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Show CARIBBEAN K CONSPIRACY!' BRENDA 'NNi 1 bn, far: Heywood, wealthy New ol M1 toe to Puerto . 'THslgnment for her father-so 5X01 the island are Pet. paper. snorter on her father, oBeer; a army intelligenceeducated Puerto Rleau state, whose order, to WU- n 1 ea- in ' - ;r. , my eamp were abrupt!, eattneer alcUrd Taus.lt, a German agent to JfWsot ye Proved: soon ayount American entlueer, of imon? Sue. Pete U suspicious IT., but when they quarrel ie Moi thinks It i. because Pete Valera. bones -- Jjdhe friendship with . he CHAPTER X te: .erabe: as she completely stunned Jfsnd made her way through ""iwded tables out onto the po had one No more than would natural-- "t hi in. n.t mm- - in hl I X . aware that she was had to make a she dial If enouleto" public nbdy WUM was of it. Thpr Pete was r ireeding. tiding 2 stori he found himself suddenly ten If that was all in wry angry hell with her. wst she had. to fork and took a picked up his tender aromatic dish It stuck in his wet dough, and of a like lump t to get it down. He ,ad to struggle he thought, to get out of there, of the .ftftj of him. vind go find her. wasn't She re-ib- le what shed been say-j- e probably didnt even know him. Any-i- t it shed been telling wasnt safe for her to be out streets in the dark. Poverty squalor and unrest did strange kind and gen-- I igs to even innately for El CONRAD Tor an instant a chill flr.ger touched her heart. She back stepped into the shadow of a shop door and waited. He hadnt seen her. He couldnt see that far anyway, she The significance of his thick-lense- d glasses hadnt fully occurred to her until she saw him peer myopically into the mirror behind the bar before he turned and spoke to her. She knew now that he hadnt seen her from the pier, or up the hill in front of the Fortaleza. It was an armor of that gave her a quick invisibility impulsive courage, or rather a foolhardiness on sheer verging madness. Even then she hesitated. The phosphorescent glow of the rising moon softened the solid planes of the ancient Spanish facades pressing close against the cramped sidewalks, and shimmered, darkly liquid, on the glazed cobblestones. The street was empty, and yet she had an eerie sense that it was not empty a sense of the shadowy substance of life rhythmically pulsating, of unheard voices and watching eyes and unseen feet echoing softly through the night From some strident periphery diminishing waves of noise and color beat in until only their muted overtones seeped through into the narrow street. It was the first time Anne had had the feeling that San Juan was a completely foreign city, as foreign as Paris or Marseilles or Tunis. AH the veneer that made it part of the New World was gone just then . . . aU except the disappearing figure of Mr. Richard .signalled the waiter, paid the got out as unobtrusively as Not until he was on the could. did he think of the man been watching them at bar. He looked back. was gone. He wasnt at any had of the end iig tables. the kind of deeply rooted stirred inside Pete. He turned Hurried up to his parked car. ie eifeb d watching it got up man he,; from I. 10W Did you asked, ttood te ete IATE& see the young lady? hoping to God the man English. senorita nodded. rubia? man smiled he asked. and pointed up street. ! Ai bonita kept going and round in his mind as he through the narrow streets ratiful ere ive an s, o i A couple the armband of the had seen her cross-tag- e Alien Street, but the two stand-I on the corner of Brau Street dimly lighted aUeys. a aoldiers with wi Bry Police I d not seen her. she took a The cat came silently out from the taxi, sir, one recesses . . . dark suggested helpfuUy. rte nodded. Of course it was intersection below it she would do, he told him-- 1 Taussig at the Nevertheless he drove on her, and the cigarette ads plastered d the Plaza window in front of her. again. She was in the tobly out at the Granada She crossed the road, went down by this S' wasnt a child. She back the way shed come, turned might B have gone back to the res-H- e the corner and slipped into the shad drove down the htil owed rectangle cast by buildings to. The man on the curb watch-car- s against the rising moon. Mr. Tausshook his head. She sig was going along on the sidewalk it come that way. now, almost at the end of the block, As pto turned left at the next cor-a- d looking up at the doorways. started out toward the Gra- - Anne started to go farther along he turned and came back. She toe went blindly up the street stepped deeper into the shadow, looked true, she thought aU of it man came around the comer, i.true. But not what shed been at her and walked on, looking back to Pete twice before he turned into a door Wilcox. , Valera was a Puerto """" way. Anne stepped back stiU more she might he was a citi-ig- s with a vague feeling that a Jhe.United States. And what-e- d be running a serious risk, and yet she couldnt go to devotion to his that definite u feeling in toe these, with hisfather, . . . not until shed at least seen 1 sid country 8 where Taussig was going. everything it had into deWasn t for it he was had He stopped and gone back Bin I, They had canceHed his again. Anne saw him look at Pnn rders- - end they wouldnt shuttered balcony over an arched Dtootio ne that without reasons. entrance that must have been for a ingbec re Probably watching him, carriage or coach in the old days, kj and Pete Wilcox wai Then he was gone almost at once, close S1 0i 111056 it doig It. That and she saw the darkmanoblong who had behind him. The atohreaS 8t 0,8 meetin on the side cr t ?k passed her came out ir la: m ?pp,ed short suddenly aware walk again. He was standing there, was almost dark, looking at her. She realized with a Eto .TStreet of everyfor 8 ,ew People sit- - little shock that in spite in lighted doorways, and that presence Mr. Taussigs thing 0 no idea where she w$s. the street had been an unconscious of terror ,niim.U5t tbink Tm crazy, protection. A sudden panic throat her She t constricting ,g started walking gripped her, U emng to the hoUow echo of making her body taut and as cold on the of the ancient pavement The as ice. The eerie speU an acute sense of k,,passed in the doorways streets was gone, had taken its place, m8 as she went by. AU physical danger emoM overwhelming almost an sound seemed to be She had as fttl out K she put her impulse to turn and run as fast It sharply. controlled knew and she she could, rich she b, gnar,t silenceeonid touch all about It was the most dangerous thing fists Sh her me clenched She do. a could corner, looked th treca ee wib no sense of tightly to make her hands stop tritv to move herself forced Crossed and over and went bling. t hm at a reasonable pace inters '!8r'i the Bgbt on the auletly and comer. Perhaps if she the toward ,Ctlonwas noisier su crossed the street out of the shad topDea !Sltatcd- - looked back, toward . Sbruptly. ows . . . She took a step w&a and stopped. curb the gQlng along the street i juHis white trou-hl- s 'A man she hadn't noticed before C legs flanSSj side of anklM was moving along the other quickly bijtbedi id f )j EOino V was Taussig, and the street, goingbad gone. JN, lookL6 flng quickly in the rection Taussig she d seen or g first to one door no of out to come side, the t that so wasn it But U be IW lathing If.88 was afraid heard open. ot sense anllia"f J fart might spring out much as a vague 0Pnd doorways. She caught ty XI "Maybe fern Ri-th- at ST6 iif 1 -t ... SEWING CIRCLE Men who will never again know the freedom of the poorest American citizen are laboring night and day on behalf of freedom for others. They are the thousands of convicts in American prisons who are helping to bring victory as effectively as those in the outside world who are unhindered by striped suits or iron bars. Behind the walls of the Ohio state penitentiary 3,550 inthe arched entrance. mates constantly produce war products at lVz cents an hour. She went forward a little, hesitatover $20,000 worth of war ing. aware that the impulse shed At these wages they purchased e these convicts gave blood of cent had to follow Mr. bonds. Seventy-fivper Taussig had not come in relation to She to the Red Cross. MigueL n. didn t want to know any more now-- ad she wanted to do was get away as quickly as she could. She took two more and be- " 'xV ' S'b : ' ; '' V'S',X unsteady steps, came aware then, with a shock of abject fright, that the man who'd been watching her was beside her, saying something, she didnt know what. All she knew was that the shadows were suddenly alive and horrible . . . and then she was running, breathless, her heart pounding, running toward Miguel, into what it didnt matter, so terrified that she could not hear her own footsteps or those behind her, overtaking her before she could reach the door . . . and Miguel, and safety. She put her hand out, fumbling for the knob. There was none nothing but a blank painted wall, a narrow rectangle set in one of the leaves. It gave as she pushed against it, and she stumbled in and thrust it to behind her, pressing the weight of her body against it. She closed her eyes, listening desperately. There was no sound, nothing, either inside or out . . . only the pounding of her heart in her Top: His release is a long way off but he helps America by ears. She opened her eyes and buying war stamps regularly. looked ahead of her. The faint silver light from the sky sifted down into a shadowy inner courtyard beyond the dark tunnel of the archway. The only sign of life was cat walking slowly across the cobbled yard, its eyes like red coals as ' it passed into the dark. She could see another arched passage on the other side of the court, with an iron grille in front of it Perhaps the two men had gone through there. She hesitated, not daring to go forward, not knowing. A faint fresh odor of cigar smoke Two of his pupils are these amseeped through the heavy musty This man learned radio in the dankness of the tunnel. Her heart short-termer- s fellow-convict- s who hope bitious He instructs now skipped a beat There was no mis- navy. armed into the branches. to its all forces. in of get taking it . . . and they were there, then. Instantly everything changed again. She took a step forward, her hand touching the cool, smooth patina of the stone wall, and crept along beside it slowly and soundlessly, until she got almost to the end. She could see the stone stairr way leading up to the gallery. The cat came silently out from the dark recesses and went up the steps. The fragrance of the cigar smoke was plainer now, but as far as Anne could see there was no light anywhere. Her body went suddenly tense as she heard a sound somewhere above her as if somebody had moved a chair across the floor. She slipped to the other side of the tunnel, measured the distance between her and the stone stairway, and crept silently along the wall under the shadow of the overhanging eaves. She put her foot out gingerly to be sure. The cobbles under the steps were smooth and solid. She took another step forward and put out her hand . '. and for an instant everything reeled horribly. Her hand touched Another convict supervises a battery of machines which dry and something soft and alive, and when roll Osnaburg cloth in the cotton mill. The army has given the she tried desperately to tear it away prison a contract' for 150,000 yards of this material which is used it was caught. first-floo- Then he shrugged. She ns. faQd gone up the street that was aU knew. Pete made that much out Ms Spanish. Also that she was olisan Of Others Freedom Sharply and moved back into the shadow again, all her terror forgot-teaware only of a sudden nauseating sinking of her heart It was Miguel. He was going to the same Place that Taussig had gone to. She knew that even before he stopped at people. I Convicts Work in Behalf for target ranges, sandbags and camouflage. She tried to scream, Miguel! but her voice was strangled in her paralyzed throat. Anne! Anne! It is Miguel! She didn't know how long it was before the sound got through to 'her. All she knew was that shed stopped struggling, and that he was holding her tightly against him for a moment, before he released her. She leaned back against the cold stone wall, trembling convulsively, trying to keep from being sick. She couldn't see him, but she could feel his body close to hers, and his hand holding her wrist, steadying her. he whispered. Then he Sssh! That said between his teeth, damned cat It was against her ankles, purring softly. She was numbly aware of it and of its eyes like tiny burning opals shining up at her. Miguels grip on her wrist relaxed; his hand slipped down, taking hers, holding it tightly. Be quiet His voice was hardly a breath against her hair. Theyre coming. Anne turned her head In the dark. A little gasp broke from her throat as the meaning of it came to her in a blinding flash of understandtoo. ing. Miguel was watching them what he Thats Taussig. Watching had been doing in his room. She put her hand up to her cheek It was wet the tears pouring out of her eyes and running down her cheeks. Miguel whispered gentlSssh! 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Army officials say that Hulls of lima beans make good cigarettes are an appreciable facsoup if they are put through a tor in maintaining morale and coarse sieve or colander. The pods the soldiers themselves add that a cook quickly, and are rich In their carton of cigarettes from home is taste of the bean. always welcome. What brand? Well, sales records in Post Exchanges and Canteens show that Water the compost pile occa- Camels are the favorite sionally to keep it in a moist con- with men in all the cigarette services. cured When has the pile dition. are Post Office rethere Though for a sufficient length of time to strictions on packages to overseas decompose thoroughly, fork the Army men, you can still send pile through and through so as to Camels to soldiers in the U. S., have all the material well mixed and to Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen wherever they are. Should the clothes closet become Adv. moldy, air it with an electric fan. An electric lamp kept burning for a time will help dissipate the cfiVV BUY moisture. that can do more for you than St. Joseph il women also are pitching into war work. At the New Hang blankets over a line with a half or a fourth on one side, and A blanket without clothespins. dries quicker if two lines near the weight. share together Squeeze water from the ends oc-- ! casionally and shake the blanket to fluff the nap. reforma- tory they make navy work shirts, roll bandages, work in nearby Aspirin. Why pay more? World's largest seller at 10c. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin. Earth Slowing Up The earth is gradually slowing in its rotation, with a consequent lengthening of our day amounting of a secto about ond per century. th war plants on parole and produce foodstuffs. X XU V - - ' ,, Above: JFomen inmates prepare vegetables for market. Left: Part of the day's output of navy shirts are being prepared for shipment. Approximately 350 of these shirts are finished every day in the sewing department of the reformatory, which is operated on the honor system and has no bars. Kellogg's Corn Flakes are an excellent wartime meal . . . any time of day. Quick to fix . . . extra good . . . nutritious . . . they save time, work, fuel, other foods. VWWWW)!W4W44WiJWI4WW,y)t CORN Suddenly (TO BE CONTINUED) No. 8465 Is in sizes 9. 11, 13, 18, Pattern takes 3!' yards Size Grape juice frosting is delicious 17 and 9 yards braid or and different. Put three table- material. Due to an unusually large demand and spoons grape juice into a pint current war condiUons, slightly more time bowl, then stir in one to one and is required in filling orders for few of a half cups of confectioners sugar the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: till mixture is thick enough to cake. on your spread y- Miguels fingers contracted sharply on hers. They were breath coming now. She held her and waited. 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