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"TsERlAL. STORY . SECRET VOYAGE By JOSEPH LCHADWICK 01 - mmmmtm aftaaiw. ewvmaiff. im, MI SIRVICS, MO. - jgBBOUS 8HBLUNO CHAPTER VOT At. . .U -cdtrtd U this wi th. lel JZ had with Erie Mia Sunday nlht WB wort a whIU tropical j, tot wu well tailored. He ,1 brows curly hair, blu .yet, "browstd skin. He was .bout m, Bt could, Jim thought, fc, i genUeman but there M M intangible hint of tough ig about blxtt- ftn Mid, "KW your money, drt. And get off my ship." Utoy, I haw five thousand jjm ma. I een rata twenty Musi mora. Iff youn If you p to wort." Ait wu a Jolt Jun fait men Sf nekad undar Jta Impact jDile, just keep talking qit rD listen, If you talk misV HeBar talks btttar than I do, aaj,1 nld tha man in his nfol way. Es brought out a tit, ihowad Jim its contents fjnalrsd-douar bills. "Will you tatotbttt" i'lti til I hiva to do for IsW-ire thousand," Jim said, a to tall ysu tha Sonora'i loca- tTbst sad braak your contract m iiSwj Hammond. Your ship fntdy to talL You might take 1Mb to South America." ySom this money coma from towns?" il)o It nutter where it cornea W rtaCi not aniwerlng my ques- lald tha careful volet. taw this money." - ratch, Jim reflected, could be Sa, Aloud he said, "And if I el tax you up, mister?" The man shrugged. "I told you once that you'd deal with me or have trouble. I'm a patient man, Mallory, but this la my last offer." His voice was low, as careful as ever, but Jim had no illusions about him. "I gave Hammond my word, mister, and I never break my word." "I wu afraid of that"' "And any trouble you've cot. IH handle." The man shrugged again, closed his wallet and returned it to his pocket A faint smile curled his lips, and above the smile his eyes turned chill and dangerous. "Well, 111 be seeing you, Mallory baby." And ha" want ashore. Curly Bates came on deck from the engine room. Jim said, "See where that fellow aoes. Curlv. Find out what you can about him." "is It the guy with the money?" "The guy with a lot of money," Jim said. Curly got back to the Aurora shortly after 8. He shook his head glumly. "He walked down Col lins avenue a long ways," he said. "Then back again. He went into a bar. I waited a while, then went in. He must have gone out another door. He must have known I was following him." 'THE Caribbean was crystal A blue under the blazing tropic sun. The sea was calm, and everything peaceful, when the Aurora dropped an anchor from above the Sonora's resting nlace. It was hard to imagine that any thing could happen there. It wu illogical to think that any other noat eouut nnd the position. Jim got into a rubber suit and went down that first afternoon, not to work but to look over the job. The depth was great for a rubber suit When he felt the ship's deck under the leaden shoes he worried a little about the pres sure. It was dark down there, an eerie greenish darkness, and the ship was merely a vague black bulk. He talked over the tele phone, asking for more pressure and for an underwater lamp. When tha lamp came down on a line he moved along the deck. Movement was difficult, for the deck slanted sharply to starboard, and the current was strong. Jim had landed on tha foredeck and, after examining the foreward hold hatches, he directed his light on the bridge. What he saw told him why the Sonora's captain and first officer had been lost The bridge was wrecked, quite thoroughly wrecked, and the twisted remains were charred and blistered as if by fire. Or an explosion, Curlv' vnli-a flutt-- down. "Better not atay down too long, apuce." "All right Haul me up. But tak it llfW. T Anm Hi-- . . -- - nwii tu Hfc the benda." HA Uttl llaalllaV lm .1jtttW mm. to tha change in pressure and re- ictiBtj wi increased amount el nitrogen In hit blood. A slow ascent Was Mmilra fee, st Mikk ihv sua ssv tuuun suit to offset the dread ailment of pressure worms, the bends. e QNCE on deck, he got out of the helmet and suit then went to hie eahin in atratf.1. m. m. 4k vvevnu v Ml HIV bunk. -He had tha usual heed- acne. BlafilcahaAn earn Im wtik m of hlarir nffM V mm A ,mii deep down there, eh, Spike suh?" m J J n "You be earfiri. hm T - shark hoverin' about a'ready, an' a a oaa omen." Jaa laughed and drank the coffee. Curlv earn In. ut 4wn and lighted his pipe. "What da you think, Spike?" "It'll be easy," Jim replied. "Ill go down in a metal suit tomorrow, take a torch and cut the cargo hatches a lot bigger. Once that's one we can run the buckets down from the Aurora's winch." "What do we do with the man ganese once we start brlnirln it up?" "Hammond is sending a freighter out, as soon as I radio him." "Then evervbodv will fcnnw rail position." "Sure. But what doea it mat ter? We're here, and nnhnriv'a going to chase us off." curly nodded, fell silent and smoked. SMnallv hm M enib - what's on that ship besides man ganese?" "I dont know yet," Jim said. "Curly, I didn't tell you, but the Sonora was sunk by gunfire. She's full of shell holes. What do you make of that?" ) "You tell me," Curly said, and looked startled. "There are a fat a rmr an gles to this," Jim said. "Ham mond didn't want her salvaged, nor did Erio Forbes. The crew, mnxtlv Watt Tnrilaa mmrmm hustled aboard another Hammond snip aeaaing xor China. Maybe Ml thav unMiMn't tallr Thro AKA lie, telling the Coast Guard the snip weni aown in a siorm. men there's that girl, that Mary Lar- lan. wantlntf in Vnm, tha KstnApa'a position end the .careful talker wiu mi money warning we same thing. Yes, Curly, there's some thing on the Sonoral" (to ise venunuea) ( ' - . 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Thill, Wisconsin Republican, was all but , , yrXlmore than sm replies he got in his poll ballots being sent to every tenth Wisconsin district on whether America' should enter the war. His flg 1 "turns already tabulated are: 4,694 voting "no"; 4U voting "yes." SIDE GLANCES Ikn i .ve cents. mil rl, n,lv his "aattJMftW we're anfrg toj&lM&S' il ; POSTAURI VTJ turkey Straddles Road To Rich Oil, Reserves 'T'URKEY siU on the fence A V..U VJm It bum hativa nM.allv aantimanfa anil HA realities. British defeats In Africa! nd tha Ballrana mil the nun victories of the Nasi legions have, rendered Turkey a pawn In the game of power politics. The Turkish predicament is duel to the fact that the country atradJ dies an Intended German righUofJ way to the oil fields of Iraq and; Iran. It Is estimated Germany, needs 7,000,000 and Italy 2,000,000 tons of oil annually to run axis war machines. The rich Mosul oil fields of Iraq alone produce halt that much. wk. 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