Evening star., 1932-10-02
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FORLORN ISLAND. BY Edison Marshall
author of The Deputy at Snow Mountain"
etc. New York: H. c. Kinsey & Co, Inc.
[ JARD adventure throughout. 1t feels good.
too. The clean. cold North. Even that
lonesome island hidden away in behind the
Aeutan string of lands. SO busy trying to reach
across to touch finger tips with Asia. But back
there 1t is, "Forlorn Island" handful of Aleut
natives its only company Or these were its
only company till that day when the rich
mans yacht was wrecked upon the shore
A headstrocg man. millionaire Horton who ap-
peared to think that even the elements were
bound to bend to his bulging pocketbook. There
he made mistake. SO, shipwreck followed
and the events that turned that lonesome land
blob of the Arctic sea into complete Broadwa"
OF adventure For you see, old Horton had his
daughter with him. A goodly sight that girl
And there you with Eve of sorts and a
Garden of sorts all over again. Along with the
girl and her father suitor, tailor made
and otherwise pleasing to father and seemingly
for time, to the young woman herself. But
Eric Ericssen, just as Viking as he sounds first
officer OF the yacht, taken on up under the
Arctic, is a most distracting man certainly in
that setting and beside the somewhat uncon-
vincing perfection Of the accepted wooer from
Boston way. No that is not all. There is
upon that island strange gorillalike Sandoma-
And all three desire the lady. Naturally. Such
the situation. Such the forecast of action. sud-
den incredible fierce and frightening. But for
the masterful Viking, things might have come
to pretty bad pass Forlorn Island. But,
keen as well as dominant, Eric invented certain
rites and ceremonies that made mighty i'm
preston upon the ignorant A!eut natives. This
must be under the protection OF grea-
god unknown to them. So when he took the
young lady to himself his own with many
strange and frightening rites before that unseen
god why, there was no demur. Not one. None
from the ape-man Sandomar none from the
tailor man Of Boston Old Hortcn looked
bit glum. but they were all in danger. Good
stuff. This is not all Of it. by no means all q II.
For when rescue came that marriage rite rose
into question. Mt from tbs young Viking. Not
from the girl. 1t was the stern parent Horton.
and the polite suitor that had qualms. Not the
young folks however But they fixed it up.
Fine out -and-out stuff A clear relief.
OLD MANOA BY Glenn Allan New York: D.
Appleton Co.
REVIEWED BY r. b. PHILLIPS, Jr.
MD MANOA loved horse, jug and hot
~ corn pone. For 60 years he drank his
share of the whisky. bred Derby winners. never
married and was onerous as bitch wolk when
he went fishing with his friend the Jedge.
He belonged to the illiterate aristocracy OF
the Kentucky blue grass. Through generations
his family had been folks in Towhit County.
Farmers, horse breeders. they ruled the land
because they were burly, shrewd courageous
and charitable Because they could beat man in
a horse trade. get mortgage on the county
newspaper and the hotel and the neighbor's
farm
The Coultons were not statesmen They
learned to read and write and called it day
for education. But they were leaders of men.
Old Manoa was one of them every inch of him.
He inherited the mortgages. the farm, the love
of horses and toddy rifle was true in his
hands and jug nestled in the crook of his
elbow like happy hatchling in its nest.
Throughout his years Old Manoa did the
things his father and grandfather had done
before him. He despised automobile and
feared telephone. Like his forebears. he be-
lived nothing ever had happened to him that
could not have happened just as we'll half ar
hour later.
When he was mature, the people made him
county commissioner without electorate or
candidate having much choice in the matter.
1t was the logical thing. and so it happened.
Thereafter upon his and the Jedge's shoulders
fell the responsibility of paying the school
teachers when crops were bad meeting the
interest on the county debt and selecting peace
officers to punish anybody who made undrink-
able whisky in violation of the prohibition laws
And now he was through.
When man reached 60 and had only about
IS years to live it was time for him to quit
fretting with colts and school teachers 1t was
time for him to sit in the shade of the big
sycamores and take his ease. In the toddy
glass-the glass that was red to hide the liquor
level from his conscience memories of
wild boyhood and lusty middle age
Old Manoa thought he might sell off the
cows, get rid Of the colts, maybe sell the place.
He would lay down the reins.
Then the Jedge telephoned and said they lad
better go off afishing. When they were stretched
out comfortably on the banks of Big Slash and
Jedge had pillow under his head SO he could
see his stomach, Old Manoa heard the
news. The Jedge told him, without comment.
Qea con Sha ksltipe and his triha plan-