Show THE GARLAND UTAH GARLAND CARIBBEAN CONSPIRACY BRENDA A k THE STORY 80 FAR: Anne Heywood kenutlful dnnthter of wealthy New York newspaper publiiher foei on an assignment to Puerto Rico where Pete Wilcox a reporter oa her lather i le atationed an a U 8 Army officer On the boat ahe meeta a youBi Puerto Rican Miguel Valera aBd aa engineer named Richard Tauaaig of whom ahe la Immediately ausplcioua She doea not know that he la In laet a Kicnt ordered to destroy Puerto Rlcoa water aupply When Anne’a baga art aearched ahe anapecta Tauaaig She goea to hia hotel room to lnvertigate and la aurprlaed by a man ahe recognizee aa Miguel Valera Valera la talking to Pete Wilcox CHAPTER 9 TIMES V Pete blew a large white ring of cigarette smoke out in front of him and watched it dissolve in the cool silver air Miguel Valera had been educated in the States— he ought to have learned that you don’t discuss a girl with a man you scarcely know He took a deep breath and said nothing "I’m sorry if I’ve offended you" Miguel Valera said quietly He put down his glass "I thought you were a close friend of hers" "I am" “In that case if you will allow me to offer you some advice— Send her back to the States on Wednesday’s Clipper" He got up "Good night Captain Wilcox" It was almost eleven when Anne got out of the elevator and went over to the desk There was a note In her mall box from Pete and a couple of letters from home She went out onto the porch and sat down to read her mail She must be careful of her skin her mother said and not go without a hat Her father hoped she was havfall in love ing fun and wouldn’t with any damned She native smiled put the letters in her bag and opened Pete’s note “Anne— You're lunching with me Same time same place Pete" She got up As she started to go back into the lobby a big shiny black limousine with a uniformed chauffeur pulled up under the portico Anne’s heart jumped Miguel Valera was getting out With him was his father Don Alvaro For an instant "her impulse was to run But she couldn’t Miguel had seen her It was an important moment — something profoundly deep inside her told her it was one of the most Important moments of her life Then And he was coming toward her she mustn’t let him know she knew This is awfully "Good morning! CONRAD a sensitive plant over the entire Caribbean area He looked at his watch It would be hours before he saw Anne — if she showed at alt He wished to God she’d stayed at home There was only one ray of comfort in the mediate present Tied to his desk with the ball and chain of Army regulations like the prisoners of Old Morro he got some relief from the fact that Miguel Valera wanted her to go home It meant at any rate that he wasn’t going all out to glamorize her into staying And there was one other dewdrop In the desert That had been dropped in passing by the General’s aide Old Iron Lung (namely Colonel Mortimer St Clair De Voe Engineer in Charge of Maintenance and Construction of the Caribbean Area) had said to tell the CO with his comthat he didn’t give a blank pliments blank blank blank If the Eternal Himaelf sent the Prophet Hezekiah down to Puerto Rico Nobody was seeing the details of the pumps at or any place else he was Borinquen in charge of He would be glad to of the write United the Senate States individually and collectively and tell them so by blank "What did the General say?” some one had asked "The General?” said the aide “Oh the GeneraL The General and sent Mr Taussig grinned plua a copy of the Senate resolution they haven’t passed yet for Old Iron Lung’s pet project on Tortilla Cay to the old boy both with his compliments So Mr Taussig Is on the hands not ours Engineer’s Pete looked down at the papers in front of him He’d been trying to nice!" With the speed of light something so concealed that it was almost Imrelaxed behind Miguel perceptible Valera’s eyes He smiled her friendly outtaking warmly Anne’s face brightstretched hand She'd done it He didn’t ened and the rest was easy know "You remember my father” “Of course” She smiled at Don Alvaro standing aloof and dignified in the archway waiting for his son He had on the same white drill uniform— or another like it bestarched cause he was spotlessly and ironed— and the same gray felt hat In his hand She "Good morning" she said didn’t know whether it should be Mr or Senor or Don so she didn’t say his name at all Senorita” "Good morning Don Alvaro bowed with formal His eyes meeting hers courtesy with clarity were old and wise in them Yet somewhere and calm was a veiled shadow of the same resentment she'd felt so subtle in sharply and undisguisedly She held out her hand simply As simply Don Alvaro took it In the brief Instant her eyes were raised to his calm and trusting as a child's the heavy load he had carried since He his son’s return had vanished smiled "Will you have coffee with us Senorita?" Miguel reaching in his pocket for his lighter stopped his hand abruptly He had known his father would he couldn’t help it like her when he once knew her but he had expected a long uphill climb before He more than a truce prevailed glanced at his father out of the corner of his eye not entirely convinced "I’d love to” Anne was saying Wilcox didn’t know be thought how much it had taken for him to her back to the suggest sending He watched her slim States body moving easily beside his Independfather’s erect firm figure ence was a spiritual and physical s well s a social and economic an Americould You spot quality can girl anywhere In the world The way she moved was even more revealing than the way she dressed "Just so long as it doesn’t get her Into trouble" he thought “She’s as she not half as sophisticated looks" Pete Wilcox sat st his desk at General Headquarters going through the morning’s reports from the De- in agents partment’s It was a curious asPuerto Rico sortment but no more curious than the assortment of people who sent it In Army Intelligence spreads like I gince the heavy load be had carried his son’s return had vanished get up nerve to ask for a week’s leave It wasn’t nerve so much when as proper actually Colonel Fletcher turned him down He could hear his "This is the Army Captain Wilcox In case you’ve forgotten" He read absently through l the report of a girl at a dive on La Marina that was out of bounds for soldiers put It aside and started In on t read another third “This man is not a personal enehe to read methodically me” my “He is of ancient and honorable and his family are all lineage and swine He thieves Is without principle himself as all before him” his generations Pete stopped abruptly not because the tone of the letter was unusual but because of the name he suddenly saw staring up at him from the florid script Valera seeks to under"Miguel He has been mine the government with a seen by me in conversation man who is known to steal a box from Isla Grande and of dynamite off sea the in La Perla dump it when the sailors come so they find Miguel Valera was seen nothing by me later with an American who is hired by the Viego Rum ComThe American whose name pany is George raised his glass and drank the toast to the First President of I write without bitterPuerto Rico was killed in ness My grandfather falling in machinery at Valera Cen tral” Pete put the letter aside with Vindictiveness wasted as cowl He went much time as stupidity patiently on till he came to the last on was letter in the pile It cheaper paper than most of them even and was signed with the initial “Miguel Valera son of Senor Aseen lvaro Miguel Valera y Delgado peaking in back by me this day room of bar of La Rosa with SalvaSalvatore steal dynatore Vegas mite from Isla Grande and throw in sea The family Salvatore the sugar mill of Valera time in Salvatore of good information of ma- "D” chines” "One of the bloodiest battles the ever fought they Conqulstadores fought right out there Miss He waved his Pete said hand out over the rolling green golf course in front of El Morro's Officers Club "It was in 1623 tn case you have your notebook with you I’ll try to supply you with one fact a day It’s usually tourists who supply us with facts but you don’t seem to have your guide book with you Anne put down her coffee cup and looked at him across the table What’8 "Pete" she said evenly the matter with you?" "Who me?" "You” she said "You’ve been perfectly foul all through lunch and you know It What’s the matter?" He took his last cigarette out wadded the empty package and dropped it into the ash tray in front of him He could see the warm flush creeping up into her cheeks and her tortoise-shel- l cat’s eyes getting darker storm warnings flying in the Caribbean “I’m sorry” he said "I suppose It’s because I’m worried abont you” Then he could have kicked himself across the graveyard Into the Atlantic That was just the thing he shouldn’t have said He waited for her to flare up and make some stingBut she didn't ing retort “May I ask why you’re worried about me?” she inquired calmly must have told her Somebody about counting ten since he’d left New York he thought “You may ask but I can’t tell you” he said quietly "That’s the PHE desperate effort of Gundar Hagg to run a mile around tour minutes flat brings up again the matter of how much the human sys tem can handle A good many years ago the late Captain Charley Paddock told me an Interesting story along this line He had just run another 100 yards V seconds sYS in 9 - the equaling record at f world’a time Gundar saw him race In llagg a few to But somewhat pressed when was minutes he de- I after the congratulations reply “I had Charley shook his head my biggest chance today" he said "But found I couldn’t use it’’ It must be remembered that had strong powerful legs thigh and calf “As I passed the 50 yard spot" he explained "I knew I was flying I knew I was running faster than I had ever run before As I came to some place around the 70 yard mark I felt I was moving at an even faster pace and felt certain I was on my way to a nine second flat performance I knew it was my best and biggest day "Then suddenly I felt the muscles snd ligaments In my legs begin to quiver and expand and got the Idea that if I continued any longer at this pace I would face a big blowup or blowout and might finish a cripple for life our trouble" He looked at her sitting there — cool and confident and a babe In the woods actually If he could "Maybe I was wrong in this guess just take her by the back of the Maybe I could have finished with neck the way you did a kitten —or my legs intact I had to make my a Latin woman — and put her in a decision in a split second and I plane and say "Go home!" everycouldn’t force myself to take the thing would be easy But he gamble couldn’t Nobody could Or if he So "The price was too high could tell her why His job preI slowed down and restinctively vented that Anyway it would prob- duced my speed At the finish the ably be just the thing that would muscles in both legs were still quiveven if she make her stay ering In spite of this forced slowbelieved him down I still finished in 9 seconds "Look Anne” he said They were I’m not sure any pair of human legs at the far end of the open porch can stand a second flat pace" taThe boys had cleared empty bles around them "You know I Horses BurnOut Too " love you "Horses are much like humans in "It it’s Jealous pique dear this respect" a veteran trainer said He interrupted “It in discussing human and other aniher calmly Isn’t You’re probably sick of hearmal limits ing me say It so let’s skip it The - "Take the case of Johnstown point is I like you too They’re dif- Here was the fastest runferent And I think you like me” ning horse probably He was that ever lived “Oh Pete” she began clocked more than once In mile He gave her a twisted grin to try workouts around minute 33 secto conceal the sudden ache inside onds or 1:33 That’s blinding When her voice was like that speed But the pace was more than him It reduced his Insides to quivering his system could He was carry jelly through in the middle of his “The point is” he went on unHe burnt himself out career steadily "I’m going to ask you to through some form of throat aildo something and not ask any quesment or try to guess the answers tions "In the same way Just trust your Uncle Pete just wag largely responsible for Count once” Fleet’s summer trouble He had had He saw the shadow behind her several things happen to him in racdark curling lashes and the almost was largeing for which extra imperceptible lines between her eye- ly responsible It speed might be possiHe liked her eyebrows— brows ble for s horse to run s mile In 1:33 they were dark and thick so that but doubt that his legs or anatomy they accentuated her slim oval face could stand it” not thin plucked lines that mile doesn’t call for A made her look like a scared siren the speed approaching She looked at him a clear steady anything like Instant before she said “You want a fast 100 yardlimitspurt but it means in the way of close to the me to go home don’t you Pete?” "Yes On tomorrow's Clipper It’ time for a far longer period A quarter mile in a minute fiat is fuU but I can manage that” seconds over the record She looked up at him "Pete" still some 13 for that distance But a four minute "I know It Isn’t on acshg said mile is close to a sprint and that’s I mean it isn’t count of Miguel because you’re jealous of him and a long way to go And if and like Sue Porter There is still considerable doubt was corit’s Mr Taussig that Anderson of Sweden She hesitated rectly timed In his 4:02 plus mile “Well I'm not afraid of him May- He may have been but the odds are even help you not that way be I could even I mean—" Hagg will still have to clip a trifle He stared at her Without even more than four seconds from his fastbeing aware of It she had (lipped In est time and four seconds mean a the connecting link he’d been rackgood many yards ing his brain all morning to find for take some pacing oppoIt himself Taussig and his sanitary nent would good enough for 4:02 or better engineering Miguel Valera and Sal- to give Hagg his chance vatore Vegas And she was already And there Is no such other miler in it a child playing dolls with now in sight unless Anderson anHe pushed his a stick of dynamite other fast Swede can do the job chair back abruptly It's something like Warmerdam "You’re going home tomorrow Anne" looking for those extra inches in the Her eyes flashed dark brown and pole vault to lift his body 13 feet green Harness Racing "I am not!’’ "You are too You’re a crazy fool 1 see where Empire Is opening You don’t know what you’re getting up to harness racing" James Casey This place is a keg of "I’d like to be there Into writes me rine and you're lighting I’ve never seen a running race yet matches to powder your nose that compared to our light harness You’re getting on that plane tomorraces row morning If I have to tie your "Remember Dan Patch? He won hands and feet and put you on it my- a lot of races on the Grand Circuit And ss for that epic you — ” Rememself and all in straight heats was She He stopped abruptly ber be (established the world's recHe was standing on the other side of the ord for a 'mile in 1:58 table erect and vibrant a a streak eventually sold to Savage Stock farm of flame from a blow torch her eyes for $150000" sheets of molten gold her face! pale A Dream Come with anger "Don’t you dare Peter Wilcox” call "far Back In what you Her voice waa low and quivering away and long ago" might "Babe” Ruth’s "I won’t go I’ll leave San Juan big dream was to be a major league when I’m good end ready and not manager And I hate youl one minute before At last the burly one got his chance Id never have believed you could t handle a club from the bench be so contemptible after waiting many year Her high heels clicked across the manh The "Babe" was the bare wood floor of the Club bouse darin of the Yankees and Indians porch like the sharp tattoo of a sav- against the U 8 Naval watched his Pete her age drum team for Ed face a grim tight mask Then be Barrow’s all oat war fond turned abruptly and went out the Thera should be more ctf these conother way more tests— many (TO BE CONTINUED) True STUDIO COUCH WITH SLIDE COUCH SMALL TABLES AND 'idj UNDER BEDDING NO STORAGE SPACE COMPARTMENT “pHE upper sketch shows a com-- - through a lath strip Unpainted bination living and bed room book cases were bought to go at brought up to datq with every inch the ends and the lid of the bedof space used The cushions (low- ding compartment was painted to er left) were replaced with a box- match the book cases like compartment for bedding This NOTE— Longer and longer grows the list was made of plywood as shown at “money won’t buy" But bright Ideas the lower right It was padded that for using the things you already have are across the front and ends with cot- not on that list The one shown here Is BOOK 10 of the series of homemak-Infrom ton batting and covered with the BOOK booklets prepared for readers in place 10 also contains couch material tacked more than thirty other things to make from things on hand and Booklets are 19 cents available materials Address: each RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Drawer IS MRS Enclose cents 13 for Book No 10 Name ‘‘I said Diagnosis have a pain in my the recruit to the abdomen” army doman" replied the med- ctor "Young ico “officers geants have bellyache” have abdomens serstomachs you have Don’t We AH! 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