HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928.
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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
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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
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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.
Having explained, he rescued the
cocoanut shell, which was bobbing
away on the water, and prepared to
dive anew. When she understood,
the girl cried out in protest "Oh,
don't don't try gain. I, I cannot
bear it!"
(Continued next week.)
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