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SERIAL STORY
DARK JUNGLES
BY JOHN C. FLEMING &
. PERILOUS JOUKNES!
CHAPTER XXIV
rpHE formidable Indian wailed
for no reply. Even as Barry
canned the abort note, he
'' whirled, ran down the steps and
across the clearing at a Jogging
trot and disappeared Into the
jungle.
Barry handed the note to Lila
and Allison. Allison gasped.
Lila'i drawl held a note of.
pride. "So the ohiel wants you
to come back and talk business.
You must have him sold, darling."
But Allison was frightened.
"Moncha Suma still blames you
for the death of that Indian girl!"
she cried. "You had to escape.
Why should he invite you back
unless "
Barry nodded, a quizzical eye-1
brow raised above his grin. "Sure
'Will you come into my parlor?'
I thought of that, of course. But
Moncha Suma seemed a straight
shooter.'
"You cant take that chancel"
Allison cried frantically.
Barry's grin faded. He said
quietly, "I can't take the chance
of losing those mines."
Ula smiled at him and said
. softly, "I know how you feel,
dearest I think you should go.
If he'd wanted to kill you, he
. could have given that messenger
a poison arrow Instead of a note.
Why lure you into his country to
do away with you?"
"What about Hall?" Allison
flashed out. "He hasn't come back,
has he?"
Barry patted her shoulder as he
turned to go Into the house. "Is J
that Imagination of yours on the
rampage again?" he chuckled.
"Hall if probably back in New ,
York by now."
Allison came into Barry's room
later as Lila finished packing his
saddlebags. She glared at the tall,
serene girl so calmly checking his
. supply of dry socks, underwear,
tabrine tablets.
"You shouldn't let him go, Lila!"
She tried one last burst of pro
test. ."This is the third day of his
fever. It will be raging tonight!
- If he'd only wait until Renaldo
(comes back tomorrow or the next
day I"
: "I might offend the chief per-
: manently," Barry cut in.
JILA smiled fondly at Barry. -1
. don't think Allison quite un
1 ,derstands you, darling," she mur
Imured, "If she thinks 7 could in
fluence you when duty calls."
"Don't worry about me.,: Barry
was collecting flashlight, brief
ease and gun holster. "I've ar
ranged for tonight's fever to be
(postponed.'
I He kept up his bantering until
Ithe - packing was finished. "And
iwho wants t guide anyway," hej
argued lightly "Even if one of
your Indians would go with me,
he'd probably die of fear before
he got there."
But when .they went down to
the enclosure, they found a small,
wiry Indian waiting beside two
saddled mules.
Tony.- Allison Introduced him
briefly "You saw him this after
moon. The sick baby's father. He
iwas willing to go.'
Barry saw fear and the slavish
light of devotion struggling in the
unmans eyes as he looked at Alu-
son. He said sharply, "No! He'd
be your slave and watchdog from
now on. I'd feel like a louse if he
went and something happened to
nun."
"Nothing's going to happen is
itV Allison's cry was a sharp,
fearful challenge.
"Of course not," Llla murmured
soothingly. Barry kissed her
goodby. But It was Allison's
white, strained face that he kept
eeing as his mule jogged behind
Tony's through the sweltering
afternoon heat of the Jungle path.
After an hour or so the rain
came again. It drummed down
relentlessly for a blinding space,
no was louowea Dy uie steam
ing closeness of dank jungle air.
For a while Barry thought it was
the clouds of steam risine from
the soggy path that were blurring
his vision making the form of
Tony's mule fuzzy and indistinct.
' Then gradually he knew it was
inot the steam. He lifted a hand
Ito his forehead and felt the burn
'of fever. Relentlessly it had come
iback for its third day! He fought
on a sullen tear. Maybe, he told
himself, it would be a light siege
today. He'd had a bad time of it
yesterday. Probably just easing
oil today. He didn't feel as rocky.
But despite his brave words he
knew he did. He felt worse. His
head seemed to swell, to ache
with a grinding tension ot a tooth
being drilled. At intervals an ex
plosion seemed to tear through it
f with the shock of blasting. At
these times Barry would grip the
mane of his jogging mule and hold
on while the Jungle rocked -bout
him and flashes of light shot
through a wall ot darkness rising
up around him.
iTTIS throat was parched. His
t-f. j!.0i achlnjl body cried for
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comfort. It seemed an enemy,
fighting his frantic determination
to go on.
"No you don't!" he shouted.
"Yoo're staying right on this
mule. You've got a little fever.
So what? You can wear it out
traveling as well as lying still,
can't you?"
Gradually he was less conscious
of the pains. He didn't realize this
was because he was less conscious
of anything. His tortured body,
the jerking saddle and beast be
neath him, the hot, twilight gloom
of the jungle trail had resolved
into s nebulous, undifferentiated
mass of torture. The effort by
which he clung to the mane if
his mule was wholly retlcx.
I He didn't know that it was
dark. Or that Tony came back to
him alarmed by his babbling. But
he heard the traitorous words.
"You are sick, scnor! We must
go back!"
He roused then, and with pain
ful effort brought the Indian's
outline into focus. He tried to
frown commandingly.
No.'
The Indian's hand touched his
forehead. It felt cold against his
burning skin.
"You must have much care to
night," the man's voice rang with
anxiety, "or you will be sick
many more days."
The frustration of many days
burned in Barry's dim thoughts.
Vague fury raged through him.
Another enemy trying to keep
him from his meeting with
Moncha Suma!
He thought he was shouting.
But all strength had drained from
his body. His voice was a thin
whisper.
"I'm all right Go on!"
He lifted a hand in a gesture of
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mured Tony.
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