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Show Thursday, November 16, 1914 THE MR.WNKLE PRATT THE STORY THUS FAR: Wilbert Winkle, who operates a shop In the alley back ol bis home. Is notified by his draft board that he Is He breaks the bad news to Amy, in bis domineering wife, who becomes suddenly tender. Mr. Winkle Is sent to a thousand miles from Camp Squibb, After graduating from Motor home. Mechanics school, Mr. Winkle goes home on a furlough. Amy hardly knows him, and his dog, Penelope, barks at him furiously. After returning to camp Mr. Winkle aDd his friend, Mr. Tinker, are sent to a point of embarkation. Soon they And themselves on the high seas, in a big convoy. They meet some of their friends aboard and are encouraged. repair CHAPTER XI At lunch time they were at last told where they were going. Nothing was said about the main convoy. From the beginning it had been planned to send them to the island of Talizo, one of the steppingstones in the retrieving of certain precious stones stolen by the Japanese when no one was looking. The south end of the island had been captured by American forces, along with an airfield conveniently just completed by the Japs, who still held the northern half of Talizo. They would land some time the next morning. Mr. Winkle searched in his guidebook for the entry under Talizo. To SEU1G W.N.U. RELEASE "Now, now." cautiond Mr. tual fighting seemed remote and un"We're here to protect them, real. that's all." They saw nothing of the enemy 'Sure," said Mr. Tinker. "Sure." and heard nothing of him. There He twisted his head, to keep in sigfet were so few evidences of his existas long as he could what he looked ence that they were hardly worth forward to protecting. while. Even the two cots in their On the far side of the village the tent hadn't been vacated by dead jungle began, a monstrous growth of men, but by men who had contractpalms, lianas, bushes, vivid flowers, ed tropic fever and been sent home. breadfruit trees, and banana plaats. The native girls ran when Mr. TinkInto this they marched along a nar- er made approaches; they didn't row white shell road that threw up trust any human being in a solheat in nearly suffocating waves. dier's uniform. All In all, Mr. Tinker was very They began to sweat. They came to a tent so cleverly much disgusted. He said he might t his camouflaged that they failed to make as well be home working it all out at once. It was painted plumbing, and he told Mr. Winnie he the exact color of the vegetation. might as well be home in his shop. Limbs of trees grew over its roof. Mr. Winkle, on the other hand, Nets, to which branches were at- could not conceal from himself the tached and sprayed a permanent fact that he was pleased. He green, covered it in other places. breathed easier, thinking that if this The jungle was honeycombed with was all there was to it, it wasn't so such tents, some of them small, some bad. To the north, he knew, lay of them large enough to house a the airfield and the main part of the small circus. Again Mr. Winkle felt American forces of occupation. And safe. He told himself nothing could farther on there was jungle fighting happen to him in such a hidden in- where men stalked each other stallation. He had to through the undergrowth and sniped make a landing amidst a hail of from the trees. But this was not bullets and exploding bombs. his business, and he came into conAt their first meal in the mess tact with none of those whose affair tent they tasted new foods, potatoit was. like taro, papaya, and wild chicken. Mr. Tinker hoped to be sent north Mr Tinker spat most of them out on some mission. "It's the only tnd took to what he called civilized way I can see for me to get me my dishes also provided. Mr. Winkle Jap," he said. swallowed them, if not with relish, at Mr. Winkle didn't understand how least with pleasure in their proving he could expect this. "You'd be on how definitely he was on a tropic other duty," he pointed out. island. "Not all the time I won't," Mr. The newcomers were asked such a Tinker said. "You wouldn't tell anybarrage of questions that they had body," he pleaded, "if I went off little chance to put any of their own. for a while, would you, Pop?" The few they managed to get in won't do any such thing," were mostly answered with a lifting Mr."You Winkle scolded. of the shoulders. One man jerked Mr. Tinker remained silent, lookhis thumb toward the north and said, ing glum but determined. "We're just sitting each other out." Mr. Tinker had only contempt for The Messrs. Winkle and Tinker the south tip of the island, to which reported to one of the shops, where he and Mr. Winkle were sent sevMr. Tinker was at the times to rescue vehicles in difequipment and Mr. Winkle was im- eral ficulties. He could hope to find no pressed. Japs there. The shore was lined comreconnaissance and Trucks, fox mand cars, and jeeps and peeps with American machine-guwere driven into spacious tents holes, and it was here that the Alwhich held as complete equipment phabet, to his chagrin, was staas to be found at home. The canvas tioned. Sergeant Czeideskrowski and his sides were rolled up for ventilation, crew, including Freddie and Jack, a them of air pleasant being giving outdoors. The familiar smell of oiled agreed with Mr. Tinker about their in the war. Nothing, they felt, machinery and carbon monoxide part fumes reached their nostrils. These would happen in the portion given to They had come thousands of perfumes were more heartening them. than the sweet, curious odors of the miles to sit and watch and wait for action that would never materialize. jungle 'with which they competed. with Mr. Winkle overThey as Men like themselves, trained looked that when you are in they had been, following the same a war the fact you are in a war. procedures, labored over the vehiAwakened early one morning, Mr. cles, one of which had its entire Winkle and Mr. Tinker were told to rear end missing as if it had been to the orderly tent on the torn off with a violent hand. The report Their Commanding men looked up, gazing idly, curious- double-quicOfficer l6oked grim when he told ly, or with interest at the newcomers. Only once did they pause In them: "Hop in a jeep and get down to their quick, deft attentions to the motors. A radio, abruptly turned Post Number Nine. Repair a com- on, buzzed and crackled for a moment, and then from it came the clear, assured announcement: "This is the United States of America." The men went still for an instant, taking it in. They glanced at each other and some of them smiled briefly, almost shyly. As the short-wav- e program went on, giving the news from home, they returned to work with an added zest. Mr. Winkle couldn't suppress a tingle that went through him and a choking in his throat. It quieted the queasy feeling in his stomach. It made him know that the jungle of Talizo, at least this part of it and more to come, was the U. S. A. When a mail went out, Mr. Winkle was allowed to write only the barest information to Amy. He refrained from saying much for the double reason of living up to the censorship regulations and not caring to frighten her. He omitted certain things he discovered in his paradise, such as malaria, dysentery, white ants with a pincers attack worse than any war maneuver ever conceived, and mosquitoes so profuse that a net over the bed served only to trap them inside where they could concentrate their attack. Mr. Winkle was allowed to write It must, he thought, be enough of a strain for Amy not even to know only the barest Information to Amy. where he was beyond the fact that he was in the South Seas area. He mand car you'll find there and bring kept to the cheery things, such at it back. Don't waste any time. the taste of roasted wild pig, and There' mist off the shore. Anythe crawfish, shrimp, and prawns. thing can come out of it." Mr. Winkle's heart leaped at be He described the flowers, and dwelt on the hibiscus, which be thought saluted with Mr. Tinker and hurwent better with the tropica than ried out "Something," taid Mr. Tinker. "It anything else. He told her about the parrots and cockatoos of the Jun- up." Mr. Winkle wat very much afraid gle, and bow the air was filled with that thit might be so. "Nine," be the color of flashing wings. He said there were no cannibals taid. "That'a the Alphabet" At the motor park tent they found about just then, but he hoped eventually to see one. He described war the men on duty there had the tame as being nothing at all like what be tense attitude. "You'd better take had expected, and assured her that tome extra cartridge dipt," they he would be back tome day. "No were told. These were given to Jap bullet hat my nam on it," them. drove out Mr. Winkle didn't They be wrote. He pondered on whether or not he like the extra cartridge clips, but should leave thit in. It was boast- he did feel better to have rifles slung ing a little, for he hid yet to hear a alongside the bouncing car. When they reached the road runshot fired on either tide. In the end he let the ttatement go, deciding it ning south along the shore, they was reatsuring more than anything taw the mist Between hillocks of else. And he didn't want to give the beach ridge they could make It her the impression that be really out standing like a wall several hundred yards offshore, mysterious, wasn't In the war. Mr. Tinker wst in It to little that dangerous, unreasonable. It made Mr. Tinker enthusiastic. he didn't think much of Talizo at When truck wat "The Jsps know we're about ready battleground. few bullet holes to push them in the face In the brought In with through Its body. It wtt a matter of north." be held. "Mebb they'll take tome curiosity. And the buRets had thit chance." JTO BK CONTINUED) been fired to far away that the ac low-lyin- half-sunke- brown-skinne- d For Quick Cough mm Relief, Mix This Syrup, at Home No Cooking. No Work. Real Saving. Here's an old home mixture, your mother probably u.sed, but, for real results. 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Soak an old chicken in vinegar few hours to make and water for a it tender. kle. n his satisfaction he found that the island had cannibals. It was, in fact, noted for them. Late that afternoon a collection of dark dots came out of the sinking sun ahead of them. The gun crews of their own and the other ships sprang to their stations, alert and tense. But soon word was passed about that these were their own planes, come to protect them in that most dangerous of all times, dusk on the sea. No enemy, from under, on, or over the sea appeared either that night or at dawn when the planes returned to take up their vigil and escort the convoy to port Land, now made out boldly, was g shore reachteen to be a ing up abruptly to a towering volcanic mountain ridge running along the far side of Talizo. It was a scene of such beauty as to be very nearly unreal. As they approached closer, here and there the white wisp of a waterfall could be seen throwing itself down from the mountain jungles and disappearing into the thick ereen trrowth below. That war and the killing and maiming of mep. could exist on this peaceful looking island did not seem credible. Looking at it, all you wanted to do was to land here, among the palm trees on the white sandy shore and spend the rest of your life. Mr. Winkle and his several thousand companions gazed at it with The island awe and wonderment. was almost the thing for which Mr. Winkle searched, and he wondered if he would find it here. Mr. Winkle's impression of landing was not one of danger, but ot fascination. Their troopship was the first vessel through the mine field and the opening made by small tug drawing back the boom of the submarine net. Almost 'efore the anchor was down in the harbor, landing nets were being thrown over the tides of the thip and boats lowered. They climbed down, packing themselves in the lifeboats. Three of these, tied together, were pulled by a launch to one of the picrt. The n men stared at a supply ship they passed. Soma of them Identified shore batteries placed on either point of the harbor. It was hot on land after the tea at they marched through town. Passing by the thatched huts, they taw that most of them were vacant. Only here and there were they occupeople whose pied by large dark eyes gazed at them apathetically. A few of them were glrlt clad In a simple garment of printed cloth which left one shoulder bare and outlined the rest of their tlim bodies to their kneet. "Whadda you know?" breathed Mr. Tinker. "Whadda you know?" liTTi;ilS Win- d It was hot on land after the sea as they marched through town. 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