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MTCDFOKD MAIL TRTBUKB, MEDFORD, OREGON, TVEDXESDAY, MXRCH 29, 3933. SVSOPBtB: Uargaret hat con flird her teart. both tor her oten eatetu and that ot her ohlldhood mweetheart. Otho Belleme. to the only trustworthy man the know tn the gaunt Uoortsh Citadel of Mekaxsen. Oolonel L Sage. Uar caret's husband. Julre Maligni: Kaisul, eon ot the Katd ot Uekat imen Ualor Rtecoli. commander of 'OthCt detachment ot the Foreign 'Legion, all are enmeshed in o pi feantlo intrigue againet France, he iiage. ot the French Secret Service, rjuet hoe enUeted Otho'm help. Chapter it THE GREAT RICCOLI MAJOR RICCOLI, at eua with dignity, leaned back among 111 cushion!, lipped hli coffee and Uilly blew smoke-flngs In the air. Smoke-rings In the air. Caatles In the air. But smoke-rings, how Ter beautiful, are very evanescent. Castles In the air. Castles In pain. An unpleasant expression, that Most Inappropriate. To the dertl with Castles In Spain when one bas a Castle In Mekazzen or rather, pill hare one In a few hours' time. 'A knock at the door. Major Rio toli glanced at his wrist-watch. That would be the excellent Vlttor 111, come to report. "Sow goes it?" ' Saluting with tremendous smart less and punctilious respect, the Sergeant-Major Intimated that every thing went well. Having concluded his report, Vlt torelll accepted his superior officer's effer of a cigarette, and gracious per mission to be seated, while they once again discussed the subject of the hour of arrival, and probable men tal attitude, ot the officer, non-commissioned officers and men of the O.'st detachment of the reinforce ments. ' "But after all, my dear Ylttorellt, It is the accomplished fact that Is the best argument, the world over. When they arrive to Bud me King ot (ha Castle, the thing is done. And should there be among them any fool who la so damned a fool as to hesi tate between a happy Ufa and an nhappy death why, let him face (he firing-party, by all means. "I suppose," mused Major Rlccoll, fit Is the better plan to act first as though tor France, and afterwards to see It we have any such tool imong us. "Well I think that's all," Rlccoll tdded, yawning. "Turn the men out It i a. m. I shall be there at ten mln gtol past two.' " ' doubt' it," said a deep voice. In French, as the door opened, and a big man In a hooded cloak stood on the threshold. The man In the cloak itepped forward, threw back the hood and dropped the cloak from his ihonlders, revealing to the astound-id-(Rlccoll add' Vlttorelll,' a French Colonel In full uniform. " "La Sage!" whispered Rlccoll. Sergeant-Major Vlttorelll instinc tively sprang to attention. "You are under arrest. Sergeant Usjor," said Colonel L Sage. "Re piare your .belt and revolver." i -"Don't! Shoot him!" cried Rte foll, with a glance ot positive agony ,at the table whereon lay his own re jrolver. i! "Guard!" cried Oolonel Le Sage, nd four soldiers tramped Into the Voom. n "Arrest that man!" ordered lie age, pointing to Vlttorelll whose right hand tore at the flap ot the Roister ot bis revolver. As the weapon flashed from Its kato, the nearest 16glonnalra seised yittorelll's arm, while the second presented his fixed bayonet at the pit ot bis stomach. . "Sit still. Rlccoll," snapped Le Bage, his own band on his revolver-N't- 'Pood!" he added, turning to Vlt torelll. "Three, of you march him to Jtha guard-room and band him over o Major Langeao with my orders What ha is to be confined to the punishment-cell, to await court-martial. JJsa any necessary force." ' The light ot hope' again illumi nated the honest countenance ot Bailor Harris. "Ton may find that yon have mat Major Langeao before," added Le (Base, with a short laugh. "LeglonnalrS'Bellemel On guard feutslde this door, until your com rades return. Then report to me." "Well, Major Rlccoll! So wa meet saln. I wonder It you remember Jnrhen we met last?" lAt El Brudja," repllod Rlccoll, feyetng as though It hypnotised him, he revolver on the table. "Ah ha! A little sop to my vanity," laughed Le Sage. "My good Rlccoll, tyoia'va aeen me dally, since you ipame to Mekaxzen. Von talked with line for an hour at the post from Which you marched bare." H4J18HFIELD, Ore, March 30. If AP) An ordinance providing tor xlng and regulating retail and f THJS RED TAPE hTVi SIMPLIFIES : T H IN SXkj 3 ji SfiHii Valiant Dust by Percival ' Christopher Wren aiAudSTf "You're not the Moor who came to the post with a message from the Kaid. He had a tat face, and a great beard," expostulated Rlccoll. "He had. So had I. an hour ago. And I hare a tat face when I think I will." "And you came to the post from the Kald?" ' "I certainly came from Mekasien." "Then you came from the Kald. No one could go to and fro from here without bis knowledge and consent." "Or that of his trusted and all powerful adviser and Vizier, the Sefior Pedro MallgnL" "Oh, hoi You got at him that way. did you?" . "I did. As yon got at htm through Ralsul." "Then the Kald Is fooling you. Le Sage." "No. The other way about, I'm afraid, Major Rlccoll. Now if you had said that Ralsul and the Kald are tooling you ..." 'Nonsense, Le Sage. It is I who am fooling them. Talk sense. I hold the Kald In the hollow ot my hand.' Ha thinks I am here to join him, to support him, to fight for him. I and my men are to segve his ends, ths fool. He and bis men are to serve mine." 'And France?" Inquired Le Sags softly. "France? She will be glad and proud to make terms with me be fore long when I am the Invincible Sultan ot Morocco, bead ot tbe vast Pan-Islamlo . .'." 'Yes, yes. I know It all. Major Rle- coll. Yon're still riding that horse, are you?" Rlccoll smiled. "Join me," said he. "Join me, and have a career worth having. Have a destiny, somothlng finer than retir ing as a fat Colonel, to grow cab bages In a French village. Join ma, and I will make you a General, a Field -Marshal, a King. What did Napoleon make ot his Murata and Bernadottes? If ha could make waiters, hostlers, private soldiers, into Kings, what could not I make ot you?" 'Why, a damned traitor. That la what you could make of me. Major Rlccoll, It 1 put myself unreservedly In your clean and honest hands." 'Still riding that horse, are you?" sneered RtccolL "Yes, for France." "And what will France give yon, Le Sage? A cabbage-patch. Well, well, you've had your chance." "I've got it. Major Rlccoll, and I'm taking It quite soon," and again Colonel Le Sage consulted his watch. 'Well, I won't bore you for long, Major Rlccoll. I shall bs going in a minute." "Might one ask where!" "To Interview tbe Kald. By ths kindness and courtesy ot the helpful SeOor Pedro Mallgnl, I hare an In-' tervlew with tbe Kald In bis own private audience chamber. Prlvati and personal, secret and confiden tial." "For France ?" sneered RIccolL "Well, In point ot fact, I go In my Teutonlo manifestation or Incarna tion, In the name and role of 'Hen Schlachf " "But you are quite sure it Is for France?" asked Rlccoll with a sug gestive halt-sneer. "Oh quite. The Katd thinks he Is going to talk to me It Is curious yon should have mentioned 'cab bages' once or twice, Rlccoll," and Le Sage broke Into English. "The time has come,' The Kld has Mid, 'To talk of many things; Ot shoes and shlpi and aflaltnf-waai " And cabbages and Klnga,' and mora particularly as to whether the time hasn't also come for ths Gorman equivalent of a quarter ot a million francs to turn up, together with certain guns, rifles, ammuni tion and men. I hopa that's how It goes, anyway. "My men?" asked Rlccoll. "No, nobody's men. Mythical men. The German army ot a Kald'i dream." "And may one ask what you are going to tell blm?" 'Oh, very little. Only that rve come to arrest him and send him over the border for trial, on a charge of murder ot French soldiers; the destruction ot French convoys, posts and property; and of waging unprovoked war upon France." "And then might one ask?" smiled Rlccoll, kindly Indulgent. 'Then your young friend Ralsul." 'Oh, you will selte him, too, will you?" "I will" "On what charge?" "Aiding and abetting. Also mnr der of French soldiers and subjects.' KtrrilH. '" SleUt CV Rlccoll tries, Monday, le laugh In the face of Ntmtale. wholesale dealer and dispensers of 8.3 per cent beer was passed unani mously by the Marehfleld city coun cil laat night after a spirited discus slon before a large crowd of spec tators. The ordinance drawn by City Attorney John Qoaa followed no pre vloua pattern. A handle mill at Pine Bluff, Ark. pars farmer about 113,000 annually (for hickory timber. STOLEN TRAIN RIDE !S FATAL- FOR LAD SALEM. March 29 (AP) An Im promptu train ride ended fatally for S'MATTER POP TAILSPIN TOMMY WAS THWE THE BUCCANEERS ANV 0.EAV. WERE SUPPOtCD DIFfCBENCE TO u)AR ONLV S6AINS.T PANrSH VESSELS" THEY PRFCEDED THE nmhTre BUT AND 'Ht PIRATED? BETA KflaV- EXAMPLE WHICH WAS LATER ACCEPTED A A CREED FOR ALL BOUND TO WIN As ft'ST WAS A wlo TWO urn Sfc THE CnV, AND DAM OIGSf THE DRWERTO LOSE NOTIMG sw KJ OCttltN Mra tibHKCM 1M FRONT OF THE STATION WH? ITMH "W r co TBJi.' v rvVKM rf VW wm THE NEBBS Welcome arm Mfii.ifl mp N I I tf?y vJMA,TS THE X S m Mni ) a.iT mf rn jy Wws TWE MftTT8 Le a gawn vni) aiw'- suoea.iT's Nice.TD sea ) i matter, r. woyy I orea this hotel e.v V foio HeseeeTW Ybbcauss his RErAOka NOU.AKJD KJO MATT68. "- - COULC A JACG V Twe. FROKJT DOOR. ,VOL f TOO HE A.H.TIL.V ? Dl O . ARE OUST ABOUT AS f-l IvWHA-T HftPPCWS PROM - COLrjtt MOOrl I -fELL. THAT DOOR PILOT ) 1 HE WASIETDO MUCHsw(:eeE M WRS I NJOVAJ OW TWeOW j IfL? I OP W TO WISK MS j VOCO-L EPFOR.T AU- MOTHER AMD I i VAJILL. 65. PERFECT S - , Kf-ir V LT A "SOOO MOWiWS SCHETIKJGJV vAKJT IK1 THIS WOTL- i -t i i m -ttt Tsm awoiiJ a ouieTjousT KVTrii: ?" isservice: auovou S - I I cSCi U T-J&jg) AUOI6LE TOWEi J ip OOSJT HAveT SARKIISM ' J ; t- j.2f ' " ff?-! LsMias'ipainiisl j ioitrrjiaajn a,"romf '"v BRINGING UP FATHER I GOT YOLI-I'LL FOLLOW VOUR. ORDERS IM THE There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. C. Circulation Vincent L. Farmer, 30, when hU head and left wrist were crushed as he fell beneath the wheel of the Cascade Limited here- last night. Farmer had accompanied Roy Zwtcker, also of this city, on an errand for the latter mother. On the way home Zwlcker refused to "hook" a ride with farmer, and a few ml mites (Oepvrlgbt, 1933, by Tbe Money Madness! , I s Luck Would Have It iqr' Mrrrro rti)? -rrt - P MAO IMCTPI PTr IM REACHING THE? DIRECT l7 ,THE LrTTLE PART REMEMBER-DONT LET ANY ONE INTO &6E ME AN' DON'T LBT'EM STAND AROUND AM LOAF ANTE- ROOM it ,v.-.ifu')ai 'i-i l later saw -his companion ground to death. The parent, Mr, and Mrs. Graver C. Farmer, survive. ' Regulations recently placed In ef fect by the Chinese ministry of rail ways provide for the acceptance of freight shipments at the carrier's risk, a practice heretofore unknown In that country. By C. M. PAYNE Bell Brndicate, Inc.) Xkh Liu- WELL-NOW I'LL HAVE 1 PEACE AN' QUIET- NO S MORE OlG-SAW HOUNDS Mf OFFICE. TO UU PUZZLES IN - I HCLLO.W WELL , T AIMVT f WEVE W DAN DIGGER ACJ- k A SORRV HLVLE VAJILSON O" THE I kVJE OlD fei SECRET SERVICE 3 THAT, U:l VJAr-iT TO GO . 3 OLD I lAHEAD,BOYS ? t ' -I MAN" J V J MONMOUTH, March 39. (AP) Sale of beer has never been legal In COMPANY WISHES MotHER WERJTNT BStSfi HTP UKE SOME WW UNflnHErRE flDMWRT ABLV 6EfflEP ftJrriEplUnJg. ROOM R3HT UNDER HIM, BE KP 6WIH6 THEM V WORMS ques down as dinner enps . listens to coh- rTEREKCE IN lOWER HAU. AS 16 WHEIteR HE'S RCAUV ASIZEP ww7&EASUGr' AS WA-V man t apjwSH avw" ssivr or thc soco SAX'M? JOCClV-JSS AMD THY roe AN' VOU'RETHE LAD THAT WANTED TO KNOW THEt TO CATBRAV PLACE THIS MORNIN' DIDNJT I TELL. Vol WoLYD BLSMP INTO "TROUBLE TT HANDS ' WHHT9THPIT7 N LAW UlUATA THAT. - I STEVE T . ONEC MOOR LATER .... , ., . PAROOM ME, MR-JIGGS-BUT YOU KNOW ITS A, PRETTY LONESOME JOB TO 5T OUT THERE AN" HAVE NOTHIN'to DO- this town, nor does Its sanction now appear likely. Neither does Mayor Bowersox. t?ie one doctor and only druggist la town, stock prescription whiskey in his store. Charter ordinance penned In black Ink more than 30 years ago still glare denial of right to sell any malt, vin ous or alcoholic liquors within city limits. WGl. RfU RAVT1& TWf BW CSTHMS TROM S CRIB. N0W,5 "KeVUBfS fiRBlVE, JOSf A FEW "THAT PIP TrtE TF3CK. MOWER. WD fl IADV 60EST C0H Tft' P6 UP 16 SEE IF WWfrilK6 IS THE MftrTER SAVES WS REMW BEST T FORf UWflL THEV START PlAVlMS BRIDGE fiTighi.tynrwviiitTmv possesson orrw 1007- WAY O THE NOW T C hfg'tlP'feSS- HOL.O ON. THINK I xr EXPLAIN FORGBT tSOSHTI'LLA EVERVTHINS? 5. S H T ISA KNOW WHO A6K FOB ANY f Ten Tears for Kill In f Wife. PORTLAND, Ore-, March 39. (AF) Edison Tupper, young Klamath Iiv dlan. waa today sentenced to the maximum of ten years In prison for the killing of his wife on ths Klam ath reesrvatlon laAt January. 4 A cat set off a burglar alarm from a store at Rogers, Ark., and aroused residents of the community. By GLUYA3 WILLIAM WT IflS M RWMf HE WW ASUEP VET AHPTWrrtHEWE t& KEEP PRITflV QtDSX VJU& THEM IHTO ROSE SEOJ BnV W PRETtNPIK6 Tt 601b GLEE?. WAltS UNtil DINNER WtY BtTfelNS TO WARM DP s3Nfl, AND THEN 6E$T0VU-ftK B6.HUM, Hf CftNlf StHt AWtAXE UN BUC if WAro A 6605 VfiRW WHILE If LfrSTET? $-2e) uxixiatr Br GLENN CUA-TOJ Btl HAt, FOBBECX By EDWIN ALGER By SOL HESS By George McManus YEA.'. I WUI WONDERIN- 1 IF YOUVE GOT A, JIG-SAW PUZZLE OR F YOU'D MIND IF I RAN OUT AM' 1 COT j'?l