The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, January 30, 1930 PAGE SEVEN FMASTER of NONEV" I BY ROY VICKERS J -"Where do you want to rot" lie demanded la a tone which showed he wu prepared to be generous. "Well, I'd llk to ride my hus band's horse round the cams and watch the men at work. For a moment he looked doubt ful, and then: Til pat you on parole. Mrs. Brennaway." 'Oh. that's Tery kind of you!" "But don't ride sear the track orer there or some of my men might shoot. They don't under stand English." Shirley thanked him again and then went in search of Petros. She had sensed that the Greek was devoted to Alan and would dovbtlets do all she Wanted. She had heard Alan speaking to htm In French and, doing likewise, asked him to saddle her horse. Host willingly," agreed Pe tros, "But there is no saddle for Madame." - fln America, Petros, women ride like men. I hare a riding suit with me and I shall change into it while you are getting the horse ready." She could see that her words astonished the Greek hut thought no more of it. By the. time Petros had brought the horse to the shack, she was In her riding kit. As she stepped out there came a sudden laugh from .Abramovel and his half-dozen cronies. "What's the matter with them, Petros?" "They are laughing at Mad ame's clothes, answered the Greek. "And X don't think they hare ever seen a woman ride. Women do not ride la this coun try except sometimes when yow will see them on a laden ass." Shirley patted the spirited chestnut that Alan had got into good condition, then mounted. The men stood up to get a better view of her, staring open-mouthed. "It they're never seen a wom an ride before. It won't do any. harm to do a little showing-off." reflected Shirley. "I wonder if this mare has eTer been taught to j unapt ' She had her eye on a ridge an easy ridge some four feet high and. breaking into a canter, promptly put. the mare at it. The mare refused the jump and Shir ley put her at it again. The third time the mare went oyer and made a clean landing. She heard a shout of approval from the men wared her hand in acknowledg ment and trotted towards the gang. , . Here aia the men stared at her la wonder, then laughed. But their unfriendliness caused her a feeUng of alarm and she rode away from them. Presently she saw Abramovel riding toward her and she turned to meet him. He drw up beside her, grinning. "Ton teach me to Jump, eh, Mrs. Brennaway?" "Certainly!"- agreed Shirley, and gave him directions. "But you must choose your Jump care fully at first," she warned him. You had better start on the one X took near the shack, and you can borrow this mare to practice on and teach your own horse later." "Ton don't teach anyone else J Mrs. Brennaway?" he urged as they turned back toward the shack. "Only me, see? I'm the leader." -All right!" laughed Shirley. She was highly amused. There was piquancy in the thought that this eager, shabby little man was a comitadjl leader and her jailer tor the time being. From the re mote ast a phrase of Roger's came T her. "They're a comic opera crowd." She laughed again. Abramovel and his gang might well hare stepped out of a comic opera. (To be continued.) WINIER HE 1EOTDB1D WAUSATJ. Wis., Jan. 29. (AP) Eighteen army pursuit airplanes and three transport planes made headquarters here tonight prior to hopping off to morrow for Mount Clemens, Mich., to complete the Arctic pa trol test flight. They landed here this afternoon after a flight from Minneapolis. Major Ralph Hoyce, command ing the army expedition, said he hoped to reach Selfridge field late tomorrow, completing the round trip from Michigan to Spo kane, Wash. The flight from. Selfridge field was begun nearly three weeks ago with It starters. One air plane, piloted by Lieut. K. K. Warburton, crashed near Beach, N. during a snow storm. He was enroute by train for the home port today. The Arctie patrol flight was in stituted for the purpose. Major Royce said, of determining flight conditions daring typical winter weather. The results, he said, were gratifying and demonstrat ed the ability of trained aviators to cope successfully with adverse flying conditions. Tomorrow morning the planes will be warmed up early in .prep aration tor the hop over Bib mountain, the highest point in Wisconsin and onto Selfridge field. BANKER HEADS LEAGUE SEATTLE. Jan. 29. (A P) James A. Swalwell, Seattle bank er, was elected president of the Columbia basin irrigation league here today. HUE VIEWED ! U HOTEL BOB ST. LOUIS. Jan. tS. (AP) With three men In custody on. charges of first degree murder and arson, and a fourth held for Questioning, authorities investi gating the tire disaster at the Buckingham annex hotel more . than two years ago In which seven lives were lost, tonight turned their attention toward an inquiry Into $295,990 in insurance held on the hotel. Circuit Attorney Franklin Milp ler was seeking to determine who would have benefited from col lection of the insurance, most of which still is tied up in litigation. Only about $S0.660 has been ac tually paid by fire insurance com panies. Statesman subscribers have received S156S.S8 from the North American Accident Insurance Co. This amount has been paid to accident victims who hold the $1 policies Issued to subscribers. I CHAPTER XLTI. J Cynas returned the letter. ! "Well?" "I thought you might be In terested knowing what Breana way's reputation is. And the fact .that he considers it worth while to make an offer for those shares suggests to me that they are pro l.ably worth their face value, or .will be after he'haa been on the job a very short time. And I thought that possibly, on a fifty fifty basis " "Never mind the terms. They'll l:eep," cut in Cynaz. "You want tt half million eh? Well, I can't do anything on that letter alone. 1 must have some reports of what I going on Out there. Get hold of those and come and see me ega'o." There followed a fortnight of harassed investigations throtlgh foreign agencies which yielded riot a single item of information , at the end of which Roger went to Cynaz again and offered to go out to Macedonia himself. "You won't do much good by yourself," said Cynaz. "I know more about it than you do. The one thing you've got to bring me Is proof, other than your own statement, mat. mcuu um t-uilt that railway track and trains are running over it. Give me that and I'll come In. Other Wise I stay out." ' For Kelton there was no hesi tation. Leaving the office at that lime was a little difficult. For Twhich reason it took him another fortnight in which to arrange with seeming naturalness that the trust account should remain in his possession. In the end all the details were settled to his com plete satisfaction and he left New York at the beginning of June. "And now I've got to kill time for three days." thought Shirley as she watched Alan's car disap pearing down the track. There might be dangers dangers to the point of death and worse it Alan ! failed to return. But she believed implicitly that he would return. Three days in the shack with nothing to do was a grim pros pect. Most of the comitadjl had tak en themselves off to the camp to find quarters. Abramovel and some half-dozen others were still squatting in the clearing. She had leisure to observe the man whose prisoner she had now become and found difficulty i n restraining her laughter. He was, she supposed, a man of about 40, very nimble in his movements, by no means unintel ligent, but wholly unformidable. 1 The leader of the armed band of outlaws, looked remarkably like an English tramp. He wore a greasy hat that had once been a fedora, a threadbare jacket, cor duroy trousers and boots the up pers of which revealed the fact that he wore no socks. "I had better placate him and pretend to be a little bit afraid of him." she told herself, and went out into the clearing. "Mr. Abramovel, I'm under your orders now,' she said pleas antly. "You aren't going to keep me In the shack all day, are you? 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