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BY LORETTE COOPER
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rLUNGE TO EARTH
CHAPTER XV
rpo complicate matters, Rick was
coming to, and the Jap prob
ably would be in a few minutes.
' "Can you fly this plane?" Brit
asked Beth.
"Sorry. They made us every
thing except flyers at Des Moines."
"Then it's up to you to keep the
folks in the back seat under con
trol." Beth took care of Rick first. He
was kicking around, and it was
obvious that the captives' feet
would have to be tied, as well as
their hands.
Brit turned the cabin lights on.
Beth looked for something she
could use to tie ankles together.
Attached to the wall were three
parachutes. Beth pulled one of
thom apart and got a length of
strong cord, borrowing Brit's knife
to cut the material.
Then she went to the Jap. She
reasoned that it would be better
to tie him immediately, then
struggle with Rick, than to take
a chance on having to fight both
of them particularly since the
Jap might know some tricks with
his feet
She put the cord around the
Jap's ankles and made it secure.
"Now it's your turn," she said
to Rick.
There was a firm set to her jaw.
.,.
CITE watched Rick carefully as
she neared his feet This was
going to be a problem. Then she
saw its solution almost as soon as
she recognized its dangers.
She fastened one end of the cord
firmly to the Jap's ankles. Then
she formed a running loop in the
bight of the cord.
She started toward Rick.
"Watch out," Brit warned.
But there was no need to have
any fears.
Beth stepped quickly past Rick,
and as he turned to try to trip
and kick her viciously, she threw
the running loop over his legs and
pulled as hard as she could.
She had the advantage, and in
three seconds the helpless spy had
been caught and dragged so that
his ankles were tied to the Jap's.
It was a matter of another few
seconds to tie the knot securely.
-Then Beth rolled the pair away
from the center of the cabin and
further lashed them to the side of
Jhe plane. .;
, She returned to the front.
1 "Good work, Beth," Brit said.
"You seem equal to anything. I've
never seen anyone cooler ... in
tha face of danger or possible
death."
"A soldier has to face those
things," Beth said, smiling.
"Right," Brit answered. "You
know, the way I've always looked
at it is that when the end comes,
It will be just like getting transfer
orders. I've been transferred a
dozen times in the Army. Some
times to a better spot, sometimes
to a worse. Only almost always
to a better one. There's some
thing final about a transfer it
closes tha chapter of your life
which was spent at the last post."
He stopped a moment. Then he
resumed. "I've always thought
that my final transfer would be
. that way final, closing a chapter
or maybe even the book, and
maybe sending me to a better
post."
"That's a good way to look at
it, I think," Beth said. As she
-spoke, she realized that she and
Rick had a great many things in
kinship as far as their attitudes
toward life were concerned.
"Fine time to talk of death,"
Brit laughed, "when we're staring
it in the face." He switched off
the cabin lights again so he could
get a clearer view of the ocean.
"There's the island, but it's a thou
sand to one we'll never be able to
come down on it." ,
JJETH looked down on the.island,
dark and apparently lifeless.
She knew that dark as it was, Brit
was right He knew, as com
mander of that island, that the
tiny spot in the ocean bristled
with hidden guns which would
blast them down unless they could
properly identify themselves. It
had been daylight when Lita Dan
ton's American-made Jap plane
.had first landed, but now it was
night
"You can't get through with the
radio?" she asked.
"It was plenty of use to the
lap, but none to me. Wrong fre
juency." "There aren't any flares?"
"Wouldn't do us any good. That
would bring the guns into action."
Beth remembered that there
were two parachutes hanging on
the cabin wall.
"Brit," she said, "could you fly
over the island lengthwise you
know, so we went across it at its
greatest length?"
"Sure," he said. "Why?" As he
asked, he swung the plane around
so that they were approaching one
end of the island.
"Oh, I just wondered."
She dared not tell Brit her plan.
So she went back into the cabin
and removed one of the para
chutes. She got into the harness,
and made doubly certain it was
securely attached,
"Goodby, Brit" she said. "Stay
aloft as long as you can."
He turned toward her. At first
he did not understand what she
was about to attempt When he
did, it was too late. Lieut Beth
Carter of the Women's Army Aux
iliary Corps had opened the cabin
door and plunged free of the
plane.
(To Be Continued)
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