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DY CLIVE ARDEN
/ V CO«V«I«HT AY M aoeM-wuuu. tot*ntf
A TRANSFORMATION
STNOPSIS.—Living In the small
Kngllali village of Darbury. old
fashioned and sedate place, Bar
bara Stockley, daughter uf a
widowed mother, la soon to cele
brate her marriage to HuKh
Rochdale, rich and well con
nected. Barbara is adventurous,
and has planned, with an aunt,
an airplane trip to Australia.
Major Alan Croft, famous x* an
aviator, Is to be the pilot. At
her first meeting with Croft Bar
barm Is attracted by his manner
and conversation, different from
the cut-and-drled conventions of
her small town. They set out,
Barbara, her aunt. Craft, and a
mechanician. Word In a few
days comes to Darbury that the
plane la missing and Its occu
pants believed lost. Croft and
Barbara, after the wreck of the
airplane in a furious storm,
reach an apparently uninhabited
Island In the Pacific ocean. The
other two members of the party
had perished. The two«cast
aways build a shelter. In Croft'a
absence Barbara Is attacked bjT
a black man. evidently a savage.
Croft rescues her.
PART TWO—Continued.
11 5
He could see now. In the stronger
light, that all were armed with long
spears, two also carrying bows and
arrows. The third, an old man, wore
round his neck a lurge clam-shell disk
—emblem of the ronk of chief—and
through his iiose-cartllugps a dark
atone. Rings, probably of tortoise
shell, hung from his ears.
Croft wondered If this were a rlslt
of negotiation, with a view to a com
pact of friendship with visitors to
their Island. He recounted them for
members of the huge scattered family
of Melaneslana, or Papuans, which
have aome undoubted connection with
the African blacks, and are to be
found In numberless South Sea Islands
as well as In Melanesia proper. Al
though their dialect Is more or less
local, there Is sufficient similarity to
make It fairly Intelligible to any one
accustomed to the variations.
A few minutes, and Croft's illusion
of a friendly, compact was destroyed.
Hostility «ySs evident. Hp soon rea
lised that an attnek wr.s being organ
ised for the following night, though
he could not distinguish tho plans be
ing laid.
Emboldened by the absence of any
sign of 'heir enemy, the men remained
standing for several minutes, gazing
down the slope at the solitary nui
wherein Barbara lay unprotected. At
laat, after an Indistinct colloquy, they
moved slowly fonvartln Its direction.
for a moment Croft's heart seemed
to stop beating. To expose himself,
unarmed, would mean certain death,
and the consequent abandonment of
the girl, whose life now rested upon
his. to a fate probably far worse. In
aide the hut. If he could but reach It,
lay the suitcase containing hla re
volver. Should he risk all and dash
from his hiding place or—? A sigh of
relief escaped his Hps when the men
auddenly hulted. For what seemed an
eternity he watched them confer to
gether, evidently divided In opinion
on the wladnm of their ventur?. When
at Inst tbey turned nnd made off
toward the aoath of the Island, he
found his clenched hnnds were shak
ing and hla brow was wet. He hur
rled down to the hut, where he found
a white-raced girl Ineffectually bar
heading the dopr with suitcases.
She uttered a welcoming cry on his
appearance at the window.
"llow dlo you escape? Where were
you? What can we dor*
To hla own amazement perhaps n »
much as hers, he laughed—almost
happily.
"They hare gone away," he replied
"We can't do anything at present."
She gazed at him In some bewilder
ment. knowing nothing of the reac
tion which had canned that strange
light In hla face; and he laughed
again, boyishly; then leaned further
In for a closer Inspection of the blur
clad figure with Ita cloud of hair.
-Ton are better?" he asked.
The paleness of her cheeks change.!
suddenly to red under hi* acrutlnv
"I —I'm all right," ahe muttered,
turning swsy.
"I will go back for the water." nr
remarked; and hla lace disappeared
from the aperture.
Barbara's mind was uncomfortably
confused. Safe in anme refuge she
had aeemed to be sleeping for houu
When she awoke ahe Instinctively
sought for a band which proved not
to be there. Throughout the terrified
moments that ensued, vague Impres
•tons of some midnight event chased
eiaslvely through her brain. Tlfej
were Intenrifled by Croft's appear
aoe«. Vainly ahe tried to capture thf
threads; to separate the real from
chaos «f Milium. All was eon
fusion, jumbled repetitions of accum
ulated horrors. She caught first at
one thread; then lost It and caught at
another. But ever ht one point her
cheeks burned. How much was true?
Surely not —. The more' she thought,
the more convinced did she become
of lis Incredible reality. . . . Ilow
could she face her companion? He
alone could place the unraveled
threads In her bunds. But how to
make hltn do so? How—
So engrossed were her thoughts
that she started violently at the sound
of his voice again at the window.
"Your nerves are awfully weak," he
remarked.
"They are not 1" she snapped Indig
nantly. Was she always to feel fool
ish and, above all, appear so, with
this man?
Opening the door, she took In one
of the bualns, without looking up.
A scented, steaming bath could not
have been more welcome than that lit
tle basin of cold water. The freshness
Invigorated her, reviving a girlish In
terest In appearances. Unpacking a
tiny traveling mirror, she proceeded to
do up her hair, dressing in one pf the
cool washing frocks Intended for Aus
tralia.
Croft was thumping on the hut, de
manding breakfast, before the comple
tion of this toilet. Hla quick glance
took In her dainty and very civilized
appearance down to the gray suede
shoes; but he made no comment.
Again the contents of the old tin box
proved Invuluahle, with the addition of
bananas and coconut. They spread
their store upon the ground outalde. In
the early morning sunshine.
Conversation languished. Croft
seemed abstracted, deep In thought.
Her riddle of the night lay un
solved. ...
After several furtive glances at his
face, she made a plunge.
"I want to know—"
"Yes? What?" Quickly his eyes
searched her own, causing her to low
er them confusedly.
"I can't remember what hnppened—
I'm afraid I did I behave rather
stupidly, lust night?"
He stretched ouf*hla hnnd for a ba
nana, peeling It with Irritating deliber
ation before replying.
"You were, naturally, slightly un
hinged after all your experiences."
This guarded reply was unsatisfac
tory.
She felt exasperated. Looking across
at him, she fancied the suspicion of
a smile hovered around his lips.
"You realize, of course, that any
thing I did—or said—was because —I
mean, It was not my normal state I"
"Oh,-I quite realise that 1" Uls tone
caused her to look up quickly again.
"Why are you laughing?" she asked
uneasily.
"Why are you so afraid?" he re
torted.
Nonplused, she took refuge In a
dignified alienee. Finishing her break
fast, she looked round the bay—at the
rugged hill beside them, the palms and
dense forest trees In the background,
the coral shingle and white sand
stretching down to the magnificent
blue of the lagoon, lh the dlstunce the
reef snd vast atretch of limltlesa sea:
the Intensely vivid colors and contrast
shone In the sunlight with extraordi
nary brilliance.
"It's all very beautiful." she aald at
last, conversationally.
"It Is!" he agreed warmly, rising to
his feet, ({ringing his mug filled with
water, he sat down close beside her.
"Now. please mend my head."
Barbara was concerned over hla pal
lor and the lines surrounding his eyes.
"You look worn out!" she exclaimed
Involuntarily. "Didn't you ateep well
last night?"
"Not a wink!" Fie glanced qulckly
up at her. Whereupon her unraveled
confusion returned fourfold; and ahe
finished her Job In silence.
"I'm going up the hill to the wire
leas," he obsen d then. "You need
not fear the natlvea. They won't re
turn until they have mustered their
numbers."
At her look of alarm 'he continued
hurriedly: "I've got a scheme for
scaring them off altogether. I shan't
be long away. If you shout. I shall
bear."
There was no suggestion of her com
pany being required. She watched
him disappear, with a sickening sense
of the oppressive loneliness that ahe
dreaded: but pride forbade her utter
ing a word to detain hint. Then, with
nncotiacloua Imitation of Croft, ahe
threw her head a little back; clenched
her hnnda; and enteral the hut. . . .
While the nntlves hurried to the
outh. to prepare for battle, the man
«at on the ground beside the transmit
ter, stating out to sea, hla brain work
ing on the scheme to which he had
lust alluded; his mind torn between
conflicting decisions. In this predica
ment. at the mercy of a tribe of hos
tile savages, there ware bat two for
lorn hopes of defense. One lay In the
little weapon down in the hut, with Its
limited supply of ammunition; the oth
er In the inherent superstition of the
islanders. If once the latter could be
roused; If his ruse, for all Its wildDess,
succeeded,. their Uvea might yet be
safe. On the other hand, wireless mes
sages might reach a ship in time.
There was not enough electrical en
ergy for both purposes. . . .
Which should it be?'
"My God!" he muttered to himself.
"Was ever a man In such a d—d po
sition r
IV
No better tonic -could have been giv
en to Croft's mind than this necessity
for immediate action. Until he had
made his decision and the details were
matured, he forbore to alarm Barbara
with the prospect before them.
For about two hours he was absent.
Then a spiral of gray smoke ascended
from the hilltop, and he appeared with
his arms full of wire.
"I have left a beacon burning, in
case a passing vessel—" Abruptly he
ceased, standing still, his eyes upon
the figure emerging from the hut.
"A transformation !" he exclaimed ;
and there was a strange new tone in
his voice.
The dainty shoes and stockings had
been discarded, the hairpins thrown
away. With a long thick plait swing
ing down her back, sleeves rolled up,
bare feet sinking In the sand, she
flashed him a shy look of Inquiry.
"It seems more natural—here," she
said.
Thug did Barbara take the first step
from out the net of lifelong conven
tions, and tread the free spaciousness
beyond.
"You fit In so well—ns If It Is your
natural sphere!" she added.
He smiled half to himself, patted
the spare seat beside him. Rather
wonderlngly she approached, looking,
he thought with compunction, ex
tremely young and delicately mnde.
To Inform a sensitive the forth
coming attack of possible cannibals
was. to Croft, ten times more formid
able then meeting them single-hand
ed. He was not versed In the han
dling of these situations.
Taking her hand, he drew her down
close beside him; then. In a few
curt sentences, he told her.
The fingers he held closed convul
sively upon his own; her free band
|o^
"They Wouldn't Kill You," Ho said.
"Do You UndorotnndT"
clenched Itself upon her knee; the
faint color drained away, leaving ber
face quite white.
"Can't we go—hide somewhere—on
the reef?" she urged, turning dark
eyes of fear upon him.
He shook his hepd. Very thought
fully, from every point of view, had
lie considered the position. Should
they, by hiding, elude the natives to
night, It would be but a respite. The
same danger would surround th#Bi ev
ery moment they spent here; they
could never know peace or safety. For
some reason these native* were hos
tile* something must be done to over
corn* their hostility. Until and unless
a friendly compact could be made,
they must be forced to leave the two
white people alone, through fear. All
this he explained to the girl, who rec
ognized the wisdom of It, as well as
what she deemed the Impossibility.
"Two! Against, possibly, hundreds!
Hew can we mak« them fear us?" she
usked hopelessly.
"Through their superstition," he re
plied promptly. "Once make them be
lieve we deal with the supernatural,
«r poafeas magical poweca. and they
•rill make ns tabu. The dread of death
tr disease from violating a tabu will
muse them to shun us like lepers."
Barbara, Inexperienced In natlvea'
waya. waa only half convinced. She
listened Incredulously to the scheme
he propounded, ber knowledge of elec
tricity being limited.
"I will get some sticks," he condnd
er, rising; "and place everything In
readiness; then I shall turn In for a
bit. This afternoon we'll strengthen
(lie walla of the but; and I'll put up a
partition. Then we ahall each have
a room until we can build another hut
Plenty of work before ua, If rescue
doesn't come soon!"
Silently, she helped to.collect sticks,
an extraordinary numbneas pervading
her mind. Croft's spirits rose. He
had faced and eluded death too often
to fear It Hla confidence In this sim
ple rase puisled her.
Collecting the rubber shock absorb-
THE AT.AMANOE OT ISA NEB. GRAHAM. N. C.
er belonging to the wireless outfit, he
broke the sticks Into short stake*,
showing Barbara how to cover them.
This done, he proceeded to-tlx them
Armly in the ground round the hut,
then attached the aerial to*the top of
each: thus forming a wire circle ■ few
inches above the ground, as far from
the hut as the amount of aerial per
mitted. The two ends were carried
through the entrance and connected
to the transmitter within.
"Now!" he exclaimed, "when I
wave, press the key on the transmit
ter here, and watch the result."
He went out to the wire; and, kneel
ing down, placed one hand abont half
nn Inch above It. Italslng the other,
he gave the signal.
She pressed' the key as directed. Im
mediately, a series of bright blue
sparks flashed, like fireflies, from the
wire to his band, which he repeatedly
Jerked away; then, delighted with its
success, he returned to her.
"You see," he explained, "the vol
ume of current is always large with
wireless, therefore takes efTect by
sparking at the moment of contact.
The human body Is, of course, a con
ductor. Our visitors will get the shock
of their lives—especially as they usu
ally approach any object of attack by
waddling along on their stomachs!"
He chuckled with the anticipatory
enjoyment of a schoolboy over a
practical joke; then suggested having
some food. ® ,
Mechanically she fetched Aunt Dol
ly's box and drew out tins of beef and
coffee, heroically trying to share in his
conflt>nce.
He talked on, compelling her to at
tend, diverting her thoughts until the
meal endedi covertly watching her ev
ery expression. Then he drew her
within the hut, to rest.
Mechanically again, she entered, go
ing to the little window and looking
out, drearily, toward the palms. H«
fixed up the door, then came over to
her.
"You don't feel at all nervous?" he
asked nonchalantly.
She turned, with a forced smile.
"Oh, no! .... . Dear me, no!
. . . Of course not," she answered,
with terrific emphasis.
"That's all right! X ou ' re • Plucky
soul for a girl 1"
She flashed an Indignant look at him,
which, In spite of herself, faded as she
met the unexpected laughter In hit
eyes.
"You wanted adventure!" he re
minded her. "You wanted to 'feel
lift.* to learn' the 'meaning" of things,
to sound the 'deep chords.' Well I
You have your heart's deelre—at the
very bedrock of nature! Seize it,
Barbara! Drfnk to the very dregs!
Then tell me If you have discovered
what—lg missing."
Surprised, sh i listened ipently. He
turned away, laid one of their coats
J*st Inside the dvir, and threw him
self down upon ft Witt In a few
minutes he was sleetr.rg fie sleep ol
sheer exhaustion.
But the girl sot for long under the
little window, lost In thocrght, won
dering over his wovds. AnO ever her
mind reverted to one s« ttente. A
few words of praise from jne whose
opinion you have untvnsdously
learned to respect, and wh» t a world
of courage do they brinj In thelf
train 1
• ••••••
There are no pleasant hoi ia »t twi
light In the tropica. The sun seta,
and soon the world Is wi ipped In
darkness. It had disappeared behind
the west hill, and already a (ew stars
were showing In the swlftl; darken
ing sky. whefl Croft came oit of the
hut to where Barbara was |ollectlng
the remains of their sapper. He car
ried something In his handa
"Do you understand a revofter?" ha
Inquired.
She turned round, mingled Jear and
relief In her face. "Have jou one!
No; I have never flred one In my llfei
I wouldn't dare!"
"Well, I want to show you how to
use this little beaat, In case anything
goes wrong and you are left—"
She laughed, miserably.
"If they manage to kill you, they
will soon finish me off!"
He regarded her in alienee, for a
moment.
"They wouldn't kill you," he said
quietly. "Do you understand my
meaning?"
Her face went very white. For a
few minutes she paced up and down,
handa clenched, facing this new ter
ror, striving to control herself before
this man whose very look discouraged
weakness. The coolness of bis bear
ing. aa he stood playing with the
weapon In his hands, calmed her,
bracing her to a simulation of th«
same fearlessness.
"Show me." she said, going to him.
This is Interesting. Hew will
■ girl of Barbara's upbringing
react to these primitive condi
tioner
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Symbolic Indian Masks
According to tbe Bureau of Amer
ican Ethnology, tribes of Indians
throughout North America wore masks
at religious festivals and at some so
cial gatherings. Sometimes tbe priests
alone were masked, thongh In other
cases the entire company would ap
pear In masks. The falae faces gen
erally represented supernatural be
ings. Tbe simplest form of mask
was one prepared from the head of a
buffalo, deer, or some other animal.
Tbe mask stood, not for tbe actual
animal, bnt for tbs type of animal
and its supernatural characteristics,
and the person wealing It was (or tbs
time being endowed with tbs dlsttsr
Uve quality at tbs salmaj.
Jessica's Come-
Uppance
By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD
*
(Copyright.)
JESSICA HASTINGS' grandmother
was very precise old lady, who
sat all day in her geranium-filled win
dow and IWed in the past. The busy
world might go rus'hlng by without,
but It did not Interest her In the least
Times changed, but not for grand
mother / And Jessica, for whom thye
was no intervening- generation, was
frequently hard put to U for her good
times and Innocent girlish desires.
Both Jessica's parents had been killed
In a steamer collision, and her father's
mother had taken the curly-headed
Uttle girl and brought her up accord
ing to the standards of forty years
ago.
"Ob, Gram, please let me have my
dress three Inches shorter, at least ?•*--
she begged at the time of ber senior
high school ball. "Gram" yielded an
Inch, but no more, and did that with
her usual old-fashioned admonition,
"Look out, my dear. Girls that go con
trary to their elders always get their
come-uppance I"
"Come-uppance!" How Jessica came
to hate that homWy word! And yet
love fof her grandmother and a very
real appreciation of all she had been
to her through tbe motherless years
often checked on her Hps the quick I'e
monstranees.
And a little extra money all her
own would mean so much. Yet she
could foresee the tussle with her
grandmother which such a suggestion
would entail.
Yet, In the end, Jessica had her own
way. Something happened to one of
the companies with which their frugal
Investments were placed and their In
come was temporarily curtailed. Even
her grandmother could see that any
salary Jessica might bring in, however
small, would help bridge the gap, and
she could not ask the healthy, eager
girl to pinch and do without—a# she
In her day would have done —rather
than join the ranks of wage-earners.
"Only remember, my child, that yon
are a Isdy. Be modest and maidenly.
Otherwise, you will surely get your—"
but Jessica, overwhelmed at being at
last allowed to follow her Inclinations,
was too overjoyed to mind the loathed
warning.
Each day now she departed for
work full of happy anticipation, and
every evening returned contented and
cheerful. Untrained, she had not se
cured any remarkable Job, yet one that
suited he*—that of clerk In a book
shop—and dally It became more Inter
esting.
Especially after Cowles Dayton ap
peared on the scene. That breezy
young reporter, with a keen nose for
news and a tongue ready with the
latest slang and smart Journalese, wae
a bosom friend of the book store pro
prletdr. And after he met Jessica, It
did not seem to bother him If, when
he dropped In at the noon hour, hla
bosom friend was out for lunch and
only Jessica Hnd a long-legged boy of
all work remained.
There came a day when Jessica sus
pected, although Cowlea had as yet
■aid nothing, that he waa beginning to
care for her, and her great problem
loomed up of how to get her grand
mother used to him. She feared that,
however warned In advance, his ten
dency to call a spade a spade, or to
revert to the language of short cnta
and telling phrase* would hide hla
really fine qualities from her grand
mother.
However, /rom time to time, she
•gsually mentioned Cowles, and even
let her grandmother know that aha
had actually IqncLed with him, al
though ahe forebore to mention that
the meal had been nnchaperoned ex
cept by the eye» of the world In gen
eral as It foregathers at a popular eat
ing place.
Then occurred the theater fire, cre
ating a crista In thi lives of at least
two people. Jer«jlca and Cowles were
on their way home from Rlgoletto
when the Are trucks dashed by aa
they were about to hall a taxi.
Simultaneously the two looked at
one another.
*"I ought to eover it," murmured
Cowles.
"Let's go," said Jessica.
The blaze proved to be a de
structive and spectacular one. com
pletely destroying a large moving pic
ture place. Time slipped by unheed
ed. and when at last only smoldering
charred walls remaln*d, Jessica was
horrified to find that the small hours
of the morning were well upon them.
Frantically she hoped that her grand-,
mother would have gone to bed long
age.
"Shell be worried to death 1" she
told Cowleai as the speeding taxi bore
them home ward*.
"I suppose," and he regarded Jes
sica whimsical)?,' "ttjat in your
grandmother's d«y a gentleman who
kept a lady out *ll night wOuhl bo
expected to marry herT'
Jessica looked staftlfd. "Ob—1—
I —lmagine so," she smld.
"Then." and ho reached for her
hand, "the very least 1 we can do to
satisfy the old lady la to become en
gaged. How ahiiot It Uttle girl,
whom I have loved for a long, long
time?"
Before ah# could protest he bad
captured both bautla, which at first
struggled to escaps, then lay quiescent
In bis.
"Oh." breathed Jessica, and let him
drew her head to bis broad shoulder,
"grandmother always aald some day
I would get my come-nppance, bat
I didn't dream It would be you!"
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Teaching Japanese
"The McKlnley high school" sounds
as though It might be Just around the
corner In one's own home town. This
particular one, however, Is In Honolu
lu, where the school department Is
about to start two courses In Japanese.
This Is the first time an oriental lan
guage will be studied In the territorial
public schools.
For . Cuts, .Btyrnt, Poisoned .Wounds,
any sore, mosquito bites, bee (tings, use
Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh. Antiseptic
and healing. Three sizes; all stores. —Adv.
Like fragile Ice, anger passes away
in time.—Vlrgtt.
About all a pessimist Is good for Is
to sit around and anticipate misery.