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Show j? ai:rtwa--,.i -- THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH lASRttB QOTBOj GEORQE F. WORTS THE STORY THUS FAR: Zorie Corey, who hates herself for being meek and shy, finds herself railroaded into taking a job she does not want, assisting Admiral Dnncan, grandfather of her fiance, Paul Duncan, to write his memoirs. Aboard the steamer, Samoa, en route to Hawaii, Zorie dances with Steve, Pauls handsome brother, only to discover that Paul is terribly Jealous. Paul refers to Steve as a Nazi spy. The admiral dictates some of his memoirs to Zorie. Steve and Paul are critical. On returning to her stateroom Zorie discovers that her note book and an important treatise on engineering are missing. She suspects Amber Lanning, with whom she shares her stateroom. CHAPTER IX Zorie came to the turn of the deck and started across. She was outside the Palm Room. She at a window looked in. and stopped The Palm Room was crowded. She saw Steve dancing with Amber. Watching them, she forgot Mr. Lanning. A wave of this afternoons jealousy returned. She wanted to cry. She felt neglected and unloved. Zorie .. walked on. . She felt desperate. She. walked aft on the other side. There was no moon. It was a black night. She found stairs leading to a lower deck. She went down several flights and came to an iron bulwark on either side. At the end of this deck were steps that went up. She climbed them. She passed one deck and climbed another. Zorie leaned on the rail and looked down at the water. Ghostly light showed the race and churn of water lashed white by the propellers. Beyond was blackness. What was she to do about the stolen notebook? To whom could she turn for counsel? In her confusion and woe, she Buddha on thought of the cast-iro- n Professor Folsomes desk the genuine jungle wishing Buddha and her three wishes. She had wished to be transported to an enchanting land of palms and flowers, of jade seas and singing birds, and of charming people too gallant to take advantage of her meekness. She had wished that Paul would go there, too. And she had wished that she would lose her meekness. Since then, everything had gone wrong. It was as if the jungle Buddha were granting a parody of her wishes. If she were superstitious, she would believe that the Buddha was an evil genie of iron who dealt solely in the cruellest irony. She suddenly tasted on her lips the dust and rust of his iron forehead. A soft mocking whisper came out of the darkness just behind her. it said. A hand was brutally clamped over her mouth. Another hand went scooping under her knees. She was swiftly lifted to the rail and over it. She was thrown far out. She fell down and down through the blackness toward the churning white water. Ah-na- Ah-na- h! v But even in her panic, her brain was trying to work out this problem. Zorie was a fair swimmer. Ordinarily, she was not afraid of water. The sensible thing to do was to relax, to lie on her back and make no effort. So she lay on her back. After a moment, she coughed the water out She could breathe again. But' her heart was still a frantic .chuttering in her ears. She could see the Samoa nowhere. It had evidently sped on into the night. Her fate was inevitable. She would paddle about in this great waste of water until she was too tired to paddle about any more, then she would simply sink. Zorie began to think more clearly. It would have been better if she had been sucked into the propellers and battered to pulp. It would have been a far kinder fate. Zorie thought of Paul, and she suddenly wanted to cry. Poor Paul! He would be sorry, as people always are when someone has died sorry for the unkind things he had done to her, and the kind things he hadnt done for her. And how would Steve feel? And Aunt Hannah? And the admiral? All of them! All these people who had treated her as a human doormat! A white ghostly glow was beginning to fill the world. It silvered the tips of the small rolling waves about her. It seemed to fill the sky. It was like the glow that is supposed to accompany a religious miracle. Zorie was falling through blackness as you fall in a dream, falling and falling, never reaching bottom. If you reach bottom, in a nightmare fall, your heart, some people say, stops beating. Her brain must have been working frantically, because she did not have long to dwell on the horror of She fell down and down through the blackness toward the churning white water. All this time Zorie had been lying on her back, resting, getting her breath, calming her heart. Now she turned over and faced the glow. It was a dazzling spot of white glare not more than two hundred yards away. It was floating on the water in the direction opposite to that in her fate. which she had thought the 'Samoa It was like cold claws tearing her had vanished. heart to shreds. She cried out involuntarily with the struck water, she relief and joy. It must be a lifeLong before Zorie was fighting for her life. She ring! Someone must have seen her the ring! took a deep breath and held it. go overboard, and thrown to her. that told her them anyone had Paul Paul had explained into was ship thrown a g from moving swiftly the falling When is almost inevitably sucked into the the water a magnesium flare atpropellers, is instantly battered and tached to it by a short rope was torn to pieces by the giant steel spontaneously ignited. Its glare blades. would guide a swimmer in the dark She struck the water. The shock to the ring. of the impact almost knocked the She struck out toward it. The flare air out pf her. The next instant she blinded her. She did not see the was deep in the insane churn from Samoa turning about until it mithe propellers, with their mighty raculously stopped not far away, a rhythm thumping in her ears. She blaze of horizontal rows of lights. was a helpless rag of a girl caught Then she was blinded by the beam in insane convulsions of water. She of a searchlight on the bridge. It was violently jerked, whirled and went off in R moment. tossed this way and that by savage She swam steadily. She was growcurrents. She felt as if she were slippers were gone. ing tired. Her She had not realin. being torn apart. all was She There was only one thing she ized how the shock, the horror of could do to help herself she could her immersion had exhausted her hold her breath. She might be held until she tried to use her arms and down indefinitely, sucked this way Igffg and that by monstrous eddies. This inability to reach safety, alone would determine something to cling to until she was Chance whether or not she would be drawn rescued, was more nearly like a moments in the into the thumping steel blades. nightmare than her She tried to hold her breath. She savage thrust of water from the held her breath until she thought her ships screws. sudlungs would burst. Then the white flare seemed was left She flailed the hissing water with what She put closer. her arms. She could not draw in denly her strength into a final spurt. But she her breath, or force it out. Some of reached the water was lodged in her throat, and She now so weak she could hardly cork. it would not let the air pass. She was to the canvas-covere- d of confusion tried to dislodge the obstacle but it cling a was it of The rest life-rin- life-rin- stayed there. " Atmasn g. .RELEASE shouts and mens red faces in the white glare, and the rattling of oars in oarlocks. Someone pulled her into a lifeboat. A gruff voice she never knew to whom it belonged was calling her a brave kid, a damned brave kid. And she never knew who it was who told her in a whining voice that an oiler who had just come off watch had been leaning on the rail of the deck below the one from which she had fallen. She had shot past him screaming. He it was who had thrown overboard g the and then had telephoned the bridge. Zories next clear recollection was of the woman in white. The woman in white was square-facerather grim, and very efficient. She helped her out of her tattered rags all that remained of her white pique dress. Once she was in her nightgown and in her bed, Zorie had hysterics. But it wasnt a bad attack. Later, the nurse told her she had never seen anyone come through such an experience so bravely. The nurse gave Zorie a sedative and Zorie went to sleep. It was midnight when she awoke. She felt tense. She ached here and there and there was a faint drugged feeling in her brain the residue of the sedative. Otherwise, her brain felt clear. Everything felt clear. In all her life she had never felt so clear. Amber Lanning was sitting on the bed across the room. She was looking steadily at Zorie. Except for a ghost of a smile at one comer of her mouth, her face was expressionless. Her eyes were like dark round holes. When Zorie sat up in bed, Ambers eyes followed her. Zorie swung her feet to the floor. She winced as a pain shot through the small of her back. Her left knee hurt. All her teeth ached a little. And her right hand felt a little numb. But she could stand. And she could walk. She walked across to where Amber sat and she slapped Ambers face. There, Zorie said softly. She waited for Amber to do something. She hoped that Amber would resent it. The smile was gone. Amber compressed her lips and stared at her, but she did nothing and she said nothing. Zorie reached up to one of the hooks. It was supporting several hangers of Ambers clothes. She took the hangers down and threw them on Ambers bed. She went about the stateroom taking down hangers and throwing them on Ambers bed. When the hooks were emptied, she emptied one of the closets. Its contents she threw on life-rin- d, said Zorie in a calm, assured voice, this closet is mine. Amber, sitting on the bed with her clothes all about her, said nothing. Zorie now dumped the contents of two of the four drawers on Ambers bed. She put the drawers back and From now on, these are said, mine. You are the first person of a great many who are going to learn that Im never going to be pushed around again as long as I live. You will either behave yourself in this stateroom or you will get out. Amber shrugged and lifted eyebrows and eyes with a wryly deAll right, my spairing grimace. said. she Keep it up if you dear, want to. I know youre a great actress. God knows I should. 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Amber, Mr. Lanning and the sinister Mr. Savoyard wouldnt believe her. She wasnt afraid. That was the surprising thing. She wasnt afraid of anything any more. She wasnt even afraid of death. A few minutes ago she had accepted death, and death no longer frightened her. She looked at the jumble of clothes on Ambers bed. There was one evening dress that looked new. It looked as if it had never been worn. Tomorrow night, Zorie decided, Ill wear that dark red gown. Certainly, dear! Anything I have is yours! The phone rang. Zorie answered it. Pauls crisp voice said, ZorieJ Are you all right? Yes. information on various subjects I a ? k(t.(k.(b(k.(VN(k(.b(U(k.(W(b(k.(k.(W(k(k(k.(k.Mk.(t.(k.(t.(k.(u(k.(wk.bNNNNN Ambers bed. From now on, h! 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