Oscar - Girl - Wine-Cellar
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Police - Reunion
11THEN the Hon. Eugen F. Paul, ▼ T of Apia, paid a visit to Tahiti, with Mrs. Paul, for the July festivities, two old rivals met and sealed their friendship.
At a Tamaaraa (Tahitian feast) in their honour, given by Mr. Oscar Nordman, Mr. Paul told of how he had come to meet Oscar in Apia in 1907, and of how he had delivered him up to the then German police.
Oscar, then cabin-boy of the Galilee, had a letter from a Tahiti resident to deliver to the Mac- Donald residence in Apia. On the wharf there he met Eugen, who took him along to the MacDonald home, and introduced him to Miss Flora MacDonald.
When sailing-time arrived some days later, Oscar was missing from his ship, and Commander W. J.
Peters reported to the police accordingly. After a search— remarkably brief—Oscar was found hidden deep in the Paul wine cellar. Ignominiously dragged forth, he was taken to the Galilee, which sailed immediately. Eugen had given him away! Reason: Well, Miss Flora MacDonald (now Mrs.
Eugen Paul) was an extremely attractive girl—and Oscar had al ways had an eye for feminine beauty.
Oscar did not return to Apia for many years, but always he has corresponded with his friends of Samoa; and at last he has been able to show them some hospitality in the Tahiti fashion.