L SERIAL STORY
DARK JUNGLES
BY JOHN C. FLEMING & LOIS EBY
NEA BKRVICC INC.
LOST GLAMOR
CHAPTER IX
T)ARKNSS engulfed them grad
unlly as the small mule cara
van moved farther into the jun
gle, but the matted root of trees
above them kept oft the heaviest
force of the rain.
For . the first hour along the
slippery trail there was a con
stant checking of mules and lug
gage by the muleteer, the Indian
servant boys and Renaldo. Then,
satisfied the baggage was secure
and the mules arranged in the
best order possible, they settled
down to the arduous, monotonous
task of sticking onto the muscular
little animals as they made their
way over steep, slippery roots and
pulled themselves out of mud
holes.
Barry, mopping the water from
Ms face, peered ahead at Allison's
slight figure beginning to slump
in the saddle. "How you coming?"
he called.
When she didn't answer, he
spurred his mule ahead at a wide
spot in the trail and came along
side her. There was a look of
strained pain on her face under
the rivulets of water.
"Anything ' wrong?" Honest
concern and humorous malice
blended nicely in Barry's voice.
She pulled up the corners ot
her mouth in angry Imitation of
mirth. "Wrong?" she echoed, her
voice wobbling shrilly. She raised
one trembling hand and pushed
back tendrils ot escaping hair,
with a fluttering laugh. "What
could be wrong?" she scoffed, bit
terly. "Beyond being broken in
16 pieces, every tooth in my head
shaken out by this fiendish beast
of a mule, and baked and drowned
at the same time, I'm just fine.
How are all your family?"
Barry threw back his head with,
a laugh. "It hasn't touched your
disposition yet," he said.
"If I ever find out," she added
vehemently, "that there's any
other . way of getting into that
plantation than over this torture
rack, I'll shoot Renaldo right in
the middle of that beautiful back
of his and draw and quarter him
with my own hands."
Renaldo turned about in his
saddle with a dismayed . smile.
"After an hour , or so," he sug
gested, "we might stop for an early
lunch.
"You can put me right In the
kettle," Allison blazed. "I'll be
dead and pounded tender by
then."
pHE rain went steadily on. ' By
afternoon the trail was a quag
mire and the mules' progress pain
fully slow. Allison had revived
somewhat during the pause for
lunch enough to resent Renaldo's
plea that she go back to Puerto
.Barrios. : . .
"Have I held you up this morn
ing?" sne demanded Indignantly,
"No,"- Renaldo- admitted, his
sharp, dark eyes brooding over
ner pale lace, "out l can't bear to
see you suffer."
: "You'll have to bear it," snapped
yuuson. "Do you want me to get
repressions??-. -
As the afternoon wore on the
jungle . grew, denser, the trees
larger. The buzz of insects rose
in a heavy pall of sound. The
jungle seemed suddenly to have
closed in around them.
Allison turned and motioned
Barry to crowd his mule closer.
He thought he caught a frightened
glint in her wide eyes. She began
to talk brightly. .
"I have some Mayan knives that
were dug from around here," she
told him. "Father sent them to
me once. Did you know this was
Mayan country?"
Renaldo smiled back at them.
."It was the chicle scouts looking
for zapote trees who discovered
,the Mayan ruins," he said. "So,
jyou might say, if it were not for
(the gum chewers, the ancient civ
ilization might never have been
known to historians."
i "I wish I'd had that argument
(to use when I was a kid," laughed
iBarry. "I never could convince
mother that I was abetting cul
ture with my gum chewing."
The light moment was broken
by Allison's scream.- Her mule
had stepped into one of the treach
erous suck holes. The mud was
rising rapidly around his knees.
"What can I do?" she screamed.
T? ENALDO called curt directions
to his own beast and tugged
on his reins. It backed slowly
toward Allison's until its tail
touched the other mule's desper
ately flailing head. The struggling
little animal seemed reassured. It
grasped the lead mule's tail with
its strong white teeth. Renaldo
leaped off and pulled. His mule
strained forward. Allison's smaller
animal held on grimly, his legs
kicking feebly at the sucking mud.
Slowly, he was pulled free and
scrambled like a mountain goat up
onto firmer ground.
"Bravo!" Allison patted the
mule's heaving side. "Plucky little
devils, aren't they?" she cried to
Barry.- "I'm going to call him
Cassidy. ' Look at him hopping
around like a sand flea."
Renaldo drew his mule up at
the first good specimen of zapote
tree. Allison examined it eagerly.
She turned to Barry with a flash
of her old spirit. ,-
"That's what I'm going to climb
when I learn to be a chiclero,"
she said arrogantly.
"You see that other tree so close
to the zapote?" Renaldo went on.
"'That is the compadre tree very
poisonous. Its leaves drip into the
yes of the chicleros. Many have
their eyeballs destroyed."
Allison didn't answer him. She
idug her heels abruptly into the
sides of Cassidy and went on, but
iBarry could see the -shiver of hor
iror that went through her slim
body.
They were within a mile of the
'estancia where they would stop
for the night, balancing their last
ihoarded strength ' against - these
final minutes when it happened.
The hindmost mule ot the baggage
train stumbled wearily into a
vicious surk hole. The two small
trunks, .lashed to its back were
American aviators are picking
up right where American tour
ists loft off in shocking Paris
and Naples. . .
half submerged before the serv
ant's call brought help,
Renaldo's face was set and
strained with fatigue. Ho looked
at the small creature whose head
and terrorized eyes only were
above the sucking mud and said,
"It's no use. I'm sorry about your
trunks, Miss Topping."
Allison grabbed his hand as it
pulled the gun from his holster.
Her voice whipped out in hys
terical command. !
Barry watched the exhausted
natives, under her screamed
threats, run for block and tackle,
hitch ropes through wooden blocks
tied to overhanging trees. Angrily
he muttered to her as six mules
strained in agonized effort at the
rope tied about the bogged ani
mal's head.
"You would have to save your
precious trunks!" !
She looked at him and said 1
nothing,, but he was struck with '
a sudden feeling of iron buried j
somewhere beneath that deeep- :
tively delicate nature of hers. She :
was down on her knees, a slim i
white figure, helping get the slings i
under the beast. It was her hands, j
scratching and bleeding, that sup- I
ported the shaking beast when it .
was finally pulled up onto firm
ground.
Renaldo slashed the ropes and,
as the muddy trunks dropped, she
helped ease the suffering animal
to the ground, murmuring to it
as she poured water over its
square little head. Then she
raised her eyes in one last flash
of command.
"Throw those trunks in the suck
hole!" she said.
(To Be Continued)
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