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?&.'> . <-;7>^'J '/ / j&i?tj?&" 7-vT^* SIX =-. ; m R tS'kM ' ~ ^ ILL1 S^B mm WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Palmira Tree and her parents, wit PaJiajjra's wo sui ?<>?&. Van Burva Kufer and .John Thurston am* som dhgr friends, are cruising: 011 th Yacht Rainbow: Palhiy,ra> startled by seeing hand thrust in through the port o her cabin. malte? a so;.-ret ihvestiga Hon and discovers .1 stowav. ay? halt So mud n appearance that sh W M1V-" ' - - - -:m ? 7?.-. V.iio He comma**.-.}.' bev to glance at th door. She obeys ami sees a huge fierce, coppcrrhued. man. with a ten inch knife held between grinnlr Now read ><v. CHAPTER U Next morning ??lvs. Craw!. 'a .?ni her fajtsls were gathered in ice o th" deckhouse. bundled in their ruffi The sun, only at intervals. habeen blinking through, bringing touch of warmth to the surface o the sea. charming: the spreadinj canvas into life- As, presently Palmyra roused, from hoi preoccu pation to join the others ih a laugh the luminary glanced down ayah md printed oh the deck, black am sharp-edged, the lilting shadow o the sails. Such a shade lay across the gw'r race. When the Rainbow rose to . silffic, the shadow moved, as a cur tain cm. and the sunbea'm caught i: lurn and illumined poHect leech iUiupies, eyes that danced' with fun. set a flame the crown of bright hair her mosj noticeable ouilo w merit. But soon she- was somber again She bad boon shake n by that figrci visage lea pin ; out at her from th< dark. 'She six u;<; have suspei led a sec i?nd presein <r. One glance a! Burke's h:.nd. gl.ovcd though it was --i?ij *? - 1 ** ------ -* v.i?u4;i 11, was smai; pucjt^v. IH'V;! th: tl'U'k : ? tlcWy pav. ?haC hiS fastened upon the '.ahir ;fKk: Wit:* Mont hot* --hi* snouk ha v. mist r:; -. > Iturkc's song:; ho4 have waited to be* tol<l afterward: that 'he -.vas chanting: "Silent, go stand against the doow knife a teeth, and look terrifies At: this point, the shadow of t"n< .-ail cam;- swooping down an. air across Palmyra's eyes and she awctkr tp jfft-hii that Mrs. Durlcy, the stew ank... was regarding her with hi amused and curious expression; Th< gir) flushed guiltily. Mrs. Ouvies stepped forward, h-si tatcd. he'd out a card tray. "A gen ll? man to see you. Miss: Tree,'' slu announced. UA gentleman. to see Miss Tree?' inquired Mrs. Crawford in amuse; acceptance of the play. "Why, how unexpected:" v j *:A:iiplar,e ?-r s<;& horse*'" '-questioned Van. \' i;: - r <>Rp !? caught s ghl ?f the man. himself. standing in th< .die.. or.tVv^v-;. the ho5??c and th< vMrh . vath ".Mr.-. Crawford." she introduced "this is Mr. liurke, the Well -knowr pirate. \M;i\ be pleased yo ho ho to , cmonrinito uaikir.fr the plar.k I'ii: sure it you oou 1.1 -,-< him souitie a ship. you'd feci We'd beer greatly di^m:?.<ir,he<i." By daylight the 'pirate's. face ha; 'tost. its cherubic aspect. Still singu larly undeveloped as to line and feature. there was noiv more vrablj upon it it maturity of significant! that l;8gag .-/lily have been stamp;-; by dissipation, hardship and danger or some move violent temperament ul urge than, at first view,, ermit have Wen suspected. But if Burke's face had gained ii significance, his Figure had not. Moreover, ha now- verged on tin pathetic, shaking with cold. Pal myra recollected, with a stab o pity, that brown creature down be low. Hie girl started, impulsively, t rise, then sank hack again. Sh hud seen the steward below, a shor rime past, overhauling blanket?, reserve supply for the men forwarc l? she could manage to get one o twoi of these coverings . . . v'ompas sion urged the deed. But?she wa afraid. Presently, however, a well-amber treated chin settled into place an two lips grew arbitrary. She nrre-n excused herself; and marched ,'lovv tbe companionway. Yen, the blar nets were still there, i>he snatche two, secured her torch and reache the bulkhead door, unchallenged. She switched on the torch, force horse'" forward. Then after a mc raent. hesitation: "Here?yon! Ar you cold? I have two blankets." She stood, waiting, listening. Sh could feel the darkness move wit unseen menace. But the dead si lenre of that prisoned space gave n sound of life. She might have swept the ray int ail the comers, hut she hesitated t repeat the vision of the night be fore. Rather, she held the blanket up invitingly ami, in silence, turne the jet of light upon them. For al most a minute she waited thus. The: V- . , ntf 331aHS8j2l3??5^tv '*ssl v*. . yyaSrSflSll Bpgjfe . |, _ M; ' 3^ri*9HB0K Pre ' r>^3wj Jejopfl i ED HA] AND LUE SE 5c ^STAMLEt iJSTRAXlONS BY HENHY J COPYRIGHT SY CHA-UIS SCRIBNBRS suckler.iy. without v ami eg prelimi there appeared with h ir the outer circle of light the ends ?? i.f four great massive square fifijge-s *- i Almost, the girl sprang back h i cried out in panic. A moment the fingers paused, a Then they came thrusting toward t In!- from the dark. For n flash it - eomcd that it must be herself they " ni'eant to seize. Then they closed e upon the blankets. rested there an instant, withdrew with their prize e again into the night whence they had ' come. Put. brief as the interval, it had been enough 51 re at la t was the | harm that had been sent through t e ! port; square, sinewy, brown, adorn! *d even to the great-grandmother j | mitts. f] And only now did she belatedly : ! realize that these mitts were not of i I -ilk. hut of tattoocr's ink. 'i' . . r | When the girl came on deck next r morning there the savage sat. crosslegged oil the fore-hatch. huddled under his blankets in the sun. As Palmyra and her narents ap I VVhcn the girl .came < n iidek ;( cross logged n the 1"<?rt^ hatch, hu *1 poured. Ponape Rurke was explain[ ing that the remote intc-liigencp at his feet knew ho vvovd of any white man's language. I If the savage recognized her she a as un;iMv to note any change in j his countenance. Indeed, she saw that this copper mask would senium, 1 if ever, yield to the civilized eye any j useful indication of the mood witnJ >n. POnapo Tsurke, showman, hud seized a double handful of the bush ' hr.ir on the native's head, and was sayipg; I " i .. c so much that he's got hair," Rurk* was saying, "as tlmt bis hair I ain't black, as youYl expert. but a pretty gay species e* tan. Which, I itr-adid? and gent1-, i? South Sea bh; uty parlor stuff." ""lis dee-ligbtful'y sanitary, la> die;-," the showman added. "ami [ colors the Hair up- any shade oj ,! Mom! y'liko. Rut -"' he tittered s and /.-glanced audaciously at Miss , Tree's own head?"the very foxiest . and most uivTed hue some of om succeeds iir getting up is ?. real $?T"' ~W" i Van laughed. "C?h. admirable.'* i[ ht cried. "An admirable eifecL -i Arid never till the moment did T - suspect . . Why. Paim Tree . . "Excuse me, miss,*5* Pon&pe l>urkc > said, ''hut, didn't i hear this gent a1 i ailing: you 'Plum-tvee'?" She assented. "But what, what kind of a joke?" i "i? isn't a joke." she affirmed. "My family name is Tree and?" i . he glanced amusedly at Constance my given name is Paint" j Tli% stowaway stared, grinned, re penfcC'd the name-. He turned to his f: savage, spoke animatedly, nodded -1 "his head toward hev. The brown 1 man's eyes sought the girl's Taee 0 once iTiove and she felt sure he had. e m some obscure way, been moved. 1 There was certainly a something a new upon that strange countenance. I. As the savage sat upon che hatch. r a corner of blanket touched the teakwqod. When he reached dowr s to rescue the fabric Ids thick right fore ami shot out from cover ami i- so remained. The girl became d a war-:-, of a line of blue black mark V ings along the inner side ojf this arm ci,. . ,t: " -1 om: i.i^iuvcnui wtt.ii surprise ma; i- these Victooings were letters?hei d own alphabet- At first she did no! d catch the word because two of it; symbols were upside down, d "Why." she cried impulsively i- "what is that he has tattooed on his c arm?" Here the pirate took up the story e of his brown companion's name, h Tt had been a pop bottle that th< i- fat horizon-buster (white man) o flung into the bird's nest fern be i side the spring, this lion of a mar o i would not now be here. Far away 0 on some somnolent speck of coral ht 1 would be drowsing through th< s! years; ignorant as to white men'; d, ways, safe, forever from the quesI tionable leadership of Ponape Burke n r.eve.r to touch and cross the lif. ^ -v, r?EVE: . JeC <r 0 R. OSBORN fiX LEE SONS cc of Miss Palmyra Tree of Bos j ton Bui it was not a pop b attic ; ' that the fat hoW.ozi-bui- ct f ung 1 Into the biru s nest tern, it was a ! aottle which had held oUycs. 4 obte. as; the olive bot i had fa'- j ; lea. the island mother, h r babe!" upon her rip. found it .-he had 1 | .eld the empty bottle up eiorc tne ' *yes of the naked brown uoy that I e migKt admir. the brig t red and j* : < i t lithograph She ha! " i ed to make out the inscription j j ,pon it? ONYX BRAND | Vhe Hubbard Extra Choice i QUEEN OLIVES 1 I j j The print was an oddly familiar, j ^ t haff-jingsly unreadable, as a sen- y e in . an wouh h e b en to j. : almyra For in the mothers ul-jtj | whahet there \ ero hut fourteen let-| v.1 vo of oar consonants un-' ir a i ng tv arecter. r -j But as her glance fell upon the! v.-?, :L "OI: e " she smiled. Here v was a cornbin vtiojii that spelled; every letter as familiar as if it had j . . -y. nf her own village. > next miming there the savng s..t, 1 thllOi! under his blanket in the sun. i > MBgfffc.k I 1) "Behold, ehii fly son," she had n i rii d to' the baby on her li|>; "here p is a so-island word?"O-l-i-v-e. Wliat i to it, think you, is a meaning? And I v set forth upon 1 horizon-uurator's! ti strong water l>ott!e (to her ail hot-jo th.s meant liquor)-" ; I; Presently t lie mother's face had j lighted v.ith inspiration, ilere, an-, douliteciiy air.onjg w arriors, was the: f vrcal w ord. \nd here, upon her hip, j li \v:~.- the greatest man alive What! si ; . tier, then, than this for a name'.'! li And so it was the brown baby, to, , he known forever to all white men j e as "Olive," and to his South Sea w kinsmen, according to their reading! of its letters, as. "Oleevay." 'si Burfee's jgla'nie took in the silent ; i motionless mass of man on the hatch j e' j with piidefu! ow nership. Then he| t" ! broke again, into his. oddly nnadnli V ! mirth. "Look at him row," he ; cried. "Look it him. Mad ("ear ^ 1 through. ' They turned then smiling eyes i t! ; upon the brown man. . V "tiki a.? .1 uiau l uivu^n. repealed i i'i , his muster. "-Since Misa Tree point-j t< ed to hi- inn v.e :il! been laughing| it ' a lot, Ana h.' thinks it's at him." si Later in ih. day Palmyra foundi her pirates alone; , si Thev Slit side by side, gripping n j stolidly the khaki fabric that strug-j o: ; Serb Clapping to the wind behindi B ; their backs. ' t< i "Sneaking o' this big brute," { Burke began, indicating Olive; " he ti j don't <io nothing now but ask ques: lions about you." F The girl did not know whether to "i ! like that or not. ci ; To begin with, said Rurke, it was ti her courage. She hadn't squawked I h J at the band in the port nor the face ; h ; under the spotlight. And she'd come J s? ; down with blankets when a brown; ; being was in misery with 'cold. | h As regarded the hand; The atowa | | ways, precariously hidden on deck inja a boat, had taken the first chance to 1 h , j sneak belovr. Burke got to cover.! 0 ! out a seaman, unexpectedly starting; ' i! that way, would have caught Olive.1 T I The islander had slipped overside at11 11 chat point, dangling from n stars v 'j chion, only his hands visible. He had | h , put one down to the port, intending1 r to hang trailing from that if the sail-! : or came near. A roll of the yachtjt ] thrust his forearm through. Then ' 5 t|the seaman had turned away and i t > Olive lifted himself back to deck s Hut far more important than Pal- f . myra Tree's courage and kindness 1 > was her name. To the white man it o had seemed interesting, to the brown t " j astonishing. s } "In the low islands," said Burke, a : j "the pahntree's the most important r i thing they got. Couldn't live with-I out it. a day." e I i Here, aside from fish, there Was r j often no food except the pandanus? e ! j scorned elsewhere?and the cocoa- i ' | nut The nuts were eaten at every i > meal; cooked or raw, green, ripe, c - germinated. For all the accessories j , of life the paho could be made, if nee.) be. to furnish the material. c ftY THURSDAY--BOONE. N (?. ..oa she was named Palmtree! "Bui, lady,' Burke persisted U i..t the tnings I've mentioned? lot even yer iiam,?which counts sc iiiu.A a?' he paused calculatingly ?"as that hair o* yours, that red :;ahv' Mhe was again annoyed, but deidea to laugh. Bi.vke was silent for an interval, lis oddly undeveloped features rathr absurd in their maturity of h "I suppose, ' lie began at last. "> ' .aven t no idea how a Mary like you I- us islanders, kanaka or white7" v/h," be added with a shrugging icstiac acquired from the natives, you d never guesJ?never." Ho hes:at . in a diffidence strange to his latuie 4"But think, miss. Here we . c. maybe ten, fitteeri years never eeing any woman's face except l,., oil!,/ Kv/s,.-? 1 i?* . v on.* \-.iyn II V.1?VUT1,> v;i yci ooj/-"' lie wife o* some missionary or ladcr, here too long?sickiy, pale, ione for. And then, of a sudden, liong you comes; a?a vision . . . " he stammered in his effort to find Cords that should do justice to his entiment, hut not offend. "All pink and white, peaches and ream," he went on recklessly; "a iving being as beautiful as a painted iicture. 1 ain't meaning no disres?ect. But that, Miss Tree, as I eckon you'll* understand, .111st fair mocks us, white and brown aoke, lead in a row." 'But do you really believe Palm tree's pirate has been in gun battles i?d all that?" Constance Crawford ras asking. Palmyra now spoke. "It's nonsense 0 take that little man seriously." he affirmed. There was a general assent. "When he says such things," she dded, "it's like hearing a baby wear; awful, and you ought to be hocked, but at the same time com1 delight in his efforts to make imself out something brigandish." .John Thurston had not joined in he accord. As he stood holding to lie main shrouds, the big muscles of 1 n* and shoulder swelling under his oat. lie was nevM* quite the yacht ? Van on an idle cruise; always, in ungibly. a something of the contraction engineer ?>n his way to the !hilippin$gs to take charge of govrnhient work?the Rainbow to put im aboard a transport at Honolulu, i ssihly if timi permitted, at Ian in. "You're all probably right, about i ." lie said presently. "Rut did on evei think how thoroughly we're ouml down by the old conventional onsense in character reading? histiology and all that? A stripling evelbps a big square jaw. Presto? ;e recognize a determined characm*. a human bulldog. Really, it's nly more bone in his jaw. And if < h?3 a broad high forehead . . "Solid ivory again," said Van. "Palm's pirate couldn't be further rom our fixed idea of a cutthroat: ercp moustachios, haw k nose, deepr .t, piercing, evil eyes. Yet in rqai fe your cold-blooded, murdering lute is quite as likely to he some ffeminato youth selling soda water ith a lisp . "Never.'- said Van, "did I have >dh water with a lisp." Palmyra had been wondering why eeVyonc on board?everyone except wnstaneo?wanted her to marry an. She saw that they all did, and u: fell that their reasons must be ood Constance, of course, said it as only ancestors. The Tree famy worshipped the family tree. "And an." Constance had said eoriimcriallj. "has the finest line of ances>rs put out by any house in Amera." It wan nothing in Van normally, she had added. . "John does tings. Hut Van only is things." The girl got up restlessly and ood at the. rail gazing out over the inset sea As John Thurston went n to amplify his thoughts regarding urke she glanced over her shoulder i scoff. "I could chase your had ntan over te deck with a feather duster." 'I'm only windjamnting of course," hurston laughed. "1 don't doubt ur stowaway's a little man, suffiently blunt as to his moral pcreepons, but quite harmless, making i niseif the hero of every gory story e picks up, eager to pose as a deep;a. bad man. But still?" During this idle chatter the girl ad felt, growing with every nio>ent. a fuller perception of herself hoard this yach. Never until now ad she had a complete realization t the intimacy of this cruise with 'an and John; of the incredible icamess of these two to her. She had een, all at once, appalled. Thus they could go on through every waking iour. unescapablc in their demand ipnti her love. She had had a suffocating sense hat never, for one instant, could m ^.vn.ui, uciacn -ii.?/ui tneni anu heir problem. And ther., as an inpiration. it had come to her that 'onape Burke should be her refuge. Jntil she was sure about the two? >h, so sure!?she could always fly o him. She'd demand her pirate's tories, and force Van and John ilso to sit and listen, no matter how ebellious. She had a sudden curiosity conerning this Ponape Burke in her iew dependence upon him. She was ager to look at him. And she knew le would be perched on the forelatch, his brown man as ever at his lbow, silent, motionless, a pagan OSS. She whirled around to gaze, then aught her breath in dismay. ... ' Unexpectedly, startling, the say-j . age, unknown to anyone of them r all, had materialized himself here, > was sitting almost within their circle. And his eyes were leveled upon I her in a profound unblinking store that seemed to have been going oh for hours. (Continued Next Week) j "Mummy, 1 can't go to school fo! day." Why?" i "I don't feel well." j 'Where don't you* feel well?" J "In school." 1 ; x j Hever so J3 *?iY una n?ever a Today's 1 higher dej I car in tlse i Accompar '* rral tnea \ness and r (ft'\\>d&\ See Buicl others-a, a car so be SEDANS $U95to$1995 SPORT MODE] All prices f.o.b. i'lint. Mich., go%criimrnt i the inos: cVsrn CALDWELL MO LENOIR, NOR" "notice to I will make my secoru on the following dates unpaid 1925 and 1 92( on or before date of c. Again 1 call attention $hat all taxes must b< May. Those unpaid 1: May. Those unpaid ! over to the commissioi i levies to be made on j costs. See me at the BOONE?First Monday and Tuo NORTH FORK, March 8?Thorn Potter's store in the uftcvnc I MEAT CAMP, March 0?More.t! Stevens' store in the afterno I!ALU MOUNTAIN', March 10? STONY FORK, March 12?Cook Deep Cap in the afternoon. ELK, March I."?TrivettV. store. BLUE RIDGE, March 15? Storie BLOWING ROCK, March 16?H WATAUGA, March IT?Collins' Crueis in the afternoon WATAUGA, March 18?Vaile C SHAWNEF.IIAW, March 19?3o LAUREL CHEEK, March 2(1?.). and Ward's store in the all BEAVER DAM. March 21?Sher Hajjnman's in the afternoon. COVE CREEK, March 22?Mabel in the afternoon. L. IV. Sheri i 'I ' ? : ? ' i f"* jj I ^ lency. Wind Colic rend Drarrhest; therefrom, and, by regulating the assimilation of Food; giving heal To avoid imitations, always look for the < Absolutely Harmless ? No Opiates. Ph MARCH 8. 1928 Seed Potatoes Cooperating with the Department ef Agriculture I am making arrange merit? to buy certitietl seed potatoes lor ali farmers in the county who may desire them. There seems to be a shortage of seed to supply the demands of Watauga faVmers this year and those desiring seed siibuld place their orders with me at once. I am not going into the business to make money hut to assist the farmers and only want to buy a sufficient amount to supply tlitr demand. D-tf J. L. QUALLS .^{ja lift I ' it/ acasr v-ffi fiful" % f\, . caa* so (^ood ?uick brings to its owners a gree of beauty than any other Buick field has ever offered, lying this beauty?and giving ining?is the superlative goodeliability of Buick engineering, t?drive it?compare it with tid you'll agree there was never autifi.il and never a car so good! COUPES r> 1195 to $ 1 MO LS 31115 t:> $ 1525 ?fr to be <tthird. The C'.ot./t.C. /trnirhf plan, idle, it available. TOR COMPANY TH CAROLINA TAXPAYERS I J call for 1927 taxes at places named. All ) taxes must be paid all. to the law requiring : paid by the 1 st of efore that timeonay. r that date will turned ners, who must order property, thus adding following places: sdays: as5 store, in the mlfjvning and jqn. rs store in the morning and on. Votinp place. ?s store it\ the morning and at i 's store. olshouser's store. store in the morning and Yalle rueis. nes' store. B. Hicks* store in the morning crnoon. Wood's in t'rti' mnrhlinif* nt in the- inwrnihgand Sherwood's L FARTHING, iff, Watauga County. lildren % for 1Wt ? Ml l?j 11ft: \\^\ v\vV A MOTHER:-Flcts. Cher's Castoria is cs^S>> peciaJly prepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatuallaying Feverishness arising Stomach and Bowels, aids the thy and natural sleep. iignature of o'siciam everywhere recommend it. , %
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