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A Romance of
The South Seas
BY
JacrLondom
.SYNOPSIS
Bheldon, owner of Berande plantation,
tbouKb desperately 111, overawe and con
trols 200 bead bunting Bolomon Islanders
by force of will and weapon. Chief Bele
calls with forty men.
lie returns Arungs a runaway laborer.
Sheldon bas Arunga and Billy wblpped to
quell a mutiny. His sickness increases.
His partner, Hugnle, and many la Borers
die. - .. . .-.-... .; - .. .
Joan Lackland, a pretty girl, arrive
with her crew ot Tahltlana, Bbeldon be
comes unconscious, and she take charge
..of things. ;... -
8b I a self reliant American girl, a
lover of adventure, a native of Hawaii
and an orphan. Her ship bas been
wreaked. She prove to Bbeldon that she
can shoot '
She resents ma friendly suggestion, and
they quarrel. She makes It plain that she
Is not matrimonially inclined. She and
Sheldon save two black; women from
death.- ;'
The savaga laborer demand the women.
Bbeldon attempts to discipline them, and
Joan shoots a native and save Bis Hie.
Bbe scold him for """"nt her shoot.
Salan. a savage" dog. 'arrives. THespIt
Sheldon's warning Joan goes to explore
an Island she contemplate buying, finan
cial difficulties threaten Bbeldon, ,
He fails In love with Joan, left alone
by Sheldon. Joan naa trouble with Go
goomy and other natives Armed savages
arrive, and danger threatens Sheldon and
Joan. .:
Joan rout (hem with a fake dynamite
cartridge, and Batan drive them into
trees Their chief la punished. Morgan
and Raft have Bbeldon In their power.
Joan offer to become bl partner. His
mention ot conventionalities angers her.
She needs no chaperon, she says Sheldon
finally accepts ber a hi partner.
Tuilor and Voo Sllz, gbra seekers, arrive
a the Martha. Joan and Tudor seem to
Interest each other. Bbeldon become Jeal
ous. Joan starts for Australia with her crew
to buy a schooner, out stops at Uuvutu
and buy the Martha, which nas been
wrecked, for a mere trifle, ... .
game ot
morning,
' CHAPTER XIII.
TBS KABTHA. ;
THET were deep In a
I billiards the nest
1 after the 11 o'clock breakfast,
when Vlaburl entered ana an
nounced "Big fella schooner close up."
Even as he spoke, tbey beard he
rumble of chain tbrougb hawse pipe,
and from the veranda saw a big black
paintetf schooner swinging to her Just
caught anchor.
"It's a Xankee, Joan cried. "See
that bow! Look at that elliptical stern!
Ah, I tbougbt bo" as the stars and
stripes fluttered to the masthead.
"Martha, Ban Francisco," Bbeldon
read, looking tbrougb the telescope.
"It's the first Yankee 1 ever beard of
in the Solomons. Tbey are coming
ashore, whoever tbey are. And, by
Jove, look at those men at the oars.
It's an all white crew. Now, whut res
Ba brings tbem here?"
"They're not proper sailors." .Km
commented. "I'd be asbam"l ot au'tv,
of black boys that pulled in such a
fashion. Look at that fellow In tbe
bow the one Just Jumping out; he'd be
more at borne on a cow pony."
.The boat's crew scattered up .and
down the beach, ranging about with
eager curiosity, while the two men who
bad snt in tbe stern sheets opened tbe
gate and cauie up the path to tbe bun
galow.. One of them, a tall and slendej-
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ted him like a semi-military uniform.
The other man, in nondescript gar
ments that were both of the sea add
shore and that must have been uncom
fortably hot, slouched and shambled
like an overgrown ape. ..To complete
tbe Illusion, his face seemed to sprout
in all directions with a dense busby
mass of red whiskers,, while bis eyes
were small and sharp and restless.
Sheldon, who had gone to the head
of the steps. Introduced them to Joan.
The bewbiskered Individual, who
looked like a Scotchman, bad tbe Ten
tonic name of Von Bllx and spoke
with an American accent Tbe tall
man In the well fitting ducks, who
gave the English name of Tudor John
Tudor talked purely enunciated Eng
lish such as any cultured American
would talk, save for the fact that it
was most delicately and subtly ouched
by a faint German accent 1
Von Blix was rough and boorish, but
ludor was gracefully easy In every'
thing he did. or looked, or said.
Tbey were on a gold bunting ex
pedition. He was tbe leader and Tudor
was , bis lieutenant ' All bands and
there were . twenty -eight were share
holders, in varying proportions. In the
adventure. Several were sailors, but
the large majority were miners, culled
from all tbe camps from Mexico to
the Arctic ocean. It was the old and
ever untiring pursuit of gold and they
came to the Solomons to get it Fart
of tbem, under the leadership of Tudor,
were to go up the Balesuna and pene
trate tbe mountainous heart of Guadal
canal while the Martha, under Von
Bllx, sailed away for Malalta to put
through similar exploration.
"And so," said Von Bllx, "for Mr.
Tudor's expedition we must have some
black boys. Can we get them from
your
"In the first place we can't spare
tbem," Sheldon answered. "We are
short of them on tbe plantation as it
is."
"We?" Tudor asked quickly. "Then
you are a firm or a partnership?
understood at Guvutu that you were
alone, that you bad lost your partner.
Sheldon inclined bis bead toward
Joan, and as be spoke she felt that be
bad become a trifle stiff.
"Miss Lackland has become inter
ested In tbe plantation since then. But
to return to the boys. We can't spare
them, and, besides, they would be of
little use. You couldn't get them to
accompany you beyond BInu, which Is
a short day's work with tbe boats from
here. They are Malalta men, and tbey
are afraid of being eaten,! They would
desert you at tbe first opportunity.
You could get the Bum men to ac
company yoa another day's Journey
through tbe grass lands, but at tbe first
roll of tbe foothills look for them to
turn back. Tbey likewise are dlsln
cllned to being eaten.'
"Is it as bad as that?" asked Von
BliX. ,: ' ,
. "The Interior of Guadalcanar has
never been explored." Sheldon explain'
ed. "The bushmen are as wild men
as are to be found anywhere in the
world today. I have never seen one.
I have never seen a man who bas seen
one. Tbe Austrian expedition scient
ists, you know got part way in before
'It was cut .to pieces. The monument
Is ud the beach there several miles.
Only one man got back to the coast to
tell the tale. Ana now you nave au
I or any other man knows of the Inside
of Guadalcanar." '
"But gold have you heard of gold?"
Tudor asked impatiently. "Do you
know anything about gold?" .
Sheldon smiled, while tbe two visitors
(nine eagerly uooo bis words.
"You can go two miles up the Bale
suna and wash colors from the gravel.
I've done it often. There Is gold un
doubtedly back in the mountains."
Tudor and Von Bllx looked trlum
nhantlv at each other.
"Old Wbeatsbeaf s yarn was tftie,
then." T lor said, and Von Blix nod
ded. "And If Malalta turns oat as
well"- "
Tudor broke off and looked at Joan.
"It was tbe tale of this old beach
comber that brought us here," be ex'
plained. "Von Blix befriended blm
and was told tbe secret" He turned
and addressed Sheldon. "I think w
shall prove that white men Dave been
through tbe heart of Guadalcanar
long before tbe time of tbe Austrian
expedition." -Sheldon
shrugged bis shoulders.
"We have never heard ot it down
here," he said simply. Then be ad
dressed Von Bllx. "Ai to the boyi,
you couldn't use them farther than
lilnu. and I'll lend yoo as many as
von want as far as that How many
of your party are going and how sooo
will voa start r
"Ten," said Tudor) "nine men and
myself."
"And you should be able to start
law efipr tomorrow." Von Bllx said
to film. "The lmu should practically
Totnbrrow Tfhonid" see' tner'ofrtnT por
Honed and packed. As for the Martha,
Mr. Sheldon, we'll rush the stuff ashore
this afternoon and sail by sundown."
As tbe two men returned down the
path to their boat Sheldon regarded
Joan quizzically.
"There's romance for you," he said.
"and adventure gold hunting among
the cannibals. Aren't yoo sorry you
became a cocoanut planter?"
What do you think ot them?" she
asked.
Oh, old Von Blix is all right, a
solid sort ot chap in bis fashion: but
Tudor is a flyaway too much on tbe
surface, yoa know. It it came to
being wrecked on a desert Island I'd
prefer Von Bllx."
"I don't quite understand," Joan ob
jected. "What have . you against
Tudotr
A man of Tudor's type gets on my
neryes. One demands more repose
from. a man."
Joan felt that she did not quite
agree with his Judgment, and, some
bow, Sheldon caught ber feeling and
was disturbed. He remembered noting
bow ber eyes had brightened as she
talked with the newcomer. i
A second boat bad been lowered, and
tbe outfit of the shore party was
landed rapidly. A dozen of tbe crew
put tbe knocked down boats together
on the beach. There were five of these
craft lean and narrow, with flaring
sides and remarkably long. Each was
equipped with three paddles and
sevefal iron shod poles. "
You chaps certainly seem to know
river work," Sheldon told one ot the
carpenters. '
We use 'em in Alaska, They're
modeled after the Yukon poling boats,
and you can bet your life they're
crackerjacks. This creekll be a snap
alongside some of tbem northern
streams. Five hundred pounds in one
of tbem boats an' two men can snake
it along in a way that'd surprise you."
At sunset the Martha broke out ber
anchor and got under way, dipping
ber flag and saluting with a bomb
gun. Tbe union Jack ran up and
down tbe staff, and Sheldon replied
with bis brass signal cannon. The
miners pitched their tents in tbe com
pound and cooked on tbe beach, while
Tudor dined with Joan and Sheldon.
Their guest seemed to have been
everywhere and seen everything and
met everybody, and, encouraged by
loan, bi9 talk was larcely upon bis
own adventures. . Descended from old
New England stock, bis father a con
sul general, he had been born In Ger
many, in which country be had re
ceived bis early education and his ac
cent Then, still a boy. he nod re
joined bis father in Turkey and ac
companied blm later to Persia, bts fa
ther having been appointed minister to
that country.
Tudor bad gone through- South
American revolutions, been a rougb
rider in Cuba, a scout In South Africa
and a war correspondent In tbe Kusso
Japanese war. . Be bad mushed dogs
In the Klondike, washed gold from
tbe sands of Nome and edited a news
paper In San Kranclsco. The presl
dent of tbe United States was hs
friend. ' Ha was eauallv at borne in
tbe clubs of London and the continent
the Grand hotel at Yokohama and tbe
selectors' shanties in tbe Never Never
country. He bad shot big game in
Siatu. pearled in the Paumotus, visited
Tolstoy, seen the Passion play , and
crossed tbe Andes ou muleback, while
he was a living directory of the fever
holes ot west Africa. '
Sheldon leaned back in bis chair on
tbe veranda, sipping ' bis coffee and
listening, in spite of himself he felt
touched by the charm of a man who
had led so varied a life. It seemed to
him that the man addressed himself
particularly to Joan. Sheldon watched
her rapt ' attention. listened to her
spontaneous laughter, quick questions
and passing Judgments and felt grow
within him tbe dawning consciousness
that be loved ber. Then as If the
scene bad been prepared by a clever
playwright Utami came upon the ve
randa to report to Joan the capture of
a crocodile in the trap they bad made
for-her.
. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Statement of the Condition of
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Of AshevUle, N. C.
At the Close of Business Feb. 4th, 1913.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
Overdrafts
Furniture and Fixtures ...
Banking house and other real estate . .
Stocks and Securities
NORTH CAROLINA STATE BONDS
: Cnsli in Vault and in Other Bank. . .. .
.' ..$ l,r)40,7fi!)..r7
537.58
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34,000.00
40,200.00
100,000.00
r.07.017.33 ,
$2,040,543.48
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Capital
Surplus
frofits . .............
Re-discounts ..... . .
Deposits.
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.; 50,000.00
G3,0fi0.57
41,000.00
l,780,4750l
$2,040,545.48
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