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Adventure - October 1944
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NOVELETTES
- The End of Jingle Bill by T HOMSON BURTIS 10
Tampico was a madhouse, wells were blowing in for fifty thousand barrels a day, the Huasteca outfit were holding their fenced-in acreage for $300,000,000-they got it later-and you might say the goose hung high when Hunk Gardiner, Monte Mathews and I landed in Farazan to drill our second million out of the field. It would have been easy pickings, too, if "Jingle Bill" Smith hadn't ridden all the way from Africa to chisel in on our game.
- Last Betrayal by M. V. HEBERDEN 98
"In spite of being Irish, your family-and you-have always served the British Crown, " Colonel Smithshand, the Intelligence chief began. Then Brandon cut in-"In other words you've got a dirty job that needs doing in Eire. Tell me what it is and I'll tell you if I'll do it." The mission must have appealed for the first thing Brandon knew he'd been smuggled across the border and was up to his ears in trouble.
SHORT STORIES
- Battle Condition by RAY MILLHOLLAND 46
When a man is really scared his legs turn to rubber and his feet swivel around and point backwards. Then somebody jams a corncob down his throat that he can't swallow or cough up. A big black thing with yellow eyes and teeth as long as a bayonet starts chasing him. That's fear. Of course Private Magurth wouldn't know anything about that. What happened to him must have been something else again.
- Eyes in the Corner by PAUL ANNIXTER 54
Blount learned something in the moment he spent looking that shecobra in the eye. Now he can almost believe those tales the Burmese natives tell about how the snakes can discriminate between friendly and enemy humans. And he's glad the one that made her home in his water jar got away.
- Thundering Juggernaut by JOHN SCOTT DOUGLAS 60
The Cape Deliverance buoy was adrift and that meant eleven tons of concentrated danger were threshing about in those icy Alaskan waters to menace wartime shipping lanes. But the buoy wasn't half as lethal as the whistler that broke loose from its shackles on the Birch's own deck when. the lighthouse tender was out searching for the stray. Now there were two steel mavericks to lasso with hawsers--one afloat and one aboard-and God help the salt water cowboy who didn't cast a perfect loop!
- King's Pirate by WILL F. JENKINS 120
O'Hara's half-witted nurse prophesied that he'd hang at a yardarm and afterwards live as the happiest of men. He'd fulfilled the first half of the prediction all right. Now all he had to do was marry Dorothy Boyd before Lord Protector Cromwell's Commissioners for the West Indies could swing him aloft again.
- The Tired Old Bag of Buka by STUART D. LUDLUM 126
The South Pacific was no place for Betsy in the first place and anyhow none of her crew had wings, except Margo of course. But the old bag had plenty of toilet tissue aboard so off we went. And that, apparently, was all we needed to not get any Presidential Citation or even rate being mentioned in an official communique.
THE SERIAL
Captains Don't Ory (3rd of 5 parts) by EDMUlm GILLIGAN 74
The Golden Hind had readied her trawl-tubs-conch horns, gobsticks and gaffs were stowed-and now the call of "Dory away! " echoed through the fog. For the first half of the gallant schooner's struggle to keep her head above water had been fought and lost when the Western Star's precious keel vanished in the roaring storm. Now the second
phase was to begin-the fight for fish-to win which meant the Hind's last chance for salvation.
THE FACT STORY
Riley Grannan's Last Adventure by. SAM c. DUNHAM 68
That memorable oration of the Old West which, down through the years since we first printed it in these pages back in January 1912, has become the most famous feature ever to appear in Adventure.
DEPARTMENTS
The Camp-Fire . Where readers, writers and adventurers meet 6
Ask Adventure . . Information you can't get elsewhere 135
Ask Adventure Experts . The men who furnish it 136
Lost Trails . Where old paths cross 144
The Trail Ahead . News of next month's issue 119
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