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CHAPTER XUl Burke had spoktn of the browr nuiu's arrest. Meanwhile. Olive had tired 1 his ".forced hath. Slw'ly Olive began to move down stream. Scarcely did the leaves that hid his head .seem to stir as th? > skirted the bank, blending with tht . - ..r n... i.... i c* ... iratvn mi mc I'aiP.mwuuu, i ov.t trji No. I, past No. Filially a friendly turn of the course and lu com Id rise, dripping, and run for tin suspected mangrove trail. Trotting through the mud. he Had frefered the outlandor village. Then, hearing His name, he stopped, whirled around; encountered oiu Taruk. a member of feujnapo Burke*crew Taruk, smiling affably,, emerged froni the thicket and tht two shook hands. Olive slipped into thai house third frprn land's end. He crouched, the central support hiding his face. \ glance shelved the tide was m "tnir out. He could not await rein. forcements: Opposite. Palmyra still leaned against the post, Martin behind her. the seated natives in front. rhen Qlive, staking all on Burke's absorption, strolled out from she < grinned brazenly into the eyes of the startled sentry, entered that side of the prison House where the natives grouped. Unobtrusively, he dropped among them. Noithei the ?'5v1 nor her guard ted his coming. A natb niore oi less meant nothing But as Palmyra waited, with d"\vr?c.isl gaze, her lingers working .irtUj'.sslv at the hat and veil the old uw.'.an had brought alone, she be. va-i ially awari that. of the brovrn h;?ificia <?n the mats hefoitone wor hiittt n of tattoo Uc.Y eyes i'(rci::;;'(! 'into interest. Ami hen. astor.'shinr. she hohtdd on tVm l,\"(haB tWearni a r.anay.-ofi'- live l*tjfi}&;i. A r?}ad . ry rose to he : lips. K;?.i sta >?Ji5f;v?ss-ed;-' it. ?Spv from her the exu1t?tii>!t f.?'r.n::nj2 there. He? d%y.u saivation. this man's ItfHB :<* r.ofcil ' 11 her iiutioh. ! . .'am man i>;.?eiic<; i>A mouth i.;d spoho a.joud in thy native te>.?iie b'.rect to Martin. Olive's expression \vas that of politeness. But, though hy ha i ;h em.2d to address t he w ito man- ho haVi not hunt' so. ?Vhn: he tad sal-.; was this: "Men of the \ iiiac oi Tuna j no. ii>ton hv!''- utdo me. The hieh bun INalmtree shall he saved. S -.peak Vll< way. './live was continuing in the tones of courtesy. looking: at Martin hut sneaking direct to the villagers. In a -?: hitenye he appealed to their ? .:; ality. to their fear the .laponese. Then, without alteration of voice or manner, he added for the interpreter: "Make words, raakli words unto him. Anything?that sh nii mean nothing* and have a pleasant sound/' The interpreter hail got the idea. Out earn e a flood of chinolmient to which the white man made crude i*lsponsc. condescendingly amiable. Arid, sn, under the very nose of the unsuspecting Alartm. almost within heaving1 of ilurk v. Olive worked out. his attack. And I'oviape Burke himself tiic signal. Sy-i:sgi r.y tip now. he awlef ac.Msr U.',';h:A mat.-- "Alley aho.ythere;! Haven't Ui-.-oi dam1 !."c"-ilies '.rot the Pigeon lit yet'.' (Jive a hai! ihe moment \"s,'*l|ht ligK These .laps a- maybe up kenis tfpng." ' He levolleo 'is ok . <-u> n s jv.ui: upon the gui.beak Martin riitichesJ '.it ht> ov.'n, he at them e tl-.a: ."pel where the l,upe-a-">."i an-p smuts must A"y;i item tv-fcir; i the taller trees. For perhaps forty seconds bat! men tvere absorbed. Then Martin, stiii seated. hishoulder against the girl's support lowered his glasses, turned his hear to speak to her. But Palmyra was gone! At Burke's order the crew, load ing rifles, began to go through thi mutches. Fortunately for OlivcPor.ape remained in the open, hau-1 ing out commands and imprecations The search, unsystematic, was st'l sincere, for, though some of th brown seamen grinned behind tin whits- men's backs, none would havi dared pass the girl by. Yet tin quest covered the islet without vo suit. It was when Ponape Burke hai Wsm stopped, completely at a ioss. tha a messenger came running from thi t,upc-a-Noa. The schooner couh not be got out. Diving, the native; had found under her nose two o the long hexagonal rocks from thi ancient wall. He would have been aghast ti know thai John Thurston had dis covered the vessel; had reached he before the working party and whil< her watchman was irresponsibly ah sent; had. in the brief interval af forded, made good use of his en gineering skill. With a block am tackle and a light spar from th schooner, Thurston, in a few rnin utes, had undone a labor at whicl slaves must have sweated for days He had tumbled two of the slone off the wall into the canal. Th Pigeon would not fly again ur.ti the month's highest tides came t< ilift her over. A figure broke from among th men. went hounding along the patl toward the outer point, carrying it its arms a heavy burden. Burke littered a cackle of tri uniph. T Idhm AND lue sei ISTRAXIONS BY HENRY JA COPYRIGHT BY CHARiES SCRIBNEIW i For. as this figure ran; there was | i lj vissihle over its shoulder a whitest straw hat, a blue veil fill tie red aritbj--] .1 view and. below, Ponane saw the! j sflods of a plaid raincoat. 1 As he rait. howev t-r. he struck his t j foot against a tree root, sniggered; l ; the burden was hurled from his * arms to the ground, Put he did not; pause. Two of the sailors, flanking.*} : along the beach, sprang upon huh. !v Authors joined an. A i-truggle, and : )ic w:..- held. j I [ Ponapc Burke turned a savage * face from 'his greasy ;>orl< to the ) 1 man who had tricked him his pris" oner. Then an oath and a laugh , | j struggled for simultaneous evpres-< sion. For there, bJohdy, desperate, J * stood the brown man Olive. ; The white man's features were: contorted. "Where is she'" he de-j j mandecl. Olive clamped his lips shut. It had been Burke's sudden tie-' scent upon the four houses which precipitated catastrophe. The vil-: 1 lagers, grown overconfident. had < thought he would not look there j ! ' i again. Olive, having seen th?? messenger from the Met on of Noah, i j had assumed erroneously that the schooner was ready; that Ponapc, 1 : ! seizing the girl now, could sail at j oiv-e. In desperation the brown j ; , man had snatched up the hat, veil, 1 ana raincoat; thrown these about the pig?cooked to send to the feast " ! down the coast. 1 Running toward the outer end of the isiet he had hoped to draw off ' Burke and the ere v, so the villagers 1 Cpukl rush Palmyra shoreward t<? ) ' safety. lie would hold the pursuit by an;, ing the pig into the s^a; per-}1 haps 'himself escape if i'mape font-j 1 gd the soliUul of firing. But. one misstep. and he bad leer. caught 1 before the>e was time to get the] | J Hehco \l was that she herself..j '* t itiSioiy saw (>;r 3 b ? to tlte mat tree. his wrists, bound be--' hip.ft him. Ski haw the master in h-'u. ? ! demand far ho: surrender ; OIi\'ej: shake hi be ad :n defiance. TJu> 'illago-.-.- r'owdi- round. Kurhe\. j-u;tnls, waited in coaster j t1. [ 1 Ponapc itvned to them. "If yhiij 1 ivou'.it .sav.- this man's lif<- ?sp?a]k r j fflii Olive, rub- vol unt'linchinir. i ' besgiijcht zfitiv silence. ? jwould have been jylau. to! i {jafcyl chis \vhit?r woman off thou ! i ha tub and Oiiw. ?>< < Tin' Japa-j I ncsc could not punish their yielding ? , to force. Thev wished to yidld but the wilt of this one being held j them fast. Unnoticed, a boy had \vornVed i" t the crowd, a bit of pai??f folded J in his hand. His purpose was to toss the note so Ponape should pet it. j yet not know whence it came. But tin- urchn blundered. As the iheii! >ap:e left his Supers. Burke sow. The white man snatched up the paper,} I unfolded it: "Your sacred word to free Olive unharmed (also the others), unci give myself up. He shall id ( <iie for me. if yofi promise, cali loudly?yes." Buvke uttered eiv.w of victory. | '.Vhirling toward that point from' where he eonceived the note to have! j tome, he put his hands to his mouth j j and shouted: "No, no. No!" I Then, he hite'ned the bus by the j | wrist.. "Show me where." Uis veyolynr urfehaeed: '.he ro'ns'; ser.ee.- began to cry. TTMrb>?' fhi- Ill'ltwltt Sfertf M".ki? jpjSjjfcori the urchin quailed. lie was | appalled at lluvk-'s auger. And he j - aw that his own people \va veySj. | rt-^At last, therefore, he raised a t.rern- j If bung anger.-pointed toward a group ; A of thatches. ' 5 The boy haltingly brought Pon- ? 1 j ape Burke to a hut. "In there." he 1 j whirape red. \ Burke sprang under, dragged his : ; guide with him. The house had , - rt searched before. It was empty ' . j now. . t{ The man's scrutiny took in every | detail. Then he turned anil the boy i was in real danger. Savage irri- j tation had all hut overborne any j" 2j sense of consequence. ,| Suddenly Burke's eyes opened] ? wide, he leaped to the center of the- i . house, stared up at the bundles of; 1 stiff hark cloth, gave one prod with 2 the revolver. e From within there cainc a gasp of e pain. B Palmyra Tree had lost the bitter i - fight. Ponape Burke at last hadj won. i "Y'shnll see Olive hanged." he t said. "And then, whether or no, ?! y'sball go t* Tanna." 1! He dragged her toward the tre e. >j the native following, tongues a-click-J j jng' against teeth; the traitorous boy & ah carl, self-important, anscoorged by any sense of guilt. ? At the tree Olive stood among - uneasy guards, hands bound behind r, him. feet loosely tied, noosing hemp t? j drawn taut across its limb. -1 Look at him?yer rope round his -! neck." Burke reproached. "Waiting, -j poor sucker, for y't'set him free. 11 fhis here kanaka was good enough ei t'die for you. But when it comes -j yer turn?" He laughed with brutal ii insinuation. . i She could scarcely form the s sounds. But at. last she gasped out: i'. "Let--him?go!" 1 Olive knew not the words but he; > knew their meaning. "Never!" he cried. "Tell her?tell her she shall n not give herself for me." li At this moment, however, there ij rose from the outskirts of the crowd j I a startled warning "Zapanee - -j Zapanee, he come!" Burke, with an oath, snatched up) HE WATAUGA W..MOCRAT--EV t. OSBORN if LEE 50NS lis l>ir.o?utai >. Three boats from ;hc Okayania were already close. \ifles bristled. Whither the others ran. Ponape jUrke was carried only a step or wo by the anintai instinct of selfnes creation. Then ho stopped, started on, turned hack. florroi sat upon that visage; udicrous, yet doubly intense by the cry inadequacy of its expression. He snatched for the revolvers. Ic could battle for her. Yes, kill ?aU a en of those -Japs But ? a what avail? Fighting or no, he'd 'ist her. "I can't go on without you,'* lie >urst forth, "aihd they won't let ine :o with you. But if I can't live, I :uri die^-with you." He broke inm the old laugh. The boats, as one frantic glance :old hjs victim, were still too far to rid. The natives ; .?! had fled. Only )live remained; board hand and foot, the rope from the rioose dragging across the limb above. Olive u as writhing to sunder the onnit cords which bound his arms. Olive?blood drij>phv_r from his crisis torn in his st niggle?hurled liihseli* against lb* madman. The oncossion ox his i n Ik threw Pon Iback. The bullet which would lave pie reed I'rJmyrn's brain flew larmlessly into space. T1 islander by a supreme effort uiapped his bindings. lie seized hi? other. He crushed his master to lirii like a gorilla. But the hand hat held the revolve* was yet, for :ne iiibmcht; free. \i tlashed, the nu '.- lc pressed against Olive's side. I lie hand. gripped convulsively, forced the H&mmer up towaid its \uni iihiv,. But now. astonishingly. ::i! movemat teased. Filing fro pi a ?i:;-tu!uc. someone lial di'iiied Ponaoe BurU?- through lis v v!i Jo a.--. But a';.- tile I bullet had not -toped, its v.o'iv pgjponned, It had a-bod in thrqOgh the bhuv of the u'i'.ie n mar. \yho fought f niter The girt shrieked out. i\ii faintntr. Vnd titer., as those thrm lay, thttf e ?n a si) ;nfi of hoofs. and a minliy foani-fjecked im>'* bjonged up liage path with John ThursP; ?Cm v ' ; ile sprang -mm his fcaqwe. thine i^ide th* caught the anionvious girl un in his arms. When Palmyra Tree at last wpcti ! hi eyes, sin- gazed up at John PhursUm foi a bewildered moment. Side hv side two bodies lav, Balmy fa smitcbcd herself back from John as if his touch had hum 'I. '-And it was youV She Cried, igio in horror, "you who iired? Oil." he waited. "1 cannot, can no l hear hat it. should have beet! you -vou vho killed GKve/' uF?ut, oh. no, no. no. lady." the urgcor. interrupted in eager reas-urauce. "This native man is not load." She looked at that form in shud luring: tpsestior.. 'Bullet 'knocked him out a littUs-V explained the officer, '"but H hi! lothink to make this big man trouxit> He will be something like when he prize fighter gets knocked to deep <(ii the jaw." At his first sCKU'rirt? Pair.v. ru'-S # had parted in a gasp of relief, sow, in the reaction, she wavered, dosed hei eyes dizzily, pi.ir out u> ard Thurston a groping hand. John caught ftc-v to turn once mori .0- uphold her. (lis heart was aflame ivith the knowledge that that paheiic blind groping had been for itim. With per face upturned to: his. p^ealingv close, Thurston in that treat; yearning so long denied, could lot resist; would, despite the grin-: ting audience, have kissed her again 'tnd again. But Commander Sakamoto, of on jver tactful race, was quick with a -alone. Bui the rest I reason " h' voice vibrate 1 with feeling -- *% tha* ihen Olive, who saved me '01 you, who made it possible for pie to ar.NOTJCE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE By virtue of the power of sale contained in u certain deed of trust executed to the undersigned trustee by T. M. Greer and wife. Addie Greer, on the 25th day of April. 1925. to secure tm- > navrm-nt of the sum of $3,500.00 to the Wat* auga Building Loan Association of Watauga County, N. C.; the payment of which sum was assumed by T. H. Shul! and default having been made on the payments as provided in said deed of trust J v.'ill on Monday. May 21, 11128. at the courthouse door of Watauga county between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. to satisfy said deed of trust, interest and cost, sell to the highest bidder lor cash thf* following1 described veal estate, to-wit: Beginning on a stone on the edge of the right of way of the railroad and runs south 49 degrees west with the dirt road il poles to a stone; thence north 19 degrees east 11 poles to a stone on the edge of the right of way of the railroad; thence south 39 degrees east S poles to the beginning, containing one-half acre, more or less. Also a one-third interest in a spring now running to the house on said lot to^ be used with closed spigots. This 19th day of April, 1928. W. H. GlvAGG. Trustee Brown & Bingham, Attorneys. ?lt\" THURSDAY? BOONE. X- C. j vomraantf \vb;<Vj foccvil his tinvst. 5 :a?*i co the roght-abgut: then chased j Tiiurstojr\cnuhi r.< :' ?* ***** Wv with the] ?*& V. ,.'d at a samurai. Uut, he could see i J A burial detail had carried IVn- Pottapc Burke's i ape P.urke forever a-.vay: I'onupe ,-m. t.upee.-N'ca, tri | who had staked all?and lost all. brown man's proti j "And when," demanded .lohn of An&rkan mission ai I Palmyra on the third day after: naVy, ;trl(i manned . "and when shall the wedding heV" eager and worshipir "The wedding." ordained this girl. ~ THK F I "must take place before we leave * ' \ this island. I insist, for one tiling, despite your protest, because 1 think Ink Hog i should always now be .1 little afraid '*Do you kiiow the derstand, to realize ntv own true scurrilous reminisce ove: that then Olive cat: b. j air- "No; 1 fancy lies > <. an l'C ve in Uot man. } who prefers to rents | Am! so il was that ' !?.-v-vay. 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