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By JERRY BRONDFIELD

CAST OF CHARACTERS

_ VAL DOUGLAS — Girl sports: writer, Siivfed on a freighter to find excite-

. EDDIE CAVALIER — A prize fighter ° |

D! eaded for the title, has a score settle with Val :

- CAPTAIN STEVE HANSEN—Skipper of the Northern Belle. : :

DUFFY KELSO—Cavalier’s manager.

YESTERDAY—In 3 tavern in Prince Rupert, Val overhears a man report that the Nerthern Belle is in port. She senses trouble and when the man leaves with two companions, she and Eddie follow. They are suddenly halted when someone behind them commands them to stop, backs his order P with a gun.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE MAN with the gun waved

keep going just the way you're headed. I'm gonna stick this gat back in my pocket now but my finger’ll be on the trigger all the time . . . if you get what I mean.” He whistled one shrill note and the four men ahead stopped and turned around. ; “Look what I found tailing you guys,” their captor said. He mo-

tioned his prisoners against the wall |

of a warehouse. One of the others snapped a flashlight beam in their faces for a moment, : “Who are they?” ; “Ain't knowing but I think they got ideas they shouldn’t be having,” he said significantly. . The man with the flashlight, evi-

- “People with ideas got “to be watched. Get ’em [inside here. Joe, and see they don’t get into mischief. No rough stufi—boss’ orders—but keep ’em tame. Meet us at 12. You know where.” The man named Joe nodded. “Lucky' I came up just when I did. But you sure you won't need me?” “Positive. They only got six, mebbe eight, men on board and—” Suddenly he stopped short and looked at Val in the dim light of the abandoned warehouse. “This dame here,” he said slowly. “I know who she is. She's the reporter who shipped on with | that Outfit. in

Prisco. Her picture was in a lot of |

the papers this past week. That gives me an idea.” . Val held her breath, wogdering what his idea was. : - “We get Johnny -here to take a message to Steve Hansen that she’s been hurt, an’ for him to send a couple of men to get her back to the ship. That makes it just that: much easier for us.” “Quick,” he said, “We gotta move fast.” He sent one of his men away after brief instructions. Johnny was back in 15 minutes. “Hansen swallowed the whole story,” he reported. . “Okay!” the leader said. “Let's get going. Watch ’em, Joe.” ”

” ” JOE MOTIONED for Eddie and :Yal to sit down. -- “Look” Val [said desperately. . “There’s a hundred—five hundred

0.” He smirked. ‘{Save your breath, lady.” : Eddie Cavalier] at the moment, however, sat looking up at a stack of empty barrels [piled high next to him,

As casually as possible he took k

hold. Suddenly he gave a mighty jerk, with all his strength. With a crash, the whole pile of barrels. came tumbling down as Eddie pulled the bottom one from | underneath. | i Their captor leaped up with a

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“startled oath. For one brief sec~ond he was off guard. That was | ‘all Eddie needed. He catapulted. - himself forward, grabbed the gunman’s wrist with one hand andi swung a terrific right to the chin, with the other. | Joe dropped without a sound. | It had happened so fast that Val | could hardly follow it. Ome minute there had been the crashing roar of empty barrels tumbling about them. The next instant Ed‘die Cavelier had the gun in his own hand. : They dashed but and ran down toward where the Northern Belle | lay tied to her pier. “How about ‘a policeman?” she panted. I “No time for that.” It was almost half an hour since the other men had started out. Her -heart pumping wildly, Val hoped they wouldn’t be too late. It was dark and quiet when they reached the ship. Eddie stopped. “You stay here,” he said curtly. “Or better still, you can go for that cop you were talking about,” » = 2 I"'ER ANSWER was to grab his - hand and hurry up the gangplank. They pattered along deck and almost tripped over a pair of legs that projected alongside a hatch - cover. | : - It was Mike Kelly, securely tied and gagged. “They got Capt. Han:sen,” he gasped as Eddie released him. “Just a couple of minutes ago. Someone sent word you had busted a lég or somethin’. Hansen sent a couple guys into town, and bang, first “thing we| knew the joint. was raided.” Joe id They scrambled down the com-

:- panionway toward the hold. “Take

it easy,” Mike whispered. “Here, ; e that gun. I know how to use em,” he said to Eddie. Eddie passed it over, | : They skirted the engine room. Mike stopped short. “Voices up

~ : ahead,” he cautioned.

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Steve Hansen had just unlocked a bulkhead and was swinging the

= door wide when they swooped down.

“Drop thal hammer!” Mike yelled. The men covering Steve Hansen whirled. Like a flash one

gun spit, fire. | It was either deadly “accuracy or pure luck, but the bullet smashed into Mike’s gun, knocking it from his hand. “Down!” Eddie screamed to Val ‘and plunged forward. With a roar Steve Hansen threw a perfect football block into the gunmen and

7 knocked them off balance.

. There were two or three more shots and a bullet whanged its- way into a steel plate above Vals ear.

{ . She was afraid to look up but . -when there was no more shooting

, she raised her head. :

The man who had the hammer

~ lay against the bulkhead door, out cold. Eddie was rubbing his hand

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while Steve Hansen covered the - others with one of their own guns. _ “Someone will hang for - this,” Steve grated. And then for the first time Val noticed Mike Kelly sprawled on the floor. He was motionless and around his head was a slowly widening pool of blood. 3 (To Be Continued) ~~

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