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THE STORY THUS FAR: Zorie Corey, who hates herself for being meek and shy, finds herself railroaded into taking a Job she does not want, assisting Admiral Duncan, grandfather of her fiance, Paul Duncan, to write his memoirs. Aboard the steamer, Samoa, en route to Hawalii, Zorie dances with Steve, Paul’s handsome brother, only to discover that Paul is terribly jealous. Paul refers to Steve as a Nazi spy. The admiral dictates some of his memoirs to Zorie. Steve and Paul are critical. On returning to her stateroom Zorie discovers that her note book and an important treatise on engineering are missing. ' She suspects Amber Lanning, with whom she shares her stateroom. g

CHAPTER IX

Zorie came to .the turn of the deck and started across. She was outside the Palm Room. She stopped at a window and looked in. The Palm Room was crowded. She saw Steve dancing with Amber. - Watching them, she forgot Mr. Lanning. A wave of this afternoon’s jealousy returned. She wanted to cry. She felt neglected and unloved. Zorie walked on. She felt desperate. : She walked aft on the other side. ‘There was no moon. It was a black night. She found stairs leading to a lower deck. She went down several flights and came to an iron bulwark on either side. ol g At the end of this deck were steps that went up. She climbed them. She passed one deck and climbed another. : : Zorie leaned on the rail and looked down at the water. Ghostly light showed the race and churn of water lashed white by the propellers. Beyond was blackness. : What was she to do about the stolen notebook? To whom could she turn for counsel? - In her confusion and woe, she thought of the cast-iron Buddha on Professor Folsome’s desk—‘‘the genuine jungle wishing Buddha’’—and her three wishes. She had wished to be transported to an enchanting land-of palms and flowers, of jade seas ' and singing birds, and of charming people too gallant to take advantage of her meekness. She had wished that Paul would go there, too. And she had wished that she would lose her meekness.

Since then, everything had gone wrong. It was as if the jungle Buddha were granting a parody of her wishes. If she were superstitious, she would believe that the Buddha was an evil genie of iron who dealt solely in the cruellest irony. She suddenly tasted on her lips the dust and rust of his iron forehead.. A soft mocking whisper cameé out of the darkness just behind her. ““Ah-nah!” it said. ‘“Ah-nsh!” - A hand was brutally clamped over her mouth. Another hand went scooping under her knees. She was swiftly lifted to the rail and over it. She was thrown far out. : She fell down and down through the blackness toward the churning white water.

Zorie was falling through blackness as. you fall in a dream, falling and falling, never reaching bottom. If you reach bottom, in a nightmare fall, your heart, some people say, stops beating. . Her brain must have been working frantically, because she did not have long to dwell on the horror of her fate. ' It was like cold claws tedring her heart to shreds. ; Long before she struck the water, Zorie was fighting for her life. She took a deep breath and held it. Paul had told her that anyone falling from a swiftly moving ship is almost inevitably sucked into the propellers, is instantly battered and torn to pieces by the giant steel blades. . : . She struck the water. The shock of the impact almost knocked the air out of her. . The next instant she. was deep. in the insane churn from the propellers, with their mighty rhythm thumping in her ears. She was a'helpless rag of a girl caught in insane __gap‘vukiqgs_of water. ‘She was violently jerked, whirled (and tossed: this: way and that by savage currents. She felt as if she were being forn apart. . . - | | There ‘was only “one thing she could do %60 help herself-—she could hold her breath. She might be held down indefinitely, sucked this way and that by- monstrous eddies. Chance alone ' would: determine whether pr not she would be drawn into the thumping steel blades. She tried to hold her breath. She held her breath until she thought her lungs would burst. ‘ : She flailed the hissing water with her arms. She could not draw in her breath, or force it out. Some water was lodged in her throat, and it would not let the air pass. She tried to dislodge the obstacle but it stayed there. : oo But even in her.panic, her brain was trying to' work out this problem. Zorie was a fair swimmer. Ordinarily, she was not* afraid of water. The sensible thing to do was to relax, to lie on her back and make no effort. B So she lay on her back. After a moment, she coughed the water out. She could breathe again. But her heart was still a frantic chuttering h. m em! : i = ‘—,,v‘,-“*,:'::“": ‘~A = ..i“: : &'“}‘?h;?m“m no-

Her fate was inevitable. She would paddle about in this great waste of water until she was too tired to paddle about any more, then she would simply sink. Zorie began to think more clearly. It would have been better if she had been sucked into the propellers and battered to pulp. It would have been a far kinder fate. Zorie. thought of Paul, and she suddenly wanted to cry. Poor Paul! He would be 'serry, as people always are when someone has died—sorry for the unkind things he had done to: her, and the kind things he hadn’t done for her. And how would Steve feel? And Aunt Hannah? And the admiral? 'All of them! All these people” who had treated her as a human doormat! . A white ghostly glow: was beginning to fill the world. It silvered the tips of the small rolling waves about her. It seemed to fill the sky. It was like the glow that is supposed to accompany a religious miracle. ~All this time Zorie had been lying on her back, resting, getting her breath, calming her heart. Now she turned over and faced the glow. It was a dazzling spot of white glare not more than two hundred yards away. It was floating on the water in the direction opposite to that in

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She fell down and down through the blackness toward the churning white water. : which she had thought the “‘Samoa” had vanished. She cried out involuntarily with relief and joy. It must be a lifering! Someone must have seen her go overboard, and thrown the ring! Paul had explained them to her. When the life-ring was thrown into the water a magnesium flare attached to it by a short rope was spontaneously ignited. Its glare would guide a swimmer in the dark to the ring. - She struck out toward it. The flare blinded her. She did not see the ““Samoa’” turning about until it miraculously stopped not far away, a blaze of horizontal rows of lights. Then she was blinded by the beam of a searchlight on the bridge. It went off in a moment.

She swam steadily. She was growing tired. Her slippers were gone. She was all in. She had not real~ized how the shock, the horror of her immersion had exhausted her until she tried to use her arms and legs. S ~ The magnesium flare seemed no ‘nearer.. The strength seemed to be ‘draining out of her arms, her chest, her legs. Yoltenpe. iy : . _This inabili;{ to. . reach safety, something to cling fo.until she was rescued, was more nearly like a. nightmaré¢ than her moments-in the ‘savage thrust of ‘Wwater from. the ship's screws. -— - jos _Then the white flare seemed sud‘denly closer. She-put what was left of ‘her stréngth intoa final ‘spurt’ She reached the life-ring. But she was now so weak she could hardly cling to the canvas-covered cork. The rest of it was a confusion of shouts and men’s red faces in the white glare, and the rattling of oars in oarlocks. Someone pulled her into a lifeboat. A gruff voice—she never knew to whom it belonged—was calling her a brave kid, a damned brave kid. And she never knew who it was who told her in a whining voice that an oiler who had ‘just come off watch had been leaning on the rail of the deck below the one from which she had fallen, She had shot past him screaming. He it was who had thrown overboard the life-ring and then had telephoned ' the bridge. o : Zorie’s next clear recollection was of the woman in white. The woman in white was square-faced, rather grim, and very efficient. She helped | her out of her tattered rags—all that ‘remained of her white pique dress. Her stockings were gone. = Once she was in her nightgown and in her bed, Zorie had hysterics. But it wesn’t a bad -attack. Later,

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the nurse told her she had never seen anyone come through such an experience so bravely. ~ The nurse gave Zorie a sedative and Zorie went to sleep. It was midnight when she awoke. She felt tense. She -ached here and there and there was a faint drugged feeling in her brain—the residue of the sedative. Otherwise, her brain felt clear. Everything felt clear. In all ‘her life she had never felt so clear. Amber Lanning was sitting on the bed across the room. She was looking steadily at Zorie. Except for a ghost -of a smile at one corner of her mouth, her face was expressionless. Her eyes were like dark round holes. : When Zorie sat up in bed, Amber’s eyes followed her. Zorie swung her feet to the floor. She winced as a pain shot through the small of her back.- Her left knee hurt. All her teeth ached a little. And her right hand felt a little' numb. But she could stand. And. she could walk. She walked across to where Amber sat and she slapped Amber’s face. ‘““There,”’ Zorie said softly. She waited for Amber to do something. She hoped that Amber would resent it. : The smile was gone. Amber compressed her lips and stared at her, but she did nothing and she said nothing. ' Zorie reached ‘up to one of the hooks. It was supporting several hangers of Amber’s clothes. She took the hangers down and threw them on Amber’s bed. She went about the stateroom taking down hangers and throwing them on Amber’s bed. When the_ hooks were emptied, ‘she emptiéf one of the closets. Its contents she threw on Amber’s bed. “From now on,”’ said Zorie in a calm, assured voice, ‘‘this closet is mine.”’ :

Amber, sitting on the bed with her clothes all about her, said nothing. Zorie now dumped the contents of two of the four drawers on Amber’s bed. She put the drawers back and said, ‘“From now on, these are mine. You are the first person of a great many who are going to learn that I'm never going to be pushed around again as long as I live. You will either behave yourself in this stateroom or you will get out.”

Zorie could see Amber’s brain working in her steady brown eyes. Amber was being crossed. She would now make some sort of adjustment, because she was a realist. A realist, Zorie decided, is one who fights others and not one’s self. Amber got up. She picked up-a package of cigarettes from the dressing table, Ileisurely selected one, lighted it. She puffed at it and considered Zorie through the smoke. “Now that I've smoked you out,” said Amber, ‘“shall we be ourselves? I was getting so fed up with your act—and these gosh-awful clothes of yours. I mean the whole picture.” ““Who,’’ Zorie asked, ‘“‘do you think T am?’’ She was determined #0 say nothing now or evern to this girl about the attempt at drowning her. She was still as determined as ever to spend the rest of her life, if necessary,.in finding out who had thrown her overboard. She would be as smart as they were, and as sly. Amber shrugged and lifted eyebrows and eyes with a wryly despairing grimace. “All right, my dear,” she said. ‘“Keep it up if you want to. I know you're a great actress. God knows I should. 1 have the greatest respect for you. I envy you more than any woman that ever lived. You have more lives than a cat. Frankly, I think you're a witch. I'll be good.” ‘“We might have a ladies’ agreement to that effect,” said Zorie. “Yes!'” Amber agreed. ‘“And now, darling, how are you -fixed for clothes?” nbim e : 4“T’'m not fixed for clothes.” “Nothing in the hold?”’

“Nothing.” R Amber seemed surprised. 1 thought you always traveled with a terrific. wardrobe. I'd forgotten that month you'spént in Jugoslavia . . . ‘We're the same;size. You can have ‘anything I own.” s “»Who, Zorie wondered, ‘was this woman she resembled? A notorious ‘secret agent? It wouldn’t do to ask ‘questions. ~ And at the moment she was enjoying this arrogant girl’s awe, her submission. This woman ‘she resembled must be much more ruthless than Amber. " e It would be very dangerous, Zorie realized, to permit Amber to keep on assuming that she was the girl they thought she was. Yet it would be useless to'deny it. Amber, Mr. Lanning and the sinister Mr. Savoyard wouldn’t believe her. , She wasn’t afraid, That was the surprising thing. She wasn’t afraid of anything any more. She wasn’t even afraid of death. A few minutes ago she had accepted death, and death no longer frightened her.

She looked at the jumble of clothes on Amber’s bed. There was onhe evening dress that looked new, It looked as if it had never been worn. “Tomorrow night,” Zorie decided; “I'll wear that dark red gown.” “Certainly, dear! Anything I have is yours!” = : The phone rang. Zorie answered it. Paul’s crisp voice said, ‘“Zorie!’ Are you all right?” = fiirs ,‘Yes,’l g ; : S - (TO BE CONTINUED)

——WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS———— Allied Columns Thrust Toward Industrial Belt in Rhineland; U.S. Carries War to Philippines

———— Released by Western Newspaper Union. -—-:—:—-——-— (EDITOR’S Norf: When opinions are expressed in these colamns they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news aaalnt-‘ and not necessarily of this newspaper.)

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Belgian pedestrians stand by as U. S. medical corps men dress wounds of German soldiers caught in withering machine gun fire.

EUROPE: Sight Rhineland Quickly catching their breath after their drive across France and Belgium, the valiant U. S. First and Third armies renewed their offensive against a reorganized enemy in a supreme effort to knock the Germans out of the war this year. While the Nazis regrouped behind their vaunted Siegfried line, or west wall, Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges’ First army and Lieut. Gen. George Patton’s Third rolled forward again, with the former’s strong armored forces thrusting against the fortress city of Aachen, gateway to the rich industrial Rhine valley to the northeast, with its great manufacturing centers of Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisberg and Essen. As General Hodges’ troops gathered strength for their smash into the Rhineland, General Patton’s men worked their way beyond the bitterly . defended Moselle riter against the rich Saar coal and manufacturing country, which curves off sharply to the east with the winding German border. : To the south of General Patton’s Third army, Lieut. Gen. Alexander Patch’s Seventh drew up its ranks before the historic Belfort Gap, great open plain lying between the Vosges mountains and the Swiss border and leading into southern Germany. As the Seventh army with its complement of French troops smashed at the enemy here, it encountered stiffening resistance and heavy artillery fire from the hills beyond. _ As the U. S. First, Third and Seventh armies smashed against Germany’s western frontier in a quick move to end the war, British troops worked their way slowly against bitter opposition through southeastern Holland, where the enemy contested their advance in strength in an effort to protect the far northern flank of their Siegfried line, reportedly its weakest link. Do or Die :

As the reinforced U. S. Fifth and British Eighth armies threw their full strength at Germany’s Gothic line in northern Italy, guarding the rich agricultural and industrial valley of the Po, Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring went all out in an effort to hold his ground. With his 19 divisions of roughly 250,000 men outnumbered by the Allied forces, Kesselring was placing his chief reliance on the mountainous . terrain, and other improvised obstacles dotting the rugged countryside, such as tank traps and buried tank gun nests, etc. .. U. S. officers looked to ‘“tough fighting” ahead.

Utilize Manpower With manpower always Russia’s strategic military - trump, the Reds were making full use of it on the eastern front, where four major actions were in progress against the Germans’ shortened, but strained, defense lines. ; , - -In the north, the Reds were grinding their way forward against the enemy’s stiff East Prussian lines, and attacking heavily around Warsaw with armored columns that were drawing a steady stream of Germans into the fight. : ‘To the south, strong Russian forces held up about 100 miles from Germany proper, switched their attack to the mountain passes leading into Czechoslovakia, while deeper in the Balkans, the Reds ‘were pressing on Hungary’s Transylvanian wheat fields. e

EMPLOYMENT: Of the 53,170,000 persons employed in the U. S., 18,440,000 are women, the bureau of census reported. Although 3,000,000 women were added to payrolls during the 12-month period ending in August, 1043, there was no appreciable increase in the following year. As a whole, the civilian labor force decreased 1,000,000 from July to August, 1944. : it

CROPS: Huge Harvest

With August rains checking the serious deterioration of the crop in the drought area east of the Mississippi, the U. S. department of agriculture predicted a bumper corn harvest of 3,101,319,000 bushels for 1944, second largest on record. With the wheat crop set at an alltime high of 1,115,402,000 bushels, oats production at 1,190,540,000, barley at 290,036,000, soybeans at 179,024,000 and sorghums at 149,962,000, a total grain harvest of over 6,000,000,000 bushels was predicted. Because of the bumper crops and reduced feeding, the live stock and poultry industry should find sufficient grain available throughout the coming months, the USDA declared. Markets Dip

“+ With the USDA reporting excellent crop prospects, prices on leading grain markets dipped, with only wheat bearing up under purchases of the Commodity Credit corporation and information that the agency was interested in deferred shipments. PACIFIC: ‘

Homecoming ~ Two and one-half years after the Japanese over-ran the Philippines, U.S. naval ;e : forces under Adg N miral Chester B e B Nimitz’s com- ‘ %" 8! mand have i % 8 come back to : S subject enemy CanE e installations on Geog the islands to - . withering aerial e and artillery | B R SR tiule, ma!‘ine and " 'Adm. Nimitz army assault | forces under Admiral Nimitz’s command swept ~ashore on the Palau islands, 600 miles east of the Philippines, while - units under Gen. Douglas MacArlthul;’s leadership invaded the Moluccas, 300 miles south of the Philippines, thus establishing a menacing steel ring around the islands. Presaging major operations against the Philippines guarding the enemy’s vital supply lines from the ‘lndies to the west, U. S. naval aircraft swept over the southern string of islands, lashing at enemy planes which had been carefully husbanded -fo resist U. S. advances. ' Big battleships, riding with smaller cruis--ers and destroyers, raked enemy shipping, using water routes to sup{)algdsthe ‘disconnected jumble of is-

PETROLEUM: Draw on Stocks

With military requirements 'approximating 800,000 barrels daily out of total production of 2,000,000, there is <little possibility of an easing in gas rationing until after the end of the European war, the Office of War Information declared.

. The tightness in the gasoline situation exists even though the output of crude oil for petroleum . production has averaged an all-time high of 4,470,000 barrels daily, natural gas output has approximated 269,000 barrels daily, and imports are above the 1941 level. &

With demand ‘outrunning supply, the industry has been compelled to dip into reserve stocks at a rate of 2,500,000 barrels of crude. monthly, OWI said, bringing holdings to the lowest level since 1922. Hidden Resources

Although present U. S, oil reserves are estimated at 20 billion barrels, our known oil in the ground actually is nearer 100 billion barrels, much of which could be recovered by some new method or if higher prices were established; this is the opinion of experts. = _ : No nation has been completely explored for all of its oil possibilities, and in countries of greater area, only a small fraction of existing resources l,e:‘;ve been tapped, the experts add- . ; : { B

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WHO is the top fighter in the world, pound for pound? This guery_covers many years, in addion to the present calendar. ‘ On the human side our selection ‘has always been Harry Greb—a 160pound whirlwind _ & who in ring contests o or training periods %;::g&%& ‘practically wrecked “&%*@g such stars as Gene Bo 8 ‘Tunney,JackDemp- f§ 8 = & sey, Tom Gibbons [S\ ‘and Jack Dillon. Y lam referring to g» the Greb that had R A two eyes, when he Wi WNE first wrecked Tun- =& (e ney and - Gibbons SREEEIGER and when he com- Grantiandßice pletely bewildered Jack Dempsey with his speed in a training spot. -~ My friend Frank Buck goes on beyond Greb or Stan Ketchel, Joe Gans or the pick of the human lot. Buck nominates the Wolverine—a 35 or 40-pound terror from Michigan and a few other northern midwestern. states. ; ““The Wolverine, pound for pound, is the world’s gamest -and greatest fighter,” Buck says. - “The Badger is tough, but not quite that tough. You know even a 250-pound bear doesn’t match any part of the Wolverine—who is not only fast and strong, but who likes to fight. I can’t think of any animal who won’t give the Wolverine the right of way. What he could do to a 100-pound pclice dog ' wouldn’t even be close. I can’t think of a dog that a 35-pound Wolverine wouldn’t wreck in a few minutes.” Our knowledge of Wolverines had béen largely limited to Michigan football teams. These also haven’t been any too soft. But they haven’t quite been able to match their namesakes since a team known as Minnesota’s Gophers have annoyed them no little in recent years. ~ In animal parlance the Gopher is no great killer. But he is something different on a football field. I asked Dr. Buck just why a Wolverine is so tough. ‘“Every part of him is tough,” Frank said, “including teeth, claws, and especially Reart ! .

World’s Best Fighter : I tried to pin Buck down to naminglt_he world’s greatest fighting animal. This naturally leaves the human out unless you give him a gun. The human is a rather puny animal when the .isn’t" armed. Twenty or thirty animals would outclass him .on even terms. o Among the best of the animal breed Mr. Buck includes the elephant, the gorilla, the tiger, the lion, the leopard, the grizzly and the big python. = . “The elephant is just too big,” he says. ‘“‘But one of the greatest fights ever known would be between a tiger or a lion thrown against the grizzly bear. They would be wellmatched in weight. The grizzly is much stronger than either a tiger or a lion. He isn’t as quick but he has a thick, protecting coating of hair around the throat. But either a tiger or a lion would have to get him in a hurry or lose the decision. And I don’t think either could get him in a burry.” “What about the grizzly, lion or tiger against a big python?”’ I asked. Buck had brought back a python that measured 29 feet.

‘“You may remember,” he said, ‘“that in the python-tiger fight picture I made, the python was on the winning side. I wouldn’t want to bet on any animal against a big python. I saw one kill a leopard in just a few seconds.” ~

Gorillas Tough, Too ~ Then we began talking about Gargantua, the big circus gorilla. How would he come out against anything except an elephant? Mr. Buck admitted that Gargantua would be something to stop. Big, powerful, fast and vicious—some 600 pounds of dynamite — Gargantua would be no pushover against tiger, lion or grizzly. ‘We are offering these vital statistics to those who keep asking how Louis and Dempsey, or how Tunney and Corbett would come out in a swinging joust. -

Qur answer is that Louis, Dempsey, Tunney and Corbett would be completely outclassed by any grizzly, lion, tiger, gorilla, python or king cobra in any hand-to-hand or fang-to-fang collision. . ; Gene Tunney still thinks that a good fighter can lick a gorilla. I don’t think Greb, Tunney, Dempsey and Louis together could handle Gargantua. ,

Best Football Teams - *Which section of the country on a general average produces the stronger football teams?” This is one of the favorite queries you get from service mail where men from every section are thrown together around the world. This includes the East, the Midwest, the South, the Southwest, and the Fat West. s S My guess would be the Midwest, which includes the Big Nine and Notte Dame. .. . .- &