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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEW. UTAH 0 I mi '3 LA - AM GSSm CpNSPlRACYll H BRENDA CONRAD rubier of a wealth, New ilper publisher, goes to Puer. sp F ...iTment for her fa. .... th Island are Pete freporter on her father', paper. I. Army n - nlcon educated ilera, a " ... ted Statel wnow . ,.mn were abruptly I Blchard Taussig, an engineer . a German agent la sus- 1 t not yet proved; and Russell 1 wnnf American engineer, and I .... i..ii.,m Mr. Taussig Taussig He baa gone to ro Uf CHAPTER VHI ; ? I hi preen visored cap Mo V P falile 'and removed the dark jrom his spectacles. . ,been wasting my time be-rilous," be-rilous," he said. iing-did you say?" -a Tm afraid it's true." Mated. He did not want to 1 .- MinnABa the wan wno wub auyywocn H chief lieutenant ) 'j.'L'":, tou thinK, uongaro, tht perhaps you regard , too highly?" - .. - 4 Gongaro's face broke Into kirolle. He raised Ms nanas Mulders In an eloquent ges-f ges-f amused denial. ' ' , I the contrary, my friend. It ij I think women charming, tall we say? somewnai siu- Ibey are controlled oj emo- $ by intelligence." jf the American girl," Taus- curtly, "is not controlled f of you." -: ) tW ' i; ilpla- 8-ttJ IT. trout, ilrre troui.j ronit-i. ronit-i. Rt. Ha 10. ' rams J i-4 id i sue. who oeuevea mi. d..mc1L Anne lets y inspects him. !(o Gongaro, Valera'i uncle. Never- he i finished the last of the gold- papaya in front of her pushed back her cup and K.j one a expeuieu mo wuci tonderful, but it was flat and hs as the worst of the com- crews at home. picked up the pile of letters of taction she d brought, and FAmfc fl,m through for the dozenth 'It was always a question the people they were ad- 4 to would think It Ul-man- 8 you didn't present them, or flighted not to have to do any- ibout the transient daughter fcfend of a friend they'd proba- trgotten they had. finished dressing, took her let- Hi started for the door. As if p:rWed it a bellboy came out of rvice stairway. He smiled at with an intent interest in bis Itbat she didn't understand. borita Heywood," he said. Alvaro say you come down way. juas so shockingly peremptory we felt a warm flush spring- ID her cheeks. She was on the of saying he could tell Don fo.Valera to go to blazes when i said anxiously, lay n you please, senorita. tot put in English the way be to Spanish." ft smiled. "Of course. Thank It was lust that sort of !fcr in communication, she '4 that accounted for a lot of l&rstanding. I Alvaro rose from his seat IboWed. give an old man a treat pleasure, senorita." Mc you." Anne said. She ant Wondering.. The waiter bd- wondered too: she noticed to almost stumbled into the N when he saw her sittine ve taken the liberty of or is Jou the coffee from our flnca aey make for me here." Don fo sail "But perhaps you pre-wrican pre-wrican coffee. Most of your ; da It ham Vprv IfttU inmal wonderful," Anne said, sniff-?t sniff-?t full rich aroma. It must Deea American coffee she'd had !takfast She tasted it "It aderful! she cried. - Wvaro looked pleased. "Na-tastes "Na-tastes differ, of course," he quickly. customs and little puzzled. Is fow," Anne said .iir'Fn.' looked at h pauied. a,JUst ouotinir Vnil SAM 9 Alvaro lookprt nAni. , uie ocean . a - . .ui moineni. 8am n.....l- am . lu lovely, im nappy remembers. I was afraid he gotten." S ii a,u w. . j assea me i-inne thought eh- i B , -o " wW AC.fc 1C4 gnteB. u -.u a, . wuiu oniy mean - .aaness an(1 wlgdora ,s disturhtn I P eiow inside her. .'ro smiled faii Ir.:eJ sk you if tou wnid e pleasure of dining with 3 f. ' ne said. 4 love to," Anne ay brother-in-law says you jou care to go wonderful? iSilI,,frlendHr- Taussig f j onicJ i"itmTent Anne hes"ated. A quick little banner of fear fluttered on some inner rampart "Perfect-ly. "Perfect-ly. she said. "Shall you go too?" J1' J!rrtid not'" Don Alvar re-Plied. re-Plied. "I have many things to go over with my son. My brother-in-law and his daughter will accompa-ny accompa-ny you." v Anne stopped in the middle of the broad sun-baked Plaza Principal and looked around her in surprise. Five minutes before it had been crowded with people, teeming with motor cars, carts of all sorts, fruit venders and flower sellers. Now it was as empty as if an inaudible air-raid air-raid warning had been sounded, and life of every kind had taken miraculously miracu-lously to invisible shelters. It had happened so quickly that she could hardly believe it She looked at her watch. It was ten minutes past twelve. Then she remembered the siesta. Whatever changes the American Amer-ican occupation had made, it hadn't done away with that , For the next two hours everything stopped in Its tracks, and nobody would venture out in the broiling midday sun. Nobody No-body with any sense, anyway, she thought She looked around again. As a matter of fact it wasn't particularly hot actually, and the contrast of the sudden silence with all the movement move-ment and noise and blaring of horns was very pleasant She had set out to see the old city without realizing It flashed through her mind that he had been waiting there for her. what time it was, she realized, and she might just as well do it It was not until she crossed the cobbled road in front of the Cathedral Cathe-dral and started down Caleta San Juan, the steep lane that leads to the old gate, that she began to wish she had not been so energetic. It really was hot She stopped and looked back up at the Cathedral. As she turned around again, a man came out of one of the doorways near the bottom bot-tom of the street and took a few steps up the hill. Or he had done that before she turned, she thought suddenly, because it was hardly an instant before he wheeled about quickly so quickly that he could not have been aware she had seen him and disappeared into a doorway. Anne stopped abruptly. It was Miguel Valera. She had not been sure as he turned, but she was sure seeing his back in the three or four steps he took before he vanished. But why bad he vanished? He must have recognized her. For a moment she hesitated about going on down, and decided that would be sUly. As she got down there she was not quite sure which door 'he had gone into. They were close together, all open, all dark and dank inside, with zigzag stairs going up narrow wells. They were all seemingly deserted too. She went on without looking into any of them ... if he wanted to avoid her, that was his privilege. But as she passed one house she had a sharp feeling that she was being watched. A pmk otton curtain, stained brown with moisture, blew out of a second-story window and blew back again. Or haM of it did-the other half stopped, because some one was standing behind It looking down, watching, waiting for her to pass. . . . She quickened her step to toe bottom bot-tom of the hill and hurried through great gate set in the mass.ve Sictoess of the ancient at, Msral She crossed the ramp to the domed sentry box beside the protecting batSnent and turned around Sbe wasn't mistaken. It was iMJueL He Sriteec i sa'i the way his gray eyes smiled slow-Iy slow-Iy before his lips did. and the little habit he had of pulling down the C7l 0t hls rlsht coat aleeve. It was odd how many things she was aware of about him that she'd ordinarily never notice In people. - "I'm being crazy," she said to herself. There could be a dozen rea-sons rea-sons why he mightn't want to see her just then. Or be seen by her, she added with a vague sense of uh-easiness. uh-easiness. She glanced back at the door. A man was coming now who looked rather more as if he belonged there. He was small and dark, with a blue shirt open at the neck and cotton trousers and straw hat that had both seen better days He was coming down the hilL ; j Anne moved out to the sentry box and wandered aimlessly along, looking look-ing up at the blackened time-stained wall The man came through the gate and went down the ramp to the long pier stretching out into the shallow dirty water of the bay. The pier was empty except for a man at the far end leaning over the barrier, bar-rier, watching the harbor. Anne went back to the stone battlement bat-tlement in front of the pilastered gate, watching the two of them. The man at the end of the pier had turned and was coming back, stopping stop-ping once to level his camera at the seawall with the gardens and white round towers of Fortaleza shining above it. Anne leaned forward. for-ward. It was Mr. Richard Taussig in his yachting cap, with the breeze flapping his white linen trousers around his ankles the way it had on the promenade deck of the ship. She stepped quickly down from the ledge and slipped into the sentry sen-try box. Through the narrow slit in its circular wall she could see Taussig shade his eyes with his hand and look along the ramp. The man from the house In Caleta San Juan stopped from time to time to look down Into the muddy water. In a minute or two they would pass each other. Or would they? Anne waited. The Puerto Rican stopped again. Mr. Taussig was on the other oth-er side of the narrow pier taking another picture of La Fortaleza. Then, as casually as an ordinary tourist, he crossed over . within a couple of feet of the other man, and to all intents and purposes devoted himself to taking snapshots of the unlovely expanse of beach and wall under the Casa Blanca. Anne glanced at her watch. Eleven Elev-en minutes dragged slowly by on its tiny face before either of the two men below her moved the tourist or the native. It was a long time for anybody to stand in the broiling midday sun looking down into the mud. Then quite abruptly Mr. Taussig Taus-sig moved away and was coming up from the pier. Anne slipped quickly out of the sentry box and through the gate. The hill up under the wall to La Fortaleza was shorter than the other. oth-er. At the top, in front of the palace, pal-ace, she glanced back. Mr. Taussig Taus-sig was crossing the street headed up toward the Cathedral. . Anne looked at her watch again and waited, wait-ed, ostensibly interested in the simple sim-ple elegance of the palace facade and the handsome field blue-uniformed policeman on duty at the entrance. en-trance. It was less than three minutes min-utes before the Puerto Rican came slowly through the gate and disappeared disap-peared up the hilL "You can come in , and see the palace if you want to, miss," the policeman said. "Some other time." She smiled and turned across the tiny plaza into Fortaleza Street Richard Taussig bad certainly been waiting for the other man. If there was nothing illicit in their meeting, why had they gone to such elaborate trouble about it? And what did Miguel have to do with it? She walked slowly along the narrow nar-row street At the corner, as she waited to cross, she felt a light touch on her elbow. "What are you doing out at this hour. Miss Heywood?" Her heart gave an excited little leap as she turned. It was Miguel Valera. It flashed through her mind that he had been waiting there for ner . . to find out if she'd seen him. maybe. But that didn't matter, mat-ter, not really. : I've been seeing the city foot tour Number One," she answered gaily. "I do thIng' 1116 hard way. What you're doing out at this hour is more to the point?" He looked down at her, smiling. Ttn taking you to lunch," he said "Don't you know you'll be IIL wandering around in the sun and not eating?" , He hadn't answered her. but that didn't matter either. The sun had made her a little dizzy ... unless it was the light touch of his hand on her arm as he took it to guide her across the street "I'm so glad I'm here!" she said impulsively. His hand tightened for an instant Then he dropped it abruptly. Tm glad I came back home, noW" he said-rather quietly, it ,eemed to Anne, so that she looked Up at him quickly. "Weren't you always?" Of course." He laughed. "Let's go to the Mallorquina. Or have you been?" contixved) ' SEWING "ciRCLE 1 & 1947 V I 11-191 i a Flower Frock A BIG pink appliqued flower on a dark blue cross-bar cotton frock trimmed with contrasting ric-rac sounds pretty, doesn't it? It is and can be made in so many lovely color combinations! Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1947 is In sizes 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Size 13. short sleeves, requires 3 yards of 39-inch material; 8 yards ric-rac trim. Bolero Charm DRETTY as a picture, this little- girl jumper and bolero set is copied from grown-up's wearl Comfortable and dressy in a nice fabric, it's an all-spring and summer sum-mer choice for a small girll UnclaPklh Say 5: THE smallness of a man's wants has more to do with his independence inde-pendence than the greatness of his means. Your enemies will more often tell you the truth about yourself than your friends wilL Perhaps the lack of horses has something to do with the lack of good horse sense today. As you get into a disagreeable job you find it less and less so, and before long it is done. Life is said to be a slow,-painful process of shedding hair, teeth and illusions. illu-sions. Blind obedience is the foundation founda-tion of all dictatorships. A tightwad is one who saves his money for some spendthrift to spend. 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