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. The OltECON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon Tacfidajr. Morning, February 4, 1330 PAGE SEVEN I DN ASTER of MOICy I BY ROY VICKERSf ,w CHAPTER IV Stephanos staggered to alt feet There's ,0ur talfe, said Al . and handed It to him. "Try nd use It again on me." Once more Stephanos tried and fain th- men were grappling:, gain the knife fell to the ground. "With jovre right arm yon iared to touch an American -woman, scum of the earth that yon are:" shouted Alan. "You'll mt r use your right arm again. Ste phanos. I'm going to break It" There came a cry of pain aa Al an fulfilled his threat. Shirley tried to go away then, but could aoU Alan -picked up the knife sod turned to Ahramowl. "A preaseat for xott, Abramo rel. Now kick that dog out of the camp. Don't kill him, mind. Just kick him." Shirley staggered into the hack and a moment later Alan was oesiae oer. "Once again 1 told yon I would bare to use method yon wouldn't endorse," he said gruff ly. "Gross humiliation was ne cessary. It's a good thing I kept my temper. I had my hand on his throat once and took it away again." Part of her was revolted at a scene of rioleace. but the part of herTaat was the stronger was dlz ty with admiration, clamoring to tell him what she felt. Again Shir ley was discovering man discov ering this. time the glorious body of man had seen in him the dis ciplined strength of the tiger . . . She put out her hand to him. "Alan" she said brokenly. "But It was good business in the end," he added. "Abramovel U as much afraid of me sow as he was of Stephanos this morn ing. You proved very useful, Shir ley." The spell was broken. She got np unsteadily and went behind the curtain into her own part of the shack. w Stephanos attacked at dawn on the following day, as Alan had prophesied. "The advantage of making him thoroughly angry," he had ex plained to Shirley the previous erening. "is that he wont wait about. He's burning to avenge the Insult. He thinks it'll be a walk over for him here he does not know about the Serbians." - She was standing outside the hack when Abramovel cantered up with the news. Alan had not yet risen. It was the first time she had been up before him and she wondered uneasily whether he had overstrained himself in his fight with Stephanos. She held Abramovel's horse while he ran into the shack. A couple of minutes later they both came out. 'Right, Abramovel!" said Alan. "You get busy. Carry out the sian we arranged in every detail. I'll handle the Serbians. I shan't iee you again until we've finish ed with Stephanos . . Petrosl" he el!owed and demanded his horse. "You're tired!" she said anxl- "I'm not. I'nT Just a bit stiff," he answered with mawonted suxU 1 ness. "Ton get into the dag-oat." His mood was strange and. the was puzzled. "Not until I bear the first shot fired," she answered. "Those were yonr orders. Yon haven't had any breakfast." He ignored her as Petros came np with the mare. She watched him mount and canter off to the Serbian quarters and she thought that he sax rather Jjearlly She fetched the field-glasses and watched his marshaling the Sor- bians. She knew every detail of his plan and could see that things were working quietly and quick ly. Abramovel and his men, in touch with half the Serbians. were taking up positions so that they could cover with their rifle fire the overhanging slope of the mountain where Stephanos would be compelled to bum his men be fore niBhlng the camp through Che eastern defile. She tried to pick out the mules that were to take the machine guns to their own special ambush, but could not see them. Presently the Serbian camp was deserted and Alan was trotting- back toward the shack. He drew up and stared at her. "Everything according to plan" he said stiffly. "As soon as the fun .begins, I'll get thoee machine guns into position can't do it un til we're sure they are this side of the defile . . The san is getting np-. Get me a sunshade-, Shirley two sunshades. A fashionable wo men like you must have millions and millions and millions-" - She sprang to his side and caught him as he swayed in the saddle, struggling to keep -him from falling, while she screamed for Petros. It was as much as Petros and herself could do'to life him from the saddle. "Water and some sunshades," he was muttering like a drunken man. "Quick, the sun is coming!" They laid him on the ground. Shirley propping his head. "What is the matter with him?" she cried. "Has he been stabbed r "It is fever, madame." "Malaria?" "No it is too sadden. It is the sand-fly fever. It is not danger ous to life, but he wftKbe ill for perhaps ten. for perhaps 20 days. . . . The battle begins, madame." There had come a couple of ri fle shots and then a fusillade from the hills that was answered by Abramovel's men and the Ser bians. "Quick we must get him into the shack no, into the dug-out!" ordered Shirley. "I'll take his feet, Petros." "No, madame, I can do better," said Petros, dropping to the ground beside Allan and rolling the now unconscious man onto his back. . Shirley went to the shack for her own mattress and on this they laid him in the dug-out. She held ' his head in . her- lap while Petros hurried for a pillow and other accessories. Here was disaster unforseen, overwhelming. For the moment thought of "his helplessness, of the giant laid low drowned all others. She was mad dened by her Own ineffectaalness, Ska- bad never been taught to nurse and she had never heard of this particular fever. "is it dangerous, petrosl she asked as the Greek returned. "He win not die of the lever " answered Petros. "It ia rery com mon here. He must have no food or drink until nightfall, and then antnlae only" There came a sodden intenslll-lwm run away. cation of the rifle-fire, and a bal let pattered o the iron reof af the shack 20 yards away. "He will not dl of the disease" repeated Petros. "Bat Stephanos will torture him to death. . "Stephanos!" she echoed. "But we shall win. Petros." Petros shook bis head. "He would have made us win because the men are more afraid of him than of Stephanos. Bat when they knew he is ill they will stop fighting and ran sway ex cept the Serbians who are afraid of no one and do not care who wins. They loved him, bat one cannot lore a sick man." m Shirley gasped as the concep tion of Stephanos, victory broke upon her. Hitherto she had not thonghtof it. Alan had perfect ed ht plans and bad told her that Stephanos would be annihilated, and she had thought no mora about it. "Then they must not know he Is ill," she said quickly. "They do not know yet. We must take care that they , do not find out. He has made -all his plans and they know what Ihey have to do." They will wait for. his orders, to carry them oat, madame. And when there are ao orders, they "t know the orders. X shall give them myself,' cried Shirley. "They will thiak ha has sent.me." "Mafama is wise, said, the Greek. "She will perhaps be killed and it will be the easier way to die." "We're not going to die!" ex claimed Shirley in sudden exas peration, bat sha spoka la Eng lish and the Greek only blinked. "By jovt, rd forgotten those ma chine gnnsl" In French, she add ed: "Look after him Petros. She hurried eat of the dug-oat Into the shack and. flung the field glasses about her. Without ef fort oa her part she had stumbled oa the soldier's secretthat in battle there is no risk of death. "He said the machine guns were to go oat as sooa. as the f oa began." ran her thoughts. "The fun, has been going on for five t minutes," A few kind words to Abramovel first, X think. She mounted the mars sad gal loped across to where Abramovel on their flank, were firing from cover. Mr. Brennaway says you ara doing 'well. He if new going ta post machine guns ta an ambush to cut off Stephanos retreat. Before Abramovel could ans swer. she was galloping across the valley to the camp, ta the hollow- under an overhanging rocky ledge crouched those of the laborers who had refused to take part in the tight. She heard their cry of amazement as they caught sight of her. then wheeled round the ledge to where twenty Serbians in full equipment were standing by the already laden males. She shouted to them in French hut they shook their heads. Sha tried ' pigeon - English without avail, then fell, back oa dumb- thow. At once they, responded and nntethered the mules. (To Be Continued Tomorrow) Farms Greatly in Demand Is Report Demand for farms is perking np to a surprising degree since the aaow disappeared, reports George Thomaton of the Bechtel and Thofnason real estate offices. If interest holds as at present, this spring should see more trades aad purchases of farm lands than this section has known la a number of years. Thonuean Indicated. Despite the long told spell, this office was kept almost as busy as ia fair weather ahowing aad renting houses or apartments in the city. BANDITS SHOOT MAX PORTLAND, Ore- Feb. 1 (AP) Peter Hager. 4S. route su perintendent of a laundry here, was shot In the right leg tonight when he resisted a robber in the company's office. TEXAS DEBTS OUST MEM' (ES AUSTIN, Tex.. Feb. 3 (AP) The Texas state democratic exe cutive committee today voted ov erwhelmingly to bar as candi dates ia the UIO party primary persons who refused to support Al Smith for president in 1928. and at the same time opened, the doors for participation as voters to tha same erstwhile democrats. A resolution directing that no one who scratched the democratic nominees ia 1! IS be permitted to participate In the primary as a candidate for state office was car ried, 21 to I, and tha expression permttttiag bolters to take part as voters Wen ver. 29 to 1. The committee had been assem bled by Chairman D. W. Wilcox for the purpose of passing on the application of state senator Thomas B. Love of Dallas, self confessed bolter of the presiden tial nominee in 1928, for a plaee on the 1130 primary ballot as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination! - ' ::X' . ' Senator Love, who was one of the leading influences in tha bolt that carried Texas for tha first -time since reconstruction days for republican presidential elect- -ors, ene of the spectators at the ' meeting, said that the commit- J tee's action would be so held by'" the courts." . ' , "The remarkable thing Is that they failed to bar negroes from participating in the primary ac cording to a law passed by the legislature la 192T." Senator Lore said. "But they did take partic ular pains to bar Hoover democrats." SOVIET CHIEF SARCASTIC MOSCOW, Feb. J. 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