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Updated: August 13, 2024
But during the long ocean voyage I was terribly sick, and by the time we got to San Francisco my stomach was a wreck. Then I tried to eat the rich food at your restaurants and hotels we live very plainly in Sangoa, you know and by the time I got to New York I was a confirmed dyspeptic and suffering tortures. Everything I ate disagreed with me.
"Why not?" "I am awaiting orders from my master." "Has he been aboard since you anchored here?" "No, sir." "What were your instructions?" "To anchor on this coast and await his coming." "Well," said Mr. Merrick, reflectively, "I believe you can prove our case without telling the location of Sangoa. An exhibition of the pearls you have brought ought to convince any reasonable judge.
Jones' father many years ago, and now belongs exclusively to his son." "Your information is indefinite," snapped the judge. "I realize that, your honor; but my client deems it wise to keep the location of his island a secret, because he has valuable pearl fisheries on its shores. The pearls exhibited by the prosecution were all found at Sangoa."
Jones says he brought the pearls from Sangoa, his home, where they were found. No one here knows anything of Sangoa, so they regard his story with suspicion. Now, sir, we believe that through you we can prove he has told the truth, and so secure his release. Here is the important question: Will you help us?" "Willingly, sir," replied the captain.
"Are you forbidden to tell us where Sangoa is, or anything about the island?" "Yes, sir; I am forbidden to do that, under any circumstances," was the ready answer. "Have you been to Sangoa since you landed Mr. Jones in San Francisco, some fifteen months ago?" "Yes, sir." "And did you bring back with you, on this trip, any pearls?" "Yes, sir." "Have you already disposed of them?" "No, sir."
He was quite unconscious of any impending misfortune and when Beth and Louise joined Patsy in thanking him for his pretty gifts of the pearls he flushed with pleasure. Evidently their expressions of delight were very grateful to his ears. Said Uncle John, in a casual way: "Those are remarkably fine pearls, to have come from such an island as Sangoa."
I began to feel lonely at Sangoa and I was anxious to visit America, of which my mother had so often told me. So some months ago I reached San Francisco, since when I have been traveling over your country my country, may I call it? and studying your modern civilization. In New York I remained fully three months. It is only about ten days since I returned to this coast."
Montrose, "but they are the most amazing lot of pearls I have ever beheld." "And did all these come from Sangoa?" Maud asked the captain. "They represent two months' fishing on the coast of our island," he replied; "but not the best two months of the year. The weather was bad; there were many storms." "Why, the pearls that Ajo gave us were insignificant when compared with these!" cried Beth.
Weldon could not help wondering, as he walked away, if possibly he and his friends had been deceived in A. Jones of Sangoa. The doubt was but momentary, yet it had forced itself into his mind. On Saturday afternoon they all made a visit to the prisoner and tried to cheer him. Again on Sunday they called the Stantons and Merricks and Weldons and all.
"The lawyer for the defense has further succeeded in entangling his client by exhibiting an additional assortment of pearls, which may likewise be stolen property. The attempt to impose upon this court a mythical island called Sangoa is eh distinctly reprehensible. This court is not so easily hoodwinked.
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