Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 23, 1933, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEPFOKP MAIL TRTBTJyE, MEDFORP, OREGON, TVEDXESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933. Ik. HIDDEN DOOR BY FRANK L. PACKARD . ,.,OHSI8! CoM flewlfl hat jrrowed Otrmaint Trtmblcp't boat or a danoerove trptdition t sdm Jot Uatarrt and hit criminal "pell" at a to-called "club" oh the HI. Lawrtnet that a man named . Doltairt plant to hHack tht club in a feio nourt. Germain hidtt in tht boat; when tht it dttcovertd tht oonettet her rtaton lor ttov ing away uat lovt for Colin. Colin hopet to trar.h down tht lintk. Kea York hitler, with tht help of a mytteriout letter tht it to alvt toenrre. But ht doet not tcnovt Khich ont it Laearrt. ' Chapter it THE AMBUSH """OLIN be careful!" Oermalne V- called after him. "Right!" he called back reassur ingly. "I've got to be too careful. That's the whole trouble. Don't worry." The bank wa steep, and at the top thinly wooded. He clambered up and began to make hie way along toward the club. At times, through the trees, he could catch the glim' mer of the club's lights, and a' other . moments they were lost to htm; but the river was guide enough. His mind was probing again. What plan was he to pursue? To go straight to the club, meet them as a group of gentlemen and sports men,' and tell them that he had over heard a plot to raid the club tonight, seemed the most logical and sensible course to adopt He would meet them all. He would naturally be in troduced to Lasarre." ' And suppose, to test him, they did ask him why, under such circum stances, he had not brought help with him from Cap a l'Orage" Well, he was a stranger there himself, wasn't he? He had not known whom to go to for help, and, besides, there had not been too much time to spare. 80 he had come himself as quickly as he could. Undoubtedly that was the best thing to do. It guaranteed Lasarre against any possible suspicion of having any connection with him, Colin; and It promised, almost cer tainly, an opportunity of getting Lasarre aside for a few words In private. He was close to the club now. The dlstauce bad not been great some six ' or seven hundred yards, ha Judged. And now he halted sud denly. , He had come out on a broad path that led up from the water's edge, and. looking down the path, he could see, outlined In the moonlight, a large boat moored alongside a wharf. One of the club's big power boats, of course. Looking the other way, he could see that, a few yards from where he stood, the path swerved sharply In the direction of the club. He went on again, and, as he made the turn in the path, thanks both to the moonlight and the club's window lights which now shone out unobscured, he was at once able to chart his surroundings quit- easily. Perhaps ten yards ahead of him the path debouched on a clearing, and aoross the clearing a short distance away, the clubhouse, facing him, was now .In full view. And through the trees, thinning as he neared the end of the path, he could see to his left a single window light and the shadowy outline of the power house that Bouchard had talked about. He would like very much to find out what that power house concealed. Well, perhaps he would, even though he wasn't stay ing tor the showl It Lasarre TTB was Just at the edge of the clearing now, and for the sec ond time since he had left the launch he came to a sudden halt. It was Imagination, no doubt, for the roar of the falls, louder now than ever, would drown out all ordinary sounds; but It seemed as though he had heard something stirring close at hand. He turned, stared back along the path, and suddenly leaped to one side too late. Two forms which seemed to have risen from the earth at his feet hurled themselves upon him, flinging him to the ground be fore he had a chance to defend him self. These were "members" of the club, of course, on guard out here against another Incursion by the spy of the other night and he was being mistaken tor the spy. "Look here! he protested, "I " A French oath answered him. Something crashed upon his head then darkness. Colin came to his senses conscious that something was being thrust roughly Into his mouth, conscious of a voice speaking In French but only vaguely conscious of the mean ing ot the words: "Bah! And so you have no cord, REAL PROPERTY TAX PORTLAND, Aug. KU ( AP) The Portlsud realty board today started a movement toward circulation of an I f&f0Z WITH jiml... TH I NATION eh? Well, you see! Ills handkerchief for his mouth, and his necktie to hold It there. Tight! Tie It around the back ot his head tight And now his arms behind blm and around that little tree. Lash his wrists together. Here's his belt" Colin felt his 'arms wrenched vio lently around behind bis back, and Instinctively, though his strength seemed to have been drained out of him, he made at. effort to resist only to be pushed savagely back on the ground again. "Hah!" ejaculated the same voice. "His head Is harder than I thought His little nap did not last long. He will not make any noise now to spoil Dollalre's plans and he Is well an chored so that ha cannot rut away to bis friends over there. And, be sides, we will be here until It would be too late for him to do anything anyway." Colln's brain was clearing. He felt his strength returning but he lay without movement now, listen ing. Something had been said about Dollalre, hadn't It? Two men, be could see, were crouched on the ground close beside him. They hsd spoken In French, and It would seem from what they said that they were Dollalre's men! But here now? Ira- possible! Ills brain, still sick, was playing tricks upon him. "A knife would have been better," came the snarling response. "That wouldn't have made any noise either." "IELL, to," re use It now, it you want returned the first speaker shortly. "For me, I don't care. But you will have plenty of killing to do, my good plg-stlckor, before the night Is over, and since this one here can't fight against us now, tor me he doesn't count any more." "Tbanksl" growled the other sap castlcally. "But I don't care, me, either." He thrust himself forward toward Colin. "You hear?" he flung out. "Vou are In luck." Gagged, Colin could not have an swered If he would. He had closed bis eyes, striving desperately to make sense of what had been eald about Dollalre, and he gave no Indi cation ot being aware that he had been addressed. "Try your English on him, Bap tists," laughed the other man. "The apaches from Now York don't speak Fronch." Baptlste Ignored the sally. t "For the love of God," he grum bled Impatiently "We are all here long agol What Is Dolllare waiting for? He's had time enough, hasn't he?" "For me, I would soy no be cause he Is still waiting," came the dry reply. "Listen! Dollalre Is no fool. He has the cunning ot a fox, that boy! What does he do tonight when he finds out from that fellow Bouchard that there Is a short way over the hills and through the woods? He comes that way there Is then nd risk of the schooner being seen by any of them out there In the moonlight And, besides, we save all that time." Baptlste answered with a grunt and tho two lapsed into silence. Colln's head throbbed as though a thousand devils were pounding hammer blows upon it, and as they pounded they seemed to mock and Jeer at him In unholy mirth. Despite the pain, his mind was lucid now, functioning normally again. All this fur nothing! He was too late. Dol lalre and bis men were already here. The start that he had counted on, the time enough and to spare, had simply not existed. To go overland, If one could, Qer malne had said, would cut the time In half. He had thought of going that way himself but It had never entered his hend that Dollalre would land his men at Cap a l'Orage. It had taken approximately two hours to make the trip In the launch. It was Dollalre who bad reached here first with time to spare. Colln's mind was working In little rushes now as though It were toss ing before him parts of a picture pusile to be pieced together. La rocque and Bolduc, taking Bouchard with them, he remembered, were to have left the shack to keep their rendesvous with Dollalre shortly after he had started back tor the village, so Bouchard, ot course, had been on hand to act as guide. Bouchard would not have led them through the village. ... No one at Cap a l'Orage would know anything about It . . . The loot ot the club could be neither bulky nor heavy It Dollalre was prepared to bring It back overland and . , , fCopyrlpht, JUJ. Frank L. FaeVard) Colin Itarnt mors, tomorrow, ef his murdtrout companions. Initiative petition to amend the con stitution of Oretion limiting the tax on real propery to 25 mills a year. This limitation would be similar to constitutional limitation now In Wahlr?ton where real property may not bo taxed more than 40 mills In any one year. The present tax In Portland Is 47!, mills. Phone 843. We'll hsui away youi refuse, city sanitary Service. CHIEF OF POLICE STOCKTON. Cel., Aug S3. (API Chief of Police B. W. 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' TAILSPIN TOMMY "Splitting" The Treasure! fu Ui UAL FOB-iCSX j jSjj BOUND TO VTCN- Briar! : ; By EDWIN ALGER M EeJ (iiS14tlui " NAJ&L.L, I'M SO MCvO I'VE SOT " -iHI EE1" WOKJEVSOCKUe.' I FORSOtN f f VWWW SHOULD I EAT IM MV ROOM ? X i!?SeST!OM UT lM PW"ld6 TMEV OBE3S FOR OlKlKJER HERE- ,-riTTrr. lp 1 WAS A BIG MAM I'D GO DOVAM E 000 WHETUER 1 EAT Vr ITS SUPP03EO TO BE fk PtACETO fflW--flv , I KJ THAT DitOIIOS ROOM IM OVERALLS IT OR WOT 5 VU. SO OOuJU AMDy I COME AMD ReLAV-TMEOWLY &JVtH:::-i, ' MiT 1 GUESS I'M MOT BI& EWQUSN j MU53 OP A LOT OF IT. AJUO COULD KglAX IK1 AM CjOTFITX -t - jfHf f - T A.TO DEFV OPlMIOfO SOMEBODY n , 7 1 & , LIKE THAT 13 ThEHEAD rCs " Wtt(t " MI6HT TMIMK 1 HWteo'T GOT ! BRINGING UP FATHER oy Ueorge McManua I lOn, ""OSE A.RE LET, GIT I ""ej-- ' ' ' '"" '1 j 1 fl -, I !P 1 O-YLONS AWAV FROM s-,7 ------J i ' WILL 'YOU I I Ifr EO OV EEM --T r I RVfM.y ) STOP BEING . k J I I! m A"' r- DONT WANT Mu . , A 60 ICNORAMT-? , a KN'lp I ML,Lr NOAIRbH,p StBmm, I LOOTJTHe fc THAT'S THE Jj I Vri "TO PILE OM LOOK AT THAT j V OA-SoJ I IKaV TRAVEL. f fiS.PV X MY AKJJ" V STUPID-THAT-d oV- THERE- ' 5 1 9L.ILDIMC- rTf. II I M II (MM mm MiiliPfe , There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. Turlock Is convinced Inst pickpock ets plica t&elr trade during the mel on carnival In Turlock last week. After many people baa complained of pojJcet thefu, officer here were told exiay, chief Gaddy vlalted the carnival to make a personal Investi gation. In one pocket be carried a bulgy vallet In which be placed a note rt-adlng "Did you ever set fooled'" After spending an hour on the grounds he returned to the oMIce with Bis wallet still In bis pocket, but bis associates revealed that on opening It he found a different note saying: "Quit your kidding." Beld. Murdock Co, eanners of the Monarch brand Bartlett pears, will be represented at Medford this season by Myron Root By C. M. PAYNE TAKING LEAVE ' Bv gluyas williams U. S. HAS LARGE WASHINGTON, Aug. S3. (API There was approximately one billion bushels ot wheat In the world on August 1 and the United States had about 10 per cent of It ActuAjy. the figures stood at 650.. 000,000 bushels and 385 8.11,000 bush els respectively but they were the largest In all history tot that date. The world total was 180.000,000 bushels alrger than a year ago and topped Vie previous . high record by 120.000,000 bushels. "-a tmn-tr e !( I I 1 1 1 ' 0 A J B. C. Circulation The United dtates find as much wheu; as the combined stocks of Canada, Australia. Argentina and all other exporting areas plus grain on ocean passage. Broken windows glazed by Trow ondge Cabinet Works. Real estate or Insurance leave IS to Jones. Phone 698.