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Show ;-'" jvFrom the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture jg?, ') -(- Starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable v'ji iP1 RESUME : Mike Anthony. Ixtndon correspondent of ( C V xv J'or''' Chronicle, has helped wealthy Sally V V' 4 Y ;v. Parker escape from marrykig the mercenary Prince N I? ' or f Rmsa- They have stolen the plane of the V V'1 Baron and Baroness Spandcrman, international v w Yv v .IV v ) spies. They crack vp in France and hare a series of ' A"'"V'i A cross-country adrenfures, trying to escape from the , V Jiarun and Baronets. Also pursuing them, is Barney fSv - Pells, a reporter and M ike's bitterest rival. But when V- 'l' 'V ''VEl ' Sally finds out that Mike is a reporter too, she quar- m: f- ay ftTto Is him and goes off to A'lVr with Barney. Snd- y y denly the door of their compartment is opened and I the Baron eomj 'rants them with a gun. Chapter Five SURPRISE PARTY .mi'"mm!f)'"..L'i" ' ' ' " : r-J... .... .. - r . , i f . , - ' " " - "A'o saJie dou-, Mr. Pells," Mike said ivarningly. Seated at a table in the Cafe Tsigane in Paris, Mike stared bleakly at the floor. All was lost Sally, his career, everything. As the gypsy fiddler finished, he straightened up. "Very appropriate, Czardas. Do I look very bitter?" Then his mouth fell open. Barney was rushing in the door. His head and arms were bandaged and he bore a striking resemblance resem-blance to Old Doc Yak. "A very fancy disguise, Mr. Pells," Mike sneered. "You're as transparent trans-parent as a sieve." Impatiently, Barney waved this aside. "Gosh, I'm glad I found you. Listen, Sally and I were on the train to Nice, see? The Baron breaks in with a gun. Wants a map or something from Sally. She says you've got it. What's it all about and what'll we do?" Mike scrambed to his feet. "She still with them?" Bai-ney shrugged painfully. "Far as I know. The Baron sluffed me off the train and here I am." Mike snapped his fingers. "We've gotta get going." He stooped down and said in a low voice, "You order something for yourself. I have to make a 'phone call downstairs." He added casually, "I'm broke. How much cash have you?" Innocently, Barney handed it over. "About two hundred francs." Tak ing the money, Mike started for the door. "Be back in a few minutes." At the exit, he stopped to speak to the headwaiter. "I think you ought to know that the man at my table is the biggest dead beat in Europe," he said. "Goes all over the Continent cadging dinner and drinks. He's a mental case and he hasn't a cent." Then he was out and streaking up the street c ' ' I 1,- ' I VS. " i ' z ' -1 l f I i Chuckling to himself, Sally was really frightened Mike watched her. Sally sat on the terrace of the Hotel at Nice and twirled a cocktail glass in her hands. She. shivered a little as she saw the Baron and Baroness watching her, like two hawks. Within the Baroness' bag, she knew, reposed a deadly revolver, trained on her. As she rose to leave, she observed that they were right behind her. She turned swiftly. "For 1 the last time, I want you to stop following me." The Baron bowed suavely. "We are interested in your future ren1 dezvous with Mr. Anthony, Miss Parker." At this, Sally's eyes almost filled with tears. Rendezvous with Mike? No chance of that, ever again Quickly, she walked away. ' And from his vantage point at one of the curtained windows, Mike' chuckled. Then, stepping back, he walked around to the lobby and into the elevator. In her room, Sally suddenly heard a noise. But as Miket emerged from the balcony, she flew into his arms! "Oh, you just had to come," she said, between kisses. "I got noble" and proud and mad and then scared blue, darling." She hugged him.! "We've got to get out of here. They're really after you." Mike patted his breast pocket. "I know. This piece of paper will have to go back to the .London Foreign Office. It's too important to be comfortable " There was a loud knock on the door. "H?,y Sally," Barney's voice' 'shouted, "let me in." Sally's eyes darted to Mike's. Hurriedly, she put on a pair of dark glasses and a veil. "J-just a minute." And with this, Islic and Mike disappeared over the balcony. F ' ""-rri-vy-" : " .t Tjww: Sally smiled at him seductively. "Your life must be very glamorous, liaron." ,- At the station in Nice, Sally left for the Women's Rest Roomto freshen up. The train was almost ready to leave when Mike saw her hurrying back. Once in their compartment, he turned to take her in his arms. "Well, here we are all nice and safe " The sentence was left in mid-air. It was the Baroness he was facing. She had removed the veil and the dark glasses. The clothes she wore were Sally's and there was a gun in her hand. "I'll have that map now," she said harshly. Mike raised one hand, "My word of honor I haven't got it." The Baroness became very severe. "Tor clothes, thai." Mike knew he was licked. "No, I'm a very modest man." Slowly, he pulled out the map and handed it over. Back at the railroad station, a very much outraged Sally was stamping stamp-ing out of the door of the rest room, gowned in the Baroness' finery. Then her heart nearly stopped. The Baron was beside her, a tight grip on her arm. "Walk along this arcade, Miss Parker." Seated at a table in the restaurant the Baron leaned over and said, "I never cared much for that dross on the Baroness, but you're very lovely in it, my dear." Sally smiled and began to work on a cross word puzzle But under cover of the paper, she was scrawling on the menu, "Sally Parker. Get Police, Hclp!."I only the waiter would understand! Sally is in a.jani and Mike has been taken prisoner by the uily Baroness. Can they outwit the two spies? Tomorrow concluding installment contains the exciting answer.) |