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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 21,

CHAPTER I

1936.

LAST OF THE

PRESIDENT LINER

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Adapted by CHARLES REED JONES from

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The warm, tropical sun was climb to March, and the raids of the red dooply into the pool.

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Pros. Wilson

TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA

Vin Shanghal, Kobe, Yokobatos and Victoria.

Midnight

Apr. 24th

May 8th

May 22th

June 5th

Juno 19th

MANILA

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Lilico screamed, and sho

Honolulu, San Francisco, Pariaman ing slowly out of the ass. Lilleo, warriors

from

Canal, Havana, New York. having left her fare, a typical na broke the Eden-like peace and beauty

a neighbouring

Several of the vahines followed Pres. Cleveland tive hut of thatched bamboo, at the of their earthly paradise. Tupec, her, but the others, too late, fought Pros, Coolidge

8 a.m.

May 10th Pres. Grant first glimmer of dawn, ran swiftly roughly translated, means "lover of fiercely to free themselves from the Pros: Taft

8 a.m. May 10th Pres. Jefferson through the beaten path to the human flesh," a name carned by this crushing Arms of the raiders. A Pres. Hoover

8 a.m. June 3rd Pres. Jackson Minas, tilis, all the gally

8 a.m. flercest of all Marquesun tribes many few escaped and sped madly to Pros. Plerce

June 13th Pres. McKinley. dnotied birds of the Island of Tof00, years ago, Long before the arrival wards the village, screaming their

Ba.m. July 1 Pres. Grant called out their reollage as she of the first Christian missionaries, warnings of the dreaded Typoos as aped by, But, Lilleo horded them

the they ran.- not, for she was determined to bo whom they drove away or

had abandoned their can- Typees

Lilico, the first to dive into the the first at the bath this morning. nibalistic practices. They had not, pool, scrambled up the far side and Breathless from her exertion, but however, abandoned their raids on made a frenzied dash up the side of happy, she flung herself boside the near-by islands. These raids, in fact, the hill. Taro took up the pursuit. 1 poo, to wait. Each day, it was a were quite frequent, for the Typees Twisting, squirming through the the first of the preferred the valines of Tofon and dense follage of the familiar ground, mad dash to bo young girls to reach the water 29 but, cach day, too, the winner walted Reva to the darker-skinned women of Lileo outwitted him.

Mala spled her now, and he sped Pres. Monroe until the other vahincs had arrived.

Now, as Lilleo and her friends were after her. Away from the protec-Pros. Van Buren July 14 Lille surveyed the familiar scene be disporting themselves about the quiet tion of the concealing brush, Lilico Pres. Garfield

27 fore her with sparkling Interest, for July

custom had not dimmed its beauty for pool, twenty pairs of powerful arms printed on. But, fleet though she Pres. Foll

pushed a Typee war canoe silently was,

she Was not a match for the Aug. 12 her.

towards the bench of Tofon Taro, racing Typee. Slowly, but steadily. Half-reclining on the broad, flat grizzled chief of the warriors, stood he cut down the distance between Aug. 24

lodge of downy moss above the pool. forward on the high prow, urging his them. Straining every supple muscle 1Sopt.

8 she revealed in the foaming, rushing men to greater speed. Jerky, In-of her fine, young body, Lilleo forged waters of the cataract tot un petuous gestures conveyed his im- bend, but she knew now that she noisily into the crystal-clear, green patient commands to the oarsmen, for could not escape. blue pool below her. Its cool rip-Tare knew that the slightest sound Throwing her fate to one last,

invited her now, but sho pling waterontly until that warn the Islanders of his desperate chance, she cut swiftly to othora joined her. As the morning

June

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Run erept higher over the yellow blossomed purao trees, Lilleo slid fack into, the shade, for, liko the vahines of the islands, she was proud of the flawless creamy tan of her

his ating restless as she walted:

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approach, and his sixty warriors, her right und sped on towards the mighty fighters though they were, small pool ahead of her. The rush- would prove no match for the hosts ing waters of a cascade ronred just of Tofon.

below, but she did not falter. Taro was resplendent in his wat Reaching the banks, the dived into regalla. A towering head-dress of the water and disappeared from brilliant tropical plumage crowned view. Malu followed her closely. polished boar's teeth hung to his caught her as she struggled vainly head. Heavy necklaces of Swimming strongly under water, he She jumped lightly to her feet and waist. A saro of dark tapa cloth to regain the surface. Diving darted tirelessly about as first one hung in heavy folds from his waLi again, she tried to shake herself thing, the another caught her vi- ending in clusters of braided tassels, free, but Main was not to be cluded. vacious fancy. Deftly, she wove a Dark loops of braided human hair, Tired and weak for want of att wreath of gay hinano, a striking con- the hair of vanquished foes, encircled

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His

Resting from her wearing effort she studied her smiling reflection warriors were similarly bedecked, but while she was trying to devise some in the rippled surface of the pool, their maros and their necklaces were new ruse to effect her escape, Lilleo it did not please her, and she, tomed loss claboráte.

studled her the wreath nside. New, a frangipani As the canoe slid silently onto the happily at her, and his

captor. Malá smiled caught

es were | she her eye, and

tried bench, Taro led the way ashore.

He looked like e taata mai- this

indiv saffron-coloured, star-alupe Mala was close behind him. At atas, blossom over her left

a good man, and not like the car, This whispered command, forty of his men Typee she Hlower, too, would have

had pictured from the gono the followed him in a dash across the harrowing stories of the feti, ber unwanted way of the mano, but wide expanse of know-white sand to family. A plan was slowly develop- Lilleo quite forgot her displeasure the dense jungle beyond. Twenty ing in Lilleo's

and eo's mind.

alic шая with it when the distant strains of men remained behind” to man the waiting a chance to put it into a simple love-song, told her that the heat. As they reached the end of execution. ather wakines would soon be with her. the clearing, the warriors deployed, they faced Trcading water lightly,

"Hola!" Lilteo called, as the girls advancing in groups of twos and certain, made no further move,

other. Main, un tirees towards the pool of the he was confused by what he as- for well, for Taro had led many raids Then. volines. The know Lho

WRY sumed to be her, su submission. upon Tofon, before. Mala cleared a from him and struck out boldly

turned quickly.

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