SERIAL STORY
DARK JUNGLES
BY JOHN C. FLEMING O LOIS EBY
COPYRIGHT. IB43.
NCA SERVICE, INC.
DETERMINATION
CHAPTER XVII
JENALDO sat by the windows
reading a book while Barry
canned eagerly through the pages
of the two-wecks-old New York
Times that had come In the after
noon post. Neither man looked up
as the old Indian charwoman, her
brown bare feet shuffling softly
over the wooden floors, moved
auletly throueh the shadows to
light the many candles. She laid
the table for dinner and placed
two silver candelabra at either
end, to flicker pleasantly and
throw gay, dancing shadows on
the ceiling.
Barry heard a door open and
turned to see Allison framed In
the doorway. It was a pew Alli
son. An Allison that he had never
seen before. She looked as fragile
as a Dresden doll in her misty blue
evening gown with full skirt that
flowed around powder blue slip
pers like a drifting cloud. Crown
ing her close cut hair a brilliant
red hibiscus flamed. High color
was In her cheeks. All the hard
ness, the driving purpose had left
her eyes and in their stead had
come a quiet languor, a look
that was dreamy and still gay, a
look that perfectly matched the
loveliness of the jungle night For
a moment Barry couldn't find his
voice. ' Then he said quietly,
"You're looking very beautiful,
Miss Topping."
Benaldo looked up and both men
got to their feet.
"Aren't you glad now, both of
you, that I didn't leave my clothes
in Puerto Barrios like you wanted
me to?" she smiled.
"It is good to see a woman who
looks like a woman," Renaldo ad
mitted as he held the chair for
Allison.
"We should have thought more
of morale and less about mules,"
Barry grinned.
They all laughed and sat down.
The charwoman came in then
with copper dishes piled with food
and placed them on the table.
"I never really knew what it
was to be hungry until I came
down here," Allison said. "After
a day in the jungle you are ready
to eat"
Renaldo smiled.
' "I believe the girl is beginning
to like it," he said.
"I love it!" Allison said. "I told
you I would!"
Barry raised his eyes with a
quizzical look.
. "I thought you said the heat. . ."
"I'm even getting used to that."
"One does after a while," Re
naldo said. "After you have lived
in the jungle a little while you
will curse it and yet you will never
want to leave it It has a strange
fascination that holds you some
times even in spite of yourself."
.
TIE turned his eyes toward A11I
son then and covered her smal!
hand briefly with his own. "Youi
father said many times he had
made plenty of money and in one
more year he was going back to
New York to live but when thai
year passed it was always one
more, he would say, and he never
did leave. I have known many
men like that."
"It must have been very lonely
for him here," Allison said.
"Oh, I suppose it was. It ii
lonely for all of us, sometimes, no
matter where we are. But here
' he was like an ancient ruler. He
had freedom and an independence
that many men in great cities
. would like to have."
Barry couldn't help but notice
the intensity that burned in Re
naldo's dark, smoldering eyes
whenever he talked or looked at
Allison. He knew now why the
Spaniard, who only a few weeks
ago had been so anxious for Alli
son to return to New York, was
encouraging her to stay on.
After they had finished their
meal Allison wandered out to the
screened veranda. Sheer moon
light was flooding down like silver
dust among the towering trees.
Jungle sounds came softly through
the night the distant song of a
bird, the sudden swishing of foli
Bgo as an animal stalked his prey.
The faint tinkle of strings and the
smooth blending of rich voices
carried from the natives' estancias
out there among the zapote trees.
"Let's sit out here," she called,
settling herself in a chair.
Tho men came out and in their
wake the fragrance of cigar smoke
hung In the air,
"You're very quiet this eve
ning," Allison said to Barry. "Still
feeling a little shaky?"
"I guess I'd feel all right if 1
didn't have to think of reporting
to my company that I failed them
at a. time like this."
"Can't you convince them," Re
naldo murmured, "of the utter im
possibility of such a mission?"
"Nol" Barry's voice was an ex
plosion In the quiet night. "I
don't believe in 'utter Impossibili
ties.' There are a lot of people
snying it's impossible for us to win
this war. But we're going to. And
I'm going to get Moncha Suma's
mines."
"My, my, you're as stubborn an
I am," said Allison, mockingly
mild.
,
DENALDO laughed. "Well, I
admire your spirit anyway," he
said. "You've had a slight lesson
already In the amount of patience
and perseverance necessary to
stand up to the jungle or a
Quiche."
There was a long moment of
silence. Allison was humming
softly to herself, Barry busy with
his troubled thoughts. It was
Renaldo who finally broke It, In
a low, peaceful voice,
"I remember when I first came
out here with your father, Miss
Topping. I had done some legal
work for him In Puerto Barrios
and because I was fastidious in
my dress, he felt I was a fop. He
laughed at me when I begged for
the opportunity to manage his
plantation. He said, 'The jungle
would eat you alive.' "
Allison laughed. "Exactly what
he wrote me," she cried, "when
I wanted to come down here after
I finished school."
"But I came,", Renaldo moved
his chair closer to hers. His voice
was a confidential murmur. "I
had to prove I was a better chi
clcro than the best Indian so they
would respect me and obey me."
"Then you had to prove," Alli
son's laughing voice echoed his,
"that you were a better manager
than my father so he would re
spect and put up with you."
Renaldo's laugh held a deep note
of warmth. "Ah, your father. Ho
was a wonderful man. I have so
many memories of him. . . ."
"That's more than I have," said
Allison wistfully.
"Then it will be my great
pleasure to share them."
Barry excused himself after a
while. He felt an outsider in the
intimate memories Renaldo was
revealing of the last years of Alli
son's father. And the treacherous
weakness of his fever was fasten
ing on him again.
For a lone time he lay awake
after he had gone to bed. He
could hear the murmur of their
two voices, the blending of their
sudden lauchter. Ke wondered
what course the conversation had
taken. "I'll bet." he muttered to
himself lrritsiay; "he Isn't talking
about her father now!"
(To Bo Continued)
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