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By RACHEL MACK

CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded in LondofA when war breaks out. JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee

- « who sees her through.

CABELL BANKS, privateer captain.

Yestetday: Polly is heading across the Channel when her disguise is accidentally disclosed. The smuggler locks her in his cabin.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN T= brig Sunrise, British war sloop, spent several days cruising between England and the Netherlands without sighting any foreign sails worthy of her attention. She headed then for the Atlantic by way of the Strait of Dover. At Ramsgate, a port of the strait’s eastern entrance, the Sunrise put in for fresh water and supplies. This was fortunate for local farmers and produce men. Bumboats carrying fruits and vegetables, fowl and even livestock swarmed around the ship’s ' hull like dirty undersized ducks ground a swam During their exercise period on deck the two American prisoners noted these things, though the presence of their guards prevented their discussing it. It was not until they were in the prison hold again that Cabell Banks said confidently: “This is our time to escape. But none of your leg-over-the-taffrail stuff in broad daylight.” 2 2 os

OT that again,” Jerry agreed. His back had healed, thanks to youth and good blood, but caution had laid hold of him. He was determined to escape if his heart continued to beat in his body, but he would not again lose precious time in abortive attempts. He now asked Cabell Banks, “Ought we try to go together?” “Better together than singly, I think. It will take my brains and your muscle.” “What have you worked out?” “A couple of well-placed blows from your fist. Followed by bribery, of course. How much money have you got on you?” Jerry emptied his pockets and found that he had less than four pounds. This was but a fraction of what Cabell carried, but the latter generously decided that they must pool their resources. “It’s a tidy sum we've got between us,” Cabell said. “We'll be lucky if it’s not taken away from us. . . . Well, bribery comes high and well have to bargain like true Yankees to make it reach.” Tonight, they agreed, was the time to act. There'd be enough noise on board to cover a typhoon.

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WEN a British ship put into a home port it was customary to: allow shore leave to sailors and to permit visitors to come aboard. In this way various groups managed to come on board if they were perisistent enough — relatives, friends, hawkers, farmers with produce, illicit liquor dealers and other characters even less desirable. The officers of the Sunrise did not concern . themselves at Ramsgate. With war. ahead, they wanted the good will of the crew and no desertions. They themselves were enjoying shore leave. On the night in question the only officer remaining on board was a second lieutenant. He, with a few midshipmen, had been left with the remarkable task of keeping order on a ship about to put to sea for a long war cruise, its decks this night more like a county fair than a gun

~ brig.

It was no fantastic’ matter, then, for Jerry Whitfield with Cabell Banks’ assistance to strike down, bind and gag the marine who came to- lower ‘their supper to them, and to exit by the open hatch; to treat a second sentry guarding the hatch in the same well-planned manner; to return him to the hold and bind him securely; to divest these two marines of their outer garments and to don them with more haste than taste. With the hatch then shut and locked behind them they minled with the crowd on deck and ooked about to see what fate offered them. It was not easy for the two American prisoners to walk the deck of the Sunrise in their newly acquired uniforms with any degree of nonchalance. The clothes fit them

Cabell’s too loose. But they wore them thankfully and each assured the other that he looked splendid.

‘The lieutenant was keeping to

quarters and the midshipmen did not know them by sight, but there was danger that they would encounter some marines who had guarded, them. This led them to seek out a crowd of civilians who surrounded a hawkster auctioning off a parrot. The bird could swear

- fluently in four languages, they

were assured; and so loud was the bantering that the two Americans were able to exchange mumbled words under cover of it. “ . . bumboats!” Cabell said, % .. toward the Sten are from Jerry ee have to chagce it . bell’s Verdict,

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HEY ron from the crowd and began to amble aft. Three girls passed them, giggling loudly and trying to attract their attention. Jerry laughed and called to them, “Breeze! We got girls!” in

what he hopes was good British banter. .

. An old man stopped

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dedicated to love of her. It was, moreaver, his eagerness to help. a pretty woman in a scrape. over. a hackney coach that had led him to

‘imprisonment on this ship. Cabell

was right: Let the little counfry girl cry for her lost shilling! One must keep an eye on the pattern, or life became a tangle. " They had reached their destination and pushed close ‘to the deck’s outer edge. “A bumboat of unpurchased fowl was about to move off from the brig’s stern. ‘They leaned over the taffrail, and Cabell hallooed to the four men at the oars: “Wait there! There's others can buy fowl besides the commissary! We marines want six ducks for our mess! We're coming down!” The men were looking up, their oars backing water. Cabell said in Jerry’s ear. “Slide. Then Jump. Make the boat.” Without more ado, what appeared to be two very h

young British marines, one large,

and well built, the other as wizened as a counting-house clerk, grasped the cathead and slid down the anchor cable until they could drop into the bumboat. Chickens cackled and geese honked. But as the noise subsided the matter ceased to be of interest (to the crowd on board the Sunrise. ] 2 2 8

ABELL BANKS said to the gaping produce man in charge of the bumboat, “We want to get

ashore for a few hours. We've been]:

confined to quarters. You wouldn’t begrudge . an evening’s. fun, would you, to a .couple of His Majesty's finest, about to go off and fight the Americans for you?” “Would you now?” spoke up Jerry urgently. “You said you wanted six ducks,” grumbled the disappointed poultry

man. “So we do,” replied Cabell with a wink. “But you can keep them for

us. How much?” “Three crown. you?” “Yes. And a little over for a celebration ashore. . . . Pull away. We don’t want .to be caught.” : The man gave orders to his helpers; the bumboat put awkwardly about and made for the shore. Arrived there, Cabell Banks drew four

‘ave you got it on

silver crowns from his ill-fitting |

trousers and gave them to the poultry man. “One over,” he said, “for good measure. Feed those ducks of ours well. We'll want the eges to throw at Americans.” “Ye’re: drunk, both of: ver said the man, biting the coins and dropping them into his pocket. “Look sharp, or ye’ll forget to go back to the brig tonight.” “You don’t think we'd do that, do you?” Jerry asked in a horrified voice. He and Cabell Banks, laughing hysterically, put their ‘arms about one another and went ashore.

(To Be Continued) (All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

CELEBRATION—BYy Fred Ford -

M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

OE GRANT, our sheriff, comes rushing in through the back door of my Lakeville Eagle newspaper plant one afternoon last week, an’ I can almost see my next week’s headline written in the wrinkles acr Joe’s forehead. “Get your bonnet, Shorty, an’ come with me. Phil Kniskern has kicked the .bucket.” “Holy Hanna,” I .say, “that’s news. Come on!” I grab him by the arm, and away we go. It’s news because Phil Kniskern was supposed to be the most popular district attorney the country ever had. Lord only knows how many prison reforms he was responsible for during his term. But that isn’t the whole story of Phil Kniskern by a long shot. No, siree. Many years ago there was a young doctor living here by name of Norman Lowry—a good-looking chap and in love with Anna Powers. Well, that’s all right. But Phil Kniskern was in love with Anna, too. And that ain't so all right. At least not with Phil.

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LL, along comes the war, and off goes our handsome young doctor, while the district attorney carries on here at home. He thinks this is a good chance to build himself in solid with Anna. But Anna has different ideas. She swears she loves Doc Lowry and intends to wait for him. After the war is over, Doc comes home and renews his courtship of the beautiful Anna. And everything is going along hunky dory until that Bidell case comes up in which Doc was implicated. Well, everybody around here knows Doc was as innocent as.the flowers in spring, but Phil figures out a dandy case of evidence against him and -man-

ages to have him sent away for|

20 years. That was some time ago, and Doc is out by now, I understand, and in business for himself in Chicago, manufacturing dry ice in a compressor he’d invented while in prison. And that’s funny, too, because the invention was made possible by Phil's own efforts to set up a special new work shop in the Big House. His gift to Doc, folks say, for what he got out of Doc’s conviction. What did he get out of it? Well, he married Anna.

There had been some rumors that Doc had changed somewhat after his prison experience. - More bitter and all that against the world in

general and against Phil in particu- |

lar. Some even went so far as to say that Doc had threatened everlasting revenge, but you know how folks’ll talk when they get their fingers on the tail end of a story. So I didn’t pay much attention to it, and things went on as peaceful as if nothing had ever happened. But here was Sheriff Joe Grant and myself hot footing it over to

Mind Your Manners

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Should a young woman hold a man’s arm when walking along a street? 2. Is it necessary to thank a doorman when he opens a door for one? 3. When a boy and girl are to a skating pond, should he carry her skates? 4. As a general rule is white ar red wine served with a light : meal? . 5. When is red wine usually served?

What would you say if— You are a girl asking a boy to take ke You to your club or @) rn club is having a dance next Saturday night. Would you .like to go with me?” . (b) “Are you going to be busy next Saturday night?” (¢) “I need an escort for my ¢ club dance Saturday night? Would you take me?” 8 = =

- Answers 4 No.

" 2. No. This is a routine matter of service. 3. Yes. 4. White. 5. With red meat, game or pork. : :

‘Best “What Would You Do”

Phil Kniskern’s house and Phil, according to reports, lying dead on his kitchen floor. A story? You bet your life it’s a story.

RANT breaks in Kniskern’s back door, and we're in the kitchen in a jiffy. And there on the floor, all sprawled out like he was practicing the Australian crawl is Phil. Anna, thank heaven, was visiting her folks down state, so the house was empty, except, of course, the crowd that trailed in after us. But Joe kept them pretty well out of the way. Joe leans over and shakes Phil, but Phil doesn’t reply. I don’t blame him. I wouldn't either if I was Phil. He was deader’n a door nail. So we look around. Suicide? Maybe. But there wasn’t any evidence of suicide. No knife, no gun, no any thing. And not a mark on Phil except a funny color to his face. That color gets me after while, and I mention it to Joe. “Can’t understand it,”® Joe says, shaking ‘his head and running his hand over his chin. “Nothing in the room that—" We both saw it at the same time. We should have seen it before. Maybe it was too much in evidence to see it before, too prominent, like the door or the kitchen sink. . “Look at that,” Joe says and points at a large corrugated shipping carton. There are four full bottles of some- expensive French champagne in it, but the box is really large enough to have held four dozen. Two empty bottles stand on the table. “Poison,” I say. “I ain’t sure,” says Joe noncoms=mittally. 2 2 UST because I'm ‘curious, and just because I don’t know what else to do, I turn the box over. Then I stand up and’ blink. There’s a name on the box that hits me kind of queer. I touch Joe’s arm and we both read the label. “To Phil Kniskern, Lakeville, Wisconsin.” Then up above it: “From Norman Lowry, Chicago.” Then we look further and find still another label, printed in red ink. This one reads: “The contents of this box are packed in dry ice, which is made by condensing carbon dioxide gas,

and must not be opened and left in}

any unventilated room.”

We look at the windows. Not a one of them was open. And the door had been locked tight because we'd had a tough time breaking through it. ‘I looks at Joe. “That finishes that,” I says. “It does,” says Joe. “Phil was too drunk to read it, I guess. Lowry sends him a fine present. But what the present was for I can’t imagine.” Well,- I'm curious, and I figure that iy paper ought to know. So next week, sure enough, we come out with the full story of how Phil Kniskern died on the anniversary

of Doc’s conviction to the Big House. A story? You betcha!

THE END (All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.) S———————————————

YOUR HEALTH

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN American Medical Journal Editor VERY time the subject of quackery and extraordinary diets is discussed a lot of people want to find out what a normal human being ought to eat anyway. A certain list of foods has been classified as “the protective diet” because the list includes substances which will provide all of the necessary essentials in the form of proteins, carbohydrates and fats, and mineral salts and vitamins. The Protective diet includes the follow-

Milk—1 pint for the adult and 1 quart for the child. Meat, fish, poultry, or equivalent amounts of meat Substiuigs 1 serving.

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