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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEIII. UTAH . CARIBBEAN J! CONSPIRACY EI HUE ITT? IFIED M E N t o o f 1 VC?& rl Lit rv 1 T1 1 1 :-;i( M w JIPMENT D HP! I )R SALE .lit! Ot WeaUhy NCW !2 nubllsher, joes to Puer- . . sljnment lor her lather's ...'. ..1,-4 are Pete WU- . . ah IDS ir on - intelligence officer; ' prto Rlcan educated ''fij SUUfwho Is a secret U. . Cllteisu -neineer ESonCHlCKc'l "C!l 11 German agent is seiea wnn mist at dense as white "J, niixxi-t.rm.T- acclimated otlon. 0. 8. rnm testes' noma All lorstralKht PECIAUSTS f superior chicki I, money run, $u.oq Volume discount. .PULUT FARM UK. rJ.ot yet provefl; and Rut-lrf Rut-lrf ' . American engineer, ,rt'!,: -. who hat. flven Mr, me valuable plan.. Realizing it1""' n anna fo v, sue in ." , !B ' . meet Mr. Taussig. CHAPTER XVII 4.. L little hills aiong ujc huw.u i. small corneal aips oi nek red ice cream Escape. The narrow ,road, i and curving between the tt lanes cf flamboyants was hp verv beautiful. thought, when the trees were with bloom. ire are we going?" she asked. Taussig turned DacK wun a "I think we might tell her. iit we surprise her? e are going to a coffee planta Miss fleywood." Diego Gon ULES YS rselt l All maieji ina ierms se trailers Financed), 'll St, Sill Uli m, m Pll ' - i mtm sorted varietid rices on larti , Overtoo, Jit e road was full of Army trucks She kept thinking now easy aid be to call out to one of the i sunburnt boys at the wheel didn't do it. Then they were sing, the tires shrieking as they wound hairpin curves with n banks on one side and scarred L cuts on the other, in the face Se hill where they'd widened the Below them was a river and er plant. Mr. Taussig opened mide book and unfolded the map it back cover. Anne saw him a pencil out of his pocket, make cieonthe map and fold it again. straightened up a little, a sudden dawning in her mind. e map was not like the one in The island in the center was not the same size, or the color. It was more elaborate detailed and took up most of the while hers was a small rec ite in the middle of a lot of ocean. settled back in the corner feel- Diego Gongaro's eyes on her It was in the car again, the she'd felt on the way to the mill It was danger. the left the bank sloped across eld of cane to a narrow valley nachir lanri Sha nnnlri spa a cows grazing, and as they inded a sharp curve she saw a ion and black airplane sprawled the pasture, like a great ground- wasp. She sat quietly waiting. e road curved again, and they e up to a faded blue stucco wall fth a broad archway in the center. ey drove through open iron gates d pulled up at the house, blue ceo also, with dark balconies at upstairs windows, closed tight id heavily shuttered. Here we are," Gongaro said. He Inded her out onto the marble slab front of the door, then reached a the car and picked up her hand- Irchiet "-Is this yours. Se- ftrita?" Thanks," she said. "I'm always pt that." I know," Diego Gongaro said. ' She understood that the remark M some meaning, but not knowing N. let it go. The house is yours, as the Span-. 1 say, Miss Heywood," Taussig inger. Use E;-(coin). E;-(coin). Mtyt! :les, Califon , 1492 T ieir Livei st in ,blc: earliest a es throu; rst record: ,s made ttempt nocent VI. d, plus ecommer. ives mil to equat ease abraw lexaana, t dicated po-eve po-eve burniii ritated k apped fold tfcf o, but nr. IS VegeW flowers ,VtlM. iale puts j pound 20-1 be BlH SFaste tly fil'l irwork-J fail f -sined. tin' He followed her into the cool fdy- we irony in. bis voice tapped pt a sharp warning in thp hank of Prhead. Upstairs, please. Miss Hev- pood," Diego Gongaro said. He enea a double door at the top of t stairs. "There is your storv. Miss Hev- d," Taussig said. He nnintpd to 9 Plane lying in the field. Ame waited. She was not afraid - It was as if the alert had funded, and she was ready, every lcve poised and keen. flease - sit down, Miss Hey- aod," . Bis whole intonation and the rigid 5sture of his body made it sound sactly as if he'd said. "Ritteset, e Sie sich, Fraulein." She hadn't gnt of him that wav hpfnrp Khp f3t (lown- Gongaro movpd tn th ry and stood there, his hands fdhis ack twitching impatient- I . BpiIlUiCS Oi UlfS wiustrade Anne could see a man ;Msuig the field to the plane. It , " their chauffeur. sh tall LWs cap and the ouUine of his She looked back at Taussig. He l . o ytu me lasiener oi ms r' casp ck . It waiunea cauniy as r Wok out a small M ..- jc and put it on the desk beside . j" She wasn't frightened. It came a her win, . i .. lt uursi oi someuung yv that she wasn't on, Mr. Taussig," she said. snow. Pete Wilcox sat behind the driver and the soldier with him, perched up in the topless vehicle built for speed over rough terrain and not Tor looks. He hung on with one hand and held the ear phone of the two-way radio to his ears. , The first message had come through as he passed the barracks at Cayay. "Calling p.j;w. Calling P.J.W." Then the code. Their car was leaving leav-ing the Granada. He was waiting impatiently. "Acting on Information Received," as they put it in C 2, it wasn't the first time since he'd left San Juan at 4:45 that the ghastly doubt had come to him that Information Infor-mation Received might have been cooked up especially to get him out here. He waited. "Calling P.J.W. ' Call-ing Call-ing P.J.W." the soft monotonous voice said in his ear. Their car was passing Fort Buchanan. He looked at the spot on his map that was supposed to be their desti. nation, and settled back, grim-faced and hard-eyed. They had begun to descend the other side of Cordillera. The scout car swayed from side to side around the hairpin curves. The soldier in front of him was pale green but not actively sick . . . yet . "This about it, sir?" he called back over his shoulder. The bank dropped down below them in a tropical trop-ical jungle, lush and green and dense. "We want an iron gate on the right," Pete said. "Okay, sir." They made another sharp turn. "That it, sir?" Pete saw it at the same time, set in a ten-foot hedge "Go ""Plane i it, "-tiuacivea are no iuuk- Ect Spur ... 'Tv rernaps you know that" iQat Dlan . :.. TT soon said eurtly. "As you will edth "colored field car mount i0c"!steeP road above Cayay. Two 4t d fc " f Ught reache1 out m !pra . The sharp empty curves hi relief and vanished to jckness as the powerful motor nL h naked banks- Below alley were heavily blan- "Go on, Mr. Taussig," she said, of hibiscus and roses. It was a high ornamental grille, barred, bolted and tied with a chain. A sign in Spanish Span-ish said "Private Property. Beware of the Dogs." The driver grinned. "I guess they don't want anybody to come see em, Captain.; Around the first half circle of the winding road beyond the gate the driver pulled into the bank. "Okay, sir," he said. "Him and me are surveying this road. That the idea, sir?" Pete nodded. "Be careful you don't get run over." They got out instruments and set them up. Pete waited with the earphone ear-phone on his head. He was getting jumpy again. He had recognized the voice on the phone. Its owner was to meet him here if and when, he thought. He lighted a cigarette. The hands on the clock on the dash and the hands of his watch moved together in a slow conspiracy. Finally Fi-nally it came, low and monotonous. "Calling P.J.W. -Calling P.J.W." Their car was going through May-aquez. May-aquez. Borinquen was signing off. The rest was up to him. He took the phones off and jumped out of the car. "Get going, boys," he said. "A man's coming. He'll ask for me. I'll be up that mule track. Keep your eye on the road below. A black car will go in the gate. Give it half an hour, and then park across in front so nobody can get out and sit tight" "Oh, boy!" the driver said. He saluted with a broad grin. "Yes, "Don't shoot unless somebody pulls a gun. Shoot hell out of anybody any-body who does." He made his way up the mule track through the coffee trees. It was cool and green under the ferny branches covering them with shade. He kept climbing, trying to get the idea out of his head that he might be walking into some kind of a trap for himself as well as Anne. At last he came out into a clear flat patch of ground and looked down. He could see a valley below and the red-tiled roof of the house. Beyond it be caught the gleam of the sun on the shiny nose of a tn- motored plane. Suddenly he straightened up at a new sound in the stillness of the green mountain top, dropped his cig-arette, cig-arette, put his foot on it and waited, his face grim and his jaw tight Miguel Valera was coming up the mule track. He. came into the clearing and topped. For moment the two of them stood looking at each other wtih steady appraisal. Miguel Valera Va-lera came forward. . "We're going to start down," he said. "We can get there before they do. If you don't mind doing as I tell you, there ought not to be any trouble. We have plenty of time." "Bffore we go," pete said quietly, quiet-ly, "I'd like to know where you stand in this business." "At the moment my chief interest is Miss Heywood," Valera answered evenly. "The rest of it is up . to you. I'd like to keep out of sight if possible, for reasons of my own. If I can't, Okay. Are you ready?" Pete looked at him for an Instant In-stant "All set" he said. They crossed a ravine and started up a rounding slope. "What about your people?" Pete asked. JThe peons?" "Yes." s "They're all right The common people have an idea what democracy democra-cy means, even out here." The road ahead of them was lined with royal palms. A man came riding out of an archway in the blue stucco wall He nodded at Miguel and set off down the road. They crossed the dirt compound and entered the house. "Upstairs," Miguel said. "I don't get your part in all this," Pete said. "Whose side are you on?" "My people's," Miguel said calmly. calm-ly. "That depends on your point of view, doesn't it?" "I think not Be quiet They're coming." Pete looked a't him In the half-dark. half-dark. It could still be a trap. i "It is a story. Miss Heywood," Mr. Taussig said, "that I should not have told, you lf you'd minded your own business. Perhaps I should be as concise as possible, because time is precious." Anne crossed her knees and leaned back in her chair. "There is not much point in your taking notes, since unfortunately you will not be able to write the story. I'm telling it to you to keep my end of the bargain, and because there is a little writing I'm going to ask you to do. And please, Miss Heywood, don't be so detached. It's annoying.' If you think this is a joke, you are quite wrong." "I'm just interested, Mr. Taussig." Taus-sig." She spoke calmly. It was the fatalism of the end of the road. It was even a pleasure to be able to make him angry. He recovered from his annoyance. "You may remember the five gentlemen gen-tlemen you spied on under the courtyard court-yard stairs night before last" he said. "If you had not left your handkerchief hand-kerchief there we might not have realized how stupid you were being." be-ing." "He doesn't know Miguel was there," Anne thought "It was stupid," stu-pid," she said. "The gentlemen three of whom are with you today feel that something some-thing must be done to save their work. For your . . , story, our work is simply to render the Gibraltar Gi-braltar of America hors de combat when the signal is given." He tapped his brief case. , "The plans are simple and very carefully organized. I regret there isn't time to go into them in detail. I think I hear the motor of our plane being tuned up. We have a skeleton organization, however, that will function. The plane you see out there, for instance, serves a dual purpose. It brings money, and it brings ammunition. Both are downstairs in the storage rooms we passed, under a couple of feet of coffee beans which, since tne mar ket is so bad, Don Alvaro wisely refuses to sell" Does Don Alvaro know about it?" Anne asked slowly. "Don Alvaro," said Mr. Taussig, has the old-fashioned idea that wars are fought and won or lost on the field of honor." "How very quaint of him." A cobra glint shone in the con centric circles of his spectacles for an instant ; His brother-in-law, however, has the modern notion of the bloodless war. When the time comes, for in- J stance, your Panama Canal will rail with very little loss of life, and quite intact" "I wouldn't count on it too heav ily," Anne said. As you won l De nere to see h. Miss Heywood, you can take my word that it will. There are a great many Sue Porters in the world." He reached under nis coat. hroueht a tiny camera oui oi ui concealed pocket in his sleeve and out it on the table. "I was aoie to micru-puoiugrnjju the charts before you stole them, fortunately. One of the notes I will require you to write will be to Mrs. Porter, telling her where you put Kpm So. if you will just take this pen. Miss Heywood, and write as I dictate, we will get under way. (TO BE CONTINUIOI Porch Suppers Furnish Tonic For Appetites AV.W.,NvWSVV.W,VWWV i V v y ' i t I Y V U'"i :i - r i Serve the family quickly prepared cool drinks made wih flavored powders. pow-ders. They're economical and can be made in a flash by any member of the family. Save Used Fats! Wise homemakers will plan porch suppers for warm evenings. Not only will the family fam-ily enjoy the gay Informality of the porch but the, changing of mealtime meal-time locale just naturally will pep up lagging of appetites ap-petites that warm weather brings. Checked cloths in bright colors will carry out the simplicity of theme that is customary when you "rough it" on the porch, or if you have them, fringed cloths or bric-a-brac edged ones will do fine. Centerpieces of fruit from the orchard or-chard or big bowjs of colorful vegetables vege-tables will dress, up the table. Fat candles in squatty glasses will add a homey touch to supper, and the family will love to linger over the tabje just chatting until the last candle can-dle bums low. All this promotes a nice social atmosphere which we call home, and that you'll ngree is important! im-portant! J Keep to the simple and sensible with food and try to have foods combined com-bined on one platter so there aren't too many trips to the kitchen. Meat and vegetables can go on one plat ter, salad in a bowl, rolls in a basket and dessert on one plate, everyone dishing out for himself in "help your' self' style. Barbecued chicken is an appetite bracer and so colorfully golden brown it will make an immediate bid for attention at the porch sup per: Barbecued Chicken. Yi cup catsup 2 tablespoons vinegar Yi cup salad oil 1 large onion, grated 1 clove garlic, crushed 2 teaspoons salt V H teaspoon pepper Dash of cayenne Pinch of thyme Chicken, cut in pieces Combine ingredients in order given, giv-en, stirring until salt is dissolved. Let stand several hours or overnight. Brush over chicken just before broiling. broil-ing. Broil in a hot oven 20 to 30 minutes,, turning frequently, and basting again with sauce, until chicken is cooked thoroughly. If sauce is kept for more than overnight, over-night, remove garlic clove. Veal on Skewers. Cut boneless veal in pieces Vk Inches square by about inch thick. Place on wooden skewers, alternating alternat-ing meat with slightly smaller chunks of peeled potato, carrot and whole, small onions. on-ions. Lay skew ers in roasting pan with 1 cup hot water and salt to taste. Cover and bake in a hot oven 1 to 1 hours Lynn Chambers' Point-Saving Menu Veal on Skewers Beet Greens with Diced Beets Whole Wheat Biscuits Butter Raspberry Drink Strawberry Meringue Pie. Recipes given. Lynn Saya Spring Vegetable Tips: Cut string beans with scissors. It saves time and fingers. Carrots peel easily if blanched in boiling water for two or three minutes. To retain the red color of beets, always cook them with about two inches of their stem left on when boiling. Old coffee percolators are excellent ex-cellent for cooking asparagus. Stand asparagus in percolator, add boiling water, adjust cover and cook. The tips steam beautifully beauti-fully while the stems are cooked to perfect tenderness. To wash spinach, use warm water wa-ter rather than cold. It loosens the sand from the leaves. until meat is tender. Garnish with broiled bacon. . Save Used Fatsl For a quick supper dish you might try this meat pie, flavor-rich and economy-wise: Hamburger Noodle Pie. . . (Serves 6) 1 pounds hamburger M cup milk K cup fine, soft bread crumbs t tablespoons onion, minced 1 tee. slightly beaten . Salt and pepper to taste Dot buttered noodles Combine all ingredients except noodles and pat mixture into bottom and sides of pie plate. Bake In a moderate oven (350 degrees) 45 minutes. min-utes. To serve, fill center with hot buttered noodles and dust with paprika. pap-rika. Don't forget the lovely spring greens when it comes to adding color col-or to the table and vitamins to your diet t Wilted Greens. 1 small onion, chopped M cup bacon fat H enp mild vinegar Greens ' Cook onion in bacon fat until yellow, yel-low, then add vinegar. ' When heated through, add greens and cook until just wilted. Season with salt and pepper and serve hot Mixed Spring Greens (Serves 6) , . , ., pound beet greens - H pound dandelion greens 1 teaspoon lemon juice teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk Vi pound chicken livers, sau-teed sau-teed and cut fine Cook and drain greens. Add lem on juice and salt. Pack into buttered mold or loaf pan and place in oven to keep warm. In the meantime, melt butter, blend in flour and add milk. Stir while cooking until smooth and thick. Add chicken liv ers. Turn mold onto platter and pour sauce over them. Beet Greens With Diced Beets. , (Serves 6) 1 pound beet greens-1 greens-1 cups cooked beets, cubed ii cup melted butter Salt and pepper to taste Cook greens , until tender and drain. Add beets, butter, salt and pepper, mixing until blended. Serve piping hot. .4 V A- This veal wheel will turn a new trick for your porch suppers. Pieces of veal, carrots, potatoes and onions all go on wooden skewers to make up the colorful platter and adds new design de-sign to menus. ' You'll want desserts that aren't too rich and are easy to prepare. Berries are good and in season now: Strawberry Meringue Pie. 2 cups milk 1 package vanilla pudding 2 beaten egg yolks M teaspoon vanilla extract 1 9-inch baked pastry shell 1 cup strawberries Gradually add milk to pudding, stirring constantly. Cook over low heat until thick. Add part of hot pudding to egg yolks; stir in remaining remain-ing hot pudding. Cool slightly; add vanilla. Pour into shell. Place strawberries straw-berries on top of filling. Pile on meringue. ' For Meringue: 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water 2 egg whites cop confectioners' sugar 1 cop crashed strawberries 1 teaspoon lemon juice Soften gelatin in cold water; dis solve over hot water. Combine remaining re-maining ingredients. Beat until thick; add gelatin. Continue beating beat-ing until mixture forms peaks. Save Used Fats! Get the most from your meal! Get your meal roasting chart from Miss Lynn Chambers by writing to her in care of W tstern Newspaper Union, 210 South Vesplaines street, Chicago 6, III. flease send stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Westvn Newspaper Union, J r . i fx j matches. Buttoned bonnet is made I of one flat piece for ease in iron-!lng. Two appliques are given a bright tulip and a tiny kitten's head. Let little Sister choose which one siie wants on her play suit! To obtain pattern for play ault pinafore, sun hat and two applique' patterns (Pattern (Pat-tern No. 5328) (adjustable for sizes 2 3-4) lend 16 centi In coin, your name and address ad-dress and the pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders for a few ol the most popular pattern numbers. 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