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...continental U. S. Below Ecuador lie countries which have hitherto been out of the active U. S. defense orbit. Peru has an Army of 12,000 men, about 8,000 police and civil guards. The Army was trained by German General Wilhelm Faupel, is highly efficient. The Peruvian Air Force, Italian-trained, has some 80 ships, in poor condition. The Navy has a personnel of 2,500 men aboard two gunboats, two destroyers, four submarines and some smaller vessels. There are U. S. aviation missions in Peru, but most of the Navy's planes are obsolete...
...belt of poison night where death strikes at dusk is being studied by Marshall Hertig, assistant professor of medical entomology new in the service of the Peruvian government...
Conchita was a problem child, demonstrated quite early that she was no sit-by-the-fire. When she was five years old, she unearthed some ancient skulls, put them on sticks and frightened the servants by poking them through the windows. Once, during a Peruvian uprising, she disappeared from home, was found sitting on a curbstone 100 feet from the scene of a bloody battle. When she was eight, she rode out into the desert alone, required a posse to find...
...natural horsewoman, Conchita out-jumped Peruvian cavalrymen in a local horse show when she was eleven. At 13, her riding master, a onetime Portuguese bullfighter named Ruy Da Camara, taught her the art of the rejoneador-at first with calves, then with more & more ferocious bulls. At 14, she gave an exhibition of equestrian bullfighting at a charity horse show at Lima. At 15, she made her debut-not in society but in a professional bull ring...
...everybody has graduated, and Commencement, a slightly illegitimate baby which--or who--while still unborn, caused a lot of trouble in the last installment, is now thoroughly Haysed. Mature for his age, Commencement burns the house down and manages to end up in Lima as a gift to the Peruvian Government...