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THE STORY SO FAR: Karra Water-
■on. ronvtnrrd by her lawyer. John Colt,
that the baa a claim to the Kland eilate
ol her (randfalhrr. Garrett Waterloo,
baa eome to Hoaolulu to attempt retting
the property, tn an effort to find out
somethin! about the Wayne family, low
in eontrol ot Alakoa. the island, she ac­
cepts a date to go sailinc with Rirhard
(Tonga Dick) Wayne. Against her wishes
he takes her to Alakoa. Arris tng there,
they find James Wayne. Dick's uncle
and manager of the properly, very 111.
During the night ot their visit he is
found dead. Dick and Karen leave for
Honolulu the nest day. On the way back
Dick tells Karen he loves her, but they
quarrel over disposing of her claim to
the island. Later Dick meets John Colt
and tells him he has news tor him.
Now continue with the story.
“Difficult to imagine.” John Colt
murmured.
"Many things that actually hap­
pen are difficult to imagine. Who
would have imagined, for example,
that the granddaughter of Garrett
Waterson would turn up on my boat
wearing false whiskers? Yet I give
you my word. John, that is exactly
what she did.”
Neither Karen nor John Colt
seemed entertained.
"I see the American ambassador
to Japan,” Dick said; “and some
tobacco company boys, going out to
their stations in China; and quite a
sprinkling of movie stars from Hol­
lywood; and a gentleman who cut
a throat in Singapore, to my posi­
tive knowledge.”
“You are pretty well acquainted.”
John Colt inquired suavely, “among
cutthroats?”
“Only among those indigenous to
the Pacific. I also see here half a
dozen gentlemen that I cannot quite
place. A few years ago I would
have said that they were American
financiers of the hit-loot-and-run
type. I had understood that condi­
tions on the mainland were no long­
er favorable to those types.”
“You seem well informed.”
“This is a crossroads.” Dick said.
“You get a perspective upon both
sides of the Pacific from here. But
I still can't make out those wan­
dering financiers. Oh—I get it now.
Since they have been smoked out
of the mainland, naturally quite a
few of them would come here, of
course. Fugitive empire builders,
by God! John, I see you are not
alone.”
“I?”
“Naturally,” Dick said pleasantly,
“quite a few of your type are here
already, looking around to see if
anything is lying loose. I must say,
John, that your plans seem better
thought out than most I'm afraid
that you are the type that thinks
things through. Your prospects look
excellent, John, from the outside.”
"I’m inclined to think so myself,”
John Colt said.
"Would you say that your chances
are worth one hundred thousand dol­
lars, John?”
Only the faintest suggestion of
contempt showed in John Colt's eyes
as he smiled. "Have your brothers
authorized you to make that offer?”
“I haven't seen them,” Dick ad­
mitted; “they have already gone
back to Alakoa. However, I think
you will find it necessary to deal
with me. I'm afraid I can’t let you
dicker with my brothers. They're
much too easy to cheat."
“And I am afraid,” John Colt said,
his voice so modulated that in the
general din of the lanai Dick had al­
most to read his lips, “that I'm not
interested in dickering with either
you or your brothers."
"You definitely refuse one hundred
thousand?”
“I’m sorry.”
“Perhaps you’d care to make a
counter offer?”
"I'm sorry," Colt said again.
Tonga Dick Wayne looked at Kar­
en Waterson for a full minute, and
his frivolous manner dropped away.
Twice Karen met his eyes, but both
times dropped hers again. Dick
Wayne was looking at her with a
real and unaffected regret.
“One proposition more, Colt,” he
said, “and this is my last. One
hundred thousand dollars to you, and
one-third share in Alakoa to Miss
Waterson.”
"Miss Waterson,” Colt said, "is
not interested in any proposition at
all.”
“Karen," Tonga Dick said, "you
have just heard the end of your Pa­
cific adventure.”
John Colt’s face was hard and se­
rious, but there was a glint of in­
tense satisfaction in his eyes which
he could not repress.
“Don't let him worry you," he
said softly to Karen. "He’s shown
his hand—and it’s just as 1 said.
The Waynes haven’t a hope in the
world. That’s exactly why .there
has never been any reason for com­
promise, from the first. Unless they
knew they were beaten, they would
offer no compromise at all.”
Dick Wayne emptied his glass,
snapped it down upon the table, and
pushed back his chair. “I’ll see you
in a couple of days,” be said to Kar­
en, "on Alakoa.”
That surprised an answer out of
her. “Alakoa? We re not coming to
Alakoa.”
"Oh, yes, you are. Or at least he
is. He’ll probably want to bring you
along.” He turned to John Colt. “The
offers I made, I made on my own
hook,” he said. "They are now with­
drawn. But I’ll tell you why I made
them—it may intereft you very
much.”
Friday, January 30, 194?.
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1 imagine. Wayne." said John Colt smoothly, “that you are lying.”
mover takes time and cannot be
“Not particularly,” John Colt
hurried.
“I don’t know, sir."
SMITH BROS. COUGH
• • •
drawled. “You have a lost case,
"You posted this entry?"
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Wayne "
To remove brown stains from
"Yes. I did.”
light-colored
ranges,
dip
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“I'm going to kill your case,”
“Well, did you pay out this mon-
words were taken for what they
Words Are Signs
turpentine and apply to stains.
Dick said tonelessly. "No, I'm go­
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little
pressure
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ing to do worse to you than that—
"No, sir; Mr. Wayne always han­
will come off.
fewer disputes in the world if and not for things themselves.
I’m going to give my brothers the dled that item himself."
means with which to kill your case.
“Always? What do you mean by
To do that will cost me a great deal, that’’"
in some very obscure ways. It will,
Wong fell silent; but now Dick
in fact, cost me more than my
Wayne
knew where to look for what
share of Alakoa is worth. That is
he wanted. Hurriedly he checked
why I offered to settle with you.
For Miss Waterson’s sake, but prin­ back through the books for previous
cipally for my own. I’m sorry that years. Every year for seventeen ,
years that same vague item was to
you refused. But you’re finished,
be found, sometimes small, some­
Colt—through—washed up—done.”
times enormous, according to the
"I get what you mean." John Colt way the year had gone. Over that
smiled.
period of seventeen years almost
“If you think a little further," $200,000 stood against that single
Tonga Dick said, “you'll see even vague phrase—“Old Debts.” A curi­
more clearly what I mean. Your ous thing in a way; for, as far as
case has one hole in it Ask your­ Dick's perfunctory survey of the rec­
self what that hole is.”
ords could make out, there had nev­
Karen Waterson, watching John er been any old debts at all. other
Colt's face, saw a curious thing hap­ than those meticulously funded and
pen then. The faint tired smile on otherwise disposed.
Colt's face lingered there still, but
For the space of a minute Tonga
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after a moment Karen saw that it Dick stared hard at Charles Wong;
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"Dick dismissed Wong and planted
ever a man tried to look into an­
himself at his uncle's desk. He or­
other man's mind and take it apart,
dered coffee, and while Tsura was
Colt was trying it now.
getting it for him he sat for a time
plus this
Dick Wayne was filling his pipe. thinking hard, his eyes covered by
The very fact that he was smoking his hands. By the time his coffee ap­
a pipe at all at a tea dansant made peared he had made up his mind.
him look more at ease thereby, as
“Bring my brothers here,” he told
if he alone, of all the people on that the Japanese girL
broad lanai, was completely at
Tsura looked at him in a startled
y »..O’i
home.
way. His brothers were his elders,
“You're thinking of exactly the and senior to him in the control of
same thing I am, John,” Dick as­ Alakoa; but he had commanded that
sured him softly.
they appear in the same curt tone
Once more the eyes of the two that he had ordered coffee.
men met and held.
“Yes. Mister Dick.” She whisked
“I imagine. Wayne,” said John out of the room. Perhaps the Japa­
Colt smoothly, “that you are lying.” nese girl was a little afraid of the
Steadily, unhurried, controlled— room itself, since the death of James
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there was nothing in John Colt's Wayne; judging it to be an appropri­
voice to indicate that he knew what ate hangout for devils.
are good for
it was to doubt. Yet. somehow,
Dick was finishing a second cup of
Karen knew with utter certainty that coffee before his brothers came.
Colt was shaken—more deeply shak­
cash or premiums
“Good of you to show up,” Ernest
en perhaps than he would have ad­
Wayne said sardonically.
mitted even to himself; and when
like these
“I understand," , said Willard
Karen saw that, she was oppressed
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gambling for Alakoa, in her behalf, courtesy, Miss Waterson has been a
house guest here—in fact slept here
had irrevocably lost.
the night Uncle Jim died.”
"True," Tonga Dick agreed.
It was late in the evening when
Dick dropped anchor in 'Alakoa's “Tsura, bring two more coffee
little bay. and immediately was cups.”
“We don’t want any coffee.” Er­
driven up to the old house high in
nest said for them both.
the gorges.
"Bring them anyway. Sit down,
His brothers, as he might have
expected, had already retired. It you two.”
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Willard, who had started to lower
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of James Wayne—without ever some annoyance, but gave in. Some­
Walnut Sarving Tray with col­
Caffaw Tabla with inlaid top
Raleigh coupons for each dollar
seeming to accomplish anything where, early in their childhood,
orful inlay. I3H* x 10*. Bever­
of beautifully matched wal­
stamp. Ilafensa Stamp Album,
thereby. Dick did not cause them to there must have been a time when
age-proof. Very practical.
nut and mahogany.
shown above, free on request.
be roused, at once. Instead he sent the two elder brothers had domi­
for Charles Wong, and with the as­ nated Dick by main force of age and
sistance of the efficient Chinese set size; and although Dick could not
about a brief survey of the condition even remember that time, Ernest
of Alakoa's books.
and Willard had never been able to
A careful audit would have been accustom themselves to the change
necessary in order to check through, in their relationship. He would al­
with any accuracy, that great array ways seem to them an unjustifiable
of his uncle's books which recorded rebel, scandalous in manner, and
the financial transactions of Alakoa. wrong-headed in his pursuits.
Dick knew what he was looking for,
Ernest, who was shivering a lit­
however;
he steamed
rapidly tle, maintained his self assertion by
through such of the summaries as remaining on his feet. "I would cer­
interested him.
tainly like to know,” he said with
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“Mistress Mary's happy now.
The story that those books told asperity, “what your purpose was in
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should have pleased anybody, but it bringing that—that woman here.”
alastline tothisjinglc. Make sure
you send in more than one entry,
Raleigh coupons showed her how
did not please Dick Wayne. He was
“No purpose at all,” Dick grum­
your chances of winning will bn
it rhymes with the word" things.”
hunting for something else, the ex­ bled.
She can save for useful things
that much better. Don't delay.
Writ« your last line of the
Start thinking right now.
jingle on the reverse side of a
istence of which he only suspected,
They looked at each other mean­
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and to which he was perfectly cer­ ingfully, and Dick noticed again the
facsimile thereof), sign it with
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tain his brothers had no clue at all. extreme nervous irritability which
your full name and address, and
When he had hunted a long time he had seen in them whenever they
Second prize . . . 50.00 cssh
originality and aptness of the line you write.
mail it to Brown A Williamson
without result it became apparent had met since his return to Hawaii.
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Third prize. . . . 25.00 cash
to him that Charles Wong, under That nervousness iboked compatible
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guise of assistance, was in subtle enough in the tall, thin Ernest, who
marked not later than midnight,
awarded. Winners will be notified by mail.
ways managing to confuse his never seemed to feel entirely well;
February 7, 1942.
Anyone may enter (except employees of
25 prizes of $5 00 . 125 00 cash
You may enter as many last
Brown A Williamson Tobacco Corp., their
search, and bring it to nothing. As but it was incongruous in the thick­
100 prizes of a carton
lines ss you wish, if they are all
advertising agents, or their families). All
this became definitely evident, Dick set Willard Wayne, with his smooth,
of Raleighs . . . 150.00
writtenon separateIlaleighpack­
entries and ideas therein become the prop­
Wayne went back and searched firmly padded cheeks and his slow
age wrappers (or facsimiles).
erty of Brown A Williamson Tobacoo
again, and this time found what he moving eyes; for this nervousness
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Corporation.
$500.00
sought. It was an inconspicuous was that of men haunted by an in­
item for the year 1930, easily escapable fear.
brushed over, and obscure in mean­
Dick knew that he had enough
ing when found. It consisted of noth­ dynamite in his hands to blow their
ing more than an entry, under mis­ whole situation apart, and he had
cellaneous operating expense: “Old decided that he was willing to ac­
debts, $25,000.”
cept the cost to himself of using it.
The entry was posted where it did But there was something else he
not belong—a practice untypical of wanted to find out first. There was
either James Wayne or Charles a shadow of wicked mischief in his
Wong, and Dick turned sharply upon mood now as he set out to prod it out
the Chinese.
of them.
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“What debt was this?”
(TO HE CONTINUED)
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