Friday, December 26, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
¿//ALAN-L e MAY
INSTALLMENT THREE
THE STORY SO FAR: Karen tester-
eon. San Francisco girl, convinced by
ber lawyer. John Coll, that she has a
claim to the Island estate of her grand
father, Garrett Waterson. arrives tn Hon
olulu to attempt to gain control ot the
property
One evening while she and
Colt are dining and discussing plans lor
pressing her claims. Richard Wayne, or
Tonga Dick, as he Is known, enters their
dining place. He Is a member ol the
Wayne family that has been in control
of her grandfather's Island, Alakoa, since
the old man's disappearance.
Karen
meets him. and believing that he Is un
aware ot her Identity she accepts an
offer to go sailing with hint the next
day, hoping she can gel some infor-
matlon from him. Later that night Dick
goes to the home of his half-brothers,
Willard and Brnest, and a conference Is
being held regarding the validity of Bar-
en’s claim.
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“I always heard.” Tonga Dick
said, "that Garrett Waterson was a
great old boy—quite a character.”
"Character be damned.” Willard
fumed. “He had no character at
all. He was an outrageous old brawl
er, always at the center of every
disturbance of any kind. He was
always doing incredible, outlandish
things."
"And he sold Alakoa .or fifteen
thousand dollars,” Tonga Dick com
mented. "What’s it worth today?
Three million?”
“Ridiculous,” Ernest snapped.
"The assets, as we carry them on
the book—”
“Maybe,” Dick said, “after all,
Garrett Waterson was a little fuzzy
at the edges, when he did that!"
"Right there,” Willard said mo
rosely, "is the whole point. If they
can show that Garrett Waterson was
incompetent, it follows that his
granddaughter was left destitute by
this single incompetent act"
Tonga Dick considered; and pres
ently allowed himself a slow grin.
“You know, it's just possible that
the girl really has you!”
Ernest flared up. “You have just
as much interest in Alakoa as we
have—or ought to have!”
“I guess,” Dick said speculative
ly, “I’d better have a talk with this
Waterson girL”
"Ridiculous!”
"Can’t see how it can hurt any
thing.”
"She won’t talk to you,” Willard
said shortly. “She won't do any
thing at all without consulting John
Colt.”
“Oh. yes, she will. Tomorrow,
Tm going to take her on a cruise
up the coast—sight-seeing, you
know.”
“She won't even see you,” Willard
said again.
“She already has. I talked with
ber nearly an hour tonight”
"You what?”
"I said. I’ve been talking to her
all night Can't you understand
plain—' ’
"Did she know who you were?”
"Naturally. Do you think she's a
dummy?”
His two brothers stared at him for
a little while in inarticulate outrage.
"I absolutely forbid this sailing
trip,” Willard got out at last.
"And so do I,” Ernest echoed.
"Any parley that is made with that
adventuress will be in full consulta
tion with us and our attorneys. I
absolutely forbid you to see this girl
again without the full concordance
of—”
"Go ahead and forbid," Tonga
Dick encouraged him. “After all
here isn't a thing in the world you
can do.”
John Colt came to take breakfast
with Karen Waterson next morning.
Their brightly silvered breakfast
table overlooked the beach, where
the warm sea was breaking in em
erald combers shot through with the
early sun. Looking out at the lazy
sea, Karen Waterson knew that she
was afraid.
The exultant assurance of victory
which she had felt the night before
was gone, suddenly unable to live in
all this sunlight.
She could hardly remember what
had persuaded her to make an in*
cognito date to sail with the one man
who had most reason to be her ene
my. In spite of the evening, Tonga
Dick remained a shadowy and mys
terious figure — an unaccountable
stranger whose very name was out
landish according to any standards
she knew.
In this mood she found it pleasant
to sit across a breakfast table from
John Colt. It did not happen very
often, and was the more helpful be
cause it did not.
Some day, she knew, John Colt
would make love to her; whether
they won or lost, that time would
come as inevitably as the falling of
Hawaiian rain. Often she speculated
curiously as to whether this would
happen before or after their fight
with the Waynes was closed, and
amused herself by imagining what
she would do about it when it came.
"I am very much at a loss to
imagine,” he said now, "why you
have committed yourself to this pe
culiar arrangement."
On an impulse Karen said, “I’ll
tell you why I have to go. I
have to go because I’m afraid of
those Waynes.”
"They’re people,” Karen said,
"from whom we are about to take
everything they have. »•
"What you’re taking is yours,”
John Colt said.
"Sometimes I wonder if it really
1*."
On an ini pulse Karen said. “I'll tell you why I have to go. 1 have to
go because I’m afraid of those Waynes.”
John Colt looked at her curiously.
To this man, this watchful and rest
less planner, honesty was a rigid
thing; rights of property were mat
ters decided only in courts, and no
other rights existed.
’’Listen to me.” he said. ‘‘Every
thing they have is based upon the
fact that they took the island of
Alakoa from your grandfather after
he had become incompetent—as we
shall prove. Thus everything they
have is literally stolen from you.”
Something of John Colt’s own
spirit of conquest came back into
Karen Waterson. ‘‘Yes.” she said;
"and I’m not wavering. John. You
can be perfectly sure of this—I’ll
never turn back now.”
CHAPTER III
Lying full length on a deck chair.
Karen drank a pre-lunch Martini,
and watched the stunning blue and
white of the sea stream past the
low foredeck of Richard Wayne’s
schooner. Here, out upon the slowly
breathing Pacific. John Colt him
self seemed as far away as San
Francisco had seemed from the la-
nai of the Royal Hawaiian.
At first, sheering away from Bar
ber’s Point. Karen had experienced
a sharp sinking of spirits.
But during the morning hours on
the sea a new vitality had come
into her, as if from the long swells
of the open sea itself; and after
lunch she sought a way to push
ahead with her self-elected task of
studying Tonga Dick. The Holckai
was a two-masted schooner of 110
feet; Dick Wayne called her a trad
ing schooner, with auxiliary power,
but very definitely she was some
thing else. Her racing-schooner hull,
astonishingly loaded by her great
Diesel, had hardly any cargo space
at all, other than that needed for
her own stores. Karen put out a
tentative feeler.
"I was wondering how your
schooner came by her name.”
“Holokai means ‘sea-rider,’ " he
told her.
"That's peculiarly poetic.”
“Oh, I didn't name her myself.
She was named by the man from
whom she came to me.”
"Who?” Karen asked innocently.
Tonga Dick shrugged. ’There are
all manner of boats knocking about
the Pacific. You can always get
hold of a boat.”
She studied Tonga Dick Wayne,
covertly. In the bright reflected
light of the cloudless sea he still
seemed young, even younger than
she had believed the night before.
She thought now that she detected
something faintly ironic in his gaze.
It was as if the darkness that was
under the blue of the sea had come
nearer behind his eyes.
Karen turned uneasy. She said,
"Dick—what is it?”
"You’re very lovely,” he said.
"It's only fair to tell you this: in
every way that I can imagine,
you’re the loveliest thing I’ve ever
seen on the earth or the face of the
sea.”
“Well, really, are you making love
to me now?” I was a flimsy de
fense; in contradiction to his words,
she knew that he was not making
love.
“No man of any sense pretends
to know anything about women,”
Tonga Dick was saying. “The old
Island people drew deadlines past
which no woman could come, and
those lines were drawn by darkness,
and fear. They knew the truth—
that it is not possible tor a man to
know what things govern a wom
an. Yet I’ll tell you this: it would
be easy for anyone to believe in
you, even without understanding you
at all.”
He was speaking as if from behind
a wall. Suddenly Karen Waterson
knew what he had meant, and it ac
counted for the flat sound of words
that should have been love-making.
A sharp and immediate panic swept
her as she understood, all at once
and completely, that Richard Wayne
knew who she was.
She jerked her eyes from hi* face
and stood up, bracing herself against
the reel of the little schooner. A
glance across the face of the sea
told her a startling thing, before un
considered. All that day, since ear
ly morning, they had been striking
straight out from Honolulu into the
open Pacific.
Had Sign’llicanct
In Middle Ages Ç
nì.Phillìpr
The peculiar figure* constituting
THE PAPERH OF PRIVATE
the signs of the Zodiac are general- ;
Pl'RKEY
ly looked upon merely as a curiosity
today, but they once were credited Dear Ma—
Well I have done a lot of kidding
with strange powers.
During the fiddle ages the 12 j and squawking in my letters but 1
signs were supposed to influence gess that is ull over now. After
human life. As a result each sign I what them double crossing Japs did
was connected with a different part there Is no longer no funny side to
of the body in addition to being as this training and ull I want to do is
sociated with various months of the get a crack at them. All the boys
year. The Zodiac itself is an imag feel die same way. Up to Ute time
inary band in the sky within which they heard about them Japs stab
He the apparent paths of the sun. bing Uncle Sam in the back under u
flag of truce 1 gess they ail felt the
moon and major planets.
same as me Unit the war was too fur
Unlike the present calendar which awuy to bother much mid thut
will begin the new year 19-12 on ' army training was u puln in
January 1, the Babylonian year be neck. But it woke us all up
gan in April. Because rams were
no bugle ever did.
sacrificed to the gods during this
month, it was associated with Aries,
I kind of felt that nobody wood
the ram.
ever tackle tills country on account
of we got two big oceans to depend
on and ull that and I gess I never
sweated in a manoover without say
ing to myself thia is the bunk as
Hitler wood be crazy to get more
trouble on his hands. I never thought
that Japan would be even crazier. I
j hated the hikes, 1 hated the drills
OCTOBER
APRIL
Artos. thé Ram
Libré, thé Haloncé
and inspeckshun* and 1 could not
| bathe u new crop of corns without
burning up Inside. But all of n sud-
I den 1 feel different. Even my bun-
I ions seem patriotic now.
• • •
"I think.” she said, "we’d better
go back, hadn't we?”
There was defeat and admission of
defeat in that; but, knowing what
sne now knew, she could hope for
nothing in the world here, except a
means of return. "We’ll be very
late into’Honolulu.”
It's the same way all through my
“A little," Dick said.
outfit.
Jeeps who have been squawk
“But if you'll turn now—”
ing eight hours a day look like they
"The funny thing about it,” he
NOVEMBER
MAY
Txurux. th» Bull
Scar pt». th» Scar pt at become fighting men over night.
said oddly, "is that we can't turn
They know it is not all a lot of fool
back. At least not yet.”
ishness no more and any boy in
“You mean—you mean—”
camp will attack a tank single hand
“Don't worry,” Dick said: "there
ed now if you just tell him there is
isn't anything to worry about. Mean
a Japanese doll Inside.
while—if you'll look across the star
board bow, you'll see Alakoa—Kar
en.”
As for me personally ma I got a
I clear picture of what the country is
Alakoa, as seen from this ap
DECEMBER i up against for the first time and I
JUNE
proach, rose steeply from the wa
Stgitttriua. thé
ter; the folds of her hills were of a Cenuai. Ih» Tarta»
■ wonder now that I did not get the
Archér
shadowy and unearthly blue, but the
' right slant long before thl*. I gess
rays of the sun, slanting low now,
it was just because 1 got snatched
struck her tall up-thrusting ridges
■ so sudden from all the comforts of
with traceries of red gold. There
I civilun life that I didn't see straight.
was something terribly appealing
! I was soar over giving up a box
about Alakoa as Karen saw it then.
I spring mattress, a personal alarm
In one way it seemed so little in that
clock and the right to do what 1
vast expanse of salt water, the very
1 pleased. But Emperor Hotsy-Togo
JULY
intensity of whose deep blue seemed
j or whatever you call him woke me
JANUARY
Caacvr, th» Crab
to speak of a vital strength, a vast
Copricoraut thé Gott . up like nobody's business. 1 am
living will which nothing could with
so soar now that I am sorry 1
stand nor deny. Yet Alakoa rose
I ever applauded Japanese tightrope
bravely from the heart of the sea.
walkers.
so tall that it seemed slenderly tall.
Tonga Dick stood up, rising lightly
This war has all of * sudden be-
on one heel instead of two. and
. come a great exciting show, ma
reached for her hand. When she
i It don't seem just like a optical al-
did not give it he took her wrist,
I lusion no more All the tank* don’t
FEBRUARY
AUGUST
and pulled her to the forward rail,
[ seem like they was just a few things
A quotiti». thé
Lee. eh» Li»»
beside the reaching bowsprit
W otormoa
, being demonstrated by a auto sales-
"Of course," he said, "you don't
’ man My rifle witch has just seemed
see much of it from here. There's
i something I wood like to have car-
four thousand feet of rise in those
■ ried for me by a caddy ha* all of a
highest hills. The cane fields, the
j sudden become my BUDDY! It’s
rice paddies, and the little fishing
real and human. And my uniform
villages are all on the other side.”
even when it i* wet and wrinkled
"And now what?” she asked.
now look* like the grande»t uniform
“We'll land in another hour,” he
anybody could ever climb into. What
SEPTEMBER
MARCH
told her.
hat come over me I don’t know for
Vir<o. th» Virgta
ffrsces. rhe Fllh.i I *urc but I credit the Mikadoo with
"In another hour? But Honolulu
is—”
May (Taurus, the bull) brought ! an assist.
. . .
"I mean, on Alakoa.”
the approach of summer with the
When Karen was certain of what sun being conceived as a bull who
_c„ you will
wl;; have
;„,,v to
„ forget
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I j gess
he had said, angry tears sprang into plowed^hi* way among the star* ;iboul me bnn(( home for Christmas
her eyes. "You mean you're not go June (Gemini, the twins) was rep
I But I know what kind of a mother
ing to turn back?”
resented by Castor and Pollux, twin you are and I gess you feel just
"I'm afraid I can’t.”
sons of Zeus and Leda.
like I do about what ha* happened.
"You can’t what?”
The backward motion of the crab 1 have done a lot ol wise cracking
"I can't turn back. You see, I
was associated with July (Cancer, about being leased or lent but I
have received an extremely urgent
the crab), the month when the sun don't care where they use me now.
radio from Alakoa. It will be nec
began to retreat toward the hori so long as it is where I can take a
essary for us to land. I think. Kar
zon. Culmination of the sun's heat i sock at the world’s worst enemies
en, you had better plan to spend the came in August. This was repre
of today, the double-talk nation*
night as Alakoa's guest.”
sented by Leo, the lion—the ancient I witch jab a knife in your kidney
"This is preposterous,” Karen symbol of fire.
while asking what you want for
said. "I certainly shall do nothing
Christmas.
September
(Virgo,
the
virgin)
of the kind.”
celebrated Ishtar's descent into
“Now, now,” Dick said soothingly,
Hades in search of her husband.
Well, I must close now. Do not
‘1 was hoping you would enjoy it.”
The ancients recognized the balance worry. Everything will come out
"This is kidnap,” Karen said. Her i
of day and night which occurred
voice was steady now; the anger was during October (Libra, the balance). I all right with the old Stars and
Stripes on top.
still there, but leveled now by some
Scorpio, the scorpion, symbolized
Your loving son.
thing very like a calculating hate.
Oscar.
Tonga Dick smiled. "Shanghai,” the darkness of November following
he corrected her. "We call it shang the decline of the sun after the
P. S.—I serpose pop is trying to
autumn equinox.
December was get into the army again now. Tell
hai, at sea.”
“I can’t imagine,” Karen said, represented by the figure of the him to forget it and stay home and
“what you can possibly expect to archer, Sagittarius, god of war, look out for you as I will do enough
January (Capricornus, the goat) fighting for al) three of us.
gain by this.”
• • •
“I’m very much surprised that symbolized the nurse which cared
you’re not more interested,” Dick for the young gods ot the sun.
THOUGHT ON FOOD
Even the weather was recognized It is the sad, unlucky fate
said, "Inasmuch as you have set
out to take possession of Alakoa, I by the men who drew up the signs
Of some to have a diet;
should think you’d like to see what of the Zodiac. February (Aquarius, Each time they hear a friend's lost
the waterman) was associated with
it looks like.”
weight
"I can see it perfectly plainly the heavy rains which periodically
They ask him how, and try it.
flooded the Nile river.
March
from here."
“You see a rock sticking out of the (Pisces, the fishes) marked the And yet. however fond and fair
sea,” he admitted. “There are a , month when labor was resumed in
Their hopes at the beginning,
good many thousands of them in the fields.
They almost always find that they're
It is believed that Homo Signor
the Pacific. But you can't see from
More thinned against than thin
here any of the things that make urn, or Man of Signs, was originat
ning.
Alakoa desirable to you and to your ed about 1300 A. D. The actual
—Richard Armour.
friend John Colt. What is really in signs of the Zodiac, however, were
teresting, from a financial stand known for many centuries before.
"Remember back before social
point, is the development that the
security when people thought the
Famous Scotch Bun
Waynes have made—the flumes that
way to be sure of a good living in
A famous Scotch bun made entire their old age was to raise a lot of
make the cane fields possible, and
the mills. Those things have taken ly of egg and chopped fruit enclosed grateful sons and daughters?” asks
a good many years to build; with in a crust appears bountifully dur Merrill Chllcote.
out them Alakoa would still support ing New Year week.
• • *
only a handful of fishermen, and
DESERT HONG
would certainly never have come to
Two-Week Celebration
In Cunningham,
the attention of Mr. Colt.”
Fourteen days are needed in Ja-
Said Nazis, running,
Karen cried out, with a passion pan to celebrate the coming of the
There's less of ham,
strange to herself, “If you’ve new year.
During the festival
And more of cunning.
brought me out here to preach at streets are made lively by stilt
—Richard Armour.
walking, top-spinning, jumping, ball
me—”
• » •
“Be sure of this,” he said crisply. playing and rope-pulling.
The time to anticipate a war
While the youths are enjoying the
"I preach to no one. I brought you
these day* is when the peace
here for the same reason that you outdoor sports, the older people
conversations reach a height.
came. I wanted to know what you write New Year’s poems or play
• * •
games.
After
two
weeks
ot
revelry
were like. Isn't that what you want
"Up to Pearl Harbor,” said Elmer
the festival is brought to a close
ed of me?”
Twitchell today, "I never thought
“Yes,” Karen Waterson said, Her by burning the kado-matsu and oth Orson Welles' famous broadcast
er decorations put up for the cele would be topped in my lifetime.”
voice was suddenly quiet.
bration.
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