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Show SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 22; 1 921 . THE OGDEN (Cont'd from Last Sunday) there. There was. to bed at seven. That 1WENT I scarcely slept at all until the dawn at hall-pafire began, as before, to strike beneath closed shutters and locked doors. Then I got up, opened the room put out the lamp, and wondering, as before, why I had been frightened, lay down and slept, really slept, till the sun was high. I cannot write nor would yott care to read, if I could all the history of the week that came after. st end of it I was two people, ' living iri two worlds. In the morning, before twelve,' I "was myself, Dara Hamilton, left alone on an island, expecting to be found and fetched very soon, and contented almost td occupy her self meantime with the sewing, the cooking, the washing jip and putmend ting away and cleaning-anlng and tidying that belonged to her solitary estate. As soon as the eun began to pass the meridian, ah Qther creature peeped Out in flay mind. By four o'clock, when day was visibly declining, though itill bright, the creature was gaining the upper hand, and taking hef place in an island that wa fait changing into a spot quit other than the island of ten O'clock la the morning. When six o'clock was past and the last change in the light began I used to sit, fascinated, trembling, on the terrace to watch the enchanted, dreadful yellow and the sinister green come out; to see the sun sink, sink, drop, with a horrid swiftness, down behind the sea and let the flood' of darkness loose upon ' the world. In of terrors with the Then, night full cry behind me, I fled to Lily's room and exorcised my demons as far as I could with ' lamps and locked doors,' with some of the despised books even they were not all so dry as they seemed, and sometimes even availed to make me forget the miseries that held me. But not one of them ever drove away the persisting, haunting line from "Mariana" that bid fair, in those days, to drive me mad: "The night comes on that knows no morn." Co I learned the other side of the night world that, In Hawonga, the lxve Island, had seemed so fair to ine. Eight days after my coming I started out for a walk, very early in the morning. I was bound for a spot only half an hour from" the house the pretty little lawn surrounded by forest and running down to the sea, that I had admired on the day of my coming to the island. But I would not have dared to ctart latej my one fear, in these day 8, was that I might somehow or other be delayed on a ramble and slip, while I was still far from shelter, over, the edge of midday, into' the rapids of afternoon that ran down to the terrible Niagara of d x . " sound of my footsteps about Its de serted rooms and passages. I had taken more and more to the habit of walking about in my stock--' ingsi but even that did not altogether remove the curious feeling always more or less present, that I must not make a noise I must not be heard. Why, i could not have tOld to sate my life. for mfc So, in the daytime--whic- h sun's the Of the hours meant night I wandered about here looked for ships, gaththere, and ered shells and wondered why no V fcody had yet found out where I was and come to take me away They would be sure to find out before long 1 was certain. I wished they.would make haste. , bay were still LfrJjL The lawn and the was a scent of there jnd pleasant; ' pendahua flowers, like heliotrope " j ' new-mow- n i. 1 ft ' ' I-- ' .' ; ' .. :.y : : . " . V . '.-. th J : i T; ' i ' ' : . ' i ' ' I v . co2Ta-shape- d X - i flu , .' . ill i ., i .'' , .. ' : . I 5 without suspecting anylhlnf my leader body and tsaall we!f,ht . Vvy.-- ? f ' ' 1 . s - . L- - - y could find a place! With more hop In my heart than I had cared to entertain X crouched beneath th bed, seektr.t: for the way to open th bet. found that cn sld could b let down by unfasUslnx certain itrenf Iron catch. Th box. or, rather, tray fcr it had no top th ottrtrtr.f bedstead thus exposr-d- contained six riles and tlx shotrsnt, wrapped ta Cacsel, also half a doacn Colt cf th reliable navy pattern, a asd cumber cf certrJdf bcxea. Uetrg wide. It was Dot nearly fslC taw that X could 11 comfortably besld th riSea, with room to srsre; and that, so concealed, there was Ttry chance cf my scarlnf V ; I yt ' .".7 : 1 X - J i ; .v V . ' & , . re-Tol- rera x , ; - . X i I ' .. s cbaenratlon. - rr By now it waj getting late, aad th sun was almost down, I went round the lower story, closed th doors and saw that the shutters were fastened, I tad noticed acme days before that the shutters were not wooden, sbMe-thin- gi . i : bid M star-jewelle- d, ; - v . JC- . the first. With more reason. I had fallen, asleep, worn out With two nights X if e, rd - - "' Hurrying to one of the wlndowA, l aavr Dinah and Lu!e Atandlng on the' concrete terrace, examining the smashed door and talking to on another." s when - .. There were various big islands somewhere about this part of the seas, planted with cocoanuts and with rubber. A labor vessel might have gone by in the night, carrying-handto or from the plantations, and s6me ot the Crew might h&ra landed tor fin hour or sd. It sounded very well, till the sun began to decline, then, as Usual, my mind t&ok its evening turn, and I saW feat In every leaf and hbrror In every shadow. I should suppose that many peo-pileft Utterly alone as X wa i mean really alone, without evh a native within sight or reach must have had just such experiences bf the mind' strange rise and fill, with the sunward ahd nightwar4 roll clth earth, as 1 had. But perhaps they fife too proud As 1 am not td tell of it The" secohd night was a Im- rss ..." t . undrnath that mense Dutch bd, and locked up. I saw, concealed by th thick, of th tnaltrta and th grest width cf the bed, a loot, receptacle, attached to th atrack It It cll&ked bedstead, faintly la rerly. In aa Instant I taw what this dl coTry was destined to mean for me not cn!y th finding cf th arms, but th security cf my own safety. Surely, within that box. aa perfectly concealed for yon might lock a huadrd times beneath the ted. In th ordinary way; you tntfht, a I had done, tak c th mattress and hunt underneath it lilrr'A r.0 At all rents I went stralfht to big upstair room axd without hesitation crept . . yr her best" X wakefulness, I did not know what, aroused me. X lay for some time frozen Afraid to move or breathe. The lamp was low; X had turned It down, these two nights, for tear of atttecting Attention. It gave ecarcely'ahy light, so thAt'the strips of sky, Which showed between the louvres of the shutteri were clearly visible. While I was lylne still is the dead breathing quickly, yet supand hay; the parrakeets, s pressing my breath As much al posred and green, were making a ' sible, I saw. the stars suddenly disappear throughout a long, narrow chuckling sound' among the utu section of the louvres and as and trees. I put down my load of books and work And eatables and went to denly reappear, There was not a the beach to see if any shells had sound not even a trembling of the teen thrown up in the night. It floor1 but I knew that someone, in was, I had discovered, the be&i that moment, had come to my window,- paused, tried to look in, and beach in the island for shells. I found no shells; there had been gone by. Had it he succeeded?' I could in the night one of those high, or leave not little that tell. The tiny blue point of tides sweeping them. flame behind Disappointed might, or might not. Bate nothing been enough to see my figure by. i climbed on a group of rockB and looked Sato the hollow they' en- - I thought not, on the whole, but I -- ! X d - X X . . , - re- mains of a fire. Only a handful of blackened ( sticks and white, new ashes; but the sight of it struck me like a bolt of hot steel. It meant that other people had been probably were that moment on the island; and that they were people who, for one reason or another, desired to con ceal the fact of their presence. Robinson Crusoe, when he found the .footprint on his lonely beach cannot have, felt more dismay than X felt then. 1 sprang down from the rocks and looked, with thumping heart for other signs ot the person, or persons, who had lighted the be traying fife, t found none, but the high tide of the filght was enough to account for that Examining the fire a second time I taw a fishbone or two lying halt calcined In the ashei. This relieved me a little; It might be that the fire had teen made by some of na fishing party, or canoe-ldAto Island ive from travelling on the island, who had landed beach to cook a crich of fish and gone away again. An truth, I had not leen Any other signs of life about the place. 1 went hack to the .house as fast as I could go, and 'from the upper I veranda scanned the Island. could overlook almost everything but the quarter mile of forest There was nothing moving; no smoke anywhere; no boat In sight. ' I wondered if I could h,ve been dreaming. And yet that fire was unmistakably' recent. I hsd even found a semblance of heat in the ashes when X raked them to the bottom with my fingers, Now X had something new to think abou,t; yet I found myself more than ever troubled by the approach of night. Nothing seented to matter half so much in dayl!gt I began to .realize the full meanly of the many prayers which feeble humanity addresses to Its mani deities, begging for protection from the dangers of the dark. Since childhood X had vaguely felt these prayers to be something of an anachronism; a survival, of the middle ages, In the days upon. my desert island no longer desert as l feared I understood that, century with century, human nature and human needs do not change. I barricaded my doors that night with all the furniture I could move. I slept but little, and every time I closed my eyes I opened them again with a start, fancying I had heard stealthy steps somewhere below, fumbling hands about my door. In the morning, as usual, all night fears seemed foolish and X made up my mind to disregard what I had seen. It could have been nothing but a fire built by some passing crew of a canoe. night. I reached the lawn while it was still coolf the dew, in that shady place, had not yet dried off the grass. I had brought a book with me, and work, and some chocolates and biscuits, so that t should not need to return tu the house for food. I did not care to st&y loo much In that House. It was at night a tower of strength .to me, but in the sunny, empty day, I did not like the . There was the If was my desperate thought could gtt up under the roof or under the Units outside," Bat there tra co opening in the cnirg cfX the rooms, and If I rctde one if dtsbid yj tzi brcke through with an axe kciw thst shosld Wars a gulie pest to my hiding rlace. As for getting under the tanks X rejected that 13a after a moment's thoufhL Tacxa were toa obvious j a well hid under a bed. Under a bed! I dent know what It wss that struck me, lust there; what made me ttasd still and clap ray hands tcxether. with the feeling ot cn who has at laat found Ms way out of a labyrinth. Perhaps sons vara memory of things heard or read, long ago, cam back under the strert of the aooftt Perhaps, aa Jan said: "Nature was roused, and did ao airscl but It By-th- e tip-wa- (jrimsfi e 3W ymno closed. There might be something CHAPTER XII. (Cont'd.) Jriy X' R r HTM 1 STANDARD-EXAMINE- would have given much for courage enough to rise and turn out the light altogether. X found It not Instead, I lay horribly still and made one more unpleasant discovery In addition to the many that had crowded on me of late, namely, that the phrase "sweating with. I perfear" was no metaphor. spired, lying there motionless, as if I had been climbing a mountain in broad day. There never was a night on earth so lb rig. When day came at last X to look At my . ran to the mirror t convinced was that it mast :ialf. All turned havi white, like the hair of people in storied. But there Was sot io inuch As one liter thread, t did not know whether I was disappointed or not All that day t never stirred from the house, t tried to read And sew, but I could not I wandered restlessly trp and down from story to atory, looking out through one -- after" another of the shuttered windows, afraid to rest Afraid to eat almost afraid to think. For now 1 knew that there were men on the island, and I knew that' at night they would return. My only hope wai that they might not yet be sure whether I was alone or not Withoutot doubt that had been the errand the scout who bad visited me last night What the men might be. tried to persuade myself at first I did , not know. But when the sun began to slant to the west and my cower-' ing night mind to come forth I ac- ' knowledged, with cold horror, that I knew but too welL They were X -- Is meant by that name. Malaita Is one of the largest of the Solomon ' group; Its natires were, and still are, the very worst of the Melanes lans. They are cannibals and head hunters almost to a man, ruthless, treacherous and cruel. Long ago, In the days of the Queensland plantation trade, they acquired the art of using firearms, and ever since they have kept themselves provided with runs and cartridges, the different rulers of the Solomon group having apparently found themselves powerless to stop the illegal trading that keeps up tha supply. Id order to pay for their anal -they are in the habit of signing on" to variout plantations within the group only but at the time of whlcll I speak they worked on various other islands is now-a-day- a, welt They make good enough laborers when managed with a strong hand and judiciously distributed among a number of boys from other parts of the Pacific, but at times their natural fierceness and impatience cf control blazes out into mutiny; they kill their employer probably eat iiim into the bargain and run away in any boat that they can find. About the Hawoncas troubles bad been causfd more than once by parties of runaway Malaita men land-ifcOn isolated Islands, terroriitng And sometimes murdering the inhabitants and carrying 2 their g fcooda. I knew, as I havft paid, that there the dark, that a party of these s formidable might hare landed on the Island and at that moment mlaht be waiting for the. last hours of the night to make an attack on the house. More and more, as the afternoon went by, this fear gained hold of me, and at last I knew that it waa n no fear, but a certainty. The men could cot be quite sure that there was no one in the house MT8 myself, but they must be al-- , most fcutA by how aura enbega for their purpose. If them bad been no doubt at all in their minds they would hitd conie up boldly In full daylltht Hating ittll some doubt (probably It seemed stri&ga to them, almost incredible, that I should be there alone) they wtfuld follow thfelr usual plan and Attack by nlgt There is m curious uniformity aboat the method of attack follow! by all Melanesian tribes. Scarcely c?er do they make a raid la the middle of night They prefer the hour just befjrt dawn, when there Is a very little light and when most people are sleeping soundly In the cool of the' early hours. 1 knew thatjM bd calculated rljchtly. thete MtUit men would wait till near five o'clock and then Marciful God and then! I was quite sure that, bad thrre been anyoc with me had there been even the remoteit chaflee of anyone comJng to my heip- -I should haTe been la simple of frliht. But there was no one to rely on sate myself. Other than hare found that fact wonderfully steadying in great emergencies. Of were some large plantation iilands not far out of tight and that in all Malaita men! probability tbey employed MalaltA Only Pacific people know how ( labor. And I feared, as night came much, even in these present days, cn, and darkness, and the terrors ttlootl Inters (C) TtUr iVrtw, Joe. QfU jtnuia man-eater- Ma-lalta- hy-tirl- X au&sa aTa. cs "There's only one thing I hara that they havenV X thosRht and that is the white man's brain. It has gat to get me out of this, some- how Or other.- Shoeless, holielf saly, I walked np and down the rooms Of thi upper story, thinking as bard as t Insw how. 1 am tar, fat clfiTtrer than muit they,1 I said to myielt find A wiy. But It seemed hard to find, and All the time the Cay was fiying past One thing occurred to me 1 must eat to keep up my nrve and ttrerirtfi. ! had scarcely taken food for two fliyi. X went down to the kitchen, brewed cotfe-e- fried hiccn and forced myself to take a hot meat Then, feeling itrcnaef, 1 went and began A iriUniUc search for the arms that my rtUca told me wtre ecrtala to ha fcldea away somewhere of other. would no be without arras cf ft cms kind, la lueh a lon'tly place. There were p!nly of" differs, rapiers, iwords, hung up cn the wall, but X did cot trouble Aout those. In the Island world, a gta or a retolrcr la tie oaly arm that counts, X could use bets', passably well; father had taatht taa. 1 went throufh Yry room; I hunted upstairs and down. I looked cn the top cf presses aid wardrobes, under bed. I pep3 behind boxes and pictures, and tafpe-- the brown wood statu to the drawing room to see If they were bellow. All thU time day was Cylrr. the hours were speeding down the slop cf afternoon, to the rreat fulf Of ht. Bat my search was fruitiest. rlf I could not find the arras, "If I could find a place to htda, ttp-stai- ri Thr d as they seemed to bei, but stej, painted to reeenabl wood, Wha they wens clcted, and th shutters of th upper story fattened also it would b topoiifbl for anyca t enter tha house without isaklng ad, nolle enough to wake th I fhUht therefore stay safely en the bftj bed and l?ep, unless X herd any sound, when should X In th hate td take refuse r best at cnes Arn apent the time before dark la padding the r!5s and .retoltlra with all the spare clothes could would that hot make 96 find, they X X the tlUhtest cHskin; no!!, bit Colt and laaed must confess I hid but imalt I selected it. I A idea cf uslr.it It en any tiUte. My thought was that if the Worst catnt to the" wont I should f.nd In cn cf those eiftndcel the blant-tose- ulratlm for myself. "If said, slttttf ca the edta cf the DuteS bed, thi .45 firearm from ny llltht hand4 -I rr"tl remember ho they 66 it !n fiotili. 12 j pali th mai-al-e cf the rerclter to hil temj'.i priisei th triftir.'" Wtlh th retolttr eartfally I laid the mstsle tjilncl th side of my fcrehead. Its hard cold cirri felt like the fitter cf Death himself, t thatched It away and fee can to cry. "All tils cutMn't to haT haponly fcelsifcle X hiTi-to- X " tii alyi ad sobbed- - "If hcrrlhlet pened," There eut ht td be cr,e?ne her to X tak car of me. Oh, Harry, lUrrf, If yx craly knew! How can yea b alire, a&d net know! ULuiekaew, what would he think! Thert't to cn. Oh, father, what would yea thtsk, if yoa had llre-- yea always wanted m to b takes car cfl" X a miserable lull heir, ta th centre cf the led. Ikr'.zg tzr err est Then 1 took up ll rerch11 vtr and cried a Hill enr that d lit (amines c xtrt rc;t) |