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"Wal, Dutchy," said Burrowes, looking keenly at his companion, "I reckon you know who the almighty swell in the brass-bound suit is, hey?" "Yaw," replied Schwartzkoff, "it is Bilker, und I thought he was in brison for ten years mit." "Wal, that's true enough that he did get ten years. But that's six years ago, an' I reckon they've let him out.

She looks more like a yacht Perhaps she may be a new man-of-war schooner. However, we will soon see. Put on your hat, my dear, and let us go down to the beach. Already Blount, Schwartzkoff, and Burrowes have gone; and it certainly would not do for me to remain in the background when the newcomers land." Mrs.

'I wish Schwartzkoff had kept you up in Apia, you murderous, yellow-hided scoundrel! 'What's the use of bully-ragging him? remarked the plantation engineer, with a sarcastic laugh; 'he doesn't understand a word you say. Hallo, look at that! Why, he's kissing Pulu's toe! * Whip. Burton laughed. 'So he is. 'Take care he doesn't bite it off. Pulu shook his mop of yellow hair gravely.

Then Bilker, accompanied by Schwartzkoff and Burrowes, were to go on board the schooner and settle the mate and the white steward. "How much sovereign you goin' to give Peter and Missa Burrowes?" asked Banderah. "Five hundred," answered Bilker; "five hundred between them. But I will give you a thousand." "You no 'fraid man-o'-war catch you by and by?" inquired Banderah. "No.

The visitor, who was a handsome, fair-haired man, with a blonde moustache and blue eyes, bowed his thanks, and then said, "May I have the honour to introduce myself. My name is De Vere." "And I am the Rev. Wilfrid Deighton, missionary in charge of this island. Peter Schwartzkoff and Mr. Nathaniel Burrowes."

The white population of Mayou was not large, for it consisted only of an English missionary and his wife who was, of course, a white woman a German trader named Peter Schwartzkoff and his native wife; an English trader named Charlie Blount, with his two half-caste sons and daughters; and an American trader and ex-whaler, named Nathaniel Burrowes, with his wives.

He is a notorious, cold-blooded murderer." The conversation fell a bit flat after this, for Mr. Burrowes and Mr. Schwartzkoff began to feel uncomfortable.

Deighton, who had carried him off to the mission house, after the boat returned to the schooner. Before he accompanied them, however, he told Messrs. Burrowes and Schwartzkoff, as he shook hands, that he would not fail to visit them later on in the day at their respective houses.

"That's d d curious!" said Blount, turning to Banderah and speaking in English; and then the chief took him by the arm and pointed towards the shore the boat, pulled by Schwartzkoff and Bur-rowes, with Captain Bilker sitting in the stern, had just touched the beach. Then it flashed across his mind in an instant why the natives had left so suddenly they were lying in ambush for the three men!

Deighton between them they gained the house, and sat the missionary down beside his wife, who with a cry of thankfulness threw her arms about his neck and then quietly fainted. For nearly half an hour Blount, with Banderah and the missionary by his side, looked out through the windows and saw the natives plundering and wrecking the mission house and the dwellings of Schwartzkoff and Burrowes.

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