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Show HIE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAn It was only a motnent later that the Intrepid began to reel and keel over. The spray shot high, and the breakers roared as tba . Bea&-and thq wind rushed free over her grave. . Oh, It's monstrous unbelievable, Horton was saying. . Six seven lives lost and half a million more, than half a million dollars swallowed up like that! And what will happen now! Each of Nq one tried to answer. his hearers was asking, a similar question of his .own soul. But Eric rested his bar while he reached and laid a steely hand bn the thick' forearm of DeValera, rowing at the next lock. Have you got that gun? Eric spoke, quietly, but, DeValera heard him ; plainly. The, dark. Irishfrian' stole one quick; It's between glance Into Erics eyes. my feet, on the floor.Eric started to speak again but closing bis lips lh a tight seam, he groped for the weapon and thrust It. safely under his coat. FORLORN ISLAND ' By EDISON MARSHALL WNU Bervlc . t CvpyHght by Edison- MarphaU. .... - , synopsis With hie yacht,, tha Intrepid, pracby. its crew, Felix Horton, .millionaire, with his mother, his daughter Nan, and Roy Stuart, puts Into Squaw Harbor, Alaska, to recruit. Horton ep- -. .Failing to secOre-sailors- , gages a bunch of npndescrlpts stranded there. A gigantic Pole' called deaf but not dumb,, is their leader. Captain WayYnire, the Intrepids skipper, Is an old friend of Eric Erlcs-seunemployed, but holding master's papers, and he engages te sail as chief officer. Horton Is seeking . uncharted islands of which he .has heard. Nan and Erio Indulge Jn a moonlight flirtation, which brings them., both to the threshold' ef Interest in each other; if 'not of love. The Intrepid Is deliberate- ly wrecked by bne of Sandomar's crowd. Eric takes command of a small boat,, in which are Horton, his mother, and daughter. Nans niald,. Marie, and . Roy Ejtuaft; tically abandoned ' . Saft-dom- n, Continued ' When Eric and his castaways won tbe harbor, a, dozen of the Islanders put ouf a skin bldarbato meet them. Lost In dark thoughts, Eric gazed with dull, tired eyes. At first glance they seemed just typical Aleuts, mor.elike Mongols than Indians, ' known to hhtf srnce childhood. But presently bis glance sharpened. Why werent they Jabbering In pleased excitement over what must be a rare occurrence In their lonely lives ; What had awed them so? Moreover, they rose uniformly taller than any .Aleuts Eric knew big .active- men, worthy descendants .of. the parent stock that must hare beat' eastward Into un-- . known seas from' some ; lost centuries before,' There was something strange In the-- picture that for a moment Erie could not grasp. It had to do" with their swarthy, slant-eye- d faces. . . found it-- . Eleven ot Presently-he the dozen .men In the bidarka looked Incredibly alike! There were djfTer- - . . .. CHAPTERIII CHAPTER IV .; Eric took his . place ; Fkihner- and gome of Sandomars gang began to ' . lowef the boat . ; , When it was almost out of reach, WaymiFe leaned over and dropped Something heavy at Erics feet To his. amazement, he saw that 'It was. a ' .pearl-handle- d singleractio.n revolver, same that the the skifiper had brandished a few m'iniites. before, ... Helping with. the. lines, Eric. let the revolver; lie. ; Presently they were . Asiatic-birthplac- - when Chechaquo village. Big blow come up, we blow (covered canoes) put out from Ignak, away, far, far against shoal. My kayak get through reefs, all the rest lost." But why did yon stay here?" Erics yoieg seemed. to trembl? a little. Why. ? didn't you go barfc to your- own - . Rocks; current, When wind she no plenty wind. . blow, he drown, yon, big devil-wavno let you get by." .He shook his head No. no go." sadly. 'They dont know any pass' through the reefs?" . . "No- pass. 'Anyway, they got taboo. They no believe when I say plenty Aleuts lfvt .Ignak Island. They think all oth , Aleuts dead long, time Rgo. They no believe me Aleut too ; no look like them. They say. only death live there." Again he pointed to the south. Eric moved tw-- steps forward and spoke tensely Into Chechaqnos ear. But couldnt you leave here on a ship? .Surely a trading vessel comes here every year?Chechaquo shook hid head long and No trading boat come. mournfully, Chechaquo no have tea, sweet cracker, tobacco for many suns." "now long since theres been a ship here?" Erics words crackled. The old Aleut looked dazed. ' No ship ever, come here. No ships get through reefs till you come, not know this Island here.. Long time ago, may-b- e so Flreheart say. But o!d men, they never see ship before. "I- dont believe all that" It was Roys voice, shaken a little, but strong. He wouldnt- have remembered English .all these years; as soon as I' heard him speak, I kne.w .that hed ' e - - - been talking it regularly." pulling- r The to Hortons blow-. l ar- rogance would soofi heal. He would, build a- bigger, better yacht,, not to be rneoaced by any gale-tha- t blows. Eric himself would keep .his own ways to the. sea and But Erje had forgotten, the' old It Is' not common, North, ever-new- . earth, but .a brooding spjrit. The. 'adventure had not .ended, but had. only begun. Marie Chambon, the- French fnald, .suddenly uttered a sjirltl Cry.- Erie whirled, shaken: white as the foam, she. .was pointing to the deck of the doomed ship. . Ih morning a scene that would not. light, pnly plague-- . ills dreams for months afid yeitrsj but might change the whole-curren- t of his life. ' Sandomars gang had .Apfiarently seized the only other seaworthy boat and bad started, to. launch'lt aft; wbfen .one of the Filipinos had tried to join no room for' .their number. There-wahfm but Instead of hlcking-.hiaway,-Cookythe poor white, had struck him' down with, an iron, pin. It was this blow, that Mar-l- had seen,.He had tried-tget up;Waymlre and Skinner, had sped to .'his rescire-and now- the pack turned ip a frenzy.' It was the old' skippers last fight the gainest and the shortest Eric had ever seen but it could not .win.-- , Neither Waymlre nor. his lOyai steward had weapons ;.' the tout assassins pins, and' A .swung capstan' bars,-iroknife that made, little lightnings across the waves?.' Skinner was .'the first- to' go. down; The Fiiiplfio bludgeoned by Swede, boy now- tried to get-- up, but'. ' .a. short,-vicioufinished slush of his knife. H did not know that he. was thus killing three birds with .one stone, . The sight broke the faint hearts of the.two. remaining-Filipinos- , cowering forward.. One of them ran and leaped overboard ; ducked down the campanlonway ' . . and was not seen again.-.' The scarlet pooi began- to spread-on the listing deck, but the pack showed no' mercy. They had. gone too ' far to stop now. They must to their shame ; leave no and they never dreamed that a boatload was watching them from the bay.. For a few brief seconds', perhaps five, possibly ten, Eric, and his castaways tnoir own peril, 'as theyforgot watched the gray skipper battling like .an old 'bull moose, ringed by the : wolves in the snow. It was Sandomar himself who finished the orav of blood. HiS gorilla arm raised, brandishing an iron bar. then chopped down.' Now there were three dead on the tilted deck. Dropping their weapons, the wolves rushed over them to join their fellows. With their hplp, the second boat "ns launched. Presently they had all mmpeq aboard and were pulling for ' be bay. . - . . - - ' s , - ; - - . Big-Smit- hitn--wit- the-othe- - It was a wretched play. Long before tlie Interval the audienct- began to boo and hiss. But there was one 'man who clapped his hands vigorously. I say, suid the man next to him, "youve, got a nerve to applaud this shocking play. VVhat can you see in it?" The man smiled. Its not the play Im applauding," he replied heartily, its the hissing. London Answers. Rumo By HOOT GIBSON that I cannot relate a tale of hardships and privation, but entry Into motion pictures was ac- complished with comparative ease after I decided to work in them. I cant exactly say that I broke Into the movies. It all seemed to happen The movies seemed systematically. like an opportunity, and when, they opened their doors to ine, 1 rode in. Im a native of Nebraska, was born ih the small but ambitious town ef Tekanmh, which was smaller then tliaii It Is now, but it was large enough to please me when' I started .life under the less fantastic name of Edward and it gave me my education. My education completed, I began to wander, and inasmuch as the only thing 1 knew anything about was ranch work, I wandered to different ranches. I have been riding horses as far back as I can remember and I was as much at home In the saddle as on the ground. Being an adventurous youth I began various difficult and daring feats of horsemanship,' and after plenty of hard work and bumps, I. got so I could handle a horse well enough to get a Job. wrangling cattle, which I did for several years. I found the-tasof pursuing cattle .o'ver large and dusty prairies quite an So when I unexciting employment. met' up with a traveling Wild West show. I Was overjoyed at the opportunity .of Joining it as one of the star trick and' stunt riders. It was known then as Dick Stanleys Congress, of Rough Riders. In 1912, 1 entered the annual rendle-t-o- n as one of. the (Om) round-u. . p - OBEDIENT Ouch The doctor smilingly entered the room where bfs- female path-titwas reclining in 'a chair. Ah," he murmured,- 1 see you are looking very much better today." Yes, doctor," the patient said, 1 have very carefully followed the In structlons on that bottle of medicine you gave me." Let, me see, now," said the doctor thoughtfully. What were they?" Keep the bbttle well corked, came the reply. Somerset (Eng.) Standard. - - . . I dont you get married, Mr. Oldbach? Oldbaeh Why marry a woman when I can buy a parrot for $5? Spinster Yes, that shows once more how the men have the advantage of us women. We cant buy any kind of a year for less than $200. Pathfinder Magazine. Spinster Why ' Soaked Him ' suppose at the efficiency expert's wedding you didn't do anything so wasteful as throwing rice." ' Oh, yes we did ; but as a concession to his teaching we had the rice Gone I Tourist (having looked over his done up in cotton bags, each missile torlc castle, to butler) Wevo made weighing two pounds." I tipped hlslqrd-.shii. stupid mistake. POETIC EDITOR Instead of you. Butler Thats awkward; Ill never get.it now. Wall Street Journal.. Cant Expect Muck Passenger - I ' Is this train ever- on time? "Sir, replied the' guard, we'neyer . worry about her being on time. Were satisfied if shes always on the'ruil. Edmonton Bulletin. Worldly Advice Sorority Frosh He Is all the world Poet How do you like my poem . tq me. What would you advise me. " oil spring? to do? . Been There See a Tittle more of Edilor It's li'kffTjpring Itself.' the world my dear. Montreal GaPoet Hows that? ; zette. .' Editor Very line In spots. . She what you cal priest, woman .time ago, before' old priest. mens fathers ever born,-- when big whale he little fish, holy man 'come here from setting sun. He pointed Would Prove Heredity Maybe on WLS mean thing called A hoard was testing the mentality mother a cat. Id like to scratch her of a negro. eyes out. Do you ever hour voices without Ilub Dont try it, my dear; shed being able (o tell who Is speaking or have too good a comehnrk. Boston where the sound comes from? Evening Transcript. "Yessuh," answered the negro.' And when does this occur? Over the radio. Curiout What would happen If this elevator should drop to the bottom?" asked Almost Human th: nervous passenger as they drew An old fowl was recently discovnear the top of the skyscraper. ered to have . two hearts. News Gosh, exclaimed the elevator girl, Item. Sounds like the bridge partner I PI turning pale at the very Idea. ' . lose my Job ! had last week. Smiths Weekly. v Wife-Th- , toward Siberia. lie say no worship devil, worship God, build church, like on Ignak Island. lie no can go, like me, so he marry Aleut "woman.. Fire-hear- t, she his seed, so. she holy, too. She know secrets,, make medicine. Little drop white blood In her yet, so she think, talk, wonder about white mans country. She like talk white mans talk, make her' feel proud." Horton, dully staring, passed hts band dazedly over his eyes, shivered, and . stepped forward. ' "It's Just ' a ' matter of .Inducing some of the natives. here to go through our strait. and bring help, Isnt it?" he asked, with a distant' echo of his old manner. "Possibly, If .they could go direct from' deep Into tho strait, and-not- ' have to hunt through the reefs shoals.-- . But if they, dont know .where It Is, how can we tell. them? Thfe Fire Wad of Driftwood,-Hissing ' Do you remember those compass bear: and Smoking.- Jngs, lost with the log? .1 don't.-- ' ences-.of- , other-- , age. and w.efght,-bu- t ..I. dont, of course, but they could wise they seemed so' many peas in a find it somehow. I can get em to go. ' ' ipod. ThO .single . exception was. a Iil pay em' anything they want. . old man squatshort;. echoed the word Pay? Chechaquo. ' in wonder; You mean money?" ting in the stern. To Eric,' this singular fact bad nq Of course. All they ask;"--' ' special' meaning. To Roy, equally keen ."They no want money. People here of eye and deeper of irflnd, It was like not know what- money means. .1 tell a dark prophecy. The wind blew- his era,. they just laugh. .'You no fight .comment fo Erics ears. taboo with money. lie no good here. ; Y.es; Horton, those- fellows lookfor the 'first time tn Hortons of the same litter. Do you know life,, the little, leather-backed- , god In what that 'means? It; means theyre' his .pocket, was Impotent Suddenly ' all inbred, There hasnt '.been any he looked gray and- old. He. could fresh-bloobn this island for. a cursed not be counted on 'greatly,- In' the 'long time.. . stern trials to come.. now Landing was soon made.on the bleak,, Sandomars gang had landed By two hundred yards down tha beach, rocky shore. A group of elders, boys, and squaws pulled but .remained sullenly apart They up the lifeboat; the braves- - beached bad mutinied and ' shed blod on the nearby and stood staring; Eric, faced high Seas forever they were beyond them and spoke crisply. the pale and even on this lost Isle, Cau any talk English?. ' the shame could not be forgotten,. Al. Mostly they continued to stare, In ready Eric believed that the die was awed silence, but a- squaw turned cast for war. With eyes Indrawn. and the bidarka crew, grim he watched Petrolf, the little eagerly' to' one-o- f now watching SandomaFs boat . beat Russian, edge away and saunter down through the white caps. Chechaquo, the beach to Join his fellows. she called Tn'guttural tones. But Eric found a c.heerful word fot1 Eric pricked up iris ears. . This the bewildered millionaire beside blini Word, originally- Chinook,' was used all Well get out of here somehow, Horover Alaska to mean newcomer. He ton. Now lets go to the fire, and say was not surprised to see theTnan adnothing to the others until we can get dressed was the foreign-lookinAleut, all- the facts."lie had noticed before.. Eric repeated Ive got enough of era already," ' " fils question.. Roy said coolly. .Why. not face them? M? talk English fine,; was the. old Were marooned; here for- - months, mans boast.'. ,. years, possibly all our Uvea The To Eric this was merely a stroke coast guard will look for us, but theyll of luck,' but Roy seemed never penetrate this shoal ; the Indeeply and strangely gratified. It was trepid is just another ship lost with aS though the answer had some deep all hands." . meaning for' him.But didnt you leave word where These- women are cold and wet. were, head ing? you Tell the squaws to' take' them to the was a great secret!" Roy smiled It nearest, barnbara How I guarded that pre' Chechaquo turned to- the native bitterly. ! But as you say, we wont cious diary women and spoke In Aleut. They break it to the others until we and beckoned to nodded, smiling, these have to. strange white sisters from afar. ' They found Wilcox, Mother Horton, e with- a smoking chimA the two girls crouching before and ney stood only thirty yards away, so Mother. Horton did not hesitate to the stone hearth lb. the take her shivering old. body to the fire. turf house. The fire was of driftwood, Nan and Marie followed, guarded by hissing and smoking. The only furnIn the hut were fur sleeping Wilcox. Soon the leaders were alone: ishings a few wooden dishes, pokes of Eric was free to seek the truth. Yet robes, his heart was strangely faint; and oil and supplies, and primitive weapons and tools to wrest a living from he took a wide tack.the bleak tundra and desolate sea. They 'call you Chechaquo newBut the squaws were smiling, gesturdid come Where comer; from? you and extending every hospitality ing, -. . The-pointed to the south. knew. they from Come Ignak .Island, long time From the low bluff on which the ago." '. huts stood, Eric could surrey the en.Then the people go back and forth, a dreary vista. It was tire Island, from here to there? little more than a lonely mountain top No go. Never no go. And never in a lost sea. ' Ignak people come. They not know Whats the name of this Island? island here. His black eyes seemed asked Chechaquo. Eric to film over, - Long, long time ago, . (TO BE CONTINUED.) r AM sorry . . Aleut-culture- ' I my ENTHUSIASTIC andto Herman . ward the shelter of ' the . cape. The boat was weil trimmed : ' their own ' danger seemed passed, There would be discomfort, ttiaay days tedious 'delay, but. the. Aleuts, would surely' aid them te safety and rescue. Unless all signs failed, .their party .would . soon break up. Nan would, return to her' owo world, whfere the' wreck- of. would be no more than a. lively talo td fell over gleaming liquor glasses.; and bur duet with Eric only a haunting memory on 'moonlit nights. mgte haw Roy Stuart would ing' and holding her supple' body, and, bright sou.1 and' e.ut of his sh.ipwr.erk might come- a monograph' on be.-he- J C Copyright by hal 'too'? to- .manfully- - . make me re mem- -' her," Chechaquo explained patiently. I. teach her., white mans tdlk-rs- he make me she. and me speak every day, so she ho forget. No one else speak It just Flreheart Choohnquo." Then- she must bo a ' chechaquo, ' . adrift' and she .Fi-rehear- flow I Broke Into VJi The Movies fl peo-ple- '. . No can get back. - ' young, he go with hunters to kill whale. Twenty kayaks iit - CROSS-WOR- PUZZLE D Hoot Gibson. r . broad-shouldere- d - - tow-vo!ee- like-pig- - awed-look-In- of-yo- . - - long-heade- d . . . turf-hous- half-lighte- d mc.-n- - 175 contesting riders. When the dust' had settled on the rodeo I. found mycow-boself holding . the ' championship. ft was a tougn job, and I worked hard to get It, but right on riding, for I left with the American delefor Australia gation of where I rode in the foreign meets, for seven mooths. ; About this time motion pictures were Just beginning to show some signs of development and after, reaching ttiU country again I found myself talking with motion picture producers. ' They happened to have a field for western pictures so I started directing program" or short length westerns. I might have continued on this Unpretentious status for the' rest .of my .career but seeing the opportunities In the .acting end of the game, I decided to get. Into the grease paint and see what would develop.- I had directed about 40 pictures and had a fair knowledge of what the Industry wanted, in the line of western productions; I have, always had what some people call a sense of humor and .1 wanted to use It to advantage If possible. I saw tremendous possibilities tn making westerns that went off the beaten path of melodramatic action, pictures. I wanted to Intersperse the exaggerated action of my pictures with comedy and human touches. I found a director ai.d together we conspired to do comedy and human touches.- The result was a better and more papular brand of pictures. I know of no other business where merit 1? rewarded as It Is In the movies but merit must be aided by labor, and plenty of It. d -- - Horizontal. Splendor S Caprice I Reward for aarvloea 10 Morning II Motor car organization ' . Joan Needs No Glycerine Drops to Simulate Tears In the sad business of weeping before the camera Joan Blondell has -it aft over her more sober sisters of the cinema. They resort to glycerine drops, stinging lotions for the eyes and even, at times, to the lowly onion to generate their screen tears All except Miss Blondell. Joan will use none of these subterfuges. When the time comes for her to cry In a picture she Just cries, and the glycerine bottle, the camphor spray and the restaurant onion are never called upon to double for real emotion. An I immediate Succes-sMiss Fay Wray started her film ea reer in 1925. She sprang into Imme 'diate prominence with her first appear ance and counts among her many other successful vehicles, Finger Points,' "Not Exactly Gentlemen," Conquur ing Horde, "Captain Thunder," Law yers Secrets," Unholy Garden, Tin Vampire .Hat" and King Kong. . t 8 4 (Inl-tlal- a) Heavy coat It Tendona 17 Feelera 19 Barden 21 Southern atate (abbr.) 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