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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Maru - A Dream of the Sea - -Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole - -Release Date: February 27, 2021 [eBook #64643] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Roger Frank - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARU *** - - - - -MARU - -A Dream of the Sea - -By H. De Vere Stacpoole - -Author of “The Blue Lagoon,” “The Pearl Fishers,” etc., etc. - - - - -I - - -The night was filled with vanilla and frangipanni odours and the -endless sound of the rollers on the reef. Somewhere away back amidst -the trees a woman was singing, the tide was out, and from the verandah -of Lygon’s house, across the star-shot waters of the lagoon, moving -yellow points of light caught the eye. They were spearing fish by -torchlight in the reef pools. - -It had been a shell lagoon once, and in the old days men had come to -Tokahoe for sandal wood; now there was only copra to be had, and just -enough for one man to deal with. Tokahoe is only a little island where -one cannot make a fortune, but where you may live fortunately enough if -your tastes are simple and beyond the lure of whisky and civilisation. - -The last trader had died in this paradise, of whisky, or gin--I forget -which--and his ghost was supposed to walk the beach on moonlight -nights, and it was apropos of this that Lygon suddenly put the question -to me “Do you believe in ghosts?” - -“Do you?” replied I. - -“I don’t know,” said Lygon. “I almost think I do, because every one -does. Oh, I know, a handful of hard-headed super-civilised people say -they don’t, but the mass of humanity does. The Polynesians and -Micronesians do; go to Japan, go to Ireland, go anywhere, and -everywhere you will find ghost believers.” - -“Lombrosso has written something like that,” said I. - -”Has he? Well it’s a fact, but all the same it’s not evidence, the -universality of a belief scorns to hint at reality in the thing -believed in--yet what is more wanting in real reason than _tabu_. Yet -_tabu_ is universal. You find men here who daren’t touch an artu tree -because artu trees are _tabu_ to them, or eat turtle or touch a dead -body. Well, look at the Jews; a dead body is _tabu_ to a Cohen. India -is riddled with the business, so’s English society--it’s all the same -thing under different disguises. - -“Funny that talking of ghosts we should have touched on this, for when -I asked you did you believe in ghosts I had a ghost story in mind and -_tabu_ comes into it. This is it.” - -And this is the story somewhat as told by Lygon. - -Some fifty years back when Pease was a pirate bold, and Hayes in his -bloom, and the topsails of the _Leonora_ a terror to all dusky -beholders, Maru was a young man of twenty. He was son of Malemake, King -of Fukariva, a kingdom the size of a soup plate, nearly as round and -without a middle--an atoll island, in short; just a ring of coral, sea -beaten and circling, like a bezel, a sapphire lagoon. - -Fukariva lies in the Paumotus or Dangerous Archipelago where the -currents run every way and the trades are unaccountable. The -underwriters to this day fight shy of a Paumotus trader, and in the -’60’s few ships came here and the few that came were on questionable -business. Maru up to the time he was twenty years of age only -remembered three. - -There was the Spanish ship that came into the lagoon when he was seven. -The picture of her remained with him, burning and brilliant, yet tinged -with the atmosphere of nightmare, a big topsail schooner that lay for a -week mirroring herself on the lagoon-water whilst she refitted, fellows -with red handkerchiefs tied round their heads crawling aloft and laying -out on the spars. They came ashore for water and what they could find -in the way of taro and nuts, and made hay on the beach, insulting the -island women till the men drove them off. Then when she was clearing -the lagoon a brass gun was run out and fired, leaving a score of dead -and wounded on that salt white strand. - -That was the Spaniard. Then came a whaler who took what she wanted and -cut down trees for fuel and departed, leaving behind the smell of her -as an enduring recollection, and lastly, when Maru was about eighteen, -a little old schooner slank in one early morning. - -She lay in the lagoon like a mangy dog, a humble ship, very unlike the -Spaniard or the blustering whaleman. She only wanted water and a few -vegetables, and her men gave no trouble; then, one evening, she slank -out again with the ebb, but she left something behind her--smallpox. It -cleared the island, and of the hundred and fifty subjects of King -Malemake only ten were left--twelve people in all, counting the king and -Maru. - -The king died of a broken heart and age, and of the eleven people left -three were women, widows of men who had died of the smallpox. - -Maru was unmarried, and as the king of the community he might have -collected the women for his own household. But he had no thought of -anything but grief, grief for his father and the people who were gone. -He drew apart from the others, and the seven widowers began to arrange -matters as to the distribution of the three widows. They began with -arguments and ended with clubs: three men were killed, and one of the -women killed another man because he had brained the man of her fancy. - -Then the dead were buried in the lagoon--Maru refusing to help because -of his _tabu_--and the three newly married couples settled down to live -their lives, leaving Maru out in the cold. He was no longer king. The -women despised him because he hadn’t fought for one of them, and the -men because he had failed in brutality and leadership. They were a hard -lot, true survivals of the fittest, and Maru, straight as a palm tree, -dark eyed, gentle, and a dreamer seemed, amongst them, like a man of -another tribe and time. - -He lived alone, and sometimes in the sun blaze on that great ring of -coral he fancied he saw the spirits of the departed walking as they had -walked in life, and sometimes at night he thought he heard the voice of -his father chiding him. - -When the old man died Maru had refused to touch the body or help in its -burial. Filial love, his own salvation nothing would have induced Maru -to break his _tabu_. - -It was part of him, an iron reef in his character beyond the touch of -will. - - - - -II - - -One morning some six weeks after all this marrying and settling down a -brig came into the lagoon. She was a blackbirder, the _Portsoy_, owned -and captained by Colin Robertson, a Banffshire man, hence the name of -his brig. Robertson and his men landed, took off water, coconuts, -bananas, and everything else they could find worth taking. Then they -turned their attention to the population. Four men were not a great -find, but Robertson was not above trifles. He recruited them; that is -to say, he kicked them into his boat and took them on board the -_Portsoy_, leaving the three widows--grass widows now--wailing on the -shore. He had no fine feelings about the marriage tie and he reckoned -they would make out somehow. They were no use to him as labour and they -were ill-flavored; all the same, being a man of gallantry and some -humour, he dipped his flag to them as the _Portsoy_ cleared the lagoon -and breasted the tumble at the break. - -Maru standing aft saw the island with the white foam fighting the coral -and the gulls threshing around the break, saw the palms cut against the -pale aquamarine of the skyline that swept up the burning blue of the -noon, heard the long rumble and boom of the surf on the following wind, -and watched and listened till the sound of the surf died to nothingness -and of the island nothing remained but the palm tops, like pinheads -above the sea dazzle. - -He felt no grief, but there came to him a new and strange thing, a -silence that the shipboard sounds could not break. Since birth the -eternal boom of the waves on coral had been in his ears, night and day -and day and night--louder in storms, but always there. It was gone. -That was why, despite the sound of the bow wash and boost of the waves -and the creak of cordage and block, the brig seemed to have carried -Maru into the silence of a new world. - -They worked free of the Paumotus into the region of settled winds and -accountable currents, passing atolls, and reefs that showed like the -threshing of a shark’s tail in the blue, heading north-west in a world -of wind and wave and sky, desolate of life and, for Maru, the land of -Nowhere. - -So it went on from week to week, and, as far as he was concerned, so it -might have gone on for ever. He knew nothing of the world into which he -had been suddenly snatched, and land which was not a ring of coral -surrounding a lagoon was for him unthinkable. - -He knew nothing of navigation, and the brass-bound wheel at which a -sailor was always standing with his hands on the spokes, now twirling -it this way, now that, had for him a fascination beyond words, the -fascination of a strange toy for a little child, and something more. It -was the first wheel he had ever seen and its movements about its axis -seemed magical, and it was never left without someone to hold it and -move it--why? The mystery of the binnacle into which the wheel-mover -was always staring, as a man stares into a rock pool after fish, was -almost as fascinating. - -Maru peeped into the binnacle one day and saw the fish, like a -starfish, yet trembling and moving like a frightened thing. Then some -one kicked him away and he ran forward and hid, feeling that he had -pried into the secrets of the white men’s gods and fearing the -consequences. - -But the white men’s gods were not confined to the wheel and binnacle; -down below they had a god that could warn them of the weather, for that -day at noon, and for no apparent reason, the sailors began to strip the -brig of her canvas. Then the sea rose, and two hours later the cyclone -seized them. It blew everything away and then took them into its calm -heart, where, dancing like giants in dead still air, and with the sea -for a ballroom floor, the hundred-foot-high waves broke the _Portsoy_ -to pieces. - -Maru alone was saved, clinging to a piece of hatch cover, half stunned, -confused, yet unafraid and feeling vaguely that the magic wheel and the -trembling fish god had somehow betrayed the white men. He knew that he -was not to die, because this strange world that had taken him from his -island had not done with him yet, and the sea, in touch with him like -this, and half washing over him at times, had no terror for him, for he -had learned to swim before he had learned to walk. Also his stomach was -full; he had been eating biscuits whilst the _Portsoy’s_ canvas was -being stripped away though the wind was strong enough almost to whip -the food from his hands. - -The peaceful swell that followed the cyclone was a thing enough to have -driven an ordinary man mad with terror. Now lifted hill high on a -glassy slope, the whole wheel of the horizon came to view under the -breezing wind and blazing sun, then gently down-sliding the hatch cover -would sink to a valley bottom only to climbing again a glassy slope and -rise again hill-high into the wind and sun. Foam flecks passed on the -surface and in the green sun-dazzled crystal of the valley floors he -glimpsed strips of fucus floating face down, torn by the storm from -their rock attachments, and through the sloping wall of glass up which -the hatch cover was climbing he once glimpsed a shark, lifted and -cradled in a ridge of the great swell, strange to see as a fly in amber -or a fish in ice. - -The hatch cover was sweeping with a four-knot current, moving with a -whole world of things concealed or half-seen or hinted at. A sea -current is a street, it is more, it is a moving pavement for the people -of the sea; jelly fish were being carried with Maru on the great swell -running with the current, a turtle broke the water close to him and -plunged again, and once a white roaring reef passed by only a few cable -lengths. He could see the rock exposed for a moment and the water -closing on it in a tumble of foam. - - - - -III - - -For a day and a night and a day and a night the voyage continued, the -swell falling to a gentle heave, and then in the dawn came a sail, the -mat sail of a canoe like a brown wing cut against the haliotis-shell -coloured sky. - -In the canoe was a girl, naked as the new moon. Paddle in hand and half -crouching, she drove the canoe towards him, the sail loose and flapping -in the wind. Then he was on board the canoe, but how he got there he -scarcely knew, the whole thing was like a dream within a dream. - -[Illustration: In the canoe was a girl, naked as the new moon. Paddle -in hand and half crouching, she drove the canoe towards him, the sail -loose and flapping in the wind.] - -In the canoe there was nothing, neither food nor water, only some -fishing lines and as he lay exhausted, consumed with thirst, and faint -with hunger, he saw the girl resetting the sail. She had been fishing -last evening from an island up north and blown out to sea by a squall, -had failed to make the land again, but she had sighted an island in the -sou’west and was making for it when she saw the hatch cover and the -brown, clinging form of Maru. - -As he lay half dead in the bottom of the canoe he watched her as she -crouched with eyes fixed on the island and the steering paddle in hand; -but before they could reach it a squall took them, half filling the -canoe with rain water, and Maru drank and drank till his ribs stood -out, and then, renewed, half rose as the canoe steered by the girl -rushed past tumbling green seas and a broken reef to a beach white as -salt, towards which the great trees came down with the bread fruits -dripping with the new-fallen rain and the palms bending like whips in -the wind. - - - - -IV - - -Talia, that was her name, and though her language was different from -the tongue of Maru, it had a likeness of a sort. In those days that -little island was uncharted and entirely desolate but for the gulls of -the reef and the birds of the woods, and it was a wonderland to Maru, -whose idea of land as a sea-beaten ring of coral was shattered by woods -that bloomed green as a sea cave to the moonlight, high ground where -rivulets danced amidst the fern, and a beach protected from the outer -seas by a far-flung line of reefs. Talia to him was as wonderful as the -island; she had come to him out of the sea, she had saved his life, she -was as different from the women of the Paumotus as day from night. A -European would have called her beautiful, but Maru had no thought of -her beauty or her sex; she was just a being, beneficent, almost -divorced from earth, the strangest in the strange world that Fate had -seized him into, part with the great heaving swell he had ridden so -long, the turtle that had broken up to look at him, the sprouting reef, -the sunsets over wastes of water and the stars spread over the wastes -of sky. - -He worshipped her in his way, and he might have worshipped her at a -greater distance only for the common bond of youth between them and the -incessant call of the world around them. Talia was practical. She -seemed to have forgotten her people and that island up north and to -live entirely in the moment. They made two shacks in the bushes and she -taught him island wood-craft and the uses of berries and fruit that he -had never seen before, also when to fish in the lagoon; for, a month -after they reached the island the poisonous season arrived and Talia -knew it, how, who can tell? She knew many things by instinct--the -approach of storms, and when the poisonous season had passed, the times -for fishing; and little by little their tongues, that had almost been -divided at first, became almost one so that they could chatter together -on all sorts of things and she could tell him that her name was Talia -the daughter of Tepairu, that her island was named Makea, that her -people had twenty canoes, big ones, and many little ones, and that -Tepairu was not the name of a man, but a woman. That Tepairu was queen -or chief woman of her people now that her husband was dead. - -And Maru was able to tell her by degrees of what he could remember, of -the old Spanish ship and how she spouted smoke and thunder and killed -the beach people, of his island, and its shape--he drew it on the sand, -and Talia, who knew nothing of atolls at first, refused to believe in -it, thinking he was jesting. Of his father, who was chief man or king -of Fukariva, and of the destruction of the tribe. Then he told of the -ship with the little wheel--he drew it on the sand--and the little fish -god, of the centre of the cyclone where the waves were like white -dancing men, and of his journey on the hatch cover across the blue -heaving sea. - -They would swim in the lagoon together right out to the reefs where the -great rollers were always breaking, and out there Talia always seemed -to remember her island, pointing north with her eyes fixed across the -sea dazzle, as though she could see it, and her people and the twenty -canoes beached on the spume-white beach beneath the palms. - -“Some day they will come,” said Talia. She knew her people, those sea -rovers, inconsequent as the gulls; some day for some reason or none, -one of the fishing canoes would fish as far as this island, or be blown -there by some squall; she would take Maru back with her. She told him -this. - -The thought began to trouble Maru. Then he grew gloomy. He was in love. -Love had hit him suddenly. Somehow and in some mysterious manner she -had changed from a beneficent being and part of a dream to a girl of -flesh and blood. She knew it, and at the same moment he turned for her -into a man. - -Up to this she had had no thought of him except as an individual, for -all her dreams about him he might as well have been a palm tree; but -now it was different, and in a flash he was everything. The surf on the -reef said Maru, and the wind in the trees, Maru, and the gulls fishing -and crying at the break had one word, Maru, Maru, Maru. - -Then one day, swimming out near the bigger break in the reefs, a -current drove them together, their shoulders touched and Maru’s arm -went round her, and amidst the blue laughing sea and the shouting of -the gulls he told her that the whole world was Talia, and as he told -her and as she listened the current of the ebb like a treacherous hand -was drawing them through the break towards the devouring sea. - -They had to fight their way back; the ebb just beginning would soon be -a mill race, and they knew, and neither could help the other. It was a -hard struggle for love and life against the enmity against life and -love that hides in all things, from the heart of man to the heart of -the sea, but they won. They had reached calm waters and were within -twenty strokes of the beach when Talia cried out suddenly and sank. - -Maru, who was slightly in front, turned and found her gone. She had -been seized with cramp, the cramp that comes from over-exertion, but he -did not know that. The lagoon was free of sharks, but despite that fact -and the fact that he did not fear them, he fancied for one fearful -moment that a shark had taken her. - -Then he saw her below, a dusky form on the coral floor, and he dived. - -He brought her to the surface, reached the sandy beach, and carrying -her in his arms ran with her to the higher level of the sands and -placed her beneath the shade of the trees; she moved in his arms as he -carried her, and when he laid her down her breast heaved in one great -sigh, water ran from her mouth, her limbs stiffened, and she moved no -more. - -[Illustration: Then all the world became black for Maru; he knew -nothing of the art of resuscitating the drowned. Talia was dead.] - -He ran amongst the trees crying out that Talia was dead, he struck -himself against tree boles and was tripped by ground lianas; the things -of the forest seemed trying to kill him too. Then he hid amongst the -ferns, lying on his face and telling the earth that Talia was dead. -Then came sundown and after that the green moonlight of the woods, and -suddenly sleep, with a vision of blue laughing sea and Talia swimming -beside him, and then day again, and with the day the vision of Talia -lying dead beneath the trees. He could not bury her. He could not touch -her. The iron reel of his _tabu_ held firm, indestructible, unalterable -as the main currents of the sea. - -He picked fruits and ate them like an animal and without knowing that -he ate, torn towards the beach by the passionate desire to embrace once -more the form that he loved, but held from the act by a grip ten -thousand years old and immutable as gravity or the spirit that lives in -religions. - -He must not handle the dead. Through all his grief came a weird touch -of comfort, she had not been dead when he carried her ashore. He had -not touched the dead. - -Then terrible thoughts came to him of what would happen to Talia if he -left her lying there. Of what predatory gulls might do. He had some -knowledge of these matters, and past visions of what had happened on -Fukariva when the dead were too numerous for burial came to him, making -him shiver like a whipped dog. He could, at all events, drive the birds -away, without touching her, without even looking at her; his presence -on the beach would keep the birds away. It was near noon when this -thought came to him. He had been lying on the ground, but he sat up -now, as though listening to this thought. Then he rose up and came along -cautiously amongst the trees. As he came the rumble of the reef grew -louder and the sea wind began to reach him through the leaves, then the -light of the day grew stronger, and slipping between the palm boles he -pushed a great bread-fruit leaf aside and peeped, and there on the -blinding beach under the forenoon sun, more clearly even than he had -seen the ghosts of men on Fukariva, he saw the ghost of Talia walking -by the sea and wringing its hands. - -Then the forest took him again, mad, this time, with terror. - -When on Fukariva he had seen the ghosts of men walking in the sun blaze -on the coral he had felt no terror; he had never seen them except on -waking from sleep beneath some tree, and the sight of them had never -lasted for more than a moment. He had said to himself, “they are the -spirits of the departed,” and they had seemed to him part of the scheme -of things, like reflections cast on the lagoon, or the spirit voices -heard in the wind, or dreams, or the ships that had come from Nowhere -and departed Nowhere. - -But the ghost of Talia was different from these. It was in some -tremendous way real, and it wept because the body of Talia lay unburied. - -He had made it weep. - -He alone could give it rest. - -Away, deep in the woods, hiding amongst the bushes, springing alive -with alarm at the slightest sound, he debated this matter with himself; -and curiously, now, love did not move him at all or urge him--it was as -though the ghost of Talia had stepped between him and his love for -Talia, not destroying it, but obscuring it. Talia for him had become -two things, the body he had left lying on the sand under the trees and -the ghost he had seen walking on the beach; the real Talia no longer -existed for him except as the vaguest wraith. He lay in the bushes -facing the fact that so long as the body lay unburied the ghost would -walk. It might even leave the beach and come to him. - -This thought brought him from his hiding-place--he could not lie alone -with it amongst the bushes, and then he found that he could not stand -alone with it amongst the trees, for at any moment she might appear -wringing her hands in one of the glades, or glide to his side from -behind one of the tree boles. - -He made for the southern beach. - -Although unused to woods till he reached this island, he had the -instinct for direction, a brain compass more mysterious than the -trembling starfish that had directed the movements of the wheel on -board the _Portsoy_. Making due south amidst the gloom of the trees, he -reached the beach, where the sun was blazing on the sands and the birds -flying and calling over the lagoon. The reef lay far out, a continuous -line unlike the reefs to the north, continuous but for a single break -through which the last of the ebb was flowing out oilily, mirroring a -palm tree that stood like the warden of the lagoon. The sound of the -surf was low, the wind had died away, and as Maru stood watching and -listening, peace came to his distracted soul. - -He felt safe here. Even when Talia had been with him the woods had -always seemed to him peopled with lurking things, unused as he was to -trees in great masses; and now released from them and touched again by -the warmth of the sun he felt safe. It seemed to him that the ghost -could not come here. The gulls said it to him and the flashing water, -and as he lay down on the sands the surf on the reef said it to him. It -was too far away for the ghost to come. It seemed to him that he had -travelled many thousand miles from a country remote as his extreme -youth, losing everything on the way but a weariness greater than time -could hold or thought take recognition of. - -Then he fell asleep, and he slept whilst the sun went down into the -west and the flood swept into the lagoon and the stars broke out above. -That tremendous sleep, unstirred by the vaguest dream, lasted till the -dawn was full. - -Then he sat up, renewed, as though God had remade him in mind and body. - -A gull was strutting on the sands by the water’s edge, it’s long shadow -strutting after it, and the shadow of the gull flew straight as a -javelin into the renewed mind of Maru. Talia was not dead. He had not -seen her ghost. She had come to life and had been walking by the sea -wringing her hands for him thinking him drowned. For the form he had -seen walking on the sands had cast a shadow. He remembered that now. -Ghosts do not cast shadows. - -And instantly his mind, made reasonable by rest and sleep, revisualized -the picture that had terrified his mind distraught by grief. That was a -real form--what folly could have made him doubt it! Talia was -alive--alive, warm, and waiting for him on the northern beach, and the -love for her that fear had veiled rushed in upon him and seized him -with a great joy that made him shout aloud as he sprang to his feet, -yet with a pain at his heart like the pain of a rankling spear wound as -he broke through the trees shouting as he ran. “Talia! Talia! Talia!” - -He passed the bushes where he had hidden, and the ferns; he heard the -sound of the surf coming to meet him, he saw the veils of the leaves -divide and the blare of light and morning splendour on the northern -sands and lagoon and sea. - -He stood and looked. - -Nothing. - -He ran to the place where he had laid her beneath the trees; there was -still faintly visible the slight depression made by her body, and close -by, strangely and clearly cut, the imprint of a little foot. - -Nothing else. - -He stood and called and called, and no answer came but the wood echo -and the sound of the morning wind, then he ran to the sea edge. Then he -knew. - -The sand was trodden up, and on the sand, clear cut and fresh, lay the -mark left by a beached canoe and the marks by the feet of the men who -had beached her and floated her again. - -They had come--perhaps her own people--come, maybe, yesterday whilst he -was hiding from his fears debating with his _tabu_--come, and found -her, and taken her away. - -He lunged into the lagoon and swimming like an otter and helped by the -outgoing tide, reached the reef. Scrambling on to the rough coral, -bleeding from cuts but feeling nothing of his wounds, he stood with -wrinkled eyes facing the sea blaze and with the land breeze blowing -past him out beyond the thundering foam of the reef to the blue and -heaving sea. - -Away from the north, like a brown wing tip, showed the sail of a canoe. -He watched it. Tossed by the lilt of the swell it seemed beckoning to -him. Now it vanished in the sea dazzle, now reappeared, dwindling to a -point, to vanish at last like a dream of the sea, gone, never to be -recaptured. - -“And Maru?” I asked of Lygon, “did he ever----” - -“Never,” said Lygon “The islands of the sea are many. Wait.” He struck -a gong that stood close to his chair, struck it three times, and the -sounds passing into the night mixed with the voices of the canoe men -returning from fishing on the reef. - -Then a servant came on to the verandah, an old, old man, half bent like -a withered tree. - -“Maru,” said Lygon, “you can take away these glasses--but, one moment, -Maru, tell this gentleman your story.” - -“The islands of the sea are many,” said Maru, like a child repeating a -lesson. He paused for a moment as though trying to remember some more, -then he passed out of the lamplight with the glasses. - -“A year ago he remembered the whole story,” said Lygon. - -But for me the whole story lay in those words, that voice, those -trembling hands that seemed still searching for what the eyes could see -no more. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARU *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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Somewhere away back amidst -the trees a woman was singing, the tide was out, and from the verandah -of Lygon’s house, across the star-shot waters of the lagoon, moving -yellow points of light caught the eye. They were spearing fish by -torchlight in the reef pools.</p> - -<p>It had been a shell lagoon once, and in the old days men had come to -Tokahoe for sandal wood; now there was only copra to be had, and just -enough for one man to deal with. Tokahoe is only a little island where -one cannot make a fortune, but where you may live fortunately enough if -your tastes are simple and beyond the lure of whisky and civilisation.</p> - -<p>The last trader had died in this paradise, of whisky, or gin—I forget -which—and his ghost was supposed to walk the beach on moonlight -nights, and it was apropos of this that Lygon suddenly put the question -to me “Do you believe in ghosts?”</p> - -<p>“Do you?” replied I.</p> - -<p>“I don’t know,” said Lygon. “I almost think I do, because every one -does. Oh, I know, a handful of hard-headed super-civilised people say -they don’t, but the mass of humanity does. The Polynesians and -Micronesians do; go to Japan, go to Ireland, go anywhere, and -everywhere you will find ghost believers.”</p> - -<p>“Lombrosso has written something like that,” said I.</p> - -<p>“Has he? Well it’s a fact, but all the same it’s not evidence, the -universality of a belief scorns to hint at reality in the thing -believed in—yet what is more wanting in real reason than <i>tabu</i>. Yet -<i>tabu</i> is universal. You find men here who daren’t touch an artu tree -because artu trees are <i>tabu</i> to them, or eat turtle or touch a dead -body. Well, look at the Jews; a dead body is <i>tabu</i> to a Cohen. India -is riddled with the business, so’s English society—it’s all the same -thing under different disguises.</p> - -<p>“Funny that talking of ghosts we should have touched on this, for when -I asked you did you believe in ghosts I had a ghost story in mind and -<i>tabu</i> comes into it. This is it.”</p> - -<p>And this is the story somewhat as told by Lygon.</p> - -<p>Some fifty years back when Pease was a pirate bold, and Hayes in his -bloom, and the topsails of the <i>Leonora</i> a terror to all dusky -beholders, Maru was a young man of twenty. He was son of Malemake, King -of Fukariva, a kingdom the size of a soup plate, nearly as round and -without a middle—an atoll island, in short; just a ring of coral, sea -beaten and circling, like a bezel, a sapphire lagoon.</p> - -<p>Fukariva lies in the Paumotus or Dangerous Archipelago where the -currents run every way and the trades are unaccountable. The -underwriters to this day fight shy of a Paumotus trader, and in the -’60’s few ships came here and the few that came were on questionable -business. Maru up to the time he was twenty years of age only -remembered three.</p> - -<p>There was the Spanish ship that came into the lagoon when he was seven. -The picture of her remained with him, burning and brilliant, yet tinged -with the atmosphere of nightmare, a big topsail schooner that lay for a -week mirroring herself on the lagoon-water whilst she refitted, fellows -with red handkerchiefs tied round their heads crawling aloft and laying -out on the spars. They came ashore for water and what they could find -in the way of taro and nuts, and made hay on the beach, insulting the -island women till the men drove them off. Then when she was clearing -the lagoon a brass gun was run out and fired, leaving a score of dead -and wounded on that salt white strand.</p> - -<p>That was the Spaniard. Then came a whaler who took what she wanted and -cut down trees for fuel and departed, leaving behind the smell of her -as an enduring recollection, and lastly, when Maru was about eighteen, -a little old schooner slank in one early morning.</p> - -<p>She lay in the lagoon like a mangy dog, a humble ship, very unlike the -Spaniard or the blustering whaleman. She only wanted water and a few -vegetables, and her men gave no trouble; then, one evening, she slank -out again with the ebb, but she left something behind her—smallpox. It -cleared the island, and of the hundred and fifty subjects of King -Malemake only ten were left—twelve people in all, counting the king and -Maru.</p> - -<p>The king died of a broken heart and age, and of the eleven people left -three were women, widows of men who had died of the smallpox.</p> - -<p>Maru was unmarried, and as the king of the community he might have -collected the women for his own household. But he had no thought of -anything but grief, grief for his father and the people who were gone. -He drew apart from the others, and the seven widowers began to arrange -matters as to the distribution of the three widows. They began with -arguments and ended with clubs: three men were killed, and one of the -women killed another man because he had brained the man of her fancy.</p> - -<p>Then the dead were buried in the lagoon—Maru refusing to help because -of his <i>tabu</i>—and the three newly married couples settled down to live -their lives, leaving Maru out in the cold. He was no longer king. The -women despised him because he hadn’t fought for one of them, and the -men because he had failed in brutality and leadership. They were a hard -lot, true survivals of the fittest, and Maru, straight as a palm tree, -dark eyed, gentle, and a dreamer seemed, amongst them, like a man of -another tribe and time.</p> - -<p>He lived alone, and sometimes in the sun blaze on that great ring of -coral he fancied he saw the spirits of the departed walking as they had -walked in life, and sometimes at night he thought he heard the voice of -his father chiding him.</p> - -<p>When the old man died Maru had refused to touch the body or help in its -burial. Filial love, his own salvation nothing would have induced Maru -to break his <i>tabu</i>.</p> - -<p>It was part of him, an iron reef in his character beyond the touch of -will.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - -<h2>II</h2> - -<p>One morning some six weeks after all this marrying and settling down a -brig came into the lagoon. She was a blackbirder, the <i>Portsoy</i>, owned -and captained by Colin Robertson, a Banffshire man, hence the name of -his brig. Robertson and his men landed, took off water, coconuts, -bananas, and everything else they could find worth taking. Then they -turned their attention to the population. Four men were not a great -find, but Robertson was not above trifles. He recruited them; that is -to say, he kicked them into his boat and took them on board the -<i>Portsoy</i>, leaving the three widows—grass widows now—wailing on the -shore. He had no fine feelings about the marriage tie and he reckoned -they would make out somehow. They were no use to him as labour and they -were ill-flavored; all the same, being a man of gallantry and some -humour, he dipped his flag to them as the <i>Portsoy</i> cleared the lagoon -and breasted the tumble at the break.</p> - -<p>Maru standing aft saw the island with the white foam fighting the coral -and the gulls threshing around the break, saw the palms cut against the -pale aquamarine of the skyline that swept up the burning blue of the -noon, heard the long rumble and boom of the surf on the following wind, -and watched and listened till the sound of the surf died to nothingness -and of the island nothing remained but the palm tops, like pinheads -above the sea dazzle.</p> - -<p>He felt no grief, but there came to him a new and strange thing, a -silence that the shipboard sounds could not break. Since birth the -eternal boom of the waves on coral had been in his ears, night and day -and day and night—louder in storms, but always there. It was gone. -That was why, despite the sound of the bow wash and boost of the waves -and the creak of cordage and block, the brig seemed to have carried -Maru into the silence of a new world.</p> - -<p>They worked free of the Paumotus into the region of settled winds and -accountable currents, passing atolls, and reefs that showed like the -threshing of a shark’s tail in the blue, heading north-west in a world -of wind and wave and sky, desolate of life and, for Maru, the land of -Nowhere.</p> - -<p>So it went on from week to week, and, as far as he was concerned, so it -might have gone on for ever. He knew nothing of the world into which he -had been suddenly snatched, and land which was not a ring of coral -surrounding a lagoon was for him unthinkable.</p> - -<p>He knew nothing of navigation, and the brass-bound wheel at which a -sailor was always standing with his hands on the spokes, now twirling -it this way, now that, had for him a fascination beyond words, the -fascination of a strange toy for a little child, and something more. It -was the first wheel he had ever seen and its movements about its axis -seemed magical, and it was never left without someone to hold it and -move it—why? The mystery of the binnacle into which the wheel-mover -was always staring, as a man stares into a rock pool after fish, was -almost as fascinating.</p> - -<p>Maru peeped into the binnacle one day and saw the fish, like a -starfish, yet trembling and moving like a frightened thing. Then some -one kicked him away and he ran forward and hid, feeling that he had -pried into the secrets of the white men’s gods and fearing the -consequences.</p> - -<p>But the white men’s gods were not confined to the wheel and binnacle; -down below they had a god that could warn them of the weather, for that -day at noon, and for no apparent reason, the sailors began to strip the -brig of her canvas. Then the sea rose, and two hours later the cyclone -seized them. It blew everything away and then took them into its calm -heart, where, dancing like giants in dead still air, and with the sea -for a ballroom floor, the hundred-foot-high waves broke the <i>Portsoy</i> -to pieces.</p> - -<p>Maru alone was saved, clinging to a piece of hatch cover, half stunned, -confused, yet unafraid and feeling vaguely that the magic wheel and the -trembling fish god had somehow betrayed the white men. He knew that he -was not to die, because this strange world that had taken him from his -island had not done with him yet, and the sea, in touch with him like -this, and half washing over him at times, had no terror for him, for he -had learned to swim before he had learned to walk. Also his stomach was -full; he had been eating biscuits whilst the <i>Portsoy’s</i> canvas was -being stripped away though the wind was strong enough almost to whip -the food from his hands.</p> - -<p>The peaceful swell that followed the cyclone was a thing enough to have -driven an ordinary man mad with terror. Now lifted hill high on a -glassy slope, the whole wheel of the horizon came to view under the -breezing wind and blazing sun, then gently down-sliding the hatch cover -would sink to a valley bottom only to climbing again a glassy slope and -rise again hill-high into the wind and sun. Foam flecks passed on the -surface and in the green sun-dazzled crystal of the valley floors he -glimpsed strips of fucus floating face down, torn by the storm from -their rock attachments, and through the sloping wall of glass up which -the hatch cover was climbing he once glimpsed a shark, lifted and -cradled in a ridge of the great swell, strange to see as a fly in amber -or a fish in ice.</p> - -<p>The hatch cover was sweeping with a four-knot current, moving with a -whole world of things concealed or half-seen or hinted at. A sea -current is a street, it is more, it is a moving pavement for the people -of the sea; jelly fish were being carried with Maru on the great swell -running with the current, a turtle broke the water close to him and -plunged again, and once a white roaring reef passed by only a few cable -lengths. He could see the rock exposed for a moment and the water -closing on it in a tumble of foam.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - -<h2>III</h2> - -<p>For a day and a night and a day and a night the voyage continued, the -swell falling to a gentle heave, and then in the dawn came a sail, the -mat sail of a canoe like a brown wing cut against the haliotis-shell -coloured sky.</p> - -<p>In the canoe was a girl, naked as the new moon. Paddle in hand and half -crouching, she drove the canoe towards him, the sail loose and flapping -in the wind. Then he was on board the canoe, but how he got there he -scarcely knew, the whole thing was like a dream within a dream.</p> - -<div class='figcenter portrait'> - <img src='images/illus-001.jpg' alt='' /> - <p>In the canoe was a girl, naked as the new moon. Paddle -in hand and half crouching, she drove the canoe towards him, the sail -loose and flapping in the wind.</p> -</div> - -<p>In the canoe there was nothing, neither food nor water, only some -fishing lines and as he lay exhausted, consumed with thirst, and faint -with hunger, he saw the girl resetting the sail. She had been fishing -last evening from an island up north and blown out to sea by a squall, -had failed to make the land again, but she had sighted an island in the -sou’west and was making for it when she saw the hatch cover and the -brown, clinging form of Maru.</p> - -<p>As he lay half dead in the bottom of the canoe he watched her as she -crouched with eyes fixed on the island and the steering paddle in hand; -but before they could reach it a squall took them, half filling the -canoe with rain water, and Maru drank and drank till his ribs stood -out, and then, renewed, half rose as the canoe steered by the girl -rushed past tumbling green seas and a broken reef to a beach white as -salt, towards which the great trees came down with the bread fruits -dripping with the new-fallen rain and the palms bending like whips in -the wind.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - -<h2>IV</h2> - -<p>Talia, that was her name, and though her language was different from -the tongue of Maru, it had a likeness of a sort. In those days that -little island was uncharted and entirely desolate but for the gulls of -the reef and the birds of the woods, and it was a wonderland to Maru, -whose idea of land as a sea-beaten ring of coral was shattered by woods -that bloomed green as a sea cave to the moonlight, high ground where -rivulets danced amidst the fern, and a beach protected from the outer -seas by a far-flung line of reefs. Talia to him was as wonderful as the -island; she had come to him out of the sea, she had saved his life, she -was as different from the women of the Paumotus as day from night. A -European would have called her beautiful, but Maru had no thought of -her beauty or her sex; she was just a being, beneficent, almost -divorced from earth, the strangest in the strange world that Fate had -seized him into, part with the great heaving swell he had ridden so -long, the turtle that had broken up to look at him, the sprouting reef, -the sunsets over wastes of water and the stars spread over the wastes -of sky.</p> - -<p>He worshipped her in his way, and he might have worshipped her at a -greater distance only for the common bond of youth between them and the -incessant call of the world around them. Talia was practical. She -seemed to have forgotten her people and that island up north and to -live entirely in the moment. They made two shacks in the bushes and she -taught him island wood-craft and the uses of berries and fruit that he -had never seen before, also when to fish in the lagoon; for, a month -after they reached the island the poisonous season arrived and Talia -knew it, how, who can tell? She knew many things by instinct—the -approach of storms, and when the poisonous season had passed, the times -for fishing; and little by little their tongues, that had almost been -divided at first, became almost one so that they could chatter together -on all sorts of things and she could tell him that her name was Talia -the daughter of Tepairu, that her island was named Makea, that her -people had twenty canoes, big ones, and many little ones, and that -Tepairu was not the name of a man, but a woman. That Tepairu was queen -or chief woman of her people now that her husband was dead.</p> - -<p>And Maru was able to tell her by degrees of what he could remember, of -the old Spanish ship and how she spouted smoke and thunder and killed -the beach people, of his island, and its shape—he drew it on the sand, -and Talia, who knew nothing of atolls at first, refused to believe in -it, thinking he was jesting. Of his father, who was chief man or king -of Fukariva, and of the destruction of the tribe. Then he told of the -ship with the little wheel—he drew it on the sand—and the little fish -god, of the centre of the cyclone where the waves were like white -dancing men, and of his journey on the hatch cover across the blue -heaving sea.</p> - -<p>They would swim in the lagoon together right out to the reefs where the -great rollers were always breaking, and out there Talia always seemed -to remember her island, pointing north with her eyes fixed across the -sea dazzle, as though she could see it, and her people and the twenty -canoes beached on the spume-white beach beneath the palms.</p> - -<p>“Some day they will come,” said Talia. She knew her people, those sea -rovers, inconsequent as the gulls; some day for some reason or none, -one of the fishing canoes would fish as far as this island, or be blown -there by some squall; she would take Maru back with her. She told him -this.</p> - -<p>The thought began to trouble Maru. Then he grew gloomy. He was in love. -Love had hit him suddenly. Somehow and in some mysterious manner she -had changed from a beneficent being and part of a dream to a girl of -flesh and blood. She knew it, and at the same moment he turned for her -into a man.</p> - -<p>Up to this she had had no thought of him except as an individual, for -all her dreams about him he might as well have been a palm tree; but -now it was different, and in a flash he was everything. The surf on the -reef said Maru, and the wind in the trees, Maru, and the gulls fishing -and crying at the break had one word, Maru, Maru, Maru.</p> - -<p>Then one day, swimming out near the bigger break in the reefs, a -current drove them together, their shoulders touched and Maru’s arm -went round her, and amidst the blue laughing sea and the shouting of -the gulls he told her that the whole world was Talia, and as he told -her and as she listened the current of the ebb like a treacherous hand -was drawing them through the break towards the devouring sea.</p> - -<p>They had to fight their way back; the ebb just beginning would soon be -a mill race, and they knew, and neither could help the other. It was a -hard struggle for love and life against the enmity against life and -love that hides in all things, from the heart of man to the heart of -the sea, but they won. They had reached calm waters and were within -twenty strokes of the beach when Talia cried out suddenly and sank.</p> - -<p>Maru, who was slightly in front, turned and found her gone. She had -been seized with cramp, the cramp that comes from over-exertion, but he -did not know that. The lagoon was free of sharks, but despite that fact -and the fact that he did not fear them, he fancied for one fearful -moment that a shark had taken her.</p> - -<p>Then he saw her below, a dusky form on the coral floor, and he dived.</p> - -<p>He brought her to the surface, reached the sandy beach, and carrying -her in his arms ran with her to the higher level of the sands and -placed her beneath the shade of the trees; she moved in his arms as he -carried her, and when he laid her down her breast heaved in one great -sigh, water ran from her mouth, her limbs stiffened, and she moved no -more.</p> - -<div class='figcenter portrait'> - <img src='images/illus-002.jpg' alt='' /> - <p>Then all the world became black for Maru; he knew -nothing of the art of resuscitating the drowned. Talia was dead.</p> -</div> - -<p>He ran amongst the trees crying out that Talia was dead, he struck -himself against tree boles and was tripped by ground lianas; the things -of the forest seemed trying to kill him too. Then he hid amongst the -ferns, lying on his face and telling the earth that Talia was dead. -Then came sundown and after that the green moonlight of the woods, and -suddenly sleep, with a vision of blue laughing sea and Talia swimming -beside him, and then day again, and with the day the vision of Talia -lying dead beneath the trees. He could not bury her. He could not touch -her. The iron reel of his <i>tabu</i> held firm, indestructible, unalterable -as the main currents of the sea.</p> - -<p>He picked fruits and ate them like an animal and without knowing that -he ate, torn towards the beach by the passionate desire to embrace once -more the form that he loved, but held from the act by a grip ten -thousand years old and immutable as gravity or the spirit that lives in -religions.</p> - -<p>He must not handle the dead. Through all his grief came a weird touch -of comfort, she had not been dead when he carried her ashore. He had -not touched the dead.</p> - -<p>Then terrible thoughts came to him of what would happen to Talia if he -left her lying there. Of what predatory gulls might do. He had some -knowledge of these matters, and past visions of what had happened on -Fukariva when the dead were too numerous for burial came to him, making -him shiver like a whipped dog. He could, at all events, drive the birds -away, without touching her, without even looking at her; his presence -on the beach would keep the birds away. It was near noon when this -thought came to him. He had been lying on the ground, but he sat up -now, as though listening to this thought. Then he rose up and came along -cautiously amongst the trees. As he came the rumble of the reef grew -louder and the sea wind began to reach him through the leaves, then the -light of the day grew stronger, and slipping between the palm boles he -pushed a great bread-fruit leaf aside and peeped, and there on the -blinding beach under the forenoon sun, more clearly even than he had -seen the ghosts of men on Fukariva, he saw the ghost of Talia walking -by the sea and wringing its hands.</p> - -<p>Then the forest took him again, mad, this time, with terror.</p> - -<p>When on Fukariva he had seen the ghosts of men walking in the sun blaze -on the coral he had felt no terror; he had never seen them except on -waking from sleep beneath some tree, and the sight of them had never -lasted for more than a moment. He had said to himself, “they are the -spirits of the departed,” and they had seemed to him part of the scheme -of things, like reflections cast on the lagoon, or the spirit voices -heard in the wind, or dreams, or the ships that had come from Nowhere -and departed Nowhere.</p> - -<p>But the ghost of Talia was different from these. It was in some -tremendous way real, and it wept because the body of Talia lay unburied.</p> - -<p>He had made it weep.</p> - -<p>He alone could give it rest.</p> - -<p>Away, deep in the woods, hiding amongst the bushes, springing alive -with alarm at the slightest sound, he debated this matter with himself; -and curiously, now, love did not move him at all or urge him—it was as -though the ghost of Talia had stepped between him and his love for -Talia, not destroying it, but obscuring it. Talia for him had become -two things, the body he had left lying on the sand under the trees and -the ghost he had seen walking on the beach; the real Talia no longer -existed for him except as the vaguest wraith. He lay in the bushes -facing the fact that so long as the body lay unburied the ghost would -walk. It might even leave the beach and come to him.</p> - -<p>This thought brought him from his hiding-place—he could not lie alone -with it amongst the bushes, and then he found that he could not stand -alone with it amongst the trees, for at any moment she might appear -wringing her hands in one of the glades, or glide to his side from -behind one of the tree boles.</p> - -<p>He made for the southern beach.</p> - -<p>Although unused to woods till he reached this island, he had the -instinct for direction, a brain compass more mysterious than the -trembling starfish that had directed the movements of the wheel on -board the <i>Portsoy</i>. Making due south amidst the gloom of the trees, he -reached the beach, where the sun was blazing on the sands and the birds -flying and calling over the lagoon. The reef lay far out, a continuous -line unlike the reefs to the north, continuous but for a single break -through which the last of the ebb was flowing out oilily, mirroring a -palm tree that stood like the warden of the lagoon. The sound of the -surf was low, the wind had died away, and as Maru stood watching and -listening, peace came to his distracted soul.</p> - -<p>He felt safe here. Even when Talia had been with him the woods had -always seemed to him peopled with lurking things, unused as he was to -trees in great masses; and now released from them and touched again by -the warmth of the sun he felt safe. It seemed to him that the ghost -could not come here. The gulls said it to him and the flashing water, -and as he lay down on the sands the surf on the reef said it to him. It -was too far away for the ghost to come. It seemed to him that he had -travelled many thousand miles from a country remote as his extreme -youth, losing everything on the way but a weariness greater than time -could hold or thought take recognition of.</p> - -<p>Then he fell asleep, and he slept whilst the sun went down into the -west and the flood swept into the lagoon and the stars broke out above. -That tremendous sleep, unstirred by the vaguest dream, lasted till the -dawn was full.</p> - -<p>Then he sat up, renewed, as though God had remade him in mind and body.</p> - -<p>A gull was strutting on the sands by the water’s edge, it’s long shadow -strutting after it, and the shadow of the gull flew straight as a -javelin into the renewed mind of Maru. Talia was not dead. He had not -seen her ghost. She had come to life and had been walking by the sea -wringing her hands for him thinking him drowned. For the form he had -seen walking on the sands had cast a shadow. He remembered that now. -Ghosts do not cast shadows.</p> - -<p>And instantly his mind, made reasonable by rest and sleep, revisualized -the picture that had terrified his mind distraught by grief. That was a -real form—what folly could have made him doubt it! Talia was -alive—alive, warm, and waiting for him on the northern beach, and the -love for her that fear had veiled rushed in upon him and seized him -with a great joy that made him shout aloud as he sprang to his feet, -yet with a pain at his heart like the pain of a rankling spear wound as -he broke through the trees shouting as he ran. “Talia! Talia! Talia!”</p> - -<p>He passed the bushes where he had hidden, and the ferns; he heard the -sound of the surf coming to meet him, he saw the veils of the leaves -divide and the blare of light and morning splendour on the northern -sands and lagoon and sea.</p> - -<p>He stood and looked.</p> - -<p>Nothing.</p> - -<p>He ran to the place where he had laid her beneath the trees; there was -still faintly visible the slight depression made by her body, and close -by, strangely and clearly cut, the imprint of a little foot.</p> - -<p>Nothing else.</p> - -<p>He stood and called and called, and no answer came but the wood echo -and the sound of the morning wind, then he ran to the sea edge. Then he -knew.</p> - -<p>The sand was trodden up, and on the sand, clear cut and fresh, lay the -mark left by a beached canoe and the marks by the feet of the men who -had beached her and floated her again.</p> - -<p>They had come—perhaps her own people—come, maybe, yesterday whilst he -was hiding from his fears debating with his <i>tabu</i>—come, and found -her, and taken her away.</p> - -<p>He lunged into the lagoon and swimming like an otter and helped by the -outgoing tide, reached the reef. Scrambling on to the rough coral, -bleeding from cuts but feeling nothing of his wounds, he stood with -wrinkled eyes facing the sea blaze and with the land breeze blowing -past him out beyond the thundering foam of the reef to the blue and -heaving sea.</p> - -<p>Away from the north, like a brown wing tip, showed the sail of a canoe. -He watched it. Tossed by the lilt of the swell it seemed beckoning to -him. Now it vanished in the sea dazzle, now reappeared, dwindling to a -point, to vanish at last like a dream of the sea, gone, never to be -recaptured.</p> - -<p>“And Maru?” I asked of Lygon, “did he ever——”</p> - -<p>“Never,” said Lygon “The islands of the sea are many. Wait.” He struck -a gong that stood close to his chair, struck it three times, and the -sounds passing into the night mixed with the voices of the canoe men -returning from fishing on the reef.</p> - -<p>Then a servant came on to the verandah, an old, old man, half bent like -a withered tree.</p> - -<p>“Maru,” said Lygon, “you can take away these glasses—but, one moment, -Maru, tell this gentleman your story.”</p> - -<p>“The islands of the sea are many,” said Maru, like a child repeating a -lesson. 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