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■•■«If o t {*••*» oU** klia»»U. but With 111» Ml
was sure to try that lagoon llr.t.
|« t V ... she c»u,d m,lI free
.
This much l>r Crife could read for that which wtll.hnld her fiom .hum
wanted to love John for the
.
i Ion.
true manliness that waa his. Hut ala«,
incarnate there before this Island-
Back «here In .he can.». In her these splendid qualities the two p..s
,r's eves on the Rainbow, she had moment of revelation, she l.ml ..a m sessed In common had come to seem
- —
ed lo meet him once more, fate to , he personal qualities of Olive alone
been not unlike a godde*»; a belug
face, that she might tell him the truth Shu remembered how he had gone
as Indeed »he w e e - from another
But now that, astonishingly, she had after the shark with the knife . . .
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world. A high white prince«», called
awakened into the old life, she found
„ .
. 1 *or the »tatelv life giving palm and
and conquered. . . ■
hadn't let Ponape Burke e.cape. I ______
* herself quite unready to step up to
crowned with hair of flame, she had
The aun was I»»» than an hour high
Ju»t »« the uian-cater mad« to seise stood.
him with such a confession
Olive, leaping up. sprang with the shouldn't now be In danger still
condescended
to
him
with
blankets
when
Palmyra, »• »he had done for
Its prey Olive dropped below the sur
At last Palmyra could talk to Olive
She willed to love John Thurston;
girl behind another boulder In time to
when a brown creature was In mlaery
aeveral morning» now. descended the
face The heavy Ash oad no chance
After all
and years
»he did love John Thurston
But
an these
tnese days
uaya aou
year» and
. ..
|h>(
terrible of things
winding stairway hewn in the hillside
to »»op. As it »wept over his head the escape a second bullet.
between them waa the brown mao
Several shot« Ponape Burke «red centuries of silence, they two. by the
lavage thrust upward with the knife . . .... --------- -------------------
intervention of Dr. Crife, had been ‘ "¡d (^
, ^ ,myra Olive, and leering from behind hU from the talasloa direct to the afreet
in his Jealous rage, though now he
of the town.
in a lunge that reached the heart
had no target Then, the llgeon of ' made adtlculate.
Tree One does not consider oneself ¡elbow, the face of Ponape Burke
Island life was already aatlr.
Olive did not waste tune over the Noah ^.ininv
orwn
mau
.
.
.
.
Concerning Olive »he tried to justify
She learned
___ ft«, to » m fall
il I n I o w a with U »Ofi
gaining wav.
way, drew off. and the served
Ponape that
Burk. the In borwn
a debt man
of Privileged
In love with a god
The girl wsm txlresased by an old
herself on the ground of gratitude.
adventure of the shark. He had killed pursuit, in »his phase at any rate, was
gratitude; the saving of his life. He - J
g | her
Never had a girl more reason to be woman.
sharks before
ended.
“ Pleasy you." said this crone In
grateful
Waa It uot natural »he
had
for
this
white
rascal
a
sort
o
(,p
Throwing the canoe into its course,
CHAPTER XI.
English,
"you h « m for lok for »»«
should be eager to take him present«,
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Olive marched proudly up the love, but no sort of respect. Great
he sailed for the island
soul. must, of their nature.
*” , 7 "a’ m yr. now knew how Olive to alt In hla houae questioning, Io flml ve'y tine Plngelap mat You like too
For an interval they went on. be- sands, the girl in his arms a dead
petty tyranny. And Olive—often, ac 1 felt 11 toward
1 n,n,>r" her. -he was far from ¡ h....... “ hour by hour ...ore cnr.nus much for buy."
fore it became evident that Ponape burden.
She would have refused, but now
him, more Interested
cording
to
his
lights.
«
“
M
kn(,wln_
h()W Hhe f.f t „.ward Olive
I concerning him.
....ere....... in
The rifle fire, as was to have been
Burke had made them out.
she
caught a gl'mpse of Van approach ,
approving,
i.lm than In any oth t living being
Present
If the schooner was so ciost*
brougni the
me v villagers
iu b b « »
» m i - ’
«• always
-
• y palliating- folio*-
Presently
close expected, had brought
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i f her , only
» n l v difficultv
.... ,
And If
difficulty with Van
Oddly enough—or rather, naturally mg Several times he hadtrapped h*r
’almvn» could make out Ponape running from their thatches. Scarcely ed the despicable little Ponei»
Into painful Interviews
llut thia
palmyra
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She
learned that Olive ha
had not Buren Rutger had been a reluctance
■aimyra owum
ww
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eh
„ lAarned
Burke on its deck, covering them with had the brown man emerged out of known Burke meant to abduct her. ! to give him pain, she found every enough—it did not come to her for morning she could use the ancient
Home time to aak whether ahe might
his
X glasses.
r S n r ^ u r s e T t i T X . ¡ the
à sea
V than
T these ^ Mteronoalaus
v
^
^ were ’ " Î Î ' . h ô Z ' î , T n o t 'an
J
V» «
X ^ ^ g s easy be In love with thia brown man Th.,» dame, s s a gaping listener, to keep
the Idea struck like an unexpcct-d Van silent.
Returning to the mission «t a late bh.w. She was .tunned
“When, Is your ouaeT the girl
rtm. b"y " r^ on of the coral broken ; vay! "
b\ \ “,7wh7.,"\h«' sch.x.ner go. under ’ hour the th.nl night he had come
At first she put the thought from asked tentatively,
»If and packed down by the trample
So this. then, was where he cou d
IM.r..„lv,. that this was no upon Olive prowling about wit a rifle. her In shhorri nee
But In th.- stilt
The thatch toward »hu h the crone
», the surf, was higher than the res, bring
her;
the
h
o
r
n
s
h
i
s
People.
oape Is
'."nlu-^of his own rbode.
adventure of Palmyra's own choice , -.M
"1‘onape
is not
not dead."
dead. the brown man , hours of the night It esnie back ugsln p<ll|1, l(1|
,-onsplclously.
Im
hohind th" surface nr the place oi his own * ixxie.
(
H
re were
oeople moving
ut # l a w h i
nc„|„
("ould »he indeed be In mediately against one »Me was the
^ f-ta h le . which outstretched Inland
Here
were people
moving about'
about: Only
O n .^ when
w h e n she
c e did
t.td not
n o t soon
i o n begin
begin Io
,e , had explained simply
Red Hair Blue Sea
AND
By STANLEY P. OSBORN
io the beach. The banicr was armor-
Kl in brown knobs of living coral I with
heir toothed faces like a giant nut-
neg grater against which the sea
•ould grind the canoe into , splinter».
splinters.
And now. as the girl looked. Olive
lug his paddle in. put all his weight
ipon it. The em it veered and took a
lew cou rse-straigh t for the reef.
Palmyra sat stunned She had hoped
■.gainst hope that she was wrong, that
,V still saw a way
But here was
urrender. Even for surh a one th
brown men. yellow men. white i .
f k e W » wW t. c o .h ta g and ,
shoes, with white pith neimeta pun 1
down over their noses to keep ou, the non.
glare of the white sand. And here
<
manifestation of devotion. Van chose an American girl, under nny clrcum fragments by which the traffic of the
u>
8U(,pl(tt^ “Sakamoto
stances whatever to fall In love with town went to the ancitorage Aa close
, hlU| know ,}f , h,» •• W1„ hla comment. a niiin of darker race?
on the Inland side was the road and.
| ^umvrn hao been so incensed that.
She shuddered to think others might , ppostte, the trading establishment of
re*
weapon; ‘here and then, ahe had broken the
believe thia thing of her
a while man and Ihe high concrete
» “•
w mdow ffke a
‘hat »he might possibly
I one , engagement.
She avoided olive, kept to her wall of the Japanese compound The
’
clock
he dared not give ner the knife
Van's dismissal placed him In that room Hhe struggled to analyse her house was quite by It.elf «n the water
astonishing of all,' In daytime, he had dropped II through position wherein a weak man not in emotions, to weigh them dlspnsslon side of Ihe highway, yet Immediately
J|(e , , he skylight.
frequently lacks moral coun.ge to turn ntelv. And. honestly striving, she was In ihe center of village life
<,,„,1 j ohn Thurston.
' When the Japnnese gunboat passed upon his rival. He must find an easier at last able to aav of herself that, in j Van now came sauntering up and
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.
sorrowfully them so cruelly by. Olive had beeu as targe, for his resentment Thus Van. no sense, could she be accused of lov . Palmyra indicated this P**1*
hlm
“Come on." ahe Invited
My oM
gn ( gjd(J jn , he 8trangest voice: eager as she to attract attention. Bu, without the least perceiving why. re- ,
he • had
great
amiable toward Thurston, but
Not for long did she find the an'
‘“ J ? ”
HMU known
KUUWU the
UIO distance
u .riau ,, • too »■
— malned
.
.
.
.
a an ugly spite against
sariilnuf llll»
As regarded Jalult he had no, gone developed
this sw .r Then I. came like release from . h n. lin g e r
It was not until fifteen hours after
a prison cell Bhe was In love, not I
(Continued on lh»g. 7)
the brown man had restored Palmyra there because It w as so obviously the man of darker skin,
place he should have gone
Burke
But If Palmyra had freed herm-lf
Tree to the world of the living that
she once more opened her eyes. Then,
in a half waking fright, she reared
herself up with a cry of “Olive!"
The next moment she found herselt
in her mother's arms.
When she roused again, several
ould be no furt er s i
«hsneed
Scarcely h
t ie .
curse than the Ptseon of Noah also
wung in toward the reef. Palmyra
ould see Ponape Burke waving his
rms. shouting orders. 9he gave one
huddering glance at the cauMron
head, then back to the white man.
*he race was run.
And even now.
none, in
n connrm
confirmation,
auou., i
live sprang up. let go the sheet.
lashed the cords that held the mast
father.
rhipped the whole gear overboard.
Palmyra sat up abruptly with the
But immediately, to her bewilder
question; "Where have they got
nent.
he seized
again.
ent, ne
seizeu the
iuc paddle
.
— .
lunged It into the water, began to Ponape Burke.
.. .
The four looked from one to another
>eed toward the barrier.
The roar of the surf—most fright hesitant.
i
a
„ of sounds-sleafened her. But as
At her first awakening the girl had
le clung desperately to her place, been told how the Okayama had
taring ahead into the tumult of brought her people Into this harbor
aters—she could smile. If Olive on the searc ■
iose death to defeat, so could she.
‘
y° U
‘
' a «',
*
¡,u
o lt t h a t
im
paused, incredulous. You don t u mean » I
ut, such u k her , faith,
she v felt
that, im
, .
. ,.n the gunboat was right here when 1
ossible as it seemed, he must still
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came and didn t steam out to eaten 1
link to escape.
?
\ ’nu a* the her
began
t o , * She saw thta this unbellevab.e thing
arcuUte
seas, navieator
to hold the
canoe
ack a t tim es. P alm yra saw th e re w a s / “ 8
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slight s e s s i o n shoreward in the “ » “er feet. "Where s Olive?
Her
ine of the reef It swung in at this voice rang sharp, frightened.
«lint Jus. sufficiently to create a lee 1 But Olive himself was «¿eeP
•he surf hid not burst upon it with
Her father began to explain. The
he direct drive of the wind and. pro- « « • < »
18 8n American
ected through most of the year from ve9Sel • • • •
he sweep of the trades, not so much ' “And there's been so much friction
iroken coral had been packed down [ between Japan and America. Inter
iere and the rim was lower. In a iected the mother.
lash she p-eeeived that he must have
“And Commander Sakamoto war |
■ad tfiis place in mind from the first; «nre If the seized the schooner on the ,
hat. the tide in their ftvor. It might h‘Sh ’M‘a" “ wouW <el lnto the A“ ,r f-
,e possible, in sufficiently skilled ‘ an PaPer8 wroD* and 8tir UP more
misunderstanding and ill will.
ands, to hurdle the reel.
There was Just one phase In the i "s °-
dear’" finiBhed ( ona‘ance
hvthm of the surf when he could , Crawford, "you were sacrificed to the
ucceed He must catch the moment j ’'“da
diplomacy The Jap. finding
then the wave had crashed down up-' X°u saf’‘- decided the lesser evil was
n the coral teeth; when the violence to *et Biirke eacape.
f the impact had abated, but not one '
Hr. Crife s Just had a long talk
lecond of the precious after rush wl‘h Olive, said Mrs. Crawford. Dr.
iari been lost
For. if that had not Crife of the mission was their host
arried him far enough, he would be
The Slrl exclaimed in astonishment,
■aught by the recoil to follow, when I “He can, he can talk to him? He can
he water flung upon the reef poured understand him?
»ack into the ocean
| She seemed hardly to believe. So
OIrve paddled furiously to get far ■ utterly, with her. had the brown man
E-nough in so that the back-sweep been beyoung reach of words, it had
;ould not grip them, drag them down i 9e®med no one, with Ponape Burke
:o destruction. Nearly he had sue-
could ever bridge that gap be-
'eeded. But, the recoir having rained i twe,,n Babel's most diverse languages.
:he coral almost bare, the outrigger i
And to think, cried Constance,
uruck a knob of the limestone, broke ’ ‘bey got the letter all wrong. Made
from the canoe.
, 119 believe poor Olive, who was being
Instantly, the man leaped o u t,1 90 wonderful, was avilllan.
caught the girl up in his arms He) Th« color flooded Palmyra's cheeks
sprang upon a coral boulder that .
‘be intensity of her Interest,
raised them above the sliding water ' “But this particular pastor couldn’t
The canoe sucked back over the j explain clearly, said the father, and
brink, hut Olive held.
' ‘be J»P- misled by your name, didn't
The moment the downrush ended, understand at all. What Olive really
he raced with his burden, bounding wri‘es It to beseech, In Jehovah s
over the rough coral, until he had name. ‘bat whatever friends get the
reached another knob rising above ' ‘e“ er hurry with arms and many
’,e level, perhaps fifty feet in from boat9 t0 a named island, there to help
■
. Here
.
..
- I him save
>e edge.
they
weathered - the
‘Dr. Crlte says there's absolutely
ext sea and its subsequent retreat.
Another dash across the shallows no question about the word 'save' "
nd they were safe from the ocean, put in Constance.
. . . "Help him save the high chief
¡ut not from Ponape Burke.
As the brown man carried Palmyra, young lady Palmtree."
The girl settled back among her |
er face, over his shoulder, was turn-
d toward the Lupea-Noa. The girl pillows. Tears welled into her eyes.
"It was enough that I should have
sw that the schooner, beaten at last,
ad gone about and was working back wronged him," she said. "It Is un
ut of danger. She saw that the thinkable you all should hare been
rhlte man had clambered part way guilty of this crowning misconcep
:p the rigging. And then she gave a tion."
She shifted uneasily, lay for some
yarning cry as, from the shrouds,
time In silence, gazing through the
here flashed out a spurt of flame.
Instantly,
Olive,
understanding, window.
"If they hadn't bungled the letter,”
hr.-w him self flat Into the three-foot
she
said at last wearily, "I should
rater. A bullet came cutttlng along
he surface almost where they had have been spared much. And If you '
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