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Show CARIBBEAN I ar ar-k M, 7' i ; C I ft MiM ,TORtf SO TAB: Ann Heywood. Ttm ...... f a wealthy New .MPr publisher, goes on an . to Puerto Rico where Pete mtS JLrter on her father's pa- 'rt'lloned V- ,nte,1-On ,nte,1-On the boat he meet a Blcan. Miguel Valer. and fneeV named Richard Taussig, ot . .. immediately suspicious. She ? know that be Is, In fact, a Ger-" Ger-" . j n destroy Puerto rrnt orancu - " unnly. When Anne's bags ,ctti she suspects Taussig. She . ,. mom to Investigate and f' Ail by a man she recognizes. as KL. Valera Is talking to Pete COPTER V , i.. a larcn white ring of lite smoke out in front ot him fatchea h uis"'" i., Mieuel Valera had been 1 . k. cioioi h nneht to H learned that you don't discuss 1, ,ith a man you scarcely He took a deep breath and nothing. ' - n torry if I've offended you," 1 Valera said quietly. He put us glass. "I thought you were e friend of hers." ' ' : i that case, if you win allow me i?r you some advice. Send her k-to the States on Wednesday's CO 'leot UD. &od night, Captain Wilcox." Rl 8 la:, I As , raf ps almost eleven when Anne fit of the elevator and went to the desk. There was a note ck!ler mail box from Pete, and a of air-mail letters from home. hi went out onto the porch and . . !i r.i iown to reaa ner mau. one if be careful of her skin, her Iter said, and not go without a Her father hoped she was hav-jjun hav-jjun and wouldn't fall in love i any damned native. She led, put the letters in her bag. ipened Pete s note. . ne-You're lunching with me. 1' time, same place. Pete." -sot up. As she started to go fcinto the lobby a big shiny black lalsine with a uniformed chauf- jpuiled up under the portico, t's heart jumped. Miguel Va- at mm SettinB out. With him was Jther, Don Alvaro. For an in- lt her impulse was to run. But couldn't . . . Miguel had seen lit was an important "moment iiiiething profoundly deep inside told her it was one of the most jftant moments of her life. Then as coming toward her. And m ftfustn't let him know she knew. ?od morning! This is awfully rt, 3D T,W tte speed of USht something faolficealed that it was almost im- potible relaxed behind Miguel fta's gray-green eyes. He smiled lj, taking her friendly out- ped hand. Anne's face brisht- She'd done it Hp rfiHn't ... and the rest was easy, lyiu remember my father." IJ course." ;j smiled at Don Alvaro, stand- iiooi ana aigninea in the arch- waiting for his son. He' had ytofie same white drill semi-mili- iniform or another like it, be- he was spotlessly starched foned-and the same gray felt I his hand. Pcod morning." she said. She tnM know whether it should be w senor or Don, so she didn't Sis name at all. food morning, Senorita." p Alvaro bowed with formal sy. His eyes meeting hers X-ray clarity were old and wise ealm. Yet somewhere in them a veiled shadow of tho amo R resentment she'd felt so FPly and undisguisedly in Gra- irly out her hand simp!y- A lNlrSy on Afraro took it. In the Vk instant hor ... j w wcie raisea 10 1,? and trusting oc . .v,,-u. m rP load he had carried since UTf n return had vanished. He IM FJi you FRGM lgS, to c per. Qpoc: Tali apoc agair. wtvt: tofc ftt( have coffee with us. flif "aching in his pocket for rr1"' "opped his hand abrupt-r.e abrupt-r.e nad hmm .,- . . "is iciuier would 1 ne onos w i . . . . . kl long uPhi11 climb before IJT , """ce Prevailed. He if ea at his fathor .i f-i . . "v ui uie tur- M tit eVB nnt k.j tumeijr con- love to," Anne wa Bavma didn't kno h vl'.r tj had takn 7or him to s r- Is uer DacK to the iv5!Watched her slim Same- 1 Ir'ierL, ,Vlng easlly beside bis Mi .a. e.Ctfimfigure- Independ- spiritual and physical , " social and economic fi M."could SP an Ameri- fe to the world. The f i-Tthl0 was en more re-'5n,Ule re-'5n,Ule Way Redressed. o a ll nnpen't rrfr tm half . "c"Jougnt. "She's K. .. ss SOchlstirnf -u- I - aa sue -Fe Wilcox.,. . . EeadanVw nls aesk at Gen" ' under-cover aeent. tr, 'uco. it w. . ...rr e;it, but " tunous as- no more curious than a sensitive plant over theenUreCar-Ibbean theenUreCar-Ibbean area. He looked at his watch. It would be hour, before he saw Anne-Ke showed at all He wished to God she'd stayed at home. There wa, only one ray of comfort in the im-mediate im-mediate present. Tied to his desk' with the ball and chain of Army regulations like the prisoners of Old J?: .Jot some relief from the fact that Miguel Valera wanted her to go home. It meant at any rate that he wasn't going all out to glam-orize glam-orize her into staying. And there was one other dewdrop n the desert. That had been dropped P. PTassin fcy e General's aide. Old Iron Lung (namely Colonel Mortimer Mor-timer St. Clair De Voe, Engineer in Charge of Maintenance and Con-struction Con-struction of the Caribbean Area) had said to tell the CO., with his com-p com-p hments, that he didn't give a blank blank blank blank if the Eternal Himself sent the Prophet Hezekiah down to Puerto Rico. Nobody was seeing the details of the pumps at Borinquen. or any place else he was In charge of. He would be glad to write the Senate of the United States, individually and collectively and tell them so by blank. "What did the General some one had asked. ' "The General?" said the aide. "Oh, the General The General grinned, and sent Mr. Taussig, plus a copy of the Senate resolution they haven't passed yet for Old Iron Lung's pet project on Tortilla Cay, to the old boy, both with his compliments. compli-ments. So Mr. Taussig is on the Engineer's hands, not ours. Pete 'looked down at the papers in front of him. He'd been trying to say?" ... the heavy load he had carried since his son's return had vanished. get up nerve to ask for a week's leave. It wasn't nerve so much, actually, as proper self-control when Colonel Fletcher turned him down. He could hear his "This is the Army, Captain Wilcox, in case you've forgotten." for-gotten." He read absently through the report of a dance-hall girl at a dive on La Marina that was out of bounds for soldiers, put it aside, read another, and started in on a third. "This man is not a personal enemy ene-my to me," he read methodically. "He is of ancient and honorable lineage and his family are all thieves, throat-cutters and swine. He is without principle himself as all his generations before him." Pete stopped abruptly, not because the tone of the letter was unusual but because of the name he suddenly sudden-ly saw staring up at him from the florid script. "Miguel Valera seeks to undermine under-mine the government He has been seen by me in conversation with a man who is known to steal a box of dynamite from Isla Grande and dump it in the sea off La Perla when the sailors come so they find nothing. Miguel Valera was seen by me later with an American who is hired by the Viego Rum Company Com-pany The American whose name is George raised his glass and drank the toast to the First President of Puerto Rico. I write without bitterness. bitter-ness. My grandfather was killed in falling in machinery at Valera Central." Cen-tral." ' Pete put the letter aside with a scowl. Vindictiveness wasted as much time as stupidity. He went paUently on till be came to the last letter in the pile. It was on cheaper paper than most of them even, and was signed with the Initial D. "Miguel Valera, son of Senor Alvaro Al-varo Miguel Valera y Delgado, seen by me this day speaking m back Som of bar of La Rosa w.th Salva-tore Salva-tore Vegas. Salvatore steal dyna-Ste dyna-Ste from Isla Grande and throw sea The family Salvatore work long toe to the sugar mill of Valera. Salvatore of good information of machines." ma-chines." "One of the bloodiest battles the Conquistadores !. IM. vat fn,..L4 wooa, Pete sa d h. ,. hand out over me romng g een0 you hiv 11 w" m 1625. in case ni t? your notebook wi you- a dav7 UPPly you wlth one fac i! 7: " f "suay tourists who sup- sewn to have your guide book with looS .PtUthd0WD h6r WfTee CUP and looRea at him across the table. th Ehe Said evenly- "-What's tne matter with you?" "Who, me?" JJ".,he said' "You,ve been Perfectly foul all through lunch, and you know it What's the matter?" He took his last cigarette out wadded the empty package and dropped it Into the ash tray in front or him. He could see the warm flush creeping up into her cheeks and her tortoise-shell cat's eyes getting dark- fu Btorm warnings flying In the Caribbean. "I'm sorry." he said. "I suppose ":ecause Tm worried about you." Then he could have kicked himself across the graveyard into the Atlantic. At-lantic. That was Just the thing he shouldn't have said. He waited for her to flare up and make some stinging sting-ing retort But she didn't "May I ask why you're worried about me?" she Inquired calmly. Somebody must have told her about counting ten since he'd left New York, he thought "You may ask, but I can't tell you," he said quietly. "That's the trouble." He looked at her sitting there-cool there-cool and confident and a babe In the woods, actually. If he could Just take her by the back of the neck, the way you did a kitten or a Latin woman and put her in a plane and say "Go home!" everything every-thing would be easy. But he couldn't Nobody could. Or If he could tell her why. His job prevented pre-vented that Anyway, it would probably prob-ably be Just the thing that would make her stay . . . even if she believed him. "Look, Anne," he said. They were at the far end of the open porch. The boys had cleared empty tables ta-bles around them. "You know I love you ..." 1 "If it's Jealous pique, dear . . ." He 4 interrupted her calmly, "It isn't You're probably sick of hearing hear-ing me say it so let's skip it The point is, I like you, too. They're different dif-ferent And I think you like me." "Oh, Pete." she began. He gave her a twisted grin to try to conceal the sudden ache inside him. When her voice was like that it reduced his insides to quivering Jelly. "The point is," he went on unsteadily, un-steadily, "I'm going to ask you to do something and not ask any questions, ques-tions, or try to guess the answers. Just trust your Uncle Pete . . . Just once." He saw the shadow behind her dark curling lashes and the almost imperceptible lines between her eyebrows. eye-brows. He liked her eyebrows they were dark and thick so that they accentuated her slim oval face . . . not thin plucked lines that made her. look like a scared siren. She looked at him a clear steady Instant before she said, "You want me to go home, don't you, Pete?" "Yes. On tomorrow's Clipper. It's full, but I can manage that" She looked up at him. "Pete," she said. "I know It isn't on account ac-count of Miguel. I mean, it isn't because you're jealous of him, and ... and like Sue Porter. And if it's Mr. Taussig ..." She hesitated. "Well, I'm not afraid of him. Maybe May-be I could even . . . even help you, I mean" He stared at her. Without even being aware of it, she had slipped In the connecting link he'd been racking rack-ing his brain all morning to find for himself. Taussig and his sanitary engineering. Miguel Valera and Salvatore Sal-vatore Vegas. And she was already In it ... a child playing dolls with a stick of dynamite. He pushed his chair back abruptly. "You're going home tomorrow, Anne." Her eyes flashed dark brown and green. "I am not!" "You are too. You're a crazy fooL You don't know what you're getting into. This place Is a keg of nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine and you're lighting matches to powder your nose. You're getting on that plane tomorrow tomor-row morning if I have to tie your hands and feet and put you on it myself. my-self. And as for that spic you" w stoDDed abruptly. She was standing on the other side of the table, erect and vibrant as a streak of flame from a blow torch, her eyes sheets of molten gold, her face pale with anger. "Don't you dare, Peter Wilcox. Her voice was low and quivering. I won't go. I'll leave San Juan when I'm good and ready and not one minute before. And I hate you! rd never have believed you could be so contemptible! Good-by." Her high heels clicked across the bare wood floor of the Club bouse norch like the sharp tattoo of a sav-ee sav-ee drum. Pete watched her, his face a grim tight mask. 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