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| find out. | to return to that cabin. I didn’t | see any food re—but there must | be water.”

| mysterious cabin | troubles had begun.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

herits a yacht .for vacation, MELITA HOWARD—EKay's roommate and coadventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN—The third adventurer. ‘ * FORREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARPER—Young scientists whose expe{dition turned out to ‘be a rare experience,

- Yesterday: Kay escapes her crazed captor, is shot at and finally loses herseif in the dense woods as night comes on and she is unable to locate the cabin | and the girls.

CHAPTER TEN

N° until the cruiser Chinook ¥ was out of sight did Melita

and Pricilla cole to the full reali-

zation that Kay Dearborn was really leaving them marooned on the island. Knowing Kay, they were certain she had good, reason, and the footprints: i the sand made them suspect .what.that reason was. That poor Kay was the prisoner of a murderer they had little doubt. Yet this scarcely alleviated their own situation. Except for the small rifle, they were helpless. And there | was no way of knowing whether or

"not the island’s only danger was

| embodied in the unknown man aboard the disappearing Chinook. | However, their concern for Kay | helped to keep their minds from their own troubles. | o- er E_ can’t stay here on the ba open beach,” Melita said. | “Let's get away from that cabin

| and de some exploring. Maybe—

| maybe well find something else’ on this island.”

|. “That’s just what I'm afraid of,” | admitted Priscilla. - “From now on | I'll expect anything. ~ Where do = expect that fellow is taking a’ 0

"“I wish we knew.” Melita was | trying, hard to keep her voice | steady. ¥*But—we can be sure that Kay can take care of herself if | anyone can.” ; Shunning the dreaded cabin, the | two girls started up the lonely beach. As they walked they kept | their eyes on the thick wood, hardly knowing what to expect. For more than an hour they trudged over the sand and pebbles 1 of the beach. Gradually, with the | weariness of tramping, their fears something more terrible took their place. This was thirst and hunger. Neither men- | tioned her longing for water and | food, yet each began to realize

| that the passing of a few more

l hours would see their needs seri- | ous, indeed. | ” 2 2

| w= the sun was high overhead, they stopped of one ac-

cord. “We're just wearing our-

' selves out,” Melita had to admit,

‘We'd better sit down and think | this over.” : | Finding a sheltered spot at the | edge of the wood, the two dropped to the ground exhausted. “Do you

| suppose there’d be a spring or creek | somewhere in the woods?” Priscilla | ventured.

“I don’t know. But we've got to The only alternative is

Another hour’s walking: convinced them ‘that they must accept the alternative. Dread it ‘as ‘they would, they must return to that ere all their What they would find there this - time they could only guess. And their fevered

. brains conjured up many things.

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. ELITA looked at Priscilla fear-

fully. “We'll have to go back. If we go into the woods now we're liable to get lost, or run into something worse than anything at the cabin. Let’s follow the shoreline back.” They had returned only a few hundred yards when they were startled to see a sleek mahogany edboat putting into the beach

| “ahead. Nervously Melita clutched

at her rifle, and then Priscilla broke out with a joyful cry. -“Ioook! There's the man who *helped us in Fairweather Cove! The one. from the white yacht.” No doubt of it, the young man at the wheel of the speedboat was + the one who had visited the Chinook with good advice and an in= vitation to breakfast. Seated beside him were two companions about his own age. And :beyond the moving speedboat was the welcome sight of the white yacht, riding pleasantly at anchor.

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S the spedboat nosed into the A sand, its occupants’were astonjshed at the sight of two bedraggled young women, one with a rifle, rushing toward them. One of the young men leaped out with a forward line, pulled the light speedboat further into the sand. “Hello, there.” he said. “What— I say, aren't you two from the Chinook? Where's your goodlooking skipper?” eShe's—she’s been kidnaped,” Melita blurted out. , The other two debarked then and joined their companion. Hurriedly Melita told the story of the cabin,

of their damaged dinghy, and the

strange departure of the Chinook. ‘The young men exchanged glances rank doubt. fn fer don’t have to believe us now,” Priscilla said hotly. “But youve got to help use find Kay. "The driver of the speedboat spoke up. “We do want to help you. But | I warn you, if this is a practical joke, it'll go hard.” “Joke?” repeated Melita unbelievingly. “How can you be so

stupid?”

HE young man grinned. “Maybe because we're university pro- ~ fessors. But we do want to help, ‘really. Let me introduce Tom and Mac Forrest—and I'm Grant Harper. Were doing some study of these waters for the university. I warn you, we're poor and honest. The palatial yacht out there is char- * tered, and the university is paying t.” for i* run along the shore in the : boat to the beached dinghy was the work of but a few moWhen Grant Harper saw ed boat, and the bloodstains on the cabin floor, he quickJy dropped his bantering tone. He turned to the two brothers. say this is no time to be chasag fauna. There's something yighty strange here.” Facing the rls, he added: “I imagine you d stand some food and rest. se you go aboard the Mistral

EAY DEARBORN—Heroine who" in.

| here.”

to your side of the affair.

BY NARD JONES

with Tom. Mac and I will make a circle: of the island in the speedboat.” -- , “But,” Melita protested. “Shouldn’t we be going after the Chinook?” Harper nodded. “Yes. But I have a hunch we'll find her on the other side of the island. If the man is a murderer he wouldn't want to be hitting for civilization in that boat. And if a round of the island proves I'm wrong, we can quickly overtake the Chinook ° with the Mistral. What I'm afraid of is that he intends to keep your friend right

2 ” ” OO exhausted mentally and physically to offer a better plan, Melita and Priscilla agreed. The four went out to the yacht in the speedboat, and the two girls climbed aboard with Tom Férrest.

Whén Mac and Grant Harper had |

put the trio aboard they shot away in the speedboat. As the runabout reached the north end of the island, Harper slowed down and climbed from the driver’s seat. “I'm going along the east shore on foot, Mac. You take 1 easy right here, and if I'm not back in an hour you'd better take a slow cruise along the shoreline.” “But what’s the idea?” “You can hear this motor too darned easy. If our man is around we dont want him to know the girls have help. Don’t be popping to the rescue too soon, either.” i Mac smiled. “I get it. You want to save the beautiful skipper all by yourself!” :

(Te Be Continued).

Daily Short Story:

BON MOT—By Jane Laird

ES, Mr. McCarthy. .I know why you called me in here on the carpet as soon as I came in from the hospital and I can't say that I blame you a whole dot, according Maybe I'd feel the same way myself if I were a city editor, which I'm not, thank heavens!

Now wait a minute, Mr. McCarthy and don’t go bursting a blood vessel until I explain a few things to you. What? You want to know.what kind of a reporter I am? Well, as you yourself told the boss only last week, I'm the best girl reporter this paper has had since Hector was too young to stand. : : Now wait a minute! -I readily admit that .I was actually present in a perfect position to pick up spot news on one of the best domestic fights this town has had for quite some time, I confess that I was within two feet of Preston Chalmers when his ex-socialite wife burst in and shot him twice through the arm and leg. ; Co” » ” EVEN admit to the fact of committing the worst crime a gal of my standing could be guilty of— withholding a hot news beat from my paper. I would have grabbed a phone and burned up the wires shooting the stuff in to the Globe, Mr. McCarthy, if there hadn’t, been a few ainusual circumstances connected with the whole affair. Yes, I know all those copybook speeches about loyalty to my paper and who the devil would hire me after pulling a stunt like that. Maybe you would have done the same. Let me tell you! You see, how I happened to be on the spot in the first place was that I happened to be up in Préston Chalmers’ apartment with him at irke. What was I doing there of all places? I guess that’s eaSy enough tb dnswer, seeing that Preston andfI have been friends since we made mudpies. together. Besides, we Were business partners in a way. | » » ® . OW don’t-rush me. Tl get to ‘the shooting and my grievous defection at the proper time. You know, of course, that Preston is in the ‘building material game and is reckoned to be somewhat of a successful man. Well, did it ever occur to you that all might not be gold, et cetera? His wife, Irma, the ex-socialite you've: gotten yourself all excited about, never got over her expensive ideas after she took a nose-dive out of the blue book and snared Preston.| You kncw how the building trades -have been going of late— T'll let you figure out for yourself how| poor Preston could manage to keep up with a dame like Irma!

Well, tne plot fihally came out this way. Preston comes to me for some sisterly advice and tells me that he can no longer quite keep up with the parade but that his pride has prevented him from breaking down and telling all to his wife. So we put our heads together. . ” z ” DISCOVER that he has a good nose for human interest stuff. I figure that I can write as well as the rest, but it takes me time to figure out the stuff that comes natural to Preston. Result: We form a team and start writing fiction. Good stuff, too. Maybe you've been reading some of it under our joint nom de plume in some of the national weeklies lately! And, by the way, if you ever need a reporter with a nose for good news and Preston Chalmer is on the loose, you'd better grab him quick! ] Now wait a minute, Mr. McCarthy, I was coming to that. We figured that we need a quiet place to work tegether, so Preston makes a deal with Will, that’s his orother. He lets us use his apartment to work in several nights a week and he's always there.

” ”

] HE payoff is that we start clicking. Preston is able once more to afford some of the knick-knacks

thing is going along merrily. Maybe you've noticed the new silver fox draped around the neck of the Globe’s most popular girl reporter. You can bet she never bolight that on the salary the Globe breaks down and offers her every week! The two of us start angling for some of the big-time magazines and for a long while things don’t look any too promising. And then we

manage to go over with a bang when one of the most exclusive of

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Irma craves and for a while every- |-

“Preston comes to me for some advice.”

the weeklies actually wires and asks |

us to do a story for them. Well, I come up to the apartment,

as usual, to go to work, and this|

Irma, whom I never had seen and who likewise doesn’t know me from Nero’s horse, follows. me into the building and up to the apartment. Somebody has spread a rumor that Preston was keeping some woman up there—you know the kind of tale. It got her to thinking what he did with his evenings out and I guéss she was sort of peeved.

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NYWAY, when J opened. the - A’ door and went in, Preston tells me about’ the wire and we both dance around like a couple of kids. I'm giving Preston a big sisterly hug and he’s telling me what he intends to get for Irma when she opens the door and finds us like that. I'll admit that it must have looked very suspicious to her, since Will is in the kitchen mixing cocktails! | ; Irma takes one look and opens her handbag and the next thing I knew was that she had pumped four or five shots in our direction. Preston fell on the floor and she rushed over sobbing to see if she had killed him. or. not. Meantime Will came out of the kitchen and eventually we managed to straighten things out and get poor Preston to the hospital. What? You still don’t know why I didn’t shoot the story in? Well, you see, I had to think fast, and even bribe some of the boys from the other papers who came to the hospital to keep the story out. Well, it was a matter of family pride with me by that time. You see, I married Will last week and you don’t blame me for not wanting a family scandal to break "in every rag in town, now do you, Mr. McCarthy? THE END

The characters in this story are fictitious (Copyright, 1937, United Feature Syndicate)

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