SERIAL STORY
MEXICAN MASQUERADE
BY CECIL CARNES W&&tff.: TS5gU?&
STATB Or 8IEGK
CHAPTER XVI
cable,
TTOW do you happen to hove
the transcript of that
Colonel?" Allan asked.
"You have seen me excuse my-
eU each evening after dark. It
traa to go down to the shore and
receive a water-tight cylinder of
report from a Peninsula Indian
who swims them down from
point five miles up the gulf. Busi
ness as usual, senort That tran-
acript was part of last sight's
grist from the mill.'
n see. Swims five miles, huh?
What about the sharks?"
"I dont believe a shark would;
bite a Peninsula Indian," saidi
Escobar thoughtfully. "I wouldn't
care to myself. However, that Is1
how I received the copy even be
fore De FonUnelle received the
original."
"But, Colonel," interjected Kay,
her eyes opening at him, "if this
' - Indian comes every night, why
hasnt he brought a boat in which'
i you could have escaped to the
mainland and arranged for our
rescue?"
"1 could have done no more
p out in the world than I am doing;
! here, aenorita, believe me. If I
' should go, our enemies would'
' smell a rat and perhaps destroy:
you people as any criminal de-
- stroys evidence. While I'm here,
they think they have me under
! control."
!' In other words still, mused A1-.
lan, regarding the rurale thought
fully, Escobar was quite simply:
risking his life rather than leave!
them to face the angry Japanese1
alone. Their truculence had been:
growing, too, as the radio brought
news of steadily increasing ten
4 sion In the Orient between the
;'- United States and Japan.
"Permit me to tell you. Colonel,"
said Allan slowly, "one thing I
- have learned down here; if we get!
Into this war and you fellows ;
come in with us, we'll have an
. ally whose efficiency will amaze
the world."
' "Why, thank you, senor, thank
," youl And never doubt for a mo-:
ment, If you go in, well be there'
with youl"
"
' 'THE next morning, barely an,
' ' hour after dawn, Allan awoke
from a dream of battlefields in
Russia. A few seconds he lay
drowsing, then sprang from his
bed to his feet in one jump. Ma
chine guns! The usually quiet
morning was being turned Into a
', hell of noise by the sharp chatter
of machine guns! Dozens of them,
it sounded like! .
A spurred step, grown familiar.
rang in the corridor. The colonel;
Biooa m tne doorway, smiling and ;
(pulling at his mustache.
"Hola! Get up, sleepy-head! !
.You're missing a battle!"
, "What the devil Is it?" cried j
Allan,-clawing on clothing withi
iboth bands. "Have the U. S. Ma-i
h-ines landed?"' -'
"Yon were expecting them, per-;
haps? No, aenor, it is only a bodyj
of roughly clad fellows who arei
attacking the main island from!
the Peninsula shore. The cannery!
has made many bitter enemies
among the local fishermen, you
understand. Or they may be just'
bandits."
"Bandits! With machine guns?" I
I "Mexican bandits, too, are effl-1
Ident," said Escobar blandly. Then,
the laughed suddenly at Allan's'
expression and threw out his slen
der hands in a gesture of sur-i
render. "No, my friend, I will bei
frank with you. What you arei
about to witness is an affair of I
international diplomacy."
i "Diplomacy! With brass
IKnuckles?"
in a sense, it is this way,
senon Mexico discovers a Jap
anese outfit grossly violating her
neutrality, u she protests to Ja
pan, what happens? Japan smiles;
she is so sorry, but she cannot
hold herself responsible for the
acts of unofficial Japanese. So
Mexican bandits wipe out the un
official Japanese, and if Japan
protests are we, nationally, re-i
sponsible for a stray bunch ofi
outlaws? You see?" '
"My aunt! Well, who are these i
Ifellows, then?"
My own regiment of rural,
isenor. They have ridden here
(from Ensenada to rescue their
icolbnel and his friends! They will
Ishow you, I hope, that a Mexican
irurale can land as effectively as
(your Marines!"
shore, men and guns were shel
tered cunningly behind boulders
and in the scrub. A black muzzle
would appear from a cleft rock,
discharge a raking burst of bullets
that combed the island, then dis
appear to come out again at an
other spot On the island, innocent
looking rocks would be revealed
abruptly as pillboxes, spitting
flame and smoke and singing lead.
But neither side could penetrate
tho other's defense of stone and
concrete.
"Devil take it!" grumbled the
colonel. "I knew they had forti
fied the place; I didn't know they
had converted it into a Gibraltar!"
At the end of an hour he was
knitting his brows; at the end of
two, he was biting his nails; at
the end of three, he was actually
chewing his mustache. Then Allan
clutched at his arm and pointed to
the western sky.
"Look, Escobar! Look!"
One minute it was a tiny speck.
The next, it was a plane. Then
suddenly it was a huge amphibian
bomber which was power-diving
at the men on the peninsula even
before they were aware of the
death overhead. No bombs were
dropped Allan remembered what
Dr. Sargent had said about the
sensitive quality of the new ex
plosive but from each flank of the
great plane, and from its bow,
guns spat destruction on the scur
rying figures below.
The ship straightened out,
soared aloft, came streaking down
again. It was more than flesh and
blood could stand. The Mexicans
scattered and ran, searching mad
ly for crevices in the rocks in
which they might hide. For the
moment, the siege of the cannery
was definitely lifted. As if scorn
ing to pursue the fugitives, the
bomber circled the spot once or
twice, then dropped softly to th
blue waters of the gulf. It taxied
to within SO feet of the island'!
main pier, then stopped. For the
first time Allan could make out
the insignia of the fuselage. A
great black swastika!
(To Re Continued)
AUTOMOTIVE HINT
Dirt, or dead Insects, should
never be poked out of the radiat
or core of an automobile, as tills
is destructive to the delicate
cells. Instead, the hood should be
lifted and a hose placed between
the cells to force out tho foreign
matter with water pressure.
Vast quantities of the things
'we need could be brought to
light by a concerted spring house
keeping on the part of everybody.
Lessing J. Rosenwald, chief of
War Production Board's bureau
of Industrial conservation.
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I'THEY hastened to the foyer,
I A whence they might have a full !
(view of the hostilities without ex-1
(posing themselves to stray bullets. !
Kay was already there, staring!
at the scene before her in be-i
Iwilderment Escobar thoughtfully
Ibrought chairs, observing they'
icouia consiaer memseives as hav
ing a stage box for the coming
. ishow. It should, he said, be good.,
It was good: so Allan decided n
he settled with quickening pulse,
to wawn me nrst real batue hei
pad ever seen. Meanwhile, in a
flow incisive tone that carried be.
meath the Inferno of noise, the
(rurale added a few details to thei
etory he had told Allan. He had,
ttt appeared, been up at dawn when
'.(the "bandits" arrived.
"They sent a flag of truce
three men and an officer to de-
imand the unconditional surrender
(of the island. Watanabe rejected
jthe notion with scorn. The Sag
(went back. As the four men
stepped on the beach, a machine
jgun opened on them from the is
(land, killing or wounding all of
Ithem. The flag party, you under
stand!" I "The yellow devils!" growled
(Allan.
"They will be sorry," predicted
Escobar softly. "Our fellows will
remember that when the time
comes!"
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12 Lariat.
14 Weird.
"16 Kitchen poH
(abbr.).
16 Opposite
(prefix).
19 First man.
20 Symbol for
ruthenium.
21 Aetatis
(abbr.).
23 Burnt sugar.
24 Peruvian
silver coin.
25. One who:
fixes prices.
27 Impede by
estoppel
(law).
29 Passage
(anaL).
30 Opposed (O
gain.
31 Angered.
.32 Cupola.
33 Indian.
35 Make smooth,
37 A judge.
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51 State of pro.
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55 Egyptian
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44 Paradise. .
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(abbr.).
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(abbr.).
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