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\ % Being the Authentic V
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/) Bahama Island# in the A
A Year 1903?Now First >
> * Given to the Public. V
A RICHARD LEGALLIENNE \
Copyright by Donbleday, Ftgt A Company
(Continued From Laat Week)
v CHAPTER III.
Calypso.
Of course a glance and the flrat
sound of his voice had told me that I
had to do with u gentleman?one of
those vagabond English gentlemen in
* exile who form a type peculiar, I think,
to the English race; men that are a
curious combination of aristocrat and
Gypsy, soldier, scholar, and philosopher;
men of good family, who have
drifted everywhere, aeon and seen
through everything, but In all their
wanderings huve never lost their senRc
and habit of "form," their boyish zest
In living, their humorous stolclRm, and,
above all, their lordly accent. >
"Now that y</u have found u?. Sir
Ulysses" ? continued my eccentric
host, motioning me, with an Indescribably
princely wave of the hand to
accompany him?"you must certainly
give uk the pleusure of your company
to luncheon. Visitors are as rare as
black swans on this Ultima Thule of
ours?though, by the way, the black
swan, cygnus atmtus. Is nothing like
so rare as the ancients believed. I
have shot them myself out In Australia.
Still they are rare enough for the purpose
of imagery, though really not so I
rare ne ? humor. i.. ?
.. ucuiii mil- LIIU IfllK
Intelligently to on this Island."
Talk ! My friend indued, very evidently
wns a talker?one of those fan- i
tastic nomologists to whom an nudl- i
ence Is little more than a symbol. I
huw that there was no need for me
to do any of the talking. He was jnorv
than glad to do It all. IMulnly his encounter
with me was to him like a i
spring !ii a thirsty land. i
"Solitude," he continued, "Is perhups
the final need of the human souL
After a while, when we have run the
ramut of all our ardors and our
jreatns, solitude comes to seem the
>ne excellent thing, the sumraum
Donum."
I murmured that he certainly seemed
to have come to the right place for
"Very true, Indeed," he assented,
With a courtly Inclination of his heal,
bs though I had said something profound
; "very true. Indeed, and yet,
wasn't It *fte great Bacon who said,:
'Whoever Is delighted with solitude Is
either a beast or a god?'?and this
particular solitude, I confess, sometimes
seems to inc n little too much
like that enforced solitude of the
Pontic marshes of which Ovld walled
and whimpered In the deaf eurs of
Augustus."
I could not help noticing at last
as he talked on with fantastic tnagnlfl
cence, the odd contrast between his
speech uud the almost equally fantastic
poverty of his clothing. The suit
he wore, though still preserving a
certain elegance of out, was so worn*
and patched and stained that a negro
would hardly have accepted It aB a
gift; and his almost painful emaclntlon
gave him generally the appearance
of an animated framework of
rags and hones, startllngly embodying
the voice and the manners of a prince.
Yet the shabby tie about his neck was
bound by a ring. In which was set a
turquoise of great sl7.e und beauty.
Presently, as we loitered on through
the palms, we came upon two negroes
chorpplng away with their machetes,
trimming up the debris of broken and
decaying palm fans. They were both
sturdy, ferocious-looking fellows, but
one of them was a veritable giant.
"Behold by bodyguard!" said my
magnificent friend, with the usual pos
"Behold My Bodyguardl"
sesslve wnve of his hand; "my
Bwltzers, my Janissaries, ho to nay."
The- negroes stopped w<rrklng,
touched iJielr great straw hats, and
hashed their splendid teeth In a delighted
smile. Evidently they were
used to their muster's ways of talking,
und were devoted to him.
"This chup here Is Erebus," said
tny host, und the appropriateness of
the name was apparent, for he was
certainly the blackest negro I had ever
teen, as superbly black as some women
are superbly white.
ttll If gtittkoa. Lfs toTt J
I good boy I"
And, with grin* of pleasure, Samion
proudly stripped off bis thin calico
)aclcet and exposed a torso of terrifying
power, but beautiful in Its play of
muscles as that of a god.
Leaving Samson and Erebus to continue
their savage play with their
machetes, we walked on through the
palms, which here gave a particularly
Junglelike appearance to the sceue
from the fact of their being bowed
out from their roots and sweeping upward
in great curves. One Involuntarily
looked for a man-eating tiger at
any moment, standing striped and
splendid In one of the openings.
Then suddenly to the right, there
came a flash of level green, suggesting
lawns, and the outlines of a house,
partly covered with brilliant purple
flowers?a marvelous splush of color.
"Bougalnvlllen 1 Bougatnvtllea spectahllis?of
course, you know it. Was
there ever such a purple? Not Solomon
in all his glory, et cetera. And
here we are at the house of King
Alcinous?a humble version of it indeed."
It was a large rambling stucco
house. snrnou'lmt 1 *-*
, .. ....V uvvuj cu lUU&iU),,
and evidently built on the ruins of an
older building. We came upon It at a
broad Italian-looking loggia, supported
by stone pillars bowed la with vines?
very cool and pleusant?with mossy
slabs for Its floor, here and there
tropical ferns set out In tubs, some
wicker chairs standing about, uud a
table at one side on which two llttlo
barelegged negro girls were busy setting
out yellow fruit, and other appurtenances
of luncheou, on a dazzling
white cloth.
"lias your mistress returned yet,
my children?" asked the muster.
. "No, snr," said the older girl, with
a giggle, twisting nnd grimacing with
embarrassment
"My daughter," explained my host,
"has gone to the town on an errand.
She will be back at any moment.
Mcaivw?.iie, I shall introduce you to a
cooliug drink of my own manufacture,
with a basis of that coconut milk
wMch T need not nsk you whether you
appreciate, recalling the pleasant
circumstance of our first acquaintance."
Motioning me to n seat, and pushing
toward me a box of clgurettes, he went
Indoors, leaving me to tuke In the
stretch of beautiful garden In front of
me. the trees of which seemed literally
to be hung with gold?for they were
mainly of orange and grapefruit
ranged round a spacious beautifully
kept lawn with the regularity of
Humptuous decoration. In the middle
of the lawn, a little rocky fountalu
threw up a Jet of silver, falling with |
a tinkling murmur Into a broad circular
basin from which emerged the
broad leaves und splendid pink blossoms
of an Egyptian lotus. Certainly
It was no far-fetched allusion of my
classical friend to speak of the garden
of Alclnous; particularly connect- j
od as It was In my mind with the white
beach of a desert Isle, and that marble
statue In the moonlight.
As I sat dreaming, bathed In the
golden-green light of the orange trees,
and lulled by the tinkling of the fountain.
my host returned with our drinks,
his learned disquisition on which 1
will spare the reader, highly Interest- '
lug and characteristic though It was. '
Suffice it tfiut It was a drink, whatever
Its Ingredients?and there was
\<ri lunii; BWHicmirri: It |H>W?T1UI
"stick" in it?that seemed to have
been drawn from some cool grotto of
the virgin earth, so thrllltngly cold
and Invigorating It was.
While we were slowly sipping It, and
smoking our cigarettes, In an unwonted
pause of my friend's funclful verhosltfri
almost jumped In my chair at
the sound of a voice indoors. It was
Instantly followed by a light and rapid
tread, and the sound of a woman's
dress. Then a tall, beautiful young
womnn emerged on the loggia.
"Ah! there you are!" cried my host,
as we both rose; and then turning to
me. "this Is my daughter?Calypso.
Her real nnme I assure you?none of
my nousense?doesn't she look it? Allow
me, my dear, to Introduce?Mr.
Ulysses I"?for we had not yet exchanged
each other's names.
I am a wretched actor, and I am
bound to say that she proved herself
no better. For she gave a decided
start as she turned those glowing eyes
on me, and the lovely olive of her
cheeks glowed as with submerged rose
color. Our embarrassment did not escape
the father.
"Why, you knorw each other already
!" he exclaimed, with natural
surprise.
"Not exactly"?I was grateful for
the sudden nerve with which I was
able to hasten to the relief of her lovely
distress?"but possibly Miss?t'a- j
l.vpso recalls as naturally as I do, our (
momentary meeting In Sweeney's
slore, one evening. I had no expecta-1
tlon of course, that we should meet |
again under such pleasant clrcumstances
as this."
She gnve me a grnteful look us she
took iny hand, and with It?or was It
only iny eager imagination? n shy lit-j
tie pressure, again as of gratitude.
I had tried to get into my voice my
assurance that, of courso, I remembered
no other more recent meeting?
though, nuturally, as she had given
that little start in the doorway, there
had Hashed on me again the picture
of her standing, moonlit. In another
resonndlnir ftnnrwsv nml llm uilM
start she had Riven then, as the golden
pieces atreamed from iter lovely surpriaed
mouth, and her lifted hnnda.
And her eyea?I could have aworn?
were the living eyea of Jack lfarkaway!
Had ahe a brother, I wondered.
Yet my mind waa too dazzled and confused
with her nearness to pursue the
speculation.
Aa we sat down to luncheon, waited
upon by the little harlcgged black children?wulted
on, too. .surprisingly
well, despite the contortions of their
primitive embarrassment?my host
once more resumed his character of
the cluaalc king welcoming the stormtoKRed
stranger to his board.
"Far wanderer," he said, raising hla
glass to me, "eat of what our hoard
affords, welcome without question of
name and nation. But If, when the
food and wine have done their genial
office, and the weariness of your Journeying
has fallen from yon, you should
feal stlpcd_tell_ja_ somswhaj^og
^ I
yourself add your wanderings, whan
I manner of men call you klnsmw >n|
what fair land Is your home and the i
place of your loved ones, be sure that |
we Rhall count th< tale good hearing,
and, for our part, make exchange In
like fashion of ourselves and the passage
of our days in this lonely Isle."
We ull luughed as he ended?himself
with a whinny of laughter. For, odd
, as .Ruch discourse may sound In the
reading, It was uttered so whimsically,
' and In so spirited and humorous a
' style that I assure you It wus very
captivating.
"You should have been an actor, my
lord Alclnous," I said, laughing. I
seemed alrcudy curiously at home,
seated there at that table with this
fantastic stranger nnd that being out
of fairyland toward whom I dared only
turn my eyes now and again by
stealth. The strange fellow had such
a way with him, and his talk made you
feel thut he hud known you ull your
life.
"Ah! I have had my dreams. I have
had my dreams I" he answered, his
eyes gazing with u momentary wlstfulness
across the orange trees.
Then we talked ut random, as friendly
strangers talk over luncheon, though
we were glud enough that he should
do all the tulking?wonderful. Iridescent,
madcap talk, such as a man here
una there in ten thousand, gifted with
peril up:*, the most attractive of all humuii
gifts, has at his command.
And, every now uud again, uiv even,
falling on the paradoxical sqnulor of
his clothing, would remind me of th?
enigma of this courtly vagabond;
though?need I nay It??my eyes and
my heart had other business than with
him, throughout that wonderful meal,
enfolded as I felt myself once more In
that golden cloud of magnetic vitality,
which had at first swept over me, as
with u breath of perfumed lire, among
the salt pork and the tinware of
Sweeney's store.
Luncheon over. Lady Calypso, with
h stately Inclination of her lovely
head, left* us to our wine and our
cigars.
The time had come for the far-traveled
guest to declare himself, and 1
saw In my host's eye a courteous invitation
to heghi. I had been pondering
wlmt account to give of myself, und 1
had decided, for various reasons?of
which the Lady Calj'p.s? wus, of course,
first, but the open-hearted charm of
her father u close second?to tell him
the whole of my story. Whatever
his and her particular secret was, It
was evident to me that it was an Innocent
and honorable one; and, besides,
I may have had a notion that
before long I wus to have a family
Interest in it. So I began?starting In
with a little prelude in the manner of
my host, just to enter Into the spirit
of#the game:
"My Lord Alclnous, your guest, the
fur wanderer, having partaken of youi
golden hospitality. Is now fain to open
his heart to you, and tell you of himself
ami his race, his home and his
loved ones across the wine-dark sea,
and such of his adventures us may
give pleasure to your ears" . . .
though, having no talents in that dl- ,
rection, I was glad enough > abandon
my 1 itm?> attempt at his Homeric stylo
for h plain straightforward narrative
of the events of the past three mouths.
I had not, however, proceeded very
far, when, with a courteous raising of
his hand, King Alcinous suggested a ,
pause. i
"If you would not mind," he said, "1
would like my daughter to hear this
too, for It is of the very stuff of romantic
adventure in which she delights.
She Is a bruve girl, and, as 1
often tell her, would have made a
very spirited dare-devil boy, if she
hadn't happened to he born a girl."
Tills phrase seemed to flash a light ?
upon the questionings that had stirred
at the back of my mind since I had
first heard that voice in Sweeney's
store.
"By the way, dear king," I said, assuming
a casual manner, "do you happen
to have a son?"
"No!" he auswered, "Calypso is my
only child." I
"Very strange J" I said, "we met a
whimsical lad In our travels whom I
would have sworn was her brother."
"That's odd I" said the "king" imper-'
turbahly, "hut no! I have no son
and he seemed to say it with a certain
sadness.
Then Calypso came in to Join my
audience, having, meanwhile, taken
the opportunity of twining a scarlet
hibiscus among her luxuriant dark
curls. I should certainly have told the
story better without her, yet I was
glad?how glad 1?to hove her seat:
ed there, an attentive presence in u
simple gown, white us the sea foam?
' from which, there was no further
' doubt In my mind, she had magically
i sprung. i
I gave them the whole story, much
u* I had told it In John Saunders'
snuggery?John I*. Tobias, Jr.; dear
r old Tom and his sucking fish, his
ghosts, sharks, skeletons, and all; ami
I when I had finished, I found that the
' Interest of my story was once more
chiefly centered in my pock-marked
friend of "the wonderful works of
| God."
"I should like to meet your pockmarked
friend," said King Alcinous,
"and I have a notion thut, with you as
a halt, I shall not long he denied the
pleasure." i
"I am Inclined to think thnt T hnu?
seen him already," aaid Calypso, using
her honey-golden voice f(?r the base
purpose of mentioning him.
"Impossible I" I cried; "he is long
since snfe in Nassau Jail.
"Oh. not lutely," she answered to
our Interrogative surprise, and giving
a swift embarrassed look at her father,
which I at once connected with
the secret of the doubloons.
"Seriously, Calypso?" asked her father,
with a certain stem affection, as
thinking of her safety. "On one of
y<mr errunds to town?"
And then, turning to me, he said: j
"Sir Ulysses, you have spoken well,
and your speech has been that free,
open-hearted speech that wins Its way
ullke among the Hyperboreans that
dwell in frozen twilight near the
northern star, and those dwarfed and
swarthy intelligences that blacken In
the fierce sunlight of that fearful axle
we call the equator. Therefore, I will
make return to you of speech no less
frank and true ..." i
He took a puff at his cigar, and then |
iiiniiiiii ii ii 11 i
but that It Is easy to
long to tlie race ?f K^Pnal (Children,
to which, you may have realized, my
daughter and I also belong. This ad- ,
venture of yours after buried treasure '
has not seriously been for the doubloons
and pieces of eight, the million dollars,
and the million ami a half dol- <
lars themselves, but for the fun of going
after them, sailing the unknown was,
coral islands, und all that sort of
blessed moonshine. Well, Calypso and
I are just like that, und I am going to
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(To Be Continued Next Week)
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