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Newspaper Page TextsDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1911 POLK COUNTY OBSERVER THREE iVENTU By JACK LONDON Copyright 1910. by Street & Smith Copyright I""- lhe CB,""B Company (Chapter VII Continued.) tvO-n nf Hi.itV I sh.n him just thn L Tluiv was n iier.1 for yon ti. jp'dowi. Hiw Ht wHy.f It wns jtal nnd cowardly." b. now I say"- he heixnn sooth Go away. Dont yHi see I ha to I; hate you: Oh, won't you go i'vr iVldoii was whit with nngr. Then why in the rmmv ot common e did vou shoot r he demanded. Se-be-cnusp were ' white i she sobbed. "And dnd would Jer have left any white man In the ?&, But It was your fault. You j no right to pet .yomelf In such a jtion. Beside 4t wasn't necea- I am afraid I don't understand," said, shortly, turning away. We talk It ever later on." uuDDose I've been unforgivably jlsh," was her greeting wnen ne re lied several hours later from a mi of the plantation. "I've been ta twspltal. nnd the man Is getting kg all right. 'It Is not a serious rt." beldon felt unaccountably pleased happy at the changed aspect of toer 1m see. yon don't understand the nation," he began. "in the first tee, the blacks have to ue rotea rely. Kindness Is all very well, tent i cant rule them by kindness aiy, fcoept all that you say about the wailans and Tabltians. ion ay it they can be bandied that way. and believe you. 1 have had no experl :e with them. But you have had oe perteDce with the blacks, and 1 ask to believe me. They are different Jm yoor natives. Vou are used te JyoeslsM. These boys are Metane aw. They're blacks. They're niggers cut at their kinky hair. And they 'Jie whole Jot lower than the African Isers. Really, you know, there a st difference. fThey possess no gratitude, no yn .tby. no kindliness. If you are fcind them they think you are a foot Jf m are gentle with them they think ;0 are afraid. And when they think a . are afraid, watch out. for they will I yon. JurMo show you. let roe state one invariable process in a black in'a brain when on his native beats encounters a stranger. His first aught is ooe of fear. Will the stra tkillhimV His. next thought, seeing at be la not tilled is. Can he kill the ranger? These was Packard, a coto il trader, some (twelve miles dowa ccatit He toasted that he ruled by dneHandeertruck a blow. The ult was that be did not rule at alt f used to OMie down In his whale t U visit Haghle and me. When bis t rrew -decided to;go borne he bad f cut JbJa visit short to accompany m. 1 remember one Sunday after n wben Tackard had accepted our titatiwi to stop to dinner. The soup s just served when Ilughie saw a fsw peering in through the door. De atut to him. tor it waa a violation I Berande custom. Anv nireer has to d In word by the bouse boys and to poutsitfe the compound. This man. to waa oe of Packard's boat's crew. Mon theretunda. And be kaiew bet- too. 'What naroer taid ilughie. tell ax white man close up we t'a erew go along. lie no ow. w fella boy no wait We ' l 1Uit ,hn nDShl tched toim m ,bt knocked bint clean down tair and off the ver.oda." ?wJ SS n,dlee8y cruel.- Joan -jeetei -you wouldn't treat a white a that way." tm that's just the point Ha wasn't v ,e mao- ne as a low black w. and he was deliberately Insolt- alone bis own white master, f"Z whUe master ln the Kolo- H nulted me. De insulted De Insulted Berande." , course, according to your light a. J"" SheWon Interrupted, -bat It 'r?u DS t0 the formula of the - the weak that Packard ruled. 4 tt wnltt I am ..111 t4rtf d U dea(t n v" " M K.fLT kInd tDi f"tle to his boys, hoys waited till one day be was 'o w l?0,r' rnexl away 'ebotr well fined with tha ,ritboat Te re 1' B w" 'o ma hawked. aT J,n Milaita. It was i. T " r,rkar' CnUb mi i'dVl tD(lp"tand one thins, if.rtheworrt hbor i, Ml demons so far as to fc. "nM. And bow It WsaVwV rf" -Toor point- 715 ' rf B"nde were not nnnduItcrated-firuteaT-One-WBsTdown east Yankee, as I believe thev Hre call ed. nnd the other was a guzzling Ger man. "They were slave drivers. To begin with, they bought their labor from Johnny Be-blowed. the most notorious recruiter in the Solomons. He is work ing out a ten years' sentence In FIJI now. for the wanton killing of a black boy. During his last days here be had mnde himself so obnoxious that the natives on Malaita would' have nothing to do with hira. The only way he could get recruits was by hurrying to the spot whenever a murder or series 5f murders occurred. The mur derers wore usually only too willlug to sign on and get away to escape ven geance. Down here they call such escapes 'pior head Jumps.' There la suddenly a roar from the beach, and a nigger runs down to the water pur sued by clouds of spenrs and arrows. Of course. Johnny Be-blowed's whale boat Is lying ready to pick him up. In his last days Johnny got nothing hut pier head Jumps. "And the first owners of Berande bought his recruits a hard biiten gang of murderers. They were all five year boys. Well, that's the gang of murder ers we've got on our hands now. Of course, some are dead, some have been killed, and there are others serving sentences at Tnlagl. Very little clear ing did those first owners do. and less planting. It was war nil the time. They had one manager killed. One of the partners had his shoulder slashed nearly off by a cane knife. The other was speared on two different occasions. They were chased away-llterally chased away by their owa niggers. And along cams poor mignre xna me, two new chums, to take hold 'Of that bard bitten gang. We 'did not know the situation, and we bad bought Berande, and there was nothing to do but bang on and muddle through some how, "At first we made the mistake of in discreet kindness. We .tried to rule by persuasion and tair treatment The niggers .concluded that we were afraid. Tbeai ame the -day when Ilughie rep rimanded one of the boys, and was nearly kilted by the (gang. The only thing that saved him was 'the number on top of bim, which enabled me to reach the spot du time. 'Thon egan the irule of the strong land. It was -either ithat or quit, and we bad uuk .ubont allour money Into the venture, and we could not quit. And besides, our ipride was involved. We bad started out ;todo something, and we were so made that we just bud to go n with It. jDo you know, we nave been unable to get white men in. WeVe offered tiie managership to half a dozen, i wotft say they were afraid, for tbey wore mot. 3ut they did not consider it bealtby-at least that is the way it wjw put by the last one who declined our offer. So Ilughie and I did he managing ourselves." "Ajd when the died you were pre pared to go oil all alone!" Joan cried, with shining eyes. I tfaought Iid muddle through. And mow. Miss laokilund. .please be charit able wben J eeni .hnrsh. and remem ber that the situation .is unparalleled down feere. We've ;got a bad crowd, and we're making them work." Joan nodded 'but remained silent She was too oocujued in .glimpsing the vi sion of the one lone White man as she bad first seen ttim. helpless from fever, a collapsed araadth In a -steamer chair, who. up t 4e last heart beat, by some atranjje aJcbemy .of irace, waa pledged to mastery. "It la a pity."" ahe aid. "But the while man has to rule. 1 suppose." "i don't lik iC Sheldon assured her. "To aave nay life i .can't imagine how I ever came faere. But here lam, and I can't run away." "Blind destiny f race." she said, faintlv smiling. "We whites have been land robber and wa robbers from remotest time. It Is In w blood. I gness. and we cant get away from it." "I never thonght about tt so ab stractly." he confessed. Tve een too busy puzzling over wby I came here." CHAPTEtt VHL LOCAL coixm. A T sunset a small fatmea in to anchorage, and a Utile r later the skipper " ashore. . aft tvikM. ire title lie was - " voiced young fellow of twenty, twt be won Joan's admiration in advance wben Sheldon told her that he raa the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita. And romance Hired and w.-, a iv,fAn liiin'i eves wben abe Un'kUUm irr .w. v. - learned he was Christian oung. a Norfolk Lslander. but a direct defend ant of John Young, one or me nb.u r.... nnr The blended Ta- hitlan and English blood showed In his soft eyes and tawny snu. lish hardness seemed to have disap peared. Yet the hardness was i and It was what enabled him to run . t handed and to wring US KPICU wu(,. a livelihood out of the fighting Solo mons. . Joan's unexpected presence . v. ,(i h herself rut him out'.t bis esse by . frank, comrade Dinner that offended Sheldon a sense of the fitness of . Itjn f; New. from the worn - - - but be was filled with new. of . hnrs bad rtolen Solomons. tu h rifles and run aw.y Into the basb from Lunga r"antarion. which wa. - .v. r:n.,1!ranr coast. farmer east on " -- . And from the bush they bad tent word that they were coming back to wlr out the three white men ln cbarge. whi:a two of the ttr- white turn, were hunting them throurt he bnsh. There wa. a Young volunteered, that it they were .v.- -ht circ arourd, and tar the roat st Perande i3 order to steal or captnr a ,r at Upt Bas been niurderedT."' he said? to Sheldon. "Five big cunoes came down from Port Adams. They landed in the night? time and caught Oscar asleep. What they didn't steal they burned. The Flibberty Gibbet got the news at Mboli pass and ran down to Agi. 1 was at Mboli when the news came." "I think I'll have to abandon TJgl." Sheldon remarked. "It's the second trader you've lost there in a year," Young concurred. "To make it safe, there ought to be two white men at least. I've got a dog v for you. Tommy Jones sent it up from Neal island. He said he'd promised it to you. It's a first class nigger chaser. Hadn't been on board two minutes when he had my whole boat's crew in the rigging. Tommy calls him Satan. Jack Henley was killed at Marovo lagoon two months ago. The news just came down on the Apostle." "Where is Marovo lagoon V" Joan asked. "New Georgia, a couple of hundred miles to the westward." Sheldon an swered. "Bougainville lies Just be yond." "His own house boys did It, Young went on; "but they were put up to It by the Marovo natives. His Santa Crass boat's crew escaped In the whale boat to Cholsenl, and Mather, ln the Lily, sailed over to Marovo. He burn ed a villnge and got Henley's head back. He found It ln one of ttre bonses where the niggers bad It drying. And that's all the news I've got. exwepl that there's a lot of new I;ee-Enfleldt loose on the eastern end of Ysabel. No body knows how the natives got them me government ught to investigate. Ah oh, yes a war vessel's iin the group, the Cambrian, fibebtuned three villages at Bina-an aecwmt o? the Ml nota, you know and -shelled it he bush. Then he went t Sio to -straighten out things there." The conversation became general, and just before Yotrng Idft to go on board Joan asked: "How can yon manage all alone, Mr. YoungT' His large, -almost sglrllali eyes rested on her for a moment before he re plied, and than it nvaB An the softest and gentlest of voices. "Oh, I get 'along ipretty well with them. Of course, (there is a bit of trouble onoe In 'asVhile, !but that must be expected. You :must. never let them think yon are ;aJteaifl. il've been afraid plenty of tfimes, tbut Chey never knew It" "Yoa weald think Hiewouldn't strike a mosquito that was biting him," Sheldon ald m-hen1 Young bad gone on board. "Alt the Norfolk islanders that have descended from the Bounty crowd ai that wvny. But look at Young. Only three years ago. when he first jwt the Minerva, he was lying ln Sun, on Mlalta. There are a lot of returned Queenslanders there a rough crowd. They planned to get his head. The -son df their chief, old One Eyed BiUy, ihad recruited on Lunga and tied f dysentery. That meant that a wiiite man's head was owing to San-mny white man. it didn't matter who, ao long as they got the head. And foung was only a lad and they made sure tto get his easily. They decoyed ads vwhaleboat ashore with a promise f :recruits and killed all hands. At fiie same Instant the Suu gang that waa on board the Mi nerva Jumped Young. He was Just preparing a dynamite -stick for fish, and he lighted It and tossed it In among tbem. One can't get him to talk about it. tmt the fuse was short, the survivor, leaped overboard, while he slipped his aactbor and got away. They've got 100 fathoms of shell money on his head now. which is wortfc 100. Yet he goes ilnto Suu reg ularly. He waa tbere a short time ago, returning thirty boya from Cape Marsh that's the Futeru fcaothers planta tion." v "At any rate, bit new. .tonight bas given me a better Insight Into the life down here," Joan .aid. "And it is inrfnl lif. to sar the least The Solomon, ought to be printed red on the charta-and yellow. . for the diseases." "The Solomon, are not always like this," Sheldon answered. 'XJf course. Berande is the worst plantation and everything u gets Is the worst AH the old timers shake their beads at it They say It ha. what you Americans call a hoodoo on It" "Berande will succeed." Joan said stoutly. "I like to laugh at supersti tion. You'll pull through and come out the big end of the born. The ill luck can't last forever. 1 am afraid, though, the Solomon. U not a white man', climate." "It will be. though. Give na fifty years, and when all the bush Is cleared off back to the mountains, fever will be stamped out. everything will be far healthier. There will be cities and town, here, for there's an Immense amount of good land going to waste. The black, the brown and the yellow wiil have to do tbe work, managed by the white men. Tbe black labor is too wasteful, however, and in time Chinese or Indian coolie, will be imported." . -Then tbe black, will die off T Sheldon .bragged hi. .boulder, and retorted: . -Yea. like the North American In dian, who wa. a far nobler type than h Melanerian. The world is only m Urge, yon know, and it I. Citing op - . fnnaf rnHh T ADU luC uu w-7' r -rfwlselr to. The unfit must per- In the morninc Joan wa. roned by a great row and hullabaloo. Capta-n Young tad landed Sataa .t tbe mo-j oest wben tbe bridge building ran -. .tomr tbe b. Katan .. k .nd blark. short haired and nawu'ar and weighed fully f-veoty JCt. t: t lorttte. b3 I Tommy JonesTad trained him weft, tying him up daily for several hours and telling off one or two black boys at a time to tease him. So Satan had it in for the whole black race, and the second after he landed on the beach the bridge building gang was stampeding over the compound fence and swarming up the cocoanut palms. "Good morning," Sheldon called from the veranda, "and what do you think of the nigger chaser?" "I'm thinking we have a task before us to train him into the house boys," she called back. "And to your Tahitians, too. Look out Noah! Run for it!" ' Satan, having satisfied himself that the tree perches were unassailable, was charging straight for the big Tahitian. But Noah stood his ground, though somewhat irresolutely, and Satan, to every one's surprise, danced and frisked about him with laughing eyes and wagging tail. "NOW thnt is what I might call a proper dog," was Joan's comment "He is at least wiser than you, Mr. Shel don. He didn't require any teaching to recognize the difference between a Tahitian and a black boy. What do you think, Noah? WThy don't he bite you? He savvee you Tahitian, eh?" Noa Noah shook his head and grinned. "He no savvee me Tahitian," be ex plained. "He sawee me wear panta all the same white man." "You'll have to give him a course ln 'Sartor Resartus,' " Sheldon laughed, a he came down' and began to make friends with Saram. It chanced. Just then, that Adamu Adam and Matavrare, two of Joans A.lora. entered the compound from The far side gate. They had been down to the Balesuna, making an alligator trap, and, instead of trousers, were clad in lava-lavas that flapped grace fully about tfbelr stalwart limbs. Satan saw them and advertised his find by breaking away from Sheldon's- hand. and rhardma. "No got ipanta," Noah announced, with a jgrm :that broadened at Adamu Adam took tto flicht. h cffiimhed nn the platform that wjppoated tthe galvanized iron tanks which held the water collected from the roof. Foiled here, Satan turned and charered back on Matauare. "Run. Matauare! Run!" Joan called. Est he held bis ground and waited the dog. "TfM ,ts Th Fearless1 One that is what bis name means," -Joan ex nlataied to -Sheldon. fflhe Tahitian watched Satan coolly and when -that sanguine mouthed creature lifted into tbe air to the final leap ithe. man's hand shot ot. It was a (fair eriD on the lower Jaw, and Satan (described a half circle and was flung ito . the rear, turning rver in the ntr and fallinir heavily o bis back Thus .times he leaned and three times thatsgrip on his Jaw flung fcim to de- - irent: 'Then he contented fcimseir witn trotting at Matauare's beeta.ying him and anlftTnir him suspiciously.. "If all right. Satan; it's all right." .Sheldon assured him. Tiiat good 'folln talon? aloner me." Then iilatan turned Ms attention to the three' house boys, cornering Ornflrl in the 'kitchen and rushing him atgalnst tthe hot atove, tofipping the 4jva-laa from Lalapera wnen tnat .wilted vnth climbed a veranda post and following Vlabnrl on tep the bll- IBarditaWevwhere the battle caged until Jean imaoaged a rescne. 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