Show t '7 - THE GARLAND X - TIMES GARLAND UTAH Aborigines of Australia Still Live in Crude State ii'i CARIBBEAN CONSPIRACY W BRENDA ro fe- - K CHAPTER CONRAD I At three o’clock Tuesday afternoon Anne Heywood hurried through the blinding snow toward a fashionable dress shop on upper Fifth Avenue She pulled her beaver cap down tighter over her smooth hair and drew her beaver coat closer around her slim legs It seemed so utterly crazy to be buying summer cottons in the middle of a waiter blizzard At the same moment two blocks away a slow gray spider was silently spinning its web across a dark comer of a cellar wall And eighteen floors above in the French salon of an elegant apartment two men raised their hands in a formal salute and sat down at a table in front of the window One of them was short and heavy-se- t Behind his rimless spectacles his blue eyes were small and piercing and shrewd The other man was tall and blond They were both in their middle forties and both had a kind of cynical arromade any atgance that neither tempt to conceal "Your orders are simple and direct" the tall man said curtly He opened a worn briefcase in front of him and took out a sheaf of papers "The island of Puerto Rico can be as an effecput out of commission tive base in half an hour if you do your Job the way you’re expected to" "Even after the millions the Americans have poured into its defense?" The tall man ignored the question "Puerto Rico is vulnerable at two points only: its supply and its water supply The first will be taken care of — It’s the second you are concerned with The island is one hundred miles long and miles wide Out of its 1800000 population — half of them unemployed and starving to death — it will be simple to find five hundred malcontents They are to be placed where at a given signal the machinery of every unit of the water demolcan be completely system ished and the island destroyed as a functioning base for the defense of the Panama Canal” "I shall need some help” the short man said "You will have help —conscious and unconscious” The tall man picked up a sheet of paper and looked down the list of names typed on "This in fact has been the most delicate part of the program” He smiled "Diego Gongaro is the only man in Puerto Rico who knows you” he said ‘‘He is there from our party in He has You can trust him Spain His done the spade work Alvaro Valera is the shining to whom hide behind are you knight He has the old aristocrats’ dream of He is honest and Spanish empire sincere It is those qualities that you will have tfi use cleverly but as he happens to trust his that will Diego Gongaro be easy” He looked up frowning a little "There are three possible — shall I call them obstacles — or imponderables?” The small blue eyes across the table narrowed watching slightly steadily waiting "The first is Alvaro Valera’s son educatt MigueL He is ed at Gilman and Princeton now— Or has seemed to Here is his dossier He worbe At one time he ships his father He has was an ardent Nationalist in the rea captain’s commission serve corps and was under orders which the War Department cancelled last week without apparent New York for the last two years and she worked at She may be taking a vacation Captain Wilcox was on her father’s paper too He may be the reason for her going it down” He stood rigidly for a moment and sat down "Here is her picture” He took it out of the briefcase "It was taken two years ago She is even lovelier now It is her coloring as much as anything Her hair is reddish-golher eyes are almost amber with gold flecks in them I have been watching her the last three days I can’t make out whether the way she laughs when people ask her if she’s going down to see Wilcox is because she is or is not At any rate watch her too She is intelligent and keen as well as beauI wish we’ had a few women tiful like her” He took a green book out of the rack under the radio "And here is a bon voyage present for you It is "Puerto Rico: A Guide to the Island of Borinquen” kindly put out by the Government of the United States It has all the proper information about the history and monuments of the island It also had a map on the back cover Unit was not as detailed fortunately as we wished so I have taken the liberty of substituting another” He riffled the pages until he came to the end of the book "It is a scale map that you are to mark A blue circle for major plants in civilian areas a red circle for key stations in military establishments Green where they supply both civilian and military like the for Instance at Aguadilla plant Field and which serves Borinquen the town Use blue and red crosses for minor units Put the number of it explanation” "Do you know the reason?” "I have an idea But Diego will know— and the fewer you go down with the more This may help facts you’ll pick up you" Although the white colonization of Australia began in 1788 the majority of its aborigines still do not know how to cultivate land make clothes or build a shelter other 14 Pattern No 1449 ia la sizes than a windbreak says Collier’s Size 12 dress takes 1 yards 18 18 and 20 material jacket life yards These people have always been Due to an unusually larca demand and looked upon as little more than more slightly current war condition! animals In fact up to 40 years' time is required In filling orders for few ago a settler merely required a of the most popular pattern numbers permit to “shoot poison or other-- 1 Send your order to: wise kill” them at will He passed two closely typed sheets of paper across the table "The second is Captain P G Wilcox He is an American newspaper-manow in the Military Intelligence He is attached to the office Service — — of the Assistant Chief of Staff G 2 In San Juan He is an ace newsand impatient with what paperman I presume he regards as official red For that reason he might tape even be of use to you He looked across the table intent"No” be said "You’re not ly likely to fool him for very long Don’t try Just watch that he doesn’t fool you Here’s his dossier” He got up and moved silently back and forth across the room and came to a stop by the window I "Then there is a girl whom haven’t been able to figure out" he ’Her name is Anne said slowly Heyis Bryson Heywood Her father of the Hejwood wood She Is going to San newspapers Juan on Friday in the Santa Isa That is why your plane resbella and you were cancelled ervations We don t know' are going by ship She has had a why shes gi ng here in s paper Job on her father t "I don’t know why Mr Taussig reminds me of an adder in tourist’s clothing" Anne said "Or why he seems to follow me around” Miguel Valera’s dark eyes were fixed on the shore line coming luminously into view “1 heard him ask the captain why you were coming to Puerto Rico" he said without moving Anne glanced at him quickly There wai something a little odd in the even tone of his voice that disturbed her It disturbed her too that Mr Taussig should be wondering about her because she had been about Mr little s wondering She didn’t know exactly why either of them should make her feel the way she did It had all seemed plain enough tailing the day Jim Hawley who was managing editor of her father's paper in New York City called her in “Look sister— you’ve been asking for a good job and I’ve got one for you" he said cheerfully "There’ a The place is story in Puerto Rico a hotbed and Uncle Sam’a pouring half a billion dollars in It’s got old Spain new moneverything ey glamour poverty love hatred everything Go get it You can kill a flock of blrda with one atone You can get a tropical tan and maybe earn your pay for once You might even do a service for your country— you can’t ever tell" And as Anne started out he’d looked over the of hia glasses “—And while you're down there make up your mind about Pete Wilcox will you?" And It was funny about Pete Anne Heywood thought He waa the only man she knew that she'd thought seriously about marrying even if she hadn't been able to make up ber mind not finally Everybody thought that was why she was down here now But wasn't It was pride JJl was the business of showing them all—Jim Hawleyrand her father and Peta himself — that she could use her own bead and stand on her own two CimCLE PATTERN DEPT 149 New Montgomery Street Calif Saa Praaeisca Enclose 20 cents in coins (or each pattern desired Size Pattern No Name Addrets SEWING And Nary a Drop Was Spilt Along the Way that p jsinnnBP pi fit'jw" rTSESSHtr She didn’t knew exactly why either ef them should make her feel the way she did men stationed at each in red figures and the number we have at You may even each in blue figures enjoy taking the tours that this book Do so in Any event Now suggests if you have any questions?" 0 on the southThe deep ern horizon was slowly taking form as the ship ploughed and substance forward steadily feathering the cobalt sea Anne Heywood leaned on rail watching the damp it In the east already suffused with pale green and yellow and pink a a precise still shone star single clean candle lighting the sun’s way up over the last step into the dawning world She heard a step on the deck behind her glanced around and smiled "That’s it isn’t it?” She nodded into the opalescent distance The man beside her stood for an instant grayely intent "That’s it" "Yes” be said “ ‘Puerto Rico patria de mis amores ” Jardin de flores He stopped and turned to her with “The Isle of Enchantment a smile we used to call it Now they call it The Gibraltar of America" "And we’re spending how many to make it that?" Anne millions She glanced Heywood asked lightly "Mr Taussig would know around He seems to be a I suppose information bureau” A short t man in a tropical suit with tennis slippers and a yachting cap had come A camera and a out on deck pair were slung over his of binoculars The black sun glasses shoulders to his spectacles hid his pale blue eyes without making him any more attractive Mother’s Tree The white birch has been officially chosen by the American Forestry association as the tree to be planted as a memorial to a mother Dozens of Uses YOU’LL find dozens and dozens uses for this sleek sports ensemble Grand for your figure and summer sports The U 8 Government Las asked os all to do everything possible to ooneem fuel By serving Kellogg's Cora ilakae frequently yon can effect impotent saving ia alto tddiy gas and other cooking fuels A young Scottish couple had moved from their country cottage into a modem house All their goods and chattels arrived safely —with exception of the rain tub After the wife had pleaded with her husband that this whs an asset to her household he said he would go and get it that evening As he had not arrived home at it 12:30 a m his wife became worried At 1:15 a m the back gate slammed and there was a dull thud In a few seconds the door opened to reveal a dishevelled feet man who reIt had been like a dose of vita- and perspiring mins carrying her confidently up marked: to that moment “Ee lass ’A’ve ’ad job wit’ With the yellow masses of the ancient weathered toob Thee didn’t tell me it were ' rock of El Morro looming ahead of full o’ watter” her now and the gay excited clamor of the people crowding around them against the rail all the confidence was seeping out of her She looked There was up at Miguel Valera something in hia dark eyes fixed on the stained and pitted fortress the white poundrising sheer from ing surf that silenced the casual remark she was about to make love “—You Puerto Rico really very much don’t you?” He looked at her gravely “Very much— My father says It is only a country whose people suffer deeply whose people love it deepIt’s true that with ly I don’t know all thpoverty and squalor and overyour magazines are population ao full of our people won’t leave the island And when they do they Our country is an return always emotion with us" He smiled "But we’re Latins and Latins are an emotional people You’re Saxon our Our standards our backgrounds customs differ as much as our languages" Next to them along the rail a fat woman In stifling ornate black waa clinging to ber Their faces were arm streaked with tears as they watched the narrow entrance of the harbor under the fortress opening its rockbound arms to bring them home "But the human heart doesn’t differ very greatly does It?” Ann asked For a moment Miguel Valera was silent Then he said quietly "If you have learned that Miss Heywood you have learned e great deal It is something most people never learn I should have thought you were one of them Perhaps you will learn even more” Without turning ber bead Anne His voice could hear M r Taussig was moistly oleaginous his information precise and pedantic in a way that reminded her of the who had taken them through Notra Dame in Paris A sudden little panic of loneliness made Anne catch her breath quickly “I should have told Pete I was coming" she thought It bad all seemed so simpla In New York Facing It now — the noisy teeming city the babble of a language spoken so rapidly that the little she knew was hopeless— she had the sudden sense of being an outsider with no right alL And underneath to be there it there was a vague chill feeling like the sound of apprehension of a stealthily opening door in an empty midnight bouse — “I'm being an utter fool” he told herself sharply She looked down again at the gay welcoming faces on the dock trying to revive the dethat whatever this termination turned out to be it was to be her Job “But I do wish I'd cabled him she Just the thought (TO BE 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