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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928. PAGE FIVE c-N WHAT HAPPENED BEFOKE Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht Rain. bow, discover! a stowaway. She la dis appointed in his mild appearance and tells him ao. Obeying his command to glance at the door, she sees a huge, fierce, copper-hucd man with a ten inch urine Deiween nis lips. Tne stowaway, uurKo, ana me Drown man, uilve, go up on deck and tell stories of adventure wnicn are noi Deueveu. Palmyra decides she loves Van. The night the engagement is announced the Kill n dow nits a reer. John Thurston rescues both Van and Palmyra but Palmyra thinks Van saved her. A sail is sighted after three days on an island. It Is Ponape Burke, the stow away I Burke abducts Palmyra. Burke has to put her ashore on an Island, as a Japanese man-of-war Is sighted and It would De aangeroua to nave her aboard. Olive swims to the island and joins raimyra. one is in rear or the brown man. Now read on- Olive and Palmyra swim to another island, irom whicn Palmyra secretly sends a note for aid. Burke's ship ap- proacnes me iBianu. wow read on CHAPTER VIII She would have1 snatched her parasol to raise as an additional sail, but now, to her astonishment she found that Olive was not mak ing sail, but taking It In. Slowly the speck that was the Pigeon of Noah grew larger. One hardly believed so small a thing could threaten so much of evil. She understood now why Olive had not tried to run. Their hope depended, not on flight, but in lying unobserved. As the. topmasts had risen ever higher against the sky, so now they receded and were gone. It was now, in this last twelve hours that Palmyra had seen Olive for the first time handle a curious kite-frame affair of sticks, decked out with small yellow cowry shells. This frame ahe had noticed at her original Inspection of the canoe, and since, when she was not too tired, too frightened, too miserable to think at all, she had wondered what it could be. This contrivance which she had endowed with so much of .mystery proved to be nothing more than the brown man's chart Yet, even at that, It was still a mystery. Among the islanders it was forbid den except to the hereditary navi gators, and among white men few had ever grasped its application; none, perhaps, had ever been able to read upon the ocean's surface its guides and warnings. With such a frame of sticks, however, Olive, could he have made it plain to her, sailed from lagoon to lagoon across the trackless ocean in almost the assurance of a civil ized mariner with chart, compass and sextant That night, she awoke to find her self, again, encircled by those great arms, held close against that cop per breast But no struggle now. It was land, land thank God, land! Was the island Inhabited? She had seen no sign, and Olive ap peared at ease. But then, this was the ocean side of the atoll at night abandoned to the ghosts. Anyone who saw her would .think her a disembodied spirit She shud dered. Was she now in truth more than the shadow of that girl who once had lived? As the savage lay asleep, the knife BhRath on his belt was up permost It was very close. Almost she could reach out and touch the handle. She thought of the other times she would have disarmed him. As she sat her fingers went out once and again 'experimentally to ward the knife, and were with drawn. The savage, contrary to her expectations, did not awake to accuse her. She knew by now it really made no difference who had the knife. A third time, then, her hand went out and closed upon the wooden handle. The knife was loose In the sheath. Slowly she drew the weapon forth. The girl was thrilled, intimidated by her success. Olive had become so much the ogre that she had had the feeling It would be impossible, In slightest degree, to thwart him. Yet here, by reaching out her hand, she had his precious knife! She did not. shudder at the thought as she had once before. Association had made a serious purpose no longer possible.; She only glowed In a new sense of power, restoring her self-esteem, her good humor. Quickly, however, this elation faded. In Its place she found, to her surprise, a touch of guilt, as if she had been untrue to a trust. He had trusted her, and now, lying there in all his strength, he was like Samson. How had Delilah felt as the shears cut through the last of those locks? But Palmyra' was not irfevocably the Delilah, for she could restore the knife. She was, Indeed, leaning forward with that purpose, when the savage awoke. Panlo stricken, the girl Jerked back, not In fear of his an ger, but In a guilty apprehension that, seeing the knife above him, he might think she attempted murder. Unaware, the brown man sat up at once, looked at the heavens, his clock, Then he sprang to his feet, caught her up once more like a child, started for the canoe. ' Palmyra wanted to give the knife , back, but her arm was pinioned. She tried to bring It forward, felt the brown man's precautionary tightening of his hold, became again conscious of her grievance, Jerked vigorously. Olive was like a long-suffering parent. He did not know why she resisted, , but he did know he could bundle her up close In his arms, with one broad hand across her mouth. Sudden rage possessed the girl. She would not be tretaed so. She RED HAIK. AND 1 BLUE SEA STANLEY U4ATRAHONS BY HENRY JAY LEE COPYRIGHT BY CHAHLE8 SCSIBNBRS 8QN8 struggled with all her might. The knife impeded her and she flung it down. The blade fell noiselessly. As it struck In the flooding moonlight it sent out one futile flash. But the savage, all unaware, marched on, holding the girl in vise-like grip. When Olive had carried Palmyra thus unceremoniously down to their canoe, the sea was not long In re asserting its power. Her respite had been too brief for any real rally against the tyrant savage. As the craft cut its way through the water, tr girl was increasingly sorry for what she had done. Her act had not been deliberate, but afterwards, at the canoe, she had failed to call his attention to the empty sheath. She was astonished now that so infallible a machine should not al most Immediately have discovered the loss. . Not, however, until the hour for bananas and cocoanut did the square copper hand go back after the blade. Then there appeared upon the face what was actually an expression puzzled, startled, be reaved. The queer brown-shot eyes fixed themselves upon her. For a mo ment there seemed a pained re proach in them, but he spoke no word. Instead, he stooped, and qhe saw with a gasp that he was draw ing from its place a heavy stick. The brown man picked up one of the cocoanuts, and cautioned her with those square hands, so expres sive where his face was blank. Then he raised the nut and brought It down upon the sharpened point The wood entered the green husk. With a sldewise prying motion that wrenched her hands, despite the supporting framework, he tore off a section of the husk. Again the nut came down upon the point, Im paling itself, and in a moment the whole husk was removed. After Olive had husked several of the nuts, he opened two by peck ing them with the sharp end of a third, trepanning them as neatly as a surgeon. The girl accepted food and drink humbly. She would have struck her knife to the heart of this brown man and he had meant only to give her food! Her eyes filled. With a girlish impulse she thrust her hand into her dress and drew out the weapon. She would make amend. There was something very sweet In the gesture, In the expression with which she offered the knife. But the savage accepted her sur render In the serene seeming un consciousness of the Buddhas when their Jevotees lay before them gifts that may have meant months, ver- haps years, of sacrifice. In a new sense of trust, she turn ed quickly jo him, her chceka flush ing, and spoke his name as nearly as she could in the way he liked: 'O-lee-vay." He looked up surprised. "O-lee-vay," she repeated "Ja- luit?" He did not comprehend. She tried the pronunciation with varying In flections. Then, perception. The savage grinned, raised an arm and, cheerfully informative pointed astern. The girl caught her breath. Oh no, no!' she cried m panic. "You don't don't understand. Ja-lult Ja-lu-eet" But all too plainly he did under stand. And he whs sailing directly away from htr one ch.nce of res cue. As she stared unbllnklngly across the seas the low black streamer of cloud unavoidably, in the Intensity of her desire, suggested to her mind the smoke of a vessel racing to her aid. The cloud, as is now and then the case, was not unlike the smudge from a funnel. And, in her fatigue, her helplessness, the very Impossi bility of the thing gave to this pro duct of her imagination an extra ordinary power. She saw the steamer rising from the ocean. She climbed its ladder to the rail. And there, triumphant on its deck, she was safe! And In that moment she krew she could not be hard on the brown man. She Would not demand, his punishment. Only a savage after all no knight errant of the deep sea his very savagery was his ex cuse. He had known no better, was not to be blamed. Yet he'd been kind to her and he had saved her from Burke. At the parting she would thank him. She would load his canoe with gifts. Or, better still, though he'd carried her wide of her own port of refuge, she would give him passage to some island Deyona reach of the murderous Ponape. And then, suddenly, Palmyra Tree was back in the canoe, her heart beating to suffocation. For her dream was not a dream. The cloud was not a cloud. It was smoke, smoke! smoke!! Her ship had come! CHAPTER IX The Imperial Japanese Gunboat Okayama, on a preceding day, had been '.eamlig against the sea when word came down to Commander Sa kamoto that a sail had been sight ed, apparently a raft with ship wrecked white men. The Okayama swung over so as to bring the odd float aboard. Soon Sakamoto, thru his glasses, made out an American flag, union down. "Send their otllcer aft," he In structed. Presently John Thurston and Van Buren Rutgor came striding along the deck. For Thurston and his crew, by the exercise of no small R.. OSBORM ingenuity, had got their crazy craft together ago In and were once more bravely under way. Sakamoto, seeing he had to do with gentlemen, offered his hand in congratulation. "And I hope," he added when they wore seated, "you. you leaved your peoples comfort able on their desert Island ."' Thurston sprang up. "My God Captain, he cried, "you ve heard from her? Youve got her safe?" The commander begged for an account for what had happened. But when they r.ad reached the abduc tion, he himself Jumped up, inter rupting excitedly. There was a new look on his face, a look that had advanced through astonished Incre dulity into mortification and dis tress. "Now I onderstand," he cried. "Of her I know only one things. This Ponape she is out of his hands." "Thank God!" from Thurston. But Sakamoto exclaimed. "No, no! It is not good. It is bad Pon ape has losed her because a kan aka, O-lee-vay, has taken her for himself." Sakamoto, in his cautious Eng lish, went on to explain. A large native craft had beaten out after the Okayama, signaling urgently. Aboard was an island pastor with one of his villagers, upon whose feeding roost maintained for these man-o'-war hawks the Line island ers sometimes used as a sort of carrier pigeon a stray bird had alighted with a strange letter. Most imperative: Commander Sakamoto spoke in sympathy. "It is very good thing," he said: "the biro, stop wrong place with the letter, and spoil the plan. This letter says after Ponape had stole i.he high-chief lady, the native sto.cd her again from Ponape and, and now they . . ." He groped long er than usual for the right expres sion. "And now they, they con-tend for her very big," he went on with satisfaction. "O-lee-vay's friends were to hurry with many-y boat and arms, Ponape being strong man, to certain islana and. nave him there so he shall, shall get away nice with her for himself." Palmyra's impulse on sighting this seeking ship for it was the Okayama was to whirl around and shout the joyful fact In this mo ment all her new aversion for the brown man was forgotten. But as she moved, the words froze upon her lips. They two, by this inter vention, wore no longer friends. From the steamer Olive would fly almost as quickly as from the Pi geon of Noah. Aboard the Imperial Japanese Gunboat Okayama as It passed within arm's reach of the distract ed girl and then steamed on, was the ship's company of the wrecked yacht RalnbOT. G ithcred on the deck were all who best had loved Palmyra Tree in life. But though these swept the sea with their bi noculars until eyes could stand no more, none ever knew. Even as '.he girl madt. piteous at tempt to cast a mirror') ray across the gulf, Commander Skamoto was turning to John Thurston with fa tal decision. 'My dear mister," he said. "That Ponapn ha has switched the poor And- All the Goodies that Spring Provides in Fresh Vegetables LETTUCE - ONIONS - RADISHES RHUBARB - ASPARAGUS CARROTS - SPINACH - CABBAGE TOMATOES- Vegetables are Health Builders. HERE FRESH DAILY PHELPS Grocery Co. 0 .' "THE HOME OF GOOD EATS" Phone Main 53 ' We Deliver Miss Tree back a-gain very sure. We got the bird letter and that ruin all the kanaka's chanoc. For him to reach this far unhelped, even if nobody makes some chase, would be of a too much." Wherefore, Sakamoto, put all to the wrong by Olive's strategy of stealth and devlousness, threw the Okaymaa northward and steamed forever out of the field of pursuit never again to pass within sight of canoe or schooner; deserting the girl in that hour when while savage and blown closed in for possession of her body. Palmyra's knowledge of their course was so vague that she had not known whether they sailed the Sunrise or Sunset chain of the Mar- shalls. Olive unexpectedly dived. There was one plop of his toes at the surface and then she saw his out- reaching fingers clutch a stone at the bottom. He brought his feet down and moved, crouching, as if he were stooped On dry land, look ing for something lost. She could see as well as if there were no water. Olive was moving to one side now. The great clam was lying Immediately behind him, its upper shell raised like a trap. She was momentarily uneasy, then laughed. , Suddenly, before she could realize it as she looked placidly on, he had shifteii, stepped backwards. The trap snapped shut across his foot Instantly, the brown body was contorted. A gush of bubbles sil ver globules streaming upward from his frantic cry. The girl ut tered a shriek, covered her eyes. Why, why had she not warned him! She'd known the danger. But, as the girl lay, shuddering, something wet touched her arm. Recoiling with a gasp, she found herself looking into the dripping face i t tr brown man, which sriil- ed pleasantly. When she reopened her eyes she knew that she had fainted. She looked at this creature, awed. He was alive, seemingly unharmed, rather pleased with himself and her astonishment He drew the knife she had given him and with a gesture or two made all plain. Olive had thrust the blade in between the valves of the clam's armor and severed the mus cles that snapped these together. 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