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BY LORETTE COOPER
VICTORY V
CHAPTER XX 4
TJJ7HEN Beth regained conscious
nest, she was back In the hos
pital "Can't I stay out of here?" she
complained.
I "Not as long as your command
ing officer Is foolish. enough not
to lock you up during an air raid;
Brit Jackson said.
Beth felt her head. There was
big bandage on it
! "I'm not hurt," she said.
' "It's lucky you weren't killed.
When I spoke to you during the
battle I should have . . . well,
spanked you and sent you back to
safety."
"Just try spanking me," Beth
renllcd.
"No, thanks not after seeing
what a hellcat of a fighting worn-
- 'r mn vnit are ." They both laughed.
it "Ola we come oui nu rignw
i ' "Not a one got away," Brit
' said. "One hundred per cent for
our side. I didn't expect to cso a
third as well. Those are darned
' good gunners and balloon men
r- Uncle has working for him out
i there."
"Tell me about IV
"You saw it all. I dont Know
what there is to tell except that
i" ' the din of the bombing was nouv
lng compared to the noise of the
cheering when the fellows in the
pits and the foxholes realized
those last two had been bagged.
I thought they'd go crazy."
"Did we lose many ... men?
"Very few, considering. You're
casualty, though."
"I'm still alive, at least," she
said, turning her head. "Some of
the others ..."
; "Aren't so fortunate." The note
of cheer was out of his voice now,
end he was facing the soldier's
sober realization that the battle,
however victorious its ending, had
left its mark. "Since I have to
Icount my dead, I'm glad there
iren't many to count."
"What's next?" Beth wondered.
"The men are binding up their
wounds, and are making ready for
another attack. Only I don't
think we'll get one right away.
We've made the first one sufficient
ly costly so that the enemy will
think twice. In another 72 hours
It won't make an; r difference ii
Ihey send the who'.e Jap air force
(over here in fact, we'd almost be
jglad if they did. I got a message
in code from General Tallicoe just
lifter the fight
frDETH was silent while she
"r thoudit back over the few
days since she had been handed
her traveling orders by tne gen-
eral those thousands of mile:
away. The things that had hap
pened to her were a dream, and
ow she was awakening.
Tve lived pretty excitingly,'
.be said. "I'm afraid after this.
ings will seem drab."
Theyie never drab to a sol-
Qier who 5 uueresieu m mis JOD,
i t- pnt said.
S "You talk as though you know."
j ' "I've been soldiering quite
j Bwniie."
SI I "Are you going to quit?"
It "Of course.. When this mess Is
i . settled. You know, when Mr. Hit
I ler is papering the inside of a jail,
I and Mr. Hirohito is leading a pa
i rade to a nice prison, and one or
I I two others are getting what U
i J . (coming to them. I've got a
; j; pis voice trailed, hesitated.
"A what?"
"Haven't I ever told you?"
or course not"-
"Well. I've eot a little ranrfi nut
Wrest It was a nice place before
the war and I think it'll be a nice
place after the war."
j "It sounds swell."
I "What will you be doing after
Ihe war?" Brit asked.
"Oh, I suppose I'll go back to
the automobile agency if autos
re being sold."
VHE doctor stepped up to Beth's
A bed and checked her bandaged
head, then her ankle.
"If you don't put your foot into
trouble, you stick your neck out"
he joked.
Beth and Brit laughed with him.
Then the doctor walked away.
"Tm leaving her to you for a few
minutes, Major," he said. "Think
you can take care of her?"
I "I'll try," Brit said.
L. He reached down and took
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Beth's hand tenderly in his own.
"Beth," he said, "1 I hardly
know how to say this. But
you've done as good a Job of
soldiering as anyone could."
Beth's heart stood still, waiting
for his next words. She wanted,
for the moment to forget soldier
ing. "I'm sending a message to head
quarters in the city tonight recom
mending that you no promoieo. to
a captaincy."
"I'm glad," she murmured.
"Thanks." She smiled up at him,
encouragingly.
Brit Jackson groped for words.
He naif rose. Then he sat down
again. "Beth,- he said, "I
there's something else I want to
say. Do you rcmcmoer au tne
things I told you when we were
tied up in the seaplane? I meant
every one of them. I Beth I
love you."
All the weariness In her faded
away, but she closed her eyes
and sighed. Gently, Brit Jackson
kissed her.
THE END
7S31
by Alice Brooks
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14 Lincoln's first
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17 Wayside hotel
19 Exists
20 Symbol for
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23 Dutch city
25 Belonging to
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26 Doctor of Sci
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48 Division of the
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52 Essence
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53 Him
54 Common Pleas
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56 Gibbon
57 Expunge
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29 Nova Scotia -
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33 Legal point '
36 Symbol for
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42 Mount-(abbri
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53 Laughter
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60 Toward
61 Compass point
63 Out of
(prefix)
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12 Speeders
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15 Myself
18 North Amer
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