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01iAND.(OTIIEIV 8 GARDEN.
A fltinny spot of boyhood yours
Was Kninilmii's Kimlen oldon:
Itfl trwmuioo rnru cornea tloitlnir back
O or forty Bummer's Koldon.
I boo tlio yellow marigold
Tlio frltiift-d 'ehlny-astcr"-Arid
iiiornlnff-fflnri -a, pink and rod,
And whito lino alabaster.
The peony, with wcajth of bloora
J ho patch of Htripcd Krascs-
Xho fpur-o clocks and I.onilon-prldcs,
And pinks in fragrant musses.
Tlio lllno. stand'nir by tho door,
Wiu ono of that collection
And alwayn showed a wealth of bloom
Intlnioof "town olcotlon."
ThA poppy, too, wa not forjrot,
Nor crimson prlnco's-fenthor
On. what a Hwanip ol beauty raro
Wus growing up together!
And when tho early blossoms cimio,
Our garden patoh ndornlug,
How Joyfully I watched Tor thorn
Lueh friiiftaiiee-ladon tiiurnlng.
All through tho lonsr. bright summer days
It proved a homo of pleasure
I or humming birds and butturlllus,
'i hut sought its hidden treasure.
Hut clip who planted thorn Is gone
i wh -ro bright ons greet tho eomor,
J)'l where the ilowors richly bloom
Through an eternal summer.
ISmUin Transcript.
"LALYDQUIST;
A Story of the Land and Sea.
JJY WALTEIt 11ESVNT AND JAMBS MCE, IN ALL
THE YKAIl HOU.VU.
CIlAI'TKIt LX.
the onnATOoni) i.vck ohoaitvin iioi.stius.
The clumsy cheat of Captain Hor
lindcr brought homo to Lai the sail
truth that nobody, except herself and
perhaps Captain Ilolstius, believed Hex
could -till be living. Even tho doctor
of the Aryan, who called every time
tho ship came home, frankly told her
that he could not think it possible for
him to be anywhere near tho track of
ships without being heard of. The
Company had sent to evory port touched
by Pacific traders, and to every mission
ary station, nskiiHj that inquiry should
bo made, but nothing had been heard.
All the world had given him up. Thuro
came a time when anxiety became intol
erable, with results to nerve and brain
which might have been expected had
Lai'.- friends possessed any acquaintance
with tlio diseases of the imagination.
" I must do something," she said ono
day to Captain Ilolstius, who remon
strated with her for doing too much
" 1 must bo working. J cannot eit still.
All day 1 think of Hex all night I see
Rex waiting on the shore of some far
oil' land, looking at me with reproachful
oyesyvhich ask why 1 do not .send some
ono tT. take him away. In my dreams I
try to make him understand" alas! ho
will not .hear me, and only shakes his
head wlfen J toll him that one man is
looking for him now, and another will
follow after."
Captain Ilolstius, slowly coming to
the conclusion that tho girl was falling
into a low condition, began to cast
about, in his thoughtful way, for a rem
edy, lie took a voyage to Norway to
think about it.
Very much to Lai's astonishment ho
reappeared a month latter, without his
ship. IIo told her, looking a little
ashamed of himself, that ho liad come
by steamer, and that ho had made a lit
tle plan which, with her permission, ho
would unfold to her.
" I diew the shortest straw," ho said;
"otherwise I should havo gone long
ago. Now, without waiting for Captain
Wattles, who may be an honest man or
ho may may not bo "
"Not be," echoed tho Patriarch.
" I moan to go at once."
Lai clasped her hands.
"Hut there is another thing," ho
went on. " Lai, my dear, it isn't good
for you to sit hear waiting; it isn't good
for you to be looking upon that imago
all day long as well as all night."
" It never leaves mo now, sho cried,
the tears in her eyes. "Why, I seo him
now, as I see him always while you are
talking while we tiro all sitting hero."
Indeed, to tho girl's eyes, tho figure
stood out clear and distinct.
"See!" she said, "a low beach with
palm-trees, such as you read to mo
about last year. He is on tho sands,
gazing out to sea. His eyes moot mine,
'h, Rex Jtox! how can 1 help you?
What can I do foryouP"
Captain Ilolstius shuddered. It
seemed as if he, too, saw this vision.
Captain Zaohariason said that mtim
micking was apt to spread in a family
like measles.
" Then, Lai, dear," said Captain
Ilolstius " hear my plan. 1 havo Bold
Uiy share in tho ship. 1 havo got a
good prico for it throe hundred pounds.
am ready to start to-morrow. Hut I
ear that when I am gono you will sit
loro and griovo worso because I shall
lot bo here to comfort you. It is tho
waiting that is bad. So " ho hesitated
here, but his blue oyos met Lai's with
nn honest and loyal look "so, my dear,
you must' trust yourself to mo, and wo
will go together and look for him."
"Go with youP"
"Yes; go with mo. With my throo
hundred pounds wo can get put from
port to port, or pay the Captain of a
trader to sail among tho Carolines with
us on bonrd. I daresay it will borough,
but ship Captains of all kinds aro mon
to bo trustou, you know, and I shall bo
with you. You will call mo your broth
er, and I shall call you my sister if you
liko."
To go with him! Actually to sail
away across the soa in quest of hor lov
er! To feol that tho distanco between
thorn was daily growing loss! This
seemed at., lirst eight an iuipoasiblo
thing, vnoro unreal than tho vision of
poor Rex.
To bo sure such a plan would not bo
settled in a.day.. It was necessary to
got permission from Mrs. Rydquist,
whoso imagination would npt at first
rise to tho Platonic height of a supposed
brotherhood.
Sho began by: saying that it was an
insult to tho memory of her husband,
and that a danghtor of hers should go
off in broad (h light wa3 not what sho
had oxpeetedor honed. Sho also said
that if Lai was like other girls she
would long sinco havo gone into decent
crapes and shown resignation to tho will
of Heaven. That fair warning with un
mistakable signs had been given hor;
that, after all, sho was no worse oil' than
hor mother; with more to the sanucf
fent. Finally, if Lai ehoosd to go'away
on a wild-gooso chase, sho would not,
for howpart, throw any obstacle in tho
way, but shosupposod'that her daughter
intended to marry Captain Ilolstius
whothpr.sho picked up Rex or not.
" Ho ought, my dear," said Captain
Zaehariascn, meaning tho Norwcogco,
"to havo been a navp.1 chaplain, sueli is
his goodness of heart. And as gentle as
a lamb, and of such aro tho" kingdom of
Heaven. You may trust yourself to
him as it wore unto n Bishop's apron.
And if 'twill Ho you any good, my pret
ty, to sail the salt seas o'er in search of
him who may bo for aught wo know,
but wo hope he isn't, lying snug at tho
bottom, why tike and up and go. As
for tho Captains, I'll keep 'em in order,
and with authority to give a month's
warning, I'll sit in tho kitchen every
morning and keep 'em at it. Your
mother can go on goin' on just tho same
with her teapot and hor clean handker
chiefs." This was very good of tho old man,
and in tho end ho showed himself equal
to tho task, so that Rydquist' s fell off
but little iu reputation while Lai was
away.
As for; what people might say, it was
very well known in Rotherlntho who
ami of what sort was Lai Rydquist, and
why she was going away. If unkind
things were spoken, those who spoko
them might go to regions of ill-repute,
said tho Captains in discussion.
How the good fellows passed round
the hat to buy Lai a kit complete; how
Captain Zaehariason discovered that ho
had a whole bag full of golden sover
eigns which he did not want, and would
never want: how it w:is unanimously re
solved that Dick must go with them;
how the officers of the Aryan for their
share provided the passage-money to
San Franci&co and back for this poor
fellow; how the Director of the Compa
ny, who had come with the Secretary to
seo the "muminicking," heard of it,
and sneaked to KothcrTiilho unknown to
anybody with a purse full of bank-notes
and a word of good wishes for tho girl;
how everybody grew amazingly kind
and thoughtful, not allowing Lai to be
put upon or worried, so that servants
did what they ought to do without being
looked after, and meals went on being
served at proper times, and tho Cap
tains left off bringing things that wanted
buttons; how Mrs. Rydquist for the lirst
time in her life received supernatural
signs of encouragement; and how they
went on board at last, accompanied by
all the Captains these things belong to
tho great volumes of tho things unwrit
ten. All was done at last, and they were
in the Channel steaming against a head
wind and a chopping sea. They wore
second-class passengers, of course;
money must not bo wasted. Rut what
mattered rough accommodation?
All the way across to Now York on
tho Rolling Forties thoy had head
winds and rough seas. Yet what mat
tered bad weather? It began with a
gale from tho southwest in tho Irish
Sea, which bucketed the ship about all
tho way from tho Mersey to Queens
town. The sailors stamped about tho
deck all night, and there was a never
ending yo-ho-ing with tho dashing and
splashing of tho waves over the deok.
'1 ho engines groaned aloud at tho work
they wore called upon to do; tho ship
rolled and pitched without ceasing;
tho passengers were mostly groaning in
their cabins, and thoso who could get
out could get no fresh air except on the
companion, for it was impossible to go
on deck; everything was cold, wet and
uncomfortable. Yet there was one glad
heart on board who minded nothing of
tho weather. It was the heart of tho
girl who was going in quest of' hor
lover; so that every moment brought
them nearer to him, what mattered for
rough weather? Resides, Lai was not
sea-sick, nor was hor companion, as by
profession forbidden that weakness.
When thoy left Qucenstown, the galo,
which had been southwest, became
northwest, which was rather worso for
them, bocauso it was colder. And this
galo was kept up for thoir bonofit tho
whole way aoross, so that thoy had no
easy moment, nor did tho ship once
cease her 1)1 tinging through angry
waters, nor did the sun shine upon them
at all, nor did tho fiddles leavo tho
tablos, nor woro tho docks dry for a mo
ment. Yet what mattered wind and
rain and foul weather? For every
moment brought tho girl noaror to her
lost lover.
When Lai stood on tho rolling deck,
clinging to tho arm of Captain Ilolstius,
aud looked across tho gray waters lead
on and dull beneath tho cloudy sky, it
was with a joy in hor heart which lent
them sunshine.
" I see Rox no longer in my dreams,"
sho said; "what does that mean?"
"It means, Lai," replied Captain
Ilolstius, who boliovod profoundly that
tho vision was sont direct by Provi
donco, "that ho is satisfied, because ho
knowa that you aro coming."
Somo of tho pasaongcrs perceiving
that hero waa an extremely pretty girl?
accompanied by a brothor brothers
aro not generally loath to transfer their
sisters to tho caro of those who can
appreoiato them more highly en
deavored to mako acquaintance, but
in vain.
Then, tho voyago having passed
through liko a dream, thoy landed at
New York, and another began irt tho
long journey across the continent amoncr
people whoso ways and speech wore
strange.
This is a journey made over land, and
thero was no more endurance other than
that of -patlonce. Rut it is a long and
tedious journey which oven the ordinary
traveler finds weary, while to Lai, lohg
ing to begin the voyago of search, It
xvns well-nigh intolerable. Some of tho
passengers began to remark this beau
tiful girl with eyes that looked always
westward as the train plowed on Its
westward way. She spoKO little with
her companion, who was not her hus
band, and did not seem to be her broth
or. Rut from time to timo he unrolled
a chart for her, and thoy followed a
route upon the ocean, talking in un
dertones. Then these passengers be
came curious, aud ono or two of them,
Indies, broke through tho American ro-
bitvu toward strangers aim spoke to tho
English girl, and discovered that she
was a girl with a story of surpassing in
terest. Sho made friends with these
ladies, and after a while sho told them
her story, and how tho man with whom
she traveled was not hor brother at all,
and not oven her cousin, but her very
true and faithful friend, her lover, more
loyal than Amadis do Gaul, who had
sold all that he had and brought tlio
money to her that she might go herself
to seek her sweetheart. 'Ami then sho
told what rea-on she had to believe that
Rex was living, and pointed to the
Malay who hail brought tho message
from the sea, and was as faithful to bet
as any bull-dog.
They pressed her hands and kissed
her; they wished her God-speed upon
her errand, and thoy wondered what
hero this lover of hers could be, since,
for his sake, she could accept without
offer of reward tho sorvice, the work,
the very fortune of so good and unsel
fish a man.
IIo was no hero, in truth, poor Rox!
nor was he, I think, so good a man as
Captain Ilolstius; but ho was her sweet
heart, and sho had given him her word.
"Yet, although she talked, although
the journey was shortened by the sym
pathy of these kind friends, it was like
the voyage, a strange and unreal
dream; it was a dream to bo standing in
the sunshine of California; a dream to
look upon tho broad Pacific; a dream
that IiOr hrnflinr kImoi! lnuidi lmv wWli
thoughtful eyes aud parted lips, looking
across me ocean on wnicn tneir quest
was to be made.
"Yes, Lai," he murmured, pointing
where westward lie tho lands we call
Far East, "yonder, over tho water, aro
the Coral Islands. They are scattered
across the sea for thousands of miles,
and on ono of them sits Captain Armi
ger. Doubt not, my dear, that we -hall
Now it came to pass that the thing for
which a certain English girl, accompa
nied by a Norwegian sea-Captain, had
enmo to San Francisco became noised
abroad in the city, and even got into
the papors, and interviewers called upon
Captain Ilolstius hogging for particulars,
which he supplied, saying naught of his
own sacrifices, nor of tho money, and
how it was obtained.
The story, dn'ssed up in newspaper
fashion, made a very pretty column of
news. It was copied, with fresh dress
ing up, into the New York papers, and
accounts of it, with many additional de
tails, nil liicrhlv (Iriinintin worn tivino.
nutted by the various New York corre
spondentsall of whom are eminent
novelists to the London papers. Tho
story was copied from them by all tho
country and colonial papers, whence it
camo that tho story of Lai's voyajfo, and
tho reason of it, bceamo known, in
garbled form, nil over tho English-speaking
world. Rut, as a groat quantity of
most interesting and exciting things, in
cluding the Irish discussion, havo
happened during this year, public in
terest in the voyago was not Mislainoii,
and it was presently forgotten, and no
body inquired into tho sequel.
This, indeed, is tho fate of most in
teresting stories as told by the papers.
An excellent opening leails to nothing.
Rut tho report of hor doings was of
great service to Lai in San Francisco.
In this wise. Anion"1 those who came
to gee tho beautiful English girl in search
of hor sweetheart was a lady with whom
she had traveled from New York, and
to whom she limf told her story. This
lady brought hor husbaud. lie was a
rich man just then, although ho had re
cently spent a winter and spring in
Europe. A financial operation, wliich
was to havo been a Ronanza boom, has
sinco then smashed him up; but ho is
beginning again in excellent heart, none
tho worse for tho check, and is so gen
orous a man that ho deserves to mako
another pilo. Ho is, bosides, o full of
courago, resource, quickness and in
genuity that ho is quito certain to mako
rt. Also, ho is. so extravagant that ho
will most assuredly loso it again.
"Miss Rydquist," ho said, "my wife
has told mo your story. Roliovo mo,
young lady, you havo everybody's pro
found sympathy, and I am hero, not
out of curiosity, bocauso 1 am not a
press mani but to toll you that perhaps
I can bo Of some holp to you if you Willi
let mo.y ,
"Myjdoar," said his wife, Intorrupt-5
ing, " wo-do not know yet, whether you
will lot us holp yov, and wo are rather
afraid of offering. May wo ask whether
whether you aro sure you aro rich
enough for what may turn out a long,
and exponstvo yoyagePJ,' . t ;
" Indeed," said Lai, "1 do not know.
Captain Ilolstius sold his share iu a
ship, and thnt brought in a good doal of
monoy, and othor friends helped us, and
I think wo havo about five hundred
pounds left."
"That is a good Bum to begin with,
said tho American. Now, young lady,
is your Vour brother what is reckoned a
smart sailor?"
Oh yes." Ltd was qulto suro about
this. "Even body in the Commercial
Docks always said ho was ono of tho
best .seamen nlloat."
"So I should think. Now thon. A
week or two ago so that it soonis
prqvmeiuiiu i nan to tiiKo over a
wo might help you, my dear. My 'litis
band does not care where his ship is
laKen to. nor where
t I'rtflllltr tinlinnfini nci olm l?(i. ..!,. ,....,,. ' .
......... -un. .in iv ni.iimn, imp .station, occupies a conn
.am au.. iiu s in Uiu bay,,anil,you can hunong tho Carolines; if vou
loon at ner. iiuisuo litis no suippor. ,. vou will see thnt it is
" iNow, said Ills wife. " you see how
lore she trades. If it harbor there lay tho missionary sehoon
tlila accident of your or, and a brig trading in beeho do mor.
Id have sold hor. If She had returned from a cruise amonr
had not been for
arrival, ho woul
C aptain Ilolstius pleaes, lie can take U,0 western islands. However, she hti(l
tho command, and sail wherever ho hoard nothing of any such whito man
pleases. ... I living among the natives. Nor could
Ihiswasapiooo of most astonishing the missionaries help. They knew of
good fortune, because It inado them por- nonn who answered at all to the deserlp
feetly independent. And, on tho other tj(, of Rex. Hut thero woro many
hand, It was not quite liko accepting a pl,UT.s where tho. were not permitted to
bonelit and giving nothing in roturn, be- i,u,d, the people being suspicious and
cause there was tho trading which might jealous; and tlioro weie other places
bo done J where traders had set the people against
In the end thero wns little profit from them so that thoy were sullon and would
this source, as will bo seen. Lrivo no information. Thero was a
Iherefore they ncccptciUliooflor with white man, more than one whito man,
grateful hearts. livinir nnionir the islands in the irroiit
j H' (iilvn ninr
thoy woro sailing
across the b'luo waters in a ship wofl
manned, well found, and seaworthy.
With them was a male who was able to
interpret.
Then began the time which will for
ever seem to Lai tho longest and yet the
snortesi in ner me, tor every moriiinj;
am-igiiuu anu sam: -would nun tne
evening wore hero!' and evening sho
..l....!l i i i ,.,r l.t . .."
longcii lor mu noi morning, j no days
were tedious and the nights were long.
Now that they wero all over,1 and a
memory of the past, she recalls them,
ono by one, each with its little tiny inci
dent to mark and separate it from tlio
rest, and remembers all, with ovory
hour, saying: This was the fortieth day
before we foundnini," and "Thirty days
after this day wo camo to tho island of
my Rex."
The voyage, after two or three days
of bree.e, was across a smooth sea, with
a fair wind. Lai remembers tho hot
sun, tho awning rigged up aft for her,
the pleasant seat that Captain Ilolstius
arranged for her, where sho lay listen
ing to the plash of tho water against
the ship's .side, rolling easily with tho
long waes of tho Pacific, watching tlio
whvto sails filled out, while the morning
passed slowly on, marked by the strik
ing of tho bells.
It seemed, day after day, as her eye
laj- upon the broad stretch of waters,
that they were quite alone in tlio world;
all the rest was a dream; tho creation
meant nothing but a boundless ocean,
and a single ship sailing slowly aoross it.
In the evening, after sunset, tho slars
came out stars sh had never seen bo
fore. They are no brighter, these stars
of the equator, than those of the North.
They are not so bright; but, seen in tho
cloudless sky from the deck of tho ship,
thoy seemed brighter, clearer, nearer.
Under thoir light, in the silence of tho
night, the girl's heart was lifted, while
her companion stood beside her and
spoko out of his own fullness, noblo
thoughts about great deeds. Sho folt
humbled, yet not lowered. She had
nover known this man before; she never
suspected, while ho sat grave and silent
among the other Captains, how his
brain was liko a well undeliled, a spring
of sweet water, charged with thoughts
that only come to the best among us,
and then only in times of meditation and
solitude.
Thinking of those nights, she would
now, but tor tho sako of Rox, fain bo
oneo more leaning over tlio tr.u'rnil,
listening to the slow and measured
words of this gentle Norweegco.
As for Dick, he knew perfectly what
thoy left England for, and why thoy
came aooard this ship. At night, when
they got into warm latitudes, ho lay
coileu in) on deck, for'ard; all day long
ho stood in the bows, and gazed out to
sea, looking for tlio land where thoy
wero fast ashore.
It matters little about tho (totalis of
tho voyage. The first land they mado
was Oaliu, one of the sandwich Islands.
They put in at Honolulu and took in
fresh provisions. Then thoy sailed
again aoross a lonely stretch of ocean,
wliere tlioro aro no islands, wliero thoy
hailed no vessel, and where tho ocoan
soundings are deepest.
Thon they camo into seas studded
with groups of islands most beautiful to
look upon. Hut they stayed not at any,
and still Dick stood in tho bows and
kept his watch. Sometimes his face
would light up as lie saw, far away,
low down in tho horizon, a bank of
land, which might have boon a cloud.
IIo would point to it, gazo patiently till
ho could make it out, aud then, as if
disappointed, would turn away and take
no more interest in it.
If you look at a map you will porccivo
that thero lies, north of Now Guinea, a
broad open soa, two thousand miles
long, and five or six hundred in
breadth. This soa is shut in by a group
of islands, groat and small, on tlio south,
and another group,- all small, on tho
north. There aro thousands of these
islands. No one over goes to thorn ox
Copt missionaries, ships in tho beclio do
mor trade, and "black-birders." On
s0mo of them aro found beach-combers,
men who mako thoir way, no ono
knows how, from islo to islo, who aro
whito by birth, but Polynesian in habita
and customs, as ignorant as Pagans, as
destituto of morals ant1 culture as the
savages among whom tho,- live. Thoy
havo long since imparted thoir own
vices to tho people, and, as a matter ot
courso, learned tho niitivu vloos. Thoy .
aro tho mon who havo relnpsod intd
barbarism. All over tho world there1
aro found such men, thoy livo among
tho lands whore civdi.od mon havo
boon, but where they do not live. Ovi
somo of these islands aro missionary sta
tions with missionary ships.
It wa9 among thoso islands thnt thoy
oxpectod to laid their castaway, or at
least to hoar something of h in. And
first Captain Ilolstius nut his helm tin for
nn)
of
Kusale, whore tnero is a station of tho
American mission.
Kusaio, besides being a missionary
'ai situation
look at tho
conmanit ho
ly easy of access for the surrounding
islands. Unfortunately, however, com
munication between is limited. In tho
' nloll of Hogoleu. There was a white
man who had lived for thlrtv voars on
.ugunor, and had grown up a family of
hisky sons and daughters. There woro
one or two more, but thoy woro all old
sailors, deserters at first, who had run
awayfrom their ships, and settled down
111 II lift! nf iiriifihlit ifin llliilm' tint tviii'tii
---" : - v.... ...... v.. ..v.... ..
tropical sun, doing nothing amom- the
' puoplo who were contented to do noth-
uig uub in oreaino uiu air anu live moir
years and then die.
One of them, an old beach-comber o.
Kusaio, who know as much as any man
can know of this great archipelago, gavo
them advice. He said that it was very
unlikely a castaway would bo killed oven
by jealous or revengeful islanders. No
doubt ho was living with the natives, but
the difficulty might to got him away;
that the temper of tho people had been
greatly altered for the worso by tho pi
ratical kidnaping of English, Chilian
and Spanish ships, mid he warned them
wherever they landed to go with the ut
most show ol confidence, and to con
coal their arms, wliich thoy must how
ever carry.
From Kusaio thoy sailed to Ponapo,
where the American missionaries havo
another station. Here they stayed a
day or two on shore, and were hospi
tably entertained by the good people of
the station, their wives making much of
Lai, and presenting her with all man
ner of strange fruit and (lowers. Hero
the girl for tho first timo partly eompro
hondod what beautiful places 'lio about
this world of ours, and how one can
never rightly comprehend the fullness
of this earth which declareth every
where the glory of ils Maker. Thero
are old mysterious buildings at Ponapo,
tho builders of which belong to a raeo
long sinco extinct, their meaning as
long since forgotten as tho people who
designed them, They stand among tho
woods, liko tho deserted cities and tem
ples of Central America, a riddle insolu
ble. As Lai stood beside thoso mystori
ous buildings with an old missionary, ho
told her how, thousands of years before,
tlioro was a race of people ainonir thoso
...-V... i- 1 .1 - .1 ,.!.,..
j islands who built great temples to thoir
I unknown gods, carved idols, and howed
1 the rock into massive shapes, and who
then passed away into silence and ob
l livion, leaving a mystery behind them,
I whose secret no one will ever discover.
Lai thought tho man who told her this,
I tho man who had spent contentedly fifty
I yoars in tlio endeavor to teach tho sav
I ages, who now dwelt hero, nioro mar
velous and more to bo admired than
these mysterious remains, but then sho
was no archii'ologisl.
Then with more good wishes, again
thoy put out to son.
Thoy wero now in the very heart of
tho Carolino Archipelago. Nearly every
day brought them in sight of somo
island. Dick, the Malay, in the bows,
would spring to his feet and gazo in
tently while tho laud slowly grow boforo
them and assumed definite proportions.
Then he would sit down again, as if dis
appointed, and shako his head, taking
no more interest iu tlio place. Hut, in
deed, thoy could not possibly have
reached tho island thoy sought. That
must be much further to the west, some
where near tho Pelow Islands.
"See, Lai," said Captain Ilolstius for
tho hundredth timo over the chart, "if
Rex was right as to the current and the
wind, ho may havo landed at any ono of
tho Uliea Islands, or on the Swedes, or
porhaps tho Philip Islands, but 1 cannot
think that ho drifted further east. If
ho was wrong about the currents, wliich
is not likely, ho may bo on ono of tho
Pelows, or on one of tho islands south
of Yap. If ho had landod on Yap itself,
he would havo been sont homo in ono of
tho Hamburg ships long ago. Let us
try them all.
For many weeks thoy sailed upon
thoso smooth and sunny waters, sending
ashore at every islet, and learning noth
ing. Lapped in tlio soft airs of tho Pa
cific, the ship sailed slowly, making
from ono island to another. Lai lay
idly on tho deck, saying to horsolf, as
each land camo in sight: "Haply wo
may find him hero." Rut thoy did not
find him, and so thoy saitod away, to
mako a fresh attompt.
Docs it help to namo tho places vfhorc
thoy touched? You may find tfiom oh
tho map.
to be continued
