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FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1046 © TIMES SERIAL—
Shade of Sycamore .. By Percy Marks
= “CHAPTER 35 GAYLE was disturbed. The campaign glorifying Bart was lasting too dong. There was a purpose behind it, something subtler than she had realized. Then a letter came from Nate Kent, and she thought
with a shattered leg.
“I'm afraid I'm out of it for
good,” he wrote, “but I may hang to my leg; so I'm not complaindon't feel sick, and I have time in the world on my hands. I've been planning this letyou for weeks. now I'm going te it. “It gave me the shock of my life to get back here and discover that Bart had been made into. a great hero. I've seen some of the stories they've published about him, and I tell you, they've made my blood boil. I guess there's nothing I can do about it; but I can tell you the truth, anyway, and I'm going to. » . » “TWO FELLOWS who were in the fight were with me on the boat coming home, and I got the whole story from them. They don’t think
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Bruce Bartlett's a hero; I can tell you that. ; “I think I wrote you once he wasn't a good soldier. He wasn't: He ought to have been in command of a bomber, a man his age and with his experience; but he
“They wouldn't trust the lives of other men to him, but they had to hang on to a crack flier in times like these; so he was given a fighter to fly where he couldn't endanger anybody's life but his own. ~ sn» “HERE'S WHAT the fellows told me actually happened. A big flight of Jap bombers came over escorted by Zeros. No, I've got to tell you about the bawling out first. Bart was in wrong with pretty nearly everybody by then, and he was acting sullen as the devil. “Then about half an hour before the Japs showed up, his commanding officer laid him out. The fellows said he threatened to bust Bart and send him home. Anyhow, Bart went into one of his rages. He'd been in the army long enough to know he didn’t dare say a word to the C. O., but the fellows said he
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raved to them: They told him to shut up.
“THEN the Japs came. I'm not telling any military secret when I explain the strategy. Everybody knows what you have to do in situations like that. We were badly outnumbered. We didn't have half the fighters the Japs had, but we had one advantage; we could outlast them, They had come hundreds of miles, and if the bombers couldn't get in fast to do their work, the fighters would give out of gas —and the bombers couldn't come in at all if the fighters weren't there to protect them. “Those Jap bombers are just sitting ducks #f they aren't protected by fighters; so our boys went up with orders to climb clear to the ceiling and stay there, They were on top of the Japs then, and if the Zeros couldn't get them to come down and fight, the bombers had made their trip for nothing.
but thumb their noses at our boys to get them into a scrap, but everybody obeyed orders except that great hero Bruce Bartlett. Maybe he was going to show the C. O. what he could do. I don't know, but my guess is he was just mad. Anyway, he kept coming down and taking cracks at the Japs. They made it easy for him. “They were willing to lose the Zeroes if they could give the bombers a chance. And Bart was a marvel in a plane. Even the fellows admitted that. He got six all right, but when three of them ganged up on him, another chap couldn’t stand it. He came down to help him out. “They got him—and they got Bart. You haven't heard anything about that lad. He wasn't a hero. And two of the bombers got in. Three men were killed on the ground, and I don’t know how many wounded. You haven't heard about them either.”
GAYLE sat still for a long time when she had finished the letter. So that’s why Octavia Bartlett and Joel Dwight were running their campaign. . . . Probably they knew the true story, too. They couldn't protect Bart in the South Pacific, but they could protect him at home. They could make him such a glorious hero that no one would believe the true story if the army ever let it slip by its censorship. One day when Gayle came home from work, Mrs. Mays told her a photographer had been there. “Kent and I came home from doing our shopping,” she said, “and there this man was with a big camera on a tripol taking pictures.” “What of?” Gayle asked.
“THE HOUSE. I asked him what he wanted them for, and he said he didn’t know. His boss had sent
tures of the house, but he didn’t know what for. He said he guessed they were for the finance company.” “Whatever for?” “1 asked him, and he said they always had pictures of houses they held mortgages on. I don’t think he really knew.” : » r » PROBABLY NOT,” Gayle agreed, and forgot the incident. It didn’t seem to mean anything. But it came back to her mind two days later when she was leaving the plant. She saw two men looking at her and whispering to each other. Somehow, she felt sure they were reporters. But for two full weeks nothing happened to her directly, though stories about Bart began te appear once more in the newspaopers. One hinted that he wr to receive posthumously the Distinguished Service Cross, and it was hinted further that the award would be made to
Lt. Bartlett's small son. “Not if I know it,” Gayle told herself. “Never!”
(To Be Continued)
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