The St. Mary banner., 1919-11-08
CHAPTER I-Continued.

And Gunga had shaken his head as
be had answered.
u have looked, sahib, and the hand
Is whole"
snellbound he had stood there on
4ho stairs. a lad of fourteen, and
Gunqa had lifted the Thing in MS
arms and gone away with it; and the
sreat figure of his father, dressed IN
miamas, had stood motionless for a
], Ioag time, then turning had faced the
stairs and caught sight Of him-and
suddenly had sent a wild, unnatural
laugh ringing through the house.
aYou there, eh, Stacey?" he had
laughed out, as though unnamed.
well, I'll tell you something now.
Never 20 to the East. Remember that
never 60 to the East"
And then be had pulled himself to-
sether, and his face had set sternly as
be had pointed up the stairs. go
back to your bed" he had command
I'd sharply. "Go back to your bed In
stantlyw
YES" said Wallen aloud to himself.
that's what he said: Never go to
IL East never 60 to the East. /"
But he had come to the East and
Il Cinnamon had shipped aboard the
Upolo to kill him. His father had
heen quite right in telling him not to
y 10 the East. How was it that he
had come there? He had run away
from that gray house after that night.
md be had never heard of his father
stnce.
That was In California.
BE had gone to Frisco, and gone to
- he had been at sea ever since
b all kinds Of ships, and he had done
pretty well. He had his masters GER
uneats already.
But that did not account for his be-
Ing here In the Java sea, and for those
sx Cinnamon. He had been fourth
umcer Of the Tokamaru when they had
touched at Shanghai a few weeks
ago. She was fine ship, the Toka-
mara. the biggest passenger liner in
The feet-0nly a fourth officers pay
vas very small.
He had met Captain Mitchell Of the
upolo ashore there, and Captain Nit
thell had persuaded him to ship as
INST mate on the Upolo for double the
pay he had been getting. The Upolo,
q course, traded through the Java
ana Banda seas-that was what his
mthar had meant by the East-touch-
ing at Shanghai as a port Of call In
liner wasn't the same thing,
How that sun burned through the
sNning! 1t seemed to stab and drill
'nlo MS skull with little shafts Of ex-
auate pain. He could get away from
y q course, by going below into the
aDin. BY putting the deck between
We ana that torturing ball Of fire, but
" me cabin one couldn't breathe.
une couldn't live in the cabin-Cap-
nm Mitchell was there and Captain
Mitchell was dead.
Had Captain Mitchell anything to
~ WIN those six Cinnamon? Or any
sning to do with Drink House Sam in
caaeaporef And where was It those
:. - Cninamen had joined-at Shanghai
'lke himself7
ne could remember that he would
whether Captain Mitchell had
slu hand In the cursed game. Hadn't
.oanson said something about new
nusf But then native crews were
vzsastingly shifting about. It was
way from Singapore to Shanghai.
Hno was this Drink-House Sam7
raat was 1t Ting Wah had saidi
bllnk-House Sam-him know"
him know. him know, him know
words began to run through his
..su N a singsong, crazy fashion
u tnen Passionate, merciless anger
80 upon him, and the splendid six.
a. Oulk OF the man heaved up from
natr. and. clenched fist raised, he
yed upon his feet.
y had got hmi Not the way
nad thought to get him-but thGy