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CAST OF CHARACTERS ROBERT BARRY-—Hero, explorer, MELISSA LANE — Heroine, Barry's partner, HONEY BEE GIRL—Infian; of Barrv's party. HADES JONES — Pioneer: Barry's party,

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Yesterdav—Exploring the strange underground cavern, Melissa drops the lantern and she and Bob are stranded in utter darkness. Melissa screams!

CHAPTER THIRTEEN “QO TAND still! Stand absolutely still!” Robert Barry roared the command like an army major.

When the lantern dropped and |

Marv Melissa had screamed. the two of them had been on the brink of a subterranean cliff. Bob didn’t know just how high it was, but he knew it was dangerous. If ‘Lissa

moved carelessly in her fright, in- |

stant tragedy might resuit. “It's all right!” he calmed her. “Stand where you are, and I'll come to vou.” They had been 15 feet or so apart. Carefully he felt the darkness, talking tones “Oh-h-h-h, 1 don't know h-how I could have done that!” She trembled when he finally touched her,

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bi O matter, ‘Lissa. happen to anybody. I should have held the lantern. It was my job, not yours. But there's no harm done We have others you know. Five, all together, and plenty of gasoline for them.” She was still trembling, and his arm went around her waist. There in the blackness she felt so utterly little. He held her tight in both arms, petting and comforting her as best he could. In a moment she had her composure again. All right?” old smile in it “Yes, thank you, Bob. But the worst fright I ever had.” “Shouldn't wonder Now we'll take the candles and go back out.” “You have candles?” She was both surprised and delighted. “Yes. But—" He didn't complete his answer. Sudden fear chilled him! ”

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had forgotten to put the pack back |

on when they had halted a while ago to rest! The thought almost appalled him. “Easv now,” he calmed himself. This was a new danger, but mavbe luck would hold. He could go back to that pack in darkness— mavbe! Mavbe! But he couldn't. And of course he soon had to admit their real plight. He had collected his wits by this time, and tried to speak lightly of it. She didn't answer for a moment or two, then— “Bob, I'm not frightened now. At least I am no longer nervous about it. But you aren't fooling. We're in a predicament, aren't we?” He reached out to pat her hand in the darkness. “Yes,” he admitted, huskily, “we are.” She said nothing else then. merely waited “Mary Melissa, I am the masterpiece among fools. I could choke myself with satisfaction.” He was not funning about it. He was, rather. in deep despair, condemning himself in all seriousness.

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“¥ WON'T ask forgiveness,” he resumed, “for I don't deserve it I'm going to irv my damndest to get us out of here, but vou ought to hate me forever, even if I do. I almost wrecked our

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in my haste that dav. I can think, but I think sketchilv. I am not —not dependable. r—> “Bob!” She squeezed his arm. “Hush it! You are no worse than I. Not as bad. You've been wonderful, all the way through. From the very day I surprised vou at Blanco Canyon, when you were expecting a man. “Bob, I know it wasn't fair to ask you to bring a silly girl on a scientific expedition like this. But

you did, and I love--I like you tre- |

mendously for it, for being a great sport. I admit we are in a jam now, but we're still alive, aren't we— partner?” Ny

ER voice had been soft, liquid. There was no fright evident, no accusation, nothing but sincerity It brought a lump of pride for her in Bob Barry's throat. What a girl! He had a sudden mental vision of her beauty, too. and he was almost overcome with emotions, in his sudden wholehearted admiration of her. She hadn't cried, or whimpered, or sniveled. Instead, she had actually comforted him! In the utter darkness there he threw up his chin, a bit embarrassed with himself, and laughed a little in new confidence. “The pack,” he stated, “ought to be back this way.” They moved at snail pace. Often they crawled on hands and knees, to avoid slipping and falling, also to make feeling with theif hands easier. They must—simply must— locate that pack.

OB strained himself to recreate in his mind the path they took after resting, every turn and every incline. A dozen times he searched his pockets for matches, but they were in the pack too. He never had smoked; for the first time in his life, now, he regretted it. “I have a bar of chocolate,” he announced, after they had crawled for what seemed hours. “You must be hungry.” “Not at all!” she lied. She knew that chocolate might be doubly precious later, “I couldn't eat now.” He put it back in his pocket. They sat still to rest again, holding hands. He tried to think of someway to make artificial light. But these rocks were not flint. And all they had for tinder would be their clothing. He squeezed her hand, and , they began to crawl again.

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his way through |

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in camp, |

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expedition | plans by swinging from that rope |

I'm sorry, and

| HEY hoped against hope, and | it was fruitless. Their search | continued for what must have been

reBee And

Lissa remembered, and Bob membered, that only Honey [Girl knew of the cave at all.

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| several hours. Fach stop for rest she had been emphatically ordered |

made them realize the | of the great cavern. They had lost all sense of direction. They lived solely by sense of touch—the only | two living things, apparently, ail the universe. Bob remembered | the shriveled body near the entrance | to the cave and the mummy outside, and smiled a little dryly. “Keep vour chin up, kid,” he said once, softly. “I feel fine,” she declared. | prove it she sang a little, and they ( both laughed. It helped. “I think the thing to do is take it easy, and conserve the chocolate bar.” he announced. “The others will of course start looking for us in a few hours, and have the laugh on us for the rest of the trip.” » ” » HE laughed, to show confidence. But she didn't feel confident.

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immensity [bot to tell, not to follow. Being a |

|loyal servant, she probably would |obey orders, even if they were gone la week or more. She would be just that stupid, they knew. And be|sides, they had told her they were fully provisioned for as long a stay as necessary. Bob Barry knew it |was Indian nature to obey a com-

|mand to the letter, regardless of de- |

velopments. It might literally be days before those in camp would

[start a search, and that would be

too late. Bob and ‘Lissa were think- |

ing of these things. | She snuggled a bit, just for the {comfort of being nearer him. He | put his arms around her shoulders {and held her close. “Do you mind,” he murmured softly, intently, “if I kiss you?” “Please do,” she whispered.

(To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

CANDOR—By Thomas King

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the possibility of war, and the youth | problem.

“The great trouble with the vouth |

of today,” Mrs. Hathaway was saying, “is simply that they won't heed what their elders have to say.” “It's the other way around,” said I. “The great trouble with the vouth of today is that their elders have too much to say. starts in the home.” Mrs. Hathaway, whose Eleanor is of dancing age, was horrified. “Tut-tut,” said I, “you thought so vourself some years ago, I'll bet. wonder why vou changed your views. In fact, I wonder if | changed your views.”

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NEVER had such views,” she

objected strenuously. “I was al-|

| ways a model daughter. I always did what my parents wanted me to do and I never did anything they wouldn't have approved of.” I looked at her husband, John, after this, but John had taken a interest in blowing smoke rings at the chandelier. “Furthermore,” Mrs. Hathaway went on, “if I thought that any of

my daughters were deceiving me—" | as ab : W unfinished. | Fe insists that I be in at 12. That's |

She left the sentence but the fervor with which she | stabbed the darning needle into a ball of yarn made me wonder. have known the Hathawayvs

them very much. But I wondered.

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“ HAT time did Eleanor get in |

last night?” asked John suddenly, evidently trying to change the subject. some day how to change subjects.

“At 12,” said Mrs. Hathaway with |

finality.

“It seemed to me,” said John,

“that I heard the front door open |

when I woke up around 2.” “You were dreaming.” said Mrs. Hathaway, her tones becoming more final than ever.

the Hathaways’ living room. | and Mrs. Hathaway and their | | daughter Eleanor, discussing among '*

other things, the state of the nation, | ‘own. You don't have to go through |

The trouble |

“I got in at a quarter to 3.” “Most amazing.”

LEANOR.," said Mrs. Hathaway sternly, “your business is your

this cross-examination.” “Of course not,” I agreed. “Espe- | cially when she wasn’t out robbing a bank or something. . . By the way, Eleanor, what were you doing? You don’t have to answer don’t want to.” “I was dancing,” said Eleanor. “Till a quarter to 3?”

lover at 1. Went out for something to eat afterward.” “You were hungry,” I suggested. | “Of course we were hungry.”

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| “IW TONSENSE,” said I, “she’s en- | joying it. . . . I suppose you | were out with Joe.” “Yes. I was out with Joe. And we didn’t just eat from 1 till a quarter to 3.” “I know-—vou talked.” “Certainly we talked.”

| “I'll bet,” said I, brutally, “you

{ “Why should I?”

1! for | something like 10 years, and I like |

Poor man, he'll learn |

didn't tell vour father what you

talked about.” “He's understand.

nor, indignantly. fashioned. He doesn’t

silly. Besides, mother said it would be all right to come in late. She came down and opened the door for me.” “Really?” said I. n

THINK Eleanor should be entilted to some freedom.” said Mrs. Hathaway. “She's old enough now to know her own mind.” “I certainly agree. And besides | that—" | “Shhh,” Mrs. Hathaway rupted. “Here comes John. {doesn’t have to know all this.” Mr. Hathaway rand put a fresh match to his pipe.

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“No, of course not. The dance was |

demanded Elea- | too old- |

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“I think this has gone far enough,” |

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resumed his seat |

| “Well,” he said, “what did you de-

| cide about the youth problem?” | “We have it all settled.” I was

“Twelve isn’t so bad. do vou hot looking at Mrs. Hathaway or think?” asked John, with alarming | Eleanor.

naivete. “Not bad,” said I.

“In fact, very good.” I looked at

| Eleanor. Eleanor was looking at the | evening paper. “I think,” said

John. “I'd better

g0 downstairs and close the win- | dows in the cellar before it gets too |

cold.” He winked at me as he left. I winked back. There is a bond. . , .

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| S soon as he left the room, I asked, “What time did you really get in last night, Eleanor?” | “Twelve o'clock,” Mrs. Hathaway | answered for her. “What time, Eleanor?” I was per- | sistent. “Why are you so anxious to know | what time Eleanor got in last | night?” Mrs. Hathaway asked petu- | lantly, | “Oh, why make a secret about it?” said Eleanor. “You'd think I was out robbing a bank or something.” | “Not at all,” I said largely. But | vou didn’t get in at 12, now, did | you?” “No, I didn’t get in at 12. And I didn’t get in at 2.” “Ah,” said I.

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» 5 » 14 OOD—and what's the verdict?” “That the vouth of today don’t heed what their parents have |to say—especially,” I added, “what {their fathers have to say.” “So?” said Mr. Hathaway. | “Exactly. And we agreed that | daughters should never do anything without their parents’ permission and that they should never do anything their parents don't approve of.” I was preparing to leave. My | coat was already over my left arm. Mrs. Hathaway, I noticed, was darning industriously. “Must you go?” she asked sweetly, “I'm afraid so,” I answered. see, I, too, have to be in at 12.” (THE END) (Copyright, 1937)

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