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Lilles and a group of Poly- nesian maidons are surprised at their morning both by Taro and hia Typeo warriors. Some of the girls escape and speed back to the village of Tofoa to sound the alarm, but Liilco is captured bys Mala. Escaping momentarily, she jumps into a pool. Mala follows her, and their struggle is renewed in the water. Caught in or help. the swift current, they are less. They are ehirled dizzily through the rapids and hurtled over the roaring cataract towards the larger pool, twenty feet below.

CHAPTER II

sheed his hands to

and

not beaten, she lay back to rest her- at talantions by the drended boulles of the Typeo valley on the

now

Typeo war-canoe was racing from tho she would soon awaken. shore in inglorious retreat. Lilloo At length, after what seemed an quickly sensed Mala's predicament, indeterminable walt, Mala could and she laughed derisively; for now hear that the warriors had passed Mala was in her power, alone onion. Their song faded in the dis- Tofon, her island, the land of the tance, but he know that the search nworn enemies of the Typeas for had not been abandoned, for the countless generationa,

boom of the drum beat out toady As they watched the retreat of the is relentless rhythm

Whon Lilleo's

eyes Types warriors from their vantage

opened, she point, high on the hill, they saw that saw kindly, friendly" face closq

quickly, Taro had acted none too soon. For to hers. She recolled the Tofoan hosts lindd the chord, Mala did not try to restrain her. shouting imprecations at the retreat Instead, he ranche fonching the

forward, Ing raiders.

cupped hands Lilleo

of roaring, falling water. Ile watched. Suddenly screamed shrilly to attract her people,

to her, offering Maia held her close with his right her a drink. She pushed him away; water splashed down the arm while he clamped his left hand and the over her mouth. She had long be front of her parcu. Lilico shud- Still clinging tightly together, Lilleo fore found the futility of resistance, dered at the sudden chill, and Mala subraitted as he laughed. She was inclined to laugh, 0 July, 14

and Mala shot over the falls and into and, again, sho July 27 the pool below. Thwarted again in caught her in his arms and carried hor too, but she checked herself and her attempt to escape, Lillen offered back into the soclusion of the dense beat angry hands against his tawny

chest Aug. 12 no resistance now when Mala, fresh shrubbery.

pull- Back in the village, the rakinca When Lilleo had spent her anger Aug. 24 and strong despie his exortions,

ed her safely to the bank and drow told their story of the raid to the in her futile gesture of defiance, Mala her up upon the ledge. Tired, but ni tatakan, the ruling elders, and the tried to talk with ber. She was them of sulién, silent. He told her of the in turn, told self while she planned

Then, as the Tofoan war Island of Nukahiva, that was to be 7stratagem. Mala smiled contentedly as his eyes rested on the lovely con

riors were returning to the village, her home. He told her, too, of his warrior and hunter, tours of her slender body, revealed in it was discovered that Lilleo was prowess as all its glowing beauty by the gay missing. The warriors know that she but she showed no interest. At times,

had not been purea that was her only garment."

taken away by the she chose to ignore him completely: she laughed derisively us Topoes, for there had been no vahines land. Below them, towards the beach, other Typee warriors were

in the war-cance, and, so, fearing she he boasted of his virtues, after the struggling None of the had been hurt, they set out again to traditional custom of a Typee sultor. with their captivored without ny to find her.

Finally, unable to appease her, vokines had

the resonant boom of the Mala erased his efforts, and they sat struggle, but few had escaped. Those forum sounded through the is long together in sullen Ellence. few and rushed to the village to

sho Then, suddenly and without warn- spread the alarm, and, already the Innd, and Llileo knew that

would soon be rescued. were Assembling to

plunged through the falling water rescue the girls and repel the raiders had other plans, Aloe, But, Maining, Lilleo jumped to her feet and Che could not hope to cope with the into the pool. Mala followed her. When

the first news of the Typce raid Tofoans, but he hoped to outwit So, when she saw him at her tide. renched the villagers, Kahana rushed them throughout the day, so tant, she swam slowly to the side of the to his post at the log-drum. The re-under the cover of a deep, tropical poet and climbed gracefully to boom of this primitive darkness, he might steal a boat and mossy ledge above it.

Throughout zumbomba echoed and reechoed return to his native

made island. And the day. Lilico

no further through the length and breadth of fala was determined that Lilled effort to escape. She followed Mala the istand.

should go with him,

submissively when he went out to When Tare heard the first zoom

paddle-ont. stop- of the log-trum, he retreated to the sounds of the Tofoon hosts, beating ping only

Soon, Mala heard the ominous search for his lost

on the way to gather bench and issued the command for their way through the jungle. They

Bowers

which she twisted into a the retreat. Reluctant to leave their sang na they came, and Mala's keen colourful wreath for her hair. captives

ves behind, his warriors, how cars told him that

When, at last, they were engulfed feared to

to disobey, their chiel.

they were cles by darkness. Mala led her to the ing in on him from nil sides. There bench- At the first sound of the Typee conch-was no time to lose. Catching up

Once, when she started to horn, they fled to the beach.

Lilled in his arms, he broke through cry out for help, he threatened her elaborately decorated Турет war- the

brush into the clearing about with his club-like fist; and Lilleo, canoe rested in three feet of water, the pool.

The terrified

rakine remembering her experience of the and the disgruntled warriors splashed fought

to free herself, but morning, made no further show of rebellion. His ears and eyes strain-

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