A Fijian Mystery
p. 67 · Read in the full issue
In Cement
I There is an harassed woman in Suva who wants urgently to Jinow the meaning of the word XUANLOC. Can anyone help?
Recently, Dr. L. S. Kemp thorne, now the retired Bishop in Polynesia, and his popular hvife, Mrs. Ruth Kempthorne, moved into a bungalow in a quiet valley in the hills behind S uva. Over the front door, en graved deeply in cement, is
Xuanloc.
I Mrs. Kempthorne studied it ;with interest. Was it ancient I Greek, or Choctaw? She i thought of the notorious rEMOHRUO”, and tried it backwards. No dice!
I So she brought the matter to the notice of the Bishop.
After all, he had to live with it! But even his erudition failed I— and, after he had spent many minutes moving the setters around, trying to form a comprehensible word, he sternly 'forbade any further discussion of the subject. \ But Mrs. Kempthorne, I voman-like, cannot leave it alone. What does it mean? Any Kind reader who can solve the puzzle might write forthwith to Mrs. Ruth Kempthorne, at “Xuanloc”, Clarke Street, Suva, Fiji.