Down Paagumene Way

First published in Sky Fighters, March 1949. Reprinted in From the Listening Hills and The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Vol 4.
"Steve Cowan is waiting for a refit of his plane that will allow him to fly home to the United States when he catches wind of a plot … his old nemesis Besi John Mataga has the hijack of a convoy of ore carriers and the theft of a classified shipping list in mind. Both will be brokered to a Japanese agent but first the list must be stolen from the Oland Point home of the local Port Captain and his sister, a refugee and one time movie star, Isola Mayne. Before John Mataga can be counted out he must be run to ground and the only information Cowan has is the mustering point for one of the ships and the Japanese; Neangambo island in Nehue Bay."