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The absurd word made the decision for' her She turned away from the amok back to the gate The guard in the thatched sentry box stepped forward hesitantly to bar her way and Corporal Kasim came running after her "No Mem No!" But something in her face and her silence defeated them ' As she huhrreaiedrd off down the laterite road alone she the corporal order the sentry to accompany her but she waved him back imperatively She was the only one who knew the way Sandy had gone She was the only one who knew how fully his vivid imagination had been dominated the past two days by the picture of the tigers drinking at the pool below the falls Suddenly she had realized that there could be no other explanation for his runaway And she wis going to find him Gray was searching too far over to the right Constable Jaalar was farther still from the falls They might be getting farther from Sandy with every step It depended on her Wherever Sandy was now and she wrenched her mind away from pictures of Sandy swallowed alive by a black swamp drowned in the plunging cataract kidnaped by the bandits preparing the attack on the rubber factory bitten by a cobra wherever he was now she stood the best chance of finding him She might be his only chance ace lie-0- l I '' gl - k S —) 4 s d - f- - Ati ) (i1: I 00011111 ' hopelessness i 'Ll' ' - J! 0' 114 -t p d r olpr : k ' ' if 1111N 3'11Sol i'a'41 'X'1 '' Ilk 47 eo!"lir - ' I ' if f I it 4i ' 4 if I I f4 I ''' ii :oitP P 7 13 7 714 ' - 'l s ' - 1 1 ' :'''' 1i '11' $ iii P - - ti 0°-- it ' - 1 t é i titi were on their police party from Ayer Hijaut for the search way and he gaye his Kasim was to stay and meet the platoon and police and tell them which sectors were already being searched "And warn them" he added in his easy Malay "that there is new information that bandit sentries are out and an attack on the factory is rumored" He detailed Constable Jaafar the guard who was Sandy's most patient Malay teacher to cut north with two others up the woodcutters' path into the jungle He himself was going alone up their left flank in the direction of Sandy's' escape route He returned to the jeep as he issued the orders shouting above the engine when he'd started iCand had actudown the slope before ally driven it half-wa-y he realized she was on the seat beside him He pulled up "No Ann" he said flashing her a short glance that was somehow evasive and distant She only said "I must come" She stared steadily into his brown stern face but he said "Don't hold me up Ann Every second counts" 1I ---- a desperate leap and ran straight could she hope to keep Gray's love? It was she who had overcome his doubts about bringing Sandy to Malaya and now she had fallen down on her part of the job Was there any- thing forgivable about that? She fought off panic while Gray questioned at the bandit the guards and examined the escape route With love she watched the tall strong figure with the bleached hair and asked God to help them Gray was behaving as if she weren't there She told him Sergeant Strang's platoon and a - ed FOR an hour she fought her way closer to the muffled roar of the falls first by a tappers' path down avenues of rubber trees then through a belt of secondary jungle by a nar- row thorny track that made her heart leap when she saw at one turn of it the print of a small broad-toe- d sandal and finally through the primeval jungle itself There she discovered that Sergeant Strang hadn't been exaggerating when he'd told her of soldiers who strayed only a dozen yards from their patrol getting totally lost of bandits undetected within arm's length of search patrols of cutting a slow way through with parangs There was still a path of sorts half choked Continued on page 20 t 111 ' |