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Then I wish something could be done to make her agree to it so as to get it settled. I dread otherwise what will become of her. She is not a practical girl as I was she would hardly like now to settle down as an islander's wife; and to leave her living here alone would trouble me. 'Nothing will happen to you yet, I hope, my dear old friend.
The war had been in full swing for over a year and the countryside was an armed camp before the realisation of what might happen commercially after the war soaked into the average islander's consciousness.
"We thought we might make a run down your way in a motor boat if you could give us a clear idea where your island is located." "I can't give you any latitude and longitude," was the "islander's" reply. "I was captured in my motor boat only a mile or two away from home. Then I was blindfolded and put here on this island by the rascals.
As the pursuers never were seen by the Spanish ships, that story, too, may have been some islander's delusion; but it made the crew believe that Columbus's undertaking must look promising to the great navigating Portuguese nation, or they would not be jealous of Spain's enterprise.
Mascola faced about a few minutes later to find himself fighting alone. Then he heard the rattle of loose stones dropping from the cavern wall. Bandrist was leaving him. The Italian's blood warmed at the islander's treachery. Did Bandrist think he was the only one who knew the way out? His anger mounted as he climbed the wall and wormed his way through the narrow opening.
All this, poor Samoa would have borne with what patience he might, rather than again renew the war, were it not, that the audacious dame charged him with peculations upon her own private stores; though of any such thing he was innocent as the bowsprit. This insulting impeachment got the better of the poor islander's philosophy. He keenly resented it.
At last there fell upon the ear of the avenger the sound of a human voice. He was close to the house, and the morning exercises had begun! Here was the moment for the exhibition of all South Sea island craft, and the moment was about at hand, too, for exhibition of the full measure of a South Sea islander's ferocity!
The noble trunk itself is far from being valueless. Sawn into posts, it upholds the islander's dwelling; converted into charcoal, it cooks his food; and supported on blocks of stone, rails in his lands. He impels his canoe through the water with a paddle of the wood, and goes to battle with clubs and spears of the same hard material.
Their attitudes expressed, for the first time, doubt if not positive unbelief. As men of considerable financial experience, they regarded the young islander's proposition as an impossible one. Jones noted this blank reception of his offer and glanced appealingly at Patsy. It was an uncomfortable moment for the girl and to avoid meeting his eyes she looked away, across the lobby.
That was the master's word. I wouldn't dare not do it. If I did, my mother'd make me sorry. So that's settled." Adrian had doubts as to the truth of this statement of the islander's commands. He recalled the words: "as far as you desire." After all, this was not setting a time limit, and it was perfectly natural that anybody should like company through the wilderness.
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