SERIAL STORY
fiaih Ccudsut, WAAC
BY LORETTE COOPER
UNHAPPy LANDING
CHAPTER XVI
JJETH had Jumped Impulsively.
During those first sickening
seconds of the drop, while she was
fighting to keep from pulling the
rip cord too soon, she felt nothing
except the sensation that her ln
Ides were xooming upward-
much the same sensation, only on
larger scale, that a high swing
would have given her.
Then she was jerked and Jolted
almost Insensate. Her head was
thrown back and she saw the
narachute billow out, then mo
mentarily collapse, then billow
out again.
She wondered if she were vis
ible in the moonlight The moon
was very low now, and it did not
light up the ocean or the island
quite as it had several hours be
fore. The fantastically exciting
and active night was nearing en
end. Beth wondered if there
would be a dawn for her.
Down, down she went She
heard no noise only the rush of
air past her head. She felt cold,
almost numb.
The island was rushing up at
her very fast It was a miracle
that Brit had found it and it
would be more of a miracle if
she landed on it safely.
CHE could not decide what por
tion she was about to hit The
contours were deceptive from
aloft She had expected to be able
to recognize the cove and the
headquarters area, but she could
not
She thought she was only a few
feet above the island now. Odd,
how at first her progress had
seemed so fast, then so slow, and
low so fast again! The" ground
'was coming toward her in a ter
rific rush of shadowy vegetation.
She tried to look at her watch,
but could not sec the dial. She
wished she had looked before she
jumped it would be something
to be able to know just how fast
time was going. Brit could not
have more than an hour's gasoline
lleft
Beth thought she heard a shout
Ifrom below, then decided it was
her imagination.
Then she hit
She struck a treetop first
a palm and the points of the
fronds jabbed into her flesh. For
tunately the night was almost
windless, only a faint predawn
breeze being present near the sur
face. Then she bounced down through
branches and vines and leaves to
toe earth.
! The parachute struggled against
(the weight of her body and the
entanglement of the branches as
the breeze caught it and opened it
full for one last sail, then it col
lapsed over a low treetop. Beth
was dragged against the bole of
a stubby palm. The wind was
knocked out of her and she lay
there for several minutes, semi
conscious. .- .When Beth fully regained her
senses, it seemed that hours had
passed. Nothing appeared real.
(With difficulty, she fixed her mind
on her whereabouts and on her
experiences during the night
What brought reality to mind
first was a pain in her ankle.
Beth disengaged herself from
the parachute. Where she was
except that presumably she was
on the right island, and the cor
rectness of that presumption de
pended completely on the correct
ness of Brit's navigation she did
not know.
TF she was at the far end of the
A island from headquarters, she
had a long walk to find help, un
less she could attract the atten
ition of an outpost If she did at
'tract attention, she might be shot
immediately.
Beth arose and tried to walk,
and sank back down again imme
diately. The hurt ankle would
not bear her weieht Beth re
moved her shoe, tore a length of
clow from her skirt, and wranoed
it around the ankle. The pressure
of the wrapping braced the ankle
and somewhat relieved the pain.
, She heard noises in the jungle.
She remembered that Brit had
(told her there were all sorts of
tropical animals in that jungle
things that crept and things that
crawled, and other things full of
venom and poison.
She called out "Help!" Then.
not because she was frightened
for her mind was too full of Brit's
predicament for fright to enter
she screamed. She hoped that a
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scream might carry farther than
a simple outcry.
Her shout unnerved her, for it
was answered by a thousand other
screams. She could not decide
whether she had startled all sorts
of jungle denizens, or whether
there were that many echoes.
She called "Help!" again. It
was to no avail. She must make
headway. She wished she could
hear Brit's plane motors. She
needed reassurance that her mis
sion still had a purpose. But if
he had been that close, he would
have drawn fire.
As though to give terror to her
thoughts, she heard the unmis
takable voice of an antiaircraft
gun far down the island, barking
viciously at a target aloft.
She knew how excellent was
the marksmanship of those Amer
ican Coast Artillerymen. Her
heart sank. Then she heard an
other noise. It was of something
crawling a few paces away in the
impenetrable jungle.
(To Be Continued)
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The work of capturing ships
for the British government as a
pirate exterminator was too
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INDUSTRIAL CENTER
Geographic center ot the
United States steel industry lies
about eight miles northeast of
Mansfield, O., near Olivesburg
and Paradise Hill, tiny settle
ments.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Sessions
spent the weekend at Ashland
with his sister, Mrs. Neva Car
lisle. He also saw Miss Wanda
Sessions, his sister, for the first
time in eight years.
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GERMAN DOGS
At the beginning of World
war II, Germany was estimated
to have 50,000 dogs under mili
tary training, with Frankfort
boasting the world's largest mil
itary dog school.
Miss LaVerne McCalne, who
has been attending high school
in Lakeview, is returning to her
home in Idaho.
HEDGEHOG DEFENSE
CITIES, STRONGHOLDS ALON& THE
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