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INrTAllMKNT NINE
THE STORY SO FAR: Karen W»l»r
aon. convinced by her lawyer. John Colt,
that the haa a claim to the Island
••tale ol her grandfather. Garret* Water­
ton. ha ■ come to Honolulu to attempt
gelllnr the property. In an effort Io And
out «omethlng about the Wayne family,
now In control of Alakoa. the Island, she
accepts a dale to go sailing with Rich­
ard (Tonga Dick) Wayne. Against her
wishes he takes her to Alakoa. While
there, James Wayne. Dick's uncle and
manager of the property. Is found dead
from over work. Next day on the way
bark to Honolulu Dick tells Karen be
loves her, bul they quarrel over her
claim to the estate. Dick later tries to
work out a compromise settlement with
John Colt and when he falls he tells
Karen and Colt that their adventure Is
to end soon. He goes back to Alakoa and
Is In the midst of a conference with bls
two half brothers. Willard and Ernest
Wayne.
Now continue with the story.
"You see.” Dick said, "as this
contest for Alakoa sifts down, all the
original aspects of the case are going
to have to be investigated with the
utmost thoroughness — and made
A faint flicker of self assertion reappeared in Ernest Wayne. “You
public. You understand that, I sup­ can’t order us—”
pose?”
The eyes of the two brothers
Willard Wayne said with an un­
"What on earth,” Ernest asked
necessary intensity, “Just what do snapped sharply to Dick's face. Willard in a bewildered way. "are
Probably they did not believe him; we supposed to do now?"
you mean by that?”
"I mean that it is very likely- but they were grasping at straws.
Tonga Dick kicked out of bed with
even inevitable—that a lot of things
"You hold something over John a movement of exasperation, and
are going to be brought to light that Colt?" Willard asked.
hunted around for a bath towel.
nobody’s thought about for a long
"Do you mean.” Dick asked in­
"I tell you what you’re going to
credulously. "am I in a position to do," he roared at them. "You’re
time. Isn't that so?"
"Don't know what you’re driving blackmail Colt?”
going to go and tell Tsura I want
at,” Ernest mumbled.
"Somewhere in that man's life.” three eggs for breakfast! I have no
"How well, for instance,” Dick Willard Wayne said, “there must doubt it will take both of you to han­
Wayne asked them, "do you think be something that he doesn't dare dle that problem—you don’t seem
that you knew James Wayne?”
have turned up. It's been our only to be able to do anything alone.
"We've worked with him all our hope, all along, that we could find Get out!”
lives,” Willard said impatiently.
out what it is. And if you've got
"And yet, did it ever occur to you hold of it?”
Ernest and Willard Wayne mo­
he might know some things you nev­
Dick Wayne had meant to tell rosely watched Tonga Dick as he ate
er suspected at all?”
them, tonight, what he knew. He his breakfast He was able to enjoy
"Nonsense!”
had meant to tell them that their that in a way. Uncertain as he
"For example,” Dick went on, his father had not killed Garrett Wa­ was about what this new turn of the
voice lazy, "take the exact circum­ terson—had even meant to give wheel might mean, the confusion of
stances under which old Garrett them an irrefutable proof. But now his brothers was so much greater
Waterson left here—just at the time his temper broke, and he could not as to provide a form of entertain­
the Waynes bought this island."
bring himself to tell them anything ment.
“That has nothing to do with it,” at all.
Even when they had abandoned
Ernest declared. "The entire trans­
He stood up. "Get out of here,” the presumption that Dick was ly­
action was closed before Garrett he ordered them. "Get out of here, ing, they could not get over their
Waterson—disappeared. ”
and stay out! I can't stand looking suspicion that the man who had
“This disappearance.” Dick prod­ at you any more!”
signed himself Garrett Waterson
ded them; "the tradition has been
A faint flicker of self assertion re­ was an impostor.
that he set sail southwest, in his appeared in Ernest Wayne. “You
“I ran into Garrett Waterson
own schooner, and was never seen can't order us—”
while I was knocking around the
again—wasn't that it?”
Willard Wayne stood up and sig­ South Seas," Dick explained. "Lat­
"Well? Can we be expected to naled to Ernest with his eyes. To­
er, Uncle Jim found it convenient
account for—”
gether. after a moment's hesitation, to have me carry certain messages
"Didn't you happen to know,” they left the room.
to Garrett Waterson. That's all
Dick Wayne asked them, "that when
there was to that”
Garrett Waterson sailed, our father
CHAPTER IX
"Messages? What messages?"
was with him?”
There was no reason for holding
They were not looking at him
Dick Wayne went to bed, but it
now; but their eyes were fixed upon seemed to him that he was not al­ back anything now. He had been
each other, and an unspoken ques­ lowed to stay there long. The first employed by old Garrett Waterson
on condition of complete secrecy as
tion passed between them.
light was hardly showing in the sky to Waterson's whereabouts, identity
Tonga Dick leaned forward, his when his brothers were at him again,
face hardening. “The old rumor is literally clamoring at his very bed­ —even his very existence. He had
decided to break that pledge, rather
that Garrett Waterson must have side.
than permit John Colt to seize Ala­
been lost at sea,” he bore down on
Evidently they were angry, in ad­
them. "And yet—and yet, our fa­ dition. "What is the meaning of koa in the name of Karen Waterson
or anyone else; but now that Gar­
ther came back—”
this?” Ernest Wayne demanded, rett Waterson had come into the
Dick saw Willard Wayne's heavy spinning a yellow sheet of paper
open of his own accord, that consid­
neck redden; the color rose and rose onto the bed.
eration was abolished.
until Willard’s eyes, no longer slow
"What’s the meaning of what?”
"For a long time 1 didn't know
and mild, stared bleakly out of a
"Nobody but you,” Ernest accused I
purple congestion. Ernest, howev­ him, "could have had that radio what messages," Dick told them. "I
believe I know now."
er, turned a sickly green, and be­ message sent.”
They failed to catch him up on
hind his glasses his eyes could not
Dick pickqd up the paper, and by
that, and the oversight emphasized
be seen.
the poor but increasing light read
Dick's own eyes turned ugly. "So what was typed upon it Instantly their bewilderment.
"But why on earth,” Ernest de­
you did know that?” he said. he was more wide awake than as if
manded. "should he have wished to
“You’ve known it for a long time, he had never slept at all.
hide himself? That's the mystery
haven’t you?”
“When did this come in?”
“Stop," said Willard Wayne thick­
“Just a few minutes ago,” Wil­ here.”
ly. “You don’t know what you’re lard told him. “You ought to know. |
"There’s no mystery about it,”
Myin*!”
There isn’t anybody else that Dick declared. ’The only reasons
“I take it,” Dick said, "that I could.”
his actions look mysterious to you is
was not supposed to know about that
Tonga Dick looked at the mes­ that they were perfectly simple.
little circumstance.”
Garrett Waterson was always a man
sage again. It read:
Willard's voice rose. “I object to
MAKE NO SETTLEMENT UNTIL of violent temperament. Everything
your tone,” he blustered. “I object I ARRIVE GARRETT WATERSON he did was in terms of violent ex­
to the whole line you've taken. It
Dick's first reaction was, for spe­ tremes; the projects he attempted,
isn’t up to us to go raking through cial reasons of his own, one of im­ the fights he got into—even his eat­
the dead ashes of the past!”
mense relief. But his next thought, ing and drinking—everything was
"You’ve told me what I wanted which followed immediately brought always on a spectacular scale with
to know,” Dick said. "You put me him a new uncertainty. The new him. When he was overtaken by
in mind of a couple of tide pools turn of events relieved him of cer­ ultimate ruin, his reaction to that
full of octopi—easy to see to the tain necessities; but it also took the was violent too.
He left Alakoa,
bottom of, but not pretty to look at. game out of his own hands in a way and Hawaii, in a tremendously bit­
I can understand now why James that he did not like.
ter state of mind. He wanted to get
Wayne never trusted either one of
Ernest Wayne's nervousness did away from the past, and from the
you!”
not permit him to wait Dick out. part of the Pacific that he knew,
"What—what—" The edge of Er­ “Well—what have you got to say?” and never again see anyone who
nest Wayne's voice sounded frayed
"This message is genuine,” Dick had known him."
out, raveled. “What do you mean?” told them.
"It's fantastic," Ernest declared.
he finally got out.
I
"This is incredible—this is fantas­ "It’s completely unreasonable.
"How long,” Tonga Dick asked tic,” Ernest said unsteadily.
never heard of anything like it.”
them, "have you two supposed your­
"Dropping from view is one
“Some kind of a hoax,” Willard
selves to be the sons of a murder­ added.
thing,” Willard said heavily, "and
er?”
"There’s no hoax about it,” Tonga going to extraordinary length* to
Ernest Wayne stood up violently, Dick assured them.
hide yourself, and conceal who you
both hands gripping the edge of the
“How do you know this?” Willard are, is something else.”
desk. "That’s a lie!” he shouted. demanded.
"Waterson went to extraordinary
Willard Wayne sat motionless.
"I work for him,” Tonga Dick lengths in everything he ever did,”
"Well?” he said at last
said.
Dick retorted. “The Pacific is a big
“I don’t wonder that John Colt
“You what?" Ernest Wayne bleat­ place and there are more than twen­
scares you out of your wits,” Dick ed.
ty-five thousand islands in it; but
said. "I should think he would!”
"He’s lying,” Willard expressed only a few of them have any white
There was a silence then, raw himself.
inhabitants, and I suppose Garrett
and uncomfortable. Willard Wayne
“And just why,” Dick asked with Waterson knew half the people in
spoke to Ernest, his voice heavy and elaborate patience, "should I be ly­ the Pacific.
He couldn't imagine
dead. “You see, I was right. We ing?"
leaving the Pacific any more than
have to go back to Honolulu—at once
“Willard,” Ernest said, "do you he could imagine living inland, so
—tomorrow. Some way, somehow, suppose this thing could possibly be of course it was pretty hard for
we’ve got to settle out of court with true? Because if Garrett Waterson him to evade the people that he
John Colt, at any cost."
is alive, and we can produce him— knew. When a man is trying to drop
“Yes.” Ernest said.
do you see what that means? John out of sight, and fails at it for a
Dick could see the man visibly Colt's case is absolutely exploded.” while, it's apt to become an ob­
twisted between a cupidity that
“Is it?” Dick said.
session with him. He gets to think­
could not face loss and a cowardice
They were stopped once more. Er­ ing that everybody he sees is talk­
which was afraid of something else. nest and Willard were both deathly ing about him, secretly. So he draws
It was not a pretty sight.
pale, overwhelmed by more unfore­ apart more and more, until at
"You won’t have to go to Honolu­ seen uncertainties than they were last—”
lu,” Dick said sardonically; "you able to handle.
"It's completely unreasonable,”
can save yourselves the trip. John
"You mean,” Willard said at last, Ernest Wayne said again.
Colt will be here within twenty-four “that Garrett Waterson really is in­
"Human nature always seems un­
competent?”
hours.”
reasonable to people who don't know
"I mean,” Dick said, "that the anything about it. Unreasonable is
“Colt? Here? What could make
whole situation Is going to be just what it is; you just have to get used
him come here?”
•1 make him come here,” Tonga exactly what old Garrett Waterson to it.”
chooses to make it.”
Dick said.
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