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do you think, Van?" he concladed. ,.‘b”'t&u-'nn-nmhpb Buren Rutger‘s drooping figure. John had completely forgotten the other tmmn. Convicted, he ran over to him. But Thurston attempted no expianâ€" aition. He saw that the best, the only cord, its sails no more substantial than "If those old catamarans could hold #ogether for a thousand milés," he exâ€" plained, "ours ought to make the next mcross the broad Pacific. plating his four separately worthless boats in tandem, two on each side, he could lash them under a framework of lighter spars into a machine which all its parts no nail or bolt or rivet, its joints held by nothing stronger than breadfruit gum and twists of ‘The sailing canoes in which the Polynesian navigators of a bygone day covered the Pacific were catamarâ€" ans. The explorers built two hulls, so narrow that neither, by itself, would float, But when the two were fixed, perhaps ten feet apart, by timâ€" bers lashed athwart their gunwales amidships, the double canoe became He ran across to Captain Pedersen. "Captain," he demanded, "what can we do? At once?" Pedersen groaned. "I wish to God we could, Mr. Thurston. I‘m as broke up as you. But there ain‘t no use. Looks now, if we‘re ever to get off, we‘ll have to knock together some sort staunch enoughâ€"though boasting in Not so, however, John Thurston, As well as Van he knew nothing could be The deposed sailing master looked back at him haggardly. "Nothing." "But, but we must. I tell you we must. Man, we‘ve got to get to to sea.. Todayâ€"now!" of craft from the wreck." Thurston cried out in protest. "Weeks, months. No! You, with all your sea experience, you must know some way. I, I demand . . . . ." But Pedersen shook his head. He stood in thought, his features taking on a more definite tinge of elation. "I‘ve got it!" he cried, and whirled Back ashore, where the moment of Palmyra Tree‘s abduction had found her fiance so afraid of wounding the girl that he could not raise a rifle in her defense, every passing circumâ€" stance was carrying forward the revâ€" elation of two characters. Van, as he saw his betrothed thus forn from him, stood, staring after the schooner, his face convulsed. He had been thrust back into a despair tenfold that whence the Pigeon of Noah had first raised him. Burke‘s crime had thrown him into 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. After three days spent on the uninâ€" habited island, a sail is sighted. It proves to be Ponope Burke. Burke contrives to get Palmyra on board his boat aloneâ€"and the boat is under way before anything can be done! Now read what happens to Paimyra, kidâ€" napped by Burke: . â€" 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 disâ€" appointed in his mild appearance and tells him so.â€" Obeying his command to glance at the doorâ€"she sees a huge fierce, copperâ€"huedâ€"manâ€"with a ten lips! Burke, the m!:n!,;xphin; shaken. Next day, Burke and the brown man go up on deck. The stowâ€" away entertains them with wild tales of an adventuresome lifeâ€"which his listeners refuse to believe! 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 that it is a joke. But Van wa silent for a long time; ur raft, and drown, stay, and starve. hat‘s the difference? As regards râ€"* he caught his breath in a brokâ€" ~esthalationâ€""she‘s gone." . l'fi'â€"h;'!‘:-'" iss won‘t," answered wearlly moithor will you. We can‘t What‘s Happered Before meo-ketefitle’lane? CHAPTER FIVE He spoke briefly. "What for of King had such a Queen as you. Yer . "Thats hoy yhist un iL. Por: didnt 1 tel y‘ the Tannamen saw convinced she was already in love with the life he typifiedâ€"though she herself did not as yet perceive the factâ€"and that, in the glamout this life cast upon himself, she would in time willingly come to be his own. Rainbow, he had been misled by her caprice. Listening at first in a pleased ment, had at last roused, he was now watch I sees y‘got the shape for it. She was once more aware how very real his infatuation. blood, I knows y‘got the heart for it. The girl was increasingly underâ€" standing how irrevocably, on ~the hesitated, diffident; a thing so forâ€" eign to his usual brazen assurance as to seem histrionic. "But the fact is I was aâ€"waiting for, for you!" "I just had t‘have a dame for this stunt," he went on passionately. "A real dame, a sure enough queen. And ‘Cause yer taik‘s on the square; more on the square than you yerself The face of the man Burke was a thing to wonder at. Under the exâ€" altation of a master idea it had grown strange, compelling. His eyes gleamed, his tongue stumbled in its eagerness. For the first time in life he was to voieg that which long had hidden in his evil mind. What had been only a vision of power was now to become an actuality. And so much, so very much, depending on kindling that wild spark he felt to glow withâ€" in the soul of his girl he had seized for his ownâ€"his woman. "Why, kid," he was expostulating a moment later, "this here big idea ain‘t something that popped into m‘head just recent. Gosh, no. Had it in mind for years. But ..." He "Tanna!" he cried. "Tannal. Ever hear tell o‘ that island, Palm*" He laughed excitedly. ‘"Indeed and I‘ve took good care t‘make y‘ acquaint." _The Pigeon of Noah was flying into the unknown. "What a people! What a people t‘work with!" His fingers opened and closed anticipatorily, with a catâ€" like zestfulness. "What can‘t we do t‘them Papuan wildmen," he cried, "and what can‘t we make ‘em do for us. That‘s the ticket, Palm: what we can make ‘em do for us!" "Tis for Tanna we‘ll be laying a course, you and me," he went on, with exuberant gesture acquired from the natives. "Tanna, where we‘ll lord it like born king and queen." He had been given the steering oar.| Only once had he laid a hand on But, sunk in dejection, he had, in a| her. That was when, in a fury, she moment of inattention, allowed the| had flown at him, clawing his face. tooâ€"heavy boom to gybe, carrying| He had held her away, loudly hilarâ€" away the improvised . tackle, andf jous. "I‘d steal a kiss," he cried, "if snatch the mast overboard. As a reâ€"| ‘twasn‘t for my sore arm. But, no sult Burke‘s rotten boat had fetched| . . . I can wait till y‘come free, pokâ€" free of its lashings and the raft| ing out yer lips and begging me t‘take floated a wreck. 8 ta smack. "Twont be long." Doomed never to rescue Palmyra from the villain Burke, John Thursâ€" ton had yet gladly staked life itself upon a thousandth chance. Van roused but slowly; then turned upon the stronger man in a futile rage at circumstance. "Damn you," he cried, "I‘d rather stay here and die like a gentlemanâ€"clean and dry. But a moment later he sprang up with his old laugh. "After all, it‘s got to be the fish or the birds. I‘m a braver man than you, you optimistic ass, because I know . . ." He did not finish his thought. "Come on. Let‘s get it over." at Twenty hours later the catamaran was drifting, dismasted. "I‘m not your kind of an ass," Van said. "You fool, you know there‘s no hope. Yet, by this silly work, you can kid yourself into a sort of reâ€" lief. Me! . . ." It was as if he lookâ€" ed upom girl lying dead. But he tore hi from this vision, became defiant. "You, you still think I‘m yellow. Very well, then. I‘ll show you. T‘ll help now; and when you Thurston‘s face was resolute. "Perâ€" haps you‘re right," he acknowledged. "Very likely so. But for me, I prefer to dieâ€"trying." He would have hurried away but the other detained him. Thurston stooped over Van, who had fallen in the sleep of exhaustion, and waked him. "Say the word," he announced. "We‘re ready." sail, I, too, shall go." Thurston urged the men to work as the first color of the dawn touched the eastern sky the last of the stores and gear was lashed into Twenty minutes later they were And Van Buren Rutger‘s the fault. panting, for the companion, had slummed it shut and shot home the boits. Then she had stumbled down the steps and thrown herself, sobâ€" Ponape Burke really did stand beâ€" tween her and his man. She had not forgotten Burke‘s saying that Olive, if he knew his power, could snap his master‘s back across one of those big brown knees like a piece of kindling. And she suspected at times that Olive might know this quite well. The day, with the disconcerting sudâ€" denness of the Equator, had faded and darkness would scon have beerf upon them. Burke had waved a hand toâ€" ward the cabin with kindly gesture. *The royal chamber awaits, Queenie," he had said. "Hot as hell down there and you‘ll soon be squawking for a The girl shuddéred. Burke or Olive* White savage or brown? A cry of despair rose to her lips but she fought it back. Her hand stole uptoward the opéning of her dress, lingered, fell again to her side. third day abourd the Lupeâ€"aâ€"Noaâ€" And now, in this wise, the moment Burke had gone below, the brown man materialized himself at her side. She was never prepared for the exceeding change from his stauesque silences into the gesticular animation of his speech. He had opened his mouth, apparently forgetting as on the Rainâ€" bow that they knew no word in comâ€" stands between you. I ain‘t aâ€"saying as how he‘d love a redâ€"headed godâ€" dess all his own. Oh, no! But I do see he‘s got his eye on y‘like a wolf following a nice fat little lamb off into the timber." There was, for instance, the occaâ€" sion when Olive, for the first time aboard the Pigeon of Noah, spoke to Had it not been for those brownâ€" shot eyes, always so stealthily upon her, she would sometimes have thought of this savage as a machine. There was a sort of unhuman preciâ€" tion, "push me overboard . . ." He interrupted himself with a burst of laughter. "Gad," be cried, "but T‘d hate t‘ give y‘the chance! Push me overboard, and I‘m gone. Butâ€"Olive‘s Nor was her situation made easier by Burke‘s evil sense of humor. Posâ€" sibly to hasten her surrender, more probably in a mere cruel amusement, it played upon her fears. at the very nearness of him, toward the companionway. But there she Then the white man came climbing up. "Y‘ little vixen," he warned in a malicious enjoyment of the situaâ€" recollected that Burke was at the foot of the ladder, and stood helpless. It was Burke‘s continuing delight in her every show of angry spirit, his selfâ€"restraining sense of compeâ€" tence to bring the comedy to an end any moment he chose, that most inâ€" timidated Palmyra. would laugh. "Then we‘ll get ilonx fine. And you‘ll sure like Tanna when y‘gvt_the taste o° power in yer pretty The girl had The girl shrank back; fled, in panic Wait ‘till I‘ve tamed you," he that. I‘m what at :E:fl!-‘rufir‘“ on closing night, with all its sinister implications, she Sléep impossible, the night dragged ° on. Above decks there had been, as * ® * y ® is seemed for hours, only the heavy s breathing of slumber. At last, like MURPHY & SCHWALL a trapped animal herself, she had beâ€" gun a futile prying. 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