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WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE
Palmyra. Tree, aboard the yacht
Rainbow, is startled by seeing a hand
thrust through the port of her cabin.
She makes a secret investigation and
discovers a stowaway. She is disap-
pointed in his mild appearance and,
tells him so. ,Obeying his command
to glance at the door—she sees a
huge, fierce, copper -hued man—with a
ten inch knife held between grinning
lips! Burke, the stowaway, explains
that it is a joke. But Palinyra is
shaken. Next day, Burke and the
brown plan go -op, on deck. The
stowaway entertains them with wild
tales of an adventuresome life -which,
his listeners refuse to believe!
Palmyra spends more and more
time with the stowaways to avoid
John and Van, but when the stow-
aways are put ashore• at Honolulu
she decides she loves Van. The
night the engagement is announced
the Rainbow hits a ,,+reef. In the ex-
citement which follows John rescues
both Van and Palmyra—but Palmyra
thinks it is Van who saved her.
After three days spent on the un-
inhabited island, a sail is sighted. It
proves to be Ponape Burke! Burke
contrives to get Palmyra on board I
his boat alone—and the boat is un-'
der way before anything can be done!
the extended his arm; the island was
]located; there.ahead and somewhere,
unseen to starboard, Then he flat-
tened out his palmi horizontally, laid
his cheek upon it, attempted an ex-
planation with his hands, closed his
eyes and began to snore.
Soon would this nightmare of
wind and sea be ended, Soon would
she be liberated. from this rack of
torture. She could throw herself
down in never -waking slumber. •
Her hand stole toward the open-
ing of her .dress and her fingers
closed, caressingly, over the handle
of the knife hidden there. For Olive
had given it back,
The topmasts of the Pigeon of
Noah appeared. Olive snatched down
sail and mast. He lashed them flat.
With a glance he assured himselfev-
erything aboard was secure. Then,
paddle in hand, he kept their craft
to the hollow of the seas.
But on, on carne the topmasts, the
topsails, rising against the sky. The
girl gasped in terror, On came the
sails, on and on, nearer and nearer,
taller and more definite—more great-
ly to be dreaded.
And then, in this awful moment,
without word of warning, Olive
sprang overboard. Palmyra uttered
a wail. After all he had braved, to
forsake her now? To seek his own
the knife. He snatched it: dived:
Just as the pian -eater made to seize
its prey, Olive dropped below the sur-
face. .The heavy fish had no chance
to stop. As it swept over his head
the savage thrust upward with the
knife in a lunge that reached, the
heart. . ^a u:r.
Olive did not. waste time over the
adventure of the shark. He had kill-
ed sharks before.
Throwing the canoe into its course,
he .sailed for the island.
For an interval they went on, be-
fore it became evident that Ponape
Burke had made them out.
Presently the schooner was . so
close Palmyra could make out Pon-
ape Burke on its deck, covering them
with his glasses.
The reef wall was now so imme-
diately at hand she could see that this
rim, by reason of the coral broken
off and packed down by the trample
of the surf, was Higher than the rest
of the reef behind, the surface or
reef -table, which outstretched inland
to the beach. The barrier was ar-
mored in brown knobs of living coral,
with their toothed faces like a giant
nutmeg grater against which the sea
could grind the. canoe into splinters.
And now, as the girl looked, Olive
dug his paddle in, put all his weight
upon it. The craft veered and took a
A �
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1 , . With a stroke 'the savage reached out and caught her by the hair, ,•
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`iThurstoti is frantic and plans to save safety in. flight? No! It was tin- new cense—straight for the reef.
Palmyra, although there seems no thinkable! Palmyra sat stunned. She had hoped
possible way. Meanwhile Ponape And scarcely the unworthy against hope that she was wrong
tells, Palmyra he is going to the Isle thought, than the brown man's hand that he' still saw a way. But here was
surrender. Even for such a one there
could be no further shift.
Scarcely had the canoe changed its
course than the Pigeon of Noah also
swung in toward the reef. Palmyra
could see Ponape Burke waving his
arms, shouting orders. She gave one
shuddering glance at the cauldron
ahead, then back to the white man
The race was run.
And even now, in confirmation, 01
ive sprang up, let go the sheet, slash-
ed the cords that held the mast
whipped the whole gear overboard.
trot its motion. The• other arm held But immediately, to her bewilder -
the girl -submerged, so that she chole- went, he seized the paddle again
ed and fought for breath. plunged it into the water, began to
On, on the L upc-a-Noa indeed had speed toward the barrier.
come, nearer and nearer—but not too The roar of the surf—most fright -
tear, Careening udder its spread of fu1 of sounds—deafened her. But as
He divined her meaning, grimaced sail it had been unbelievably close she clung desperately to her place
back reassuringly. A moment later and then, all unknowing, had flown staring ahead into the tiunolt of wa-
he was once more crouched, holding away, Ponape .Burke, with his binoc- ters—she could smile. If Olive chose
to the lava floor, ulars, had glared straight over them death to defeat, so could she, But,
For an interval the bubbles carne in his scrutiny of the more distant such her faith, she felt that, impos-
sea. sible as it seemed, he must still think
He .placed the girl's lauds on the to escape.
now buoyant canoe, returned its hear, Now, as her navigator began to
lifted himself up and in. He hacl calculate the seas, to hold the canoe
stooped for the more difficult feat back at times, Palmyra saw there was
and stared at the cocoanut bottle that of hauling Palmyra aboard when, a sligh trecessioin shoreward in the
had brought tragedy so 'near. Olive, startlingly, he let go his hold with a line of the reef. It swung in at this
annuscd, presently picked it up and guttural cry. . point just sufficiently to create a lee.
offered it. When she did not res- ` She turned frightened eyes over The stu•f did not burst upon it with
pond, he raised the shell above his her shoulder, then screamed, For the direct drive of the wind, and, pro -
mouth, tilted it until the contents there, cutting the surface, a little jet tected through most of the year from
spirtedotthiti nd liedcl }ansof spray rising; from its edge, was an- the sweep of the trades, not so Much
' s,hysterically. He other sail—the dreadful lateen of a broken coral had been packed down
had filled the thing at the bottom of shark! here and the rim was lower. to a
the ocean a hundred feet front land, The man-eater was almost upon flash she perceived that he must have
Vet now are drank. her. Fi'intic,•site turned het eyes to had this place in mind from the first;
She took the sphere when he of- (alive. There he stood, for the first that; the tide in their favor, it might
fere e`s it r},rain rand tasted expel -Mien- time at fault, His hand, with light- be possible, in sufficiently skilled
hands,
to hurdle the reef. '
There was, just`, one phase in the
rhytlun, of the surf when he could
succeed. He roust catch the Moment
when thc,wave had crashed down up-
on the coral teeth; when the violence
of the impact had abated, but not one
second of , the precious after inrush
had been lost. • roe, if that had not
tarried him far enough,he would be
caught by the recoil to follow, when
on the .shark's back. The impact the water flung upon the reef poured
threw the monster into brief panic, back' into the ocean,
She tore at her dressy thrust out Olive paddled furiously. to get far
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of fauna with her. Burke has to put shot up, seized the outrigger, gave
her ashore on an island, as a Japan- one twist. The neat second Palnr'yra
ese man-of-war is sighted and it was floundering in the water, the
would be dangerous to have her canoe capsized.
aboard. Olive swims to the island With a stroke the savage reached
and joins Palmyra. She is in fear of put and caught her by the hair, As
the brown man. a kitten held in its mother's. teeth,
Olive and Palmyra swim to anoth- she ceased to struggle. With anoth`
er island, from which Palmyra sec- er stroke he recaptured the canoe,
retly sends a note for aid. Burke's bottom up. He put his foot on the
ship approaches the island. outrigger, tilted.'the hull so the hu -
Palmyra anl_ Olive sail in a canoe, prisoned air escaped. With one arum
evading both Ponape's ship and the he bore clown upon the canoe, their
Japanese Gunboat Okyarna, which combined weight, to sink it and cont
has her friends on it. Olive • risks
his life to get water for Palmyra.
Now read on—
CHAPTER X
flying up, Then the man followed.
He placed the shell'in the canoe, Iift-
ed himself aboard, scarcely listed the
frail craft from an even keel.
The girl, still dizzy with shock, sat
Wingham tally; savert, fresh water; clear, cold ning instinct, had flown to the sheath
as from a spring, of his belt, found it empty. The girl
The girl drank deeply, '.Then hold- saw that: in throwing , , t rowrin�, hiS knife away,
ing the shell upon her knees, she 'sat she had made her own death certain
for a long time, looking covertly at But, instantly now, the
savage raI
this brown being. lied, Only for a second slidaralyz-
p y
He had all but given life itself that ing discovery unnerve him. Tho
she might have the water she craved. shark had all but seized its victim.
And he would have given life it- A moment and action would be too
scif had she taken his •knife and not late, But in that flash of time the
granted her own, scan leaped, landed with his feet u -
p
He would be—dead.!
The brown. ti r
man n loi
1 ted. to the
sand in the canoe—an island, Then
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enough in` so that the back -sweep
could not grip them, drag them down
to' destruction. Nearly he had sue-
ceecled. But, the recoil haying drain-
ed the coral almost bare, the outrig-
ger struck a knob of the limestone,
broke from the canoe.
Instantly the man leaped out,
caught the girt up in his arms, He.
sprang upon a .coral boulder that
raised thein above the sliding water.
The canoe sucked back over the
brink, but Olive held.
The moment the' downrush ended,
he raced with his burden, bounding,
over the rough coral, until he had
reached • another knob rising, above
the level, perhaps fifty feet in from
the edge. Here they weathered the
next sea and its subsequent iretreat.
Another dash across- the 'shallows
and they were safe from the ocean.
But not as yet from Ponape Btirke,
As the brown man carried Palmy-
ra, her face, over his shoulder, was
urned toward the Lupe-a-Noa, The
girlsaw that the schooner, beaten at
last, had gt, ie about and was work-
ing back out of danger. She saw that
they white man had clambered part
way up the rigging. And then she
gave a• warning cry as, from the
shrouds, there flashed out a spurt of
flame.
Tnstantly, Olive, understanding
threw himself flat into the three-foot
water. A bullet came cutting along
the surface 'almost where they had.
stood.
Olive 'leaping up, sprang with the
girl behind another boulder in time
to escape a second bullet. •
Several shots Ponape, Burke fired
in his jealous rage, though now h.e
had no farget, Then, the Pigeon of
Noah gaining way, drew off, and the
pursuit, in this phase at any rate, was
ended.
(Continued next week)
DURHAM MAN' GETS
LONG PRISON TERM
Wm, Wiggins, well-known resident
of ' Durham, was sentenced to five
years on each charge of aiding and
abetting an abortion, while Cyril
Hewitt, also of Durham, was sentenc-
ed to one year and 18 months on sim-
ilar charges. These sentences in each
case are to run concurrently. The
sentences were banded out Wednes-
day at Owen Sound i;i Magistrate
.`licrcman's court.
On Nov. 9th last, Provincial Offic-
ials Nelson of Walkerton, NlcClevis
of Hanover," and Denton of ' Owen
Sound, visited the home of Wiggins,
in Durham, which had been under ob-
servation for some time and upon en-
tering, after witnessing a young cou-
ple being admitted, they found Wig -
it one
slips
the call fails.
THERE are three people to every -telephone
call. If any one of them makes a mistake thei
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 fail—"Line's Busy"
—"No Answer"—"No one on the lime now, sir"—
"Wrong
ir -"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 aredue to our own errors, and many of
them are due to lack of co-operation by the other
two parties.
*We are constantly reducing our own errors
and we are constantly striving' to give the best
possible telephone service at lowest possible cost. •
As part of this effort we are no'w 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.
man of that district Hewitt, the
fiancee of the young woman who was
in the house, was taken in charge
along with Wiggins and escorted to
the Gwen Sound jail.
The only evidence taken was that
of Hewitt and Provincial Officer Nel-
son.
Wiggins at first pleaded not guilty
and elected trial by judge and jury,
but later with the permission of the
court, he pleaded guilty to both the
charges, after electing to be tried by
magistrate.
LANES
Misses Myrtle Johnston, Melda and
Winnie Lane and Elsie Vint of L. C.
I. spent this week -end at their res -
gins almost in the very act of com pective homes here.
mitting an abortion on a young wo- l Miss Lena Hackett spent the week-
end at her home here.
Mrs. Wm. Hasty has returned to•
her daughter, Mr. Wm. Alton of here
after spending a few days with her -
relatives at Crew.
Mr. and Mrs. James Culbert and:
family, who lived near here, and are,
well known by all of this, vicinity,.
have moved to Lucknow. They will
be missed bay their many friends,
Mr. Elmer Alton, who some time
ago had the misfortune to break his,
arm, had a sale of his stock and some
implements on Wednesday last, which
despite the cold weather, was very/ -
successful..
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Alton spent
Saturday with the latter's mother„
Mrs. Max Raynard of Lucknow.
Guelph Winter Fair—December 9th
to 12th.
Winter No Bar to Golf in Canada
Photograph taken Februas-y 14, 1928, of the course on whsch the contest is pled, with allery
watching players. Lower lett---Teciaty. off—player weaning Light clothes shows milkiness of climate in'
Fcbruwrp at Victoria. Lower right—E. W. Beatty Challenge Cup With miniature reproductions' of the
cup for the winn"ors 4n men and women competitions.
The process of snatching the laurels from the
brows of California is going right on in Canada.
"Our Lady of the Snows" is belying her name in the
mild climate of Vancouver Island, British •Columbia.
Announcement has been made recently that the
second annual Empress Rotel mid -winter golf tour-
nament
ournament at the Conwood course, Victoria, will be held
from February 17 to 23 inelusivb, a time when the
eountrywnorth of the 49th paralle'i is ,popularly sup-
posed to be feet deep in snow. Photographs included!
in above1ay-out will show this popular belief to be
tallaey as far as the Victoria course is concerned.
The mid -winter tournainent was placed in
Canadian sport calendar February under. the
r.
the,
auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway and proved::
a great success. The Victoria fixture is a purely
amateur affair, handicap, of course, open to men
and worrier', 'competing in their own seetions, Th •
tnittin trophy is the E. W. Beatty challenge t
$' cup, at
present held by T. L. Swan and MVfrs. Hew Paterson,
of Victoria, although a large list of other prises is
being posted. The competition is open to all Victoria.
clubs and also to any visitors in that city, and itt
Viewof the size of the entry listall links in they
vicinity of the cit'y Will he pressed into service,