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CAPE MAT comm TIMES. PKBAV APMI 80. 1&28

RED HAIR AND BLUE SEA

STANLEY R. OSBORN ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY JAY LEE COFVKIOHT BY CHARLIE SCyiBICBRS SON'S

n't wuferrtasd. Jn-lult—' lonhbM] Incrr-doltty Into raortifica

Bui «JJ I no pUlnly UK . .s„» i-onderwUstf,- he cried. nfrslaBd. Aim be *»* aoiltn* di Of her I—bsow only one tbla«» . rectiy »*«y from her one chnnee 1 hi* Ponape—,<be te out of U*

(be

A* sfce stared unbhaMaciy "Thank God!" from Thornton •*-- ‘ Bot Sakamoto ezcUlmed. •'So.

no' It t»- not «ood It t* bad Ponnpr ha* ioaed her lM-raase n ksajik*. O-lM -vaj. has taken her

of rleod unavoldahlv.

the intensity of her rteafte. st nested to her mind the smoke a J'—wl raclnj to l>er aid.

1 he cloud.

the

— not unlike the

mud** from a funnel. And. la her

fatiiroe. her ' '

I H AITI:It Till

i thins | |

She mould have cnatt

parasol to rniar- a* an t sail. Util nom-. to her astoi

ahe found that Olive was in* sail, but takin* it in. Slot* ly the «i»e«-k that

• I’iseon of N'oali *rem hi:-

hardly believed mo nmall rouM threati-ii w. much As the topmaM* had m hlcher a*aln-! the sky

they mceded—and were *

It was nom. in Ibis las

hours that Palmyra had *e lor the first lime bundle ;•

Itlte-frame affair of sticks, decked ©ut wtib small vellum cowry ehells. This frame she hud no•tired at her original inspection of the canoe, and since, when sin waa not too tired, too frightened, too miserable te think at a.'!, she had wondered »hat if could lie

This contrivance whirh ahe had

♦ndome.1 mith so much of mystery j proved to be milhliiy more U.an the bromn man's . han. Yet. eve: at that, it wii- still a myiti-rv Amou* the Islanuers it vas fm- 1 hidden except to the beredHhryj DaviKators. and among white men, /e»' liad ever grasped its npplitaIlciD. none, perhaps, had ev.r 1.1ci: ■We lo read u|kiu the oci at!'- *ur-:

#»re Its guide* and warning*

With such a fiau of stick*.' .however. Olive, could he hnv.mr.di- it plain to her. sailed fn.ni. lagoon Jo lagoon ross the trael.-j levs ocean in alum, the asivitriinr* : 4>f a ririlljn! marin-r with chart.]

conijiaa* and sextant.

That night, she n»u. t« find! herself, again, encircled ny thosy

great.arms, held close -igninat that. copper brsoal. But no struggle:

It was land, land--thank ‘

C-Ki. land:

Was the island inhabited' Shi * had seen no sign, and Oiive ap- “

Jpeured at ease. But. then, thi* | Pat

was the ocean side of thi- atoll at 1 knin

aight. almndonetl to the gbosi.s. j piniot Anyone wbo saw ber would I hint. 1 fonva aer a disembodied spirit Slioj enutp obuddered. Was she m>» In truth , im :ui

more than the shadow of thnt girl! gtii

wIki once bad lived?

A* the savage lay asleep, the! halt* abeath on his belt via upJvermon When the girl’* eyes rt-i •ijieued they tap'Sine fixed apon ‘

that bind*

however, thi* elation Us place she found, to se. a touch of evil It,

as tbe shear* cot of those locks? i not irrevo. al>lj tin iviUld restore tin

! w ard w ith rhaf t

1 ‘ • savage r woke. 1

lv " j girl Jerked t

imposslbrity of ,he thin; gave thi* product of her inisgination

equ-.re <opi»r hand go back after extraordinary power

the Made. Then there appeared Sbe saw tbe steur er rising from

imn tliat face what was actually : tbe nr> an. Bhe elinbed its ladder an expression - puzzled. Ktartled.j tq. tbe rail. And h r»- triumphal •"reeved. 1 on iu deck, she wee 'safe! Tlie nueer hiown-sbot eye* fixed And in that ranB.'nt ebe kcr il ei:, . I'.fs uiM.n hot. For a mo-i •Iw could not be hard on it mem there seemed a pained r*-! l ' ro *«» nuin. She wo. Id not d> proacb (n them, but he spoke no n»and hi* JMiniiihinent. o .Iy a nai

word InMrad. he stooped, and she «** after all—00 knit bt errant of

with a gasp that he was: the deep sea—hi* very savagery drawing from its place a heavy' »a* his exeuui. He had knn suck : no betu-r. was out to be Man: The brown man picked up one '"*• •*** • ,,D * , ,n Err and If the rocnunuta. ..nd caullooed I "* d B1,vpd ll ' r from Burtte.

mr with those square hand*, so. At the parting she would thank

\pics.lv e where bis face w«* : 5J* 1 • ^ *«•* hi«

, with gifu. Or. better still.

to

reach of the murderous And then, suddenly Tree was back in the heart healing to Milfocatkm.

her dream w

cloud was not a cloud,

smoke.

it <

Her s

ITIUTMt IX

irown man sat up t Hie bcnvTiis, hi*

r sprang

v He

The Imperial Taponene Gunboat Oku yams upon n precMlinir day. h.-id been steaming against the sea

when word came .low*

insndcr Sakamoto that * been sighted, apparently a raft with shipwrecked while men. Tt>«

Okayama swung over so 1 tiring tbe odd fioal aboard.

broad Sakamoto, through bis gi umdc mu an American Bag. union

1 down.

)i Then he raised the nut j 'Send their officer aft." be ln-

•' : *o l»iought it down upon thr i vtructed.

! -i- .id ix)iut The wood on PiesenUy John Thurston and icreo I Ur grer-n iuisk. With a 1 Van Buren Kmger came striding .... , 'idewis. piling motion thai along the deck. Kor ThursttMi and his; *" i!c|i.d her hands, despite th*- bis crew, by the exercise of no knew

llki i supporting framework, be tore off small ingenuity , had got thcii Even as the girl made piteous j a section of the W"-* *—•- «w« • —— 2—. .. .. -

llsh. went on r, explain. A large native craft ha' beaten out after the Okayama, sunsliiug urgently. Aboard was an island pastor with one of hi* pression of relaxed comfort; closed villagers. 1 whose feeding roosl—mainta for these man-o'-war hawks the I,tnr islanders sometiinew usei s sort of carrier ptgeou—a stray bird bad alighted with a stn

letter. Most imperative*

t'omndmder Saknmouy spoke In sympathy. “It is very gooo thing.'' be said, "tbe bird stop wraai place with tbe letter, nod .poti the plan This letter sajm after Ponape had stole th- higb-diief lady, tbe native stol d her a-galn from Ponape and. and now they . . . *■ He gioix d longer than usual lor the right expresi “And now they, they coo-tend for her very Mg." he went on with satisfaction. O-lee-vay* fr*

were to burry with manny-y

and

certain island—and 1

him there no he shall, shall get away nice- with her for himself

white .-arage and brown closed in for imsaesotofi of her body. Pa’ _ijra» knowledge of their coarse waa so vague that she had not known whether they sailed the Sunrise or the Suaset chain of the Marshall*. Oilre unexpectedly «l‘.«d. There was one pkip of his toe* at tbe surface and then she saw his out-

Bridge Rail

u

» with i

Impales Auto

Prevent* Car From Plunging into Bench Thorofare

clear of the hri-g* WHltam Gibb Jr,

wife and iofar . child « jury. Tbe trident w when the cwr skidded storm on the treachery ' 1 hick curves at chi* F

rati ■

OCEAN CITT—Three persons

««ri-

tht only .'hing that p, from plunging Into th* The driver declared wind which swept the 1

Ox.s injury when a motor car in which they were riding was impaled hr a bridge rail on the

, . Ninth Street approach to th* Ijrtng immediately, otty-SotTer* Point Hoad. —-k-ii Wrdoeaday aOerwoon of but week.

rhaaed thr car tbe pr He failed to secure llauees lor the cat .mt tl« by

i The n

I pierced the radiator, passed

The only thin* that come sou Her when tracted is a debt.

Instantly, thr hldfwt body was contorted A gush of bubbles— liver globule* streaming upward, from hi* frantic cry. The girl uttered a shriek, covered her eyre. Why. why bad ahe not warned' him! She’d known the danger. girl lay. shuddering.

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Palmyra'* imii this seeking ship—for It was the Okayama—was to whirl and shout tbe Joyful fact. In thi* her new aversion for

as six moved, the words froi* upon her lips. They two. by ibis intervention. were no longer friend* Irom tbe steamer Olive ion Id fly almost as quickly

Irom it. Pigeon of Noah.

Aboard tbe Imperial Japanese Gunboat Okayama as it passed

arm's reach of th* dls.rooted girl and then stea

was th* ship *,>company of tbe wrecked Yacht Rxinho*. Gathered on the deck were ali wbo best had loved Palmyra Tree in life. But though these swept \* aea with their binoculars until eyes could stand no more, none ever

the!

upon the p ,

i-illng itself, and In a moment fhe

whnli busk was removed

crazy craft together again and

bravely undei

?>;. wanted to

hack, but her . , . . . , _ . . .

d. She tried to bring ;i w “™‘' “ u * k *“ femovvd sakamoUy, seeing be had I !■ I: Hu brown man's pre-j 'Hcr.Ollv. bad husked several ' with genileDien. offered his bond ary tightening or fair hold j thef nuts. Ik opened two by i l« congratulation. "And I hope" •igsln i-i.nscion* of bn , lac king them w ith the sharp cud 1 he added when ihey ware seated Ice. Jerked vigorously. "< •* third, trepanning them as “you. you leaved your people* Olive wn* like .. long .-iiiTerinx; ncntly a# a surgeon. .comfortable — on their

• 01. He t|<i n • know why *h.-1 T»,r •rirl accepted food nnd drink 1 •wlsotlT' hut i„ did know be emild | humbly. 'rw..—.

have struck ber ot this brown

Host she

011 Id

each

'Uth.

> baiul .

loucli the handle,

the other times she would have i * disarmed him !: As she sat her fingers went out jit once and again experimentallv ! toward the knife, and were with drawn Thi savage contrary to! It her expectation*, did not awak.

bidden

> g> 1:

and

1 food!

and 1

Thurston spring up. •’My God, aptaln." he ciied. "you've beard rom her? You've got her sate?"

.1. : The commander begged for an •ue.tui v. y 8 account ot what hvd happened.

But when they had .ached the

eyes flll.Mi. With a girlish abduction, he himself jumped up. 'j tbf ' •bruei her hand into interrupting excitedly. Iherc was dm s ;,nd drew out the ‘ a n cw look on his fare, a look " ^ wou,d »»**'• amend. thll i had advanced through asrc was f '•tncllilng very sweet ir.-ig-

xpresslou

Site ku.-e

it trail) made had the hull.

* A thlid tlrnA t!„ Wooden liandli Tl loos.- in Ihe *heBtl) drew the weapon forth.

The girl was thrilled, intiiui-j

In-r hand, thu Upon the | ihe: knife w as I In :

• dated bv In

become >0 much the ogr had had the leeliug It impossible In slightest

Olive had j

that ►

thw:

ing

1 him

noiselessly. As it ' IbsKliiiK moonlight

1 futile flash. But * r . unaware, marclu d ! H i |h wh.ch she offered the knife. • : ill in vl*e-lil..'j Ibit U11 savage nc.-eptwi her sur-

I render in tlte serene ue&mlng un-

xd carried I’aln . .1 ' 'ii'. iouxnes- of the Buddhas nionsiy down o.j - io - n thcii dev.itees lay before v,.'- !'ot h*..■ ■ 'b’-ui eifts that mgy have meant ts iMtwei Her >• - iiiouth*. perhaps ycais. of sacrifice. ti«' hrief for any I In a new sens*- of trust. »he ist the tyrant sav-j tinned quickly to him. her cheeks

I flushing, end K|>okc his nsme as

ut Us way through j nearly n* she could in the way he

girl was uicr. lik.-d “U-lcc-vay."

whut .«lu had done.j He looked up Kiirprised boon deliberate.; “Li-lee-vay,'' she repeated—“Ja-

attempt to cast a mirror'

scross the gulf. Commander Sakamoto was turning to John Thurs-

ton with fatal decision

"My de*remister." he said. “That Ponape—bt has catched the poor Miss Tree back a-gain—very sore. We got the bird letter and that ruin all the kanaka's chance. Fr.. him to reach this far unhelpc 1. even 11 nobody make* some chos .

would be of a—too much."

Wherefore. Sakamoto, put all to the wrong by Olive's strategy of stewlth and deviousness. threw tbe Okayama northward and steamod forever out of the field ot pursuit; never again to pas.i within sight of canoe or schooner; deserting the girl ,in that hour when |

Ojive had thrast the Made ia bet wee* the valve* of the clam's armor and severed tbe muscles that mapped th.se to-

gether.

Having explain..I. he rerrued the coeosDBl shell, which was libbing away 00 the water, and prepared to dive anew. When she understood. the girl cried on; In protest. “Oh. uont. don't try again. I.;

i Next Week)

mid muxrle j

man. T wish you wi

that dog of yours at night. His barking keeps my baby awake." "I was going to request you to mnxzle your baby." relotned tbe neighbor. "His nightly howling an-

noys my dog,"

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1 rb-d the prnnmini-lntion with vary- " - intb-cilonH Then. peroepUog. The savage grinned, i.ilsed nn . arm. rh ’crfnlly InfunoMtlve—polnl-'

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