Ey ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Author of "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped, " The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," etc. '. CHAPTER XXXV. THE ICING OF APEMAMA. Thus all things on the Island, even the priests of the gods, obey the word of Tem binok'. He can give and take, and slay' and allay the scruples of the conscientious' and do all things (apparently) but interfere in the cookery of a turtle. " I got power," is his favourite word; it interlards his con versation ; the thoughb haunts him and ia ever fresh; and when he has asked and meditates of foreign countries, he looks up with a smile and reminds you — " / gob poiotr." Nor*is his delight only in the pos session, but in the exercise. He rejoices in the crooked and violent paths of Kingship like a strong man to run a race or like an artist in his art. To feel, to use his power, to embellish his island and the pictures of the island life after a private ideal, to milk the island vigorously, to extend his singular museum, these employ delightfully the sum of his abilities. I never saw a man more potently in the right trade. It would benatural to think thismonarchy inherited intacb bhrough generations. And so far from bhab, ib is a thing of yesterday. I was already a boy at school while Apemama was yeb republican, ruled by a noisy council of Old Men, and born wibh incurable feuds. And Tembinok' is no Bourbon, rather the son of a Napoleon. Of course he is well born. Norman need aspire high in the isles af the Pacific, unless I his pedigree be long and in the upper regions mythical. And our King counts cousinship with most of the high families in the Archi pelago, and traces his descenb to a shark and a heroic woman. Directed by an oracle, she swam beyond sight of land bo meeb her revolting paramour, and received ab sea tho seed of a predestined family. "I think lie," is the King's emphatic commentary ; yefc ho is proud of bhe legend. From this illustra tions beginning, the fortunes of the race must have declined ; and Tenkoruti, the grandfather of Tembinok', was the chief of a village ab bhe north end of bhe island. 