Fr ida y, January 2, 1942
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Aerial Giant, B-19
INSTALLMENT FOI E
THE STORY SO FAR: Karr« Water-
son. convinced by her lawyer. John Colt,
that she has a claim to the ialand
estat* and torlun* ot her «randtalher,
Garrett Waterson, arrive* tn Honolulu
to attempt to rain control oi the prop­
erty. Here ahe meet* Richard Wayne,
er Tonga Dick, a* he I* known throuthout
the South PaclSc. He I* a member ot the
Wayne family that ha* been In control of
her grandfather'* island. Alakoa. since
the old man's disappearance. Although
Tonga Dick know* who she I*. Karen
attempt* to conceal her Identity from
him. Dick offers to lake her sailing and
accepts.
Dick goes to the home ot
his half-brothers, Ernest and Willard,
for a conference regarding their inter­
est in Alakoa. In the course of their dis­
cussion it is revealed that the Wayne
family obtained the Island for a small
sum and under the direction ot the boys’
uncle, James Wayne. It has been devel­
oped to where It has assets of around
three million dollar*.
Next day as
Dick takes Karen sailing she learns that
he knows who she Is and that he Is taking
her to Alakoa. She wants to go back
to Honolulu but he refuses to take her.
Now continue with the story.
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A white blase was in the old man's eyes and every muscle of his
body seemed to tremble.
Karen Waterson landed upon Ala- the window, across the darkening
She drew into herself, then. After
a while Tonga Dick Wayne went aft koa fascinated, deeply stirred, and fog; and that slight movement em­
phasized the stillness with which he
to stand beside the man at the —afraid.
sat. hardly seeming to breathe. By
wheel, but Karen remained at the
“Your uncle,” Charles Wong said, clear daylight you could see the bay
rail, her eyes on Alakoa.
Snapped in flight over a river in southern California is the giant
For a long time the island drew "is very anxious to see you at from that window, miles away and
far below. Nothing was to be seen B-19. The picture was made during n test flight, with twenty
no nearer. The Holokai seemed once.”
persons aboard.
Ever since Tonga Dick and Karen there now.
fixed at a given distance from her
When James Wayne spoke again
goal, racing across a restless sea had arrived, the tall Chinese, secre­
which forever interposed itself, Un- tary to James Wayne, had been hov­ his voice was flat and dead. It was
der Karen's feet the deck of the ering near Dick—if Charles Wong as if their interchange was over,
little vessel pulsed between the could be said to hover. Charles with nothing more to be said, and
steady boom of her Diesel and the Wong, who had never seen China, that the words he now spoke were
shock of the smooth swells she was showed in his tall and bony frame routine words, hopeless of result.
“If you’ve talked with your broth­
smashing to pieces as she drove. the stamp of the Manchu, but about
Stealing a glance over her shoul­ him was no mannerism belonging ers.” James Wayne said, "you know
the situation here."
der, Karen saw that Dick himself to the Oriental.
"Yes,” said Dick.
Dick was troubled because his un­
now took the wheel.
"Have you seen this man John
cle
had
not
come
out
to
meet
him.
Very much alive with a definite
Colt?"
concentration, Tonga Dick Wayne "He's in bed?”
“Only at a distance, sir.”
spun his vessel through Alakoa's
“No; he’s supposed to be, but
"I've
seen him.” James Wayne
treacherous shoals. A Hawaiian boy nobody can keep him there.”
said, speaking without emotion. “An
was in the bow with a lead line,
"Well—I’ll go right in.”
his eyes turned to Dick’s face, but
Yet Dick hesitated; he was won­ acquisitive and predatory type, al­
Dick did not call for the lead. A dering whether he had better ask most a piratic type; but a man
great mound of water rose under the advice of Charles Wong. After bom to succeed, in his way.”
“But the girl I have not seen,"
the taffrail of the Holokai, slam­ all, it was two years since Tonga
ming her shoreward like a surfboard Dick had met his uncle face to face. Dick’s uncle said now. "This Karen
before it broke and raced along her
“This girl.” Charles Wong said Waterson — have you seen her,
Dick?”
counter in a thrashing roar.
hesitantly, “this girl—’’ He stopped.
Tonga Dick hesitated. "Yes,” he
Then suddenly upon the little
Dick Wayne was startled. It was
schooner there was silence—unex­ as if the Chinese had read his mind. said at last.
“What does she look like?” James
pected, but complete and final. The He remained silent, waiting.
engine quit, and the voice of the
“I was just thinking.” Charles Wayne demanded, his voice rising
reef diminished surprisingly, until Wong said after a moment, “that a little. “Does she look hard? Does
it seemed no more than a whisper. perhaps it might be unwise, consid­ she appear grasping—predatory?”
Effortlessly, on so even a keel that ering your uncle’s condition, to in­
Tonga Dick stirred uneasily.
Looking aft from the pilot's cabin we see the radio and control
she seemed to glide upon glass, the troduce a stranger now. I mean, "No," he said after a moment
Holokai drifted under a single scrap if perhaps we just said nothing—”
“Yet she must be," James Wayne panel which, with the pilot’s instrument ¡lancl, com prise the
of sail into Alakoa’s little harbor.
“Charles,” Dick said, “that girl is said, his voice vibrant. “That girl “brains” of the world?» mightiest plane.
So absorbing w’as her interest in Karen Waterson.”
is evidently made of something
the little port that for a while she
harder than glass.”
He
went
striding
off
through
the
forgot Tonga Dick; she was even un­
James Wayne had always spoken
aware of the scrutiny of a hundred big koa-wood rooms, leaving the sec­ well; but at the same time he had
retary
paralyzed
under
the
weight
pairs of eyes—mostly those of small
always spoken briefly, choosing few
brown-skinned boys who swam be­ of a hundred unanswered questions. words. Except for the curtness of
James Wayne, deeply swathed in anger, Dick had never seen him
side the slowing Holokai. What oc­
cupied Karen now was this unfamil­ blankets, sat behind a vast desk. speak with emotion before. Now, as
iar soil where her father had been His handclasp was quick and strong, James Wayne fell silent Dick
bom: this land which even yet, if as it always had been, though Dick wished that he were away.
John Colt was to be believed, be­ thought there was a tremor in it
“Dick,” James Wayne said with a
now.
longed to her.
deep conviction. "I don’t believe
For
the
first
time,
Dick
Wayne
At one side, just behind the beach,
she's his granddaughter at all.”
an old warehouse ran, long and low, was looking at his uncle and seeing
“My brothers told me,” Dick said,
an
old
man.
Haggard,
gray-skinned,
silver-gray from uncounted rains.
“that they had thoroughly investi­
deep-carved
with
the
lines
which
the
It was half smothered in a tangle
gated that; they say that her claim
of sea grapes, and over one end years had saved up for him, only to of identity can be substantiated in
mark
him
with
them
suddenly,
over
hung a vast flame tree of the bright­
any court.”
est crimson Karen had ever seen. night—the face of James Wayne was
“I suppose." James Wayne said
Out from it ran a massive but enzi- almost unrecognizable to Dick.
wearily, "we may assume that the
“I got your radio, sir,” Dick said. claim of relationship will be sub­
ly leaning pier; and all except the
pier seemed lost in the riot of coco­ “I came on under all power as soon stantiated—at least to the satisfac­
nuts and hula palms, breadfruit as the message was in.”
tion of the court. Beyond that—be­
trees and banyans, which made a
“I should think,” his uncle said yond that, what is your impression
veritable jungle behind the beach. slowly, “you would have come any- of her case?”
This ruined development was the way, without so urgent an appeal.”
“My advice,” Tonga Dick said, "Is
old Waterson layout.
noticed,
James to settle at once, out of court, at the
Even,
Dick
But the pier that Garrett Water- Wayne’s voice had changed; ; it cost of any compromise whatever,
son had built was not the principal sounded weary and dry. His old This case must never come to trial,
landing any more. Farther to the temperate manner of speech was If it comes to trial, they will win.”
west the Wayne landing stood, a there, and the courtesy, almost like
A strange thing happened then.
modern concrete dock, long and kindness, which had marked his The immobile, apparently bloodless
A glimpse into the rear compartment of the B-19. Lieut. I.. J.
clean-cut Behind it a number of speech all his life, even when deal- figure of James Wayne suddenly gal­ Doyle, veteran test pilot, is shown nt the inter-plane phone. Ma­
long, handsome stucco buildings ing with his enemies, was there; vanized with such an explosion of chine gun mounts fnot shown) nre on sides opposite the lieutenant.
stood, set in parallel. The roadways but a rustiness was in it now.
energy as Dick had never seen
between them were ornamented
James Wayne's eyes were fixed James Wayne use. The old man
with neat rows of date palms, and hard on Tonga Dick's face, and shot straight up, and behind him
here everything was well planned, those eyes, clear and direct as ever, the heavy chair crashed onto its
efficient, and clean.
now seemed to burn. “Is there any back, and the blankets fell away to
One hundred yards from the beach message?” he demanded sharply.
a muffle about his legs. A white
the Holokai’s anchor roared down,
blaze was in the old man’s eyes, and
“No message, sir,” he said.
splashing water higher than her
every muscle of his body seemed to
"Despatches,
then?
”
booms; and now Dick Wayne was
tremble.
#
"No, sir.”
standing beside Karen again.
“No!” he shouted. "No, I say! ;
James Wayne stared at him, his
He spoke to her with an imper­
Never while I live! Not one cent—
eyes boring hard into Tonga Dick. not one cent—”
sonal courtesy.
"The ladder’s down. If you’re "You mean to say—you mean to say
The door opened and Charles
—no message, no letter—no any- Wong was there, and his thick
ready to go ashore—”
“No doubt that is very funny,” thing?”
glasses were beseeching upon Tonga
"Nothing, sir.”
Karen said incisively; “your jokes
Dick's face. In the moment's si­
“
Yet
—
he
got
the
despatch
from
are perfectly killing. But meantime
lence the blaze within James Wayne
I am virtually your prisoner, for me? He got the word, at the same seemed to die away. Charles Wong
reasons of your own ’that I know time you did?”
picked up the chair, and the old man
"I’m certain of it.”
nothing about. And I don’t like it at
accepted it. Deftly the tall Chinese I
For a moment more they looked sought to rearrange the blankets.
all.”
Dick Wayne spoke again, his voice at each other, the old man's eyes
“Dick,” James Wayne said, “you
very low and gentle. “I’m sorry it alight with anger, and in his face— know and I know there's a way to
worked out this way," he said. "Of not disbelief, but an inability to ac­ break this case.”
course, I understand how you feel. cept the answer.
Dick was silent; but It was the
“This is incredible,” said James silence of a tentative assent.
I promise you that things will be
Lieut. Col. Stanley limstend is
A view of the two starboard
made as comfortable as possible for Wayne, his unwinking eyes fastened
“We've come to a showdown,” his here pictured nt the controls dur­ motors ns seen from the cabin
you while you’re here. My brothers hard upon Tonga Dick's face.
uncle said. “We’ve got to show down
of the B-19.
Dick said nothing, and the mo­ our cards—both yours and mine." ing a three-hour test flight.
are in Honolulu, and there’s no one
ments ticked by in such a silence
you’ll have to talk to here.”
“Are you sure you want that?”
Karon Waterson’s anger died out. that Dick thought he could count Dick asked.
This man could put her into white the pulsing of his own heart.
“It begins to look as if there isn't
blazes of temper, but, curiously, she
“If this is true,” James Wayne any other way.”
did not hate him when the anger said sharply, “then how does it hap­
“I’m afraid there isn’t, sir. AL
was gone. Her tremendous curiosi­ pen that you are here?”
though—although—”
“I’m here against my orders.”
ty about Alakoa came on her again,
“Later,” Charles Wong put In.
Silence again; but now after a “There’s plenty of time for this.
as strongly as if the heart of the
island itself were pulling upon every moment more Dick saw the light of Mister Dick, your uncle should not
anger and unbelief die out of his un­ talk any more right now."
part of her.
She glanced at Tonga Dick, who, cle's eyes, giving way to a bleak
Dick attempted to speak, but was
as usual, was not looking at her; fatality.
checked—partly by his own loss of
“Name of God!” James Wayne words and partly by Charles Wong’s
and, after a moment more, silently
went down the ladder into the shore­ said, his voice low and thick. “Name shaking head. Silently, Tonga Dick
of God!”
Wayne left his uncle’s room.
boat.
He turned his head and looked out
The B-19 being escorted by two P-W pursuit ships.
"Well, cast your line, Hokanol"
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