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Show THE SMITHFIELD SENTINEL, SMITHFIELD, UTAH FORLORN ISLAND . By Edison Marshall Copyright by Bdlsoa Marshall WNU Serrloe SYNOPSIS With hla yacht, the Intrepid, abandoned by Ita craw, Falla Horton, millionaire, with hla mother, hla daughter Nan,' and Roy Stuart, puta Into Squaw Harbor, ' Alaaka, to recruit. Ha anpiia a bunch of nondeacrlpta a trended ..thqra, A glgantlo Foie, .la their, leader. Captain e, the Intrepld'a aklpper, ia an old friend of Erlo Erlcaaen, unemployed allor, and Erie engage! to Ball aa Ban-dom- Way-wrlr- chief p nicer.. Nan and Erie Indulge In moonlight flirtation, which brlnga them both to the threahold of tov. Tha Intrepid la wrecked. Erlo takea command of a email boat, with Horton and hla party. ' Unable to help, kill Capthey watch Sandomar tain Weymlre and leave the ahlp with hla crowd. On . landing, they learn there la no communication with tha , cutalde world. Fireheart. prlaateaa of the laland, descended from a white man Jn tha remote past, knowing a little English, welcomes the castaways.' Sandomar declares there shall be no law on the laland, but Eric, having the only gun, cows him for the time, declaring he la the law. He lays cut work for all. Eric's love for Nan awolla, ud ho telle her to win her for hla mate. 8ha la not unwilling. Fireheart claims Erie as her own, and realising the Importance' of her friendship he la forced to temporise. Defending himself from at tack,. Eric's revolver apparently misfires. Sandomar, 'deaf, does not hear the trigger fall, nor realise Erie's fens'elesaums.'. , He turns away . and Garge follows him. Eric finds tha rewhich had bean Waymlre'a, Is volver, rlm-flr'while live of Its six cartridges are center-fire,- '. Erie has one effective a . . . a d. a, cartridge. CHAPTER VI Continued ' It's too early to turn In," she said loud.. Then, in low tones to Eric: We're ail ready. I want to stay here with ytrti and Wllcofc' till the last couldht'bear tn have yon go min-tite.'- "l through- Til - never starting fresh heart - forget It, ' Nan. I was you'veglven me By G d,. I can face em now!" Dad's watching everything, about fifty steps off. He's going. to come in At the first sign of trouble. And don't worry about me, Krj,c. I've given you my promise, and Ill keep it As soon as. I see there's ho hope for yon, 111 sprint for the boat Good girl! I think that's better than trying to. leave, now.- Sandomar might get. It Into his head to follow you aij- - anything might happen ip the darkness. He drew a long breath. . Nan, are yon Ripping." .. But the glitter, in her eyes anA. the hription flower In each pale cheek belled her words. I'm not going to .wait any more. I think theyve got some game, end I mean to beat. 'em to It If I Show them I'm not afraid of them, maybe they'll back down. Nan steeled her suffocating heart And leveled her gaze to hlsi I dont believe they can atop' yon. . . . Now let 'drive Eric stepped full Into the firelight Garge," his called clearly. There was a brief alienee. The gang, massed . around Sandomar, froze In their tracks Im . ,ere, the little ' cockney answered at laat The;, fires getting low,'. Yon and Sandomar rustle some" driftwood. The gang stored long at Eric, to see - . If his gaze would fait It only grew sharper, so one by one they turned expectant eyes to hla adversary. It was Garge who had brought tha tale f the defective, revolver: here was a direct and unmistakable challenge for him to prove hla story. No doubt Eric was bluffing, but It was a bold bluff, and these bold men gave him credit grunted a question ; Garge waggled an answer. But Eric's voice cracked through the silence, cutting SumhVmar the purley short..-- . You heard me, one-hal- - voice nine ahrilL The straits were now desperate. -- We'll see whether it will or not" Eric drew the revolver, and pointed this barrel straight into the air. Are yon going?" ' Eric was no longer cool His eyes were biasing, hla voice hoarse, his posture tense and threatening. Gorge's face began to torn gray and weazen op. It might be that he was breaking. . . . But suddenly, from no visible cause, the whole aspect of the scene changed. .Nfin's narrowed luminous eyes saw the difference even before Eric's, and Iptr sharp, sans fears swelled Into Garget vgge monstrous shapes of terror. er Somehow, Eric no longer held the hand. Gorge's pale lips drew Into hands hideous lear; Sandomar' tfenrhed and quivered; the men fuelled ready to charge. Events an undreamed jrjtre whirling" towunl .Umax. Some black plot had thunderbolt was about to Tall . . . -'besiua you I It wna Nan's voice, up-pf- pros-ISrred-- . i Fire-heart- and maybe White Chief want her." wild and shrill. "Look beside you 1" The girl's tone harshened. Fireheart The fire was to Eric's left, so he she lore hard Uke north wind. But e Uke boorga, Uke big gals" whirled to the right Through the she dark wall Into the red circle leaped But the white girl Is your friend. a white wolf In human guls& It was You would not try to make trouble Swede; his tawny hair erect, his eyes for her." 1 wait I ses If you catch love for no longer pale bnt red aa garnets. In hla powerful arms he swung a weapon her, she no my friend. If I no get yon, no girl get you. Maybe I kill her. primal as this scene, a native fllnt-aThere was no more time for Maybe I have hunters kill yon, too. I calculations. Eric's lifted fore- am Fireheart priestess of Lost Peoarm whipped down until there waa ple." one steel-blu- e line between his eyes The Aleut girl granted and trudged and Swede's. And the last relic of away. Eric lingered in the chlU dark, the Iron age did not falL he sick of heart baffled, the pilot-sta- r Bwede had aimed too high. Aa the followed fading on hla sight Yet all revolver winked In the firelight and waa not lost His last cartridge had spurted gay red flame, he was checked not been spent In vain. Early In the and appeared to strike not morning Garge came to Eric's hut suin mld-alat Eries head but at hla feet. With ing for peace. Me and Sandy made a queer awkwardness, almost comic, a mistake' yesterday, and we umbly his legs shot ont behind him and he ask you to let bygones be bygones, " fell flat, his arms spread wide. At the Uttle cockney said. We ain't gothe back of hie head the pale hair ing to make you no more trouble; air. turned slowly red. We see you 'old the upper 'and, and Just as though his magazine was though we dont much Uke It we 'are still charged with sudden death, Eric made up our mlnda to stand It swept the empty weapon before him Eric did not smile, even a grim hint until Its black eye seemed to look of a smile when he remembered the straight Into the staring eyes of every empty revolver in his pocket That's foe. good sense. Otherwise therell be more .Who wants It next?" Erie asked, lives thrown away. Yon and Sandobitterly. His Up curled up, In hatred mar will be treated Just Uke the othand scorn. Theres seven of yon left ers." why don't you try something?" Then, Aye, aye, air I Now, air, rd Uke to make a tamble plea." Garge's tone grew confidential It may seem queer, coming from me, but Tm mating It for Sandy's sake, to keep lm ont of trouble. Eric could not imagine what waa coming. Go ahead. Can't the two young ladles tarry np and settle down with the men of their choice? They both 'as their preference, no doubt, and It wouldn't be no 'ardshlp. Yon see, Elr, as long as theyre running around free andy won't put 'em out of 'Is mind, and make 'lsself comfortable with. one of the squaw. 'Ea like a huU seal, 'e la, and sometime I'm afeared he'll lose Is 'eed and get 'lsself shot. I don't want nothin to 'appen to Bandy." , ' There was sober truth, here Eric promised to give the matter hla attenBut It probably cant.be done tion. at once find In Hie meantime youd better keep your eye on Sandomar, he warned.. "He's made too much trouble already. If he so much as touches either of the girls, hes going I Beside You It Waa Nans Voice, to Join Swede very quickly." Look Beside Wild and Shrill. This warning echoed solemnly In You I" Garge's mind during a brief, grim as their facef turned one by one to ceremony foUowlng the morning meal yellow tallow: How about you, Garge? Native and aUen gathered on the e about a Didn't you eay yon were through obey- beach, forming a n still figure wrapped In a akin; ing my order?" Garge opened hla Uttle squirrel Eric stood before them and gravely mouth to apeak, but he had already read a chapter from Mother Horton's talked too much. With-- a deep, ani- Bible. mal grant, Sandomar slowly stretched After the brief service; Erl'c called out a long arm and raked hla half- his friends to Horton's barabam for open hand across the quivering Ups; counsel Not once did he hint that It waa a sullen, sulky blow, Uke that hla weapon waa empty he managed a ah might give a comrade that to give the Impression that he had sohad led her Into brambles, and ap- lidified his position but he urged the parently had no power behind It, yet utmost caution In all dealings with Garge was knocked head over heels the Aleuts, and repeated part of his Into the sand. talk with Garge. Without a glance at his fallen pal, There's not the slightest doubt that ten-foSandomar picked np the end of a even lawless men like Sandomar take pole he had brought from the In a woman with a mate; beach and had laid under the bluff out less Interest said. As Garge pat It, there are Eric of sight For what purpose he had not enough wives to go round,-ansaved It Eric could only guess; tny-wa- y n girl la a constant source It had failed. Lumbering np, of eligible As far as I know. Nan Is trouble; granting, the ungainly creature threw not engaged to any one; but Marie his burden on the fire. and Wilcox seem to hare hit it off, The shower of sparks showed Eric and If she'll marry him, here on the standing tall and grave, his weapon Island, It will be better for every one. lowered to his side; white flame on The two lovers agreed to tie the hla face. Nan waited behind him, her knot. hands clasped over her breast But As the sun set in tha dreary westSwede; who had not known the Law, did not raise hla head, even when the ern sea, the bridal procession started her dark reviving fire crackled cheerily In his for the chapel Fireheart led, ears and cost its growing radiance face transfigured, almost beautiful n with some exaltation, the Into his open eyes. of what she deemed her llumlhg pride Before Eric slept he saw that the oars were back In place and all signs divine ordination. Marie followed in ships clothes; In attendance, came of the abortive removed. His victory was not so easy, his future Nan, wearing the bine dinner dress so secure, that he dared Ignore one hoarded from the wreck, her dusky skin glowing, her pointed eyes alight safeguard. Nan stood haggard and trembling Behind these trailed the remainder of e at her door. Eric, I couldn't the Island populace: hunters, squaws live through another such night I'd and children, Eric and his friends, Sandomar and his wolves, a strange sooner die!" Youve got to fight on," Eric took parade. In the dusky chapel, beside the tarher hand In both his own. "We all need yon, Nan. I couldn't have won nished gold candlestick and the single without you, tonight; It was your sliver Ikon, Marie and Wilcox knelt to chant In some alien warning that saved my life. . . . Fireheart began But maybe there wont be any more tongue of which neither she nor any one here understood the least word. uch nights, for a long time." Roy guessed at once that she was re'They know yon still have five citing the Russian wedding ceremony, don't Five between cartridges, they? ns and the place where Swede's gone. as passed down by word of mouth . . . Anyway, I'll fight on. Yon can from s bearded zealot of Vladivostok, marooned here nearly two hundred count me in to the last centuries before. But that It was magic As Eric neared his sleeping-hu- t, what seemed to be a pale shadow de- of first water the priestess herself tached Itself from the grassy wall and never questioned. Finally she Joined their hands, came stealing toward him. prayed for them with a seal that "White Chief." It waa Fireheart, who stood with hurled Eric's heart Into his throat, outstretched hands. Eric took than, Mased theta both, and bade them rise; In the alienee; Mother Horton bebnt his own were cold. gan what the Alents thought must be "It Is tote. You should be asleep. I wait for you." Her tone was gut- the sacred hymn of the paleface. Her tural, yet It had a lilt I know yon thin voice wavered at first, bnt gathered power as her trlbespeople Joined catchm love now." in one by one; singing as though their I don't understand." "When Fireheart leave fire while hearts would break. No doubt It was ago, she no go sleep. She lay, think, high magic. All the castaways were now swelling roll over, get afraid. Think maybe other white men kill yon. Bym'by she the chorus save the man called Roy, hear big noise. She get up, go see. who was smiling tolerantly, and Sandomar who saw their lips moving but Yon gone, white girl gone, everybody gone but Swede. He lay by fire, no. could not understand. The Aleuts go any more, no come make love to wished that they, too, could learn such Fireheart no more. Yon fix him. big medicine, to make at their own "Bnt I didn't do It because of you, weddings when the visitors had deFireheart 1 killed him because I had parted acroes the haunted sea: to because he attacked me Should auld acquaintance b forgot, and never brought to mind r There was a long, dreary pause. At a cup of kindness rat, for last the girl threw back her head. Wa'll find of auld lang syne. days love for white girl. Maybe yon catch (to ba aurruruaat x. cool-head- . half-circl- sea-lio- half-heathe- run-awa- y Garge? Get some driftwood and he quick about It" The little cockney steeled his sonl and stepped forward. We ain't go- -' lng to eed your orders no more." It was all or nothing, now. The men held their breaths. Look here, Garge." Eric spoke slowly and clearly. 1 havent forgotten what yon and your pal tried this afternoon, and I'm Just hoping for a chance to pay you back. I give yon f minute to obey and Sandomar my ciinimand. What you going to do If we don't?" Im jnilng to. put a hole through you.- - Aiul jrntir half minute la going. by mighty fast." ' That gun of yours wont hbootl Her yes?" She nodded many times. skin she no much whiter than and she not know how sew skins, trap birds, but she. heap pretty turf-hous- HIS ANSWER This Week iy Arthur Two little boys had put away In the larder over nlglit two small cakes for consumption the next morning. When, however, one of them went the next morning to secure his cake, he found only one there, and that had a large piece bitten out of It Full of wrath, be went In search of his brother. I say. he demanded, I want to know who took that bite out of my rake?" ' "I did," answered his brother. 'What did you do It for?" Well when I tasted It I found It was your cake, so I ate the other one ! Chelsea Record. Brisbane Around the World, Soon Hitlers Boy a? From Two Pigs, How Many? Nature's Fertility who designed the Rossi-Codplane that haa Just beaten the worlds long distance records, speaks with authority on flying. Twenty-fou- r years ago he waa tha first to fly the English Channel Now hla plane haa easily flown the Atlantic, the whole of Euro pa and on to Damascus. Bier lot predicts the earth will be encircled non-stoeither by a craft using a heavy oil, or as soon as a means is found for utilizing electrically driven Bleriot, os MIGHT BE WORSE A visitor to a seaside town was observing the crowd. VI suppose you serve a good many fish dinners," he remarked to the hotel proprietor. Yes, the people eat fish, mostly." 1 thought fish was supposed to be brain food, but these people are about the most unintelligent specimens of humanity I've ever seen." Well" returned the other with a shrug of his shoulders, Just think of what they'd look like If they didn't eat fish. engines." The Diesel engine in the air will revolutionise flying and cut Its cost. Engineers that should know, believe that a trip across this continent or across the Atlantic Ocean will not cost more than five or ten dollars per passenger, with Diesel power. A non-stotrip around the world will attract no attention 25 years hence. As to utilizing electrically driven engines" the genius Is probably born who will solve the problem of wireless power allowing airplanes to pick up their current aa they fly over the various waterfalls and other power plants alosc the route. p Future days glancing through Hitbook. Mein Kampf, My Fight." will find In it explanation of the Hit wind-up- Sun-ln-La- PUTTING IT STRAIGHT Both Satisfied But, dear," gushed the flapper, is it fair to go to the picture with a boy yon dislike?" Well, it's like this," replied her friend, I enjoy the picture and he Stray Stories enjoys my company. lers ler Accomplished I noProspective Father-In-Latice yon smoke quite a lot Mr. Smith; do you drink as well? Great Scott, Ditto jes! Rather better, in fact. Bystander. The Difficulty room at thd top," said the man who speaks sagaciously. "Yes," replied Bronco Bob ; but the trouble Is that In a lot o games the best cards la at the bottom of the Mr. Goodcatch Can I light a pack." cigarette? bliss Wideawake Do you wish ms Better Luck to regard you as a match? Judge, could you postpone my trial for a week? Ia a Circle On what grounds?'' Sirs. Flumpleigh Is your new You don't seein In a good temper. treatment successful? Gazettlno Illustrate, Venice. The Doctor It Is so very successful that all my patients hare to folLearned by Experience John I can't afford to keep a car. low it np with an antilean treatStone Bat I thought you bad oue? ment, and that works so well that I have. Thnfls how I found out they return to the antifat treatment and then I cant afford one.'', Stray Stories. "Theres always . For Instance, Hitler writes: "All education must be so planned as to give the (German) boy the conviction that he la unquestionably superior to the youths of other nationals. His physical training must give him the feel-luthat his nation Is unconquerable. The Spartans had that Idea, but they died out, although they trained boys to waylay miserable unarmed slaves on their way to work. In the early morning, and murder them with knives. You cannot make boys or men superior by telling them they are superior. The Kaiser and his officers tried that, and their soldiers kept repeating, as they marched through Belgium, "Paris In five days, but they are not In Paris yet. The Germans are a very great up tion, In science, literature, courage, endurance. Industry, everything. But to be pushed into another war now, Is what they do not need. ' an-tlf- at When Sherman waa marching to the sea somebody marching with him stole two pigs from the estate of Jefferson Davis. Captain Thomas Jefferson Datgs of our army has often told Lieut. of John B. Sherman, grand-nephe- General Sherman, that something ought, to be done about the pigs. Recently General Shermans grand-nephesent two pigs nicely crated to Capt. Jefferson Davis, and that matter la settled, almost, not quite. Lieutenant Sherman has yet to learn what "Interest" means. ' Captain Davis says two pigs are not enough. He will have statistician! figure how many pigs the original two would amount to now, after seventy yean, and calculates offhand that the descendants of General Sherman will owe him 150,000,000 pigs at least The earths greatest wealth Is in nature's fertility. Everybody knows that half a dozen shad, if all their young ones grew up and raised families, would fill the ocean solidly full of shad in a few years, and that the female oyster lays millions of eggs. When destructive sharks and other fish are killed off, as wolves have been killed In sheep raising countries, there will be more fish of the finest kind than ten times the present population of the earth could use. ' A dispatch from Baton Rouge. La., tells of a "crawfish run In millions, blackening of the highway for a distance of five miles, with natives shovelling the crawfish into bags and pass-joautomobiles crushing thousands of them. g Thanks to the new United States law against kidnaping, a woman waa arrested in New Jersey recently, accused of sending a threatening letter to a father who had recently employed her aa nurse for his daughter. It read: Leave 150,000 in silver at main gate at midnight Aug. 2 or your daughter's head will be cut off. Whoever sent that waa not familiar with metallic values and their weights. Fifty thousand dollars' worth of silver at present prices would weigh about 800 pounds, not easily delivered by the father or carried away by tha kidnaper. 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