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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929 | OOPENNIST BY GHARLES SCRIRVERS SONS Birke had spoken of the brown an's arrest. Meanwhile, Olive had tired of his enforced bath. Slowly Olive began to move ownstream. Scarcely did the leav- s that hid his head seem to stir 8 they skirted the bank, blending vith the leaves of the background. ast Sentry Number One, past umber Two. Finally a friendly turn of the course and he could rige, dripping, and run for the suspected mangrove trail, { Trotting through the mud, he had neared the outlander village, When, hearing his name, he stop- ped, whirled around, encountered one Taruk, a member of Ponape Burke's crew. Taruk, smiling affa- bly, emerged from the thicket and the two shook hands. Olive slipped into that house thirg from land's end. He crouch- ed, the central sypport hiding his face. A glance showed the tide was moving out. He could not await reinforcements. Opposite, Palmyra still leaned aguinst the post, Martin behind her, the seated natives in front. Then Olive, staking all on Burke's absorption, strolled out 'from the shelter, grinned brazenly into the eyes of the startled sen- try, entered that side of the pri- son house where the natives grouped, TUnobtrusively, he drop- ped among them. Neither the girl nor het guard noted his coming. A native more or lets meant nothing. { But as Palmyra waited, with 'downcast gaze, her fingers working aimlessly at the hat and veil the visible over its shoulder a white straw hat, a blue veil fluttered into view and, below, Ponape saw the folds ot a plaid raincoat. As he ran, however, he struck his foot against a tree root, stag- gered; the burden was hurled from his arms to the ground, But he did not pause. Two of the sailors, flanking along the beach, sprang upon him, Others joined in. 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 called: "Palmie, are y'hurt?" Another hundred feet and he stopped. Bewilderment turned ine to rage. For lying there in the hat, veil anq raincoat was no Palmyra Tree. It wag a big, roast pig. Ponape Burke turned a savage face from this greasy pork to the man who had tricked him---his prisoner. Then an oath and a laugh struggled for simultaneous expres- sion. For there, bloody, desperate, stood the brown man Olive. The white man's features were contorted, "Where is she?" he de- manded. Olive clamped his lips shut. It had been Burke's sudden de- scent upon the four houses which precipitated catastrophe. The vil- lagers, grown overconfident, had thought he would not look there again, Olive, having seen the mes- senger from the Pigeon of Noah, had assumed erroneously that the schooner was ready; that Ponape, seizing the girl now, could sail at stiff dark cloth, gave one a prod with the revolver, From within there came a gasp of pain. . . Palmyra Tree had lost the bitter fight, Ponape Burke at last had won, "Y"shall see Olive hanged," he said, "And them, whether or no, y"shall go t'Tanna.'" He dragged her toward the tree, the natives following, tongues a- click against teeth; the traitorous boy ahead, self-important, un- scourged by any sense of guilt. At the tree Olive stood among uneasy guards, hands bound be- hind him, feet loosely tied, noos- ing hemp drawn taut across its limb. . "Look at him---yer rope round "Waiting, . poor sucker, for y't'set hig neck, Burke reproached. him free. This here kanaka was good enough, t'die for you. But when it comes yer tupn?" He laughed with brutal insinuation. 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 me." At this moment, however, there rose from the outskirts of the crowd a startled warning. "Zap- anee....Zapanee, he come!" Burke, with an oath, snatched up his binoculars, Three boats from the Okayama were already close., Rifles bristled. 'While the otherg ran, Ponape Burke was carried only a step or two by the animal instinct of self- preservation. Then he stopped, once, In desperation the brown started on, turned back. 1iké the prisefighiter gots knocked to sleep on the jaw." At his first sentences Palmyra's lip had parte' in a gasp of relief. Now, in the réaction, $hé wavered, closed her eyes dizaily, put out to ward Thurston a groping hand. | John caught her to him once more to uphold her, His heart was aflame with the knowledge thati that pathetic blind groping had been for him, With her face up- turned to his, appealing, close, Thurston, in that great yearning so long denied, could not resist; would, despite the grinning audi- ence, have kissed her again and again, | But Commander Sakamoto, of an ever tactful race, was quick with a command which forced his unwille ing men to the right-about; then chased the giggling villagers home with the sword of a samurai. A burial detail had carried Pon- ape Burke forever away; Ponape, who had staked all--nnd lost all, "And when," demanded John of Palmyra on the third day after; "and when shall the wedding be?" "The wedding," ordained this girl, "must take place before we leave the island. I insist, for one thing, despite your protest, because I think I should always now be a little afraid----alone. But the real reason-.'"" her voice vibrated with feeling--"is that then Olive, who saved me for you, who made it possible for me to understand, to realize my own true love; that then Olive. can be your---can be our-- best man." And so it vas that O-lee-vay, commonly called Olive, who speaks no language known to civilized man, who eats fat pork with hia fingers and anoints himself copi- ously witp scented cocoanut ofl and turmeric, stood up with John Thurston, the embodiment of eivi- lization at its finest. Thurston could not give his hest man a stick pin for Olive seldom if ever wears a shirt. But he could gee that the island- er got Ponape Burke's swift schooner, the Lupe-a-Noa, trusteed for the brown man's protection by the American mission and the Japanese navy, and manned by an already eager and worshiping crew. ) THE END 1d women had brought along, she pecame gradually aware that, or the brown hands on the mats betore her, one wore a mitten of tattoo. Her eyes focussed into Interest. © And them, astonishing, phe beheld on the brown fore- arm a name of five letters. 'A glad cry rose to her lips. But She suppressed it, drove from her face the exultation forming there. Her own salvation, this man's life, depended on her caution. The brown man opened his mouth and spoke aloud in the native tongue--direct to Martin. Olive's expression was that of formal politeness. But, though he had seemed to address the white man, he had not done so. What he had said was this: TéMen of the village of Tana- pei, 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. fn a sentence he appealed to their upi@ity, to their fear of the Japa- 'nese. Then, without alteration of voice or manner, he added for the finterpreter: "Make words, make shall mean nothing and have 2a pleasant sound." The interpreter had got the idea. 'Out came a flood of compliment to which the white man made crude yesponse, condescendingly amiable. i 'And so, under the very nose © the unsuspecting Martin, almost within hearing of Burke, Olive worked out his attack. And Ponape Burke himself gave the signal. Springing up now, he bawied across to his mate: 'Ahoy, --ahoy there! Haven't them dam' kanakas got the Pigeon out yet? Give a hail the moment y'sight her. These Japs is maybe up t'some- thing." He levelled his binoculars again upon the gunboat. Martin reached tor his own, bent them upon that gpot where the Lupe-a-Noa's top- masts must emerge from behind the taller trees. | For perhaps forty seconds both men were absorbed, Then Martin, still seated, hig shoulder against the girl's support, lowered his glasses, turned his head to speak to her, But Palmyra was gone! At Burke's order the crew, load- ing rifles, began to go through the thatches, Fortunately for Olive, Ponaps remained in the open, bawling out commands and impre- cations. The search, unsyttematie, was still sincere, for, though some of the brown seamen grinned be- hind the white men's backs, none would have dared pass the girl by. Yet the quest covered the islet without result, It was when Ponape Burke had stopped, completely at a loss, that a messenger came running from the Lupe-a-Noa. The schooner could not be got out. Diving, the natives had found under her nose two of ihe long hexagonal rocks from the wnciént wall, He would have been aghast to know that John Thurston had dis- rovered the vessel; had reached per before the working party and vhile her watchman was irrespon- jibly absent; had in the brief inter- ral afforded, made good use of his gineering skill. With a block and lackle and a light spar from the jchooner, Thurston, in a few min- jtes, hag undone a labor at which jlaves must have sweated for days. He had tumbled two of the stones pf the wall into the canal. The Pigeon would not fly again until 'he month's highest tides came to lift her over. A figure broke from among the men, went bounding along the path toward the outer point earrylag in its arms a heavy burden. Burke uttered a cackle of tri- imph, 46 ¢ Olive was writhing to sander the sennit cords which bound his arms, man had snatchéd up the hat, veil and raincoat; thrown these about the pig--cooked to send to the feast down the coast. Running toward the outer end of the islet he had hoped to draw off Burke and the crew, $0 the vil- lagers could rush Palmyra shore. ward to safety. He would hold the pursuit by carrying the pig into the sea; perhaps himself escape if Ponape fear the sound of firing. Hence it was that she herself, peering tensely out, saw Olive led to the mai tree, his wrists bound behind him. She saw the master in vehement demand for her surrender; Olive shake his head in defiance. The villagers, crowding round Burke's guards, waited in conster- nation, Ponape turned to them. "If you would save this man's life-- speak." But Olive, pale yet unflinching, besought their silence. They would have been glad to have this white woman off their hands and Olive free, The Japa- nese could not punish their yield- ing to force. They wished to yield but the will of this one being held them fast, Unnoticed, a boy had wormed in- to the erowd, a bit of paper folded small in his hand. His purpose was to toss the note so Ponape should get it, vet not know whence ft came. But the urchin blundered. As the message left his fingers, Burke saw. The \ white man snatched up the paper, unfolded it, "Your sacred word to free Olive unharmed (also the others), and I give myself up. He shall not die for me. If you promise, call loudly yes." 3 Burke uttered a crow of victory. Whirling toward that point from which he conceived the note to have come, he put his hands to his mouth and shouted: "No, no, NO!" Then he clutched the boy by the wrist. "Show me where." His revolver menaced; the mes- senger began to cry. . Under the muzzle of the big weapon the urchin quailed. He was appalled at Burke's anger, And he saw that his own people wav- ered. At last, therefore, he raiced a trembling finger, pointed to- ward a group of thatches. The boy haltingly brought. Pon- ape Burke to a hut. "In there," he whimpered. w 44 Burke sprang under, dragged his guide with him. The hose had been searched before. It was empty now. 4 The man's scrutiny took in every detail. Then he turned and the boy was in real danger, Savage irri- tation had all but overborne any sense of consequence. Suddenly Burke's eyes opened For, as thik figure ran, there was Horror sat upon that visage; ludicrous, yet doubly intense by the very inadequacy of its expression. He snatched for the revolvers. He could battle for her. Yes, kill hall a dozen of those Japs. But-- to what avail? Fighting or no, he'd lose her. "I edn't go on without you." he burst forth, 'and they won't let me £0 on with you. But if I can't live, I can die--with you." He broke into the old laugh, The boats, as one frantic glance told his victim, were still too far to aid. The natives all had fled. Only Olive remained; bound hand and foot, the rope from the noose dragging across the limp above. Olive was writhing to sunder the sennit cords which bound his arms. Olive--bplood dripping from wrists torn in his struggle--hurl- ed himself against the madman. The concussion of his bulk threw Ponape back, The bullet which would have pierced Palmyra's brain flew harmlessly into space. The islander, by a supreme ef- fort, snapped his bindings. He seiz- ed the other. He crushed his master to him like a gorilla. But the hand that held the revolver was yet, for the moment, free, It flashed in, the muzzle pressed against Olives side. The hand, gripped convul- sively, forced the hammer up to- ward its fatal blow. But now, astonishingly, movement ceased. Firing from a distance, someone had drilled Ponape Burke through his evil heart, But, alas, the steel bullet had not stopped, its work performed. It had crashed on through the body of the heroic brown man who fought for her. | The girl shrieked out, fell faint- ng. And then, as these three lay, there came a sound of hoofs, and a muddy foam-flecked horse plunged up the village path with John Thurston. ! He sprang from hig saddle, flung aside the gun, caught the uncon- scious girl up in his arms. When Palmyra Tree 4t last opened her eyes, she gazed up at John Thurston for a bewildered moment, . | Side by side two bodies lay, | Palmyra snatched herself back, from John as if his touch ~ hall burned. "And it was you," she eried, rigid in horror, "you who fired? Oh," she wailed, "I cannot, cannot bear that it should have been you---you who killed Olive." "But, "Oh, no, no, no, lady," the all surgeon interrupted in eager reas-| surance. "This natlve man is not dead." She looked at that form in shud- dering question. wide, he leaped to the center of the {it hit nothing to make ti ; house, stared up at thé bundles of | man trouble. He will be something "Bullet knocked him out ' little," explained the officer, Ris big al "but! LEGAL SYSTEM IN CANADA PRAISED Selection of Judges Draws Tribute From Noted Chicago Lawyer SOUND JUSTICE Montreal, July 12,--Striking tribute to.the "refreshing sense of good or- der and composure bespeaking ad- herence to the best of British tradi- tions" to be found in Canada was paid by Hon. Andrew R. Sherriff, of Chicago in an address to the dele- gates of the Commercial Law League of America in conference in the Mount Royal hotel recently, He went on to ask what the people of the Dominion must think of the "hurly burly below their southern line," but declared while the United States might sometimes seem impul- sive and headstrong by all the tests of history, she had proved to be ac- tually an altruistic and noble minded nation, Acty Approved any Shion s nh . founded ' in the ar es, we mist ben at' th foundations, on the form the composition of our courts, and in creating a public desire to set up sound law as & standard and general sequitits, of mutual conduct, It seems y | el E. N. Blazer agreed that the bill deprives lawyers of their revenues to an enormous extent such as they had never conceived possible befo! "Nobody reads it," he said. "It is an attempt to cscape from the com trol of our juries and when the large manufacturers get it passed through out the United States you will get no forwarding business. "The arbitrators will not be bound by the laws of the particular states and lawyers will not ¢ welcome in their courts, They will make their own laws and all our rules of evidence will be upset." Edward H. Brink moved a resolu- tion stating that the League is op- posed to any contmercial arbitration act. Another delegate sought to have the whole matter referred to the arbitration committee which drew from Maurice Davidson the retort, "let us not forfeit the right of leader- ship by avoiding, or ducking the is- sue." The reference back was defeated and eventually the congress approved the arbitration act recommended by the conference of commissionérs on uniform' state laws, Indians on the reservations of the three western provinces of Canada who have gone in for agriculture continue their JFiogtess towards a condition, of self-support. It is in- teresting to note that these Indians have more than 100,000 acres of land under cultivation, and produced more than a million bushels of grain last year. Their livestock herds number 22,500 head, and they sold beef cattle to the value of $184,000 in 1928, "Can control babies," says a headline. Welcome news, haa ft been true, for the father of a 3 a.m. howler, bet alas, the article referred to rabies. -- Port Arthur 0 onl gy, Witla 8. Kahne, Alsosisrd 'Asiatic Russia can be ARCTIC FLIGHTS OF COMMERCIAL VALUE Extensive Trade Flights Tnto . Planned New York, N.Y, July $8 ~The snow and ice route, nemesis of many trans-Atlantic fliers, has rev ed im- portant commercial po ities on the other side of fl The first round trip flight has been completed between North America and Asia, / eg The flight linked. ka, and Cape North, of food was taken to Ca orth on the westward flight. urning, the ane brought back 'a' car { Si- erian furs worth $150,000, -- - The success of the venture was re- ported in detail to the National Aero- JDautic Association from its Fair- s chapter. It is understood here that similar and more extended trade flights into Asia' are planned. y. pushing thie terminals; of the route further into Siberia south- ward from Fairbanks to Seattle, sponsors for the flight predict that the vast fur ucing regions of rought within a few days of the American market. Weather is an 'obstacle. . Pioneering flights for the présent over 'the bar- ren 'white trail must be undertaken without benefit of regular "weather reports. : The men who made the first trip were Noel Wien, president of the Wien Alaska Airways, and a me- chanic. The round trip totalled 2.300 miles and the flying time was less than. 20 hours. A They t off with a half ton of food su ¢ and flew to Nome, They refueled and proceeded to. Cape North, where a- Norwegian fur vessel waited fast in the ice, On the return flight, in tempera- ture of 50 degrees below zero, the lane passed over Bering Strait, the Seward peninsula, and landed at Nome. Between Nome and Fair- banks oné stop was made 'at Nulato, J. G. Roberts, secretary of the Fairbanks Aeronautic Association branch, in his report to the New York headquarters, says: "To our mind the flight proves con- pks, Alas- ia, A load News, clusively that the logical route be- Hiencerte Nome, and fiom Je agross Bering Strait northerly or southerly to Siberia and southern Asigtic countries. ; : In sokivhetion with the flight of e Swi plane S via Green. Ari Ree RAL Le gestion has" been advanced in avia- tion circles that air transport may bring fulfillment of .the dream of a oy ---- route to India, several {centuries after Hendrik Hudson. TREMENDOUS POWER IN LIGHTNING BOLT Heavy Crackles | in Radio In- dicate Approaching x Thunderstorm Washington, .D.C, July 19.--~With the lightning flash comes the static crash. The tremendous electrical power of a bolt of lightning indicates the violence of the atmospheric: dis- turbance that accompaniés a thunder storm and spoils clear radio recep- tion, A single flash during a severe storm may release 1,000,000 kilowatts of power, engineers at the bureau of standards have ascertained. While the duration of a flash is only three one hundred-thousandths of a second, flashes coming very few seconds keep the atmosphere in a constant tur- moil. The transmission power used by the largest programme broadcasting stations is only 50 kilowattts, a tiny fraction of the energy released by hundreds of lightning flashes in a violent storm. Scientific observations made in France ove ra period of one year led to the deduction that "heavy crackles of static in a radio receiver indicate | a, thunder storm, approaching if the crackles become more and more fre- quent, receding if they become less requent or less strong. A slight 'sifiement' was produced by a heavy hailstorm approaching near the re- ceiver." On the north Atlantic coast of the United tates an outburst of static was found to follow a sudden change of wind, particularly a change from south to nqrth. Static also accom- panied a rise of temperature there. Observations made at Mt. St. Au- bert in Belgium showed that the ab- ee mori Ham Seaton ss Towbin Permeatoil. Reg. $7.50 for $3.75 Lamona. Reg. $10.00 for $5.00 Latest American Waves. Do not harm the hair in any respect. Leaves nice, soft, . natural glossy waves, and do not need finger waving. Experi. enced operators. Phone 657) for Appointment 255 Celina St. Oshawa sence of statit characterized the ap- proach of fine weather, little precipi- tate cracklings accompany hail or heavy rain, distant cracklings, fine weather and numerous and prolonged cracklings, stormy weather, A prolonged sound like water from a gutter accompanied a sudden change of weather and a prolonged and singing sound, seeming distant at first and approaching little by little until strong, characterized a violent thunder storm or tempest, "Was Shakespeare _ Insane?" asks a headline. Sure he was. If not why did he spend his time en- tertaining the world fnstead of trying to reform it.--Border Cities Star. Nr LL eH b¢ errs In the afterhoon lawyers sparred lightly over the provisions of the Federal Arbitration Act which at the last convention received their sup- port and in a scarch for a substitute approved finally of the act recom- mended by the conference of com- missioners on. uniform state laws, This afternoon, Hon. John G. Sar- gent, former Attorney General of the United States gave an address ex- plaining uniform state laws and ar- bitration agreements, The morning was devoted to a base ball tournament and quoits and hors. shoe pitching at Westmount, whil. for tonight will twinkle the star at- traction of the convention, a cabarci dinner, entertainment and dance iu the roof garden. Nominations for the leading offi- cers of the league are as follows: For president--Frederick A. Lind, Chicago; for Vice-President--Sal. Weiss, New Orleans; for Treasurer, W. O. Hart, New Orleans; Record- ing Secretary, David V. Bloodgood, Milwaukee; for Executive Committee Phillip L. Steinburg, Cleveland and Edward F. Peters, Cincinnati, Excellent Qualities "Whenever I come to Canada my heart is lifted with gratitude for hav. ing such a nice neighbour, We should delight in her excellent qual- ities, where you find a refreshing sen- sc of good order, composure, urbanity British traditions. And we know, too, that the people are marked by extraordinary industry intelligence and refinement," said Hon, A, M, Sherriff, last night, , The speaker went on to pay anothe. cr tribute to Canada. Hc said that he had seen the announcement of the meeting of the Canadian Cabinet and that their principal business was to consider selections for several va cant judgeships on the Supreme Court of Canada and in various nisi prius courts of the provinces, Thus, he continued, the judges of Canada are chosen for office by the most re- presentative body of the nation, the Prime Minister and his Council, and on them rests the responsibility for the quality and the. judicial compe- tency of the judges whom they place upon the bench, Seen as Example "There is no method of selection of judges in practice anywhere in the United States to compare with this in the assurance it gives of sound and responsible administration of justice. In this, as in many other ways, we can find an excellent example in Cas nada," he said. -- "What we have by way of courts is an institution of more or less patchy and 'haphazard growth. There has been practically no = administrative authority set over the courts, collec- tively, and every judge is a law and Jan, institution unto himself." which bespeak adherence to the best AN 'OPPENHEIM FOR READERS OF _ STARTING ON ONDAY, JULY 22nd The Oshawa Daily, Times will publish a new and Thrilling Serial Story 'The : By, E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM In| This Gripping Serial The Master of Mystery, Intrigue, Ad- venture and Romance is at his Best. The Fever Heat of Italian Love, with its Impetuous Crisis and Exciting Results, Forms the Background for a Story that will Fascinate Every Reader. Don't Miss the Openiug Chapter in Next Monday's Issue The Oshawa Daily Times ] TORY The Oshawa Daily Times -- we can establish justice in J