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Lalia fell backwards into the cabin, and the heavy chest slipped down on the top of her, crushing her left foot cruelly against the companion lining, and jamming her slender body underneath.
Hayes got ashore by himself, and the writer of this narrative, with Karta, the Pleasant Islander, and Lalia, the trader's wife, came ashore on the wreck of a boat that had been carried on top of the after-deck house. We were all badly knocked about. Karta had a fearful gash in his leg from a piece of coral. This he had bound up, whilst swimming, with a strip of his grass-cloth girdle.
Arnold is truly a widow in a strange land, yet He who is the husband of the widow has not forsaken her. The aged gentleman, his dutiful daughter and the lovely Lalia have given her the warmest sympathy, and taken her to their snug and cosey home. Only a few weeks had passed away since Evelyn had written Marguerite, but how much had transpired in that time?
Then, as a tremendous crashing sea came over the waist, all the women but Lalia bolted and left us alone. Lalia laughed. 'That's the long-boat gone, sir; and all those Pleasant Islands women are drown, I hope the damned savage beasts, I hate them. * The Leonora carried four guns. She was soon brought alongside, fully manned, and awaiting Hayes's orders.
Then spoke her thanks through the soft dreamy eyes beautiful as an Italian sky. "Good-bye, Lalia," and the child went forth with a sadness prophetic that from these icy lips those words were the last she would ever hear. And the child was right. On the following day as the sun was sinking in the west, Montague Arnold was sinking into his last slumber.
Lalia, in addition to her dreadfully crushed foot, had her right arm badly cut; and the writer was so generally excoriated and done-up that he would never have reached the shore, but for the gallant Karta and the brave-hearted Lalia, who both held him up when he wanted to let go and drown quietly.
The little one glided toward the speaker, and putting the tiny white arms around her neck, impressed a warm kiss upon the quivering lips. "Good-bye, Lalia! When you grow to be a woman wear this for my sake," and Montague Arnold took from his finger an old-fashioned ring the gift of his dying mother. The child looked at the precious relic, as if it were too sacred to touch.
Ben-Abid belonged to the Tribu des blancs, and was the singer attached to the café of the smokers of the hashish. He it was who struck each evening a guitar made of goatskin backed by sand tortoise, and lifted up his voice in the song "Lalia": "Ladham Pacha who has left the heart of his enemies trembling O Lalia! O Lalia! The love of women is no more sweet to me after thy love.
Where could he he going? Suddenly he knew. The Reverend Orme was going to Manoel's house. Shenton was there. Lalia came running to them. "Hold Natalie!" Lewis cried to her, and sped away to warn Shenton of danger. He ran with all the speed of his eight years, but from the first he felt he was too late. The low-hanging branches of the orange-trees hindered him.
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