ber cabin, makes a seem icreati gallon and discovers a stovsssy —a man »o mild in appearsnc* that abe la dtoappolnled -ami tells him so. He commands *“ glance at the door. 8b |Lnd see* a bote, fierce, copixrd man—with a ten Inch knife 1 between trlnnins llp«. Now

* Kelt momlng Mrs. rrasford and Mr ruwts were talhered in tne of the deckhooee. bundled ' The sun, only at Intervala. bad been blinking through, brsngln* a tooch of warmth to the aorface of the ara. ebarmina the apreadt canvas into life. Aa. present- , Palmyra roused from ber pre_JCOpatlon to Join the others in 1 lauth. the luminary glanced

shadows of the nails.

* Such s shade ■ lay across the girl's fact. When 1’>e Rainbow rose to a surge, the shadow inoved. a., a curtain up. and tbe aunbe.uu oaugbt In turn and fllu•Rtecd perfect teeth, dimples, eyes that danced with fun: set afiame the crown of bright hair, her most noticeable endowment. , — I - But soon she was somber again. I short She had been shaken by that Spree visage leaping out at her

from tbe dark.

She should have suspected icoond presence One gUnc* at

The girl did not. know whether

to like that or not.

To begin with, aatd Burke, was her cooraga. She hadn't wjuawia-d at tbe hand in the port

_ mmrmmt: BOr ^ I * < * UW,#r ^ »POttW»lsal. crose-leg*»d on tbe .'orehatch. huddled under his blanket* in tbe ADd ‘t*’ 41 coot ,r * u ‘ W«Bk*un. m* when a brown being waa

■ cold.

we’re bound down by the old . -jveatkmal mm sense In chsrao

~Speeking o this hi* brute” ter reading- phrenology and all Burke began, indicating Oiled; "he! um* a stripling develop* a Mg

don’t do nothing now but «*k aquarc law. " que^Uoc*; about you." j - -*-•

Burke's hand, gloved though wm, should bare sufficed. It was small, pudgy, never the thick Mnewy paw that bad fastened upon the cabin port. Her wtts about her. she should have mistrusted Stoke’* song; not have waited to 1»e told afterwards that he CbanOnr- “Silent, go. stand against tbe door, knife in teeth, snd look

tfmmtlfle-'

At this point the shadow of (he ssH came swooping down araln s«rose Palmyra’s eye* and abe awoke to find that Mrs. Irorlty, (he stewardess, was regarding her With an amused and curious exprenlon The rlr! Hushed guiltily. Mr? Durley stepped forward, best! ted. held out a card tray. “A gentlemen to see you. Mlaa Tree.” she announced "A gentleman to see Miss Tree*"' K red Mrs. Crawford in amused dance of the play. "Why bow

Unexpected.’’

“Airplane or aea horse"" qoes-

1 Van

rise, then sank back again 8!*I plaining that tbe remote totem- As regarded the hand; The mu,dering Mute I* quite had seen tbe steward below, a genre at hi* feel knew no word stowaways, precariously bidden OB - . .

short time past, overhauling.! of any white man’s language. . deck to a bo

IblankH,. a rwienw supply for tbe. If tbe savage recognised her first chance lo sneak below. Burke men for w ar.! if she could man- she was unable U> note any bad got lo cover, but get one or two of these change in, his countenance, in- unexpectedly starting that way,

flrrd. she saw that this copper would have caught Olive. Tbe mask would seldom. If ever, yhId Islander had slipped override at to tbe civilised eye any useful that point, dangling from a atanindicattor. of the mood within. cfcton. only ht* hands viriWe. He Ponape Burke, showman, had k*d P«t one down to the port, tenelxed .i double bandful of the fending to hang irailing from that bush of hair on the native * bead, ,f ,h c aailo: came near. A roll and was saying; i of the yacht thrust his forearm

Ttsnt so much that be’ ^ ^ **“

coverings.

the deed. Bui—she wm* afraid.' Presently, however, a wcll-au-thentlc .ted chin settled Into place and two lips grew arbitrary. She arose. excused herself. nod marched down tbe companionway. Ye*, the blankets v-ere atilt there. She snatched two. secured her torch and reached the bulkhead

door, unchallenged.

She switched on the torch, forced herself forward. Then after « moment's hesitation: “Here

—you! Are you cold? 1 have two? man U had seemed Interest lex to blankets." • Tbt dee-llghtfully sanltsur. U- Tre..!. 1

listening, i Oto showman added, "and ,h ^t, VkI i'oJTui l ^i * mirte

Bh. ran Id l«l id, d.rtw g. W ,b.d, »' Kr'

-uit thing they got. CooMnT lire

"rmri so much ihat he’s got ttirou * h “ J ™ lu *

hair." Burke was aaylue. "as that lurBf<1 BW,J ' and OI ‘” 1,fted Mm-

hU hair ain’t Mack, as you’d ex- 1 b * ck to d ^ dt ’ pect. but a pretty gay specie, o’ f, L“? re Important

tan. Which, la-adles and gents is P *’ m} ' r * Trre** contact and ktodSouth Bea beauty-parlor stuff.’’ ! D *** h * r »»»•' T <> 'Ml*

stood waiting.

— .auld feel the darkni™- , . — -

with onaeen menace. But the dead) r 11 "- , — nm

silence of that prisoned space ““ glanced audaciously at Mis- 1Uk ^ r. d :.

»" “»"«' i»s i JzsfZjrZzfLrz,5kS Si ’em succeed* In getting m U a ° rU ' n no ,ooC * cep, ,bl W 0 ^' real ^^7 nrer^" P “ * mbs-wcorned . u^bere-wul the

, i cocoanui. Tbe nuu were eaten at

. ^ Va “ . *? us . b ‘ yi ^ >h - admirable, .every meal; cooked or raw. green. And ^t mm. germinated. For all tbe arf . mo ^ eo ' *$! eossnitea of We the palm could 1 ‘ Wh *' P ?‘ 1 “ Tr ,‘!'_ ' *' -nade, H need were, to furnish

excuse me. miss. Ponape i ij Burke said, "but didn’t I hear this gent ..-calling you ’Palm-tree’?" 1

She assented.

might hare swept the ray Into all the corners, but abe hesi-

tated to repeat the vision of the

night before. Rather, she held the blanketa up inviting!) and. in

silence, turned the Jet of light upon them. Kr»r almost a minute the waited thus. Then, i uddenly. without warning preliminary of sound, there appeared within the outer

_Al this moment she caught sight . spprareo wiuiin me outer

the mac himself, standing ini rjrcle of light tbe. end* of four between the house andi Kmau |ve square finger*

Almort. the girl sprang back.

Mrs. Crawford." she- introduced ! out i 0 , (an |(.

is*. .. n ■*-- well-known a Moment the finger* paused

Tbty they came thrusting f iward her from the dark. For a flash it seemed that It must be huweif they meant to setae. Then they closed upon the MaiijliMiC rwtnd

•‘Ihls la Mr. Burke. Btralr. Will be pleased yo bo bo. l -tn Aemonslratr walkin . the plank. l”m sure If you could see him •entile a ship, you’d feel we’d been

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And she was named Palnjlreel But. lady." Burke persisted.

"’lainT the things I’ve mentioned

’Bui what, what kind of a -not even yer name-which counts 1°*' • . * SO much M—" he paused calcu•n Uni a Joke." she affirmed. UUngty-“as that hair o'yoors.

My lamlly name U Tree and—" that red hair."

sbt glanced amusedly at Con- She was again annoyed, but

ri-nee—"my given-name is Palm." decided to laugh.

The stowaway stared, grinned.’ Burke was silent for an totcrrepeated the name. He turned to vat. his oddly undeveloped feahi* savage, spoke animatedly, nod- turee rather absurd to their lea-

ded his head toward ber. The brown turtty of thought,

mans eyes aougbt the glri’a face 1 »irppo*c.' he began at last, once more and she felt sure he "y'havent no Mew how a Mary had, in some obaeure way. been like you hlta us islanoera. kanaka

•noted. There waa certainly a or whiter

something new upon Ihat strange "Oh," be added with countenance. j lag gesture acquired fn

As the savage eat upon the Uvea, “you’d never

batch, a cot Mr of blanket touch- He hesitated in a diffidence ed the leak wood When he reach- strange to hi* nature. "But think ed down to rescue the Ubrlc his .miss Hire we an-, maybe ten! thick right fore arm shot out fifteen years never s. -lag any wofrora covrr and so remained. Tbe man’s face except tbeae silly

girl I.•<ume aware of a line of brown critters ’

blue-blsck inarkiugs along tbe toner side of this arm She discovered with surprise that these tattooing* were letter.—her own alphabet. At first she did no! catch the word becauet- two of it* symbols were upside down “Why” she crleo impulsively.! "what t* that he tun. tattooed on

bis arm-

Realty, it’s only

mure bone to bis Jaw. And If he has a broad high forehead . . - "Solid Ivory again." said V«*. "PxlBl s pirate couldsl be further Iron our fixed idea of a cottiiroat; fierce mmiatachios. ha-vk nose, drep-eet. piercing. «rU eysm Yet to real life your cold-bloated.

inre-

ty to be some etfemlBwle youth »»<;*tig soda water ottb a lisp.

Palmrra had been why everyone or. boar '

course, said - It was only anees-; tors Tbe Tree family worshipped tbe family tree "And Van." Con-

“has the flnent line of aareaters put out by any bouse in America." It was nothing In Van persona] I y. she bad added. "John does] Hut Van only is things " Tbe girl got up rretleuly and to,Mi a. the rail gaxinx out over the sunset sea. \a John Thurston went on to amplify his thoughts regarding Burke ah'

glam d over ner

scoff.

i could chase your bad man

only wind jamming, of Thurston laughed. "I don't doubt our atowawny’s a little man. sufficiently blunt as to hi* moral perceptions, but quite harmless. making hlmsell the hero of every gory story be pick* up. eager to pose as a deep-sea bad map. But still ." During this idle chatter tbe girt had felt, growing with every mo*nt. a fuller perception of herself aboard this yacht. Never until now ■ had she had a complete 1.1 Illation of tbe Intimacy of this croton with Van and John; of the iuTvdlble nearness of tbeoe two to her. She had been, all at onrer. appalled. Thus they would go on through every waking hour, un • Mipable Us their oemand upon her love. She le 4, bad a suffocating sense that never, tor one Instant, could she protect herself from them and their problem. And then, as an In splraiton, M had come to her that Ponape Burke should be her ■ refuge. Until -be was sure about! the two—oh. so sure;—she tmld aiwaya fly to him. She'd demand ‘ pl rale’s

It had been a pop bottle that fat horizon-burster (while flung into the bird’* net Ide the spring, this lion tn would not now be here. • ay on some somnolrqtj f coral be would be drew*-! • -Kb the yearn; ignorant as! '• men’s ways, salt 'I'- questionable leader-' Ponape Burke: never toi bi-'i cross the life course! Palmyra Tree of Boston. • !io! « pop lottle that f filing

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