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Show 4 (U (U (V (it (i (ha (ha (ha (i. t ASK MS a (it (ha (ha (it (it (it (it (ha 7 fever-ridde- mis-giving- ly, ar taut. was con-scio- us re-e- rs Sweetheart! Curt shouted. Her next words were muffled against his shoulder: Well, I hope wife. Im not a He didnt see the tears in her eyes. Curt had put in a short-wav- e phone call for Jerry Mclnnis, his Ivy will grow in water in the closest friend during the years hed house. It requires light but no sun. worked in the tropics. Mclnnis was now Chief Engineer for the AssociCocoa tastes best when the coated Fruit Growers at Puerto Solecoa, sugar and salt are mixed well dad. The call came through later the water, and then boiled with were that morning. Greetings for from 5 to 10 minutes before quickly over. Then: Jerry, what do you know about adding the scalded milk, and all the Compania Agricola Tropical? heated together. Claim to have that swamp between the Negro and the Masica To make pumpkin pies bake a Yeh, I know, only it wont be a rich golden brown, add a tableswamp much longer. Theyre doing spoon of molasses to the filling. a swell job of reclamation, Curt. Well, I dont know much about The trick in ironing sheets and them. Guy called Montaya heads is to keep the hems pillowcases the outfit. Theres a whisper around and even, and pillowcases straight he was hooked up with Cedillo in should be ironed away from the Mexico and got out by the skin of his teeth when that revolt failed. closed corners. But thats only gossip, take it for what its worth. Seems to have plenty dough behind him, but I dont know where it comes from. Old Man Moore probably has the d lowdown, but you know how he is. Moore was General Manager in Tierra Libre for Associated Fruit CanYou Win Freedom From Constipation? 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And a Dutchman Hollander, I mean a chemical man. Panama disease has shown up over on our side and if theyre going to raise bananas theyll have to find some means of combating Yes, sure. But how come Associated didnt have that piece tied up? Never heard of anyone getting ahead of Old Man Moore before. Well, weve already got plenty of good land, all we can handle now or in the reasonable future. And this piecell cost real money to de' all these questions, velop. Why he immediately hed taken a second or so too long in replying. Theres no revolution here. Uncle Sams just paying a courtesy call. Were doing more of that than we used to throughout the Caribbean. But its speeding! See how the smoke lays flat from the funnels! ' Thats caused by the wind from around Punta Cauca, honey. Our smoke would look the same if we .were in that position. Once more, as he stood against the rail with Lee, Curt went over in his mind the string of events leading up to their presence here on the Pisces as hed done so many times e past several nights, lying ke in the dark. 8 and Lee had been dawdling : a late breakfast, while the chil-- 1 played on the lawn within He had je of the open windows. morning paper folded to handy and propped against the coffee and was sunk in a roving column purporting to give g the progress of ama Canal. took Lee several efforts to ik through to him. It was the Jeff Curtis!, that did it, and ooked up to discover shed been ling over the morning mail, re was a storm signal in her and she Was tapping the knuck-o- f one hand with a long, flat people. Swedes forehead. Lee clutched his arm. its a destroyer! One of ours, Jeff! Must be. And its racing! Do you suppose . . . there wasnt any word on the bulletin board . . . Curt patted her hand and smiled down at her. Dont be getting any ideas, harp usually has how many strings? 2. Regular army khaki is made The Answers of what? 3. The combining form xylo, 1. Forty-six- . as in xylophone, means what? 2. Cotton. 4. How old was Ludwig van 3. Wood. about them. Theyre rivals, Lee. Beethoven when he started to lose 4. Twenty-eigh- t. I have a feeling, I cant explain, his hearing? 5. Mohammed and Mary. but She bit her lip. No, thats 5. What are the most widely 6. Pacific. a womans trick, thats not fair. used given names in the world? 7. Because he holds no rank or Finally, with reluctance, she said, 6. In which ocean is the inter- distinction. Well, at least it wouldnt do any 8. A citrus fruit. harm to find out more abput these national date line established? Whos in with this Montaya? Dont rightly know, Curt. Montaya seems the only top man so fars I can see. Theres a couple of This play brought Curt and Lee to the vessels stern where their eyes caught the flat black smudge in the distance. A lean, low gray vessel was cutting in toward the coast farther to the north. Headed for Soledad, Curt muttered, and the frown returned to his T. said, and (ha (ha (ha (ha (W 7. Why is a recruit soldier called a private? 8. What is a kumquat? 1. A one-tim- (it (ha (it U(h.(h.(h.(h.(ha(ha(h.(ha(h.(ha(ht(ha(h.(W(h.(ha(ha(h The Questions Curt grinned and skimmed over the rest of the letter hurriedly. Lee Arriving at Cabeza de Negro was saw his growing excitement as he like coming home. Neither Curt nor straightened in his chair. Lee had ever visited the e Lee! offering me the job small 'fishing port in the old days, of Chief Theyre He took a deep Engineer! but that was the way it hit them breath and went on more slowly, now as it rose up out of the sea. soberly. But they say the offers Once it had been only a collection upon residence with famof manaca shacks on stilts, cut off contingent ily for term of contract. Three from n inland by years. Of course, if I had the job marshes. An unhealthy spot for Id like to have you and the kids white men. Today all that was with me, but changed or fast changing. Lee rose and went around to him, They were up at dawn for the pushing back the table to sit on his early docking and to watch the long, knees and look him gravely, low blur on the horizon which slowly in the eyes. Here was a became the Tierra Libre coastline. situation to be handled, one to be Lee caught her breath as that blur nipped in bud. It took her- a motook shape. Her memories of it ment to find the right words. were precious. Youd like that job, wouldnt you, True, shed been happy since, and darling? now she had the boys. But no happiIt was more statement than quesness, not even the children, could tion. ever erase from her mind those first He lowered his eyes. Well, Id years here with Curt. Hard work- Id yes, sure I would! Thatd be a ing days for him, in a job for which real job! Just think, Lee. Drainage, he was born, romance and beauty levees, floodgates, railroad, power in the tropic setting for her. plants all kinds of projects! And Meanwhile, Buddy and Chuck were clamoring and tugging unnoticed at the ends of their split leash they couldnt be allowed free rim of the deck. Anuwer dog wace, Daddy, begged Chuck in the fuzzy tones of a four-yeold. He didnt yet have Buddys clarity of speech, for Buddy was all of six and quite a man. Curt obligingly called, One, two, three, go, and the children scampered down the deck on all fours, barking and pulling their leashes (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha quiz with answers offering ? informationonvarioussubiects ? D I (it A (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha (ha CHAPTER a Theyre offering me the job of Curt? Under your hat, Jerry, theyve offered me the job of Chief Engineer. Wanted to know more about DISCOVERY... of baking results is being made by the hundreds of women who are turning, every day, to the baking powder that has been the baking day favorite A NEW perfection in of millions, for years and years. HULMAN & CO. Engineer! . 1, o. 1, are Buddy and Chuck. We Chigger for nothing. Well, he cant take them to a malarial mustve made an enemy over there There swamp and with Buddy ready for who wanted a souvenir. Anyway, his ears were missing when they school this year. But, Lee, they cover that here! found him just a few days ago, it He swallowed hard, was and they had to use a basket They say They for the rest of him. These machetes dodging her steady gaze. are bad stuff, as you know well excellent have accommosay they dations halfway up the Quebrado enough. Mountains, including school, hospiEarly in the morning Curt wired tal, clubhouse, swimming pool, ten- his acceptance to the C. A. T. peonis courts. They claim theres no ples New Orleans office. Back fever in their settlement San Alejo, came, overnight, a contract for sigthey call it and Lee, we ought to nature. And things moved fast. dope. Curt had less than twenty-fou- r like it as well as we liked Puerto Cristobal? he in know I Vho do to wind up all his affairs in hours Soledad. I no one, guess, easily. Why, store the car, arrange stood and at the the winon Lee over States, up the got Jim Bragg res old and lease of the house locked behind care for hands her. Gimme. dow, ific side. Letter? for forwarding of an without agent, At He Cristobal. Lee through length, from turning, )nly mailed . . . How do mail know Com-itheir a you asked, I aloud the letterhead: theyre Their mail! The first batch, reAgricola Tropical, San Alejo, responsible people? without and sent by air to New addressed wouldnt I investiaccept de Cabeza ra Libre. Port, Huh. Who do Orleans, caught up with Curt just CAT. gating them! The letter is headed San Alejo, before they sailed. Busy with desuppose they are? Cabezas that Libre, but its mailed in a tails of baggage and boarding ship, the coast down Tierra fishing village from Cristobal, she he hastily stuffed the handful of letof envelope never I heard plain i Soledad, but ters into his pocket. mentioned. the end of at He glanced Alejo. Mon-It was hours before he thought of L thats Oh, explainable. They put Signed, Apolonio letter. and hauled it forth for inspecMan-- r their mail aboard an Associated ship it General and president no whose The ship had reached the tion. Soledad, doubt, at him. purser Never heard of of the Mississippi; theyd at Cristobal it for mouth faster first the dropped down page ran his eye came the pilot and were headed It service. by air air, dropped you looked up to exclaim: out into the Gulf. One letter was a know- new a banana its Vhy, honey, And the plain envelope? small plain envelope, postmarked it! Opening up twenty thousand Well-- 1 . . . Curt fidgeted. Soledad, Tierra Libre. Puerto I Masica rivers the ares between means was a brief note. that think Inside dont anything. stuffs all But that Negro. Mr. Curtis. Dont bring your -- You remember, Lee, Maybe they were out of printed mpland! dont come across, ones. Or perhaps, his voice quick- family to San Alejo, big stretch of swamp Dont come! Zora Mitchfew spots ened, in mailing it on an Associatyourself. a with dolled Negro, ed vessel they were being wary of ell. ; (TO BE CONTINUED) Associated finding out too much I the mosquitoes bomb-proofin- ; Ne-Cab- le, B . - TERRE HAUTE, INDj SAVE Your Money and Your Country By Buying U. S. War Bonds them. Think theyre reliable? Well-yes, Curt, they are, so know. But Id hate to have I chance a his fars flamed, eyes honey, to work on that bverhead irrigation you make a decision on my say-sA wary, reluctant note had crept system I missed out on when we into Mclnnis voice. came north. Whos been handling the job? Yes, I know. But youll leave it to me to decide, wont you? Chigger Mitchell. Well-What! Old Mitch? Hes a good yes, Lee, he faltered. "I man. What happened they need anguess Ill have to. She looked a long moment into other? Well, you know how Mitch was his eyes, then pushed a forefinger in circles through his thick, curly kind of tough on labor. A driver and all that. And he could sure find hair before kissing him lightly. It will hurt, dear, she said qui- a guys weak spot and dig under etly, but youll have to forget it. the skin. He didnt get the name Chief - Founded in 1848 la the Army Navy Marines and Coast Guard the Favorite Cigarette is Camel (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges and Canteens.) ASK YOUR DEALER FOR SPECIAL SERVICE MAIUNG WRAPPER . |