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Show f.V( itH, BEAVER PRESS CARIBBEAN! I' ill, - I'm crntiV SO FAR: Anne Heywood, wealthy New daughter ol P"Usher, goei on an , 'TwspaP" Irf t to Puerto Eico where Pete imp""" ,., on her father's paper. 5 IIf Sped ' m Arm, lnteUieene. she meets a yonnt 8. On the boat M.vnci Valera. and an en- "blamed Richard Taussig, of whom r' uw" a German - agent - itcnlcioiis. lit a . r.rtuallv ...!., v,..a P to destroy Puerto At the hotel la San niv. r P ' Rico's wa.ter Juan Anne's ana me susdccis ,c rihjkd. v.... :' ' ' ,i, Anne ana nr. theu.n home of at to dinner j,. tovfted.. .... Kim Pnrter and EUSSfU ,k. 15 vent w rmi" CHAPTER VII Heywood," Mr. came into the tVv and Russell's car moved out we have V the drive. "Why don't together?" a Anne said. oh, thanks a lot,' "It's early, Miss -- said as they aussig night-ca- p -- really" I've But I'd like to talk to Mr. Taussig Taussig was Mr. intently. "All right, you, Miss Hey-wood- ," said quietly. looking at her she said. "In the bar?" waited for her to sit down, He might 8nd signalled the waiter. he a thought. mistake, be making "I may as well come to the point said ,t once, Miss Heywood," he He , pleasantly. Anne's throat "All tightened. right," she said. "What is it?" The glasses down waiter put their Mr. Taussig raised our better understandiTo his. ng, Miss Heywood." on DAfYlfl rw L JNSP II J'f did - -- the telephone fi ' JuSt eyCS- - A rv sh 88 e the table her jangled stridently. It rang again before she could toe mosquito netting out from under the mattress and free her arm. "Hello," she said. "I'm sorry." It was Pete's voice that came from the other end. "I was just wondering about you . if you got home all right. I hope I didn't wake you up." "Of course," she said at last. "Don't tell me it's part of your job to check up and see the tourists are all properly in bed every night. What are you doing up at this hour yourself, Captain Wilcox?" "I've just been to a meeting of the Falange, my child." Pete said cheerfully. "It's called something else now, but it's the same old leopard with the same old spots, do back to bed. I'm putting you on tne Clipper tomorrow, remember." "You mean you're taking me out to dinner tomorrow night. I'll see you about six. Good night, dear." Anne put down the phone and wriggled back under the net. She sat up, crossed her legs under her and sat staring through her Blmy gauze box at a lighted ship moving across the window in the silver ocean beyond the reef. "The Falange. Of course. I never thought of that." A whole new pattern wove itself quietly in front of her. For the moment she forgot Miguel and Richard Taussig and herself. Here was on p.-.- the table. "-- raised hers. She was aware Barbara had called the of what veiled scrutiny behind his impregnAnne ; able lenses. is your interest In me that -It me slightly. Miss Heyconfuses "- wood." looked at him blankly. I "What do you mean, Mr. Taussig?" "Oh, not interest d'amour. Miss ' I don't mean that I Heywood. we . . shall . in interest mean my extay, belongings? Last night, for ample? " Anne sat perfectly calm and com-- . while the whole of lovely dream inside her dropped out In shattered Miguel had told him. fragments. "I was just returning the compliment, Mr. Taussig," she said. Her voice was calm and detached. She thought she saw him start, but she couldn't be sure. "May I ask what you mean by that, Miss Heywood?" he asked qui-- . Anne etly. went through my bags yest- Anne astonishment. undisguised misunderstood. What if she was wrong? What if it hadn't been he at all? She didn't know she was only actually. recovered his composure in an Instant If she had lied, he wouldn't have known . . . "What makes you think I did He incredible thing?" thumb prints, Mr. Taussig," Anne said. If she'd been wrong, he could deny it, and she tuch an "Your would He apologize. thought quickly. had been His hands moist from the heat He imiled. "I think you've jumped to a very conclusion, Miss Heywood. You have a bag just like one of mine. The porter put yours In my room. I opened it but I closed it hasty "yon went through my bags yesterday didn't you, Mr. Taussig?" her story. It was what she'd come down to get In the curious way that better newspaper people than she'd ever be stumbled into things, she had stumbled right into what she was hunting for, entirely without knowing it Don Diego Gongaro was Spanish. Alvaro was Spanish in everything but the place of his birth. The Falange was the conservative organization that had bound the old Spain and colonial Spaniards together, espethat had cially during the civil war from a country mother mine to rr.e. the y You'll find there's usu-llchanged a simple explanation for most republic to a totalitarian power. It things, Miss Heywood." was through the Falange that the and it "Then I apologize profoundly, Mr. Axis dominated Spain sometimes Taussig," Anne said. "I'm glad we was the most important fth talked about it." actual, sometimes only potential-FiSouth and Latin in She got Column up and held out her hand. all She could see the indecision in the America. She tried to remember It about it read she'd cold blue gleam of his eyes fastened the things conon hers. He wasn't sure whether was made up of the wealthier would here down he was servativewhich or not telling the truth - democratic-grou- ps. And she knew he usually mean anti had lied. was supposed to be the It of Span.sh Anne l;;y in the luminous stronghold of the idea was fnder the oblong tent of cheesecloth Empire. At one time, when there hadn't it world, the round still peace in bed, trying to think withthan the various out feeling . . . trying to separate meant much more in the States had the thit: ;s she associations knew from the things foreign had thought it he suMwted but did not actually meant. Or people most of its mem-ber- s including wow. without coloring them with hadn't, In times like the oer own emotions. probably. very difmeant something it "But I'm not cresent wrong about It" she in Puerto was why told herself. That "I saw it It's one ferent. or been disbanded of the things I know . . . even if I Rico it had Apparently wn't k.lt.v what it's all about." officially it had been. remnants of It Actually there were only two oth-e- r there were still down again and closed thiri! she Anne lay really knew, when she was old Spain. Alvaro Don arne down to eyes. it One was that her who was wife, Taussig had opened her bag and Diego Gongaro's lone through her letters and had not mother, had been killed in Wd the truth Spanish civil war. Miguel's War about it. f 'The other had been cancelled by the .th.n Miguel had told him she it all added a' in his room. Department Maybe couldn't up say. to what she The rest of It was in that dangerowhat it added up to was us border line of Intuition and susJ? "chard Taussig. Except Miguel picion That was what the had ta It was all back Miguel. not atchStill, even Barbara French where it had started. J)ad nvognized what she called again from at once, of ter take it course, and had the porto your room and bring ... half-dar- k ... Cra-cieh- or-Se- - Taussig's veiled scrutiny. Anne shook her head. It didn't o any good to go over every detail of a day or two days the way he was doing. 'Night's a magnifying glass " she thought She reached down, pulled the thin Olankot up from the foot of the bed. settled back Into the pillows, wasn't going to think about it. Jnd she wasn't going to think about "'gueL any-ay.- the open Richard Taussig gripped station-wagon crowded the of ledge window on with one hand and hung his yacht.ng and book to his guide He was in one cap with the other known locally those new vehicles cars that provide a vast network transportation for of cheap the Island and make political bloc that nd hauffeur. to ignore. At theno party dare, mamoment the car was careen.ng . taxl-dnver- s 7 4$ Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHILE making "Sahara" khaki-colore- now. The public car stopped on the side of the crowded road under an almond tree. " Caparra, senor." The driver pointed to a low shedlike group of buildings just beyond a rickety fence. They looked more like subterranean mushroom sheds than the ruins of the villa of Ponce de Leon, the first governor, who built his first capitol here four centuries ago, before he abandoned it and Puerto Rico to go on his search for the Fountain of Youth, and found instead Florida and death. Mr. Richard Taussig was only superficially interested in the blue and yellow tiles and in the story of the Indian Cacique and the great who is still heard, and even seen, clanking up the ghostly stairs In his battle armor. He tipped the caretaker enough to make him remember him but not enough to make him suspicious, and made his way along the shaded road under the Indian almonds and flamboyants to a roadhouse. There he drank a bottle of cool pale ale in the garden and read bis guide book. That was for the record too, in case one was being kept. So far as he knew, no one had followed him; but devious-nes- s and plausibility were a habit d as much as a plan, and in the that Mr. Taussig operated in, overconfldence was more dangerous than wasted time. "I can get to Rio Piedras to the University out this way?" He tipped the waiter and pointed to the left fork of the road he had come on. "And to the Tuberculosis Sanatorium on the way?" The man nodded. "Si, senor. Gracias, senor." "If I walk along a public car will stop for me?" "Si, senor." Mr. Taussig set out, walking slowly. The road was less crowded than the other branch. Nevertheless he walked past the blue stucco house set behind a great hedge of red and pink hibiscus, because a cart loaded with sugar cane was passing it just then. When the road was empty he turned back, went quickly through the tall gate in the hedge and closed it securely behind him. Diego Gongaro's car stood in the drive. Taussig glanced at his watch. He had allowed himself forty-fiv- e minutes to compensate for the temperamental disregard of time that was another complication of the Latin scene that irritated his precise mind. He had not wanted to arrive at the house of Diego Gongaro's mistress until Gongaro was there himself. He was disturbed about her. Just as he was disturbed about Graciela. In fact there were too many women in all this altogether for his liking. All except little So far as he could Mrs. Porter. see, she was the one simple aspect His impulse had of his problem. been to go see her that morning, but he had rejected it It was best to let the first move corrle from her. He went up the steps, reached out d to ring the bell beside the door, and stopped. . From inside he could hear loud and hysteriIt stopped abruptly, cal weeping. and a woman's shrill voice cried out In rapid Spanish: "But why? Why, Diego? Why not let all of that alone? Why endanger yourself and me and your family? What Is there to gain that" She stopped as suddenly as she had begun. A heavy chair moved, there were sharp steps on the tiled floor. Taussig stepped back, came across the porch again, scraping his rubber Soled shoes on the tile, and Gongaro came from an inner room through the portiere made of colored glass beads and short lengths of fine bamboo. He smiled cordially as he opened the grill. Whether he was unaware that his caller had heard the end of the scene, or was simply unconcerned, Mr. Taussig half-worl- erday, didn't you, Mr. Taussig?" He was staring at her in open and guessing, evil-smelli- iESCRE ENRaDIO By VIRGINIA VALE pervasiveness. Beyond it Bruce in the shallow head of the bay, two Bennett met a marine who'll dredges pumped softly and monotonously, filling the murky oozing have to be referred to merely swamp that stretched on the left of as Joe, the marine. Joe was the road, making firm new land for on leave after some tough the U. S. Navy. It was dotted with Guadalcanal fighting, and due a couple of thousand oranges just then, where a truck had gone oft soon to return to the South Pacific. the road, and just behind it a station The actor told Joe about a Guatecollected when wagon like Mr. Taussig's had gone malan machete he'd a Tarzan serial about like a dive bomber motor-dee- p in he was making the mud, its rear wheels still going ten years ago. "That's a little something I'd like to have," said Joe, so around. A constant stream of d Bennett sent It to him. Last week field Army trucks and open note from Joe said: "My cars trundled noisily past it. and a of the outfit. private cars darting in and out, try- machete is the pride ing to pass what seemed to Mr. I spent two solid weeks sharpening And brother, I ain't out to cut Taussig to be an already solid line it. hay!" Bennett wishes he'd had into town. dozens of them to hand over. An accident would be easy enough, he thought up in the hills where Nobody could be more surprised there was no soft cushion of mud WLS and slime. He frowned. There were than the originators of the air's Show are at the way it Barn Dance certain complications he expected as a and did not mind. He was used to has developed. It was started would appeal princithat program accidents when necessary, though he to listeners in rural areas, but preferred to avoid them. He was pally even used to the emotional equation that women sometimes brought ?1 in . . . but not on the level that the girl in 110 across the hall had presented. He was more used to the kind of thing he was headed for re pletely controlled bottom of a kind "You niacally across the narrow perilous, causeway out the Bayamon Road from San Juan. On the right the garbage dump smoked with iron-grille- could not telL "Come in," he said. "I am happy to see that it is possible for you to be late also, my friend." 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HAL O'HALLORAN come October 2 it celebrates its 10th anniversary on the network as a show that many city people love. It's one of the few that has a paying studio audience. The genial Hal O'Halloran will be on hand as usual as m. c. Metro is certainly rounding up the popular band leaders; they recenUy signed Guy Lombardo and bis Royal Canadians for a musical, and already have Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Xavler Cugat Bob Crosby, Vaughn Monroe and Spike Jones. Watch for a radio quiz master to name three of Hollywood's loveliest who have not played opposite Cary Grant. It would be hard to name one. Laraine Day shares honors with him in "Mr. Lucky," and is the latest of a list of 28 of his heroines. Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn and Sylvia Sidney have appeared three times apiece in Grant pictures, and he's probably our only ranking star who has both Joan and Constance Bennett on bis roster of "Celebrities I nave Made Love to on the Screen." The cast of "Mr. District Attorney" made money when they won a wager from the "Ellery Queen" performers. Jay Jostyn of the former show was a guest star on the latter, and his colleagues bet the opposition that he'd solve the mystery. ' Just a natural The soldiers stationed at Camp Ellis, near Lewiston, m, were trying to find Just the right girl to "name "Miss Camp Ellis," and wound up by selecting Anita Ellis, songstress of the Jack Carson show oo CBS. Every now and then Hi Bipwn, producer and director of "The Adventures of Nero Wolfe," runs into an in radio who reminds him of his first program on the air. It was called "High-BroReadings by Hi Brown," and he'd rather forget it old-tim- Three years ago an aspiring yaung actor named Curtis Rudolf failed to obtain a bit part In a little theater production In Cleveland, and was advised to try some ether line of work. 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The eyes of beside me." scallops, which cannot focus and are sensitive only to light and darkFind Gas Leak ness, are arranged along the marMix soap and water and brush it gin of the shell. over the joints and pipes where you think a gas leak may be. The leakChicken Production ing gas will make bubbles. This is The number of young chickens the way gas service men spot leaks. raised on farms in the U. S. in 1943 It is the best and safest way. is estimated at 925,652,000 birds, d over more than in recent Fire Deceptive years and 16 per cent over last year. Pouring kerosene on a fire is a very good example of a very bad Ferns First Seed Flants practice. A fire that seems dead The first seed plants were seed can strip you clean as a whistle-clot- hes, ferns, greatly resembling true ferns. bair and eyebrows. arose in the late Devonian fhey of the Paleozoic era, 300 milGained Weight Faster lion years ago. at Cornell have Experiments shown that nearly mature cockerels Modern Cinderella gained weight faster when pens Cindcrellas are not conToday's were darkened to make hours of fined to glass slippers. Shoes are. daylight short being made with soles of plastic, felt wood, cotton and wool, cord WRENS Deckhands and friction belting and many other Listed as "deckhands" in British fabric and synthetic substances. merchant ships' logs are the women volunteers (WRENS) who serve on Will Produce Artillery active stations in the battle of the Brazil will soon produce all the Atlantic coding and decoding radio artillery she needs as an ally of the messages. United Nations In her great new steel plant at Volta Redonda. Had More Cars Only three states Kansas, NeRemove Protective Cover vada, and Utah had more private Tall grass, weeds, ana brush near and commercial vehicles In operathe garden should be cu, frequently tion in 1942 than in 1941. to reduce the pfotectivs cover for rabbits and other mammals. milk-ing-a- one-thir- |