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Show ill SBqBENAMLS WILLIAMS f f J kick of her feet thrust herself upward, up-ward, swung one leg over the gunwale, gun-wale, clambered in. The mate said: "Here's my coat. Miss Doncaster." When they came alongside, the rail was lined above them. A sailor gave Mary a hand up, cupping her foot In his palm, and Captain Keen reached down to help her. On deck, Mrs. Gale bad a long coat to put around the girl. Mrs. Gale said: "Run and change, Mary." But the girl stayed a moment mo-ment to be sure George was all right. They were rigging a whip to hoist him aboard, since he was still too weak from the shock of his immersion im-mersion to help himself. The mate and the sailors watched him gravely. grave-ly. Mary, understanding that he would not want her to see him thus, went below, leaving him to other hands. George even when he was safe on deck was barely able to stand. John Gale said to him: "Well, it's lucky for you Miss Doncaster was aboard." "Yes. I'd have drowned. Where is she?" "In her cabin, changing." "I want to thank her." "Later. The first thing is dry clothes for you. and a noggin of faction. "I think that's the first question I ever heard you ask," sha declared. "Yes, of course I do. After alL I've only been away eight or nine years." "You seem glad to come back." "Of course! I'm coming back to my home, to my father and mother! moth-er! This is where I live, really. I Just went away to school, you know. I lived with my aunt In New Bedford. Bed-ford. Aunt Patty Hanline. Uncle Tom was away all the time; only came home twice. He's mate on the Venturer, Cap'n Coir's whaler." George echoed: "A whaler?" He said with a strong distaste: "Cork-ran's "Cork-ran's told me stories about the whalers, the whaleships. They've ruined these islands." "Whalers aren't so bad. New Bedford's full of them. The Venturer Ven-turer is a fine ship. I know Cap'n Corr. His sons are mates aboard her. I knew them both In New Bedford. Bed-ford. Peter was in the same school with me; and Richard too, for a while, years ago. He went to sea as cabin boy first, and then came home and came to school for two years, and then went fourth mate with his father again." Her eyes were dancing, amused at his expression. ex-pression. "I thought Richard was pretty wonderful, and Peter too, of course. Richard was so shy be hardly hard-ly looked at me, but I worshiped him. You know how little girls are." "I'm afraid I don't know much about little girls." ;ulf SYNOPSIS to&ni 'acAusland was 38 years old rir t Ced from America to under- Hi missionary In the Ftfi T .rime he had committed in a to pigment had shattered all his 3K 2 himself. He felt forced to Y, Mary Doncacter, who board-a board-a ,t Honolulu. She was en t iui ! Tjlt her parents, who were n Gllead Island- Mary ted by George's attempts to I .ipTER I Continued ey -2- ' E :u're sorry for that poor r-.'3n?" John Gale asked. faid Mary. He'd be nice Ik I" J t think he had to be so rfuid when I speak to him, he j though I'd stuck a pin in pA,. Gale says he wants to J.Pte and doesn't know how. 10 much better he ust jflwiink he does want to talk d1fu''se! Tiy shouldn't he? I'm hvd pretty( and friendly-and K'iltibe's not nearly as old as "frpjj be is. You watch him, "fajj, when I'm talking with h'seargood." !eard a cry forward, and l . -ped past the old man to Lik.'side. George McAusland I 4 had fallen off the stage, -L'A into the sea. J3a't swiml" Mary Doncas-imed. Doncas-imed. The old minister Je hiss of torn garments; instant later, she stepped skirts and petticoats, and J white In less encumber-J encumber-J el vaulted easily over the ie sea. :k was a scurry of activity. it kept his eye fixed on H i dark spots that were ' the vast waste of ocean, I i they dipped Into the 1 rtween great swells, lifting ests again into his view. CHAPTER n moment when Mary Don-eaped Don-eaped overboard, George jst directly below her. She ide of the vessel's side in clear him; and when she !he surface again, the ship, p high, was gliding smoothly jross the silent sea. From ; Is shouts came back to the iu J she saw the splash of a irown overboard, and knew ;ld come quickly. She smiled. "Or big ones, either, do you, Mr. McAusland," she challenged; chal-lenged; and then she told him quickly: quick-ly: "But maybe you'll see them. Richard and Peter, I mean. Cap'n Corr promised to put in at Gilead to see my father and mother on this voyage. Mother's Uncle Tom'a sister. Maybe we'll find them at Gilead when we get there. I hope so." He asked In curiously thick tones: . "Why? Because you want to see your uncle again?" "I want to see them all of course," she said. He said, after a moment, almost wistfully: "I've never known young men. My brothers were a lot older than I." "I know," she assented softly. "You haven't known young women either, have you?" "No." She said, smiling In the darkness, as though he were a child: "I knew you wanted to be friendly with me, but you didn't quite know how." "I want to be friendly with everyone!" every-one!" "But specially with me, a little, don't you?" she urged. "Only you're sort of afraid?" "I don't think so!" he protested, half-resentfuL "Oh, but you are," she Insisted. "You're afraid to do the things you want to do." He swung toward her as though startled; but someone spoke behind them. Suddenly George sneezed. "You'd better go below, hadn't you?" she suggested. "You've taken cold." He blew his nose. "I'm afraid I have." They went aft together. Mrs. Gale prescribed hot lemonade, but George protested that he was all right, till he sneezed again. Then he consented to go below. During the days that followed, John Gale was pleased to see that having taken the plunge, George no longer avoided Mary. They were much together, as often forward as on the after deck. Under Corkran's instructions they practiced rope work and listened to his tall tales. Mary led him to talk of whaling; and sometimes Corkran told of bloody battles with Leviathan that made George's pulse pound, and sometimes he made them laugh together to-gether in a gleeful incredulity. But the girl stayed a moment to be sure George was all right. rum. You're blue with cold. Come along." George followed obediently; but he refused the rum. He shook with a teeth-chattering chill till he had rubbed himself dry and glowing. Then he lay down under blankets to warm himself, and slept till John Gale came to rouse him for supper. "All right?" the older man asked. "I thought you were probably asleep, needed sleep more than anything." any-thing." "Yes, I'm fine. I'll be along." But he was slow in dressing, dreading the necessity of meeting Mary and of thanking her. When he came out into the main cabin, the others except John Gale and the Captain had finished supper and were already on deck. "Gone to watch the sunset," the old minister explained. "It promised to be fine." George was relieved at this postponement; post-ponement; but when he and John Gale presently went on deck the sun was gone, the sky fading fast to the deep blue of night he faced his duty. Mary was in the waist with Mrs. Gale. He went toward them, and they saw him coming, and Mrs. Gale asked: "All right now?" "Fine," he told her. She said some approving word and went aft, leaving him alone with Mary. He wished to ask Mrs. Gale to stay; turned to face Mary reluctantly. She fthe meantime this helpless ilcAusland had sunk, sucked I the burble at the ship's iary swam toward the spot j had disappeared, and saw 3ering arm break the sur-13 sur-13 coughed and gasped and Ssomctnirg; and sne heard khtfiy hands . . ." ur a hot impatience with him flhe did not know how to If "d because he now surren-Msupinely. surren-Msupinely. She cried: "Don't i'illy ! You're not going to jjiWre all right! I've got still." voice behind him, George rigidly, and a little wave "cd across his face and into mouth, and he gagged and J in the water like a croco-Jrng croco-Jrng to tear off the gout of hich its teeth are set. He ler facing her and tried to $ her. She dove instantly, I his grasp, and ruthlessly s foot and pulled him un--Jr. Then she slipped up past -Jar of his hands that were 'is. and from behind him "s collar again and drew him -face. on guard against any sud-fement sud-fement by George; but he twitted, rigid as an oar. Yet I wavy, and his clothes were nd the grating was farther 1 .in she had thought. Before it. she was tired, her ?fcnding. The ship now was They sighted the tip of Gilead's highest peak one day as the sea cut the sun's disk in half. At dawn they were close aboard, or seemed to be, although still ten or twelve miles distant Mary was with Captain Keen, and George joined them and asked a question; and Mary said: "We'll come to a big bay presently, present-ly, with room for a hundred ships. It runs deep into the Island, over two miles, and there's a small island is-land in the mouth of the bay, so there are really two ways in. The bay narrows all the way to the beach at the inner end. You'll see!" Her eyes were happy with anticipation. "Father and Mother will come out to meet us," she predicted. pre-dicted. "Will they be keeping a lookout?" "Oh no, but someone will see us." She pointed ahead. "That's the entrance, en-trance, Cap'n Keen. You can't see it yet, but that rock that looks like a hill with no trees on it is the island in the mouth of the bay." The Captain asked: "We go In south of it, don't we?" "Whichever's easiest, according to the wind. There's deep water everywhere, ev-erywhere, even close in to shore. The best holding ground is about a mile this side of the beach." Captain Keen nodded. Mary went forward, George with her; and she pointed out to him things familiar to her eyes, which his could not ye' perceive. (TO BE CONTINUED) smiled, understanding, and said quickly: "It's all right. You needn't thank me." "I want to," he told her, blurting out the words; and then he spoke the phrase he had decided was most suitable. "I owe you more than I can ever pay." Mary smiled. "I'm glad you feel so much in debt to me. It will be fun to have you try to pay. Be very nice to me, won't you?" But then she relented, seeing his embarrassment, em-barrassment, and said quickly: "It wasn't anything, really. I could have kept you afloat all day." "I'm sorry you had to . . ." He hesitated. "Well, I mean . . . Well, I know how brave you were, how hard it was to do what you did." Mary frowned" a little, puzzled, and then suddenly understanding. 'Oh, you mean because I took off a few petticoats?" He insisted stubbornly: "I know -hat it must qave meant to you." She touched his hand. "You're sweet; but honestly, I didn't mind. I didn't even think of it Naturally I couldn't swim in a lot of petticoats." And she said, faintly amused: "You know, Mr. McAusland, you'll have to learn to look at so many things differently on the Islands; to learn new ways." "I hope instead of learning their ways, I can teach them ours. Do you remember a lot about your childhood down here?" She looked at him in a quick a a lis - jgttoadside to. She hoped i ; aboard had had the wit to Kleye on them; and then she i "n in the rigging, pointing W.rection; and when the next jjj'd them, she saw a boat in r - f between them and the 5 oars glinting in the sun, Rs way like a spider, j'tf George: "Hold on to the j Don't try to climb on it. y on." His fingers clutched Jand she released him and ay out of his reach. ' 13 humbly: "1 can't swim.' Mghcd, herself easier now lh that! You'll learn. Every p in the Islands. I coulr; frore I could walk, I think ' near." His teeth wen pi "You're not cold," she J That's just nerves. Don't iJ could float like this foi ed more and more swiftly hold him up with words. ' her eyes strength visibl . Jt of him. Yet he mus' : minute more, a minut( 3t reached them. The mati ; e stern; two sailors at thi ake him first. Mr. Chase,' quietly. "H's tiring." auled George McAuslanr Sunwale, and he collapsec 'tom of the boat betweet "en and the mate. "I'l over the bow," she said 5e swung the boat and shi ";e bow and with a deep |