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SHORT STORY.

JOHN MUDGE,

BY HUGH JOHNSTON.

THE STORY OF A MAD GUNBOAT...

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1913.

It was at the beginning of the a tarpaulin with his wagon, and government's first attempt to open he noticed that the officers had the Moro country, and the retenta. He asked the train-master giment was serving at Lakao. a question concerning this, and None of us know anything of was jeeringly informed. He did Moros, sare that they were not complain of the inequality, Mohammedans and that they had "I'm goin' to be one ur them reputation for fighting; they there officere, he announced had kept the Spaniards out of five years afterward he was. their country, and ita pacification Now, John Madge was not con by a Christian race was considered 'sidered an acquisition by the

One day the killing of C Com- pany begin at Colambit. It was our first experience with that gentle creatore, the Mohammedan juramentado.

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"It is well,' says the Lootenant, things in that same way, an' by "They talked about other

by old Denkil parades off, steppin' higher 'n ever. Oh, he his line. cottoned to that stuff; it was just

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"Oh, yes, my friend, we have made peace, me and thee?"

"Datta Denkil' eyes sort of brightened, but his face never oracked.

We have made peace, he says, "thee and me.”.

impossible. We were scattered in Seventy-filth. Ee was inex-Hongkong, 22nd May, 1912. : 1883 single companies at the coast perienced, he was callow, he towns like a big necklace strung was crude. Had there been an about the island of Lakao. We officer available, he would have with chilly been sent to relieve Mudge. There were regarded suspicion by the natives, and after was none; but a strange thing three months' service we were no happened. farther forward with our real work One more man was killed in

Then the killing at than when we came. But there Company. had been no fighting.

Calimbit only, ceased. Three

I do not kill thy people days, a month, passed, Juramen- "Two days after, a crowd of todos wore holding high carnival as soldiers went over to the thou dost not kill mino. That in over the rest of Lakao. The market to buy some mangostines. peace?'

That is peace,' says Denkil, Colonel ordered his launch and I was standin' at a booth, jollyin steamed down to Calam bit to hear the girl behind it, an' Private an' he didn't bat an eye.

Collins was with me. All of a But yesterday, I think it An' juramentado is a fanatic the magic word. who has sworn to dis killing He could get little information sudden somebody gives a whoop, was yesterday-one of thy young Christian". -He begins by from John Mudge, who is natural-an' I turns around just in time men struck and killed-I believe mutilating himelf that he will lively reticent concerning his own to see a pockmarked. Moro boy, he killed-a man of mine.” only eight or ten days at the ut- achievements.

"O brother,' says this lea But the Colonel that need to hang around quar- most, anyway. Having thus found a garrulous sergeant who ters, a-comin' at Collins like the thery old hypocrite, 'It is so. effectively barned his bridge he was only too glad to tell. angel Gabriel after the devil., It keep faith. Thy people are not shares his eyebrows, sharpens his You see, it was this way, was turrible. I don't know how my people; thy God is not my kampilan; and-runs amok. Colonel-beggin' the Colonel's long it took me to git my pistol God. With us, the hand of Alfah

The first report from Com- pardon, sir, an' all.. The Looten out too long I was like a man touches a man. He is not longe pany said that three soldiera lindant held a nice little session within a trance. When I did git it bren killed by a crazy native in the Datto-the chief Moro of out, it was too late for Collins.

Sir, it was awful! the market-place at Calambir. Calumbit-T There was nothing to do but read

That doesn't explain any-

"We carried the boy home the burial service, fire three thing!" growled the Colonel, all wet an limp-an I reported volleys, and regret the occurrence. Every one has sessions with to the Lootenant.

dittos." This was duly done.

Well, sir, I guess the Flossy goin' to happen the minute I seen Denkil. If that man lived, I Ann might had somethin' to do the Lootenant. He was didn't with it."

ay à word, nor ramp nor roar, "The Flossy Ann!" roared the nor send for the Dallo, like the Colonel.

"What's the Flossy Cantain and to. Soms of the men thought he was bluffed. Ann."

Not me, sir. noodlin of the Flossy Ann, our "He give orders for the mis. rim, white little gun launch We painted her black with grean

Next week there came a report that two men had been killed ar d. five badly injured by a crazy man at Calambit. The Colonel ramp- ed about his office, and wrote a

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very sarcastic letter to the com- Ann I don't know any lossy

mander of C Company. A mo- ment's r. olion will make clear that this was all the Culonel could do.

A few days passed, onl a ser geant and a lieutenant were Killed by a lanatio"at Calambit.

The Colonel was about to relieve C Company's commander, 'when' three other reports came in from three other pearls of the Lakao necklace, Markenso, Islit, and Batil,-juramentados running amok at each place and nine good American soldiers dead. Within the next ten Jays every one of twolve companies had suffered.

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"The Flossy Ann's the gunboat. we have here, sir. She's a gaso lens, launch with a Colt's auto matic screwed in her bow: She'r a purty little thing an

"Sir, I knowed somethin' was

zebra strakes. She looked like

a man, as thee and me. He sees red-nothing but red. He has

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sworn an oath. He can only kill, TEL. 636, kill, kill !!

Al-that is sad,' says the Lootenant,

"Is it not sad? says Datto

would furnish redress. Ho is load.'

such as he may be imprisopar ha And is there no way that ore luvy hutan 18 Looten- ant, like he didn't have no special interest one way nor other.

head, the ways of Allah are un- Ah', says Denkil, shakin' his knowable. His finger touches when and where I know not. The "Well go on! What did the sailor's delirium tremens. Then man is juramentado juramenta Flossy Ann have to do with it?" we cleaned the Colt's rapid-fire do juramentado! What oan I

The Sergent's face took on an' stocked her with ammunition. look of bleak despair,

"Well, air, the Flossy Asn, sir well, sir, you see, she rap amok."

do?'

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"Dankil didn't know what the Then the lootenant put Corporal Lootenant had up his sleeve, an Clark in command of her. These he was gettin' a little excited, was his orders: ."

You will proceed before sticked out nie palms like a wavin his hands around an' The Colonel of the Seventy-fth day to a post of concealment was an unimaginative old fellow from the Moro village, around Johnny Crapaud. The Lootenant with no sort of appreciation of Sorogon Point. You will observe put him right back at ease.

***Sad, he says sad,' an' soldier pleasantry. His patience the gat my quarters. When It is impossible to describe the was exhausts 1.

it drupa to half-stall, you He was waitin, till nine o'clock, started talkin of other things. "Look here, Sergeant," he bel-will makee all speed toward sir, I think. The market's allus effrot of this sporadic slaughter upon the minds of the men of the lowed, "I got all the condensed the beach off the market- Seventy-fifth

of humor I want from the States, in place.

fallost at nine Bye by Denkil Regiment

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hundred American infantry. In every case the romic papers-—”..

yards' distance you will open fire goes back home: Party Boon I the juramentado was shot down; "It was this way. Br. Soon's on the market place. You will seen the Inotenant signal the or but shooting weszemed little the Lootenant took command, he sustain this fire until the market deriy at the guard-house. The brown people with kampilane in sent for Datto Denkil-the chief is clear. You will then begin on flag dropped down half-staff, an' their hands in no way helped to Moro of Calambit. The old feller's the houses of the village. You way out round Porogon Point I bring life back to the hacked up allus been os nice as peaches as will continue firing until the flag bodies of friends and comrades, Team; an' he didn't lose no time,

goes to full-stoff.' .... and in no way relieved men from but just hot-fonted it up here in

"Next day very casual-like the uncanny apprehension that, full egalisiwo umbrella-mon the Lootenant sends for Denkil the next time they walked out of three fan men, au' six wives. They All the same preparations was their quarters to take the air, they come in a barge of state, an' they made as before, only they kept might be cried home in sections all troop up to the Lootenant's talkin' in that Bibly lingo for The terrible mensca, the constant quarters like Solomon going to a long time. Then the Locten dread, the ghastly incidents, told the temple beggin' your ardon, ant says, as though he had just on the men, and the life and spirit | wirjan' all

The Lootenant didn't ramp

thought of it: ore abbing out of the Seventy-

man' like the "Cap'n very possible precaution was used to no. He had the sup tak guarde were doubled, all pulled in his front room, so il prisits were imprisoned, dattca was dark an' gloomy. He had ethrentend. The frequency about five hundred candles the outbreaks was diminished, lighted in there, an' he was sittin' at their ferocity only increased, in a big chair, with two sentinels hen, one day, the captain of the at each arm like halberdiers in a mpany at Calambit was out to throne-room. They wasn't no d shrods while he was inspect

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come a-puffin' up the bay. Through the field glasses I saw the Flossy Ann anche looked like a marine's nightmare. ⠀⠀ (Continued pm paga 8):

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This created a deeper impres "The Lootenant put up a front, n than the mere incident, cones you might say, like a police Bering what we happening court judge. Ob, they was dog ry day seemed to warrant to them doin's. Neither of 'em wie apaise O Company's said a word for five minutes. chain had been waterful, Then the Lootenant booms out RUBBER SPONGES twined mon, and he first denp an' sudden; prod Buggestion to the mind of every

Datto Denkil, is there peaco one was the the doom on the between me and theo? whole company as sounded with Old Donkil's eyes nigh bugg- his death for it left the company od out of his head. But be in sole charge and ummand of costoned to that line of talk like Becond Lieutenant JohnMalgo, a fit to water.

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