Show FORLORN ISLAND SYNOPSIS with hla his yacht the intrepid abandoned by 10 is crew felix horton millionaire 1 lio 1 0 with hla his mother hla his daughter nan and roy stuart puts into S squaw harbor alaska to recruit faill falling nc to secure sailors sailor B norton horton engages 9 a bunch of non deser I 1 apts str stranded an ded there A gi gigantic gantle pole San domar is 1 their beader leader captain the intrepido skipper is 11 an old friend fried of eric ericssen unemployed but holding masters papers and he engages to sail all as chief officer horton Is reeking peeking uncharted islands nan and eric indulge in a moonlight flirtation which brings brines them both to the threshold of interest in each other it if not ot of love the intrepid Is wrecked by one of San domars crowd eric takes command of a small boat with horton his mother and daughter nans maid marle and roy stuart unable to help they watch San domar kill captain and leave the ship with his crowd way ire has thrown erie a revolver from one of 0 the aleuts aleuns ashore speaking a little english eric brie learns there Is no communication with the outside world Fir ebeart priestess of the island descended from a white man in the remote past also knowing a little english welcomes the castaways casta ways San domar backed by his big crowd declares there shall be no law on the island but erie eric h having the only gun cows them tor for the time declaring he Is the law ile he lays out work tor for all whites and indians alike CHAPTER V continued 7 half again as much dried salmon smoked meat meal and breadroot bread root must be put aside for winter eric told them gravely half again as many parkas and mukluks must be made it means from sun slin to sun in good weather ife he paused his gaze sweeping the crowd some of San domars men looked woebegone woe law and labor their special abominations were clutching them again eric glanced at nan but some devil of pride glazed her gray eyes and set her lips in a grim line hoe what would your highness have hare us as do she asked bitterly chew skins like the eckl limos it mus must be all or nothing life or death something just as bad perhaps yet im hoping that you three white women can be spared the worst jobs simply because seem so much harder to you than to the squaws squads all work both by brown and white was nas to be under eries erics general direction if disputes arose he would settle them ile he laid down the proposition that the sol soil belonged to the aleuts aleuns that the conquerors could exploit them malce make them labor rule them but they must not starve them steal from them or shed their blood the sailors could have only aleut girls of proper age who gave themselves willingly they could share the hunters wives an old aleut custom only with the husbands hul husbands bands consent it if any man broke this law 1 nv or committed murder or mutinied mutinies muti nied against the captain he would he be killed there can be no appeal eric said in a low grave tone therell be no chance for a second offense the lives of the whole party are at stake I 1 myself will sentence the lawbreaker law breaker and carry out the execution nans look was sullen all her life she had bad given commands never obeyed them and discipline was a word she did riot not know but why did her heart leap up her gaze was dark with resentment yet it could not turn from the viking form in the blowing mist the bright erect head bead the grave face for the moment alight with the flame of 0 idealism the eyes blue with the essence of the eternal sea she almost hated him for dominating her and despised herself for the thrill of it on advice eric divided his forces into three parties the first to kill sea lions hauling out to breed on the far beach the second to gather eggs and net birds on the rotting treacherous shale of the bluffs and the third mostly squaws squads to spear clean and dry a small early school of minion cliflon that had escaped the half built fish trap among the squaws squads at the drying rack was a lean little woman with lively motions it was mother norton with 31 marles arles help she was cutting into strips and hanging banging the fish fast ss as her 11 sIlmer sll raer could supply them the slimer sll mer had bad slender once oce love ly hands eric watched them a full minute before she looked up it was nan and she had deliberately chosen the hardest most disagreeable chore in sight eight she was kneeling on the creek lunk bank cleaning fish her hands and face were bloodstained blood stained stiff with slime and scales her fingers were bleeding from fin scratches and slie she was sobbing halt half in fury half in pain she saw him and sprang to her feet with the sleeve of her parka she wiped her face of its stain and tears 1 I crying she told him angrily 1 I got sand in my eyes better stop till you get it out and I 1 mean you to do this anyway im not doing it for you her drawn pale cheeks began to darken it if you think I 1 am youre making the biggest mistake of your life id have starved before I 1 let you force me to do anything it have been forme anyway eric said gravely gra icly jt it would le be for law which im trying to represent I 1 have nothing to win or lose she whirled on him in swift fury letting go everything that what you told San domar last night flight would you mind saying which girl you referred to I 1 dont think it was as marle you know ashes engaged to wilcox but perhaps that make any difference to aou ou by edison Al marshal arshaW copyright by edison TV brou service 1 I referred erred to you 0 of course how do you know but that im in love ote with ROY ROT or did you just mean to take me away from him by force if necessary well you can give that up DP once and for all ril ill clean fish or anything else for the welfare of the party but dont think im ever going to be your squaw even 1 if we stay here the rest of our natural lives ii if I 1 take anyone here it will be roy somehow eric managed to smile it was one of the few successful bluffs he had ever made im sorry you took that seriously she seemed stunned you mean it naturally not I 1 supposed you saw through it if even men like S sando ando mar show some restraint to another mans girl if be thinks theres a clear held field hell be twice as dangerous nan looked down her eyes dry now find and oddly dark 1 I beg your pardon you its a worthwhile worth w while atle field but im just not in it A and D d it if youre in love with roy I 1 wish marry him here in the chapel ill it A im not doing it for you her drawn palo pale cheeks began to darken say the same to marle and wilcox Vil cos it would save a lot of trouble make you two girls far safer im not in love with roy yet nor with anyone try to fall soon wont you and noy nony we understand each other let me ask you not to clean any more fi fish ab the squaws squads dont mind doln doing it rather sit down to a nac nice messy job like this than to stand out in the cold coldwater water take a spear find and try your hand beside your father its exciting and the sand wont get in your ees erie eric turned quickly he could not wear the mask much longer pride it was his big own private devil for prides sake he had cast away the most fair and starlit hope that had ever touched his big heart that night he be built a barricade for nans turf house and moved an old lone squaw so he be could have a small hut to himself it was centrally located and by knocking out a block of turf he made a window to hear bear nans or hortons holtons Hor tons softest call the oaken ioor door was off a ship cubby cast up by the sea long ago and its bolt of stone could not be forced without giving an alarm here he too could sleep secure from a surprise attack tired from the days toll sando mars gang went to their hut at sundown though they might plot and threaten they would make no trouble tonight lie ile wakened with a heavy heart just before dawn what if he be did win this island war with the elemental powers for the others life freedom the pursuit of happiness for him what gain only a succession of other wars with wave storm and crag continued bondage to his idealism t sm the search for the distant lighthouse that ever faded from his sight eight love ile he had den denied led it no girl like nan would ever cross his trail again she was the one 91 girl ra whose steel could strike at rike fire from the flint of his soul whose greatness called to his big own greatness since the dawn dann of time and a nd he had bad been afraid to fight for herl her it must be that his viking blood had paled in his veins eans that the high place in the world be had willed to win was a fools dream otherwise he would hew hl his way to valhalla tor for a mate like nan I 1 suddenly he was called from big thoughts by a subdued sub dued sound outside his window save for the stillness of the hour be would never have caught it and there was no earthly reason why his heart should fling against his ide but ut there i was an un 1 earthly reason in the deep of his sailor soul he knew that this was destiny all was not lost he was to be gi given yen another chance A dim white figure stole by his hut but and vanished in the dusk of the creek bank and mukluks muk luks slipping sll on ills parka eric quietly followed follow ed but he be was with yards of the stream before fifty I 1 in n he be saw the ghost again it looked almost too bulk bulky y for a river writ spirit but presently it m moved oved weirdly lost and then seemed shape all 11 animate to separate into two entitles entities one of these find and eric knew it was a discarded parka fell arid and collapsed on the ground and the other stood for a f ew brief breathless seconds in silhouette against the dark water eric did not turn and creep away by thor and woden such folly was behind himl ue he waited breathless his presence and a soft voice came stealing through the dark it was nans and she was addressing pagan gods 1 I am not asleep she said bravely as the ley icy flood almost took her breath 1 I am not d ead dead I 1 am allie f A moment later she had slipped on her warm fur parka and was hurrying back to the turf house she did not see eric till she was almost upon him then she flung back with a gasp ile he did not speak but she recognized him instantly spying rl she whispered bitterly yes and glad of it 1 I thought at least you were a gentleman 1 I come any nearer than this although I 1 wanted to I 1 dont ask you to forgive me id do it again but I 1 do want your forgiveness for the lie ile I 1 told you today what lie ile pin im cold you can tell in me e I 1 in n the morning 1 I want to tell you now it was the blackest biggest lie ile of my life I 1 saad that I 1 mean my declaration to San domar I 1 did mean it from chebot the bottom of my heart I 1 am in the field I 1 want you for my own nan stood very still her eyes were long black shadows in the white blur of her face but he be could not guess their message if it was a lie ile what you said today im glad you took it ft back she told him quietly at last 1 I think you are a gentleman after all and you are loveliest the bravest girl ive ever known I 1 knew it when I 1 saw you by the salmon pool but I 1 tried to dismiss you as unattainable but im going to fight for you now dow im going to try to win you away from roy you are my mate and it if I 1 lose you I 1 lose all the world nan gazed long and dreamily across the water to the glimmer of dawn A childs sweet look was on her lifted face im glad to yon want me she told eric at last it almost makes me think that there is something to me after all not just a spoiled young hellion but eric it will be a hard row the odds are all against you you son see that thal this island adventure is only an interlude in our lives some day well go back and you must stay by the sea and the snow besides youre competing against a dominant man a man who always takes what he wants and chos got a head start erics heart only leaped the stronger but you are mine for the winning for the winning yes I 1 take back what I 1 told you today theres no insurmountable barrier im going in now eric im not cold any more hut but ill see you in daylight its daylight now eries erics low voice had a jub jubilance liance she had never heard lie ile looked out to the grim headlands just emerging from the dark its the most beautiful summer day I 1 ever saw she smiled and stole away exultant erie eric walked down the beach the seavy ind in his hair the glimmer of a new dew dawn in his eyes in the next days toll toil erie eric had cause to remember nans expressions of roy this deep thinking cynic was no fish out of water but a power to be reckoned with a dangerous rival for erics leadership ile he had found his bearings and was coolly setting getting out to mas master ter his environment if he were so strong here how could eric compete with him on his own ground roy had called eries erics attention to a black bog behind the bluffs its alow a low grade of peat he said ive seen the like in ireland get the men to cut out squares and s set et em cm out toi t 0 o drain in a few wee weeks ks well have a new fuel and can divert considerable quantities of animal fat into the larders eric rejoiced without a trace of 0 jealousy this might spell the difference between plenty and famine in the grim months to come but the gulf between the leaders remained As they were helping the hunters complete their fish trap ready for the salmon run roy proposed that it be extended so that it cover the channel then well get every fish that comes up As it Is at least a fourth will get by aweve weve got to spare enough for breeding stock eric answered salmon come back to the stream am where they spawn if we catch them all four years from now there wont be a fish to be seen it was another clash of viewpoints do you expect to be here tor for years from now thank god I 1 donti dont 1 lets take the cash and let the credit go but eric stood by his bis guns its not our island were invaders but were not huns hung to destroy as we go moreover its only too possible that we may bp standing on this very bank not only four but ten years from now waiting for the salmon run and we dont want it to fall ile he turned to Chech his li bailiff alliff tell the men to build the trap as usual 1 I dont understand your point of view roy surely you arent trying to pander to the catl bathes es 1 I was pandering only to my sense of right and wrong was the grave answer that may seem lau laughable hable to you but its a fact and its true im trying not to antagonize ih hi n fives any more than I 1 ran an liell TO BE cortina COr TINt EV et |