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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS All Over But the Richarci Powel- l- SKootiflCT ? ,, v Yj. INNER STARRING ARAB AN THE STORY THUS FAR: Lt Andy Blake, assigned to Operations, was agreeably surprised by the arrival of his wife, Arab, who had come to Washington to take a Job with Ordnance. On the bus while looking for living quarters for Arab, sbe said she was going to write down all of the loose talk taking place on the bns. While she was In the act she was noticed and the cry of Spy" rang out. Arab and Andy were able to jump off the bus, but in following her Andy tripped and passed out. When he came to the FBI questioned him, and he told all about Arabs work, and that she had been mistaken for a spy. Andy was told to be sure that Arab did not interfere, but rather to report to FBI .la the future. CHAPTER HI Andy! Please, Andy. Youve sot to help me. You I jammed my foot on the starter. Am I? You arent staying here. She wrenched out of my grip, flung open the car door, and jumped to the sidewalk. She turned for a moment. And if you wont help, she choked, Ill 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 very 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 hadnt been decided for me. The door of the Q Street house opened and a rugged-lookin- g 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 dont get it, I said. Whats the idea? He drawled, Are you coming out nice, or do I dig for you? I wasnt 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 wouldnt be wearing any insignia, and started to get out of the car on his side. That was a mistake. I was ony half out when he hit me. My head bounced off the door frame and got caught in a cross-ri- p of 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 didnt 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 wasnt time to clear my khead. 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 didnt like lt 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 had wilted. He was down. But he wasnt 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 dont get & ' I SANCTUM MYSTERY ANDY BLAKE WHU FEATURES The fat man said, He works for me. He needed this lesson. He moved up close and the blind glasses glared with reflected light. People think a fat man is a joke. They think he cannot fight or make love or plan. His voice was higher, scratchier. Perhaps you think so? Perhaps you think so? "Take it easy, I said. I never gave it a thought." The voice came down a pitch. Raeder lives in there, he said, tilting his head at the fake embassy. Take him in. Tell him to report as usual tomorrow. I picked him up in a firemans lift and staggered up the steps to the house. The door opened. The next ten minutes were among the worst In my life. The place v.as filled with excited girls. None of them knew exactly what had happened, except that poor Joey was hurt and that I had done it. As I entered there was a gasp of horror. The way they shrank back I might have been a Jap task force. It was too much for me. I said brutally, Where do you girls want the body? SouthA lovely little erner breathed, Is is he daid? He swooned. No, I growled. Can I drop him just anywhere? Dont you dare drop Joey, one of them cried. You bring him back ash-blon- ... Youre not all right, she said. You have a cut over your left eye and a bloody nose and your vanity is terribly bruised. With Joey around," I grumbled, there isnt any vanity left for anybody else to have. She laughed softly and patted my hand. Youre a little boy, like most men. But a nice one, I think. Come along. I am Mrs. Fielding and this is my home. I lumbered down the hall beside her like a small grimy kid with a ffice aunt. If you own this place, I said, why do you let a guy like Joey Raeder stay here? The trim shoulders shrugged. One needs a man around a house. To take care of the grass and furnace and to open stuck windows and Yeah, I said, I bet hes great on opening girls windows. From which side? She opened a door and fumbled for the light switch. You have no right to say that, she said coldly. Sorry. Sit down, she said. Dont worry about the girls coming In and Their community bothering you. room is across the hall. I sank into a chair and watched her rummage through a closet I dont have a photographic mind but I never have much trouble remembering a pretty face. And I hadnt 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 the tango and buttered croissants? Her eyes widened but she didnt seem very curious. What would be the use? she said. The Germans have Paris. I dont 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 Zellis 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 remember? I remember we all tried to make you and you laughed and didnt have time for anybody really except a y kid from Dartbig mouth. He was half of one of their terrific pass combinations. He set a new record one night in Harrys New York Bar for emptying that r 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, FieldWhat happened to ing," I said. him? I dont remember him playThe big boy came off the hedge ing his senior year. like a fighter. We were married. He didnt go here to his room and be careful or back. I kept quiet I had no right to well call the police! get curious. I tarted him to a bedroom-bat- h She began dabbing at my face. combination on the first floor and throat felt as if somebody had flopped him on the bed. Half a doz- My en girls clustered around him, twit- tied a knot in it, and I wouldnt have known the difference if sh had tering with grief and smoothing his carbolic acid. My scratches used didnt forehead and making him comfortable. I saw his eyelids flicker, but seem very important. I had my throat untangled by the he didnt open them. In his place time she finished. I thanked her Id have done the same. but she wasnt listening. She tilted If you really want him to move, my face to the light and studied it. I said, call his draft board. After a few moments I muttered, was me at stormed that Joey They You wont remember my face. Noa and had a genuine terribly does. bad knee from fighting the Nazis in body She gave a little start. Im afraid of before type my persons Spain long I wasnt even trying to remember thought of fighting and he had gone she said. That was not poup in a frightfully old plane the you, lite of me, was it? I was trying to him and hd given Spanish Loyalists remember a girl from Brittany. had knocked down five brand-neShe rose. I stumbled to my feet Messerschmitts and now wasnt I we turned toward the door. And and Ill ashamed. up Whatll you do, kick me? Go on. Not yet, I growled, on account there was Arab. She didnt look anJack, kick me. Itll look swell in the of the Germans didnt use any Mes gry or suspicious. She looked like a college freshman hauled up before sunrise edition. Army Lieutenant in Spain. the Dean of Women. Her feet were Kicks Cripple. A weak voice said, They got This was getting silly. Youre things wrong. Jack. It was Heinkels, toeing id and her fingers tightly no cripple. and only four. I might of got five laced and her eyes wide and fearful. I had never seen Arab frightened, He yanked up his right trouser leg but I caught a slug in my knee. there had been a few times was he and said, There you are. Jack. Bad and It was Joey, starting although knee. Jeez, they ought to give you to sit up at last His admirers in the past when it would have been of her. a medal. crowded around him and patted him sensible Ive been fixing your lieutenants He had a brace on the knee but and told him not to overdo it but face, Renee said calmly. fh didnt necessarily mean a thing. he shook them off bravely. Oh, Arab said. She sounded rebraces with like that seen we still he guys Ive said, got Jack, and I wondered if there had lieved, in baskets ten Tack up something to settle. shade of emphasis when Youre just yellow, I basketball. I said hopefully, Something we been asaid Renee your lieutenant WomJaid. about? can disagree A strange voice said, "Joey Raed-rfce- r kid cried, Now you en make me feel helpless. SomeA teen-ag-e I get the idea that men dont only likes fighting when he is just leave Joey alone! You knocked times choice at all, but just get have any a was harsh voice. It It him out once. winning. scratched like a bum needle on a Just for the record, I said, I dealt out by women to each other From the bottom of the didnt knock him out. He decided like cards. phonograph record. too. deck, a saw short and fat man. to sit out our waltz, and then his I turned I know that you two had some The street light reflected on his boss came along and they had an Renee said. misunderstanding, look him made blind. and his him and boss rocked glasses argument But you ought to forget it and start He was so fat that his arms stuck to sleep. out at angles instead of hanging Arab fell into a chair, whooping all over. I think that you will like each other. down. like an Indian bearing down on palestraight 1 . . . Arab said. Joey Raeder scrambled to his feet faces. I stamped out of the room. come back tomorrow night, Ill coat mans the a fat with have didnt it and grabbed Luckily revolving I said. I if may, He snarled, Ive door. his left band. I want to fix Arab murmured, As I reached the hallway a cool been taking that stuff off you ever tomorrow room night, but if my up came here. Youre I and a woman touched mine gonna hand since all right for Lieutenant Blake learn to keep your mouth shut. said, Let me fix those cuts before its to help . . . I saw Raeder drop his right shoul you leave, Lieutenant. When we got out on the porch noa I and in a start was shadow but I punch Her face der and jumped ' jrward to stop him. I wasnt need- - could see a slim figure with legs body was around, and I said, Do I id. What happened was almost too that deserved a triple-- priority on know you well enough yet to kiss fast for me to follow. The fat mans nylon. She wore a tailored suit with you? Well, no. But its a nice way to hands made short white blurs a flaring white collar opened one acquainted. get a Not darkness. than the notch really shy girl hitting: more against Arab looked at me hopelessly and With the edges of his would have opened it. slashing. got to get some sleep. Im all right, I said. You bet- said, Tve palms. Raeders arms dropped as mind? 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