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Friday, January 16, 1942
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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INSTAI I WENT SIX
THF. STORY SO FAR: Karen Water-
son. convinced Sv her lawyer. John Colt,
that she has a claim to the Island
eiUte ot grandfather Garrett Waler «on.
hat come Io Honolulu to attempt to gain
control of the property. Then through a
strange circumstance and tomewhai
against her will the «nd» herself on the
very- Island. Alakoa. with Richard Wayne
or Tonga Dick, as he Is known. He la
a member ot lhe Wavne family which
has been In control of the Island since
lhe disappearance of her grandfather.
They have found that Dlck'a uncle,
James Wayne, who haa been managing
the property, is very sick. Dick tries
to get Karen to work out a compromise
settlement to her claims but she refuses,
late during lhe night Lilua. a native
house girl, comes to Dick's room and
tells him she has strange foreboding ot
evil. As they talk a rap is heard at
the door.
Now continue with lhe story.
At the door when Dick opened it
was the tiny figure of a kimonoed
Japanese girl. Her hair, usually as
neat as polished ebony, was down
all about her face, and through it
Charles Wong went straight to the desk . . . "Yes," Dick answered
her eyes stared so widely that they
showed the whites.
the unspoken question.
"Mister Dick—you come!”
"Get the doctor on the phone; Honolulu seem a long-sought haven,
"What is it? What is it now?”
"I tap on Mister Wayne door—I get him up here at once. That is for her.
"There's something I want to tell
take Mister Wayne him milk. Mis necessary for the proper reports.
When that's done, get my brothers you. Karen."
ter Wayne, he not answer.
in Honolulu on the wireless phone;
She waited, relaxed and impas
"Well, did you go in?”
tell
them what has happened; and sive except for that sense of strain
"No, no, no!”
that I will be in Honolulu tomorrow behind her pale composure.
"Where is he? In his office?”
"Yes—office. Plenty light but no night, regardless of whether they
"I'm sorry I shanghaied you. I
speak. Something moves in there— will be here by then or not. Then didn’t realize what I was letting you
I hear something move! But nothing get me John Colt; I think you al in for."
ready know where in Honolulu he
in there will speak."
"I’m not exactly used to being
pushed about.” Karen said.
Dick Wayne drew a deep breath, is.”
"And—what shall I tell him?”
and the air of the hall was so clam
“After all," he reminded her.
“I’ll talk to him myself.”
my upon his lungs it was as if he
"when you came aboard you be
had breathed in the outer rain.
lieved me to be deceived even as to
The Holokai did not weigh her your name. And though your visit
"All right”
Once more he went striding hook until after dusk of the next to Alakoa was against your will,
through the house, the broad old day; but as she beat her way slowly you yourself, and your friend. John
floorboards speaking under his out through the reefs, half an hour Colt, were partly responsible. I
tread, and the tabes of the Japanese after sunset. Dick Wayne was glad think.”
that the day was over.
girl pattering behind him.
Karen was silent.
Tonga Dick had respected and ad
There was a line of light under the
"But I'm not all sorry," Dick said.
door of James Wayne’s office; but mired his uncle, had understood "In spite of everything. I know you
as he reached for the latch the Jap what his uncle meant to Alakoa. Ev better now; and that has been worth
anese girl flattened herself against erything productive that Alakoa pos while.”
the wall, fearful lest she accidental sessed had existed first in this one
"I shouldn't have tried to fool you
ly see into the room, and Tonga man's mind. They had all depend about who I was,” Karen said. In
Dick Wayne himself hesitated. He ed upon him and been guided by spite of her concealed nervous ten
him; all of them except Dick him sion. she seemed very tired, so that
knew what was within.
James Wayne still sat in the chair self had been controlled by him.
he could hardly hear her words.
A careful conference had been "That was a very silly mistake."
behind his vast desk, in the same
place he had sat during so much of necessary with James Wayne's phy
“There have been other mis
twenty hard driving years. But now sician. Being already familiar with takes," Dick said.
his head was forward upon the desk, the case, he had no trouble describ
She met his eyes for a moment,
and by the slack emptiness of his ing. in technical terms, the failure and he wondered if she was think
uncle's hands Dick knew that this of James Wayne’s heart
ing about a silent room, and a bro
"Could this have been caused by ken lei. He wanted to tell her that
was the end.
All over the floor were scattered shock?” Dick demanded.
‘there was no reason for her to think
"A shock.” Shimazu said with an about that; and that he believed in
the ginger blossoms of a broken lei.
When Dick Wayne had made cer oddly humorless locution, "would her completely.
tain that his uncle was dead, he not have been necessary; but it
Dick said morosely, "You and I
picked up the scattered ginger blos would have helped."
ought to be able to talk to each other
Dick Wayne experienced no relief more easily than we do."
soms, and, opening a casement,
at this declaration. He was cer
threw them out into the night.
"Do we have to go into all that?”
He went to the door. The Japa tain that Karen Waterson had been
"We can work these things out,”
nese girl looked smaller than ever, with James Wayne when he died, Dick Wayne said. "You and I are
standing there with her back pressed and that she had sought to conceal the only ones who can.”
tight against the koa-wood wall, as this. And he knew that almost any
Karen Waterson stiffened and sat
if trying to hide herself from things one else, knowing these facts, would back. “I can only say this—if there
unseen. "Send the Missey here,” leap at once to a dark and savage are to be any negotiations at all.
suspicion. He found, however, that they will have to be carried on with
he said.
for himself he did not need Dr. Shi- John Colt, not with me."
"Missey Lilua?”
mazu's report; he was already con
"No, no! The haole Missey.”
"If the case came to trial as it
vinced, beyond any shadow ot pres
"Yes. Mister Dick.”
now stands.” Dick Wayne said. "I
"As soon as you have sent the ent or future doubt, that Karen Wa have no doubt that you could win.
haole Missey to me, bring me terson had not killed James Wayne. After that would follow appeal after
Charles Wong.”
When they had communicated with appeal, delay after delay; and even
As Dick turned back into the room Dick's brothers and with John Colt, if you won in the end you’d be a
he spotted one more of those in Tonga Dick Wayne threw the radio white-haired old lady before your
escapable ginger flowers under the cut-off switch.
victory ever paid out. The Waynes
corner of the desk. He picked it
What remained was a full day won't give in because they can't
up and put it in his pocket. Then with Charles Wong, repeatedly in give in.”
he went and stood at the window, terrupted by the visits of cane field
"Neither,” said Karen, looking at
looking out into blackness, unmind bosses, mill superintendents, cattle him directly, “do we intend to give
ful of the cold spit of the rain. It foremen. It was turning dark be in.”
seemed to him a long time before fore Dick and Karen Waterson at
"What you mean is that John Colt
Karen came.
last drove steeply down the moun won’t give in.”
“Is—is something wrong?” Her tain toward the anchorage of the
"It’s the same thing.”
words were faltering. "Has any Holokai.
Dick Wayne looked at her queer-
thing happened?”
Later, after the Holokai had put ly. "Is it, Karen? Are you in love
Dick Wayne stared, astonished. out from shore, Dick and Karen with Colt? Are you going to marry
Deep in his pocket his fingers were found themselves sitting face to face him?”
still rolling between them the petals across a completely set table under
at that last ginger flower; but Kar the cabin's skylight. The main cab
CHAPTER VII
en’s eyes were uncommunicative in of the Holokai was trim and well
and he saw that she did not so much lighted, but necessarily very small;
Karen looked at him steadily a
as glance at the floor to make sure here not even the hovering of the moment.
that the flowers were gone. Sud Chinese mess boy could spare them
"There isn’t any reason why I
denly a terrible pity for this girl a sense of being shut in, very close should answer that,” she said at
got the better ot him and he shut together.
last “But I will. I have no inten
his jaws.
Karen's eyes rested unhappily tion ot marrying John Colt. What I
"Dick,” Karen cried out, "what upon her plate. Her fork fiddled mean is that I believe I have a sound
is it?"
with broiled pakii, but she was un claim, and I am perfectly willing
He was unable then, pitying her as able to eat. Her clear-cut poise bad that the court should decide it. If
he did, to tell her that he knew she returned in the form of a reticent your uncle had lived—”
already had the answer to that.
withdrawal; but behind the thin shell
She stopped, and a silence fell
"James Wayne is dead,” he an of that poise Dick Wayne was able between them, so that they noticed
swered.
to perceive that the girl was nerv again the voice of the ship, and the
“This—this is a terrible thing.”
ously distraught.
rush and slap of the sea. Later,
"Perhaps not.”
Tonga Dick Wayne ate, for no oth Tonga Dick began talking to her
"What do you mean?”
er reason than that he had not eaten again, trying to tel) her what his
Dick's voice was hard and bitter. in more than eighteen hours, and uncle had been, as Dick saw him.
"If you are going to take this island, waited for Karen to speak. Now,
He was trying to make her see a
perhaps it is better that you take it surely, he thought, she would have man who had lived not for personal
from me and from my brothers— something to say about her presence conquest, but for a dream. He was
not from the man who made it what at the death of James Wayne.
trying to make her understand that
it is.”
Then presently he became aware, James Wayne had been a man who
Karen Waterson stood staring at with a slow amazement, that Karen did not know how to use anything,
him blankly. Until now it had was not going to speak. She must for himself, beyond the bare neces
seemed to Dick Wayne that noth have known who had picked up the sities; one who took less from life
ing he had ever said to her had broken ginger blossoms that would than the salary of Charles Wong
reached her completely in its full have given her away. But did she? commanded. He showed her his
meaning; but now he knew that he Dick suddenly recognized that Kar uncle breakfasting at 3:30 in the
had hurt her as definitely as if he en perhaps did not know.
morning, so that he could be at
had struck her across the face. The
He let his eyes rest with some de work by a quarter of four. He was
silence that followed had a strange liberation upon her face, and saw trying to make her see twenty years
hopeless quality about it, empty, that she was uncommonly pale; it of labor, in which James Wayne had
yet singularly acute. Dick was glad gave her an exceptionally fragile given every hour of his time, every
that Charles Wong now appeared, look. “It seems to me,” he began, resource of his mind, to making
moving quickly into the room.
“that you might tell me—”
Alakoa what it had become.
Charles Wong went straight to the
He let the question he had begun
She interrupted him, after a while.
desk, but his eyes were questioning lose itself in the black race of the “Why do you tell me all this?”
sea past the lee porthole.
on Dick’s face.
“I’m trying to make you see that
“Yes," Dick answered the unspo
“We’re making fast time,” he there is something there that cannot
said. “We’ll be in Honolulu before be measured in dollars and cents;
ken question.
A wave of swift emotion crossed very long.”
and that even though James Wayne
the Chinese secretary’s face; he
Karen murmured, "I’m glad.” A is dead, the fight for the things he
raised one hand and his fingers ran little shiver ran across her shoul stood for will have to go on.”
ders, so that her two words made
through his heavy hair.
(TO HE CONTINUED)
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