Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1939 — Page 24

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: 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 Starr's fellow offi- | _ cer, alse a bachelor. LUIS BARRO —Mexican smuggler.

Yesterday: Safe out of sight of ‘he | Barre ranch, Sherry continues his wood | cutting act, wondering if Betty loves | him after she tells him that Hope had | already proposed.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE HERIDAN STARR ceased being

a Mexican woodcutter as soon as night settled over Mexico. | “Betty Mary?” he called, when he | felt it was safe to start again. “It’s dark now. I think we can ‘ make a try for the river.”

«Can I actually come out of this?

©“ Goodness!”

“I apologize. I sure am Sorry you | had to stay there, but there was noj way of knowing who might be ob-| serving us, or who—" | “Don’t, Sheridan! It is I who | apologize. I owe you more than Ij can ever tell. I—I was not uncom-| - fortable.” She had crawled out, with his help, and stood near to smile up at him. “I was just—scared!” He squeezed her arm a little; and somehow this gesture conveyed more than a thousand words might

have. But Betty Mary saw right through the convincing makeup. “8-Sherry,” she almost whispered it, tremulously. re oS “I just—I just want you to know 1 think you are grand! You and Hope. I am weil aware that you risked your lives to rescue me.” “Wea didn’t. There's a stock conpany on an El Paso stage. One of their actors helped us. Hope was dark and handsome enough to look like a Mex without much change. They had to cover up my mug, though. Come on, let's get going.”

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O avoid suspicion, driven his cart and Betty Mary parhllel with the border, not toward it. so that they now were still more than three miles from the river. She knew they couldn't ride any further. “Stay right behind me, and act dumb if anybody talks to us,” he advised. After about an hour’s walking they came to the Rio Grande. “It looks wide,” she said. “I hope T am not too fatigued to swim that far.” Gallantly, then, Sherry stooped | and picked her up in his arms anc | solemnly waded into the water. She thought it a very strange position in which to assist a girl in swimming, | but she waited, trusting him. When he had put her down on the American shore, with a frank sigh of relief to be on his own soil | again, he took off his whiskers and smiled down at her, “It's the first and maybe the last) chance I'l lever have to hold vou in| my arms,” he declared simply. “There's one significant thing I must point out, Miss Jordan,” Officer Starr said then, rather formally, “so you can use it when you report back to headquarters in Washington, “It was that vou and I waded right across the international boun-| dary at 9 p. m., unmolested. If we can do it that easy, so can aliens.” “But I just feel that I may never go back to my job. I—I may stay here.” Sherry went a little glum at that. Twice today he had deduced from her talk that she might be in love with Hope Kildare. The big fellow swallowed hard, and changed the subject. But gloom had settled on him. He talked very little more until they were back in El Paso, in serious conference with Hope himself. “I had no trouble.” Hope avowed there. “I drove the old rented truck right on into Juarez, across the bridge and into the American officers’ hands. Of course they let me . in when they recognized me—but they had some fun doing that! I'm sure glad you two made it safely.” | $d 8&5 0

HEY had to explain every de-| tail, and then they had a new | plan to effect. After all, Barro was still a threat, and they knew the| plans he had for his crossing at] New Channel. { “He may or may not change his place and his date,” big Sheridan | summarized, eventually. “He'll know | that Betty Mary escaped, but he| won't know how much she knows. Didn't you say that woman you! talked to in his house, Betty Mary, | was coming immediately to his] side?” “Yes,” said Betty Mary. “Then Barro won't know you) talked to her. And she won't know you were a spy. And you didn't talk confidentially to any other servant or anybody, so Barro may conclude that you don't know his plan at all. Even if he did, he may go right on with his plan, thinking he is safe with that many men. He would be, too. if we weren't tipped off a hundred armed estranjeros and smugglers—gosh!” “This is Friday night,” said Hope. “And he was to send the aliens across on Sunday night, but might change. Knowing he had a big force, we can get a big force, too. We would simply have to know when and where on the border to expect him.” “That's certainly a fact!” Sheridan agreed. Then he added, thoughtfully, “But how can Wwe know, for sure?” . They were silent for a long moment, and then Hope Kildare replied: “There's only one answer. One of us. in disguise, must go back to Mexico.”

(To Be Continued)

(All events and characters | are wholly fictitious.

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