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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928. PAGE THREE WHAT HAPPENED BEFOBB Palmyra Tree, aboard h vht n.in, bow, is startled by fleeing a hand thrust tnrougn the port of her cabin. She makes a secret investigation and dis covers a siowaway. sue is disappoint ed In his mild appearance and tells him so. Obeying his command to glance at the door she sees a huge, fierce, cop-per-hued man with a ten-Inch knife neia Detween grinning Hps! Burke, the stowaway. exDlains that It is a 1nk. But Palmyra Is shaken. Next day Burke and the brown man go up on deck. The stowaway entertains them with wild tales of adventuresome life which his listeners refuse to believe! Palmyra spends more and more time with the stowaways to avoid Van and John, but when the stowaways are put ashore at Honolulu she decides she loves Van. The night the engagement is announced me KainDow hits a reef. In the excitement which follows John rescues both Van and Palmyrabut Palmyra thinks It is Van who saved her. After three days spent on the unln- namtea island, a ship is sighted. It proves to be Ponape Burke! Burke contrives to get Palmyra on board his boat alone and the boat is under way before anything can be done! Now read what happens to Palmyra, kidnap ped by Burke: CHAPTER V Back ashore, where the moment of Palmyra Tree's abduction had found her fiance so afraid of wound ing the girl that he could not raise a rifle In her defense, every passing circumstance was carrying forward the revelation of two characters. Van, as he saw hlB betrothed thus torn from him, stood, Btarlng, after the schooner, his face convulsed. He had been thrust back Into a despair tenfold that whence the Pigeon of Noah had first raised him. Not so, however, John Thurston. As well as Van he knew nothing could be done. But he would not accede. Burke's crime had thrown him Into a frenzy. He ran across to Captain Peder sen. "Captain," he demanded, "what can we do? At once?" The deposed sailing master look ed back at him haggardly. "Noth ing." "But, but we must I tell you we must Man, we've got to get to sea. Today now!" Pedersen groaned. "I wish to God we could, Mr. Thurston. I'm as broke as you. But there Just ain't no use. Looks now, if we're ever to get off, we'll have to knock togeth er some sort of craft from the wreck." Thurston cried out In protest "Weeks, months. No! You, with all your sea experience, you must know some way. I, I demand. . . ." Suddenly Thurston's face lighted. He Btood In thought his features taking on a more definite tinge of elation. "I've got it!" he cried, and . whirled away. The sailing canoes in which the Polynesian navigators of a bygone day covered the Pacific were cata marans. The explorers built two hulls, so narrow that neither, by Itself, would float But when the two were fixed, perhaps ten feet apart by timbers lashed athwart their gunwales amidships, the dou ble canoe became staunch enough though boasting in all its parts no nail or bolt or rivet its joints held by nothing stronger than breadfruit gum and twists of cord, its Bails no more substantial than plaited leaf to traffic all away and across the broad Pacific. It was Thurston's idea now that, placing his four separately worth less boats In tandem, two on each side, he could lash them under a framework of the lighter spars Into a machine which would carry a con siderable spread of sail. "If those old catamarans could hold together for a thousand miles," he explained, "ours ought to make the next island." Work had been going on perhaps an hour when he appeared for the first time to become aware of Van Buren Rutger's drooping figure. John had completely forgotten the other man. Convicted, he ran over to him. But Thurston attempted no ex planation. He saw that the best, the only way out, was to sketch the plan of action, seem to consult the other's Judgment He spoke briefly. "What do you think, Van?" he con cluded. "Isn't that as well as we can hope to do " Van was silent for a long time; then, unexpectedly, laughed. "As, as good as any," he said. "Go on your raft, and drown, stay, and starve. What's the difference? As regards her" he caught his breath In a broken exhalation "she's gone." Thurston gazed at him somberly. "You, you mean you won't raise a hand for her?" "I won't," Van answered wearily, "and neither will you. We can't" Thurston's face was resolute. "Perhaps you're right," ho acknow ledged. "Very likely so. But for me, I prefer to die trying." He would have hurried away but the other detained him. "I'm not your kind of an ass," Van said. "You fool, you know there's no hope. Yet, by this silly work, you can kid yourself Into a sort of relief. Me! . . ." n was as if he looked upon the girl lying dead. But he tore himself from this vision, became defiant "You, you still think I'm yellow. Very well, then. I'll show you. I'll help now; and when you sail, I, too, shall go." Thurston ur&ed the men to work as the first color of the dawn touch ed the eastern sky the last or tne stores and gear was lashed Into place. Thurston stooped over Van, who had fallen In the sleep of exhaus tion, and waked him. "Say the umrH " he announced. "We're Van roused but slowly; then turn STANLEY iuajstrahons by henry COFSTUOHT BY CHAM.Bg 8CSUBNERS 8QN8 ed upon the stronger man in a futile rage at circumstance. "Damn you," he cried, "I'd rather stay here and die like a gentleman clean and dry. But a moment later he sprang up with his old laugh. "After all, it's got to be the fish or the birds. I'm a braver man than you, you optimistic ass, because I know . , ." He did not finish his thought "Come on. Let s get it over. Twenty minutes later they were at sea. Twenty hours later the catama ran was drifting, dismasted. And Van Buren Rutger's the fault He had been given the steer ing oar. But, sunk in dejection, he had, in a moment of inattention, al lowed the too-heavy boom to gybe, carrying away the Improvised tackle, and snatch the mast over board. As a result Burke's rotten boat had fetched free of Its lashings and tne raft floated a wreck. Doomed never to rescue Palmyra from the villain Burke, John Thurs ton had yet gladly staked life Itself upon a thousandth chance. The Pigeon of Noah was flying into the unknown. The face of the man Burke was a thing to wonder at Under the ex altation of a master idea it had grown strange, compelling. ' His eyes gleamed, his tongue stumbled in its eagerness. For the first time In life he was to voice that which long had hidden in his evil mind. What had been only a vision of power was now to become an actu ality. And so much, so very much, depended on kindling that wild spark he felt to glow within the soul of this girl he had seized for his own his woman. "Tanna!" he cried. "Tanna! Ever hear tell o' that island, Palm?" He laughed excitedly. "Indeed and I've took good care t'make y' acquaint' Tis for Tanna we 11 be laying a course, you and me," he went on, with exuberant gesture acquired from the natives. "Tanna, where we'll lord It like born king and queen." 'What a people! What a people t'work with!" His Angers opened and closed anticipatorily, with a cat like zestfulness. "What can t we do t'them Papuan wildmen," he cried, and what can t we make em do for us. That's the ticket Palm: what we can make 'em do for us!" Why, kid," he was expostulating a moment later, "this here big Idea ain t something that popped into m head Just recent Gosh, no. Had it in mind for years. But . . ." He hesitated, diffident; a thing so for eign to his usual brazen assurance to seem histrionic. "But the fact is I was a-waitlng for? for you!" She was once more aware how very real his Infatuation. "I just had t'have a dame for this stunt" he went on passionately. A real dame, a sure enough queen. And then I meets you. The very first watch I sees y'got the shape for Jt. And when y'lets out about pirate blood, I knows y'got the heart for It 'Cause yer talks on the square; more on the square than you yerself realizes." The girl was Increasingly under standing how Irrevocably, on the Rainbow, he had been misled by her caprice. Listening at first in a pleased surprise, he had been eager ly self-deceived. Sure that the law less strain, persisting through en vironment had at last roused, he was now convinced she was already in love with the life he typified though she herself did not as yet perceive the fact and that, in the glamour this life cast upon himself, she would In time willingly come to be his own. 'And, girl," Ponape Burke was shouting, "there never, never was no King had such a Queen as you. Yer hair!" He exulted in the won der of it "That's how y'beat 'em all. For, didn't I tell y' the Tanna- men saw red? grabbed at red cali co, smeared their faces bright and gay, rouged up the dead warrior gaudy t'meet his maker, wound their own heads all over with red vine t'cover the wool? "Don't y'understand? That's what I was waiting on. The queen o' my devil's own mission had t' have red hair. And, Palm, them Tannamen'll go plumb crazy with pious pagan joy when they sees yer locks a- lightlng up, as the sun hits 'em, like a stove full o' coals busting Into name. Hair, I tell you, same as that o' some o' the big buck gods o' Melanesia themselves. Yes, I Bay it, girl heathen hair! 'Why, Palm, I .wish t'the Lord y'could see yerself. I wish y'could understand yourself. Y'was plain born for the life. When I've waked y'up, you'll be eager for Tanna; for Tanna, where a man can be a man; where there's never a law o' the cookpot and the sun and the wind and the will o' you and me." Ponape Burke did a jig step or two across the' deck. "Say, Palm, girl," he exclaimed; "say you and yer heathen hair! Did I, or did I not mention as how I was going t'make y'a real sure- enough queen?" It was Burke s continuing delight in her every show of angry spirit, his self-restraining sense of com petence to bring the comedy to an end any moment he chose, that most intimidated Palmyra. "Wait 'till I've tamed you," he would laugh. "Then we'll get along fine. And you'll sure like Tanna when y'get the taste o' power In yer pretty mouth." Only once had he laid a hand on her. That was when, in a fury, she had flown at him, clawing his face. He had held her away, loudly hilar ious. "I'd steal a kiss," he cried, "If 'twasn't for my sore arm. But, no . . , I can wait till y'come free, pok R OSBORN jay lee ing out yer Hps and 'begging me t' take a smack. Twon t be long." Nor was her situation made easier by Burke's evil sense of humor. Pos sibly to hasten her surrender, more probably in a mere cruel amuse ment it played upon her fears. There was, for Instance, the occa sion when Olive, for the first time aboard the Pigeon ft Noah, spoke to ner. Had It not been for those brown- shot eyes, always so stealthily upon her, she would sometimes have thought of this savage as a ma chine. There was a sort of unhuman precision about him. And now, In this wise, the mo ment Burke had gone below, the brown man materialized himself at he side. She was never prepared for the exceeding change from his statuesque silences into the gesticu lar animation of his speech. He had opened his mouth apparently for getting as on the Rainbow that they knew no word In common. Then realizing, he stopped at a loss. The girl shrank back; fled, In panic at the very nearness of him, toward the companionway. But there she recollected that Burke was at the foot of the ladder, and stood helpless. Then the white man came climb ing up. "Y' little vixen," he warned in a malicious enjoyment of the sit uation, "push me overboard . . , " He Interrupted himself with a burst of laughter. "Gad," he cried, "but I'd hate t' give y'the chance! Push me overboard, and I'm gone. But Olive's left Remember that I'm what stands between you. I ain't a-saylng as how he'd love a red headed goddess all his own. Oh, no! But I do see he's got his eye on y'like a wolf following a nice fat little lamb off into the timber." The girl shuddered. Burke or Olive? White savage or brown? A cry of despair rose to her lips but she fought it back. Her hand stole up toward the opening of her dress, lingered, fell again to her side. Since that event it was now her third day aboard the Lupe-a-Noa she had been wondering whether Ponape Burke really did stand be tween her and his man. She had not forgotten Burke's saying that Olive, if he knew his power, could snap his master' back across one of those big brown knees like a piece of kindling. And she suspect ed at times that Olive might know this quite well. The day, with the disconcerting suddenness of the Equator, had faded and darkness would soon have been upon them. Burke had waved a hand toward the cabin with kingly gesture. "The royal chamber awaits' Queenie," he had said. "Hot as hell down there and you'll soon be squawking for a hammock on deck. But tonight , , . There's a lock." The girl had sprung, trembling, panting, for the companion, had slammed it shut and shot home the bolts. Then she had stumbled down the steps and thrown herself, sob bing, upon the bunk. She had borne up bravely so long as the sun re mained, but on the closing in of nighf with all Its sinister lmplica-' tions, she had given way. Sleep impossible, the night drag ged on. Above decks there had been, as It seemed for hours, only the heavy breathing of slumber. At last, like a trapped animal herself, she had begun a futile prying. And then, without warning in that si lence, there came, quite close at hand, a sound. The girl crouched, tense. Again it came, hidden, men acing. (Continued next week.) BOARDMAN The leadlne feature of the P. T. A meeting held Tuesday. March 13. was a debate on the question. Resolved that school books should be furnished by the district. Mrs. Boardman and Mr. Wicklander upheld the affirmative with Mr. Calkins, Miss Chapman and Glen Hadtey the negative. Judges were P. F. Mulkey of Arlington, Rev. Swogger and Miss Beougher., Arguments were good on both sides but the negative re ceived the decision. In addition to the debate there was a good program con sisting ol musical numbers by Miss Henry, Aiec Ayers, tiuon Wilson, unco Dillabough and Mrs. Marschat, and a recitation by Mary Chaffee that fairly frouKht down the house. Mrs. Robert Wilson, Clarence Berger and Miss Heougher had charge of the program. Later refreshments weie served, cake jello and coffee, Mrs. O. B. Olson, Mrs. Ralph Humphrey and Mrs. Geo. Gross were In charge. Geo. Agee left Sunday for Portland where he will visit his friend Robert Rayburn for a lime. F. P. Klltz visited W. A. Goodwin Saturday at Heppner. Mr. Goodwin will probably have to undergo another operation soon. Roy Fugate of the U. S. Biological Survey was In Boardman the fore part of the week. Miss Lavelle Leathers and Miss Mabel Chapman were Portland visitors over the week end. Bob Ballenger of Portland stopped Sunday for a short visit at his brother's home on his way to Baker. Alvin Kelly was here on business from Boulder Creek, Calif., where he has been since the death of his father. He went on to Granger, Wash., from here. Murch 30, Friday night, Is the date set for the annual Congregational meet ing to which everyone is Invited. A dinner will be served that night fol lowed by the business meeting. Rev. D. A. Thompson will be present. It Is reported that A. A. Aa-ee has purchased the Howard B. Calkins ranch. rne canons ramiiy plan to leave at the close of the school for Virginia, going through by motor. Mrs. L. C Cooney and new baby daughter will return next week from Hermlston where the young lady ar rived on March 12. Both mother and baby got along nicely and everyone Is delighted over the advent of the young lady, especially Mary Maxene who Is pleased to have a baby sister. For the pleasure of her three small sons, Gordon, Carol nad Freddie, Mrs. Geo. Gross entertained a number of their small friends In honor of the birthdays of the three boys, each of them having a birthday in March, Gor don 6 years, Freddie 7 years and Carol 8. After a play hour the children en joyed a lunch such as Is always dear to the heart of a child. Guests were Har ry Humphrey Ruth and Stanley Kh.g. Catherine Mead, A. T. and Orthun Her eim, Janet and Mardel Gorham, and Helen, Gordon, Carol and Freddie Gross. Mothers present were Mesdames Gorham, Mead, Hereim; Ona Imus as sisted Mrs. Gross in making the after noon a pleasant one. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Muller and daughter June came recently from Pe Ell, Wn., for a visit with his brother, Joe Muller and family. Monica Lather is also staying with Mrs. Muller and family for a while. Turkeys are laying and prospects for a good bunch of King Turks for fall are looking up, barring accidents, dis ease and what not. Nearly everyone on the project has from 6 to 10 hens, some have 20 and Glen Carpenter has 60. E. T. Messenger and family had a pleasant trip to Portland, leaving Fri day night. They visited at the home of their son Uram and on Sunday watched the novelty of the smelt run in the Sandy and brought home a quantity of fish for themselves and their friends. Willow Creek and Irrigon Granges were supposed to have been present Saturday night at the Grange meeting but the visitors failed to materialize. However, the local Grange members en joyed the session and the social hour that followed. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gross were Initiated into the order. Later an Irish program and a lunch suggest ive of the Emerald Isle was served. Mrs. J. H. Imus is visiting in Spo kane. Alec Wilson continues to visit the doctor. He has a badly infected hand as the result of a recent altercation. Clarence Berger has gone to Portland. Mrs. M. J. Doeny of Freewater visit ed her sister, Mrs. Robert Wilson last week. Harry Murchle left Sunday for his home in Seaside after a two weeks visit at the J. C. Ballenger home. Mrs. Lee Mead was hostess at the last meeting of the Home Economics club. ' Mrs. Fortier was an invited guest. Mrs. Royal Rands will have the club at the next meeting, March 28. Ves. Attebury's are expecting their chickens this week. They sent 820 eggs to Hermlston for hatching. The mothers of the basketball boys and girls gave them a banquet on Tues day night March 20, at the cafeteria. Members of the high school student body, their parents, members of the board of directors, the faculty, were guests, honoring the basketeers. A marvelous chicken dinner was served. The tables were beautifully decorated, LESSON No. 18 Question: Why is emul lifted cod-liver oil so needful for a child who is pale and losing weight? Answer: It is food and tonic rich in vitamins and other nourishing factors that are particularly helpful to a weakened child. For your child old reliable SCOTT'S EMULSION MARTIN JOHNSON, Explorer, Smokes Lucky Strikes in Wildest Africa "Once on the Abyssinian border my shipment of Lucky Strikes from Amer ica missed us, and I was miserable until the natives followed our tracks across the Kaisout desert to "Nairobi with my precious cargo of Luckies. After four years of smoking Luckies in wildest Africa, I find my voice in perfect condition for my lecture tour in America." It's toasted0 No Throat Irritation -No Cough. 01928, The American Tobacco Co., Inc. suggestive of St. Patrick's Day. Mr. Marschat was- toast master and called on several. EASTER MORNING SERVICES. Christian Endeavor societies and other youth groups in the churches of this vicinity will enter the inter national Crusade with Christ, states Claude Pevey, Helix, president of the Columbia Christian Endeavor Union. The Crusade is based on allegiance to Christ and the Church in terms of Evangelism, World Peace, and Christian Citizenship. The first emphasis of this new youth movement will be on Evan gelism, the individual's relation to God and religion. This phase of the Crusade formally opens during the week preceding Easter, which will be observed by the young people as a week of prayer for the interna tional Crusade with Christ On Easter morning, sunrise pray er meetings will be held in thous ands of cities and villages all thru North America, in which it is ex expected 4,000,000 young people of Christin Endeavor, the Epworth League and other young people's church organizations will partici pate. WANTED Hear from owner of ranch for sale. State cash price, particulars. D. F. Bush, Minneap olis, Minn. 52-3 WANTED Used 500 gal. water tank. State condition and price. Troy Bogard, Eight Mile, Ore. 1 1NION PACIFIC STAGES, INC. operating dlux Wfor(kchSemt Mnm:mmm WESTBOUND Lv. Arlington ll:lfa.m. IttCfp.m. Arrival Timm The Point: THE DALLES Ml p.m. X:lep. m. 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