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Phone. 1 " test Lint siie Putieral C- ac a oix t o h- WINGfAIVI ADVANCE -TIMES mai*, Nciveri>,'lier 7tl , 1929 1 WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht. inhaler, is startled by seeing a hand crust through the port of her cabin. S1 makes a secret investigation and tscovers 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 age, fierce, copper -hued man—with a en inch knife held between grinning psl Burke, the stowaway, explains hat it is a joke. But Palmyra is haken. Next day, Burke and the town man go up on deck. The towaway entertains them with wild ales of an adventuresome life—which is listeners refuse to believe! Palmyra spends more and more time with the stowaways to avoid ohn and Van, but when the stow - ways are put ashore at Honolulu he decides she laves Van. The fight the engagement is announced he Rainbow hits a reef. In the ea- itement which follows John rescues oth Van and Palmyra—but Palmyra hi.nks it is Van who saved her. After three days spent on the un- ihabited island, a sail is sighted. It roves to be Ponape Burke! Burke ontrives to get Palmyra on board, his boat alone—and the boat is un- der way before anything can be done! 'gow read what happens to Palmyra, kidnapped by Burke,— CHAPTER V Back ashore, where the moment f Palmyra's Tree's abduction had ound her fiance so afraid of wound - ng the girl that he could not raise a rifle in her defense, every passing circumstance was carrying forward he revelation of two characters. Van, as he saw his betrothed thus torn from him, stood, staring after the schooner, his face convulsed. He I been thrust back into a despair tenfold that whence the Pigeon of dloah had first raised hire. Not so, however, John Thurston. As -well as Van he knew nothing could be done. But he would not accede_ Burke's crime had thrown im into a frenzy. He ran across to Captain Peder - en. "Captain,"he demanded, "what can we do? At once?" The deposed sailing master Iook- ed back at him haggardly. • "?3o thing. " "But, we must. I tell you we must. Van, we've got to get to sea. To- day—now!" ation, He saw that the best, the on- ly way out, was to sketch the plan of action, seen to consult the other's judgment. He spoke briefly. "What do you think, Van?" he concluded, "Isn't that as well as we can' hope to do?„ Van was silent for a long time; then, unexpectedly, laughed. "As, as good as 'any, he said. "Go on your raft, and drown, stay, and starve. What's the difference? As regards her—" he caught his breath in a bro- ken exhalation—"she's gone." Thurston gazed at him somberly. "You, you mean you won't raise a hand for her?" "I won't," Van answered 'wearily, "and neither will you. We can't." Thtirston's face was resolute. "Per- haps you're right," he acknoweldged. "Very likely so. But for me, I pre- fer to die—trying." ' He would have hurried away but the other detained him. "I'm not your kind of an ass," Van said.: "You fool, you know there's no hope. Yet, by this silly work, you can kid yourself into a sort of relief. Me! . ." It was as if he looked upon the girl lying dead. But he tore himself from this vision, be- came defiant, "You, you still think I'm yellow. Very well, then. I'll show you. I'll help now; and when you sail, I, too, will go." Pedersen groaned. "I wish to God eve could, Mr. T'urston. I'm as broke up as you. But there just ain't no use. Looks now, if we're ever to get off, well have to knock together some sort of craft from the wreck." Thurston cried out in ,protest. "Weeks, months. No! You, with all your sea experience, you must know some way: I, I demand But Pedersen shook his head, No- thing. whatever could be done. Suddenly Thurston's face lighted. He stood in thought, his features tak- ing on a more definite tinge of ela- tion. "I've got it!" be cried, and Thurston as the first color of the dawn touch- ed the eastern sky the last of the stores and gear was lashed into place. 'Thurston stooped over Van, who had fallen in the sleep of exhaustion, and waked him. "Say the word," he that wild spark he felt to glow with- in the soul'of this girl he had seized for his own -his woman, "Tanner he cried. • "Tanna! Ever hear tell o' that.' island, Palm?" He laughed excitedly. "Indeed and I've' took gopd care t'make y' ac- quaint." "'Tis for Tanna we'll be laying' a course, you and me;" he went on, with exuberant gesture acquired from the natives. "Tanna , where we'll lord it like born king and'queen." "What a people! What a people t'work with!" His fingers opened and closed anticipatorily, with a cat -like zestfulness. "What can't we do t' thews Papuan.'wildmen," he cried, "and what can't we make 'em do for us. That's the ticket, Palm: what we can make 'em do for us!" "Why, kid," he was expostulating a moment later, "this here big idea ain't something that popped into m' head just recent. Gosh, no. Had it in mind for years. But . ." He hesitated, diffident; a thing so for- eign to his usual brazen assurance as to seem histrionic. "But the fact is I was a -waiting for, for you!" She was once more aware how very real his infatuation. "I just had t'have a dame for this stunt," he went on passionately. "A real dame, a sure enough queen. And then I meets' you, The very first urged the men to work, watch I sees y'got the shape for it. And when y'lets out about pirate blood, I knows y'got the heart for it. 'Cause yer talk's on the square; more on the square than you yersielf real.- izes." The girl was increasingly under - whirled away,. The sailing canoes in which the Polynesian navigators of a bygone day covered the Pacific were cata- marans. The explorers built two hulls, so narrow that neither, by it- self, woad float. But when the two were fixed, perhaps ten feet apart, by timbers laslied athwart their gunwal- es amidships, the double canoe be- came staunch enough—through boast - in;; in all its parts no nail or bolt or civet, its 'joints held by nothing stronger than breadfruit . gum and twists of cord, its sails no more ,sub- .tantial than plaited leaf, to traffic all away and across the broad :I'ac ific. It was '1 hurston's idea now that, placing his ' four separately worthless boats in tandem, two on each side, he could lash •them under a frame- work of the lighter spars into a' ma- chine which would carry, a consider- able spread of sail. , "If those old cataranians could hold together for a thousand miles,''" he explained, "ours ought to make the next island." , Work had been going on perhaps an hour when , he appeared for the first time: to beeoine aware of Van Buren Rutger's drooping figure. John had completely forgotten the other man, "on icted, h . n man, G v e ran over to hilts, But Thurston '0tf'ftt .ted act exle p explen- . Staring, she saw that it was a knife. As the schooner listed, the metal gleamed once, again in answer to the larnp, announced. We're ready." standing how irrevocably, on the Rainbow, he had been misled by her caprice. Listening at first 'in a pleas- ed surprise, he had eagerly self -de- ceived. Sure that the lawless strain, persisting through environment, had at last roused, he was now convinced she was already in love with the life he typified—though she herself did not as yet perceive the fact—and that, in the glamour this life cast upon himself, she would in time willingly come to be his own. e at "And, girl," Ponape 'Burke was shouting, "there never, never was no catamaran King had such a Queen' as you. Yet was drifting, dismasted. hair!" He exulted in thewonder of And Van Buren Rutger's the fault. it, "That's how y'bcat 'em all. For He had been given the steering oar.. didn't I tell y' the Tanna-men saw But, sunk in dejection,' he had m a red? --grabbed at red calico, smeared, moment of inattention, allowed the their faces bright and gay, rouged up too -heavy borne to gybe, carrying the, ,lead warrior gaudy t'ineet his awaythe improvised tackle,' and maker, wound their heads all over snatch the mast overboard. As a re -with led vitt, t'cover' the wool? silt Burke's rotten boat had fetched free of its lashings and the raft' "Don't y'understand? That'swhat raft f.lt.;aed a wreck, I was waiting on, The queen .o' tny Doomed never to rescue Palmyra devil's own mission had t'have red from the villain. Burke, John Thurs- hair, And, Palle, theta Tannamen'11 ton had yet gladly' staked life itself go plumb crazy with pions pagan joy upon' a thousandth chance, when they sees yer lodes a, -lighting The Pigeon n _ up, as the null hits 'ern, like a stove T cl tg o of Noah was flying in ft111;o' coals bursting into flame, Hair, to the unknown. a7 +, t,The face of the pian Burke was a I tell you, ,same as that o' some a' thing „ the big buck gods o' .Melanesia them.- t g to wonder at. trader the ex altation of a master idea it had grown selves. Yes, 1 say it girl—heathen strange, compelling, :His eyes gleam- hairy ed, his tongue storttbled in its eager "Why, Palm, I wish t'thc ford yy aces. Pirr the first tune in life he could see yerself, I wishy 'could'an- was to voice that which long had hid- derstaud yourself, Y'was plaid born den in his evil triad. What had been for the life. When I've waked y'up only a vision on cif power was now to you'll be eager for Tanna: for Telma, become an actuality. And so mach, where a lean can be a man; where so very clutch, depended on `kindling there's never a law but the law a'. Van roused but slowly; then turn- ed upon the stronger man in a futile rage at circumstance. "Damn you," he cried, "I'd rather stay here and die like a gentleman—clean and dry, But a moment later he sprang :up with his old laugh. "After ail, it's got to be the fish or the birds. I'm a brav- er man than you, you optimistic ass, because I know . . . ," He did not finish his'thought. "Colne on. Let's get it over," Twenty minutes later they we sea. Twenty hours later the the cookpot and the sun :and the wind—and the will o' you and me," Ponape Burke did a jig step or two across the deck. "Say, Palm, girl," he exclaimed, "say—you and yer heathen ' hair! ]Did I, or did T not, mention' as how I was going t'make y'a real sure - enough queen? It was Burke's continuing delight in her every show of angry Spirit, his, self -restraining senseof competence to bring the comedy to an end at any moment he chose, that most intimi, dated Palmyra. "Wait 'till I've tamed you," he would laugh. `Then we'll get along fine. And you'll sure like Tanna when y'get the taste 0' power in yer pretty mouth. Only once had he laid a hand on her, That was when, in a fury, she • had flown at him, clawing his face. He had held her away, loudly hilar- ious. "I'd steal a kiss," he cried, "if 'twasn't was for my sore arm. But, no .. . , I can wait till y'come free, poking out yer lips and begging ine t'take a smack, 'Twont be long." Nor washer situation hade easier by Burke's evil sense of humor, Pos- sibly to hasten her surrender, more probably in a mere cruel amusement, it played upon her fears. There was, for instance, the oc- casion when Olive, for the first time aboard the Pigeon of Noah, spoke' to her. Had it not been for those brown shot eyes, always so stealthily upon her, , she would sometimes have thought of this savage as a machine. There was a sort of unhuinan pre- cision about him. And now, in this wise, the moment Burke had gone below the brown man materialized himself at her side. She was never prepared for the ex- ceeding change from 'his statuesque silence into the gesticular animation of his speech. He had opened his mouth, apparently forgetting as on the Rainbow that they knew no word in common. Then, realizing, he stopped at a loss. The girl shrang back: fled, in panic at the very nearness of him, toward the companionway. But there she recollected that Burke was at the foot of the ladder, and stood helpless, Then the white man came climbing up. "Y' little vixen," he warned in la malicious enjoyment of the situa- tion, "pushsue overboard . He interrupted himself with a burst of laughter. "Gad," he cried, "but I'd hate t' give y'the chance! Push the overboard, and I'm gone. But—Ol- ive's left. Remember that• I'm what stands between you. T ain't a -saying as how he'd love a red-headed god- dess all his own. Oh, no! But I do see he's got his eye on y'like a wolf following a nice fat little lamb off into the timber.". The girl shuddered. Burke or 01- ive? White savage or brown. A cry of despair rose to 'her lips but she fought it back. Her hand stole up toward the opening of her dress, lingered, fell again to her side. Since that' event—it was now her third day aboard the Lupe-a-Noa— she had been wondering whether ohere ig brie ca.use of "LINE'S BUSY" s •, time wasted ANYONE trying to call tlxis telephone will be Imo, toldby the operator: "Line's Busy". But the line is not busy. It is really idle. Someone at the other end of the office is wanted and the telephone waits there until he arrives. The idle telephone, with its receiver off the hook,' is a common cause of "Line's Busy", and a com- mon cause of uncompleted calls which are wast- ing two - million minutes every day in Ontario and Quebec. Other causes of unnecessary "Line's Busy" are inadequate office equipment, .long conversations during peak hours, trying to repeat too 'soon after the "busy" report, and asking an- other to get your party for you. Many offices may not need more telephones, but• they do need to have their present telephones• more conveniently located. You may be losing call's because your line is thus "Busy" but really. idle. And you may be losing business. ' We want you, to have the best possible telephone service and we are making every effort to provide it.* We are ready at any time to survey your telephone equipment and submit a report. *New telephone plant and service improvements will mean an outlay, for 1929 alone, of more than $27,000,000. • Ponape Burke really did stand be- tween her and his man. She had not forgotten Burke's sayings that Olive, if he knew his power, could snap his master's back across one of those big brown knees like a piece of kind- ling. And she suspected at times that Olive might know this quite well. The day, with the disconcerting suddenness of the Equator, had fad- ed and darkness would soon have been upon them. Burke had waved a hand toward the cabin with kingly gesture. "The royal chamber awaits Queenie, he had said. "Hot as hell down there and you'll soon be squawking. for a hammock on deck. But tonight . . . There's a lock." 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