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Show 7T J I t i - Shields was Primmidgfdomed man in lata was dle life. Hto round, florid face an ingratiating smile as hs tortteda tendered Benning to a. seat and. visitor..-Mr.- . INSTALLMENT ONE CHAPTER I No. ZKU. enticing designs the love-- 1 Uest of the year-r- o these foi pfflow slip embroJdety.;.A refreshing iris motif, the appealing: bird pair, e butterfly and flower arrangement, and the cross stitch basket of pansies w$Jl And favor. GVOUR I . As ZSm, 15c, you weirs aa tamp transfer of aU four SatisnOf. sad; you may atamp thia transfer mors than ones. Band order to: oasy-te--- the generals car aped off to tha long concrete Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue that bouaea the War Department General Hague hurried to his offices on tha second floor and .instructed his ARID WHITE, A mete ilia dick told him Gqnaral WHITS WHB SSSVICS to summon Colonel FlagwilL hia weapon was empty. In a few minutes Fla gwill, acting "Hard hick, sir." .he reported. in spy mesa at Eighth Corps. Area assistant chief Of staff G-"Blit at least the experience concharge at military intelligence, re- Headquarters. Tetter bring him back to Waste firms a hot traiL No doubt Gaujos ported in from another wing. was a more Important agent than Sit down, FlagwiU. .the gen- ington at once, General Hague deeral invited. ' The President ' has cided. "Instruct corps, area to ship wa thought and If a likely ha has a ' just decided to go to the bottom of him by fast plana Benning must team In San Antonia aU from New York for Franca withthis Mexican situation." Burt replied crisply: Meet me FlagwiDa lean, aquiline face re- out delay. That's all, FlagwilL . immediately at Kelly Field. Benmained Impassive except for a quick ning. Drive as feat as your flivgleam of fire in his piercing black Captain Allan Benning, In civilian ver win taka you. eyes. clothes, aat waiting to a battered old When, fifteen minutes later. Bay "nut's good news, slrl ha ex- coupe Just outside Fart Sam Hous- nlng sped up to toe gate at toe flyclaimed; and added in a quiet voice: ton. For two weeks past he had ing field, lieutenant Colonel Bart In that connection, my section has been following ona of those alender waa waiting in a military sedan into Just completed our final estimate threads of investigation that were inwhich ha ushered the captain at of tha situation baaed on aU present tended to connect local espionage acavailable information. Would you tivities with the Van Hassefc army Tva a fast plana waiting for you. care to hear my report now? in Mexlca Banning, Bart announced. "Youre Go ahead, Hague Invited. Important secret! had bean stolen return immediately to WashingTil be aa brief aa possible, air. from southern military headquarter to ton orders of tha Chief of Our best estimate is 20H000 Euro- at tha fort. Not least of these was Benning felt toe rise iff hto pulse pean regulars mobilized in Mrstro. toe secret tables of organization of That covers organised infantry di- toe proposed new American fighting as they drove down along tha rows visions, artillery, cavalry, tanka, air division. Gene, too, was tha file copy of hangars to wfaera a sleek new observation plana waited with spinning carps, and technical groups trans- of irmy wwmh tlon motors. A captain in flying toga was ported from Mediterranean porta Bannings suspicion had centered standing under Am fuselage of the during tha past six months, together promptly on a staff sergeant, Gau-joobservation plana Bert said to him: with soma reservist infantry assemNot by reason of any action Wallin, fiito to your passenger for bled from South American points. on the part of toe sergeant, but Washington. Youre to deliver him To all outward appearances . they of an eloquent intangible, toe there In the shortest possible time. fully support the arguments of the Thats aD, Captain! new Mexican dictatorship that; as a palpable inconsistency of. Gaujos background, personality, and intelliIn Aw there was the first part of tha Mexican military forces, gence with hia present occupation. rose glow sky these troops are not tha concern at of approaching sunrise waa a man of. forty. Gaujos when Benning made out through the the United States." Frenchman had served as General Hagues straight mouth a combat by birth, glass bottom at the plane, the wide toe with French air pilot silver ribbon of the Potomac. In parted to a cynical smile. World War. the Three corps during the distance. Washington's . MonuThera la toe big rub, FlagwilL years ago ha had taken out papers ment stood sentinel 11m Mexican veraion has so rationover the sleepas an American citizen end enlisted alised their European army that toe in ing capital the large round domes the army. American public falls for the fiction of Congress loomed up out of the At headquarters Gaujoa superiors completely. It almost has our State granite and marble huddle of governwore by him. He was highly comment As tha plana swung Department fooled, even when our an administrative clerk down buildings. for e landing at Balling Field, ambassador knows tha real com- petent dozhalf over a having supervision he glimpsed the grey hulk that mander in Mexico is Van Haiaak, en typists. To tha casual observer houses the State Department and, ana at tha smartest tacticians of sathave Gaujoa might appeared a flu old Imperial Army. neartby, tha trim outlines of t&e urnine, stolidly satisfied man who White House. "The subterfuge to obvious, air,1 had given up the struggle for higher FlagwiU averred. "My whole section Success and settled happily into hto agrees that tha United States faces CHAPTER H present little groove. Hto face waa attack from Van Hasseka army.1 General Hague somberly nodded long, lean, and angular and with The plane swung back across the maO, level black eyes in which his head. Anacostia and glided to a landing was no there friendliness. 1 agree perfectly with your deWith Benning, it had been a mat- Benning thanked the pilot for a sate ductions, FlagwiU, and Informed the journey north and aped by military President pretty much to toe same ter of baiting a trap He had fabri- sedan across the river into Washingcated a secret report that American effect today. Ha to very gravely conreserves were being sent to the bor- ton. At the War Department ha went cerned and wants the facta aa quickto tha second floor and reported to But what can tha der and bad it placed, the night be- the G--2 section. ly as possible. In where find it Gaujoa would President do unless Congress to con- fore, Colonel FlagwiU had come down vinced and facto are available for the course of hia duty today. Now for Benning's arrival Hia early waa to for Benning Gaujoa waiting the public? unemotional face broke in a placid, lesva when the fort the headquar"In the meantime, General are ters crew knocked off work for the alight smila and hia eyes sparkled we to reinforce our border garriat sight of the young officer. He sons tar defense in event attack day. Tlie suspected man took a bus into led the captain into a private office comes sooner than expected?" and closed the door. The Chief at Staff groaned and San Antonio and had dinner at a Without boteL Ha The President doesn't dare said: engaged a taxicab and "Someone formality FlagwiU said: must go into Mexico and order troop concentrations now, headed south out at the city. It waa the facta, Benning. I needn't get dusk when his left taxicab Gaujoa would FlagwilL Congress probably refuse him an appropriation for and proceeded down the road on foot remind you of the danger of such an enterprise. While I have thought of transportation. He'd be accused of from a point south of the old county you for the detail you need not acpoor farm. Benning parked hto own cept unleu you want ta FlagwiU mopped his brow and coupe by the roadside and held the "Thanks for thinking of me, Colosaid slowly: 1 see it all, sir. Just trail from a discreet distance. The suspected masquerader turned sud- nel Benning said wiUi an easy whats our move, please?" When do you wish ms to "To collect facts. Our ambassador denly off the road into a field. Ben- smile. ning recognized it aa a field that did leave? to France has something very seThere was an approving gleam in cret hatched up with the French se- service on occasion as an emergency tor student fliers from the FlagwiU eyes as he took from cret service. A chance to slip one of landing-plac- e Randolph Field. A fringe of willows his pocket a bulky sealed letter end our officer! into toe Mexican servhanded it to Benning. ice at Mexico City. Our first move toy along the road, and through these Gaujos plunged with the de'.You're sailing for Europe at elevto to select our man and lend him cisiveness of a man who knows en on the America. Available into Paris to 'get his detailed instrucformation to in this totter. When tions. Its very Important that era where he to going. But Benning learned a. few moyou've read 11 destroy it by burnpick the right man for thia. a man ments later that Gaujoa was not oil ing. Youd better take a commerwith plenty at brains and backbone. I rather had young Benning in hia guard. Aa the captain eased into cial plana to New York. Your boat the willows, a stab of flame blinded reservations have been attended ta mind. hto eyes, the bark of a pistol clapped On landing at Southampton,- cross An excellent . choice," FlagwiU But right now hto ears. Ha dove to the ground, his ths Channel to Le Havre and propromptly agreed. I've got Captain Benning down In right hand whipping his own service ceed to Paris by express. Our emSan Antonia Investigating another pistol into play and sent a bullet bassador, Mr. Shields, will be exdriving at the spot whence had come pecting you In Paris. Any question. the attack. Then he lay tensely waitBenning? 1 think not, sir, Benning said. ing. Good luck, FlagwiU Mid, rising. The grim silence that followed was Do a thorough job of it and get Aw broken shortly by the kicking-ove- r of picture back here as soon propeller out in toe field, followed Mexican s possible, consistent with thorby the easy purr of a oughness. I'D have an officer at Aw engine tuning for a take-ofAs Benning leaped to his feet, his airport with your tickets and exeyes made out. in the vague light, a pense money. That's aD, Captain. figure zigzagging at high speed into 2, -- ssssesessosssfssssososeseessee Addwa eeeeeeeeeeessesseesseeeeeeeee , , ;l Maryland Short-Lande- ' d If the early settlers of Maryland had possessed better geographic lmowledge and claimed all the land granted to Lord Baltimore by the king of England in 1632, the state would be nearly . 17,000 square miles in area, according to Comers. Instead it has only 10,000 square miles, having lost the 7,000 miles, which are now worth about $12,000,000,000, to Delaware, Pennsylvania and what is now northern West Virginia. 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That Hang On ; oe-da- aide-de-ca- Raua I gen-Seme- - AUNT MAMBA Kaaaaa City, Ka Boa 1(C-Encloaa 15 eenta for each patters .daairad. Patters No, sssesssseese i General Hague. Chief of Staff of lha Army, had managed to dissipate with a calm smila that gravity In which ha had emerged from conference with, the President There la nothing to give out he said with quiet firmn ness, and strode to hia military that was waiting In tha drlve- - Lips a Door Lips are no part of the head, door only made for a double-lefor the mouth. Lyly. af saber-rattlin- MiseFableP EmhlbackaclieE VVHEN kidnsyi fundi on badly and YY you tuff or a nagging backache, with diziinctt, burning, icenty frequent urination and getting up et night; when you fed tired, nctvoub, me Doon't Pltii. Dossi are etpedally for poorly working kidneyi. Milliom of bos are used every year. They ate the coonfcy over. Adi year. all upiet ... recom-aicnd- ad DOlNSRlWS WNU W 11 II Scornful Silenee is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw. Silence g. . high-powerf. Salt Likas NEWEST HOTEL Banning, V. 8. Operative, poaei as a fugitivs murdersr to learn Os plan of attack on tha United States via Mexico. Lucette Ducoo, an unwel-com- o Capt Allan G-- 2 ally, eaves Me life. Read thia portentona novel It ia both timely and of patriotic significance I IN THIS PAPER Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE the field. Aiming carefully he sent one bullet after another driving after the fugitive until a metallic click told him hto weapon was empty. The runner made the plane, vaulted inside. Benning, now helpless to act, saw the shadowy plane waddle down the stubble and roar into tha sky. In a twinkling It was swat lowed up in toe void iff a Texas twilight Benning swore under hto breath ill luck, returned to his coupe, and drove to hia hotel In San Antonia Thera waa a burn at hto neck which told him of a close call with death. He examined it critically, decided it was not serious enough to at hto treatment, require an and called tha corps eras G- -l officer, Lieutenant Colonel Bart, on the antl-tetan- telephone. tafb RetM$150to$3j00 tMe hsastifsl hodalry C. aosaina, Uca. I J. r.s : .1 follow NEXT WEEK a cm. - faces, sun-tanne- d sparkling button eyes will stand out among pot holders with leH personality. Also, III to 1 ThVtafat comas sad, speculative orZ cordmg to the slant of the stitch tortti. eye. or the shape ofl Three Indian women who were Witnesses in a case at Port Arthur danced past' the judge instead of taking the oath. This, according to their religion bound them to then lied. ipeak the truth. If they wrath of they ; would. , in cur toe. their ancestors. In British courts Koran- and Moslems swear Sikhs on the Bhagvad Gita, their equivalent of the Biblet When a Chinese takes the oath ue raises a saucer above hia head and smashes it to toe floor, say-in- e aa the fragments fly: "If I tell a- lie, may my soul be mat- ...a NOTE: There are many other lllustrited I ides for gifts end bauar Itrmi u I bers Slid of the seriee leu which Mr.. Spekn has our readers. She will mall ropt to -- I SH whs will send same and addrcia uv I Ue in coin for each booklet ordered. Jut -- (Z.TS - MSS. SUTH WYETH SPEAII Drawer IS BcdforS 8Uli New You Kncktee 10 eesU for ordered. J! . Mama - HOI Address a and fragments.1 months of savage mass murder lest year did tha Coalition Powers patch up aa armistice with the Alltes while their armies squatted Inconclusively on a mere segment at conquered 'fr Europe? Ostensibly to work out peace formula to save civilization. But now everyone suspects tha armistice to a Coalition subterfuge to shift soma alignments, gather new forces, and vastly more important circumvent the United States from a disastrous armed intervention. I didn't mean to get aD steamed tv on that sub j eel Benning. But ta this grim world at reality ta which I have to work, our smug provincialism at home does get on my nerves at times, not to mention how A cramps our style. Getting down to your work, do you by any chance remember the esse of a lieutenant Bromlitx of our army who escaped some two years ago from tha United States? "Very distinctly, sir, Benning answered at once. "Happened ta my own regiment at Fort Jay. Brom-lit- s was accused of stealing canteen fundi. When the adjutant arrested him, Bromlitx knocked ths adjutant down and, ta hto efforts to escapa shot and killed tha corporal of tha guard. By some black magic Bromlitx then vantohed into thin if a M You will bo proud to wear this mtwmi ' beautifully-designe- d ; . . patriotic emblem Ibis colorful, dignified, patriotic emblem is the most.ippro-priatpin you can wear today. e Ibis pin has been m A available exclusively by Van Gimp's. It is yours with 3 Van Ctmpa labels and one dime. Get your supply of Van Camps products si your grocer's, today! air. a grafted upon stock of known sod Friendship Slow to Grow Real friendship is a slow reciprocal merit Lord Chesterend never thrives unless en field. "At the present moment," Mr Shields Mid, "Bromlitx is at the fortress of Vincennes, held incommunicado by the French. They nipped him a few days ago when he arrived from Luxembourg as an army intelligence operative for the past yMr. It seems he had made connection with Van Hanek agents and was selected for the Mexican 00G service." swift deduction Benning made end Mid dryly. 1 assume, sir, thai I am to go to Mexico masqueraded as an escaped murderer. "A very lucky break, Benning. We have the whole inside of it Bromlitx to known to be an American with a record that strips him of any possible American loyalties. As a former American officer. Van Hassek no doubt thinks the fellow a valuable acquisition. Gave him the rank of major, which you now inherit "Isn't it a bit extraordinary, sir, that tha French learned aU this?'1 Benning wanted to know. "Not when you consider the facts Bromlitz. it appears, has a flair for romance. He fell very much in love with a girl ta Luxembourg, told her his plans, promised to send for her as soon as he could afford It And she spilled the beans. The ambassador smiled and Mid: Why not? The French keep their ears to the ground and they've been paging Bromlitx sines ha first showed up tH Luxembourg. They put their cleverest she agent on him. a Mademoiselle Lucette Ducos. The French are turning Bromlitz1 passports and secret orders over to us You'D need only to transfer your own photograph to tha Bromlitz passports. The French have a special process for doing this. At your convenience an route to Mexico you should practice his signature, thought, too, you might want to look the fellow over to refresh your memory on hto mannerisms. Captain Benning thought briefly and got to his feet Very good, air, ha Mid. "If thats the gama I'm ready to go to Vincennes. The ambassador handed Benning a packet of papers, comprising the Bromlitz carte d'identite and several orders ta German and Italian, secretary came Into tha room to make a photograph of Banning tor transfer to the Bromlitz passports. Banning Awn left the embassy and took a taxicab to Vincennes. Benning passed out of Paris through the Porta da Bercy and sped to tha grim old walls of the ancient citadel A sentry challenged at tha gate, examined Banning1! credentials, and sent him to the common, dant who dispatched a to guide tha American to Aie Bran-llt- WH IA 01 1 can see end teste die difference in Cslifof nimNsvel Oranges naturol golden color, more from aU vitamins and mincrals-iext- rai care. scientific sunshine, fertile soils and year Richer, golden juice wito more minerals in every sm! Seediest, tender slices and sections for salads and desserts! Perfect fruit for lunch boxes and bedtime snacks! Look for Sunkis?' on the skin. This trademark of 14,000 cooperating growers assures you of fruit that is Tlest for Juico-ondft- jj?' utel" Order several dozen for economy. (S 4 ceD. 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(Ha lighted You know, Benning, he Mid, "1 decidedly envy you this opportunity tor distinguished service. I think I know whatil under tha surface of things ta Europe, but' I cant prove anything fo the concrete way thats Mexnecessary. So you must go to ico to do the Job.' Td suppose, sir, Benning commented, that our government was Informed at least of the larger diplomatic facte. Fact? " Shields echoed the word But theres only one derisively. relaaccepted fact ta International tion! today: that tha maps are listed for an overhaul Outwardly everyone is praying for peace to com out of the current muddle. Under the aurfaca tha big question to, When wiU the lid blow off? Wars locking to you for tha answer. Benning. Bennings eyes narrowed. 'Tm not sure I understand, sir. Mr. MMa toughed mirthlessly. I'll speak frankly. Why. after Bsmiag meets Iho Mysterious Fas Houok, leader of lha orrign mad forces fa Maries. WiU hia disguise paw tko wily oJEcsr's cfasa semifayP Dont mlu Ml Jfl a sat of dwHscties to stofl term Just sous-offlcl- er DON'T MISS Owoolta Minna HIGHLY MCOMKENimD, at The embassy staff had calculated to tha minute when Benning was dua to arrive from tha Gara du Nord. No sooner had he dropped Aw bronze knocker than Aw embassy front door opened. A bespectacled male secretary looked him over in sharp appraisal and said, You arc Aw gentleman were expecting? Captain Benning, just in from ths United States, Aw captain answered. Please coma in, tha secretary said. "Mr. Shields has reserved this hour and is waiting for you. Ths ambauador was at tha door of hto reception room to receive hto you can have fun You wont need staml1 mss roam s mssssts cigarette. say-abou- Fitters . arily man in Tha erect middle-age- d blue business suit who cams briskly out of tha Whits. House paused reluctantly before the inquiiitivs press of eoneapondents. "Anything new on our rearmament program. General? onq. reporter wanted to know. Another asked,-IDi- d thdPresldent Mex-ico- ? j; have anything to i r1 jii Ruth Wth Spears lys- 4 ' .! |