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"KOOLAU THE LEPER.

DY

JACK LONDON.

of the Wild," cta).

Because we are sick, they take away our liberty. We have obeyed the law We have done no wrong. And yet they would put us in prison. Molokai is a prison. That you know, Niuli, there his sister was sont to Molokai seven years ago. He has not seen her since. Nor will he ever see her.

She must stay there until she dies. This is not her will. Et is not Niull's will. It is the will of the white men who rule the land And who are those white men?

We know. We have it from our fathers and our fathers' fathers. They came like lambs, speaking softly. Well might they speak softly, for we were many and strong, and all the islands were

Tthers to Oahu, to Madi? to Havali, of Hünalulu Yet always did we come back to Kauai, Why did we come back! There must be a reason. Because we lote

Hear him..

(Author of The Sea Wolf" The Call Kanai. We were born here. Here w

have lived. And here we shall die. upless unless

there be weak heart amongst us Snet we do not want. They are fit for Molokai. And if there be such, let them not remain. Tomorrow the soldiers land on the shore. Let the weak hearts go down to them.

They will b sent swiftly to Molokai. As for us, wa shall stay and fight. But know that wa will not die. We have rifles. You know the narrow trails where men must creep, one by one, I, alone, Koolau, who wa once a cowboy on Niibau, can hold the trail against a thousand men. Here is Kanded, who was once a judge over men and a man with honour but who is now a hunted rat like you and me. He is wise,"

Kapaloi arose. Once he had heen a judge. He had gone to college st As I say, they spoke softly. The Punahou. He had sat at meat with lords wern of two kinds. The one kind asked and chinfe and the high representatives our permission, our gracions permission of alien power which protected the to preach to us the word of God. The interests of traders and missionaries, other kind asked our permission, our Such had been Kapalei. But now, as gracious permission, to trade with us. That was the beginning. Today all de Koolau had said, he was a hunted rat, a creature outside the law, sunk so deep islands are theirs, all the land all the in the mire of human horror that he was eattle-everything is theirs. They that preached the word of God and they that love the law as well as beneath it. His face was featurgess, save for gaping preached the word of Rum here foreifens and for the lidless eyes that gathered and become great chiefs. The burned under hairless brows. live like kings in houses of muny rom with multitudes of servants to care for them. They who had nothing have ever thing, and if you, or I, or any Kanaka be hungry, they steer and say, Well, why don't you work? There are the plantations.

ours.

Koolan paused. He raised one hand

let us not make trouble," he began. We ask to be left alone. But if they do not have us alone, then is the trouble theirs, and the penalty. My fingers are gone, as you see" He held up his stumps of hands that all might set of have the joint of one thumb left, and it can did its last

and with gnarled and wisted fingers trigger as firmly

the old days. We love

lifted up the blating wreath a hibiscus righbour in that crowned his black hair. The moon Kanai. Let us live here, or die here, but do not let us go to the prison of Molokti. light buthed the scene in silver. It was a

The sickness is not ours. We have not night of peace, though those who sat sinned. The men who preached the word about him and listened and all the seems of Cod and the word of Rum brought the ing of battle-wrecks. Their faces were leonine. Here a space sawned in a face sickness with the coolie slaves who work where should have a nose, and there the stolen land I have boon, a judge, 1 arm-stump showed where a hand had know the law and the justice, and I say Protted off. They were men and comente y it is unjust to steal beyond the pale, the thirty of them, for lands to make that mau sick with the Chinese sickness, and then to but that upon them had been placed the mark of

man in prison for life." the beast.

"Man's

Life in short, and the days are filled with pain,” said Koolau. Let us drink and dance and be happy as we can."

They sat, flower garlanded, in the per- fumed inminous night, and their lips made uncouth noises and their throats

From one of the rocky hairs calabashes -The rasped approval of Koolau's speech. They were creatures who once had bean were produced and passed around. men and women. But they were men and gainbashes were filled with the fierce dis- tillation of the root of the ti-plant; and women no longer. They were monsters-- in face and form grotesque caricatures of as the liquid fire coursed through them everything huma. They were hideously and mounted to their brains, they forgot that they had once bean men and women, maimed and distorted, and had the seem- ing of creatures that had been racked in for they were men and women once more. milleniums of hell. Their hands, when The woman who wept scalding tears from 662 they possesed them, their like harpy open eye-pits, was indeed woman apaise claws. Their faces were the misfits and with life as she plucked the strings of an slips, crushed and bruised by some mad ukulele and lifted her voice in a barbarie god at play in the machinery of life love-call such as might have come from Here and there were features which the the dark forest depths of the primeval mad god had scared half away, and one world. The air tingled with her ery,. woman wept sealding tears from pits of softly imperious and seductive. Upon a horror where her eyes he had been, mat, timing his rhythm to the woman's it was unnin- Some were in pain and groaned from sung, Kiloliana danced.

takable. Love danerd" in all his move- their chests. Others conghad, making sounds like the tearing of tiwuc Two rats, and, next, dancing with him on were idiots, mors like huge apes marred the mat, was a woman, whose heavy hips in the making until an ape were an angel. and generous breast gave the lie to her. disease-corroded face. It was a dance They mowed and gibbered in the noon- light, under crowns of dramping, golden of the living dead, for in their dis blossoms. One, whose bloated car-lobe integrating bodies life still loved and flapped like a fan upon his shoulder, longed. Ever the woman whose sightless caught up a gorgenis flower of orange eyes ran scalding tears chanted her love- and scarlet and with it decorated the cry. ever the dancers danced of love th the warm night, and ever the calabashes monstrous ear that flip-flapped with his

went around till in all their brains were every movement.

maggots ernwling of memory and desire. And with the woman on the mat danced a slender maid whose fac was beautiful and uomarred but whom twisted arms that rose and fell marked the lisense's ravages. And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.

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But the woman's love-ery broke mid- way, the calabashes were lowered, and the dancers ceased, as all gazed into the abyss above the sea, where a rocket flared like awan phantom through the moonlit air. "It is the soldiers," said Koolau. To-

The lepers obeyed, crawling away to their lairs in the cliff, until only Koolau remained, sitting motionless in the moon- light, a statur, his rifle across his knees, as he gazed far down to the boats landing on the beach.

And over these things Koolau way king. And this was his kingdom-2 flower-throttled gorge, with bustling cliffs and crags from which fluate the bleat ings of wild goats. On three sides the grim walls ruse, festooned in fantastic draperies of tropic vegetation and pierced by cave-entrane--the rocky lairs of Koolau's subjects. On the fourth side the earth fell away into a tremendous abyss, and, far below, could be seen the sum mits of lesser oaks and crags at-whose Pacific bases foamed and rumbled the surge. In fine weather a boat could land on the rocky teach that marked the entrance of Kalalau Valley, but the we ther must be very fine. And a cool-head-morrow there will be fighting. It is well ed mountaineer might elroh from the to sleep and be prepared.". beach to the head of Kafalan Valley, to this pocket among the peaks where Koolau ruled but such a munta ner must be very cool of head, and he must know the wild goat trails as well. The marvel was that the mass of hunian wreekage that

The far. head of the Kalalau constituted Koufan's people should have have been able to drag its helpless misery Valley had been well chosen as a reinge. the giddy goat trails to this Except Kikolina, who knew back-trails

up the precipitous walls, no man coul innoressible spot.

win to the gorge save by advancing across Brothers, Kuolay began of the

knife-edged ridge. This passage was a mowing travesties emitted a wild shriek of mad-hundred yards in length. At best, it was On either ness, and Koolau waited while the thrill scunt twelve inchos wide. cachination was tossed back and forth side yawned the abyss. A p, and among the rocky walls and echoed dis- ght or left the man would fall to his death. But unes across he would fin! tantly through the pulseless night.

"Brothers, is if not strange? Ours himself in an earthly patadise. A sea of was the land, and behold, the land is not vegetation laved the landscape, pouring oufs What did these preachers of the its green billows from wall to wall, drip- word of God and the word of Rum give ring from the cliff-lips in great ne us for the land? Have you received one masses and Aging a spray of ferns and dollar, as much as one dollar, any one of airplants into the multitudinous crevices. you, for the land! Yet it is theirs, and During the many months of Koolau's in return they tell us we can go to work rule, he and his followers had fought with on the land, their land, and that what this vegetable sea. The choking jungle, We produce by our toil shall be theirs. with its riot of blossoms, had been driven Yet in the old days we did not have to hack from the bangnis, oranges and work. Also, when we are sick they take mangoes dat grew wild In little dear. ings grew the wild arrow-root; on stond away our freedom.”

terraces, filled with soil-scrapings, were the tare-patches and the melons; and in every open space where the sunhide penetrated, were papie-trees burdened with their golden fruit.

over

But

nne

ape-like

"Who brought the sickross Koolau ? demanded Kiloliana, a leas and wiry man with a face so like a laughing faua's that one might expect to see the cloven hoofs under him. They were cloven, it

Koolau had been driven to this fuge was true, but the cleavages were great ulcers and livid putrefactions. Yet this from the lower valley by the beach. And was Kiloliana, the most daring climber if he were driven from it in turn, he of them all, the man who knew every gaat know of gorges among the jumbled praks trail and who had led Koolan and his of the inner fastnesses where he could wretched followers into the recesses of lead his subjects and live. And now be Kalalau.

lay with his rifle beside him, peering town “Ay, well questioned," Koolau answer- through a tangled screen of foliage at the

with ed. Because we would not work the soldiers ou the beach. He noted that they

them, from i milea of sugar-care where one our horses had large guns pastured, they brought the Chinese slaves which the sunshine flashed as

The knife-edged passage lay from overseas. And with them came the mirrors.

Crawling upward Chinese sickness-that which we saffer directly before him. from and because of which they would along the trail that led to it. I could imprison us on Molokai We have been see tiny specks of men. He knew they to the other islands, some here and some

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