Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-12-01

1S~SsAJs DNSk / SA-
haps it's best. I think we'd better
60 back now"
"Ah, yes-back to your lovely
Nazis!"
Halfway to the blacked-out lanai,
Zorie heard mems voices. They
came from the other side of high
box hedge that she and Paul were
about to pass.
Paul seized her wrist. He whis-
pered: keep quiet!"
He pulled her close to the hedge.
Zorie saw several dim figures in
the starlit darkness beyond the
hedge. Then she heard Steve's voice.
"This war is apt to ruin every
thing" he said. His voice sounded
thin. 1t sounded nervous. There's
very apt to be trouble. I've spent
most of the day at Kokee, looking
the ground over. The only favor
able factor is that they're working
with only skeleton crew. They'll
be reinforced in a day or two. II
we're to get in there, it will GER
tainly have to be tonight"
Steve's voice hesitated. Zorie tried
to see his face, but she could not.
Briefly, the setup is easier than
expected" he went on. "JY-4l9
is there. It's being used every day,
but not at night. They're using the
old hookup for nighttime listening"
Steve paused again. GIVE learned
one thing of vital Importance. It
will detect a plane more than fifteen
hundred miles away. That's five
hundred miles better than was told
in Madrid"
"Why," another voice interrupted,
didn't it detect the bombers that
came over Pearl Harbor last SUM-
day." The voice was so strained
that Zorie identified it, with diff
Guilty, as Winthrop Lanning's.
How can you expect me to have
the answer to that question:" Steve
answered 1.-THE old hookup would
have detected them. The carrier
could not have been more than two
hundred miles offshore. Why didn't
the Oahu listening stations report
them in time?"
"What is this trouble you men
tioned?"
at has nothing to do with getting
JY419 out of the listening post"
Steve answered. "JY-4l9 is in one
compact sheet-steel cabinet that
weighs, at a guess, between eighty
and one hundred pounds. 1t is being
kept in a small building some dis
lance from the regular equipment.
There's only a small plain paddock
on the door,"
The pressure of Paul's grasp in
creased on Zore's wrist. He had
no doubt felt the tremor that had
gone through her. She was begin
ming to realize fully what this meant.
So this was Steve's Every danger
Gus game"-plotting with these sly,
sinister people to rob his own coun-
try of a secret and valuable plane
detecting device!
All the ugly things Paul had told
her about Steve, together with all
the ugly things of which she herself
suspected him, were in his voice
now.
1--WE can break that paddock and
carry the cabinet out"
"Wait a minute another voice
interrupted, and Zorie recognized it,
with its softness, as Pierre's. "How
do we get it out of that listening
post? Won't those sentries be shoot
ing at shadows?"
"Probably," Steve answered. at
will be dangerous and difficult, but
it isn't impossible. The shed in
which JY-4l9 is locked up is within
fifty feet of the edge of the Kalalau
Lookout. I mean-the edge of the
canyon. The sentry at that post
won't expect anyone to come up
over that edge"
But is it humanity possible?" Pi-
ere broke in.
Eyes. There's an old goat trail,
now overgroWn with vegetation, that
I used as boy. Don't forget l
know every inch of that country. We
can slip in and out past the sentry"
How" Pierre asked obviously.
ut has been raining in the noun
tains for two days and nights. 1t
was raining steadily up there all
day. Don't forget that this is our
SSoooii' VIC Sdil CUulll
on rain tonight"
But if it isn't raining?" Mr.. Lam
ming asked.
"Then we will overpower the sem
try"
THAT is very, very risky!"
1.-THE whole job is risky" Steve
said impatiently. at always has
been. The fact that the war is on
doubles the risk. But that is not my
worry Winthrop. With these blue
headlights and with occasional halts
by the Provisional Police, it will take
an hour to drive as far as we can
safely go. 1t will take us fully three
hours to follow that old trail to the
listening post, to get in, secure JY-
4l9 and to get back to the car. That
will bring the time to three o'clock,
if we leave here at eleven. They
will discover that JY4l9 is gone
by six at the latest The navy will
tear this island apart looking for it.
Don't forget that this island is under
\