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CHAPTER XVIII I sneered, "The commander tees you coming out In the rubber boat and yells tricked! They are Amer icans in our boat! Ten rounds rapid fire!' Blam-blam-blam-blam " "Stop it!" "That's Just one way," I drawled. "There are a million ways he can take care of you." He swung back to the set. His fingers Jerked on the tending button. "Chief!" Joey cried. "Don't get rattled! Don't let this guy upaet youJTaktiLeasy The blind glasses glared at Joey. The fat man's voice sounded as it he were yelling through a blanket 'Quiet!" he ahoutedi "Who do jrou work for? For me or CanarlaT I be ein to wonder. I have lust or dered the commander to tend In a boat now. We will get aboard before be-fore telline him anvthina. I will take over his radio. I have the authority." au-thority." He whirled back to the eyepiece, crouched at it. A message must be eoming- back.- Hls agera elutfihed and twisted at the legs of the trl pod. At last he straightened, and ffasned. "Schweln! He sinals: "De tectors picked up propeller beat quarter hour ago. Inshore patrol active. Unsafe send boat Trans mlt information first'" Ho bent to the sending button again. Joey quavered, "Whatcha doing now. Chief?" "There!" the fat man said. "1 Instructed In-structed him to stand by. Now we will see who gets the credit" He went to the short-wave transmitters, flipped switches. "Chief!" Joey cried. 'It ain't safe! They can pick up that radio tuff.'' The fat man cursed at the stubbornly stub-bornly cold radio let. "A chance in a hundred," he muttered. "One destroyer de-stroyer cannot police the short-wave bands. It would take a dozen what is wrong with this pig of a radiol" He peered over the panel, fumbled among tubes and wires and condensers. conden-sers. Then he walked very quietly to me. "The tube," he said. I had to play this carefully. I could wreck everything by being suspiciously suspi-ciously helpful. "What tube?" "The tube you took from this set You have not broken it because there is no glass. You did not have the window raised to throw It out You have hidden it." "I don't know what you're talking about" "The tube," he said. His right hand clamped across my face, his thumb dug into the hollow under my right ear. He pressed, and jald, "The tube." "I don't know!" I yelled. "I don't know!" Rockets whizzed and burst In my head. Pain shrieked down every nerve in my body. I could feel It at the tips of my fingeri. I had to take it a second longer. A second longer. It had to look good. It "In the wastebasket!" I screamed. He left me, and fumbled in the basket I slumped. I had almost overdone things. A , few seconds more would have fixed that ear for life. He found the tube and lifted it delicately and replaced it in the set. Arab was crying. "Andy," she said, "Andy, did it hurt awfully?" I wet my lips. "It's 0. K now." "Will . will it help them very much having the tube?" "It doesn't matter," I said. "He'd get his news out either this way or the other... I. just , wanted to make things unpleasant for him If I could." Tubes and dials glowed on the set reflected greasily on the fat man's face. "Yes," he said. "We will settle set-tle for that later. Reneet" She whispered, "Yes?" "Our friends out there may be worrying. I should have sent more than stand by. Signal them that I am getting the information in order and that it will take a number of minutes." "I do not know bow to signal them." "Anybody can send. A long press on the button for a dash. A short press for a dot It is plain international interna-tional code. , There is a handbook on my desk." . She slipped past my chair like a pale shadow, found the book, went to the tripod. Joey got her a flashlight flash-light She masked the light with her hand, studied tha international code, and began sending slowly, going back to the page for each new letter. let-ter. In front of the fat man the big radio aet was warming up now... It purred like a giant cat The fat man touched dials, clamped a receiver re-ceiver over bis ears. His fingers tested the tending key. "Joey," n. caUed. "Here. Chief." . "The cod book. Lower right-hand drawer." He flipped keya at Joey, and added, "Get the book; and paper pa-per and pencil. This cannot go in the clear. Encode it" Ht waited while Joey got the code book and writing materials, and then said. "The first sentence: Jones to Ull rich. Second sentence: For Himm-ler Himm-ler only. Third sentence: Huge task forces sailed last three days from East Coast Ports of Embarkation. Fourth sentence!' Objctiv abso lutely confirmed French North Af rica. Encode that And quickly. There wU be more. "0. K., Chief The fat man's fingers had not stopped for a moment. He was sending send-ing a recognition signal. Dit-dah-. dit . . . dah-dah. Dit-dah-dlt . . . dah-dah. I tried to picture tha wave leaping leap-ing out over the Atlantic in huge vertical ver-tical zigzags, caroming back and forth between the earth's surface and the Heaviside layer forty miles up. Out on the Atlantic were Navy radio men waiting tensely Just for this. Combing segments of the short-wave, bands. -Waiting for the whine of power in their ears and the crackle of an enemy message. 1 prayed that ihey wouldn't mist, prayed that the signal wouldn't leapfrog leap-frog the waiting aerials. Dit-dah-dit . . . dah-dah. Dit-dah- dlt': v'raaWaBv He' threVWofd af Joey now and then. Joey scribbled . I lay there for a sbart time, dopey with concussion. them down and then hunted through the secret code book for the right signal. Dit-dah-dit .'. . dah-dah. Dit-dah-dit . . . dah-dah. It seemed to go on forever. Renee finished her chore and moved over to watch Joey encoding. Suddenly there was a change. The fat man Jerked upright His sending hand stilled, quivering. He listened. He had been acknowledged. - Far away in Germany they were ready for him. He'rlpped back a Jerky stream of dots and dashes. His hand reached for the first sheet of the coded message. Heat lightning flickered on the horizon to the northeast My skin tingled. Heat lightning at thirty minutes to November? I sucked In my breath. It might have been four miles away. I would know in ten to fifteen seconds. I counted. Maybe I counted aloud, or maybe something some-thing in the way I strained forward for-ward registered with the group at the radio. They swung around, peered at me. I hardly noticed. They were Just blurs in the dim room. I counted. ' Nine . . . ten . . . eleven . . . twelve Then it happened. Out on the sand bar two majestic cones of water foamed up into the night sky. Windows Jumped in frames. Sound thudded at us. And I went nuts. "They got a fix on us!" I screamed. "Come on, boys, pour it in! Lay it in their laps! You got the radio tagged! Let 'emJiave it!" The fat man leaned over me, snarling something. I didn't car what I rocked deliriously in the chair and howled up at him. "Watch this one, Jonesy. Get to the window and watch It Open your mouth and they'll drop one in. Yeeeahoool Right one zero. Eight eight hundred. hun-dred. Fire!" He Jerked around like a puppet on strings. Lightning glared again on the horizon. Black-powder lightning in Navy five-lnchers. "On the way I". I shrieked. "Count it, you rats! Twelve seconds to live! One . . . two . . ." I went on counting and raving half-forgotten artillery commands while the room turned into a madhouse. mad-house. The fat man was rescuing his black-light set. He screamed orders. or-ders. Orders to collect papers. To run to the powerhouse. I heard him howl at Joey to shoot us before leaving leav-ing but I didn't give a hang. "Eight" I yelled. "Nine . . ." The fat man tumbled out through the door. His feet clattered on the stairs. "Eleven" . . . twelve ..." Twin screeches rode the air over head. The roof seemed to lift to meet them. Blaam! Glass Jingled and the old house rocked and groaned like a schooner slamming onto a shoaL "Hurry up, Joey." I chanted. Hurry up. That was a hundred over. . Hurry up. iney got tneir bracket now. Left five. Eight seven sev-en hundred. Hurry up. Joey." He was flopping around the room like a drunken rooster. He picked up things and dropped them. s I chanted "Hurry up" once more and then noticed Renee. She was standing stand-ing motionless at the window, look ing out to sea. Moonlight gilded her face. For the first time she seemed to be calm, almost happy. The brief glow washed the horizon again. "On the way," Renee said softly. I took a deep breath and turned to Arab. In the dim room her hair seemed to glow like phosphorus. Her head was tilted, chin up. For a moment she and Renee could have been sisters. They faced the ocean almost eagerly, like lovely delicate figureheads on the old China clippers. clip-pers. "Hold your hat," I said. She smiled. "I'd rather hold your hand. ';' ' - -- - "I wish I could thinkpf something deathless to say." "I love you, Andy." "And I love youj' "That's nice enough," the said contentedly. She was still smiling at me when everything let go at the seams. The blast was too close, too stunning to 1ft'1ierd;r"Somehing mpecTtne' air out of my lungs, picked me up chair and all, and slammed me back against the wall. I lay there for a short time, dopey with concussion. My chest heaved, trying to force air to my lungs. At first I could only get a sip of air. I worked at It, got a little more . . . more . . . and then a big shuddering breath that put me back in circulation. circula-tion. The chair was kindling wood. I doubled my feet up to my bound hands and worked on the ankle knot. Either I was deaf or it was achingly quiet Moonlight seeped in through shattered windows and torn wall. Dust drifted like spray: the dust of a generation, shaken from every cranny by the explosion,-- . - "Andy. An-dy." I tried to get my slow-motion thoughts in line. Arab was sitting near the door. The blast had skated her chair back fifteen feet without toppling it. I started toward her . . . and a ragged figure uncoiled from the floor and blocked my way. It was Joey. He Jammed me against the walL I tried to knee him but my legs wouldn't move fast enough. There was a smear of blood across his face. His Jaw hung slackly. He tugged at something in his pocket "You been askin' for it," he mumbled. mum-bled. "You been askin'." "Good old Joey." I said loudly. "This Is the kind of shooting you like, isn't it? This was the kind you had in Spain. Are you still putting out that yarn about the Heinkels you shot down? Or are you telling the real story now?" "You shut up!" "Sure you fought in Spain, if you call it fighting. Heinkels and bombs and machine guns against rifles. Tell us how you mowed 'em down in your Hcinkel. Your Heinkel, Joey." "You lie!" he yelled. "I fought on the Loyalist side!" I saw Renee fumbling in the shattered shat-tered cabinet which had held the fat man's arsenal. I said, The State Department claims you were with the Germans, fighting for Franco. Tell us about it, Joey. Tell us about the Condor Legion. Tell us how you shot Bob Fielding." Somewhere in the room sounded the telltale dry clack of a rifle being cocked. Joey whirled toward the sound, screaming, "Renee, he can't pin that on mel There were lots of us in the Condor Legion. It could of been anybody. Renee, take it easy! Take-'" He wrenched the Luger out of his pocket. I kicked his elbow a split-second split-second too late. He got off one shot before the automatic spun from his hand. Renee quivered. The rifle she held wavered. Then the barrel came up again, steadied. 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