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• SERIAL STORY
FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG
BY ELINORE COWAN STONE
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SYNOPSIS
LAST WEEK: Lonely for Ste-
ilhan, Deborah watches fog sweep
6 from the sea. Then, suddenly,
Stephan returns. Bridget makes
arrangements for him to remain,
addresses him as "Captain." Ste-
phan is puzzled. "flow did Brid-
get know?'n
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ANGELA ISSUES A WARNING
CHAPTER VI
So this was the way it was to be
.--just as .it had always been—
Walls between them! . . Well,
if that was what Stephan wanted,
she could play that way, too.
Deborah moved nervously about
the room, turning on lamps, low-
ering shades.
"Technically, of course," she
heard herself rambling on, hating
the bright brittleness of her own
voice = "I'm the head of this
house; but if you hadn't clicked
with Bridgie, you would have been
put in 'The Masther's room' over
her dead body. Mere civilians get
parked elsewhere."
He listened to her, laughing a
little at first. At length he carne
and stood looking down at her,
his eyes troubled. .
"Deborah," he said gently,
"you're somehow—not like your-
self. What is • the trouble?"
If only he would not stand
there, so very near that she was
conscious in every fiber of his
nearness!
I can't let hind hurt me like
that—again, Deborah thought. He
doesn't intend to; but he somehow
snakes a gesture, a few words that
mean — just nothing — seem to
mean so much.
"I suppose it is too much to ex-
pect everything to be just the
Same," he went on. "I wanted—
but you see, I am not entirely a
free agent."
"Few of us are if it comes to
that... , Really, Stephan, there's
nothing—"
.�: x: .s
Deborah was almost glad when
the front door opened, and Angie
came in—as Angie was likely to
do at any time—without the for -
anality of ringing.
"The fog's so thick you could
cut it into pieces and fry it," An-
gie called from the hallway.
'Debby, may I borrow your last
copy of 'The World by the
Week'? Mine's—"
Strolling into the room, strip.
ping from her head the bright
handkerchief she wore, she stop-
ped short at sight of Stephan.
"Well! Welcome to our city!"
she cried.
While Deborah went to hunt
through the periodical rack, she
heard Angela explaining briskly,
"I like my news predigested and
at least a week old, Mr. von Thal-
mann. By that time it's history,
and there's no use tearing your
hair over it."
"You'd tear your hair over the
Old Testament, Angie,', Deborah
threw over her shoulder, "that is,
if you ever took the trouble to
read it."
"Perhaps 1 shall some time—if
the present world stops being ex-
citing. . . .
x -citing.... By the way, Mr. von
Thalmann," Angie went on with
the bluntness Deborah had come
to dread, "all sorts of rumors
keep coming from Europe. They
say Germany's sitting on a young
volcano in what used to be
Czechoslovakia. But it's all so
secret. Perhaps you can give us
the lowdown:,
"I'm afraid not." Stephan was
gravely polite. "I have- been in
this country for some time, you
-know."
"Oh, but this started months
ago," Angela persisted. "The
story goes that sabotage in the
Czech armament plants has been
really serious; and that some un-
derground organization has been
simply papering Europe with sub-
versive pamphlets. I understand
that the people find the things
in the most improbable places --
under doormats, in their laundry
bags, or " wrapped around milk
bottles, for instance..:. It's said
that they have even been slipped
under pillows and into pockets in
the most exalted Nazi circles."
"Indeed?" Stephan said bland-
ly. "But that seems a rather
reckless form of practical joke,
don't you think?"
"Well, it's a kind of reckless-
ness that seems to have gone over
in a big way with.the masses. Ac-
cording to the story, one bright
lad who slipped a tract into a
German general's glove became
Public Hero Number One over.
night. It seems that he had been
thumbing his nose at the secret
police for so long without their
being able to put the finger on
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him that he was nicknamed 'Der
Poltergeist.'"
"'Poltergeist'?" Deborah echo-
ed from the - magazine rack.
"That's supposed to be .Some kind
of malicious spirit that goes
around pinching people, isn't it?"
"Well, he seems to have been
pinching some of them all right—
where it hurt.... They say some
of the pamphlets have been print-
ed in this country; and I under-
stand, Mr. von Thalmann"—An-
gela's• eyes were dangerously in-
nocent—"that your secret agents
are very busy trying to find out
who the boys are who've been do-
ing the homework here."
"I see.', Stephan's tone was
still gravely polite; but his eyes
danced wickedly. "And you hoped
that I might be big hearted
enough to tell you what they have
found out? But even if I were
as well informed as you seem to.
think—oh, well, I suppose I might
as well give up! I say, Miss Silva,
would you mind telling ine how
you found me out?"
"Oh," Angela announced cool-
ly, "we all knew this summer that
you hadn't come all the way over
here just to read poetry. -
"So? . . . All of you?" His
grin was quite open now. "Then
you no doubt also know that sn
my bag upstairs are doeuinents
containing the darkest secrets of
your- War Department? . . . I
say, I do hope you won't give me
away. Yate see, it's devilish im-'
•portant to ine to get away with
them without losing my own
head."
For a brief instant Angela ex-
amined him behind narrowed
lids. Then she laughed. .
"You certainly can look as coni
pletely dead -pan as anyone I ever
knew," she said. "Anyhow, I'd
stake My head that when you go
home and turn in your report,
`Mr. Poltergeist,' or some other
poor reckless devil in the circula-
tion department over there is go-
ing to find himself in a concen-
tration camp --or worse."
"Perhaps." Suddenly there was
no more laughter in Stephan's
eyes, and his mouth was grim.
"But after all, he took that risk,
did he not? He must have known
what he was in for."
"Well"—Angie got to her feet
—"George Washington took a
few' risks, too, thank God! . . .
Don't bother to look any more,
Debby. I think P11 go home and
read the Bill of Rights."
At the doorway she stopped.
"By the way, Debby," she said,
"remember that fisherman's ditty
you were asking about that night
in California? ... The one about
the fog? . Well, the rest of it's
just come to me. Altogether, it
goes something like this:
"'111 fated is that which conies
out of the fog,
For in the' end it must return
whence it came.
And never can it come again
unless it is drawn by a spell
Which neither Heaven nor
earth nor all the powers of
darkness may break!'"
t< & N•
She went. out, a little secret
smile upon her 'lips.
"So your little friend thinks
Ism a dangerous character?"
Stephan said. "After this, when
she is around, I must take care
to look as dead -pot as possible ---
but no!" be broke off at Debor-
ah's involuntary giggle. "1 see
that `dead -pot' is not the correct
usage. I fear 1 shall never
learn."
He was laughing; but his laugh-
ter was not entirely spontaneous.
.. So Angie had got under his
skin.
On the dinner table were can-
dles in the great branching can-
dlest'ieks whieh had been a wed-
ding gift to Deborah's great.•
grandmother, set on the lace cloth
which Bridgie ,produced only on
state occasions, and the rhar!^hed
old Lovett china --.. all for "the
Gaptain.'r
''?ct it was tlirouc;•h li i* -ie that
runner almost enc:cd in : c :d 6h: -
ester.
(Continued Next Wen)
The Allied Nations
Lead In Manpower
Some Comparative Figures of
Allied and Axis Resources
The Census Bureau at Wash-
ington has just issued some strik-
ing statistics as to the manpower
available to the Adios and the
axis respectively for war service
on land, in the air and on the
ocean. The tally shows an advan-
tage of two to one in favor of
the Allies, who can muster 56,- ,
643;000 men between the ages of
18 and 35, as against a potential
axis total of only 28,560,000.
Even these estimates do not in-
clude the enormous potential
man -power resources of China,
India, and The Netherlands In-
dies.
But this two -to -one advantage
would soar to six -to -one if it were
possible to mobilize the entire Al-
lied reserves, including those of
China and India, but without tak-
ing The Netherlands Indies into
the reckoning. For then the total
Allied strength would reach the
tremendous total of 163,887,000
amen between 18 and 35 years of
age.
The reservoir of man power in
these age brackets is estimated at
22,796,000, and is barely sur-
passed by that of Russia, which
total 23,574,000. Great Britain
and her dominions, --but still ex-
cluding India, — have 10,273,000
men in the same age group. As
against these totals, Japan's po-
tential man power is placed at
10,839,000, Germanys at 11,281,-
000, and Italy's at 6,440,000.
The preponderance of the Al-
lies in material resources,—raw
materials, industrial organization
and equipment, transportation fa-
cilities and potential war supplies,
—is even more marked, although
precise figures are in the nature
of the case impossible to obtain.
In steel and iron the Allied advan-
tage is at least two -to -one. In oil
and gas, it is more than five -to -
one. In base metals it is seven
or eight -to -one. The American
industrial machine has a potential
capacity exceeding that of all
Continental Europe, and Great
Britain's alone is about equiva-
lent to that of Germany, while
that of Russia rivals closely that
of either of the great European
powers. If this is to be a war of
endurance, the superior staying
power of the Allies is hardly a
natter of serious question,
Source Of Rubber
In South America
Henry Ford's Rubber Plan-
tation in Brazil Producing
on Limited Scale
Henry Ford's new rubber plan-
tation at Belterra, Brazil, is with-
in a few miles of the spot where
in 1876 Henry A. Wickham ob-
tained 70,000 seeds of the Hevea
tree and smuggled them out of the
country to England. These seeds
became the ancestors of nearly all
the rubber trees of the East In-
dies, from which the United States
obtains 93 percent of its rubber
supplies, Science Service points
out.
Although the 3,651,000 rubber
trees planted at BeIterra (the
name means beautiful land) are
still quite young, they are already
in production on a limited scale.
About 750 tons of concentrated
latex will be shipped to Dearborn
in 1942. By 1950 the estimated
production is 7,500 tons, and the
eventual goal is 38,000 tons an-
nualIy.
While this is only a fraction of
the 600,000 tons the U.S.A. nor-
mally consumes in a year, experts
believe that in time rubber pro-
duction in the Western Hemis-
phere can be brought to the point
where bringing rubber half -way
around a hostile world will not be
necessary.
There is also the Mexican
guayule shrub, which grows °well
in the Southwestern United States
and is already under cultivation
there. As a quick source of na-
tural rubber, this plant is unriv-
aled. Rubber can be obtained
after one year's growth, although
it is better after four years. With•
out a de-resinating process, the
rubber is not the equal of that
from the Hevea trees and is more
costly. But as a stop -gap until
the new Hevea trees get going, it
may be a life-saver.
New Year Cupid
Flat Footed Flop
As Dave Boone writes in The
New York Sun "And as for the
old eonception of the New Year
it's all wrong. The artists who
sketch him as a naked babe with
curls, ribbons and pink cheeks,
are crazy. He's a scared and sort
of weird looking midget. He's
:got a prematurely gray bead, a
wrinkled brow and two cauli-
flower ears on bier before he
starts. Ire's wearing a steel het -
met, carrying a gas mask, eating
concentrated foods and Nursing a
bloody nose. And -'he's got flat
feet 'to boot.'Y
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TABLE TALKS
By SADIE B. CHAMBERS
Value of Milk
In Daily Diet
I am sure we all know that for
proper nourishment each adult
should consume one pint of milk
a day and each child one quart.
This milk need not be taken as a
beverage it may be used in cook-
ing in such dishes as soup, cus-
tards, and other dishes.
The world's best authorities
agree that you should eat every
day the necessary amounts of
"protective foods." These foods
are milk and milk .products, po-
tatoes and other vegetables, whole
wheat grain breads and cereals,
raw fruits and canned tomatoes,
eggs, meat and fish.
When there is not much money
to spend for food, first on the
shopping list should be milk or
cheese, then potatoes, and whole
grain products (rolled oats, rolled
wheat, and whole wheat bread.)
Use foods in season, when the
price is lowest. When fresh vege-
tables are high in price, buy can-
ned vegetables particularly toma-
toes. Cheese may replace some
of the milk, using one ounce of
Canadian Cheese in place of one
glass of milk.
It might be wise now to take
an inventory of our weekly
menus, to check up on their nu-
tritional values. A breakfast menu
of the quickly -snatched rolls and
coffee type, should be erased
from any well balanced diet.
Start breakfast with the day's
quota of raw fruit, vegetable, to-
mato or orange juice; if tomato
juice is used (it may be cheaper)
two glasses will be necessary to
cbtain the required amount of
vitamins.
The next course of your break-
fast should be some type of cereal
with milk, cooked cereal prefer-
ably in winter. The beverage
should be a milk one — cocoa and
hot chocolate are high in nutri-
tional value and help prepare an
adult as well as the child for a
difficult day.
A noon meal, whether luncheon
or dinner, might start with a milk
soup. Then there are many in-
teresting and very simple desserts
such as junket, custards, etc.; each
may take care of part of the daily
milk requirements. The salad
may contain cream cheese — one
ounce will be equivalent to one
glass of. milk.
The fdllowing recipes contain-
ing milk, are requests:
Custard Pie
Beat together 3 eggs, one-half
cup sugar, and one quarter tea-
spoon salt. Stir in 2 cups of
milk. Pour into an unbaked pie
crust, sprinkle with grated nut-
meg, and bake it a moderate
oven. The custard must not boil,
To test, when done, slip a silver
knife into the centre, not deep
enough to pierce the crust. If
knife conics out clean the custard
is cooked. If the knife is milky
it is not done.
Southern Corn
2 cups canned corn
2 to 3 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
?s teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
1 cup soft bread crumbs
Mix the corn with slightly
beaten egg. Add salt, Pepper,
melted butter, scalded milk and
bread crumbs; combine well.
Turn mixture into a greased
baking dish or casserole; place in
pan of hot water and bake in a
slow oven, 325°F., for about 35
minutes or until firm.
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Flirtation With
Nazi Searchlights
When heavy bombers flew
from an unnamed airport in the
Middle East over Athens to bomb
the great oil tanks near there,.
another smaller plane deliberat-
ely flirted with the searchlights
in order to detract attention
from the heavier machines flying
a thousand feet above it.
The pilot of a heavy bomber
told of how they were sitting in
a tent trying to keep warm while
awaiting final instructions for
the attack on the oil tanks. It
was heavy and cloudy and thep
freezing level was 1,000 feet.
Taking off eventually the heavy
bomber headed north and after
two hours flying the navigator
picked up the Crete mountains.
The temperature was 22 degrees
below zero.
"When we arrived over Athena
we circled a few minutes to get
the wind and work out the best
run up on the target. We could
see the tall tanks standing up
clearly in the moonlight. Then
we were playing hide and seek
with the searchlights, but slide
denly we were free of thein. We
looked down and there was an-
other plane a thousand feet bee
low us, which was deliberately:
courting the searchlights. It took
attention away from us and we
were able to go in and drop our
bombs and get away without be-
ing caught ourselves.
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