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I'll run your damn channel! I'll run your damn shoals! There's no coral in the Pacific that can stop me. "You won't pilot this," Dick told him. "The tide has changed on you, Ramey; you'll never find the way without someone to tell you where you are. Go ahead and pile up your boat; when you've piled her up I'll take your people off. But the Seal will never get out of this bay to-night." "I'll get a Kanaka pilot off the beach!" "You've already tried that or you wouldn't be coming to me." A storm of blasphemous vitupera-tion from Ramey's boat assured Dick that what he had guessed was true; Ramey had already failed to find a pilot ashore. Weary of argu-ment, weary of Ramey, very much tired out with everything that was going on around him, Dick left the rail and went to the other side of his ship. For a little while the shout-ed imprecations of the Seal's skipper still disrupted the night. But, since he answered no more, even these at last died away; and the bay of Alakoa was silent except for the clink and thug of oarlocks as the Seal's boat went home. Dick grinned sardonically at the anchor lights of the Seal; but it was not the boat he was thinking about. "At least," he said aloud, "I know exactly where she is; and where she will stay, this one night more." "So that's the way the wind sets," Garrett Watersen said at last. "Well, I guess that's the worst of all." tie but the body structure of the frame itself now remained to show what Garrett Waterson had been. First inspection found no sign of life in the face, or in the big skel-etonized form under the blankets. After a minute, though, they saw the gleam of the living eyes. In Garrett Waterson's eyes still lived the embattled flame which had driv-en this man always to wild, extrava-gant, and uncompromising things. Garrett Waterson spoke huskily to Tonga Dick. "You're a knockout, you little squirt, you are," he said. "What's the idea?" Perhaps no one else in the warm seas had ever been able to domi-nate Tonga Dick as Garrett Water-so- n could. Shimazu was amazed to hear Dick speak hesitatingly. "Well," Dick said, without much effect, "I thought I ought, to come back here." Garrett Waterson's voice roared hollowly. "What the hell else should we do but come back? Do you have to duck out with our only fast ship?" "Didn't know you meant to come." This time the effect was galvanic. The old skeleton form that had seemed dead whipped up on one el-bow with a dreadful, inappropriate energy. Garrett Waterson's voice came like the ghostly shell of a roar that once would have blown a main-s'- l down. "Who are you, you insufferable pup, to say what we are going to do?" As Garrett Waterson raised him-self, Shimazu made a quick, instinc-tive movement, as if he wished to stop an effort which obviously was more than that ancient and wasted frame could stand. But Dick halted Shimazu with a gesture so casual that it carried an implication of ut-ter fatality. He knew, if Shimazu did not, that only one thing would ever stop Garrett Waterson from any unwisdom whatever. "Sorry, sir." "Damn your sorriness," Garrett Waterson said in a diminished voice. He eased himself back until he lay as lifeless as before. "And damn you," he added. "Okay," Dick said. "Damn me. What then?" "Where is this girl?" Waterson demanded. "Well," Dick began, "the fact is" "What's she like?" Garrett hur-ried him. "Well," Dick began again, "she weighs about one hundred and twen-ty pounds, with kind of blue eyes, and " . "Blonde and sallow," Garrett Wa-terson said bitterly. "By God. I knew it! Preaching half the time. Wears starchy clothes. Oh, 1 knew it!" The outburst winded the old man, and the silence that followed gave Dick time to consider. He supposed that Garrett Waterson was assign-ing to Karen the attributes he had chosen to recognize in the family into which his son had married. Or, perhaps, the old man's resentment had been inspired by something even more unhappy than that. "No," Dick said. "She isn't like that. There isn't anything like that about her at all." ' Garrett Waterson rolled question-ing eyes upon Dick and waited. "She has blue eyes, like I said, but she has black hair; and she's the color of a gardenia, and she doesn't ever tan at all. There's no preaching about her for all I know there isn't even any morality. And she's more alive than anything you ever set eyes on yet." There was a silence again. "So that's the way the wind sets," Gar-rett Waterson said at last. "Well, I guess that's the worst of all." "Doesn't anything ever please you?" "From what you say," Garrett Waterson said, "the girl takes after me. What worse luck could you have than that, I'd like to know?" There was something ridiculous in the suggestion that Karen Waterson "took after" this gnarled and huge old man; yet Dick could see that in both there was a certain essential spirit that was the same. The old man seemed to rest for a moment, and Dr. Shimazu took the opportunity to attempt a counting of Waterson's pulse. Waterson made an irascible resistance. "Get this Jap's hands off of me! Who do you think" "You'll either let him examine you," Dick said, "or I'll walk out on you altogether, and you'll proba-bly never so much as set eyes on this girl!" There was anger in old Water-son'- s eyes, but he must have known his disadvantage. He attempted to ignore the situation by pretending not to notice Shimazu as the Japa-nese put a stethoscope to work. "No wonder," Garrett Waterson said to Dick, "that she goes rattling all over the Pacific, trying to grab stuff that doesn't belong to her. If you take my advice you'll stay away from this girl! She isn't going to come to any good end. And neither will you, if you fool around with the likes of her!" "That's a hell of a fine way," Dick said, "to talk about your own granddaughter." "Don't you think," Garrett Water-so- n said savagely, "I know my own breed? She's no good, you mark my word! Or else what's she doing here, at this late date, trying to dig up old trouble?" Old Waterson closed his eyes, ex-hausted again. Shimazu looked at Dick queerly as he rolled up the tubes of his stetho-scope; he came to the door and con-sulted with Dick in whispers. "I'll take his temperature as soon as we're sure he's asleep," Shimazu said. "But even without that, I can tell you, this is a very weak man. He should have been in a hospital long ago certainly he should never have tried to come here now. We're going to find out there's more than one kind of fever in this case. Black-wate- r certainly; and maybe some-thing worse." "Do you think he's in danger this time?" Shimazu permitted himself a queer waxy smile. "At his age, and with so much wrong with him, there's no reason why he should be alive at all. His heart is very irregular, weak, and slow. My ad-vice is if you want anything from this man. get it soon. For all I can guarantee, he may never talk lucidly again." "It's as bad as that, is it?" Shimazu shrugged. "This is a worn out machine. Yes." he added, returning to the understatement that he favored, "this man is sick." They stood silent for the space of more than a minute, looking at the figure in the bunk. A huge flying cockroach, with a body bigger than a mouse, flew blunderingly across the cabin, and hit the bulkhead with a metallic clatter; it recovered itself immediately, and ran behind a large chart of Rotoava Anchorage. "I've got to get up," Garrett Wa-terson mumbled. "I've got to see James Wayne." They ignored this, and the mum-bling ceased. There were a few moments of complete silence. Suddenly the still figure spoke in a surprisingly strong voice, a voice that seemed wrung from it by an unexplainable emotion. "I would have given my whole life my whole life, and a lease on my soul in hell, just to see her just to look at her one time!" For some unknown reason Shima-zu looked appalled. "By God," Dick said, "then you shall!" He turned to the ladder. "It's no good," Shimazu said. "By the time you get her here, he'll nev-er know her. Tomorrow maybe, if he is still alive " "Then she'll be here tomorrow, too," Dick promised. He went up the ladder like the jump of a marlin. Then, as he came out of the companionway, he was instantly checked. Now that he was on the open deck he could hear, across the quiet waters of the bay, the clatter of the Seal's loose-jointe- Diesel, and he could see the Seal's lights mov-ing away from her anchorage. Cap-tain Ramey had weighed his anchor, and was putting to sea. (TO DE CONTINUED) CHAPTER XIII Presently Dr. Shimazu came on deck and talked to Dick Wayne. "I think she's all right now," he said. "You go look for yourself." "The knife wound ?" Dick asked. "The wound isn't going to amount to anything, I hope. But you come with me and look, so I can go home." Dick went below with Dr. Shimazu, and hesitantly made his way into the little stateroom in the stern where he usually slept Hokano was stretched out face down upon the bunk beside Lilua, his face upon his arms; and Lilua had turned a little so that she could hide her face in Hokano' s shoulder. When Dick had stood there for a moment, Lilua lifted her head, and looked at Dick without expression. At first he thought that she was unable to see him; but in a few mo-ments he decided that she did. She was simply looking at him with com-plete impersonality, like a cat; or perhaps simply like a girl looking at someone who doesn't mean anything to her any more. Soon Lilua low-ered her head again, returning her face to Hokano's shoulder; and it was perfectly evident that Dick was instantly gone from her mind. "I guess you were right," Dr. Shi-mazu said. "It takes a Kanaka to fix a Kanaka providing they don't kill each other first." "Of course I was right," Dick said. "Can she be moved ashore now?" "I think so; yes." "Inyashi! See that the girl is moved ashore carefully and taken home." "Yes, Tonga." "Maybe," Dr. Shimazu suggested, "I can go home now?"' "Your night is only starting," Dick answered; "I've got other work for you now." Dick called away the shoreboat again, and, with Shimazu. went aboard the Sarah. Garrett Waterson's cabin, as they entered it now, was a strange mess. It differed from all other cabins in that it was full of more charts than most people have ever seen. There were charts all over the wall, over-lapping each other in reefs and pads and a great number of these had been drafted by Dick Wayne. There was even a chart nailed to the bot-tom of the deck above Garrett Wa-terson's bunk, where he could read it as he lay in bed. Hardly any-one ever got into this room; cer-tainly, since Garrett Waterson had first taken possession, no one had ever cleaned it up. Old shoes, and sea boots, and miscellaneous cloth-ing were piled about, or hung upon nails. But all this litter could mean nothing in this room the charts were everything here. Everything, that is, except the man. The ancient figure in the bunk had been a man of huge frame, once. Fever had carved his face very close to the bone, taking away much of his substance. Yet neither old age nor wasting fever could ever make this man appear ascetic he simply never had been made on as-cetic lines. Everything about him had been built in the beginning to be big and vital. There was some-thing arresting, even terrible, about this big frame which had been built to a vitality for which the fuel was now gone. And there was no doubt about the fuel being gone. A faint surprise showed in the eyes of Dr. Shimazu as he perceived that Garrett Wa-terson was still definitely alive. Lit- - Pershing Had but Gentle Rebuke for Doughboy From time to time there have been complaints about lack of dis-cipline in the U. S. army. It is true that the American soldier al-ways has been somewhat "diffi-cult," but he is a good, coura-geous fighter and it sometimes pays best not to be too regimental. This leads up to a story of one dark night in France during the last war when a doughboy stopped an officer and asked for a ciga-rette. As he lit up, he recognized the officer, and gasped: "General Pershing!" The general smiled grimly. "Say, son, you took an awful chance," he said. "I might have been a second lieutenant." FIRST-AI- D fo the AILING HOUSE by Roger B. Whitman - Koger B. Whitman WNU Service. LINING CHIMNEY FLUES FOE GAS A HOME owner who is consider-ing putting in a gas burning furnace has been advised by the gas company to put a lining in his chim-ney flue. He is told that if he does not go to this expense of $40, the chim-ney brickwork may be injured, and he will be required to sign a waiver by which he accepts the responsibil-ity. He asks about the necessity for a lining. There is a real neces-sity for it, because of probable damage to the mortar joints. In burning, gas forms vapors that will condense against the cool masonry. These vapors contain sulphur, and in combining with the water va-por that is present, a mild form oi sulphuric acid results. In time, this will eat into the mortar joints and lead to destruction. A chimney that is properly built, with a fireclay flue lining, will not be harmed. But bare mortar joints will suffer. To pro-tect them, a pipe can be inserted in the flue made of a material that is not affected by acid. It was evi-dently this that was suggested by the gas company. Another treat-ment is to spray the inside of the flue with a form of liquid asphalt, use being made of a special spray-ing outfit that can be let down the chimney. I have heard of so many cases of the deterioration of chim-neys in burning gas that I strongly recommend that my correspondent go to the expense of lining the chimney. Chimney Creosote. Question: My old house, original-ly for one family, has been made over into three apartments. It has a peak roof with an inside chimney. Each apartment has a kitchen stove, burning range oil. In the top apartment a black liquid drips down the pipe on the stove and floor. How can this be .stopped? Answer: Apparently, the three kitchen stoves are connected to the same flue, which makes the draft poor for each ohe of them. If the top of the chimney is not at least two feet higher than the highest point of the- peak roof, this also will affect the draft. As a result of poor draft, the vapors from the burn-ing oil condense in the cool part of the chimney above the roof, and the liquid which forms runs into the smokepipe of the top apartment. Rebuilding the upper part of the chimney with thicker walls would help the situation, because that part of the chimney would be warm-er then, and there would be less condensation. The chimney cap should be the full size of the flue; if it is smaller, it will reduce the draft. Uneven Door Sill. Question: My basement door is cut through an opening in a stone foundation. The lower stone surface is uneven, so that there is a space under the door of as much as an inch in places. This makes the base-ment cold. How can this space be fuled? Answer: Your best result would be to cut the sill smooth and level with a cold chisel. One way to fill the space would be with concrete, provided you leave the surface of the stone sufficiently rough for the concrete to form a bond. Another method would be to screw a strip of wood to the bottom edge of the door. Basement Wall Finish. Question: Basement walls are of cut stone, and were finished on the inside with cement. Much of this has fallen off and I plan to put on a new surface. Would you suggest cement, or something else? Answer: Cement paint, which is intended for masonry, would be bet-ter than straight cement, for it a binder. It comes in white as well as in colors. Get it at a paint store. Directions on the label should be carefully followed. Leaking Roof. Question: A dormer roof is cov-ered with cedar shingles, and as it aas little pitch, it develops many leaks. I do not want to remove the shingles because of the expense. What can I cover them with? Answer: You can use composi-tion shingles over heavy roofing felt. Mildew Spots. Question: What will remove mil-le-spots from broadcloth shirts? Answer: Javelle water or similar liquid bleach will take them out. Use a weak solution and alternate with clear water, for long exposure may the fibers. Repeated laun-dering will usually do the trick. Making a Lawn. Question: How can I grow a lawn on sandy soil around my house? Answer: For best results, you should cover the sand with about a toot of top soil. Get the advtce of where the local a good seed store, conditions are known. Noisy Floors. Question: With two tenants m above me. noises come through plainly- Can any the floors very rf floors. Even those will not C0TlfcaedCebyemfrCahmJ kTrbuUding. If VCU -- a aT attempt tion. Coronation Finery Catherine I of Russia, at her coronation of 1724, wore a crown that was studded with 2,564 pre-cious stones and surmounted by a ruby as large as a pigeon's egg. Catherine II, at her coronation in 1762, wore a gown that had a train 225 feet long, which was carried " by 50 attendants. Both Are Helped It is one of the beautiful com--, pensations of life that no man cani sincerely try to help another with-- ! out helping himself. Bailey. I ASK MS O ANOTHER I A General Quiz r-- c-- c c- c. o- - p-- o-- c- - p-- p-- o- - p- - cv. r. r-- c cw 1. Who was Nimrod? 2. Twenty-fou- r sheets of paper is called what a ream, quire or quatrain? 3. What is the brightest star in the heavens? 4. How many islands make up the Fiji group? 5. Which of the following is measured by the mil: Precious stones, wire or drugs? 6. From what is camphor ob-tained? 7. Who fought the battle of Flodden Field? 8. How many words a day do court stenographers record? 9. What is the name of the great desert in central Asia? 10. What is yellow a symbol of? The Answers 1. Nimrod, the son of Cush, was a mighty hunter and ruler (Gen. 10:8, 10). 2. A quire. 3. Sirius. 4. Two hundred and fifty. 5. Wire (used in measuring the diameter). 6. From a tree. 7. Scots and English. 8. Frequently court stenogra-phers haye recorded as many as 50,000 words a day, which is more than most office stenographers take down in a month. 9. Gobi. 10. Yellow is typical of a wide range of meanings attached to most colors. To some people, yellow is the symbol of constancy, faith, love and wisdom, while to others it represents cowardice, hatred, jealousy and treason. Test of Manners The test of good manners is be-jn- g able to put up pleasantly with , bad ones. Anon. |