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She would have snatched her parasol to raise as an additional sail, but now, to her astonishment, she found that Olive was not. making sail, but taking PAGE 6. Rainbow, discovers a stowaway. She is “appointed in his mild appearance nd tells him so. Obeying his com- anndtoglanceatthedoor.shesees a huge. fierce. copper-hued man with a tendnch knife between his lips. The ”away. Burke, and the brown .man. Olive, go up on deck and tell stones of Palmyra decides she loves Van. The light the engagement is announced the Rainbow hits a reef. John Thurs- ton rescues both Van and Palmyra-â€" ht Palmyra thinks Van saved her. Asalllsslghtedafterthreedayson I: island. It is Ponape Burke, the gowaway! Burke ‘abducts Palmyra. _ _‘_ A..- ‘- A“ kehastoputherashoreonan d, as a Japanese man-of-war is dzhted and it would be dangerous to have her aboard. Olive swims to the inland and joins Palmyra. She is in 1hr of the brown man. Olive and Palmyra swim to another island, from which Palmyra secretly mds a note for aigl. Burke's ship Slowly the sheet: that was the Pig- eon of Noah grew larger. One hardly believed so small a thing could threat- en so much of evil. She underst cod now why Olive had not tried to run. Their hope depend- ed, not on flignt. but on lying unobser- With such a frame of sticks, how- ever. Olive. could he have made it plain to her. sailed from lagoon to la- goon across the trackless ocean in al- most the assurance of a civilized mar- iner with chart. compass and sextant. As the topmasts had risen ever higher against the sky, so now they recededâ€"and were gone. It was now, in this last twelve hours that Palmyra had seen Olive for the first time handle a curious kit-frame aflair of sticks, decked out with small. yellow cowry shells. This frame she had noticed at her original inspection of the canoe, and since, when she was not too tired. too frightened. too miser- able to think at all, she had wondered what it could be. This contrivance which she had en- dowe ' with :0 much of mystery proved to b nothing more than the brown man’. chart. Yet. even at that, it was stilla zaysne. Among the islanders it was forbidden except to the heredi- tary navigators. and among white men few had ever grasped its application; none. perhaps. had ever been able to read upon the ocean’s surface its guides and warnings. who once har‘. lived? As the savage lay asleep the knife sheaf on his belt was uppermost. When the girl’s eyes reopened they became fixed upon that blade. It was very close. Almost she could reach out and touch the handle. She thought of the other times she would have dis- armed him. As she sat. her fingers went out once and again experimentally toward the knife and were withdrawn. The sav- age. contrary to her expectations, did not awake to accuse her. She knew by now it really made no difference who had the knife. That night. she awoke to find her- selt. again. encircled by those great arms. held close against that copper breast. But no struggle now. It was land. landâ€"thank God. land! )Nas the island inhabited? She had seen no sign. and Olive appeared at ease. But then. this was the ocean side of the atoll at night. abandoned to the ghosts. Anyone who saw her would think her a disembodied spirit. She shuddered. Was she now in truth A third time, then. her hand went outâ€"and closed upon the wooden handle. The knife was loose in the sheath. Slowly she drew the weapon forth. i 'The girl was thrilled. mtmud'ated by her success. Olive had become so much the ogre that she had had the ghe did not shudder at the thought as she had once before. Association had made a serious purpose no longer possible. She only glowed in a new sense of power. restoring her sen-es- teem her good humor. Quickly. however. this elation faded. In its place she found. to her sur- prise. a touch of guilt. as if she had been untrue to a ,trust. He had trusted her. and now. lying there in all his wit?!)â€" vthat ‘purpose. when the savage :woke. Panic stricken, the girl jerked the shadow of that girl are not beligved. ‘ attempted The blade fell noiselessly. As it struck in the flooding moonlight it sent out one futile flash. But the savage. Sudden rage possessed the girl. She would not be treated so. She struggled with all her might. The knife imped- ed her ahd she flung it down. girl in a vise-like griy. When Olive had carried Palmyra thus unceremoniously down to their canoe, the sea was not long in reassert- ing its power. Her respite had been too brief for any real rally against the tyrant savage. As the craft cut its way through the water, the girl was increasingly sorry for what she had done. Her act had. not been deliberate. but after- wards, at the canoe, she had failed to call his attention to the empty sheath. She was astonished now that so in- f allible a machine should not almost immediately have discovered the loss. After Olive had husked several of the nuts. he opened two by pecking them with the sharp end of a third. trepanning them as neatly as a sur- geon. The girl accepted food. and drink humbly Not. however, until the hour for ban- anas and cocoanut did the square copper hand go back after the blade. Then there appeared upcn that face what was actually an expressionâ€"puz- zled. startled. bereaved. The queer brown-shot: eyes fixed. themselves upon her. For a moment there seemed. a pained reproach in them. but he spoke no word. Instead, he stooped, and she saw with a gasp that he was drawing from its place a heavy stick. The brown man 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 sharpened point. The wood entered the green husk. With a side- wise prying motion that wrenched her hands. despite the supporting frame- work. he tore off a section of the husk. Again the nut came down upon the point. impaling itself, and in a moment the whole husk was removed. She would have struck her knife to the‘ heart of this brown manâ€"and he had meant only to give her food! Her eyes filled. With a girlish im- pulse she thrust her hand into her dress and drew out the weapon. She would make amend. There was something very sweet in the gesture. in the expression with which she offered the knife. But the savage accepted her surrender in the serene seeming unconsciousness of the Buddhas when their devotees lay be- fore them gifts that may have meant months. perhaps years. of sacrifice. In a new sense of trust. she turned quickly to him, her cheeks flushing and spoke his name as nearly as she could in the way he liked: “O-lee-vay." He looked up surprised. "O-lee-vay." she repeatedâ€"“Jaluit?” He did not comprehend She tried. the pronunciation with varying inflec- tions. Then, perception. stand. And he was sailing directly away from her one chance of mpe. As she stared unblinkingly across the unavoidably, in the intensity of her The savage grinned. raised an arm and. cheerfully informativeâ€"pointed Uniware, the brown man sat up at we, looked at the heavens, his clock. . He could bundle her up close in his arms. with one broad. hand across her mouth .», marched on, holding the dechshowassafe! - And in that moment she knew she could not. be hard on the brown man. agerywashisexcuse. Hehadknown no better. wasnOttobeblamed. Yet he had been kind to hernnd he had saved her from Burke. At, the parting she would thank him. errant or. the deep seaâ€"his very sav- She would load his. canoe with gifts. Or, better still, though he’d carried her wide of her own port of refuge, she would give him passage to some is- land beyond reach of the murderous Ponape. And then, 'suddenly, Palmyra Tree was back in the canoe, her heart heat- ing to suffocation. For her dream was not a dream. The cloud was not a cloud. It was smoke, smoke! Smoke ! . Her ship had come! smokeoiavcsselracingtoheraid. Thetdoudasisnowandthenthc case,wasnotunlikethesmudge1rom The Imperial Japanese Gunboat Okayama, upon a preceding day, had been steaming against the sea when word came down to Commander Sa- kamoto that a sail had been sighted. apparently a raft with shipwrecked white men. The Okayama swung over so as to bring the odd float aboard. Soon Sakamoto. through his glasses. made out an American flag. union down. Sakamoto seeing he had to do with gentlemen. offered his hand in con- gratulation. “And I hope," he added when they were seated. “you, you leaved your peoples comfortableâ€"on their desert island?” Thurston sprang up. “My God. Cap- tain." he cried. “you‘ve heard from her? You've got her safe?" . The commander begged for an ac- count of what had happened. But when they had reached the abduction, he himself jumped up. interrupting ex- citedly. There was a new look on his face, a look that had advanced through astonished incredulity into mortified- tion and distrass. “Now Iâ€"onderstand.” he cried. “Of her Iâ€"know only one things. This Ponapeâ€"she is out of his hands.” “Thank God!" from Thurston. But Sakamoto exclaimed. “No, no! It isâ€"not good. It is bad Ponape has losed her because a kanaka, O-lee-vay, has taken herâ€"for himself.” Sakamoto, in his cautious English, went on to explain. ' A large native craft had beaten out after the Oka- yama, signalling urgently. Aboard was an island pastor with: one of his vil- lagers. upon whose feeding roostâ€"- maintained for these man-o’-war hawks the Line islanders sometimes Presently Jolm Thurston and Van Buren Rutger came striding along the deck. For Thurston and his crew. by the exercise of no small ingenuity, had. got their crazy craft together again and were once more bravely under way. “Send their officer aft." he instruct- ed. used as a sort of carrier pigeonâ€"a stray bird had alighted. with a strange letter. Most imperative! Commander Sakamoto spoke in sym- pathy. “It is a. very good thing,” he said, “the bird Stop wrong place with the letter. and spoilâ€"the plan. This letter says after Ponape had stole the high-chief lady, the native stole her again from Ponape and, and now they . . ” He groped longer than usual for the right expression. “And now they con-tend for her very big,” he went on with satisfaction. "‘O-Iee- vay’s friends were to hurry with many boat and arms, Ponape being strong man, to certain islandâ€"and save him theresoheshall, shallgetawayniceâ€" with her for himself.” -for it was OUK'S CHART THE DURHAM CHRONICLE “My dearâ€"mister." he said. “That Ponape-he has catched the poor Miss Tree back againâ€"very sure. We got the bird letter and that ruin the kan- aka’ 3 chance. For him to reach this far unhelped. even if nobody makes some chaSe, Would be of aâ€"too much.” Wherefore ',_Sakamoto put all to the wrong by Olive’s strategy of stealth and deviousness, threw the Okayama northward and steamed forever out of the field of pursuit; never again to pass within sight of canoe or schooner; deserting the girl in that hour when white savage and brown closed in for possession of her body. Palmyra’s knowledge of their course was so vague that she had not known whether they sailed the Sunrise or the Sunset chain of the Marshalls. Even as the girl made piteous at- temnttooastamlrror’srayacrossthq gulf, Commander Sakamoto was turn- ing to John Thurston with fatal de- by this intervention. were ‘no 1011891” friends. From the steamer Olive. would flyalmostasquicklyasfromthePig- eon of Noah. ' ' arm’sreaehotthedjstractedglrland thensteainedon.wasthesh1p’s com- _Moowmdeth Gatheredonthedeckwereallwho their binoculars until eyes could stand no more none ever knew. words froze on her-upe. They Olive unexpectedly dived. There was one plop of his toes at the sur- face and then she saw his outreaching fingers clutch a stone at the - bottom. He brought his feet down and moved crouching, as if he were stopped on dry land, looking for something lost. She could see as well as if there were no water. Olive was moving to one side now. The great clam was lying immediately behind him, its upper shell raised like a. trap. She was momentarily uneasy, then laugh- ed. 'When she reopened her eyes she knew that she had fainted. She looked at this creature, awed. He was alive, seemingly unharmed; rather pleased with himself and her astonishment. Suddenly, before she could realize it as she looked placidly on, he had shifted, stepped bckwards. The trap snapped shut across his foot. Instantly, the brown body was con- torted. A gush of bubblesâ€"silver globules streaming upward from his frantic cry. Then girl uttered a shriek, covered her eyes. Why, why had she not warned him! She’d. known the danger. ' But, as the girl lay, shuddering, something wet touched her arm. Re- coiling with a gasp, she found her- self looking into the dripping face of the brown man, which smiled pleasant- He drew the knife she had given him and with a gesture or two made all plain. Olive had thrust the blade in between the valves of the clam’s armor and severed the muscles that snapped these together. v--v~v V'g' Having explained, he rescued the cocoanut shell. which was bobbing away on the water, and prepared to dive anew. 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