sDAY, 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.
(To be Continued next Tuesday)
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