Show r G GY Y 1 INSTALLMENT NINETEEN Thil TM if 4 the Ac concluding u r ro Ms fiery of 0 the he DEEP WATER TER ISLAND What to is this Dick asked you ou know mow that Jame Tames Wayne Way has ha been makin making additional addition payments on Makes an aU through tb the thelast last twenty earsT years 1 l thought he be wax was I couldn't couldn prove It I guess You can prove It now That's a receipt from Garrett Waterson is two hundred and seventeen thou thou- thou thol sand land dollars Incompetent or no not nobe be he was waa properly paid for tor and that receipt acknowledges it 11 JL I thought Id I'd better get It for you you- and save you a headache Karen Dick asked wh why have hay you done this thil I I m sick of having you worry for fc tear fear ear I J m going to get ybur isfan away way from you I J dont don't want you your old island You d better take care car carof of that receipt and not sit alt there ther creasing it all up Your brothers brother are pre going to want and It-and it and I J suppose support after all aU is to more theirs than tha yours your He wondered Irrelevantly If hi h he should tell her that this was waa not so but let it pas pass What are you ou go gc going go- go goIng ing lug to do now I m going back to San Francisco and look for or a job But Garrett Waterson will wt want want- wantI wantI I m not going to fasten onto him He a got troubles of ot his own There was a long silence after site that thaL It seems to me Dick sat said at last last that that neither one of us ha has been very sensible about any of this All AIl the way along We ve ye kept kep fight Ing trig over the most trivial things things-Is things lands and grandfathers and Kane Kana Kanaka ka girls iris and who busted a lei on m mJames James Wayne s a desk It c looks l as if we ought to run out of o things to fight and quarrel over ver pretty soon I IDon Don t you know Karen asked I whose lei that was wasl Don t you yol know who was with James Wayne Wayn when he h died I don t even care Dick said I care It s taken me a week s I detective work even to find out what wha you were talking about And I n IT m mI I going to tell you about it whether you re Interested or not notI I J just don t think it s a important now Dick said saidI I do Because that was what wha really broke us up It made you yot say things to me that were perfectly awful awful things Dick And I didn t know then even what you meant when you talked about e a broken lei I It If only you had told me me- me meI meI I couldn t tell you because 1 I didn t know I know now When you you went into your uncle s office and Ind found lound him dead deall there was a a broken lei of ginger blossoms on the he floor and nd you thought that it it was ryas the lei let you gave to me Butt ButI But I t ve ye had to talk to Tsura and Lilua and Ind before I even found out cut that much You mean to tell me that tha t you really eally t there You t with James Wayne that night atall at all ill Of course not But I ve ye pieced together what happened now The lei ei you gave me that night was a leI that hat Lilua made for you but that was vas not the only lei she made She made nade another lei tor for andie and he ie w was s wearing It when he came looking for tor her that night You mean that it was who who who- was looking tor for Lilua I could have told him where to look tor or her But he couldn t find her because lecause she the was In your room Karen I swear that nothing nothing- nothing Oh I know As a ma matter of fact tact act tacta acta a malicious little twinkle flickered In Karen s eyes eyes eyes- I th ok 1 had already warned you to lock your our door But didn t t know ng about that He saw James Wayne Vayne s light he stepped Into James ames Wayne s office through the window and demanded to know where here Lilua was Of course your uncle was furious that a large very wet let Kanaka should come crashing into Ito his office through a window His its anger was too much for himon hIm hImon on n top of everything else He stood up p and threatened and then just suddenly collapsed and was gone one leaned across the desk esk LO to see if It he was really dead The he ginger blossom lei caught on onie the ie corner of ot the desk and broke and nd just then Tsura came tapping at t the door peddling her ss of milk ilk told you this Most of It it Who else could He Heas was as the only one who knew This Thit Is all very surprising Dick said mid saidI I 1 don t think so I don t think thinka it s a seven even Interesting I went to the trouble to find out because I wanted to know what you were talking about out I can t remember now why I thought It mattered And I 1 still don t think It mat matters terse rs Dick said I don t think It matten utters at all what either one of us ua has is said or thought or done In short Karen said said you haven't a leg to stand on so that ring the case you favor calling the e whole fight off of l I I I Isa sa saU U 1 lie Be stepped Into James cUb a through the window and demanded de- de demanded to know where LUaa was I X have no doubt Dick agreed that I am a complete fool Worse than that much that much worse I worse I am also unlucky I J simply don t get the breaks and and I suppose that s a the worst thing you can say about a bout any man You ou get as good breaks as any any- anyone anyone anyone one does The principal trouble with you Is la that you don t show any sense I think its It s Ume time for both of u us to show a little sense People never get anywhere trying to dope out who was to blame for tor what If It people like to be together that should decide de deride ride clde what they re going to do I Such as- as as What s a the sense in going to Honolulu Honolulu Hon Honolulu I don t have to go to Honolulu Hono Hono- Honolulu Honolulu lulu and neither do you The Rolo- Rolo Holokai kal Holo-kal kai can just as well put about and lay a course for Nuku Hiva How do you know you wouldn t like Nuku Hiva I 1 U II bet any amount you U 11 think it s a whole lot prettier than San Francisco My word Karen smiled faintly I believe it s meant to be a pro pro- proposal proposal propose pose I Call it 11 what you want to Dick said Don t t you think don think don t you think think- Would you lik like to know what II I think I think you re tiresome You sit there talking on and on when alla all alla alla a person wants is to go to sleep Now you can sit there talking to yourself as long as you want to but I m going to sleep anyway said Karen Dick stood up I vc ye got a great mind to set a course for tor Nuku Hive anyway and make yo like it It Karen laid told her head on her h r arms and closed her eyes You re al always a always ways shanghaiing somebody she said But ask yourself what yourself what does it ever get you you Dick stood looking down at her quiet face tace and wd wondering why he had ever hoped to understand this girl Nothing I I guess he admitted ad admitted admitted at last H lie He went we t out into tb the main Cabin rat at at down at ail the t table tabe and laid outa out outa a hand of oJ solitaire but when it n wa Va laid out pis b t sat at at staring atar at atthe atthe ithe the cards card Ile H had bad aon reason enough to be ba sick alck of ot solitaire Then pre pres- pres e tb he ho became became ware that he ha we was weary marT and nd that ha he hadas had hi as n much reason an s Karen Zaren to be In need DeCd ot of sleep deep H U Ue laid al hi his head bead h oa O the thea table convinced now that thai there theW wad Val no longer on the face faca ot of Ute the tt tea lea a May any un uncertainty y worth keep I a man awake and wa was waa almost Ime asleep k kHe He B must have a e slept fa a long lone time for wh when n he be awoke daylight t was w coming colline in Ira the ports Porte In fron front of at Mint him on the table had been pl placed ed a aI I tray containing a wilted sprig prig of celery and a glass of at told cold water that sloshed about with the kals kal's roU roll but it didn't seem to him much of a joke Then as aa he be shook book the sleep out of at athis his eyes he be was wax suddenly aware that something was waa wrong The sun nun ap- ap appeared to be rising In the west and when he ha had thought about that for tor tora fora a minute he ha knew that they should have been in Honolulu many hours ago He Ha could hardly believe that hithe the had been into Joto Honolulu harbor and set act Karen ashore and put to sea again without waking him up but that was the only ex ex- he could think of ot at first Certainly the was waa tearing southward at a fOar roaring clip He lie went on deck and found In- In at the wheel the Idea of not waking me up in Honolulu Honolulu Dont Don't stare at me like a blockhead block block- head bead Dick shouted What time did we leave Honolulu We-we We haven t been to Hono- Hono I lulu Captain You haven't bavent been well been well where do you think youre you're going Why Oh Why Why Oh I was afraid othis of this moaned m Well WeD speak ups up What do you think youre you're doing dome Miss Mis Waterson Miss Waterson-Miss Miss Waterson Waterson- she said aid you had changed th the course Captain She said you want want- wanted wanted wanted ed me to bring about and lay for forI forthe forthe the She said you d c had bad d not to go to Honolulu She Sh said you were asleep and she saidI said I was supposed to to- to Dear heaven Tonga Tongs Dick said You go ask her ber yourself She s sup up there in the bow Captain Ton Tonga Tonga Tonga ga I try to set what course you say But I J didn't know what to do when she came and and- and The mainsail was partly to blame the Holokai s low swung booms boom made part of the deck invisible from the wheel But the real rea- rea reason reason reason son that Dick had not found Karen before now was that he had not ex- ex expected ex expected I eX-I her to be there It had been very definitely fixed in his mind that she was gone from his ship gon gone one altogether out of his life He went forward hesitantly part part- partly partly partly ly humble partly dazed by his luck He stood close beside her at th the rail and drew her against him with one arm Well armWell good morning 1 I Karen said Do you always sleep in your clothes Because I don t think it does them any good Dick said stupidly We We-we We we didn t go to Honolulu after all aU did we Certainly not Silly effort of yours chasing chasing oft off to Nuku my Hiva a Did you think you d get away from fromme fromme fromme me as easily as that that A great grea t cloud of flying fish went up before the bows of the making a flickering rainbow on the face of the warm seel sea see THE ITHE l END |