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them she broke out the American colors. When she was abreast of their to in lee of the reef. A boat was peared to be a white man. &-W&:u&qu:: rapidly through passage ncross the Ingoon. Then in astonishâ€" ment, she lowered the bincculars to state at Van Buren Rutger. He was now dancing over the coral clinkers like a musical comedy butâ€" tunity. ~ s > Here spoke her good common sense. And, being unaware of Mrs. Crawâ€" ford‘s vriginal plot, she could hardly be expected to note that the wreck had reversed the situation; that where, before, John had been put to disadâ€" vantage now Van had been given the role he could not play. The inevitable had occurred between these men. As Thurston had risen to leadership, so Vanâ€"had sunk to his place as a private in the ranks. Palâ€" myra did not see, suspect. They were easily cheered that first day. True, the island bore no sign of native visitation. _ But with their lsunch they could easily reach the nearest inhabited lagoon, or they could even build a seaâ€"worthy craft from material of the wreck, were they not certain some passing sail would soon take them off. Thus the first day. But when the second came and went and the third began to despond. At night a beacon fire had blazed forth its appealâ€"they must scon turn to the Rainbow for fuelâ€"and by day the launch waited to mmm.':.«m avail these upon a sea no one seemed to venture. . 4& And then, at midday, from the wreck across the lagoon, there boomed out the signal gun. A saillâ€"a sail!! â€"a sail{f! Rapidly the deliverer rose from the sen. A vessel of no great tonnage, she sailed with noticeable speed. _ As the schooner bore down upon "?H“um-u-ui "If it ian‘t W1 old Pirate Burke." _ Palmyra, through her glasses, saw :flflw&mmmfimh them were undoubtedly native seaâ€" men. ‘The third, who had beer reconâ€" been something to do; the stronger mature had asserted itself. And the ship‘s company, acquiescing thus autoâ€" matically, with scarcely any regisâ€" tered sense of change, paid him its highest compliment. ‘ Palmyra had not been consciously aware of Thurston‘s leadership until hours after the catastrophe. her attiâ€" She turned to John and Van. "It is pretty," she said, "butâ€"cruel." She felt a first little shiver of realization. ‘There is nothing upon it. No shelter, {h urston whirled upon him. "Don‘t‘" he cried. "Don‘t dare tell them that. We‘ll filter sait water through this sand or rig a condenser with junk from the wreck." even of Thurston himself. There had She had not thought to wonder why Thurston, rather than her fiance, had been chosen. He had a reputation for efficiency in handling men. Van tude was typical of them all, perhaps away entertains them with wild tales of an adventuresome lifeâ€"which his listeners refuse to believe! Daylight made clear two facts: the Rainbow had struck in such a way that it would be impossible to get her off; the island was uninhabited. As the exploratory boat rounded a spur of reef that covered the passage into the lagoon, opened out the largâ€" est island from the sea, Palmyra burst into an exclamation of delight. Van gave her a haggard look. "And," he said, "there‘s not one drop of wikter. When we‘ve used what we Paimyra Tree, aboard the yacht Rainbow, is startied by seeing a hand thrust through the port of her cabin. She makes a secret investigation and discovers a stowaway. She is disâ€" appointed in his mild appearance and tells him so. Obeying his command to glance at the doorâ€"she sees a huge fierce, copperâ€"huedâ€"manâ€"with a ten Palmyra spends more and more time with the stowaways to avoid Van and John, but when the stowaways are put ashore at Honolulu she decides she loves Van. The night the engageâ€" ment is announced the Rainbow hits a reef. In the excitement which folâ€" lows John rescues both Van and Palâ€" myraâ€"but Palmyra thinks it is Van who saved her. Now read on:â€" lips! Burke, the stowaway, explains that it is a joke. But Palmyra â€"is brown man go up on deck. The stowâ€" What‘s Happened Before neither occasion nor opporâ€" CHAPTER IV W t‘keep four boats moving," n-h'zuut-o':mh.m; c-'ty,cnlodlut:-:....c-â€"J out with cargo, discharging “-“ :.:-. fi"a. the boat y‘leve. The square fingers closed and her own hand was swallowed, disappeared in that grip clear to the wrist. There came a pull, as if the arm were to follow the hand in, and then Paimyra found herself on deck and standing to the deck. The big sailor gave him a look to see if the order had more than rouâ€" tine significance, then lumbered after Burke. | ‘ .In the boat the girl‘s mind was gradually brought back to the someâ€" thing in Burke‘s manner which she has not been able to analyze. For now it was so noticeably upon him that he was either constrained, absent or too Ponape Burke assented. "Sort of in charge aboard," he expiained. "I ain‘t got a mate. Still talking about you; yer name and yerâ€"red hair." The boat rounded the stern and then the girl looked up to findâ€"as if his eyes had never ceased to followâ€" the grinning stare of the man Olive flndumh'hnulthdfi“\ out at Honolalu. \ exorably. Thurston acquiesced. But as Burke was being carried down to the boats, John turned to Johannsen, acting mate, and said: "You yourself be one of our three men to go aboard andâ€" stay." . _ "And how is Olive?" she asked in and awkward interval. "He‘s with you. of course?" His great naked body rose above the rail and a thick bare arm came extending itself down toward her, inâ€" Details were arranged. Burke would get back aboard at once to take charge on the schooner. The yacht‘s launch, with Qm of her own men, would tow Burke‘s boat out, both loaded with stores. While these were unloading at the Lupeâ€"aâ€"Noa, Thurston would ‘get his other boats into the water, sort over the supplies. taking cargo. So I better invite only one this trip." He winked at Thursâ€" ton. "And Miss Tree she asked first, and seeing as how she was the best student I had for my South Sea lecâ€" tures, seems as if she had ought t‘he first ‘lay aboard a genuine South Sea The launch hove a line to the Pigeon‘s boat and one of the native boys stood ready to carry his master Now, however, Palmyra, unable to satisfy a youthfully poignant curiâ€" osity at long distance through her binoculars, spoke up eagerly. "Oh, Captain Burke, do please take me with you! 1‘d just love to be first aboard." "Me, too," cried Constance. The man was pleased, flattered. "Butâ€"" he hesitated awkwardlyâ€" "the boat‘s heavy loaded and there won‘t be no room aboard while we‘re Burke guffawed delightedly. . "I sure will feel like Noah," he said, "mâ€"taking you all on to the Ark, two by two." _He turned, presently, to the pile of salvaged stores and gear. The rest must be left under canvas and sent for. "We‘ll stow the very best first," said Burke in conclusion, "and then see what space we got left for second rate cargo." must have had some vague hope of such a reunion as this. For he was saying now that, on the Rainbow, he‘d withheld the fact he had a vessel of his own lyingâ€"up at Honolulu; withâ€" held it on the chance of "surprising ‘em somewhere out here." He interrupted himself with that oddly unâ€"adult mirth of his. Van seized his hand with impulsive warmth. "Why then this must be . . . Why, Mr. Noah, I didn‘t recogâ€" nize you now you‘ve shaved. . Or was it that she missed the obâ€" trusive humility? No longer a stowâ€" away, he spoke to Mrs. Crawford as one master of craft to another; a full note of equality. There could be no quéstion of his fond pride in that fast craft. And had they seen . . . Had they seen her name*? Oh, they‘d laugh when they did see. They‘d never guess in a thousand years. Pigeon of Noah. Was it that the ridiculous hibiliâ€" ments of the Rainbow had given way to the starched white of the tropical ship‘s master? Perhaps, after all, the fact might be no more than & juvenile sort of vanâ€" ity in himself as master of that swift sail; a vanity bubbling over at unexâ€" pectedly finding its audience. And he from the moment Ponape éager to behoid. He had convinced Pedersen that, to take advantage of prevailing winds and current, he must hyhhmfnnl-la“-hflntw the northern Gilbetsâ€" or Apaiangâ€"and thence make north and west into the Marchalls and the Carâ€" Informed to the lagoons ;odd-nh.::druh.hhd%! mu“lflm lying there unsuspected, to seite the‘ girl at some favorable moment ashore. | Burke had followed, then, hoiding wrist. Olive, grinning, took the beâ€" laying pin from her fingers, as if they had been a baby‘s, and returned it to the rack. talked of the atol‘s in the terms of a Continued on page 8 â€" Not by accident had the Pigéon of Noah risen from the sea upon the scene of their disaster. Back in the Ek!arnuflfl-mhlflderdt To‘ Van Buren Rutger rushed the girl‘s mother with something in her hands. It was a rifle. As oneâ€"of his accomplishments, Van had won troâ€" phies on the range. But now, conâ€" fronted by that violence his training had taught him never touched the life of a gentleman, he faltered, palsied in a fear of wounding the girl herself. Then John Thurston snatched the rifie. There was a flash and a bullet struck the Lupeâ€"aâ€"Noa, shattering the glass on the binnacle. A second flash, and Burke himself staggeered back. But before the schooner could fall off, he clutched the wheel again with one hand. As his left arm hung, the spot of blood, spreading slowly on the white cotton, was like some brilliant blossom. Burke bellowed his rage. He had swung the vessel over so that Palmyra, all unaware, stood in the line of fire. Thurston could not shoot again. w At ghls triumph, Burke regained his good humor. The wound had proved unimportant. "John‘s the only man in that bunch," he conceded amiably. "If he was stealing my girl I‘d give him more than a sore arm." Palmyra was desperate. Behind her, hand closed on an iron belaying pin. "You~â€"you brute!" she cried. "Turnâ€" thisâ€"vesselâ€"back. Turn it back inâ€" stantly!" * She jerked the pin from its socket; took a step toward him, her eyes aflame. "You go back to that island Burke whirled, whipped out an orâ€" der, sprang to the wheel. The kanaâ€" kas worked like mad. Another order and the Pigeon of Noah was under "Remember, girl?" he cried. "Beâ€" low on the Rainbowâ€"night black? Wanted t‘scare ‘em a bit, says you? Pirates, bucket o‘ blood?" his laugh rose into a crow of triumph. "Weil, kid, what about this here? Give ‘em m hell of a startle, eh Palmie?" As the Lupeâ€"aâ€"Noa filled away, the girl ran to the rail and sent over the water a frantic ¢ry. Ashore, the castaways stood perâ€" plexed, alarmed. Palmyra‘s action, rather than her voice, threw them inâ€" to panic. They pointed, shouted, and here and there, futile, absurd. Burke shot him a glance. "Sure." 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