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Show LEHT FttEE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH FAKE THEE WELL sum V INSTALLMENT THIRTEEN Karen Water- THE STORY SO FAR: ho has tome to Honolulu to press isOand estate ol Alakoa, fcrr cUims to the U not an heiress at all, kirB( out she grandfather, Garrett Waterson, is !till alive and on his way to the island. Dick or Richard Wayne, She and Tonga . mrniber of the Wayne family hich the property since as been in control of trandfathers disappearance, find in love and decide to leave the they are Oot to sea. island of AJakoa together. Ulua. a native house-rirthat tee, slowed away aboard snip. Dick of making love to Karen accuses Ue native girl and they quarrel. Una orders the ship to return to Lilua Is found Alakoa. On the way back. a knife wound. Dick seriously hurt with Chinese mess boy regard-jb- . questions the ! t " U iiUAS an skirt and strapi which stay firmly in place. 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Very probably he had never seen the girl before in his life, and now supposed that Dick himself had done her in. He remained silent, however, and stayed where he was told. Inyashi slid down the hand rail end landed at the foot of the ladder es Dick turned. "Someone was knifed here a minute ago," Dick told him, "when you heard that scream. Has anyone come up the ladder since then?" "No, Captain Dick. But there's He a man standing by the tafT-rai- l. acts queer maybe he is the one. naked by the rail He stands and looks at the sea, and the crew is afraid to go near him. Maybe he came up from here by the skylight?" Dick snatched a rifle from a rack upon the forward bulkhead. "That's it! Who is he do you know him?" "It's that big new Kanaka." "I hired no new Kanaka!" "He came over the side out of the water, just before we sailed; he said you sent him. His name is Hokano, I think." Dick seized Inyashi and pushed him up the ladder. "Stop your engines," he ordered, following close on Inyashi's heels. "Full astern?" "No! If you do that the propellers will catch him as he jumps. Man the dinghy with the four Kanaka boys, and lower away." "Yes, Captain!" In a moment more everyone on the ship was snapped into action by Inyashi's shrill, sputtering commands. Emerging on the deck, Dick saw at once the immensely tall, figure of Hokano standing against the rail in the extreme stern. Hokano faced the sea, motionless as a mast. The tall figure was no more than twenty-fiv- e feet away, and for a moment Dick was strongly tempted to try bringing down Hokano with the butt of his rifle. He gave up that idea; even if he succeeded in felling the big Kanaka before Hokano could leap into the sea, the stunned man would be extremely likely to slither over the rail and sink like a plummet. "Kamaku! Roll the searchlight broad-shoulder- out!" Karen was at his elbow, her face white and frightened. "What is it? What's happened?" "Lilu's lover has come after her and got her," Dick said. "She's killed?" "Probably." Her eyes were on the rifle in his hands. "What are you going to do?" "Going to call a policeman," he snapped at her. "Get that boat over! What are you waiting for?" Now the Diesel quit, so that the Holokai seemed suddenly silent. The rush of the water at her bows diminished as she lost way. As if awakened by the shutting down of the power, the motionless figure in the stern came to life abruptly. Hokano sprang lightly onto the rail itself, and for a moment poised upright. Then he launched wto the night in a beautiful clean arc, arms outspread, turning downward to disappear almost silently mto the black water. Now the big searchlight came trundling out on its unwieldy tripod. In a moment more it began to sweep the surface of the sea, searching for the place where the swimmer would come up. The Holokai's took dinghy to the water flounderingly, and immediately shot astern. Dick said to "I knew he was going to doKaren, that." He walked after without hurry, and took his P'ace at the rail where Hokano had stood. There wasn't any way to ftop him. He'll be easier to handle the water." "Wouid he Karen gasped-co- uld he possibly swim all the way back 111 try" to" "Of course not. He doesn't expect t0 get back." The searchlight picked up the swimmer now, fifty yards back in tne Holokai's wake. In moments when the waves favored, those on deck f the vessel could glimpse a nash of wet shoulders, but nothing lse. Hokano was swimming face wn, taking of the swells "Ke a seal. advantage The Holokai had lost way- and was rolling sickly in,l&ge the swells. Dick braced a knee against the rail and brought his rifle - Karen cried out, "Would you shoot m the water?" r h.ast "imitar shaped tninff, than the Holokai's booms; drove downward, disappearing higher in black water "Do you expect me to wait until animal, able to drive across the surhe jumps into the air?" face of the sea like a thing posHe fired, and a spout of water sessed, knocking the swells into sprang up far to the left of Hokano. spume; but it seemed to Dick now Karen saw now what Dick was fir- that she wallowed like a slug, geting at. The tall fin of ting no place. His whole soul was was curving near, gliding lazily, un- trying to jerk the Holokai out of the hurried. Dick fired again, without cling of the sea. He would have liked effect; he could not see his sights. to lift her and throw her through Karen's teeth were chattering. "I space, and bring her against the thought I thought you said sharks beach of Alakoa like the thrust of a never harm brown men." knife. "This thing isn't like other sharks! He was standing there, watching Nobody knows anything about him." what seemed to him the slug-lik- e The incredibly long, monstrous process of the straining Holokai, was snouting when Karen came to his side. shape of near to the swimmer now; Hokano "I'm sorry," Karen said. "I'm must have seen it, but he swam terribly sorry. Dick, this has been The boy a thing such as I have never seen." straight on, unmindful. manning the searchlight suddenly Dick said in a muffled way, "You swung it aside, and held it unsteadi- don't know what you're saying. How ly upon the monster. A long phoswould you know?" phorescent gleam of turned water "Dick," Karen said, "I should nevsuddenly shone half the length of er have come into the Pacific above the whale shark's back emphasizing all, I should never have come to the unbelievable. Alakoa. I bring nobody anything Dick sighted upon the base of the but sorrow, and trouble, and death." great fin and fired four times. Sud"Yes," said Dick brutally. denly the fin jerked rigid, and a "I think," Karen said, "if it hadn't great gout of water went up. The been for this mongrel girl, it would fin sunk from view; far back, inhave been all right. We're an awcredibly far back from where it dis- fully long way apart, I guess; but appeared, the great tail fluke rose except fopher I think you and I out of the sea. For a moment the would have got together, in the searchlight held it a vast scimitar end." shaped thing, higher from the water Dick Wayne's elbows rested on the than the Holokai's booms; then it rail. The Holokai was throwing evdrove downward, disappearing in erything she had into kicking the black water as sounded. sea behind her, and the white boil "Stay down there a while," Dick of her wake stretched into a path said. that failed only with night vision; "Did you kill it?" but Tonga Dick was looking at some"You can't kill that thing." thing beyond its utmost reach. He The searchlight found the boat spoke thickly, with an unaccustomed again. It was rising and falling idly, incoherence. "That girl knew what it was to and its bow rose clear of the water as the Kanakas hauled the slack love something," he said. It required a conscious effort of body of Hokano over the transom. Karen's mind to know what girl he CHAPTER XII meant; but when she had done that she was ready for what he said Hokano, that tall unhappy man next, even before he said it. "Withwho had tried to end Lilua's life and out demanding anything, without his own, presently lay bound with ever any questions, or any terms. wet cordage in a foc'sle bunk. One None of this everlasting doubt, and of his brother Kanakas had bashed wavering, and indecision. Once and him over the head with an oar, as for all, she gave everything she had, Hokano had turned, treading water, and asked for nothing." "I suppose you mean," Karen to look at Tonga Dick Wayne had been right said, "that this half caste girl, this in sending a Kanaka crew in the cousin of mine, as you "It matters a lot to you, doesn't boat to pick up Hokano; the maxim of South Sea sailors was true that it," Dick said bitterly, "exactly who no one knew how to handle a Ka- this girl is? I would rather ask a naka except a Kanaka. Hokano, woman what she thinks and feels, naked though he looked, had his than who she is." "And so," Karen said, with someknife slung about his neck by a sennet cord, and he would have slashed thing like a tone of despair, "if a the wrist tendons of anyone who laid brown woman, or a black woman, hands on him from the boat while can let herself go, more fully than he was conscious. After one of them I can, your answer "Karen," Dick said, "if ever any had knocked him out with an oar, another Kanaka had dived to res- woman has to ask herself if she cue him, and had stopped the sink- loves a man, the answer is 'No.' " The stubborn silence that fell being of the inert turn. It would have been weird watch- tween them then was broken very for them both by the ing, for anyone, to see those simple, gratefully casual maneuvers the Kanaka boys impetuous projection of Inyashi between them. It always seemed that standing with easy, natural balance whatever swells on the Inyashi did was little boat in the reeling and sudden. of the sea, letting the dinghy stand "Captain Dick, a vessel is coming on the heel of her scant hull while they dragged Hokano in, without any in; she's three points off the quarone of them ever losing his superb ter, now. I think it may be the boat balance, and never shipping a quart you look for. Hard to tell yet, from of water. Nobody not a Kanaka just the lights." The two at the taffrail, swinging could ever understand the easy affinity of that amphibious people to the their eyes to the left, could now see a small boat, or a on the horizon a speck of light that sea; a or floating stick, as easily showed winking in the rise and fall canoe, as a haole walks on asphalt pave- of the sea the high running lights ment, or handles his knife and of a ship quartering in from bevond. "All right," Dick said. "When fork . . . Bound with cords that cut too deep we've anchored, I'll go out and pilot ever to slip, Hokano lay in a foc'sle her in." When Inyashi had moved away, bunk, awake and impassive. Aft, in Dick Wayne's bed, lay the girl Dick and Karen stood silent for a Hokano had tried to kill, fighting little while. When Karen spoke it for her life; the intense native vi- was apparent that she was steadier, onto life tality of Lilua's body heldlittle Lilua better poised than he. "Can't you be fair to me?" she avidly, regardless of how herself cared whether she lived or said. "Can't you be honest? If you and I can't be frank and honest died. Karen Waterson sat beside Lilua, with each other, who in the world and Inyashi and the Chinese mess can?" useful "Honest?" boy hovered behind Karen, she "You haven't always been honest when down Lilua hold to chiefly could no longer be controlled. Lilua with me, Dick. If you had told me was not out of her head entirely; at the first that Garrett Waterson Hawas alive" she babbled unceasingly in the "More honest, I think, than you went Dick away, waiian tongue. unable to listen any more; Lilua was with me." 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