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Show Page Six- - -- BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, Over But the fpff,All WfRicharS Powel- l- SKootiltq" ff f 'W AN U AriD D iMKnlNU THE 8 TORT TBI'S FAR: Lt Andy assigned to Operations, was at ret-absurprised by the arrival of his mitt, Arab, who had com to Washington to sake Job with Ordnance. On the bos while looking for living quarters for Arab, aba sld the was going to write down all f the loose talk taking place on the bus. While she was In the act she was noticed and the cry of "Spy" rang oat. Arab and Andy were able to Jump off the bus, bat In following her Andy tripped and passed out When he came to the FBI questioned him, and he told all about Arab's work, and that she had been mistaken for a spy. Andy was told to be tore that Arab did not interfere, but rather to report to FBI In the future. BUk, IMNCR ly CHAPTER IH "Andy! Please, Andy. You've got to help me. You" I jammed my foot on the starter. "Am I? You aren't staying here." She wrenched out of my grip, Bung open the car door, and jumped to the sidewalk. She turned for a moment. "And if you won't help," she choked, "I'll do it alone." Her heels clattered on the walk and up the curved steps and then the door opened and she was gone. I sat there in the car. I sat there doing nothing. I wish I could even claim that dozens of reckless plans boiled through my head. Only one plan went through my head, and it limped through. I wanted to call a cop. That, of course, might be the Tery worst thing to do. It would identify Arab publicly as the girl In the white raincoat without solving any of the mystery. Probably I would have waited there until arrested for overtime parking if the problem hadn't been decided for me. The door of the g Q Street house opened and a guy came out. He was tall and had shoulders which crowded the doorway. He eased himself down the steps and came, limping slightly, to my car. 'A guy wants to see you outside. Jack," he said. 'I don't get it," I said. "What's the idea?" He drawled, "Are you coming out nice, or do I dig for you?" I wasn't happy. The Army likes Its officers to stay out of trouble, and has a few dozen regulations to that effect. You can get a court for a street brawl. But this case seemed to call for taking a chance. I shucked off my blouse and cap, so that I wouldn't be wearing any insignia, and started to get out of the ear on his side. That was a mistake. I was only half out when he hit me. My head bounced off the door frame and got caught in a cross-riof short hooks. It felt like having my head rattled in a giant dice box. Galahad was smiling. He could have dropped me with a real punch but he didn't try. He seemed to be having fun. I got a foot up against his ribs and shoved hard. He staggered back and fell in the hedge and I had a chance to scramble out. There wasn't time to clear my head. The big boy came off the .hedge like a fighter using the ropes, and rushed me. . Then, instead of dropping off to 'sleep, I found my head clearing. I 'had been doing a little instinctive work on his groceries and he didn't like it He was trying to push me ' away. That was swell I got a stance and threw good hooks at his middle as fast as I could. He was tough. It was like hitting an underinflated tire. He would take a lot of softening. He I looked down, blinking. The guy SANCTUM MYiTEHY ANDY BLAKE and" ash-blon- ... the tango and buttered croissants?" Her eyes widened but she didn't seem very curious. "What would be the use?" she said. "The Germans have Paris." "I don't want to pry," I said. "Shut me up if you want. But your name was Renee something-or-othe- r and you were a hostess at Zelli's and half the college boys seeing Paris that summer were in love with you. It was August of " thirty-one.- She smiled faintly. "You have a good memory." "Why not? You were Paris and mystery and all that." "I was seventeen and fresh from a Breton fishing village and nothing more. What else do you remem- ber?" "I remember we all tried to make you and you laughed and didn't have time for anybody really except a p l flat-foote- d j jfcad wilted. He was down. But he wasn't writhing slowly the way a 'man does when you really get to his groceries. He was sitting down, holding his right knee. "Get up," I snapped. "Go to hell." "Buddy," I said, "if you don't get ; up ' I'll" "What'll you do, kick me? Go on, Jack, kick me. It'll look swell in the sunrise edition. Army Lieutenant Kicks Cripple." This was getting silly. "You're bo cripple." He yanked up his right trouser leg and said. "There you are, Jack. Bad knee. Jeez, they ought to give you a medal" He had a brace on the knee but ft didn't necessarily mean a thing. I've seen guys with braces like that rack up ten baskets in basketball. "You're just yellow," I big-leag- aid. A strange voice said, "Joey Raed- kid from Dartbig mouth. He was half of one of their terrific pass combinations. He set a new record one night in Harry's New York Bar for emptying that beer mug. Something under twenty seconds. What was his name?" "Bob. Bob Fielding." She said it so calmly that for a moment I didn't click. "Sure, Fielding," I said. "What happened to him? I don't remember him playing his senior year." "We were married. He didn't go back." I kept quiet I had no right to get curious. She began dabbing at my face. My throat felt as if somebody had tied a knot In it, and I wouldn't have known the difference if she had used carbolic acid. My scratches didn't seem very important I had my throat untangled by the time she finished. I thanked her but she wasn't listening. She tilted my face to the light and studied it. After a few moments I muttered, "You won't remember my face. Nobody does." She gave a little start. "I'm afraid I wasn't even trying to remember you," she said. "That was not polite of me, was it? I was trying to remember a girl from Brittany." She rose. I stumbled to my feet and we turned toward the door. And there was Arab. She didn't look angry or suspicious. She looked like a college freshman hauled up before the Dean of Women. Her feet were toeing in and her fingers tightly laced and her eyes wide and fearful. I had never seen Arab frightened, although there had been a few times in the past when it would have been sensible of her. "I've been fixing your lieutenant's face," Renee said calmly. "Oh," Arab said. She sounded relieved, and I wondered If there had been a shade of emphasis when Renee said "your lieutenant" Women make me feel helpless. Sometimes I get the Idea that men don't have any choice at alL but just get dealt out by women to each other like cards. From the bottom of the two-lit- The big boy came off the hedge like a fighter. here to his room and be careful or we'll call the police!" I carted him to a bedroom-batcombination on the first floor and flopped him on the bed. Half a dozen girls clustered around him, twittering with grief and smoothing bis forehead and making him comfortable. I saw his eyelids flicker, but he didn't open them. In his place I'd have done the same. "If you really want him to move," I said, "call his draft board." They stormed at me that Joey was and had a terribly a genuine bad knee from fighting the Nazis in Spain long before persons of my type thought of fighting and he had gone up In a frightfully old plane the Spanish Loyalista hd given him and had knocked down five brand-neMesserschmitts and now wasn't I h 4-- F ashamed. "Not yet," I growled, "on account of the Germans didn't use any Me's in Spain." A weak voice said, "They got things wrong, Jack. It was Heinkels. and only four. I might of got five but I caught a slug in my knee." It was Joey, and he was starting His admirers to sit up at last. crowded around him and patted him and told him not to overdo it but he shook them off bravely. 'Jack," he said, "we still got something to settle." I said hopefully, "Something we can disagree about?" A teen-ag- e kid cried, "Now you er only likes fighting when he is just leave Joey alone! You knocked was a harsh voice. It winning." It scratched like a bum needle on a phonograph record. I turned and saw a short fat man. The street light reflected on his glasses and made him look blind. Be was so fat that his arms stuck out at angles Instead of hanging straight down. ' Joey Raeder scrambled to his feet and grabbed the fat man's coat with He snarled, "I've 3ds left hand. teen taking that stuff off you ever since I came here. You're gonna learn to keep your mouth shut." I saw Raeder drop his right shoulder and start a punch and I jumped forward to stop him. I wasn't needed. What happened was almost too fast for me to follow. The fat man's hands made short white blurs against the darkness. Not hitting: With the edges of his slashing. palms. Raeder' arms dropped as if numbed and the edge of a palm clipped under the ear. He crunv EAST TREMONTON Iv. happy-go-luck- him out once." "Just for the record," I said, "I 1945 Bear River Valley Produce "You're not all right" she said. The fat man said. "He works for me. He needed this lesson." He "You have a cut over your left eye moved up close and the blind glasses and a bloody nose and your vanity glared with reflected light "People is terribly bruised." "With Joey around." I grumbled, think a fat man is a Joke. They think he cannot fight or make love "there isn't any vanity left for anyor plan." His voice was higher, body else to have." She laughed softly and patted my scratchier. "Perhaps you think so? hand. "You're a little boy, like most Perhaps you think so?" "Take it easy," I said. "I never men. But a nice one, I think. Come I am Mrs. Fielding and along. gave it a thought" The voice came down a pitch. this is my home." I lumbered down the hall beside "Raeder lives in there," he said, her like a small grimy kid with a the fake at his head embassy. tilting Take him in. Tell him to report nice aunt "If you own this place," I said, "why do you let a guy like as usual tomorrow." I picked him up in a fireman's lift Joey Raeder stay here?" The trim shoulders 6hrugged. and staggered up the steps to the house. The door opened. The next "One needs a man around a house. ten minutes were among the worst' To take care of the grass and furin my life. The place was filled with nace and to open stuck windows excited girls. None of them knew exactly what had happened, except on"Yeah," I'said, "I bet he's great opening girls' windows. From that poor Joey was hurt and that I had done It. As I entered there was which side?" She opened a door and fumbled for a gasp of horror. The way they the a been light switch. "You have no right I have shrank back might to say that." she said coldly. Jap task force. "Sorry." It was too much for me. I said "Sit down," she said. "Don't brutally, "Where do you girls want worry about the girls coming in and the body?" Southbothering you. Their community A lovely little is he daid?" room is across the hall." erner breathed. "Is I sank into a chair and watched "No," I growled. "He swooned. her rummage through a closet I Can I drop him just anywhere?" "Don't you dare drop Joey," one don't have a photographic mind but of them cried. "You bring him back I never have much trouble remembering a pretty face. And I hadn't forgotten hers. She came back from the closet with some absorbent cotton and Band-Ai- d and alcohol, and I said softly, "Do you still like those tall glasses of cafe nature and onion soup at Les Halles at six a. m. and rugged-lookin- Thursday, October 18, Tremonton, Utah- - y Now Open For Business TO GRADE AND BUY Potatoes and Onions Call Mark Udy or Jess Garfield or Day Phone 64 J 21 Mrs. Ruth Cannon was in Og- a short talk. Lowell Burbank, just' den last week and visited Mrs. hack from Okinawa related some Richard Becker and son. of his experiences, saying it tool Mr. and Mrs. John J. Becker him 42 days to make the trip of Ogden were dinner guests of home. Pfc. Allan Peterson of Col-their parents Mr and Mrs. T. R. linston, also spoke about the beau-Ault Sunday. ty of the European theatre, which" been destroyed. had Mr and Mrs Cleon Hunsaker had as their guest their little Mr. and Mrs. Norman Birch granddaughter of Tremonton on of Willard were calling on friends here Sunday evening. Norman I Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Perry had has been discharged from the as their Sunday guest their grand army. daughter, a daughter of Sgt. andj Mr. and Mrs. James Ethering-Mrs. Myrl Perry. ton and children of Ogden, Mr. of son Sterling Gardner, ited with their parents Mr. ani and Mrs. Floyd Gardner is spendMrs. James Etherington Sr., hen I ing a few weeks at home before f Tuesday. returning to his job as a merchant and Horace Mrs Mr. Gardner! Marine. Mrs. Clara Gardner visited her and family were visiting relatives! . father in the Dee Hospital in Og- here Tuesday. den cn Saturday. Mrs. Oswald Harwood of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Edward Jensen and son of Ogden, visited relWHEN IN NEED OF atives here on Sunday. Sunday evening at Sacrament meeting, the Primary President Fire Insurance presented Joleen Gardner and ReAutomobile O Coverage ta Jean Cannon with their graduPublic Liability ation card from the Primary and Mrs. Edna Barnard accepted them O Property Damage ' Comprehensive in the Y. L. M. I. A. Collision Under the direction of Scout All types of Surety Bonds Horace R. a Master Barnard, Insurance Crop of honor a was court enjoyed by Hail and Fire large audience. Those receiving Medical Auto honor badges were Robert LoveReal Estate Loans land, Woodruff Snow, Evan Automobile Loans Clemnets and Lamor Earl. Milton Marble of Bothwell was Quick and Reliable Service the special speaker, and he award- ed the Star badge to the follow-- . ing scouts : Zane Wheatley, La-- j mor Earl, Woodrow Snow, Evan UTAH Clemnets. Kenneth Burbank who TREMONTON just returned from Tokyo, gave ( i DEWEYVILLE '. Mrs. Odell Burbank and little daughter Joan of Ogden, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Burbank recently . . Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Burbank and daughter Susan have return ed to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Burbank after spending a week with relatives in Ihayne, Wyoming. Mr. and Mrs. Burbank expect to make their home in Soda Springs. Reta Jean Cannon met with an accident at school Wednesday when she received a bad cut on the hand. She was taken to the Valley hospital where several stitches were taken. ? vis-- Mikel Burbank, little grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Burbank spent a few days with them while his mother went to Salt Lake to meet their father and husband, Kenneth, who just returned from Tokyo, and has received his discharge from the army. Mrs. Duett Loveland and Mildred Jean Loveland and Mrs. T. R. Ault visited with Mrs. T. A. Carter at her home in Tremonton. Recently Mr and Mrs. Ed Vet-tiof Oregon, visited friends and relatives in Deweyville. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Fryer and family of Ogden visited relatives and friends here during the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Duett Loveland and children and Mrs T. R. Auk called on Mr. and Mrs. John Becker in Ogden while visiting there Saturday. THESE ITEMS o JAMES BROUGH REALTOR j er didn't knock him out. He decided to sit out our waltz, and then his deck, too. "I know that you two had some boss came along and they had an Renee said. misunderstanding," his boss rocked him and argument to it and start "But ought you forget to sleep." Arab fell Into a chair, whooping all over. I think that you will like each other." like an Indian bearing down on pale"We-11- 1 . . ." Arab said. faces. I stamped out of the room. come back tomorrow night "I'll a have It didn't Luckily revolving If I may," I said. door. Arab murmured, "I want to fix As I reached the hallway a cool hand touched mine and a woman up my room tomorrow night, but if said, "Let me fix those cuts before it's all right for Lieutenant Blake to help . . ." you leave, Lieutenant" When we got out on the porch noHer face was In a shadow but I was around, and I said, "Do I body a slim could see figure with legs know you well enough yet to kiss on that deserved a trlple-priority a wore She tailored suit with you?" nylon. "Well, no. But It's a nice way to a flaring white collar Opened one more notch than a really shy girl get acquainted." Arab looked at me hopelessly and would have opened it. r said, "I've got to get some sleep. "I'm all right," I said. "You take care of Joey, though. He's Do you mind?" "I'd better go, anyway," I said. just been shot down by a mess of Heinkels. And besides, he's pretty." (TO BE CONTINUED) mmm. ...Hi iiiuiiii.wniiiMii)i,ai lllllll I' g'''tsJ iiiiih.i.i ' "' " " ! 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