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(Continued from Page 6) were not the soldiers but the police. When they failed, then the soldiers would enter the game,
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When the soldiers reached the knife edged passage, he was prompted to warn them. But his gaze fell upon the body of the nurdered maid, and he kept silent, When six had ventureil on the knife edge, he opened fire. Nor did he cease when the Knite-edge was bare He emptied his gazine, reloaded, and emptied it again. He kept on shooting. All his wrongs were blazing in his brain, and he was in a fury verigeance. All down the goat trail the soldiers were, firing, and though they lay flat and sought to shelter themselves in the shallow inequalities of the surface, Bullets whistled and thuded about him, woman rips they were all exposed marks to him, and a occasional ricochet sang sharply through the air. One bullet ploughed a creado through his sculp, and a second burned across his shoulder-blade without breaking the skin.
In the droway, afternoon, most of the lepers lay in their rock dens asleep. Koolau, his rifle on his knees, fresh-clean ed and ready, dozed in the entrance to (Author of The Sea Wolf," "The Call his own den. The maid with the twisted
of the Wild," etc.).
arm lay below in the thicket and kept watch on the knife-edge passage. Sad denly Koolau was startled wide awake by the sound of an explosion on the beach. The next instant the atmosphere was in credibly rent asudor. sound frightened him. It was
The terrible as if all the gods had caught the envelope He affectionately rubbed a twisted hand of the sky in their hands and ware along his rifle-barrel and made sure that ripping it apart a the sights were clean. He hail learned apart a sheet of cotton cloth. But it was to shoot as a wild cattle hunter on euch an immense ripping, growing swiftly Niihaa, and on that island his skill as a nearer. Koolau glanced up apprehensive marksman was unforgotten. As the toil-ly, as if expecting to see the thing. Then ing specks of men grew nearer and larger, high up on the cliff overlined the shell he estimated a range, judged the deflection burst in a fountain of black smoke. The of the wind that swept at right-angles rock was shattered, the fragments falling across the line of fire, and calculated the to the foot of the cliff. chances of overshooting marks that were Koolau passed his hand across his
fur below his level. But he did not sweaty brow." shout. Not until they reached the begin- He had had no experience with shell-fire, He was terribly shaken. ning of the passage did he make his pre-and this was more dreadful than anything sence known. He did not disclose him he had imagined. self, but spoke from the thicket.
You must go back." Koolau said.. He knew the man, a deputy sheriff, fur it was by him that he had heen harried out of Niihau, across Kani, to Kalalau Valley, and out of the valley to the gorge, Who are you?' the sheriff asked. "Eam Koola, the iper," was the reply.
Then come out.: We want you. Jend or alive, there is a thousand dollars on your head. You cannot ape.".
Koolau laughed aloud in the thicket.
Come out!" the sheriff cummanded, and was answered by silence.
One;" said Kapahei, suddenly thinking himself to keep count.
waz guns.
He
It was n BIBSmere, in which one man Cid the killing. retreat, helping along their wounded. As The soldiers began to
of the smell of berut meat. He glanced Kolan picked them off he became aware
that it was his own hands. The heat of about him at first, and thep discovered
What do you want?" be demanded.
destroyed most of the nerves in his hands, the rifle was doing it. The leprosy had. We want Koolau, the leper," answer- A second and a third shell flow serenta- it there was no sensation
Though his flesh burned and he smelled ed the nian who led the native police, hing over the top of the wall, bursting self a blu-eyed American.
delay in the thicket, smiling, until he beyond view. Kapaliei methodically kept remembered the th count. The lepers crowded into the doubt they would open up on him again, Without open space before the caves. At first, they and this time up the very thicket from tinned their light overhead the leper folk Sareely had he changed hus position to a were frightened, but as the shells which he had inflicted the damage. became reassured and began to admire the ook behind a small shoulder of the wail delight, prancing wild antics as each air the bombardment recommenced. spectacle.
The two idiots shrieked with where he had noted no shells fell, than
began to recover his confidence, torninting shelf passed' by,
Koolan counted the shella. Sixty, more were daciage was being done. Evidently, they reased.
No thrown into the gorge before the war-gune could not aim such large missiles at sneh their explosions, Entil it seemed impos-1
The tiny area was pitted with long range with the precision a rifle.
ble that any creature could have sur- But a change came over the situation vived. So the soldiers thought; for, under below in the thicket by the knife-edge the goat trail again.. The shells began to fall short: One barat the burning afteragun, they climbed Eolau remembered the maid who lay there edged passage was disputed, and sgain Again the knife- ou watch and ran down to see.. was still rising from the bushes when he
The smoke they fell back to the beach.
For two days longer Koolau held the branches were splintered and broken themselves with flinging shells into his re- crawled in. He was astounded. The passage, though the soldiers contented Where the girl had lain was a hole in the treat. Then Pahau, a leper, boy, came to Fragments. The shell had burst right on porge and shouted down to him that ground. The girl herself was in shattered the top of the wall at the back of the her.
Kiloliana, hunting gouts that they might First peering out to make sure no soleat, bad been killed by a fall, and that diers were attempting the passage, Koolau the women were frightened and knew not started back on the run, for the caves. the time the shells were moaning, whining, and left him with a spare gun with which All What to do. Koolau called the boy down screaming by, and the valley was rambling to guard the passage. Koolan found his and reverberating with the explosions, people disheartened. The majority of Ashe came in sight of the caves, he saw them were too helpless to forage food for the two idiots cavorting about, clutching themselves under such forbidding eir each other's hands with their stumps of cu stances, and all were starving He fingers. Even as he ran, Koolau saw a selected two women and a man who were near to the idiots. They were flung apart them back to the gorge to bring up food spout of black smoke rise from the ground, not too far gone with the disease, and sent bodily by the explosion. One lay motion and mate. The rest he cheered and con- less, but the other was dragging himself soled until even the weakest took a hand by his hands toward the cave, Tis legs in building rough shelters for themselves. trailed out helplessly behind him, while the blood was pouning from his body. He seemed bathed in blood, and as he crawled he cried like a little dog. The rest of the lepera, with the exception of Kapahei, tad fed into the caves.
He conferred with the police, and Koolau saw that they were preparing to rush him.
"Koolau," the seriff called. “Koolau, I am coming across to gel you."
Then look first and well about you at the sun and sea and uky, for it will b: the last time you behold them.
"That's all right, Koola," the sheriff said soothingly, I know you're a dead shot. But you won't shoot me. I have never done you any wrong,"
Koolau grunted in the thicket.
I say, you know, I've niver done you any wrong, have 17" the sheriff per sinted.
You do me wrong when you try to put nan in prison, was the reply. "And you do me wrong when you try for the thousand dollars. my head. If you will live, stay where you ar
I've got to come across and get you. I'm sorry. But it is my daty.'
You will die before you get across.” The sheriff was no coward. Yet was he undecided. He gazed into the gulf on either side and ran his eyes along the knife-edge he must travel. Then he made up his mind..
Koolau," he called..
But the thicket remained silent.
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But those he had dispatched for food did not return, and he started back for the gorge. As he came out on the brow of the wall, half a dozen rilles cracked. A bullet tore through the fleshy part of his shoulder, and his cheek was cut by a sliver Koolau, don't shoot. I am coming. The sheriff turned, gave some orders to
of rock as a second bullet smashed against the eliff. In the moment that this hap- the police, then started on his perilous
This last shell had fairly entered onepened, and as he leaped back, he saw that way. He advanced slowly It was like of the caves:
The explosion caused all gorge was alive with soldiers. walking a tight-rope. He had nothing to lean upon but the air.
the caves to empty. But from the parti" people had betrayed him. The shell. The lava-rock cular cave no one emerged, Koolau crept
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shoulders of the first scldier to rise clearly half-way point was reached.
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"It would be better to kill him," said would have their will though the sky fell extended, shaking her snarling death's, dim in his ears, it seemed to him that strange persistence of these haule, who halted, and, with skinny, harpy-claws | life faded and the drip of the rain grew The bullet whirled him half-about. On his face was Konlan to Kapahei, who still sat in the in. Ay, they would have their will over lead from side to side, she laid a cure he was once more in the thick of horse- an expression of querulous surprise us same open place.
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the lip-edge, and surrendered to the hid knife edge; but at that moment he know him. Twenty-three twenty-four." it was stronger than life and that bent death. The next moment the knife-edge The Idiot whined sharply when he saw all things to their bidding. He was con was vicini. Then came the rush, five the rifle levelled at him. Koolau vinced of the hopelessness of his struggle. palicemen, in single file, with super hesitated, then lowered the gun.
There was no gainsaying that terrible will steadiness, running along the knife-edge
"It is a hard thing to do," he said. of the hundes. Though he killed a thou At the same instant the rest of the posse "You are a fool, twenty-six, twenty-sund, yet would they rise like the sunris opened fire or the thicket. It was mad seven," said Kapahei. Let me show of the sen and come upon hini, ever more ness. Five times Koolas pulled the you."
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That was their faolt and stituted a rattle. Changing his position of rack in his hand, approached the their virtue. It was where his own kind and crouching Tow under the bullets that wounded thing. As he lifted his arm to lacked. He could see, now. how the were biting and singing through the strike, a shell burst full apon him, reliev handful of the preachers of God and the hushes, he peered out. Four of the policeing him of the necessity of the act and at preachers of Rum had conquered the land. had followed the sheriff. The fifth lay the same time putting an end to his count. It was because
Koolau was alone in the gorge. across the knife-edge, still alive. On the
He "Well, what have you got to say? Will farther side, no longer firing, were the watched the last of his people drag their you come with me?" surviving police. On the naked rock rippled bodies over the brow of the height It was the voice of the invisible man and disappear. Then he turned and went under the white flag. There he was, like there was no hope for them. Before they down to the thicket where the maid had any hole, driving straight toward the end could clamber down Koolau could have picked off the last man. But he did not been killed. The shell-fire-continued, but determined:
Let us talk," said Koolar.
When pressed too closely, his sure riffe trembling set up in his body. This, too, fire, and, after a conference, one of them remained; for far below he could see
The man's head and shoulders arose, wounded down the goat trails to the fell back. Then his eyes opened, and did hold them back and they carried their swased. He half-lifted his head, but it took off a white undershirt and waved it the soldiers climbing up. A shell burst
twenty feet away, a. Hag.
Flattening himself then his whole body. Followed by another, to the earth, he heard the rush of the faced, blue-eyed youngster of twenty-five, the shooting as his brown body showed Mauser, and he pressed it against his He was a smooth-euch There were times when they did not close. His last thought was of bis advanced along the knife-edge to their fragments above his body. A shower of slender and natty in his captain's uniforça, wounded comrade. Koolau gave no sight blossoms rained upon him. He lifted He advanced until halted, then seated become specks as they descended into the his head to peer down the trail, and himself a dozen feet away.
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He wasey much afraid You are a brave run," said Koolau Two hours later, from anther thicket him, but this shell-fire was abominable, fly
Bullets from rifles would not have worried wonderingly. "I could kill you like a Koolau watched a body of police trying to Each time a shell shrieked by, he shivered No you couldn't," was the answer: make the ascent from the opposite side of and crouched: but each time he lifted his Why not! the valley. He saw the wild goats flee head again to watch the trail.
"Because you before them as they climbed highor and At last the shells reused.
are aman. Koolau, higher, until he doubted bis judgment and reasoned, was because the soldiers were You Lill fairly
This, he though a had one. I know your story. sent for Kiloliana, who crawled in beside drawing near. They crept along the trail Koolaw grunted, but was secretly pleas
in single file, and he tried to count themed. No, there is no way," said Kiloliana.
until he lost track. At any rate, there What have you done with my people??? The goats Koolau quetioned, They come over from the next valley after Koolau the leper. He felt a fleeting and the man!"
were a hundred or so of them-all come he demanded. The boy, the two women, but they cannot pass to this. There is no prod of pride. With war-guns and rifles. way. Those men are not wiser than goats.police and soldiers, they came for him, and pow come for you to do. They may fall to their deaths. Let us he was only one man, a crippled wreck watch.
of a man at that. The offered a thou have done no wrong. All I ask is to be They are brave men," said Koolau,ng dollars for him, deart or slive, Let us watch. Side by side they lay among the morning at his life he had never possessed that left alone. I have lived free, and I shall
much money The thought was a bitter die free I will never give myself up." glories, with the yellow blossoms of the has dropping upon them from overhead soolau, had done no wrong. Because the ou," answered the young captain.
Kapabei had been right."
Then your people are wiser than He, watching the motes of men toil upward, huoles wanted labour with which to work Lock-they are coming now. till the thing happened. and three of them, the stolen land, they had brought in the Koolan tarned and watched the slipping, rolling, sliding, dashed over a Chinese coolies, and with them had come remnant of his band approach. Groaning cliff-tip and fell sheer half a thousand feet: the sickness.
We will be bothered no more,' he
And now, because he had and sighing a ghastly procession, it caught the sickness, he was worth a thou-dragged its wretchedness past. It was They have war-guns," Koolan made and dollars--but not to himself. It was given to Enolan to taste a desper bitter his worthless carcase, rotten with disease bess, for they hurled imprecations and answer. The soldiers have not yet or dead from a bursting shell, that was insults at him as they wont by, and the
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