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Show There came a time on retreat when the men under command kept marching straight ahead and their commander marched down a side street! Anya was waiting, ready for flight. It was more than a criminal's crimin-al's joy at the prospect of escape which made her heart beat faster as she saw this man she loved jaunty, fine, heroic in the uniform he wore the uniform of his youth, the uniform for which he still secretly yearned step out of a rickshaw. Before he could join her, a big military car pulled up beside him. "Sorry, Captain, to interrupt your leave," said one of its passengers, "but I have instructions to order all ranks to report to headquarters immediately national emergency!" "But, Major," replied Gerald, grasping at a straw, "I am not a - M ' :" v.'1- - Quite irregular. ..but for sufficient rrumcy it could fee arranged. tsjgw mm Mi 11111S1F Adapted from, the Metro Goldioyn-Mayer Picture by RANDALL M. WHITE CAST OF CHARACTERS Gerald Meldrlck Clark GablO' Anya Von Duren ... Rosalind Russell Captain Chang . . . . . Peter Lorrei Duchns of Beltraver ... Jessio Ralph The General Reginald Owen Inspector Creisney . . '. Matthew Boulton Hotel Manager ... Edward Ciannellr Maltre D'Hotel Luis Alberni "Oh, yes, I was a soldier of the King," Gerald continued bitterly. bit-terly. "His Majesty's land forces Royal Southland Fusileers. They gave me a chance to resign!"- The freighter captain's cap-tain's suspicions were amply confirmed when his radio picked up a broadcast seeking two fugitives who had stolen the Star of India. In-dia. Descriptions fitted fit-ted his passengers like the proverbial glove. Within an hour, by radio he had arranged arrang-ed to turn them over to the police in Hong Kong and collect the $50,000 reward! mission! This will be your show. Handle It well and I wouldn't be surprised to see you get a promotion." pro-motion." "Thank you, Blr," Lieut Ashley beamed but he still seemed a bit puzzled. A motley crowd had been anxiously anxi-ously awaiting the arrival of their expected British deliverers, assembled assem-bled in the publio square of the tiny walled Chinese village. They were mostly Europeans but Included Includ-ed were a small band of native Chinese who stayed quite close to the village officials. "I'm Father Wingate, of the Chang-lin Mission," an obviously appointed spokesman said as Gerald Ger-ald approached him after the caravan cara-van of troops and trucks had halted. halt-ed. "We're greatly relieved to see you, sir." "Capt. Huston, at your service, Father," Gerald answered as his eyes swept the crowd in search of Anya, whom he found in an ancient motor car attended by a Coolie driver. "We can't afford to waste time these people have a long trip ahead of them," he added. 'Round them up and prepare to leave." Then he turned to Lieut. Ashley and said briskly: "Carry on," as he turned to Anya in the car. Everything was ready, Anya told told him. She'd bought new tires for the car that morning. She had the best available maps of the region and, as for clothes for him well, they were hand-me-downs secured from an obliging missionary! mission-ary! "Nice idea, that," remarked Gerald Ger-ald with a smile. "Missionary and his wife making a run for it after they have lost everything, includ-ing includ-ing passports. Maybe we can strike a jackpot with that one." Engaged with his own pressing private affairs, Gerald had paid little attention to new excitement developing at the village gate where evacuees were being loaded into British transports. Lieut. Ashley hurried over to him. "A Japanese detachment has just arrived, sir," he reported. "They flatly refuse to , permit us to evacuate any Chinese." Gerald wheeled away. "Get over to our trucks if any trouble develops," de-velops," he called back to Anya. Japanese armored cars, with mean-looking machine gun turrets, had been parked to block the village vil-lage gate. A radio field car was an accompanying unit. The Japanese senior officer restated re-stated his position in pompuous words. "In the name of the Emperor," Em-peror," he said, "I claim the occupation oc-cupation of this village by Japanese Japan-ese Imperial forces. No civilians will be allowed to leave. Some of them are spies and must be punished!" "Well, that's just fine," replied Gerald. "You're welcome to the village vil-lage but His British Majesty has directed me to evacuate all, onr riffJ-rip1; - and such Chinese as claim tue protection of His Majesty's Ma-jesty's forces!" The Japanese senior exchanged words with his staff before he shot back: "There are strong Japanese columns marching on this town from two directions. I give you British just one hour to get out!" "Kind of you, indeed," shot back Gerald," . . . but I'm leaving right now and I'm taking all of these people with me!" From Capt. Huston, all down the line, barked a series of sharp commands. The troop detachment fell in in front of the motor cavalcade caval-cade fighting cars and transport trucks on which almost five hundred hun-dred non-combatants men, women, and children hoped to ride to safety. "Detachment Fix bayonets!" "Magazines Load!" "At high port!" 'Action front! Machine gunners gun-ners on flanks!" The Japanese invaders saw things happen as the British 'Tommies" responded smartly to each of their officer's commands. Here, they thought, was the making of a new "international incident!" The British captain's next pronouncement pro-nouncement was not entirely military. mili-tary. He looked off toward the Japanese officers and their equipment equip-ment and shouted: "Pardon me, gentlemen your trucks are in our way we're coming through!" Determined "Tommies"', with fire in their eyes, started on Gerald's bark of: "Company Quick March!" Don't miss the final installment. install-ment. Copyright 1W1 by Loew's In. Printed tn O. S. 4. BYNOPSrS: Oerald Meldrick (Clark Gable), international jewel thief, has made elaborate plans to steal the Star of India diamond from the Duchess of Beltravers (Jesse (Jes-se Italph) during Empire Day festivities at Bombay, India. He has been accepted at the Hotel Viceroy and by Police Inspector Cressney (Matthew Boulton) on f&rrjed credentials which represent repre-sent him as a special agent sent by Lloyds of London to help guard the jewels they insure. Anya (Rosalind Russell) posing as the Baroness Von Duren, another an-other jewel thief with the same idea, beats him to it but he tricks her out of the loot and she is forced into partnership partner-ship with his as Inspector Cressney discovers the theft and starts after then. They elude him in a wild auto ride from the hotel with the aid of a sacred cow of India. Chapter Two Money buys cover for anything along the waterfront of any sea-coast sea-coast city. Meldrick and Anya climbed over the rail of a grimy freighter with a Chinese crew from a small boat that had ferried them through the night and fog. "Speak your best Chinese," admonished ad-monished the girl. "That won't be necessary, ma-dame," ma-dame," came a soft voice out of the darkness. The captain, though Chinese, spoke perfect English. He was going to Hong Kong. Quite irregular, he thought, this business of carrying as passengers a man eloping with another man's wife but it could be arranged it there was sufficient money to pay for it. "We're under way," said Anya when the captain had left them alone. She was standing by a fiorthole through which receding ights of Bombay harbor blinked like tired fireflies as the fog tried to lift. "Scared?" asked her companion whose attitude toward her was no longer flippant and forward. Anya shrugged as she answered. "It's not my habit to be." "There are a couple of things I'd like you to know," remarked Gerald. "I realize I've gotten you Into a pretty tight spot and I'll do everything in my power to get you out of it. And the other thing but I don't know if I should tell you." "Oh, then I -want to hear it," said Anya and the smile she fave him was her first since the eginning of their hectic experi-ennces. experi-ennces. "Well, that captain has gotten the wind up in me a bit," Gerald continued. "I don't think he believes be-lieves a word I told him. We've got to keep our eyes open do you know how?" "I don't know anything else," Anya answered ruefully. "I was dropped over the transom of a jewelry shop when I was seven. My loving father dropped me and Ive been dropping ever since." It was as though the veil had lifted. lift-ed. Then more brightly: "That's about me what's about you?" "Oh, I just couldn't make the divinity course," Gerald replied with a grin. "I guess I was a disgrace to my regiment." "Your regiment?" Anya said with a start. Gerald's suspicions of the captain cap-tain grew as the long voyage went on. He was in Anya's cabin when the ship slowed down farther from Hong Kong harbor than seemed usual. Police boat sirens were sounding when he and Anya went over the side in a lifeboat they had periously cut adrift. Inspector Cressney stormed on deck to find his quarry gone. Before this second dash, Jerry and Anya found each other. "I've been wanting you to do this for days," this girl in the shadow of prison gasped in ecstacy as Ger-old Ger-old swept her into his arms. "I was trying to be noble I thought It unfair under the circumstances," her fellow fugitive whispered. They lived like hunted animals, In a basement, while Cressney from Bombay drove Hong Kong police on their trail. But Anya said a score of times: "Gerald, this is the happiest time I've ever known, in all my roustabout career!" Gerald scanned nt......pers for a lead which he could turn into cash for continued flight. "Great Guns, Anya, I have it!" he shouted one day. "Listen: "Wealthy Chinese merchant accused of fraud released on bail. Woo Tau Woo accused of defrauding British Government on sales of commodities to army." "What does that mean to us," Anya said. "Just cash and escape, that's all!" Gerald replied cheerily. "That wily gentleman will deliver! Just suppose, while he's awaiting trial a certain captain and some soldiers attaches everything he's got including in-cluding money?" "Soldiers?" asked Anya in bewilderment. be-wilderment. "Sure! There's a war on, darling dar-ling and the streets are full of them," Gerald bubbled on. "I'll just step out and press some of them into service. All I need is a uniform!" uni-form!" Fate seems to like best to help the unusual. A fine young British captain, stabbed in a brawl he couldn't talk about, brought the uniform. He stumbled to their basement door, they took him in and made a doctor save his life, and keep quiet! A handful of soldiers encountered encounter-ed on the street were glad to take orders from the jaunty Meldrick when he commanded them with decision and spoke of a "confidential "con-fidential mission". Woo Tau Woo opened his safe at Gerald's command to produce records re-cords for use at his trial. Soldiers carried the ledgers Jerry himself him-self a tin box stuffed with bills. member of the Hong Kong garrison!" gar-rison!" "The orders include all members of His Majesty's land forces, Captain," Cap-tain," was the answer. "If you will accompany me . . ." Anya saw him go and followed him she didn't know where! At headquarters, in stricter custody cus-tody than he had ever dreamed of, Gerald described himself as "Captain Huston, Southland Fusileers". Fusi-leers". The "national emergency" was British necessity of evacuating their nationals from the Chinese peninsula which had been invaded by the Japanese, "Captain Huston" was ordered to head a detachment proceeding to the little village of Chang-lin, not far distant, where danger threatened. There were only hours maybe only minutes to comr-'uVate with Anya. Confined 'to the barracks bar-racks area, Gerald was found and told "his wife" wanted to see him. They talked through the high spiked iron fence. Anya told how she had followed the military car in the taxi she had engaged for their get-away. Gerald gave her the roll of bills he had taken from Wau Too Wau and the precious Star of India which was causing all their difficulties. He told her to precede to Chang-lin. "Have a car, road maps and some civilian clothes for me," were her instructions. instruc-tions. Just one sun went down before "Capt. Huston" and his detachment left for the field. Gerald stood at salute as the British colors to which he had once sworn allegiance slid down the staff. Fifes and drums had marched serious faced men into formation in front of general headquarters. The band plaved "God Save the King" as the flag came down into waiting arms that could not let it touch the ground. Why this throbbing in his veins why did his heart beat faster? Gerald Meldrick only thought he was "hard-boiled!" His second in command on the Chang-lin expedition was a younger officer. "You like soldiering, don't you?" his captain asked him as their armored trucks and transports trans-ports neared their destination. "Yes, sir more fun than rugby or cricket," was the enthusiastic reply. "And you make a good job of it, too I've been watching you." Gerald continued. "I know you'll be able to handle the evacuation." "I don't understand! sir," the youngster returned. "This -is very confidential," Gerald Ger-ald almost whispered. "In a few minutes J shall disappear secret |