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'ft If. Edison Marshall w .NJ.U. S(L HVIC&. SYNOPSIS With his yacht, the Intrepid, aban doned by its crew, Felix Horton, mil lionaire, with his mother, his daugh ter Nan, atjd Roy Stuart, puts into Bquaw Harbor, Alaska, to recruit. He engages a bunch of nondescripts stranded there. A gigantic Pole, San domar, Is their leader. Captain Way mire, the Intrepld's skipper, Is an old friend of Eric Krlcssen, unemployed ?ailor, and Eric engages to sail as ohlef officer. Nan and Eric Indulge In a moonlight flirtation, which brings them both to the threshold of love. The Intrepid Is wrecked. Eric takes command of a small boat, with Hor ton and his party. Unable to help, they watch Sandomar kill Cap tain Waymlre and leave the ship with his crowd. On landing, they learn there 1b no communication with tho outside world. Fireheart, priestess of the island, descended from a white man in the remote past, knowing a little English, welcomes the cast aways. Sandomar declares there shall no law on tho island, but Eric, having the only gun, cows him for the time, declaring he Is the law. He lays out work for all.- Eric's love for Nan ? wells, and he tells her he means to win her for his mate. She Is not unwilling. Fireheart claims Eric as her own, and realising tho Importance of her friendship he Is forced to tem porise. Defending himself from at tack, Eric's revolver apparently mis fires. Sandomar, deaf, does not hear the trigger fall, nor realise Eric's de fenseles-ness. He turns away and Qarge follows him. Eric finds the re volver. which had been Waymlre'*, Is rlm-flre, while five of Its six cartridges are center-flre. Eric has one effoctlve cartridge. He determines on a show down, calling a meeting, at which "Swede," makes an attempt on his life. He uses his one cartridge, killing "Swede," but Is left defenseless, though master of the situation, since he a4one knows his gun Is useless. CHAPTER VII ?11? In the Inte afternoon Nan and Eric Bat alone on the bIrd-cllfTs. looking out over the weary sea, and search ing each other's hearts for strength to carry on. "How long have we been here, Eric?" ??This Is the ninth day." "Is that all? It seems we've been here always ? never known anything else. Erie, what would you give to see a sail out there?" The dull red of her cheeks deepened and spread. "A ship we could signal to, that would come In, and take us home!" "I wouldn't glv^ you. My hopes of you, I mean." There was no one In hearing, only a few Aleuts, Including Flreheart, tending the nets. So Eric spoke from his heart. "Yet that's Just what I'd have to give, If a ship came now." "Do you think we'd pass out of each other's lives?" "I would pass out of yours. You'd forget these nine days, at most they'd be like a dream." "You'd forget, too, Eric. Hecause It Is only nine days, after all." Her lids dropped over her lustrous eyes. "If we parted, you might take It hard, but It would leave no scar." "You mean, I'm not In love with you yet?" "I suppose that's what I do mean. We have had no chanco to be lovers, nothing but honored antagonists. You don't have to tell me, because I know." There was a long silence. The terns danced their aerial minuet over the foam. "If we stayed here ninety days ? or nine hundred ? I could never win. Is that what you're telling me?" "I believe so. Even leaving out Itoy -^-and he's always In my thoughts ? Td still fear that It was only ship wreck that brought us together, and shipwreck would surely part us. Our ways are far apart. I want to go hack to my old life; I wouldn't dare, no matter how much I am tempted, erect a permanent barrier to shut It out; and It's s life that you, of all men, could never share." "No. I'll have to stay by the sea and the snow. . . . Well, In that rase I suppose you and Itoy might as well follow Marie and Wilcox. The aame as Marie, you'll he safer as some man's mate. It will please Flreheart, and maybe I can forget a hopeless dream." Ills eyes were hard as blue diamonds. "The sooner you do It the better." "I don't think I love him, yet. Hut If you think best ? I'll rnnko a ninr rlage of convenience." For a long time there was no sound hut the angry surge of the waves un der the cliff, and the shriek of the sea-birds. Erie was called to himself at last by the fllok of a long shadow at the cor ner of his eye. He was nev*,-r to know why It startled hltn so, and could only thank some sixth sense which his life's war with the raw powers of the North had nurtured In his brain. His head never turned, but his eyes moved In their sockets. Along the crest of the bluff, forty feet up, Klroheart came stealing. She was almost directly behind and over Nan. Eric had caught only one glimpse of the priestess when she vanished behind the big boulders of the summit. [ With the sensation of sudden bitter cold In his vitals, he sprang to his feet and whirled. lie was not a split second too soon, and quite possibly too late. Destruction In the shape of a hundred-pound boulder started lung ing down the bluff. Nan was sitting In the trough of the slope, in the certain track of the mis sile. Even a glancing blow would hurl her off the ledge, to the churn ing water below. Yet two factors fought for her ? one was Eric leaping toward her now. his hand sweeping toward hers. The other was the shape ' of the stone, not round but angular, so that It made toward her In angry bounds, sometimes sliding on the steep escarpment, rather than in an accel erating cannon-ball roll. Struggling up, her hand snatched his. seemed to Jerk her headlong through the air into his arms. Thun der rattled in her ear, a passing whirl wind raised the hair on her head, and the big rock splashed impotently Into the sea. Eric's arm clung about her shoul ders, pressing her close as though he could never let her go. "There's some one up there," she gasped. "It's Fireheart." "Did she do this thing?" "Perhaps not. Many of those boul ders start at a touch. But we've got to find out." He turned and led the way up the steep trail. They found Fireheart on the summit, her arms rigid at her Thunder Rattled In Her Ear, and the Big Rock Splashed Impotently Into the Sea. sld^s, her head thrown back, n sharp nfrony on her face. Quietly Krlc spoke her name. "1 no roll the stone," she muttered. "I see him on brink, just over white girl, I touch him, and evil spirit Ret In Flreheart's hand, Rive big push." "I understand," Nan said. "Don't worry about It any more." "Flreheart no understand." The slanted eyes were thin crescents of glittering Jet. "Why White Chief Jump up, almost Ret hit himself, Jerk you out of way? Guess maybe he no catch love for Flreheart because he love you." Nan knew that she must answer straight. This was neither the time nor the place for subtleties. All things had been reduced to their primal sim plicity. She and Flreheart were not now society girl and squaw, but Just two maidens ripe for mating; and Eric completed the triangle that Is the first form, the eternal symbol of love se lection that has evolved mankind. "He doesn't love me," Nan said quietly. "He told me so." "How Flreheart know? Maybe you tell big lie." Fiercely she whirled to Eric. "She say you no love her. Then you promise no try to get her, let Hoy marry her quick." I "I can't promise that." It was Eric's deep, vibrant tone, no bus than his words, that made Nan catch her breath. "I am going to try to win her, Flreheart. I wanted her before I ever came here ? you must understand It now, and be my friend. I don't mean to let Hoy have her." Flreheart nodded darkly, then turned Imperiously to Nan. "You love White Chief?" Nan shook her head slowly. "lie say he want you, try get you. If you tell Flreheart you no want him ? proinluo true you no let him get you, no never? promise marry Hoy heap quick ? then Flreheart still be your friend, be White Chief's friend, too. What you say?" "Answer her," Erie urged. "This matter may as well be settled now as later." Nan squared her shoulders and threw up her glossy head. Then she spoke with a low, clear 'cello tone. "I can't promise that. I can't ? make a promise ? that I may ? have to break." Eric's heart leaped like a klng-sal inon free of the barb, triumphant from the dark water, but the squaw's black eyes glowed like those of some ten acled bottom-thing, hauled up by the trawls. "Flreheart see now. She no forget. Her love Is big ocean In sun light, bright, warm, good, but her no love is heap white floe come down from North, no look across, no make hole through, grind up big rocks to little pebble." "Won't you still be our friend?" Eric asked. Flreheart shook her head sullenly. "Love, him change to no-love, taste bitter In mouth." She raised her arms In an Imperious and dramatic gesture. "I am Flreheart, priestess of Lost People. Aleuts, they do what I say. I tell 'em you no my friend, I tell 'em watch chance, turn quick with spears when you no have little gun, kill you, drive you away. Rig god who come from West, he do what Flreheart say too. I tell him bring you bad luck, make you die slow, plenty hurt. Flre heart, she wish stone run over you both, knock you Into sea." ? ?????? Exile on Forlorn Island changed slowly from an Incredible dream to vivid reality. Eric's stern reign seemed like that of an ancient dynasty, the natural order of things. It was commonplace to be living In the hour ly threat of Sandomar's fury, Fire heart's malice. As Nan tolled with her slant-eyed sisters, less and less often did her swift hands pause and her eyes film over as she day-dreamed of a lost world, a pre-exlstence half forgotten. Yet It was not all twilight. Nan's little muscles hardened under strain, and sometimes she was surprised at the airy swing of her stride, the depth and freedom of her breathing. He* calloused hands no longer bled at the flsh-cleanlng ; though she might crawl In her fur-bed dizzy with fatigue, she sprang out at sunrise with a tingle In her veins and a glow on her tawny skin. She became skillful with the nets, deadly with the salmon spear ? and a good catch was almost as satis factory as a bridge prize long ago. be fore her soul had transmigrated to the body o / a white squaw. As the summer advanced, she was given nevf tasks, most of them hard, many of them perilous, hut almost nil of them blood-stirring, breath-taking. In these wild days, her laughter as well as her tears seemed easy to flow. Her thrills were no longer "syn thetic"; she was warmer, less self centered. This growth was revealed, not only In her quick moods? mirth, Indignation, pity, loneliness ? but sub tly In her face. Her hands grew red and calloused, hut in the shadow of her parka-hood the luster of her hazei eyes set Roy's cool head awhlrl, an6 the curve of her full lips made Erlc't viking heart glow with the lust of con quest. It was the month of ripening, hud to flower, fledgling In the nest to winged courier of the air; but Nan's friendship for Roy had not yet ripened into love. Marriage with him wo.ild still be for convenience, not for deep need of her heart and soul. And It was true that Eric stole too often Into her thoughts. Her good sense told her that Eric could never share the scenes to which sometime she must return? that beyond these crags and windy wastes they would have little In common ? but how dreamy those scenes became, and how vivid and real the sand-dunes of Forlorn Island! The harrier between her and the blond viking wns not half so strong as the sen reefs enforcing her exile. Future shipwreck as his mate was a far-to morrow's evil, but the shelter of his arms was today's need. In the maze of adventure, part and parcel of her exile, she saw Eric In n new light. One warm afternoon at the drying racks, a young squaw nt her side gave a sudden, sharp gasp. Wheeling, she beheld the shadow of agony fall on the leathern face, lin ger a few poignant seconds, then pass slowly awav. "What Is It?" Nan begged. The squaw, a Inst fnll's bride nnmpd Chlgum (Flower), could not understand the words, but the quirk pity In the alien eyes went straight to her heart. An expression only n great nrtlst could pnlnt stole Into the dark countenance. Nan's own heart, lenped wildly. Here wns something Imponderably sad, yet close to the sublime, primal, eternal. A forlorn half smile touched the coarse lips. The eyes gnzed ofT as Into another world, down the Ion# Tlsta of the renturles with that fnr, magic sight which no son of Adam over dreamed, and which comes to Eve's daughters only a few times from the cradle to the grave. "Kotlcky," she : answered simply. At once she began J to put her flint tools Into her seal hide poke, signifying that sho would go now to another labor. "Kotlcky" was a word that Nan had lenrned. It meant "baby." As she stared, bewildered, Chlgum turned and trudged away toward her turf house. The other squaws grunted and went back to drying fish. "Aren't you going with her?" Nan demanded. They looked up, puzzled, and one of them spoke In a tone dark with fatal ism. At once Nan realized that sh' alone must answer the call. Mothei ITorton and Marie were In the berry flats, out of reach; ICrlc and the hunt ers were spearing sen Hons on the far , beach. With ? bitter cry, Nan | dropped her own tools and hurried after the squat figure reeling to h?r dread appointment. (TO 111? OON'riWPU>.> IMPROVPn "" UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY! chool Lesson (By REV. P. B. FITZWATEK. 1). D.. Mem ber of Faculty, Moody Hlble Institute of Chicago.) ?. 13JJ. Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for September 10 JONATHAN LESSON TEXT? I Samuel ISM-4; 19:1-7; 20:30-40. GOLDEN TEXT ? A frlind loveth at all times, and a brother Is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17. PRIMARY TOPIC? New Friends. JUNIOR TOPIC ? David's True Friend. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? Choosing Worthy Friends. YOUNO PEOPLE AND ADUI.T TOPIC ? How to Bo a Friend. I. Friendship Established Between Jonathan and David (I Sam. 18:1-4). The friendship of Jonathan anil David has become Immortalized In the world's thought. It was unique in thnt It occurred between two men of rival worldly Interests. Jonathan was the crown prince and heir to thfc throne according to hereditary rights David was to he king according to divine choice and arrangement. Jonathan knew this nnd yet magnanimously waived his natural, personal rights in favor of God's chosen. I. Love at first sight (vv. 1. 2). At the end of the interview between David and Saul, following the victory over Goliath, Jonathan's soul was knit with that of David. While there was mutual love, this trait stands out pre eminently In Jonathan. To him It meant groat loss, the loss of the throne, while to David It meant Im mense gain, the acquisition of the throne, to which he had no natural right. '2. A covenant established (vv. 8 4). This mutual love found expres n!on In the establishment of a cov enant between them. Following this love covenant, Jonathan stripped him self of hi? court robe and equipment and gave them to David. This act was a virtual abdication of the throne to David. Truly, "Love seeketh not her own." (I Cor. 13 :.*>). II. Jonathan Defended David Against Saul's Frenzy (I Sam. 19:1-7). David went Into the battle with Goliath out of zeal for God and true religion, not for personal glory; hut It turned out as always, that because he put God first, God honored him. It Is always true that those who honor God shall in turn bo honored of God. On David's return from victory ovei Goliath, he was met by a triumphal chorus of women of all the cities of Israel, chanting praises to him of the victory over their enemy. They ascribed more praise to David than to Saul. The one group sang "Saul has slain his thousands." nnd the other answered, "And David his ten thou sands." This praise of David aroused the murderous envy in Saul's heart and moved him twice to attempt to kill David. This wickedness was In Saul's heart. The occasion fanned It Into a flame making It a burning passion of evil. Lot no one think of this as an imag inary sin. It's counterpart may he found In many of us. The supreme test Is as to whether the success of others and the honor bestowed upon others nronses within us envy and Jealousy. It Is hard to forgive those who outdistance us In the rare of life. In Saul's third attempt to kill David Jonathan defended liim nnd secured from his father the oath that David should not he slain. He thus exposed himself to the anger of his Infuriated father for David's sake. This willing ness to lay down his life for David proved his real friendship (John 1 r? :13). III. Jonathan Revealed to David Saul's Murderous Attempt (I Sam 20 : 30-40.) The beginning of the new moon was celebrated by sacrifices nnd feasting, nt which all the members of the family were expected to be present (v. ft). Dnvld's excuse for being absent was thnt he might go home to attend lb? yearly sacrifice of his family. Mat ters were now bo serious thnt Jonn fhan and David renewed their cov enant. In this renewal the terms were broadened beyond the life of Jonathan (vv. *14, l.r>). Saul's anger was now so fierce thnt for Jonathan to bo found In Dnvld's company wns most dangerous, so he cleverly planned this sign by which he could make known to David Saul's attitude nnd purpose. True friend ship wnrns those who nre exposed to danger. This pledge was faithfully carried out by David (II Sam. 0:7, R). Tffiting Christianity To examlno Its evidences Is not to try Christianity; to admire Its mar tyrs In not to try Christianity; to compare nnd estimate Its teachers In not to try ( 'hrlstlnnlty ; hut for onq week, for one day. to have lived In the pure atmosphere of faith and lovo to find, and tenderness to mnn, that, Indeed Is to hnve made experiment of Christianity. ? William Archer Itutler. Beautiful Smtonrn One of the most henutiful sentences In the Hlhle Is this hrlef sentence from the thirty-second chapter of Oenesls: "Me blessed him there." No life can ho at. Its fullest, strongest and heat until one can say, referring to some time and plnce: "lie blessed me there." I. ilea a Diamond "The nature of a human being Is like ? finely-cut diamond ; It reflects a mul'l tude of color-flashes ns the light of other personalities Is played upon It of GEM OF AN IDEA "Jim," said the puzzled young bank clerk to his friend, "what's a Rood thing to give h girl for a birthday present?" "I gave my girl a ring." replied Jim. Ills companion shook his head. "Couldn't afford it," he replied. "How much did It cost?" "Nothing," smiled hack Jim "She's a telephone operator." Breaking a Monopoly. "I'm afrnld the country suffered a ! great loss when they fill led to send : our eloquent and able friend back to j congress." "Not at all," replied Senator Sor | ghum. "The sense of the plain peo- I pie again prevailed. Why should the lecture platform be robbed that the brainy men may be assembled to listen to one another, where lnstruc- j tion Is superllous?" Her Curioaity Arouied "Why are you going to the public i library, Mrs. Williams? Suddenly j taken up science?" "The doctor told my husband he | was bibulous, and now he has torn j the page out of the dictionary." j No Chance at All "And did he have the dentist take ! an X-ray of his wife's jaw?" "He tried to, but all they could net ' was a moving picture." Dangerous Risibility "If I see anything funny, I simply | can't keep a straight face." "You must And shaving rather a ; Mckllsh business." HIS LAST RESORT The branch manager approaciu I the assistant cashier's desk. "Where's the head cashier?" be asked. "Gone to the races, sir," said the young man. "What!" exclaimed the branch manager fiercely. "Gone to the races In business hours. Never heard of such a thine." "Yes, sir," said the other. "I* Is his Inst chance of making the books bala nee." Borrowed Plumei The two tramps were trudging wearily along the rough country road. Presently Dusty allowed his Imag ination to wnnder. "I say, Fred," he said to his com panion, "if you had a dollar in your pocket, what would you think of?" Fred allowed his hands to stray into his trousers pocket. . "H'm," he sniffed, bringing them out empty. "I'd think I had some body else's clothes on." Short Weight "I really don't know what to do about Jim," snid Kitty distractedly. "Kver since 1 met him last year he's only given me a bushel of kisses." "Bushel?" repeated Jean. "What ever do you mean by that?" "Why, four peeks, of course," ex plained Kitty. Maybe Time Out f t Tea "I think the first game nf cricket started In London in the Kighteenth century." "Indeed! And what's the score now ?" ? London Tit Hits. Carried Game Too Far "Take two letters from 'money' and only 'one' will be left." "Indeed. I knew a fellow who took money from two letters, and now he's In jail." Off the "Sucker" Li?t r.ill ? Isn't it awful tlint George Is going to get married? Tom ? What's awful about it? 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