"Is your husband near Apia ?" "Yes." "Is he far from Apia ?" "Yes." "Is he with the king ?" "Yes." "Are he and the king in different places ?" "Yes." Whereupon the witness was discharged.

About the 10th of September, Laupepa was secretly in Apia at the American consulate with two companions.

The German pickets were close set and visited by a strong patrol; and on his return, his party was observed and hailed and fired on by a sentry.

They ran away on all fours in the dark, and so doing plumped upon another sentry, whom Laupepa grappled and flung in a ditch; for the Sheet of Paper, although infirm of character, is, like most Samoans, of an able body.

The second sentry (like the first) fired after his assailants at random in the dark; and the two shots awoke the curiosity of Apia.