SERIAL STORY ,
DARK JUNGLES
BY JOHN C. FLEMING &
TOO DANGEROUS
CHAPTER Vtl
rjE stunned confusion on Alli
son's face sent Barry Into
howls of laughter. She Ignored
him, her wide violet eyes fixed on
the imperturbable face of the
Spaniard.
"What do you mean, 'A train of
mules'?" she demanded. "Do you
have mules pulling carriages or
something?"
Barry laughed louder. Even
Renaldo's thin dark lips struggled
with a smile. "No, Miss Topping,"
he said gently. "The mules carry
the luggage and the passengers."
Allison's delicate chin lifted
haughtily. "That's ridiculous,"
she sniffed. "There's a train. I
saw it. I shall go on that."
Barry exchanged helpless
glance with Renaldo. "Do that,"
he said in a choking voice. "Tip
the engineer and smile at him. I
know he'll turn off the tracks and
take you just where you want to
go in the jungle. Or maybe you
could transfer to a subway."
' She gave htm a wide, mirthless
smile. "Are you kidding?" she
said. Her voice was flat and a
little frightened.
"I've been trying to tell you for
five days I'm not kidding," Barry
groaned.
She turned to Renaldo and said,
"Where's the hotel?"
He pointed it out a flat little
building raised on piers just back
of where they sat. Beyond it,
corrugated iron shais littered the
glaring coast before the high green
wall of the jungle closed in. In
dians, dogs, pigs, naked children
were everywhere, in dirty, noisy
confusion. Vultures floated above
in the white-hot sky.
"I don't think I'd like It there,"
she said stubbornly.
"You'll think it's heaven after
a few days in the jungle," Barry
retorted.
She shrugged. "Who knows?"
Barry gave it up. With an im
patient shrug, he said to Renaldo,
"I wish you luck with her."
Renaldo rose with a troubled
smile. "Thank you," he said to
Barry. "Now if you will excuse
me, I have many things to arrange
before we can begin our journey.
. I will first have your luggage
carried to your rooms. You will
have no other worry. Make
yourselves comfortable until to
morrow." VT71TH a quick, deep bow he was
" gone, his tall, white-suited
figure moving with sure, arrogant
strides toward "the hotel.
The waiter brought them more
coffee and they sat on in the
thatch-covered veranda lazily
watching the iew small boats on
the glistening blue water, while
the sun rose higher in the sky and
the heat poured down in heavy,
moist waves. Small beads of
perspiration - formed across the
girl's wide forehead (beneath the
brim of her hat She wiped them
away furtively and smiled when
Barry caught her.
"Aren't you going to tell me it's
hot?" she-jeered.-
Baity -grinned at her cheerfully.
"I am ot,"- he retorted. "I've
turned you over to Renaldo bag
and baggage. I've an idea I've
been handling you all wrong any
way. I'll bet you came down here
in the first place because someone
dared you to."
A secret smile twitched the cor
ners of her mouth. "Maybe," she
murmured. "After all, an owner
has a right to manage his own
plantation ..."
"Oh. It was Renaldo's letters
then. He wrote you not to come."
"Well, practically."
"Renaldo is a smart man. Til
bet he's an efficient one."
"He's pretty, too," said the girl
with a mutinous laugh. "Just the
same I have a life to live. And
if I want to"
"Throw it away," Barry cut In
dryly, "it's yours. Go ahead. No
body's stopping you."
A fat little man in soiled white
ducks waddled up the hill to tell
them their rooms were ready.
They followed him down to the
hotel and parted at their differ
ent doors.
An hour later they met on the
veranda to stroll back up to the
small restaurant for lunch. They
had both had showers and a
change of clothes and for a few
minutes they felt fresh, almost
cool. The very young naked na
tive population clustered around
them, staring at Allison with
round, dazed eyes, at "the daintl
jess of her sheer blue cotton frock,
it the. wide leghorn hat that
framed as it shaded the delicate
oval of her face, f
"Well," Barry thought humor
ously, "she's dazzled keener minds
than theirs." Now that he had
found she was in capable hands,
she was no longer the irritating
responsibility she had been on the
boat. He was content to drop his
own problems for the moment and
concentrate on the remarkable
prank of fate that had put him
In this tropic village with one of
Iho big city's glamor dolls for a
single afternoon.
"What do you want for lunch?"
he said. "You'll get tortillas."
"You make life, so easy." She
turned the full battery of her blue
orbs on bun in mock adoration.
rVKEY settled down into tha
x bamboo chairs again and the
waiter hurried out. . From his
stuttered explanations, they found
that the thoughtful hand of Re
naldo had been in the luncheon
preparations. Ho brought on
plates of soup, then chicken, rico
and hot red peppers, and finally
bowls of fruit, mangoes, bananas,
pineapple.
When the slanting rays of sun
had lost their violence, they took
a walk around the town. They
peered Into closed steamship of
fices and watched the little loco
motive wheeze away from -the
small station bungalow, Allison
brought her camera and took pic
tures of the slender coconut palms
that leaned against the board
walk, and the pelicans preening
(Lheir plurnage with heavy beaks.
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She screamed with delight at two
parrots lumbering stodgily across
the sand before the walk.
It was sunset before they turned
back. On the hotel veranda in
the rose haze of the tropic eve
ning Renaldo was smoking an
evening pipe. ...
"Did you have an enjoyable
dav?" he greeted them.
"Not bad at all. Did you find
that guide for me?" Barry asked.
Renaldo frowned.
"I am sorry to say I did not,"
he said.
Barry stared at him. "But I
thought you were sure."
Renaldo turned troubled eyes
on him. "Somehow," he said with
slow emphasis, "the word has got
ten out where you are going. These
guides are not fond of trespassing
into Quiche territory. I offered
them fabulous sums."
"But how could it have gotten
out?" puzzled Barry.
Allison was fanning herself
with her wide hat "Are you hav
ing trouble?" she inquired sweet
ly. Barry whirled on her In sud
den suspicion. She laughed at his
accusing anger. "I didn't!" she
cried. "That was a trick I missed."
"The only thing -1 could sug
gest," said Renaldo decisively, "is
for you to go with us into the
plantation and take some guides
I have there, whom I know will
go. If not, I'll go with you my
self." Barry stood glaring in inde
cision. "A long way around," he
objected. "But if it's the only
way It's decent of you."
Allison's mocking chuckles went
on. (To Be Continued)
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France's national anthem, i the
"Marseillaise," was once a for
bidden song in that country. It
was sung so enthusiastically by
French revolutionists and was
employed as accompaniment to
so many horrible deeds that it
was considered dangerous and
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No fighting airplane made In
the United States reached the
western front in World war I.
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