At the sight of him, Mr. Jukes gave a gasp and then a glad cry.
CHAPTER XXXVI.--FOUND AT LAST!
"Oh, my brother," cried Mr. Jukes, "I can hardly believe we've found youat last."
"Thank God! you have, Jacob," returned the other fervently. "For amoment I thought that you were only one of the fantastic visions thathave visited my brain lately."
"My poor brother," exclaimed the millionaire, "but now thank heaven youare restored to your friends."
"But how did you ever find me? I never deemed it possible that rescuerscould find their way to this place where that villain Broom, afterstealing the pearl, marooned me."
"Ah, so the pearl is gone,--but never mind that now. I would not havegiven your life for an ocean-full of pearls," declared the millionairehappily, "but I must introduce our friends who have shared with me thehardships 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 stopit. The white men's weapons glinted menacingly and there were nowarriors in the village.
"And now let us hasten away from here," said Jerushah Jukes. "The menare off on a fighting expedition and I might have escaped but withoutfood or weapons I could never have made my way to the coast through thejungle. I suppose that is the reason they did not tie me up."
"Undoubtedly," said the millionaire, "but I'm forgetting something," andhe doled out to the two old men a reward, much over what they haddemanded. They chattered their thanks glibly, making all sorts ofgesticulations of gratitude.
"It's all like a dream to me so far," said Jerushah Jukes, as they madetheir way back through the cave and past the "haunted" waterfall. "Broomsent me up here with a guard of his men. The tribe appeared to befriendly to him and agreed to keep me prisoner as long as he wished. Butmy poor crew? What has become of them?"
"That we do not know yet," said Mr. Jukes, "but we will talk later. Iwant to put all the distance I can between this tribe and our party assoon as we can. Those women will give the alarm although they dared notmake an active protest."
But as they emerged from the cave they met with a rude shock. A party ofwarriors with frizzed hair and war-paint daubing their bodies barred theway.
At first the tribesmen stood motionless with astonishment at the sightof a party of white men emerging from their secret cave. But the nextinstant they broke into a savage volley of shouts and yells and raisedtheir spears and cruel-looking war clubs.
"We have come too late, my poor brother," groaned Mr. Jukes. Butsuddenly 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 quicklow voice said:
"Give me um map. Quick, our lives depend on him."
The millionaire lost no time in producing 'Bully' Broom's map. The mostbe-frizzed of the natives pored over it for several minutes. Then one ofthem said in fair English:
"You come from Chief Broom; all right, you may go. He tell us to keepwhite 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 hadreturned unexpectedly, that the white men had been sent by 'Bully'Broom,--they were saved from disaster. But the tribesmen had demandedproof of Salloo's story and, in the nick of time, he had luckily thoughtof the map which satisfied their suspicions at once, for Broom was theonly white man, except the prisoner, who had ever visited the secretcave.
The return to the camp was made without incident and Jack, on reachingit, at once rigged up his wireless apparatus and flashed to the _SeaGypsy_ the glad news of the rescue of the millionaire's brother. But, afew minutes later, he, in his turn, was receiving good tidings. Broomhad returned to Bomobori and was arrested while he was recruiting a crewto make a dash into the jungle and intercept the Jukes' party. He wasapprehended while rowing ashore from a native craft.
As the officers of the law seized him, he was seen to throw somethinginto the water. One of the native oarsmen instantly dived after theobject and succeeded in grabbing it before it reached the bottom. Itproved to be the great pearl, "The Tear of the Sea." And there was yetmore intelligence of a kind to hearten them after all their tribulationsin the wild jungles of New Guinea.
The first officer of the _Sea Gypsy_, having received news of amysterious schooner anchored in a cove up the coast, resolved to do alittle amateur detective work. He found that she was none other than thefamous _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 thecrew of the _Centurion_, or what remained of them--for five had diedfrom privation--were discovered. They had refused to join Broom's bandand he was afraid to let them loose, so they had been confined in thealmost unlivable hold ever since their capture. Since Broom's arrest,the Australian authorities had cabled that he was wanted there forpiracy and other crimes and he had been sent to Melbourne on a mailsteamer. It may be added here that British justice was dealt out with aheavy hand to the ruffian and his many victims were fully avenged. Hiscrew was tried and sentenced in Bomobori and all received heavy terms ofimprisonment. Thus were the South Seas rid of one of the chief of theirmany freebooters.
The long march back to Bomobori was made without anything of particularinterest occurring and one morning they stood on a rise overlooking theharbor. There lay the _Sea Gypsy_ with the dear old Stars and Stripesflying, and the ship dressed in gay bunting; for by wireless Jack hadnotified those on board of the time of their arrival. A few hours moreand they were among their friends again with their strange experiencesbehind them.
As there was no reason for staying in Bomobori, except to take on boardthe survivors of the _Centurion's_ crew, the _Sea Gypsy_ steamed out ofthe harbor the next day, being saluted as she went, a compliment whichshe returned with her rapid-fire gun. Watching them from the wharf weretwo 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. Jukessaid, were beyond price; but, as he watched the departure of his whitefriends, his thoughts were only with them and not with what were, tohim, the riches of a lifetime.
The other watcher turned away with a sneer, jingling the money Mr. Jukeshad 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 washe. "If it hadn't been for those boys I might have gone home in comforton 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 newsof the rescue had already been wirelessed home, and there was no greathurry except Mr. Jukes' desire to get back to his business affairs aftera romantic adventure he would never forget. As the _Sea Gypsy_ droppedanchor in the well-known harbor, a fleet of canoes dashed out to welcomeher, among them you may be sure those of Anai and his friend, who wepttears of joy at seeing their white "chums" once more. Mr. Jukes, hisspeculative instinct once more in the ascendent, bought a large quantityof pearls on which he subsequently realized a good profit.
"But we must hurry home," he said one day. "My business will be going torack and ruin without me and besides I've run out of dyspepsia pills. Ionly hope I didn't ruin my digestion in the jungle."
And here the adventures of the Ocean Wireless Boys on the Pacific mustbe brought to a close, except that it might be mentioned that prettyHelen Dennis, whose father's ship was in port on the return of the _SeaGypsy_, now wears a very pretty locket, set with South Sea pearls--thegift of Jack Ready. And so, till we meet them in the next volume of thisseries, we will wish the lads and their friends good-bye.
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