HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928. PAGE FIVE MB HAIR. AND BLUE SEA STANLEY R. OSBORN UAU5TRAHONS BY HENRY JAY LEE OOFXXIOHT BY CHAITJW SCBJBHBKS SONS WHAT HAPPENED BEFOftB Palmyra Tree, aboard the vm-ht ntn bow, is startled by seeing a hand thrust through the port of her cabin. She makes a secret investigation and dis covers a stowaway. She is disappoint ed in nis idiiq appearance and tells him so. Obeying his command to glance at me aoor sne sees a nuge, nerce, cop per-hued man with a ten-Inch knife neia oetween grinning lips! Burke, the stowaway, explains that It Is a Joke. But Palmyra Is shaken. Next day Burke and the brown man go up on deck. The stowaway entertains them with wild tales ol 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 the Rainbow hits a reef. In the excitement which follows John rescues both Van and Palmyra but Palmyra thinks it is Van who saved her. After three days spent on the unin habited 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. Thurston Is frantic and plans to save Palmyra, aunougn mere seems no poasiDie wa; Meanwhile Ponape tells Palmyra he : going to the Isle of Tauna with her. now read on CHAPTER VI For two days she had had a knife. Now, in the mid-hours of the third night, she was again lying In the cabin awake. She ws thinking of a remark of Burkes several times repeated, which had assumed the significance of a threat. "Better volunteer that kiss while the volunteering'- easy,' he had warned, his grim good hu- mor In the last hour or two, as she felt, growing a little thin. "For can tell y'thls: There won't be no evading the draft once she clamps down." What had he meant? When Palmyra came on deck on this, the fourth day of her captivi ty, she saw that Ponape Burke was In an ugly moos. The man greeted her with alco holic leer, his Infantile features shocking In their age-old depravity. When she shrank back Into the companion he was amused. "Come, come, Queenle," he roared. "Are y'ready with that kiss?" He bel lowed with laughter. Then, when she did not advance, he changed to the thick anger of Intoxication. "Have It yer way, Miss Tree Miss Palm Tree," he said thickly. "But 'twon't be long before you're down on yer shins a-praylng the Lord t'take the dam' kiss and you sick with fear I won't want It" Ponape rolled aft to the girl. "Sweetheart," he said, I'm going t part with you. She did not understand. "Dam" them Japs!" he exploded, , his temper taking a new direction. "'Twas their man-o-war we sighted last midwatch." So that had been the cause of the alert watch, with Its brief but real excitement The man's suggestion of parting with her, the possibility of Japan ese Intervention, had brought the color of hope to her cheeks. But he, returning now, struck at that hope with malicious percep tion. "Oh, safe enough In three or four days," he reassured. "They'll be gone then for a good six months. It's only in the meantime we got flay low. But In the meantime ruin everything you t'be caught aboard." 8he trle,d to fathom his purpose. "I'm going t'jettison you. Y'shall stop ashore." She stared at him. Incredulous hope roused again, only to fall be fore his expression. He had not the slightest thought of relinquish ing her. Burke was amused. "TIs a bon ny isle," he said, "and you'll have naught t'do but sit and think o' me." The girl's spirits rose. She did not question that this would be some depot of his, a place of servile natives. But, even so, her position would be bettered. Surely, among them all, must be those to under stand, to respond to her plea for protection. She was eager to go. But she thought it wise to seem Indifferent. She waited until Burke turned . away, then scanned the sea. As the day wore on toward its close she worked herself into a pas sion of suspense, apprehension. Burke was still drinking: what If night should find her aboard? And then, when It seemed she could stand no more, she discovered that the man, Olive, grinning enthu siastically, was putting water, ship's biscuit and some other stores into a boat In surprise, she swept the sea again and found It blank. "Why, when do we get there?" she asked of Burke. Ha smiled sardonically. "We're there now," he answered. She was completely at a loss. He handed her his binoculars. "Hard a-starboard," he directed. Presently she made out, through the glasses, that which might be the crest of palms. The island seem ed far distant But the Pigeon of Noah had held to her course for no great time when her master gave the order to heave to, and lower away the boat "But it's so far," she hesitated. Burke winked at Olive, already at the oars, then dropped over the side without reply. Palmyra, dis daining his proffered hand, follow ed. The savage bent to his work and they were away, under the stare of the crew. All too soon the girl saw why she had thought the island distant. As with each stroke of the oars it rose in Its stark meagorness, her heart sank. So small, so flat, Its four cocoa-palmB so stunted, It was well nigh invisible to the novice. The moment her feet touched the sand she hurled herself at the white man. "Belay there, sweetheart," he laughed retreating. "Steady does it Didn't I tell y' you'd have plenty o'time t'slt and think o'me? "Y'got water and stores for six weeks or so and housekeeping'!! be easy-like," grinned her despot "Y' just set in the shade and munch yer biscuit and think o' me." "And then, sometime, maybe you'll sight the old Pigeon loafing by. And If you re tired o yer own company, y'can hist yer hanky for a signal. And perhaps I'll be such a good kind gent as flay y aboard again, me understanding what you're after is t'rush up and give me that kiss." She clenched her teeth behind her closed clips. He turned as If to go. Then, cas ually in a well-considered effect, he called Olive to fetch that of which the girl had not thought in days, a pink silk parasol. With a flourish Ponape Burke presented this gay trifle which, alone of all the world that she had known, had escaped the deluge. "For my queen,' he said with mock ceremony. "Fresh complected folks has a tender skin. If queenie should show up offering a kiss all blistered like a biled lobster why, maybe that kiss wouldn't be so much want ed. And, remember: 'tis a kiss, free given and free taken, pays a pass age from this reef." He sprang upon the stooping back of his fellow to be carried to the boat He rode high, his legs, on either side of the brown torso, doub led, and supported by Olive's hand, under each shin, as a stirrup. When the boat had cleared the reef, Ponape Burke rose to wave her a Jaunty adieu. When they were half way to the schooner, the girl uttered a sob and, flinging down the parasol, ran after them until she stood in the surf. Then, slowly,, she turned and came back to the palms and threw her self upon the sand prone. And, oddly enough, as she lay, It was not the white man's cruel hu mor that revolted her so much as the brown man's mirth. For Burke had a purpose, but Olive's was a mere savage delight in pain. She had said that in the whole world she alone was alive. Now, however, across the coral clinkers a something was coming, moving ec centrically, yet approaching at an alarming speed. A something alive? It was gay with red polka-dots; it ran with the exaggeration of a toy, seeming about to stumble at each step, yet zig-zagging over the clink ers In an astonishing ease and rapidity. Unexpectedly, the girl laughed. This nursery beast would presum ably be no more than a land crab. Somewhat Intimidated, however, she backed a step further up her palm. The intruder on her Island or was she not rather the Intruder? hastened toward her, claws al ready half-extended, as a hostess with hands out to greet a belated guest . The polka-dotted crab went "pol- kadoddering" on Its way. It had kept her mind, for the moment from the fact that the sun was sink ing at a frightful speed. And then, there flashed back into her mind a word Burke had taught her, a native name for the mon strous robber crab. It was unga po the night crab! In fright she sprang up, stared around. The very fact she had seen the one, presup posed presence of the other. To realize that her polka-dotted ab surdity might now be blundering near in search of prey was suffl- lently disquieting; proximity of its fierce cousin legitimately alarming. For, with claws more than a foot long, it could snap the strongest bonito line like a thread, crush the bones of a man's fingers, cripple for life the wrist of a well grown youth?. Horror returned upon her. She truggled back to her observation post She must sight a ship Instant lynow, now! now!! By day the lowness of the land had brought the skyline closer than she had ever Imagined. She had thought of herself as the only living being in the whole world. Now she seemed the only living being In all the universe with the eyes of that universe cen tered upon her. But, suddenly, from out the dark ness, there came a hoarse cry. The girl doubled into a ball, auto matically, as sometimes, one awak ened by a crash of thunder. An Interval; then she sat up and laughed jangling but with a good courage. It had been only a bird. As Palmyra had been caught un awares by the approach of night, so now, with the eastern skies aglow with the coming day, she was again unawares, lying deep In slumber. The sun, at his setting, had paus ed to Implant upon her cheek a goodnight kiss. And it was not now until he had stolen clear round the world to bestow an awakening kiss upon the other cheek, had sur mounted the Chinese wall of vapor raised against him by the morning bank, that her eyes opened. As the girl stood watching the everchanglng panorama, she be- camo aware that the waters abound ed In life. That bit of water upon which her gaze chanced to be fixed rose up Into a peak and there appeared a dark round object which resembled head. For a long minute she covered her eyes with her hands. Then she gathered courage at last to look. Tbe head, bobbing up and down like a cork, was coming as fast as a boat Presently, as she stared It reached the suif at a narrow open ing of the reef. A few more strokes of arms, thick and brown, and the head of an islander rose dripping from the water. And then it was that Palmyra ut tered another cry. For she saw a copper face with great square teeth clamped on a knife a knife that did not hide the ferocious grin which had haunted her since she first saw it thus under her spot light: the face of the brown man Olive! When the face of the savage Olive materialized to her view, the voice of the surf drowned that wail with which Palmyra Tree cowered back behind her screen. The swimmer, rising from the brine, paused knee-deep to shake himself like a dog. Then he plucked the knife from between his teeth, thrust It Into the leather sheath on his belt and came splashnig ashore, He did not hesitate, but made direct for her hiding place, the only cover. The girl sprang away in flight The brown man, beaming terrific ally, followed. She ran, stumbling now and again on the coral clinkers, until she reached land's end, and then on, as far as she could, along the reef a-wash. Seizing from the water a broken knob of coral, she laced the savage. When he reached the edge of the sand, she hurled it at him. Then her hand rose toward her dress where her own knife waited. Olive, at the missile, grinned none the less. Indeed, he seemed un aware of it though it passed within a foot of his head. But It did, nev ertheless, have an effect one quite unexpected. For he sat down, cross legged, on the sand. He broke into the animation of speech. He stood up and the girl's hand flew back toward her weapon. But he came no nearer. To her sur- prise, he turned and went stru tti ng LESSON No. 19 Question: Why is emul sified cod-liver oil so won derful a food -tonic for young girls and women ? Answer: Because it abounds in nourishing (ac tors that are particularly beneficial to people prone to anemia and other con ditions due to malnutrition. Keep your system vitamin nourianed take SCOTT'S EMULSION away toward the clump of palms, There he beckoned her u. follow. First, the savage pulled two of the half-grown cocoanuts. With his knife he cut through the two-inch green husk of one and exposed the lower end of the shell. From this, with three taps of the blade, he knocked a round cap. He took a big draft of the liquid within cool, sligntly acid clear as war. Then he opened the second nut, brought It half way toward ner, left It up right in the sand, bhe was, it seem ed, invited to drink. Turning to the clump of pandan us, he hacked out a short slim pole. This he next with cord from her stores, lashed cross the top of his uprights. Then he marched away toward the reef and, reaching out as one might pick a kitten up by the neck, snatched a fish from a pocket in the coral. This fish, flopping vigorously, he bound to the cross bar of his dwarfed football goal, The girl had been watching these moves breathlessly, wonder for the moment getting the better of fear. Not until he fetched the fish did she have any theory. Then it flash ed into her mind that barbarous peoples always propitiated their dei ties with food offerings. Could this be a sort of altar. Did the savage so seek to further his purpose? But Olive gave no sign. With the last turn of the cord about the struggling fish, he strode away to the shade of the palms, and, throw ing himself down on his back, was almost instantly asleep. Palmyra, crouching in the sun, stared at that figure. She was aston ished. How was it physically pos sible for him thus to fall into slum ber? Whence had this man come, and why? Could Ponape Burke have sent him to terrorize her? Or had the savage. . , . She gave a snui'der. She snatched the knife from her dress. 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With a groan she sank down. She dropped the knife, buried her face in her hands. In resistance she could have fought like a tiger. But thus to creep upon a sleeping man? For a time there seemed no al ternative. Then she roused at the realization that, if she could not murder a s'eeping man, she could at least disarm him. With Olive deprived of that knife, and her own retained, who could tell? She might have some shred of chance. She put the blade Into her dress and began again to crawl forward, one had got within a dozen feet of the savage, moving with caution, when unexpectedly, easily, nlrnost as it seemed automatically, he open ed his eyes and sat up. It was as if he had not been asleep at all; had, from the beginning, been wait ing for her to do Just this thing. The firl shrank back. Olive fixed her with his stiane eyes. Then he smiled expansively, as if it were a Joke. He settled down once more, instantly returned to slumber. 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