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
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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
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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
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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
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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 .
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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
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NOW T
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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
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GLEE?. WAltS UNtil DINNER
WtY BtTfelNS TO WARM DP
s3Nfl, AND THEN 6E$T0VU-ftK
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UN BUC if WAro A
6605 VfiRW WHILE If LfrSTET?
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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