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ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY JM LBB
" COPTRIOHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNfiKS 9Qt& i g
CHAPTER II
Next morning Mrs. Crawford and
her guests were gathered in lee of the
deckhouse, bundled their rugs.
The sun, only at intervals, had been
blinking through, bringing a touch of
warmth to the surface of the sea.
charming the spreading canvas into
life. As, presently, Palmyra roused
from her preoccupation to join the
others in a laugh, the luminary glanc
ed down again and printed on the
deck, black and sharp-edged, the lift
ing shadows of the sails.
Such a shade lay across the girl's
face. When the Rainbow rose to a
surge, the shadow moved, as a cur
tain up, and the sunbeam caught in
turn and illumined perfect teeth,
dimples, eyes that danced with furi;
set a-flame the crown of bright hair,
her most noticeable endownment.
But soon she was somber again.
She had been shaken by that fierce
visage leaping out at her from the
dark.
She should have suspected a second
presence. One glance at Burke's
hand, gloved though it was, should
have sufficed. It was small, pudgy,
never the thick sinewy paw that had
fastened upon the cabin port. Her
wits about her, she should have mis
trusted Burke's song; not have wait
ed to be told afterwards that he was
chanting: "Silent, go, stand against
the door, knife in teeth, and look
terrific." j
At this point the shadow of the
sail came swooping down again
across Palmyra's eyes and she awoke
to find that Mrs. Durley, the stew
ardess, was regarding her with an
amused and curious expression. The
girl flushed guiltily.
Mrs. Durley stepped forward, hesi
tated, held out a card tray. "A
gentleman to see you. Miss Tree, she
announced.
"A gentleman to see Miss Tree?"
inquired Mrs. Crawford in amused
acceptance of the play. "Why, how
unexpected." .
"Airplane or sea horse?" question
ed Van. %
At this moment she caught sight
of the man himself, standing in the
alley between the house and the rail.
"Mrs. Crawford," she introduced,
"this is Mr. Burke, the well-known
pirate. Will be pleased, ytTho ho, to
demonstrate walking the plank. I'm
sure if you could see him scuttle "a
ship, you'd feel we'd been greatly dis
tinguished." ,
By daylight the pirate's face had
lost its cherubic aspect. Still sing
ularly undeveloped as to line and
featured, there was now more visibly
upon it a maturity of significance
that could only have been stamped by
dissipation, hardship and danger, or
some more violent temperamental
urge than, at first view, could have
been suspected.
But if Burke's face had gained in
significance, his figure had not.
Moreover, he now verged on the'
pathetic, shaking with cold. Palmyra
recollected; with a stab of pity, that
brown creature down below.
The girl started, impulsively, "to
rise, then sank back again. She had
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seen the steward below, a short time
past, overhauling blankets, a reserve
d supply for the men forward. If she
e could manage to get one or two of
these coverings . . . Compassion urged
n the deed. But —she was afraid.
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i Presently, however, a well-au-
l ' thenticated chin settled into place
and two lips grew arbitrary. She
arose, excused herself, and marched
down the companionway. Yes, the
blankets were still there. She snatch
ed two, secured her torch and reach
ed the bulkhead door, unchallenged.
g 1 She switched on the torch, forced
a herself forward. Then, after a mo
ment's hesitation: "Here—you! Are
you cold? I have two blankets."
, i She stood, waiting, listening. She
; could feel the darkness move with
, unseen menace. But the dead silence
of that prisoned space gave no sound
. of life.
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* j She might have swept the ray into
! all the corners, but she hesitated to
! repeat the vision of the night before.
Rather, she held the blankets up in- j
> vitingly and, in silence, turned the ,
1 jet of light upon them. For almost a |
i minute she waited thus. Then, sud
denly, without warning preliminary
of sound, there appeared within the
j outer circle of light the ends of four
great massive square fingers.
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i Almost, the girl sprang back, cried
out in panic.
J A moment the fingers paused.
Then they came thrusting toward her
from the dark. For flash it seemed
that it must be herself they meant
to seize. Then they closed upon the
blankets, rested there an instant,
withdrew with their prize again into
the night whence they had come.
But, brief as the interval, it had
been enough. Here at last was the
hand that had been sent through the
port; square, sinewy, brown; adorn
ed even to the greatgrand mother
mitts.
And only now did she belatedly
realize that these mitts were not of
silk, but of tattooer's ink.
When the girl came on deck next
morning there the savage sat, cross
legged on the fore-hatch, huddled
under his blankets in the sun.
As Palmyra and her parents ap
peared, Ponape Burke was explaining
that the remote intelligence at his
feet knew no word of any white
man's language.
If the savage recognized her she
, was unable to note any change in
his countenance. Indeed, she saw
that this copper mask would seldom,
if ever, yield/to the civilized eye and
useful indication of the mood within.
Ponape Burke, showman, had seiz
ed a double handful of the bush of
hair on the native's head, and was
saying:
"'Tisn't so much that he's got
hair," Burke was saying, "as that his
hair ain't black, as you'd expect, but
a pretty gay species o r tan. Which,
. la-adies and gents, is South Sea
beauty-parlor stuff."
"'Tis dee-lightfully sanitary, la
adies,". the showman added, "and
colors the hair up any shade o'
blond y'like. But—" he tittered and
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: glanced audaciously at Miss Tree's
> own head — very foxiest and
i most envied hue some of 'em suc
" ceeded in getting up'.is a real or-
I angey near-redA'
Van laughed. "Oh, admirable," he
cried. "An admirable effect. And
; never till the moment did I suspect
; . . . Why, Palm Tree . . ,
[ i "Excuse me, miss," Ponape Burke
. I said, '"but didn't I hear this gent a
'
calling you 'Palm-tree',"
She assented.
"But what, what kind of a joke . . "
"It isn't a joke," she affirmed.
"My family name is Tree and—'she
glanced amusedly at Constance—"my
given name is Palm."
The stowaway stared, grinned, re
peated the name. He turned to his
savage, spoke animatedly, nodded his
head toward her. The brown man's
eyes sought the girl's face once more
scure way, been moved. There was
and she felt sure he had, in some ob
certainly a something new upon that
strange countenance.
As the savage sat upon the hatch,
a corner of blankert touched the teak
wood. When he reached down to
rescue the fabric his thick right fore
arm Ishot out from cover and so re
mained. The girl became aware of a :
line of blue-black markings along
the inner side of this arm. She dis
covered with surprise that these tat- j
tooings were letters—her own alph- j
abet. At first she did not catch the ]
word because two of its symbols i
were upside down.
"Why," she cried impulsively,
"what is that he has tattooed on his J
arm?"
Here the pirate took up the story j
of his brown companion's name
If it had been a pop bottle that the
fat horizon-burster (white man)
flung into the bird's nest fern beside
the spring, this lion ot a man would
not now be here. Far away on some
somnolent speck of coral he would be
drowsing through the years; ignorant
as to white men's ways, safe forever
from the questionable leadership of
Ponape Burke; never to touch and
cross the life course of Miss Palmyra
Tree of Boston. But it was not a
pop bottle that the fat horizon-bur
ster flung in the bird's nest fern. It
was a bottle which had held olives. j
There, as the olive bottle had fal
len, the island mother, her babe
upon her lip, found it. • She had held
the empty bottle up before the eyes
of the naked brown baby that he!
might admire the bright red and '
green of its lithograph. She had tried ,
to make out the inscription upon it.
ONYX BRAND
The Hubbard Extra-Choice
QUEEN
OLIVE
The print was an oddly familiar,
yet bafflingly unreadable, as a sen
tence in Russian would have been to
Palmyra. For in the mother's alph
abet there were but fourteen letters:
eleven of our consonants unmeaning
character.
But as her glance fell upon the
word "Olive," she smiled. Here was
a combination that spelled; every let
ter as familiar as it had been the
name of her own village. ,
"Behold, chiefly son," she had
cried to the baby on her lip; "here
is a so-island word—O-l-i-v-e. What
to it, think you, is a meaning? And
set forth upon a hortizon-burster's
strong-water bottle (to her all bottles
meant liquor)."
Presently the mother's face had
lighted with inspiration. Here, un
doubtedly among warriors, was the
great word. And here, upon her hips, j
I was the greatest man alive. What
better, then, than this for a name?
And so it was the brown baby, to
be known forever to all white men
as "Olive," and to his South Sea
kinsmen, according to their reading
of its letters, as "O-leevay."
Burke's glance took in the silent
motionless mass of man on the hatch
with prideful ownership. Then he
again into his' oddly unadult
mirth. "Look at him now," he cried.
"Look at him. Mad clear through.
They turned their .smiling eyes up
, on the brownman.
| "Mad clear through" repeated his
I master. "Since Miss Tree pointed to
> his arm we all been laughing a lot.
> And he thinks it's at him."
V (Continued Next Week.)
OFFICERS HAVE RACE
Deputies G. Curtis Hardin and J.
A. Hampton with the help of officer
Geo. F. Green, of Spindale, had an
exciting race Tuesday afternoon,
March 20, in Golden Valley Town
ship, from the Cowan place through
the Thompson place. The officers
were in a Dodge car while the man
they were chasing, Clarence Jolly
; was in a Ford. After a five mile
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race the officers overtook Jolly and
captured him and ten gallons and a
pint of whiskey. Jolly gave the offi
cers a lively race. He was lodged in
' jail at Rutherfordton and was tried
Friday in Recorder's court.
! Jolly has been caught before, of
; ficers state near the same place by
Depupies Hardin and Hampton.
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