Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1939 — Page 20

SERIAL STORY—

Border

Adventure By OREN ARNOLD

CAST OF CHARACTERS BETTY MARY JORDAN-—Pretty young Border Patrol service secretary. SHERIDAN STARR—Handsome Border Patrol officer. HOPE KILDARE--Stare's fellow ofticer, alse a bachelor, LUIS BARRO--Mexican smuggler.

Yesterday: Barro walls all night te watch for the Border Patrol in the canyon. When they do not appear he decides to run his aliens across the border the next night.

CHAPTER SIX HERPF is a strict law in Border Patrol tradition which says that an officer must not shoot until he has absolutely no other recourse. Ten minutes after Hope Kildare heard the rolling pebble he was to give silent thanks for that law. There in the darkness he quickly unhoistered and cocked his pistol. and knew that Sherry Starr was doing the same thing. In the same instant Hope challenged. “Manos arriba!” he commanded. “Hands high, and stay where you are!” “Oh!” came a startled answer, shrill, almost a shriek. “Los Federales! Don't move or you'll get shot! You are under arrest by United States officers. Stay where you are!” In truth, Hope was doing a bit of bluffing. When he first challenged he had fully expected a shot or a volley in answer, a quick rifle “CRACK!” followed perhaps by a whine as the bullet glanced off the rocks. Or, at best, a whimpering plea for mercy and safety. When neither reply came, both Hope and Sheridan were confused. “Stand up with your hands high, all of you!” Hope barked like a hardened army sergeant, in Spanish. “The first man that moves will get shot.” “Come on, Sherry, we'll disarm them first” “Oh.” the same shrill voice. “Mr. Starr? Mr. Kildare? Is it y-you?” $$ 8 8 T= ‘handsome pair crouched there a full 10 seconds, tense in the darkness, before either spoke again. “For criminy's sake!” Sheridan at last. “Did you—did you hear—?” Hope whispered back, uncertainly. “It's her!” Sherry declared. “Mr. Kildare? Here I am—Betty| Mary Jordan. Isn't it you? Is Mr. Starr with you? I'm sure it was your voice. Where—?" “Betty Mary?” Hope called. “Yes. Are you all right?”

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They talked for half an nour. the officers almost forgetting to maintain a guard for aliens in their concern for Betty Mary. Hope and Sherry next tried to agree on who should take her back home and who should stay in the canyon. “You had planned to wait here another whole night?” Betty Mary interrupted, still whispering, but incredulous. “Why sure. They haven't come yet. They may come any minute now. Wasn't it San Felipe Canyon you said? Say, you weren't kidding us?” A sudden suspicion struck Officer Starr. » ® 2

UT Betty Mary quelled it just as quickly. “No indeed I wasn't! The tip was a good one. I'll bet anything on that. Listen, Sheridan, and Hope—" it was the first time she had called them by first names— “when I went to that jail I found a 22 rifle cartridge in that man Salazar’s personal effects. The jailer couldn't explain it. Just on a guess, I used my knowledge of Spanish to advantage. I posed as an old Mexican woman, and in his cell I showed Salazar a 22 cartridge of my own, hoping it was a—a sort of clan token, see? Well, it was! He thinks I was a member of Luis Barro's band, a Barro worker and spy! Honest!” “My gosh!” exclaimed Hope Kildare. This girl from Washington, D. C., had been moving too fast for him. Her ingenuity as well as her personal char mhad impressed him deeply. “And I'm not going home now, if you aren’t,” she concluded. “And anyway—-" “And anyway you'll freeze, or get shot, or get in the way, or—" Sheridan Starr was trying to get emphatic. “One of us’ll take you back at once.” Sheridan ceased talking. It was Hope Kildare who, again, had grasped his friend’s arm in the darkness. A sudden hard squeeze of warning. “A horse snorted!” clared. “Down canyon!” For a long while the three crouched there motionless, straining to hear, breathing deeply. Betty Mary felt her heart pounding. After a bit Hope whispered again. “It’s hell to pay now sure enough, Sherry!” he declared. “They're Coming—a whole confounded caravan!”

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