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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929 Olive marched proudly up the sand, the girl In his arms a dead burden, * The rifle fire ag was to have n expected, had brought the gers running from their tches, Scarcely had the brown jan emerged out of the sea than hese Micronesians were swarming own. Excited voices filled the air. "O-lee-vay--O-lee-vay--O-lee yi!" ir this, then, was where he jeould bring. her; the home of his ipeaple, the place of his own abode. | Here were the people moving bout; prown men, yellow men, 'white men; the last in white cloth- g and white shoes, with white ith helmets pulled down over their noses to keep out the glare of the white sand. And here was even a hite woman, who popped her head out a window; like a cuckoo out of a clock. | And there, most astonishing of 'all, not five feet away and as real as lite itself, stood John Thurs- ton. And he gazed at her gorrowful- 1y and said, in the strangest voice; "Palm Tree! Oh, oh, Palm!" | It was mot until fifteen hours miter the brown man had restored Palmyra Tree to the world of the living that she once more opened er eyes. Then, in a half-walking ght, she reared herself up with a cry of "Olive!" The next moment she herself in her mother's arms. When she roused again, several hours later, the Crawfords were at the bedside with her mother and father. Palmyra sat up abruptly with the question: "Where have they got Ponape Burke?" The four looked from one to another, hesitant. At her tirst awakening the girl had been told how the Okayama had brought her people into this harbor on the search. "Yoy, you don't mean.." She paused, incredulous. "You don't mean the bunboat was right here hen T came and didn't steam out te cateh him?" | She saw that this unbelievable jthing was trye. Unexpectedly, she prang to er feet. "Where's live?" her voice rang sharp fright med | But Olive himself was asleep. Her father began to explain. "phe Pigeon of Noah is an Ameri- mn vessel." ""An@ there's been so much fric- itign beiwedn . Japan and Ameri- * injenjestsd the mother. "And Commander Sakamoto was if he seized the schooner on he high seas it would get into the merican papers wrong and stir jap more misunderstanding and ill will. ..." { ane my dear," finished Con- Crawford, 'you were to thes ends of diplo- e Jap finding you safe |} the lesser evil was to let Bu le escape." . Crife's just had a long talk with Olive, " said Mrs. Crawford. Dr.' Crife of the mission was their | host. | - The girl exclaimed in astomish- ment. ! 'He can, he can talk te him? Me can understand him?" She seemed hardly to believe. utterly, with her, had the, 'own man been heyond reach of, words, it had seemed no one, with' found ape Burke gone, bridge that gap between Babel's |most diverse languages. | "And to think," cried Con- {sance, "they got the letter al | wrong. Made us believe poor live, who was being 50 wondertul, was a villain." The color flooded Palmyra's cheeks in the intensity of her in- terest. { "But this particular pastor eouldn't explain clearly." said the father "and the Jap, misled by pour name, didn't understand at rll. What Olive really writes is to beseech, in Jehovah's' name, that whatever friends get the letter hurry with arms and many boats to a named island, there to help him save... "Dr. Crite says there's absclute- ly no question about the word 'save' " put in Constance. « \.-"Help him save the high chief young lady Palmtree." The girl settled back among her pillows. Tears welled into her ayes. "It was enough that I should have wronged him," she sald, "It Is unthinkable you all should have been guilty of the crowning mis- conception." | 'She shifted pome time in silence, through the window. i "Jf they hadn't bungled the let- ter," she said at last wearily, "I should have been spared much. {And it you hadnt let Ponape Burke I shouldn't now be in daun- jger still." { At last Palmyra could talk to Dlive. | After all these days and years and centuries of silence, they two, by the intervention of Dr. Orife, had been made-articulate. She learned that the brown man served Ponape Burke in a debt of gratitude; the saving of his lite He ie for this white rascal a sort of love, and no sort of respect. Great souls must, of their nature, suffer petty tyranny. And Olive-- often, according to his lights, regretting, lisapproving, always palliating-- uneasily, lay for gazing self of t trom Thu could ever (; ape to her under ever, to fall of darker race? Soul --followed Ponape, he. despicable little She learned that Olive had not known Burke meant to abduct her. And she found that in the begin ning he had thought it, not an ab- duction, but an elopement. Only when the scheoner got un- der way did he perceive that this was no adventure of Palmyra's own choice. not soon begin to smile through her tears as many a native girl might have done, did he realize how terrible tion. Olive's first the girl would feel safer with a weapon; also that she might possib ly need one. As he dared not give her the knife in daytime, he had dropped it through the skylight. When the Japenese passed them so cruelly by, Olive had been as eager as she to at- tract attention. But he had known the distance too great. Only when she did to per the situa- thought was that gunboat As regarded Jaluit he had not gone there because it was so ob- viously the place he should have gone. Burke was sure to wy that lagoon first. This much Dr. Crife could Yous for her: Incarnate there before this Is- lander's eyes on the Rainbow, she had been not a being--as from another world. A high white princess called life-giving palm and crowned with hair of flame, she had condescend-! ed to him with blankets when a brown creature was with that most terrible of things ~--cold. unlike a goddress; indeed she was-- for the stately in misery-- Olive was not in love with Palm Tree, One does not consider one- self privileged to fall in love with a goddess. But from the deck at her feet intimately vet afar, he had gazed up at her--facinated. If Palmyra now knew how Olive felt toward her, she was fa. from knowing how ward Olive. she felt to- And if her only difficulty with But Van Buren Rutger had been a re- luctance to give found every difficulty' with John Thurston. Van himself had made easy. Returning to the late hour the third night he had come upon Olive with a rifle, "Ponape is not dead," the brown simply. looked upon as a touching mani- festation to devotion, to regard with suspicion. moto shall know of this," wag his comment. Palmyra had been that, there broken the engagement. Van's dismissal that position wherein a weak man not infrequently lacks moral cour- age to turn upon his real rival. He must find an easier target for his resentment. him pain, she things mission at a prowling about had explained which others man that Van chose "Saka- incensed she had 80 and then, placed him in Thus Van, without in the Yeast perceiving why, remained amiable toward Thurston, but de- veloped an ugly spite against this man of darker skin. But if Palmyra had freed her- |" self of Van, she could not free her- mt which withheld her Back there 3 the canoe, in her, ment of revelation, she had sarned to meet him once more, h to & ee the HY ishingly, she had awakened into she found herselfg' quite unready to step up to him; with any such confession. ton old lite, , that she might tell, ut now that, as «+ She willed to love John Thurs- Oddly she fon; she did love John Thurston. But between them was the brown man Olive, and, hind his elbow, the face of Pon- Burke. Concerning Olive justify herself on the ground of gratitude. reason to be grateful. Was it not natural take him presents, to sit in his house questioning, to find herself hour by hour more curious concern ing him, more interested in him than in any living being? leering from be- she tried to Never had a girl more should be eager to enough--or rather, naturally enough--it did not come for some time whether she might be in love with this brown man. Then struck like an unexpected blow. She was stuuned. to ask the {dea At first she put the thought from her in abhorrence. But in the still hourg of the night back again and again. 'Could she indeed be in love with Olive? Was it possible for an any circumstances what- it came American girl, in love with a man She shuddered to think others might believe this thing of her. She avoided Olive, kept to anal- yze her emotion, to weigh them dispassionately, striving, she was at last able to say of herself that, she be accused of loving And, honestly in no sense, Not for long did she find the answer. Then it came like release from a prison cell. She was in love not with Olive himself, his attributes. ut with She wanted to love John for the true manliness that was his. alas, those splendid qualities ype two possessed in common had come to seem the personal quali- ties of Olive alone. She remamber- ed how he had gone after But the shark with the knife....and con- quered.... The sun was less than an hour high when Palmyra, as she had done for several mornings now, descended the windin stair- way hewn in the hillside from the mission direct to the street of the town, Islang life was already astir. The girl was addressed by an old woman. "Pleasy you," said this od crone in English, "you come for look for see ve'y fine Pingelap mat. You like too much for buy." She would have refused, but now she caught a glimpse of Van ap- proaching. Several times he had trapped her inte painful inter- views. But this morning she could use the ancient dame, as a gaping listener, to keep Van silent. "Where is your 'ouse?" the girl asked tentatively. The thatch toward which the crone pointed stood conspicuous ly. Immediately against one side was the water and a small whart of coral fragments by which the traffic of the town went to the anchorage. As close on the inland side was the road and, opposite, the trading establishment of a white man and the high concrete wall of the Japanese police com- pound. The house was quite by itself on the water side of the highway, yet immediately in the centre of the village life. Van now came sauntering up and Palmyra indicated this place. "Come on," she invited. "My old lady is taking me for look-see for ve'y tin Pingey-something mat." Several drops of rain fell. Van agreed. "But there's a squall coming," he said. "I'll run back first for umbrellas." As he turned away she hesitat- er, unexpectedly afraid at being left alone. But as she moved forward a Japanese policeman, saluting be- ningly, reasured her. And she saw every step brought her nearer those two representatives cf the civil and the moral law, which lay at anchor beyond the wharf, the Okayama and the Iju Ran which is the latest, perhaps the last or the Morning Stars in which the American missionaries have ecar- ried the Word. The old woman's house was not | only conspicuous in in appearance. The thatches of roofed, sided with woven tat, nar- row doored. But this hut was oval and open--vaguely the architec: ture of central Polynesia. The girl stooped to enter, then drew back in one of those sudden apprehensions that still beset her Who knew where Ponape Burke would strike? This house seemed safe; might indeed be safer than the mission. But yet.... She peered in; saw only three old women. No one could be in hiding, none approach without be- ing seen. Palmyra entered, ward the central posts, interestedly around. Suddenly, something dropped past her eyes, and the three old women hurled thémselves at her. So unexpected the attack from such as these, in an open shed such as this, at almost the settle- fmen's busiest and most public spot, that the girl was caught unready. Ang before she could move a mus- ole, ery out, her throat was tom- ressed--a terrible, choking pres- ure. She fought for breath. Then her arms pinioned, came relief and a fierce warning: 'No 'peaky, no aky!" At the moment of the on- all her guide, still behind her, had advanced to- glanced pped round her throat a fibre op, a brutal tourniquet with 'which she could, instantly. be 'strangled into silence--or death. The women, fearing Van might soén arive, prepared to take their prisoner immediately away. At first Palmyra thought this impossible. But now she made a discovery. Though the thatch was so notor- iously to the forefront as to seem above suspicion, the high wall of the police compound ended direct- ly opposite, and turned inland, leaving between it and the plank wall of the trader's a three-foot lane. This path, she recollected being told, ran back for half a mile, a mere passageway betwetn the wall and mangrove swamp up- on which she "had looked down from her mission window. And the mouth of that hidden path was no more than twenty fett distant. Until an alarm had been given the people would be unsuspieious. The French trader across the way had locked up hig place and gone out to breakfast. The native pas- sersby were coming in detached groups. Palmyra's captors need wait only until no one was near. Then, closing round her, they could whisk her across, screening her with one or two of the ever- present umbrellas, raised either against a shower or the equatorial sun. But almost et the moment of the sortle there came an interrup- tion. One of the old women, stoop- ing down to glance out, discovered the girl's father and mother and Coustance Crawford approaching --already close. Panic ensued. If her captors had not been danger- ous before, they certainly were now. The prisoner would have scream- ed. Unconsciously, she extended [vol her lungs to take in the necessary air. But, on the second, that fibre cord cut deep into her flesh. ! Gasping, she was thrust under the mosquito net; thrown flat, head on pamboo pilow. Two of the hags followed her into the netting, sat prissed against her on either ide. These snatched off her hat nd veil, threw over her a cover ng. Meanwhile the erone who had ured her here had taken a mach- ote and seated herself on the patch of grass before the house. Within the house, Palmyra's two guardians had begun a low- ed singing. She perceived her- as a sick woman. These two kindly old souls sat inside the net to comfort her, while hefore the hut, a third waited ready to answ- er solicitous inquiry. And any commotion of struggle 'which might catch the transient eye would be taken for a round of that Jama go which is the native's cure all. Her captors had taken impish advantages of that trait in human nature which causes man never really to. look at a thing in plain sight. She was intensely alert. At the slightest orportunity she meant to scream to fight. Since her escape from Burke she herself had carried a small automatic pistol, At the first chance she'd use it. Now, however, she saw Van Bur. en Rutger approaching, and sank back again. The others had not known. Van did know. But just as the trio had strolled away and the mewcomer almost reached the house, here unexpected ly, was the man Martin. He ran up to Van. Excitedly he spoke, "Say, mister. .Your lady friend. That red-headed girl." Van drew back stiffly. "Miss Tree is in 'his house," he said. Martin was vehement. No, that she wasn't! Outlaw natives had her. Hurrying her away. Van stared, incredulous, alarmed. "1 got it straight," cried Mar- tin. "There's twenty of 'em or more--all with guns. And they're running her for the Puelike Rocks." The Rocks were a noticeable formation not far inland. All Van's suspicions of the brown man burst forth in the one ery ' "Olive!" Palmyra, seeing, hearing, burn- ed with contempt. The stranger now took the initiative. "I'll warn the Japs," he said. "You run for the mission. remember--the Pueliko Rocks." But at this moment here came John Thurston. He was jumping up to the wharf from a boat. At sight of him Van's face ighted with relief. Instantly, Thurston began throw off hig white coat. "Olive? Nonsense!' yet to location but i "I tell you," Van affirmed shril- ly, "she's in love with the damned { kanaka and he, he's got her." CLAMS RETURN T0 FAMOUS POOL Biddeford Pool Once Well Known for Supply of Clams this island were rectangular, sharp ' Biddeford, Me., July 7.--Biddeford Pool, for several years without the clams that once made it famous, again has a supply that is greater than ever, The return of the clams recalls a mystery that local fisher- men have long discussed without de- finite solutiofi. The pool itself is a great basin. a mile in radius, entrance being gained through a narrows called The Gut, through which the tides race as they ebb and flow. At low water great areas of most prolific clam flats are laid bare. Pool clams have long been famous for their size and succulence. No matter how many = bushels the clammers: dug, there never seemed to be any diminution in the number of the shellfish. Six years ago, however, pool clams began to disappear. Bureau of Fish- eries experts visited Biddeford Pool but could offer no solution of the mysterious Sisappes ances of clams from the flats. State experts took the matter up, and a proposition to re- seed the flats with baby clams from other sections met with such favor tions where they would plant. Speculation over the situation and its possible remedies passed. The flats were abandoned and to a cer- tain extent forgotten. Now nature has stepped in and done what man planned to do several years ago. Waldo S. Verrill, a lifelong resi- dent of Biddeford Pool and a retired lobster and fish dealer, offers an ex- planation which is commonly accept- ed, His theory is that Biddeford Pool fishermen long made a practice of cleaning their day's catch of fish and tossing the offal on the flats 'at low water to be washed clean again by the incoming tides, This brought the trouble. Verrill says that when the flats are covered with only an inch or two of water the clams project their heads from their shells above the bottom to feed. This was precisely the stage of tide when, six years ago, a vast horde of unusually large crabs infested the flats, Attracted by the where, _ In their scramblings over the flats in the shallow water they came upon snipped them off and devoured them. Qther fishermen corroborate Mr. Verrill's explanation, They say this great army of strange, predatory crabs must have come in from the deep sea for some unusual reason--perhaps expressly to annihilate the clams of Biddeford Pool! Once that end was achieved they disappeared, and their species has never been seen in the pool Lance + that pool residents laid out the sec- | fish cleanings, they swarmed every- the heads of the clams and eagerly: RUSSIAN PIONEER IS WOMAN DENTIST Fugitive From Bolshevism Establishes Successful Business in Shanghai New York, July 17--"Modern wo- men are trying to do too much, No- body can be successful in a profes- sion or business, run a home in addi- tion and. still have time and energy left for friends, reading, music and other necessities of a larger life." This is the opinion of a distinguish- ed visitor to America, Dr. Antonnia Wazimiroff, the only woman dentist in Shanghai, China, a Russian who fled St. Petersburg when the Bolshe- viks overthrew the Czar, When she left her home in Viadi- vostock to study medicine in St. Pe- tersburg 20 odd years ago, she was the only girl in her classes and when graduated, the only woman dentist there. "When we finished school in Viadi- vostock, the idea of women going in- to professions was in the air," she explained. "I went with three other girl friends on that long trans-Siber- ian trip clear across Russia to reach gollep We felt such adventurers! I deliberately choose dentistry be- cause no women were in the field and I felt I had a better chance to succeed." Her choice proved excellent, After post-graduate work in Berlin, Dr. Kazimiroff was made Assistant Pro- fessor of Dentistry at Petrograd Uni- versity which position she held, in addition to private practice, when the revolution broke, "All my family escaped unharmed." Her face clouded as she recalled those strenuous times 10 years ago. "In fact, we have a regular settlement of Russian relatives and friends in Shanghai today." Chinese, both men and women, are numbered among Dr. Kazimiroff's pa- tients, She is tremendously interest- ed in Chinese children's teeth because preventive dental work is just begin- ning in Shanghai, =~ ENVOY'S WELCOME IN TOKIO ASSURED Charge d'Affaires at Can- adian Legation Paves the Way Tokio, July 17.--1It has already been proved that Hugh Keenleyside, Can- ada's recently arrived charge d'af- faires in Tokio, is a good mixer--a characteristic peculiarly appreciated in the capital of Japan. He umpired a baseball game played last month between the "staff of the United States embassy and high of- ficials of the Foreign Office and he did it to the entire satisfaction of both sides and of the crowd who watched the pleasantly humorous battle of 'the diplomats. Mr. Keenleyside has established the Canadian legation in Shibuya, one of the most prominent residen- tial districts in Tokio. This part of the capital has acquired importance chiefly since the great earthquake of: 1923. Hon. Herbert Marler, Cana- dian Minister to Japan, will arrive to take charge later this summer. Tokio newspapers have given Mr. Special Shoe Values] Remnants of Good Selling Summer Of white and sun tan shoes for ladies. Nearly all sizes in the lot, but mostly 4/3 or under. Regular values up to $7.00. Special $1.98 PURE SILK HOSE Full fashioned and in popular colors. Sizes 8! only, $1.29 CHILDREN'S STURDY SLIPPERS In tan or patent. Some with buckles, Sizes 4-7 $1.09; 8-10 $1.29; 11-2 $1.49 Smart Two-Tone SPORT SHOES For men. Several styles. Sizes 6-10. Special $4.95 The Burns Co., Ltd. OSHAWA "40 YEARS DEPENDABLE SERVICE" A France. These are only natural and proper developments, "We welcome the exechange of ministers between Japan and Canada, and even regret that it was not done earlier. portant than Australia or South Af- rica. Her wealth is estimated at 44,- 000,000,000 yen, while the wealth per of the two most important papers of | capita is about 5000 yen. Her in- Tokio, which says:-- dustries and trade are developing ra- "In welcoming Mr. Hugh Keenley- | pidly. side, first secretary of the Canadian "In 1922 it was decided to station a legation, and first diplomat of Can-| Canadian minister in Washington, ada to be stationed in Japan, We| nip wag done in 1926, and an Am- wish to express our poy at having p 420 ministers exchanged between Japan | €rican minister was sent to Canada. Two years later similar diplomatic and Canada. ; y "Canada is larger and more reprsentation was established with Keenleyside a warm welcome, Re- presentative of this is an editorial ar- ticle in the Asahi (Morning Sun), one Contracts have been awarded for the new additions to the grain ter« minals at Halifax, N.S. which will give the harbour a grain handlin capacity of nearly twenty-five millio: bushels. / im- ----THE FAIR-- SALE ASTOUNDING BARGAINS! All our Stock to be Cleared Out . AT RIDICULOUS PRICES Thursday, F riday, Saturday THE Stylish Coats and Dresses Right-up-to-the-minute. Within the Reach of Every Purse. Days. Everything in the store reduced less than cost. COATS 40 Only Spring's Latest Styles Sizes 14 up to 40--Remarkable Values--Out They Go at Half Price To Be Cleared Out in the Next 3 OUT GO THE SUITS They must Go to Help Us Secure Room for Fall Stock 15 Suits in Tweeds. Regular price $20.00. To Clear at $7.95 FAIR, 7 Simcoe St. S. OUT GO THE and Shades Less Than