season last Sunday
and from now en will operate a. regu
lar echedue each Sunday.
He has remodeled and placed the
big pavilion in ehape. and music will
be furnished throughout the- day,
MONDAY
we offer 20 per cent off on
all our clothing. Brawner-
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Professor Tour bump of destruction
Is usually large. Are you a prize
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Victim No. rm a baggage roaster.
Housewife Do you think his pair
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Hobo Yes; I joss I can get
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Vote for
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for
Justice of the Peace,
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He is a trained lawyer and
fully qualified to cope with
the important questions aris
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He earnestly solicits the
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primary.
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The management has been advised that there
exists a misunderstanding as to our charges in the
barber shop. We, therefore submit our scale of
charges and solicit your valued patronage.
Shave .. . . . 15c
Hair Cut 35c
Shampoo , . . . .-. .35c
Egg Shampoo .... 50c
Face Massage . . . .35c
On week nights, after 8 o'clock, wc charge 25
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C. C. Manning is in charge, and is assisted by
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In every way this shop is absolutely sanitary.
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Geo. H." Hervey,
This Is Your Birthday
J
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How are you feeling? That's good. Pro
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The influence of the Home is ex
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
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CANDIDATE FOR THE LEGISLA
TURE MAKE8 ANNOUNCEMENT
TO HIS FRIENDS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTY HE WILL APPRE
CIATE VuPPORT OF ALL.
To the Democratic Voters of Escam
bia. Countr.
It was my original purposw to make
a thorough cajivass of th county and
tD attend ail of the political meetings
in jth various sections. I find, thougrh,
that my work on the farm is keeping;
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as I would like to do.
I hope therefore that you will under
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LADIE3. AUXILIARY OF THE B. CF
L. E. WILL CELEBRATE AT PAL
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APRIL 26, THIS YEAR.
The Laflies Auxiliary of the Broth
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25. and the attractions will be better
than ever. -
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Spanking dos not cure children of
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MONDAY
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Ladies' tan and Mack Lace
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Southern League vs. Pcnsa-cola.
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