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sand to glance at the door, she sees a huge, fierce. copper-lined man with a ten-inch knife between his lips. The stowaway, Burke, and the brown man. Olive. go up on deck and tell stories of adventure which are not believed. Palmyra decides she loves Van. The night the engagement is' announced the Rainbow hits a reef. John Thurs- ton rescues both Van and Palmyraâ€" but Palmyra thinks Van saved her. A sail is sighted after three days on an island. It is Ponape Burke. the stowaway! Burke abducts Palmyra. Burke has to put her ashore on an island. as a Japanese man-of-war is sighted and it would be dangerous to have her aboard. Olive swings to_ the island and joins Palmyra. She is in fear of the brown man. Olive and Palmyra swim to another island. from which Palmyra secretly sends a note for aid. Burke‘s ship approaches the island. Now read on:â€"â€" . . . Palmyra and Olive‘ sail in a canoe. evading both Ponape's ship and the Japanese gunboat Okyama. which has her friends on it. Olive risks his life to get ‘..'€l.t€l‘ for Palmyra. The gr-l drank deeply. Then. hold- ing the shell upon her knees. she sat for a long time. looking covertly at Rainbow, discovers a Stowaway. She is “91399411094 in 1115311191 312W? this brown being. He had all but given hie itself that she might have the water she craved. And he would have given life itser had she taken his knife and not. granted her own. He would be â€"dead! The brown man pointed to the sand: in the canoeâ€"an island. Then he exJ tended his arm: the island was locat-g ed: there ahead and somewhere. unâ€"i‘ seen. to starboard. Then he flatten- ed out his palm horizontally. laid his cheek upon it. attempted an express sion of relaxed comfort. closed his eyes and began to snore. ‘ Soon would this nightmare of wind liberated from this rack of torture. She could throw herself down in never-waking slumber. Her hand stole toward the opening of her draw and her fingers closed. oareasingly. over the handle of the knife hidden there. For Olive had given it back. The topmasts of the Pigeon of Noah appeared. Olive snatched down sail. and mast. He lashed them flat. With For an inter: “. t1;;.- bubbles came flying up. The? :Iie man followed. He placed the shell in the canoe. lifted himself aboard. scarcely listed the frail craft from an even keel. The girl. still dizzy with. shock, sat and stared at the cocoanut bottle that had brought tragedy so near. Olive. amused. presently picked it up and. offered it. When she did not respond. he raised the shell above his moutl, tilted it until. the contents spurted out â€"and drank. Palmyra laughed hysterically. He had filled the thing at the bottom of the ocean no: a. hundred feet from land. Yet now he drank. She tool: the sphere when he offered it again. and tasted experimentally: sweet. 1" ash water: clear. cold as CHAPTER X He divined her meaning. grimaced back reassuringly. A moment later he was once more crouched. holding to the lava floo; PAGE 6. be ended. Soon would she be ceased to struggle. With another stroke he recaptured the canoe, bottom up. He put his foot on the outrigger,- tilted the hull so the imprisoned air escaped. With one arm he bore down upon the canoe, their combined weight to sink it and control its motion. The other hand held the girl, submerged, so that she choked and fought for breath. On. on the Lupe-a-Noa indeed had come. nearer and nearerâ€"but not t005 near. Careening under its spread of, sail it had been unbelievably close and then. all unknowing, had flown away. Ponape Burke. with his binoculars. had glared straight over them in his scrutiny of the more distant sea. But. instantly now. the savage ral- lied. Only for a second did peralvzing discovery unnerve him. The shark. had all but seized. its victim. A moment and action would be too late. But in that flash of time the man leaped. landed. with his feet upon the shark’s 'back. The impact threw the monster into brief panic. She tore at her dress; thrust out the knife. Ho snatched it: dived. Just as the man-eater made to ering in the water, the canoe capsized. With a stroke, the savage reached out and caught her by the hair. As a kitten held in its mother’s teeth, she He placed the girl’s hands on the now buoyant canoe. returned. its gear lifted himself up and in. He had stooped. for the more difficult feat of hauling Palmyra aboard when. start- lingizc he let go his hold with a gut- tura‘. cry. And scarcely the unworthy thought, than the brown man’s hand shot up, She turned frightened eyes over her shoulder. then screamed. For there, cutting the surface. a little jet. of spray rising from its edge, was another sailâ€" tho dreadful lateer. 01' a shark! The man-eater was almost upon her. Frantic. she turned her eyes to Olive. There he stood. for the first time at fault- His hand. with lightning in- stinct. had flown to the sheath of his belt. found it empty. The girl saw that. in throwing his Knife away. she had made her own death certain. seize its prey. Olive dropped below the surface. The heavy fish had no chance to stop. As it swept over his head the savage thrust upward with the knife in a lunge that reached the heart. Olive did not waste time over the adventure of the shark. He had kill- ed sharks before. For an intenal they went on, be- ‘ an: fore it became evident that Ponape Bu Burke had made them out. i A - Presently the schooner was so close her Palmyra could make out Ponape Burke ed on its deck. covering them with his sag Throwing the canoe into its course. he sailed on for the island. the outrigger, gave one twist. mife! The moment the downrush ended. lhe raced with his burden. bounding the ? over the rough coral. until he had kill- §reached another knob rising above the [level. perhaps fifty feet in from the“ éedge. Here they weathered the next isea and its subsequent retreat. ‘- Another dash across the shallows be- and they were safe from the ocean. nape 3 But not as yet from Ponape Burke. .‘ 3 As the brown man carried Palmyra, close her face. over his shoulder. was tum- :urke ed toward the Lupe-a-Noa. The girl . 1113 saw that the schooner, beaten at last. had gone about and was working back ned- out of danger. She saw that the white this man had clambered part way up the 1 Ofignggmg. And then she gave a warn- 111’58. Instantly. the man leaped out. caught the girl up in his arms. He sprang upon a coral boulder that raised them abov e the sliding water. The canoe sucked back over the brink, but Olive held. staring ahead into the tumult of watersâ€"she could smile. If Olive chose death to defeat, so could she. But, such her faith, she felt that, im- possible as it seemed, he must still think to escape. - Now, as her navigator began to cal- culate the seas, to hold the canoe back at times, Palmyra saw there was a slight recession shoreward in the line of the reef. It swung in at this point just sufficiently to make a lee. The surf did not burst upon it with the direct driVe of the wind. and. protect- ed through most of the year from the sweep of the trades, not so much bro- ken coral had been packed down here and the rim was lower. In a flash she perceived that he must have had this place in mind from the first; that, the tide mathe'h' favor. it might be possible. in sufficiently skilled hands, to hurdle the reef. ' Olive paddled furiously to get far enough in so that the back-sweep could not grip them. drag them down to destruction. Nearly he had suc- ceeded. But, the recoil having rained the coral almost bare, the outrigger struck a. knob of the limestone, broke from the canoe. The roar of the surfeâ€"mo'st fright- ful of soundsâ€"deafened her. But as she clung desperately to her place, There was just one phase in - the rhythm of the surf when he could succeed. He must catch the moment when the wave had crashed down upon the coral teeth: when the vio- lence of the impact had abated, but not one second of the precious after inrush had been lost. For. if that had not carried him far enough. he would be caught by the recoil to follow, when the water flung upon the reef poured back into the ocean. And even nOW, in confirmation, Olive sprang up, let go the sheet, slashed the cords that'held' the mast; whipped the whole gear overboard, THE‘ DURHAM CHRONICLE Note for turban-fans: The ner: Paton version of the draped trico; turban ha a brow-band. and a down- in-bac‘: line. ' In the centre is one of white crepe with bows, which look so provocative waving their way out of suit fronts. Lower left is a canary yellow crepe blouse with a small, hemstitched jabot set under a band. To be worn with sports jackets. And lower right is an eggshell satin adaptation of the Vion- net blouse. A flattering yoke is fag- goted on. A novel wrist. CUfl. sughtly modem- istic. in two tones of tan fabric. characterizes the first; the second i': a fabric glove using two shades. and. affecting a belted cufl with pearl buckle; the third is a suede glove in the new sunburn shade, cuffed and stitched. in brown. Gloves. for Spring: Boast Many Distinctions Intricately belted cuff treatments add. distinction to the new glove mod- els. Short pull-ons with fitted wrists are the most prominent, however, and. we present three examples. here. you , Everything ’went Weenguns included. Reviving an an- ?cient custom. His Excellency, The Gov- E‘ernor-General, drove from Ridean Hall to Parliament Hill in an open sleigh. accompanied ’by cutâ€"riders and re- 0 With His Excellency on the Throne, his Gracious Lady at his left, the Prime Minister, in Windsor Uniform, at his right, the members of Parliament ; standing in disorder at the back of the . long room, and with the crowded gal-‘ leries straining and intent. the stage is set for â€"what? For the reading of the Speech from the Throne. The speech that has been prepared by the Cabinet, and more likely still, by the Prime Minister, but which is read by the King’s Representative. It is sup- posed to be a forecast of the Govern- ment programme for the session. If it is, this will be a short session. or there will be much ado about nothing. After a fitting word of thanksgiving for the King’s progress to health. the Speech said a good deal about the good and abundant crops. They are always good crops the next February, to people who did not grow them, and who live com- fortably. Prosperity was given much space. We are very prosperous; if you do not feel it, just take the Govern- ment’s word for it. The Speech did not make it quite clear whether our thanks for the prosperity was due to Providence or the Government, but the impression was left that the Gov- ernment bulked large in the cause. Mention was made or the expansion in mining; the re-organization of Mar- ine and Fisheries Department; the in- auguration of the Canadian Steam- ship service; the restoration of penny postage in the British Empire; the progress of the Hudson Bay ,Railway, now only thirty-eight miles from Churchill; also further branch lines were foreshadowed; legislation to give the Board of Railway Commissioners power. to investigate “affairs in rela- tion to subsidary concerns", will be sought. which. being interpreted, may mean taking the lid off the Bell Teleâ€" phone Company. and having a good look inside. With a paragraph devoted to immigration. and another to that hardy annual, the return of the natur- al resources to Western Provinces, a word about the new legation, a men- state, industry and commerce. I did not see any outstanding farmers or laborers. The Judges of the Supreme Court, in scarlet and ermine robes. sat with their backs to each other. I scene. tion of the outlawry of war pact, the Speech concluded. with a wish for the guidance of Divine Providence on the deliberation-.2. Usually several weeks are taken up by what is called the Address’ to His Excellency in reply to the Speech from the Throne. This year only sev- en members took part. In five hours it was over. The unexpected speed left 1;; breathless. It was as though they The Dominion " Parliament. homing Off g, with favor on" lively. A . all the rest of them, and the man was the country got sick and tired of it. The returned. men working for $1.10 a day did not like the idea of raising ‘a class distinction in this coun- try . . . . TheCountry has de- prived itself of the luxury of titles for ten years and it has scruggled along very. well without themâ€"very well in- deed . . . . After all titles do not make the man. Yesterday in United States they celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The people of the United States honor Ab- raham Lincoln fo'r what he did for humanity through the love he had for his. ' brother men; for what he did for the working classes to make it a far happier country to live in. An- other great man, Thomas Edison, cele- brated his birthday last Monday. He is well up in the eighties and is work- ing night and day for the betterment of man kind, yet he has no title Canada a nation of titles with no navy except a few small craft such as row boats, now locked up in a garage at Halifax! This is the country that wants to restore titles!" Brown of Lisgar most effectively quoted Burns: “Ye see yon birkie ca’d 3 lord. Wha struts, and stares, an’ a.’ that; Tho’ hundreds worship at his word, He’s but. a coat for 2.’ that; For a’ that and a’ that. His riband, star, _an’ a’ that; The man 0’ independent mind He looks an’ laughs at a’ that. A prince can mak a belted knight. A marquis, duke, an’ a’ that; But an honest man’s aboon his might, Gude faith, he maunna fa’ that. For a’ that and a’ that, Their dignities an’ a‘ that: The pith 0’ sense, an‘ pride 0’ worth, Are higher rank than a’ that.” Spotton of North Huron beat the air, but said some splendid things. for in- stance: Bird of Nelson, in his thoughtful, scholarly style, clinched the argument thus: “There has been some labored argu- ment about foreign kings and poten- tates granting titles to Canadians. I thing that matter was fairly dealt with in 1919, and if the Sultan of Turkey wishes to bestow any little decoration on any member of this house he can have his sounding brass and his tink- ling cymbal, pleased with the rattle, and tickled with the straw. If they wish to wear their little ‘past master's jewels about their necks I have no objection. but in my constituency “Jack is as good as his master." “I sometimes think prefixes and suf- fixes are just like an appendix; they (Continued on Page 2'.) but for E}? CHIC Tea in the good land and our; t0 HOUSE ON (3.1:: .-.1 neWIy decora? 0'; hard and mi: um» Annly to Dax 1d K n Apply Apply 3’- deliver â€"-â€".fl.. 9.? Route 1. Phor‘. 0" POTATOES. GR. .. . ITY. 81.00 at barn, 0‘. NOTICE TO FARM The Durham U. P. 0. Association will ship stock ham on Tuesdays. Sh: requested to give vim»:- dag JOHN AITKEN Auctioneer. Grey and En promptly attended to. E guaranteed. Terms on a Phone Allan Par}: Centr Hanover R. R: 2. P. O. Licensed Auctioneer for Sales taken on 214150 Dates arranged a: T: office. George E. Duncan. Du Phone 421'3. Barristers, 8013(- Of the fir m Tuesday 01 (“41 may be mack u ofiice. Barrister. ' Sohcxzuz‘. Branch_ oflxcc 11'. Du day Frxday. Honnr graduate u: the U Toronto. 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