Show BLACK GOLD ly beatrice grinshaw by irita myers copyright dij I 1 ft co W IJU service WHAT WENT BEFORE on a 1 pleasure trip on a llor liner in laittre batem tn the lh narrator 1 IP auntry amor young doru WIT way totem now i a trader DAM on the lh ifland island of ni w guinta plunge plunges mer board to av save the th lit of a musical comply comedy acthen known on board is i gin oln bling amory li is chiefly ton conscious of the tb winn warm retard of a fir girl in tn th aim blae 1 II 11 I learns she h li is pia pia laurier Laur ler member of a wealth N anif w south vala family IN II 11 till tr bar something of till his life alf in papua and of 0 hl knowledge of a wonderful on erful gold old feld on the th island oln filing tells him pla ris is I 1 trig enad ged to sir 1110 ard rd Fali galishaw Fini haw shaw prom prominent anent la in the in landa wide 1111 vacation ended amory re turns to dani daru there he meets soter oo 00 development work for or fan haw amory recall recalls moms aiom yean years before witnessing sing the th of IL leper its Is convinced fanshaw Is the mm min amory his friend da a fett sett ot of his knowledge II 11 believe believes spicer overheard rd the conversation amora naj with an accident that lay lays bin hira up for three weeks A he sails 11 ilont alone for or fort port moresby 4 korm storm compete coRi pt una lu to put la in at fisherman island lie II 11 meets alamshaw Flam shaw there amory rt r SUM dumn his ht journey to port more mores by follow follows in a 1 motor boat attempts tt tempt to run amory down and nd Is 1 killed by ur the litter with a party sarty of black boy boys amory sets out to die ole on him hl fold gold claims blaney follow follows him CHAPTER VII 9 1 I ue be angry he eald said setting the klo down upon the round I 1 laid said nothing I 1 took her scarred red burned band hand and began smoothing it la 10 mine angry slie she little knew th a very rage race of ii I 1 bad been in nj my heairt when I 1 looked down the th clear ing saw 9 her dittin 11 ducr gjere kne knew w ft hat it 11 meant a to me and knew in I 1 the tile bume mime moment that ahe she could limer it ehe she lived to be a hundred understand what die she had dono one how coald could one be angry I 1 I 1 leae leme go a of my bind hand i ue a bald said suddenly theres something you arent telling me phil hat is a lt it jinny I 1 eald bald 11 t liere are I great many ninny things yoo you tod told me und I 1 propose it to know them before acry log long but there theres plenty of time for all that plenty of time I 1 repeated for anything either of us nanti ants to tell the on the vay may yes ehe she gold the to the plate place they call Tata inta the way to the mouth of the river I 1 eald said L I 1 youre 1 oure bolh coln back cried jiniv adre crt going back because of mol because I 1 find it v to so to phil id have crowned myself rather thania id known phildon t do it old boy lets go on and chance it I 1 im m not afraid of an on thing III go till I 1 drop lead dead let me dilill she was crying tie she acid held my sleeve tightly itly and shook die me in her enger eagerness nesa jinn 1 I 1 eald said were up hard bard drop dead as you call 14 it before noon today lou IOU 1 I done well nell up to this v I 1 kept with you I 1 all hill I 1 you kept with me because the work begun it yoi yon bad had been nn in hour ove later in finding ice me jinny many the meat ants would have eliav been picking your bones tomorrow maybe before joa you were dead if it you came on with us now cow to night might be able to belp help you alborg alop r riar r her iler eyes slowed glowed w nith bom a day or so carrying jou in a I 1 litter ater where we could and alleging ell all nging you up precipe ea es with 1 bu bus broDe like fl a tied pig that jinny jiny krould cut our days work down by a third maybe a half wil V should set get a little voy vey ind nd turn back I 1 pietr lo 10 0 o turn urn bak ba k now dont cry gangling gin sling gling you never cry yon you know that war cry of roars drauk heaitly soon be deal tata hear bear it salo again I 1 clapped ber on the back assuming a gaiety I 1 was vali very far from fet detling ling ono ong of the alvi ift pho hangea inges telca of ber bet sa find merry kind slewed hold on ber her about allag she flashed cashed into udden sudden fury vor tw orience she be eald all td id kill biro him dwinel who the irwine illner k asked but rut she he looked at me sidewise end land made no reply I 1 sai she he was vas baking shaking with rage easy I 1 told her were we re going to bare a real picnic trip down the rarer no hurry burry wy thing pleasant eliere a nothing to cry about and nothing to get in a paddy about anut I 1 m going to talk to h the carriers take any aars you want out of biml swag while bitic I 1 im M S away I 1 left tier her nione rione euting sitting there a forlorn ilia t cure in the new sw sun of the day taint was to have begun roy my march to victory all the treat bush was awake ake aud getting to lie its r business busl nes of c the dabit dida it care core that my ambition were wrecked and my plane of thrown into the romilly river I 1 bad never questioned vr r in I 1 instant the necessity laid upon me to take cluny safely back to civil Iz Izat allou loo save late ber her from the conw ol 01 0 her folly at any coat 1 I 1 could noi DOI pretend to alf I 1 might pretend to her stat I 1 was jad lad it meant the ti boing up of ray my tores stores the t back to 0 o dim dare to refit relt using tie the carrier carriers was wa pow ible the might dc desert crt aj soon will as they aw saw the sea and I 1 should have to td recruit over again weeks of delay months nay rally be and till tho the time all the timo cimei I A thought truck struck ine me hard fiord I 1 vm Is repacking tome some of be the boys bo oads d wilto this idea came come to inc me all the time I 1 eald sold to all lie tle thol th tt ol somebody else le would be geli away I 1 think I 1 can agree bilth jinny in calling blin him a callie I 1 found her malting by llie tile bag gage bhe had taken a shirt and a pair of trousers eer out of my swag mil had dressed herself la in them throw ing away tier bogs she bad had smoothed her hair with my comb and washed her face with hat I 1 to he tho last of our drink lox aler no matter I 1 could iud stud a it boy or oto wo to fetch mure more from he the bottom of the gorge ahat wag was lime time nou I 1 the tile queerest 1 mixture ot of lindtt riess and anger ailed my heart hea lieu I 1 looked nt at tier after all if it what stint I 1 suspected as true ehe she wai was carce scarce at all to blame after all fh she lad risked her life was ready to 10 so 0 o on risking it just fur for the doubtful blessing of my euit eu vt tf wee WAS it a it crimel crime no by all tha goda god oo 00 matter what it bad colt cost me yet ahe way to the romilly hier a as rosier easier than it bad lad been coming up ue e cot got there in two days and camped to make rafts time BO no canoes were cow now available and on llie the first of the nights of our camp jinny and I 1 canio came to an ex plana lion tion CHAPTER vill WR E UVIN seated upon the platform of jinnai lent tent ly fly which had been mine 1 I slept with the car tiers now she eat out with her legs le crossed playing an banjo binjo and mimicking the found sound mth closed lips wy very cleverly lf if one bad felt disposed dispo eed for such cler city mesa I 1 wai was not to disposed feel ing indeed a good deal more like going down to the Ito mIlly and drowning dro vining myself in it than eltten ing to revue tricks but I 1 respected the pluck that set the improvised banjo to a seeming twanging somehow the influenced me dria dri is the dark jark mood anor an ay some liow flow by and by ehe she had me lauh ing and the great dark aboe us pressed less heavily he arlly the world narrowed suddenly to a cozy small tent mill a lantern and a pretty girl fiting it 3 bp up almost equally 14 6 had bad little talk on the way down from the dilill hut but low dow with a day or two to of walling waiting before us while rafts were made it seamed to me that I 1 owed her lag she thought me hard unkind I 1 want to be a churl whai wha it about jinny I 1 asked her a abe ended her play oil hate hats the IN ant me we to go out and buy you a pair of lib it stoc kingsl she laughed laue hed stretched out her shapely dancing legs disguised in my khaki trousers 1 I 1 don donit 1 anything ny thing off yoo you hi said suddenly crave grave at least 6 not anything want to give roe me this me of the grave I 1 r r made up my mind to tell you L i clout ever everything thing all about rout my along after yon you I 1 the beginning of it was that day when you talked to me on thursday island and mid said no worn wom an go exploring that put me in a bit of a paddy because of bourse I 1 believe it and I 1 dont either well veil let that eo go I 1 cat cut in a trifle wearily I 1 knew I 1 could never succeed in ia malice making jinny see the truth well I 1 was feeling pretty bad about it after you went and it just jurt came into my bead I 1 dono how that I 1 id d tet let a boat ind and run mn over to the ether side and see like how things were going on with you and your trip of course sir Il lebard fan thaw be was wo 4 roe mei anin to go and get whatever it was betge yoo jou and spicer he to was backing him up id got that cwb out of the old boy M 1 f 1 somehow she influenced me drove the dark mood away while we was friends because of course he wanted to male love lore to me and I 1 it t and that a when they will tell you and then I 1 found you there at all at da 11 hut hilt u K is the place daru doru res yes seems gone to port moresby afier all phil that aft r awful about sir richard geltin drown d did vid no pie ever find out anything mell dl jou know and she ran on without waiting for an aisner when han I 1 beard gone there I 1 til ti was l 1 was ihal I 1 was that snake beaded I 1 could ve bit you ini 11 in tellin you ion all the truth iphil I 1 want you to go because I 1 knew he would be bo there and I 1 thought let her ber eel get safe sale married to hir It Ill chard end 1111 be all right amuse elice the lie milk and water kind that bitont ever think of en an other maa again that what I 1 thought so I 1 beard tone therland there and he was wits de adAre you going to marry berl it burst out like a cry if it I 1 had been angry alah 11 her tier for her il lighting lAting words about ilia I 1 wa was dot not angry now jinny my dear child who do ron too think would hare have me ine for their daughter ini 1 as likely to marry misa laurier I as a you are to marry one of the tile kingi kings sons I 1 ansi Atred her she wint straight to the heart of that sophistry les its but if you waa wits to and something up at Tatu Tota tata tato that was worth fortune fortunes and millions im quite sure if it I 1 had fl a mil nill lion tomorrow mrs laufter I 1 airier would nut not like ine me any the better yc yes but mit I 1 thought to ui n if she he would let me marry her tier etie she autes the tile type I 1 represent all wise omen hale II 11 social still if it I 1 aoe eje a fro from lenan trail rad with A it million la in my pocket shed en allow her tier hatred hand over the girl Curse her and slid all like lical her 1 this aint on through my mind in a buina while jinai as going ou 1 I 1 An nowhere where to stay at da daru ru mrs the gave gase nio pic a bed spicer he was there I 1 enow now spicer he u ud d to be on the lulls halls ago but he be wasn gasn t any pod food at that so he lie tot lot R job us gen e gentleman to bar Itle liard veil well he said sold to me tilli 1 tt hy fly dnn dant t you up and after ahu when he ie starts stanl hell fell be back hero here to get lie his boys which Is walling waiting for him alays ay he be and then bell be off by the Itoi nIlly river and if you take a canoe cande along the coast saas lie fie ill put tu up to nil all the tricky he says yi and you II 11 catch him up be tore lore he ran can git out of the tile bush country where fie hell it have haie to cut his hilt way he says and load you 11 II show him he be enya hat you can do after all and who ho know he in sa basw a sw now I 1 ve e told you everything phil amerl hid and more inore ban than you want to know alno so 10 if it lindly kindly leave leme my little woden wooden hut to me I 1 III II 11 go bye bye boull lo ull leave my little wooden hot hut for me the she parodied shrilly tho black forest about us sounded to her lil high b singing 0 0 0 I 1 had thanked her and left her and arid 1 I was alone alone with myself and the knowledge of my wrecked ambitions things on the whole looked worse thin I 1 hid bid suppo supposed ted tieni to be jinny did not know everything so far as ahe she was wai aware spicer had lad been lie file amov ing spirit in the plot to flop stop me and bring me back but I 1 guessed the hand of sir richard anshaw to in the matter if the plan was his it was a good plan fully organized organ lied and one might expect developments from it yet it was as certion as anything could reasonably be that a rival expedition was even now on lit way vay one hope only I 1 had mj sly road was vas not the lie road of the dead miner grace I 1 had used my kown knowledge fedge of the lie country to beat out n new track if I 1 were right ani and I 1 as all hut but sure of th atthe new nw way would cut down dovin riak time ent expense amse above all enable me to get to Tata tata tats faster fatter thin any one else could faster fortier it might be than any rival trip that had started started al at ready I 1 give up all hope of that even een now under udder the han hanging ing hurricane lamp I 1 drew forth my copy of graces last notes written on the diy daiy when famine and sl sickness elness drove him to turn back nith hl chiq task talk still grace was lend lead ing on an exploring poring cs trip financed ty I 1 y the moneyed partner who u ho wished to solve one of the many unsolved problems of the new ew guinea back country end incidentally place lila somewhat undistinguished name upon uton lie the map to cross cress from item rom illy to the fly had been his ambition there was and still Is a kig big unknown area in those parts and jackson had 1124 been bitten by the desire root mort natural nl as I 1 saw it of finding out what and who might be beta in hie the space I 1 sat ant on the end of the sleep sleeping ln platform under the lamp and pored upon my copy of lie tile words nordi he had written ritten in the bitterest lilt lerest hour of hs his life 11 fe january sno sago sogo in sight stores very ery low jackson anxious to turn bilk at once after dis pule agreed one diy daiy more hoya weak rebellious dysentery threat enang jan lai nary nuary G 0 today ni at four we tuned back urged jackdon jackson at tempt further but he declares blint lil elf unfit lulls im mediate return one carrier died tod ay iy three in very poor condl condi lion don Nl natives alles appeared on dis lant ridge warranted or caned no attack deally regret return ibon ilien the passage hat thit gave gare to the aiole addel hastily in pe pencil as ai it if some resene reserve some impulse of prudence bad had suddenly broken down mole 1 formation ou suggests hefts gold it 1 to have bare struck biggest jew jeweler elees shop ever kno urill jewelers jo defers shop a phrae current among miner miners means a pocket or erics vries of pockets of extreme 0 january 9 covered about five fire hard going carriers cry weak feet badly cut jackson somewhat belter better much regret to tay say jack son killed by natives today evident ly belonging to same Tata Tato tata tato trahe that had threatened os us hen stopp topping lne in stream bed for lunch homer of suddenly throan froni from dense bush one beut cut through b jackson jaclson I 1 fired into bush and or dered carriers to do same heard one or two shouts but on enter ing 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