SERIAL STORY
DARK JUNGLES
BY JOHN C. FLEMING &
. ALLISON'S FI1AN8
CHAPTER XXI
JJUSY days, stretched ahead for
everyone at the eslancia. From
every direction in the jungle chi
cleros brought their canvas bags
of fresh latex to the clearing.
Steam rose all day and far into
the evening from the huge cop
per kettles. . .
Renaldo was in half a dozen
places at once, seeing that the
Area were kept banked, the latex
poured into the cooking vats, and,
when boiled to a thick mass,
loured into the cooling molds,
there was the weighing to be
done, the paying off of each chi
clero, the mules and men to be
fed and bedded, and constant pro
tection of the chicle from the
drenching rains.
Barry had taken over the task
of stamping each brick of cooling
chicle with the trademark of the
plantation. It was a small but im
portant routine which Renaldo did
not like to leave to natives and it
eased Barry's impatience some
what Each of Kenaldo's tasks ac
complished brought the next visit
to Moncha Suma nearer.
Allison was almost as busy as
Renaldo. Like him she began to
get up at dawn in order to do her
heaviest work before the intense
noonday heat set in. The fame of
her zoot caps had spread like wild
fire among the horde 01 cnlcleros.
and she was besieged with calls
for more.
She had stitched the first caps
painstakingly by hand. But with
the sudden demand, this method
would not suffice. She came hur
rying across the clearing one suf
focatingly hot morning to the
veranda where Lila and Barry
were having breakfast. Barry
leaped up to pull a chair for her.,
- iaKe it easy, zoot queen, ne
begged. "You'll melt on one of
those rushing trips of yours and
someone will scoop you up for
latex."
ALLISON' laughed gaily, push
ing back an unruly sunburned
lock of hair off her tanned face
with the back of her hand.
"The precious joke of it all is,"
she confided, "that my zoot caps
aren't invulnerable and the In
dians know it But It's got about
through the tribe that I'm lucky
for them. And -anything I give
them is a lucky piece. So I'm
stuck with about 40 more zoot
caps to make."
Lila took a dp of her iced
coffee. "You have complicated
four life," she said serenely.
- Allison gave her guest a quick
sharp glance. Lila was in
quisitely tailored silk, short and
Diouse, cool and immaculate.
Barry braced himself for sparks.
But the flinty look softened in
Allison's eyes under a sudden
warm smile.
"I -wish I were clever like you
are, Lila,"Ehe said wistfully. "I
know you'd think of some way out
of this."! : ! I .
- Lila shot Allison a look of quick
suspicion 'but Barry laughed in
relief. ."Go ahead, Lila," he urged.
"You always were efficiency plus."
Lila' shrugged her slender
shoulders delicately. "Well," she
mused thoughtfully, "pass out
flowers or something. Tell them
those will be just as lucky for
them."
"Oh,, but they wouldn't,-' ob
jected Allison quickly. "The zoot
caps are a partial protection. I
want the chicleros to have them."
."Well then," Lila thought rap
idly, and came up with an in
spiration, "have the Indian women
sew them."
Allison looked stunned with
sudden relief. Then she gave a
whoop of joy. "Lila, you're an
absolute genius!" She turned to
Barry enthusiastically. "She's
helping you, too, you know, be
cause the chicleros will work
faster when they get their caps.
I'll get the material and needles
and thread"
She darted to the veranda door,
then turned back with a pleading
look at Lila. "It's going to take
a little teaching right at first. You
could do it better than I. Would
you mind terribly, Lila?"
Lila choked a little on her
coffee, but her smile was impas
sive. "Not at all," she said stiffly.
So Lila was coerced into the
plantation activity. The "little
teaching" proved more than she
had dreamed in her worst sus
picions. She found herself going
back and forth from the Topping
estancia to the Indian huts in the
blazing sunshine with fresh sup
plies of material, silting with
black, chattering Indian women in
their odd smelling huts, called
over to the steaming copper ket
tles to take a message from Re
naldo or Barry or Allison back to
the big house.
TPHE days became long, grueling
A periods of torture. And the
bitterest part of it was that she
was perfectly helpless. Lila had
planned her trip so carefully a
swift descent upon the plantation,
a rapid expose of the stupid little
flirt who had lured Barry to her
estancia, and a return to New
York with a convalescent fiance.
How differently it had worked
outl Barry stubbornly determined
to stay here until Renaldo could
take him to make peace with the
Quiche chief. And her own sffl
ciency turned as a boomerang up
on herv by the wily Allison, it was
Insufferable!
For Barry ' expected miracles
from her jfter her amazing jungle
trek. And, so that Allison wouldn't
expose her duplicity, she was
forced to carry on the Illusion of
being a super woman.
The sweltering rays of the sun
melted her make-up, the small
crawling insects in the smelly In
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dian huts revolted her. She
loathed everything about the hot,
dirty, isolated country. But prido
kept her doing her share in the
plantation's strenuous duties, day
after dragging day.
She had Just finished her round
of Indian huts one morning. The
heat was heavy muggy. It was
difficult to move. The shouts of
the Indians rang in her aching
head. The constant stench of food
and bodies in the hut had been
especially abhorrent She put on
her sun helmet and started back
across the clearing to the Topping
estancia, walking with proud
strides but secretly counting the
steps to the darkness and semi
coolness of her room.
She saw the group by the last
Indian hut and tried to hurry
past but they saw her. Barry
hailed her over.
"Want to go out on a short trek
into the jungle and see the prize
zapote tree?" he grinned as she
turned back.
Renaldo beamed at her. Her !
being there had relieved him of
a deep gnawing fear of Barry as
a rival. He was the soul of gal
lantry to her. Now he added
eagerly, "Nearly three kilos flow
from its bark before the gashes
heal!"
Lila wanted to shriek at them.
What did she care if 10,000 kilos
flowed from the plagued zapotel
She wouldn't go a step into that :
hellish jungle if she was shot for )
it But her face did not give i
away her thoughts. She alibied !
sweetly on the score of her work. 1
Unfortunately for her, Allison ;
came around the corner of the hut :
in time to hear her. She was car
rying a bowl of soup for an ema- :
ciated-looking Indian lolling in
the shadow of the doorway.
"Nonsense," she called brightly
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