"TsERlAL. STORY .
SECRET VOYAGE
By JOSEPH LCHADWICK
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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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romorrow "AN INTERRUPTED CALLS"
By E. C. SEGAB
ROLLED IN Rep. Lewis D. 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
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'T'URKEY siU on the fence
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realities. British defeats In Africa!
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way to the oil fields of Iraq and;
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tons of oil annually to run axis
war machines. The rich Mosul oil
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Turkey vehemently stated her In
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lew, which the government hon
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