Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1942 — Page 17

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Serial Story— Mexican

Masquerade

By Cecil Carnes

CHAPTER SIXTEEN “HOW DO YOU happen to have the transcript of that cable, colonel?” “You have seen me excuse myself each evening after dark. It was to go down to the shore and receive a water-tight cylinder of reports from a Peninsula Indian who swims them down from a point five miles up the gulf. Business as usual, senor! That tran-

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from the mill” “I see. Swims five miles, What about the sharks?”

“I don’t believe a shark would |

bite a Peninsula Indian,” said Eccobar thoughtfully. “I wouldn't care to myself. However, that is how I received the copy even before De Fontanelle received the original.” “But, colonel,” her eves opening at him, Indian comes every night, why hasn't he brought a boat in which vou could have escaped to the mainland and arranged for our rescue?” “I could have done no more out in the world than I am doing here, senorita, believe me. If I should go. our enemies would smell a rat and perhaps destroy you people as any criminal destroys evidence. While I'm here, they think they have me under control. Also, remember I have a revolver, as they know, and something of a reputation as a marksman. Thevre less likely to start ‘rough stuff,’ as you would sav.” In other words still, mused Allan, regarding the rurale thoughtfully, Escobar was quite simply risking his life rather than leave them to face the angry Japanese alone. Their truculence had been growing, too. as the radio brought news of steadily increasing tension in the Orient between the United States and Japan. There was the matter, too, of the curt note Watanabe had sent Escobar the morning after his capture, advising him to call in a priest and shrive his soul, since General Baron Sagova would return in a week to dispose of his case. “Permit me to tell you, Colonel.” said Allan slowly, “one thing I have learned down here; if we get into this war and you fellows come in with us, we'll have an ally whose afficiency will amaze the world. “Why, thank you, senor, thank vou! And never doubt for a moment. if vou go in, we'll be there with you!” 5 2 » THE NEXT morning, barely an hour after dawn, Allan awoke from a dream of battlefields in Russia. A few seconds he lay drowsing, then sprang from his bed to his feet in one jump. Machine guns! The usually quiet morning was being tumed into a hell of noise by the sharp chatter of machine guns! Dozens of them, it sounded like. A spurred step, grown familith, rang in the corridor. The colonel stood in the doorway, smiling and pulling at his mustache. “Hola! Get up, sleepy -head! You're missing a battle!” “What the devil is it?” cried Allan, clawing on clothing with both hands. “Have the U. 8. marines landed?” “You were expecting them, perhaps? No, senor, it is only a body of roughly clad fellows who are attacking the main island from the peninsula shore. The cannery has made many bitter enemies among the local fishermen, you understand. Or they may be justi bandits.” “Bandits! With machine guns?” “Mexican bandits, too, are efficient,” said Escobar blandly. Then

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he laughed suddenly at Allan's ex- could penetrate the other's defense pression and threw out his slender of stone and concrete. hands in a gesture of surrender.! “Devil take it!” grumbled the “No, my friend, I will be frank colonel. “I knew they had fortified with you. What you are about to the place; I didn't know they had witness is an affair of international converted it into a Gibraltar!” diplomacy.” At the end of an hour he was “Diplomacy! With brass knitting his brows; at the end of knuckles?” two, he was biting his nails; at the “In a sense. It is this way, senor: end of three, he was actually chewMexico discovers a Japanese outfit/ing his mustache. Then Allan grossly violating her neutrality. If clutched at his arm and pointed to she protests to Japan, what hap- the western sky. pens? Japan smiles; she is so sorry,| “Look, Escobar! Look!” but she cannot hold herself respon-{ One minute it was a tiny speck. sible for the acts of unofficial Jap-|The next, it was a plane. Then anese. So Mexican bandits wipe out |Suddenly it was a huge amphibian the unoffical Japanese, and if Ja-|bomber which was power-diving at pan protests—are we, nationally, re- the men on the peninsula even besponsible for a stray bunch of out- fore they were aware of the death laws? You see?” {overhead. No bombs were dropped | “My aunt! Well, who are these —Allan remembered what Dr. Sarfellows, then?” ‘gent had said about the sensitive “My own regiment of rurales, quality of the new explosive—but senor. They have ridden here from from each flank of the great plane, Ensenada to rescue their colonel|and from its bow, guns spat deand his friends! They will show you, | Struction on the scurrying figures

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ho & i THEY hastened to the fover.!

whence they might have a 1111 view | of the hostilities without exposing! themselves to stray bullets. Kay | was already there, staring at the! scene before her in bewilderment. Escobar thoughtfully brought

chairs, observing they could consider themselves as having a stage box for the coming show. It should, he said, be good. It was good; so Allan decided as he settled with quickening pulse to watch the first real battle he had ever seen. Meanwhile, in a low incisive tone that carried beneath the inferno of noise, the rurale added a few details to the story he had told Allan. He had it appeared, been up at dawn when the “bandits” arrived. : “They sent a flag of truce—three men and an officer—to demand the’ unconditional surrender of the island. Watanabe rejected the notion! with scorn. The flag went back. As the four men stepped on the beach, a machine gun opened on them from the island, killing or wounding all of them. The flag party, you understand!” “The yellow devils!” Allan. “They will be sorry.” predicted Escobar softly. “Our fellows will remember that when the time comes!” The happy moment, however, hardly seemed imminent. On the shore, men and guns were sheltered cunningly behind boulders and in ithe scrub. A black muzzle would |appear from a cleft rock, discharge la raking burst of bullets that combed the island, then disappear to come out again at another spot. On the island, innocent looking

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The ship straightened out, soared | aloft, came streaking down again.| It was more than flesh and blood | could stand. The Mexicans scattered and ran, searching madly for crevices in the rocks in which they might hice. For the moment, the seige of tine cannery vas definitely lifted. As if scorning to pursue the fugitives, the bomber circled the spot once or twice, then dropped softly to the biue waters of the gulf. It taxied to within 50 feet of the island's main pier, then stopped. For the first time Allan could make

‘out the insignia of the fuselage. A

great black swastika! (To Be Continued)

(AN events, names and characters in this story are Actitious)

AXIS SHIP MODELS HELP TRAIN CADETS

By Science Service DAYTON, Ohio, April 13.—While the navy is having school boys and girls build models of airplanes, including army planes, the army air corps announces that they want models of warships. The purpose is to teach bomber crews to know friend from foe at an altitude that would make it impossible to see the flag they carry. The Army is buying their models, however, on special contracts. Thousands of these warships, reproducing in miniature the craft of both axis and allied powers, are being constructed, it was Wright field here today. The models are built to a scale of one inch to six feet.

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