| Show jack CK sheets aa gold till t ry BEATRICE GRINSHAW il illustrations by arwita myers A co esil by gitil M ilk WENT BEFORE it L 0 o ahil tad the I 1 to ll 11 1 4 v a trader at if bul wt of papua to say onit to I 1 comedy music I 1 ef loans I 1 I 1 ard as gin lu I 1 an 1 8 ved iw u DI stirl in the em OP she is 3 a oil new a 00 tie tells bar lly tr sa 0 ite off to kopul and I 1 of jr als fe ra a is lots ga to sit the rich is d A 4 maines ion na amo ry re w it IT aj be meet DOL rork work for N recall iMy shirt it th escape of a f farnshaw Fa to CI is friend IMP fm kii its belf tyes 4 the that to an accident et 10 itam re irl sell V no iloni lone for or port fort b ito compete b a to jtb nia island lie there amory rei sato ajl to port diores ad a a cioto 11 to run amory den a with h abory ef kle binney lane poll ml gm amory frior corn a inc I 1 tt girl know now 1 ion R vill continued 3 1 la bi may time haired arf ed women vai was ever it adnot L sie she read my mir ast 1 the tie mid tall 1 I if me pin 1 gay same as rt lire pone gone ril 11 lay i roll mil because if that I 1 I 1 imer inner bet I 1 pat put my ka wide thin shoulders va on i a lerel level with mj my 1 1 im it toil you re t hie 11 e 5 1 li is ill the world and I 1 I 1 itoe 1 tall y de tie read my meaning it iorii wai but botoner onel she h fis f to 10 trample on it icy faith feeling at if bet ft I 1 1 lem haan hadn t been any 1 la a the world iorii d with you and b yin ill her there it kabrt pi she elie flung gang me away I 1 tadej tow and bleat me dor dra dora a among r rw r ia W leaves by the waa WAS I 1 big of the streeta t ibok to in twenty year 1 de destroyed so to ghe she awful moment C she tare a scream U ne me cf of the darful the war and n the bank of the 1 1 ka adow tao where the she mn ping raabe mabe to on 01 where the cur w ip and ind oily past a of the 19 bank where peltie leaped Pelt the be it alligator gators tal 1114 her tier beare I 1 or IK adl hae have ddn any li hut libut but she he was in an checked k chet thet ked as i vi a 23 III pursa by the amed sight of abor ch oni 0 1 loge 10 reach ach rapidly heading to ind vany as as a MO aboy U slang MI out a dinghy I 1 its in charae the 18 with be the cur cu her by 11 tl nand a tree before op 10 nie and t 0 taftt white marla 1 or ins se it 41 possessed a d alth a certa n 80 you ve trip 0 JOV very 04 tn II 11 bliz lierer the Colern meni n 1 T the blaes em M M t has business it been any iiii lady froal sent uv to save bing car tir 1 like th e star lit th e G S wal tak the and news coast native tele it white tone up the with half 4 dozen boys IMN I 1 inland so the ila to I 1 and bad and I 1 due led I 1 lwft me oft tit her beres the ba c k ka Q only isee aad forehand with US NY who at the th dt I 1 y dig was ninel contriving in my p igei illy the of went 0 n atai 1 affery ti 0 n 1 for hd known one else dov a of MY depart I 1 alck bS 11 10 answer him A a ray J larna lamo re to 1 ing iiii said abich well a iter a deft looked 7 as both rail to of us 1 I bare thit th 0 pleas tou 4 ion 9 to I 1 aru viliam it al culat z ew turn tae in M y the T nurl was a it fast launch the he could me bone hose la to a day and a half a daj day to fix ill up matter matters there and get stores then a day and a half ball back in n the caarl again I cal that the be government one ovle ml to much tor for doing its work at my on oi a cost half a day for fur contingencies two 1 to get through my four days cut in the bush light days lo 10 all from now to eee see me should see roe me if I 1 was vas ailse once more snore at the point where I 1 lind turned back if it there was no one ahead 0 of j a me U 1 1 sup suppose I 1 said to the baiwtz that you see any tea sign of another party on the ir lierl daw dawit it was busy lighting a cigarette lou you suppose wrong then tic he said aid his hl head lent wait over his bands there theres s a prospecting and explore ing party down at the he river 1 mouth at thil this minute ie to did not loot look at me ine as he spoke dassett was ls a little gentleman now ho oon soon can via get abair was noy my IVI reply ly As toon soon as you can chock year carrier carriers on board and get you anil and this lady ou on he ile kicked me rne slyly silly and I 1 re plied is mended intended with an loiro intro to jinny JIDDY tro im sorry to offer yon you uch such rough accommodation miss trench er he lie fixing axing her tier with his crave grave ministerial stare store hut but yoo you are fally fal ly lucky ta be alive this minute which I 1 suppose Is some compensation dodoo do you loo said jacoy 1 I 1 dona denv and turned tamed her tier tack back en hlin I 1 could only tap my forehead and nod significantly at basseal Bas seit tile bubb I 1 explained aa a he moved snored a little sway away it wet wr explanation enough for anyone who saw less clearly through a stone nail viall than dassett usually did we made a very silent party dropping down river 1 I ith the cur rent ind and the speed eld of the la launch it wai was a comparatively short journey dusk duh of next day round us on the opening neachea of the kom rom lilys illys estuary estu ury with the gulf ut of papua fiat cut and gray as a pewter table opening out before there was i a long strip of beach at the river mouth you could scarcely see it at that hour but if you could not see the ahe beach au could see quite clearly that wt w stood upon atthe pointed abates shapes of sev eral era canvas tents aielt ell stop here for a tev nines ut haild thi the magistrate 1 I call going op up just hailed balled them thew and ailed if they had haul seen anything of a v idle woman what did they byll say I 1 asked one of them it wai I 1 think I 1 hear bear be he ent with them shouted back that they hadn and asked n ho she wa was and what it was about CA canoa zoal I 1 I 1 said ft ho we were the other 1 obly only one other white ton you irow krow i ht ham m spicer lie he gave an order to tte the brown bare limbed steers man and our boat took a wide sweep weep and began heading lo 10 shore hom 1 1 I thought Is 13 not such a fool as he looks for canoa old time gold miner and survivor divor of a past post era of mining sue sac bewes was about the he ablest pro prospector who ever washed a dish be tweda dam and the hammare Mam Ham bare do me a kindness badelt till your I 1 paid said dont mention to ito anyone ashore just there you picked me up 1 llight you not coming no fear 6 miss trencher co 1 I dont silently jinnys head sopea appeared red b die the con ming cutting off roy MY words she stepped out ont on deck there was mill still some light lefi left I 1 could see that she had found bris sett sell i store of and looted tooted it recklessly A cummerbund ummer bund ol 01 tjark blue slik circled the waist of I 1 ter ermy er my trousers a sie ie had abl white te holls en on and a silk fa le e about her neck I 1 looked at her in amazement as S he lie swung sightly down 1010 the he boat avoiding ny eyes she had not looked at me or spoken tu to mr mil since we came aboard I 1 saw tier her KO go ashore with bassein disappear among the tents before I 1 had hire lime to grow more than thao a little impatient the boar was back again and the launch under way lay what had jinny been aa ing doing out there in to the CAMP campt why had she been so anxious to to go ashore and why now that she the bad returned timed re was she still keying keeping hid den dea avoiding eight or sound of me met klassett was sitting on the cabin root rooi a Is blur in the dark I 1 edged up to him and asked him point blank old did you anyone ariy riy ay iy anything lie ile kaev what I 1 meant he lie did not look up or turn his face but be he answered immediately in ras att ctt own alp carlip precise way 1 I saw spicer I 1 asked him whit the dela was aked if I 1 could assist in aly a ly way lie tie mid wild noi nol it nas aas all rigal they hud bcd topped because be to tj till MIP be off tomorrow at daylight I 1 cot got back to the boat then mis Tre greecher Tr echer A puke careful carefully ily seeming to NO til word words even eve more than fuai iio Tr teacher seyed tided behind for a while I 1 waited for her wa the she I 1 topped stopped it was dl diff acu cut I 1 t to phrase there appeared said aid paerl cl to be so in the nature of 8 friendly between tier and mr spicer I 1 gathered an h at she was point out to allm n 9 in corne tion wilb tale correo of the Ito lully river on purred the launch the stars fell and left from her aake G gang ans lutt ard lard here I 1 i could be more or less mone I 1 tat on deck and Ill atea tit ast I 1 could IMS tills unwelcome news it i did n not help matters or make me more hopeful that I 1 heard once in a ITRY a gouni ilke some one down below trying to stifle bitter ep ing CHAPTER IX E IGHT day days passed and another er no to bat that before I 1 stood u again upon te tie ridge that I 1 bad topped with 10 0 o light cut a heart on the e morning that I 1 saw law the anex paced peeked arrival of jinny I 1 had gone back replaced tn my stores endured artl w lib what patience I 1 might the hun ban dred and one delays that always blocked the path of the papuan traveler traveler and got ot am a ay almost by main force harst however I 1 had seen jinny safe aboard a it local steamer that nas vlas going to port moresby liy she he wanted to go there what the he was going to do ja I 1 k az if I 1 wa was a trained soldier against these creature creatures with their sav age weapon when the she arsted I 1 could not conceive and la in face ace of her hostile obstinate silence had little chance of andin ont out I 1 could only say BY ai as kindly a good by to jinny jincy us as st at bould allow and privately hope with a grudging smarting kind of hope that was entirely illogical but I 1 suppose human haman that she would console herself as speedily as might be then being free I 1 hurried to my former turning back point and drove the boys and myself for every ounce that as in us up toward what I 1 still hoped might be edento ally called the lie ila laurier ranges there was need for haste baste I 1 was wa not in the least surprised when I 1 reached the beginning of my cut through the he forest to find that others rad tad passed that way since slam ohp th camp fires of spicer and cazon the sl skeletons eleton of their tent poles their empty tin uns thrown away were marks ma ks plain enough tv tor the verlest tyro to understand for me who was DO tyro there was much more tzi awe more disturbing because more significant of trouble traces of natives who were clearly spying and follow following fog 4 these signs were nere plain to read reads and caused me rue to gin per ger up my ken gentries rles tries also to cut down my own sleep leep to the very ver y last point com patline iab keeping on the tile road in ire tte day lie e had three weeks stores oo 00 mn mis ditke a native cannot carry more than lie can eat la in about twenty one da a I 1 had some stores of beads salt and iches with ire and meant to use them when fairly driven to do so trading with the cannibal tribes of the he unexplored la Is playing with death hoi but starvation la Is death so theres little choice be tween the two I 1 need not say may that I 1 looked for traces of I 1 party ceaselessly but so far I 1 bad seen a een no signs of them in the distance ahead bead a I 1 was to all appearances as much alone with my boys a as if it no othar hunan human creature had been left alive upon the island contle continent ent of new guinea it was here as I 1 had told jinny JIM luckless jinny that the real work began down those appalling ridges as as 83 a railway cut ting then cp up again climbing with feet and god hands this was the day som sometimes betimes the river would prove too wide and deep to cross then we would fell i tree as rapidly as possible and aud one after another cross cros 3 it like rope dancers sometimes we scrambled rambled pain painfully fulli r along lie the of in IT a river bed tops worst of all allvie vie had to turn back lose the bet height atit and the end and C find ind at inn ind gained dl iannce silte efte palm another way wily a and that had fairly beaten us UL ald e at fit all this thi had to be done not leisure but at tit the highest speed which I 1 aad and the carriers could pos 1 leaving any tiny sibly jeep up without behind I 1 had picked 1 nf f te tile party were all 4 a they boys my a of scrambling op UP eera capable hio with guily pounds kne one in t 0 height orders their bacala till ill further panic panicky kyp de dilLe t la in sum W chil childlike indent utterly on the leader 1 it I 1 nat tale take them through these ill blown va a bloodthirsty muscular ha a ties bles of mine if it boching BO thing happened tapp ened to tm me ey would never illy nj one of thal chavero see home and ifo alto and again that was sum and if it they viere ere to fall rue run awry away irom from ilie as carriers have citie ihn 1 without nun number itier it wn w 1 1 I 1 all bort 1 ort moresby to a mango manso lh lt no body ady on the coast would eer catch sight or sound of wack sheep amory any more we were we depend ent utterly on each ahat hat would ila la thick think of it I 1 asked myself it si se le the white rose magdlin had been tere I 1 tried to I 1 picture it the sporting spirit of he be could would havo made h r a charming compan loo I 1 could fancy her la in exactly the right dress the boots shooting fishing gen rally buti but rut I 1 bad never seriously ully contemplated tuch an outrage oo 00 probability as 11 inai that I 1 should place the daughter cf of the tile in la a faw guinea ruck house with a it headhunter for or cook and go on with ay my recruiting and trading I 1 knew now and little ileaure plea ure ture he the knowledge knowl efte fare gore me that there was only one girl who would be content onte oi at bone home in the papuan wildet and that girl was not my rose maiden malden but Ce nevIeve I 1 tin gin sling dreams dreams 1 it was not dir tatus that lay before we now if it I 1 meant to be at next day it was time for sleep 4 4 0 6 0 I 1 could if I 1 would write the ale tale of every hour of that journey relate la in their order each blow of nature and of fate and every counter that I 1 made tell of hunger and of thirst of weariness macerating alfild and body into one insensible pulp of 01 a midday when hen I 1 and roy my boys rest ing were leaped on from the for est behind and surrounded before you could have drawn two breaths by tall brown bromm devils whirling clubs cod and spears and yelping the bead head hunters horrible dog show yelp of how we fought them one to five fire and 1 I firing low shot one through the belly and another through the chest before they chosid almost ashamed I 1 was a trained soldier against these creatures with their savage weapons and yet numbers are numbers and cince they did not fear our strength they had ad to learn of bow how they drew a off and came again and again char charging rig in line pluckier than you would wo d believe so go that I 1 id d hai hae e spared them if I 1 could but they brained my two bett carriers and the other carriers biers s rushed in behind me club clubbing bin with rifle butts where they could not fire are and so to in five fire minutes tul it was over and the tribe off into the bush again with a it head taken fron from one of the corpses while the fight lug was too hot tor for me to notice res yes I 1 could tell much a vol 1 ume ame dot but I 1 will pass over that jour ney in retrospect more easily than I 1 passed in fact and come to the crucial day the morning nhan ben I 1 made Tata tata IN e were climbing a ald ridge e just juit like a hundred ridges ald es that we had climbed since the start the ground was wits steep beneath our feet as a S it had been for days the air was thinning nights had teen colder yet I 1 did not think tint that we were very dear near did not guess that the lane of our long 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