Show a ER S LE WN U installment NINETEEN this chii is the concluding installment to this story of the DEEP WATER ISLAND alagoa what Is this dick asked you know that james Way been making additional payments on alagoa all through the last twenty years 1 I thought he was I 1 prove it I 1 guess you an can prove it now a receipt from garrett waterson tor for two hundred and siv seventeen enteen thousand dollars incompetent or not he was properly paid for or alagoa and that receipt acknowledges it I 1 thought id better get it for you and save you a headache karen dick asked why have you done don ethis this im sick ot of having you worry tor for faar ear im going to get your island away from you I 1 dont want your old island better take care a of f that receipt and not sit there creasing it all up your brothers are going to want it and I 1 suppose after au all alagoa is more theirs than yours he wondered irrelevantly it if he should tell her that this haq not so but let it pass what are you going to do now im going back to san francisco and look for a job tut but garrett waterson will want im not going to fasten onto him hes got troubles of his own there was a long silence after that it seems to me dick said at last that neither one of us has been very sensible about any of this all ali the way along weve kept fighting over the most trivial things islands and grandfathers and kanaka girls and who busted a a lei on james waynes desk it certainly looks as if we ought to run out of things to fight and quarrel over pretty soon dont you know karen asked whose lei that was dont you know who was with james wayne when he died 1 I dont even care dick said 1 I care its taken me a weeks d elective detective work even to find out what y you ou were talking about and im g going to tell you about it whether youre interested or not 1 I just dont think its important now dick said 1 I do because that was what really broke us s up it made you say things to me that were perfectly awful things dick and I 1 know then even what you meant when you talked about a broken lei it if only you had told me ime 1 I tell you because I 1 know I 1 know now when you ou went into your uncles office and found him dead there was a broken lei of ginger blossoms on the floora floor and you thought that it was them the lei you gave to ne me but ive had to talk to tsura and lilua and bokano before I 1 even found out that much you mean to tell me that you really there you with james wayne that III night at au of course not but ive pieced together what happened now the lei you gave me that night was a lei that lilua made for you but that was not the only let lei she made she made another let lei for bokano and he was wearing it when he came looking for her that night you mean that it was bokano tzou who 0 bokano was tor for lilua I 1 could have told him where to look tor for her but he ha find her because she was in your rom mom 1 karen I 1 swear that nothing oh I 1 know As a matter of tact fact a malicious little twinkle flickered in karens eyes 1 I think I 1 had already warned you to lock your door but bokano know anything about that he saw james waynes light he stepped into james waynes office through the window and demanded to know where lilua was of course your uncle was furious that a large very wet kanaka should come crashing into his bis office through a window his anger was too much tor for him on top of everything else he stood up and threatened and then just suddenly collapsed and was gone bokano leaned across the desk to so see if he be was really dead the ginger blossom lei cau caught on the corner of the desk and broke br ke and just then tsura came tapping tapping kat t the door peddling her glass of r milk bokano told you this most of it who else could he was the only one who knew this Is all very surprising dick I 1 sa said 1 I dont think so go I 1 dont think its even interesting I 1 went to the trouble to tod find out because I 1 wanted to low know what you were talking about L I 1 cant remember now why I 1 thought it mattered and I 1 still dont think it matters dick said 1 I dont think it matters at all what either one of us has said oi or thought odone I 1 in sart short karen said you gaventa ha venta leg to stand on so that being the case you favor calling the whole fight off it he stepped into james waynes office through the window and de ini to know where was 1 I have no doubt dick agreed that I 1 am a complete fool worse than that much boise I 1 am also unlucky I 1 simply dont get the breaks and I 1 suppose the worst thing you can say about any man you get algood abood breaks as anyone does The principal trouble with you is that you dont show any sense i 1 I think its time for or both of us to show a little sense people never ne ver get anywhere trying to dope out who was to blame tor for what if people like to be together that should deide decide tiec dec c what going to do such as 7 the sense in going to honolulu I 1 dont have to go to honolulu and neither do you the holokai can just as well put about and lay a course tor for nuku anuku hiva how do you know you like nuku anuku hiva ill bet any amount think its a whole lot prettier than san francisco my word karen smiled faintly 1 I believe its meant to be a proposal 1 call it what you want to dick said dont you think dont you think would you me like to know what I 1 think I 1 think youre tiresome you sit there talking on and on when all a person wants is to go to sleep now you can sit there talking to yourself as long as you want to but im going to sleep anyway said karen dick stood up ive got a great mind coset a course tor for nuku anuku hiva anyway and make you like itt karen laid her head bead on her arms and closed her eyes youre always shanghaiing somebody she said but ask yourself what does it ever get you dick stood looking down at her quiet face ace and wondering why he had bad ever hoped to understand this girl nothing I 1 guess he admitted at last CHAPTER he went out 0 ut into the main cabin sat down a at t the table and laid out a hand of solitaire but when it was laid out he be sat stating staring vacantly at the cards he hail had reason enough to be sick ot of solitaire then presently he became aware that he was infinitely weary and that he had as much reason as karen to be in need of sleep he laid his head on the table convinced now that there was no longer on the face of the sea any uncertainty worth keeping a man awake and was almost immediately asleep lie he must have slept a long time for when ni he awoke daylight was coming in the ports in front 0 of him on the table had been placed a tray containing a wilted sprig of celery and a glass of cold water that sloshed about with the holo kais roll but it seem to him much of a joke then as he shook the sleep out of his eyes he was suddenly aware that something was wrong the sun appeared to be rising in the west and when he had thought about that tor for a minute he be knew that they should have been in honolulu many hours hour ago he could hardly believe that the holokai had been into honolulu harbor and set karen ashore and put to sea again without waking him up but that was the only explanation he could think of at first certainly the holokai was tearing southward at a roaring clip he went on deck and found in at the wheel the idea of not waking me up in honolulu honolulu dont ont stare at me like a block cheadl dick shouted what time did we leave honolulu we we been to honolulu captain you been well where do you think youre going why why oh I 1 was afraid of this moaned well speak apt what do you think youre doing miss waterson miss waterson she said you had changed the co course urse captain she said you wanted me to bring about and lay tor for the Marque sas she said you had decided not to go to honolulu she said you were asleep and she said I 1 was supposed to dear heaven tonga dick said you go ask her yourself ashes up there in the bow captain tonga I 1 try to set what course you say but I 1 know what to do when she came and the ma mainsail insall was partly to blan blame ie the Holo kais low swung booms made part of the deck invisible from the wheel but the real reason that dick had not found karen before now was that he had not expected pe acted her to be there it had been very definitely fixed in his mind that she was gone from his ship gone altogether 13 out of his life he went forward hesitantly partly humble partly dazed by his luck he stood close beside her at the rail and drew her against him with one arm well good morn mornin gf karen said do you always sleep in your clothes because I 1 dont think it does them any good dick said stupidly we we go to honolulu after all did we certainly not silly effort of yours chasing off to nuku anuku hiva did you think get away fr from om me as easily as that A great cloud of flying fish went up before the bows of the holokai making a flickering rainbow on the face of the warm sea 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