Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1933)
MTCDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKH, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933 Valiant Dust by Pereival ' Christopher Wren KAu eeSTt? BYNOPSIBt Lurking about tht ancient Uooriah Citadel ot kfekas ten was treachery to France. But it suddenly was ended by Colonel he Haae of the Becret Service with death lor the Held ol ilekaeten, death tor Jules Ualtont. Uaraaret Valiant's tricky husband, and cap ture tor Major Rlccolt ol the For eign Legion, the worst traitor of .oil. Uaraaret U awakened by the ' sly entrance of Ralsul. son ol the Kald. Ralsul swears that unless Margaret yields to him he will tor ture and kill Margaret's girlhood sweetheart. Otho Belleme. who Is in the citadel as a private In Rio coil's command, iiargaret is on the volnt ot yielding. Chapter 48 THE DUEL D AISDL laughed merrily. He was amused. No, do, no! This wort do at all You've got to kiss me. I'm not going to do all the kissing, maddeningly, thrllllngly wonderful as It Is. What the devil are you staring at?" Turning about, Ralsul followed Margaret's Incredulous hypnotized gaze, and lithe and swift as a springing panther, leapt to bis feet. Othol "Ah!" eald Otho Belleme, with a sonnd ot unfathomable satisfaction. "Ralsul ben Abd' allah Karlm." Without taking his eyes from those ot his adversary, Ralsul bent sideways to the low table on which he had laid his long dagger, drew It from Its sheath, and advanced, polaed and crouching. With a laugh that belled the look upon his face, "Another visitor, Margaret!" he aid. "Very much 'at home' tonight, aren't yout I'm afraid I've over stayed my , . ." "Steel or bare hands?" Interrupt ed Otho Belleme as he drew his bayonet "W-o-I-1," replied Ralsul, clrollng sideways and yet advancing as be apoke. "I think we'll give the lady a dagger versus -bayonet exhibition, ht Bit fairer perhaps, what? Per sonally I'm not a professional bruiser." "Right," replied Otho Belleme. holding the long thin bayonet be fore him, like a foil. This ought to be a good fight, and with Margaret looking on. But he must go warily, for he must win fc? Margaret's sake, as well as for his own. Here was he, Otho Belleme, In Margaret's room. In a state ot absolute funk and horror he bac slid down a few feet of ropa that dangled over hun dreds of feet of sheer drop In per tilt ot that devil. And he was in Margaret's room. RaiBUl sprang, and stabbed: Otho lunged and thrust, and his left band seized Ralsul's wrlBt, as Ralsul skillfully evaded the swift blade, and In turn, seized Otho's right wrist. i Breast to breast Stale-mate. Yos, yeBt the dagger-band was slowly going back, back, while the hand that held the bayonet moved not at alt Suddenly Ralsul threw the whole ot his weight violently forward and mightily twisting his arm, sprang backward, roleaslng Otho's wrist as he did so. Round one, and honors easy. Otho sprang and drove a light ning thrust at Ralsul's throat With equal swiftness, Ralsul ducked beneath the lean sharp blade, and simultaneously slashed npward with the terrible disem bowelling stroke, which will lay a man open from thigh to breast-bone. Woll for Otho Belleme that alnelt heavyweight he was one of the quickest boxers ot the day. Striking swiftly downwards and sideways with lightning speed and all his strength, his left list encoun tered Ralsul's wrist with such force, I that, as he whlrlod sideways, the knlte tell from his hand, and clat tered on the stone floor. Disarmed, Ralsul backed away from the gleaming bayonet that In an Instant would be through his throat or his heart Setting his foot upon the knlte, Otho spoke. i "There was a time when I should have told you to pick that up," he aid. "I'm not quite the fool I was, but ..." I Aim uiuo saeamea nis oayoneu I "Fut up your lists," he said, "and fight any way you can. I can't stab you In cold blood." Ralsul backed, backed Into the corner, stooped and rose In one swift movement Margaret's pistol In his hand, and levelled. At Margaret Bang I At Otho. Click. Margaret screamed, and Otho turned his bead. Her hand was pressed to ber breast A crashing blow In the face, as the flung pistol struck him. and bis hands closed about Ralsul'n throat.! Vet Fund Bolstered. BALBM, April . (AP) Tianaferof state funds to the World war vet erans state aid eommisalon, in the sum ot 1730.0000, was made by the tats treasurer today, an amount de clared sufficient to take care ot the obligations ot the bonus commission LOOK FOR THE RED TAPE OPENER Jovel but the fellow was strong and agile as a cat; slippery as an eel. Free again. j Otho drove a straight left Ralsul ducked beneath It and flung his arms about Otho's waist Down together. A cry from Margaret "The knife, Otho! The knife!" By Jove, he'd got It Ralsul leapt to his feet, and stabbed. Otho, rising, struck with his right The blow sent him staggering back ward. As he brought up against the wall beside the balcony, bis arm shot forward as he Sung his knlte too hurriedly. Again Otho struck, and as Ralsul side-stepped to his left Otho smashed hom a crashing right that drove Ralsul heavily against the low balcony wall. With a loud cry he threw out his arms, clutched wildly at the rope, and before Otho could sele him. tell backward across the coping. turning and turning In mid-air, to strike the jackal-haunted rocks be side the shattered body ot his vic tim, Jules Mallgnl. After a hasty Instinctive glance over the balcony at the still falling body, Otho whirled about to And Margaret running to him with out stretched arms. 'Tho darling. Oh, 'Tho. Are you hltT Are you hurt!" cried Otho. No, no," laughed Margaret shaki ly. "Oh, darling, I thought I was, and I'm not thought I was dead, and I did want to live long enough to see you kill him." , Her arms were round his neck. He woe holding ber tightly to him and stroking her hair. Neither e"or knew how the next minutes passed. At length, "Otho, It's Incredible. Its too wonderful. Oh, 'Tho, why did you go and leave me? Why did you Join this awful Foreign Legion?" "Didn't you know? Why, so as to come down that rope at the psycho logical moment Obvious, Isn't It?" Again they kissed. "Oh. Margaret, I love you so utter ly. Do yon know I have no for lain down to sleep without thinking ol you since I was a hoy." They clung together, then sprang apart as heavy blows sounded on the door. Drawing tho bolts, Otho saw thi aged slave who bad guided them to the battlements. Seizing Otho's arm, Hassan el Mlskeen dragged bin across the room, and out o to tht balcony. Looking upwards, Otho saw several beads silhouetted against the sky, as their owners craned through the embrasures. "Oho, Bellome, was that Ralsul?" called Le Snge. "Yos, sir. He's or on the rocks." Le Sage laughd grimly. "Come up," he called. "I've sent the guide for you." - Motioning to Hassan to lead on, Otho kissed Margaret once again. "Walt for me, Margaret," he said. "Walt for me." Yes, she would wait tor him, Sh would wait a lifetime for blm. In the absence of the Kald, Ralsul, Mahommed All el Amln and every other leader or executive authority, the organization of the Citadel ol Mekazzen wont to pieces: what should have been the garrison ol Moorish soldiers became an armed rabble (quickly disarmed); am the castle toll of Itself. The loosely knll native life ot the citadel swiftly dis integrated, and the work begun by the betrayal ot the pass-word was completed by the Issuance of orders a-' Instructions In the Kald's name, by the Kald's Vizier, the Sefior Pedro Mallgnl. Until the tricolor flow at the mast head on the Sultan Tower, and Col onel Le Sage was in faet Governor ot the Castle, the orders ot the Vizier were accepted and obeyed, for want ot better. "Tho longer we can conceal the tact ot the deaths of tho Kald and Ralsul, the longer we can use yout authority as Vizier," said Le Sage. "Not that we shall need that tor long, Sefior Mallgnl." "And the othor halt of the re ward, promised me atter the con summation ot your work here?" "It shall be paid to you person ally, at Tangier, as soon as possible after I receive a letter from your daughtor-ln-law In her ow hand writing from Yelvorbury. The sooner she gets thore the sooner you will get the other fifteen pieces." "Fifteen pieces, Colonel?" "Oh, I beg your pardon, Sefior Mallgnl. I wao thinking ot 'thirty pieces of silver."" iCetwU, Its), jr. 4, stetu Ct.) Monday, Major Napolton Rlcooll faeaa a naw, and tarrlbla taat due this month. Interest on the amount was aiO,86S. Phone M3 Well nam away your refuse. City Banltary Service. 8x10 Photo for 790. The Peaaleys, opp. Hollv Theater. FIVE FROM SALEM JOLTEDFOR RUM PORTLAND, April 6 (AP) Jack O'Hara, reataurant owner at Salem. S'MATTER POP TAILSPIN TOMMY I Cam -tWonw a Li yW- z .-s-3i Ai. ; wa ' I nxA S J ) 1 MISSED y. " HlHf1" VDUR (OCA OF fVF JOSE IS 1 " ' CftO'LL CUT A&SSffiffl, Wi IV ' j MEETINS L1& IN SANTIAGO Jf IN uirTH THE Sggj J . Ii Tt SitW TO J2 RgljTV ' IS A 6O0D ONE- WE'LL V SANS lOHO t K SATtSJVO iTli 4.V START BY MOTOR ARff AFTEfR. v--4'l1 y' COVS Y& JaWI Ta THIS AFTERNOON. Tlf VOUR. MAP WE tOHCA et4V ltOEST COI&T S II H wrrf-T----, T r can't be too voo sovs - ) ggi BOUND TO WIN Ben Comes To! HZ! IJfSOSH.AMlOTOI Ml He'6 ROBBED ME.LOCKED ME1! Bf SAY ! I!E AUSOTOOK HSOT I" V WfiiTHAT biro certainlv BSssmsSS Wilt iki hprf . for- tujk ue'shpm L-sEWrfl KXKS tuf pdlicp orculrb R&TOstf8s3&$sSa 11 I I I mk HIT ME 60ME S&SS&S Efl IT HETOOK ALUTHE NIONET JffiWIuJIlA b5S) OF TITUS CANBV A3 H Iffl WALLOP! WELL.I tS&SXSSa Wt T MV POCKETBOOK I'MEi GOT fwSSfl PENPOINT PETERS 7 MSMlSSZZ' J ' I AV -A ' Ibtmil AiJAtVA1 II I YitJTJ 1 1'. Is V C T L. 'fill VIA I -I IWAWI "7 f Br e-3isa .HWgCv TWt I 1 IA Villi n S i Tv THE NEBBS References, Please . Bv SOL HESS ill!ir'l TWIN I'LL SO OVER TO ' W GOOD MORIvllKJGMR. POTTS , """yReFeRENJCeS V 1 AIMT STOFUM& MOSJEV MERE FOR. 1 I '. THIS HICK BAWK AMD OPEM ' I I SATHEREO TOSETHER TMIttTVf aaZtCj 1 TO PUT MOWEVfwOBOOV USJLES5 TWEV GOT A-1 EVTRA 1 ; AM ACCOUkJT TV46W SAV ITS J (BUCKS BV CONSERVATIVE LWIUSj -jj1 IKJ A 6AKJX? SOOO REFEREMCES .30 IS A LOT I f AS SAFE. AS A BASE IM J AMD SREAT SELF-OEWIM VReFERVJit.Sy tM TAIIMG ALL. OF MOMEV TO SOME PEOPLE-CHANCES ( I 'WMS MOTHERS ARMS S THAT VM SOIKJG TO IKJTRUST W 7 THECHAMCE. ABE VOUO PUT n IKJ HERE AWO TWDJ W, , FTn y - s rrTrivVj'0 OUR safe-keepikjvS ' ioidistask sit ow the doorstep avjo vworrv L.iiK'U s eZlHlllrK 1 .1 rrr1T Vr.'1) I I vou for i about rr put 15 imeachZ BRINGING UP FATHER f I'LL OUST TT?V DROPPIN" I RAT THE VINO I If ME MAT HA) M AN' ME COAT ' I ME HAT AN' COAT-SOME.- l . if IS BLOWIN."tM rJ ' I jjjt, BOUMCED OFr WENT DOWN I BOOV IS BOUMOTQ J OMTO THE ROOF- ( F5fT CL I THE ROOF An' a,!,, the CHIMNEV -- FIND AN LOOK OPTO II 1 ' V, ' fl f WllY? l COllM'Tfl AN WILL BE SW": I St fellF' TMrtftM' C ll I iMl 1H .Ijlr I 0 ' t jifcwW. C gnu,. Hato mtrA fe' ' IcoNTlM UED - There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. C. Circulation wu sentenced to thirteen months In federal prison when he appeared In federal court here today on liquor chargea. Four others, Indicted jointly with O'Hara, were given various sentences and placed on probation. They were Mrs. Freda Palmer, waitress, sen tenced to four months and placed on probation for one year; Ted Gor don, service station operator, one From Havana To Santiago De Cuba! year In a federal road camp, and one year's probation; Paul Rlppe, eight months In Jail and paroled, and Jack Boeti, four months In Jail and paroled. Leniency was also extended to sev eral others 'who pleaded guilty to violation of the prohibition laws. . ; Broken windows glazed by rrow bridge Cabinet Works. By C. M. PAYNE POLICE CONTRACT SALE NT, April 0. (AP)- rolls affecting all state -March pay departments PARKING 6 TJWY1N6 FAMILt" 7b MOVIES. CortES lb PUBLIC PARKIK6 PLACE . DRNES OH FOR A BLOCK OR Tv0, FiriAUV WORKING CAR. Wrtrt 6REAf IfcOUBLE IrttD VACAtff SPACE WIFE ASKS MILPLV DID HE NOTICE rt'S A ONE-WAV StRBf. HASfiLW BACKS OUT ASBlM unmans tf-g cuRiasnv. r SOETltTS tOHICfY S OOEi.L FOX SUCH A &AV FIYK AS --SO FOtLOU) Wf AiEKICANOS 73 SEE tOiVSKS TVeTV SO--AMD UHY and institutions were certified to the secretary of state Tuesday by the board of control and warrants cover ing the salaries for the past month will be issued within a few days. A contract for supplying the state police department wlth 18 light au tomobiles was awarded to a Salem agency. The bid was 9584. The con tract is subject to approval of Chaa. SRVS "SERE'S NO SENSE PrW6 25 ft lb PARK. HE CAN FIK0 SPACE OPPOSITE THE MOVIES DISCOVERS A HvURANf 1HERS AWP DRIVES OH finallV finds Vacant space amd parks, officer 5tr0uin6 over to point out that this is a bus stop (Copyright. 1933, by Tho Bell ByndicaU, Inc.) 1 4 GfaPiJ llllii- 'CL TO THE FIRB ESCAPE, BUT AN ATTACK OP OI7.X1NESS HAUTED HIM I P. Pray, superintendent of state po lice. An additional physician was au thor or lzed at the Eastern Oregon state hospital. Pre-Easter bargains. Shoes $1.45 3.95; hats 25c to 5.95; dresses l-95 to 5.95; coats ana suits $4.95 to $10 95 "The Store that Saves You Money" The Band Box & .Shoe Box. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS PiNM TriKT OWiNS lb 51ftff'S BEIN6 fORM UP, HE CAUf PARK. Where he expected EXCLAIMS SUDDENLY "THERE'S PLENW OF SPACE UP THAT &DE STREET, AND TURNS CAR. TURNS AND DRIVES BACK Tb PUBLIC PARNW6 PLACE. FAMILY" DIPLOMATICALLY KEEPIN6 QUIET By OLtNN L'taAPr'LN Slid USX fUUBEBX IlNCONSCdUS YT THAT TWeY &SY& TGAH6D, Wf SOYS TiGAJ foar-Asr fpom stmxAvo . Jvfc-ve7"V(r iog thg coast or riVAT veovTE Morsh Te fSWfS'l By EDWIN ALGER ITH THIS NEVJ FEAR, BEN AGAIN STARTED FOR THE WIMIV-lVJ LADIKia OH.I CAN'T MAKES IT T BUT HE COMES BACK AND I'M A SONEW I WONDER IF THERE'S ANY PLACE TO By George McManuaV-
