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that Dm police thought there
might be e connection between
the tncidmts on the pott end e
certain kidnaping cut. But the
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ere not lAoxc of Immmrman, the
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Chapter 14
Ivan The Terrific
KM ESS calll" Adam exclaimed
a and. undoubling hie lone
legs, atood in front of me draw
ing in the belt of hie trunk until
the girl who uaed to bout of a
waist that a man could encircle
with two hands would have bro
ken her coraet strings in envy.
"See that?" he asked reproach
fully. "And you coming to break
fast every morning begging the
very food out of my mouthl
"You re lust a squab with
misplaced neck. I scoffed.
I always feel that I have ac
complished something when I
make Adam laugh out loud, aa he
did at this obvious slander. Ac
tually, he has the longest, fin est
bones of anyone I ever saw:
dressed, he looks thin. In trunks,
it is impossible to detect either
an awkward angle or a gram of
surplus flesh. He is like Mercury
In oeauurui. extended mgnt
Ha must hive seen something
of what I waa thinking in my
eyes, for he suddenly flushed boy
ishly ud to the roots of his corn
silk hair and reached me a hand
which ha did not withdraw.
"Come and get it," he said.
Hand in hand, scuffing the sand
with our bare feet, we walked
back along the beach.
It waa getting cooler as the
gray veil of evening floated in
from the lake. I put on my terry
lined beach robe and bullied
Adam into pulling a sweat shirt
over his streamlined torso before
we joined the rest of the crowd
around a little portable stove on
which hamburgers were sizzling
fragrantly.
Gerald Beaufort left Julia's
aide, where ho had been hover
ing in unrewarded patience since
we reached the beach, and came
to greet us.
"You like raw onions mit ham'
burgers?"
"Definitely
"Good I So do L Perhaps we're
soul mites!
. "Oh. Ger-old"
Adam looked after him bitterly.
Tm going to buy me some eye
lashes, too. Then maybe aomeday
acme girl will give ma a dying'
calf look and say. "Oh. A-a-adamf
Colonel Pennant and Mimi had
arrived during our Jaunt up the
beach.
I went over to say good evening
to Mimi. Mimi was wearing one
of those pajama outfit with the
ahirttail out and clogs with soles
at least two inches thick. Sitting
on the sand between Jeff and
Ivan the terrible, turning her soft
- violet eyes from one to the other.
ana looked aDout sixteen, sne an
swered ma vaguely, but Sandra.
seated near them with a set smile
on her faoa. kept me for a mo
ment to ask, with flattering inter-
eat, now my work waa progress
ing; and when I moved away to
Join Julia at the portable stove
aha got to her feet and followed
' me.
Fnnen Smile
THE chaplain was hovering
about, perilously fumbling pa
per cups and plates. Sandra took
him in tow, and Julia looked after
her with grudging gratitude.
"First good-samaritan act she
aver performed for me." she com
mented out of the corner of her
mouth. "Pure accident. He'a a
man. la she sore at Mimil Can't
imagine how she's keeping that
pair of strange doga from biting
each other."
Tve been wondering myself,"
I confessed.
"Marvelous hand with the lads.
Mimi," commented her step
daughter a little bitterly. "Here,
Kay. turn these hamburgers."
'Td like to take my or, if you
don't mind, Julia." Mimi said,
gathering up an armful of food
containers while Adam, with the
chaplain atepping n his heels In
frenzy of helpfulness, strode off
with two empty thermos lugs to
stow in tne colonel s car.
"Why ask me?" said Julia un
graciously. "Well, your father has prom
lsed to speak at that lodge meet
ing and I thought I'd like to take
a drive." Arms laden, she
straightened with an air of de
fiance, her cheeks a little pink.
"But I Jon't want to inconve
nience you.
"No inconvenience," said Julia.
1 can always sit un Gerald s lap.
Can't L Gerald?"
Mimi smiled, but she looked
puzzled. "Don't let us break up
the party," aha said. "There
should be hours of this beautiful
moonlight
"Addlea the brains," observed
Felicia crisply, joining us. She
nad been talking to Colonel fen
nant, who looked very sleek and
good natured and aa voung
usual. 'Too much for this old
gray head. If you don't mind,
Mrs. Pennant I'd like to be
dropped at the club. I still have
linen to count and tomorrow's
menus. And then to bed."
Mimi said. "No trouble at all."
but her smile froze a little.
They said goodby. the three of
them, and the two cars started in
single file down the narrow road.
The chaplain looked after them
little wistfully, I thought and I
wondered why he had not gone,
too. Probably some moldy sense
of propriety, I decided: one should
not shirk one's social duties,
Julia had brought a Hawaiian
guitar which she had managed to
conceal until the mood waa on
her. She brought it out now and,
leaning against Gerald Beauforfa
shoulder, sang "Chloe" in a love
ly. nusKT voice mat sent siuvvre
ud and down mv some. Adam
stretched out shaped the sand to
his body with a little wriggle, ana
put his head in my lap. -
I angered his nsir i naa al
ways wanted to. It waa soft like
a baby's, and bis scalp was faintly
pink, like a baby's, too. Except
for an inch-long scar on the
crown of his head. A white lint
which the upstanding, close
cropped hair would normally
hide. I wanted to ask mm aooui
it but his eyes, in the bright
moonlight were closed; his fact
was closed, too expressionless.
He might have been asleep, or
dead.
Ain't no chains can bind you
If you live, I'll find you . . .
Jeff turned his back on the lit
tle chaplain, who had intruded on
his solitude, lay down on his side
and appeared to slumber. Tht
withdrawal of his morose pres
ence was a relief. He had been
looking from Sandra and Ivan to
Julia and Gerald, with what ap
peared to be Ill-suppressed fury
in his rather bleak eves.
The song ended. Sandra and
Ivan clapped courteously.
"Charming." said tht chaplain
earnestly. ''You must come out
for choir."
Gerald said "More," (imply,
like an enthralled child.
She sang "Wagon Wheels,"
"Boot and Saddles" and, with a
mocking side glance at Jell's im
passive pack. The Donkey Sere
nade." Gerald knew that one. and
came in at the right moment with
a very fair imitation of a flute.
She ran through it once, said,
"Take it" and fell silent, thrum
ming lightly, while his clear
tenor voice soared sweetly into
the melody, the song borrowing
an odd enchantment from his
scrupulous shaping of each word.
Mi-Ml-Ml"
THERE was a slight Intermis
sion. Sandra remarked defi
antly that Ivan had a nice bari
tone, a fact which Ivan disclaimed
with undue modesty.
"Don't you believe him." she
insisted warmly. "He has even
sung on the radio."
"No!" exclaimed Julia with Just
too much incredulous amazement
in her voice.
Ivan uttered a deprecating
laugh that began at his teeth. He
swelled his chest cleared his
throat
"Mi-ml-ml ml - mi - mi - mi mi
mi." arpeggioed Ivan. "Frightful
ly rusty, don't you know. Mi-mi-ml-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi."
"Theme song," murmured
Adam, sipping his drink. There
waa a devilish light in his eyes.
"Descriptive. In a word. Me,
"Mi-mi-ml-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-ml."
"Ivan, have you tried out at
the Metropolitan vet?" Sandra
asked.
"Afraid not, old dear. I know I
iromlsed you but well, you
he thittuh is my first love. Has
been since I came down from Oxford."
"Oxford?" asked Gerald brisht.
ly. "I say. did you know old
Bertie Wooster? But of course
you did. Evtryont knows Bertie."
"Quaite," said Ivan. "Fright,
fully decent old chao. What ever
became of Bertie?"
"British Museum." said Gerald
promptly. "Copyrighta. Molder
ing away among the volumes.
Frightful bookworm. Bertie."
Adam choked violently and I
had to pound him on the back.
He and Gerald regarded one an
other with complete, devilish un
derstanding. Sandra, with a sua-
&iclous look at them, called loud
r for a song.
" 'Mandelay,'" she suggested
brightly. "Ivan sings that awfully
well."
"She thinks rm a one-man
band," said Julia d r v 1 v. and
struck a few experimental chords.
it did sound decidedly odd
without its traditional boom in
accompaniment with Ivan sing
ing gustily in his surprisingly
clear but desperately untrained
oaritone. Hi Cockney alone was
remarkable. It belonced on the
Orpheum circuit
Adam a coughs became giggles.
He leaned his back against mine,
facina deliberately awav from the
group, and I could feel the little
paroxysms that shook him. Pres
ently I caught the contagion and
we rocked together. Only Ivan
could have missed the hysteria in
our applause.
Adam got up and pulled me to
my feet
"Walk, he said darkly. "Give
me your arm. I'm weak from
laughing; maybt wa can prop
each other up."
The song pursued us down the
beech, a duet between Julia nad
Gerald, with an occasional cres
cendo phrase V Ivan.
We reached our log and I re
fused to go on.
"Now. Just what it tht joke?
Aside from Ivan."
"Aside from Ivan there is no
Joke."
"I mean about the British Mu
seum." "And I thought I liked you." he
said reproachfully. "It's si) off
between us if you don't read P. G.
Wodehouse."
"Oh. Ohl That Bertie. Jcevee'
Bertie."
"Ah!" he breathed dramatically.
"1 knew I waa not mistaken in
you." His arm was around my
want With his tree hand he
tilted my chin up. His eyes, in
the bright moonlight were more
brilliant than I had ever seen
them.
"My soul mate!" he said mock-.
Ingly and kissed me.
Te ee ceatleae
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Brockton, Mass. (UP) Clar
ice W. Lowell, gasoline sta
lion attendant, has built a ?
foot long model of a racing
automobile that travels SO to
60 miles an hour. It is powered
by a onecylinder gasoline motor.
Dse Itatl Triune vast ads.
Restored
Philadelphia 01 P WPA
workers here have completed
the work oi preserving historic
al documents, including the
wills of Benjamin Franklin,
Robert Morris and other Revo
lutionary war figures, and
court papers dating from 1718
0e Mall Tribune vast eoe.
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Washington, July 10.-
A protected purchase of 629
light tanks, which would give
the army a total of nearly
1,700 light and medium tanks
for its new armored corps and
other mechanized units, was
disclosed today at the war de
partment.
The army has on hand today
492 light and medium tanks
and- combat cars constructed
within the past four years.
The army also has placed or
ders for PS2 light tanks to be
purchased with 1940 funds. In
addition, there are some me
dium and heavy tank purchases
contemplated.
The new armored corps auth
orized last week will have a
total of 1,400 armored vehicles
at 'the beginning, and some
sources anticipate that the num
ber of vehicles may be increas
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