“Oh, my brother,” cried Mr. Jukes, “I can hardly believe we’ve found you
at last.”
“Thank God! you have, Jacob,” returned the other fervently. “For a
moment I thought that you were only one of the fantastic visions that
have visited my brain lately.”
“My poor brother,” exclaimed the millionaire, “but now thank heaven you
are restored to your friends.”
“But how did you ever find me? I never deemed it possible that rescuers
could find their way to this place where that villain Broom, after
stealing the pearl, marooned me.”
“Ah, so the pearl is gone,—but never mind that now. I would not have
given your life for an ocean-full of pearls,” declared the millionaire
happily, “but I must introduce our friends who have shared with me the
hardships of the trail.”
The boys, and then Salloo, added their congratulations to Mr. Jukes,
while the women and children gathered round and chattered frantically.
It was plain that they objected to all this, yet did not see how to stop
it. The white men’s weapons glinted menacingly and there were no
warriors in the village.
“And now let us hasten away from here,” said Jerushah Jukes. “The men
are off on a fighting expedition and I might have escaped but without
food or weapons I could never have made my way to the coast through the
jungle. I suppose that is the reason they did not tie me up.”
“Undoubtedly,” said the millionaire, “but I’m forgetting something,” and
he doled out to the two old men a reward, much over what they had
demanded. They chattered their thanks glibly, making all sorts of
gesticulations of gratitude.
“It’s all like a dream to me so far,” said Jerushah Jukes, as they made
their way back through the cave and past the “haunted” waterfall. “Broom
sent me up here with a guard of his men. The tribe appeared to be
friendly to him and agreed to keep me prisoner as long as he wished. But
my poor crew? What has become of them?”
“That we do not know yet,” said Mr. Jukes, “but we will talk later. I
want to put all the distance I can between this tribe and our party as
soon as we can. Those women will give the alarm although they dared not
make an active protest.”
But as they emerged from the cave they met with a rude shock. A party of
warriors with frizzed hair and war-paint daubing their bodies barred the
way.
At first the tribesmen stood motionless with astonishment at the sight
of a party of white men emerging from their secret cave. But the next
instant they broke into a savage volley of shouts and yells and raised
their spears and cruel-looking war clubs.
“We have come too late, my poor brother,” groaned Mr. Jukes. But
suddenly Salloo raised his voice. He spoke in tones of loud authority.
The spears and clubs were lowered. He turned to Mr. Jukes and in a quick
low voice said:
“Give me um map. Quick, our lives depend on him.”
The millionaire lost no time in producing ‘Bully’ Broom’s map. The most
be-frizzed of the natives pored over it for several minutes. Then one of
them said in fair English:
“You come from Chief Broom; all right, you may go. He tell us to keep
white man till he send for him. You show Broom’s map. He all right. Goo’
bye,” and the warriors went on.
Thus by the clever Malay’s strategy he had told the warriors, who had
returned unexpectedly, that the white men had been sent by ‘Bully’
Broom,—they were saved from disaster. But the tribesmen had demanded
proof of Salloo’s story and, in the nick of time, he had luckily thought
of the map which satisfied their suspicions at once, for Broom was the
only white man, except the prisoner, who had ever visited the secret
cave.
The return to the camp was made without incident and Jack, on reaching
it, at once rigged up his wireless apparatus and flashed to the _Sea
Gypsy_ the glad news of the rescue of the millionaire’s brother. But, a
few minutes later, he, in his turn, was receiving good tidings. Broom
had returned to Bomobori and was arrested while he was recruiting a crew
to make a dash into the jungle and intercept the Jukes’ party. He was
apprehended while rowing ashore from a native craft.
As the officers of the law seized him, he was seen to throw something
into the water. One of the native oarsmen instantly dived after the
object and succeeded in grabbing it before it reached the bottom. It
proved to be the great pearl, “The Tear of the Sea.” And there was yet
more intelligence of a kind to hearten them after all their tribulations
in the wild jungles of New Guinea.
The first officer of the _Sea Gypsy_, having received news of a
mysterious schooner anchored in a cove up the coast, resolved to do a
little amateur detective work. He found that she was none other than the
famous _South Sea Lass_. Securing the co-operation of the authorities,
the vessel was raided one night and her small crew easily overpowered.
Then cries were heard from below and on the removal of the hatches the
crew of the _Centurion_, or what remained of them—for five had died
from privation—were discovered. They had refused to join Broom’s band
and he was afraid to let them loose, so they had been confined in the
almost unlivable hold ever since their capture. Since Broom’s arrest,
the Australian authorities had cabled that he was wanted there for
piracy and other crimes and he had been sent to Melbourne on a mail
steamer. It may be added here that British justice was dealt out with a
heavy hand to the ruffian and his many victims were fully avenged. His
crew was tried and sentenced in Bomobori and all received heavy terms of
imprisonment. Thus were the South Seas rid of one of the chief of their
many freebooters.
The long march back to Bomobori was made without anything of particular
interest occurring and one morning they stood on a rise overlooking the
harbor. There lay the _Sea Gypsy_ with the dear old Stars and Stripes
flying, and the ship dressed in gay bunting; for by wireless Jack had
notified those on board of the time of their arrival. A few hours more
and they were among their friends again with their strange experiences
behind them.
As there was no reason for staying in Bomobori, except to take on board
the survivors of the _Centurion’s_ crew, the _Sea Gypsy_ steamed out of
the harbor the next day, being saluted as she went, a compliment which
she returned with her rapid-fire gun. Watching them from the wharf were
two figures. One a tall agile Malay, who, with tears in his eyes,
watched the yacht till she was hull-down on the horizon. It was Salloo.
He had been well rewarded for his services which indeed, as Mr. Jukes
said, were beyond price; but, as he watched the departure of his white
friends, his thoughts were only with them and not with what were, to
him, the riches of a lifetime.
The other watcher turned away with a sneer, jingling the money Mr. Jukes
had left him in his pockets:
“So I’ve got to stick round this hole till I can get a steamer home,”
grumbled Donald Judson, for, as our readers will have guessed, it was
he. “If it hadn’t been for those boys I might have gone home in comfort
on the yacht. Well, maybe some day I’ll get even with them.”
On the voyage home a stop was made at the Pamatou Islands; the glad news
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speculative instinct once more in the ascendent, bought a large quantity
of pearls on which he subsequently realized a good profit.
“But we must hurry home,” he said one day. “My business will be going to
rack and ruin without me and besides I’ve run out of dyspepsia pills. I
only hope I didn’t ruin my digestion in the jungle.”
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Gypsy_, now wears a very pretty locket, set with South Sea pearls—the
gift of Jack Ready. And so, till we meet them in the next volume of this
series, we will wish the lads and their friends good-bye.
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1. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
2. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have
been preserved.
3. Page-specific notes:
p. 76 restored full-stop in “Captain Sparhawk Tahiti was not far off.”
p. 193 whiste -> whistle in “shrill whistle sounded”
p. 213 Jordan -> Judson in “Broom and young Judson turned”
p. 242 “membel” retained (for “remember”) in dialect: “Me membel now”
p. 262 blared -> glared in “yellow eyes glared malevolently”