FALL RIGHTS RESERVED. HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE NOTES OF RUPERT DE LA TOUBE
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W. CLARK RUSSELL,
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CHAPTER IX.
THE VALLEY,
Esdopt deeply, and with great refreshment. I was awakened by the noise of birds and by the strong pink light of sanrise, I at once ros and walked down to the little river and bathed. and after I had shaved myself I went towards the garden, expecting to set the captain or the princass but w neither.
Catching sight of the mast of the boat lying near the house the rasst we had carried provi- xions by from the creek- it came into my head to return it to its proper place.
I shouldered the most. and marched to the creek with it. looking about ine for a sight of Eulalie or the captain.
As I approached the house Isus Eulalie leave it. She was in her swimming attire and did not observe. I had a miud to call her. ther determined to follow her unperceived, and watch ler sporting in the water us on the pre- reding day. When she arrived at the edge of the cliff she paused, looking down at the sea, and as the space about her was vacant of trees or any kind of bush to leak the continuity of the ecast, she might, in that moment of mistion- tess posture, have been mistaken for a crven imare of beauty, set up to typify the loveliness of us spot of land. She disappeared. and I hushewed to find out how und why, as I passed On gain the cliffs rose to some height there. ing the place w her in the set of leaping from on rock to another, which stood about tem feet above the sea level.
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had not before seen her in a white cloth skirtį or petticoat, and a jacket whick was laced down her breast. Her arms were naked to the shoul. ders. Her hair fall glorionsly about her, and she wore flowers in it, and pinned about her best. I started up when she came in, and a laughter in her sys, and a requish colour in her cheek.
Did you think me drowned?" she qil I stared at her a little foolishly, and then answered. I certainly did."
"I saw you follow me," says she, and know that you looked down when I dived, and I thought. I would make you believe I could live under water." and she breaks into a merry langel.
You have cased Mr. Touche grat Ke- resines--more, great pain. Yim should not have done it! She approached me with a Inseeching look, and held out her hand.
"she exciinaedi "Have I given you pain
I never thinght you wonk suppose I was drowned. Please forgive me,"
I told her she stood in no need of forgive nexs I am transported to see you in the flesh," says T. Not half an hour ao I would have sworn you were no longer of this world."
Edited into the cave, he said. to think by looking round it how you would like to sen it. can take you in.
No, no, cries Captain Scott, a little gruff ly for hita.
She sat down and began to eat her breakfast. It may not be difficult to get into your cave," I said, "but how about getting out?”
as going it. The hall is so rafu so din, so vool. It is quite easy. I will show you. You'll love it."
It is the same." she juswered,
You'll attempt nothing of the sort for the present. Mr. Is Touche," mys Captain Seatt with a rather darkling look, which was quick to understand.
When will you give him leave to ene?” asked the princess, pausing in her eating, and gazing at her father petulitly, as though she huds mind to cry.
There is plenty of time." was Capduin Scott's
I heartily prayer Almighty God might condust me te an opening and so into safety.
With trembling limb which carried me rather in a stagger than a walk, keeping eloss to the wall of the cliff, for such had been the blow to my nerves that the very sight of the edge of the platforma made me giddy. I moved towards the month of the cuvem, and then came to a halt, pearing in, then looking at the do- cayed, barbarons decorations which garnished the jaws of the gloomy vault. So far as I could distinguish. these exibellishments had repre- souted, when whole, heals and faces of mon and beats, chiselled in the solid rock roand abort the opening into the eave by the hand of the savage with savage et. I glared in The light of day went not far. I could see vage outlines of things, but what they were I mud advance to know. I peeded a few steps | and stopped and stured about me, with hammer ing pulses and a sinking heart. I saw that if make my escape by this turned 1 nast IWAN to walk in darkues This was a horrid ides, for I feared that I might take a step in blackness which would plunge me inte an abyss, as who was to tell but that the floor of the tunnel was full of chasis and hideous hollows, through which man wight fall ten thousand feet into the very woml: of earth
Pire was not to be got. The son's light was not upon the huge. The burning glass was therefore useless to kindle me a flambant even cordel I have fonti a dry branch or anything that would burn. I pushed in a little further. and again stopped and looked and listened; for it memed to res that I was in the presence of number of gigantic human beings, motionless giants, eight or ten foot tall: but where they Blood on either side of the cavern, the place was so sunk in gloom 'twas imposible for me to sam
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I waited three or four hours and then I heard Captain Scott hall me from above. I answered, shouting a warning not to approach the edge.
"I know my ground," he shouted. Look out for the end of a line. Clap yourself in a bowline, and Lily and I will haul you up, but you must help es by climbing as best you can." He was a powerfully built man, with a streng voice, and though he stood fifty feet above me and out of sight every word was clear.
Ice isent on a little parcel for nourishment. Take it before you attempt the ascent,"
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When the package came to me I roared out. Live enough!" and opening the cloth found son bread fruit and a little bottle of rat hastily swallowed both and put the bottle in my pocket, and then bawling to Captain Scott to hant in some of the slack I made a howline of the end of the rope, grot into it, and shouted. -Hoist away!"
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The rope was strained; my body lay sgainst the cliff. By himself, powerful as he was, Capod, and stored tain Scott, could not have stirred me, but Eu- be turned a little will do it. It was a question lati udder her weight, and when the scale is to of life and leath. If they ecu'd not hun! me up I was a dead man, so with the rage tant pos- Besses him who toils for his life I claved and tood the cliff, slowly ascending, helped much by the strain from above, and aiding the drag by my desperate and determined efforts until I reached the edge, where, throwing my kanils over. I grabbed the earth, but it broke away.
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shouted the Captain, who was straining at the end of the line with Eulalie u short distance from the riu, and I came over. They pulled yet again nnd drew me like a logE H.A.L. Steamship till I was alniest come to where they stood.
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It had been attended by these tremendous 1. stood long enough to allow my sight to siderations: if the should part? If grow used to the gloom, and then hearing n their dragging should fail me Hence when I was pulled. I lay stili. panting, fajut, as spont thing and observing no motion in the great
thurs on either hand. I advancel a few pacesus thoigh I had swum score of miles. and unce mow stapped to scrustorn my eyes stiil dter to the darkness, and presently I was nhie te discern that I stood in what had doubtedly He loft us alone together until dinner, sordiden a temple of hall of worship, where trez-
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By this time I had got to see that this was no tune that it was a chamber with a termination within a few feet of the last giant
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could have blessed. God for the daylight, but for the weight of despair that crushed my heart. when I forked about me and observed low hope-AVID CORSAK & SON'S "I cannot tell. I do not know what beasked.
Doesn't he want to know if she is willinglessly i was a emptive on that ledge. The you should
stay
"She is sure to be willing." I siel. Would she wish you to be left wing her --'-venthough she is with you ?**
She viewed me intently, and I thought she wak about to pursue this stage subject.
She sat to remove her lust and sandals, and I karlt to look down and watch her, meaning to make my presence known when she was in the water. Rising, she put her hauds together to dive, and again I admired the incomparable graces of her form, and the wild and splendid Spirit of her sport auri tuste. I also noticedarnestly in the that as on the previous day, so now. she wore the dagger. She sprang. and vanished under water, striking the sen like a team of light. nud leaving but a few foam-llowers on the war- fuse to mark for a breath her hiding-place.
-She speedily came up again at a Tory short distanco from where she sunk, and then by one of those miracles of her art, which never did exunst my wonder and delight. she somehow contrived to leap out of the water to the height of her waist, again putting her hands together and going down; never did I see the dolphin or any other elegant fish exhibit more grace. 1 waited for her to show, intending when she next emerged to shoat. that she might know I' watched. I waited one minute. two minutes. three minutes. The blood run roll in my veins. I knew 'twas not in the power of human lungs to remain longer under water. Four minutes, five minutes, aut still she did not appen! My
I did heart hammered furiously in my ours not know what to do. I imagined that she had been seized by a shark when she died, and gazer to right and left of the water for any sign of blood, sweating with ror and shivering with very madness of grief at the dreadful thought.
I ran down the ravine, redless of my neck. and sprang on to the rock whence she had dired and there stood looking to right and left with much dismay nad sickness. I am able to tell you how broken-hearted I felt. Bund wow boon at least ten minutes out of sight and the sweep of een went so wide on either hand that it would be impossible for me to miss seeing kor if she came up, nor was it conceivable that she could rise at a distance where she would be iarisible. I looked along the base of the cliffs for any signs of ur figure an the sands.
What could I do? Nothing! Twas this that di eve me crazy. I could not see her sú us is help her. When I realised that she must be drowned I stood as though I had been changed into stone: all power of will seemed to have deserted me. I daresay it was twenty-five minutes before I could wake up my mind, and iken with a heart that I may truly say was weeping tears of blond I made my way up the ravine, constantly looking behind me at the rea for a sight of the princess as I went. When I venched the summit of the eliff I again explored the surface of the ocean to the very base of the oks, but not a single sign of her was visible. I was seized with
sudden terror. and walked rapidly towards the honge, looking about me eagerly for Captain Septt. After I had walked a little way down the garden I saw him com ing through the trees in the direction of the creek with a string of fish in his haul.
"Oli, Captain Scott!" I cried. ful thing has happened!"
"I shall call you Rupert-it is prettier a easier than your either long name." he said with a nota of authority, as though it was le royal will that I should be known to her as Rupert.
You'll never call in vain,"call age what you will," I answered.
-Her father said nothing to me about her when ho come to dinner, nor after, which made me wonder if he expected that I should go about this business in the common way. I mean by But consent to asking the parent's consent. what? To my marriage with his daughter? Where was the priest in this island to yoke us
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Hurst of the bushes that had broken my fall was far out of my reach, and the face of the cliff smooth bat sven if I could have rouched it I could not have got at the next. I drew a close to the edge of the ledge as I darst aud again walised my helplessness. If one of those great trees in the valley bad been growing close Ender I would have Aung myself into the branches and taken my chance. But so far, as I could judge, the face of the cliff was almost n and down. I had no heal to look over. No doubt there were growlls of inches and the like in the wall as it sank. But even if I had seen I could have made un use of them.
My only hope lay in Eulalie and her father: and the glow of hope warned me as I felt that Eulalie, y bantini Euhlie, would act atan- opposite 1 might be seen by them. to me. If or both passed along the ridge
I cursed my ill-Inck in not having the menus of making a saoke, the islander's signal.
The sun sank; the water in the valley gleamed blood: the masses of tree far down deepened shulow. I looked up with forlorner eyes than ever I burt rolled in the boat for a sight of Eulalie on the edge of the cliff above, and saw the stars.
And if I could not ask him for her hand, what hud I to say to hit ? Had she been a Kanaka girl and he a chief, or something of that sort, bur ion might have been contrived by a cere-in mony to be found among the people of the South Seas, which should require no witnesses and yet be hiding. But this gentleman was a
I sat hall-way between the cave and the ledge man of ancient Scottish linengs; he believed he was the rightfal King of England. us being des cented from the unfortunate Duke of Monof the cliff with my back to the rock. The fall mouth his child was a beautiful you fouale had sensibly weakened my nerves. I caught with Custling blood in her, In what form myself looking again and again towards the then could I ask Captain Scott to give me his cave in fits of gloomy horror lest some of those figures shall come forth. and once 1. thought daughter?
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AN APPEAL. Indeed 'twas impossible to advance beyond beheld a deeper shadow that stined in the THE SISTERS who direct ST. ANTONIO's CONVENT at Macao will be very thankful the scheme of my being betrothed: it could shade of the entrance, I started, and the sweat this be entertained, if he meant never to leave rolled down my face, but it was a deceit of the eye. to Shop-kepers, Lizen-drapers, Clothiers and It was an awful death to contemplate. It Tailors in Hongkong, Macao, and akawhere who the island alive, nor she him as she had declared?
Bnt a few days ago I was af will send to them remuants, of material, books I might live a betrothed max on this verdant unaned me. spot as long as Crusoe dwelt on his, with no dying inan in an open bout, agonised with of pattemus no longer used, and any pieces of othersatisfaction than that of having forfeited all thirst, the surviving actor of a little floating cloth, no matter how small, of which they can Those who send will thus, at no cost to my rights as a citizen of the world, of burying theatre in which a small but fearfid tragedy not make use, the father, and watching my bride elect decay. had been played under the eye of God. And
After dimmer I made myself useful as usual. I was alone again, and must die of thirst themselves, afford the numerous bands in the and filling my pipe walked with the prin unless reseed, with no other promise of release content, especially the little ones, opportunity ess to the distance of the beginning of the from my sufferings than casting myself head for useful occupation; for pieces of cloth, eren wood. whereher bower was, and wheresha. rested long from the edge of this gallery. In the of a square inch, can be stitched together and every afternoon in the solemn calm and e-wildness of my thought I clenched my hands very pretty pieces of work made out of cloth She had till the finger nails drew blood, and groaned as that would otherwise be thrown away. These bracing coolness of her leafy temple.
articles are bought by charitable persons, and asked me at dinner to swim with her, when she looked up to Him who alone could help nie.
What the hour was I could not tell. It might the Sisters are thus helped to keep up their bad rested, but her father objected on which she had looked at him somerlint mutinously and have been two o'clock in the morning; the moon very large establishment, which is maintained by yet with an expression of large-syed, childish had passed over the valley, and I had lost sight the alms of friends and in a great measure by wonder, plainly not understanding his disap of her face. On a sudden. I started hearing far the earnings of the girls themselves, who lead proval of her wish. Howevur, I was not to off a clear bell-like ery, Rupert." I sprang by no means an idle life within the convent. swim with her, though I might watch her to my feet. The sound canie from the opposite walls,
Hongkong. 18th May, 1904. A dread-sporting in the water as much as I pleased. side of the valley. I knew it was Eulalie who and so then was an end of that. for the time sought and cried for me. I put my hands to my funnel for my voice, and mouth so as to make being at all events.
shouted and again shouted. I heard her clear falut cry, ih. God help me! it was fainter then. Once more I halloed. She did not hear me, her voice, dim us in a dream, called my name as she searched the island in the moonlight. It passed away. The uppalling silence came down agais, and I flung myself upon the ledge in despair.
What has happened?" he says, and stood tin.
Your daughter is drowned." Drowned? Where?".
I watched her white figure fade out among the trees, suking into their hollow gloom as though you lowered a lighted lanthorn inte There," says I pointing.
water by twilight, and when she had vanished "No, no." I answered coming to me and I blew out a cloud of tobacco smoke in a sigh smiling She is not drowned. She is on a of love and speculation, and set my face towards visit to her cave. We shall be seeing her the western part of the island, where was a love
Dawn broke and found me crouched at the presently,"
I was astounded by his coolness, which I at ly valley, fruitful, deep and spacious, which I
His I had been awake all through the liours, onl tributed to insanity. He took a second look at had not yet visited. I passed the house and use of the cliff from whose edge I kail to bid. and sent my eyes looked for the Captain, but saw him not. me somewhat ernestly and appearal gratified habit too was to sleep of an afternoon, and his when daylight same I stood up
over the ridges opposite and down into tko val by my agitation.
choice would fall upon any shady nook, so that you might pass a braks or little blend of growths ley; but nothing human moved. Just as the it to clasp and exulte, and unless the trumpet san shot his first beam over the edge of the kill of his news took your ear, you would not know I heard Eulalie above me calling my nam
auswered her in a passion of joy, but also cried, he was just thoro
says he, as we can easily suppose,” walked towards the house. that when you saw her dive and found she did not return you concluded she was lost. That point is her toy ourito swimming spot, and there she possesses a hall or sea-wave. I was never in it, but her re-
In short, "twas the oddest, the most awes
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presentations have assured me of a vast height ing soheme of life the sea could ever dream of slid come near the edge or you'll fall as I
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Are you safe where, you are?" she cried. and width, and a marvellous and beautiful weaving for a castaway child of hors: a cota. variety of pondant aineral growths which, as pound of loveand madness. Irefilled my pipe, and and though she was invisible, her righ voice the light dibly alternates with the movement of lighted it by a burning glass which Captain rung out like a silver trumpet, pure, clear. tre
stress the swell in the orifice in the rock, appear to Scott hat unscrewed from his telescope, and morless, deep, the voice of the Kanaka song
"Quite safe." I shouted. to pulsate in colours dialy like the dying dolent to me to replace my tinder box. I - phin. 1 am so accustomed to Lily's risits to tered up the richly wooded slopes til I her care that I failed perhaps insmutly to ob three palm trees which stood together alow the edge for God's sake, for it yields like sand." serve that you who knew nothing of that cave, beside the edge of the cliff or gorge. My hands I know, she criei. Keep up your heart. a rope to lower to you. How deep down are nor of her hubits, should be in great distress were on the edge of the cliff, I was gazing down | and remain still whilst I fetch father and bring eagerly and with trasport, when in an instant
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Butstand clear of
"About fifty feef," I shouted.
for which mark of sympathy," says he, giving the soil under my kaoes gave way and I went you? me a low how.
I am your truly obliged sex koadlong. I most certainly must have brun
You must wait," she cried. "I have to senk vant. One of my Kunakas, a fellow named Sunn, whilst swimlag off that point of land killed but for the interception and fending off where you saw Lily in the water, dived after a of certain projecting brambles and wiry weels father, who has been looking for yon. But turtle.
In so doing, he discovered a hole or which broke my fall and turned me over as I wherever he is, he will come to the house when natural tunel in the cliff a fer feet under clutched at them so that when I alighted upon he sees the smoke I shali make."
my side on a ledge, platform er natural galbry
After this she was silent, whence I gathered
My transports, however, were checked when
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water, and passing though it with the courage of land, shout fifty feet deep from where I foll, she had departed. of a man to when the ses is us the air and the I was not so stuxned, but that I was sensible of
I looked ap, and reflected that I must pain the earth, he emerged into a large and magnificent what had befallen mo.
small patch cave. The catrance is marked by a
I lay quiet, breathing short and hard, for the summit before I should be able to think of and of blue water at this foot of the clif visible from the sea only."
shock was sudden and dreadful, then I stirred myself as rescued. The margin was crumbly "Well, well," said 1. if overstaan thought myself, and feeling that I had broken no bones, and dangerous, but the face though abrupt and vegetation were other parts of this valley, was, bo saw & human being drown that experience got on to my elbow, looked about me, and stood remarkably bald, suoing how covered with was mine just now. Will the princess be long up.
The edge of the shit was dfty feet store full of sporities, projections of rock and the
like,
fit for hand to thaw and foot to too praviled absent ?"
Oh, no. She'll return for breakfast. I me. There was no possibility of my scaling that the body was supported. And then again suspect she has paid this visit with some inten-that-starile wall whose few, friendly Indies I was sailor, young, very active, and now that tion of courting you into that are. But not saved my life I could not leave the yet, not yet, sir." says he, looking a little platform by the right, nor was the valley to boy situation had been discovered feeling very gained in any way from the ledge I had fallen little the worse for the garage and hideous sternly,
When we had breakfasted, but whilst we still apon. My sole hope of deliverance lay in a ordeal through which my own carsel folly had sat at table talking, she comes in dressed as I cave which, in the extremity of my agitation,
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Superintendent. Hongkong, 1st September, 1904.
"NIPPON."
liaring arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk, into the God was of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goode have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be seat in to the Offes of the Undersigned before NOON, on the 4th September, or they will not be recognised,
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godawns after the 4th September, will be subject to rent.
Bilis of Lading will be coanteragned by
BANDER, WIELER & CO.,
Agenta,
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Hongkong, th August, 904.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. HE Steamship
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"BAYERN,”
OF THE NORDDENTSCHER LOTD, having arrived. Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being of the Hough ong and Kowloon Wharf and hurled au d stored at their risk into the Godowns Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless- notice to the contrary be given before 10 o'clock To-MORROW, the 31st inst.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 6th September, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Tuesday, the 6th September, at 1,30 A.M.
All Claims mast reach us before the 12th of September, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effecteit. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the
AORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, MELCHERS & CO., undersigned.
Agents.
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