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Show THE TI Thursday, August 5, 1943 I'TAII NKPI1I. IVIES-NEWS- . Patre Seven ON THE KathJLeen INorrisSays: CARIBBEAN CONSPIRACY W BR EN DA CONRAD I CHAPTER 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 reddis- 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 winter blizzard. At the same moment, two blocks away, a slow gray spider was silently spinning its web across a dark corner of a cellar wall. And eighteen floors above, in the French salon of an elegant apartment, two men raised d their hands in a formal salute, and sat down at a satin-wootable in front of the window. One of them was short and heavy-set- . 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 arrogance that neither made any attempt to conceal. "Your orders are simple and 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 put out of commission as an effective 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 supply and points only: its gas-lin- e 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 thirty-fiv- e miles wide. Out of its 1,800,000 half of them unempopulation ployed 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 system can be completely demolished, 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 it. "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 Spain. You can trust him. He has done the spade work. His brother-in-law- , Alvaro Valera, is the shining knight behind whom you are to hide. He has the old aristocrats' dream of Spanish empire. He is honest and sincere. It is those qualities that you will have to use cleverly . . . but as he happens to trust his brother-in-law Diego Gongaro, that will 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 slightly, watching steadily, waiting. "The first is Alvaro Valera's son, h-gold lemon-and-gra- y ten-roo- stiff-arme- d thick-lense- MigueL He is twenty-eigh- t, d educat- ed at Gilman and Princeton, now. Or has seemed to be. Here is his dossier. He worships his father. At one time he was an ardent Nationalist. He has a captain's commission in the reserve corps, and was under orders which the War Department cancelled last week without apparent explanation." "Do you know the reason?" "I have an idea. But Diego Gongaro will know and the fewer theories you go down with the more facts you'll pick up. This may help you." He passed two closely typed sheets of paper across the table. "The second Is Captain P. G, Wilcox. He is an American newspaper-.ma- n now in the Military Intelligence Service. He Is attached to the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff G 2 In San Juan. He Is an ace paperman, and impatient with what I presume he regards as official red tape. For that reason he might even be of use to you." He looked across the table intently. "No," be said. "You're not 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. "Then there is girl whom I haven't been able to figure out," he aid slowly. "Her name Is Anne Heywood. Her father is Bryson Hey- of the Heywood newspapers. She Is going to San Juan on Friday in the Santa Isabella. That Is why your plane reservations were cancelled and you re going by ship. We don't know why she's going.' She has had a job on her father's paper here In wood, editor-owne- r War Prepare for of Tunc i Syndic BeU W.t! W ii te. - HOME FRONT "Z?lunth Peace Features. WNU Sill -- V Tfm "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 ludown." He stood rigidly for a moment, minously into view. and sat down. "I heard him ask the captain why "Here is her picture." you were coming to Puerto Rico," He took it out of the briefcase. he said, without moving. "It was taken two years ago. She Anne glanced at him quickly. is even lovelier now. It is her colorThere was something a little odd in as much Her hair the even tone of his voice that dising as anything. is reddish-gold- , her eyes are almost turbed her. It disturbed her too amber with gold flecks in them. I that-Mr- . Taussig should be wonderhave been watching her the last ing about her, because she had been three days. I can't make out wheth- wondering a little about Mr. Tauser the way she laughs when people sig. ask her if she's going down to see She didn't know, why ei Wilcox is because she is or is not. ther of them shouldexactly, make her feel At any rate, watch her too. She is the way she did. It had all seemed intelligent and keen, as well as beau- plain enough sailing the day Jim tiful. I wish we had a few women Hawley, who was managing editor like her." of her father's paper in New York book He took a green City, called her in. out of the rack under the radio. sister you've been asking "And here is a bon voyage present for"Look, a good job, and I've got one for for you. It is "Puerto Rico: A Guide he said cheerfully. "There's a to the Island of Borinquen," kindly you," in Puerto Rico. The place is story of the put out by the Government a and Uncle Sam's pouring United States. It has all the proper halfhotbed, a billion dollars in. It's got information about the history and . . old Spain, new monmonuments of the island. It also everything poverty, love, hatred, had a map on the back cover. Un- ey, glamour, Go get it. You can kill everything. fortunately it was not as detailed a flock of birds with one stone. You as we wished, so I have taken the can get a tropical tan and maybe liberty of substituting another." earn your pay for once. You might He riffled the pages until he came even do a service for your country to the end of the book. ever tell." "It is a scale map that you are to youAndcan't as Anne started out he'd mark. A blue circle for major plants n of his in civilian areas, a red circle for looked over the glasses. key stations in military establish" And whila you're down there, ments. Green where they supply both civilian and military, like the make up your mind about Pete Wilwill you?" plant at Aguadilla for instance, cox, And It was funny about Pete, Anne which serves Borinquen Field and the town. Use blue and red crosses Heywood thought. He was the only for minor units. Put the number of man she knew that she'd thought seriously about marrying, even if she hadn't been able to make up her mind, not finally. Everybody thought that was why she was down here now. But it wasn't. It was pride. It was the business of showing them all Jim Hawley, and her father, and Pete himself that she could use her own head and stand on her own two feet. It had been like a dose of vitamins, carrying her confidently up to that moment. With the yellow New York for the last two years, and she worked at it. She may be taking a vacation. Captain Wilcox was on her father's paper too. He may be the reason for her going cloth-boun- She didn't know, exactly, why either of them should make her feel the way she did. men stationed at each in red figures, and the number we have at each in blue figures. You may even enjoy taking the tours that this book suggests. Do so In any event. Now If you have any questions?" on the southThe deep violet-blu- e ern horizon was slowly taking form and substance as the ship ploughed steadily forward, feathering the cobalt sea. Anne Heywood leaned on the damp rail, watching it In the east, already suffused with pale green and yellow and pink, a single star still shone, a precise 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, gravely Intent. "Yes," he said. "Thafi it." " 'Puerto Rico patria de mis a mores, ' " Jardin de flores . He stopped and turned to her with a smile. "The Isle of Enchantment, we used to call it Now they call it The Gibraltar of America." "And we're spending how many millions to make it that?" Anne Heywood asked lightly. She glanced around. "Mr. Taussig would know, I suppose. He seems to be a one-ma- n information bureau." A short heavy-se- t man in a light-gree- n tropical suit with tennis slip pers and a yachting cap had come out on deck. A camera and pair of binoculars were slung over his shoulders. The black sun glasses attached to his spectacles hid bis pale blue eyes without making Mm any more attractive. thick-lense- d CARDBOARD WASHSTANDSIDE SHELVES, NEW 111 TOP AMD "BASE BOARD MAY BE USED IN LIVING ROOM5 OININO ROOM OR ENTRANCE HALL WITH (.Sr J "pODAY'S living room is often furnished with streamlined pieces that have served a more humble purpose. Almost any plain washstand or dresser may be given long smart lines by adding open shelves at the ends. Here a top of plywood with a plain moulding around the edges extends across the stand and shelves. By adding a plain baseboard and a Note: The remodeled washstand is from Book 10 of the scries of honiemaking booklets prepared for readers. Book 10 also contains more than 30 other things to make from things on hand and available materials. Booklets are 15 cents. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York. Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 10. Name. .. Address. A quiz with answers offering information on various subjects d half-moo- ' T5 0 masses of the ancient weathered rock of El Morro looming ahead of 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 up at Miguel Valera. There was something in his dark eyes, fixed on the stained and pitted fortress rising sheer from the white pounding surf, that silenced the casual remark she was about to make. " You really love Puerto Rico . . . 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 deeply. I don't know. It's true that with all the poverty and squalor and overpopulation that your magazines are so full of, our people won't leave the island. And when they do they always return. Our country is an emotion, with us." He smiled. "But we're Latins, and Latins are an emotional people. You're Saxon. Our standards, our backgrounds, our customs, differ as much as our languages." Next to them along the rail a fat middle-age- d woman in stifling ornate black was clinging to her husTheir faces were band's arm. streaked with tears as they watched the narrow entrance of the harbor, under the time-worfortress, opening its rockbound arms to bring them home. "But the human heart doesn't differ very greatly, does It?" Anne asked. For a moment Miguel Valera was silent. Then he said quietly, "If you have learned that. Miss Heywood, you have learned a 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 her head Anne could bear Mr. Taussig. His voice was moistly oleaginous, bis information precise and pedantic. In a way that reminded her of the courier-guid- e who had taken them through Notre Dame in Paris. A sudden little panic of loneliness made Anne catch her breath quickly. "I should have told Pete I was It had all coming," she thought. seemed so simple 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 bad the sudden sense of being an outsider with no right to be there at all. And underneath it there was a vague chill feeling of apprehension, like the sound of stealthily opening door In an empty midnight house. "I'm being an utter fool," she told herself sharply. She looked down again at the gay welcoming faces on the dock, trying to revive the determination that whatever this turned out to be, it was to be her job. "But I do wish I'd cabled him, just the same," she thought. n no BB CONTTNCED) The Answers The Questions 1. Rebellious. 1. If you are contumacious, you 2. The Suez canal has no locks. are what? 2. How many locks has the Suez It is at sea level. 3. The church pennant. canal? 4. William 3. In the United States navy Makepeace Thackwhich flag may be flown above the eray. 5. The heel. Stars and Stripes? 6. The doctrine that pleasure is 4. What great writer's middle the chief or sole good in life and name was "Makepeace"? 5. In what part of his body did that moral duty is fulfilled in th Paris mortally wound Achilles? gratification of pleasure-seekiinstincts. 6. What is Hedonism? 7. Columbus. 7. Who disebvered Cuba? . salt-stick- y chintz over p mm (V'tiJ'l "lNt"T coat of paint the piece is finished with a modern air. The paint should match the woodwork. The diagram at the upper right shows how to make the wall decoration from a remnant of flow ered chintz. If you use an old frame, the chintz picture may be given the appearance of an oil painting by applying several coats of varnish, allowing plenty of time for each coat to dry thoroughly. vp J, iiilMIl RUTH WYETH SPEARS We oneall ad that come, ij that loo, be am we We conference. or more hud a the fact, invalided, of will three know this isn't foinf to three beloved sailors our like than tm. helpralher KATHLEEN NORMS By with a can, foratle confidence To of GETyour if you to look and be ward perfect to the years ah ead. That's the "tiling want, feel sureor ture. man The who tever I'nri. to amloitions run to is envied. her or modest a little where chickens apple do zen trees, and a iielp pay exa few farm two to will cow solici penses, andor stocks bonds fcliat a comfortable $200 form gest more sures comfortable old or other month, whatever in sensation tha art a bring an-in will rsightedness no there is desirable a or fa. nuities,thriftor rents, and in investments to the one suglife that in- age fast. which It has many may be with tedness, many men iriany, m.oment its ar- to "women the and and of to oincide with the rival is this war. When that conclusion young men time comes thousa-to the are going come America haver risked their lives to save,' we have solemnlyof promised and every one them a job. of thousands That earnii--that a and big going of ds of home to they and each good means women, g now money, men, who have abandoned their old fam i liar perhaps into war work, are gojobs toto jump be from the paydroppe3 ing rolls. There no otherin way. Now. Money Floo3s Brown maythe be making Today $65 a week, Instea ci of old steady so many years. $30 he made for Mother Brown 1st. earning almost and Sally and Jane are being that, every week what they used to paid Bob, Jane's huse a rxa every month. thousands olderol - l Bill band, sums about to up it fifty t month a thousand do- home sends llars every days wealth that the Browns never anticipated in their wildest dreams. it fur to spend money And isn't and reck lc s sly when at last royally you havealsoIt to spes rid! 30 But of those that wax, ch a nges knows better nobody remember the last who us than and terrific fV HOW as the ptviod of readjustment which tvill follow the a war, Inflation of inevitable part wars, is and a month, will everywher"i' by youth. placed ire things Inevitsable, re be These some to exten- t-Preparedness K ill t cme Inevitable. Bu Soften only Change. to the e- tc choose will take lization a long step for- Marvin is one of the few who sees this now. i.very will see it In a year or two, but Kate Is ahead of the rest. Here women woman part is a of her A bowl of delicious Rice Krispies a dash of milk. Hear that snap! crackle! popl There's a letter: into debt any more than most people, before the war, writes Kate, "but we did run. niggling little bills; doctor and dentist were never caught up, grocery and milk bills accumulated. But we had three sons who seemed likely to help out some day and Dad and I rather spoiled our boys and our girl, and lived up fully to every cent "We didn't get d in vitaand minerals promins, tein. Rice Krispies are restored to whole grain food values in thiamin (Vitamin Bi), niacin, and iron. dish Coir. !M1 br our income. of "Then came the war; all uniform long before into boys Harbor and Sister into uniform, too, mm and I took a part-tim- e that netted $125. "Well, then we had a family conference. We know this isn't going to last, and we face the fact, too, that one or more of our three beloved sailors may come home invalided, all three of them will like and months $900, job rvive with X-- Republic Aviation, who an that i better, than a very fxo discomfort, and America's the securest Into on triumphantly brighany country test, ever known future this world. No thas hine can keep us from I position of tremendous power- - after this time of war. Oia the t T riavt ind as we we always for of nstead erj'aallty, -- ature-th in powet for tr-prosperity of a lew, i ems come, all our people i- democracy Torbcllevi that may for and civl- - Army P-- speed of sound! puts to Ai in see, You we live population whose more be presented an with of piecean property. cost all now, us three hoods of average are but In income-earnin- . fj': ;V K S - ;SmCf " ': , " 'm ' thev sure '. are $12,000 farma apiece; somewhat rundown farm neighborof real produc- I for freedom us all. marry, long that I J- ' y' ; ' fJ-57 WHERt CIGARETTES - ARE JUDGED ; . - j and Throat is tha proving ground for cigarettes. Only jmr tasto and throat can decida which ciga retta tastes best to you...and bow It affects your throat. Based on tha experienc of millions of smokers, w believe Camels Tjt The for can jy,'. ? CH g These We're livisacrificing and self-denia- l. the time when the boys come ng home, to take possession of thsir farms. We'r living for the time when we can tell them that with two good tenants upstairs, and with our own earnings and savings. w They u CAMELS ME TO A Y0U CANT BEAT FlAVOfl AND SUIT good and capable used needn't ever turn peace, test-div- Thunderbolt foster than the permit I ttle confusion and test pilot of Chief when employment problif we can be a help rathburden to them. So we er deeded the house to Sister, and Sister $100 a month into the debt on the house. The debt is owed to the government, which sent architects us, and helped us turn our 14 big rooms into three apartments. submitted plans, authorized They the work, and they carry the loan. us Idea three riveter. Dad's pay was upped about $300 a month to some as a from well-rounde- Pearl -t- it I present. Our payments on them them. If tiveness. $3,600 a of ui does her come to a little more than each andto every for that ire already half cleared. year they get timt hare ready we can mi- "This means that we live simply by sensible actiora xnow, the change from and nimize the effects cheaply. But we love it; all-o- ut war to a 11 ime peace, su- the crampedness and dullness, the xtent we MILK INTO help still; hundreds ) home should prepare our fighters when they return. That is Kathleen Nor-ri- s' message this tveek. She includes a letter from a woman whose family is pooling its efforts so that when three sailor sons return they tvill have three farms as a homecoming to burst their LITTLE at those a coast town has Increased an when than a hundred per cent since Inflated they things areWarlullicierntly infla. tionj burst when the war began, and living space is at a premium. cornel In collapses of peace Foctosr-ic-jdden s haven't start Buy Farms for Sons. everything, ed tip yet; building is at stand "Then Dad and I picked out three stop; unemplobig salaries small farms that were going cheap yment grows and - grows. Elderly because of labor shortage, and when now conplacently making our boya come home each one will women, follow TO MAKE A well as fc Ing, independent, ward. Kate on com Ttiere But aren't plans years in a way for it made. sr-- ocking unexpecof a rriving old age PEACETIME SECURITY We must not be extravagant merely because wartime con- war. Also, whenever possible, wha- n FT BRINGS IVAIZT1METHIU the the fu- be his whetiier problems woman all we fixed," or woman, manmatter to ditions have made it possible jor many of us to earn more money than over before. We must be thrifty despite added income and plan for old ape "Well, can say, comes, No order rfTairsin and we face come home tvhen employment them." better, us burden last, may to a will wit your S.i u ! mm 'T'" " '" .V" T." '" " Prove it for yourself I j"" .'y'''.-- " ' "V 'T i iimn- a to them for help. raise children. en-Jo- y years the peace and they've helped win for tr .a'- - -- - ' - " f- ' |