HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928.
PAGE THREE
RED HAIR.
AND
BLUE SEA
STANLEY R. OSBORN
ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY JAY LEE
ComiOHT BY CHARLES SOUBNERS SONS
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE
Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht Rain
bow, dincovera a stowaway. She is dis
appointed In his mild appearance and
tells him so. Obeying his command to
Klunce at the door, she sees a huge,
fierce, copper-huid man with a ten Inch
knife between his lips. The stowaway,
Burke, and the browji man, Olive, go
up en deck and tell stories of adventure
which are not believed. .
Palmyra decides she loves Van. The
night the engagement is announced the
Rainbow hito a reef. John Thurston
rescuos 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! Burke abducts Palmyra. Burke
has to put her ashore on an Island, as a
Japanese man-of-war is sighted and it
would be dangerous to have her aboard.
Olive swims to the island and joins
Palmyra. She Is in fear of the brown
man. Now read on
Olive and Palmyra swim to another
island, from which Palmyra secretly
sends a note for aid. Burke's Bhip ap
proaches the, island.
Palmyra and Olive sail in a canoe,
evading both Ponape's ship and the
Japanese Gunboat Okayama, which has
her friends on It. Olive risks his life
to get water for Palmyra. , Now read
on
CHAPTER X
He divined her meaning, grimac
ed back reassuringly. A moment
later ho was once more crouched,
holding to the lava floor. '
For an Interval the bubbles came
flying up. Then the man followed.
He placed the shell In the canoe,
lifted himself aboard, scarcely list
ed the frail craft from an even
keel.
The girl, still dizzy with shock,
sat and stared at the cocoanut bot
tle that had brought tragedy so
near Olive, amused, presently pick
ed it up and offered It. When she
did not respond, he raised the shell
above his mouth, tilted It until the
contents spurted out and drank.
Palmyra laughed hysterically. He
had filled the thing at the bottom
of the ocean a hundred feet from
land. Yet now he drank.
She took the sphere when he of
fered it again and tasted experi
mentally; sweet, fresh water; clear,
cold as from a spring.
The girl drank deeply. Then,
holding the shell upon her knees,
she sat for a long time, looking cov
ertly at this brown being.
He had all but given his life It
self that she might have the water
she craved.
And he would have given life it
self had she taken his knife and not
granted her own.
He would be dead.
The brown man pointed to the
sand In the canoe an Island. Then
he extended his arm; the island
was located there; ahead and some
where, unseen, to starboard. Then
he flattened out his palm horizon
tally, laid his cheek upon it, attemp
ted an extension of his arms, clos
ed his eyes and began to snore.
Soon would this nightmare of
wind and sea be ended. Soon
would she be liberated from this
rack of torture. She could throw
herself down in never-waking slum
ber. Her hand stole toward the open
ing of her dress and her fingers
closed, caressingly, over the handle
of the knife hidden there. For Olive
had given It back.
The topmasts of the Pigeon of
Noah appeared. Olive snatched
down sail and mast. He lashed
them flat With a glance he assur
ed himself everything aboard was
secure. Then, paddle In hand, he
kept their craft to the hollow of
the seas.
But on, on came the topmasts, the
topsails, rising against the sky. The
girl gasped In terror. On came the
sails, on and on, nearer and nearer,
taller and more definite more
greatly to be dreaded.
And then, In this awful moment,
without word of warning, Olive
sprang overboard. Palmyra uttered
a wall. After all he had braved, to
forsake her now? To seek his own
safety in flight? No! It was un
thinkable! And scarcely the unworthy
thought, than the brown man's
hand shot up, seized the outrigger,
gave one twist. The next second
Palmyra was floundering in the
water, the canoe capsized.
With a stroke the savage reached
out and caught her by the hair. As
a kitten held In Its mother's teeth,
she ceased to struggle. With anoth
er stroke he recaptured the canoe,
bottom up. Ho put his foot on the
outrigger, tilted the hull so the Im
prisoned air escaped. With one
arm he bore down upon the canoe,
their combined weight, to Bink It
and control Its motion. The other
arm held the girl, submerged, so
that she choked and fought for
breath.
On, on . tho Lupe-a-Noa Indeed
had come, nearer and nearer but
not too near. Careening under Its
spread of sail It had been unbe
lievably close and then, all unknow
ingly, had flown away. Ponape
Burke, with his binoculars, had
glared straight over them In his
scrutiny of the more distant sea.
He placed the girl's hands on the
now buoyant canoe, returned Its
gear, lifted himself up and In. He
had Btooped for the more difficult
feat of hauling Palmyra aboard
when, startllngly, he let go his hold
with a guttural cry.
She turned frightened eyes over
her shoulder, then screamed. For
there, cutting the surface, a little
jet of spray rising from Its edge,
was another sail the dreadful lat
een of a shark!
The man-eater was almost upon
her. Frantic, Bhe turned her eyes
to Olive. There he stood, for the
first time at fault. His hand, with
lightning Instinct, had flown to the
sheath of his belt, found it empty.
The girl saw that, In throwing his
knife away, she had made her own
death certain.
But, Instantly now, the savage
rallied. Only for a second did par
alyzing discovery unnerve him. The
shark had all but seized its victim.
A moment and action would be too
late. But In that flash of time the
man leaped, landed with his feet
upon the shark's back. The Impact
threw the monster into brief panic.
She tore at her dress; thrust out
the knife. He snatched it: dived.
Just as the man-eater made to
seize its prey, Olive dropped below
the surface. The heavy fish had no
chance to stop. As it swept over
his head the savage thrust upward
with the knife in a lunge that
reached the heart.
Olive did not waste time over the
adventure of the shark. He. had
killed sharks before.
Throwing the canoe Into Its
course, he sailed on for the island.
For an Interval they went on, he
fore It became evident that Ponape
Burke had made them out
Presently the schooner was so
close Palmyra could make out Po
nape Burke on its deck, covering
them with his glasses.
The reef wall was now so imme
diately at hand she could see that
this rim, by reason of the coral
broken off and packed down by the
trample of the surf, was higher
than the rest of the reef behind,
the surface on the reef-table, which
outstretched inland to the beach.
The barrior was armored in brown
knobs of living coral, with their
toothed faces like a giant nutmeg
grater against which the sea could
grind the canoe into splinters.
And now, as the girl looked, Olive
dug his paddle In, put all his weight
upon it. The craft veered and took
a new course straight for the reef.
Palmyra sat stunned. She had hop
ed against hope that she was wrong
that he still saw a way. But here
was surrender. Even for such a
one there could be no further shift
Scarcely had the canoe changed
course than the Pigeon of Noah
also swung in toward the reef. Pal
myra could see Ponape Burke wav
ing his arms, shouting orders. She
gave one shuddering glance at the
cauldron ahead, then back to the
white man. The race was run.
And even now, in confirmation,
Olive sprang up, let go the sheet,
slashed the cords that held the
mast; whipped the whole gear over
board. But Immediately, to her bewil
derment, he seized the paddle again.
plunged It Into the water, began to
speed toward the barrier.
The roar of the surf most fright
ful of sounds deafened her. But
as she clung desperately to her
place, staring ahead into the tu
mult of waters she could smile. If
Olive chose death, to defeat, so
could she. But, such her faith, she
felt that impossible as it seemed,
he must still think to escape.
Now, as her navigator began to
calculate the seas, to hold the can
oe back at times, Palmyra saw
there was a slighUrecession shore
ward In the line of the reef. It
swung In at this point Just suffi
ciently to create a lee. The surf
did not burst upon It with the di
rect drive of the wind, and, pro
tected through most of the year
from the sweep of the trades, not
so much broken coral had tnen
packed down here and the rim was
lower.. In a flash she perceived
that he must have had this place In
mind from the first; that, the tide
in their favor, it might be possible,
in sufllcicntly skilled hands, to hur
dle the reef.
There was just one phase in the
rhythm of the surf when he could
succeed. He must catch the moment
when the wave had crashed down
upon the coral teeth; when the vio-
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lence of the Impact had abated, but
not one second of the precious af
ter Inrush had been lost. For, If
that had not carried him far en
ough, he would be caught by the
recoil to follow, when the water
flung upon the reef poured back
into the sea.
Olive paddled furiously to get
far enough in so that the back
sweep could not grip them, drag
them down to destruction. Nearly
he had succeeded. But, the recoil
having rained the coral almost
bare, the outrigger struck a knob
of the limestone, broke from the
canoe.
Instantly, the man leaped out,
caught the girl up in his arms. He
sprang upon a coral boulder that
raised them above the sliding wa
ter. The canoe sucked back over
the brink, but Olive held.
The moment the downrush ended,
he raced with his burden, bounding
over the rough coral, until he had
reached another knob rising above
the level, perhaps fifty feet in from
the edge. Here they weathered the
next sea and its subsequent retreat.
Another dash across the shallows
and they were safe from the ocean.
But not as yet from Ponape Burke.
As the brown man carried Pal
myra, her face, over his shoulder,
was turned toward the Lupe-a-Noa.
The girl saw that the schooner,
beaten at last had gone about and
was working back out of danger.
She saw that the white man had
clambered part way up the rigging.
And then she gave a warning cry
as, from the shrouds, there flashed
out a spurt of flame.
Instantly, Olive, understanding,
threw himself flat Into the three
foot water. A bullet came culling
along the surface almost where
they had stood.
Olive, leaping up, sprang with the
girl behind another boulder In time
to escape a second bullet.
Several Bhots Ponape Burke fired
in his jealous rage, though now he
had no target. Then, the Pigeon
of Noah gaining way, drew off, and
the pursuit, in this phase at any
rate, was ended.
(Continued next week.)
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