The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-03-05
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Chapter 4S
BIRD OF RESCUE

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THEIR story was quickly told
l The setting sun found Grahame
sprawIed across the cockpit pencil
ing note that vas to be sent from
the nearest cable ONCE.
Within an hour or two. be hoped
duplicates Of this message would be
in Myberg's Office and at Spin Win
slows apartment in Hollywood, two
thousand airline miles away.
Grahame gave the pilot parting
instructions. "It's hurry up thai
counts. This beach here Is about
fifteen miles long. Good landing
spot for q land plane.
"We1i be here at the northern
end. Spin could land one Of the big
Lizzies on Il II he rant get anything
smaller and faster at short notice.
Get going. now. and thanks"
Greene said Importantly. That's
Il. Make It snappy. You make It
snappy and some day I'll give you
q write-up that will make your
worst enemy proud to know you"
The pilot grinned broadly. He
said to Grahame:
What's this guy do? Own a
newspaper
Frank chuckled. Hes a press.
agent"
The man reached for his controls.
-oh. so that's It. Funny. he doesn't
look crazy. but now get IL So
long
The roar OF the motors drowned
Greene's indignant .expostulation.
IN THE great square before the
= pyramid. the column OF priests
and guards began their slow march
measured By fiaf drum beats vibrat-
Ing through the steamy air.
The upborne litter OF the high.
priest led the procession. The cage
Of the jagnaFs was Immediately be-
hind It Side by side. and blocked
10 BY 9 SQUARE OF guards walked
Janice and l.angton.
Janice threw beseechIng glance
at her companion.
Billy" she whispered. rs there
any chance at all7 Have you made
any plan? -"
iangton's eyes were red-rimmed.
Obviously his nights had brought
him little sleep. His face was drawn
with lines Of impotence and baffie
menL He answered with a voice
husky with fatigue-w averinz with
compassion.
Afraid not. Janice. n Frank had
gotten to the coast--and Il hadn't
rained there might have been q
faint chance. but"
He made q little gesture Of de-
SPAR.
A tenuous apathy settled upon
Janlcs's mind. 0bIectse about her
became nnsnbslanlial. illusory--as
u she walked Ia 4 half dream.
vaguely she remembered that IL
was said that drowning persons re-
Viewed their lives In one queer II
Illuminating Hast before oblivion
swallowed them.
U was like that with her at this
instant.
But IL was not her life that parad
ed before the mirror OF her memory.
but the web OF circumstances that
had been spun about her since that
dfizziy night ln Hollywood when
Frank tirahame had foreslalled her
abduction BY the mad priest OF the
Mayan Rain God and his emissary
Don Raoui ortega.
A vicious plan. and a daring one
surely--to attempt with such an
elaborate scheme the Turing OF
prominent ana wealthy girl into hIo.
den jungle Businesses Just so that
she might Anact the death role OF
the Daughter u Ich Kin. the Sun
God What . sequence OF horror
had this priest OF q dead race re.
vived In his madness!
EI0GARTH. her director, dead.
McGrash. he advance man.
,mnrdered e. sere the Two Gamers,
mem Greene and the boy Juan
gone
Frank. too. was agons-gone as
surely frqm hef life a. vas ortega
Who had lost hft life oh TIE pyramid
top hy the hand Of his master. In q
little while she and Langton would
Join them ali.
Janice brushed her wrist across
her forehead. Her gesture could not
sweep away the unFeality. This was
q dream: no. II was . part she was
playing on some Realistically ap.
pointed studio set at home.
She eli thar q she listened In.
tently she would be able 70 hear
the hum Of trafic on the streets
beyond the lot comforting sounds.
sounds that would assure her Of the
proximity OF civilization.
There vac q hum undoubtedly.
The noise mistakenly ovsrbors the
aat monotone OF the altar drum.
Perhaps u existed only IN her mind
--or else q vas the crowd murmur.