Show black ba k sa s1 iee 9 s gold 6 0 id by BEATRICE GRIMSHAW illustrations by irwin myers att by unil A co a M aw WHAT BEFORE on a perur rip trip on a lter in eastern waters the th nirm narrator tor phil 1 ip to amory young englishman world war wat veteran Tt rin now a trader at daru on the tb land island of papua nw now guinea overboard to save v tha life bt of a young musi cal comedy ac actress treis known on board ai as slinia amory to I 1 chiefly co clOut of alti warm r fird sard of a girt in ike tl lie ai leardi she ah li Is fla IA maurier urier tf member of a wealthy nw now bouth south waif wells family its II 11 tells lla ht her aon him thins of bit til life alf in papua anil nf pr his knowledge knowlt dr of a wonderful sold old ald on the th liland island gin lain aline tells bow plot it is lo 10 sir richard fanshaw Vani haw in A th ht stan ilia A vacation callon ona nd ad a amory return returns to there he ma matto spicer on work tor for aw amory to r lalla some lomi years yein before the th ficici cap of a leper lie h la Is con vinced fanslaw la Is the th roan man mill ory tells his friend bassett of lils knowle dei its ai speer I 1 beard the th conversation CHAPTER IV continued theres no hurry he bald said pa take your time I 1 shall stay hero here another three weeks 1 I 1 saw mary halftone maidstone make a face of dismay behind hit hi back im for the papuan Pop lian chief to brine bring alm ali rest ci members of tho expedition alons along of course I 1 nm am leader next to sir Ill chard ord and I 1 have all the organic ing in my bands if you want to run across don t 4 me thure thurs day island liland every one know knows it ho lie laughed rudely and looked at mj my emptied glam now I 1 am ra not a drinking man if f I 1 do once la in a way shift a class glass before the tune suns over the yarl yuri I 1 felt on apin exceedingly in dined vo 0 pick ick a quarrel with this spicer once aguin remembered that I 1 could not mot afford to do so if it I 1 I 1 wished to make sure of certain things ar very well 01 1 I eald aid watching al clil 11 his tam ace icart across today an on chor at cap and get in early tomorrow lire ura maidstone Mald stone if it youve any III be delighted to attend to them 1 right joa you are answered answer od my hostess cheerfully with something thing of her gny schoolgirl manner corn com ing back just jact a see and III gire give you my ilav hit she went out into the tore store and spicer who had not altered by eo so much as a line the expression of ble his large flat countenance te nance took the cigarette out of his his mouth bouth ti U remark Good trip to aa it 0 was vas a dismissal somewhat in to tho the royal manner I 1 held myself in from rom answering him as I 1 wished and followed mary maid stone hotels in to thirby fairand of which there aro art a 19 num her are mever the tam twice visited visher proprietors maos managers gers and manageresses manage vary almost as the seasons go D the grand coslop where I 1 put op up looked much as usual thero there wae was a desolate deso tae big dining room with a pilot catie ibis his loath slowly and contentedly as do 40 alone I 1 found row my usual room and dumpe ny my jear gear in li ii walked round the echoing veran la ia with a wary ey for or ant batet boards peeped into the mom and had about alde op up my and m nd that there wai was nobody liere here save myself and he be when I 1 beard voices lu iiii the upstairs opi taire parlor A man and a it om ons an gin ning for a ducat I 1 said mid to myself dovir what on earth I 1 I 1 did loc itt mean to listen but standing lacie in to the dusk of the staircase at caaso whether to go 90 oo 00 or go to bac babit I T caught a sentence or two before it became clear cleat to me that op lip or down I 1 must alft on off that In firnal timal ship of COW course you will jinny you dont me to baliem beli tit you missed ue the boat by accident ilium it for a lark dodot miss it for a lark genevieve if it you didot nisa miss it for me you mused it for some one eik elbe jinnys reply war tuneful irrelevant and chiefly concerned with the unluckily comic lore love ad venture ventures of a choa coon in alaba then the other person if tie a man said so something methling that woke mi 04 op up A VV here heM be he asked with it sud den deo rasp la ia his voice Is the beachcomber fellow who picked you out of the he seab sea at the bottom of it for all fill I 1 know nT ered gin sling jinny youre enough to that was a I 1 I 1 beard board conscious that I 1 hat had already listened too long for decency I 1 butram docu the rub stairs and out into the desolate back street the hotel I 1 wonted to see nho ho would come out I 1 had bad half guessed already yes yel it r rus ras sir richard fan shaws figare are un wa and tall al that stalked out presently pres erty ertly froni from the he dusky dusty doorway follo followed ted by that other tall thin that was jinny from what ft hat 1 ua 1 i r i L rd I 1 guessed that ranshaw had 1 left e ft the ship at some intermediate port and that many ct tt the same port pork bad had 1 accidentally or purposely abandoned her passage and find stayed be bird hird sha sh aad and fanshaw had returned anarell An Arall words in the same ship bad disembarked at thursday Is landi land I 1 quite see why but that could pas saha mid were staying at the tie cosmopolis Como COsmo polls grand fan pan baw thaw clearly was ai making light lore love to ber her the she did not favor his fult suit and he was inclined to blame tie me for the rebuff thought the wai was IK kne lne conme on roe imagined owing tc to the coulp be bat bag no doubt beard on the ship that the he had aban domed her nynie and her contract and headed back toward copus because of me that was the situ alto atlon afton ai as I 1 tired sized it up tip ulle alle I 1 was woo ponee rip Ira these things no less a person than fill sir himself came dun the steps of the hotel I 1 was clear in his nay viny but he lie scarcely brushed me with hia his glance ai As he passed in that instant I 1 realized what indeed I 1 might time lime known before hot to rina plas nance flance I 1 win wui bothin more than a name I 1 bad bed wen him film on the ship but he had at n t con lyson detri setri me just aa as well I 1 thought though I 1 could not lave have told why ahe eight tight of him buy busy and purposeful about I 1 knew not what reminded uie me that my telegram was still I 1 went up to my iny room to concoct it 11 bit I 1 bad had elcanely Lely q A there seemed na reason now why I 1 should not kiss thi this jinn and I 1 did with thorough nesa tot got out pencil and paper leaning over my Bult sult case cose with back to the door when I 1 was suddenly ond nd not disagreeably blinded blind pit by two ion long cool hands that closed without warning over roy my eyes guess who said jinnys voice with jinnys own chuckle in it IL the prett prettiest lest girl in the pa inc I 1 answered pulling down her hands and end twisting her tier face till til it met mine thre no reason now why I 1 should bt kiss this jinny and 1 did with thoroughness I 1 bad not wanted to kiss ber her on the boat when vi hen the vision of pla laurier wae was hlll gilded glided with witt the light ot not impossible faure hopes nov no v ahat hat did it matter let pla varry or not marry whom horn she listed there was always w the mangrove wall and what it signified to stand between us t two jinny ay croke broke away from me she was flushed gushed and laughing I 1 thought I 1 bad never seen her so tily tell me ww its all aboudi I 1 said why arent you delighting the smart folk of 6 singapore and why sir richard fanshaw Fans baw veil well aly Is he here anyhow I 1 I 1 dont mean why Is be with you his luck but what the leuce deuce do the two of you want in this dead of a Is jinny settled herself iRly in a hammock chair like a it slim kitten t that hat curls itself on a pillow her ifer ees were half hall closed she looked beneath long lashes beay hery with paint and across the plain of scilla blue sea spa and the uie far out fairy islai of tuesday and wednesday and the purple crags of prince of wales and horn I 1 think so look ing she saw none of these things nor et the be sky vilta iab g tra dewind clouds nor the near palm treo tree tops that almost blew across the rail roll beside us I 1 think that she the saw only rough phil amory called black sheep and the day for her ran filled with shining gold theres time and tine time for thinking in the lands where black sheep ilie sometimes since then I 1 have wondered bow thin might have gone what my life and that of an other might hare bare been had there been no pla laurier on ori the steam er if it there ba had d been just jinny many trencher jinny whom bom I 1 had saved at the near risk of my own life jinny who gave me mei 1 krow that which she never gave to androne aej one else ilhan ft hat am I 1 doing ithe he ci wi lightly me boat bout in Sou stuff ln rice table at the oranje was them there in himself too he nas vias booked for Sou Sour obaya oil oll business of tome some kind and be he lent me my fare fire back to sydney there was a boat next day and I 1 thought I 1 id d get away from him by taking 14 it but spare me days that wasn gasn t his idea he saw his man and did dd bis his busane and got away in twenty four houra houm along with me and when I 1 sot got off here he be got off so that he ile got off I 1 said because hes aing ing across to papua be has bas one of bis his exploring trips on she nodded 1 I know be he told me iles heard beard 11 bout about it hut that be he t like th iad Is morn loi be he got tot fair headed when fill hi letters came come niong alons in some little boat boal I 1 have h had ad i a chance of this 1 yarn with yon you only atit he went off for the i dice as i toon swo as 11 bed read the let ten tem I 1 answered her tier nothing at all by a new and unpleasant thought I 1 bad brought brou ht ove a government mall bag in the cutter as a one ahu illy did when crowing crossing to T I 1 what was ant in 1 it I who from rum para had hi ken writing to sir It ichArd fanshaw cool indifference to t my departure was easily comp comprehensible re hensl if it lie had bad obtained through that cry circumstance circum the chance of morning sir Il lebard RI charil against myself and roy my ugly knowledge it nas vias no nes to him I 1 dared ray lie teemed seemed to be sir richard i a creature creatore through thi tuli and through her these thoughts I 1 MI mt gloom in ing ind worrying till janny noticed the lie sudden drop in temperature and bosau to tease tense then I 1 nixed myself she must be in Fans fanshane linns confidence Mence more or less I 1 thought it t do to fit set that keen mind of hera hers to work I 1 kissed her again with no one bat goate goats to took look on and then Juni jumped lied up and dc declared lared my intention of going out on business blut I 1 meant to do wa to fall sail m boat bout our to capt york and send my message now more than eier yby by I 1 ind line the address of ila pla lau lou father was an easily fund I 1 ariew where I 1 could et a directory and mind year apok of aus arotlin L fiat hovi however ever I 1 went to the post ollace on the off oft chance of moll mall I 1 had to wait unit a little somebody inside was busy telephoning a message to cape lork after the strange local fashion words spelt out letter by letter with a chris t flan an name for ach to avoid blun ders mechanically as I 1 leaned on the counter I 1 began taking up the message which seemed public for or all the world to hear bear I 1 P for peter L for laura loom E 13 for emily A for alice S for samuel I 1 E for emily D for dora dom T for thomas 0 for other II 11 for harry flarry A for alice V for victoria H for emily somebody body was pleased to have bare something 11 alting I 1 lisle listened tied I 1 tas really not con conscious scions of caves eaves dropping what was chiefly in my mind at the time was the hare bare pos of a letter from pia pleased cosed to have you join the message slowly ran prospector failed us see letter march and then a word that me up like a shock from a live wire lie ite Tata taia tato if it I 1 had any ii tipples about Us its toning and really oie or to listen 1110 I 1 hul none now Tata tata P the word so clearly papuan to 10 any one who knew the ventry cru VL the odd distinctive word not lot really forgotten was the keyword to the secret that I 1 bad for almost a 8 year been cherishing cher khing the secret that I 1 had thought mine only 1 herc here in the name of every thing that was improbable had fanshaw got bold of that word and the fact it cor connoted noted could a man keep nothing to himself even though he locked bis his lips and reined in his very thoughts the clerk came forra annd old told me there bere no lettera letters I 1 aalt t expected any so it was nn eason able f ft fr r me to foel f cl as I 1 did ex cee disappointed I 1 took my self gelf ind my disappointment out into the yellow sun and flying winds I 1 came to the conclusion cond oslon that my telegram legrain te had better go in any case and vat but after that the sooner I 1 set gill for daru agala the sooner I 1 at my gear together and started oft off on my trip to the interior the better I 1 money enough for all that was wan tedwell I 1 would get maidstone Mald stone to grubs grubstake taku me much though it went against my wy pride I 1 a mate to go with me well I 1 would take the risks of going alone alth with my boys any thin sooner thau than let fanshaw get ahead of me with whit I 1 fended to be the biggest find eer eier made in now sow that I 1 raed my mind through th roul and through now that I 1 squeezed the last drop out of every recollection that could help me I 1 was able to make a rough guess at the possible nt Fan shavis information and like anost mys it turned tamed out to be simple enough when explained the flan ann cee of the dead miner groce grace had been not a girl but a widow her tier name ai is I 1 had beard 14 it was straining my memory I 1 seemed to recall about her maiden name and if I 1 id od not mii miK that name v as the fairly courmon co irmon but in oils this case most jig AS ril drant ne me of fanshaw the miler perhaps tid t id talked to mrs brownrigg mora than one had supposed mrs perhaps had tailed talked to lier tier relative if it in deel he waa ber tier relative sir ilic richard liard fanshaw the great man of a very mediocre family I 1 didat see that I 1 wag uns ever likely to know the exact circumstances circumstance and perhaps they did not matter one thing did matter aej that was wits that a man who signed his telegrams F who was almost certainly fanshaw himself was inviting some prospector to join in ln exploring party using in the message the hamd of the point where geets trip year years aco ago bad had ended the more I 1 thought of it all the surer I 1 was abat mr mrs before her death had told somebody about Tata tata and in order to do that the she must have bare rot got it out of orace lord urd know knows it was sensational enough well deal I 1 what then theal I 1 I 1 knew what then ben ai chain of logic toxic waa will too clear to ima mos it looked ps s it fortune bad lehard Il fan fall bhoj into my hania hanis as a if it opportunity were there ready and wait in for satisfying revenge tige he ile was certainly fond of genevieve Tre aLlier or he would not have taken the risk of bis his chances nances with pla by running off on with ith gin sling she I 1 made 11 no 0 doubt could do anything with biro him that the abe chose slie she would do any thing find out ont anything lf if I 1 lifted my linger finger for me minds are illogical they make ake small trouble about swallowing camels then balk at something lesa less than then a ap sparrow arow I 1 dont know n why by L I 1 phil amory black sheep who had find jut been listening to a private telegram 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