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Show and are li, 1 tew "l, Clii(lt cartrrfatvi x CONSPIRACY THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH a: t.-.U O:- I'd be- IstobI so fab: in"w m i," Pete said. "Now f of a wealthy New hjfe, to thlnk nn w ret" . i adq von nrni'f n .t . f: '.. tionea as ? " j ":" ; u aoctor '" .... on the oat ne resi. wnat about comino keKt , MleueJ clean. Miss Hevumcvi? VSn Eifh" , Anne crossel the patio and P' . ,., aha U immeaiaieij QOWn On the ha i.cfr.- ..t. I Lai to P,W t; ;r BOi T lvr Iun gne said. rffl e Lokfd ' h moment LthttM T .... meet 17. .trov Poerw i" -"- .cVj ID - I. wrnnl I MU That was all And now he was H . TI1TRIIB Hf at." ..... Z &U.eoat-ock..h..n- to th.rautoSeer. all Jl CHAPTER II i sat quick n Dai, rains, !S. y be: 'Did old Don Alvaro?" he She looker) Mv uiuiiA, "The fathep nf tha .. nrivu uu uie snip; iou mean Miguel Valera?" 'I mean his father." xeS. I me klv ...t.n. Mi 1 , w " ."III nuug A I 5 I '! ' ... Sitting On TTIV tlltr.lr n..l4l J inked down again at the peo- - - I the dock. Agirlwasstana. -check nc un II, ......... Lere gazing' u?e mg - 6 r . .oti Rhe was SO ... . . Feu. "" ' i,ri sank an- , P wrgerang you're In Mill- . ujak . h elt She mieuigence," Anne ( Ltch in e of he elt She was you. He erinnprt "Public relations Is all I do. There F.. niPr man. Bren 1 any SPS down here. Miss eeu"'u "V "Li ,.nt, eywooa Hthe same arresmis bo k A. th.t hpr was an OUUK; I peach-colored skin and dark m eyes anu aren't IKE ,d, except that hers was an b a rugged and aristocratic y that seemed to noia uuu i..W nnart irom Uie vruwu cicv -r- 4 him. v,nth faces broke into an smUe. The oia man raiseu iu ie girl waved her nana. Anne Mieuel Valera was JU PIWkM ... back to them, his lace ugn ith nleasure ,t'i m father." ne aaia. '!,. hari nnticea deiuic us BJB M" . It (k Vi fiomA Into his voice ,farmui u.m innkpn his lamer s name. lould understand it now and br some reason It maae mm ply remote from her, as u uie a the dock had movea m oe- timm there at the ralL fund that's my cousin Graclela. her father live witn ua. Her :r was killed in Spain in the war.1 lovelv. isn't she?" Anne JLVerVtninff' an nnon v g v M VVU If Vnn unnf a cnola vt M , m wvma map ui the island and all its fortifications. all you do is send tn ppnta In stamps to General Headquarters." He got up. "I've got to push along. What about lunch? Twelve o'clock, umcers uxud at El Morro. Any taxi driver'll get you there." Anne nodded. Pete Wilcox waited on tn saTtarir until he heard the door trundle shut ana tne elevator begm -its wheezing progress upward. , He tossed his cigarette cig-arette into the Jar of white sand by raiiPht a nnai EUmpse ox Ida's face as they followed the i below. "He doesn't Know in love with fcim," she thought the doesn't -care." f dece'fe reflection she caught of her axatftH the mirror on the landing of e to k Or.ce, and the touch of his guid-n- Jkdonthebareskinof her arm lornicfif ma 01 maglc sne naQn I ; op.TDeiore. : - - mnti iim sorry the trio is over, real- ma mJiiihi said. - .- mulatSu glad you're coins to be in lay af.fjuan. I hope you'll let me show . Iround." "'J. We came to a dead stop. At j?F'lbttom of the stairs, coming out ,!S5,,1 purser's office with two of the officers behind him, was Cap and tol Peter Wilcox of the United Is Army. He was in tan tropical -up drsdine, with a tan sun helmet lesn't ts his arm and an inlaid mahog- ouniwagger suck in his hand. For slant he looked so different she t iuri if it V99 rpallv hp' he elder and harder and more au- tauve. n he frrinnprt as ha iicari in Ha mo, Annie. I wondered if there mother Anne Heywood in this )ithe world." i Pete-Mt's swell to see you!" ran down the last sterjs. It lweu to see him. She would Wbssed him. For an instant she oux bis bands, so that was She turned back. "Have vou r-i iius is mi. vaiera iin Wilcox." , tWO men shrink hnnHo Wrious seemed to hannen to MTOspnere ail or a anrlrlpn. It Mte a cloud you'U get your stuff together, - Pete Said. "TMl ha nlnna an1 bdU Set it in irnn knol srmnea again. "If you'd like i mai is. from the ship had - w s Pene: i in ea er alH , so P eets a: tines i :. Catitlq i direct' )86 Diss i kppn fnr?ettine vou're In the Military Intelligence," Anne said the pillar and came back into the lobbv. It was empty except lor a man sittine on a wicker sofa be- Hsoon tho center arches, reading a Rnanish newsDaner Pete went over to the aesK. ine clerk Dushed the pile of registration rards across to him. Anne's was on tnn. under it Mr. Kicnara iaussig a ... . Pete glanced through the rest oi them nnicklv and handed them back to the clerk. He pushed Taussig s aprnsa the desk Thnna TnPCCaCTPS and CallerS. IX X UVUV ..-""0 said. Tho plprk nodded And Miss Heywood would luce a room on the second floor as soon as It'a nnssihle The clerk noaaea again. a tha nrirker sofa folded his news paper and strolled out into the gal- jr- ineciers turned ... pete gaid he jw vu we,- nassed him. He would have liked to .. . TntalK. -jj ntia fpn." nui ivuuioij w ouv " m. Ulr. the bouse. A s"., : . n,t roant mills oi tne goas, nnu u " . , Anne Heywood grouna exceeauisv small. Heaven only knew what she d get into before she got out tt- -itrhpd nn the ignition. Some thing else was worrying him too, an ,.. vm nicked ud a long time --.uuaiy cramped siena- oia swi? v co.tch name stucK in ms ulcll.v, . . t that names and ais- KJlOW, , . . jointed facts had away . scjin there and were p 1. aran ... He shrugged his hnrderwholethmgwasfan- toe. aC V I IV I led XTa..J TA Rft last ronm It. 4V V. i Jam was Just asking for you. tOOk UD thp rtan m ntir;. r- anil j - -"weo. tier eyes were ea onthetop card in the stack; s. VU 1 WHS unousiy cramped signa P t to Room 110, Miss Hey It tha . ' rm the ocean side." t.r: "ere suu lastened I in hi. i . M Y . " uano. me cor- on room r it was 108. She wrote, shoulders. The whoie tnmB w-- nd around. any man alivi aitlne, looking at her. questadores' arm. "What's the water supply. ..nt nf San Juan eould choke off El k sum. " uru . &a. I nrarar euuuiji utr uie v , ...j..- fortress aan othinr- .v:. . . ... n ""ah olutely cockeyed. t. - sue Bain fniivi tn. i r 'neinnaL ww - . au "IdonV'li"c." v. took a story of the son w m. .n " . r ;fJ v.-.,. him in tne nearest a sudden, fm I G tney u I stip. I , - .cvltim in nothing Eat ttUDid , I" U1." Wdden. rm u - mey -- flaL The i " swss." insane asyium 7: . te,hw a little tight- water supply was Lked up ,t him with warm the chief strategic problem, cl e m 2". Idea that Mr. Island, but it wa could exude any gineering, and he was" g I thrVrt ,m 103 ttat could believe mat mc u engi-rouih engi-rouih ana defil. . left a secret the Army ieVl0 temed 'denly neers couldn't figure ouu "tt Cad rm v J. aou.t- He toppe hia mind. It was t uere" itm aatii 1 aica nnsneu iuw . v fef4e' ffm War Department ,r . , ". vauk-ciiing miguei vaiera s previous nrdp ""I8""1" with the 65th Infantry at KOrt Buchanan Th- .11 mere was to it here. "I ,U ...v-i .t . .. - wiiai tne neu . . Pete thought as he returned the sen- t m amuie ana hurried Inside. mi Z -oionei inomas J. Fletcher looked up from his desk with a llr.v.t ... . - ""6'" uuwn, ne iiKea fuerto Rico and he Uked Pete, but he had pu nssiBiani unlet of staff, G 2, lor only a couple of weeks, and his predecessor Colonel Mayhew liked neither Pete nor Puerto Rico. ia ne nad warned Colonel Fletch- f. "Thaw' 11 1!1 m . , c Bun.e. iney uunK the Army is the city desk of a yellow yel-low Journal You've cot to watch them closer than you do the damn natives. They go off half-cocked. Look out for what they call their private sources of information." Ti was not only his predecessor's warning that disturbed Colonel Fletcher at the moment It was the letter on the desk in front of him. ortunateiy it had come in time. If it had PATrta a 1U41n 1 .1 1 . a uiuo inter mere migm have been hell to pay in Washing. inn ..J pt-i i ... auu v-uionei b letcner mignt have found himself back in the States icacmng n. u. t. c. boys squads right He returned Pete's salute. "TauSSlS is in rnnm inn at tha Granada, sir." Pet caid TTa ffl. membered the "sir" Just in time. "xou can call It off, Captain Wil cox." Fletcher spoke evenly and quiet ly. It was his own fault of course. He should have taken Mayhew's advice ad-vice instead of the offchance that wucox reairy nad something. "You may read this." He handed Pete the letter. 'Taus sig is not only a substantial citi zen he has a very powerful politi cal snonsor." The lpttpr wn tn Mainr.fJeneral Dutton, the Commanding Officer of the Puerto RIcan Department The letterhead and the signature be longed to a United States Senator whose relations with the Press had not always been free of virulent name-calling. "E!y dear General," it read. "It is a very great pleasure for me to take this ODDortunity to commend my old friend Mr, Richard Taussig to your Kind attention. Mr. Taussig is a sanitary engineer of interna tional repute. I shall regard- any courtesy you can show him as a personal favor. I believe he is espe cially. interested in the more do mestic arrangements of the military establishment and I hope you will aee vour way clear to allowing him as much freedom for Investiga tion as is consistent with the best interests of all concerned. I am looking forward to his unbiased re port on the use we are making of the vast funds pouring into our Caribbean bases. With warm- per sonal regards, I am, very sincerely yours . . ." Across the bottom the uenerais aide had scribbled: "Is dinner enough? Have arranged tour. How long is he staying?" Pete handed the letter bacK. That's all. CaDtain. And by the way." Colonel Fletcher smiled faint ly. "Are you sure this wasn t camouflage? cam-ouflage? When you want to meet a young lady it's best to Just say so, you know. That's all" Pete sat lor a moment ax ma desk. "If I were Lindbergh, I could he thought sardonically. He unlocked a drawer and took a grimy sheet of cheap hotel writing paper out of it "Dear Mr. Wilcox," it oegan. "i take my pen in hand to say if you Man fnv this as sinuuy unvote and personal between you ana t, go it vmi cot to turn it in to them brass hats you're mixed up with, stick a matcn to it i oon i want the Joint wrecked any more I want to wake up in tne morgue via the East River as they say. You and me are on the leveL A so-and-so named Taussig is headed your way. Something's screwy, I don't know what Two guys spilled it at the bar Tuesday night and it's straight dope.-How's the black-eyed beauties down your way? Signed, F. A. Schneider." . The signature was elaborate and flowing, practiced for state occa-sions, occa-sions, like the signing of liquor receipts. re-ceipts. Under it was written "Gus. Pete Wilcox sat looking down at his hot tip. from the keeper of one of the most disreputable waterfront dives In Hoboken. It wasn't the first one he'd got Not, one mbC them had been a phony. The F. B. L had profited a number of tunes and no Questions asked. He shrugged. 'The Army." he thought "to different Butlttought Sher was different too. I guess they grow brass hats young. He Put the letter back in the draw-.r draw-.r After all. was Just Gus' word .aatast tT who evidently had frS, to S Ple.. But if Gus had gone to the length of writing 'Ifguess'fve stuck my neck out 7,Jh he thought sardonically. mouth shut your leto open and never volunteer. There was ?K5.5l on the pack before they put me fa the guardhouse he and rang the Granada Hotel. ,TO BK CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: The Problem of Mama Betl 8yndlct.-WNU Features. CHILDREN DON'T OWE PARENTS A LIVING Children ' more than pay their parents in babyhood for any expense incurred in raising them, according to Kathleen Norris. it is not fair for m mother to stand in her daughter's way when a desir able marriage is in the offing. Young people are entitled to m life of their own unfettered by the prejudices and notions of their in-laws, llow a young school teacher faced just such m problem and solved it with the help of Miss Norris is re lated this week. Evelyn did what 1 advised her to do, and that was marry at once, and let Mama adjust herself to what it a perfectly natural and normal step on tha part of any daughter. By KATHLEEN NORRIS EVELYN MILLER wants to marry her soldier. She wants to go down to New Mexico and find some sort of a small home, and start her own life as a happy wife. But there's Mama, standing like a grumbling, sick, dangerous dan-gerous old lioness right in Evelyn's path. "Both my brothers married mar-ried young," writes Evelyn, who is now 29. "I was 19 when Papa died, and had just got my first teaching position. posi-tion. Now I am principal of an elementary school, and have always liked my work. My hours are such that I can take Mama her breakfast in bed, and get home early eneugk te get our dinner It has meant steady work, but she has always helped me with my papers and bookkeeping, and we have .had ten wonderful " years together. I dearly lore my mother, I appreciate all she has done for me, and I know I am the very apple of her eyes. She does not care for my brothers' wives and rarely sees her three grandchildren. Sometimes I go over and see them on Sunday evening; there is no ill-feeling ill-feeling between them and Mama, and the boys do come in and see her now and then, but we are not intimate with their wives. Mother Leves Few but Deeply. "Mama says she loves few persons, per-sons, but loves those few too much, and I believe it is true. It means that she depends for her happiness almost entirely upon me. Old friends do drop in to see her, but she and her own sister are not particularly attached, and while Aunt Emily would gladly come here to live if I were gone, the mere prospect of it breaks Mama's heart. "Well, this is where Alan comes in, my splendid wonderful lover. He Is already a captain, though a year younger than I. Before the war he was a college instructor, ust the work with which I eould perhaps help him, and the atmosphere I would love. Ours has been a whirl wind courtship, I met kdm exactly seven weeks ago, but it does seem fate, to us both. Alan is truly the man of my dreams, and I had a very definite dretem of the man I wanted, and he says that ail his life long he has been waiting for me. "Mama can't and won't believe that I know him well enough to care for him, and to be willing to share my life with him. She has been actually ill since the affair began, and has spoken to Alan only twice. The first time she was very cold and stiff; the second time, yesterday, she wept dung to his bands, and begged him not to take me away from her. She said I am all she has. "Alan says she'll get over it and come to live with us when the war is over. But I am afraid it may kill her. There is nothing really wrong with her, physically, but she is very' frail, has headaches, and is easily tired. Alan is willing to have her Join us in New Mexico, but she is afraid of wartime conditions so near a big camp. It seems a deadlock. dead-lock. Mama has a small income, but she eould not pay for a nurse r a maid under present conditions. It would actually shatter her to have me marry, but do yeu think she weald recever, do you think it would be safe to risk it? I am determined to do what you advise, knit do please remember that utter happiness or utter misery for me is at stake, and gjve me seme hope of being Alan's wife, even a year from now, even after the war, if you possibly can. Ee will wait" Married and No Regrets. This letter came to me two weeks ago, from Philadelphia. I answered it withm the hour, by air-mail. Today To-day I have a telcsrm on my desk: "Married this morning, Mama fine, love from Alan and Evelyn." Se Evelyn did what I advised her to do, and that was marry at once, and let Mama adjust herself to what is a perfectly natural and normal step on the part of any daughter. If some of these daughters who sacrifice sac-rifice their entire lives to selfish Mamas could look back a generation and see exactly how much consideration consid-eration Mama gave, in her turn, to the demands, needs and opinions of her own parents, they might receive a startling eye-opener. Mama was probably selfish as a girl and as a wife, or she couldn't be quite so blind now to all interests but her own. Mama has alienated sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren and her own sister, through her narrow, pig-beaded selfishness; she has absorbed ab-sorbed Evelyn's life, and undoubtedly undoubted-ly she would go on contentedly, making mak-ing more and more narrow the circle that shuts in Evelyn, draining away Evelyn's youth and hope and eagerness for life as mercilessly as the hideous old duchess of the middle ages who bathed in the blood of murdered village girls, We see too many of these selfish old women, being escorted tenderly about by starved maiden ladies of daughters; patient daughters who place shawls, laugh at old, old Jokes, study bills-of-fare concernedly, explain ex-plain to the waiter how Mama likes her chop or her baked apple. One wonders what is going on in the old lady's bead as she cackles her feeble fee-ble stories and explains that while she had Just piles and piles of beaus in the old days, Evelyn has always been Mama's girL Grandmother Given Separate Home. A San Francisco matron some ten years ago transplanted her mother abruptly to a two-room apartment in a pleasant sunny house with a garden, gar-den, a few blocks away from her own home. She did it suddenly, be tween breakfast and lunch! Her husband hus-band and children came home unexpectedly un-expectedly to a house in which Grandma was no longer supreme, criticizing, delaying, complaining, driving the Chinese cook crazy, appropriating ap-propriating the bathroom to herself at the very hours when the man of the house and the children were getting get-ting ready for work and school, or just home from work and school. "I telephoned my sister and my brother," announced the wife and mother. "They'll both pay $23 a month. Ma's rent is $15 we'll manage man-age the rest For four years I've been wondering what to do, and now I've done it I've been afraid to open the subject but this time I didn't argue. I asked Helen to take Ma for a long ride, and while she was gone I took her things ever to te Byron street house. Helen brought her there; everything was in rder, gas plate, groceries, teapot tea-pot telephone. I said. Here's where you're going to be. Ma,' and kissed her, and we came away." This particular mother wouldn't speak to any child of hers for weeks. But she accepted their money, and after awhile she accepted the situation, situa-tion, and now all is serenity and peace. patterns SEWONG CHICLE 12-42 For Warmth, Comfort GET the greatest good from this tiaismg nnttarn hv rnakinu it wice once in flannel or broad-sloth broad-sloth as a sleeping suit, once in lannel or corduroy as a lounging iuit. Both ways it will help keep rou warm this winter. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1903 is de- tigned for sizes 12, 14. 16, 18, 20; 40 and i2. Corresponding bust measurements 30, E, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 14 (32), With long sleeves, requires 8 yards 35 or 39-inch 39-inch material, Due to an unusually lare demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few ot the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. S30 South WeUi St Chicago Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address Play Flute by Nose "Singing through the nose" is a common criticism of some vocalists, vocal-ists, but only the Filipinos are known to be able to play a flute with the nose. The difficulty of producing a sufficient volume of air to make musical notes by this method may readily be imagined. Evidently these natives have, greater lung power than most people. TRY OVERNIGHT CARE FOR MISERABLE COLDS- the way grandma did. She used mutton uet aha medicated herself to relieve colds' coughing and muscle aches. Now mothers just rub on Penetro. lias base containing old reliable mutton auet, with modern acientifio medication added. 25o, double supply 0o. Get Penetro. Fishing for Sharks To catch soup-fin sharks, West ;oast fishermen now use large looks, baited with mullet or king-3sh, king-3sh, that dangle at the end of six- toot chains, says Collier's. They are hung at 25-foot intervals along a 1,000-foot master chain. Within a day or two, the catch sf three long chains usually averages aver-ages 25 sharks, whose livers alone, awing to the heavy demand for their oil, have a market value of some $4,500. Trails if back aches from need of diuretic aid Functional kidney disturbance due to need of diuretic aid may cause stabbing back-acbet back-acbet May cause urinary flow to be frequent, fre-quent, yet scanty and smarting! You may lose sleep from "getting up nights" often may feel dieey, nervous, "headachy." Ia such cases, you want to ttimuUtt kidney get ion j ait. 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