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Ch urches and missionaries seemed to
have a strange fascinat ion for Hayes. He
took a cargo of trade goods a nd mission·
aries to the Cook Islands. Later returning
to his Presbyterian friend at Auckland, he
again read the lessons in church and even
preached a couple of sermons. I wonder
if they were on the evils of stealing? As
a result, none of those hard·boiled, blue·
nosed, dyed in the wool Scotchmen would
ever listen to a word against "Bully"
Hayes, no t even when he became known
in his true colors, that of a pirate.
Presently Hayes double·crossed his part·
ner, Ben Pease. In the ensuing quarrel,
Pease fired two shots at him. Whereupon
Hayes picked Pease up, swung him about
a few times and then hurled him over·
board, halfway to his own ship at anchor
nearby.
After that, Hayes put in several years
of blackbirding, and either recruiting or
kidnappin/! natives from the New Hebrides,
or Banks Islands for labor in Queensland
sugar fields. With a cargo of this "black
ivory," Hayes arrived at Fiji, just in time
to see an arrival off port, a warship flying
the ensign of his country. Hayes immedi·
ately put the brig about, without being
sighted, and made for the open sea. What
became of his involuntary passengers is a
matter for conjecture.
Hayes took it easy for a while. Under
an assumed name, he toured the United
States, but in the 80's he was back aga in
in the Pacific. This time he engaged in
peaceful trading, still in his brig, "Lenora,"
with her six brass cannonades and stands
of small arms.
With Hayes as supercargo sailed Louis
Beck, first of the school of South Sea
novel ists In search of local color. The two
men became great friends and so remained
until the brig was wrecked at Sartongs
Island, an outlyer of the Marshalls. For
a year, Haye ruled virtually as King of
this remote but wealthy island.
Then he quarreled with Beck, who at·
tacked him. Hayes seized him and threw
him into the air as he had his former
partner, Ben Pease. Their fight had an
audience of natives, who roared with laugh·
ter at Beck. Mortally in ulted, the novelist
withdrew to a remote part of the island,
since he couldn't get off it.
Several months later, a small schooner
called at the island and Beck went away
in her. This in spite of the fact that Hayes
begged him not to, and tried to effer.t a
reconciliation. When Beck sailed anyhow,
Hayes actually shed tears, and for weeks
afterwards it was not safe for anyone to
go near him. It is probable that Beck was
the only human being for whom Hayes
ever felt any affection.
More than one of my informants said:
"That was the end of Hayes. After Beck
left, he went all to pieces. Whatever he
did afterwards was Beck's fault. And Beck
was a picayune fellow anyhow."
Hayes secured another ship. His first
mate was a six foot six Scandinavian, ex-
helmsman of a Yankee whaler. In time
this Norwegian came to run everything,
as Hayes, for the first time in his life,
took to drink. Gin completely changed his
nature.
He became violent and morose by turns,
addicted to sudden rages, and in one of
these he struck his servant, an Ellice
Islander, who had sailed wi th him tor ten
years. Thi had a strange and tragic resu lt.
The man was devoted to his master and he
took the blow so to heart that he an-
nounced h is intention of dying. With a na-
tive this i a serious matter, for he gen-
erally carries out the threat. Hayes knew
this, and he tried by every means in his
power, and a re turn of his old charm, to
make the man change his mind. In vain,
for the native died actually of a broken
heart.
This sent Hayes further on the road to
the pack. From grand villainy, he passed
to petty roguery, robbing small traders
and shanghaing natives who had trusted
him. For the first time in his career, he
was mean.
In one of his gin·induced rages, Hayes
struck his Viking first mate, and. the man
went berserk and attacked Hayes. During
the rough and tumble fight along the
decks that ensued, the giant Norwegian
found he had met more than his match
in the fifty years old Captain, although he
was in his thirties. The Norwegian was
badly injured. Hayes threw him to the
deck, then kicked him and called him a
"Scowhegan dog."
He turned away then, leaving the First
Mate writhing on the deck. He walked
aft toward the saloon, but never reached
it. Painfully hurt though he was, the Nor-
wegian crept after his Captain. He stabbed
Hayes wi th a copra knife, and the Bully
died almost instantly.
The Pacific may have been well rid of
Hayes, but it must be confessed a great
deal of color was lost in his passing. He
was a gentleman by birth and breeding, a
man of cultured tastes, adored by the na-
tives on the island over which he ruled,
l iked even by those whom he had robbed.
Also he was a man of indomitable proven
courage and resource--a seaman to the
very marrow of his bone. He might have
risen high in his country's service, had it
not been for his utter disregard for the
laws of property. He was a good man gone
wrong-"The Last of the Pirates."
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