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/m RED HAIR AND BLUE SEA STANLEY R. OSBORN ILLU5T RATIONS BY HENRY JAY LEE COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNER-S SONS < ii \ri 1 w mil I >i 1 1 k? ? had spoken of tin* hrown j man *?? .irre<l. \i-tinvhih . Olive had lired o| hi rnf oivrd hatll. >lowl\ Oli\?? 1 1 11 to mo\e iloun-in-.im. >i an el\ did tin* leave (hat lii'l hi- head srrm l?? -lir .i t h#-\ -killed ill*' haul., hirudins with the [? ,|\.- .ii (lit* h.iekuroiliu!. I\i>? >enlr\ Ni.rnhei One. |?a-l Nnnihri 'I no. I inallx a Irirndlx I urn ??l til.- e o i ! i - ' ? and lie roll Id rise. drip ping. and run !??! ihe susprelrd : :, M?r<ni' trail. Troll inn through the mini. In* had neared the "ullaiul'-r \ illage. I hen. | hearing 1 1 i - name. In* stopped. whirl- I ?-il around. encountered one I arnk . a member of I'onapc Burke- crew. Taruk". smiling alfablv. emerged from lli<* thicket and the I wo shook hands. Olive slipped inlo that house third 1 10111 land s end. He crouched, tlie central support hiding his lace. \ glance showe*! ihe tide was mov ing out. He could not await rein lortrnienl>. Opposite. I'almvra still leaned again-t tin* post. Martin behind her. the -rated natives in front. Thru Olive. -taking all mi Burkes absorption. strolled out Irom shel ter. grinned braz* -nix into the eves of tin* start l?'d >entr\. entered that] -ide of tin- prison house wher** the! natives grouped. 1 nohtrusively. he j dropped anions lh?-ni. V-ither the _'irl nor her guard i noted liis '?..miir:. \ native more! ur !??-- meant nothing. Hut a- Palmvra waited, with' downcast gaze. !i?t linger- w ? ?ri-;sr:ix uimles-lv it tit hand and veil the old women had brought along, she be* -a me graduallv aware that, of the brown hands on the mat- 1m -fore her. one wore .1 mitten of tattoo. Her eyes focuss;4d into interest. And then, astonishing, she beheld ; on the brow n forearm a name of ? live letters. A glad crv rose to her lips. But j she suppressed it. drove from her face the exultation forming there. Her own salvation, this man's life, depended 011 her caution. The brown man opened his mouth and spoke aloud in the native ton- 1 gue ? direct to Martin. Olive's expression was that of formal politeness. But. though he had seemed to address the white man. he had not done so. What he had said was this: "Men 0! the village of Tanapai. listen here unto me. The high lady Palmtree shall he saved. I speak ' the way." Olive was continuing in the tones of courtesy. looking at Martin hut speaking direct to the villager-. In a sentence he appealed to their cu . to their fear o1 lilt* .lapane-e. without alteration ? ?t or 'W; . lit* added for I li?- it ' -rpre "M ike words, make wo-ds im Xriythir.- that -!i ! mean _ and liavc a pleasant sound. ' interpreter had v??t th- idea. < Kit ' .line a food of <ompiirneiit to t lie white man made nude -n . condescendiniilx amiable. \ i i ? I so. tinder tin* ver\ n">e of -iispectimr Martin, almost w it fiit! hearins of Burke. Oli\e w? k ' I out his attaek. \nd I'onape Burke himself i?a\c -i.-ual. Swinging up now. lie hawled a? ross to his mate: ** \lio\ aho\ then'! Haven't them dam kanaka- got the Pigeon out \et? < . i \ ?- a hail the momeiu \ -i'jht lier. The-e Japs i- ma\he up I some thing*** He lexelrd his hincu ulars .1 ain upon the gunboat. Martin reached lot hi- own. I?ent them upon that spot when* the I .upe-a-\??a - top ? ? n-t emerge from behind the lallei tree-. l or perhaps fort) second- I ? ?t 1 1 men were absorbed. I hen Martin, -lill -?Ml? d. hi -hotihlet ana i nst the girl*- >uppo|. lowered his 'jlass'-. turned lii- head t?? -peak to her. lint Palmyra was gone! \\ Burkes order the new. load ii rilles. began to iro I h I ? ?i 1 h tin* thatrhe-. |- ortiinatelv lor ()li\e. I'miape remained in the open. bawl in out ? ommaiid- and imnreea tioii-. I lie -eai'eli. llll-\ -teniat i< . w a- -till sincere, for. though some of the hr ? ?wn sea UK* n grinned he hind the white men"- back-. none would have wired pass the ?irl l?\. ^ el the < j ne-t enwred the i-let with out result. It was when I'onape Burke had -topped, eompletelx ;il a lo ? . that a mcs-engcr < ame running from the Iaipe-a-\oa. I he -ehouiier could not be _'ot out. Dicing. the natives had lound under her m?-e two ol the long hexagonal locks from the ancient wall. He would have been aghast I ? > know i hat John Thurston had dis covered the vessel: had reached her before the working part\ and while I her watchman was irresponsihlv ab sent: had. in t lie hrief interval af- I forded, made good use ol liis engi- 1 neerimr skill. Willi a block and) tackle and a light spar from thei schooner. Thurston, in a few min- 1 ntes. had undone a labor at which j slaves mnsi have sweated for days, lie had tumbled two of the stones off the wall into the canal. The Pigeon would not fix again until i th?* month's highest tides came to lift her over. \ figure broke from among the men. went bounding along the path toward the outer point, carrxing in] its arms a heav\ burden. Burke tillered a cackle of tri umph. For. as tlii- figure ran, there was, \ isible over its shoulder a white straw hat. a blue veil fluttered into; view arid, below, Ponape saw the folds of plaid raincoat. As he ran. however, he struck his foot against a tree root, staggered: , the burden was hurled from his; arms to the ground. Hut he did not pause. Two of the sailors, flank ing along the beach, sprang upon him. Others joined in. A struggle, and he was held. Ponape Burke had remained at his post, an aitfuscd spectator. Now. however, when the girl on the ground did not stir after her fall, he ran toward her. 4*Palni." he called: "Palmic, are y'hurt?" Another hundred feet and he stopped. Bewilderment turned into rage. For lying there in the hat, veil and raincoat was no Palmyra Tree. It was a big. roast pig. Ponape Burke turned a savage face from this greas\ pork to the man who had tricked him ? his pris oner. i lien .ui Mailt and .1 laugh strapped for -imiil.ilin-.-u- expn ? "ion. I "1 ?r there. hloody. desperate, -tood 111. hroxxu man Olive. II.,- white mail" IValun's wen*' contorted. "\\ here is -In*? In* ?!??- ! matuled. ()li\t* ? Liit 1 hi- lip- -I111I. It had Ih*?*ii Burke's sudden de si Till upon I In* iMiir hour's which precipitated catastrophe. I In* xil lasers. u'i.'uii oxcrcoufident. had thought hi* would not look there ! again. Olive, having seen iln* nics smger 1 1 ? ?: n l In* I'igeon of Noah, hail assumed erroiteouslx lltal lln* schooner was readx : I hat I 'on ape. sei/.injr 1 1 1*- girl now. con hi sail at once. In de-peration I he hrowu man had snatched up the hat. veil ami raiino.it: thrown these a I tout the pig cooked to send to the feast down the coast. Uttuiiing toward the outer end of I he islet In- had hoped to draw off Burke and tin- crew, so tin* villagers could rush I'almvra shoreward to I ^Uly. II c would hold tin* pursuit h\ carryin-' the pit: into tin* sea:' perhaps hin .-??If e-cape if I'oiiape feared the sound ? ?l firing. But one misstep, and he hail heen caught be fore then was lime to get the gi?l away. Hcncc it wa- that she herself. I p?vring lenselv out. -aw ()li\?* led | to the mai tree, his wrists hound | behind hint. She -aw the master in vehement demand lot her surrender: Olive shake his lie.nl in defiance. The \ i I lasers. crowding round Burke s guards, waited iti conster nation. I'onape turned to them. "If \ou Would -;ix e thi- mail's I i f?? -peak." Bui Olixe. pah* yet unflinching, besought their silence. I hex would haxe hecn glad to liaxe tin- while woman off their hands unl Olixe free. The Japa nese could not punish their yielding I to lon e. I'hex wi-lied to x ield . hut the x\ i 1 1 ol t !i is one heiug held [ theni fast. I niiotieed. ii hox had wormed in to the crowd, a hit of paper folded small in his hand. His purpose was In toss tin* note so Ponape should get it. \<*t iu?t know whence it came. But tin* urchin blundered. As tin' m? *sage left his fingers. Burke saw. The while man snatched up the pa ! per. untolded it. "\our sacred word to free Olive unharmed talso the others. I and I give m\>elf up. lie shall not die for me. It \ ou promise, call loudly ~\es." Burke uttered a erow of victory. \\ hirl inir toward that point from which lie ?-i?nceivcd the note to ha\e come, he put his hands to his mouth land shouted: "*\o. no. NO! Then lie clutched tin* hoy 1>\ the! wrist. "Show me where. Mis revolver menaced: the nies- 1 ; sen jse r began t?> cry. I nder the muzzle <?t the big wea- j pon the urchin wailed. He was ap palcd at Burke's anger. And he saiv that his own people wavered. \i last, therefore, he raised a trem bling finger. pointed toward a irroup of thatches. The boy haltingly brought P011 apc Burke to a hut. "In there., he whimpered. Burke sprang under, dragged his guide with him. The house had been searched before. It was empty now. The man's scrutiny took in every detail. Then he turned and the boy was in real danger. Savage irrita tion had all but overborne any sense of consequence. Suddenly Burke's eyes opened w ide, he leaped to the center of the house, stared up at the bundles of stiff hark cloth, gave one a prod with the revolver. From w ithin there came a gasp of j pain. Palmyra Tree had lost the bitter fight. Ponape Burke at last had w on. "A "shall see Olive hanged." he, -aid. "Am! then. whether or no. j v "shall go t'Tanna.*" lit' <lrj'-_- ' her toward the Ireo. the nathe following, tongues a-< Mck against teeth: the traitorous bov ahc. <1. s#?| I -important. uiwouraiiwl ^ i?\ an\ sense of guilt. V tin* trw Olive stood among un- ! ea-v oan!>. hands hound l?ehind him. feet lonselv tied, noosing hemp drawn taut arr<?s its limb. "Look at him \ er rope round his neck." Hiirk?* reproached. "\\ ail ing. poor sin k? r. for \ t ^'t him free. This her** kanaka was good enough t die for vou. But when it eomes . er turn."" lie laughed with brutal insinuation. >!ie ? .xil.i scarce! v form the sounds. But at last she gapped out: "l^l him go. Olive knew not the words hut hi* knew their meaning. "Never! lie eried. "Tell her tell her she shall not gi\e herself for me." \t this moment, however, there ro>e from the outskirts of the crowd a startled warning. "Zapanee . . . Zapancc. lie mine! Burke, with an oath, snatehed up his binoculars. Three hoats from the Okavama were alread\ close. Rifles bristled. While the others ran, Ponape Burke was carried only a step ??i two l?\ the animal instinet ? ?f s?*lf preservation. Then lie stopped, started on. turned hack. Horror sat upon that \isage: lu dicrous. \et douhlv intense 1?\ the ver\ inadequacv of it- expr?*ssioii. He snatched forth the revolvers. He . 4. ill- 1 hattle for ho. ^ kill half a dozen ? ?f those Japs. But ?o what avails l ighting or no. he'd lose her. "I cant no mi without von/' lie hurst forth, "ami thc\ won't let me go on with \oa. But if I ran t li\e I can die with vou.** He hroke into the old lamdi. The b. ?at-, as one Iraiilie glance told his \ietim. were i 1 1 too far to aid. The naine* all had fled. Onlv Olive remained: hound hand and foot. I lie lope from ihe noose drag ging across the limh ahove. Olive was writhing to sunder the sennit cords which hound his arm*. Olive hlood dripping from his wrists torif in his strug&le hurled himself again-i the madman. The concussion of his hulk threw I'on ape hack. Ihe hullet which Would ha\e piereed Palmyra's brain flew harmlessly into space. I lie islander. bv a supreme effort snapped his bindings. lie ( i/ed the other. He crushed his mastcr t?? him like a gorilla. Hut the hand that held the revolver was yet, for the moment free. It flashed in. the niuz/le pressed against Olive's side. I lie hand, gripped convulsively, forced the hammer up toward its fatal blow. But now. astonishingly, all move ment ceased. Hrinp from a distance, someone liad drilled INinape Bnrke Ihron-rh his e\ il heart. But. alas, the steel bullet has not stopped, its work performed. It had crashed on through the hodv of ihe heroic brown man who foiiihl for her. Tile cirl r-lll ieked Olll. fell mg. \nil I lien. these ihr.v |? .iiine .1 si iuikI ,,f miu.I.K h.'i inmW\ foa?i.fl? k. .l Im,^. V ">? i,m- vil1^- i?nti ?;,h l I hurst^n. * ? froi ' ' lite J : up in hb arms. * \\ In n Pulrin ra Tr? ? , ?l her eyes, she . | Up^1 Hiurslon for a U wild n| n mJ Side b> side two Tallin i a snatched ii.-rse|f i f roni John .1- it his tot < h '?> Mj \ ed. ** \nd ii was you.*' rigid in horror, "\..u v (Mi.** she wailed, "I . annm, d !**ar thai il should ha\< hern v? > * ?n who killed ( )| i\ " "But, "( Mi. no. no. no. |ac|t - surgeon interrupted in ?.?a?pr'l, >u ra lire. "This native man j. dead.*" >he looked at lli.il | n, jn ^ dei ing que>tion. "Bullet knocked liiui ??ut a liuU explained the offieer. ' hut it l nothing to make thi> |.i_. ?ian tn Me. lie will In* something g when the prizefighter 'j?t< lo sleep 0*1 the jaw." \l his fir-l srutenee Palmra lips had parted in .1 ir.i-p of ^ Nov. . in the readion. ^aifll rioted her eye* 0(Jj ward Thurston a groping hand 1 John eaught her to him ? rune lo uphold her. Hi* heart ^ afluine with I lie knowlrtizp ti that palhelie Mind groping had fq lor liiin. \\ it i 1 her fare ii|?tu.i lo his. appealing. rlo>.?. Thad in lhat great warning Ion? J nied. eoulil not resist: would j spile | he grinning audi*'tire. Ig kissed her j'jain and airain. Bui < lominamler Sakamoto. n(| e\ er laetful raee. was ?|ui? k *itk ? oiumaiid whieh foreed hi- un?j intr men lo the right-ahout; lii ? ha-ed the sriir?rlinsr \ i I lasers I14 with the sword of ihe -ainursi. \ hurial detail lias < arrird P< ape Km kr for?*\er awa\: Vm who had slaked all and lost afl. "Anil when, demanded J.hn I'almvra on I he third da\ afl "ami when >hall the wedding he "Tile wee Idiug. onlainel |j ?.?ill. "must lake plaee liefnrr 1 lea\?' the inland. I insist, Jf.?r 1 ill i nir. despite \our Pr< ?!e^l. i"Tl I think I should always uou 11 little afraid alone. I'vi ihe n reason her \oire \ibratai * feeling "is (hat Olive, who a me for \ou. who made 1 lor me to uiiderstaiid. I ? r>*.i!ue 1 own true love: that I hen Olivet he your ran he on.- he-, man Vnd so it was ;hat ()-l?M commonly railed Olive, who ?? 1 no language known t?? citili man, who eats fat pork v. ith his i gers and anoints himself ropi.-i with scented roroanut oil and I merir. stood up with John Than I lie rmhodiment of ri\i!i/ali>n its finest. 1 limslon could not civ hi?! man a stiek piu for Olivt* =e!<l if ever wears a shirt. Bill lie could see thai iii?* island got Poiiape Porkc's switl nhoca^ I lie Iaipe-a-Moa, trusteed for I Inown man's proterliou l?y t \ineriean mission and the Japaw na\y. and manned hv an alrfjfl eager and worshipping crew. THE KM) IF a mysterious monster peryed about >mir home and terrorized every one in i( ? \ml your father was murdered ? \ ml your home was, shrouded in mystery because of a legend that the ghost of a tiger haunted it ? And you were the victim of a blackmail plot ? What Would You Do? Read the Story of Josephine Southley, WHO WAS FACED WITH THAT PROBLEM ? "The Tiger T rail" By Ellison Marshall An astounding, breathless story by a master of mystery. You ran't afford to miss it if you like to 1?' thrilled by an exciting adventure yarn. In this story Edison Marshall has done belter than his best! Starts Next Week Don't Miss the FIRST Installment!
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