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MEPFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935.
IMS Um NtVIS MIND IM LAST an MM IM UST NEVU MIND ml W
NEVER MIND THE LADY
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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CHR STMAS SECRET SERVICE bv cluy as Williams
' gritOFBIS! Terry WIHlt i.f
ftas thrown a hombehell into thl
midst o the embaaeu ball. 119 hat
told Qeorge Fox the attachi that
ha intend to eee f AH a ehtnment of
hit equipment, being detailed bu the
native government arte aboard
thin tonight. Fox knouse it meant
trouble. o doet Allaire Writ But
Allaire eeee to it that Fox doee not
follow Terry to the dock fifta
eende him out on the danre floor to
teparate her winrhrr Irom OH ad
venturer named LaMorr.
Chapter Eight
UNINVITED QUEST
ALLAIRE hated It the whole
1 stultifying ceaseless round: Noll
West dueling her husband on a
mutual ground of fashionable bypoc
rlsy. handsome young men with a
business address as matter of
form, polo and tea dances their ea
reer.
Breathe! with the whipping, cut
ting lash of a!' Tomorrow she took
up a plane, and tonight she wanted
to forget It Above the silken murlc
of the orchestra was the distant
note of a brass band. Follow the pa
rade!
She left the conservatory.
snatched up her wrap, and went
outside.
Novaes, the Embassy runner, was
talking patronizingly to a carriage
driver. Carriage? too slow. Novaes
jumped at her summons.
"Mr. Fox's car," aha requested.
"On est-ll. no damn It, that's French.
Where the dickens is Sefior Fox's
car, old top?"
Novaes understood enough to lead
her to the attache's long low road
ster. Allaire contemplated It ap
provingly, and slid In behind the
wheel.
"Get In," she directed the runner.
"You have to diroct me to Roslna
B. Roslna B ships toot toot!
Vapor Roslna" B-"
"Roslna B?" Novaes pronounced
It "bay." He looked anxiously at the
lovely, dark-eyed girl Impatiently
awaiting him. "But, pardon, seflorlta,
I don't understand Roslna B?"
"Vamos," she ordered, and blew
the horn In lieu of further Spanish.
Novaes scrambled In beside her.
And he hadn't boen riding a block
before he would have been quite
content to get out.
Silver drum headlights cutting
the darkness, wilting the occasional
street lamps, speeding out of the
residential section Into the metro
politan area, rolling through the
broad streets of this City of the
Dona as though they were on a track
in the middle of an open prairie.
Novaes jabbered directions with
stabs of his finger, and muttered
prayers under bis breath. These
crazy Americanos beautiful but
crasy. The sefiorlta wanted to got to
Roslna B !
They roared down the leafy Bal
nearlo drive, passing scattered car
riages, racing right up on top of
them and then slithering past as the
girl at the big wheel moved her
hands slightly.
And then as they turned off the
Balnearlo Into a waterfront drive
that led to the docks the lights
seized upon a lone ambling carriage
The girl nodded and brought the
car to a atop.
"Much obliged," she told her
guide. "Vamos."
She pulled out some banknotes
from her silver mesh bag and
pressed them Into his band. Novaes
looked at them and got out shaking
with emotion.
"Sorry," she told him, "to loave
you here, but that ought to get you
back."
Back? He could go back on a bat
tleship, by damn I He burst Inio a
torrent of thanks, but sbe'd forgot
ten him. Already she was shifting
Into gear, a slow smile curving her
lips.
"T ORD!" breathed Terry Wlllott.
He gave a quick command to
the driver and stepped out of the
carriage,
Allaire lounged behind the wheel,
her hair In thick wind blown con
fusion, the evening wrap sliding off
one bare shoulder.
"Would you mind awfully," she
asked tranquilly, "If I went with
you?" .
He'd thought he was prepared for
anything.
"Why?" he henrd himself say.
"Oh," she waved a slim Indefi
nite hand, "I'm one of those people
who pa, a gristly bear on the nose
to see If he's friendly."
He lookod at her a long moment.
Funny things, women. This one. for
example. She blazed across his life
like a rocket.
"You'd better go back. You'll only
be bored.
"The evening," she assented, with
a quirk nod of her blonde head,
"started out that way."
"Hell." said Terry Wlllett. "why
didn't you get Fox to lake you to lbs
L PIGEON IS
PET AT F
BUT IT'S A CAT
rOLSOM PKlhtJN, CM. (UP)
FoUom prion' petn are becoming
almost iij wrll known a some of the
Institution's Inmntcs.
Plrt there wu tiusty, "utool
pigeon rut" who still roums the old
11 block with more frredom than
anyone, even the puarcU. Then eme
Blue, the blue-Krny offspring cf
Rusty. And Blue Adopted m his con
stant companion Chirps, a tiny fines
which was found dfsertM tn a nest
atop the prison v,Mt.
Kiuty became famous nome tO
years ago a tbe "stool pigeon cat"
uataclant They stage lights for you
there at fifty centavos a bout.
"If you make a good Job of It to
night," she said coolly. "I may let
you take me to the Rata whooils to
morrow night, la the meantime I
have a deep desire to wander about
Roslna B."
He dismissed bis carriage and
atepped In beside ber.
"I'll have the whole damn Foreign
Service on my neck tomorrow," bt
grunted. "Let'a go."
She liked that in him a strain of
sportsmanlike humor that bridged
the gap between the sensible and th
Insane.
"You're still going to sock some
body?" "Yes, babe," he said gently, "I am.
And you're carrying this"
8he hardly knew where It came
from, that small flat automatic. And
It was then that the last of the Lega
tion Club disappeared from the night
and she awoke to the lapping of
black water and the bulky shapes
of ships at their berths.
"I really wouldn't know how to
use It from a shovel," she assured
blm.
Terry smiled grimly.
"You probably won't need It. But
It's a good thing o have. Stop here."
The weapon was warm from bis
body. Polo and lights and cocktails
Great God I
She put It In her bag. He took ber
arm. Tbe night air was chilly, but
the warmth of her bare arm sent an
electrlo shock through his Angers.
What was he doing? to bell with It,
take your cue as you went along.
He'd always done that and he was
still alive, A hundred feet from car
to Hllder. Come along, you girt with
the wind-swept hair and the steady
low voice you're with an engineer
finishing a Job,
Giant cranes on their tracks along
the dock stood like disapproving
monsters as a tall man In white
ducks and a girl In an evening gown
made their way along a warehouse
alley.
She knew that there were men
near them, wharf rats lying on ware,
bouse ramps, but her companion
was supreme In this world. She
realized the quiescent atrengtb In
those Angers on ber arm.
' A strange light began to etcb th
cranes against the sky Ilka the
glow of a Are somewhere In the dis
tance. And then they rounded the
corner of the warehouse and cam
across the "Pnrajalbo."
"TREMENDOUS flares burned on
-1 the dock, throwing Into flicker
ing relief the rusty aide of a small
tramp steamer. A fast-moving set
of stevedores portered crates from
the warehouse to a crane which lift
ed them over the ship's side.
"Thrilling. Isn't it?" Wlllett said
satirically.
To her It was. The flares, the men,
the scrubby steamer, were all part
of a world whore nerves raced and
blood tingled.
He guided her through the bustle,
curious black eyes on them, men
stopping In their labor to stare.
Everybody stared at women In thea
countries men cut to the same pat
tern but wltb varying tastes.
"There be Is," Wlllett said sud
denly. "Tb holy graft merchant"
She saw a fat man In wilted duck
and straw hat standing In the door
way of a small lighted office.
"He who gets socked," ah mur
mured. "Hey, Hlldesl" snapped Terry.
Tbe shipping agent started at tb
unceremonious summons. His little
eyes flicked from the tall red-head
to the girl at his side like the dart
of a snake.
"Ah, Sefior Wlllett." he comment
ed, and sauntered over.
His shirt was open at a hairy
thoat and the pouch under his chin
was bluish. Terry regarded him dis
tastefully and kept his hand on the
girl's arm.
"You putting my freight on board
that boat?" be demanded, "or do I
strotcb your hide up on the wall like
a trophy from a boar bunt?"
"But of course, Soflor." Hlldoi
waved an obliging hand. "Tomorrow
your shipment will be on the way to
Proptonolre."
"Yeah!" said Wlllett. "I'll believe
you when I see It lifted over the side.
Go on, Hlldcz, trot It out I'm sick
of waiting on you."
- The shipping boss shruggod hi
heavy shoulders.
"As you will, Sailor Wlllett."
He said something In quick soft
Spanish to a couple of stevedores,
and turned back to them, smiling
genially.
"Presently, Sefior. The lady"
"Never mind the lady," said Wll
lett curtly.
For the first time In ber life sh
recognized pure steel.
(Copyright. Ittt by David Oarth)
Terry makes a ramark hs should
not hava made, tomorrow.
who unfailingly discovered prisoner
when they broke rulea by preparing
food tn thrlr cell. Now and thfn
a prisoner construct a crude toaster
of electrlo stove, aecretea It In his
cell and smugs If s food there from
the mwt table with the Idea of pre
paring a snack before turning In for
the night.
On auoh occaMona, Rusty may be
depended upon to head directly
toward the cell from which the
aroma of food emanates, sit outalde
and meow. Invariably this attracts
a guard and the offendinj prisoner
la placed In solitary.
More recent.?, stories and pictures
of Blue and Chirp the pictures
showing Chirps perched on the cat's
pw or head received wide circula
tion. Oriental Coins Mined
LENINGRAD (UP) A treasure eon
listing of 37 rare Oriental coins of
the 13th Century has been brought
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city ol UXara,
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