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WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht Rainbow, is startled by seeing a hand rust through the port of her cabin.' he snakes a secret investigation and iscovers a stowaway. She is disap- ointed in his mild appearance and• ells him so. Obeying his command O glance at the door—she sees a uge, fierce, copper -hued "man with ten -inch knife held between grin - mg lips! Burke, the stowaway, ex- lains thati t is a joke. But Pal- myra is shaken. Next day' Burke and he brown man go up on deck. The. towaway entertains them with wild. tales of an adventuresome life—which kis listeners refuse to believe! Now cad out CHAPTER III Enemies And Friends Some sixteen days later in Mrs. Crawford's cabin a . conference was. under .way- "But, my dear, my dear," Palmyra's mother was protesting, "how can you say everything's going right, when Palm spends most of her time listen - mg to that, that miserable stowaway; hat—human toad. Her father is be- side himself with anxiety." The span made . a deprecatory sound_ 'Events," said the hostess impres- lively, "have only too well shown that I, that we intervened just in time Your daughter was'on the ver- ge of failing in love with John Thurs- ton." The father uttered a protest "I don't see we've gained any- thing." "But where are your eyes?" de- manded the hostess, "As I said in California, Van, with his refined' per sonality, fits into the yacht's cabin like 'The Young Ring Charles' into a gilded frame. Thurston, on the contrary, is a great, robust being. He looks well enough ashore, but, here, in these little compartments, on this narrow deck, his hands and feet seem in the way. She paused to smile at them s e-. assuringly "Surely, with John at his worst, Van at his best—need we fear?" Meanwhile, Constance Crawford vas forward at the Rainbow's bow, sailing through the tropic night upon enchanted waters. When John Thurston presently joined Constance, she looked up with a frown. "I was just thinking," she explained, "that Palm Tree doesn't at all realize what Burke may be get Bing into his mind. I believe the lit- tle fraud's quite puffed up over the idea he's made something of a con- uest." Thurston answered rather absently. "Anyhow," he said, "Burke's over the side at Honolulu and gone for - luck: charm. "But, but why . • ." "How should I know?" She was thoughtful. "At any rate,' she said finally, "be seems to be wishing you good luck" She examined the amulet again with . an absent attention. Then, the smile fading from her lips: "John, promise me you will not leave the Rainbow at Honolulu." The yacht was pushing on at her best pace, setting up such a lively stir at her prow as to achieve the small private rainbow for which she had been named. Burke and Palmyra were on deck —Burke was quizzically regarding the pensive Palmyra. As though defining her very thoughts, he spoke. "Excuse me, Miss," - he said. "Those others—" a. slightly contemp- tuous gesture. "They're tame. That's what—tame, But you? Why, you're different. Y'sure wasn't intended for their little ol' birdcage kind of life. Nature meant 'for something lively- like, something up and doing." The girl laughed. "Nature," she said, "meant me for a pirate. It''s in my blood," she affirmed. "First, a Norseman ravaging the coasts of England; Then, a British admiral ever." She assented. , John was silent for some time. Then: "I'd like to go, too," he burst out. "I, I've br.en trying to tell you Pve taken your advice. asked her to become my wile." "Yes," she answered without rnov- ig, C4 n I knew'. " "She told you?" he exclaimed. "No. You did." He was chagrined. "Suppose I do look like that," he said, "On , the contrary, You've been splendid." She glanced up friendily. "But I still think it was the right thing to do. A week or two hence-- absolutely ence—absolutely no hope. Oh, why didn't you speak in California? She orig- inally liked you best. I'm sure of it. Does still, if she only knew. Or," Constance added ruefully; "would if they'd let her alone." He laughed with some ,bitterness. "Oli, I know what you mean." He felt into a suddenp etulance. When 'Thurston spoke again it was apparentlyhi an effort to get into a more cheerful vein. . "Seemingly," he said, "I have an other well-wisher aboard." With a pocket flashlight he made visible for her a small object of Wov- en fibre: a bark cord wottnd around a packet perhaps two inches square, "When I carne on deck this morn- ing," he explained, "Olive incarnated himself before :rie. Looked about furtively,, jerked my coat-tails up, fastened this round my waist. Then he gave me a friendly grin .and van- 'kited." "But,"i' she puzzled, Y' ts "What it ." 'onside there's a bit of fine met, hand as futile. He brought out a ring, Palmyra had never seen such a ring: tortoise shell inlaid with sil- ver. There were letters on it; seem- ingly one eem-ingly'one word, thrice repeated and separated by discs --the word "N -i." Olive pointed to the letters, then to the girl and once more held aloft the hand; with the moving fingers. But again • she shook her head. The brown man stood baffled. Then, grinning anew, he hurried away forward. The savage, presently returning, thrust into the girl's hand a litho- graph, an advertisement of Egyptian cigarettes. He pointed to the silver letters of the ring and pronounced the word "Ni," then to her with a second "Ni" and to the picture with a third. He dropped the ring into her fingers. At last the girl who was named Palmtree understood. For there in the advertisement was a palmtree. The upraised hand had symbolized the palm -herself, Olive but sought to give her a ring with her name upon it. When the hour of leavetaking ar- rived, however, he seemed to have re-entered the silence, and the fare- weIis devolved upon Ponape Burke. As this little stowaway reached In the blinding roar, all she kn her, that he held her safe. Never did of arms she owed her life. .ravaging everything else. And last- , ly, old Captain Ebenezer, with John Paul Jones, descending once more up- on the coasts of EngIand." Burke grinned in admiration. The girl turned to go; then .paus- ed, laughing back at him over her. shoulder, "You, Ponape Burke," she said: "you and I -I'm afraid we were born too late." At the rate the Rainbow was sail- ing, it was evident the yacht must soon make a landfall. Indeed, al- ready eyes were peering through powerful glasses seeking for the first shadowy silhouette of the peeks of Oahu, As the Rainbow raised the pano- rama of read craters that stands, ra- ther barren, above the verdant town of Honolulu, none upon her decks was so expectant as Palmyra Tree. For from the chaff of Ponape Burke's narration she had winnowed the clean grain of beauty and romance that is the life of this island world "of the palm -tree. Her imagination was a -glow. Through the gateway of Honolulu she was to sail on into this world where Happiness is queen. She was to sail across the track- less sea as those brown mariners of old, thus deep'n reverie, As the girl, t e , stood watching the distant peaks, she became aware of a presence at her side. Turning, she startled•upon encountering the brown man Olive. He gave tongue to a few syllables, paused perplexed, then fell back' up- on pantonine. The hour of depart- ure bad come. Soon Burke and he forever, would go over side and, f e , into oblivion. Palmyra smiled. She tried to ov- ercome her aversion, to respond tq his attempted farewell. As he had done, she moved to speak, 'found her- self helpless, returned the smile. The brown man, thus countenanc- ed, laid the square finger upon her own breast. Having thus "identified the girl as the being of the drama, he raised his' hand,• with extended i s head arm, straight aver his . She thought he invoked he One above, vo t thisi when she sant But .she gave � p w haat he waggled, fluttered the fin - gena, head, 1 regr When She slroolc her r .i , g et- baits and a tooth" -a good fully ho itbandoeed the up -raised ew was that Van's arms were round she suspect it was to another pair er. The third week came and neared its end. Intermittent now the breeze for :they touched the equatorial zone of light and variable airs, A whole day through, perhaps, the Rainbow would scarcely move. Slowly, unconsciously, Palmyra had been responding to the conditions created by the wily Mrs. Crawford, As ` the breeze, with each knot of westing, had beensinking more 'dan- gerously into the doldrums, the breath of her on feeling had stirred risen, fresh, fair, constant, until it reached the deep sweep of a maiden's first acknowledged love. Gladly she was confessing it now, this belated recognition of love for the man of her parents' choice, Van Buren Rutger. And she :must . have treated John Thurston abominably. With each moment that she gave herself more'. convincedly up to love, her pity for Thurston grew. But when, on the twenty-second: evening out from Honolulu—tomor- row they were to sight their first atoll—thehour came for the formal, announcement of her betrothal, the girl was radiantly happy. True, at the moment when Mrs, Crawford spoke, it was upon the face of John Thurston that Palmyra's eyes rested, and she could but wince at the flash of pain there revealed. But no girl itt love can, on her be- trothal night, long be unhappy over the face of a rejected suitor. So it was, that night, as Palmyra lay asleep in her stateroom, her body gently moving with the lift and fall of the yacht in the mid -Pacific calm, there was a tender smile upon her lips. And the tender smile was still lin- gering, in an alluring warmth and sweetness and beauty, when the Rain- bow, caught all unaware by a sudden squall, came down with a crash upon the teeth of a reef—that should not have been there. On a craft such as the Rainbow interest naturally centers about the navigation. What better then for Mrs. Craw- ford in her amiable intrigue than to set up Van Buren Rutger as a gentle- man navigator? How more pleas- antly important than, handsome, graceful, jaunty in his white uniform he poised with sextant to take the sun or bent over the charts with Con- stance and the Wampolds and .Pal- myra? In so featuring Van as a yachts- inan—he was no more than a fairly competent amateur—the hostess had meant that Pedersen in the back- ground should unostentatiously check up on his work at every point. But . The sailing master was a vain man, self-important, jealous of his prero- gatives, touchy as to his dignity, Not understanding Mrs. Crawford's motive, he chose to regard the ar- rangement as an imputation upon his seamanship, his fitness—which he himself doubted—longer to command. Van soon discovered then that this sick and sulky old man was only making an outward show; in reality having nothing whatever to do with the navigation, leaving the fate of the yacht absolutely in Van's own hands: A certain inability to take a stand in anything unpleasant, difficult, to make up his mind and act in an em- ergency, kept Van at first from tell- ing the hostess, Later he continued with an object. He knew she did not truly rely on him 'in this showy fraud of navigation; he suspected Palmyra was not deceived. . Know- ing his own weakness, he had the weak man's fear of seeing that know- ledge reflected in the faces of. others. Therefore, he would, without aid, sail h the Rainbow to and through the Line island groups. And then, when at last he told the girl, she could but admire his perfortnance. On the night of the wreck, Van-- really an—really heroic in persisting against a quacking unconfidence that kept him often awake—?tad stolen on deck in the in!d-watch to reassure himself. His first glance told him the clouds were gathering for a squall. Like most unaSlyenttirotts persons, Van rebelled at being thought timid. Before rousing the watch he paused to make sure the clouds meant wind. As he studied the sky he gradually became aware of a low sound as of an express train far away. Startled, he swept the sea; then laughed in self-contempt, More than once late- ly in dreams or wakirtg he had :sprung up at that fancied sound of surf. The yacht should not have land aboard until late the next day. To call out there was an island a -lee, if there were none, would be to stake him - If absurd, Staring :now 'nip at the blackening sky, again off into the gloom of sea, he stood, balanced itt suspense be- tween his fear of storm and leeshore, and his dread of ridicule. Pet this first time Van held life acid death in his hands—end could not decide what to do. The t. .. .L h sound o#'� surf being at. its ,rriiti- iinutn after two elaysi~ahn, the fitst her in his round he achieved a sim- ple eloquence of feeling. "You've been kind t'nte, miss," he said. "I ain't a -going t'forget it, Nor you." She shook hands with an unassum- ed friendliness. "I'm sure," she said, "we shall see you again." Sharply he glanced at her, as if eager to know whether she really had such a hope. • Then he shrugged, island -wise. "It's a large ocean lady. With you and me it's just lights pass- ing in the dark; a hail, and then— nothing." A minute later Palmyra's • pirates were swinging over the side into their boat. Burke raised his hat jauntily. But it was rather at the savage the girl looked. Over the white man's shoul- der he seemed to be watching her to the end with that strangely expres- sionless but intent stare. Palmyra faced abruptly away and snatched the ring from her finger. "Yes," she whispered, "I, I'm certain• ly glad to have seen the last of him," One short week ashore and the good ship Rainbow was at sea again. Bound she was for the heart of Oc- eanica, the Equatorial isles of Mic- ronesia. As the yacht was to put John Thurston aboard a Philippine. transport at Guam, only a little southing, said the hostess, would take them in among the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Carolinas, that Milky Way of atolls along the Line, of which Poonape Burke had talked so alluringly, What Mrs. Crawford did not er- plairi was that the real duty, as she saw it, lay in depriving Thurston's long legs of a chance, in' this less cramper setting of Honolulu to snap back to perspective. By rejecting both her lovers—Van Shortly after John—Palmyra had gaineda reprieve from that question as to whether she were itt love with one man or Iust dandy good -'rai s with two. The peaks of Oahu sank back into the tnoana, the deep, deep ocean, whence they had risen. One day, two doe, four, -ix a rt a temps otempera- mental mental sea; a whale week of heavy skies and rain and storm seemed to have carried the girl no further. A second Week carne and went; a week of surnnier sea and lusty trades and flying yacht. But still no answ- .if one slips the call fails THERE are three people to every telephone call. If any one of them makes a mistake the call fails.- It may be the operator, it may be the person calling, it may be the person called. There are over one million local calls in Ontario and Quebec every day which faiI--"Line's Busy" "No Answer" -="No one on the line now, sir" -- "Wrong Number". These uncompleted calls are a serious matter. They mean two million minutes a day wasted --- congestion of traffic •- constant irritation a handicap to efficient service. Some of these cannot be avoided and some of them are due to our own errors, and many of them arc due to lack of co-operation by the other two parties. *We are constantly reducing our own errors andwe are constantly, striving to give the best possible telephone service at lowest possible cost. As part of this effort we are now giving publicity to common faults in telephone usage in the hope that there may be mutual endeavour to secure and maintain maximum efficiency. It takes three people to complete a call -- if one makes a mistake, the call fails. *it is costing more than $27,000,000 this year to extend and improve; tele- phone service in Ontario and Quebec. breath of the squall was upon the yacht before Van was galvanized in- to action by discovering, broad on the port bow, a dim low-lying some- thing against the sky—the silhouette of palms. But even as the doomed Rainbow thus lay between hammer and anvil, she could have been extricated had not Captain Pedersen himself gone to pieces. In the precious remaining mo- ments a bewildered crew tried to ex- ecute incoherent orders, while the yacht was beaten down upon the waiting coral. Following the crash upon the reef, Thurston picked himself up and scrambled to the deck just as a sea came roaring aboard. Saved by a spring into the rigging he waited a chance to reach Pedersen, whose condition he had sensed. Seizing the sailing master he whirled him round. "You're drunk," he cried. "Or, or crazy." The other quailed under the steely light in Thurston's eye. "Get below." "I'll take charge," Thurston an- nounced. The pumps showed that the wreck was taking water badly. Such boats as could be launched were got ready. The :nen obeyed unquestioningly; They liked, respected Thurston. He knew little of ships but they recog- nized in his voice the quality of com- mand.: During the hours that followed it might well have seemed to Palmyra that the wreck had been arranged for the sole purpose of bringing out the difference between John Thurston and Van Buren Rutger. Where Van was sunk in self -accus- ing misery, `Thurston's spirits were buoyant. The pian was serene, met- hodical, busy. ' And he had action at last; intense, vital. In fighting to save the woman he loved he could forget, for the moment that he had lost' her forever. Where Vanwas soon sodden with fatigue, John seemed fresher with •ev- ery hour. It had been decided to leave the women in the cabin where they had been penned, ,rather than risk' the ugly surf that broke about the after compaction, But. Van, in his self -accusing fren- zy, was conscious only that he had Placed his betrothed in the hands of death, that he must save her. He rushed toward the cabin core- panionway. Before anyone noticed, he had thrown it open in the face of another sea. A second later he was swept down its steps by the flooding water. Catching tap Palmyra he struggled back and out agairi on the deck. On- ly then, at a warning cry, did he seem consciously' to petcetve what force it was delivered These blows, Stopping short, he looked back. A crest reared above the wreck, gath- ering itself like some animate, beast for the spring, Van, horror stricken,. started ono way, another;; stood 1 fro- zen inti t:. s acts In an benefit the sea would n� d h avt been upon him, Prato that slippery Hellen deck both man and titI would, in : all chance, have been oarriecl ov- erboard to death. In the blinding roar, all she knew was that Van's arms were round her, that he held her 'safe. Never did she suspect it was to another pair of arms she owed her life. Of all these revelations, these man- ifestations of the weakness of Van. Bitten Rutger, the strength of John Thurston, the girl noted none 'On - the night of her betrothal she would:' scarcely have been like, under any circumstances, to draw comparisons.' And here darkness and groping con- fusion and the voice of waters con- spired with Thurston himself to hide the truth. Palmyra's love weathered the storm, unquestioning, serene. 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