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CHAPTER XI

■ marcbed proudly up

the *lrl Id hi* arm* a *J* J burdrn Shr learned that Olive had Ffte fine lire, as was to have! knom n Burke mean! to abduct i expected, bad brought the| And *he found that in the running from their j b «« ,nnln * b - h » d tbou * b l *<• not Scarcely had the an abduction, but an eloperoent. an emerged out of tbei Only when the schooner . than these Mlcroneslane were, und" h » Perceive sing down. Excited voices »*>•» *•* adventure of the air. “O-lee-vay—O lee-. myra r own choice. Only when - - ' she did not soon begin to smile

through her tears as many girl might have done. <

reallxe how terrible to her the

this. then, was w

I bring ber; the home of hi* 1

the place at b

riow like a cuckoo out of a clock And there, moat astonishing of all, not live feet away and

life itaelf, stood John

_ . gazed at her sort folly and said, In the strangest

“Palm Tree! Oh. oh. a not until fifteen houn

brown

_ i Tree to the world of living that she once mo ber eyes. Then. In ■waking fright, she reort ‘f up with a cry of “Olive! next moment she found 1 In ber mother'. ’ When rue roused again, several — > later, the Crawfords were the bedside wit! her mothi

and father.

Palmyra sat up abruptly with ; Ihe question: “Where have they (B&M Ponope Burke’' 1 “ The four looked from Other, hesitant. ta her first awakening the girl 1 been told how the Okayama I brought her people Into th r on the search, fou. you don't mean . . : _ paused. Incredulous. "Vt

gunboat wi

here when I came at : steam out to catch him ! saw that this unbelievable was true. Unexpectedly.

B -Prang to her feet. “Where's i'»®»lve T' Her voice rang sharp

^^^Hrtoned.

But Olive himself was asleep.

V H* r *«ther began to explain. JjfgThe Pigeon of Noah Is an Amer-

~'And there's been so much fyicUor. between Japan and America." interjected the mother. ' “And Commander Sakamoto was ■nre if be seized the schooner on, the high seas it would get into the American papers wrong and •Ur up more misunderstanding

‘ ill will. . .

Bo. my dear.' finished ConCrawford. “you were *acto the ends of diplomacy. Jap. finding you safe, dethe lesser evil was to let

she escape."

Dr. Crife'a just bad a long! with Olive.” said Mrs.Craw-

were people moving Olive's first thought was that brown men. yellow men. ,h '' *‘ ri would f-el safer with a men: the last In while! that *b* might pos- ■ and white shoe* witb!* lb! - v “red one. As be dared not pith helmets pulled down I f 1 ” ** T ,b ' »■ dxytlme. he to keep out the| h » d d ropp«l « through the aky-

«f the white sand. And P 1 **!;

whlu woman. Wb r“ lh e ■»»»»“««'

passed them so cruelly by. Olive bad been as eager a* she to a tract attention But he hi known the distance too great. As regarded Jalult he bad not gone there because It was m vlously the place be should have gone Burke was sure to

that lagoon first.

This much Dr. Crife could read

for ber:

Incarnate there before this lander's eyes on the Rainbow, ahe bad been not unlike a dess; a being—as indeed she —from another world. A high white princess, relied for stately llfe-givinr palm crowned with hair of flame, had condescended to him with blankets • .en a brown creature was in misery with that most terrible ol Ibingi—cold. Olive was not in love •aim free. One does not sWer oneself privileged to fall in love with a goddess. But from the deck at ber feet. Intimately yet afar, he had gazed • her—fascinated. Palmyra now knew how Olive felt toward her. ahe far from knowing how ahe felt toward Olive. And If ber only difficulty an Buren Rutger had been i luctance to give him pain, she found every difficulty with John

Thurston.

Van Hmaelf bad made things

Returning to the mlssii late hour the third night come upon Olive prowling about with a rifle. “Ponape dead.” the brown man plained simply. But that which others looked upon as a touching manifestation of devotion. Van chose to regard with suspicion. “Sakamoto shall know of this, -

as his comment.

Palmyra had been so Incensed that, there and then, she had

broken the engagement. Van's dismissal placed him

that position wherein a weak n

Infrequently lacks moral

courage to turn upon bis real

He must find an easier

target for his resentment. Thus Van. without in the least per- ... i-Ivins why. remained amiable

lion inward Thurston, but developed their host. an ugly spite against this man The girl exclaimed in astonish-! ° r darker skin. *•!■. "He can. he can talk toj Btl if Palmyra had freed ber■Wm? He can nnderstand him7 ' ‘‘’If of Van. she could no! free She seemed hardly to believe i herself of that which withheld

8® utterly, with her. had the: gjgvwn man been beyond reach I

H bad seemCi. no one. Ponape Burke gone, could bridge that gap between

ITh most diverse languages. ;*•And to think.'' rrtrd Con-

“they got the letter all

-jj--— Made u- believe poor ♦Olive, who was being so wondir-

nK. was a villain.

■ffSra* «*l'*r flooded Palmyra's - atfceeks in the Intensity of her In-

ter.■■ :

Sgr-'But this particular pastor jSj<W»ldnt explain clearly." said the] j* ifather. and the Jap. misled by flW name, didn't understand at : *11. What Olive really writes In .• go beseech, in Jehovah's name. thM Whatever friends get the letier hurry with arms and many! . boats to a named island, there to

' help him gave . .

JJDr- I'rife say. there' al.so*ate!y no question about that ; word ‘savo'." put In fomlam.

. “Help him save t ■ I chief young lady Palrntre-

i The girl settled back among !

Mr pillows.

her from Thurston. Back there In the cane her moment of ret elation, had yearned to meet him more, face to fare, that she might tell him the truth. But now that, astonishingly, she had awakened Into the old life, she found herself quite unready to step up to him with any. such confeaaion. She willed to love John Thurston; she did love John Thurston. But between them was the brown man Olive, and. leering from behind bis elbow, the fare of Ponape Burke. Olive ahe tried to ground of

a girl

be grateful. Was It not natural ahe should be eager to take him presents, his bouse queatlontni herself hour by hour loos concerning him. ested in him than It

living being’

Oddly enough—or rather, naturally enough—I! “* to her for *om< whether she mil with this brown idea struck like blow. She was At first she n

from her In

the still hours of the night Could she Indeed be la love with Olive? Was It possible for American girl, under any cirei stances whatever, to fall in love with a man of darker race? She shuddered to think others might believe this thing of her. She avoided Olive, kept to ber room. She struggled to analyse her emotions, to weigh them dispassionately. And. honestly striving. she was at last able to say of herself that in no sense, could she be accused of loving him Not for long did she find the aniwer. Then it came like release from a prison cell She was In love, not with Olive himself. bnt with his attribute*. She wanted to love John for the true manliness that was his. But. alas, those tplendid qualities the two posssssed In common

ber. they could whisk ber across, screening her with one or two of

umbrellas, raised

against a shower or the

aquatorial sun

But almost at (he momei t of the sortie there came an luterrupUoo. One ol the old women, stooping down to glance out. discovered the girl's lather and mother and Constance Crawford *p-

g—already close. Panic If her raptors had not agerou* before, they cer-

i lately were now would have

anchorage. As close on the In-

land side was the road

porfte the

of a white man and the high concrete wall of fb. Japanese polio compound- The house was quite by Itself on the Water side of the highway, yet Immediately in the renter of village life. Van now came sauntering up, and Palmyra Indicated this -Come on." she ’ "

old lady is taking

for ve'y fine PtngeySeveral drops of rain fell.

Van agreed. “But there's squall coming.” he said “III j exPMed her lungs to take in the run back first for umbrellas.' - | roceauary air. But. on the A* be turned away she besitat- ond. ed unexpectedly afraid at betarlher left alone. I <Ja_. But as she moved forward ,.: the mosquito net: thrown flat. Japanese policeman, saluting be- head on bamboo pillow. Two of nignly. reassured her And she the hags followed her into saw every step brought her nearer those two representatives of the civil and ihe moral law,, which lay at anchor beyond the wharf, the Okayama and that IJu Ran which U the latest, perhaps the last, of the Morning Stare tu

which the American

Meanwhile the crone who had lured her here had taken • machete and sealed oerseif on the patch of grass before the bouse. Within the house. Palmyras two guardians had began a lowvoiced ~ '

herself

two kindly old souls the net to comfort h-r. while, before the but. a third waited

ready qulry.

struggle which Bight transient eye would 7* token for a round of that massage which is the native's cure-sl 1. Her captors had tak. advantage of that trait in human

mafic pistol. At the first c

she'd use It.

Now. however, ahe saw

Buren Botger

The others

wn. Van did know: i the trio bad strolled

1 sharp roofed.

The girl stooped to enter, than drew back U one of these aad-

tfaaf still beam

Suddenly, post ber eyes, and the three old en hurled themselves at ber. unexpected the attack from ss these, in an ooen shad such as this, at almost the aettie-

spot. that the girh wi nnready. And before she could muscle, cry out.

ollef and a

warning: “No ’peakey. no ■" At the moment of the on-

fall her guide, st‘1! behind her. had dropped round ber throat a

fibre loop, a brutal tourniquet the personal quail- j with which she could, instantly,

ties of Olive alone. She remem-! be strangled into silence—or

be red how he had gone after the. death,

shark with the knife . . . and j The women, fearing Van mil ht

arrive, prepared ‘ “ ~

Though the thatch wi lonely to the forefront as to seem above suspicion, the high wall of the police compound ended rectly opposite, and turned land, leaving between It and the blank wall of the trader's three-foot lane. This path, recollected being told, ran b half a mile, a mere passa y ' tween the wall and ngrove awazrp upon which she bad looked down from her mission window. And the mouth of that hldd< nth was no more than twenty rt distant. Until an alarm had been given the people would be unsuspicious. The French trader across the way had locked up his place and gone out to breakfast. The native passersby were coming in detached groups. Palmyra's cap-

descended the winding stairway hewn In tb" hillside from the mission direct to ‘be street of the

old • PI easy you," said this crone English, "you come for look see- ve'y fine Pingelap mat You like loo much for buy.*' She would have refused, bul now she caught a glimpse of Van approaching Several times be had trapped her Into painful Interviews. But this morning she could use the ancient dame, as a gaping listener, to keep Van alyour 'ouse?" the girl asked tentatively. The thatch toward which the rrone pointed stood conspicuously. Immediately against one side was the water and a small wharf

had her. Hurrying

*«y-

Van stared. straight.' cried Mar»'t twenty of 'em or more—al’ with guns. And they're

The stranger now took the Illative. -in warn the j a be said. "Yesi run for the

He. was ) u lag up to the wharf from a h At sight of him Vans

Instantly. Thurston begsn . throw off his white coat.

“OIHra? Nonsense!"

“I tell you." Van atfir shrilly, “she - * in love with

t Continued next week

I Believe

I Bellere in the sound, patriotic and progressive Coolidge policies and if elected I pledge myself to bend every effort to perpetuate our President's ideals which have done so much for the prosperity and happiness of the American people. I Believe in a continuance of the protective tariff because it means decent wages and livable conditions for our working men and women.

It's snrprixing how easily yon can own a dependable used oar. Let ns show yon how yon can make your sayings go farthest, HEBE!

settled back among! Tear* welled Into I “It waa enough that I ve wronged him.'' she I

should have i

id. “It U unthinkable > ould have been guilty of i

She shifted uneasily, lay for ; tnne «ltne in silence, gazing! (rough the window. “if they hadn't bungled the lott," she said at last wearily. “I bould have been spared much, j nd if you hadn't let Ponape urk escape, i shouldn't now be I Bpeevr still.'' At last Palmyra could talk toj After all these days and years j Id centuries of sib nee. they two.) r the Intervention ol Dr. Crife, ji

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diet the country can't do too much in caring for and rehabilitating our disabled war veterans. I Believe in honest law enforcement—end I also believe in the right of the people to make and unmake their own laws. I waa one of the first In New Jersey to advocate a referendum on the Volstead Act and if elected I wifi vote for modification of this act, providing the people of the state do not in the meantime make known their position on this Important qu stion. I Believe in giving the farmer and home-owner adequate protection- I favor such laws as the one creating a Cooperative Bureau in the Department of Commerce, which helps the farmer without

subsidy.

1 Believe in the building of air ports near every large center of population. I was one of the pioneers in publicly advocating air ports in New Jersey. I Believe that preparedness means nation. I security. I do not believe In militarism, but 1 do believe in maintaining at ail times military and naval forces adequate to. protect our country and its outlying territory. I Believe that national legislation to aid in flood control should be extended to New Jersey, where the flood menace is constantly imminent.

I Believe in a first class, up-to-date, American owned and operated merchant marine. Proper encouragement of private owners^.p should restore activity to New Jersey's shipyards. I BeUeve In equality for the Negro and that the forces of law end order should and must dev»!e effective mesa* to stop

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tion to stop the pollution of our r harbors and ocean fronts. I BeUeve that America, in her new position as the money center of the world, must use the utmost care in our foreign relations so as to maintain the friendship of all nations without sacrificing our independence. 1 believe In internatio. tl reciprocity, but I am alwa for ''America First.”

Republicans KEEN for KEAN Nominate HAMILTON F.

£EAN for U. S. SENATOR on Primary Election Day Tuesday, May 15, 1928