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INSTALLMENT SEVEN
THE STORY SO FAR Karen Water-
son. convinced by ber lawyer, John Coll,
that she has a rlaim to the Island estate
of her grandfather. Garrett Waterson,
has come to Honolulu to attempt setting
the property. In an effort to find out
something about the Wayne family, now
In control of Alakoa. the Island, sbe ac­
cepts a date to go sailing with Richard
Wayne or Tonga Oleh as he Is known
throughout the South PaciBc.
Against
ber wishes he lakes her to Alakoa and
there they find that James Wayne,
Dick's uncle and manager ot the prop­
erty, Is eery III. Dlok attempts to work
out a compromise settlement with Karen
but she refuses. The first night of their
visit James Wayne is found dead. Neal
day Karen and Dick start back for
Honolulu. On the way Dick attempts to
explain to Karen the Waynes* Interest
la the Island.
Now continue with the story.
Karen's next words were faintly
contemptuous. “If you think that
your brothers are capable of stand­
ing against such a man as John
Colt—”
He shrugged impatiently. "Kar­
It’s war then?”
en,” he said, “I am the one that
“There—there doesn’t seem to be any other
now.
Don
’
t
you are against
you
know that?”
pressed. Karen buttered a roll; and Colt was like a mountain; he wai
Karen faltered and her eyes at this John Colt looked annoyed. "I like the sea. Perhaps it was a ter-
dropped. But she said, “Yes; yes. should think." he said, “that you’d rible thing that a slender girl,
of course, I suppose it always did have enough consideration—”
weighing not more than one hun­
have to come to that, in the end.
“John,” Karen said. "James dred and twenty pounds, could break
didn't it?”
up John Colt
Wayne is dead.”
Suddenly Dick reached across the
“Well—I know it. It's in the pa­
Suddenly Karen knew the reason.
table and caught both her hands. ”1 pers. And this is going to—”
This man had never made love to
don't want to go to war with you,”
“I,” Karen said, “was on Alakoa her. not by a word, not by so much
he said. “I don't think you want to when he died.”
as the pressure of a hand But now
go to war with me. Do you?”
• “You must have had a very lovely —nothing could have told Karen
“It doesn't have to be war,” Dick time.”
more definitely than this moment
said. His voice had neither pride
“Interesting," Karen put in.
told her that Colt would rather lose
nor distance. “It can be anything
“Did you talk to James Wayne Alakoa than lose her. John Colt
you want to make it”
before he died?”
was in love with her, completely
Suddenly he came to his feet,
For a fraction of a moment Karen and utterly, without recourse and
stepped around the little table; and Waterson hesitated.
without doubt.
though she sprang up he caught her
“No.” she answered.
“What is it” John Colt said, “that
in his arms. Her face pressed hard
There was a long silence then, and this man has?”
against his blue jacket, so that she Karen had a curious sense that time
Karen couldn’t answer him.
smelled tobacco smoke, and salt was rushing over them in long
'Compromise,” John Colt said
spray, He spoke to her almost in- swells, as the green seas swept over
queerly. “How could there be any
audibly through the sudden tumble the coral rocks.
compromise? If you weren't in the
of ber hair.
"John,” she said, “have you right—if you did not rightfully pos­
“I don't want your island. I 1 don't thought of compromise with the
sess all this island—do you think I
want anything on the face i of the Waynes?”
would have fooled with you?”
1
know
sea. except one thing. You
“You talked with them?”he asked.
"What do you want me to do?”
what that is. I want you.”
“No one but Tonga Dick. And
"As far as I have anything to do
Her arms went around him then, it's impossible to learn anything
and she clung to him. “I don't want from him until he's ready to have with this,” Colt said, "1'11 never
yield any Wayne one cent”
the island either, Dick . .
you know.”
There was a finality in that; but
“If it brought you into the Pacific,
“Then—”
instinctively Karen knew that it was
I guess Alakoa served its turn.”
"I’m speaking from impressions— not a finality that had anything to
"You—you'll have to see John vague impressions," Karen admit­ do with money. What had been a
Colt," Karen said. “Somehow you ted. "I don’t pretend to call it in­ contest for an island had turned into
have to fix it all with him.”
tuition—but you can call it what a contest between two men for a
She felt the breath go out of him. you want to. I think we ought to girl. Neither one of them would be
"Colt?” he repeated. “In God’s consider, very carefully, some sort satisfied now with any settlement
name, why Colt?"
of compromise with the Waynes."
that would not be a complete shut­
“Everything he has left has gone
If John Colt had ever feared Tonga out for the other.
into backing me. He’s the only rea­ Dick, he forgot it now. "Your case
When she had comprehended that.
son I’m here.”
is sound and justifiable in every way Karen knew that she was in a trap.
His arms loosened, then, se that —Island law being what it is, and Perhaps already an unalterable ob­
she swayed away from him; and he the Island precedents what they are. ligation had committed her to some­
held her shoulders between his two I wouldn't be here now, and you thing she had not foreseen.
hands.
wouldn’t be here, if I thought there
“You feel so definitely tied to John was any loophole in your case.”
CHAPTER VIII
Colt as that?”
"You don't want to think of com­
“I have to stand by him, now— promise? Not any compromise at
Until now Karen Waterson had
even now,” Karen said. "I couldn’t all?”
secretly looked forward to the first
possibly do anything else.”
“The best possible thing for us is meeting of Tonga Dick Wayne and
She saw his eyes harden, and dis­ that the case be tried as it stands. John Colt, as an event no sports-
engaged herself from his hands.
The death of James Wayne, and the lover would wish to miss. Now.
“You hate John Colt so much?”
probate it implies, is a magnificent however, her mischievous spectator­
“My uncle would never have break—such a break as we could interest was superseded by new el­
yielded one inch of Alakoa to John not have accomplished by our own ements. Not Alakoa, but Karen her­
Colt,” Tonga Dick said. He spoke efforts, nor hoped for. If ever any­ self. had become the focus of dis-
slowly, but to Karen it must have one in the world had reason to play turbance; making her hope that she
seemed that his words carried an the cards as they. lie. we have it would be as far away as possible
implacable finality. “Neither will now."
when the two should collide.
I; and neither will my—brothers,
“I'm not so sure," Karen said.
The inevitable meeting took place
live."
while I
“The whole estate will be tied late that afternoon.
"I’m sorry,” Karen said,
up,” Colt exulted. "Any attempt by
On the surface nothing could have
“You mean?”
the Waynes to conceal assets will
"There's nothing more to be be blown to hell now! Everything seemed smoother or more casual.
There was a tea dansant on the
said."
will go into probate, and we’U get beach terrace of the hotel; Karen
“It’s war, then?"
the whole works, intact. And with
"There—there doesn't seem to be James Wayne dead, those helpless and John Colt sat at a table be­
side the dance floor. Neither of
any other way.”
nephews of his will drive their at­ them saw Tonga Dick Wayne come
“Karen—if there's anything I can torneys crazy.
What a picture! strolling between the tables until he
say—”
They’ll run in circles like sheep."
was standing there, beside Karen's
She was in possession of herself
“One of them won’t,” Karen said. chair.
again. “You might say," Karen
“James Wayne was the only hard
Dick Wayne was wearing whites,
told him, “you might say to the
Chinese boy that I would like a cup edge in the lot. He would have which emphasized the depth of his
fought till he died; but he was the tan; perhaps that was why he man­
of black coffee."
only
one.”
aged to look like the only true is­
He turned away from her, shout­
“There's one other,” Karen said. lander there in all that throng. He
ing to the mess boy in a furious bel­
"Who?”
grinned down at them amiably from
low that shook the lamps in their
"Tonga Dick."
his considerable height.
gymbals.
•
“That youngster? Rubbish!"
"Hello, conspirators.”
As he did so a great lift of the sea
"You're going to find that Tonga
Karen said, "Hello, Dick." John
swung a porthole of the Holokai
high above the water; and through Dick Wayne is the hardest one of Colt stood up automatically, but said
the thick streaming glass Karen saw them all,” Karen prophesied; “and nothing; there was no least change
perhaps the most resourceful.”
in his expression.
distant lights.
Colt shrugged. "You'll find he
A miniature Filipino boy now
Honolulu was rising, coming to
doesn’t count at all.”
came into evidence behind Dick
them across the black water.
What Karen said then was totally Wayne; he was carrying a chair
Karen Waterson, deeply fatigued, on impulse. She had not planned to with which he must have followed
did not talk to John Colt that night; say it, had not meant to say it; but Tonga Dick clear across the lanai
and the brilliant but peculiarly soft somehow the words were unexpect­ through the crowd. Karen supposed
sunlight of the Islands was flooding edly drawn out of her lips by the that she would have to make the
the lanai of her suite when she next tension that had come between best of the thing, such as it was.
them.
“Mr. Wayne, I’m not sure whether
awoke.
“John," Karen said, “suppose I you’ve met Mr. Colt?"
Looking at the sunlight on the
“Not possibly the famous deep sea
clean rainbow water, it was hard to married Dick Wayne?”
John Colt did not start, nor turn; diver?" Dick asked.
remember a lightless and uneasy
sea with its long miles whispering he stood still, looking at the sea.
“Much better known,” Colt purred
under a black rain. Her memory of But by his very immobility Karen "as an inventive pastry cook.”
“My mistake," Dick said.
Tonga Dick Wayne, though, re­ knew that John Colt had met some­
mained distinct, as sharply detailed thing which dropped him where he
Dick Wayne accepted a drink the
as if he had been with her in the stood.
Filipino boy handed him, and chuck­
After a moment he swung his wide led as he looked about him. "I see
sunlight She could almost see him
standing there, tall and balanced, shoulders toward her. "You mean some Honolulu people here," he re­
his sea cap slapped jauntily any old to say—” John Colt started to ask marked. "Tomorrow it will be all
place on his head—grinning, of “you mean to say—" His question over town that the Waynes' black
course, but with a glint of blue steel died away. He swung bis shoulders sheep is very clubby with the ene­
in his eyes narrowed against the again, and once more stood looking my, and has probably sold out.”
out at the sea.
brightness of the sea.
“Very amusing for you, I have no
Colt seemed composed again as doubt,” said John Colt.
Later, eating breakfast on her own
lanai, she was only half finished he next spoke. “You’re in love
“Yes,” said Dick.
"You look
when John Colt tapped at the door, with this Tonga Dick?”
kind of sweet, Karen."
“I don't know,” Karen said.
and was let in.
Colt made a movement in his
He stood looking at her, his hands chair as if he were about to rise.
Colt paced morosely back and
forth along the railing of the lanai deep in his pockets. His unaccus­
"Don't go away,” Dick said, not
while Karen sat down to finish her tomed irresolution had a curious ef­ bothering to take his eyes from the
breakfast. "You look as if the sail­ fect, strangely disturbing, as if it dance floor. He sipped his drink re­
could mean nothing except that the flectively, “I have news for you.
ing did you good," he complained.
“You’ve worried me half to whole basic foundation of the man Colt”
death," he told her now. Union- was unexpectedly cracking up. John
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