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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEI1I, UTAH in i -he STORY SO FAB: Ann Heywood, L.ntifnl daughter ol a wealthy New tort newipaper publisher, toes to Puerto Rico on an assignment (or her father's .r Also on the Island are Fete Y. Wilcox. a reporter on her father's pa. now a V. 8. Army Intelligence offl. ?!' Mlrel Valera, a Puerto Mean edu. at4 tte Vnltei Btatei orders ' report to an army camp were abrnpUy uncefledi Richard Taussig an engineer boss idenUty as a German agent Is sus-ected sus-ected hot ot yet Provedi n1 BnsseU STrter. a young American engineer, and M wile, nur. " " trailing Mr. Taussig to a rendezvous, Mlruel Valera tells Anne be Is a O. B. Kent, then swears her to secrecy. . CHAPTER XII Pete Wilcox came out of the Bach elor Officers' Quarters on tne roaa h, Monro, above San Juan's most istonishing slum Ironically known as ta Perla, and walked along toward Headauarters. The fact that by this jime everybody' on the Post knew fce'd had the Provost Marshal and (he Insular Police out looking for juine Heywood when she was over t the Escambron aancing wnn Mig-jel Mig-jel Valera didn't particularly bother him. It was damned lucky Valera fcad run Into her. There were too jnany stories going around, and hile most of them weren't true, tropical streets at night were no place for girls. i He stopped at the bend In the Hall to let a train of Army trucks fo through the old military road along the rim of the hill above the ocean. A woman on the other, side yas watching him, and without warning of any kind made a dash across between a couple of olive- drab motors. Fete held his breath. Ihe driver swore, Jammed on bis brakes, and went ahead again. "Senor Wilcox!" Pete looked at her in 'surprise. She wasn't, as far as he knew, either i friend or an agent I "You know Miss Heywood American Amer-ican girl?- BlondeT" IPete nodded. The girl's eyes darkened. , He couldn't tell whether she was pleading plead-ing or angry or both. ) "Take her away," she said pas-ilonately. pas-ilonately. "I don't know very good English. She must go back to America. Amer-ica. Understand?" I Pete scratched the back of his head. "Yeah. I understand all ight Why?" The girl dropped her hands in espair. "I don't know how to say," she tried. "She have to go. Will get hurt" ' I She broke into a torrential flow of Spanish. Pete stood listening blank- iy. I "You understand?" j AH he had got was that Anne was going around with Miguel Valera, that it was dangerous, that she was warning him so he could make her go back to America. I She turned and hurried across the street and disappeared round the corner without looking back. ete stood watching her. "That" he said aloud, "is a big help." I Pete hung up his sun helmet and Went to his desk. There was something some-thing about the melodramatic business busi-ness of shooting a rival that was ludicrous, on the whole. Nevertheless Neverthe-less the girl had been In dead earnest ear-nest It worried him. At the same time it put him on a spot If he jsked for any kind of protection for her after last night they wouldn't ?ven wait till he got out to laugh. And he couldn't very well warn her. Or could he? J He glanced up as a soldier came put of Colonel Fletcher's office with f sheaf of papers. "The Colonel said you'd check these, sir." I "Thank you." I He glanced through them. On the fourth from the top he saw Miguel yalera's name in the second line of translation. i'70night at 8:10 o'clock I was In mm& Street Miguel Valera y Del-joo Del-joo got out of his car and went JT Avenida Juan de Pinzon and wanea there. I do not know whv. hut I aw an American lady come J rT? ,treet alone- Mieuel Valera f f"eIado went down the street I "Wt the American lady was lost m when I spoke she was afraid ran after Miguel Valera y Del-wo Del-wo and followed him In to the of tte "tores of the sugar and it"gents Albert Benoist It was and they were there a long iZt .d came out together. I re- this not because I have per-W per-W antipathy to Miguel Valera y tk j!c,Cr "use wish to Injure good name of the American la-eSJrl la-eSJrl because I have been In-Hi In-Hi , J teU what 1 toow about wbPf,7aler 7 Delgado by people a7 J Tirve he of the anti-American party." re nut v. tt v. urer at Anns Rsmnwl ra . . . - - tue u a tier rnwn. ne 1st J?bSal ttan at anybody iow-v ! Worli At tte moment as If ' wasn' actly sore. It Eh, d.m,ethIn he couldn't define. r1 know what she was let- bT 111 ior- course- N-Instant, N-Instant, Latin, maybe, would so it, "Pect the worst and say But Meetly or by Implication. &ad it ' fa Latin country, out Uvat Ehe wa finding It 4 fL"!1 rang he wa reach-i reach-i He took up the receiver. CARIRDF AM CS conspiracyM W BRENDA CONRAD v-apiain wucox speaking,' r a ..... he "This is Miss Heywood speaking, captam-and wishing to apologize for last night." Pete caught his breath. Every-thing Every-thing inside him melted. It was what her voice always did to him, 'Won't you even speak to me, Pete? I'm horribly sorry," she was saying. i just wanted to tell you so before I go out I'm going to the Valera Sugar Central to see them grind the cane." Anne had been sound asleep when ie phone on the table rang noisily. She struggled through the entanglement entangle-ment of cheese-cloth, pulled the handpiece back under and said "Hello." Her heart gave a little leap. It was Miguel. "Did I wake you?" "It's a good thing you did. I'm supposed to be going to your sugar mill this morning. Did you know?" The darkness and the dream had gone. With the brilliant sunlight on the liquid cobalt world through the window she forgot the illusory terror of the night It no longer had any meaning, as pain has none when it's gone. It was Just something some-thing she'd dreamed because she'd eaten a lot of the lobster and clams and things all mixed up in saffron-colored saffron-colored oil and rice. "I heard it last night when I got home," Miguel said. "That's why I called. Why not put it off until to- "Tell him Mrs; Russell Porter is downstairs." morrow so I can go along? My father fa-ther and I have to go to Ponce on the south coast today. I'd like to be along to show you around." "That would be wonderful!" Anne said warmly. "Good. Then TU see you tonight About eight?" She put the phone back and sat fith her feet crossed under her, whistling softly. About eight That was twelve hours . . . which wasn't very long, really. She stretched her hands up and made little waves of thin convex ceiling of her cheesecloth cheese-cloth box. Just being alive was marvelous! mar-velous! And she didn't have to be disturbed about going out with Diego Di-ego Gongaro and Mr. Taussig. It was stupid to worry about things. They always worked out somehow. She thought of Pete and glanced at the clock. It was too early to call him yet She ordered breakfast break-fast and got up to take a shower while she waited for it At half-past eight the phone rang again. "That's him now," she thought going over to the table. But It wasn't It was Graciela Gongaro. Her voice over the phone was high-pitched, high-pitched, so that it was difficult to understand her English, which was much less fluent than her father's or Don Alvaro's even. Finally Anne made it out Don Alvaro and Miguel Mig-uel had found, before they left that they wouldn't be able to get back, perhaps not for several days. Her father had asked her to call and tefl Anne they'd decided to go ahead with the trip. They would call for her at eleven o'clock. For an Instant Anne hesitated. Something of the feeling of the dream slipped across her mind, as a fraU wisp of mist sifts across a country road early in the morning. It was gone as quicKiy. "All right" be said. Til be "she'put the phone down, picked It up .gain and asked for Headquarters Headquar-ters at Fortress El Motto. Two hours later she stopped at the desk to get her mail. K wasn eleven yet and being Spanish they d probably be late anyway. She d the lobby and sat down to LaSl saw her mother. 1 : lunch it the Colony yesterday. She says Sue and her husband ar. down there where you are and that Sue adores It She's so enthusiastic about the country and the people and her bus-band's bus-band's work. Mrs. Lattimer-her name's something else now but I've forgotten !t-hasn't ever really forgiven for-given her for marrying. It was somebody Porter, wasn't It? And I gather she thinks Sue Is just being perverse In being happy on thirty-five thirty-five hundred dollars a year. I must say the little I saw of Sue when you were at school together I never thought the child had it in her ..." Anne's eyes fastened on her mother's moth-er's vigorous scrawl were a little misty suddenly. Poor little Sue-bating Sue-bating it like poison, and too proud and too loyal to Russell to let her mother know it Anne looked up, not quite sure she was seeing properly. prop-erly. Sue herself was crossing the lobby toward the desk. "Is Mr. Taussig In?" she asked brightly. "Tell him Mrs. Russell Porter is downstairs." She turned and saw Anne. Her face flushed a little. "Oh, hello, Anne!" She turned quickly to the telephone operator. "Never mind. Thanks." Her smile as she came over to Anne was too bright to be altogether convincing. "How are you, darling, What an adorable dress, and I love your shoes! I haven't had any really decent clothes since my trousseau wore out What are you doing? Why don't you come out to the Club and play golf with us, and have lunch?" "I'm going out to Valera Central to see how they make sugar," Anne said. "Mr. Taussig's going too." Sue's transparent little girl's face fell. "Oh, really? When will you be back?" "This afternoon some time, I suppose." sup-pose." v "Why don't you bring him over to our house to tea?" Sue brightened instantly. "Not me, angel," Anne replied. "Frankly, I don't like your friend Mr. T. And the less I see of him the better I like him." "Oh, Anne you're being perfectly perfect-ly foul!" The tears sprang to her eyes. "He thinks you're splendid . . . Intelligent and beautiful He said so the other night And even if you don't like him, couldn't you be nice to him just for us? It's so horribly important I don't think he's very attractive either, but" "Sssh," Anne said. ' Mr. Taussig was getting out of the elevator. He didn't see them until he get to the desk. Then he turned and came over beaming cordially. "Good morning, Mrs. Porter." He held out his hand. "I've been trying try-ing to find a moment to pay a party call, to thank you for one of the pleasantest evenings I've had for a long time." He hardly more than noticed Anne. She sat watching Sue being cornflower-eyed and breathlessly eager. ea-ger. She'd hoped Anne would play golf that morning, but it was wonderful, won-derful, really, having such a marvelous mar-velous chance to see a sugar mill "And If you're not too awfully late getting back, Mr. Taussig, why don't you bring Anne over for tea?" It seemed to Anne to have the most convincing spontaneity. "I'm afraid Miss Heywood is too popular to waste much of her time on me," Mr. Taussig replied urbanely. urbane-ly. "But I shall certainly come. With Miss Heywood, or without her, if I may." "That would be lovely!" Sue cried. Mr. Taussig turned to Anne. "And you, Miss Heywood are you ready for an educational tour of the Island's Is-land's chief Industry?" It was wonderful, Anne was thinking. think-ing. Mr. Taussig was a perfect emulsion of paternal kindness and gentleman of all the world. He probably felt that way too, she thought . . . just as he could stop and pick up a cat and stroke it while he was doing business in a deserted store on an empty street . . . business busi-ness that whatever it was was sufficiently suf-ficiently nefarious to interest an un-der-cover agent from the War Department De-partment in Washington. On second thought she'd tell Miguel about him and Sue. Sue was hell-bent for . . . call It collaboration, she thought Like a butterfly collaborating with a boa constrictor. Mr. Taussig could be charming, however, when he put his mind to it She was aware of that as the big shiny black limousine, with Graciela Graci-ela between them and Diego Gongaro Gon-garo In the folding seat In the middle mid-dle of the car, sped, it seemed perilously peri-lously fast through the narrow curving curv-ing road, canopied with flamboyants flamboy-ants and Indian almonds, toward Central Valera. He was not only charming, he was amazingly well informed. He knew the names of all the trees the silk-cotton tree, the lignum vitae. the violet tree, the candle-tree, the Tabeuia. He knew all the flowers too, and when they stopped at the market for a moment mo-ment in Rio Piedras be knew the Jobo and the sour sop, the star apple ap-ple and the custard apple. He knew the guinea grass in the fields, the different kind of palms and the wa. ter hyacinths In the river under a narrow bridge. 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