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INSTALLMENT TWELVE
THE STOUT SO FAB: Karrn Water-
»on. roavinced by ber lawyer, John Colt.
Utat »be ha» a ria I tn to the island estate
ot her grandfather. Garrett Waterson.
come» with him to Honolulu and meet»
Tonga Dirh or Richard Wayne, a mem­
ber of the Wayne family which has been
In control of the property since her
grandfather's disappearance. Dick s un
cle. James Wayne, manager ot this Is­
land. .Alakoa. dies from overwork and
Dick attempts to work out a compro­
mise setUement of Karen's claim. This
Is refused. Meantime Karen has learned
that both Colt and Dick are In love with
her. Dick reveals that Karen is not heir­
ess at all, as Garrett Waterson Is alive
and on bls way to Alakoa. Dick and
Karen leave the island together and some
distance out And that Lilua. a native
house-girl, has stoned away in the boat.
Dick questions her regarding her actions.
Now continue with the story.
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“I want to know how you got onto
my boat,” Dick said.
"I swam,” Lilua tossed at him in
a quick, almost contemptuous aside.
She went on talking to Karen, lev-
elly, her face quiet except for the
The girl let the sway of the ship take her then. She swayed against
flame in her eyes, and her body
quiet except for that easy, uncon­ the doorway's stanchion, and stayed there.
scious sway that balanced her to the
thin-bodied, thin-faced San Francis-
“Lilua is not all Polynesian. Kar-
lift of the sea.
I co stenographer, sharp-edged in j en.”
“You have nothing to give him,” mind and manner because any girl
“I have no doubt she's a little of
Lilua said in that inexorable, steady needs to be. making her own way. everything."
voice. “You can only think of posi­ He could see her in the light of the
“I don't think you're so very char­
tion, and land, and money. Would reason that she was here—a short­ itable, either to her or to me. Not
you want him if you had first seen cutting little adventuress, willingly even to yourself."
him sick, and helpless, and alone? lending herself to the predacious
“To myself?"
You know your eyes would not have I brain of John Colt in the hunt for
He was silent.
seen him at alL This is my man. unearned fortune. A girl proud
“She's beautiful, Dick.” Karen
If he were dead, I would make my­ ’ without background, arrogant with­ said. “I can see that,
But I hate
self die. Would you?"
out attainment . . .
her. Dick. When I look at the dark,
Suddenly Dick was unable to
But still behind that, like a mist- coppery color of her skin, and think
speak. He stood weaponless, hum­ j figure seen beyond steel cogs and of you touching her—it seems to me
ble. and—without any particular re­ wheels, hovered persistently his own that I can never look at a brown
course or hope. Diffidently he turned conception of what this girl might skin again without—"
his eyes to Karen.
“Stop it! You don't know what
I have been—perhaps still could be.
Karen Waterson had gone perfect- : I He was obsessed by the haunting be­ you're saying.”
ly white—whiter than sea foam, lief that if what he had hunted for
“Well, she is of a different color."
whiter than the knit linen of the lit- | always was not in this girl, then it
“Karen—that girl is your cousin.”
tie hat she wore, Her mouth was ; was somehow lost out of the world.
A few seconds passed while she
oddly distorted, but her eyes were
that;
then
she
“And now," Karen said, "I think comprehended
blank. She seemed to have lost all you might put back to Alakoa—don't whirled sharply toward him. "You
power of motion exactly where she
mean to tell me—”
you? Because you said—"
stood, Then the reel of the little
“You wondered why Lilu’ has
“No." Dick answered.
ship unbalanced her, and by its very
charge of the whole house on Ala­
“I ask you to turn back."
unkindness seemed to return her the
“I'm not goiqg to put back. At koa? You wondered if there wasn't
gift of movement Karen turned, least not yet. Not until you come a special answer to that? Wellv now
literally fled. At the foot of the lad­ to your senses. Karen.”
you know the right answer. Lilu' is
der she flung Dick one irrational, un­
He didn't know why he told her Garrett Waterson'« granddaughter-
readable glance; then ran away that The impulse was jerking at just the same as you."
from them into the upper night
him to do as she said, and take him­
He faced her squarely. Her whole
self well out of this thing forever; body seemed to have gone tense,
CHAPTER XI
to turn back to John Colt, and be but for the moment she was unable
rid of her once and for alL He could to speak; and he never found out
Dick Wayne was left facing Lilua see Lilua's steady eyes—and no man what she would have asked him
alone. For a moment Lilua's eyes could ever forget what she had said. first
remained fixed upon the companion­ He honestly supposed that it would
From within the ship issued a
way where Karen had disappeared. have been better for him to relax thin, small, and somehow distant
Then her eyes turned to Dick, and into the world of Lilua—to lose him­ sound—unrecognizable and inarticu­
for a moment they looked at each self by day in the casual adventures late, but so thoroughly unaccounta­
other.
of the warm sea. and by night in ble in the ordinary world of reality
“Lilu’, Lilu’,” Dick said, “what the arms of an island woman who that every figure upon the deck of
have you done to me?"
doubted nothing, asked nothing— the Holokai was instantly struck mo­
For one brief moment the sharp, could be well-content with food and a tionless. Even the perpetually trot­
spear-like flames in the eyes of Lilua man. But—something stubborn with­ ting Inyashi stopped, and stood fro­
broke down; she looked at Tonga in him held on.
zen on the swaying deck. They were
Dick pathetically, pitifully, with no
Karen said incisively, "You prom­ waiting to hear if that sound should
defense behind her eyes, no barriers ised you’d turn back if I asked."
come again, once more cutting
at all.
“Not yet Later, if you want. Not through the laboring of the little
Dick’s voice was cool, definite as yet.”
ship, and the great, persistent rush
a strake. “Stop it, you hear me?
He had given up ever hearing any and wallop of the sea.
Forget it—cut it out!"
expression from her again, before
It did not come again; but after a
The girl let the sway of the ship she spoke.
moment Dick knew that what he
take her. then. She swayed against
“I guess—" she said—"I guess. had heard was a woman’s terrified
the doorway's stanchion, and stayed Dick, I don't blame you.”
scream.
there.
Of all things on earth, he had
It was Dick himself who burst into
Dick took the ladder in long, re­ least expected to hear that. Inane­ action. He raced aft, sprang into
luctant strides. A glance told him ly he said, "Again, please?"
the ladder well, and in a second
that Karen was in the point of the
“Men are what they are.” Karen____
more ______________________
was in the main cabin, _______
where
bow.
said, her voice somehow distant, yet he, and Karen, and Lilua had faced
He stood a minute by the swaying not unfriendly—"and s women are each other such a little while ago;
mainmast, trying to gather himself, what they are. People who hunt for and here be stood, for a moment
but without any effect Then he the absolute are fools.”
balancing to the sea . . .
walked forward to the rail where
“Always?”
He didn’t see her at first. That
Karen stood. Close to her at the
"Oh, yes; always. But maybe I’m cabin, deep, but narrow as the little
rail, be drew her close against his a fool, too. I think—” Her tone wa­ ship, seemed strangely empty; he
side, easily and naturally; it had vered, but steadied again. “I think had paced alone here a thousand
always seemed to him that she be­ —maybe you'd better go on. Go on times, without ever sensing the ut­
longed nowhere else but there.
to Hilo—and give me a little time. ter vacancy that was here now. The
“Karen-”
We’ll still come out, Dick. I think.” door of his little cabin, wedged into
She took herself away from him
“Listen,” Dick said. "I want you the stem, was flapping loosely
sharply—out of the curve of his arm, to have this decently straight. I give against its latch—swinging half
out of contact with him in more ways you my word—and I wouldn't offer open, then banging shut again with­
than one; and they stood alone, as proof if I could:—I never made love out catching, with the perversity of
individual as the unrelated stars.
to this girl in my life, nor so much all doors. He sprang the length of
“Karen, ” Dick said, “I guess you as laid a hand on her.”
the cabin with a furious activity;
are right; I don't know how you
"No?”
and booted that door Into its wall­
knew, but you knew. In a way. you
He didn’t even bother to answer catch, once and for all; but there
foretold this, Karen.”
that; he knew what to expect from was no one in the camped stall
“Perhaps,” Karen said, “it’« bet- this girl by now. He held on still where he usually slept.
ter for both of us that this happened because to him only one adventure
Then, turning, he saw her; and
just as it did.”
was conceivable, and that adventure was instantly by her side. Lilua lay
That stopped him for a moment was Karen—literally, for she was in a little crumped heap at the end
but he came on again. “What more than an epitome: she was the of the table, and half under it. He
are you saying? In God's name, up adventure itself.
had seen death many times; but it
helm! Do I mean so little to you—”
"I don't see why—” Karen began. seemed to him now that he had nev­
“Whatever you may mean to me, The rushing sound of the Holokai er seen anyone so utterly lifeless, so
it seems that you have made your­ through the uneven sea seemed to completely slumped into an unut­
self mean more to this—this Ka­ come between them again, so that terable oblivion, as Lilua's form
naka.”
he never knew what she had started seemed there, dropped like seaweed
“Karen, it’s grotesque that a na­ to say.
left on the beach.
tive brat—”
Suddenly he turned, and shouted
He picked her up in his arms—
“A brat is a child, Dick. This for Inyashi; the little Japanese came gently as he could, but so handi­
girl is anything but a child.”
running along the deck.
capped by the Holokai's roll that he
“What does it matter what she is?
“Get—get ready to put about.”
cursed the helmsman for not hold- I
If you and I—”
“Yes, Captain.”
ing the vessel steadier into the seas. ;
“Perhaps it matters everything
Almost at once the voice of the
He got her down onto his own bunk '
what she is. Perhaps—she’s what ship altered, slacking off and quiet­ at last. He kissed her mouth as he
you made her. I don't know how ing.
laid her down, then sought the source
old she is. But that's a woman,
"So," Karen said, “it was you who of the blood that was staining his
Dick. If you've made her your own, changed your mind, after all!”
shirt, and the bunk upon which he
as it seems you have—”
Dick said thickly, “You’re going had placed her. There was a knife
Her words died in her throat; but to have to believe the truth when wound under Lilua's left breast-
she had said enough.
I tell it to you.”
how deep he could not tell. He
For a moment then Tonga Dick
“Either,” she said, “I’ll take you snatched cotton from an emergency
Wayne faltered. The cool chiseled as you really are, or I’ll never take cabinet nailed to the wall, and
lines of Karen Waterson seemed in­ you at all.”
crammed it deep into the wound.
finitely far away. For a moment
"You'll never take me. or I you,” She stiffened convulsively when he
he was able to hope—even to believe Dick said harshly, “on the basis of did that. It was his first intimation
—that he could put her out of his any such lie as is in your mind.”
that she was alive.
mind, out of his heart. For a little
"The Polynesians are known ev­
He tucked a blanket over her
while this girl had become to him erywhere as a mild, easygoing race. tightly, so that she, would not be
like a dream of the stars—but a Am I supposed to think that this rolled by the Holokai’s pitch, and
dream that he would have been glad Kanaka woman, without any encour­ stepped to the door. The Chinese
agement or any past relationship mess boy had appeared uncertainly
to forget
Partly he could see her as she with you, suddenly runs wild, and from the pantry; Dick seized him,
to
passionate,
extreme and pulled him into the bunk room.
literally was—there was no doubt goes
about that He could see her as a lengths—”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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