\.?IX
SYNOPSIS
Palmyra Tree, aboard the yach
Rainbow. is startled by seeing u ban;
Thr ust through the po?t of her cabin
She makes a secret investigation am
discovers a stowaway. She is disap
pointed in his mib.l appearance an;
tells him so. Obeying his comniani
t'% glance at the door?she sees :
huge, fierce, copper-hued man, witl
a ten-inch knife held between grin
ning lips! Burke, the stowaway, e\
psu;ns that it is a joke. But Pal
inyra is shaken. Next day, Burkand
the I rowi! man go up on deck
The stowaway entertains them witl
? .. O..- . . t:r .
. unca iu an au'.tuiuirwiiiif nit:
Ki'hi.h his listeners refuse t.? believe
read on:
Palmyra spends move and mori
time with the stowaways to avoii
Van and John, bin when the stow
a ways are put ashoi e at llbholuh
she decides she loves Van. The nigh
the engagement is announced th?
Rainbow hits a reef, in the excite
me i which follows John rescue:
hot' Van and Palmyra?but Pal
my; a thinks it is Van who saves her
After three days spent on the un
inhabited island, a saii is sighted. 1
proves to he Ponape Burke. Burk?
contrives to get Palmyra hoart
his boat alone?and the boat is un
der way before anything can in
dpiie^* ; I \
Thurston is frantic and plans tt
>av ; Palmyra. although there seem:
no ;yjssibte way. Meanwhile Pona'.u
toils Palmyra he is goirtg to the IsU
f Fauna with her.
dive marched proudK up fcj?.c
sands. the girl in his arms a de.-n
burden.
The rifle 'ire. as was have beer
v \ofwted, had brought the villagerrunning
from their thatches. Scarce
tin' i?iu>vu man emer&gSi out
of cm* sea l,ban these Mic: onesians
swarming down. Kxeited voice,
liiuii tht air. "0-]>c-v-ay 0-U-? -vay
(viofc-vay!".
> thus, then. was where he could
bring her: the home of his popple,
the platv: of his ow n abode.
Here Wefre people moving about:
broWn men. yellow men, whlfcfe aicn.-j
the last in white clothing and white
.shoes, with white pith helmets pulled
down over their noses to keep out
the- glare of the white sand. And
here was even a white woman. wh<;
popped her head out a window like
a euokbo oiit of a -dock.
And there, most astonishing of all,
not five feet away and as rea as life
itself, stood .lohn Thurston.
And he gazed at her sorrowfully
and said, in the strangest voice:
"Pjjim Tree' Oh, oh. Palm!"
It was not until fifteen hours af tl:er
the brown man bad <restored Palmyra
Tree- to the world of the living
that she out e more opened her
eves. Then, in a half-waking fright,
she reared herself up with ,'a-1 cry of
:?t?A M 1 .
j tii- iif,> l monipiii sgt- lounu no rself
in her mother's arms.
WhenPshi- roused again. several
i ho^r? later, the Craw fords >yere at
r.he bedrit'.e with her mother and
father.
Palmyra sat up abruptly \yith the
question: "Where have they got
Ponape Burke?'
The four looked from cue to another.
hesitated.
At her first awakening the gir!
had been told how the Okayama had
brought her people into this harboi
on the search.
"You don'l mean . ." She
paused, incredulous. "You don'1
mean the gunboat was right hert
when I came and didn't steam out tc
catch him?"
She saw- that ihis urbelievabh
thing was true. Unexpectedly, sh<
sprang to her feet. "Where's Olive?'
Her voice rang sharp, frightened.
But Olive himself was asleep.
Her father began to explain. "Th<
Pigeon of Noah is, an American ves
sei . . ."
And there's been so much frictioi
between Japan and America." inter
jected the mother.
"And Commander Sakamoto wa
sure if he seized the schooner on thi
hirrh aoijc if wnnlrl i/pf. infn ftii
American paper's wrong anrl stir n
more misunderstanding and ill will.
"So, my dear," finished Constar.c
Crawford, "you were sacrificed t
the ends of diplomacy. The .lay
finding: you safe, decided the lesse
evil was to let Burke escape."
"Dr. Crife's just had a long tal
with Olive," said Mrs. Crawford. Di
Crife of the mission was their hosl
The girl exclaimed in astonishment
"He can, he can talk to him? H
can understand him?"
She seemed hardly to believe. S
utterly, with her, had the brown ma
been beyond reach of words, it ha
seemed no one, with Ponape Burk
(tone, could ever bridge that gap be
tween Babel's most diverse langri
ages.
"And to think," cried Constant*
"they got the letter all wrong. Mad
us' believe poor Olive, who was bi
ing so wonderful, was a villain."
? ' ' '
ED HA1
AND
LUE SE
JSTRATIONS BY HENRY J
COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRXSNBTCJ
The color flooded Palmyra*
r cheeks in the intensity of her inter
fi est.
i. "Cut this particular pastor coul<
J not explain clearly," said the father
- "and the Jan. misled bv vour name
1J didn't understand at all. What 01iv?
i really writes is to beseech, in Je
i hovah's name, that whatever friend
t get the letter hurry with arms am
-; many boats to a named island, then
to help him save ..."
"Dr. Orite says there's absolutely
? r.o question about tnat wr ?d 'save.*
. put in Constance.
1 . ."Help him save the higl
chief vounj? lady Ralmtree.*'
The girls settled back among hei
pillows. Tears welled into her eyes
- "It was enough that 1 should havt
1 wronged him,".she said. "It is an
thinkable you all should have beer
guilty of 'his crowning mi.-concep
* Hon."
~ i She shifted uneasily, lay for soim
I vime in silence, gazing through tn*
a window.
"If they hadn't bungled the let
ter." she said at last wearily. "1
should have been spared much. Am
if you hadn't let Ponapc Burke es
cane. I >h uldn't now b,- in danefe
! stiik"
I At last Palmyra could talk t?
"| Olive
After all these days and years
] and centuries silence, they t\u?
by the intervention of Or. < rile, had
been made articulate.
Sh't learned that the f rown mar
served Pouape Burke in a debt of
i gratitude; the saving of his life. He
nail for this while i .isral n <m:t ?.1
I] !v>vc, hut iio sort pf respect. Great
souls must, of their nature, suffer
; petty tyrahuv. And Olive I'ften,
. according to his lights regretting:.
.! disapproving. always pa!i?|m\g-t;
follow.*d the despicable, little l*on5)
-*?Pe.
ij i>he learned that Oliw had :io:
known llurko tneurit v> abduct her.
. And she found that in the beginning
I he had thought it. J? an abduction,
1 hut an elopement.
t'tny when the se hooper got under
, way (lid he perceive that this was no
; adventure of Palmyra's own choice.
Only when .she did tint jsoo'h begin ti?
smile through her tears as many a
native girl might have donei did he
!' realize how terrible to her the situs.,
Li oh.
Olive's fifi-i thought was that the
girl would fee! safer with a weapon;
also thai she might possibly need
one. As he dared not givt; her the
knife In daytime. ho dropped it
through the skylight.
U hv'n the Japanese gunboat
pissed them so cruelly hy. Olive had
been as eager as she i?? attract atj
lention. But he had known the disi
lar.ee too great.
As. regarded JaUi't he had not
i jitim- there because it was co obviously
the; place he should have gone.
Biufke was sure to try that lagoon
first.
This niuoh Dr. Crife could redd
air her.
incarnate there before this isiandI
ci's eves on the Rainbow, she pad
j been not unlike a goddess; a being
; ?l&s indeed she was?from another
world. A high white princess, called
for the statc-ly life-giving paim and
crowned with hair of fiame, she had
condescended to him with blankets
I when a brown creature was in mis1
cry with that most terrible of things
?cold.
Olive was not in love with Palm
? Tree. One does not consider oneself
t privileged to tall in love with a
t goddess.
> But from the deck at her feet, intimately
yet afar, he had gazed up
} at her?fascinated.
If Palmyra now knew how Olive
' felt toward her, she was far from
knowing how she felt toward Olive.
And if her oply difficulty witV
a Van Bur en Rutger had been a re
- luctance to give him pain, she fount
every difficulty with John Thurs
i ton.
Van himself had made things easy
Returning to the mission at a l?t<
s hour the third night he had conic
e upon Olive prowling about with :
e rifle. "Ponape is not dead," th<
p brown man had explained simply
" But that which others look upon a:
e a touching manifestation of deyo
o tion. Van chose to regard with sus
>, picion "Sakamoto shall know o
r this," was his comment.
Palmyra had been so incensed tha
k there and then, she had broken th<
r. engagement.
t. Van's dismissal placed him in tha
position wherein h weak man not in
e frequently lacks moral courage. t<
turn upon his real rival. He mus
o find an easier target for his resent
n ment. Thus Van. without in ih<
d least perceiving why, remaine*
e amiable toward Thurston, but dc
veloped an ugly spite against thi
i- man of darker skin.
But if Palmyra had freed hersel
j, of Van, she could not free herself o
e that which withheld her frori
- j Thurston.
Back there in the canoe, in he
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT??V1
[R^l^
It. OSBORN
[AY LEE
> SONS
. i
> .'Moment of revelation, she had yearn-!
ed to mee thin once more, face toI
face, that she might tell mm the j
J j truth i.ut now that, astonishingly, j
. j she had awakened into the old life.!
j .j she found herself' quite unready to
.?j step up to him with any such con.
i fession.
j She willed to io'vc John ThuBlton; |
t.u.. .j;.i tl..
?. ^ILV l.lll V -ItFlllI J IIUI MUI.. I'Ul .
between them was the brown nuui j
Olive, and# leering from behind his? .'elbow,
the face of IV-nape Burke.
Concerning Olivt she tried to justify
herself on the gvbund of grati-1
i tude Never had a girl move reason'
to he grateful. Was it not naturalj
she should be eager to take himj
. presents, to sit ir. his house question- i
ing. to find herself hour hv hour'
.j more curious concerning him. more'
i interested in him than in any other
. living being?
Oddiy enough-?or rather, natural-j
ly enough?it dk'. not come to her
? for some tim t whether slie!
nilght he in love with this brown
-! man. Then the i?ca struck like an!
r unexpcctcd blow .She was stunned,
i At first she pu* the thought from
. he in abhorrence. Hut in the still j
hours of the night it came hack i
again and again. Could she indeed!
. ho it", love with. Olive? Was it pos-;
si Me for an American girl, under!
, any circumstances whatever, to fall j
in iov< with a mao of darker race?
i She shuddered to think others
might jjfelievo this thing o " her.
She avoided Olive, kept to her
room. She t niggled to analyst her'
emotions, to v.-i.-igir thenv disp r sio.i-!
a tel.v. And honestly striving sue
v as at :..st aide to say of herself that:
it; no sense could she be accused ofi
loving him.
Not for long did sh? find the answer.
Then it came, like release from I
a prison cell. She was in love, not I
v ith himself, hut with his
attributes.
She tvapied '.?? love? John for the
! true manliness that was his. But, l
alas, iho-r >plcn<!i(l qualities the two j
possessed ia ociihiio.1i ha: come to!
-ocm thii per-onai qualities of Olive!
i a Io n p. ?>he remembered how he had
u!>no after the shark with the knife
. . ami conquered.
The >un was less than an hour '
, high when Palmyra, as she had done I :
for several mottling now. descended' '
the winding- stairway hewn in the I
hillside from the mission direct to '
the street of the town.
Island life was already astir. j *
The girl was addressed by an "id.
woman. 1
** PI easy you." said this crdnt in'5
; Knglish, " you come for look for see 5
j veV tine I'inpvlap mat. Vou like too : ~
' much for buy." ; *
She would have refused, but now N
1 she caught a glimpse of Van ap '
j preaching. Several times he had
; trapped her into painful interviews. N
But this morning she could use the 2
ancient dame, as a gaping listener, *
: i.. keep Van silent. ;
f "Where is your ouse?" the girl
! asked tentatively.
The thatch toward which the crone 1
j pointed stood coiVspicuoulsly. ln>- '
' mediately against one side was the
water and a small wharf of coral 5
fragments by which the traffic of
U. ... ... i . *1. _ ,L ?
uie.iDw ii wf.H. to CfTf uiicnurage. as
I close- on the island side was the road
! and. opposite, the trading estahlishj
meitt of a white man and the high
concrete of the Japanese police
! compound. The house was quite by
' itself on the water side of the high- ,
j way, yet immediately in the center
' of village life.
Van now came sauntering up and 1
j Palmyra indicated this place.
II "Come on," she invited. "My old
i lady is taking- ine for look-see for
j ve'y line Pingey-something mat." i
11 Several drops of rain fell. 1
j Van agreed. "But there's a squall
1 coming." he said. "I'll run back
first for umbrellas."
I! As he turned away she hesitated,
- unexpectedly afraid at being left
alone.
. But as she moved forward a Japi
anese policeman, saluting benignly;
i reassured her. And she saw every
i step brought her nearer those two
j representatives of the civil and the
. moral law, which lay at anchor be5
yond the wharf, the Okayama and
- that Iju Ram which is the latest,
- perhaps the last, of the Morning
f Stars in which the American missionaries
have carried the Word.
t The old woman's house was not
e onlv f'onsrtiriirmti ir? !?>?*
appearance. The thatches of this ist
land were rectangular, sharp roofed,
- sided with woven tat, narrow doored.
3 But this hut was oval and open?
t vaguely the architecture of central
- Polynesia.
e The girl stooped to enter, then
\ drew back in one of those sudden
- apprehensions that still beset her.
s Who knew where Ponape Burke
would strike? This house seemed
f safe; might indeed he safer than the
f mission. But yet . .. .
ri She peered in; saw only three old
women. No one could be in hiding,
r none approach without being seen.
WBCSHW BE I
.' ,. - -' ' ', ' ' ' ' J V 2RY
THURSDAY?ROON Ei, N. C.
| Palmyra entered, advanced toward
I the central posts, glancing interesti
ediy around.
Suddenly, something: dropped past
her eyes, and the three old women
hurled themselves at her.
So unexpected the attack flora
I such as these, in an open shed sueh|
j as this, at almost the settlement's!
busiest and most public spot, that!
the girl was caught unready. And
before she could move a muscle, cry
out. her throat was compressed?a
terrible, choking pressure. Shej
fought for breath. Then, her arms
pinioned, came relief and a fierce
warning:: 'No 'poakey. no 'peakeyf
At the content <>i* 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
silence?or death
The woman, fearing Van might
...? i *-< *1.-:..
?i n "v. IU i.<u?r mvn
prisoner immediately away.
At first Palmyra thought this impossible.
Bat now she made a discovery.
Though the thatch was so notoriously
the forefront as to seem above
suspicion, the high wall of the police
compound ended directly opposite,
and turned inland, leaving between
it and the blank wall of the trader's
a three-foot lane. This path. she
recollected being told, ran back for
half a mile, a mere passageway between
the wall and the mangrow'
swamp upon which she had looked
down from her mission 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. TheFrcnch
trader across the way had!
eked up his place and gone out ioi
breakfast. The native passersbyj
were coming in detached groups.)
Palmyra's captors need wait only
until no one was near. Then, closing
around her. they could whisk j
he!- across, screening her with one!
or two of the ever present umbrellas,
! iised either ayainst a shower or the
equatorial sun. j
But almost at the moment of the i
so l:*' there came an intorniption.'
O: ?t" the old wo mop. stooping?
?!;?\v!i to mnro out. discovered the
father and mother and Constance
Crawford approaching:-- already
close. Panic ensued, li her
raptor:- had not been dangerous before.
they certainly were now.
The prisoner would have scream
yd. Unconsciously, she extended hey]
kings to take in the necessary air.
line on the second that fibre cordj
rat oeen into her ilcsh.
liaspiny. she was thrust tinder the |
mostpiito net; thrown flat, head on j
Iviitilioo pillow. Two of the hays lol- j
lowed her ir.to the netting, sat pressed
.VgaiiiSt her on either side. These
snatched off her hat and veil, throw
i>ver her a covering.
Meanwhile the crone who had
lured her here had taken a machete
md seated herself on the patch of
?rass before the house.
Within the house. Palmyra's two
guardians had begun a low-voiced
tinging. She perceived herself as a
tick woman. These two kindly old
souls sat inside the net to comfort
lev, whiic. before the hut, a third
.vaitou reaay to answer solicitous
nouiry.
And any commotion of struggle
vhich might catch the transient eye
you Id be taken for a round of that
nassage which is the native's cureill.
Her captors had taken impish advantage
of that trait in human name
which causes man never really
o look at a thing in plain sight.
She was intensely alert. At the
lightest opportunity she meant to I
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Boone, N. C-, April 11. 1928.
Sheriff L. M. Farthing.
Boone, North Carolina:
flear Sheriff:
As your attorneys we feel it our
iuty to call your attention to the
irastie provisions of the law in
Chaper 213; Section a. which provides
that the sheriff SHALL on
the first Monday in May report in
xun w?u iiiuuiiccieu taxes lur tne
current tax year, and the County
Commissioners SHALL order a sale
of all land for taxes where the taxes
have not been paid. This sale must
be madfc on the first Monday in
June. This applies to the 1927
taxes.
You nor the County Commissioners
have any latitude and cannot exercise
any leniency but the law is
mandatory.
Yours verv respectfully.
BROWN & BINGHAM,
Attorneys.
I am publishing the above ictter
from the County Attorneys which is
self-explanatory. It is dangerous
for the people to allow their lands
sold under the new law. All taxes
must l>e paid by the first Monday in
May or their land advertised. I have
no way out of it. Nobody can exfend
the time further.
Respectfully,
L. M. FARTHING,
Sheriff of Watauga County.
j scream, to fight. Since her escape o
j from Burke she herself had carried ]i
j a small automatic pistol. At the
? first chance she'd use it. tl
Now, however, she saw Van Buren
Rutger approaching, and sank back
again. The others had not known, b
Van did know k;
But just as the trio had strolled
i away und the newcomer almost j
| reached the house, here, unexpected-!
I H% was the man Martin. He ran up
j to Van. Excitedly he spoken j-x
"Say. mister . . . Your lady friend.j
That red-headed gui''
Van drew back stiffly. -"Miss Tree! "
is in this house," he said.
Martin was vehement. No, that she!
wasn't! Outlaw natives had her.j
Hurrying her away. '
V :IT) jStnvi'H inArftilu lftut ??. ?* ! f
alarmed.
441 got it straight," cried Martin.
. h< re's twenty of 'era or more?all ,
with jruns. And they're running her
for the Pucliko Hocks." i
The Rocks were a noticeable formation
not far inland. ]
All Van's suspicions of the brown
man burst forth in the one erv: ^
"OliVel"
Palmyra, seeing, hearing:, burned
with contempt
The stranger now took the initiative.
T 11 warn the Japs." he said.
"You run for the mission. Remem i
Un- the Fueiiko Rocks."
But at this moment here camej
John Thurston. He was jumping up I E
to the wharf from a boat. At sight j
I
" "~7T
Youthful
BUICK/Wj/A
Fashionable throngs , .. sparkling
motorcars ... and standjngoutlikr
-i frock from Paris?
today's Bmck.
Fleet, low lincs, suggesting
rocket'like getaway and unrivaled
power . . . glistening colors,
vivid attd \ aricdas the
harmonies of Spring . . . and
CALDWELL MO
LENOIR, NOR
EXPERT PLUM
AT A REASON,
We guarantee thai our Flu
complete satisfaction and ti
most reasonable in town.
When you phone here for
that the work wili be done
price.
PROMPT. EFFICiE
Open 7 ju m. to 6 p. m. ev<
C. S, STE1
Telephone 87
- : f. ,i; v Mren
Lry to
MOTHER Fletcher's
Castoria is es- S~
pecially prepared to O
relieve Infants in X.
arms and Children
all ages of Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colic and 1
arising therefrom, and, by rcgula
aids the assimilation of Food; gv
To avoid imitations, alwavs look tor the
Absolutely Harmless - No Opiates. PI
MAY 3. i!>2S \
f him Van's face liehted with r?~
Instantly. Thurston li^pao to?
irow off his white coat.
"Olivo? Nonsense."
"L tell you,** Van affirmed shrii%
''she's in iove with the damned
rtnalca and he. he's jrot her."
(Continued Next Week.)
Why She Thought
Reggie (quite pleased): 'Why di-i
i>u think of me so often when yov
ere at the 200?" Miss Sharpe:
Well, one can scarcely avoid pass?$T
the monkey casre, you know."
Dr. L. D.UCnr. tiR'
In Surgeon's Jn. \ y f
Jsjr/""'.VSV-- a]
PKcruiart praeqce. fJk y^TS^.'cj&iLr/ 5 j
Poultry- expert ami "jA J
'Mt(4]&ut!iii?ity'<a JSt^l
ulni^a'* of .Stock '- '^ mltfiVi'
md Pou'try. ^JftSSB9^'
Dr. LeGear's '
Poultry & Stock
Remedies x 4
sold and guaranteed by
IOONE HARDWARE CO, Boone
T. L. MAST & BRo., i.ovilt.
< r #r?.^s x. vf?r
>4f#i ifiPV
fjx
"-.. _ p I
Colorful"
e fashion parade,
soft, rich upholsteries, delightful
to the sight nnd touch.
PIlOMCi' Rl " *
hill?colorful?it leads the
fashion parade.
BUICK
TOR COMPANY
HI CAROLINA
p
BING WORK
\BLE PRICE
mbin? Work will
tiat our prices are the
a plumber you know
right and at the right
NT SERVICE
ery d*y except Sunday
/enson
Shop 13 Main Street
~ j
'Ctx ~v~ . 1
?
t 4 -~v
T ^ '
h & W K
t&m
Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness
ting the Stomach and Bowels,
ring healthy and natural sleep.
signature of
rysrcjoiu -;vir?wlKK roulii.itowi fl. '