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Show THE IIELPSS JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH irSK-- a? J y , .jai3r- - A Edison Marshall 5 W.N.U. SEIS.VICS. sail. SYNOPSIS With his yacht, the Intrepid, practically abandoned by it crew, Felix H or ton, millionaire, tailing with hia mother, his daughter Nan, and Roy Stuart, puts into Squaw Harbor, Alaska, to recruit. Failing to secure sailors, Horton engages a bunch of nondescripts stranded there. A gigantic Pole called Sandomar, deaf but not dumb. Is their leader. At the request of Captain Waymire, the Intrepid'a skipper, an old friend, Eric Ericssen, holding master's papers, but unemployed, engages to sail as chief officer. CHAPTER II Continued 2 "You're Mr. Ericssen, aren't you?" He met her glance coolly. "You know who I am." "Of course I do. I remembered your name the second I heard It. But it's much too long. I shan't call you by It, except in company. What does It matter anyway?" t In the she saw his dim "I suppose you're hinting smile. you'd like to call me Erie." The long pause showed that this shot had gone home. "As the mistress of the ship," she said at last, "I don't think I must hint for per mission 10 cau one oi my omcers by his first name." "As mistress of the ship, please call me Mr. Ericssen." tie spoke calmly and simply. "As an officer, I can't answer to any other address." He paused, and she suspected that he was smiling. "But up here in the moonlight you may call me anything you please, and I'll call you Kan." Secretly she conceded that he had won the first brush, but it only made her more reckless. "Why should we call each other anything?" she asked dreamily. "Why should we talk at all? I want to forget who you are, who I am, everything except the magic of this unbelievable night" He saw her profile In the nebu- lntia Htrht nnd aavo thnt aha woo nnr half-ligh- wtiolly insincere. She was no girl, but tempered steel and fire. Intelligence, spirit, exa devouring quisite sensibilities, thirst for life, these were the spurs that never let her rest. Now her eyes were starry, her cheeks blazing, her hands trembling. Happily he took the challenge. When she turned to him, her face When he freed her red mouth, low ominous tones crackled forth. "Don't you dare do that again!" But his grip only tightened. "If you dance you must pay the piper," he told her gravely. Then, oblivious to her struggles he took the dare. She was fighting him now, but he did not even seem to know Her round little arms were strong but. It was like tugging at Iron bars. "If you don't let me go, I'm going to scream for help." "No one would hear you. In the first place. In the second, it would be hardly playing the game. I'm only raising your bet." For a few seconds more her every muscle was flexed, then she relaxed in his arms. "You win this time," she told him simply. "Now let me go." He Instantly she was free. watched her quietly as she moved a few feet down the deck and stood In the sea breeze. She seemed cool and well in hand ; he did not know that hep heart was hammering her side. At last she turned slowly, and he saw the moonlight in the pools of her eyes. "You were in your rights, of course," she said quietly. "Yes, but I'm sorry about it now." "I'm not Perhaps it taught me a lesson. Believe me 1 can take care of myself from now on." Eric's heart leaped up. "That's I'm glad now." the girl "Of course I won't get a chance to prove it, we'll probably never meet agaiD In this way," she went on gravely. "It's too bad our lives are ordered so far apart, it would And I be fun to fight with you. care enough for your respect to want you to know why I did what I did tonight." "I think I do know. You were bored, and it was a magic night, and your life seemed insufficient. I've felt that way a few times I And it usually ended with a fight, down In some waterfront dive." Eric spoke slowly and gravely. "Every person is given just so much time to live. That's all he owns, really the rest Is Just circumstance. Yet your whole aim is to make time pass as quickly as possible. And mine is to make It last, to be jealous of every minute, so to do, and see, and feel that much more." "And that's why I envy you. Why I even envy Marie. Most girls wouldn't, but I do." Nan drew her and cloak about her shoulders, turned toward the stairs. "You'll forget all this, won't you? I've been a fool but the moon's to blame. Tomorrow I'll be very aloof and call you Mr. Ericssen." She held out her hand and he shook It vigorously. "I think you're Just wonderful," he told her gravely. A small but radiant smile lighted her face. "That's generous, coming from the victor. Because you won it rate bearings. If Roy Stuart's old one of the Russians, Stronsky, they diary was correct the pass through call him, Is acting pretty queer. I the reefs was less than a league saw him as he was going below his eyes wild, and muttering to himaway. Presently the long sweep of blue self. I think it's Just fright" waves showed open water. Ten "He'll be all right Ferguson is minutes later they were at the gate- using him as his assistant says way through the shoals a strait he knows a Diesel engine Inside half a mile wide, and guarded on out." The twenty minute wait lengtheach side by perilous reefs. Horton was Jubilant, and granted ened to an hour. And now there bonuses to the whole company. seemed to be a slight lull. Captain Roy's impassive face did not flush, Waymire straightened his stooped nor his voice raise one note, but Nan shoulders. But It was a false hope. There knew that bis cold soul was exalted. She and Eric shared a child's thrill came a trumpet blast In the sky, la the adventure Itself. swelling and nearlng, and a solid Captain Waymire alone remained wall of wind smote the ship from downcast He was an old man and the northwest. It had Jumped two did not like young waters. The wide points and the Intrepid's position was no longer tenable. lagoon seemed to him like a trap. Later in the murky afternoon a Waymire shouted an order; it was cry rang out from the watch aloft dispatched to Ferguson by the en"Land ho!" gine room telegraph. Quarter-h- alf full speed astern and the In"Where away?" "On our port bow. She may be trepid was backing out to sea. Tense and still, Eric stood on the another But in a few minutes the glasses bridge, straining Into the murk. His showed what was unmistakably an blue northland eyes were the first Island, low and gray and guarded to catch a pallid gleam on the dark waves five shlplengths ahead. by black crags. It was insignificant In size, not more than three miles His cry rose above the blast, from cape to cape, and If It were "Breakers ahead!" one of the scores of minor links in Waymire was a tried old seaman, the Aleutian chain fifty miles to the and there was hardly a split second south, It might be hardly worth a between Eric's warning cry and the name; but here it was a discovery clang of the engine room telegraph of some little scientific importance. to full speed astern. Even now, No chart In the Intrepid's pilot good seamanship might save the house recorded its existence. vessel. Roy, who was watching from the But Waymire's hands had been bridge, brought powerful binoculars, tied by an arrogant He turned to Horton with a curious had braved the reefs not only with sparkle In his cold, gray eyes, "The rotting lifeboats, but a treacherous Island is inhabited. I can see green mongrel crew. He did not feel the mounds. They must be barabaras screw buck and change. Instead, turf houses." he was thunderstruck to hear the "Then the people are Aleut Ingong clang again. And now the dial dians?" read not full speed astern, but full "No doubt The huts aren't the speed forward. Siberian types. I can see fourteen In some strange human drama he eighteen twenty. That means a was never to understand In full, his hunto from of a sixty population been had command He betrayed. dred. Strange how they ever made leaped to the lever, only to find It It here." and as the ship hurried on "There are probably other passes," locked to meet her death, the old captain Horton said. "They wouldn't live of the sea stood helpless as a little here alone, with no contact with their tribes people. Roy, I'm afraid child. his At order the chain of the I'm a little disappointed. We can't anchor ran out with a roar, catted claim now that we've discovered a too late. Eric shouted a cry new island unknown though It is. but In the blast and the helmsmen Siberian traders would never let lost at the wheel. these people alone; there's probably tugged impotently was nothing to do but Then there a ship in here every year." wait for the ship to strike. "They've kept mighty still about There were three distinct shocks, the island It, anyway; probably first two light, the third severe the yields some good fur." Roy watched to hurl Eric against the rail. in silence a long time. "Well, there's enough to his feet, he felt the He's got on a As he got one of the hunters. whole ship vibrate a curious tremto me. looks Aleut long parka that or running through every beam and , . , By the way, I believe he's stake as a man's body might got a spear, not a gun." It gives up the ghost But this had no special signifi- quiver when died away. it Slowly cance, as Roy well knew. Rifles As Eric turned to the pilot house, and ammunition are expensive; nathe whistle shriek five tives on many remote Alaskan he heard So the captain perceived the Islands often return to their primi- times. inevitable; this was the signal to tive weapons. abandon ship. rounded the and cape Waymire The seamen were already surging dropped anchor a mjle outside the up the stairs; and they were not the bay on which stood trusties Eric had known the Indian village. This was early of old. He saw their drawn faces not should fall until In the June; night dawnlight he heard their eleven. By nine the sea, world, oaths crackling in the wind so he land-lubbe- deep-fringe- d i ' narrow-mouthe- d and sky were one dreary pall of sleet, spindrift, and foam. By midnight the sleet seemed to be blown out of the sky, but to Wayraire's dismay, the wind seemed to be working around to the northwest. At one o'clock it was an awful chord of many tones. Horton could thank his lucky stars for Waymire's foresight. If the Intrepid had been exposed to the full power of the gale, no anchor could have held her, and she would have had to fight for her life. But not once did her purse-prouowner question his arrogant creed. He was reasonably comfortable In the warm saloon the Island crags tonight" You broke the waves, and though the "You were overconfident ship was buffeted by the wind, she wouldn't be, next time." "There won't be any next time, rolled but little and he still made I'm afraid. Ships that pass In the light of the skipper's alarm. night !" But Roy Stuart was not so com"But they meet again, you know. I once saw a ship In Hongkong placent. He had never been able to and never expected to lay eyes on harbor an Illusion, good or bad, and her again and then Just missed col- he knew that this luxurious paneled Happily He Took the Challenge. liding with her In Boston harbor! room was not the citadel It seemed. The Journey's Just begun, and these Yes, they had been too bold. Alunder her his hands slipped lifted, though his heart never missed a fur cloak to her silky shoulders are magic waters." beat, he saw plainly that even a and slowly drew her close. She minor mishap, a mere whim of forCHAPTER III made no attempt to avoid his kiss, tune, might hurl them all to Irremebut met It with eager lips. But came diable disaster. when she tried to draw away, he NOKTH of Ignak Island they Jones Shortly after two Eric rapped on would not let her go. great, gray Davy She had only meant to taste of shoal. It was perilous sailing. The the door and entered. He was In and his eyes had a this cup, a mere moonlight whim, waters seemed mysteriously troubut she felt his arms like bands of bled. There were powerful currents, steely shine. "Conditions seem to steel, and his lips still pressed hers. varying In direction from hour to be growing worse, not better. If the He let her breathe at last but he hour, that would sweep a pulling wind shifts two points more, we'll still held her close and smiled into dory out to sea; big eddies; formid- have to move. Captain sends word for you to get all your party toher yes. And for all her pride, a able ground swells. low cry broke from her tense throat "I don't like it," Eric said. "If gether and stand by for orders. If It was hardly more than a deep we hang up and have to take to the wind shifts, we can't run out to sea. We've got to work around the gasp, but It betrayed two secrets she the boats, we'll be In a sweet fix !" "We wouldn't last long," Captain Island; and we don't know what's would have given much to conceal. One of them was that the kiss was Waymire shook his gray head. "Our there. But we'll hang here if we not the empty gesture she had ex- only hope would be for these cussed can, and make the move In daypected. Ills lips had been gentle, currents to sweep U3 to sea before light" When Eric returned to the pilot but there was flame on them, high one of those big swells hit us. voltage from the most dynamic be- They'd make kindling wood of house he could Bee the Jagged line of the waves against the eastern ing she had ever met. She did not those skiffs of ours." "Why don't you tell Horton so? sky. For a moment he stood listenwant him to know that she had felt lie charge In every cell of her body, The crazy fool will lose his ship ing to the blast "I see she's shifted but she feared that the deep catch and drown the whole company. another point," he shouted to the veteran on the bridge. in her breath spoke all too plainly. There's no way through these reefs." "Tell him yourself, if you want "I'm giving her twenty minutes Her other secret, hinging on the first, was that for one of the few to. It's like talking to the wind. He more," the veteran answered, "Is thinks his checkbook will buy off a everything ready?" times In her life she was afraid. "Best I could do, sir. Number She was afraid of him, of herself, typhoon." As the Intrepid cruised on, the one lifeboat In fair shape, number of life. And this fear deepened bay of the breakers be- two rotten and barely serviceable, when, instead of freeing her, his arms drew her gently closer, crush- came a gurgling roar, and the waves and the dory clean gone. That beating on the crags hurled up eerie means we couldn't all get off. Blaning her breast against his. clouds of spray. The first day's kets, water and bread In one and he whispered. "Again," When the two." search was fruitless. "No. Once Is enough." "How about Sandomar and his "For you, perhaps, not for me." shadows fell, Waymire hastened , his lips sought hers Into open sea and dropped anchor. crowd?" ."I think most of 'em will keep Early the next morning prospects and mustered them a long time. Eric had taken accu their head they're a hard lot But He felt her slight body grow rigid. brightened. d grim-face- deep-tone- ITnlf-smlllng- d made ready his big, lithe muscles. Whom could he trust? Ferguson, of course, but where was Ferguson? Eric recalled the fata mistake that had wrecked the Intrepid, and began to guess part of the grim truth. The faithful old Scot had not been In command of the engine room when Waymire's order was betrayed. Stronsky, his new assistant, had been acting strangely and he was known as a saboteur. Skinner the steward, was a cool hand, and had taken his post at Number One boat, waiting orders, unbut the three Filipino sen-antder his command were already squealing In panic. The only other man-Jacworth trying was the black Irishman of Eric detested him gang. for his fawning ways, but he had and proved a sound workman, seemed to be breaking away from the wolves of his pack. DeValera had not Joined the little tense group around Sandomar, eight men in all. Who else was missing from the original ten? Eric's brain was moving swiftly and clear, and without pausing In Its work It recorded the fact that Stronsky was still below decks. Sandomar seemed to be plotting with his men. Eric's arm might be needed here, In a moment, but now he turned toward the There was no one companionway. to send, so he would go alone to learn why Horton and his party had not yet appeared on deck. To his tremendous relief, he met them on the stairs. In the deck lights Horton's face showed livid, and he was protesting what he apparently deemed a false alarm, but Nan hurried him on. Eric offered no explanations, but darted back to the boat deck. And he was sorely needed The stunned figures of Sandonuir's men were coming to life. When Eric saw their faces, he dismissed the Idea that they had a hand In the wreck. They were simply reverting to type. Every bond of discipline had snapped free. Eric saw them moving In a compact mass toward Number One boat Sandomar was In the lead, hobbling on his gorilla feet, one of his massive hands clutching a short Iron bar. Waymire stood between them and their prize, his eyes blazing. Ills voice cut through the blast. "What do you fellows want?" man called Swede The answered In hoarse tones. "We're going to take thnt boat." T0 BB CONTINUED.) s k . 1 pale-haire- KASHMIR VALE FULL OF CHARM Srinagar Is a Lovely Place for a Vacation. by National Gsgraphlo Society, Prar-axa- VYaahlujiton, V. C, WNU twarvice. CAN'T BE IMPROVED One lives easily in Kashmir. A host of servants cost about as much "The first He detector," says Sam as one good cook In the West, and Hill In the Cincinnati Enquirer, "was they feed themselves. Each one has his appointed duties and does them made out of the rib of a man." And no improvement has ever been made fairly well. on the original machine. Servants All Are Men. Heat-anPellets are the orig All your servants In Kashmir are Dr. Pierce'e inal little liver pills put tip w year ao. men. The women seldom work out They regulate liver and bowels. Adv. Even the little children of Westerner frequently have men servants to Can Be Overdone care for them. Your list may InPursue happiness but don't chase clude a Mangl, or head boatman; a It until It faints. Exchange. khltmatgar (chief house servant), WARM weather approaches, the vale Kashmir, one of the famous garden spots of the world, beckons to the vacationists of India. Its wooded hillsides don a assistant khltmatgar, a bhlstl (wanew green which is reflected In the ter sweeper of lowest caste carrier, clear, blue, placid streams of the and doer of menial Jobs), a khansa-mavalley; and houseboats are put in (cook), a dhobl (washerman), order for a busy season. a dhurzl (sewing man), a mall, (garThe Vale of Kashmir lies among dener), and three little chokeras, the the lower Himalayas, north of the small the shlkara, boys who Indian Funjab. One reaches Srina- a small gondola-lik- paddle boat In which gar, the summer capital of the na- you go everywhere you desire. It tive state known as the domain of seems an ample list ! the Maharaja of Jummu and KashIf you take guests for tea to mir, over a long route by rail and Shalimar gardens, the houseman motor. From Bombay one travels goes and serves a perfect northward by trains, via Delhi and meal along under the spreading chenar Lahore, the Rawalpindi, one of the tree. When you plan a morning chief army posts of British India. In the bazaars, the houseman folThere the way to beauty opens. lows respectfully behind, your guide. Almost at once on leavlngRawalpln-d- l Your days are carpeted with ease the motor road begins to climb. and your home Is a Joy, thanks to Up and up through the deodar-clathe willing service of an able houseslopes of the lower mountain the man. road twists and turns, the heated air Where but In Kashmir could one of the plains grows cool and Invig- call back to a houseman as one Is orating, until, when travelers make leaving home for all day, "we will their first overnight stop at Tret, have guests for dinner tonight at they feel captivated by a Joyous hol- nine o'clock," and return to find iday spirit everything In perfect order, fresh Everything seems amusing and flowers everywhere, the table set In interesting. Ruffled punkas swing holiday attire, and a coarse dinner from the ceiling, though you may perfectly planned? have no need for them. Your deft Many of the Kashmiris are fine and turbaned servants patter looking, the women especially havabout the rooms, unrolling ing beautiful eyes and quite regular your bedding on the stringed char-poy- features. Like other native states the fairly comfortable beds of of the Indian empire, Kashmir has food 'an India. Even the english resident, or advisory offi served by the bungalow cook Is a cial, and through him more sanitary matter for hungry Jest. Lovely, ways of living are gradually being lovely world, with a summer of introduced into the country. There Kashmir ahead. Is an excelent mission hospital and Native Chauffeurs Are Speedy. The road from Rawalpindi to motor road, Srinagar is a well-buisome 200 miles long, and it lies through the mountains north of the Fir Panjal pass. Snowy peaks rise high above you. The rushing waters of the icy streams chatter noisily below. Hairpin turns in the road make you catch your breath and curl your toes, for the ways of the native driver are his own and without fear, and, also, you have not the knowledge wherewith to express your feelings. Soon, from the first traveling sahib, you may learn to say, "Ahlsta, ahlstal" But you never succeed In making an Indian chauffeur drive slowly, slowly. f It is possible to make the trip aii,r-l)rto Srinagar In a day, but not ahlsta I Quite the contrary. You spend two Men Needleworker of Kashmir. nights in dak bungalows along the way, the second a zenana hospital, as the name im at Baramula, which lies at the edge plies, for women, and a school con of the great depression known as ducted by an English clergyman is the Vale of Kashmir. wonders among the youth of doing From Baramula one can go the the country. rest of the way by boat, up the Foreigners Like Kashmir, Jhelura river; but you may prefer to drive. The last 35 miles lie across The foreign element in Srinagar a level stretch, the road borderer on Increases yearly. From the terible heat of the Punjab come English either side by slender poplars. The people passed along the way army people, seeking the cool air are quite different from those one and health of the hills, and these sees In India. Ekkas and tongas, the bring with them the lnffuenee of horse-drawvehicles English manners and customs, and, of the country, draw aside to let you better still, of English fair play, There Is not in all Srinagar a merpass. The Vale of Kashmir is a level chant who does not rely on the honor of the English sa valley about 80 miles long and averaging about 20 miles In width. It hib. Shopping is a quaint pastime In lies, a great oval, surrounded by mountains green with deodar and this City of the Sun. As one strolls spruce on the lower reaches and along the Bund, eager merchants Mohamad Jlian white with snow until well Into the press, their wares. In all Srinagar assures not that Incredyou of an Skies summer. early no, not even at All Jlian'a, his ible blue complete a color scheme of Throughout the rival can you procure such embroi fairy loveliness. valley winds the curving line of the derles, such fine pashmina, such River Jhelum, along the banks of beautiful designs. Will not the which straggle the streets and ba- Lady Sahib but see? Or, as the small shlkara of a merzaars which form the ancient city of Is rowed alongside your boat, chant Srinagar. deftly timed to find you at home, he Quaint Scenes In Srinagar. his wares. He is Seven curious bridges span the eagerly spreads see his treasures. Insistent that you river, and along the shore quaint old Sahib. Not buywooden houses lean sometimes at a "Only looking, Lady The foxy merlng, looking." only of rakish angle. Many the city well knows his goods are chant streets end In wide stone steps leadtempting, ne is sure that some time ing down to the river's edge. These will buy. you are animated usually stairways The native Industries of Kashmir, scenes of native life. Here the launalas, have cheapened and some have dry men wash the clothes; here almost died out entirely. No longer, the women come to fill their wacan one procure the for Instance, ter jars. Children tumble and play very finest shawls, such as made the about, and goats and cows ramble name of Kashmir famed throughout them From the all freely among the world. One can get good shawls, overhanging balconies lengths of soft and fine, but the exquisite, e dyed pashmina hang out to dry. All are hardly found outshawls is colorful and gay. side of museums. Also there Is the Interesting river Pashmina Is one of the loveliest life. A large part of the populaof the land. It Is a soft tion of Srinagar lives afloat. Odd, products woolen cloth, made called boats, dungag, from the fine under hair of the Tibwith superstructures hung with etan goat The finer weaves are inmats of woven reeds, are the only soft and the shawlmaker, credibly homes which thousands of Kashmiris hopeful for your order, will show ever know. Sleeping quarters withyou how a length of It can be drawn in, a kitchen of sorts open to the through a finger ring. eyes of all, a few pots of brass or A much heavier woolen cloth, housea Kashmiri's and poor copper, sometimes akin to Scottish homehold Is complete. spun. Is called puttoo, and the betThe native of more ample means ter weaves make splendid outing has a better boat Walls of wood clothes. betreplace the woven mass, and as tor and better financial status Is InWhen "Cowboys' Were Robber. dicated, so the boats improve. 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