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INSTALMENT ONE CHATER 1 HAND OF THE GENII When the square sun-browned hand with the lace mitt upon fit was thrust from the outer dark- Bess in through the port of her cabin aboard the yacht Rainpow, Miss Palmyra Tree had been lying for sometime, with eyes elosed, And then, when she opened her eyes at last, it was to discover the sinewy sunbrowned hand with the black lace mitt upon it. The hand had come thrusting in from outside the yacht, The girl be- came aware only just in time to see it raised, seemingly in benedic- tion. For an instant the hand re- mained thus, Then {it receded, grasped the lower edge of the opening as if supporting a body, let go and disappeared. The girl sat back, seriously dis- turbed. Her first thought had been | that a seaman was overside on some dangerous duty, that he was swept away. She would have given the alarm. But she had re- strained herself on a positive per- ception that the hand was not torn from its grasp. It had delib- erately let go. And there had been 0 ery. The girl laughed uncertainly in a growing appreciation of this last | circumstance. The apparition had been silent as a ghost. Was it really a hand at all, or only a. but dream? It seemed very real, she'd had only an instant.... Again Palmyra laughed; time in musical mirth, Yes, when one thought it over, the whole vision had borne that exaggerated impressiveness com- mon to dreams. As she opened her eyes the hand appeared to be rising above her in a gesture, solmn, warning: a something of ineffable portent. Palmyra shivered once again in the ehill air. She slammed shut the port. Then dived back into her covers; up to her chin, With the chiming of five bells of the morning watch--half past six o'clock--the girl awoke to 2 serious mood. Why this voyage? She could not doubt it had, in some way, to do with Van Buren Rutger, John Thurston. For she had seen a great deal of those two While thé family, from Bos- ton, Had been in Southern Calil- fornia. When Mrs. Crawford and the Wampold sisters and Dennis Mec- Carthy and Constance Crawford had come idling up the coast in the Rainbow, the girl had not suspected. But five days later her parents were bundling her aboard «without any explanation that ex- plained---and the family was bound, at least for Honolulu, per- haps even Japan. 'Had Van alone been asked as a fellow voyager she would have understood. But with John also here, she was at a loss. She was inclined to look upon this yachting as indelicate, brutal; penning her up, 4s on a stage, to play for them all an endless tri- angle of courtship. As if in protest there Tose from the mein cabin the earnest voice of John Thurston, followed by the gay laugh of Van Buren Rutger. Before her the strong interesting face of Thurston formed itself. 'What a splendid quality of brain and will. and courage; to have forced oneself up as thirty, from nothing at all to recognition in one's profession. But shortly his features were replaced by the handsome highbred visage of his rival. Van, she defended, had done none of this because there was none to do. And her parents, in favoring him, had her happiness as their sole consideration. Warned py the voices that it was time to dress, Palmyra jumped out. And only now, did she think of the hand she had seen. She had dismissed the appear- "ance as a dream, but it seemed so real now that when she had clothed herself she climbed upon the berth for another look through the port. Bending down to gaze out, she became aware of a something on the polished metal of the opening that caused her to start back in 'surprise; the print of moist and dirty fingers. She sat, astonished. The hand, then, had been no dream, but real flesh and blood? Palmyra had an unexpected sense of evil. She jumped down and hurried for the companionway to investigate. ' The girl was only a moment In verifying her impression of the eve- ning before. i 8he &hot a glance toward Cap- Pedersen's hands. Big and re enough, heaven knew but fiery red and flaxen bristled. At the wheel stood one Johannsen, hi8 huge paws . gripped on the spokes. A scarlet ballet girl danced, disqualifyingly, on the back of one and of the other the index finger was missing. Presently seven bells came, with breakfast for the whole crew, so that she was able to scrutinize, not only the men who had been on deck, but also those of the watch below. ' "But Captain Pedersen," she asked at last--the apparition of the cabin had seemed very dark this she drew them a Mexican apoard, or maybe a col- ored chef?" The sailing master shook his head. |The girl hurried = away to her cabin to make sure those prints bad béen real. The normality of everything on deck had quieted her alarm. She was glad now that some instinct had kept her from explaining. Of all on board, she alone knew. : Palmyra began to giggle in the most juvenile fashion. "Never be- fos '* thought she, "except in the t eatre or between the covers of a k, have I come within hailing distance of adventure. But mow with the yacht scarcely out of sight of land, facinating mystery makes its presence known." i In the not remote past this girl had been a devoted reader of reasure Island, And today, tartled by her sudden realization of responsibility in this new and dult problem of Van and John, fo was in a mood to flee away ack to those irresponsible days. she jumped up on the was demanding So, as perth again, she that pirates lurk aboard. "Yes, undoubtedy," she affirmed, 'they have mistaken the yacht for a treasure seeker." The gir] was staring at the fing- erprints. She was serious again. | Ought she to tell Captain Ped- ersen, Mrs. Crawford? She sat ffor a time, disturbed. Then, all at once, a laugh. Her expression became ominously mischievous. | "I must." she announced. "see had come in from outside the yacht. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929 PAGE SEVEN ---- - A. little 'afraid, But she had her definite pur- pose. Palmyra entered, placed sand- wiches, a bottle of water, an elec- trie torch on the deck. Then she shut the heavy door. "Here I am," she cheerily. Silence. She got up, waited, the torch casting a moon of light upon the food ang water. In the center of the spotlight were two feet. They were small, encased in button shoes. They dangled, juvenilely, six Inches from the deck. For a moment she thought that here was a boy. But as the disk of illumination moved upward it revealed the hody of a man, small, plump; dressed in a way one might associ- ate with the racetrack, ringside. The checked suit, fancy vest, bright tan gloves, above all the walking stick, were ludicrously un- nautical. The face now broke into a grim and the man said: "I ask you, lady, is it fair t'keep me hove to under yer light, when I can't make out a line o' yer rig?" She took up the water and sand- wiches and put these on the trunk next to that on which he sat. Then she backed away to a seat oppo- site, turned the torch upon them, One of the gloved hands enatched up the water, and he drank eagerly, "Not every lady," announced he went on admiringlv, "would lay below at And then, wnen she opened her eyes at last, it was to discover the ineway sun-browned hand with the black lace mitt upon it. The hand - we Er our pirate chief at once and alone, for a very special and secret rea- son." was searching the Rainbow. She had penetrated ae far, in the 'tweeén-decks, as the space set aside for the heavy pag- gage of the guests. Van and John and the Wanm- polds, who had followed her, stood clinging one to another, laughing- Iy puzzled at the way she had poked and peered inte dark corn- ers. Van and John and the Wam- "Really," he said: "really I mar- vel at any one trying to examine the fabric of a yacht without a miscroscope. Such superficiality. Deplorable." The others laughed, but not the girl. As she had reached out for a big trunk a dip of the Rainbow drove her extended hand on and down over. Her fingers came, rather awfully, into contact with a something warm and furry, but sora. And---the something mov- ed! "Last night," she said a little breathlessly, 'I felt like Aladdin. But now, now it's Ali Baba. All Baba, and a thief--T mean a pirate --behind 'every one of these trunks. Every one." "A pirate?" Van was comment- ing. 'Then, let's go. I shouldn't want to walk the plank till I'd had my tea." The tone was light. But he was, for the second time in five minutes, dusting with a handkerchief at his hands. Born aristocracy, he had an almost hereditary distaste for the dingl- ness and grime of the under places. Give him ever the prepared and proper stage of life. There, indeed. he could be a sure and gra- cious figure. Palmyra assented. "I go," she said, "but I sball return. I like these lower regions; so still, so dark, so mysterious. I shall re- turn--"' she paused significantly-- "tonight. I shall come back...." "She means," interpreted Van, "to sneak pickles and ham, chicken and Jam for one real uninterrupt- ed..." The girl laughed. "As you have said: with food and drink, I shall return at the sacred hour of mid- night." She gave them a covert glance. But, unaware of the hand, of that hidden presence, neither Thurston nor the others realized that her, to them, idle chatter, held any pur« pose of return, They moved to go. And once more there came from out the dark that stealthy wraith of sound--Iintimidating sinister. , Midnight. Palmyra swung the bulk head door open: Now that she was alone, how different it was down here; the darkness menacing alive with groaning whispers of sound, yet empty save for that unseen pres. Palmyra to the American | midnight t'ferret out a stowaway." As the Rainbow drove into an- other sea there came again that fettered clink and clank of iron away somewhere in the dark. At the sound Palmyra stirred with a returning disquiet vague but in- sistent, that could scarcely have been a response to anything in the man's tone, She shifted the light to his face. "Why are you ahoard?" she de- manded. He nesitated, ": Because," he ex- plained presently "I'd sooner be here than in the cold, cold grave. Not," he added with a shiver which set the plump cheeks a- tremble, "that T ain't cold here, too." "Grave?" inquired Palmyra. "Bullet," explained the stowa- way. The girl smiled invisibly. She did not think anyone would feel it necessary to shoot such a plump little man. "Ag for who I am," he contin- ued, "I'm asking you, lady; do v"know the Line? The Line islands, . I mean--the Gllberts, Marshalls, Carolines?" She shook her head, Then real- ilzing he could not see, added a spoken negative, "It y'was knowing t'the' Line, lady, you'd savvy Ponape Burke. Named after the biggest o' the Carolines by admirers--" a titter-- "and also them as is not go admir- ing. As I says before, I follow the sea. Master o' my own craft." Palmyra was amused, sceptical. "But why. ..."" "I'm stowed away "cause T had t'make my westing 'quiet! If this yacht puts back with me," he add- ed, "I'm a corpse. That's why T thank you. Y'kept still and those hours counted. Now. she'll more likely hold her course." The girl smiled delightedly. Once again, Arabian Nights' ahoy! There had been, it seemed, a Chinese merchant of Bagdad--no, Honolulu--who was sending a cargo to California that would go under the hatches rice and tea, but come out coolles and opium. He wanted just the right sort of man along to smuggle them through, and Ponape Burke, who had been idling -ahout the town, was chosen. "But, lady," he explained earn- estly, 'don't mistake. I sure meant t'play fair and square with Uncle Sam. I planned both t'make a plece o'side money and do my plumb duty as a citizen by tipping off the contraband." : His countenance beamed with enjoyment of the intended coup; innocent of any slightest percep- tion of the shame of bad faith. As he went on, however, his features turneq ugly with disgust. Uncle Sam had proved an unbe- tals had discovered Burke's at- tempt. They had set gunmen after him. Ang "for a reason'--which the man did not explain--he was conspicuous. skinned--haven't we still a Jap-or ence. 'She was, unexpectedly, & | "I could of laid up ashore" he lievable tightwad, and the Orien- concluded, "but some ulavalg devil Shanghaies my bankroll and leaves| me just plain on the beach. So I, Stows away here," Palmyra thought it safe to be-' lieve he might really have been; robbed. "80, then," she inquired | in a tone of regret, "you're not.! atter all, a pirate? I felt you might have heard the Rainbow was séek- | ing buried treasure." | Ponape Burke shot look of in-! terest in her direction. Then, ap-| paréntly annoyed that, for even a' moment, he could have taken her seriously, 2 voiced a protest. resently: 'Miss, why did y' below here?" 8 ylay} Bhe hrs! lain below mischievous- ly to consult a buccaneer. So "I'm sorry you don't smack more. of the Bpanisp Main," was what she said, Then he asked: "But what did y'have in mind? Maybe we could do better"n y'think." Palmyra shook her head invis- ibly. "Oh, mo," she said, "you're' not at all the sort." But she ex-, plained. When she had found, there was someone aboard, she | recalled a popular comedy: a' burglar entrapped, all unknown to' the others, with a house party un- der guard in quarantine; no end of mystery, excitement, before he'd' been discovered. "And I hoped." she concluded. "we could get up a little plot. Something pigatical, thrilly. But," ghe added resigned- ly, "not a one would be scared at! you." | From the dark there came a pro-, longed chuckle. *'Well," hesitated Burke at length. "if y'insist on pirates. ..But why not some stunt a little more genteel? A concert 3 Know a lot o'native songs." In sample he gave her a phase; a chanting fragment, rhythm with. out music; low-voiced words, mei- lifluous, polysyllablie, ""There,"he concluded with a touch of pride. "Something like that." But the girl scorned minstreley. He relapsed into the laugh--to her irritation. "Pirates it is," he assented. "And even if yer bunch ain't scart o' me, maybe we could frame 'em up a startle. Wouldn't be a bit surprised. Not a bit." He was amused. She remained uncenvinced and he laughed again.. There was silence for an Inter- val. Then "D"y' know where the gangway {is y'came in at?" he asked unexpectedly. The girl looked puzzled toward him, turned her gaze in the di- rection of the door, "Yes," she said wonderingly, "I know exactly where it is." "Then," said Ponape Burke, "Just give it one flash with yer toreh." The girl was, suddenly again, a little afraid Hark? Was that a sound of Burke, moving? Her thumb touched the torch. As a lightning flash, its rays shot forward, landed full upon the plump vest, the chubby infantile face. Burke still gat on the trunk. Again darkness; impenetrable, intimidating. : i Before Burke could have moved, | she whirled toward the entry, switched on the light. The shaft leaped across, and then in its circle, vivid against the door, there sprang into being a savage face. Wild, copper-hued, it held rigid as jungle lion caught by photo-tlashlight. Under a great mat of hair, fierce staring eyes, grinning lips drawn back from two rows of square teeth that clambed upon the blade of a ten-inch knife, It was not the face of Burke, It was not the face of a white man. al . 3 (Continued Tomorrow) EUROPE - FEARS WAR IS COMING Jugoslav-Italian Relations Described As Menace to Peace Berlin, July 8--Fears of another European war dominated the sessions yesterday of delegates from all Eur- ope, who are preparing for a great peasants' congress next January. Bishop Fan Noli, former president of Albania, spoke on the ever-present war menace in the Balkans, through the conflicting interests of Jugoslavia and Italy, which also involved France as the ally of Jugoslavia. Joseph Boisseau of the French Peasant Workers' Confederation spoke on the rapid industrialization of France, with which the agricultur- al development had not been able to keep pace. 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Sold at all druggists, ; : FAILURES LACK SOCIAL OUTLOOK Viennese Psychologist Blames Lack of Interest in Others New York.--The people of the Un- ited States arc better adjusted so- cially than the citizens of most Euro- pean countries, according to Dr. Al- fred Adler, Viennese "psychologist, who, it-is announced, will conduct a series of studies and researches in in- dividual psychology at Columbia Uni- versity next year, Lectures, accompanied by clinical investigations of behaviour will be in- cluded in the work of the Psychology Departuent, the Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Neurology of the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Dr. Adler, famous for his discovery of inferiority and superiority com- plexes, expresses disagreement with John B. Watson, American psycholo- gist, that man's conduct is the direct result of external stimuli which "con- dition" him to certain types of ac- tion impossible to escape. He be- licves that this pattern of behaviour has its inception frome within and not from without, "The failure of the individual to adjust himself to the condition of life and to solve its problems results in dangers which affect the whole social structure," declares Dr. Odler, who has directed thirty behaviour clinics in the public schools of Vienna, where the psychological difficulties of thou- sands of young people have been an- alyzed and removed. "Life's failures are all examples of lack of interest in others. The neu- rotic, the criminal, the drunkard, the professional beggar, the suicide, the insane person, all answer to this de- scrip tion. In earliest childhood our physical inequality results in a normal feeling of inferiority, which reappears at in- tervals throughout life as we face cach new scries of difficulties, It 1s the motivating cause behind all con- structive action. "To counterbalance his feeling of inferiority the child early invents a goal of superiority, a way in which he strives to excel. Just as his body develops toward its final physical form, so his mind rcreates an ideal final form toward which every efforr, thought and movement tends, con sciously or unconsciously, and despite every obstacle. "To know what goal the mind has selected is to understand at a single leap the whole network of thought and action which is the 'behaviour pattern' of the individual. "Now, people may, and often do, make mistakes in choosing their final goal of superiority. The pampered child determines that to be pampered is a form of lording it over others, and that he will demand pampering as long as he lives. His whole ex- istence is so ordered that he may see limself scated upon an imaginery throne, with other human beings ob- liged to wait upon and serve him, This form of superiority is antisocial. "The professional beggar sees him- sclf as a king who does no work, but obliges others to work for him and support him in idleness, and it is this superiority upon which he relies, TREATMENT OF HAY FEVER 15 OUTLINED London Doctor Describes Ailment And Tells How to Cure It London, July 8--Of all the season- able complaints, hay fever is perhaps the most distressing. With its paro- xyisms of sneezing, and streaming eyes and nose, hay fever renders life miserable for a period of the year for its unfortunate victims' writes a doc- tor in the London Evening Standard. Not only this, it seriously diminishes the efficiency of those who suffer from it. If follows, therefore, that the possibility of prevention of hay fever, or the efficacy of treatment, is a matter of considerable importance to a large number of people in this country. The cause of hay fever is well known. The offending agent is grass pollen which is carried in the air, and the symptoms are caused, in those who are susceptible, by the pollen coming in contact with the lining membrane of the nose, throat, and eyes. Pollen can be carried in the air for many miles in a light summer breeze, and in strong breezes for great distances; therefore, immediate proximity to grass-land, although this intensifies the. complaint, is not essential to its existence, Roughly, the season for hay fever extends from the middle of May to the end of July, and any symtoms re- sembling it which occur before that time, or extending after it, suggest that the case is not one of true hay fever. A definite diagnosis of hay fever can be made by scratching the skin and injecting the pollen. This, in true cases, causes a weal to appear, Once a definite conclusion has been arrived at that a case is one of hay fever two questions have to bé ans- wered. Can it be prevented? or can [it be cured if actually present? -davas- sould the lien in the air could be exclud- rom 'the mouth, nose, and eyes. A this is impracticable, excepting for those shut up in one room with a sup- ply of filtered air, or who remain at sea a long way from land, during the epidemic period it may be conceded that for all practical purposes the discase cannot be prevented by ordi- nary care on the part of sufferers. An injection of grass pollen vaccine once a week, commencing in March, does, in many cases, prevent or mili- gate the attacks. Daily injections be- ginning on the 1st May may be sub- stituted for the earlier weekly injec- tions, and perhaps they are on the whole more satisfactory, excepting in very serious cases, which should com- mence preventive treatment early, AUTHOR PICTURES NEXT GENERATION Evelyn Scott, t, Heroine of Romantic Flight to Brazil, Makes Prediction New York, July 8.--~And the next crop of . 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Phone 189 the world she sees approaching, there would be even less place for profess sional reformers than professional re- bels; perhaps because her romantic flight to Brazil turned out success- fully and she is happily married; or perhaps because while she was write ing "The Wave," which shows war in as unbecautiful a light as it could casily be painted, she read some of her favorite passages to her son, Creighton Scott, 14, who was born in Brazil. He, large for his age, re- sponded by enlisting in the Texas National Guard, mose than a little cautious, entirely Miss Scott, in New York at the [too comfortable spiritually, and, as a moment for publication of her his- | result, a potential menace to the dig- tory of the Civil War called "The | nity of their elders. Wave," outlined for the United Press| "They will not discard religion, as what 'she thinks the new generation some of our generation have done," will resemble, said Miss Scott, "because. they will Although Miss Scott wrote "The | want some religion and philosophy Narrow House," which was the be- [and will simply adopt whatever suits ginning of a new school of "realistic" | their needs. They will have little or fiction ancent family relations, and al- [no occasion to rebel and will regard though she herself is the heroine of | rebellion as ridiculous, They will ac- a flight to Brazil with the man of |cept what has been won as common- her choice in a somewhat more ro- [place and find the aging winners of it mantic love affair than is usually |--even now casting about helplessly described in sedate family journals, | with their real opponents behind she expects no such star-belaboring [them and nothing but windmills in antics from her offspring and his |front--as pathetic where they are not little sub-jazz-age friends, downright ludicrous." Miss Scott thinks they Miss Scott seemed to enjoy the up sophisticated, but religious, They | shelf onto which she and her kind, will be religious, but tolerant. They | recently regarded as "menaces," are will be tolerant, but disillusioned. |about to be stowed. 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