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He halls balls a taxi and Inslrucls Instructs Inslruclsy Instructshe Instructsjjttc he driver to . take tke , her where she dire directs directspauta directs3rtaH cis cisdi -y y - Ibe { ( di ! | PIW pauta s uncle Alintiral Admiral Duncan calls aDZOrle ongone on aD Wtit ZOrle gone goneCHAPTER - CHAPTER CHAPTIR : TV IV IVWhat ' 'W W ' 'What What ' at Ad did ) jrou you OU say say7 ' he demanded demanded demand > ed < d hoarsely What did you say toI to I ' ' ; . ycGonigle7 r.fcGolllgle rfcGolllgle IdcGowgle ' D d you } ou promise an en endowment endowment en'f enf ' dowment7 dowment dowment7J ' J , I don t recall lust Just what f fsaid fsaidl said saidbls 'said said what'said 'saidgrandfather ' | tis bls grandfather answered ans\\ered ans ered \ vaguely vaguelyBut vaguelyBut vaguelyj But It its s all right'It right nght righti i It 'It ' ' means I 111 Ill 11 lose my job lob ' ' What 'What ' ' of o1 It it7 ' I have better ideas ideasfor ideasfor ideasi for you t < \ tOn On that plantation7 plantation ' Paul askedhoarsely askedhoarsely asked , hoarsely He was breathing breathmg hard hardles hardj hardjes 1 1Les \es es les \ There s a fine opening opemng foraubetter foraubetter for foryou you au-better au better - better than the one I mentloned mentloced men mentloned tloned tloced I dont don t tant \ want \\ant ant it ' Paul cried cned 1 4 ; ' ' "Well Well 'WeU WeU 'Well " ) you au re going gomg to take it- it itbm itIim it-bin7 it bin7 - bm Iim ' You have just lust time to pack packand packand packand and meet us at the plane Look atr atI at atIss r I Iss ss Corey he said sm smiling lng be beIlevolently beeevolently beaevolently Ilevolently eevolently at Zone as it 1.f 1f . she were werethe werethe werehe the ( final proof of something somethmg She si1I sall s sn i1I all n readyAunt readyAunt ready readyS S Aunt Hannah s voice broke in With With.leepy withaleepy withtieepy .leepy leepy aleepy . irntab Irritability lty Ready for forwhat forwhat torwhat7 torwhat7She what ' She came down the stairs stalrs hold holdg holdng g her pink pmk quilted dressing dressmg gown gownabout gownabout gownabout about her short short , , plump figure'TIlls figure'This figure figureThis ' ' This 'TIlls TIlls 'This is my Aunt Hannah-Ad Hannah Ad HannahAdIfal HannahAdiral Hannah - Adniral Ifal iral Duncan Zone murmuredReady murmuredReady murmured murmuredReady Ready tor for what7 what ' Aunt Hannah Hannahepeated Hannahepeated Hannahepeated epeated aggressIVely aggressIVelyGood aggressivelyGood aggressivelyf Good morning mornmg Aunt Hannah Hannahaul Hannahaul Hannah'aul Hannahaul ' aul said in a sardonic sardoruc voice"My voiceMy vOice vOice'My voice'My 'My My ' " grandfather has Just ] ust decided decidedtake decidedo o take Zone to Hawau Hawaii HawaiiAunt HawauAunt , Aunt Hannah stared What for ? I She s agreed to help me write wnte my myemOlrs myemoirs mynemoirs emOlrs emoirs Admiral Duncan an anered antwered1 I Iered eredShe ered She stared at him then at Zorle'Howhow Zone'Howhow Zone Zorle 'How-how 'How How ' ' How - how long will it take take7 ' she sheasped sheasked shegasped i aspedi Ir IrAt S ; asped asked aspedAt askedIr At least a year said Paul It s sa sa a dandy jobF jobBut job But what s to become of me meAunt ? F rO\unt rO unt \ , Aunt Hannah wailed walled I can t af of afford offord atford ford to run th shouse s house without Wlthout the- the thethe thethe the thethe - - the assistance that Zone Zorle gives mel meRent meRent me l ( Bent Rent a smaller house said theadmiral theadmiral the dmiral admiral coldly coldlyWhy coldlyWhy coldlyi I Why should I I7 ' she cried cned Her Herose Herose Herlose alwaysId ose had become pink as it always alwaysd d when she was angry Zone Zorie is isrfectly isrfectly isperfectly quitetttisfled rfectly happy here She s qUlte quite quiteatisfied : alisfled atisfied I-I I I - I won t let her go I ve ye yeways veilways ' lways ways sheltered her She s 8 a never neveraveled neveraveled nevertraveled aveled She s too-too too too - - too young-too young too youngtooocent youngtooocent young - tooinnocent ocent She s- s sHow sHow s - How old is she ? the admiral admiralcurtly admiralcurtly admiralcurtly curtly curtly.nterrupted nterrupted .nterrupted interrupted .nterruptedShe interruptedShe . nterruptedShe She s tv . twenty enty four Paul Pa12l Pael an antiered antuered 1111 tiered tieredShe ered , , i She can legally do as she shepleases shepleases shepleases pleases the admiral said firmlyShe firmlyShe firmly firmlyShe She is coming commg with us to the Is Islandshm Isjlands andShm lands-hm lands hm _ - hm7 ' ( She cannot go I ' ' Aunt Hannah Hannahred Hannahtr Hannahr red r ed She has obi obl gallons gatlOns gations ! ! She Shehas Shehas Shehas has a very responsible position with Wlth Wlththe withthe withthe the head- head headI head - I ! She headShe resigned it the admiralcurtly admiral admiralturUy admiralCurtly turUy Curtly cut her offYou offYou off offYou You have no right nght coming commg m In here hereand hereand hereand and lives ' ' interfering rnterferrng interfermg m our You are Admiral Duncan said saidtesbly saidtestily saidtestily tesbly testily a meddlesome woman With Withnothmg withaothmg withnothing nothmg aothmg to say about ItI itI it itt t I Listen to them ' Zone Zorle marveledij marveledq marveled marveledNot marveledNot marveledijNot q Not one of them is considering consldenng me meor meor meor or what I want They re pushmg pushing pushmgIlle pushingme pushingroe Ille me around as if 11 I were a puck m In ahockey a ( hockey gameAunt gameAunt game gameAunt Aunt Hannah at this moment ut tit uttered tittered uttired tered a small scream She was wasstaring wasttaring tarmg staring past the admiral at a the theeta thesta eta ta rs The admiral turned and andglanced andglanced andlanced glanced ( at the stairs Paul was waslookmg waslooking waslooking lookmg looking at the stairs stalfs Zone turnedand turnedand turned and nd lookedA looked A man coming dov.nIn down dov.n dovn . 1A was slowly slo\\ly slo ly \ downTIn 1 TIn In & his left hand was one of Zone s sI sf s/suitcases s suitcases I f / wtcases suitcases The other was huggedIInder huggedunder hugged huggedinder inder IInder under his right elbow while withhis withbis with his bis right nght hand he v y as balancing balancmg onhis on onhis trunkr his shoulder her small trunkZor trunkZore trunk trunkZor r . Zore Zor e swayed She thought tor for a ai a8 i ! moment llioment sheould she \ would \\ould ould faintThe faint famt ; ' The 'rhe rhe man descending the stairs wasI was 'the the was'the ' I ( tte the big bronzed blue eyed e > ) cd ed young youngllian youngman youngt youngtman youngn t n man llian to whom she had talked In the3 thei the therain i Mm ram rain He was sm smiling mg mysteriouslyat mysteriously at t her with one eyebrow up He Helooked Helooked Helooked looked lookedsmlster lookedsinister smlsterPut sinisterPut sinister smlster sinisterPut Put that luggage down ' ' Aunt Aunt"innah Auntinnah AuntIIannah AuntRannah IIannah Rannah " orderedPut orderedPut ordered orderedPut Put it in m the car the admIral admIralI admIrallaid admiralsaid admiralMid I laid said h in the same calm . but authonta authorita authontawe live tve authontalive authoritatve ( voice he might have used on the the1 , historic thehistoric " "tone tone " occasion many years pre Viously preViously . when .hen hen he had issued his his ; tonc torte histonc historte " " ' "s s " order When you have theraage the tinge range raage Lieutenant Horton you may mayi let maylet "t t " those torpedoes go goThe ; The mysterious Inystenous young man walked walkedlsU'ely walkedlelsurely lelsurely outof ls\U'ely ls U'ely Uely \ ' past Aunt Hannah and out , ot of the doorZone doorZone door Zone lel I ! Aunt Hannah bleated bleated"ho . _ 'Who Who ' "ho ho Wto bleatedWto " Zone asked huskily husklly is ismatt that isthat matt wit < ' mattWe I } Admiraloncan AdmiralDuncan Wed We d better be moving Admiral Admiralj j ttniss tmiss Duncan _ oncan , - " said * ti4 * * cheerily * , uceruy We vvc mustn iiiubku t b ' tniss miss "A A " * that plane-hm7 plane hm7 plane-bm bm plane-hm hm planehm7t - ' t 'rWho Who Zorie Zone repeafd repeatpd repeated is that that7 ' answeredZet 'r r ' Thin hio lun 1 ipped pped Paul answered answered5 answered5et ino InROtl0n et ; answeredet Zet Zeta -et et - a * . iu't iut just fast ' call him an ev evil force in in"Hon inHon ROtl0n " " o n ' That is my brother Steveriel Steve , , 'Zone Zone Steve'Zone ' riel ' * ! Aunt Hannah .hlm hlm whim . whimI IlIher whimIlIher IlIherd I-01'11 I 01'11 0111 , bel1 't11 t11 - ' d You car cal " t desert me like . . "V V " Zorle Zone orie wondered at that moment it If | Ifthe the three kisses she had bestowed on the onthe brow of the Buddhahad cast iron Buddha had thisWhen tlusWhen anything anythmg to do w x . th all this tlus placedher When the two tv.o tvo . stewards had placed her two su teases tcases and her small smalltrunk stateroom trunk in the middle of the state stateroom , adollar eachdollar room Zone Corcy Corey tipped eacha each a dolIar dollar and \ wondered ondered if it was enough wasenough From their sffi smiles es and their theirthanks thanks she assumed that it was Never wasNever ignorant having havmg traveledshe traveled she was ig : norant about such th ngs I ngsShe She closed the door She took a deep adeep breath and looked about theroom the theroom theroom fortour forfour room which \ was as to be hers alone for four das daH days ; and five nights rughts It was a acozy acozy acozy cozy palegreen room done in m ivory and pale green There were tvin t vm beds each eachagarn eachagain eachagain agarn again t a wall There was a dress dressmg dressmg dressing mg table . with .Ith Ith triple tnple mirrors mirrorsShe mirrorsShe She wondered what Mrs Folsome Folsomewas Folsomewas Folsomewas was thinking thmkmg about the telegram she shehad had hadsent CityShe sent her from Salt Lake City She had been tempted to send one onesa onesaying onesaying saying sa ) mg So sorry Go Gong ng to Ha Hawall Hawail Hawan wall wail Your invitat Invltat mvitat ons in corner cornertrash cornertrash comertrash trash basket The one she had sent said Dread funy fully Dreadfully Dreadfuny sorrj sorry sorr ) , la In haste of departure departurelost lost your tea invitat mvltat ons Please du duplicate duplicate duplicate plicate and send me billAnd billAnd bill billAnd And she had sent a telegram to toJimmy toJimmy toJimmy Jimmy Hoffbro Hofibro ver say ng rig Yourterm Your Yourterm Yourterm term paper finished In drawer dra\\er dra er \ my type mytype vr yr ter table Hope you pass passall passall passall all courses with flying flymg dying colorsHer colorsHer colors colorsHer Her thoughts drifted drilted to the big bigbronzed bronzed ioung young oung man she had met m in mthe inthe inthe the ram rain Although she now knew knewwho knewwho knewwho who he was he remained remamed mys mystenous mysterious mystenous tenous terious His full name was Stephen i , I I : ' I r M - e So r ren en M Md d Md Mw d w-\ w wi - \ wY wT / ) i ' Y T 'fir fir ' " o Z ZTynti Tynti Tyntiand and 4- 4 - 4c c - r rr , -r r - ' ' a.ao- a.ao a.aorw . - rw rwShe She said coolly What are you do- do doIng doing do doing - - ' : ' ing bere here here7 here7Decatur ' Decatur Duncan and be he was Paul Paulhad Paulhad Paulhad had told her in m the plane in m dJS dis dJSgrace disgrace disgrace grace Steve had been heen living livmg In InGermany inGermany inGermany Germany His po poht pout lit cal sympa sympathles sympathies sympathies thles thies were very pro Nazi He had hada hada a rascally reputation Steve was wasbeing wasbeing wasbeing being taken back to Uluwehi Uluwehl Uluwehf by rus his rusgrandfather hisgrandfather hisgrandfather grandfather who Paul said wasdisgusted was wasdisgusted ! disgusted with himSteve him himSteve Steve is in to the doghouse Paul Paulhad Paulhad Paulhad had expla ned and the less said saidthe saidthe saidthe the betterShe betterShe better betterShe She sl 51 pped into mto sodden sleepA sleepA sleep sleepA A series senes of bang ngs aroused her herThree herThree herThree Three men were in m the stateroom stateroomand stateroomand stateroomand and they were depositing luggage luggageon on the floor bes de hers It was wasbeautiful wasbeautiful wasbeautiful beautiful luggage of all shapes and andsizes andsizes andsizes sizes but all of a pattern a soft softfaun softfaun softfaun faun color v y ith bright bnght red and blue bluebands bluebands bluebands bands about it and all st-mped st mped stomped st - mped m in mgold ingold ingold gold with the init Imt snit als A LZone L LZone Zone sat up and gazed at It ItThere itThere itThere There were at least ten pieces of ofthiS ofthis ofthis thiS handsome luggageThen luggage luggageThen Then a girl came sailing sallmg into mto the therooma theroom , room-a room a - a g rl of about Zone s as'and asand agO agP agPand ' I Iand and size and she was slim sllfn dallt daiit dalltI dalltand daiitand damand I and beautiful beautliul She had brown eyes eyesand eyesand eyesand ' and a dusky lovely sk n She looked lookedas lookedas as if li she might be Spanish Spamsh or orFrench orFrench orFrench orFrenchShe French FrenchShe She hardly glanced at Zone Zorle She Shesaid Shesaid I Isaid said coolly What are you domg doing m in mhere inhere mhere7 here ' She had the kind of accent accentthat accentthat accentthat that you associate with sophisticated sophisticatedpeople sophisticatedpeople sophisticatedpeople people who have 1 ved a great deal dealabroadnot dealabroadnot dealabroad abroad-not abroad not - not English or ' French I'rench Irench or orGerman orGerman orGerman German or Italian or Russian but buta buta buta a smooth blend ng of them allII allII all allI I-I I I - I thought this was my room roomZorle roomZone roomZone Zorle Zone answered meeklyThe meeklyThe meekly meeklyThe The girl glanced at Zone again againthIn againthei againthe thIn the-i the i - stared Her eyes seemed to togrow togrow togrow grow huge Her lovely color faded fadedWho fadedWho fadedWho Who are arc you7 you ' she gasped gaspedMy gaspedMy gaspedMy My name is ts Zone Corey CoreyWhere CoreyWhere CoreyWhere from from7 from7Confused ' Where are you Confused by her sharpness Zonetold Zorie |