Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1939 — Page 16

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_ Adventure By OREN ARNOLD

- CAST OF CHARACTERS BETTY MARY JORDAN—Pretty young “Border Patrol service secretary. «. SHERIDAN STARR—Handsome Border ~Patrol officer. ~~: HOPE KILDARE—Starr’s fellow offiLer, also a bachelor. LUIS BARRO—Mexican smuggler.

Yesterday — Betty has no chance to slip away, but she pins three white sheets on the hillside and signals, The “Officers see them! Next morning the sheets are still up. Barro is gone!

I" CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

XA 7HEN 10 o'clock and then 11 : passed and the time slipped, emphatically on toward noon, Betty Mary began to realize that she had acted foolishly when she had tied $hree sheets to scrubby trees hoping | rescuers miles away would see them. | Surely, if help were coming it would | Have come long since, she reasoned.

s. The fat cook, impersonal slave driver, saw to it that she worked; | but as long as she kept industrious| he let her strictly alone. ««At 11:40 she stepped to a kitchen window for a breath of fresh air and saw a bewhiskered old Mexican!

man drive up in a creaky cart pulled | | by two burros. He stopped near the! |

kitchen and began unloading firewood. One of Barro’s armed guards eursed him for no reason whatever, But the humble old man just bowed his head, crossed himself and said nothing. Betty Mary felt sorry for him. Presently a dilapidated automobile chugged up to the kitchen door. Ever vigilant for a chance to escape, Betty Mary went out to see it. In the car, a sort of covered truck, was a butchered beef, the great slabs of eat still warm from animal heat. The fat cook stepped to the door. | “What is this?” he demanded. |

- “La carne,” a swarthy, little man |

whined. “Is the meat ordered from Portes Gomez, Senor Barro order Portes to send meat, because he cannot pay his debt in money.” “Anh!” growled the cook. “Bring in. You, muchacha, help him.” This last command was addressed to Betty Mary, who was standing nearby. is 2 2 5 NSTANTLY, she recoiled from touching a piece of raw beef weighing half as much as she. But she dare not refuse. The Mexican climbed up under the frayed canvas roof of the truck and turned with a hunk of rib meat to face Betty Mary. “Ps-s-s-s-st!” he suddenly hissed | a low warning, then whispered,

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Are you all right?” | “OH!” ._Betty half screamed the exclama-| tion. The man was Hope Kildare! “Take this meat, woman!” hel bawled at her then, in Spanish “You | hear what the cook say! _MHe leaned toward her managing to squeeze her wrist as she took the | meat from his hands. b When she came back for more of the beef a quick glance showed Hope that nobody from the house was observing them. Kitchen work- || ers were inside several feet away, and guards loitered out of hearing. Betty and Hope got no more chance to talk for the moment, however, be-

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Mary's wrist again and felt her response now, a tightening of her own muscles. “Get the devil out of here and haul your wood, old man!” Hope ordered aloud. Then he whispered to Betty, “It’s Sherry! You know?” “Oh! Oh Sherry! I could—just kiss you!” She was whispering excitedly, about to sob. “You—came! You, and Hope, are such—!” “Yeah, sure. But for sake—" She forced herself to enter the act now, and spoke aloud in Spanish

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away.” t 4 n 2 | HE asked the cooR about it and he told her irritably to do what she pleased with it. A pile of empty packing boxes, papers, bags, cans] and general kitchen rubbish had collected out back, but he was too busy, with Luis Barro’s greatly increased household with its alien guests, to pay any attention to trash | now. Brusquely, he waved her aside. _There in broad daylight, the chance of her slipping into the truck unobserved was, of course, slight. Women servants were passing from laundry to the main house, | from kitchen to store romos. Barro’s: armed guards were naturally observant. Sheridan realized that they had to be extremely clever, and lucky as well. He realized that he and Hope had already been lucky even to reach Betty Mary as easily as they had. “The big officer, well disguised behind his woodcutter outfit and his false beard, led Hope and Betty | Mary in quick whispered consultation. They agreed at once; his plan at least offered a possibility. Hope, the “butcher,” therefore got ostentatiously into his truck, start-| ed the motor, allowed the machine to slip apparenty out of control] about 50 yards down the roadway, | and crash into a post. The post cracked. The resultant commotion caused all the guards to | gather there for a few minutes, and | attracted the eyes of all persons] outside. Hope did a lot of Spanish | cursing and grumbling, backed his truck off, got out to inspect it and! the post, got back behind the steer- | ing ‘wheel grumbling anew about his damaged axle and fender. “All told, this little back of the Barro house took per- | haps a quarter of an hour. Fifteen] or 20 people had come to look curi- | ously on, some to grin at the butch- | er’s discomfiture. Only the old wood- | cutter had not come, minding his | own business he had thrown off his |

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