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Show THR Thursday, December 9, 1943 la'T 4! TMnTn A A She shook her head. "It wouldn't be enough, for either of us, Miguel." And now she was going home. She'd written notes to everybody, even Pete, because she didn't want any one to see her, and see she was unhappy. Valera, a Puerto Rican educated a the United States who is a secret U. S. ent; and Richard Taussig, n engineer hose Identity as a German agent Anne elps to prove. When Mr. Taussig offers er the story of his activities In Puerto tico in exchange for some plans he binks she has, Anne goes with him to a emote villa. She gets her story, and Intelligence gets its man. She has Indicated her judgment. Siguel The Santa Isabella steamed slowThe ly through the blinding snow. dumpy gray-greefigure of the Statue of Liberty loomed mistily ahead. Anne Heywood pulled her beaver coat closer around her and leaned against the rail, the icy flakes of snow sharp against her cheeks. She was coming home. In a few moments she'd be in New York again. Her CHAPTER XIX father and mother would be at the He sat at a desk in what seemed dock to meet her. She took a deep breath and wiped o Anne a combination study and the snow of! her long dark lashes. iffice, filled with cabinets and dark teavy furniture. She waited a lit-l- e It was wonderful! It was wonderful breathlessly for him to speak, to be cold again, and smell the smoke, and hear the low bellow of lis eyes were kindly, wise and fog horns and the sharp high toot of understanding. "I'm going to talk very frankly the tugboats going busily back and aid perhaps very cruelly to you, my forth. How she'd ever thought for a hild," he said slowly. "Because I minute she could leave it, she didn't link you are very intelligent and I cannot speak to my 3 on, because he is deeply in love Women are jid not n VJL dear-sighte- clear-sighte- J ! - j i i twists, men romanticists." "t suppose that's true, really," Inne said. "I don't want you to marry my on, Anne. Or him to marry you. love him very deeply, and I have i very warm and genuine feeling or you. That's why I'm speaking o you. I don't want either of you o be unhappy. I am saying to you vhat I believe your father would ay if he were here." She looked at him silently. The dea that she wasn't acceptable as t Staughter-in-lacame as a shock, n spite of everything she knew. "There are many reasons. Before met you and talked to you, if my on had told me he was going to narry an American girl I would lave forbidden it with all the I have. Knowing you has nade it difficult, because I have ived a long time and known many romen, and I know I would have alien in love with you had I been iigueL I should even like to have ou for av daughter, if it could always be as it is this moment. I say hat very sincerely, Anne." tye came over to her and put his lands gently on her shoulders. ' Look at me, Anne." She looked up, her eyes wide and parkling with tears. "You're very beautiful," he said, there were tears in his eyes, too. 'I don't want to see your wings lipped and your .spirit dulled. We vouldn't mean to do it You wouldn't nean to hurt us. It's circumstance. Jo back to your own people and your iwn life. This is not it You could tot understand our needs and our We could not understand labits. ours. None of us would be happy, jjon't want you to answer me now. want you to think about it If you lecide to stay, we will love you, and te as kind to you as we can. God (less you, my child." ... I wouldn't want you to be I wouldn't want you to be locile and . . . and domesticated I wouldn't want ind I'm afraid. ny . . . my family to absorb you. aid make you " ' "And . . . they'd try, wouldn't hey?" motionless for a while, t' fie satnodded slowly. v.hcn he " Ard I'd rebel . . . and we'd , . ve'd all be unhappy," Anne aid gently. desperate "Oh, Anne!" It was teartbroken groan as he drew her o him. She put her hand up and brushed ler trembling fingers against his lark hair. "Oh, don't please don't!" she tfcispered. "I'd better write I j on the porch of the Her bam had gone to the lock, and she was waiting, her thceks pale and her eyes dry at ast, for Miguel to come and take er to the ship. It had been harder rven than she'd thought She could till see him haggard and unhappy, ind still hear his pleading voice . . . rven after they'd both decided his Lher was right "But we'd always have each oth-, Anne." It was tne last desperate lea of his heart. "I love you so. fou're all I want Anne i WING sat Gra-lad- a. alci-kum- The sailors let down the ropes and slipped the gangplank into place. Anne ran across to the long ramp, looking for her father and mother in the crowd of people waving and laughing. Suddenly she saw them. "Angels!" she cried. "Oh gosh, it's swell to see you!" Her mother's mink coat was cool and sweet against her face, and her father's chin was rough and slightly stubbly, as it always wa3 by the end of the day. "It's so wonderful to see you!" Her father blew his nose violent- ly. "There's a friend of yours around here somewhere," he said. "There he is." . For a moment Anne stood there, perfectly still. BACK SOHOW . &MD HOfF AL GOODMAN Annie," ox Captain said. " What on earth here?" Peter grinned. "I've been wasn't I ngton. the front-lin- e He looked enough good trenches." for a moment. Then he grinned again, took her arm and elbowed her through the crowd the car at her for intently to them in the wintry j th' Wilc- transferred to Washi- waiting street for i i n i i k m 'n v mm flames. crackling Suddenly Pete jerked his cigarette into the fire and took a quick stride toward her. He stood for a moment bent looking down at the bright Then he raised gripped her arms. he said. 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The ship nosed into the dock. t. . Our poodby is a shortened form "God be with ye." "So long" is thought to be an American corHIha TfHftrB nrit.iniK of the word salaam AMiKKAs a to i Mmnre v?S.oa S.. ruption ("peace") as heard in the Moslem "Salaam greeting meaning1 "May peace be unto Dinosaur Eggs you," perhaps brought to America by Moslem slavers, or African The eggs of the great dinosaurs slaves. probably were as big as footballs of what wasn't alive "I couldn't live without you," be touch of his hands, and the new dewhispered. termined iron in his voice. "I can't, Pete I can't" she whisknow. The first sharp stinging rain pered. chilling her bones had done someHe drew her to him and held her thing extraordinary to her. Everything had fallen into place with a hard and tight against him, his lips flash of breath-takinclarity. She hot against her hair. Then he raised her head and kissed her lips. She looked back, a little pain still movin head her her heart, ing perfectly clung to him desperately. "Oh, Pete! What t fool I was! clear again. Don Alvaro was right. She'd have Don't let me go . . , ever, ever!" The tears sprang clear from her been a mess. She'd either have gone militantly feminist like the long curling lashes and poured down He held her close in women of her mother's day who her cheeks. Anne clung to Miguel holding her the White House, and his arms, kissing them away. picketed d in his her arms, kissing Ightly chucked her weight about objecting "You're mine, Anne . . . you've face. to customs and manners that didn't always been mine. I couldn't live In on his car the beach to They were her, make sense, or she'd have without you," he whispered. "My icross the bay at Palo Secco. The given in. But - she wouldn't have sweet rny sweet" Ights of El Morro dipped, wavering done that. She moved away a little, still holdibbons on the dark surface of the But it was funny how quickly the ing tightly to his arms, and looked ter. cold fog had dissolved it all. around ber slowly. Then she looked "You do love me, Anne, don't like wintry an orchid when the frost back at him. ou?" he whispered. "Don Alvaro was right" she said touches it Though not really. Don "Oh, terribly. Miguel . . too. It aoftly. "This is where I belong." was a.out Alvaro that right in "I know it will be hard for you, He took her in bis arms agala had got mixed into her, some way. ots of ways." he said gently. "This and is where you belong. Annie, softening warming something She looked at him quickly then. that had been too brittle and cold And don't ever forget it" le must have realized what was go- before. Her I THE END spirit was richer than it ng on in her mind all the time . , . ind if he did, it meant that it must te going on in his too. "Miguel! You . . . you're afraid oo . . . aren't you?" Her voice was hardly more than a vhisper. He didn't answer for a moment Then he said, "I am, a little, Anne. Jut not because I wouldn't always ove you. It's because you're you. I wouldn't want anything to lappen to you. You're so lovely Origin of Goodby had been she knew better now life was about. And there any pain now. She laughed sudden ly. It was marvelous to be . . and to be home again. He ' , ' ( tear-rtaine- i PAGE SEVEN TTERNSJL Pd CONSPIRACY!! Ck THE STORY SG FAR: Anne Heywood, atiful daughter of a wealthy New 'ork newspaper publisher, goes to Puer-- o Rico on an assignment for her father's aper. Also on the island are Pete Wil-oa reporter on her father's paper, officer; iow ft U. S. Army Intelligence i UTAH T TV S-- E III j NEPHI, TIMES-NEW- by the quality of the vaccine tjsed. Cutler Vaccines and Serums ere not produced for the buyer who wants to save two cents on a hundred dol-lanimal. 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