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He licked his feverish lips.I called to the guard for a glass oftea and when the prisoner had drunk I told him to rest and lit a cigarettefor him.'Foreigners have receiving sets,' I told him, 'but not sending sets.I put adirection finder on you, and you were sending.As you know, that meansdeath.''It isn't true,' he said weakly.'It's true enough.But true or not, you'll lose your head if you don't comeclean.You are travelling on a Honduran passport.You have noextraterritoriality.Just one more thing,' I said.'I will learn the truth,however much you may deny it.I'm going to place you under SodiumAmytal, a drug which will force you to talk as it has all the others.I willlearn all about you or much of it.You do not believe this, butnevertheless it's true.If under its influence you tell me what you tell menow, I will say you have confessed everything and should not be executed.'As he continued to hesitate I added, 'Guilty or innocent, you are alreadyconvicted.But -1 repeat - because you are a white man and I am a whiteman I will try to save your life.'I had little sympathy for him.But in trying to save him I was thinking ofother foreigners.The execution of a foreigner for spying would be knownto every Chinese, high and low, and Chinese suspicion of foreigners,already great, would make life in China even more hazardous than it was.Mob violence against the 'Foreign Devils' had been known before.'I have nothing to lose, I see,* the German said, his lips white.Then heproceeded to tell me he had been groomed for this mission with a fakeescape from Nazi tyranny.He had bought a Honduran passport and wasto contact one Sin Fu at the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong.He hadbeen given $35,000 gold (and at this he smiled ruefully at me) and had beendirected to come to Chungking and await the arrival of still another agent.'What were you sending?''Merely contact signals.Nothing more.''What was the code?'Two figure numerals in German.I don't remember it.''What was the mission of the other agent?''I don't know exactly.He was to contact a man on the Generalissimo's staffand I was to pay him twenty-five thousand dollars gold in hundred-dollarbills.''For what?''I don't know.''You have an idea.Remember, I'm going to use the drug on you.''Well, at the consulate I heard scraps of conversation about a map.I knowsome Japanese.They pointed out Ichang, which is about two hundredmiles downstream on the map.''Did you hear the word assassinate linked with any reference to theGeneralissimo?''No, but I had the feeling that they were going to try to kidnap him byparatroopers.'The more I questioned him the more confused he got, so I decided to give himthe drug, all the while cursing the Donkey for having shattered a plot inthe making.I called in Ling and the Donkey and reviewed the questions I had asked.UnderSodium Amytal the German repeated his story as he had told it before,but under questioning was even more convinced that the plan was tokidnap the Generalissimo.He was placed in a private cell and permitted tosleep.Had I condemned him to a life of misery? Almost gladly I remembered thatprisoners were not taken to dugouts during air raids.The Japanesebombers might effect the release I had denied him.IVThe next morning when I awoke the sun was up.There was a shuffle of feet inthe hall and Ling opened the door.'A foreign gentleman has come,' he said.It was an American military commissioner with a roving itinerary in the Orient.I had met him several times before when he was in town.In fact, when hefelt the need of a Chinese girl he made himself at home in my rear bedroom.He knew who I was and what I was doing but had studiously refrained fromasking questions.His message came like a thunderbolt.'You're wanted in Washington at once,' he said.'What's up?' I asked, scarcely able to control my voice.'War with Japan.''I can't believe it.''It will break any time now.''You're an optimistic devil,' I said, hoping against hope for the prospect ofhome.'When can you leave?5'Today,' I said, 'but I'll never get passage to Hong Kong.The wealthy Chinesewho are running away have the CNAC booked up for months.''I'll see that you get transportation over the lines.''How about my boss, General - do you know bis name?''Of course.I'll arrange your release.'A servant opened the door experimentally.'Another foreign gentleman,' heannounced.It was the doctor from the gunboat.He opened a black case andbegan to take out a number of bottles and instruments.'Now what?' Tasked.'You can't land in Manila or the States without typhoid, smallpox, and cholerainoculation certificates.''But I've already had them,' I protested, 'only thirty days ago.''Chinese certificates,' Doc said, laughing, 'are no good.I'd take these a dozentimes myself if it meant getting back home.''I'm going back with you, Yardley,' said the military commissioner.'Taking Miss Wang with you? I laughed.He shook his head good-naturedly.Miss Wang was a singer at the ShanghaiSing-Song Theatre in Chungking, which had miraculously escapeddestruction in the bombings, and she had been his favourite.'But I'll neverforget your hospitality.''You'll miss these yellow girls,' I said.'Yes, I suppose so.''What are you going to do when you get lonesome for them?'I ll get me a pair of tinted glasses,' he said.Part ThreeOther Poker Games1 Five-Card Stud with the Joker2 Six-Card Stud3 Seven-Card Stud with Variations4 Five-Card Draw with VariationsPart Three is purely expository.If the games in Part One and Part Twohave been mastered, there will be no trouble in understanding theabove games of poker.1FIVE-CARD STUD WITH THE JOKERThe joker counts the same as in Jacks or Better with the Joker, page 92.Stay onthe same cards as in Five-Card Stud, page 48, regardless of the joker.2SIX-CARD STUDIn this game you stay on any pair backed up because you have four more cards tomake either three of a kind, two pair, or possibly a full house - this of coursedoes not preclude the possibility of a straight, straight flush, or flush.For example, suppose you have two deuces back to back and draw an eight.Younow have 2 2 8 and have three more cards (not two as in five-card stud) to helpthe hand.The rest of the staying requirements are the same as in Five-Card Stud, pages 42-3.SIX-CARD STUD WITH THE JOKERThe joker counts the same as in Jacks or Better with the Joker, page 92, Thestaying requirements are the same as in six-card stud, regardless of the joker.SEVEN-CARD STUD WITH VARIATIONSOne: Betty HuttonNines and fives are wild in Betty Hutton - either may represent any card.Fiveof a kind beats a straight flush.Five aces are the best hand.All the wild cardsare underlined.Stay on:Any three wild cards: 5 9 5Three aces A A Akings K K Kqueens Q Q Qjacks J J JAny two wild cards 5 9 x*One wild card and one ace 5 A xOne wild card and one king 9 K xThree-card straight flush in the same suit, jack or higher Q J 10S S SStraights, flushes and full housesare not worth a call.* x equals any card.Two: Doctor PepperTens, twos and fours are wild in Doctor Pepper and may represent any card.Five of a kind beats a straight flush [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]