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¥ THE STORY THUS FAR: Zorie Corey is railroaded inte taking a job she does , mot want, helping old Admiral Duncan » write his memoirs. She is in love with . Paul Duncan, the admiral’s grandson. ;vmu aboard the Samoa en route to -Hawali she is thrown overboard, and before arriving at Oahu island Pearl Har- ' bor is bombed. After landing, Paul and Zorie overhear Paul’s handsome brother, Steve, with whom Zorie is infatuated, plotting with Winthrop Lanning to deliver some radar equipment to the Axis. Believing Steve in danger Zorie tries to save him, but is captured by Lanning, ~who takes her into the mouniains and tells her she must die. Lanning makes some explanations.

CHAPTER XVI

“My dear Miss Corey,’”’ he said in an indulgent voice, ‘‘you are matching your wits with an expert. I admire you for what you are attempting to do. I admire your skill. You are one of the cleverest girls I have ever known. With a little training, you could become one of the most talented women in the profession.” “I don’t know,” Zorie said innocently, ““what you’re talking about.” He laughed genially. ‘That, my dear, is Answer B. It is always good, when delivered in just that way . .'. Miss Corey, I am really very serious about this. If you can make up your mind—if you can persuade Mr. Stromberg that you are heart and soul in favor of our cause, if you can show him a little of this cleverness—l would back you up. And you would walk out of this cabin, alive and free.” ; ‘“How,"”” Zorie asked, ‘‘could you back me up?” ; He bent toward her. His expression was very serious. ‘“Would you have to be lying? Miss Corey, I have important work to do elsewhere. I badly need someone to replace Corinne. lam sure you would be precisely the person I need. The work is interesting. Your salary—'!

Mr. Lanning relaxed again. He was sadly shaking his head. . “No. I can see by your eyes that Mr. Stromberg would never be convinced. You would be lying. And Mr.: Stromberg has a talent for squeezing the truth from liars as these grinding mills squeeze the syrup from cane. Perhaps there are other approaches. I am so anxious to help you. I will be most unhappy if you do not live to see a Waimea sunrise.”’ ; '

“I am not in a position to argue with Mr. Stromberg,” Zorie said quietly. “You've given me no arguments. I'don’t even know the background. And I'm still very skeptical of the conclusions you've jumped to.ll : 3 i

“In respect to Steve?” She nodded. ‘Yes. Please believe me—l am not in Steve’s confidence. I know very little about this. But I am not convinced that Steve has been disloyal to-you. Will grm’: consider the evidence as I see 2

“I will gladly, my dear.” ‘“Very well. Everything was going smoothly, according to plan, until Paul made his announcement that Steve was still in the United States Navy. Did he prove it? No! You were all on edge tonight. I sensed that. The first mouse you saw, you all went to pieces. Paul supplied the mouse.”

- “Just a moment,” Mr. Lanning ipterrupted. “Let me give you the background, very briefly. Let me tell you quickly about Berlin and Madrid. Do you khow that Steve got into Germany strictly on the strength of his court-martial? I am now certain that that court-martial was a trick.” ;

~ “But can you prove it?’’ Zorie asked. g

“No. But there are other points. In Berlin, he enlisted the sympathy and confidence of certain men powerful in our party, but when your country :virtually broke with Germany, Steve was suspected more and more.” . . by s

| “Whyie e \ ““We believed he was obtaining secrets from a certain woman who was close to one of our leaders.” |

“But did you prove it? Can you prove anything, Mr. Lanning?’’ ! “I can, indeed, Miss Corey. Steve was ordered on ten minutes| hotice to leave Germany. I was instructed to scrape his acquaintance, find out. what I could—kill him if I believed he had betrayed us. That was my sole assignment.” - _ ‘

i “But you didn’t kill him.” ' Steve Duncan is a very clever young man. In Lisbon, I managed to meet him. I introduced myself as a fellow martyr of Naziism. I had spent a few months, six years ago, on this island working as a field luna. That was why I was selected for this assignment. It gave us a bond. We were old pals!” “Did you work on Stromberg’s plantation?’’ ' 1

~ “No. I did not know Stromberg then. Steve and:l had two weeks in Lisbon, ' waiting for a passage to New York. Steve spent this time convincing me he loved Germany more than life itself. He is such a persuasive rascal.” i

- Zorie wondered if Steve had succeeded in persuading Pierre:Savoyard not S 0 il Wim,~ . 7 *“Can you prove to me that he was “Yes,‘hlsnss Corey! !i?:ti:ight, :‘i

source—of a magical new radio device which the United States Navy had perfected and was trying out here, in Kokee. It would detect airplanes at a distance of a thousand miles.”” “Fifteen hundred, he said tonight.” ; ‘“Yes, Miss Corey. That was, I fear, more of Steve’s red herring. He is so clever with red herring. It sounded plausible. It excited my curiosity.”’ . “Why shouldn’t it?’’ Zorie asked. ““You haven’t yet proved that Steve lied to you.” “But-I am convinced that there is no such device as JY-419! If there is, it is certainly not in Kokee!” ‘““What convinced you?”’ “But I :am explaining it, my dear!” “G0.0n,” said Zorie. “Very well, my dear. I am now fully convinced that this information which he gave me that night in Lisbon—we were both a little tight—was the first step in ‘an elaborate and foxy scheme to trap Basil Stromberg.” Zorie started to interrupt again. He said quickly: “I will explain that in a moment. I was so taken in that I communicated, by long distance telephone, with my chief, in Berlin. He was very excited about it. He told me that two very capable people would meet me in New York to give ‘me every possible assistance.” “Pierre and Amber?”’ “Yes.” He smiled swiftly. “You think it strange, don’t you, that I am being so utterly frank with

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Zorie wondered if Steve had succeeded in persuading Pierre not to kill him.

you—withholding nothing. Why, after all, should I?” ‘ ‘““You heard Steve use that very, very clever simile—likening the job of getting JY-419 out of this island to a play in a football game?”’

“Yes. I thought it was very intelligent.” r * “That, my dear girl, was next to his final move in the foxy game he was playing with us.. It was the big moment toward which he had been working. And it was so plausible! Only for an instant did the wing tips of suspicion brush my mind. Meanwhile, Berlin had become extremely anxious to secure JY-419. You may not suspect it, Miss Corey, but nations are sometimes quite as gullible as individuals.” - : . Zorie was shaking her head. “Mr. Lanning, you haven’t yet advanced an atom of:proof that Steve isn’t loyal to Berlin. Your only piece of evidence is the statement made by his brother, 'He made that statement out' of sheer vindictiveness.” “Why was he vindictive??’., : “Because he has always hated ‘Steve: - Long -before I met Steve,: Paul 'told me that Steve had been kicked out:of :the ‘navy, had turned ‘Nazi and gone to Germany. Even ‘When he was saying what he said. on the lanai tonight, he still believed that. He refers to Steve as. ‘that Nazi'!” st D

Mr. Lanning was smiling mysteriously. “I am convinced that if your fiance did ‘not know the truth of what he was saying, he inadyertently stumbled upon.it. It had the curious ring that nothing but the truth has.” M Ll

‘lt had nothing but a malicious, vindictive ring!” e b ' “T am very sorry, Miss Corey. We differ, don’t we? I was about to say that Berlin had become extrémely anxious to secure JY-419 so that -it had communicated with Mr: Strombeérg—""y . : £ ‘“Who,” Zorie took him up, ‘‘is the leading Nazi here—the man who ‘directs all your espionage activities the leading Japanese dgents?” ' . Mr. Lanning smiled at her admitingly. “You are such a clever young :amzmm :&uch -suspicion h:a; 80 ‘clever himself mmha credit

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to the community—but let us say that he was delicately suspected.” “Just the wing tips,” Zorie suggested. : : ““You might compare Mr. Stromberg to the unknown element in a chemical formula,’”” Mr. Lanning answered. ‘‘His presence is known, but his identity remains obscure. United States Army and Navy Intelligence and the F. 8.1. have been looking for a man who fits the formula, but Mr. Stromberg is so elusive, so ingenious, that he has remained virtually unsuspected. Who, after all, would be justified in suspecting a man of his position, his importance, his avowed Americanism? And what could be more natural than that a man in his business should make trips frequently to Honolulu and the other islands—to keep in touch with his many business interests?’”’ - :

‘““He must be very clever, indeed,” Zorie murmured. She was, she believed, beginning to see the effects of this prodigious quantity of alcohol on Winthrop Lanning. He was beginning to become just a little garrulous. It was obvious that he was a great admirer of Basil Stromberg. “This device, this JY-419,” Mr. Lanning continued, ‘“‘was intended to trap Mr, Stromberg. Berlin had ordered him to participate, if necessary, in securing it. And tonight you heard Steve making it imperative.” ' “But if there is no such device . . . Zorie began. vl “One moment, my dear. Let us give Steve credit for possessing a resourceful mind. Let us assume that his superiors are giving him all the co-operation he requires. Why can’t we safely assume that there is a case weighing between eighty and one hundréd pounds in a small, padlocked building at the listening post? Why can’t we assume that it was arranged for Steve and Pierre to get in there safely, secure it and make off with it?”’

‘““And then,”” Zorie added, ‘‘to have been followed discreetly by sailors who would grab Mr. Stromberg and the rest of you when Steve and Pierre delivered the case?”’

~ “‘Of course!”” Mr. Lanning cried. “Why not?”’ Zorie hesitated. The suspicion had crossed her thind that Mr. Lanning’s argument was every bit as good as her own. Every scrap of evidence that either of them had employed could be used to prove that Steve was a patriotic American or a trueblue ‘Nazi. But her mind wavered only a moment. ‘And regardless of where the truth lay, her only safe course was to convince Mr. Lanning that she was right and he was wrong.

‘““Because it’s entirely an assumption!’”’ Zorie said crisply. ‘“Why can’t you as safely assume that Steve was telling you the truth, that a case containing JY-419 is at this moment in a little padlocked building at the listening post—and would very shortly be safely in your possession if you weren’t so skeptical?’”’ “The case,” Mr. Lanning stated, ““‘contains a large collection of burned-out radio tubes, useless containers, and other discarded accessories.” £

‘‘But you're only assuming that!* Mr. Lanning bent toward her again, so that Zorie could see a great deal of the yellowed white under his irises. :

~ “My dear girl, you are being very obstinate. And the important thing ‘we are facing is not whether Steve Duncan has been loyal to Berlin, Germany, or to Washington, D. C. It’s quite obvious that you’re in love with this man. You are doing your ' best to restore my faith in him. You are wasting your time, Miss Corey! I know I am right.” He again glanced at his watch, ‘“The important thing is, to have ‘something ready for Mr. Stromberg -when he arrives. I may not be here. If he does not come soon, I will have to leave you here alone. I am extremely valuable, not only to my employers, but to myself.”” .. He got up. 'He picked up the bottle. It gurgled into his mouth longer than usual. He put the bottle down. ‘He walked to the kitchen door and stopped. He looked at Zorie for rsome time. He slowly shook his head. : ;

. “Sometimes,”” he said in a puzzled voice, “I wonder myself if you aren’t really Anna Boland!”’ '

i+ For the first time since dinner, Zorie smiled—a faint stirring of her lips at the corners. Her arms felt numb. For some time there had been no sensation in her hands. Her feet were asleep, too. She noticed again a curious, pungent, mouldy odor that she had first detected when she had come into this room. i

“It’s your suspicious nature,” she said.: “It's what I've been saying. As for Steve’s treachery to you—where are all these proofs?”’ « “I gave them fo you!” he cried. . “But you didn’t, Mr. Lanning. In .Spite’ of ‘your suspicions, in spite of Your lucid reasoning, you have not proved that Steve has betrayed you. You have :not convinced me that JY-419 is a case full of radio junk.”” . So much time had passed that it was unlikely that Steve would come here==that he was still alive. There was only a dwindling possibility. In moments as intense as this one, it is so much easier to talk persuasively if you can use your'hands, .

———WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS————— Reds Peril Gateway to Austria; Japs Bolster Battered Forces; Check Decline in Hog Prices

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EUROPE:

Budapest Imperilled

Once, like Paris, a center of European gaiety with colorful sidewalk cafes eniivened by gypsy music, Budapest became a fevered and somber city as Russian armies hammlered toward the Hungarian capital. ; ’

Having broken across the Tisza river, some 50 miles to the east, the Reds bore down on Budapest as German and Hungarian armies were hard pressed to hold broad lines across the country’s rolling plains, gateway to Austria. - Even as the Russians rolled forward, thousands of Budapest’'s civilians were put to work in the erection of entrenchments and fortifications, and the Germans vowed that they would make this city, once one of Europe’s prettiest, into another Warsaw, a battleground. ‘Sacred Soil’ ‘

As the Germans and Hungarians dug in for a stand about Budapest, the Nazis fought fiercely on the East Prussian front to slow up the Russians’ advance across the ‘‘sacred soil’”’ of this historic home of the Junkers.

As the Germans braced in East Prussia along prepared lines some 20 milés inside the border, the Russians, following their traditional military policy, shifted the weight

To prevent enemy agents from obtaining vital military information through contaet with U. S. troops, the army is rigidly enforcing stif regulations against doughboys mixing with German citizens.

~ Troops may not make any social calls at German homes. They may not contact German girls. Because of service by German bartenders, they may not even buy beer outside of mess bars. - Talking with German people is an ‘‘unmecessary contact,”’ the army has ruled, bringing fines of from $25 to $65.

of their attacks northward toward a narrow belt of Baltic seacoast at Latvia, where some 100,000 Nazis were reported cut off from the remainder of the enemy line in the east.

- Slicing into German positions in this sector with overwhelming numbers of troops, the Russians threatened to chew the entrapped Nazi armies to shreds before they could be successfully evacuated by sea. g : Gain Port

Formerly forced to truck supplies overland 400 miles from Cherbourg, or from temporary beach harbors along the channel coast, the Allies materially improved their communication lines by gaining full control of the great Belgian port of Antwerp. % : Contrdl was gained when Canadian and British troops cleared the Germans from both sides of the Schelde river leading inland to the port. As the Allied attack developed, the Nazis pulled out the major bulk of their 40,000 troops to prevent being encircled from the rear. As the Allies moved to improve communications, the U. S. First army resumed its offensive about Aachen, driving through the once picturesque, now splintered, fir, pine and silver birch Hurtgen forest on the road to the vital industrial Rhineland. S i

Shoes Will Be Brighter Next Spring

~Although civilian shoe production ‘will not return to normal till after ‘the war, retailers will feature brighter lines next spring, surveys _of the national shoe fair in Chicago revealed. e There will be an airier style, too, with women’s shoes open at the toes ~and heels, and ‘‘casuals,” for comfort wear, coming into greater prominence in line with prewar trend.o ‘b " ‘

PACIFIC:

Enemy Girds

Still determined to hold on to the Philippines despite the concentraggn of U, S. strength behind the ces of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Japanese poured in air reinforcements for the showdown battle that will develop when the A{ndericans move onto the larger islands.

Even as the Japs sought to bolster their defenses, first severely shaken by the U. S. navy’s major triumph in the second sea battle of the Philippines, General MaeArthur’'s ground forces on Leyte

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pushed the enemy back to the mountainous western portion of the island.

Because of the terrain, difficulty was encountered in the speedy erection of air fields on Leyte, but, as construction progressed, increasing numbers of fighter planes took off from the new bases to join carrierborne aircraft in attacking shipping seeking to reinforce the entrapped enemy troops on the island. :

With her back being pressed closer and closer to the wall, Japan’s Premier Koiso called for greater war production, declaring that many troops had died for lack of munitions. Almost as Koiso spoke, the enemy reported B-29s reconnoitering over Tokyo. CATTIE:

Record Marketing

With more than 40 per cent of federally inspected beef, veal, pork and lamb going to the government, supplies of better grades of meat remained in scarcity last month despma, record-breaking marketing of cattle.

_ Shipments of cattle were 37 per cent greater than for the 10-year average for October, and receipts of calves were 71 per cent greater. Although showing substantial increases over September, marketings of hogs and sheep were lower than in October of 1943. -

Due to the heavy slaughter of cattle and calves, production of beef, veal, lamb and pork amounted to about 1% billion pounds for October, 29 per cent greater than the 10year average for October.

Hog Prices

After an unsettled market had lopped 75 million dollars off of the value of the nation’s hog crop, higher bids by packers stemmed the downward spiral'of prices. The packers’ action followed War Food administration hints that the government would cut subsidy payments, amounting to $1.30 per hundredweight, if average prices for good and choice gults and barrows were allowed to drop below a $13.50 per hundredweight average. Lower grade hogs, however, would not be included. : :

As marketings increased during the first week of November, packers became more choosy in the purchase of hogs, declaring that during the periods of lower receipts théy were compelled to pay ceiling prices for many shipments just to keep their plants busy. :

Biggest boon, however, is jn the government’s lifting of -restrictions on the use of colors, with women promised spring wear in green, lib--erty red and blue jacket blue, and men’s shoes in shades from army russet to turf tan. : Two tones will be made again, it ‘was revealed, with differently col_ored leather permitted for the upper ‘part of the shoe if soles are made of _some other composition. A

e Colonial Salt Box, .Pan Holder Rack HERE is a pair of gifts that will bring joy to any homemaker. The salt box has the graceful proportions of those used in Colonial kitchens, and the rack with cup hooks screwed in place for hot pan holders is designed to harmonize with the box. : Both box and rack are easy to cut out of plywood or scraps of thin lumber—either by hand with

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a coping saw or with a jig saw. The quaint stencil design may be applied right on the wood with wax crayon and then shellacked to fix the color. # L NOTE—Mrs. Spears has prepared an actual-size pattern for all the pieces of this salt box and the kitchen rack with step-by-step directions for making. A pattern and color guide with complete directions for the stencil design is also included. The pattern may be used over and over for decorating ecanisters, place mats and other attractive gifts. Ask for pattern 251 and enclose 15 eents which covers cost of mailing. Address:

MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York . Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattgrn No. 251, NRERR L e iisicnsriansibsstevinay Address- 0.0.0.0.0.0.0-0.0-0 -'[email protected]—- 99.:0.00000.0.000.0¢

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