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BS rf A1l Over But the iiljji' Richard Powell ShootiflQ If IS AN INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY ' ifiS OKI STARRING ARAB ANDY BLAKE w.o FE.s r fifi 1 ant colonel, and growled, "Suppose I handle this." "Certainly, sir. I only meant" "Blake," Colonel Parker said, "have you anything in mind?" "Yes, sir." He took a deep breath and said, "I know you're worried about your wife, Blake. But everybody's going to do his best and I doubt if you can accomplish anything by your-self. What was in your mind?" "Colonel, I thought I might be able to stir something up." "Blake, if you're holding out any-thing . . ." "No, sir. It's just that the Jones gang dropped some loose talk too. About where they went and all that. B'avorite places like a restaurant and a roadhouse and a filling sta-tion that apparently sells black-mark-gas. Maybe the whole gang hasn't skipped. Maybe some of them are around those favorite places." "We can look into that," somebody said. "But I don't think anything is likely to come of it." "That's just it, sir," I said. "One lght of a jeep and any of the gang at those places would be warned. But by myself I might stir up some interest." "Bait," the four-stripe- r said, nod-ding. "Yes, sir. They know me. They might get scared and try to get rid of me." A major said, "We could cover you with a strong detail." "No, no," another argued. "If there's anything in it. It's a one-ma- Job. The first thing anybody'd look for after spotting Blake would be to see if he has friends." Nobody spoke for a few moments, and then Colonel Parker stepped in to make the decision. "Go ahead, f THUS FAR: I t. Andy wife, Arab, found evidence mrUInc out of her boarding had searched Jones' home liiional evidence, which he :fr to the FBI. Arab told the evidence was In Andy's jjht she and Andy went to ted out the evidence and was captured by them as In the window. Arab es-i- e cellar but was captured aing the yard. Renec was t Bred by Jones Into the cr to save Andy, she cut a und over his heart and had . Jones broke Into the eel-tnd-dead, left wltb Kenee. I A PTE R XII house, ran down the ind the car still tucked in the field. I headed d Washington. Colonel mse was about four near Fort Myer. He inted on to act on my d read up on the Man--Marti-second. On the ed the time and found mly a little after mid-ne- d as though It should r. I tried not to think ery often, because that ned to start my head She would be safe was sure. I couldn't worrying myself sick, rker came to the door yawning and wrestling d of a bathrobe. He :, and snapped, "Been town red, Blake? You j yourself." I'm afraid it's blood." as if you've been out for a separate Air t happened?" ouse on Q Street busl-They'- got the North slon spotted and they wife and" I reached out, yanked "Keep your voice aid. "My gosh, is it Africa?" ley put together a lot Look." I handed him paper on which Arab ide our notes. at them. Muscles i along his jaw. "Come in down," he said. "I'll get (hone. This is plenty to go jot into the living room and led Colonel Parker go to ie made four calls in about wtes. He didn't mention t frica but once or twice he ode name which apparently the operation, f he completed his calls, "We'll have the house on and the Jones place in the ten minutes. About your ." He cleared his throat gruffly, "Good kid, isn't B chance has she, Colonel?" H'-'- feed you any sirup," he HA "Nobody knows what Btople might do. But I think Hi safe for a while. Two com-tro- Myer are going out to Bice. They'll turn over every Sound Falls Church, on the that the Jones crowd didn't H along. Too bad we weren't oHget the goods on that bunch "Got to wipe off that gas." he said, flourishing a rag. "Thanks." He fiddled around the tank lor over a minute. It was curious; you wouldn't have expected a guy of his type to worry about gasoline spilled on a rear fender. He finished the job and came up to my window, stuffing the rag into a pants pocket. "I never heard of them guys," he said, and went back into his shack. I drove off grinning. He shouldn't have insisted twice that he didn't know them. Two hundred yards from his place, out of sight around a curve, was a narrow feeder road. I swerved into it and stopped past its first bend. I got out and walked back to the gas tank. The fender had not been wiped perfectly clean. Here and there I spotted a few white grains that dissolved when I rubbed them with a wet finger. He had poured sugar into the tank while pre-tending to wipe the fender. I would't have gone far after that sugar gummed the carburetor. I cut across the fields and slipped up on the gas station from the rear. When I got close to the ramshackle repair shop I could hear him talk-ing. I crept around to the front. The door was open and he was standing at a pay box with his back to me. I Inched forward until I was only a right hook away from him. A shiver jerked at my skin. He was putting out my license num-ber and a description of me. Not a flattering description, but it would have done the job. I had a vision of my car stalled two miles up U. S. 1, and a couple of friendly strangers stopping to give me the last lift I would ever get. "O. K.," he said finally, "III leave you handle It." He hung up, banged the side of the pay box, and dug a finger in the return slot. His coin didn't drop through. "This is your unlucky day. isn't it?" I said. He whirled, grabbing at a Stillson wrench in his belt, and I plugged him on the jaw. His head slammed back against the pay box. A coin rattled into the return slot. He melt-ed slowly down the wall, and came to rest propped in a sitting position I retrieved his coin. It was a nickel. Indicating a call to someone not very far away. I went through his pock-ets and found nothing of interest. I took the gasoline pump key, how-ever. He owed me twelve gallons of unsweetened gas. Plenty of tire tape was handy and I used it to bind his wrists and an-kles. It was too bad I'd had to hit him. It delayed things. I got a can of radiator water and sloshed it over him. He didn't budge. I knew I hadn't smacked him that hard. I worked on him for several minutes without getting a flicker, and yet his pulse was hammering like an out-board motor. I went outside, unlocked the pump, and filled the can with gasoline. I doused him with that. His nose wriggled. "Yeah," I said. "It was gasoline that time. Got a match, buddy?" His eyelids snapped open. "You wouldn't do that," he whined. "Why not? I like playing with matches." "Go ahead, then." I scowled. I hadn't put on a good enough act, and now he wouldn't go for the torch stuff unless I really did drop a match on him. "Where did Jones and his gang go?" "Never heard of him." "Never heard of anyone named Jones, huh?" "No." I went to the phone. "It's a dime from here to Republic 6700, isn't it?" I asked. "What do you wanna call the War Department for?" "Some of our boys might like to find out which side of the war you're on." "Been painting the town red, Blake?" Blake," he said. "You're on your own. Report anything you dig up. Get going." He glared around de-fiantly. Nobody said anything more than shrug, and so I ducked out fast. I hadn't picked the gas station over the restaurant and roadhouse because of any hunch or deduction. I picked it because I needed gas. But the more I thought about it the better I liked it as a place to start. If the Jones boys had a hang-out five or six hours' drive away, they must buy plenty of black-mark-gks. In fact, the operator of the station might be more than just a ration chiseler. Even chiselers run out of gas, and the Jones boys need-ed a place they could count on with-out fail. Like tonight, for instance. The operator might be one of the gang. "Let's have some gas," I said. "Pump dry." "Don't give me that stuff. Not unless you want trouble." "Gov'ment business?" "What's it to you? Fill it up." He shuffled past me to the pump, unscrewed the cap of my gas tank, inserted the hose nozzle, unlocked his pump, and began grinding. "Joey get off O. K.?" I asked. His eyes flickered at me. "Joey?" "Joey Raeder. And Jones and the rest of them. I understand they had to scram last night." "Never heard of them." "Cagey, huh? Well, I'll be seeing them later today, so it doesn't mat-ter. I'm headed up that way, too." He went on silently grinding gaso-line. "Two-forty,- " he said finally, as a trickle of gas overflowed. I gave him a five and my ration book. He took three stamps from the book, shuffled into the house with my money. I got back in the car and waited. He might come back with a gun, but that was one of the chances I had to take if I wanted to learn anything. He returned in a few minutes and handed me the change. text few hours passed I could get halfway t my report, cars began Bint; up outside. The house ith silver leaves and eagles Bin stars. I lost track of the A of times I went over the Questions whipped at me like Jk and my head buzzed from Ito squeeze out new facts. Hne during that period word Btat they had drawn a blank o houses on Q Street. The mm and Joey and Renee Field-Hn-returned, and there was Hof Arab. Botes took second place in H after that news. Maps Bo oiver the dining-roo- ta-- the room looked like a I- - y questioned me again Ham on what Renee had let But the hangout at the shore, Bci.g up some other remarks night have forgotten. There Brguments about routes and Bt cars. Finally they worked H of operations based on H or six hours' drive" which Biau mentioned. The radius B a great arc from Washing-Hn-g the Jersey coast up near Book and swinging down the H beaches and the long Cape B peninsula across Virginia B' rth Carolina. Body said, "With ships lis-- u here and here and here Be we can intercept any H We get a fast fix on B-i-- station. We flash word Eastern Defense Command Eastern Sea Frontier. We B roast blanketed with planes Bnshore patrol. And we blast for a minute there was si-- I got up nerve to speak. said to Colonel Parker, "do need me?" Bn pairs of eyes looked cold-- B It was just luck that it Bv b lieutenant colonel who B "We may. Can't have you J ' Might be some more Bonel stared at the lieuten- - He ran a bluish tongue over his lips. "Look," he said, "you don't have to do that." "I'm going to do it whether you talk or not. But It may be nicer for you if you talk." "I don't know much," he mum-bled. "All I know is these fellows buy gas off me. You can't shoot a man for that. Maybe I give them a little extra gas, but that's OPA grief, not army." "You'll have to do better than that. Where do they go on these long trips they take?" "I thought you knew." "I want to hear from you." His pale eyes slid around in their lockets like drops of mercury "They go up to Ballymore and then and then . . . now lemme think what I heard them say." He mut- - tered to himself for a half minute and I began to get jittery. He was stalling and I couldn't figure out why. I got out a dime and lifted the phone receiver. "Now wait," he said, "I'm getting it. It's down on the Eastern Shore somewhere. They mentioned the place. Iff , . . it's ... I got to think . . ." I had been a fool not to have real-ized that his pals might have to stop at his place for gas before start-ing up U. S. 1 after me. They might arrive at any minute. I swung back to the phone. My dime seemed to take ages filtering down to the bell. "Number, please," the operator said at last. "Republic 6700. Urgent." (TO BE CONTINUED) , Games and Dolls Hold First Spot in Santa's Toyland Busy With War Work, He Was Vnable to Make New Metal Toys. The celebration of V-- J Day didn't come toon enough to put Santa Claus' toyland schedule to a peace-time basis. Although he will carry more than a $200,000,000 pack of playthings this Christmas, less than 8 per cent of the toys under Yule-tid- e trees will be of metal and most of these will be the simplest types of stamped-ou- t metal. There will be only a token showing of wheel toys, electric trains and mechanical toys of met-al, a survey of toyland supplies In- - Si8skilSI s; fHHflflflfSHBHBflflfll 'aaaaaV j ..x. Jk . .( V. ... fiLi.aBBBBBBW Dolls are a big favorite. dicates, but better quality lines of wood and cardboard playthings are assured. Rubber toys are not ex-pected to appear in any volume and plastic Items will be limited to the same small quantities as last year due to material shortages. The brightest spot on toyland is the doll parade and the parlor game sector where there are reported to be good supplies of many old favor-ites like Camelot and Monopoly that children and parents can enjoy to-gether, although cardboard and dye-cu- t limitations have made new items scarce. Classic card game favorites like Rook, Pit and Crossword Lexi-con have been produced in large vol-ume, as they require a minimum of cardboard. Bonanza, combining the technique of Michigan and Rummy, is another favorite that provides fun for all the family. Escape-typ- e ?ames that are easy to learn pre-dominate. ETERNAL STAR OF BETHLEHEM The Wise Men may have been the only ones who actually saw the Star of Bethlehem. But: According to St. Matthew, when Herod heard that the Wise Men were seeking the Christ Child whose star they had aeen in the east, he sum-moned the chief priests and scribes of the people and demanded of them where It had been predicted that the Christ should be born. "And they said unto him, In Beth-lehem of Judea: for thus It is writ-ten by the prophet." St. Matthew 2:5. It was written by the prophet and nothing could prevent It. And after the Wise Men had been directed to Bethlehem by Herod: ". . . lo. the star, which they had seen In the east, went before them till it came and stood over where the young Child was. "When they saw the star, they re-joiced with exceeding great Joy." Matthew 2:9-1- Apparently, even the Wise Men lost sight of the Star temporarily hence they rejoiced when it returned to their vision after they had de-parted from Herod. The Star of Bethlehem was nei-ther kindled nor extinguished when Christ was born in Judea it was written by the prophet, it has van-quished every despot from Herod to Hitler and survived every tyranny and cruelty that evil men could think of; and the hearts of men, turning from foul memories and associa-tions, have and shall rejoice in the eternal light of righteousness and peace. HOLD CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM All Bethlehem turns out on De-cember 24 for the arrival of the Pa-triarch of Jerusalem Cardinal of the Holy Land who each year brings to Bethlehem an ancient ef-figy of the Infant Jesus, which he lays In the manger within the cave where Christ was born. Dramatically the procession ap-proaches; heralded by a single horseman, his banner streaming aloft. A corps of native police mounted upon fiery Arabian horsei follows, and then another single horseman upon a prancing black steed carrying the cross on high; the patriarch In his cardinal and ermine, mitred bishops, clergy In embroidered vestments and white robed acolytes swinging golden cen-sers precede the jeweled pavilion of the Holy Child. The procession enters the Church of the Nativity. The public Is not permitted to witness the actual plac-ing of the effigy, as that part of the church built above the Cave of the Nativity is under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox church. On Christmas Eve, members of all denominations assemble to sing carols above the birthplace of the Holy Child before midnight mass Is solemnized in the Church of the Nativity. Nation's Christmas Tree Was Dedicated in 1925 The Nation's Christmas Tree was so dedicated on Christmas Day, 1925. The tree, one of the Sequoia gigantea, is estimated to be 267 feet tall and is located in General Grant National park, 64 miles east of Fresno, Calif. Appropriate and well-attend-ceremonies are held beneath the tree each year, weather and oth-er conditions permitting. "( (Udqip, All 1? ffajtltfut" Calling from all Churches throughout all the lands, with the hymn most often beard, "O Come, All Ye Faithful," carol singers have become a most vital part of every community' Christmas. Without the boys and girls singing in the Churches, in the homes and over the air, Christmas would lack the real spirit that it has acquired In this country. Santa's Toy Outlook Stuffed animals will be plentiful in Santa's pack, but Dydee, the pre-war favorite that drank from a bot-tle and had its diapers changed, can't be expected until 1946 for V-- J Day came too late to make rubber available for Christmas toys. Doll furniture such as cradles, beds and high chairs will be avail-able but ln limited quantities. Doll carriages are being manufactured in volume but there will be only a limited number with metal parts. Yule Tree's Start The Christmas tree business in the United States is believed to have started ln 1851, when Mark Carr, a woodsman of the Catskills, sold two fledge loads of trees in New York. Today, almost every region pro-duces Christmas trees although the largest volume comes from the Far West. Frequently, buyers of trees in our cities will observe they are tagged with a notice to the effect that they were harvested according to good forestry practice. |