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)1 PAGE 6. n m a.) w--- 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 swims 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. ' 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 wa_t_er‘_for Palmyra. w 59!! vavavava Ponapc Buz'k-eflmifiee.’ hespera’oe pur- suit of Olive and. Palmyra. even open- ing fire on them. Now read on:â€" Olive Matched. proudly up the sands. the girl in his arms a dead burden. The rifle fire as. we". to have been expected. had ")rought the villagers running from their thatches. Scarcely had the brown man emerged out of the sea than these Micronesians were swarming down. Excited voices filled lee-vay! ” So this. then. was where he could bring her; the home of his people. the place of his own anode. Here were people moving about: brown men. yellow men. white men; the last in white clothing and white shoes. with white pith helmets pull- ed down over their noses to keep out the glare of the white sand. And here was even a white woman. who popped her head out a window like a cucxoo out of clock. And there. most astonishing of all, not five feet away and as real as life itself. stood. John Thurston. And he gazed at her sorrowfully and mid, in the strangest voice: “Palm It was not until fifteen hours after the brown man had restored Palmyra Tree to the world of the living that she once more opened her eyes. Then. in a half-waking fright. she reared herself up with a cry of “Olive”! The next moment she found herself in her mother‘s arms. a; 05V- â€"â€"â€"- -__-_ When she roused again, several hours later. the Crawfords were at the bedside with her mother and father. Palmyra sat up abruptly with the question: "Where have they got Ponape Burke?" The four looked from one to an- other. hesitant. At her first awakening the girl had been told how the Okayama had. brought her people into this harbor on “You. you don‘t mean . . She paused. incredulous. "You don’t mean the gunboat was right here when I came and didn't steam out to catch him?” and there‘s been so much friction between Japan and America.” inter- jected the mother. “And Commander Sakamoto was She saw that this unbelievable thing was true. Unexpectedly. she sprang to her feet. “Where’s Olive?” Her voice rang sharp frightened. But Olive himself was asleep. Her father began to explain. “The to let Burke escape.” . Dr. Crife’s just had a. long talk mth Olive.” said Mrs. Crawford. Dr.Crife of the mission was then host. The girl exc ' ed m astonishmant. “He can talk to him? He can under- - Q. _ L _ t-‘:‘”n g“ utteer, with her, bad the brown man been beyond the reach of words, it had "O-lee-vayâ€"O-lee-vaYâ€"O- Noah is an American ves- a window like a cuckoo save . . ' _ “Dr. Crite 'says there’s absolume no pu’: in Constance. “Help him save the high chief young lady Palmnree. The girl settled back among her pil- lows. Tears welled into her eyes. “It was enough that I should have wrong- ed him,” she said. “It' is unthinkable you all should have been guilty of this crowning misconception.” time in silence. window. “If they hadn’t bungled the letter,” she said at last wearily, “I should have been spared much. And if you hadn’t let Ponape Burke escape, I shouldn’t now be in danger still.” At last Palmyra could talk to Olive. After all these days and years and centuries of silence, they two, by the intervention of Dr. Crife, had been made articulate. She learned that the brown man served Ponape Burke In a debt of gra- titude; the saving of his life. He had for this white rascal a sort of love, but no sort of respect. Great souls must, of their nature, sufier petty tyr- anny. And Oliveâ€"often according to his lights, regretting, disapproving, al- ways palliatingâ€"followed the despic- able little Burke. She learned that Olive had not known Burke meant to abduct her. And she found that in the beginning he had thought it, not an abduction, but an elopement. Only when the schooner got under way did he perceive that this was no adventure of Palmyra’s choice. Only when she did not soon begin to smile through her tears as many a native girl might have done did he realize how terrible to her the situation. Olive’s first thought was that the girl would feel safer with a weapon; also that she might possibly need one. As he dared not give her the knife in in daytime. he had dropped it through the skylight. When the Japanese gunboat passed them so cruelly by, Clive had been as eager as she to attract attention. But he had known that the distance was too great. ° As regarded J aluit. he had not gone there because it was so obviously the place he should have gone. Burke was sure to try that lagoon first. This much Dr. Crife could read for Incarnate there before this island- er's eyes on the Rainbow, she had been not unlike a goddess; a beingâ€"as indeed she wasâ€"from another world. A high white princess called for the stately. life-giving palm and crowned with hair of flame. she had condes- cended to him with blankets when a brown creature was in misery with that most terrible of thmgsâ€"cold. Olive was not in love with Palmyra. One does not consider oneself privileg- ed to fall in love with a goddess. But from the deck at her feet. in- timately yet afar, he had gazed up at her. fascinated felt toward her. she was Iar Irom knowing how she felt toward Olive. And if her only difficulty with Van Buren Rutger had been a reluctance to give him pain, she found every dif- Van himself had made things easy. Returning to the mission at a late hour the third night he had come upon Olive prowling about with a rifle. “Ponape is not dead.” the brown man had explained simply. But that which uneasily, lay for some DOW word. ‘save 9” o how easier target for his resentment. Thus Van, without in the least perceiving why, remained amiable toward Thurs- ton, but developed an ugly spite that she might tell him the truth. But now that, astonishingly, she had awakâ€" ened into the. old life, she found her- self quite unready to step up to him with any such confession. She willed to love John Thurston; she did love John Thurston. But be- tween them was the brown man Olive, and, leering from behind his elbow,‘ the fact of Ponape Burke. Concerning Olive she tried to justify herself on the ground of gratitude. Never had a girl more reason to be grateful. Was it not natural she should be eager to take him presents. to sit in his house questioning, to find herself hour by hour more curious concerning him, more interested in him than in any other living being? Oddly enoughâ€"or rather, naturally enoughâ€"it did not, come to her for some tirne to ask whether she might be in love with this brown man. Then the idea struck like an unexpected blow. She was stunned. At first she put the thought from her in abhorrence. But in the still hours of the night it came back again and. again. Could she indeed be in love with Olive? Was it possible for an American girl, under any circum- stances whatever, to fan in love with a man of darker race? She shuddered to think others might believe this thing of her. She avoided Olive, kept to her room. She struggled to analyze her emotions, to weigh them ' dispassionately. And, honestly striving, she was at last able to say of herself that, in no sense, could she be accused of loving him. Not for long did she find the ans- wer. Then it came like release from a prison cell. She was in love, not with Olive himself, but with his attributes. true manliness that was his. But. alas, those splendid qualities the two possessed in common had come to seem the personal qualities of Olive alone. She remembered how he had gone after the shark with the knife and conquered. The sun was less than an hour high when Palmyra, as she had done for several mornings now. descended the winding stairway hewn in the hillside from the mission direct to the street of the town. ' “Pleasy you,” said this crane in En- glish, “you come for look for see ve’y fine Pingelap mat. You like too much for buy.” She would have refused, but noiv she caught a glimpse of Van approaching. Several times he had trapped her into painful interviews. But this morning she could use the ancient dame, as a gaping listener, to keep Van silent. tentatively. The thatch toward which the crone pointed stood conspicuously. Immed- iately against one side was the water and a small wharf of coral fragments by which the traffic or the town went toanchorage. Ascloseontheinland side was the road and, opposite the trading establishment or a white man and thehighooncretewall ofthe'Jap- She wanted to love John for the lady is taking me for look-see for ve’y Island life was already astir. The girl was addressed by an old is your ’ouse?” the girl asked TEE Dmm~=cnnomcm. for ‘ As he turned away unexpectedly afraid at being left alone- But as she moved forward a Japan- ese policeman, saluting benignly, 1“ assured her. And she saw every Step ~â€"vvâ€"' sentatives of the civil and moral law which lay at anchor beyond the wharf. the Okayama and that Iju Ran Which is the latest, perhaps the last of the Morning Stars in which the American missionaries have carried the Word. The old woman’s house was not only conspicuous in location but in appear- this but was oval and openâ€"vaguely the architecture of central Polynesia. The girl stooped to enter, then drew back in one of those sudden apprehen- sions that still beset her. Who knew where Ponape Burke would strike? This house seemed safe , might indeed be safer than the mission. But yet” She peered in; saw only three old women. No one could be in hiding, none approach without being seen. Palmyra entered. advanced. toward the central posts, glanced interestedly around. Suddenly, something dropped past her eyes, and the three old women hurled. themselves at her. woven So unexpected the attack 'frOm such' as this, at almost the settlement’s bus- iest and most public spot, that the girl was caught unready. And before .she could move a muscle, cry out, her throat was compressedâ€"a terrible, choking pressure. She fought for breath. Then, her arms pinioned, came relief and a fierce warning: “No ’peak- ey, no ’peakey!” At the moment of the onfall her guide, still behind her, had dropped round her throat a fibre loop, a brutal tourniquet with which she could, instantly, be strangled into sil- enceâ€"oz death. The women, fearing Van might soon arrive, prepared to' take their prisoner immediafely away. At first Palmyra thought this im- possible. Severaldmdr‘mfen: But now she made ' a discovery. Though the thatch was so notoriously to the forefront as to seem above susâ€" 1 picion, the high wall of the police compound ended directly opposite, and turned inland, leaving between it and the blank wall of the traders, a three- foot lane. This path, she recollected being told, ran back for half a mile, a mere passageway between the wall and- the mangrove swamp upon which she had looked down from her missid'n window. And the mouth of that hidden path was no more than twenty feet distant. Until an alarm had been given the people would be unsuspicious. The French trader across ‘ the way had locked up his place and gone out to breakfast. The native passersby were coming in detached groups. Palmyra’s captors need wait only until no one was near. Then, closing round her, they could whisk her across, screening her with one or two of the ever-pre- sent umbrellas, raised either against a shower or the equatorial sun. But almost at the moment of the sortie there came. an interruption. One of the old women, stooping down to glance out, discovered the girl’s father and mother and Constance Crawford approachingâ€"already close. Panic ensued. If her captors had not been dangerous before; they certainly The prisoner would have screamed. Unconsciously, she extended her lungs to take in the necessary air. But, on the second, that fibre cord cut deep into her flesh. . ’ mosquito net; thrown; flat, head on bamboo pillow. Two of the hugs fol- lowed her into the netting. sat pressed against her on either side- These seated herself on the patch of grass before the house. Within the house, Palmyra’ 5 two over her a covering. Meanwhile the crane who had lured of! I)'_"“V.'F ,.' r‘ *‘V’ ‘3‘” "‘"W mm x But with contempt. The stranger now took the initiative. “I’ll warn the Japs,” he said. “You run for the mission. Rememberâ€"the Pueliko L “9558“ - vvv-â€"- ' But at this moment here came John Thurston. He was jumping up to the Wharf from a. boat. At sight of him Van’s face lighted with relief. Instantly, Thurston began to throw off his white coat. “Olive? Nonsense!" “I tell you,” Van affirmed shrilly. “she’s in love with the damned kanaka and he’s got her." Fashion F anales A Youthful Dinner Dress of Undoubted Chic Not all frocks bend to the uneven hemline edict There are still a great many smart models that boast no floating draperies or dignified panels. And for the most part they are the simple dinner dresses for the young girl. This attractive gown, of dusty crepe, with a scarf neckline. has many vir- tues. The girdle is of self -stitchec‘. fabric and the, rufiles, piquant and. fetching, are picot-edged. Note the sweep of the full scarf as it falls over the shoulder. (Eontinued next week) No, that she to cover fifty years. Most of the Man- itoba members believe in public own- ershlp of electric power and do not Manitoba members (the remainder of the eighteen members were not called in), and then the Seven Sisters were passed over to the Manitoba Govern- ment, and they leased the power rights to the private company. Two of the ’mnISters in the Manitoba Government bought shares in the Winnipeg Electric peOple have “a man on" an we 4...... tabs. Government and the row in the Commons is still to be settled, although with most of the Manitoba members sitting on the vernment side of the So few women are titled on bucu own account that when the opporâ€" tunity was presented to hear, see and meet Dame Rachael Crowdy, who rep- resents the British Government on the League of Nations, I seized it with pleasure. The National Executive for the Council of Women was meeting in Ottawa this week and Dame Crowdy was asked to address them. She is in Ottawa to attend the wedding of her “-m‘ niece which takes place today. Dame Rachael is a slight woman, quite young with a very alive face. I had only a few minutes’ conversation with her. I am hoping that before she leaves Ot- tawa I will have the opportunity of a longer talk. Her Excellency, Viscount- ess Willingdon, was on the platform. and stayed to tea afterwards. She is yso vivacious and interesting that her The Budget came down on Friday. Mr. Bourassa from across the House replied: “That is semething. Many a Budget has not even one.” Mr. Robb claimed very careful ex- penditure, when the truth appears to be that the large amount of taxes col- lected .last year, $452,942,000, tested even the Government’s spending pow- ers, resulting in a surplus of $69,782,000 which will be used to pay. the national debt. The Government will be in a position to pay the sixty million loan falling due next August out of current revenue. - The Finance Minister stated that the Tarifi Board had been sitting too short a time for the Government to take any definite steps. That is the second joke. The Tariff Board was born two years ago. The Government, however, claims a very good reason for standing watching our southern neighbor. One sentence in the Budget speech said so guardedly. 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