Show CARIBBEAN DEAN CO S P I 1 BR STORT SO anne heywood 1 lis beautiful eat dIl delgass daue gass titer so of ft wealthy ay A now new tork A 1 I chei to so puerto Es itco 1 I on as a lor a par tather tx ther paper also MI as tha a island ar p pete wit cm a reporter on her no i paper now C S army officer ca valera a A ft 1 rlyn I d so ID tue tal U united aid sto state a ho order to as report 1 to as a cany army camp were cancelled ai richard gamils as an 1 I identity nan XI As a 0 german agent ii fal 1 l but not 7 yet S sid and po porter american in enet neer and ahli wife sue awlie that also he mast set t this the st atory aai abe wai na lent on lor As anne jonina follow mr 1 to so s reads ind hid ast ui Is tal me ciodo I 1 miss mafuel valen CHAPTER XI A anne bent r lulls her head down aws and dr drew farther he bach into the darkness miguel iback aguele s hand dropped hers moved back to his im hip pocket and ad rested there her if heart beat fast faster there must be four or five of them th she he thought th u trying to court count the shuffling huffling feet above her anne closed her eyes and took a long breath she felt miguel s taut bod body y relax and th then an go r rigid gul again so eo instantly that she opened her eyes in sudden fright A fifth man had joined the group it was diego dieg a bongaro miguels body was like a steel feel wire quivering under the impact of a bud sudden den blow I 1 his b breath was c coming so a sharply that A anne thought the men outside must hear it what had happened she know then than suddenly it came to her he limin known mown his uncle was there he H a even known he might be there lets get out dut of 1 here quick N miguel guel said aid q quietly u etly E they slipped through th the a tunnel and out into the street he t took ok her SO arm As they started d down own the street away from the direction shed come me so in anne A e glanced glanced back there was as no one gas in sight they turned the corner comer she got into the car tired desperately pera tely tired all of a sudden miguel she said wait a while annes anne she sank back against the seat it Ss r was probably lost just hunger she thought ought but it was funny fumy how this seesaw seesawing see sawing ng of motions emotions took it out of you she felt like an old sponge he maneuvered the car through the dark streets they came out suddenly in front of the great indian laurel tree in the post office plaza anne sat up abruptly she an idea how got there so quickly ewh where e SO were we miguel she a asked ed he looked at her sharply wone if you dont know where you were it a better for you not to know mow he be said evenly after a moment 1 I wish you could forget the whole thing they were both silent for an instant then he said ym youve ve got to promise aromise me very mr seriously sly remer lever say IS a word about rt it to anvie on c what were y you IS doing th therea and in mr Taus sigs room the other her gh I 1 then you did know miguel said without tur turning g his head his eye eyes were ere fixed on the ocean in front of them 1 I in sorry I 1 hope I 1 hurt y you 0 u or frighten you too much gifuni I 1 think you it d better tell me all U about it I 1 couldn coulden t ask you be fre ire Is it you that told towing taussig iwas was there knowd now dign miguel turned abruptly does he he knows about me anne said I 1 don t know about you last listen arm anne he said earnestly youve got ot to tell me everything yo ou u know its more important than you ou th think IS have you told wilcox anne shook her head he thinks you ou re a 8 spy or something I 1 did to oo 00 but youre not me are you I 1 did nt want to believe it tell me you r a not 1 l ii tell you something no one here knows he said slowly 1 I in trust trusting so ing g you anne I 1 in n a way I 1 have to sa so see me you have to keep ep absolutely quiet quiet to every body idy wilcox an and d every everybody bony else does oes your father knows know lie he shook his head the he commanding general knows know I 1 theres a somebody here he doean doesn t lin it its a me R s looked around and lowered his bis a so that she could hardly hear luethe the war department sent me down on a special mission I 1 cant t to tell Y you what tt it I 1 is exactly Y I 1 wt sure until tonight that T taussig taug was mixed up in it I 1 don t know how much he is and how far I 1 a succeed ad dep depends on sw no one 11 knowing I 1 in doing it you see se that dont don t n yo j thought we d duit us use agents cuts provocateurs at so in drome democracies anne said aid right na now were using w whatever we have to would t it be better if G 2 knew im adm about ut y you 7 so they ey boldn wouldn t follow a you hek so shook his L head is it ifs better for them to As long as certain it am le Is know G 2 is oo on my trey tra III they POOP and th they ey I 1 11 I 1 won t be soap suspicious I 1 know it soo sooner IS or or I 1 later ter but it san t it den dangerous ge working alone mt its important miguel said now begin at the beginning ENDA CONRAD A anne ane hesitated 11 II if a member of my family seems to be involved he said quietly don t t hide it I 1 Oc wouldn t it s just y your uncle cl anne aime said buic quickly kly as if his uncle incle matter matr to r yo you u don dont t think your fa the his voice a was a little tle unsteady hope n ati Is t I 1 hope not 3 my father the means ancans very much I 1 to me go 0 on th there ere were only a few cars in front fron t of the EIm bron when mie mar uel sial pulled polk d in to the curb A As they got to a th the 0 it door a car coming along the road stopped so budde suddenly t that it sounded as if the brakes brake had at aten S torn from the their linings lining with u an anguished shriek h riek the way you people here punish cars anne said without turning r miguel looked be back the man at the wheel was not a puerto we rican 1 he wax was cap captain p peter wilcox of t the a united states army he was so it ring there staring at them ern miguel ael hesitated for far an in instant a t turned a and followed anne ins inside after t all it was a S saxon who said I 1 whatever t r it we was about love and ad war F furthermore r er he had the sharp corpre impression a as on that captain wilcox was was drunk mr ric richard t d towing taussig had never taken the doctrine of the master race hace particularly seriously nor or did he regard himself per se as so an example of it he was a realist and ad a Inu business ariess man and his business was empire or rather the undermining of existing empires leading to their 5 r via they slipped through the tunnell tunnel and out into the street destruction in the interests of what he sefe referred d to as a world order but thought of merely as new empire fa for old he had spent too many years in too many ends and corners an and I 1 it crossroads roads of the world worl d to think k gotE that a any one nation was in tha it itself f superior to all 11 others other and especially ordained by god for world domma domination lie he we was how however aw aware a that the desire to for world domma domination t ion exclusively causi clu vely and without regard for existing fac ax g concepts of law an and ad e ethic so and the acceptance of my any end and every means to attain it we were re the most powerful weapons the human h nine mind could forge A realist DY by nature he had become a cynic by necessity S and an n eminently bucce successful opp opportunist tanist by by scientific application of whatever means came to hand he did not object to men D or govern governments on ants who respected the virtues of ho honesty esty tolerance and sincerity alty on nae the contrary he pra preferred fe rr ed dealing with them because they th ey were always the slowest to recognize the indian sign of the double cross and by the time they did recognize it it was too late on the other hand band and mr me taussig was thinking of it as h he crossed the granada lobby toward lower d the a ns newsstand they were on unknown 11 I 1 and I 1 1 frequently aly pw ze az q Y unpredictable pr aspects t 1 imponderables pan ponde jarahs la he abil called 1 them hun that had bad t to be recognized and dealt with sometimes sometime it took the form of the honesty and unselfishness of a P particular individual more often ofte in his experience it was what he it tried to wern warn diego bongaro about that morning lie he had in fact wondered many tunes times whether the emotional at equation coming in with its attendant jealousy ca lousy wasn gasn t actually more or trouble o bl than it was w help p gra asir nat t the american rie bielas Is r rage age against g girl had been IS a help certainly list but miguel valeras apparent entanglement with her was my anything ing but bul young wiles wilcox 5 too WI wilcox DON fortunately gasn wasn t particularly tea tant t if h he a had bad a rovin roving g bounin commission S god and was so in m h his I 1 own c country atry it would be a horse of another color colm As it was h his s hands ads were ft tied e d first by aaa army Y regulations aers and second c d by his am a ruy with eu either r I 1 the e people peaple or the terrain miguel valera was different he was as for far as mr me teasing taussig could see me pote potentially bially much more useful the than his aole uncle slightly tarred by his conno connection cuon with the war in spam p perhaps 0 rne he should have taken a c chance h a e isad and let gongal bring him to their meeting that night congar we was positive his nef hew was in complete agreement with th th them his it devotion to his father would old make him ready to put don dan alvaros alvaro passive ideas into action it if he could be shown the way but M mr r taussig so an suie G it was the emotional equation coming in again he d seen him with anne heywood on a the ship and seen them together to g ether in san J juan hed seen t the he I 1 look I 1 in miguels miguela face hed seen it ft in other her in men 3 faces face and ain knew what it meant M mr r taussig bought a news newspaper paper and made his way across the lobby to the desk to get his key it was extraordinary he was thinking how anne heywood got in the way oatt hot only tangibly with miguel and IS little tle mrs porter but intangibly too the fact that she was at all serious about him was in effect a potential surveillance that he DO coulden couldn u dif t afford to risk flopped re he s stopped in front ot of the file counter the th jerk clerk put his hand up I 1 in the P pigeonhole pigeon gem hole numbered and turned named back no she chasn t corn come in the girl standing there hesitated app apparently aresty reluctant to go mr taussig glanced her over with an appraising eye wondering what she wanted with miss heywood she was puerto rican dark and n full aou effir blown at that brief attractive stage before avoirdupois and middle age set in at t thirty she e was expensively dressed almost too in much so and jbv obviously bously nervous an and ill at ease she was also obviously determined the clerk handed mr taussig his key and two call slips said good ev evening g sir me in english and turned brt back to the girl his attitude was interesting mr me taussig thought it wa was as SI it he had to be polite 1 to be her but nevertheless wanted to get her out out as q quickly bickly as possible you can leave a message tor for her he said ashes usually very late the got girl moved away without answering wandered over to the arcade and sat down looking aro around d with a kind of moody defiance in h her or set face she ap apparently P ardently had made up her ti mind did I 1 to see es the american girl said and wa was not going to be stopped who is that young lady M mr taussig ta using inquired I 1 with a slight frown as it A he knew her very well but quite place her at the moment the clerk looked at him politely but blankly 1 I don t know her name he said with exactly the effect lf ot saying it a none of your business sur sir mr taussig looked at the slips in his hand mrs russell porter had called him at 11 six thirty marjur mrs R porter had called at eight thirty t and left her telephone number there were two more slips slip for calls in his room that had been left earlier it was working out very nicely on the whole mr me taussig glanced back at the girl by the door she was sitting tight he looked at his watch it was not quite ten and this might be interesting the girl obviously had something on her mind she intended getting oft off before she went away on the other hand time seemed to be important she kept looking ner nervously v u ly at the clock and ad comparing it with the gold watch pinned on her dress then the she he got up abruptly and went to the writing desk mr air tim taussig watched her chewing the end of the pen writing crumpling up what she wrote and stuffing at the h a P paper into her bag suddenly m sams something like despair she threw the pen down and hurried out without having written anything mr taussig w went rut sag slowly ay over e t to the th arcade she was we going quickly I 1 down the drive he saw indistinctly because of his short r range use vision that a car stopped for her to get in and ad went off toward santurce San not san juan he went over to the elevator there we was something about the I 1 incident that disturbed him without his bem being g able to say exactly so what IS at I 1 it t was it was another of the intangibles tang arse that seemed to makes make action us imperative before they became ten tan bubles gibles to disrupt his plans he walked slowly down the hall to his room A letter that he be had ad been writing in his head ad ft irom time to time since he talked to gongal in the morning was going through his mind again go it was very clear to him tomorrow night eight he would put it on paper tor for the morning clipper my dear friend the letter would say thank you for the guide book to this beautiful and historic wand island it has been interesting and invaluable have you heard of 11 the tragic thing that happened here today A b beautiful american girl miss anne heywood met her death by a frightful accident at the central valera my efforts to save her very nearly resulted in the loss of my own life which I 1 should gladly have given to save hers she god and I 1 were the guests ol 01 1 senor alvaro value valera on his sugar plantation outside ot of san juan benor valera was not act with us only the foreman of the mill and senor diego G bongaro SO we was a also do long along b but S she b a sid did I 1 not ast go 90 ifor through me IS the 1 plant I with antin us thank go god d she a was a spared par that at TO ne BB |