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HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE Norms or RupÈRT DE LA TOUCHE

(1825).

DY

W. CLARK RUSSELL.

(Author of The Wreck of the Grosvenor?

"Overdue "da)

sort of pine which burnt freely, throw out af great heat, and retained a strong glow in its embers. I alled the backet, returned, and asked who out this wood.

My father," answered Ealalio. "He finds plenty to do, then "saya I.......... *He is now gone to catch bak,” she replied. Will you build up a fire? Some of these dishes take long to cook."

"Do you speak Spanish as well as you speak English I asked.

"I don't speak Spanish, Mr. in Touche." "What books do you read P

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1904.

“Do you believe,” sa he very gravely, sented that she should have all, and she shall that as tire wears on le sentiment of the | keep all.” public begins to sicken at the unconstitutional importations from abroad?"

"I think," says

I, "thi people of England are satisfied with anyon; who will wear his crown with dignity, and prove himself a first if a king next."

I should be there I should be there," he exclaimed, shaking his head dolefully, yet with stafeliness, and as I asked at him I could not help thinking that, desed up for the part, with his passions duly

es imptuous and mage.

says he very gravely and kindly, you ars a hra Touche, forgive my plain speaking," sailor, and sailors are to a proverb generous, more particularly when girls are concerned. It is my duty to inform you that you are parting here with value which might make you easy for the rost of your days.

"I bare none of those." she answered, dir. position. he would composed for his awful crown for your head, or bracelets for your:

uitleent a figure of a pri us ever governed a

eeting her oyes at a few volumes upon a shelf nailed to an epright. They had escaped my monation. tice. I looked at them and found they were gold books of Roman Catholic devotions, a prayor book, a book of prayers in Latin and Spanish, and one or two volumes in French, which I did not understund, though the titles gave me to know they were religious. Eulalie stopped her work to watch me, and I see new as I saw then that strange, young, romantic, beautiful figure leaning upon her arms exposed to the shoulders, draped in the white attire of the stars, her glowing hair upon her back, her glowing eyes upon my face.

SINOPSIS OF INSTALMENTS I to VL---Rupert de la. Tonshe is second inats on one af a floot of coariot lups, leaving England for a vistaat country. Among the women prisoners is a young and beautiful girl, but what her name is, or for what abe is

anialed, no one knowe, When only a few days at

This giri jumps overboard, and la Toncho ime liately diver after her, Lat though recaer and taken bour again she dies almost at onco, and is hurled at sea. The voyage now becomes eventful in the ox. treme. Several of the sailors and convicts dolore that the ghost of the dust giri has appeared to them, strange and amazing scenes frighten the erow, and even the captain is struck by the sight of a strange winte coast not marked on the chart, isnt which tards out to be an upparition. When within a few class' all of tiefest nation, a three-masted schooner in distress is sighted, which signal to them for supply of fresh water. A bout is at onen lowered, and la Tonohe and four sailora procced to the vowel. The captain invites lonche into his cabin, and under the protones of bringing wine geen out, looking the cour behind him. The ship now starts on ler rayage, the efforts of the conriat fleet to cause up with her being unexiling. At last the captain got back to his prisoner, and tells him that he and his companions have been taken in order to help van to navigate his ship to the South Sea Islands, some of his crew having died. La Touche knows that rodet. anco is unciers, zu ke promises to act as mate on this extraordinary voyage. A few days later, during the midnight watch, the schooner strikes a reef,” and becomer to firmly wedged on the reeks that hope of getting her off again is abandoned. Daybreak dis closes another ship alo atranded, but a short distance Away. The exptain asks la Touche to go and irspect ber, which he does. The only discoveries he makes

aro the dead body of a man, and a sheat containing

valuable stones and silver articles, some of which kú takes away with húa. On his return ke fade that the eupata has been murdered by one of his crow, while others are engaged in breaking upon the com onuks. Leaving thein, to their into, la Touchs and four mon lanach a boat and not sail, hoping to crivo atan jaland. Another strange rogol is sightes but though eignalled to does not respond and andtasly disappears altogether. This was orklostly a phantom ship, and the men look upon it as an ones of death: in fact, almost directly afterwards one of themes suddenly. They had now been several days on tho open sea, when water is noticed in the wall of the

boat, Thinking that it is leaking, the mon not to work to bale it out, but discover thus it is the fresh !

Are you a Catholic?” she asked. "No," I answered. I am a Protestunt."

That is my father's roligion, sal she "He would have become a Catholic mul joined. my mother after death, but he could not be off mother's and my faith and ascend the throne of Grant Britain."

I viewed her steadily, for I wondered if she could he singers in those defasive olmervations: But u very heaveu of candour shoue in her eyes,

camot imagine how without books you ause yourself," said 1. coming uguin to the table, resting upon it. and watching her whilst she flavored her yams, cacounts, tend fruit and cooking stuffs.

It is often sad, very sad,” she answered. island since your shipwreck asked.

"Has never a living creature visited this After the Kanaki erew went I have seen nobody but my father, except you.'

**Tell me how you pass your time ?***

Why," she answers, and then catching my eyes full, she stops ou a sudden, bursts into one of her rich laughs and colours a little, thon goes on. I prepare the dinner as I now do, and when I have cloured up I go out and slep in the shades, and then I rise and swine, end when I come out of the water I may de

some sawing.

Sew. shown

"Ho" says L." that sounds civilised. water from the cask, and that they are left with onlying! Who taught you to sew?!

drop of branuly to quench their awful thirst. Quo

My mother first, and my father has of them guts mad, two others jamp overboard, and

me plenty of ways of making things. He is a la Tancis is left alone. On the deventa day, how- evory he is rescued by a girí in an extraordiary

rery clever man He is a good carpenter, cook, manner, taken to her home and trasted with great tailor, and a great deal more.". kindnows by herself and her father, who calla hindf the King of Great beitain. La Touche is soon hita- self again. He now begins to wonder who has to host can be, and on learning his history becomes convinced that his troubles have turned lim crazy: be therefore decides, for the girl's sake,, navor të quit the island.

CHAPTER VII.

BULALIS 8-30WER.

As I have pietured as best I could my two companions, I will here attempt a portrait of myself. I was twenty-four years of age, rising five feet eleven in Lay socks, fair of skin, but much burut through expence to the weather, kair neither sandy nor rail, but a something to tween the eyebrows very dark and market, and the eyes the dark blue that is not uncou mon in the Irish. My teeth were white and regular, my futures defined and well shepot. and on the whole I believe I should have passet with most as a very comely young fellow. My firess when I left the Bedford," which indeed was the only attire I now possessed in the wide world, consisted of flowing stripod autkeen trousers, much in favour among young mariners of that pariod, a camlet jacket, a belt with a bruse clasp, a shirt, with a silk handkerchief tied loosely round the collar, a straw hat, socks and shoes.

When wo reached the house. Eulalie says to

me:

Wyon help me to remove the dishes, and prepare the ilianer

I will with pleasure,” I answered.

Can you cook ?” she asked.

I believe I could broil a steak or a chop ata

pinch," says I

"Mr. la Tonchs," here broke in Captain Scott in his grave sweet way, you will do thing unless you have a mind to. You are our Kurst."

ed mc.

|

What do you sow, miss ?**

"Did not you see rolls of cloth like this I am wearing in the little keuse where you found the wood for burning?" she asked.

"I saw many things, and no doubt the cloth."

"All that you saw came from the wreck. But indeed if we wanted cloth my father would know how to make it and teach me. We have plenty of cloth trees in this island, and the cloth is made from the rind. It is Busy, father say, I could quickly learn, but there is no need. We have plenty. If you like I will make you a sait of clothes."

"I am sincerely obliged," says II shail certainly come to want clothes if I stay here for any length of time."

3.

Why do you want to leave, Mr. la Touclie," says she, once again viewing me with that look of reproach which I had before taken notice of I believe I shan't he in a hurry to leave." says I softly. Bat your father may not desire me to remain here."

"They are yours," said I to Eulalie, and it may come to my being able to get them mounted and turned into a little sparkling wrists, and in that form

am sure you will be pleased with them."

aid this with a particular inflexion of reice to let her know that I understood she had no sense of their worth.

He now asked me for as of England, and then of Europe, and I told him what I know. I thou said esutiously: "Though you are no desire to leave this shot. does not your Mr. in Touche will get them nude into a crown. "I will keep thom, father," said the giri, ** and charming daughter wish look abroad a little, and then I shall look the princess that I am." to visit cities and civilisedlands, azil behold the Sho sat close to me when she said this, and as world as it is known to you and me, sir ?"

she pronounced the final words, she rectal der No, she is happy, shi is content," he anfiguro, swelled her breast, and looked at me with swered, somewhat gloomily. mother's home.

This is her fine and sweet a conntenance of pride that How cold

my daughter go you would have sworn she had rehearsed the without me? Reflect upaler position in life; expression again and again to have become so though we keep no court, mul have no courtiers readily the mistress of it.

Her father's eyes here, ate is still princess I am king. Could were also fastened upon mo, his face was full of I endure to think of her none of the populace thought. He exclaimed. "be it as you say." and of a city, unregarded, andstinguished

replaced the little sac, with Eulalie's other poor "But sir." says I in a most deferential tone treasurer. of voics, "though what you say is very true, and though you cannot sulare the idea of her illustrious position being neglected, yet, sir, it might chance that you sheld die before your daughter on this island. art she would be alone. and as this island, you telne, is never visited. not even by natives fromdjacent countries, what is to be her fate?

*I wish you had not suit! I wish you had not said it," he cried, sprging up. It is a haunting thought!"

With surprising and alaning sulderness be steps, and looking at me with a peculiar fire in his large, languid, melancholy cres, cried. Do you design to steal my child away from me da the night when I am asleep? *

"I steal your child any f I zelaimed, vividly crimsoning with reantment. I believe you told your daughter the you thought ma a geatleman ?"

He gazed at me with some hesitation as thongh confused, and said

Pardon me, your quesins flung me into a We will talk by and byo. hurry of thought. about my daughter." Tha, with his manner sinking back into its old sweetness and dignity, he seated himself afresh. I sat beside hin, and passing by the questio of his doughter, as thongh the girl had no ensance, he begins to question me very earnestly about the New Hol land settlement, who Govenor Phillip was, what kind of ships they had pron him, and what issues of civilisation wouldattend a penal estab lishment. He conversed with so much ander standing, asked questions with so much sagacity and penetration, that you might have been do Hed to believe that he was mad.

We sat long in discours, and theu he usked me to take a taru in the shade, and view the island from auother poin, by which time ho should be ready for the ad that Eulalio was dressing. Wherever I hoked I saw fruit trees and bushes, little tas bearing flowers, bread-fruit, palms, hanam, cloth trees, trees loaded with a sort of apple, and the eternal cocoannt. The prospect was made noble by heights and valleys, and gentle by the lovely colours it was clothed in.

I ran my eye patiently along the sea line, and thought how in the boat I had explored that sterile horizon for the test shadow of land. I could see nons where I sted.

How far do you think," says I, "thus nearest island might be?"

About a hundred loages," answered Cap tain Scott, "but I cannot put a wame to it.'

Why not? He likes you. This morning he praised you to me. He said you were a fine looking young man and a gentleman. If you leave, it will not be becanse my father wanta you to go," she says, with another lock of it that it is untenanted" reproceh melting and yet glowing in her durk eyes.

But since this island."mys I, is so inui- ficently furnished with food and water, why is

I felt myself colour at this praise, and gave her a bow for it. But what charmed the nost was her simplicity.

Is your father likely to leave the island"! suid I.

It may be," he answered.that it is too small. But conjecture is idle. When I ar

rived her ten years ago the island was nnin- habited, and it would Ins remaiuéd so had I not chosen to stop."

As we walked slowly to the house, I sslced him how he did without bake.

can."

he replied: "I men the truth."

"What are you going to do this afternoon ?" I asked Eulalie.

"I shall skep, and then swim. Will you come and swim with me

ů

“I have not strongth ouaugh yet," says I. Captain Scott walked out of the room.

We will race," she said, with laughter in her face and

area. -I will give you a long start and boat you

►

But what am I to do if I fall in 'with a shurkaye I. Koife or no knife I shan't be able to fight him.”*

There aro no slurks," she said, "or they are so few that you need not think of thers. Besides I shall be near you.

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"She was beautiful, but you are much more so." I answered, speaking with fervour, for I uttered the truth, and desired she should know it. *If I am more beautiful than that gil,“ she, why did you mistake me for her " My mind was almost geno." I answered, "When people are dying they sometimes see visions, and I believed

you a vision," The last dish was now put alway, and she said. What will you do whilst I am sleeping →

I'll seek your father," said I. "But he may be sleeping too,” said she.

Then," says I. as I am very foul of a pipe of tobacco, and guess there is none in this house, as your father has not smoked since I have been in his company. I will take a little turo, and hunt for

likely weed to fill my pipa Manila with

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"Tobacco!" she exclaimed.

"Cigars are tobacco?"

"Oh yes, and if they are good the best of tobacco," I auswered,

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"Is this what you want?" she asked.

You could not do me a greater kindness," Johore said I. taking the box, and holding it without Pahang offering to open it. "But your father wight not wish me to break bulk, as we say at sea."

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I took her at her word: she was a princess | British whose commands wore to be aboyed: and found French the box full of large cigars, which by this label I OFFICERS OF COAST AND RIVER STEAMER. observed were manufactured in Link.

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Smoke one," says

begin before lead at me see you

my harmook." Ilighted a cigar, and my shipwrecked palate found the flavour heavenly. She smiled to 29 how vastly I relished the smoke I drew in and expelled, and then said:

*I always rest before I swim. Come, and I will show you my afternoon bedroom."

Edelic conducted me about five hundred paces deep into the wood, and then in a natural alcove formed by intertwining brauches and backed with dark-green growths, which seemed to sparkle with the mystic white flower that flourished

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"It is my mother's home" she answered. Very well indles," he answered, "we read She could in the very best book of all-the book of Nature. Mother's spirit lives here with us. not go with us and father would not leave her." All that you find of good books is taken from Just thon Captain Scott walked in. Hatlust mighty volume; why not, then, be content I think they call it rock to search the subline original for entertainment dangled a big fish. I thanked him warmly, but toll him that no cod. It looked about ten pounds in weight, mad and instruction? It is a dudy that will draw thing would give us so much happiness as to

its armour glittered vory finoly.

you closer to God than a the books in the help his daughter, and do whatever I could to

"Here's our dinner." sad the Captain. World Plenty for all. I would not stay to catch

Ay." Kays I be of service whilst I stayed. When I spoke

but the play of Hamlet is. the words whilst I slayed" looked at the more, though the water swarms this morning" not in that tree, nor The Rape of the Lock girl, and her return glance wethought reproach. Then looking about him for some fresh water he in that shrub."

half fills a ship's bucket, of which there wero What you will find fro is better than We left Captain Sectt to put away the hams, several, each with a rope handle, and picking up eith has plausible reasoning, and showed him cheeses, lumps of beef, &e, and entored the a knife, sits down, and with great gravity ol

exceedingly selfish in his madness. For surely great room or dining-hall, where stood the dignity falls to gutting the fish. remains of the feast I had quitted to go with

"This is a very bountiful island, sir," says I. he understood that his daughter wight paras the others to the boat. The first thing the girl

"Incredibly so." he answered. We have the face of Nuture all here, and get no nearer to the truth of things-end in short as she be did was to take off her but, and let down her stately trees which bear fruit and yield cloth; hair, which fell in waves of dark bronze half. apples as sweet as peaches; plantains and other gan without knowing, pedups, the very names according to the working of that climate, laying NEW PLAN OF DALNY

goodly things: watched her in those few moments whilst she excellent eatingrel sorts of birds which are of the objects she looked st. What was there stretched on a swinging met with nothing visi-

in Nature to teach her mis, languaxes, his When caught, father." interrupted Eulalie, tory, the countries of the globe and the like? and she broke into one of her melodious laughs, Dinner awaited us. Eulalie had coiled up Can't you shoot them I asked looking at her hair. It was now dos na she was in the habit of wearing it when da took the water, im We have no powder, Scott Mr. la Toncho," says he, pausing in The burnished hair was enyt np from her neck, his work to look at me nature's bountifulness but hung a little loose alat the ears and over

1 many of the islands in these the brow.

way upon her back. I had little doubt as I

was letting fall her hair, that her sweet smilem, her dark flashing eyes, her rich soft voice, ber exquisite naisele, would win for her more admin-

up

She got upon this mat, and lay down, and instantly filled the green gloom of this outhecral of foliage with the romance and sentiment of her presence, which, viewed, as a picture, was that of a beautiful young girl, a little more than sixteen years of ago, but rips in womanhood.

tion in England than ever could the embellish. the gans which wore Lu answered Captain long plaits coiled so as to make her look crowned composed her spotless white clothi about hor.

meats of the schoolmistress.

The immediate task she set me was to fetch water. As I passed out of the house I found Captain Beott in the ante-room holding up a lam and admiring it. It was strungo to so a king of Great Britain thus occupied. But it bus been affirmed that monarchs have diverted them selves by occupations smaller and manner than admiring hams. As I passed him he says,

"I am looking forward to a dish of this. It is strange how memory is yoked to favour, and how the palate will recall the past.”

I smiled without answer, and went into the Hunshine

When I returned Captain Scott had vanished. I put down the water, and on Eulalie telling me what to do, went to work and cleaned the knives and dishes, while she propared food for the noontide ropast. The stuif out of which she made the dishes lay at hond yams, bread fruit, coconuts, and other products with South Ben names which I will not pain my pen with. I bad never before seen the broad-fruit. It is aa large a man's two fiate, the inside white, and like the crumb of a newly-baked roll. You divide it as you would an apple, remove the core and then roast it. It tastes like the crumb of the finest whenteu brend slightly sweet.

to her children in

ble of her person but her arms and throat, though her figure did not lack an adroitly con- trived definition by the swift and nimble strata- rem of her fingers, when after laying down she

I shall hope to meet you again very soon." says I. and walked out of the cold gloom, pure refreshing shadows, and sweet smells of that Kttle forest, and come into the open sunshine seas would be incredible to one who hath not All the dishes were set won the table. We which lay in a blaze upon the land and the res. visited the great South Facilis. A uative in the seated ourselves and took dat we wanted. lt and was, after the comfortable gloom, a very morning may be wholly destitute, even of im was a strangely mingled repast: fish, sweet blindness. plements to work with, and before sundown since fresh from the sea, and deliciously cooked; I passed through the house, keeping my cigar ahali be clothed, lolged, and provided with all roasted bread fruit, u pud aude of male burning and heartily enjoying it. wondering the necessaries of life. These he derives from and other vegetables, the am and a plate of profoundly all the time how this couple had The Captain bll to this last article contented themselves to live alone for ten years the cocoa tree, the peoroc, the banans, the bread frieil ham. fruit and bamboo."

and ate with relish,

on this island, which lovely as it was, and When he had gutted the fish he cut some

**I am for reminding melf today of flay-prodigal in fruits and sweet water, anlahan slices from it, then brought a ban from the ours, the very memories which, matbought, fred delicacies of the soil for which I lud, no auto-room, where he had slowed the boat's had perished?."

names, must, methought, to any flest born of woman grow in much less time than ten years stores, and oat a few rushes, saying, "I shall enjoy my dinner. Twill be like old times

i stolerably wearisoms. If they fell ill how did What is the hour" He looked out, and marked

they fare? If he should break a limb where was he to find a surgeon to set it the hour by the passage of a particular shadow of tree, then says, "Eleven: Well, in two hours, Lily, we shall be ready for you. Come along with me, Mr. la Touche, and tell me about the founding of a settlement in New Holland, It pleases me to hear about the expansion of an empire of which if I had money to collect a army. I-and I alone should be the King Ț**

*

His madness was painfully visible when he said this, but the sadness I found in it camel from his daughter's placid and assured accept aneo of his delusion.

I followed him out of the house into that piece of land which he had plotted out into a garden, iu the midst of which, piously tended, was his wife's grave. We seated ourselves, und

The girl plied or fingers nimbly as one very well used to her work, often staring at me with child-like, innocent wender, and asking me questions. She pointed to a ship's bucket that stood in one of the windows, and asked me to step into an outhouse that flanked the western wing of the building, and fill it with fuel which he says, I should find thore. This building was a store- house, in which much that had been preserved from the wreck was lodged. Here I found on accumulation of the commodities which Captain Scott told me he had trucked in with the no- tives who exchanged pearls, sandal wood, basket- work, breastplates of mother-of-pearl, and the like for the goods which he had enquiersted. In one corner lay a heap of little blocks of sawn timber for the fire. This wood we

Much will

"I have heard no news of England or Europe or the world indeed for ten years. have happened in that time..

"Ay," says I, **much more than my memory is likely to carry.".

How is the king's health ?" "He was pretty well, sir, when I left London; though there was some talk of his being light

healed," I auswered.

He stepped into the anaroon and returned with the demijohn of rum pared a little of the liquor into a paunikin, as passed the great bottle on to me, but I would have none.

May I taste, father? "mys Eulalie. I watched her sip, sud hughed again at the face she made. Indeed it was the grimace of a great natural actress ethibiting the utmost aversion and loathing.

thousands of sailore would all their immortal "Do you know," says the Captain, "that souls for a damijohn of that stuff?"

A delightful part of this meal was the aro matic fanning of the wind, and the swelling, tree-ladon scene of countrṛupon which the eye rusted every time it was turned out of window. Twas like eating in the own air, cave that here we were sheltored fom thesun, with a constant little gale made by the wind which played through the house, who sides lay open no matter whence the breezeli'ɔw.

Presently the Captain, n the abrupt rodneg I have noticed, left the table, and going to the chest took out the m of diamonds. He examined the stones very carefully and then looking at me he says,

*One of these gems, and even the smallest, makes a handsome gift tony daughter."

"Ona!". cried I" with laugh. You con-

But as I bave suid, and my resolution had hardened as time advanced, I was determined at all costs to rescue the girl that I was in love with, and whom I believed would make me an incomparable, most faithful, and most adorable enlightened and educated by me, whose delight wife, to be shaped by the band of lors, to be

it would be to witness her mind exprading.

We shall see how this was to be come at

(To be continued.)

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