Show 0 t y g Adventurers' Adventurers Club I e II To To Be nc Eaten by Ants By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous H Headline Hunter I IF TF F ANY of you ou Adventurers know Dr Frederick S. S Macy of ot 1 New York the chances are arc you remember him as a kindly efficient medical man so devoted to his practice that he hasn't time for adventure But Dut boys and girls you ou dont don't know from Crom Doc Mac Macy is first of all a retired colonel of the medical corps United States army and has hasi enough adventure tucked away in his doctors doctor's bag to last h him m m the rest of his successful life Doctor Maey Macys epIc goes back many year years to the Philippine Insurrection In 1903 and It I It la particularly Interesting at this time since Ince we have given the Philippine their independence Young Doc Macy he lacy he was Just twenty then was then was an army doctor stationed its sta on the Philippine Island of Leyte and attached to a company compan of volunteers who used the Island as their base From that base the boys In blue started on many a heartbreaking chase after the wily native leader The Gus Gu Were a Tough Bunch of Bandits Black with thirst and mad from the terrific tropical heat beat the they marched through the Mils hills of the Interior after the bandit who was always one oce step ahead of them avoiding a pitched battle but sniping at the column column col col- col with deadly effect from the bush bushes s. s These Theae Ou GuV Gu Gu were a tough bunch of babies bable They dered the peaceful natives native and actually ate the th hearts heart of their enemies I The fiendish tortures they applied to prisoners prisoner mad made our Apache pache Indian Indiana look like Sunday school pupil On One On particular torture wa was Wat reserved for Americans American It was this Any wounded or detached soldier that had bad the misfortune to fall Into their hands was burled buried alive up to his bis neck In an anthill I l The voracious tropical ants took care of ot the rest and when the troops came on one of their comrades burled buried In this manner only a grinning well-picked well skull was left to tell the mute story of hours of slow Ilow agonizing death Tramp Steamer Brings a Strange Emissary to Camp Doc Macy lac being the surgeon of the outfit saw sawall all this and many other unmentionable cruelties Some of the men who had been captured by the bloodthirsty bandits lived but not one ever came back sane lane Their sufferings had destroyed their minds So naturally against an enemy of this sort the one fear of every man In our army was the dread of being captured alive Death was preferable to being taken prisoner and suicide In the last extremity was not unusual A As I IllY say Doe Doc knew all this and In the face of this knowledge hi his hll subsequent action actions I take on all the elements element of the heroic or of downright recklessness In In any case ease of adventure One day Doc says cays there glided Into the anchorage a dilapidated lopsided steamer manned bl natives and flying a white flag flaK of truce A q III II I I Ia II ICI I I li a II 1 i ir r I IJ Ix x J V lI r I I s. s I e R The Rebel General Was Wat Lying In the Bamboo Shack small boat came ashore bearing a lone native waving waring the white flag We were astounded at but even more so 0 when the half naked savage made known the reason for his bis visit The Doctor Leaves on His Mission of Mercy The native marched with sober dignity straIght dignIty straight to where we waited Ills brown face tace under his bis straw hat wooden and unmovable hIs bis bare feet thrust through the tattered remains of Of ofa a pair of blue and andred andred andred red military trousers trousers' Well sir that brazen native astonished everybody there by hi his hi request General and hi his hi army he said laid lay some sixty miles mile away In a seacoast village The Th general and th the Padre who always accompanied him were tick sick with beri berl-berl berl berl berland l and d the soldiers wished an American doctor to treat him himi The captain In charge of course refused the request but be he hadn't counted on Doc Macy Doc volunteered to go 10 and on hIs bis promise to bring back military Information the captain reluctantly allowed him to leave Doc leaving hIs bis weapons conspicuously behind him took only hIs bis doctors doctor's bag and climbed Into the boat Prof Professional Zeal Laughs at Dangers But once on hIs bis way without a chance of turning back Dot Doe began to realize what be ho bad had let himself Into Suppose It was all a ruse and they wanted him as a hostage Doc knew what that would mean It would mean that hIs bis ears would be sent back one by one or perhaps an eye now and then to convince the stubborn Americans AmerIcan Not a word was spoken on the trip They Thel arrived at a a a- village crowded with soldados Thousands packed the narrow streets and glared at the hated bated Americano as he be was was led under guard to a bamboo shack In the shack lay the rebel lender leader and hIs bis beloved Padre Both Doc saw at a glance Ilance were very low Suppose they died before he got away Doc Doe shuddered at the thought of what would happen to him But Bot when he be started to work be he forgot everything In his professional zeal lIe He did all he be could could all all an any doctor could In those days day and after hours bours of work lay down on the dirt floor and aDd slept till morning Back to the Boat Instead of the Ant Hill In the morning he was relieved to see the general still alive aUve Now the question was Would the they allow him to leave Does Docs only Idea was to get awa away while the going was good He lIe administered medicine anc and leaving some more told the women who were In attendance how bow to give ghe the patients the rest reat Then Doc with his heart In his bis mouth but bot hIs bis face tace betraying no sign of fear ordered the native guard to take him back A breathless moment moment-a a moment In which Doc seemed to feel teel ants anti crossing hIs bis unprotected eyes and eyes and then an aD unintelligible order was growled by the sick general Doc was wall led out between four murderous murderous- looking Inscrutable natives native lie ne wondered whether he be was going to the ant hill hili or the boat Well Welt of course It was wa the boat or else those ants would have nave been telling our story today Doc was Will brought baci back to the base and welcomed b by the palest faces he had bad ever seen In a sick lIck ward Ills comrades had given rIven him up for lost I l Would you do It again I asked Doc Dos DosWell Well maybe marbe be he said laId maybe mabe IF IK I WERE WEltE TWENTY C o ne |