Show i u I Black Sheep's Sh Gold GoldBY BY BEATRICE GRIMSHAW VJ Illustrations by Irwin Myers Copyright ht by H Hughes K Si Co service n ar THE STORY On a pleasure trip In lri eastern aters Philip Amory English orld TorlA war veteran now a trader i the Island bland of or Papua New plunges overboard to toive tot t ve ive th the life Ute of a musical com comedy dy tres known as ae GIn Gln mor mory becomes Interested In Pin Pla airier member of ot a wealthy lew few South Wales family He HI ells ellB her of or his knowledge of a gold sold field on the Is- Is and nd though he does not disclose e he name name of the place Gin Gln In ling Sling tells him Pia Pla Is la engaged o 0 Sir Richard Fanshaw Amory Amor Is 18 confident that the Sri IrI is not Indifferent to him lIlt IIlo holiday oliday ended he arrives e back it Lt v Daru He meets an English English- nan ian Spicer there on develop- develop rent nent business for tor a syndicate of Fanshaw Is head head Fan- Fan haws haw's name recalls to Amory a forgotten ing-forgotten Incident l. l PTER III III III-Continued Continued ed l. l 7 7 e tide was down and the cutter lund nd nd I cannot cannot tell with what ty ity I examined her ber I would al- al have ha set sail on a tree trunk If It Ong V ng else could be he had had to to get yond ond all belief bellet I found the hull d enough to float with a bit of g The mast was smashed but night we could rig one up with the setting the Jib behind It I Ito If Ito f to look for found him ling Ing peacefully In his hole and ged him out ont by one leg legg I urged The uThe Thes Theon s 's on the turn and well we'll never get boat down unless we catch It 1 I float Goat Come on riki he objected me old me erry elly want to go look for or some someI I get kal kai food tood ere was nothing for it but a lied lie d d already decided that d know nothing what he did not he could not spread abroad is Is a desert Island I told him r. r Full of ot ghosts up to the brim spilling over Lets Let's get away i. i And you can pick a few coco coco- to take along If It youre you're as hungry l I that Not the coconuts on the jad pd d those are f. f coconuts Get them off off- the j loaded the boat with nuts and red ed work on the broken mast I Iad ad to get away It was not yet yetI lad I C but the moon seemed paling I heard among the palm tree Jj 1 finland Inland the first faint notes of ot tag ung t r They V were They were to hear us us us-It If dy y came out out out-my my secret was lost it leI dI I h had d some I Idea ea by this time as bw Dw w th the Power that owned Omega 1 ded people who p poked ked t s noses Into secrets how they it t t be likely to treat me l If I was ht viii and 1 got the large eath- eath b s set t with the gaff gaer for boom and under way In the n new v yellow v i a mile distant I saw the Island ly small ly-small small low pricked with with with's s one like a thousand others lI I I Judged that would never ne f A. A L r I fv m ue nuu ILau noi 1101 on Turl iuri a all L t bk k again In Omega I got charts I b I should undoubtedly have ha had hade e and the Sailing Directions Id I Id Id d up the Island on which I bad willingly iv landed This was what i wn Admiralty volume said about iota ota ota- This Island is the quarantine station for tor the Omego Serious p penalties natle are are attached drug s I 1 said closing the book and Is add to that getting a leper from It to It-to to Valparaiso or else else- IS five fi years on the break C this I remembered point byas by byas byas as I walked walled beneath the manof manof mant man- man of of t Daru Darn three thousand miles from Omega In distance years Int of ot time I remembered It ly without omission as If It it had hal ened ened yesterday And most clearly II 1 did I remember now remember now the face e man who wore th the yellow dress dress' the black spots big as plates Un Un- It was the face tace of ot Sir 1 lard and ard Fanshaw Everything came to me the me-the the height of ot the mun man his chestnut hair hall and I brown iv-brown e eyes ejes es the slim arched land and neat chin the lips unusually or a mans man's the voice pecullar peculiarly y and deep In tone even thed the thed d id and deformed linger finger nail that remembered I had seen as Sir rd came up the ships ship's ladder sliding one hand nand along lard and I was as sure as I It if t f my own existence that Pias Pia's was the leper who had that escaped from Iota Island while I stayed In Omega Omega- was no longer than the call of ot UIS ext boat boat did did anyone discover had lad happened y Down In Aukel Auk- Auk el rf f I came camo upon a paper that related il 11 aring escape from Iota of ot a n for e speculator named Fellows who tb been buying up certain commers commer- commer s 3 interests for tor his country and who t ta In the course of ot these affairs 8 It necessary to take out pa- pa pp r pers transferring transferring g his nationality to the flag Ilag that waved waxed over Omega A A. A luckl ss transfer It him beneath beneath beneath be be- neath the la laws VS and when a dramatic accident the accident the discovery of ot ofa ota a seemingly harmless mark upon his body hody when bathing bathing l him togo to togo togo go up to to thc local louil doctor ductor for examination examination examina examina- tion h v r S sent sont nt without mercy morcy to the quarantine Island There were those who hinted that Fellows' Fellows recently acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac commercial Interests had something something something some some- thing to do with the case that a n big company was was behind the doctor Be that how It might Fellows was sentenced sen sen- I to Iota and but for the daring rescue would probably have spent the rest of ot his da days s 's there Fellows had been nine weeks on Iota Nine weeks on an Islet InhabIted Inhabited Inhabited bv hy the fhe terrible things I r had seen r You Haven't a Dry Thread on You He Observed Better Shift an Islet reeking with contagion and Innocent of any modern sanitary precaution precaution precaution pre pre- caution whatever er He might or might not have had bad the germ with him when he went there but nothing was more probable than that he had taken It away with him In IJ any cas case case Leprosy I knew could lie He dormant for tor many years might when acquired develop so slowly that the victim could live an ordinary life Ufe without being suspected for tor a very long time If It Fellows was Indeed Fanshaw lt If he had gone to Omega to carry out a 8 daring darIng daring dar dar- ing speculation In products concealing his name and altering his nationality a a course that sounded very like what one had known of ot himin hImIn him himIn In the war war then then the most horrible peril perU that can be he conceived hung over Pia and there was no one but m myself to get her out of ot It wIth Myself Myself with a hundred odd pounds of ot capital no position and no r reputation puta- puta tion save the unlucky one of ot being in Inlove love with her Myself against a arich arich arich rich and famous man high placed In 6 society cl y and nd approved by Pins Pla's family I no no doubt approved by the girl Time Ilme against me place against me ever everything against me save one thing the the fact tact that Fanshaw was coming to New Kew Guinea R CHAPTER CHAPT R It IV It was late before I 1 ended that restless restless restless rest- rest less tramp The night had turned to torain torain torain rain as It so often does in Daru my torch when 1 I snapped It on to see the way shone on a myriad of crystal rods dancing all aU over the file road The frogs frogs' had begun their nightly chant chant- Port port port I 1 Starboard starboard starboard starboard star star- board In the near distance among the mangroves of ot the beach an alligator alli aUl- gator belled as they do on these wet steamy nights I said to myself with sudden resolve resolve Ill Ill go to Bassett tell him the affair and see what h he e says They were not yet et gone to bed inthe In Inthe Inthe the Residency I could see them from the roadway Bassetts Bassett's grave minIsterial ministerial ministerial min min- face he W was S the tho son of ot a wel well known known parson and looked It North nger's narrow countenance that was vas like the face of ot a school schoolmaster muster until you caught something strangely y hard bard at the he back of ot the blue eyes eyes' i Purchase hair tamed the like the feathers of a hen and features as aha always s on the verge of ot a laugh seeming to take tako the world and his share of ot It It which was assuredly a hard one very ery merrily merrily merrily mer mer- rily Indeed Indel Spicer er was not nt to be seen I was glad of It It t for r Island houses offer small privacy and I had that to say which would not pass with Fanshaw's friend The others looked In their fresh tresh white shirts and pipe pipe- clayed shoes exceedingly clean comfortable com coin and peaceful peaceful enjoying enjoying for tor fora torI a few da days s 's an oasis In the desert of ot hardships that made up their common common common com com- mon lives Into the midst of ot this I I came wet and bedraggled and I make no doubt looking like a last years year's corpse I could see the effect of ot my looks mirrored mirrored mirrored mir mir- Instantly In the faces about me but nobody Jumped up or said said liMy My G G G-d. d what's happened to you or the row or any other silly thing such as fellows elsewhere would certainly have bave thrown out at me ma These fellows were not given to takIng takIng taking tak tak- ing any circumstance in life Ufe other than quietly Wheres Spicer I asked of ot Bas Bas- sett It did not occur to me to offer any explanation of ot my return when Iwas I Iwas Iwas was supposed to be abed with fever i inor nor did anybody ask for tor one Sit down He went back to Maidstone's Maidstone's Maidstone's Maid Maid- stones stone's hes he's staying there got up Ul I must be goIng go goIng goIng Ing he said The will be sending a patrol aft after r me Ready Purchase If It there was a hint Purchase took It They were gone In another minute and Bassett and I I were left alone In Inthe Inthe the austere shiny parlor Bassett In Iq his precise way became busy He brought out a suit of ot clothes neater and better mended than anything J possessed If It somewhat cheaper in ID kind kind and and handed banded It to me You haven't a dry thread on you he observed Better shift He Be went vent off oft Into the kitchen end and I heard him stirring up a sleeping boy heard th the clink of ot a kettle lid the Jingling ol of glasses Bassett came carne back looked at me as I sat fresh clad and made madeno no remark The boy toll followed owed almont almost Immediately with hot punch and a quinine lne bottle I helped mys myself to lo ashare a B ashare share of ot bothI both I III wanted to ask you something I J said Yes answered Bassett It was a e brief briet reply but it carried a goo goot good l deal the tone the look of ot Bassetts Bassett's brown eyes beneath his high ministerial min rain looking forehead the settled attitude hands crossed on knees all suggested calm reliability and what he must have known I desired above nIl all things things things-as as sick men consulting doctors doctors doc doe tors sinful men consulting priests desire desIre desire de de- sire it the It-the the professional attitude I knew he would do anything that could be done I told him the whole thing It was not easy to tell because I had bad to bring PIa Pla Into It and I found to my Intense disgust that my voice got unsteady unsteady unsteady un un- steady when I spoke of ot her h Bassett listened quite to the end making no comment When he thought I had quite done he came out surprisingly with with with- You are very much In l love ve with this girl It was not a question It was a statement made much as ones one physician might offer a comment on the condition of ot ones one's lungs or liver Am I I said stupidly S Something had hold fold of ot me me-I me I hardly knew what whal it was but It shook me What Va was the matter Had I not agreed with myself that the wind which was Pie Pla Laurier had blown through my life Ufe and passed away To save her from marriage with one ono Incredibly vile vile- vile that was a duty but a duty that devolved de devolved devolved on me roe merely as a man nolas not nol as the man who loved her I had been so certain that I should not therefore did not love the girl with the black shingle and blue eyes cres the girl who even If It she were ten times tree free treet was not for me wanderer rolling rollingstone rollingstone rollingstone stone black sheep Things cleared In my brain The Tho thought that had come to me was waif nothing brilliant nothing new it was only this this lt If I am hurt I am hurt well then Ive I've got to stick it I J found it steadying comforting even TO BE DE CONTINUED |