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Updated: June 6, 2025
For many minutes the chanting continued, growing louder in volume as it drew nearer. At last Lady Tennys uttered an exclamation and pointed toward an opening in the ridge far to the left of the village. A string of natives came winding slowly, solemnly from this cleft men, women and children apparently without end.
Lady Tennys rubbed her eyes and stared blankly about her when Hugh awoke her. The darkness and the strange forms frightened her, but his reassuring words brought remembrance of the unique trip and with it the dim realization that they had landed at last. If their first landing place was wonderful, this was doubly so.
"God bless you. I can hardly breathe for the joy I feel." "But you do not say you will marry me," she smiled. "You shall be my wife to-day," he cried. "I beg your pardon," she said gaily, "but as the bride I am the arbiter of time. If in a year from now we are still here, I will be your wife." "A year! Great heaven! Impossible! I won't wait that long. Now be sensible, Tennys."
Then he arose and came directly to them. Hugh marvelled at his size. Tremendous muscles, cords, knots and ridges stood, out all over his symmetrical body. He peered intently at the white man's flesh and then dubiously at his own. When he turned his inspection to Tennys, his eyes riveted themselves upon her clear white face, the most gorgeously beautiful flower he ever had seen.
Tennys was secretly rehearsing the marriage ceremony in the privacy of her chamber, prompted and praised by her faithful handmaidens. To her, this startling wedding meant but one thing: the resignation of all intent to leave the island. The day she and Hugh Ridgeway were united according to the custom sacred to these people, their fate was to be sealed forever.
At the edge of this he found a confusion of bewildering barefoot moulds, mixed with others unquestionably made by a shoe on the foot of a civilized person. Hurrying through the trees, fearful that savages had attacked Lady Tennys at this place, he was suddenly confronted by a spectacle that made him gasp.
"That is the question," she said simply. He walked over and sat down rather heavily on one of the stone blocks. "I saw it from the sea," he stammered. "And so did I." For some moments he sat gazing at the flag, actual distress in his eyes. She looked away and smiled faintly. "I didn't think, Tennys; truly I did not.
"We're off now," he said as he came up. "Don't worry, little woman; we'll come home victorious as sure as fate. See these fellows? They are your guard, your own soldiers. You can command them to do as you wish." "Mine?" she asked slowly, as if not comprehending. "Yes; they are the Lady Tennys Reserves," he said, smiling.
A portion of her white dress protruded, and a triumphant yell announced the fact that it had met the eyes of a searcher. Wondering what had caused the sudden yell, Hugh peered around the corner of the rock, and to his dismay found the whole band staring at their hiding place. "They have seen us," he cried. "Remember, Tennys, what I told you. It's probably a case of fight on my part.
You've been so brave and confident all the time." He took her hands in his own and looked tenderly down into the wavering eyes of blue. "It is dreadful, Hugh. I never knew how dreadful until now. I cannot bear to see you go out there to-night, perhaps never to come back. I shall die if you go!" "But I must go, Tennys," he said firmly. "I'd rather die than be a coward.
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