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Updated: September 4, 2025
More than that no girl needs to know. I am satisfied to be the wife of Bulan if Bulan is satisfied to have the daughter of the man who has so cruelly wronged him." An arm went around the girl's shoulders and drew her close to the man she had glorified with her loyalty and her love. The other hand was stretched out toward Professor Maxon.
The old man stepped forward and took Bulan's hand. The expression of doubt and worry had left his face. "I cannot believe," he said, "that you are other than a gentleman, and if, in my desire to protect Virginia, I have said aught to wound you I ask your forgiveness." Bulan responded only with a tighter pressure of the hand. "And now," said the professor, "let us return to the long-house.
It was on the fifth morning, when Virginia awoke, that she found Bulan rolling and tossing upon the wet ground before her shelter, delirious with fever.
"How long have you lived there?" asked the girl. "We thought the island uninhabited." "All my life," replied Bulan truthfully. "It is strange," she mused. "I cannot understand it. But the monsters how is it that they followed you and obeyed your commands?" Bulan touched the bull whip that hung at his side. "Von Horn taught them to obey this," he said.
Here was a spot where a single man might defy an army, and Bulan had been quick to see the natural advantages of it. He placed the girl upon her feet behind a protruding shoulder of the canyon's wall which rose to a considerable distance still above them. Then he turned to face the mob that was surging up the narrow pathway toward him.
"Oh, Bulan," cried the girl, "how in the world did you ever happen to come to that terrible island of ours?" "I came for you, dear," he replied. "It is a long story. After dinner I will tell you all of it that I can recall.
She wondered how long it would be ere the creature beneath her would add his share to the grim trophies of the hunt. In the interval that the head hunters had paused to sever Number Twelve's head, Bulan had gained fifty yards upon them, and then, of a sudden, he came to a sheer wall rising straight across the narrow trail he had been following.
Professor Maxon was behind her. "Shoot the monster, von Horn," he ordered. "Do not let him escape." Bulan drew himself to his full height, and though he wavered from weakness, yet he towered mighty and magnificent above the evil faced man who menaced him. "Shoot!" he said calmly. "Death cannot come too soon now." At the same instant von Horn pulled the trigger.
Oh, it is terrible even to think of the hideousness of it; but now they are all dead he cannot do it even though his poor mind, which seems well again, should suffer a relapse." "Why do you loathe them so?" asked Bulan. "Is it because they are hideous, or because they are soulless?"
It was on the morning of the seventh day since they had commenced their wandering in search of the long-house that, as she sat watching him, she saw his eyes resting upon her face with a look of recognition. Gently she took his hand, and at the act he smiled at her very weakly. "You are better, Bulan," she said. "You have been very sick, but now you shall soon be well again."
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