Show blacksha black BlaCkS sheep hP CL 13 0 by BEATRICE GRIMSHAW 9 0 0 copyright by illustrations tw huth hughes s asle co by w service IRWIN MYERS WHAT WENT BEFORE oo 00 a plum pleasure trip on a liner la in rtin eastern waters abo tb narrator phil jp jv jouni world war WAT rtin in now inow a 11 trader 21 I 1 dam date on 00 the ih island land of f papua nw now guinea plan of overboard to at av the tb lift life of a young mod mail cal CAI comedy setrith known en on board as a glo lain filing amory of I 1 conscious eon cou of the tb warm ft r rard card of a girl la to the th assemblage ailt II 11 learn ONI to 1 pla pig lauritis tr tir bimber of a wealthy nw now south waw wel family lie II 11 fill tells hr her thine thing bf rf his h life in papua and a ot of till his knowledge knowlt dc of a W a darful roll fald on an the th island oln filing falls hi hire him pla li Is engs led to air richard foreshow Pana Fori haw show prominent in the th lalanda ilia end nd td d am alvr returns to daru there he h rot mail spicer on an work for fanslaw Fani Fans haw baw amory ff r couf witnessing the escape of a leper its 1 I li Is c con on vineal ranshaw la Is US tl man men CHAPTER ill continued shack again la in omega I 1 got ot chart cli urte I 1 should undoubted ly bave 9 had before end and the S tilling direction I 1 donled op up the island un on which I 1 had so 10 unwillingly landel this wai was irbit our 0 va admiralty volume aid sold about it t iota island Is 1 the leper quarantine station for or the omego grum serious penalties arc tire attached to land landing log tee ym I 1 eald said closing the book and I 1 can add to that getting a leper away from aitto valparaiso or elsewhere cl h fire year years on the breakwater H is all thit this I 1 remembered point by point aa I 1 beneath the man goes of dani doni tareo thousand nilles miles away from omega in distance eam in point of time I 1 kemem bared it clearly without omission as if it had happened yesterday and most clearly of all did I 1 remember now the face of the man who wore the yellow dress with the black big as un it as the lie face of sir richard bensi aw ever thing came come back to roe me ilie the height of the roan man his thinness his chestnut hair and yellow brown caw the slim arched nose and neat chin the lips umusa ally red for a mans the th voice peculiarly resounding and deep in tone even the injured and de formed finger nail abat I 1 now re d I 1 had seen as sir rich ard carre ap up the ships ion tiou ladder sliding one hand along the gu cuir ird drope rope I 1 was as sure as I 1 I 1 was of my own exic tence that plas flance was wits the leper who hid td that escaped from iota Is land not while I 1 stayed in omega which was no longer than the call of the next boot boat did anyone discover what bid happened down in aukland Au klaud I 1 came upon a that related the daring escape froni from iota of a e foreign speculator nam d fellows who had been bay buy ing in up certain commercial interests for his country and who had in tte course of cheep deemed it to take out pipers trani transferring ferring his nationality to the flag flax that waved over A luckl luckam egl transfer 1 it t placed him beneath mmegan laws and when a dra matte accident the dit discovery cover of a seemingly harmless harmle ts mark upon his body when bathing obliged him to go up to the local doctor for examination he was icat sent out merry merty to the quarantine island there were those who hinted that fellows recently acquired commer caal interests bad something to do w kb the case tint a big company was behind the doctor be that how it might fellows was eer ser fenced to lota lot and bat bt tor for the daring rescue would probably have spent the reet rest of his days there them fellows fellous had been nine week on oi lota iota nine week weeks on tin wot in ha tilted by the terrible nines I 1 had spen open an tin islet reeling with contagion and innocent of any modem modern sanitary pre aurlon what hat ever lie ie night might or night might not have had the germ with him when he lie went there but nothing was more probable thun that tie be had taken it away with mm him la in any case leprosy I 1 knew conid could ite ile dormant for many ninny years might when acquired develop go 80 slowly that the victim could live an ordinary life without being suspected for a very long ifill alip if it fellows was indeed if he had gone to omega to carry out a daring opec elation illation in products con ceiling his name and altering his a course that sounded very like what one had bad known of him la in the warthon war thon then the most horrible peril that can be concel huner over pia pis and there was no one bin bill myself to get her out of it IL lilyin with a hundred odd pounds of capital no position and no reputation fare save the unlucky one of being it ic love ove with her myself self against a it rich and famous man high placed in society and approved by ilas family no dou dout 1 I approved by the girl time against me place against me eve everything grything a against ga I 1 ast me save one thing the fact that fashaw was coining coming to new guinea CHAPTER IV IT T WAS latu lati before I 1 ended abat 1 restless tramp the night had turned to ran as it so often docs does in darn dora my toch when I 1 snapped it on to see the way shone on A myriad of crisli rods dancing all fill oler the road the frog bad bs t glib hilt ilith nightly hant han tort port piff port I 1 starboard Stor board ID in the near distante ilLe tanie amerig the manles ot of lie the latach en an allegri tor for a bell belleda they do oo 00 these vet wet 1 I enid said to 10 myself witt with sudden resolve III 11 go til ti bassett tell him the affair ani ant ice see 1 hat hot be he ay they the were act ua jet let p gone to bed in the I 1 could see ee them thein from he the roadway i crave me face he was the eon son of i a well known portion and looked it 11 Nort hangers narrow crun penance te le nance narice that we was ilk th face of a 1 schoolmaster until caught strangely hard at the banik ol 01 the blue ees purchase hair mined like the feather feathers of a hen and features aa nonye on the verge of a lauch laugh deemin to take lie the horld and bis his bhare tha of it 14 which was assuredly a bard one very merrily indeed salcer was net not to be seen I 1 was glad lad of it for inlaid laid house houses offer mall emall vacy and I 1 had that to BOJ say aich would not paw pass with fanshawe Kan Fan shaws friend the othere others looked in their freh white shirts and pipe clayed shoes exceedingly clean comfort able and peaceful enjoying for a few day days an oasia in the desert cf of hardships that made up their common lives into the midst of this I 1 came come wet and bedraggled and I 1 make no doubt looking like tile a lest years corpse I 1 could see the effect of mj my looks mirrored instantly in the faces about roe me but nobody jumped up or said eal dlly ily gd happened to you or IN hate hats the lowr row or any other silly thins thim such as fel fellows lovis elsewhere would certain ly buie thrown out at me these fellows atre ere not given to taking any circumstance in life other than quietly theres spicer I 1 asked of bassett it did not occur to me to offer any explanation of my return when I 1 wan was a opposed to be abed with fever no did anybody ask for ie ne sit down ne went back to Mald stones hes staying there Nort hanger got dp 1 I must be going he said the missus will ile ie sending a patrol after me ready purchase if it there was a hint purchase taci took it they were gone in another minute and bassett and I 1 were left alone in the austere shiny parlor basse basett in lils precise way became become busy lie ile brought out a suit of clothes neater and better mended than anything I 1 possessed if somewhat cheaper in kind and handed it to me you a dry thread on you he observed better miter shift lie went off into the kitchen and I 1 heard him stirring up a sleeping boy heard the clink of a kettle ill the jingling of classes glasses bassett came come back tooled tooted at me as I 1 eat got fresh lad and made no remark the DOT bov followed almost immediately with flat punch and a quinine bottle I 1 helped myself to a chare share of both 1 I 1 wanted to ask you something eisold I 1 said yes answered bissett issett it was abrien n brief reply but it carried a good deal the ton loop the look of basetti Ba brown eyes beneath his high min Istir iserial lal looking looting forehead the set led tied attitude hands crossed on in knoes s a all 11 suggested calm rellabell itye ity and what be he must hove known I 1 dedred ubbe all things as eick sick men consulting doctors men consulting priest desire ft the professional attitude I 1 knew be would do anything that could be I 1 told him the whole hole thing it was wait not eay to tell amuse beer use I 1 hid bid to bring ila pin into it and I 1 found to my intense dia guit tl lint thit my voice pot got unsteady un endy when I 1 spoke of be her listened quite to the end milking DO no comment 11 hen lien he though I 1 had quite doi do ne ic he came come out su surprisingly with ith ou are very much in love with this girl it wa wast not a question it wis a statement made much as onee ones phy physician a felon might offer a corn com ment on the condition of ones lungs or ller am I 1 I 1 aid sold stupidly something had blid bid of mei me I 1 hardly ardly knew what it was hut but it f amok me 11 hot wag lie maiter m flad I 1 not agreed with meet that tie tsie wind which was as pla pis coutler had blown through my life and passed away to save her from with one incredibly vile that was woe a duty but a duty that devolved un sin me nie merely ai as a man n an not as the iran man who sho loud her I 1 had been go so certain that I 1 should not therefore did not loe loie the kirl girl with the black shingle and blue eyes the tirl girl who eien if ehe she were ten times free was not for roe me wanderer rolli 0 ng stone binck black cleared in icy brain the thought that had come to me was nothing brilliant nw new it was only th isIf I 1 am hurt I 1 am hurt well then ie got to hick it IL I 1 found it steadying cori contort fort log ing een elen its lits not what hot you would call roa ma lerdal to hie lie evidence I 1 answered but ou can con take it so it I 1 you like iery cry well do io you know where her paints arel find and cm I 1 suppose the only thing to do Is to tell them ilind hind they may y not believe you the storys at or ys thin and I 1 daresay I 1 the they know you are gone on the girl youir elt the mother docs and sited she poison melt me if the ghe could was my rely ply what if the marriage la Is coa com log ns off immediately ll it 11 1 pointed out it bas ir tans on n this trip but it f y ii 1 I hare have any on bhail point you can co RO go to lur island and end send a I reles for all australla alln to nadi 1 cross to 0 o cope calit york and act t the I 1 land nd line 1 don dont t mind aali I 1 thought fully if it I 1 do loi ice see it may acm seem foolish but I 1 con I 1 help fear inc ing the he he be attracted to the country she dead oo 00 bearing about it 11 11 tin t foret forget alack sheep enid said 0 R o und and I 1 knew by the nick name that he ranted wanted to say muth he raould certainly leave 1 unsaid much kindness much for thul that vilich hidi auld rould not be helped or conto consol ltd ird don dont I 1 forget that therea urb such a thing than aa as a law of billiel libel if it you mike ml stAkes you may my bare to pay tor etien very deg dearly aly ill pay anything and every ahing 11 4 I 1 told rising 1 I R i V MY life if it I 1 lime im e to think ill ai as iriv sug suggest gost ft the hoorer I 1 can let get to T I 1 I 1 copped baiting boiling in the middle of my walk to the door A sound bad had ch acl ed die me nhat hat was na thair their I 1 raid sald to the IL it iq in a low boim I 1 had thought I 1 beard a oolie noise jutt just under my feet a steeze yet let audible not coming from outside ou talde we stood two figures turned to tone stone and listened I 1 dont know what bat bassett bought thought I 1 bad heard beard you i a dry thread on an you he H observed better shift P maybe the beginning of a revolt among the ru ma aneater neater and murderer prisoners sonere lightly confined in a wooden jail some few score yards an anay ay maybe the movements of tome some half crazed native oppressed with the strange madness that has filled filed a few hurried graves in west there theres nobody said bassett I 1 did not answer him I 1 made a sudden dart for the steps doa the steps under the bouse house where eight foot high piles made a little forest of darkness and secrecy beneath the residency floors floom there waa was nobody there here but in the garden the peering waterlogged noon moon showed me roe a spray or two of the bib hibiscus liscus hedge in sudden agitated rat afon I 1 jumped the hedge bedge and find come down unexpectedly on some thir thIp large and busly that heaved beneath b my feet threw me off as a bucking bulking outlaw throws its rider I 1 fell ell reco recovered ered myself and saw down the croton avenue a man run ning away tie ile was tall toil cad end thin and he ran in a flat footed heavy plunking manner that instantly suggested to me two large flat out feet I 1 had bail seen earlier in the evening salcer I 1 said to myself and gave chafe chase it had bail beun begun to rain again the paths were slippery and the crash of falling failing water on in drenched and dour doup beaten lemes made noise enough to our LOW any retreat Us ing my torch I 1 caught a of the fu fugitive etive lost him thought thou slit I 1 saw him again and finally pulled up on mhd ia beach roid near the alone he ite arent for formal nial in n capua lapua I 1 spun I 1 went at one ami and knocked ut tit Mald stones door who i a sick was his first query 1 atho I bo it Is amory I 1 answered nobody till sick Is your boarder in lies iles noi not a boarder we don dont I 1 take boarders bour ders atas as if you jou mean the nut who blew in today joday hes lies in bed sure disappeared well nov now its a queer thing he a cam aenied coming hick and standing an odd pa pajamas paja gamad mad figure on the fiaker veranda ward which reflected his bare feet like ice ilee lles not there bh lh what are yon you d ning him for 1 I aate hot a he doner done 11 1 jn ant t know what he done I 1 answered furiously for now I 1 was almost sure this the creature of Forts baw had over heard every word I 1 said mid to bassett break his neck when he comes in or chuck him to the alligators I 1 its ill the beat thing you can do with him well now the wife wouldn t like any rudeness denese ru answered malmstone Mald stone placidly 1 I 1 suppose bee got a right to go in the house or out of the house as he be alkes you go balk back to jour our store phil amory 1 ought to be in a bedgood night I 1 did not go to bed I 1 went back to basset I 1 ta L bassett Bas sctt I 1 bolting ap up the staircase that brute of a spicer chap was underneath the boue house yon you go to bed amores end and let other otter people go be answered youre fanciful anel ful 1 saw low him hin I 1 tell you was my aagre response running away among the mangoes manghes man goes and baid I 1 atone said be he wain t there tackle him yourself yonn your delf tomor row Iri morning ornIng 1119 tt arant you going to let anyone on the liland island so 0 o to sleep lit 11 off black shoe shee or III arrest you 1 can tell you thle this was my parting shots hot theres so i bouer ovier in papua will att t me we to thursday it Is load now when morning came I 1 bagna to think differently I 1 went ent to nel ai AS early ai AS possible 1 spicer was lounging oo 00 the veranda Tc randa in mrs Itald stones pedal special chair with a IID ID of maid list flooes pedal cigarettes at bli his elbow boy was busy 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