Show ck site mft M ft 9 is gold P mam ba U B beatrice ea ice grim shiaw rma riols oy letvin assens W N U 6 dmn co COB B THE STORY 01 on a pleasure trip in eastern waters ab philip flip amory anglish world war veteran now a trader on the island of papua new guinea plunges overboard to save the ufa life of a musical coin comedy s dy actress known as gin sling amory becomes interested in pla laurier Lau iler member of a wealthy new south kouth wales family ile he tells tier her of his knowledge of a wonderful sold gold field on the tha island inland gin tells him pla is 1 en engaged to SI sir r richard fanshaw S ha a 1 ilia 1 18 holiday ended amory ry arrives rrb v e 9 back a daru ile ila meets an spicer there on development business for or a syndicate of which fanshaw Is head rana Pan haws shaws name recalls to amory a long forgot ten incident in which he witnessed the escape of ranshaw fanshaw from a leper colony lift tells ilia his friend bassett about it and decides to inform laurier lie ile goes to thursday island to send the message amory hears pan shaw dl dictate tate a message which indic indicates tes that tha secret of the kold gold field la Is known CHAPTER IV continued Continue a 1 am the more I 1 thought of it all the tha surer I 1 was that mrs brownrigg bo be fore her death had told somebody about and in order to do that she must have got it out of grace lord knows it was sensational enough well theal what then I 1 I 1 knew what then the chain of logic was wag too clear to miss it looked as if fortune had del delivered iverel richard F fanshaw anshaw into my hands as it if opportunity were there ready and waiting for very satisfying revenge he was certainly fond of genevieve or he would not have taken the risk of spoiling his chances with pla by running off with gln sling phe flie I 1 made no doubt could do anything with him that she chose she would do anything find out anything if I 1 lifted my finger for me minds are illogical they make small trouble about swallowing camels then halk balk at something less legs than a sparrow I 1 dont know why 1 I phil amory black sheep who had fi adjust just been listening to a private telegram and planning to act on knowledge thus dis creditably acquired should have decided suddenly and irrevocably that I 1 would not do the thing I 1 had been tempted to do in the matter of jinny and her lover its a dirty trick I 1 said to myself and shook the thought away jinny was not to be seen when I 1 gok got back to the hotel I 1 know she eho would be looking for me later on I 1 knew I 1 should find her at my corner of the veranda when the be great moon of torres began to sall sail like a golden galleon among the palm treetops and the straits and islands were veiled ta in fairy blue I 1 knew what the ilie magle magic of Thur thursday for thursday Is magic still despite all ageing and decay would do for me andhor her and I 1 thought of of that tittle little head with its close casque of shining hair zo so very far away and I 1 took my gear from my aly room and marched down to the beach below where the cutter out in green water was swaying with the tides night found nie me at cape york with my telegram ready to send CHAPTER V 1 I 1 have never had a harder task in my life than the framing of that telegram to say enough and not too much to influence plas unknown an fn father by a dozen words wired across a continent so that he should exert himself to break or postpone his daughters marriage to show authority for what I 1 counseled and at the same time conceal the vivid personal interest thu 1 had prompted the sending of the in message this I 1 found in its entirety more than tham I 1 could there was no doing the thing well to do it somehow anyhow was nil all that bat I 1 could expect this was what I 1 produced in the ey erd d joseph laurier laurmer Laur ler downs station new south wales serious reasons existing against fanshaw marriage most strongly ad vise awn awaiting biting mall mail for necessary inquiries cannot sufficiently emphasize necessity delay A id I 1 signed my name toy iny inife ins ig ant unknown name in full 1 I philip cosgrove amory laurier would not know philip cosar CosUr jve antory from adam bi abrl that was perhaps something to va hiie i e good all things considered lie he would be bound in common prudence to wait the arrival of my letter before giving judgment on the ma I 1 had bonci done tile Alid best 1 I could with the letter it contained a plain statement of the occurrences 0 on n iota island mentioned the tee fd fact ottani ott ayi acquaintance with miss laurier Laur ler and so concluded no apologies elther cither the thing was unforgivable or it was war a service beyond nil all thanks no attempt to make capital ou on my own nd ad count of tho the circumstances that had brought me into communication with plas ilias family just the facts no more I 1 scaled registered aud and posted the letter and put to sea again with a lightened heart I 1 had done the best I 1 could and given time I 1 could make sure that this unspeakable brute would never place a ring on I 1 vlas las finger As to what might happen to in myself Y I 1 mado made no guesses like so many men in similar case I 1 thought I 1 could be content not to have her not to drag her down to my own haz hazardous aldous aft that she had not come for th the sole purpose of looking at black sheep I 1 knew as well as if she sha had told me level if only I 1 might be sure that no one else would take my place I 1 pictured her remaining an eternal malden maiden never of course developing into an old maid for my sake and was quite well pleased well I 1 sailed back to thursday island very late and all in the dark and I 1 suppose I 1 was tired afred after the long day and its ita many emotions I 1 had bad a theory that I 1 never was tired to me a fit only for dotards of forty so I 1 never allol allowed ved that it had touched pr could touch myself but the laws of nature took no heed of my feelings and that night they had their revenge I 1 fell fall I 1 half asleep at the tiller rammed the jetty and was tumbled down into the holdi hold before wy boy could catch me ile he picked me me up op instantly but the careless moment had dono done its work I 1 livid a badly cut head and concussion ot of the brain and it was my unlucky fate in consequence to spend the next three weeks in thursday island hospital I 1 cannot tell how tiresome maddening I 1 found the resultant confinement and delay it was worst towards the end of the third wretched week for then I 1 had calculated a reply by letter might reach rae me from laurier downs none did I 1 nor was there any telegram the silence remained unbroken afterward I 1 heard what had happened and as one always does wondered why I 1 have guessed it ri at the time atme nobody lied died as I 1 frantically assumed nobody had treated me with silent contempt nothing had fallen into the hands of fanshaw or spicer though I 1 had gli guessed essed at all these solutions of the mystery it was simply that joseph laurier was in england riot not at home and that my letter marked private and carefully scaled lied bad of course been beed sint sent on after hajn instead of being opened by his secretary the telegram had al also S 0 be been en posted anover on over that the secretary had used what he was waa pleased to call his judgment and do aided apparently that he was lose likely to risk losing hla his billet by bending my extraordinary and unconvincing wire under tinder cover than by hanging the Laur lers dirty linen out ove the cable lines of the world the nurses white frock came caino speeding along my veranda theres a lady to see eee you the she said bringing up beside the lohnke A matron latron says she may come called to inquire before but she come in she asked to come in today I 1 did not ask the ladys name I 1 thought 1 I knew it when jin jinny ny trencher tall tail and thin but graceful like trilby in her very bones appeared at the v verandas er andas end I 1 knew my guess was right more than that 1 I knew sir richard fanshaw was gone jinnys jinnis presence jinnis jinnys visit meant that slie she was nel according cording to her own lights free that she could call on rna me with a clear conscience she was in tier her pale muslin dress with her wonderful fluffy red hair peering under a black hats hat the prettiest most disturbing thing that could have entered the chaste wards of that hospital for many a day I 1 could have sworn that every one in sight envied me when jinny janny checked her floating walk beside my lounge dropped into it a chair and crossing her yellow silk stock hinged knees with tin an air of entire comfort asked me tw how I 1 was I 1 told her briefly and I 1 think untruthfully I 1 was anxious to get to the reason for her call that sho she had not come for the sole purpose of looking tit at mack dlack sheep I 1 know knew as well as an if she had told me dut but it seemed hard tor for her to begin she chattered like a pretty painted parra keet asked fifty questions about the nurses and atie doctors and the conduct of the tha place genera generally ly wait for an answer to any one at last losing pa fienco I 1 was not patient in those days 1 asked her point blank what she had cometo come to tell me can anyone hear us the bhe asked half below breath no I 1 answered her look about you nobody nearer than that old chap at the end and hes deaf well thena hes off 1 I guessed that thal what else how you be ready to go gov she asked me im practically ready now hes off to port moresby dy by cairns hell got get hla his stores there find and hell attend to some borne business tl she cleared her throat business she went on and get away immo dontely to Tata tata 11 I 1 knew it I 1 had been expecting jt it but the word hit me like a stone go on I 1 said with somo difficulty my tongue seemed stiff lle lie wired mired for h a prospector to join him three weeks ago and hes come Tata tata Is 1 I know all about it I 1 know I 1 said eald getting angry a d n sight more mora than fenshaw knows lie ile got it lt straight she said from some woman who died she had it from her bloke who was killed and eat by the cannibals no that was his mate how could he have got goat back to tell anyone 1 I thought said eald jinny and now she looked away from me 1 I thought somehow the woman was with tho tha bloke who yaho found it on the expedition an the tha expedition never jinny thaes one thing that a woman cant do yet and done go exploring in papua cant she why asked many jinny she was waa still looking away from me the candle that burned ever behind her goldbrown gold brown eyes was lighted to new brilliance by reflections from the tha dancing sea I 1 the answers plain its because the only things left to find and now new guineas got roost most of them are so BO tough that it tak takes esthe the best men doing their bes more than their best to get through exploring means the lost last ounce that the strongest men can out of their bodies driven to ta tile the last ditch it means the mal rute brute nil all out theres no use for foi women in a like that was no not she yawned dawned it a little de delicately t changed the subject or rather went back to the beginning sir richards off anyhow sh he remarked ile he wont be more than a week or two getting things together and starting the name of the place what I 1 told you and whisper ill tell you what hes after she leaned over to me breathed into ray my ear a secret I 1 had thought was known to no one but myself now she said drawing back and aid nodding wisely what hat do you think of little jinny for telling you thairl that TO BB DW CONTINUED |