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CAPE MAT OOTUTY TIKES. FRIDAY MARCH 30. IMS.

RED HAIR AND BLUE SEA

STANLEY R.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY JAY LEE COmUOHT *V CHARLES SCRIBNER'S 90f»

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WHAT HAPPENED BKFOBi: Palmyra Tree and her parentwith Palmyra'* two suitors. Vat Boren Rutger and John Thurston and some other friends, are cru: Ing on the Yacht Rainbow. Palmyra's startled by seeing _ hand throat in through the port of her cabin, make* a secret Investi«*yon and discovers a stowaway —a man ao mild In appearance that aha la disappointed—and tells him ao. He commands Ur to Stance al the door. £be obeys and aces a huge. Ben e, copperhued man—with a ten Inch knife held between grinning lips! Burke the stows way, explains that It la a Joke But Palmyra is sh Next day. Burke and the brown man go up on deck. The stowi way entertains them with wild tales of an adventuresome life— ‘ which bis listeners refuse to behave Palmjra spends more and more time with the stowaways to avoid Van and John, but when the stowaways are put ashore at HonoiuJu she decides she loves Van. The night the engagement Is nonneed the Rainbow hits a reef In the excitement which follows John rescues both Van and Palmyra—but Palmyra thinks It is Van who saved her. Aftei three days spent on the unl-ihabltrd Island, a sail Is aighled. It proves to be Ponupe Burke! Burke contrives to get Palmyra on board bis boat alone—and the boa* is under way before anything can be done! Now read wbat happens to Palmyra, kidnapped

(HAPTKR.V

Back ashore, where the moment of Palmyra Tree's abduction had found her fiance so afraid wounding the girl that be could not raise a ride in her defens every passing drctnnsUnce wi carrying forward the revelation of

two character*.

Van. aa he saw his betrothed thus torn from Mm. stood staring after the schooner, his face convulaed. He had been thrust back into a despair tenfdld that whence the Pigeon of Noah bad first

raised liiia.

Not so. however. John Thurston. As well as Van he knew nothing could be done. But be would

"I'm not your kind of ai) a*s,“|a thing to wonder at nndcr the Van said "You fool, you know rxalutlon of a master Idea It had there's no hope. Yet. by this silly] grown strange, rompelltag ** work, you can kM yourself Into a .eyes gleamed, his tnngne stumbled

aOrt of relief. Me! ...” It was { In its eagerlless. For the first

aa If he looked upon the girl lyingi in life be was to voice that which dead. But he tore himself from long had hidden In hla evil mind, this vision, became defiant. 'Ton, What had been only a vision of you still think I'm yellow. Very | power wa* now to become an well. •hen. IU show yon. I'ii. actuality. And so much, ao very help now; and when you sail. I : much, dope-'«-d 'on kindling that too shall go." ; wild spark be felt to glow within

I the soul of this girl he bad seized i hurston urged the men to work for his own—his womur.

and as the first color of (he dawn 'Tanna!" he cried. Tanna! touched the eastern sky the last! Ever hear tell o' that island, of the stores and gear was lashed; PalrnT" he Isugbed excitedly. "Ininto place. j deed and I've took good cart

Thurston stooped over Van, who! t'make y acquaint.

Staling, she aaw that it was a knife. Aa the schooner listed, the metal gleamed once, again In answer to the lamp.

themselves Yea, I

_Tbe girl

Hair. Y

^ bu * ,hr ,< ’

u—.

"Why Palm I wish t'tb* Lord ~~«, Brr lh _. , vfD t—It y'could u^-rsUDd^mirself 1 Yv2 h * T ' hlrd the U»»a-0- ' plain bora ».r the life. When I've ‘waked y'uri_ — * run be a man; where there's B a law but the law «

had lallen In the sleep of exhanatkm. and waked him. “Say the

be announced

•n roused but slowly; then md upon the strong*; man in futile rage of circumstance. "Damn you." he cried. "I'd rather . ay here and die like a gentleman clean and dry. Bui a moment

iter he sprang op with hla old accede. Burke s crime bad thrown! laugh "After ail. It's got to be Mm into a frenzy. ! lb" fish or the birds. I'm a braver He ran across to Captain Peder- man that you. you optimistic aa*. sen. "Captain.' hr demanded. "* hat I because I kn^w . ." He dm not can we do? At oncer - finish Ms thought. Totne on. Defi

~ sailing master.

i get to

looked bark

"Nothing."

"But. we must. I u must Man. we’ve got

«•» Today—now!"

Pedersen groaned. "I wish Ood we could. Mr Turston. I aa broke as you. But there Ju*t ain't no use. Look* now. if we re ever tc get off. zrell 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 bead. Nothing whatever could be done. Suddenly Thurston's face lighted. He stood In thought hD featnrea taking on a more definite tinge of elation "I've got It!" be

Cried, ami whirled away.

The sailing canoe* in which the Rjljncsian navigators of a bygone day covered the Pacific were catamarans. The explorers built two bull*, mi narrow that neither by Itaelf. would float. But when the two were fixed, perhaps ten feet apart, by • timbers lashed atbwart their gunwales amidships, the double canoe Ixwanie staunch •hough- though boasting In all Its pert* no nail or bolt or rivet, its Joints held by nothing stronger than breadfruit gum and twists of . cord, it* sails no more substantial than plaited leaf—to traffic all away and across the broad Pact Be. It Was Thurston * Idea now that Placing Id* four separately worth loss boats in tandem, two on each side, he could lash them under

framework or the light.

to a machine which » ,, a consldi rabl- spread of sail. I 'Tf theme old catamaran* could J hfild together lor a thousand mites.” be explained, "ours ought;

to make the next island."

\>'ark .had been going on perhaps on hour when he appeared I for the first time to become awar of Van Huron Rutger ., drooping figure. John had completely tor • gotten the other man. Convicted,

he ran over to him.

Bui Thurston attemp.ed no explanation. Hr saw that the Iw-st. the only way out. was to sketch the plan of action, seem to consult the other's Judgment He spoke briefly. "What do you think. Van*" lie concluded. "Isn't that as well as we can hope to do?" Van waa silent for a long time; then, unexpectedly, laughed. "A* good as any." he said. “Go on your raft, and dicwn. stay and

Twenty minutes later they *

ket. Palm; what we

i do for us!"

'Why. kid." be wax rxpostulat- ; a moment later, "this here Idea a in't something that

jiped into mhead Just recent ran wa* drifting, dismasted. ; G*'»h. h°- Had it in mind for ran was ddlfUng. dismasted. But . ." He hestllat.d And Van Buren Rawer* the 1 ; » thing so forlgn to Ms fault He bad been given thei usual braxen assurance as to seem steering oar. But. sunk in dejrc-l hlstrlonP "But the fart is 1 wa

lion, he had. in a moment of in- i a-waiting for. for you!"

attention, allowed the too-heavy [ Hhe was oner more aware ho* boom to gybe, carrying away the '■ >' real Ms Intatuallon ,

Improvised tackle, and snatch the 1 Ju*’ •u*' 1 fbsve a ds mast overboard A* a result .'hi* alunt." ho went on I Burke * rotten boat had fetched 1 Mely. "A rial dame, a sure free of Its lashing and the raft dueep. And then

"Say. Palm, girl.” he exclaimed; "say- you a d yer heathen hair! how I wa* suing t'make real sure-enough queen?" It wa* Burke's continuing tie-: light if her every show of angry spirit, his seif-rratraining sense of competence to bring the comedy to an end any moment be chose, that most intimidated Palmyra. • Walt till I've tamed you." be would laugh "Then well get along fine. And you'll sure like Tanna w hen y get the taate o' power In your pretty month ” Only once had be laid a baud on her That waa when, in a fury, she had Sown at him. clawing his face He had held her away, loudly hilarious 'T'd steal a kina." he cried, “tf Iwaant for my sore arm. Bat no ... I can wait tilt v'come free, pok: Tis for Tanna we'll be laying

"he went

on, with exuberant restore ac-

quired from the native* “Tanna. __ where well lord It like born king | humor " Possibly ' • hasten and queen." surrender, more probably in a “What a i pie! What a people j mere cruel am anement It played t'work with! His fingers opened) upon her fears, and closed antlcipatorily. with aj There waa. for hula nee. the oc-cat-llke res tininess. “What can't! cashm when Olive, for the first we do Ft hem .Papuan wlldmcn." time aboard the Pigeon of Noah, be cried, “and what cant wr spoke to her. •■'--r- —■ «b< «*• »* That's the! Had It not been for those

brown-shot eyes, always so stealthily upon her. she would 1 sometime* have thought of this savage as a machine. There waa, a sort of unhcniao precision about !

In a pleased surprise, be had pared for tb. been eagerly welf-decelved. Bure from uls *tati . that the lawless strain, persisting ihe gesticular animation through environment, had at last speech. He had open*" roused, he was nov convinced ib« apparently forgetting wa* already in lo>* with the life Rainbow that they kn he typified —though she herself In common Then, realizing

did not as yet perceive the fact-

ami that, in the glamour this life. The girl cast upon himself, she would in pjnlc al the

time w illingly come to be hb ow~ ‘

"And. girl.'' Pun ape Burke wc_, 1— —_ , shouting, “there never, never was waa at the foot of the ladder, and

no King bad such a Queen as you., stood helpless. Yer hair!" He exul t! in the won-: Then the white der of It “That's how >1mo> 'em (n * up "Y little

| all For. didn't I tell y' Ibe ^ , uratlekm. rnjoyzneni of the Tannamen saw red’—grabbed at .itns'ion "push me overboard red calico, smeared their face* , . He Interrupted himself wtih bright and gay. rouged up the * bu,.) of laughter "Owd” he dead warrior gaudy t'meet his crtw ] -but I'd hate F give y' the

maker, wound their own beads all chance! over with red vine Fcover tbs) f m <0 ne.

wool? member that. I'm wi "Don't y'understand? That's tween you I ain't s-eaylaa as what I was waiting on. The queen how he'd love

'o my devil * own tslsaloti had, jus* all his t'have red hair And. Palm, them' | do see be anm,men'll *o pU n.o cragy with rlik< . „ wo)f plou* pagan Joy when they see* | f at > )aznb off

yer locks alighting up. as the; _

,W, 0 ‘!0INe'

And now. In this wlae. the mo-| ment Burire had gone below, the brown mar. materialised himselli -t her aide. She was never

floated a wreck.

Doomed never lo resent Palmyra from tbi- villain Burke, John Thurston bad yet gladly staked life Itaelf upon a thousandth The Plgimn of Noah was flying

Into the unknown.

The tare of the man Burke wa*

first wait I aces y'got

the ahape for It. And when ylet* out about pirate blood. I know y'got the heart for tt. Tauae yer talk'* on the equarv: more on the square than yon jerself realizes." The girl waa increasingly understanding how IrrevAxtabli on the Rainbow, be had bteu ' laird by her caprice lAatenlng ai flrwl

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