Thursday, April 19, 1928
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Jpl BLUE ° SEA
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$W$ ILLUSTRATIONS ,BY HENRY JAY LEE
iuP\Jt QOFYSUomr wr scribnsrs sons
A sail is sighted after three days j
on an island. It is Ponape Burke,
the stowaway. Burke abducts Palm
yra. Burke has to put her ashore on j <
an island, as a Japanese man of war ( ;
is sighted and it would be danger- j 1
ous to have her aboard. Olive suims ;
to the island and join s Palmyra. She ■
is in fear of the brown man. »1
Olive and Palmyra swim to an-'s
other island, from which Palmyra ;
secretely sends a note for aid. Burkes 1
ship approaches the island. Now r <
read on — i !
CHAPTER VIII
She would have snatched her par- i
asol to raise as an additional sail, i
but now, to her astonishment, she , 1
found that Olive was not making j
sail, but taking it in. i 1
Slowly the spect that was the Pig- i
eon of Noah grew larger. One hard- 1
ly believed so small a thing could
threaten so much of evil. j
She understood now why Olive;
had not tried to run. Their hope :
depended, not on fight, but in lying
unobserved.
As the topmasts had risen ever;
higher against the sky, so now they j
receded —and were gone.
It w’as now, in this last twelve j
hours that Palmyra had seen Olive;
for the first time handle a curious \ 1
kite-frame affair of sticks, decked j
out with small yellow cowry shells. ! ■
This frame she had noticed at her i
original inspection of the canoe, , *
and since, when she was not too!
tired, too frightened,, too miserable i
to think at all, she had wondered 1
what it could be. | :
This contrivance w T hich she had j 1
endowed with so much of mystery j *
proved to be nothing more than the ;;
brown man’s chart. Yet, even at
that, it wa s still a mystery. Among j
the islanders it was forbidden ex- • <
cept to the hereditary navigators, and j
among whit P men few had ever gras- j:
ped its application; none, perhaps, f ;
had ever been able to read upon the
ocean’s surface it* guides and warn
ings.
With such a frame of sticks, how- j
ever, 01iv o could he have made it, -
plain to her, sailed from lagoon to 1
lagoon across the trackless ocean in i
almost the assurance of a civilb.edt i
mariner with chart, compass and sex
tant. ‘
That night, she awoke to find her
self again encircled by those great
arms, held close against that copper,
breast. But no struggle now. It
was land, land —thank God. land! 1
Was the island inhabited? She
had seen no sign, and Olive appear
ed at ease. But, then, this was th“ ,!
ocean side of the atoll at night 2 aban
doned to thw ghosts. Anyone who 1
saw her would think her a disem
bodied spirit. She shuddered. Was
sh p now in truth more than the
shadow of that girl who once had
iiYed?
As the savage lay asleep, the knife.
sheath on hsi belt was uppermost.
When the girl’s eyes reopened they
became fixed upon that blade. It
was very close. Almost she could
reach out and touch the handle. She
thought of thp other times she would ;
have disarmed him. j
As she sat, her fingers went out
once and again experimentally to
ward the knife, and were withdrawn. (
The savage, contrary to her expec- 1
tations, did not adake to accuse her. :
She knew- by now it really made no j
difference who had the knife.
A thrid time, then, her hand went
out —and dosed upon the wooden j <
handle. The knife was loose in 1
the gheath. Slowly she drew the :
weapon forth. .
The girl was thrilled, intimidated <
by her success. Olive had become ;
so much the ogre that she had had ( 1
the feeling it would be impossible,! <
in slighter degree, to thwart him. 1
YeV here;, by reaching ois her , ;
hand, she had his precious knife!
She did not shudder at the thought 1
as she had once before. Association i
had made a serious purpose no lon
ger possible. She only glowed in a |
new sense of powder, restoring her <
self-esteem, her good humor. j !
Quickly, however, this elation fad- | i
ed. In its place she found, to her! 1
surprise, a otuch of guilt, as if she i
had been untrue to a trust. He ! ]
had trusted her, and now, there, 1
in all his strength, he was like Sam- j
son. How had Delilah felt as the j
shears cut through the last of those!]
locks? But Palmyra wsa not irrev-j j
ocably the Delilah, for she could re-i <
store the knife. (
She was, indeed, leaning forward :
with that purpose, when the savage
awoke. Panic stricken, th p girl
jerked back, not in fear of hi s anger,
but in a guilty apprehension that,
seeing the knife above him, he may
think she attempted murder.
Unaware, the brown man sat up
at once, looked at the heavens, his
clock. Then he sprang to his feet,
caught her up once more like a child
and started for the canoe.
Palmyra wanted to give the knife
back, but her arm was pinioned. She i
tried to bring it forward, felt the
brown man's precautionary tighten- j
ing of his, hold, became again con-;
scious of her grievance, jerked vig
orously.
Olive was like a long-suffering pa-!
rent. He did not know why she re- j
sisted, but he did know he could bun- j
die her up close in his arms, with ■
one broad hand across her mouth.
Sudden rage possessed the girl, i
She would not be treated so. She |
struggled with all her might. The j
knife impeded her and she flung it!
down.
The blade fell noislessly. As it i
struck in the flooding moonlight jit J
sent out one futilei flash. But the;
savage, all,’ unaware, marched on,!
holding the girl in grip.
When Olive had carried Palmyra
thus unceremoniously down to their
canoe, the sea was not long in re
asserting its power. Her respite had
been too brief for any real rally
against the tyrant savage.
A s the craft cut its way through
the water, the girl was increasingly
sorry for what she had done. Her
act had not been deliberate, but af
terwards, at the canoe, she had fail
ed ot call his attention to the empty
sheath.
She was astonished now that so
infallible a machine should not al
most immediately have discovered
the loss.
Not, however, until the hour for
bananas and cocoanut did the
square copper hand go back alter
the blade. Then there appeared on
his face what was actually an ex
pression—puzzled, startled, bereav
ed.
The queer brown-shot eyes fixed
themselves on her. For a moment
ther f . seemed a pained reproach in
them, but he spoke no word. In
stead, he stooped, and she saw with
a gasp the he was drawing from its
place a heavy stick.
The brown man picked up one
of the cocoanuts. and cautioned her
with those square hands, so expres
sive where his face was blank. Then
he raised the nut and brought it
down upon the sharpened point. The
wood entered the green husk. With
a sidewise prying motion that wren
ched her hands, despite the support
ing framework, he tore off a section
of the husk. Again the nut came
down upon the point, impaling itself,
and in a moment the whole husk was
removed.
After Olive had husked several
of the nuts, he opened two by
pecking them with the sharp end of
a third, trepanning them as neatly
as a surgeon.
The girl accepted food and drink
humbly.
She would have struck her knife
to th P heart of this brown man—
and he had meant only to give her
food!
Her eyes filled. With a girlish
impulse she thrust her hand into
her ilress and diew out the weapon,
She would masr P amend.
There was something very sweet
in the gesture, in the expression
with which she offered the knife.
But the savage accepted her surren
der in the serene seeming uncon
sciousness of the Buddahs when
their devotees lay before them gifts
that may have meant months, per
haps years of sacrifice.
In a new sense of t r ust. she turned
quickly to him, her cheeks flushing,
and spoke his name as nearly as she
could in ihe way he like: “O-lee-vay.”
He looked up surprised.
“O-lee-vav,” she repeated—“-Ja-
Jalut?”
did not comprehend. She tried
the pronouncation with varying in
flections. Then, perception.
The savage grinned, raised an arm
and, cheerfully informative —pointed
astern.
The girl caught her breath. “Oh,
no, no!” she cried in panic. “You
don’t understand. Ja-lu*. —Ja-lu-
ett.”
But all too plainly he did under
stand. And he was sailing directly
away from her one chance of rescue.
As she stared unblinkingly across
the seas the low black streamer of
cloud unavoidably, in the intensity of
her desire, suggested to her mind the
smoke of a vessel racing to her aid.
The cloud, as is now and then the
case, was not unlike the smudge from
a funnel. And in her fatigue, her
helplessness, the very .mposnibility
of the thing gave to this product of
her imagination an extraordinary
power.
She saw the steamer rising- from
the ocean. She climbed its ladder to
the rail. And there, triumphant on
its deck, she was safe!
And in that moment she knew she
could not be hard on the brown man.
She would not demand his punish
ment. Only a savage after all —no
knight errant of the deep sea—his
very savagery was his excuse. He
had known no better, was not to be
blamed. Yet he’d been kind to her
and he had saved her from Burke.
At the parting she would thank
him. She would load his cano P with
gifts. Or, better still, though he’d
carried her wide of her ow'n port
of refuge, she would giv*. him pas
sage to some island beyond, reach of
the murderers Ponape.
And then suddenly, Palmyra Tree
was back in the canoe, her heart beat
ing. to suffocation. For her dream
was not a dream. The cloud was not
a cloud. It was smoke, smoke!
smoke!!
Her ship had come!
CHAPTER IX
The Imperial Japanese Gunboat
Oklahoma, upon a preceding day, had
been steaming against the sea w r hen
word came down to Commander Sa
kamoto that a sail had been sighted,
apparently a raft with shipwrecked
white men. The Oklahoma swung
over so as to bring the odd float
aboard. Soon Sakamoto, through
his glasses, made out an American
flag, union down.
“Send their officer aft,” he in
structed.
Presently John Thurston and Van
i Buren Rutger came striding along
the deck. For Thurston and his
crew, by the exercise of no small
; ingenuity, had got their crazy craft
I together again and were once more
i bravely under way.
I Sakamoto, seeing he had to do
! with gentlemen, offered his. hand in
| congratulation. : “Afid I hope/’ he
added when they were seated, “you
, leaved your peoples comfortable —
on their desert island?”
Thurston sprang up. “My God,
Captain,” he cried, “you’ve heard
from her? You’ve got her safe?”
The commander begged for an ac
count of what had happened. But
when they had reached the abduc
tion, he himself jumped up, inter
ruping exeitedyy. There was a new
look on his face, a look that ahad
advanced through astonished incred
ulity into mortification and distress.
“Now, I —onderstand,” he cried.
“Os her I—know only one thing.
This Ponape—she is out of his
hand.”
“Thank God!” from Thurston.
But Sakamoto exclaimed. “No, no!
|lt is—not good. It is bad Ponape
j has losed her because a kanaka, O
j lee-vay, has taken her —for himself.”
Sakamoto, in his cautious English,
went on to explain. A large native
! craft had beaten out after the Oka-
I yama, signalling urgently. Aboard
was an island pastor with one of his
pression of relaxed comfort; closed
villgaers, upon whose feeding roost
—maintained for these man-o’-war
hawks the Line islanders sometimes
j used as a sort of carrier pigeon—a
stray bird had alighted with a strange
letter. Most imperative!
Commander Sakamoto spoke in
sympathy. “It is very good thing,”
he said, “the bird stop wrong place
with the letter, and spoil —the plan.
This letter says after Ponape had
stole the high-chief lady, the native
| stoled her again from Ponape and,
land now they..” He groped long
| er than usual for the right expres
sion. “And now they, then contend
for her very big.” h p went on with
satisfaction. “O-lee-vay’s friends
were to hurry with many-y boat and
arms, Ponape being strong man, to
certain island —and save him there
so he shall, shall get away nice—
with her for himself.”
■t #
Palmyra's impulse on sighting this
seeking ship—for it was the Okaya
| ma—was to whirl around and shout
j the joyful fact. In this moment all
I her new aversion for the brown man
was forgotten. But, as she moved,
j the words froze upon her lips. They,
! two, by this intervention, were no
longer friends. From the steamer
Olive would fly almost as quickly as
from the Pigeon of Noah.
Aboard the Imperial Japanese
Gunboat Okyama as it passed with-,
: ; n arm’s leach of the distracted g'rl
! and then steamed on, was the ship’s
I company of the wrecked Yacht
1 Rainbow. Gathered on the deck
i were all who best had loved Palmyra
Tree in life. But though these
j swept the sea with their binoculars
| until eyes could stand no more, none
1 ever knew.
I Even as the giri made piteous at
tempt to cast a mirror’s ray across
the gulf, Commander .Sakamoto was
turning to John Thurston with fatal
decision.
; “My dear —mister,” he said. “That
j Ponape—he has catched the poor
Miss Tree back again—very sure,
j We got the bird letter and that ruin
1 all the kanaka’s chance. For him to
| reach this far unhelped, even if no
j body makes some chase, would be of
j u—too much.”
, Wherefore, Sakamoto, put all to
the wrong by Olive’s strategy of
: stealth and deviousness, threw the
! Okayama northward and steamed
| forever out of the field of pursuit;
i never again to pass within sight of
| canoe or schooner; deserting the girl
i in that hour when white savage and
brown closed in for possession of
her body.
Palmyra’s 'knowledge of their
course was so vague that she had
not known whether they sailed the
I Sunrise or the Sunset chain of the
Marshalls.
I Olive unexpectedly dived. There
was one plop of his toes at the sur
face and then she saw his outreach
ing fingers clutch a stone at the
I bottom. He brought his feet down
and moved, erouchingly, as if he
! were stooped on ary land, looking
for something lost.
She could see as well as if there
were no water. Olive was moving to
; one side now. The great clam was
I lyin f r immediately behind him, its
upper shell raised like a trap. She
n ' Q s momentarily uneasy, then laugh
ed. , ..
Suddenly, before shp could realize
jit as .she looked placidly on, he had
j shifted, stepped backwards. Jhe trap
' snapped shut across his foot.
Instantly, the brown body was con
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• tor ted. A gush of bubbles —silver
globules streaming upward from his
frantic cry. The girl uttered a shriek,
covered her eyes.
Why, why nad sne not warned
him! She’d known the danger.
But, as the girl lay, shuddering,
something wet touched her arm. Re
coiling with a gasp. sh P found her
self looking into the dripping face
of the brown man, which smiled
pleasantly.
When she reopened her eyes she
knew that she had fainted.
She looked at this creature, aw r ed.
He was alive, seemingly unharmed;
rather pleased with himself and her
astonishment.
i He drew the knife she had given
him and with a gestur P or two made
all plain. Olive had thrust the blade
in between the valves of the clam’s
: armor and severed the muscles that
snapped these together.
Having explained, he rescued the
cocoanut shell, which was bobbing
away on the water, and prepared to
dive anew. When she understood,
the girl cried out in protest. “Oh,
don’t, don’t try again. I, I cannot
bear it!”
(Continued next week)
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