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THE STORY SO FAR Karen Waler-
■on. who ha» come to Honolulu to pre»
her claim» to the Island estate of Alakoa.
learns that she Is not an heiress at all,
as her srandtalher. Garrett Waterson. is
still alive and on his way to the island.
She and Tonga Pick or Richard Wayne,
a member of the Wayne family which
has been In control of the property since
her grandfather's disappearance, lind
they are In love and decide to leave the
Island of Alakoa together. Out to sea.
they discover that Lilua, a native house
girl has stowed away aboard ship.
Karen accuses Dick of making love to
the native girl and they quarrel. An
gered. Dick orders the ship to return to
Alakoa. On the way back. Ulua Is found
seriously hurl with a knife wound. Dick
questions the Chinese mess boy regard
ing the incident.
Now continue with the story.
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tle man in the crowded cafeteria,
let it simmer.
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who had returned from getting u charged.
Always keep perfume in a dark cup of coffee, "but you have my
place. Daylight will affect every scat.”
Quite Simple
“Oh yeah,” growled thè big
odor differently, according to its
Sill* U hui'» your »«/•••» of a simple
formula, In extreme cases per- man. “Can you prove it?"
wtddingf
“Sure, look ut the seat of your
fume turns bright red as soon as
Joan One tli'it costs twite at muté
pants. You're sitting on my pie." as ihv family cun aljord.
it has been exposed to the sun.
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in soups, stews, and sauces.
beu dilerment, u<u accepted. II han he'd
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To bring out the full flavor of
raisins, dates, currants or figs,
soak them in a little boiling wa
ter for five minutes. Two table
spoons of boiling water for each
half cup of fruit will be satis
factory.
ess
ret «»I ered, he stammered:
“lloucter did it happen, Jasmine,
that such a bright and shining ungel as
yourself could ever fall in lota uilh a
dull, stupid fellow lil.e meT“
“Goodness knou t, led,“ lout the fair
maid's candid comment: “I must hat e a
screw loose somewhere.“
The female of the speeches Is
deadlier than the male.
What's Wrong With That?
Exam. Paper—If It took seven
men four hours to dig n ditch four
feet deep and two feet wide, sixty
feet long, how long would it lake
three men to dig the same ditch?
Bright Student No time at all,
the ditch is already dug.
“Has anyone gone out of here
through the galley?” Dick asked.
“No, sir.**
“This girl has been hurt—stabbed.
/
You stay here with her—do any
thing you can for her, until I get
A pessimist is a man who Is al
for PAR Ht S.
A siphon of charged water is an
back."
ways building dungeons In the air.
popjouyr/Mi
excellent
fire
extinguisher
us
the
—
A
vast
scimitar
shaped
thing,
higher
Ilian
the
Molokai's
booms;
The face of the Chinese was star
carbonic acid gas in the water
ing with confusion and alarm. Very then it drove downward, disappearing in black water—
Ain't It So?
helps to stifle the flames. The si
probably he had never seen the girl
“Do you expect me to wait until I animal, able to drive across the sur- phon can be tilted, and the fluid
Philosopher—And what do we
before in his life, and now supposed he jumps into the air?”
face of the sea like a thing pos- will carry to a considerable height want in this world to make us
that Dick himself had done her in.
He fired, and a spout of water sessed, knocking the swells into such as the top of a blazing cur happy?
He remained silent, however, and
sprang up far to the left of Hokano. spume; but it seemed to Dick now tain.
Cynic—The things we ain't got.
stayed where he was told.
Karen saw now what Dick was tir that she wallowed like a slug, «et
Inyashi slid down the hand rail
ing at. The tall fin of Kai-Ale-Ale ting no place. His whole soul was
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and landed at the foot of the ladder
was curving near, gliding lazily, un trying to jerk the Holokai out of the
as Dick turned. *
hurried. Dick fired again, without cling of the sea. He would have liked
?
♦
“Someone was knifed here a min
effect; be could not see his sights. to lift her and throw her throbgh
ute ago,” Dick told him, “when you Karen's teeth were chattering. “I space, and bring her against the
Wise Choice
A quiz with answers offering ?
heard that scream. Has anyone thought—I thought you said sharks beach of Alakoa like the thrust of a
Take the vine of a good soil and
come up the ladder since then?"
on various subjects \ the duugliter of a good mother.
knife.
never harm brown men.”
"No, Captain Dick. But there's
He was standing there, watching1
“This thing isn't like other sharks!
?
a man standing by the taff-rail He
Nobody knows anything about him.” what seemed to him the slug-like ?
?
acts queer—maybe he is the one.
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He stands naked by the rail
shape of Kai-Ale-Ale was snouting when Karen came to his side.
7. Linen.
The Questione
and looks at the sea. and the crew is
near to the swimmer now; Hokano
“I'm sorry.” Karen said.
"I’m
8. Time flies.
afraid to go near him. Maybe he
must have seen it, but he swam terribly sorry. Dick, this has been
9. Robin Hood.
came up from here by the skylight?”
1.
How
many
mints
does
the
straight on. unmindful. The boy a thing such as 1 have never seen.”
It's 35 feet of
10. Astronomers have recently
Dick snatched a rifle from a rack
United States have for making
intestines,
manning the searchlight suddenly
Dick said in a muffled way, "You
discovered
a
number
of
“
black
upon the forward bulkhead. “That's
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swung it aside, and held it unsteadi don't know what you’re saying. How I coins?
it! Who is he—do you know him?”
length ot
2. Fleet street in London is ta- stars,'* or stars which arc not hot
ly upon the monster. A long phos would you know?”
enough
to
give
of?
visible
light
body, thru
“It’s that big new Kanaka.”
mous for what?
phorescent gleam of turned water
"Dick,
”
Karen
said,
“
1
should
nev
everything you
"I hired no new Kanaka!”
3. What proportion of Amcri- but which are sufficiently warm
suddenly shone half the length of er have come into the Pacific—above
eat must pass.
to have their heat waves regis
“He came over the side out of the the whale shark's back emphasizing
cans have blue eyes?
Nature usually
all, I should never have come to
ter on an infra-red photographic
water, just before we sailed; he said the unbelievable.
4. The bouquet of a wine refers
needs no help, but the wrong food, or
Alakoa. I bring nobody anything
plate.
you sent him. His name is Hokano.
too much ot it, can causa temporary
Dick sighted upon the base of the but sorrow, and trouble, and death " to what?
I think.”
blockage (constipation) with aggra
5. What was the greatest attrac
great fin and fired four times. Sud
“
Yes,
”
said
Dick
brutally.
vating gas, headaches, listlasaness or
Dick seized Inyashi and pushed
tion of the World’s fair of 1893?
denly the fin jerked rigid, and a
bad breath.
ADLER IK A, with its
“I think," Karen said, “if it hadn't
him up the ladder. “Stop your en
6. Who knighted Francis Drake
great gout of water went up. The been for this mongrel girl, it would
6 carminative and 3 laxative ingre
gines,” he ordered, following close
dients, relieves gas auickly and gets
fin sunk from view; far back, in have been all right. We're an aw for sailing around the world?
on Inyashi’s heels.
bowel action surprisingly fast. Ask
7. What is made from flax
credibly far back from where it dis fully long way apart, I guess; but—
"Full astern?”
Tkn world id Full of
your druggist for ADI.ERIKA.
appeared, the great tail fluke rose except for her—I think you and I sweater yarn, linen or rayon?
“No! If you do that the propellers
bv>y folk>
8. Tempus fugit means what—
out of the sea. For a moment the would have got together, in the
will catch him as he jumps. Man
searchlight held it—a vast scimitar end.”
Storm rages, time flies or weather
DIG DEEP FOR VICTORY
V/ko
toil X-rsd moO
the dinghy with the four Kanaka
shaped thing, higher from the water
Dick Wayne's elbows rested on the is good?
Dig Into Your Pocket and
boys, and lower away.”
their
live»
vuxy
than the Holokai's booms; then it rail, The Holokai was throwing ev-
9. Who was the sweetheart of
“Yes, Captain!” In a moment
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Vky
did
ut
itx-rt,
drove downward, disappearing in erything she had into kicking the Maid Marian?
more everyone on the ship was
black water as Kai-Ale-Ale sounded. sea behind her. and the white boil | 10. Are there any stars which do
thp Ivbor jtvff
snapped into action by Inyashi’s
“Stay down there a while.” Dick of her wake stretched into a path not give off enough light to be
shrill, sputtering commands.
1
V/kerN TYNOJt of
that failed only with night viaion; i seen?
Emerging on the deck, Dick saw said.
L vs u/ovld
but
Tonga
Dick
was
looking
at
some
“Did you kill it?”
at once the immensely tall, broad-
rather ple.y?
thing
beyond
its
utmost
reach.
He
The
Answers
“
You
can
’
t
kill
that
thing.
”
shouldered figure of Hokano stand
spoke thickly, with an unaccustomed 1
ing against the rail in the extreme
The searchlight found the boat
RTC*""
stern. Hokano faced the sea, mo again. It was rising and falling idly, incoherence.
1. Three (Philadelphia, Denver
“That girl knew what it was to and San Francisco).
tionless as a mast. The tall figure and its bow rose clear of the water
iour‘il£
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was no more than twenty-five feet as the Kanakas hauled the slack love something,” he said.
2, Its newspaper offices.
"TAKING THE COUNTRY BY STORM”
It required a conscious effort of
away, and for a moment Dick was body of Hokano over the transom.
3. For every 100 Americans who
KNOWN FROM COAST TO COAST
Karen's mind to know what girl he have blue eyes, 70 have gray eyes,
strongly tempted to try bringing
• cuevn.es comsamv . ev. loun, sso. •
meant; but when sl.e had done that 49 have hazel eyes, 46 have brown
down Hokano with the butt of his
CHAPTER XII
she was ready for what he said eyes.
rifle. He gave up that idea; even if
next, even before he said it. "With
he succeeded in felling the big Ka
4. Its aroma.
Hokano, that tall unhappy man out demanding anything, without
naka before Hokano could leap into
5. The Ferris wheel.
who had tried to end Lilua’s life and ever any questions, or any terms.
the sea, the stunned man would be
6.
Queen Elizabeth.
his own, presently lay bound with
extremely likely to slither over the wet cordage in a foc'sle bunk. One None of this everlasting doubt, and
wavering, and indecision. Once and i
rail and sink like a plummet.
of his brother Kanakas had bashed for all, she gave everything she had, j
Do You Bake at Home?
“Kamaku! Roll the searchlight
him over the head with an oar. as and asked for nothing."
If you do, send for a grand cook
out!”
Hokano had turned, treading water,
"1 suppose you mean,” Karen book—crammed with recipes for
Karen was at his elbow, her face
to look at Kai-Ale-Ale.
said, "that this half caste girl, this all kinds of yeast-raised breads
white and frightened.
Tonga Dick Wayne had been right cousin of mine, as you say—”
“What is it? What's happened?”
and cakes. It’s absolutely free.
in sending a Kanaka crew in the
"It matters a lot to you, doesn't Just
,
“Lilu’s lover has come after her
drop a postcard with your
boat to pick up Hokano; the maxim it." Dick said bitterly, "exactly who
—and got her,” Dick said.
name and address to Standard
of South Sea sailors was true—that this girl is? I would rather ask a
“She's—killed?”
Brands Inc., 691 Washington St.,
no one knew how to handle a Ka woman what she thinks and feels, ‘ New York City.—Adv.
“Probably."
naka except a Kanaka.
Hokano, than who she is.”
At the first sign of a chest cold-the
helps break up local congestion. Since
Her eyes were on the rifle in his
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hands. “What are you going to do?” naked though he looked, had his
"And so,” Karen said, with some-
are rubbed witn Musterole—a product
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knife slung about his neck by a sen-
“Going to cal) a policeman,” he
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snapped at her.
"Get that boat net cord, and he would have slashed brown woman, or a black woman,
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anyone
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the
heart,
but
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can
make
resulting bronchial and
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uncomfortable.
If
gas
seems
croupy
coughs.
ole. Also Regular and
Now the Diesel quit, so that the hands on him from the boat while I can, your answer is—?”
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Holokai seemed suddenly silent. The he was conscious. After one of them
"Karen," Dick said, “if ever any
wonderful results be
grown-ups who prefer a
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rush of the water at her bows dimin had knocked him out with an oar, woman has to ask herself if she
cause it’s more than an
stronger product. All
and Carbonate« for QUICK relief. Drug
another Kanaka had dived to res
tut-'-'”'
ordinary "salve.” It
drugstores.
ished as she lost way.
loves a man, the answer is 'No.' ”
gists bava ADLA Tablets.
cue
him,
and
had
stopped
the
sink
As if awakened by the shutting
The stubborn silence that fell be- I
down of the power, the motionless ing of the inert form
tween them then was broken—very
It would have been weird watch gratefully for them both—by the
figure in the stern came to life
ing,
for
anyone,
to
see
those
simple,
Time’s Effect
abruptly. Hokano sprang lightly onto
impetuous projection of Inyashi be
Time, which strengthens friend
the rail itself, and for a moment casual maneuvers—the Kanaka boys tween them. It always seemed that
poised upright. Then he launched standing with easy, natural balance whatever Inyashi did was high-pres- ship, weakens love.
into the night in a beautiful clean in the reeling little boat on the swells sured, and sudden.
arc, arms outspread, turning down of the sea, letting the dinghy stand
"Captain Dick, a vessel is coming
ward to disappear almost silently on the heel of her scant hull while In; she's three points off the quar-!
they dragged Hokano in, without any ter, now. I think it may be the boat
Into the black water.
Now the big searchlight came one of them ever losing his superb you look for. Hard to tell yet, from
trundling out on its unwieldy tripod. balance, and never shipping a quart just the lights.”
Nobody not a Kanaka
In a moment more it began to sweep of water.
The two at the taffrail, swinging
the surface of the sea, searching for could ever understand the easy affin their eyes to the left, could now see
ity
of
that
amphibious
people
to
the
the place where the swimmer would
on the horizon a speck of light that
come up. The Holokai’s dinghy took sea; sea-riding a small boat, or a showed winking in the rise and fall
to the water flounderingly, and im canoe, or a floating stick, as easily of the sea—the high running lights
as a haole walks on asphalt pave of a ship quartering in from beyond.
mediately shot astern.
"All right," Dick said.
"When '
Dick said to Karen, “1 knew he ment, or handles his knife and
was going to do that.” He walked fork . . .
we've anchored, I’ll go out and pilot *
Bound with cords that cut too deep her in.”
after without hurry, and took his
place at the rail where Hokano had ever to slip, Hokano lay in a foc'sle
When Inyashi had moved away,
stood. “There wasn’t any way to bunk, awake and impassive. Aft, Dick and Karen stood silent for a
stop him. He’ll be easier to handle in Dick Wayne's bed, lay the girl little while. When Karen spoke it
Hokano had tried to kill, fighting was apparent that she was steadier,
in the water.”
“Would he try—” Karen gasped— for her life; the intense native vi better poised than he.
“could be possibly swim all the way tality of Lilua's body held onto life
“Can’t you be fair to me?" she
avidly, regardless of how little Lilua said. "Can't you be honest? If you
back to—"
“Of course not. He doesn't expect herself cared whether she lived or and I can’t be frank and honest
died.
to get back.”
Post Exchanges
with each other, who in the world
The searchlight picked up the
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
Karen Waterson sat beside Lilua, can?"
and Canteens
swimmer now, fifty yards back in and Inyashi and the Chinese mess
show Camels
"Honest?”
the Holokai's wake. In moments boy hovered behind Karen, useful
ars ths favorits
“You haven’t always been honest
when the waves favored, those on chiefly to hold Lilua down when she with me, Dick. If you had told me
with men In
ths Army, Navy,
the deck of the vessel could glimpse could no longer be controlled. Lilua at the first that Garrett Waterson
than the average of the 4 other largest-selling
Marines, and
a flash of wet shoulders, but nothing was not out of her head entirely; was alive—”
cigarettes tested—leas than any of them—according
Coast Guard.
else. Hokano was swimming face she babbled unceasingly in the Ha
"More honest, I think, than you
to independent aclentiflc testa of the smoke Itself t
down, taking advantage of the swells waiian tongue.
Dick went away, with me."
like a seal. The Holokai had lost unable to listen any more; Lilua was
“I can't imagine what you mean.”
■teerage way, and was rolling sickly talking as if her heart would break
"You’ve played your hand alone—
in the swells. Dick braced a knee an4 kill her if her wound did not.
or else with John Colt; never with
He went on deck and stood at the me. I’ve protected you in situations
against the rail and brought his rifle
stern, swaying to a sea he did not that you tried to conceal from m»
up.
Karen cried out, "Would you shoot feel. The Holokai when full out had altogether.”
always had the character of a crazed :
him in the water?”
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