Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1940 — Page 43

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. YESTERDAY: Wes determines to ask: * Rosinie about the rumored “engage : ment,” drives to the Bailey ranch. He _. encounters ‘s party of girls whe keep 3 Shim singing and dancing. © Suddenly, > Wes smells smoke, hears the crackling of a fire,

; * CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE MAN WHO had come out near the Rocking R Ranch had yed in she car when the woman Jett him. The car had showed no ghts for the last mile or so, but Just. rolled slowly over the flat, aratively = barren land. The “man sat in it quietly now, waiting ul moment. He would have to “time himself well, then ‘act swiftly d efficiently. He could see a window light or which he knew was the ranch heéuse. In hangars to the, left of ! al house he could see lights also,

knew that the army officers].

ard . mechanics would be there— “they even slept within a few feet of their planes. % When half an hour had passed he quietly left his car. In a small tanvas pack he carried tools—a powerful pair of steel cutters, a hack saw with extra blades of the hardest metal, a - short stubby ‘crowbar, four sizes of files. Under his coat was a belt holding an automatic pistol. A second smaller pistol was slung in a ei in holster out of sight under his left arm, Outwardly, the man’s clothing was ‘neat and of excellent’ quality so that if by chance he should be seen and recognized he would ex‘cite no suspicion. Simply by dropping his bag of tools out of sight he ¢ould well assime a normal role with no one ‘the wiser. With no "houses save those at the ranch, though, and no road or trail along this flat mesa area, he didn’t ex- ~ pect to encounter anyone. > He walked cautiously to within 100 yards of the hangars. There, at the edge of the cleared landing field, he lurked ‘in the foliage of a mesquite Shi; waiting.

8 ”- dee ¥imD was a long smooth Slain from which even the small rocks had been removed, but its boundaries were marked by Spanish tlagger growths, mesquite, greasewood, sagebrush, and a few scattered Poulders. Recently, too, a fivegirand barbed wire fence had been built agound it to keep off roaming cattle, horses and men. To be that ‘much more ahead he slipped through the barbed wire, but stayed back near the shrubbery sosthat his form could not be seen. Constantly “he stared toward the Bailey mansion, a two-story ranch house of stone:and pine logs. . Over the ranch house roof came

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2 sudden lick of flame. It died .down, sprang up again still higher. Almost at once other flame tongues jpowed. He glanced at the hangars, ously waiting. In just two or three minutes the e grew to astonishing proportions over the house, he had planted his inflammable material well. He could Rear the constant sound of music and laughter there as he had heard gince he first neared the place, but ##ill nobody had discovered the fire, HAIL at once, though, he heard a

4Oh-O40-0-0;" HELP!” Some

body yelled, then came a: series: of shriekings, and in the mounting

glow there he could see people run-|

ning. Further shouts came, louder and more frantic.

A door in an airplane hangar|

poped epen and somebody looked out. At once the person turned bark inside, called loudly, and ran

to the other hangars neatby and|

sounded the alarm. Men -came streaming out and ran toward the ranch house. ‘When he saw the last person leave the hangars, the man concealed near the fence grinned in elation. “Perfect!” he breathed. ‘The whole place deserted!” He sped across the opening and stopped at the. first hangar. There, to be doubly sure, he paused and ‘waited & moment, He looked in the hangar and called out. Nobody came, nobody answered. He went to the big ship. He bad expected the compartment used by the chief bomber to be locked, but to his delight he didn’t have to use his tools here. One strong pull threw. a latch and opened ine tiny cabin door, With his pocket Rashiight, then, he surveyed the scene. “Ah-h-h-h!” he breathed in exultation. : There before him . was precisely what he wanted and meant to have.

” n » THERE, IN A housing no bigger than a small overnight bag, was the: one “gadget” which nations were willing to sacrifice lives and fortunes to own. There was America’s most valuable military secret! He was kneeling to inspect that instrument when he suddenly heard a noise of running feet near-

Tapgo’ in ‘each hangar!” 8 Voice ehoutetl : ‘The man crouched, gun in each hand, ready to kill. He hardly] dared breathe while a form dashed into thé hangar and took fire extinguishers from the walls, but 60 ‘seconds later he knew he was alone again, He reholstered his pistols and resumed his task. He knew the bomb sight was sealed in metal so that he could not feasibly see its inner workings now. But that did not inferest him. He wouldn’t have understood them anyway, for he was not that technical. But he did know enotigh to

appreciate the importance of them,|

, angl of course any sealed metal housing could be easily opened later and the parts laid bare for minute scientific analysis and copying. His cue, he told himself with = satisfaction, simply was to take the whole thing: He set to work. First, a metal arm as big as his middle en found welded to the ‘side

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at the ease of the whole operation. Shoutings and cracklings of fire, muffled by distance and the hangar walls, told him that he -still had time. . » 2 8 WITH A SHORT steel tape under his flashlight beam, then, he measured exactly: every detail of the bomb sight’s installation. The distance across the compartment. The height of the sight from the floor. The size of the opening in the floor itself. The distance of the chief

sight and from the eye piece. The theight of the compartment ceiling. Everything he could see to measure. These figures he put down with pencil on a note pad. Then without further ado he took his tools and the precious bomb

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sight and backed out of the compartraent. The load was heavier than he anticipated, for the thing “was of metal, but even so it could be carried in one hand. He sat everything on the cement floor, went back in a moment and wiped all the interior with an oiled rag from his pocket to leave no fingerprints,

and calmly departed. Nobody else was around the hangars yet nor would likely be soon, for the Bailey house now was roaring and flashing 80 that he had to duck down in the

bomber’s seat from the base of the|low shadows to avoid possibility of

being seen, Even as he fled, though, he looked at the burning house With satisfaction. The woman who came with him had done her her Job well,

(To Be » Continued)

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