Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1942 — Page 27

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It's Allan's story, I keep telling myself. Allan’'s—and stowed on it by its Chinese pro-| Bg wu I TRUST THIS WEAPON JourisT / ’ an HE MAY

I iprietor, Sun Su. Allan grinned 1 the state department's. No longer the secret he made me ey. Right now hed settie| SHOOTS ) Nr ) NL uae swear to last September, because there was talk of it in Mexico City for just two delights if they'd take STRAIGHT! gy = BE Ww at Christmas time. But still Allan's story. {the shape of a long cold drink and JAUNDICE And there are all the loose ends I've no way of tying together. I's jong cold bath. WN 23 7 IR ., We a don't even know where Allan him-) : He fished in a pocket of the car,| |\ J ! | = 3 : / ae self is, ncw. London, last I heard./ than driving a car, he worked his pulled out a pair of field glasses fe NE Bore Noy inom, bY, Js SUN Say Onward ont Whitt he herjsven and trained them on the building. Or even Chungking. He's a valu-| the worst road in lower California, Didn't look too bad. he thought: able Mall, oo: if not in all Mexico, blended Im-|) veq as if it might be cool inside What happened to Asia, and was perceptibly with the main street of the heavy walls, and those palm she as beautiful as he said? Did the town. The buildings on each —. = "oro oots that they find Baron Sagova? I thought side of him were shuttered and no seemed t6 be growing out of the of him when I saw those news! visible sign of life met his roving tool indicated (he hotel was built Ditties Of ° Kubusu, a orb Tr hen ‘ on pry around a patio. Allan liked patios, warmly and innocently, clutching watch; it mar e hour as ike th: ut : ’ that modest black brief case so o'clock. Spperany Tach ust en ? faa mockingly symbolical of good will] “Siesta,” he murmured aloud. fruit Arinks with straws as he arrived in Washington to|“Everybody's asleep.” : : “discuss” our difficulties with! Yet he questioned the notion Japan. Such a smooth one the even while voicing it. He had an|man had come out of the front enBaron must have been: specialist!uneasy feeling as he drove slowly|trance. The glasses revealed him 2 : ; 2 : in treacherv behind a toothy mask.! through the village that eves were{as tall, slender and fairly young— ES BS = bl 4 : LZ 7 As 3 W . And Escobar! His an even more peering at him from behind the|about 32 or 33. Allan's own age. © N G1) A= Sn ; NE F : De 7 IN \ NNN enigmatic smile, brighter in his bolted doors and shielded win-|He was wearing a uniform which} ! GUARD, : , ” ; } J \ \\ EN 2 RD | handsome face. He, of all the peo-|dows. Hostile eyes, sinister, cal-|the American regognized as that of ( EVERYBODY = + = i} | \ Jrmysmren © BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO SOON SR Yi ple who figured in that strange |culating. . . . the Rurales, the famous Mexican Ree. g ; BLM, “ Lr, ! A )) dark business off the coast of lower| He made no stop in the village. [mounted police, and the glint of} pen RYDER wll Fred Harman slifornia, interested me most as] By cautious inquiries that morning I on ne Sholom of his tunic an llan shared with me the st ry— | he had ascertained the exact loca- | marke im as an oficer. HAT” A SAMA? \ : ET PERRET DAE - pe uy it as he ei tell. | tion of the small hotel which was| Mildly surprised by the spectacle] } SCHOO “TH fe BE You PSORED A GOOD [WG 3 NEVER epRD or [zee ASOT A 4 FOOTLIGHTS -- ENTER { wond hot | hi r il h|of another lunatic abroad at such a ) . K\D ME ¢ LOOKING TEACHER SWINDLER! 1 TELLIN’ RYDER 2 THE HERO — HA-HA/ I wonder about Escobar, sometimes | NOW his goal was two miles sout ) } SOON AS SNE MOST EEE oe LL Bp HA —wonder how clearly it all came|of San Saba. an hour on such a day, Allan] «T) MPO T OUT HERE AND TEACH : back to him the dav Pearl Harbor, He turned the sedan into a wagon | Watched him swing lightly into the, : QF A SCHOOL / : : was struck and a continent awak- track, a little rougher if anything|saddle of a horse that had been | ened to war than the one he had followed all| tethered near the door. He put Finally, T'm ashamed of myself. morning, whose tortuous course par-| his steed in motion and came up How smug I must have sounded! alleled every indentation of the|the road in the direction of San “Those Japs down there—probably coast line. He wished for the thou-| Saba, riding along with the easy operating on their own,” T had said | sandth time that the Mexican gov-| grace which Allan had long since to Allan. “Theyre specialists in|ernment had extended its network concluded was every Mexican's) two-bit intrigue, sure. But no of fine roads to include this penn. | bircigIL, Horse ang Wan drew) major threat. I'd sooner fear ratssula. rapidly nearer at a brisk canter, in cages than your ‘yellow devils.” yg 2 = vanishing, reappearing and vanish- |

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said, smiling thinly, “We'll see” |another low rise of land. At its oP {40k a last pull on his cigaret,' : . = : Allan's story or not, there are he halted the car in the welcome j,,hneq the butt on the floor of WEAR WEY, / GO ON ROLRE | [WEAN ROURE SORRY ABOUT TM GETTIN OUTTA WERE’ —Kay not the least among them. ; ie ; Ww ALL Not that We Have or to leotn looked as if it might have been 1. enoine came to throbbing life. § TAMER <r Aw HUT 1 g 4 : i" "ie of whom our enemies are, but only “t'¢ Since the days of the Con- po was about to set the car roll- RW A Lue whore | ll of where they have been and of chance to cool his motor, to rest ; Nose il | or ~ how they have been dealt with. his weary forearms, and to smoke WDen he Baus) to watch the Mex: ; ar t, & It was just last summer . . . {one of the American cigarets with can again. What was the fellow iN 44S : QING 3 Od : ; i : before crossing the border. | The officer had reined in abruptSHIMMERING heat waves al-| meanwhile, he took advantage of ly. He was abreast of a clump of\ most hid the sandy road as Allan his present elevation study the lay {a1 cactus that edged the road, and crested a hill and came thankfully | Ze followed ae Jota an attracted by something that lay in in & hit iBtirRe , Observant gaze to the point where the narrow strip of shade at the In sight of his journeys end. At dove into a thicket of ecualyptus pase of the thorny mass. From ahead, nestled the small fishing vil- so tall and sturdy that Allan fig- | ject resembled a big bundle of rags. lage of San Saba, slumbering ured it must have been a century | He saw the rider dismount and walk peacefully in the July sun since some philanthropist planted toward it. leading his horse: he saw| ing wheel, tooling the sedan more coolness in this desert of heat. . . .! hundle— | | WALLOP, YOUNG Man | BREAK. IT, MR. RUNKLE ! ] HIT THE LL CURVE CAN You pay BROKEN PART ---- BUT 1 HAVENT like a man riding a bucking bronco; Set far back in the grove was a; And then the ceful scene ex-| LL AT BROKE IN-—- FOR THE GOT ENOUGH TO PAY FOR THE | wl impinioeey m SIDE AND I JusT | | window © WHOLE THING |

those who think it should be told shade of an old gnarled pine which 40 sedan and touched the starter. S YM VR GOSH, | S0RRN AROUT ALL TRS WAT WAS R0LR ™ THEN'RE cR that we have much yet to know Quistadores. He was glad of a... 4 un the gentle slope ahead | : | { it { \ 5 {which he had prudently stocked up doing now? he wondered. ; foM | § QE» Ee Ko. Trad - \ ph A ac 5 i. Steele, in his travel-stained sedan, of the land spread out before him. ayjgently his attention had been the foot of the slope, hardly a mile trees and vanished. The trees were where Allan was watching, the obt1 N 3 3 J ” Ye - < i i . rr. # 7 : Both hands gripped on the jerk- them there to make on oasis of him drop to his knees beside the| THAT WAS A RucceD, | Yes, sir / I DIONT MEAN I pone Oibyou | Yes, sir! Ir was IL MIGHT BE ABLE To PAY FOR Tue TO | ploded into the wildest melodrama. | ERECKL ii ASSUME RE = HAPPENED To Give

{ Three men on horseback came gal-| : fil sponsiairry/ PRACTISE /! IT A GOOD NUDGE / ; ES loping from behind the cactus which 4 aul WE WERE 3 7 had concealed them. They charged | $ i rn & b down upon the kneeling officer, | SEamdl x, AROUND : hi shouting and waving naked mach- | etes as they stood in their stirrups. | Either their shouts or the poundling of hoofs had given warning to [their intended victim—warning and {the fraction of time he needed to {defend himself. Lithe as a panther, he sprang erect, turning in the air as he did so. When he caught his balance he was facing his attackers, his rear protected by the clump of cactus. In the same moment he {whipped out his straight, military], 3 GOT | machete and got 1t up in time to ERED NO ie i SuJy SAE NR HMI YOUR VOUT, 2S COMPOSE {turn aside a sweeping blow from || Z2 THING I EVER DO YOLRSELF AND COME : ‘wi ld ON ! {the first horseman to reach him | {Quick as a snake strikes, he fol-| lowed the parry with a lightning | |lunge. The point of his blade] {drove into the flank of the man’s| | horse; the animal screamed, reared | and tried to bolt. The officer swung | to meet the others as they arrived, | thih sword playing before him in a| ‘semi-circle of flame from the re-| | flected rays of the sun. | “Hot tamale!” gasped Allan. “A holdup!” (To Be Continued)

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