3D AY. DECEMBER 5, 1911
POLK COUNTY OBSERVER
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iday gifts here. One of the largest and most varied
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aa aTlAa Tl 1 All TJ A. 3
I Manicure aeis, stationery, dooks, mourns, riciurcs,
1 Dolls, Ganes and Toys
Elegant Display of High Class Chinaware
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plete in the city.
By
JACK LONDON
Copyright, 19)0. by Street & Smith
Copyright IVIt. oy the Macmtlleo
Company
niefaasmar TperwFappea -dynamite.
He noted also the end of fuse, split
properly, into which had been in
serted the head of a wax match.
"Telepasse. you old reprobate, tell
m boys clear out along beach. My
word. I no gammon along you."
"Me no gammon," said the chief.
"Me want 'm pay white Mary bang
m head belonar Goeoomy."
"I'll come down there and bang 'm
head belong you." Sheldon replied,
leaning toward the railing as if about
to leap over.
An angry murmur arose, and the
blacks surged restlessly. The muz
zles of many guns were rising from
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Polk County
Observer
Hose cf Good Priitisg
Department stores talk about, the marvelous values
their jewelry departments offer.
Mail order houses advertise unheard-of bargains in
jewelrv and'preeiom gems. .
AND YET vou, your neighbors and your inends
go to a jeweler when you have a gift to purchase-you
go to a firm whose name you are content to have appear
ou the box which contains the present you buy.
The reason? . i.-j-
Not sentiment-not false pride-simply the abiding
satisfaction that a legitimate jeweler sells legitimate
jewelry', and legitimate jewelry is the one and only kind
you care to give.
MORRIS THE JEWELEK
In Business Here wgmeen icwd
STORE OPEN EVENINGS 'TIL AFTER CHRISTMAS
(CHAPTER X Continued.)
Two hours later the canoes arrived.
No one saw them come. The house
hra won hnsv in the kitchen at their
own breakfast. The plantation hands
were similarly occupied in meir tjuui-
Kntnn lnv sound asleep on nis
back under the billard table, in his
sleep brushing at the flies that pes
foroii him Joan was rummaging in
the storeroom, and Sheldon was taking
his siesta in a hammock on the ve
randa. He awoke gently. In some
occult, subtle way a warning that all
was not well had penetrated his sleep
and roused him. Without moving he
glanced down and saw the ground be
neath covered with armed savages.
They were the same ones he had
parted with that morning, though he
noted an accession in numbers. There
were men he had not seen before.
He slipped from the hammock and
with deliberate slowness sauntered to
tha milium where he yawned sleepily
and looked down on them. It came to
him curiously that it was the destiny
ever to stand on this high place look
ing down on unending hordes or Diatu
trouble that required control, duu mK
Rut while he glanced
carelessly over them he was keenly
taking stock. The new men were an
armed with modern rifles. Ah. he had
thought so. There were fifteen of
.i,m nndnnhtpdlv the Lunza runa
ways.' In addition a dozen old Suiders
were In the hands of the original
crowd. These were the very same
men who had killed his trader, Oscar,
at Ugl.
"What name you walk about this
place?" he demanded.
At the same time he stole a glance
seaward to where the Flibberty Gibbet
reflected herself In the glassy calm of
the sea. Not a soul was visible under
her awnlugs. and he saw the whale
boat was missing from alongside. The
Tahltlans had evidently gone shooting
fish up the Dalesuna. He was all alone
in his high place above this trouble,
While his world' slumbered peacefully
under the breathless tropic noon.
Va1..m1v renlled. and he repeated his
demand, more of mastery in his volca
this time and a hint of growing anger.
"WHAT NAME TOtJ WALK ABOUT THIS
PLACE?"
the hips. Joan was pressing the
lighted end of the cigarette to the
fuse. A Snider went off with the roar
of a bomb gun, and Sheldon heard a
pane of window glass crash behind
At thi same moment Joan flung
the dynamite, the fuse hissing and
spluttering, into the iuick ov mo
i.in.ka Thpv scatterea uucit m w
great baste to do any more shooting.
Satan, aroused by tne one buoi, w
oimrHtfif? ATI A nantlng to be let out
Joan heard and ran to let him out.
and thereat the tragedy was aveneu
and the comedy began.
Rifles and spears were aroppeo. or
flung aside in a wild scramble for. the
protection of the cocoanut palms.
Satan multiplied himself. Never bad
he been free to tear and rena sucn a
quantity of black flesh before, and he
bit and snapped and rushed the flying
legs till the last pair were aoove u
head.
i tanov vmi nped a lesson or two tn
inserting fuses." Sheldon remarked
dryly.
Joan's eyes were scornful.
"There was no detonator on It," B?2e
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t-;i f hnut m&A. umci
Only 16 Shopping w
AWVoman Is Always
Delisted
with ber first baking made from
"Oregon Bet" flour, ller bread
is so much ligbter, ker cake w
much fponp". ltih 3, U
proper crust on each Order
ck of "Orrr.a, Bes-i" ty
dv It'i dollars to dongtnuts
tbat all roor bikizz troablcs bave
been tbe"flt of the four, trbch
,U1 radish 'ten "Oregon
Best" i tisA; Test it.
The blacks moved uneasily, like a herd
of cattle, at the sound of uis voice.
Rut not one snoke. Directly beneacn
htm be caught sight of the muzzle
f n rifln. barely nrolectlng Detween
two black bodies, thut was slowly ele-
t-ntlnir toward him. It was hem at me
htn i,t. a mnn in thtt second row.
VThnt name vou?" Sheldon suddenly
shouted, pointing directly at the man
rti haM tha cnin.
n u v. iiviu o
Sheldon still held the wnip nano, aim
he Intended to keep It
"Clear out. all you fella boys!" he or
dered. "Clear out and walk along salt
water. Sawee!"
"Me talk," epoke up a fat and filthy
eavage. whose hairy chest was caked
with the unwashed dirt of years.
"Oh, is that you, Telepasse?" tne
white man queried genially. "Yon tell
m boys clear out, and you stop and
talk along me."
"Him good fella boy," was the reply.
"Illni stop along."
"Well, what do you want?" PheldoD
asked, striving to hide under assumed
carelessness the weakness of concession.
Ttinf folia hov belone along me.
The old chief po'nted out 0CoonJy
whom Sheldon recognizee
W!iit Marv belong you too mucn
r t-Al " Telepasse went ou. "Bang
m head belong Gogoomy. Cogoomy,
.ti fh nm rhief. B me by me nmsn.
Gogoomy big fella chief. White Mary
bang 'in head. HQ gooa. iou pay w
plenty tobacco, plenty powaer, pieuL
Vnn n aronndrel. was bDemona
n.m.n An hour before be had been
chuckling over Joan'i recital of the
episode, and here, an nour laier, w
Telcpasse himself come to collect dam-
"Gogoomy." Sheldon ordered, "what
name you walk about here? Ion get
along quarters plenty quica.
t .nn " wan tha defiant answer.
Tt-i,i. frr belong ron bang m
head," old Telepasse began again. "My
word, plenty big fella trouble you bo
"Too talk along boys," Sheldon said,
with Increasing Irritation. "loo tell 'm
. t h alone beach. Then i talk
cvai,in rt a'lrfit Tibratlon of the
yuviuv- w "
ni knw that Joan bad come
cut and was standing by Lis side. Bat
be did not dare Riance at ncr. ioere
rifles down below there.
and rises had a way of going ott from
tit h Tranda Ttbrated with
her moving weight, and be knew that
v.j into rna noun, a
.k was back beside tun,
He tad never seen ber smoke, and It
struck him as pecuiu-r inai sd -be
smoking now. Then be gnemt
the reason. WltH a tiick glance be
JLhs,BlAt 1 nJ
sal. "Besides, the detonator Is yet
unmanufactured that will explode that
charge. It's only a bottle of chloro-dyne."
CHAPTER XT.
MB. MOBQAH AND MR. RAFF.
HE put her lingers into hei
mouth, and Sheldon winced as
be saw her blow, like a boy, a
sham. Imperious wblstle. the
call she always used for her sailors
and that always made him wince.
"They're gone up the uaiesuna,
.hnoMnir fish." he explained. "But there
comes Oleson with his boat's crew.
He's an old warhorse when he gets
RtnrtML See him banging the boys.
They don't pull fast euough for him."
"And now whats to oe aonei u
asked. "You've treed your game, but
you can't keep It treed."
"No, but I can teach tnem a lesson.
Sheldon walked over to the big bell.
"It Is all right." he replied to her
gesture of protest "My boys are prac
nnaiv nil hushmen. while these chaps
are salt water men. and there's no love
lost between them, lou watcn tne
fun."
n ran a teneral call, and by the
time the 200 laborers trooped Into the
compound Satan was once more
penned in the living room, complaining
to high heaven at his aDominaoiu
treatment' The plantation hands were
dancing war dances around the base
of every tree and filling the air wim
abuse and vituperation of their heredi
tary enemies. The skipper of the
Flibberty Gibbet arrived in tne uucs
r,t in tha first throes of oncoming
fever, staggering as he walked and
shivering, so severely that he couia
scarcely hold the rifle he carried. His
face was ghastly blue, his teeth clicked
and chattered, and the violent sun
shine through which he walked could
not warm him.
xtmi --it down and k-r-keep a
guard on 'em," ba chattered. "D-d-dash
it all. I always g-get f-ferer when
there's any excitement W-w-wh-what
are yon going to floF
"Gather op the guns first or an.
r-nrtop Khpidon'a direction the bouse
mnl ran bosses collected the
scattered arms and piled them in a
heap en the Teranda. The moaern
flt 'tnien from Lunga. Sheldon set
aside, the Snlders he smashed Into
fragments, the pile of spears, dubs
and tomahawks he presented w Joan.
Down on the besch he built a bon
fire out of the contents of the canoes.
Ms blacks smashing, breaking and
looting everything they told bands on.
The canoes themselves, splintered and
K-.von ei'.ed with sand and coral
bowlders, were towed out to ten fata-
at wster and sunk.
-Ton hthrnni wCl be deeo enough
fArtaJo work ta," gbe!dgn sail as
they walked back to the compound".
Here a saturnalia had broken loose.
The war songs and dances were more
unrestrained, and from abuse the plan
tation blacks bad turned to pelting
their helpless foes with pieces of wood,
handfuls of pebbles and chunks of
coral rock. And the seventy-ttve lusty
cannibals clung stoically to their tree
norehes. enduring the rain of missiles
and snarling down promises of venge
ance. "There'll be wars for forty years on
Malaita on account of this," Sheldon
laughed. "But 1 fancy old Telepasse
will never again attempt to rush a
plantation.
"Eh, you old scoundrel." he added,
turning to the old chief, who sat gib
bering in Impotent rage at the foot
of the steps. "Now head belong you
bang 'm too. Come on. Miss Lack
land, bang 'm Just once. It will be tne
crowning Indignity."
"Ugh, he's too dirty. I'd rather give
him a bath. Here yon, Adamu Adam,
give this devil a wash. Soap and
water! Fill that washtub. Omtirl, run
and fetch 'm scrub brush."
The Tahitians. back from their fish
ing and grinning at the bedlam of the
compound, entered into the Joke.
"Tambo! Tambo!" shrieked the can
nibals from the trees, appalled at so
awful a desecration, as they saw their
chief tumbled Into the tub and the
sacred dirt rubbed and soused from
bis body.
Joan, who had gone into the bunga
low, tossed down a strip of white
calico, in which old Telepasse was
promptly wrapped, and he stood forth,
resplendent and purified, withal he
still spat and strangled from the soap
suds with which Noa Noah had gargled
his throat.
The bouse boys were directed to fetch;
honrinutra nnii one try one. the Lunga
runnwaya were hauled down out of
their trees and made fast Sheldon
ironed them In pairs and ran a steel
chain through the links of the irons.
Gogoomy was given a lecture for his
mutinous conduct and locked up for the
afternoon. Then Sheldon rewarded the
plantation hands with an afternoon's
holiday, and when they had with
drawn from the compound permitted
the Port Adams men to descend from
the trees. And all afternoon he and
Joan loafed In the cool of the veranaa
and watched them diving down and
emptying their sunken canoes of the
sand and rocks. It was twilight when
they embarked and paddled away with
a few broken paddles. A breeze had
sprung up, and the Flibberty Gibbet
had already sailed for Lunga to return
the runaways.
Sheldon was back In the plantation
superintending the building of a bridge
when the schooner Malakula ran In
close and dropped anchor. Joan watcn
ed the taking in of sail and the swing
Jug out of the boat with a sailor's inter
est, and herself met the two men who
came ashore.
They seemed awkward and constrain
ed In her precence. and' she caught first
one aud then the other looking at her
with secret curiosity. She felt that
they were weighing her. appraising ber,
and for the first time the anomalous
position she occupied on Berande sank
sharply home to her. On the other
hand, they puzzled tier.
The elder one. Morgan, was a huge
man. bronzed and mustacbed. with a
deep bass voice and an almost gutters!
speech, and the other. Raff, was slight
and effeminate, with nervous hand
and watery washed out gray eyes.
She watched Sheldon closely when
be arrived and divined that he was not
particularly delighted to see them. But
boa them he must and so pressing was
the need that he led the two men into
the stuffy office. Later In the afternoon
she asked Lalaperu where they bad
gone.
"My word." quoth Lalaperu, "plenty
walk about plenty look 'm. Look 'm
tree; look m ground belong tree; look,
ni all fella bridge; look 'm copra.
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house; look m grass land; look m
river; look m whaieboafr-my word,
plenty big fella look m too touch."
"What fella man them two felUT"
she queried.
. "Big fella marster along white man."
was the extent of bis description.
Bat Joan decided that they were men
cf Importance la the Solomons and
that their examination of the planta
tion and of its accounts was f slai
ter slcOiScance,.
(To be Continued next Tuesday )
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