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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-10-27, Page 6THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1038 THE EXETER IIMES-ADVOCATE ==s? 6 ?? ISilllll “I have a motive in asking. I want to get you and myself out of this mess—before the storm breaks. 1 have to know some things so that 1 may know how to act.” “What do you wish to know?” Sonja asked. “This: Are you in love with Maya Jack Cannaghan?’’ “Heavens, no! Why do you ask such a ridiculous question?” “Did 'ou ever give him reason to think He I’.’obi did. at Mi ou ever you cared?” ’ glance ig eyes. When I first met Maya Jack glaya I—I thought he was at tractive. He was a new type. I had never known a man like him —or like you. You see. I had just come from the States, where—” Rand chuckled. “Where men are civilized, is that it?” “Yes.” And -she laughed, a short tinkling laugh. “You know, of course, that Maya Jack is interested ■ -rather in love with you?” “I suspected it.” Rand nodded. “So I didn’t guess wrong. I see what his motive is.” “Hie motive for bringing me aboard this boat?” Sonya asked. “Wasn’t it to force Henri Duraud to sign over Maglaya to him?” “Maybe,” said Rand. Then: “What about this mtin Burnell? You are in love with him, aren’t you?” “No,” came her flat denial. Rand looked at her puzzled. “But you were going off with him!” “I wanted to get aw’ay from Mag laya. I couldn’t stand it there an other day. You see, something hap pened—” She broke off, and did not finish. “Philip Burnell then was merely a means of transportation. But what made you trust him—any more than you’d trust Maya Jack?” “I know Phil Brunell doesn’t sire me,” said Sonya bluntly. Rand doubted the truth of words, but he did not comment on them. “Then you don’t to your husband?” She laughed, as when he mentioned hated her laughter It seemed symbolic disliked in women, disloyalty to a vow. Suddenly he found liimself saying, “You don’t seem at all alarmed this morning. Is it possible that you would rather be aboard this ship than at Maglaya with Henri Duraud? “Rand,” she said, racing his giv en name az he bad never heard it spoken before. “I think at the mo ment this is the first time in my life I am not wretchedly bored.” He frowned. “You’ve got over your fear of Maya Jack?” Sonya’s face sobered. “No,” she said, shivering. “I haven’t. I still fear that man.” “And the rest of us?” She looked at him squarely, her eyes dark and wide and meeting his steadily, “I think,’’ she said, softly, “I shall never be afraid of you.” And suddenly, for the first time in his life, Rand Kirby struck upon the most startling of all truths. He was profoundly shaken, ed that he was in love. Sonya Duraud. “And you,” he heard terlng. “are a married wouldn’t meet his Then: "Perhaps I de- her want to go back she always did her husband. He at the moment, of something he He discover- In love with himself mut- woman!” CHAPTER V Such discoveries as Rand had made of himself changed the entire complex of’ the scheme of things. Rand saw that distinctly. He wished, with a hopeless sort of desperation, that it was not so, that he did not love this woman who sat beside him. Short hours ago he had thought Maya Jack Cannaghan the worst sort of fool for having fallen in love with a married woman.. Now he himself, poor fool, had committed the same blunder. And he could not help himself any more’ than Maya Jack could. He looked at Sonya hungrily now and with hopeless realization. She could no more be his than she could be Maya Jack’s. Rand saw clearly Ills course, un alterable and distinct. He had to get Sonya back to Maglaya as quickly as he could. Not only tor her own safety, but for his salvation. “Why,” Sonya, said puzzled, “did 1 Stubborn Cases of Constipation Those who keep a mass of im purity pent up in their bodies, day after day, instead of having it re moved as nature intended, at least once in every twenty-four hours, in variably suffer from constipation. The use of cheap, harsh purgatives only aggravate the trouble and injure the delicate mucous lining of the bowels. If constipated take Milbum’s Laxa-Liver I’ills and have a natural movement of the bowels. They do not gripe, weaken or sicken as many laxatives do. Th# T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. you say that?” “Say what?" he demanded. “Did I speak?” "You said, ‘And you are a married w.mian.’ Why?” He s»tw he was m deep waters, dangerous waters. What he said .••us something he could not explain. To avoid an explanation he turned to fli. pancy. “I was thinking,” he said lightly, “that if you were not a married wo man the solution to my troubles might he easily found.” "And the solution would be?” He laughed. "I might marry you off to Maya Jack and save my own hide when the constabulary picks us up.” Obviously, she saw no humor in that. But after a moment, she said, "You might have suggested marry ing me off—to you!” They laughed together, then fell silent. The schooner was racing on, gently riding the swells. So far as they could see there was only the endless emerald sea. The water seem ed, to Rand, almost too calm, om inously calm, as it sometimes could be before it loosed a watery inferno. After a time, Sonya said into the silence, “Where are we going?” Rand replied, hating to make such an admission, "I don’t know. Maya Jack had charted the course. Heav- fen only knows where he's taking us.’ "You too are frightened?” Her brief moment of flippancy was over. She was once again the alarmed per son who had been brough at Mag laya. "I am,” Rand said. “Not for my self, but for you.” Sonya looked at him -wide-eyed. “You'—you are really concerned over me?” she asked. “Why?” Their glances met, nis steady, hers wavering. It s eeined. impossible that she could look into his eyeS and not be able to read what was there— that he loved her. Yet, somehow, in the manner, which such things are known, Rand realized that Sonya understood why he was concerned over her. He knew further by the coloring that crept slowly up her throat and into her cheeks, by ance of his glance, stand. Again a silence, with embarrassment. And then Sonya was saying, as if to cover her con fusion: "What are we going to do?” "There must a way,” he said, frowningly. “There is a way for everything, Rand,” she said, earnestly. “Every thing.” Something in her voice made him look at her. It was is if she were trying to communicate something to him. something more than the pos sibility of his finding a. way to out wit Maya Jack Cannaghan. Sonya said, “Which is the native you can trust?” “The one wearing the blue turban. The best-looking specimen you’ll see among the natives. He’s been with me for years. His name is Balu.” "What can we three do against so many? We who are unarmed?” "I tell you, Sonya, I shall find a way. Trust me, please.” “I do trust you, Rand, above— all men.” He looked at? her, unbelievingly’, in his own skeptical way. Certainly, he thought, he had not heard right? Yet obviously he had. “You -will not be afraid when the time comes,” he asked. “No, Rand.” “It may be soon, even tonight.” "I shall be ready,” she said, cool- Then: “Rand, what do ly fear?” He did not answer, nor look at her now. Sonya reached out and his arm. It was like a caress. “Rand, you fear — that which I fear,” she said, her voice tragic. ‘You believe that Maya Jack brought me aboard because—because he desires me?” “Yes, Sonya,” Rand said dully: there seemed little use to avoid that truth. “I knew,’ she said simply. Then: “And if it were not for you I might never get off this boa!!” He nodded, unable to speak. He j was disturbed by the infinite trust i 4he had in him, and he was a stran- < ger to her. He knew then, grimly j that lie would not fail her, not so 'long as Maya Jack Cailnaghan per- I milted him to draw breathe. i The hours dragged. Maya Jack I | had altered the schooner’s course. I ! So far as Rand could Judge Maya pack intended making for Tavaqua, [ lor sonv jquently by shipping other than itin-j erant trading vessels. In that case, | there was little chance of any ship jsighting them. Rand saw now that playa Jack was right; with his su perior knowled ge of the tropics he ! could play hide-and-seek for years • iwithout ever being sighted, I Rand did not speak to Sonya after j the hasty She did this time ly. avoid- under- heavy could he touched other isolated isle ttnfre- their conversation early in the morn ing. She however was on deck, and he sa w that she was looking wan and rather worn. Her lovely eyes very deeply shadowed and she lo’oked almost haggard. He wondered if . slie had eaten that day. At midafternoon Balu approached him, “Bad storm coming, Jefe Kirby," said the native. Rand looked from the man’s dusky face towards the sea and the bright azure sky. He wondered how these natives could tell so accurately the coming of a storm and whether it would be bad or not. It was another secret of the tropic white men seem ed incapable of knowing. “Bad storm,” said Balu again, his v. ice low, suggestive. “Good time to .ike Maya Jack”. Rand looked again at the native’s .‘ace. It was inscrutable except for a narrowing of the black eyes. In scrutable, yet there was something in that face that frightened him. It was a look like the one he had glim psed in Maya Jack’s ruddy face in the chartroosn when he had told the big blond man that he had sold out to Duraud. It was a strange restrained fero city, a primitive cruelty that had only to be released by a word or a gesture. It was in the bared fangs of a wolf, in the snarl of a jungle cat. It must have been ages old, of a barbaric age, and given to. these natives and to men who had lived among them as Maya Jack had. Rand was frightened in spite of himself. He wondered what terror ■was going to break loose schooner—-when he g’ave “When asked. “When asked. “When muttered before another day.” “Good. Go back to your post and wait for orders,” Rand instructed. “We’ll take Maya Jack tonight.’ “And Jefe Barker? And the red faced man, Kelly Burk?” “Yes,” said Rand tersely. “They, too. And the crew—if they try to aid Maya Jack. Now go.” The afternoon was passing, and the sun was already sinking low, a great red. ball, toward unseen Min- dana. It was Rand’s turn on the bridge, and he relieved Maya Jack Canna ghan. He saw Maya Jack was looking confident again and mighty pleased with himself. “Well, Kirby,” Maya Jack with heavy sarcasm, “the day ed and no aeroplane spotted us. We won’t be sighted during the night, and tomorrow “Safe?” Maya Jack "Still gripped “I was just thinking I have a lot to lose and nothing to gain in this af fair.” “I’ll sell you*back your warehouse and wharf at Maglaya when I own the island. "Yes? Well, w’hen are you going to bargain with Duraud?” Maya Jack’s grin seem to be in a devilsh by.” "Why shouldn’t I be? and that woman off my “We’ll get off—in time.” “Where? At Maglaya?” Rand shot back. Maya Jack scowled at him. ‘That,’ he said, "is my business!” In spite of Balu’s forecast a storm- less night sky lay canopied over the sea. A full moon came up, silvery white and beautiful. Pete Barker I came to the bridge to relieve Rand at mealtime. Rand looked at his erstwhile right hand man critically. Pete’s thin, weak face was haggard. His restless eyes wouldn’t meet Rand’s gaze. "What hold has Maya Jack got on you, Pete?” Rand asked. Pete darted him a glance. "He ain’t got no me.’’ "Then why did you go him?” Pete stubbornly refused Rand looked at him pityingly. Pete Barker hadn’t the courage of one of those tiny Japanese deer found in the Philippines, yet, like a cornered rat, he might fight when forced. will the will the storm storm on the the word, break?” he the sun Balu, gutturally. sinks, perhaps,” “Surely we’ll be safe,’’ well said pass- laughed boisterously, by old maid’s fears?” faded. “You hurry, Kir- frightened hold on over 'to to reply, DEAD LIVESTOCK Phone Seaforth 15, Collect DAY OR NIGHT SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Our drivers are equipped to shdot old or crippled animals DARLING and Co. of Canada, Ltd. CHATHAM, ONT. “Double-crossing is a bad thing Pete,” Rand said pointedly. “A bad thing." He turned away, leaving Pete shuddering. As Rand ate his evening meal he formulated his plan, and a growing excitement took hold of him. He hur riedly finished his meal, lit his pipe and went to his cabin. There he took out his revolver, broke it, and found it loaded. He filled a pocket with '’pare cartridges. He went to the chart room, found it unoccupied. Ap parently Maya Jack was in his cabin. Rand went to the chest where the medical supplies were stored. He sought a bromide potent enough to put the taker to sleep. He found one in powder form. Wltn the medicine he went out on deck. Balu, as if anticipating Rand’s re quest, appeared from a shadow. “Balu has the man Kelly Burke more liquor in his bunk in the fore castle?” “He drinks all the time.’ "Good. Here is a medicine, take it and pour it into the bottle he drinks from tonight. Do not let him see. . .” “He is a dangerous man when he has been drinking, this man, Kelly Burk,” whispered Balu, do as you wish.’ “Right. And then we shall strike. We Barker first. He will After Pete Barker is harmless, go to Maya Jack. Got it?” Balu nodded. Rand saw his hand close on the hilt of the knife in his sarong. Leaving Balu, Rand went to Son ya’s cabin, out a word, questioning, enough, she knew the time had come. “Come to the helm when I send Balu to you,” he said. “I shall want you to stand guard over Pete Bar ker aftei’ we disarm him.” “I shall come, Rand,” Sonya whis pered. For other, sweep arms, to crush her against his chest. Then sanity followed, and he fought down the impluse. She belonged to another. He turned to the door. He heard her soft whisper; “Be careful, Rand! iFor—for my sake.” He came out onto deck, calm now by inward pressure. He glanced at the sky. It was clouding now. The storm Balu promised was coming. And then, while he was yet con gratulating himself that he had his arrangements in time, the worst pos sible thing happened. From the bridge. Pete Barker was calling: “Boat off port side! 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