Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

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KIEcS rail of the bridge, hushed their constant drivel about the good, cool beer to be had at Sidney and gave their minds to private reminiscence. A silver and crescent moon hung in the sky like a constant lamp in a still and deserted room. Suddenly the spell was broken as, from the bowspirt where he had been stationed to keep an eye out for reefs, a Kanaka sailor hailed the watch. ''Big fellow light, like brother belong fire, he stop off starboard bow." The mate, who had instantly translated the pidgin English to mean, "A large light, like a fire, off the starboard bow," looked in the indirected direction, and sure enought there, high up and far away, burned a bright light. It was reddish and flickered into tongues of flame as if it were a fire of brush wood. "No island there," the captain remarked looking at the light, "according to the chart there isn't any island within two hundred miles of this place, although I don't know for certain. This is a bit off the track, we're about a hundred miles south of the steamship lane. That cracked propeller shaft will bring us in good and late this time." "Think it might be a signal, Captain?" The mate asked. "'You can't light a fire on a ship, can you?" "Well, I hadn't (Cont. on page 79) ((Monte Blue on the beach as Lloyd, the outcast. <D[ She smiled up at the white m.an. 19