The Wingham Advance Times, 1929-12-26, Page 6•
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at reasonable
ABNER COSENS, Agent,
BEFORE depended on her caution.
The brown Dian opened hie mouth
and spoke aloud in his native tongue
—direct to Martin.
Olive's expression was that of for -
rad
vial politeness. But, though hc, i
seemed to address the white man, he
had not done so. What he bad said
was this:
"Men of the village of Tanapai,
listen here unto me. The high lady
Palmtree shall be saved. I speak the
way.'
, Olive was continuing in the tones
`of courtesy, looking at Martin but
speaking direct to the villagers. In
a sentence he appealed to their cup-
idity, to their fear of the Japanese:
Then, without alteration of voice or
manner, he added for the interpreter:
l"Make words, make words unto him.
3 Anything — that shall mean nothing
:and have a pleasant sound."
The interpreter had got the idea.
Out came a flood of compliment to
:which the white man made crude re -
!sponse, condescendingly amiable,
And so, under the very nose of the
!unsuspecting Martin, almost within
`hearing of Burke, Olive worked out
!his attack,
And Ponape Burke himself gave
the burden was hurled from -his arms
to the ground. But he slid not pause.
Wingham TWO of the sailors, flanking along.
Palmyra Tree, aboard the yacht
the beach, sprang upon him. Others
joined ie. A struggle, and he Was.
held.
Ponape Burke had remained at his
post, .an amused spectator. Now,
however, when the girl on the
ground did not stir after her fall, he
ran toward her,'
"Palm," he plied; "Palmic, ate te
hurt?"
Another hundred feet and he stop-
ped. Bewilderment turned into rage.
For lying there in the bat, veil,
and raincoat was no Path -lyre Tree.
It was a,roast pig.
Ponape Burke turned a savage face
from this greasy pork to the Tuan
who had tricked him—his prisoner.
Then an oath and a laugh struggled
for simultaneous expression. For,
there:: bloody, desperate, stood the
brown: man Olive.
The !white man's features were con-
torted. "Where is she?" he demand-
ed.
Oil -re clamped his lips shut.
It had been Burke's sudden descent
i upon the four houses which precipi-
itated catastrophe, The villagers,
!contrives to get Palmyra on boar the signal. Springing up now, he 1grown overconfident, had thought h
. 'Sd . COLBORNE, ltl
palled at Burke's eager, And he saw
Ghat his own people wavered. At
last, therefore, he raised a trembling
finger, pointed toward a °group of
thatches,
The boy haltingly' brought Ponape
Burke to a hut, "In there,"'he
whimpered,
Burke sprang, under, dragged his
guide with him, The house had been
searched before. It was empty .now.
The man's scrutiny took' in every
detail. Then he turned and the boy
was In real clanger. Savage irrita-
tion had all but overborne any sense
of consequence.
Suddenly Burke's eyes opened
wide, lie leaped to the center of the
house,stared up at the bundles of
Rainbow, is startled by seeing a hand
-. f e in' Chisholm Block thrust through the port of her cabin.
ftc,
O5h mal,,e, a secret investigation
e and
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND discovers a stowaway. She is disap
._ 131±,ALTH INSURANCE pointed in his mild appearance and
AND REM, ESTATE tells hint so. Obeying his cornmand
P. 0. Box 360 Phone 240 to glance at the door—she sees a
*XNCHAIYI, ONTARIO huge, fierce, copper -hued ratan--witha
ten inch knife held between grinning
' fips1 Burke, the stowaway, explains
Barr -ester, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.that it is a joke. But Palmyra is
Money tO Loan
shaken• Next day, Burke and the
Yf€ioe—Meyer Block, a'ingltastt brown ratan go up on deck. The
Successor to Dudley Holmes
stowaway entertains them with vt%lid
R. VANSTONE his listeners refuse to believe!
( BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Palmyra spends mere and more
Money to Loan at lowest Rates I tune with the stowaways to avoid
Wingham, Ontario
J. A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Ingham, Ontario
J. W. B.USHFIELD
'tales of an adventuresome life—which
DR. G. H. ROSS
DENTIST
Office Over l-ard's Store
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
be Ponape Burke! Burke
pr Dt•e to
di
Paintyra'.s lira}n' flew hnrmlossly in-
to space,
The islander, by a supreme effort,
snapped his bind.ngs, He seized. the
other. ,:fie:i:rushed•Ius master to burr
like a gorilla hitt the hand that held
the revolvei vvas-::yet, for the it -W-
illem, free. It flashed iu, the ittitzrle
pressed against' Olive's side. The
hand; ,tipt:led cony, uls}vely, forced
the hammer ep toward ,its fatal blow,.
Bet note,, astcinisltiutly, all inoire-
mettt Ceased,
Firing; from a distance, someone
lead drilled Ponape Burke through his
evil heart,
Bet,, alas, the steel btillet•had not
stopiied, its work performed. It had
crashed on through the body. of the
stiff bark cloth, gave one a prod with heroic brown Dian who fought for her.
the revolver: 'Che girl shrieked out, fell faint-
.
From within there can a tiltsp of ing. there
la
• !!free ,
S t
• these y .
It it as
l e. ,
And then,
Iltain. ,
Peliuyia Tree had lost the bitter
fight. Ponape Burke at ,last had won.
"Y'shall see Olive hanged," he
,
said. "And then, whether or no, y'
shall go t'Tanna."
He dragged her toward the tree, girl up in his arms.
the native following', tongues a -clic!: When Palmyra Tree at last'open
the traitorous bog a- ed her eyes, she gazed up at John
against teeth;
Thurston fora bewildered moment.
Side by side two bodies lay.
Palmyra snatched . herself back
from John as if his touch had burn-
ed„ '"And it was you," she cried, rig-
id. in horror, "you who fired? Oh,"
she wailed, "I cannot, cannot bear.
that it should have been you—you
who killed Otive."
":Buts "Oh, no, no, no, lady," the
surgeon interrupted in eager 'reassure
once. "This native ,•Dara is not dead."'
She looked at that form,in ,shudder
ing question.
"Bullet knocked !rim out.a little,"
explained the officer, "but it hit fro-_
thing to make this big man trouble.
He'will be something like when the
prizefighter gets knocked to sleep on
the jaw•"
At his first sentence Palntyra's lips.
had parted ina gasp of relief. Now,
in the reaction, she wavered, closed
her eyes dizzily, put out toward
Thurston a groping hand. •
John caught her to him once Mote
to uphold her. His heart was aflame
bristled. . with the knowledge that that path
While the others ' ran, 1:'onape etic blind groping had been for him.
Berke was carried only a step or two With her face upturned to his, ap-
by the animal instinct of self-preser- pealing,•close, Thurston, in that great
vation. Then he sio.ppc;d, started on, yearning 5o long denied, could not
,urned back
Thursday, D
t
r his boat alone—and the boat is un -!bast -led across to his mate: "Ahoy—would not look there again: Oliv
Physician and Surgeon
g C g `der way before enr�thing can be done! ,alloy
there! Haven't them dam' kan-!having seen the tnessenger from t
Medical Representative D. Tnurst+�n is frantic and plans to sat e
Successor to _ Dr. w. R. Hatable,
Palmyra, although there seems no
Phone of Wingham
possible way. _Meanwhile Ponape
DR. ROB,.,. C. REDMOND tells Palmyra he i= going to the Isle'
of Taunts With her. Burke has to put
C S (ENG.) L R C.P_ (Load) l:er ashore on an island, as a Japan -
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ese man-of-war is sighted and it
would he dangerous to have her
• aboard. Olive swims to the island
'and gins Palmyra. She is in fear of
- •
Graduate of University of Toronto, ' else br _>twn :pan.
Faculty of Medt: ine; Licentiate of the Ohre , - - ar d Palmyra swim to anotlr
Ontario College of Physicians and ,
Surgeons. er island. from which Palmyra ra sec -
Office in Chisholm Block retly sends a note for aid. Burke's '
Josephine Street. Phone 29 ship approaches rhe island. ,
Feline -re and Olive sail in a canoe,
evading both Ponape's ship and the
j�R. 1G"y.W. Qr JapaSON iaese i unboat Okyama, which ,
. -�• °R DENTIST }has her friends on it. Olive risks
Office over John Galbraith's Store, . his life to get water for Palmyra.
OfTZ ; Ponape Burke makes desperate pur-
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Sundays by appointment.
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steop
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A. R. & F. E. DUVAL
Licensed Drugless Practitioners
Chiropractic and Electro Therapy.
Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic
College, Toronto, and National Col-
lege, Chicago.
Out of town and ui sb; calls res-
tortdded. to. It busl.
s confidentia
Ph 601-13.
J. ALVIN FOX
Registered Dru:sle e Pract1tti ea
CHIROPRACTIC AND
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ELECTRO -THERAPY
Hours: 2-7, 7-8. -r .9
appointment.
J. D. McEWEN
LICENSER AUCTIONEEk
Phone 61)2r14.
.. Olive was writhing to sunder the
bound his arms.
suit of Olive and Palmyra even op- ;
sennit cords which
e
e,
he
And '$a it was t
commonly called . C�llive,
no language Attune to civilize
who arts fat peak with his fingers
and anoints himself eopioesly with
scented cocaantlt oil and tumeric,,
stood nit with John Thurston, the
einbodiment of civilization ,et its fin-
est
Thurston could not give his best..
saran a stick pin for Olive seldom if
ever wears a shirt,
But he could see that the islander
got I'otiape l3urlce's swift schooners a`
the Lupe-a-Noa, trusteed for the
brown man's protection by the Atn-
ez:ican mission and the Japanese navy,
and manned by an already eager and:
worshipping crew,
THE END
came a sound of hoofs, and a muddy
'Folin-flecl.ed horse plunged up the
village path with John Thurston,
He sprang from his saddle, flung
aside the gun, caught the unconscious'
head, self-important, unscourged by
any sense of guilt.
At the tree Olive stood among un-
easy guards, hands bound behind
him, feet loosely, tied, neosing hemp
drawn taut .across its limb..
'iltook at him—yer.•rope round his
neck," Burke reproached. "Waiting,'
poor sucker, for y't'set him free. This
here kanaka was good enough t'die'
for you, But when it comes yer
turn?" He laughed with brutal in-
sinuation.
She could Scarcely form the sounds,
But at last she gasped out` "Let—
him—go." '
Olive knew not the words but he
knew their meaning. "Never!" he.
cried. "Tell •her—tell her she shall
not give. herself for nee,
At this moment, however, there
rose from the outskirts of the crowd
a startling' warning. "Zapanee . .
Zapanee, he comet"
d.3urke, with an oath, snatched up
his binoculars, Three boats from the
ening fire on them, iakas got the Pigeon out yet? Give 'Pigeon of Noah; had assumed erron-
Olive p=rises a friend He brings la hail the moment y'sight her. These eously that the .schooner was
d
rel y,
„girl
seizingthe now,
Palmyra back among her people on 'Japs is maybe up !'something. !that Ponape, gz
'an island. But there she soon falls: He levelled his binoculars again !could sail at once. In desperation
into the hands of Burke's accomplic- upon the gunboat.. Martin reached the brown man had snatched up the
es. and Thurston and Van are seek- .for his own, bent them upon that spot ;hat, veil and raincoat; thrown' these
in her. Now read on—
Sales of Farm Stock .and' dnpie
.rents, Real Ectatrr etc., eonducted
with satisfaction and -eediel ,
charges.
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
.A thorough lir lee ie dl r.:.2 j''e:9'417
Iphr,.:s '2�i, 1 1 ih•.srn
RICHARD B. JACKSON
AUCTIONEER
Phones 913xft, $.+a'om:ter, xar
Okayama were already close. Rifles
where the Lupe-a-Noa's tat -masts (about the pig—cooked to send to the
'must emerge from behind the taller j feast down the coast.
CHAPTER XIII : trees. 1 • Running toward. the Mute rend , of
For perhaps forty seconds both ithe islet he had hoped to draw off
«,ken ':;f the brown , men were absorbed. Burke and the crew, so the villagers'
Burke had p
mart's arreet. i
Then Martin„ still seated, his could rush Palmyra shoreward to
Meanwhile-.. Olive had tired of his lhhaulder against the, girl's support, 4safety. He would hold the pursuit
nforced bath. 'lowered his glasses, turned his head, Eby carrying the pig into the sea; per -
Slowly Olive Began tri mauve ito speak to her. haps himself escape if Ponape feared
draserietre;am. Scarcely did the leaves; But Palmyra was gone! ithe sound of firing. But one misstep,
hat hid his Bird ern to stir as they At Borkes order the crew, 'load- ;and he had been caught before there
resist; would,despite the grinning
Horror sat upon that visage; ludi- audience, have kissed her again and
crous, yet doubly intense by•the very again:
inadequacy of its expression.
He 'snatched ` forth the revolvers.
He could battle for her. Yes, kill
half a dozen of those Japs. But—
to what avail? Fighting or no, he'd
lose her.
"I can't go on without you," he
burst forth, "and they won't let me
go on with you. But if I can't live
I can die with you"
t - 'ted the bank, blending, with the :ing rifles, began to go through the !was time to get the girl away.
.a ee the background. Past Sen' thatches. Fortunately for Olive, I Hence it was that she herself, peer..
try Number (me. past Number Two. ,Ponape remained in the open, bawl ing tensity out,, saw Olive led to the
i isaals a friendly turn of the course, •ing out commands and imprecations. !mai tree, his wrists bound behind
and h,: e'•uld rise. drippin r, and run The search, unsystematic, was still !him.
far the :meu--;,toted xnati;. rf,ae trail• sincere:, for, though some of the i - She saw the master in vehement
is•,ttin-' through ticnuc, he had brown seamen grinned behind the !demandand
for hti surrender; der-
Oli
e
I
'eared the outlander village. Then,,whitc: men's backs, none would have�his head in defiance.
hi
r" his him name, he stripped, whirl- :dared pass the girl by. Yet the qutst The villagers, crowding round
l around. enrcnintei":d one Taruk','covered the islet without result. lilurke's guards, waited in consterita
member r of Ponape Burke's crew. It was when Ponape Burke had tion. «
:Tarot.: znilix�. affably, emerged from stopped; completely at te loss, that a Ponape turned to them. If you
„
• r• i s
eak,
' mai 1 fc
� his s
a e t
tier: tltir'1.�:.t and the: two sliucilti,ltands. � messenger came running from the ,t\
'Quid v p
tthr<.-lif.l,t:d into that h„u'e third Lupe•ct-:tion. The schooner could not 1 13ut Olive, pale yet unflinching, be -
dm }{itid'- end. He tea111•hed, the be got out. Diving, the natives had sought their silence:
•_n rat ,ur,port: hiding his face:.' r1 ;found under her nose two of the long They would have been glad to have
o 1 „tic : ebetwed the tide was moving;' hexog+,nal, rocks from the ancient this white woman off their hands and
ens. a: ,uh3 net reinforce-'rvalI 'Olive free, The' Japanese could not
d
:'rt .. He: would have been -aghast to punish their yielding to force, They
r tep,aits•, Paint:era still leaned a- ; know that John Theneeton had die- wished to yield—but the will of this
'c" ,r. 'Martin behind her, covered rite vessel; hail reached her one being held theta fast,
ire -t the past,
a• eeated natives lit. front. 'befrire the working party and while Unnoticed, a boy had wormed hi-
Thee
i-
' "t .. Olive, 'akin all on Burke'i= herr watchman was irrc'pott:zibly ab- , to the crowd, a bit of paper folded
!.epi i It Ismail in his !rand, • His tu.r.ose'was
<.g,.r,rr,tis,sa, strolled out from shelter, !sent; had, in ibe brief interval af- t.' � 1 p
r;c: azcnly; int{:, the eyes of fire ifurclecl, made gond use of his .engin. to toss the note ser 'I ona,pe should
,tar cl brR• y
_t.d;rtlel entered that ;leis .,f hiring skill, With a block .and tacit- get it, yet not know whence it came.
.nirv, c.t it . ,
But' commander Sakmoto, of an ev-
er tactful race, was quick with a com-
mand which forced his unwilling, men
to the right -about; Then chased the
giggling villagers home with the
sword of a samurai. -
A burial detail had carried Ponape
Burke forever away; Ponape, who
had staked all—and lost all.
"And when," demanded John of
He broke into the old laugh. Palmyra on the third day after; "and
theweddingbe?"
n e when
shall
frantic is lac
onea
as g
The boats,
"The wedding," ordained this girl,
"must take place before we leave , the
Olive remained; boutid hand and foot, !island. I insist, for one thing, des -
the rope from the noose dragging pite your protest, because I think I
across the limb above. i should always now be a little afraid
Olive 'was writhing to sunder the —alone, But the real reason--" her
r which bound his arms. voice vibrated with feeling—"is that
sennit cords
Olive—blood dripping from. wrists ithen Olive, who saved me for you,
torn in his struggle—hurled himself who made it possible,, for nee to on-
h madman, The cones- 1,derstand, to realize my own true
against the
sion of his bulk three Ponape back. love: that then. Olive can be your—
I ,,
The bullet which would have pierced can be our ---best man...
.ere
and
There
told his victim, were - still too far to
aid.The natives all had fled. Only
4'25,
Extremes in .ocean travel were
experienced recently by Baron van.
.Hardenhroek van Lockhorst, Dutch
nobleman, who- was in Canada pur-
chasing -.lack foxes for .his rand/.
ill Holland. He came to Canada on.
S.S. Empress of France. one of the -
most luxurious ships on the St.
Lewrenr" route, hut travelled bads
on Canadian Pacific freighter Bea-
verhill wttb the 14 pairs of valuable -
animals he had purchased in Prince
Edward island..
i°Fd.4a4 ,•
schooner, • But the to -chin blundered, AS the
R. R. I ith rr s• halts toet¢ilttr'te,al any- 1 tomes.
. th i, ttivt� 11e• and a 1iglrt fipar frrim the
* , t , • psi-r;n wirer c e
and atti+.iherrest itttsras'ttw:Marston, in a few•minetes had tin-: mc5sag;e loft his fingers, Burke saw.
*here ;trouped. 1,'tr*ritti tt=iut.ly, lie tlrol>jrc.d s} r
rge �t3alE;i+r, F;rd,rrie:,: carr arrange:l !wilt!; Darn snatched tt 7 'rite pep-
,
;clone a ' !rhes at which slaves must 'The: 1�"'' 1 < p -
date..
Yate sacred word to free' Olive
"V%I c;th his 'tooth.. ' A native more ur (bled two of the stance off the wall .+• ,• A. W.unharmed (also the others) and I
DENTISTS TS hn s me int nothing. give myself up. c ,s tit n
inald 13lricic, Winghai
':zretc,rag; them.
":rffrcc
- •
Neither the girl nor her guard 1105-1lrave sweated for days: He had turn- er, !unfolded it:
A romance of mining has been
disclosed in Nova Scotia when s,
long abandoned mine was invest-
igated and found to contain one
of the richest gold leads ever dis-
covered in the province. The miner
held been worked with crude meth-
ods many years ago and then givens -
up. New claims have now been
filed' and. , prospects are very en-
couraging. There are said . to be
many abandoned mines of rich pos-
sibilities in the province. . ,
Carrying 295 ` passengers and a
total of almost two million Jap-
anese oranges, first cargo of the '
fruit to reach Canada this year,
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of
Asia docked at Vancouver recently
after a record trip from the Orient.
The vessel had. aboard a number of
Canadian delegates to the Pacific
Relations Cotivference held at Kyoto,,,
Japan.
Direct contradiction of the opin-
ion of Col. Frederick Palmer, Am-
erican war correspondent, that it
would ' be • well for Christiana:
cli}trches to. withdraw their mis-
sionaries from' the Orient, has been.
voiced by Bishop W. 11, Ainsworth,
Maeount, Ga., who was a passers
ger recently on the S.S. Empress
of Asia. "Christian missions til,,
China and Japan were never doing
better :than at.present,"said the
bishop who is in charge of Eastern=
Missions for the Methodist Eats -
copal Church of the Southern
United States.
The province of Nova Scotia is on
the threshold of a period of un-
precedented development judging
from the record business bein
handled during the current year b
the Dominion Atlantic Railway, and
orations
now
the scope of the prep
under way for the development of
tourist traffic," says George E, Gra-
ham, vice-president and general
manager of the railway, in a recent
interview.
Total amount of life insurance '
carried by the people of Canada is
at present about ;$6,500,000,000 or
approximately $650 for every man„
woman and child' in the Dominion.
The• United States with $750 per
head of population 'ells the only
country in the world that exceeds,.
Canada in the amount of life in-
surance carried.
.ice,!
into the canal. The T'igcon would
not fl again until the month's high-
est t gaze, l frrrg c rs working attn- . t t• 1 es came to lift Iter aver.
essly tit the hat and veil the old two- A figure ltroke from among the yes."
nen had brou;,bt along, she became sten, went bounding along the pati! 130115 uttered a crow of victory,
,radually aware that, of tite ` brown toward the outer point, carrying in Whirling toward ' that point front
rands on the mate before her, one`,, its areas a heavy burden, which lei conceived rile nota to' stave
wore a mitten oftat:too, Her eyes Tiurke ttttcred a cackle of triumph. corhe,,he pttt his !rands to Itis mouth
B'or', as this figure ran, there was a,nd shouted "No, go, NO!"
frrctts~5cd into interest. .rSn<1'thcir, .ts
tonishinh, she beheld on th ; brown" visible over its shoulder' a ,white '•Then he clutched the boy by the
foreat'nt a. name of €ive letters, straw !tat, a blue veil fluttered into 't Fist. "Show me where."'
A glad cry rose to her IIoa. Taut view ': nd, below, Ponape saw the t His revolver trtenaced; the to eeen•
drove from Iter folds of a plaid reint'o'tt, ger began to cry',
fat sth (it, c st l it, tinder the muzzle of the big wet-
faewY: the exultation forznitpg tltcre. As. he sass, however, ler, s�rrrtic Itis' ,
1-Ier oven salvation, this man's life, foot against a tree toot, s aggbr-ed:, ipon tine archin clttalled, Ho' was :ip•
di 1H , 1 •'al of die for
l ut, as Palmyra waited, With down y me. Tf you protn}sc, cat! loudly
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d Funeral Director and
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