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SIX SYNOPSIS Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht Uanhov.-, ?fcnrtU*d by teeinjr a hand thiu.st through the povc ot her cabin. She makes a secret investigation ami ' -" wis u stowaway- She is diaapyx-i'.Yvd in his mild appearance and tells hint so. Obey ins: his command to ylance at i.ho door?she Sees a huge, fierce, ceppor-hued ma:?, with a ten-inch knife held bvtvvecr? grini.-.v lips? Burke, the stowaway, ext;ia ::s that rt is a joke. But Palmyra is shaker* Next day. Burke and the brown man go up oh deck. Th stowaway entertains them with v lid :of an adventuresome lif". ? v.;. ... j. ? in n usv i v *.h:j < v.\?c. Nov. cad on: 1';?Iiei >-?-;s spends moi? and more time with the stowaways to avoid Var, and John, hut when the stowaways are put ashore ac HoaMjli she decides she loves Van! The night the engagement is ^tnnotmeed the Rainbow* hits a reef. In the excitement, which follows John rescues both Van and Palmyra?but Palmy'a thinks it is Van who saves her. After three days spent on the uninhabited island, a sail is sighted. It proves to be Ponape Burke. Burke contrives to get Palmyra 011 board1 his boat alone?and the boat is under way before anything can biv; done. CHAPTER V Buck ashore, where the moment 1 of Palmyra Tree's abduction had found her fiance >0 sifraid of wounding the girl that he could not raise .? rifle in iu r defense, every passing 1 stance was carrying forward; th e.vclalion :>v<? characters. Vali, as he saw his betrothed thus : ?! from bin*, stood, staring after the schooner. his lace convulsed; I He had beer, thrust bach into a. span tenfold that whence the Pig- j of Noah inul tirst. raided 'Klut. j N t so. howevt :, John Thurston. \ As M-il as Van he kuov. nothing! e-.-tib Im' do:n. ?>v.t h< , w?kijd lipt j ..i iir.i crime 'inio cuf-ow \\\ Iffll a iVen/.v; ; i Vji't; .U'l-osr t t ^edov"?he Oeuiandod. "wh.v ' /in v.v uo'; ' \l' once?'*I denosc i -ii;i: u mnsttw -looked ; ... . .l "Nothing." 'Mmi v.-. must. \ toll you \ve amst. .'hi-.. y,[Cv'v *?<)i to ;" son. \ v&tj ?nr.xv''" ''iMU-r/.. ?. i4To?,!:?.'?i- "I wish to j God v.e could* &1V. Tku>;i<?n, I'm as j broke i.',j a?, yon. Uyt- thine ' 3i>; - n.o u?fc. . honks new* if we're ; syo.i uv jjej. ol'h we'll bavo knock] ' her sr.ine. .sort of croft front the- j crtcd n'lit hi protest;] . i : . nuiuths. Kol Von. with a\\\ your sea expedience-,. you most, knowj ' .11' * iY i. [ ... j t:.u r<-oo:>on snook his heart.j S?!'.-n}{ whatever fed l>e clone. j . idei-ix Thu,-aval's face Sisiitert.I iff- -to<v.5 in thought, Ms features! caking on :i mere Oe finite tingo of' eiaoUn;;; " Jive 6H?t ill" be rie.i, and;. away. r,\ , The tailing canner. Ip winch thy j V'c'rm-siau navigators pi .. llyiro?e| (in iinyrod the Prtviiic were oaui-j mucins. The explorers built two! hails, sr narrow that neither. i\ it-! sel'.. w . i. to rlif.it IV.;t who;', Lb.v.tv.o v.w, S'sc.1. perhaps ten f.-et apart., by tin-bet:- hikhen nthwmt. their gnn. virs awsrtsbitv-. the double canoe i?v:i>ne staunvh trough?though l-nasting in ; 1i i.v nuns m. nail at i ivet. its jo i. Pvl.i by uovh i?{r striynicer than breadft nit guni jihti twists ot cord, its sails no more substantial than plaited leaf?to traffic nli ayvav aiid across the brood '".leifit. it was Thurston's idea now that, placing his four separately worthies.; boats in tandem, two on each side, he could lash thc-m under a framework of the lighter spars into a machine which would carry ? considerable spread of sail. "If those old i-atamiuar>- could hold together for n thousand miles," Be explained, "ours plight to make trie next island." Work, had been going or. perhaps ah hour when he appeared for the first time to become aware of Van Borer. llntger's drooping figure. John had completely forgotten the other man. Convicted, he ran oyer .to him. But Thornton urteinnted no cv - obtnalion. Ue said that the best, the only way out was to sketch the plan of action, seem to consult the other's judgment. He spoke briefly. "What do you think, Van?" he concluded. "Isn't that as well as we can hope to do?" Van was silent for a long time then, unexpectedly* iahghed. "As, as good as any,? he said. "Go on youi raft and drown, stay, and starve What's the difference? As regards her?" he caught his breath in : broken exhalation?"she's gone." Thurston gazed at his somberly "You mean you won't raise a ham for her?" "1 won't." Van answered wearily 11f$f f! 'f{. |V? % aps'SPi - . , -iV." . ' ED HAI AND LUE SEj STRATIONS BY HENRY J* COPYRIGHT BY" CHARUSS SCRJ3NBR5 "ariu neither will you. We can't." Thurston's lace was resolute. Perhaps you're right/* he aeknowldged. "Very likely so. But for nte. I prefer to die?trying." He would have hurried away out the other detained him. "I'm not your kiiul of an a an said. "Vo'j fool, you know | there's no hope. Vet. hy this silly | w>i k. you can kid yourself into a ; sort of relief. Me! . . ." U was as : if he looked upon the girl lying dead. ; But he tore himself from this vision, become defiant. "You still think I'm j yellow. Very well, then. I'll show you. I'll help now; and when you i I, t<M shall ?co.M i Thurston urged the men to work , as the first color of the daw n touched the eastern sky the last .->i the } stores and gear was lasbed into plane; Thurston stooped over Van. who had fallen in the sleep of exhaustion and waked him. "Say the word," he j announced- "We're ready.'' Van roused hut slowly; then! * turned upon the stronger man in a futile rage at circumstance. "Damn | you," he cried. "I'd rather stay here! | and die like a gentleman?clean andj j dry." Bui a moment later he sprang! lip Svith his old laugh. "After all, j it's got to be the* fish or the birds.! hFm a braver man than you, you op-j j vomistic ass. because I know ... "I I He did not finish his thought.; 'Come on- LetV get it over." Twelve minutes later they were atS sea. Twelve hours later the catamaran j was drifting!; dismasted; And Van Baron llutgov's the fault ; He had been given the steering oar." But. sunk in dejection! ho had, in a moment of inatlention. allowed the! too-heavy boom ! > gybe. carrying} away the improvised tackle, uml.j :vmjH !.W> i-ottcn boat Had! fetched 1 reo. of its iashijljj* anil the :oft floated a Wi.ok. Doomed itr-io!- t" vciuc PaliiVyroi ftyon the yjwjiiu iithi:-\ join, ;'iu<; > ; ton had V.'t slo'ily staked his illi'i- it-1 sotf v.jjon t.hou.-atukh eharioo. Tin- Pijrbor. of Noah was fly itin into (hit aitkno-.va. ; The race of the man But'ko vyas a, lh"t)i* to wondov at. Under the ex-! illation of a master id-a it had] itrnwii Ktrnnye, coiv.piSSrtff. Mis; ov. j ..J, tallied., his to.R^UO stumbled, it/ its oaoernfefej For the t'.fst linto if. life ho was la voice 'hat uhich lot/a' hod hidden i:i his evil mind. What had boon only a vision of )?o\yes now to hoean.o an nc*"0:i!ity. Ami so ii'tU'V s,, very nun it. .depen-! . u ok k'intUir.g thai wild sparlc ho; foil to glow v'ithit: the sou! of this ;.viri ho h'ft'iij seized for l is own?Ins woman. "Tantut!" he rvio.i ""latum! Ever ieii >' ifctl island, Pulm*** He; cy,cit<Jd!.v. "Indeed and I'vo tool; arood caVv t siVak* y' ao >Tssj Coy Tanna Wfc'tt be k:y;r.;r\\i i'ftUiSjv VVVJI.'.' V,i- iSSSS&r A?% 1 - - -> "-.""l! With" >:i\v,t van: gesture .icqimed I Cropi the. natives. "Tanri.., where ' wt'll lord ii i'.iik'e born' 'king audi 1 iihit r r "What v peopl*! What a people! ' t'work -.vuh:" ilk. fmgers = psvic*ii and i closed aniieiputorily. -.rich > eatj like aestfuines?. "\Vhat ean'% ivc do t/thtm Papuan WiUVrnen.-' he cried, "and what can't \vy make 'em *16 for us, That's the ticker. Palm; what we can malee cm .lc? for us'" VVhy, he -va> expostulating a moment later, "'this here nip: idea rin't something- that popped into m'head just recent. Cosh, no. Had it in mind for years. But ..." He hesitated, diffident; a thing :>o foreign to his usua! brazen assurance as to seem histronic. "But the fact is I was a-waiting for you!" She was once moxe aware how very real his infatuation. "I just had t'have a dame for this j stunt." he went on passionately. 4'A I real dame, a sure enough queen. And then 1 meets you. The very i first watch 1 sees y'got the shape for i:. And when y*lets out about pi! rate blood. J knows y'got the heart ? for it. 'Cause yet* talk's on the square ihan you yourself realizes." iae g?ri was increasingly understanding how irrevocably, on the \ Rainbow, he had been "misled by her caprice. Listening at first in s ; pleased surprise, he had been eager, ly solf-deceived. Sure that the lawless strain, persisting through en I vironmerit, had at last roused, h< : was now convinced she was already j in love with the life he typified? though she herself did not as yel 5 j perceive the fact?and that, in the j glamour this life cast upon himself . jshe would in time willingly come U i> be his own. II "'And, girl." Ponape Burke waj shouting, "there never, never wa: . no king had such a queen as you tj Yer hairV He exulted in the won der of it. "That's how y'beat 'en . all. For. didn't 1 tell you the Tonna THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE JR.. OSBORN \Y LEE SONS men saw red??grabbc-ri at red tali-; co. smeared their faces bright and guy. rouged up the dead warrior! gaudy t'meet his maker, wound their; ? own heads all dyer with red vine; t'cover the wool? ! "Don't y'underytaudV That's what! j i was waiting on. The queen ry my5 | devil's own mission had t' have red , j hair. And. Palm, them Tanna-{ men'11 go crazy with pious!, pagan joy when they see yer locks; a-Iigrhtihg up. as the sun hits 'em, i litce a stove full f>' coals busting into: flame. Hair, I tell you, same as that: o* :>orae o* the big buck gods o' Melanesia themselves. Yes. 1 say it, j crirJ?heathen hair! | "Why. Paho. 1 wish t'thc Lovdj | yv could see verse if. I wish y'cou id { ] understand yourself. Y'was plain born for the Hie. When I've waked y'up. you'll be eager for Tanna; for Tanna. where a man can be a man;; where there's never a law but the | lav. o' the cookpot and the sun and; tb wind?and the will o' you and :iiv. ' Por.ape Burke did a jig step or two across th'e deck. "'Say. Bairn, girl." he exclaimed; "s :y you and yer heathen hair! Did I. or did 1 ra;i mehtwri as hove 1 i was going t'make y'u real sureenough queen?" ' It was Burke V continuing delight in h.-v every show ?.?i angry spirit.i t his sedf-restvaining sense of eompc-; tehee to bring: the comedy to an end ! any moment he chose, that most intimidated Palm;, v?. ' Wait ,:ii I've tamed you," he would laugh, " 't hen we'll get along line, And yoall r<- like Tanna when y'get the. 1 i -te o* power in ver , -vUy mouth ** ? Only once h<; .it.: km? a hand on >. k That was who*, in .1 fury; she * ha< flown at him, clawing- his facos. He had held her away loudly hilar io'us, "I'd slea* a kissv" he cried, j 2: "if t'wasn't for my -ore ana. But! lie ... I can wait t i y'come free,! . poking out yei' llp* aim byjfging me j t'take a smaVk. 'Tvoni b< iongr." ; . Nor \vp.> her situation miide easier! < f>\ ihirko - i>i humor. Fosm haste? hoi' ?:ui;rehder. more; 1 pro'Kioly ii O (il uei amuse meat, it ptr.you upon her Ivars. There -'vas. for 1'asUtr.ee> t he or-; ,j tasiun win n Olive, f<?r tin- tirsf time ahhard the Pijreoj.1 > Noah, spoke to' H:ni i' hot. t.ron fo?- those Ircowri-; shot eyes, always so stealthily upon:hor. she u.utl.; sometimes have, thought ?i' this savage tM a machine. There was a .i<r: of imUtiman ih'i i .sioii about him. Ami now in this wise- I'nc moment. Burke ha. 1 gone l;o!o\v. the hro'.vnj 111:111 materialized himself at her side.; Siiv was nevei prepared foe the ex-! i eroding change iron, his statuesque: :'silence into the {testicular animation j Ol' his speech. He had opened Ins mouth, apparently forgetting as on! lie- i's ms.n-.v t1i.it it...- 1...... .... ; " J Xhf:n. ' yoalreir.jy, ns4". StoppoiJ $ %, -?? ||||?l The ?iri shrank bv?ck; fled* in pan it at flu- very nea.vne.sis ot him, to-, >vaiii the eompamomvay. Bin t)u e shi> rc?!olleor?ui that Burke \\*hs "afci ; the Coot of tV'.e ladder and stood i ; Vioipiess. I' - ?t-.\ ' IT ...... .- <. >V - S' J-TQmvfQ:;".-I^VEM Then the white iuun came ehiv.bj mg iip. 'A little vi.veh."' he wane-it 1 in a lymMrmus enjoyment- ot the i -Itn.it lot:, '-push ni<- overboard . . ." j Hit ihterriuitesl himself with a burst! ; of taughti-i-. "Gai!." he cried, "buci ! Vii hate G give c'tbc chance! Push j i mc overboard. and I'm gone- Bit' I Olive's left. Remember that. fro ! what stands between yea, i ain't! a-sayingr as how he'd love a red-hemi-' eil goddess all his own. Oh, no! But! i do see he's not his eyes on y like! a wolf following nice fat little j lamb off into the timber." The girl shuddered. Burke or] Olive? White savage or brown? A, cry of despair rose to her lips hutj she fohght it.back. Her hand stoic; up toward the opening of her dress,j lingered, fell again to her side. t Since that event?it was now her third day aboard the i.upe a-Noa ? she had been wondering whether Pr-.n tw? v-.oH,- 'Hd ? * ? ? - ' 1? > icn;?V mw ftUilUl WC" two-en ber and his man. She had not forgotten Starke's saying that Olive, if he knew his power, could snap his master's back across one : of those big brown knees like a piece of kindling. And she susi petted at times that Olive might know this quite well: The day. with the disconcerting - suddenness of the Equator, had) ' faded and darkness would soon have r been upon them. Burke had waved a hand toward the cabin with kingly t gesture. "The royal chamber awaits, ! Qneenie/' he had said. "Hot as heil . down there and you'll soon he > squawking for a hammock.on deck. But tonight . . . There's a lock.'" t The girl had sprung, trembling, s panting, for the companion, had .slammed it shut and shot home the -j bolts. Then she had stumbled down )1 the steps and thrown herself, sobhing, upon the bunk. She had borne RY THURSDAY?jBOONE, N. C up bravely so long as the sun remained. but on the dosing in of' night, with all it< sinister mi plica tions. she had given way. Sleep impossible, the night dragged on. Above (leeks there had been, as it seemed for hours, only, the heavy breathing of slumber. Ati last, like a trapped animal herself, i she had begun a futile prying. And theu, without warning i- that silence' there came, quite- close at hand, a I sound. The girl, crouched, * tense. I Again it came, hidden, menacing. i i Cofltihiiod Next Week) i APPLE PROFITS CUT BY CODDLING MOTH Raleigh, April S.?The coddiingi moth causes move apples t?? gc? to the cull pile in North Carolina than any other insect; yet proper . praying will hold this costly pest in check. "Injury from the codling moth is caused by the larva or small pinkish w<?rm,L* says C. 14. Brannon, extension entomologist at State College.! This larva passes the winter sealed I ?n a cocoon under the bark of thej Lives, in cracks at the i-a?e of the. iree and in the ground. There arej iwo and sometimes Lhiee genera- j lions in this state. The moth emerges j khoiit two or threb iv^otc petals fiv.ll a ltd begins to deposit eggs A lien the tempera tare war fib- up in spring. Eggs are laid in largest mimjers just after sunset and can be 'nund mostly on the leaves. These; j,jrgs hatch in about seven to ten j lays." Mr. Hrannon slates that these verms first feed on. the under side >i the leaves but later enter the ipple at the blossom end. Here hey remain for 1*0 or 10 days and Miierge through tlx* side of the vuiL The adult moth lives only ihout a week after emerging. The eeoiui generation of worms enter he apple from the side. The I?est way to kill off the 'first, evievjftion is to he sure that the som end of the apple is filled vith arsenate of lead poison before : . loses The spray may be applied vcral weeks before the worms eck to ehter the fruit. The second pray will kill those worms feeding ?n the under side of the leaves and h >se which try to enter the applet r-:?n the side and the third is timed m. :>.? ! :l,e second generation; h : they are hatehhig; in 'greatest lumbers Mr. Hrannon states that il :> very < : 'rriam i<- spra> the undo side v\ ?w 'eaves thoroughly when attempt ug to control the codling moth. The IriVing . f the Spray must be iffieh id to : tu n the !< :.? \-h ? in r. tr y are mt. What is? the :!il U s oik -.- ho.tw eon i\ \ .* '! party or a Shltnuttiaf i . . .i party.'.8 Bossisih is bpo*?sm re ;anUe?s of thy- namf* uniter which it | flic*. | - ! i Jii?t about this tinu* of the year everyone nee?ls a hmi e him v?p afun * he .: :ov oi* win , tor. * i PEPTONA I', "'Our Host Tonic" ESibT. _ it's pleasant to take. Will not disi. nb the stomach. Gives you strenjrtb and pep. Will enrich your Mooch An extra large bottle foi $1.00 I Boone Drug Co. I The l&fxaJVL Store BOONE, N. C. S I SCREEN YOUR HOUSE EARLY You might save money by screening early and preventing disease carried by flies. You can also save money by seeing me for Screen Doors, Window Screens, Door and Window Frames and Building Material. I can make' your screens, deliver and put them in for you if you prefer. F. M. MALTBA BOONE, N. C. r wSBm . U&J : ISSiSiBB9SP9K MATTHEW 11:28?"COME" I have the bain? for a wounded world's healing. 1 have all strength,: wrlll you lean upon met? ! have known anguish your heart sorroivs feeling. Dawn in the garden of Gothsemane. ( Imve known scourging and traitors* hisses. ] When alt deserted, or sought hut to kill; I Heard the vi]| threats and the multit tide's hisses, Paid your redenipfcio?! en Calvary's hill. T'.tc from a world that has crushed and (lesiKiiled you, [earn child of me, for my yoke ?? is best; 13ack from the husks and the swine \ \ \mt Bijbck Si J^fnP Showing America ^Motor a Opening To flay Si Work kl Butck sh1 r(K?m?!r.\rr\4>iif ?h?1 ihc now uitd licuiitif everyone who pianil to ? nrw oar this Spring invito*] to attend a apt ohotvingoi' tho*e smar of motor ?'?r oroati* jVj the fine Btiick mod Here are a*>etnS?]ed a 1 \1MhiVaV variety ?rf Shi irk fxNiy* '^Sr&l\ f>'fu*s ^>' f*>Ster. Vllure arrayed in alluring UCW springtime color CALDWELL MO LENOIR. NOR" WE "GET Qi AND < WW get right at the fcottoii Our experts wilt soon loe in an?] let us fix your ear up ri; Our charges are reasonable Buy your tires from us. \ LET US CARE i;m w.R.wi &lj|p & ' BOONE, NORT "T X TE were quite alarmed VV ea1. was terribly cons be fading fast. We thought of age. B?t a neighbor brougl Syrup Pepsin and it was really up. and now she. can even dance ai children. Now we are never will the house." < Name and address furr Regulates Bowels a Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is well in the stomach, works so easil with old folks as to accomplish gripe, pain or other distress. 1 stomach, coated tongue, constipation, a of children, parents or those in the jpepsin is recommended everywhere, ] For a free trial bottle send nan Pepsin Syrup Company, Mo A PUU. 5. 192!? w'uo "nave soiled you? J "Come unto me and your soul shall find rest." ELLA 55; HARRIS: Lenoir. X. 0. I Tom: "Say, did you ever kiss a j girl in a quiet spot?" Bill: "Yes, but the spot was duly quiet while I was kissmg it." She: "Are you very busy right now, Mr. Barber?" He: "Yes, I'm scraping an ac. ipiaintHoce." J We fail to see the reason for i Santford Martin's questionnaire iiftJ or The Senator hail already exj pressed himself??Kooky Mount Tele| gram. f$ Smartest rr Creations ylf harnMinic8. All x<rc ci?" aw- dowcd nilh lh? idgst luxowes urious Upholslcrii-H and ul- appoinlmrjilA. AiidaHarc buy niont hs ahead oI' t ho ;?is mode in small, low. dashX'ial in# lilies. 1 ik'snre ??> attcmi lbUiuai$r >*is? nificcnt Style Sfunv ! < lome lei*. any day or evening during ihc nc.st sncitUuys. Vcor* dial welcome awaits y on, OpeniiKjlbflaif TOR COMPANY i I n VAKULinA UT J jET UNDER" i o{ your troubles. ate any engine troubles. Drive (tbt. for all Work. Ve carry standard makes. FOR YOUR CAR NKLER m IP ANY H CAROLINA nd then Grandma K Danced *. I about mother. She wouldn't tipated, bilious, and seemed to it due entirely to her 86 years it over a bottle of (Dr. Caldwell's remarkable, how she picked right lout Syrup Pepsin in Ajp -3M lished upon request) ij| S f Old Folks so palatable, sets so ii . )|W y, so gently, so kindly MMB i, its Purpose without r^? ?or biliousness, sour | nd the lassitude, whether r\ r> ? ??, evening of life, Syrup QnCald^me t is sold by all druggists. SYRUP ie and address to ' tutnwi ntxccUo. Mnois. Br&rbWI P': ^
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