The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 26, 1938, Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 6, 1938. SYNOPSIS: Carrying @ gun- cargo for Rajah Mantusen, we encounter o jungle war between the Dycks and the Malays on Sumantang island. The besieged rajah is holding my uncle, James Clyde, prisone. until 1 (Paul Thorne) can bring our fortified trading vessel, the Linkang, up-river to a: he Matays. Man- tusen blames Clyde for the war, fa yo girl, Chris- tine Farrester, is responsible. Her father planned the revolt, taught the Dyaks to:shoot,’and- she 1s supplying the Dyak guns. Chapter 17 Stalemate F THOSE Dyak ri gia as you say going to s t ades all th fine chance to ¢ nd they're Malay stock- uncle has a ot before I arpshooters will re. Perhaps that’s to be the Tenyalang fire until he’s out of {If the Tenyalang broke up, it | would split at once into separate | guerrilla parties; end nobody would ever be able to get them to- gether again. I understood all then I cared an nm | about it. There was going |dead m: in she river, wn through the cro ng to be a floating . Anc he est dead hem ities the blade of ae iris on | the corpse before it is cold. until what is left will hardly hold to- gether to be d ing of James f 1 waited .or t! word to the Dy: ese ‘people But the |! “No, of course not. They their orders with their rifle got e general way. B.t I haven't as communication with them, even if | they were thoroughly disciplined | troops, to change orders in any de- | tail. They were told to sharpshoot the Malay stockade until.Manty- sen took to the river; then they're supposed to r: along the'shore, forming ambi after ambush for the praus. But you see, the Tenya- lang didn’t know what you were doing at Mantuser’s stockade. they think Anthony Forrester is all-powerful here, the same as Mantusen thinks Clyde is. The fact that you reached Mantusen at all| shows that they believe I sent} you.” I thought of the flurry of spears that we had come through, up the Siderong. But there was no use to talk about that. Those might} have come from the disorganized tribes, not from the Tenyalang | “In that ase.” I said, “I should | think Id still have a good oper of Sere back up there after/ sen, of course they would help you in every way. | “But I can’t attack Mantusen. | Nothing is going to get Clyde out | of there alive except a complete smash-up of the Dyak blockade.” She spoke slowly and almost tonelessly. “That i is something you tant possibly do.” “T'll do it because I’ve got to do} alr ey here—if wha. you say is} “if?” “Well, for the sake of the argu- ment, I'll say that I believe you. Of course 1 do believe you—partly, at least. k here.,1_ know you can't pull the tribes off; but if tne Tenyalang retire, a whole lot of heart ought to go out of the rest.” I didn't suppose, of course, that she could do much. She had been able to exercise a little authority over the Dyaks at first, on account of Anthony Forrester’s reputation ‘among them, and his promise of break but that authority would ireak down as soon as all the gun- jo was delivered. I had no faith in e future of any continuous re- volt against the Malays. Those Dyak tribes mistrust one_an- other too much for that. They would have a fine interchange of Bias faids before the Malays get organized again, and by test time Mantusen's krismen— with James Clyde as hostage among them—would have grown tired “yr go of waiting for rescue by the Linkang. Whatever was . done for Clyde would have to be done at once, even if the best com- a you were attacking Mantu- | | Way through the bar. stake any En, <| prefer to carry out a dead | fantastic dream. But I thought that Christine Forrester might be one who would. On the other ha: if 1 should | strike at once, ain ae further | parley. it might well be that the | Dyaks would stil] be confused as to my purpose. I might be able to get the Linkang within firing dis- tance of their stockades for the same reasons tyat Clyde had origi- nally been abie Teach Mantur. sen’s with our whalevoat. I still” was uncertain how much influence | this girl had. But in any case. I de- cided to appeal to her no further. Racing With Tim> | SHE got up prese’ speaking of her brother ad been in | the delirium of hi: fever when she left the Avon; but h ind should be clear again in a few hours. if | this was one of his tynica! sic ya She wanted to talk to him and se what he thought ought to be ane If I would come to tea in the late afternoon, she would be able to | tell me what they had decided. I gravely told her that I would see how things went. Though I did not say so, | had no intention of going aboard the Avon again. I do not think : would have changed my mind. It was be- cause circumstances changed in a way I had not foreseen that twi- light saw _m_ swinging over the Avon's rail. The reason I went back to the Avon again, when I had not ex- pected to, was that J had found the Diskang was never going to enter the Siderong river. ‘Our-soundings showed us that. Three times our longboat went out, and the third time | was han- dling the lead line myself. Our tables were very sketchy an accurate, and our experience here not much better, out the answer we got was very plain Even if we unshipped everything that would tome loose, the Linkang exceeded by more than half a fathom the highest tide to be expected on the delta bar that fanned out from the mouth of the Siderong Scores of little twisting channels cut their taking care of the flow of the stream. but none of them were wide enough nor straight enough to give the Link- ang any hope. I began to think about landing a gun, or two guns, on the chance of working them through the jungle to a position from which the Dyak stockades would be under fire from the land. My uncle had ex- Pressly forbidden this under any circumstances. but in dn extremi- bined efforts of the Linkang and the Avon were clumsy and un- Predictable as to their results. / ‘Impossible? Ey YOU control the Tenyalang to any extent at all.” I said now } “pull them off.” “You're asking me to try to miake @, truce?” she asked uncertainly “Until you can get Clyde out of} there?" “Well, why not? After all. Man- tusen has got Clyd Means nothing tc you perso: But he's one of our own people just the same. “It's impossi “Why?” “Once the Tenyalang start -to draw back the whole thing will go to pieces. We don't have all the don't have .nore t a third of them. [f unce the block- | ade breaks, .he hill tribes con. trolled by the Mal. will rise, and our Dyaks will be ted clear out of existence.” That was true, of course. There were numberiess small Dyak tribes on Sumant: them the Malays against their own Bh oe any tribe was customariy net on willing but eager to join the 3 lays against any others, aim because the Malays ajways won ty I would have tgnorec his order. j It was the complete hopelessness of such a move which made me discard the notion. Qne other possible means still remained: The Avon could prob- jably be worked over the bar { had to have the Avon. To ob- tain the / ft was probably g: possible to obtam ¢t cooperation: but it now since wy plan of action had been o; me that there but go ahead. t with time. So I sha on the best ow there was no was used up j ing down how | vould do i could no* be- ay aside all t my argu- Will Paul get the Avon, Monday? wee see Sunday’s Horoscope Seceerecccseccccseccsess MAN. BESERK. KILLS 4 Becaus The Worm’ (By WALTER PECK) ele s Eye View Deesscccosconscccesescessecese: -cnecerssesecese | Talk has reached these ears the same thing. Of course they w: that this city may soon be repre- sented and honored on one of the Major Bowes radio programs. Swell! At any rate, says the talk that has reached these ears, plans are under way to arrange this business. I don’t know just what has to be done to take care of it, but I do think that.it will be a wonder- ful thing for us if it can be put over. We, as citizens of Key West, are interested in having our town advertised as much as pos- sible in every way we can. It is one thing to hire some one to write publicity and have items printed in all the large papers and many of the popular maga- zines. And it is another good idea to put our little seals on all our mail and det the world know we exist that way. Oh, there are a good many ways to bring our- selves before the notice of the public. But getting ourselves well advertised on a major radio fea- ture would in all probability give us more publicity than anything ‘This thing is not outside the realms of possibility. I hope, strongly, that it can be done. And I want to put myself on record right herée‘and now'in nontinating one. of. our young, jadies te fepre- sérit Ais on "this? progrenuy Miss Edith Williakis™ Y6u ‘aif ‘know! her, and: no doubt a lot of you have heard her sixig._I have, sev- eral times. She has what it takes.» Though I don't’ knoW’ @veryone ir town, I don’t believe’ that’ we will go wrong in sending her to the “big town” to sing for us. Put it in your note book, Edith Wil- liams, singing for Key West. You ought to see me walk up to people on the street, or wher- ever I find them, look cheerful and ask pertinent questions. I saw a gentleman idling along, and because he looked something like a stranger is supposed to look, I breezed up in my best bed- side manner and says, “Pardon this seeming familiarity, suh, but are you a newcomer to our lovely little city?” He looked me over from head to foot very casually and says, “So what!” . “Oh, oh”, I mutters to myself. “This bird just got here, he hasn’t even had time to thaw out”. Then aloud, “So nothing, suh. Just one of the local boys going around extending , the glad hand”. too. You should see me beam. Really. And he’ grunts, “Uh (wow), can’t you think of any- thing better to do?” That lands me on the ropes, but I struggle; to my feet and come out fighting. “Nope, I can’t. In fact, it is the best thing I do do. Come on, now, come on. Snap out of that old stuff. and tell me how you like the old rock”. “How do I like it?” he says. “How do I like it? Why I like it fine. What do you think I'm here for?” That’s the old spirit. You know almost everyone I see tells Beaming all over j like it. “But”, one draw back” very low. “You've got imag toes”. “Mosquitoes?” I says,: fumbling for something to lean on. “MOSQUITOES? You mean we've got, mosquitoes?” “Yeah”, he answers. “Listen friend?” I says. “You need a drink. I can tell by the color of your eyes:! Come on,\I know a bar down the street where they reserve a place under a table for me”. I grab him by the arm and steer him away from the crowd that is col- lecting. Whew. This fellow had me. We get to my favorite “slop- ‘em-up” place and go in, and aft- er I had poured a few down his hatch ( don’t drink myself) says, “You ever been to Alaska?” kind of quiet li “Ox I says. “I have. And we really have mosquitoes up there. Why these cute little fellers that fly around down here are just house, pets. They scare the flies away when we have hich is very | infrequent is) he says. “Yup”, I says. “We certainly had them up there. Let me tell you a story”. “One night when I was ve tired after a hard day of loafing I_ goes to bed. Had my ne ; in place and everything ship-' shape. Lay back. heaved a big sigh of content, and started to go, te.sieep, ‘Started. I say. That's as‘far:asI-got. Presently. zoom, Tight by tiny ears. “Whoa’, I says. And, again, ZOOM, right by thej other ear. That irked me. I got up. I got out of bed. I rolled up my sleeves, and I says. ‘All right. Come on out, you on’. He came out ed. Gosh almighty. fight a thing like tha’ bare hands. I grabbed a club. H sneaked up on him. He glared at me. I glared back. I snuck some more. Then, with a blood-j curdling oath I slammed at him.' Wham! The club broke in half. ; The critter got up and started aft-} er me. I came to Key West. I'v: been here ever since. Brother. w: had mosquitoes up there”. 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