Samoa 'uma, where life is different . and sue for the annulment of a mar-riage initially void. He was lost in the mazes of thelaw; between his debt to the Chinaman for the sup-per and his wish for a divorce he could not see wherehe was going to land. It was proved that Annie hadmarried a year before in the jurisdiction of the Con-sul of another nation, and her husband was tradingin a group near by. That sufficed to set Milco freefrom his first plunge into matrimony. But he was not yet content. He had evidently setout to get married and married he was clearly deter-mined to be. The next attempt
Samoa 'uma, where life is different . and sue for the annulment of a mar-riage initially void. He was lost in the mazes of thelaw; between his debt to the Chinaman for the sup-per and his wish for a divorce he could not see wherehe was going to land. It was proved that Annie hadmarried a year before in the jurisdiction of the Con-sul of another nation, and her husband was tradingin a group near by. That sufficed to set Milco freefrom his first plunge into matrimony. But he was not yet content. He had evidently setout to get married and married he was clearly deter-mined to be. The next attempt was directed at the daughter of ahalf-caste and was apparently a promising girl, too, had once been married, but the deathof her husband and her widowhood were mattersabout which there could be no dispute and no mis-understanding. The arrangements for the weddingprogressed as well as could be expected when the girlwas on a distant island several hundred miles her father was on the spot and he was satisfied 196. ^Ailolo, a Lauli^i belle SAMOAN FICKLE BRIDES. with the offer, and came up to the Consulate to as-sure himself beyond a doubt that Milco was now freeto marry. Word was sent to the girl at her distanthome to come down and be married, and the cutterwhich carried the message was now due on its re-turn with the precious cargo. Milco came to theConsul to secure his services for the second timewithin three months, and with evident satisfac-tion announced that not he, but the girls family, werenow to provide the supper. On the day set for the wedding the cutter camebowling into port with a fresh trade breeze along to-ward sunset, but no wedding party came to the Con-sulate that night. The next day a native policeman brought before theConsul a most dishevelled and disreputable he had been drinking hard was clear; that hissoul was bursting with a distress too great for hismaudlin utterance was no less plain. A few hoursof confinement put him into
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