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Highland Park Press, 12 Apr 1928, p. 20

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li Il What Hayward Bejon Put-yr: Tree. aboard the yacht Robb”. discovers I Stowaway. She is disappointed in his mu6 upmar- uwe and tells him so. Obeymg bis command to glance u the door. she lees I hm. fierce, txsrriser-hued man with a ten inch krufe bonito!) bis lips. The Stowaway, Burke, and the brown man, Ouve, go up on deck and tell stories of adventure which are not believed. Palmyra decides she loves Vail. The night the engagement " anrtvunced the Rainbow hits a reef. John Tttur- non rescues both Tan and Palmyra- but Palmyra thinks Van saved her. A sail is sighted after three days hruwn man's precautionary titthterw on an island. h is Punnpe Burke. mg of his hold, became agitn com the stuwaway! Burke abducts Pal- srious ut‘her grievance, jerked vigor- myra. Burke has to put her ashore oulv. on an island. I: a Japanese man-of- Olive was like a 1oag-sutferiug par- war is sighted and it would be dan- ent, He did not know why she re- ‘erous to have her aboard. Olive sislrd, but he did know he could swims to the island joins Palmyra. bundle her up close in his arms. with She is in fear of the brown man. une bmad hand nouns her mouth. Olive and Palmyra svnm to another Sudden rage possessed the girl, island. from which Palmyra secretly She would not be treated so. She sends a. note for aid. Burke's ship struggled with t" her might. The approaches the island. knife impeded her and the Muur it Now read OR--- down She would have snatched her par- lsol to raise as an additional sail, but mm, to her astonishment. she found that Olive was not mtking sail. but mixing it in. Slowly the speck that In: the Pit eon of Noah grew larger. One hand- ly believed so small a thing could threaten so much evil. She understood now why Olive had not tried to run. Their hope denud- ed, not on Bight, bat in lying unob- served. It was not, in this last twelve hours that “mm had seen Olive for the first time handle . curious kite-frame allir of sticks. decked out with and] yelhw cowry sinus. This frame the had notices! n her or- igind inspection of the canoe. and since, when she was not too tired, too frightened. too miserable to think at all, she had wondered who: it could This contrivance which she had endowed with so much of mystery proved to be nothing more than the brown man's than. Yet, even at that, it we still a mystery. Among the islanders it was forbidden except to the hereditary mrveators. and smone white men fow bad ever grasped its application: none. perhaps. had ever been able to read upon the menu's surftce its guides and warnings, As the topmasts bad risen ever higher against the sky, so now ther With Math 1 fume of sticks, how- ever. Olive. could he have made it plain to her, sailed from lagoon to lumen across the tackle: ocean in almost the issuance of I (Wind mariner with chart, campus and sex~ rant. That night. she awoke to tind her- self, min. encircled by those great urns, held dose against that copper heist _But tto stmggie now, '1: "ms, held dose -irtst that copper: After Olin had hushed mu: oti Must _But I)? “We now, ' niche nun, he opened m by pecking ‘15 had, had - than! Go,d, landehem with the sharp end of a (birth Was the island inhabiud? smymmninx them " neatly u . Inr-' had m no sign. and Olive spun-red 5 ttedHt. I a! ease. But. “an. this was the ocean 1 The trirt mph-d Nod tad drink I side ot3he atoll It night. war-cloned 1 humbly. ' - 1 tn the ghosts. Anyone 'ttes saw her, She wouldOave struck hr knife! would think her . disembodied spirit. Ro the heart of this 'brown "saat--V She tshuddered, WUs she now tit" had mam only to (in hotbed” until man: than the Mow of that Ree Pres Med. With I (Wish girl who once had lived? lee. she tins: her land into her} Arum any tay asleep, the “if. 1 drug and draw out the weapon, She! sheath on his bett was iGieiiaPtt3!etttee1'c. ,3 branched upon thlles my close. Alum she could with oot.ndtooehthe-r.tQtethV of the other times she would In" -edhimc As she In. hee thters not on once at] “an: aperimblly mud the knife, and were with-inn. The um contrary to h was... did Immuthhife. The e'xr9 was thrfltrd. intimid-ud Mint-em. (link-ducting» moehtatemrr.thmt.ttehmehrdthe teermgtitaroqudbeimroiiatthe MW m.b tin“ him. Tet trhedidmrt-ratthethtmaeht uskhdalukfn Anubis:- -r-en-rieto.rmrrr-rtok- Pd“: 'gheamtr-dh'artenr “Intuit... --rrim..t-ehue-iat,mstf qh.-b-utMroet.nt_ In umu.d-'.WM '.egrMr-.hr-teh.a- ‘ .rBrqryqd b“ H..- --et..-q...a-eae.-. h.’ B.trtrh-m--t2r- Ed 1":th me her. Stu hh CHAPTER VH1 hilt '. no dif- rrGdasuesi-asrtrrrr- The brown men picked up one of the cocoanuts, and cautioned her with those square hands. so expressive where his face was blank. Then he _raised the nut and brought it down upon the shnrpened point. The wood entered the - husk. With 1 I sidewise prying motion that wrench-d ther hands, despite the supporting ifrunewort, he tore " a section of the husk. Again the nut came dawn [upon the point, impeling itself. In! {in a moment the whole husk we: re She Wu. indced. [tuning toward with that purpose, when the 33V“: awoke. Panic striekeo,thegirt jerked bark, not in fear of his Inger, but in a guilty apprehension that. seeing the knife shove him, be might think she attempted murder. Unaware. the brown mu: sat up " once. looked at the hoe-van. his clack Then he sprung to his feet, caught her up once more like I child, started for the canoe. ably the Delilah, tor store the knife. Palmyra wanted to give the knife back, but her arm was pinioned. She tried to bring it forward, felt the bruwn man's precautionary titthterw mg of his hold, became again com srious " her grievance. jerked vigor- Not, however, until the hour for, bananas and cocoanlit did the mmf copper hand on luck after the M.’ Then there appeared upon that face what was actually m apt-saw: puzzled, startled, bereaved. ' The queer brown~shot eyes fixed; themselves upon her. For I month there seemed a-pained reproach in( them. but he spoke no word. Gaal he stooped. and she saw with . (up! that he was drawing from its plur As the crllt cut ita wny through the water, the girl was intensingly sorry for what she Ind done. Ber aet had not been deliberate. but after- wards. It the canoe. she had failed to call his attention to the empty sheath. The blade fell noiselessly. As " struck in the ftoodirttt moonlight it sent out one futile tush. But the savage. All ulnar-re. marched on, holding the girl in vise-like grip. Wheat Olive had carried Pulmyrn thus unceremoniously down to their canoe, this set was not long in reas- serting its power. Her respite had been too brief for my real rally minst the tyrant savage. She was astonished now that so in- fallible u maetfme should not almost immediately have discovered the lots. (Uh, a“ dun-t' --a.. l MJMHIEU_-hf dug ad that out the weapon, She mid make unread. There was something very and in the gaunt. in the expression with which the Mtered the hue. Bot the nun weapon] Iver anemia in the the am when their m by before them gifts that my hwy "a-r-Ott-ttet-id quit-Hy to 'im. her ehe"sf"ur. "luit8" Rea6ttsoteortrehma& Shah-ill the pram-tin vith nutsh- The - grinned. ' III In and. Many btoritire-- poi-H unthhuhdm Marshal-w“ 'te-art-h-stron-ref “no“,hQ-Md hmmbh-M‘h *dnw-dnuhbh“ how up "Irwin-d I! T"'", With I: mixed; maniac; Riel! or, new? nf.aodl wure-‘i "was? pulling nthimt! - “h- The thud.uls not Mum case, m not unlike the - from a funnel. And. in her (m her helplessness, the very imp9itity of the than; Wave to this product of her Imagination an (-1thth power. And in that moment she knew shel could not be hard on the brown mun. t She vmuld not demand his punish-\ mom. Only a savage after o-no) knight cram of the deep sens-his! very uvagery In: his - He had known no better, wu not to be) blamed. Yet he'd bcen kind to her; and he had and be: from Buried She saw the steamer rid“ from the own. She climbed in WI to the rail. And there, triumphant on its deck, she was safe'. At the parting she would they; him, She would load his clue with) gins. Or. better still, that he'd; carried her wide of her own port at" range. she would give him mi to some island beyond ranch of thy murdemm Ponape l And then, suddenly. Palmyn Tree was back in the cam-e. her heart bent, in: to suffocation For her dream Wu: not a dream. The cloud VII not a cloud. " WIS smoke. smoke! smoke! Her ship hld come'. CHAPTER " The Impcrial Juliane Gunbon Okayama, upon I preceding by, hid been shaming against the can when PAUL BORCHARDT HIGHLAND PARK FUEL CO. Phone 67 Pin. 135 CONSUMERS COMPANY MUTUAL COAL co. Plum 1050 Phone w M 11 has 212 FRANCSrLJJjtrrROM 33731.4} - 3-736 gilt-g he it Bum law an. m'w lkMIorThlnmndli-cm. tsrthe-rei.eesteto-ltt-- am, had Bot their any can to- mbs! ugh: and were can non any. had M their any M to- PII-yn’u [In]. a I“ Lt?'; - was ad were on; non new shite-toct-tFr-l bramlr - way. 'tta--." to whirl m and but s.umoto,aeeiaehettadto_ the joyful Get. In this -qtimt att' (summon. clued his land in eo0-ltser new "min for thqbeonm - mtulauon. “And I hope," in and” wu {orphan Bert, a. sh In“. when any were seated, “you: you the word: from upon her lip; Thy land Your peoples "eauortui--usiia, by this interveettioet, “I In their due“ inland?" "freer friends From the Bt-tq. Thumou Ipnnx Up. "Mr God, ', Olive would tty Almost as quickly as Captain," ho cried, “you've heard [(mm the Pigeon of Noah. from her? You've ertt her sur.'" Aboard the Imperial Jun-est The commander w for n ae-l Sunbelt Okaylmn u it parsed with- count of what had W tth in arm's nu): of the distracted girl when they. had "ruched the pe- _ aad than steamed on. w” the shipU “on he “PM" jumped up, “than.” of the wrecked Yacht Raitt, ruptinK exeitedly. There wu a new I bow." Gubend on the duck were alt look on his face, n look, that P" ad- l who but had loved Pnlmyn Tree in yancvd through tstt"tishrA.ir-du-liire, But though these swept the My into mortitication and dining. in with their binoculars until eyes _"?ies b-turs"".." he frat could stand no more, none ever knew. The commander - for an - count of what had In“ Bu: when they ind reached the abduc- tion, he himself jumped up. iagter- rupting excitedly. There in I new look on his face, I look that Ind ad- vanced (Mouth astonished incredu- lity into mortitictttion and distress. "Now l-rnnderstand." he cried. "or her r-know only one thing. This Forum w she is out of his hands." “Thank Gud!" from Thurston. But Sakamolo exclaimed "No, no! " is --not good. it is bad Ponlpe has ' her because t hnnh. o. tee-saw, has taken her-Mor himself." It is --not toad. it is bad Pompe- "My dear-mister," he said “This": in alive. -emirrgtr unitary-ed; hats loved her because u hnnh. 0'2Ponlthc has ratehed the poorirattter pkased with himself and her lee-ray. has taken her-Afar himseH." _ Miss Ttee Ml n-emi-ver, mfg, We ‘ astoqtutsment. Sakamoto, in his (unions English. I lot the bird letter um! that min nil _ _ . went on to explain. A large natives”. hunk-'5 climate. For him 't'o'c',,"aS:i/,"e, 'peut, 21m craft had bum out after the Oka- I reach this far unhelpod. even if 110-1." pining Olive had thrust the blade ylmn. signaling urgently-_ Aboard [ body nuke- some chase. would be on’ in Lau the valves " the an“ w” in Hand pastor with one of his .--too much” junior nad mud the -u. that vilues. upon whose feeding roost) Wherefore. saumoto. peat -u to so. . r ' . ' trped than togtether. ~mamtained for these mzn-o-war‘ the wrong by Olive: strategy of) .' ' hawks the Line islanders sometimes "an and deviouneu. threw the, "with: twinned: be renewed the used as 1 sort of carrier pi-s-tcol- northwud and steamed“ W“ M whieh - WI" any bird had aligned with I L forever out of the freid of purl-it; "rar on the M'". amd prepared to strange letter. Most imperative'. - min to puss within night 011“" P.'"'-. When she wsdreatood, Commander summon) - in - or “banner: donning the girl,u“ ("I Tie') out “I protest. "Oh, sympathy. "it in very good thing.’ in that hour when white - Ind It? t'." try mill- t, I mutggttt he aid. "the bird stop wrong place i lama cloned in tor posses-ion of serP"r ttt Commander Sakamoto - in sympathy. "it in very good thing.“ he aid. "the bird stop wrong place with the Utter, arsd qroit--the pun; Bunk-Burn it-Yau’BLihk Brmtq?vcpc.o'octmr. mt-ft-r-cs Your friend across the street heats his home for less money'thnn you do. He burns Chicago Solvay Coke because he buys all fuel, no HechmgedfromcoaltoChicagoSoL way Coke-years ago. He gets clean heat.Hehaskwashestohandie.No smoke,nosoottodirevhishmane. Orderho-ofoorAmehoeidD- The DepmtdahteNeifbrtheHome CHICAGO re, too, should burn Ask him about it-- “Mitt-j y"buatiril,ii%i.aiNu.uqVie. mmufimh-‘pfinwhm -to_th-ebV tTiuir-iehetetat'"11t unwi-Nm-cmb... yuan-manna 1he.tdrntirptu'grltt,..'tttlgr,htgnti"i n- if b.-. It)“: .“pmMMuhme-sk halo: Even n the girl made pit-on: It tempt to cut I mirror's rly strum the all. Commander Ssh-mom Ins turning to John Thurston with fatal {inch- “it“ "II-m. mum”. ou-thv. Thweh-‘u tr-i-ii-hi-dui-ct'- ”gamma-moun- Mlle-ILMH“ w.hlmlhccodd "db it-a_uuurrueidirt_?.ud stgft.d,a-eknmidxTuteat' “I’d“mlinlod. manhunt-Myrna:- tort-d. A In! " bot-hor mural-(upward (will. hulk erv.Th..irott-dohriek. "by. It, had the not “med hint She'd km- the dung". But. a the (it! hy. 'ha46.r%e. something wet what! ber an. R.- miling with a (up, the {and her- ulf Iookiu inn: the dripping {we of the brown m. which mild pteasarntiy. When ah: reopen-d her eye. it. knew that lb! had hinted. She looked u this cmtun. Iced. He in alive. Mindy Hahn-Gd; rather pkased with himself and he? artoqtutsment. He drew the knife she had (in: him and with a gesture or (we mad. all plain. Olive had thrust the Made in him“: the valves " the clun'n armor nad mud the muscle. that GARE (Continued mt pack) T,

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