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"WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE . Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht Rainbow, is startled by seeing a hand thrust through the port of her cabin, She makes a secret investigation and discovers a stowaway. She is disappointed in his mild appearance and tells him go. Obeying his command to glance at the door--she sees a huge, fierce, copper-hued- man--with a ten inch knife held between grinning lips! Burke, the stowaway, explains that it is a joke. But Palm- yra is shaken. Next day, Burke and the brown man go up on deck. The stowaway , entertains them with wild tales of an adventuresome life ~---which his listeners refuse to believe! Now read on! CHAPTER III Enemies--and Friends Some sixteen days later in Mrs. Crawford's cabin a conference was under way. "But, my dear, my dear," Palm- yra's mother wag protesting, "how going right, when Palm spends most of her. time listening to that, thal miserable stowaway; that--human toad, Her father is beside himself ean you say everything's with anxiety." The man made sound. "Events," sald the hostess Im- "have only too well shown that 1, that we intervened Your daughter was with pressively, Just ia time. on the verge of falling in love John Thurston." The father uttered a protest. "1 don't see we've gained thing," "But where are your eyes?" de- "Ag 1 sald in California, Van, with his refined personality, fits into the yacht's Young King gilded frame, manded the hostess. 'The into a on the contrary, Is eahin like Charles' Thurston, great robust being. enough ashore, but here, In the way. Sue paused to smile at them re- assuringly. -, ly, with John at his we Bure we pot Crawford bow, wing threaew ha tranle alght Loomer Van at his best---need Meanwhile, Coustance wos forward at the Rainpow's spon enchanted waters. When John Thurston presently she looked up just "that all realize what Burke may be getting into little over the joined Constance, with a a frown. thinking" she Palm Tree doesn't at "1 was explained his mind. I believe the fraud's quite puffed up idea he's made something of conquest." Thurston answered rather gently. "Anyhow," he ulu and gone forever." She assented. John was silent for some time. he had done, "I, I've been trying to advice: Then. "I'd like to go, too." burst out. tell you I've taken your asked her to become-my "Yes," moving, "I know. wifes' "She told you?" he exclaimed. "No. You did." He was chagrined. do look like that," he said. "On the contrary. spendid." jily. "But right thing to do. héence-- absolutely no hope. why nia? I'm sure of it. only knew. Or" ed ruefully, per alone." He laughed with some bitter- you mess. "Oh, know what mean." He fell to a sudden petulance. When Thurston spoke again it was apparently in an effort to get {nto a more cheerful vein. "Seemingly," 3 another well-wisher aboard. With a pocket flashlight a deprecatory Ha l00ks well in these fittle compartments, on thig nar- row deck, his hands and feet seem ab- said, "Burke's over the side at Hono- she answered without "1 suppose I You've been She glanced up friend- I still think it was the A week or two Oh, didn't you speak in Califor- She originally liked you best. Does still, it «she Constance .add- "would if they'd let he said, "T have he THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929 Why, you're different, Y'sure wasn't intended for their little ol' birdcage kind of life. Nature meant y'for something lively-like, some- thing up end doing." . The girl laughed. "Nature," she sald, "meant me for a pirate. It's in my blood," she affirmed. "First a Norseman ravaging the coasts of England. Then, a British admiral ravaging everything else. And lastly, old Captain Ebenezer, with John Paul Jones, descending once more upon the coasts of England," Burke grinned in admiration. The girl turped ' to go; then paused, laughing back at him over her shoulder. "You, Ponape Burke," she said; "you and I-- I'm afraid we were born too late." At the rate the Rainbow was sailing, it was evident the yacht must soon make a landfall. In- deed, already eyes were peering for the first shadowy silhouette of the peeks of Oahu, As the Rainbow raised the pano- rama of dead craters that stands. rather barren, ahove the verdant town of Honolulu, none upon her decks was so exjectant as Palmyra Tree. For from the chaff of Pon- ape Burke's narration she had win- nowed the clean grain of beauty and romance that is the life of this {sland world of the palm tree. Her imagination was a-glow, Through the gateway of Hono- lulu she was to sail on into this world where Happiness is queen. She was to sail across the track- girl looked. Over {he white man's shoulder he seemed to be watching her to the end 'with that strange expressionless but intent stare, Palmyra faced abruptly away and snatched the ring from her finger. "Yes," she whispered, "I, I'm certainly glad to have seen the last of him." One short week ashore and the good ship Rainbow was at ses again, Bound she was now for the heart of Oceanica, the Equalorial isles of Micronesia. As the yacht was to put John Thurston aboard a Philippine transport at Guam, only a little southing, said the host | ess, would take them in among the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Caro- lines, that Milky 'Way of atolls along the Line, of which Ponape Burke had talked so alluringly. When Mrs, Crawford did not ex- plain was that the real duty, as she saw it, lay in depriving Thuraton's long legs of a chance, in this less cramped setting of Honoluu, to snap back to prespective. By rejecting both her lovers-- Van shortly efter John--Pa!myra had gained a reprieve from that question as to whether she, were in love with oné han or just dandy good pals with twe. The peaks of Oahu sang back into the moana, the deep, deep ocean, whence they had risen. One day, two days four, six upon a tempera~ mental sea; a whole week of heavy skies and rain and storm seemed to have carried the girl no further, A second week came and went; a of arms she owed her life. In the blinding roar, all she knew was that Van's arms were round ker, that he held her safc. Never did she suspect it was to another pair poet less sea as those brown mariners of old. As the girl, thus deep in reverie, stood. watching the distant peaks, she became aware of a presence at her side, Turning, she started up- on encountering the brown man, Olive, He gave tongue to a few syl- lables, paused perplexed, then fell back upon pantomime. The hour of departure had come. Soon Burke and he would go over the side and, forever, into oblivion, Palmyra smiled. She tried to overcome her aversion, to respond to his attempted farewell. As he she moved to speak, found herself helpless, returned the smile, The brown man, thus -counten- anced, laid the square finger upon her own breast. Having thus id- entified the girl as the being of the drama, he raised his hand, with extended arm, straight over his head. She thought he invoked the One above. But she gave this up when she saw that he waggled, flat- tered the fingers. When she shook her head, re- gretfully, he abandoned the up- raised hand as futile. He brought out a ring. Palmyra Tree had nev- er seen such a ring tortoise shell in laid with silver. There were letters on it; seemingly one word, tlirice repeated and separated by discs-- the word "N-i," Olive pointed to the letters, then to the girl and once more hell aloft the hand with the moving fingers. But again she shook her head. The brown man stood baffled. Then, grinning anew, he hurried away forward. The savage, presently returning, thrust into the girl's hand a-litho- made visible for her small object of woven figre: @ black cord wound round a packet perhaps two inches square. "When I came on deck: this mern- {ng."" he explained, 'Olive incar- nated himself before me. Looked about furtively, jerked my coat-tail graph, an advertisement of Egyp- tian cigarettes, He pointed to the silver letters of the ring and pronounced the word "Ni," then to her with a sec- ond "Ni" and to the picture with a her fingers. . third, He dropped tne ring into up, fastened this round my walst. Then he gave me friendly grin and vanished." "But." she puzzled, "what Is it." fine mat, seven hairs and a tooth,"-- "Inside there's =u, hit of a good luck charm. "But, but why...." "How should I know? She was thoughtful. to be wishing you good luck." She examined the amulet again Then, from her lips: "John, promise me you will not leave the Rainbow at. Honolulu." was pushing on at her best pace, setting up such a lively stir 'at her prow as to ach- {eve the small, private rainbow for with an absent attention, the smile fading The yacht. which she had been mamed. Burke and Palmyra were garding the pensive Palmyra. As though defining her very thoughts he spoke. "Excuse me, Miss," he temptuous gesture. That's what--tame. But "At any rate," she said finally. "he seems on deck--Burke was quizzically re- said. "Those others--* a slightly eon- "They're tame you? At last the girl who was named Palmtree understood. For there in the advertisement was a palm- tree. The upraised hand had sym- bolized the palm---herself. Olive but sought to give her a ring with her name upon it. When the hour of leavetaking came, however, he seemed to hive reentered with silence and the fare wells devolved upon Ponape Burke. As this little stowaway reached her in his round he achieved a sim- ple eloquence of feeling. "You've been kind t'me, miss," he said. I ain't a-gding t'forget it, Nor you." She shook hands with an unas- sumed friendliness. - "I'm sure," she said, "we shal see you again." Sharply he glanced at her, as if eager to know whether she really had such a hope. Then he shrugged, island-wise, "It's a large ocean lady. With you and me it's just lights passing in the dark; a hail, and then--nothing." A minute later Palmyra's pirates were swinging over the side into their boat. Burke raised: his hat jauntily. But it was rather at the savage the week "of Sunimief sea' ¥nd lusty trades and flying yacht, But still no answer, The third week came and neared its end. Intermitent now the breeze for they touched the equat- orial zone of light and variable airs, A whole day through, perhaps, the Rainbow would scarcely move. Slowly unconsciously, Palmyra had been responding to the con- ditions created by the wily Mrs. Crawford. As the breeze, with each knot of wrestling, had been sinking more dangerously into the doldrums, breath of her own feel- ing had stirred, risen fresh, fair, constant, until it reached the deep sweep of a maiden's first acknow- ledged love. Gladly she was confessing it now, this belated recognition of love for the man of her parents' choice, Van Buren Rutger, And she must have treated John Thurston abominably, With each moment that she gave herself more convincedly up to love, her pity for Thurston 'grew. But when, on the twenty-second evening out from} Honolulu--to- morrow they were to sight their first toll--:the hour came for the formal announcement of her betro- thal, the girl was radiantly happy. True, at the moment when Mrs. Crawford spoke, it was upon the face of John Thurston that Palm- yra's eyes rested, and she could but wince at the flash of pain there re- vealed. But no girl in love can, on her bethrothal night, long be un- happy over the face of a rejected suitor. So it was, that night, as Palm- yra lay asleep in her stateroom, her body gently moving with the lift and fall of the yacht in the mid- Pacific calm, there was g tender- smile upon her lips. And the tender smile was still in gering, in an alluring wanmth and sweetness and beauty, when the Rainbow, caught all unaware by a sudden squall, came down with a crash upon the teeth of a reef-- that should not have been there. On a craft such as the Rainbow interest naturally centers about the navigation, . Wha¢ better then for Mrs. Crawford in her amiable intrigue than to set up Van Buren Rutger as a gentleman navigator? How more' pleasantly important than, handsome, graceful, jaunty in his white uniform he poised with sex- tant to take the sun or bent over the charts with Constance and the Wampolds and Palmyra? In so far featuring Van as a yachts man--he was no more than a fairly competent amateur--the = hostess had meant that Pedersen in the back ground should unostentat- dously check up on his work at every point, But. ... The sailing master was 2 man vain, self-important, jealous of 'his prerogatives, touchy as to his dig- nity. Not withstanding Mrs. .Craw- ford's motive, he chase to regard the arrangement as an imputation upon his setmanship, his filncss-- which re himself doubted--Ilonger to, command, i | this siek and sulky old man was Van so on discovered then that | only making an outward show; in reality having nothing to do with the navigation, leaving the fate of the yacht absolutely in Van's own | | hands, ; a inability to take a sl anything unpleasant, dif- ficult, to make up ry ai act in an emergency, kept Van a first from telling the hostess. Lat- er he continued with an object, He. know she did not truly rely om im in this showy fraud of naviga- n; he suspected Palmyra was not deceived. Knowing his own weak- ness, he had the weak man's fear of seeing that knowledge reflected in the faces of others. Therefore, he would, without aid, sail the Rainbow to and through the Line island groups. And then, when at last he told the gir], she could not but admire his performance, On the night of the wreck, Van really heroic in persisting aginst a quaking unconfidence that kept bim often awake--had stolen on deck in the mid-watch to reassure himself. His first glance told him the clouds were gathering for a squall, Like most unadventurous per- eons, Van rebeiled at being thought timid; Before rousing the watch he paused to make sure the clouds'| meant winds. As he studied the sky he gradually became aware of a low sound as of an express train far eway. Startled, he swept the sea; then laughed in self-contempt. More than once lately in dreams or waking he had sprung up at that fancied sound of surf. The yacht should not have land aboard auntil late the next day. To call out there was an island a-lee, if there were none, would be to make himself absurd. Staring now up at the blackening sky, again off into the gloom of ses, he stood, balanced in suspense bet- ween his fear of storm and lee- shore, and his dread of ridicule. For this first time Van held life and death in his hands--and could not decide what to do, The sound of surf being at Its minimum after two days' calm, tke first breath of the squall was upon the yacht before Van was galvaniz- ed into action by discovering, hard on 'the port bow, a dim loewyring something against the sky--Abe sil- houette of palms, But even as the doomed Rainbow thus lay between hammer ana an- vil, she could have begn extricated had not Captain Pedcreen himealf gone to pieces. | In the precions remaining mo- ments a bewildered crewd tried to execute incoherent crdsrs, while the yacht was beaten down upon the waiting coral. Following the crask upon the reef, Thurston picked hizwec!f up and scrambled to the deck jus as a sea came roaring ahoarl. Saved by a spring into the rigginz he waited a chance to reach Pedersen, whose condition he had sessed. | Seizing the sailing master he whi:l- ed him round, Vem arasi" be erizd. go The other quailed under the steely light in Thurston's eye, "Get below." "I'll take charge," Thurston ap- nounced. The pumps showed that the wreck was taking water badly. Such boats as could be launched were got ready. The men obeyed unquestioning- ly. They liked, respected Thurston, He knew little of ships but they recognized in his voice the quality of command, During the hours which followed it might well have seemed to Pal- myra that the wreck had been ar- ranged for the sole purpose of { bringing out the difference betweeh ; John Thurston and Van Buren Retger. Where Van was sunk in self- accusing misery, Thurston's spirits were buoyant, The man was ser- ene, methodical, busy. And he had action at last; intence, vital. In fighting to save the woman he loved he could forget, for the mom- ent, that he had lost her forever. Where Van was soon sodden with fatigue, John seemed fresher with every hour. It had been decided to leave the women in the cabin where they had been penned, rather than risk the ugly surf that broke about the af- ter companion. But Van, in his self-accusing frenzy, was conscious only that he had placed his betrothed in the hands of death, that he musi save her. . He rushed toward the cabin com- panionway. Before anyone notic- ed, he had thrown it open in the face of another sea. A second later he was swept down its steps by the flooding water. Catching up Palmyra he strug- gled back and deck. Only then, at a warning ery, did he seem consciously to per- caive what force it was that deliver d these blows. Stopping short, he looked back. A crest reared above the wreck, gathering itself like some animate beast for the sprnig. Van, horror stricken, started one way, another; stood frozen in his tracks. In an instant the sea would have been upon him. From that slip- pery listing deck both man and girl would, in all chance, have been carried overboard to death. In the blinding roar, all she knew was thatéVan's arms were around her, that he held her safe, Never did she suspect it was to another pair of arms she owed her life. . Of all these revelations, these manifestations of the weakness of Van Buren Rutger, the strength of John Thurston, the girl noted none. On the night ot her betroth- al she would scarcely have been likely, under and circumstances, to' draw comparisons. And here dark- ness and groping confusion and the voice of waters conspired with Thurston himself to hide the truth. Palmyra's love weathered the storm, unquestioning, serene. (Continued Tomorrew) & 8 out again on the |. + The producing field in, the Tur- ner Valley of Alberta was great- ly extended when the Home wells blew-in_ at Calmont toward the southeastern end of the basin. Home numbers 1, 2 and 4 are secn in the illustration. REVIVING PEOPLE APPARENTLY DEAD (NDER DISCUSSION Physicist says it can be done but doubts value Paris,--The assertion of the Russian scientist, Professor Feo- dor Andrietch Andriey, that he can bring the dead back to life, need give no one cause for surprise. To those who would inquire as to where" such an individual's sou! was during the time 'that he was dead 'there is no cause for worry. The whole matter hinges on what we define as death. The ultimate definition must be that it is thar state of an individual which defies revival, regardless of whatever new tolls may be devised. There is an old toast which goes, "While we live let's live in clover, for when we're dead we're dead all over." If this were true, revival would be impossible. But it is not true. We are not like the deacon's wonderful one-horse shay. We do not suddenly collapse in every organ. Some one part weurs out or fails temporarily. In the past what might have been only temporary failur, of a single organ was enough to cause death. ow, if somehow the duties of this or- gan are taken over in some fashion until revival of that organ is brought about, all may go on a» before. It is this fact which Professor Andriev apparently makes use of. Let us say the heart fails. If in- jections are given to prevent blood coagulation and injections of aa- renlin, a well known heart stimu- lant, are immediately applied, the heart may begin to function again. Without the possibility of such a procedure the patient must certain. ly be considered dead, and not many years ago certainly wo 1d have been gone past recovery. Now he may live akain. He was in reality no more dead than he would have been had the muscles in his arm been tempor- arily paralyzed. Such a paralysis would not cause death, yet a vvs- sation of heart beat would have done so unless a remedy were im- mediately applied. One must not think of heart cessation as death, but rather as one cause of death. It "vas reported'a short time ago that Dr. O. S. Gibbs, of Dalhousie University, was able to keep cats alive over long periods of time with a rubber pump substituted for a heart. If the lack of a true heart can be considered as death, then certainly these cats which went through the appearances of having life were dead. In their case they were, perhaps, more likely to nve over a period of time than an in- dividual who had been revived ac- PAGE SEVEN a evrew.. NUG opens w ) and 1t's the best polish too/ cording to Professor Andriev's method. A heart, having failed once, would seem to he likely to fail again. Better to replace it with a substitute. Perhaps the phrase, "he has the heart of an ox," may yet have a very specific mean:uy. Is it possible that a man may vet prolong his life over many years by thus providing himself with spare parts as the are needed? It has been known to be a possi- bility for some time of reviving the kidney, liver, heart and even the brain after removal from the body, and so it was only natural to attempt to revive the entire body. Such revival may be particularly applicable to those who have "died" from shock, maladminis- tration of chloroform on the oper- ating table, those suffocated by gas, and perhaps those who have been drowned. In evaluating Professor An- driev"s work we are forced to con- sider "it along with other methods of prolonged life; for, in the final analysis, that .is all it ig. 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