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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
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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.