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by JOSEPH MILLARD
down to
before and settled
Black Barney didn't be-
hunt pearls. A stringer to the
lieve in ghosts until South Seas, he had had plenty
of hard going and made plenty
he shof the faceless
of mistakes. But, since he was
times and the only human being on (he
Horror six it
tiny atoll, there was no one
wouldn't die. to laugh at him. He persisted
and eventually he had won.
On a memorable day, just a
week before, he had peered
TOD RYAN stood
deep in Ihe warm surf of
ankle down through the limpid waters
of a tiny coral-lined inlet and
Alukua Island with ihe useless spied a virgin bed of mammoth
gun in his hands and death oysters. Hauling them up, his
gliding toward him over the trembling fingers had pried
swells. It had been a good gun open the rough shells
until yesterday when a roll of his cover a fortune in the
schooner Waitela had pitched gorgeous matched pearls his
itagainst a rock, smashing the eyes had ever beheld. He had
breech beyond repair. Now it found them and they were all
was a twisted wreck the only his.Now he was rich beyond
gun he owned and the pirate his wildest dreams.
schooner was sliding into the In excited haste, he had care-
lagoon. He could see the sleek fully packed the lovely pearls
black lines that proclaimed it and prepared his little boat for
beyond any doubt as the ship the long trip back to civiliza-
of Black Barney, the crudest tion.Then, just as he was ready
and most ruthless pirate in the to sail for home with his for-
whole South Seas. tune, he had seen the black
Agun rapped from the ship standing in toward the
schooner's afterdeek. The bul- lagoon.
let kicked water a scant foot A cold hand had seemed to
from Tod Ryan's left knee and close on Tod Ryan's heart at
the sight. Everybody in the
the palm trees on ihe beach. South Sea Islands knew of
Tod groaned, tossed his use- Black Barney, the pirate who
less weapon back onto the sand preyed on pearlers and traders,
and raised both hands in token robbing and murdering. Tod
of surrender. had no idea what brought Black
"That's better, monkey," Barney to Alukua Island but
called a rasping voice from his appearance spelled disaster.
the schooner. "Just stand there Hastily Tod had buried his
reaching for clouds until we preciouspearls, wondering if
get ashore." he would ever be alive to dig
"I'll stand," Tod called back them up again.
through set teeth, and added,
under his breath, "you murder- THE SCHOONER anchored
ing rats!" in the lagoon and a boat
He had come to deserted was putting ashore, rowed by
Alukua Island three months four evil-faced Malays. Black
Barney himself, huge and black-
whiskered, stood in the bow,
covering Tod with a pistol.
pirate roared as
"You!" the
the boat beached and he leaped
out to- confront Tod. "What
are you doing on my island?"
"Your island?" Tod gasped.
"Sure. We put in here for
fresh water whenever we're in
the neighborhood. That makes
it my isiand, doesn't it?"
He jammed the ugly gun into
Tod's middle while a rough
hand frisked Tod's clothing for
a possible hidden gun. The
to dis- four Malays looked on, grin-
most ning, fingering deadly knives.
"Come on," Black Barney
rasped. "^T/hat are you doing
here?"
Tod's mind worked swiftly.
If Black Barney suspected that
he had discovered a fortune in
pearls, his life would be snuffed
out after he had been tortured,
to make him reveal the hiding
place of the treasure. But he
could not deny that he had
been hunting pearls, for all his-
diving gear and the discardec
oyster shells lay around in plain
sight.
He realized he could not es-
cape aljve anyhow. Black Bar-
ney and his pirate crew would
kill him to guard the secret of
their location. Both French and
British gunboats had been
haunting the Oceanic Seas,
hunting for the pirate. If they
knew where he stopped for
water, it would be simple to
Tod Ryan's mind raced fur-
iously and hit on a slender
thread of an idea.
crew were Malays
The pirate's
and Malays
are deadly superstitious. Ghosts,
in fact, were about the only

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thing on earth they
feared.
Tod
took a deep breath. "I
landed here to hunt pearls"
he admitted. "But I'm all
packed to pull out. You can
hae your island."
At the mention of pearls a
cruel, greedy gutter came into
Blade Barney's eyes.
"Did you find any, friend?"
he demanded with sinister soft-
ness. "You must have or you
wouldn't be pulling out so fast."
Tod looked around, as if in
terror, and lowered his voice
to a whisper.
you why I'm leav-
"I'll tell
ing.Because of the ghost."
"Ghost?" Black Barney roared.
"What kind of nonsense is
that?"
The Malays exchanged
vous glances and drew closer
together.
"It's no nonsense," Tod whis-
pered. "Look at my gun. The
ghost kept popping up, night
after night, until I couldn't
stand it any longer. I shot at
it, but bullets did ho good. So
last night I tried to hit it with
my gun. It grabbed the gun
and smashed it. That was more
than could stand so I packed
I
up to quit. If you're smart,
you won't hang around Alukua
Island after dark, either."
"Ghosts Bah'." the pirate-
thundered. "It's all a crazy
yarn to cover up something.
I'll bet youVe got a nice cache
of pearls hid away somewhere
and you're afraid I'll find 'em.
We've got ways to make you
(ell the truth."
J^EAVING TWO of
Malays to guard the boats,
/Slack Barney took the remain-
ing two and shoved Tod up the
(rail to his shack. Tod
little
had no
choice, for the pirate's
j[un was always gouging him
cruelly and the (wo Malays
'tept clawed hands close to
.heir knives every moment.
[Darkness was falling
and Tod
iiould see their nervousness in-
crease, but he saw little chance
now of using it to escape.
"Get in there," Barney
marled, giving him a shove
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really into the little shack. "Tago, Black Barney whirled, gap-
kick up a fire and heat that ing at the hideous gray face
dagger of yours red-hot. When that stared at them through ter-
we start carving our names on rible burning eyes.
his chest with a red-hot knife, "It's a trick!" Barney bawled.
he'i! be glad to tell where his
"I'll fix it!"
pearls are hidden." His gun roared. The win-
The Malay chattered unin- dow shattered from the bullet
telligibly, pointing at the dead but the ghost face only leered
fireplace. and seemed to float away.
"He says there ain't no fuel," Tago, the other native shrieked
Black Barney snarled. "You and exploded out the door, his
get out and rustle some, wise screams of terror dying away
guy. Motui, you go along and
down the path.
see that he don't try any tricks." "I shot it!" Barney howled.
Nervously the second Malay "No ghost can scare me
moved over close to Tod, fin- Suddenly the ghost was back,
gering his knife as they stepped floating
toward the window,
out into the darkness. Now was leering evilly. Black Barney
Tod's chance. Stepping toward choked, lifted his gun and
the pile of dried cocoanut husks emptied it at the terrible ap-
he used as fuel, he managed to
parition. He saw every bullet
ner- trip on a root. strike that hideous gray face,
He started to fall and twisted but still the Thing floated there,
in midair. Lighting on his back, grinning.
his feet up and caught
shot "That empties your gun,"
the startled Motui squarely in
Tod Ryan said sharply, then,
the middle. The Malay folded leaping to his feet with alt
up with a gushing groan of traces of his fake fear gone.
agony, dropping his knife. "Now,
rat, let's see if you can
Leaping up, Tod drove home fight like a man."
a punch that would keep the He sprang at him, with both
pirate quiet for some hours. It fists lashing like pile-drivers.
had happened so swiftly and Black Barney squawled and
so quietly that inside the shack. iried to cover up but he was a
Black Barney and Tago had no bully who was helpless without
idea anything was amiss. With a gun. He got in a few awk-
silent haste Tod hid the limp ward blows and then a terrific
form.
righthook slammed him to the
But his eyes were bleak. floor. When he shook off the
There was no escape from the daze, Tod Ryan was finishing
island as long as the pirates the job of tying his hands and
guarded the lagoon and on thai feet.
tiny crescent of sand and coral,
there was not a single hiding
"The
the ghost!" he choked.
"It wouldn't be killed."
place. He would be hunted "No," Tod chuckled. 'You
down like a dog. There was
the only one sum chance . . .
can't
didn't have
kill a jack-o-lantern.
any pumpkin but
I
Inside the shack, Black Bar-
an empty cocoanut husk did as
ney was beginning to rage well.I carved a face, lit an
at the delay when he heard oilnut for a candle and hung
pounding footsteps. The door
it by a string. All the while I
burst open and Tod tumbled
was lying here, I was tugging
in, gasping and trembling.
the end of the siring to make
"The ghost!" he panted.
"It got Motui but I escaped.
the ghost move, so you'd waste
your bullets. Now lie still and
It will come here next. You'd
stop snarling.Your pirates are
better run . .".
fleeing with your schooner. In
"You're lying!" Barney the morning, you and I will
roared. "There's no such thing take a run to Papeete so I can
hand you to the law and sell
"Look!" Tod shouted, point- my pearls."
ing at the window. "It's here!"
The End
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