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BYN0P8IB: Curt Tennyson had
vomt down out of the tar North to
Edmonton, expecting to take a new
and oood lob. But he decide that
hit old ohtet in the- Royal Mounted.
A. K. Uarlin. needs him worse, and
ttarts out to track down the inter
national crook. Igor Karakhan. At
Vancouver he aatchce Karakhan'
trail, and follow It Into the wild
territory at the mouth 0 the LiU
luar River, uhere he and hie oom
panion. Paul St. Claire, are about
to land at a tinv settlement on
Russian Lake.
Chapter Nina
IN DANGER
A 8 they drew near the landing
s Cart looked down the shore
larva hundred yards and saw (our
Bid titone houses In the middle of a
second-growth clearing.
He knew what they were; at Tel
laeet he had heard stories about
those ruins. An ancient Russian far
post, located there when Washing
ton was leading the now-born Amer
ican Republic, It was a relic ot the
lays when Russia ruled western
America from Nome to northern
California, and predatory Cossacks,
with "musket, sword and the help
If God," gathered tribute for' the
tittle White Father in far-away St
Petersburg.
Except for Inland stations In
ilaska, It was one ot the few posts
which tbe Cossack expedition had
istabllshed at any distance from
tidewater. The four stone structures,
rearing above tbe second growth,
were half-hidden by wood Tines and
wild Ivy, much as their actual his
tory had been overgrown with tale
and superstition.
The canoe nosed In to the pier.
Paul Jumped out and lapped the
painter around a cleat. As Curt
tossed their duffle on tbe planking,
he purposely made a display of their
two gold pans and abort-handled
shovels. Among the men watching
them a trapper nudged another and
remarked, "Prospectors, John."
Beads nodded.
It was as Curt had wished let
them draw their own conclusion and
they wonld believe it far more lm
Illicitly than If Paul and he should
announce tbelr business.
' He Introduced Paul and himself to
the old trapper called John, who
then Introduced them to the others.
Am Cart shook hands around, be
lted up the men swiftly.
Corporal Hodktns, the Mounted
Policeman, was a stolid negligible
fellow who would be neither a help
xtor hindrance. Mlssloner Lesper
ance, a youngish scholar with the
yes of a mystic, seemed to have
stepped right out ot some medieval
cloister. Besides tbe Bay laotor. Ml
glnbotham, there were three young
traprers, a prospector, a man called
Ralph Nichols and a middle-aged
city sportsman with a brassy voice
and know-everytblng manner.
The Indian men. standing off by
themselves, were a shabby vacant
faced lot Under a flab scaffolding
Just ashore seven half-breeds were
smoking, drinking, quarreling. Hod
kins was a poor excuse of a alounty,
Curt thought, to let men drink open
ly In Indian torrltory.
The man Nichols, quiet and unob
trusive, was tbe most Interesting ot
the group. No outdoors person at all
But plainly from tbe city, be ap
peared to be some minor govern
ment official or a teacher vacation
ing In the mountains.
CURT liked him from their first
handclasp. And that liking never
crew less, in the days they were to
spend together. He little knew that
he was destined to travel a long path
with Ralph Nichols and be with
him, his only friend, when Ralph lay
dying beside a lonely oampdra.
"Didn't I meet yon over at Chips
iwyn once?" he asked, to draw Nich
ols out
"No, I never was there." With his
reticent smile, Nichols added, "I'm
a prospector tor bugs an entomolo
gist" "I see. I don't suppose you've got
much competition In this country,"
He invited, "Come down to our place
later on and have a mug ot tea with
us, Nichols."
Picking up their duffle, he and
Paul went down the shore to make
camp. Before dark came they want
ed to gat squared around and also
attend to a certain acoutlng job
which they had mapped out as their
first step there at Russian Lake.
Midway between the modern post
and tbs old ruins they found a suit
able spot close to the woods edge,
and began pitching their tent
Nearer the old post now. Curt could
eae the narrow muaket-sllt windows,
the platforms tor mounting small
brass cannons, and all the tortlike
arrangement of the rulus. It hsd
bssn more a garrison than a fur
post for the Cossacks bad not been
traders but extorters of tribute, and
the had needed defense.
NEW YORK. Nov. 95. (API Joe
eph W. Hsrrlman, Indicted former
head of the Hsrrlman National Bank
and Trust company, was declared
sane today.
Observations disclosed no psychosis,
Dr. Mlnas 8. Gregory, head ot the
Bellevue hospital paychopathlo ward.
declared.
Harriman's prosecution on federal
ch tries growing out of the bank's
failure was held up by the question
of sanity.
rutz, OIU any kind. Quick service
Usdford Fuel Co Tel. sat.
Broken windows glased by
(nwrmdge Oablnet Works,
tm IlJIffinAM RurinM (TlmiiehiL
The main building was tumbling
to decay; briar and vine covered the
slave quarters : the prison house had
been struck by a blast ot lightning.
No tepee or cabin stood near tbe an
cient post; Its very vicinity was
shunned like a haunted place.
Paul started driving tent pegs.
Curt stepped Inside and began ex
amining their duffle, to make sure
he had overlooked no label or Initial
ing which might give them away to
a auspicious prowler. While he was
doing this, he heard Paul atop pound
ing and say "Bon solr" to someone.
Glancing out the flap front he saw a
girl go past carrying a fish rod,
creel and canoe paddle.
He had only t fleeting glimpse ot
her, but that glimpse mads him
straighten up and stare. She was
wearing a blue corduroy dress, laced
moccasins, a tarn, and a sweater
blouse with one elbow worn through.
Her hair was a brownish golden;
she walked along with a lance-like
erectness ot body: and her face he
saw It only In profile was so beau
tiful and ao strange In Its type of
beauty that he kept staring through
the flap-front tor moments after she
had gone by.
When he finished and went out
side she was already out upon the
lake in a blrchbark canoe, skirling
toward a cluster of wooded Islets
half a mile offshore. Treating;, he
guessed. If she was anything of a
fisherman she ought to snag some
big ones In the shallows around
those Islands; but from the awk
ward way she handled the paddle
she was plainly a tenderfoot
He turned to Paul, who was watch
ing her too, "Who Is she, d'you
know?"
"A stranger to me, to my regret"
Curt smiled at his rapt gaze. "Ton
find her pretty, don't youf As pretty
as p'tlte Reglna Ducbarma at fort
ChlpewyanT"
"Almost!"
"Humph! .That'! a big admission
from you!"
THIS girl disappeared among the
Islands. Curt went on with the
camp work. Bending down a near-by
sapling, he tied their grub pack to
tbe top of It and flipped the sapling
up again, safely caching the supplies
from stray huskies.
He stepped back Into the timber
to find a dead birch for fuel. The
tropical luxuriance ot the woods
amated him, even though he had
made trips up Juneau way and
knew the "drizzle country" well.
The pines and cedars were lordly
things, sight feet across the stnmp
and toweling above two hundred.
The air was heavy with the odor
of summer Sowers banked In great
heaps in the open spots. Tbe moss
nnder his feet was like walking on
three Inchea ot sottost plush. The
whole woods waa dominated by
moss. It carpeted the ground and
windfall logs, ran ovsr the boulders
and up tbs tree trunks, and hung
In festoons from the branches.
Tm plain lucky," he thought
gratefully, "to be hunting Karakhan
In a country like this."
He pushed over a dead birch,
dragged It back to camp, and told
Paul: "I'd better step out to the
tradtng store now and get the hang ,
of things there, so that tonight we
can put across the Job we talked
about While I'm gone, you can be
bringing our canoe trom the pier."
When be returned, half an hour
later, Paul was standing on the land-
wash. The young Canadian beckoned
him down.
"That girl over among those Is
lands Is likely to experience trouble
It we don't go over there."
"What's upr
Paul told him. A tsw minutes after
the girl had paddled In among the
Islands, one of those half-breeds
had come down the shore, furtively
secured a canoe, and slipped aoroas
the water on her trait He was
drunk. Pant added.
Curt looked out at those low dim
masaes and swors In perplexity. If
he went over there and Interfered
he wonld make an enemy ot thst
half-breed, and It waa bad policy
to have enemies at Russian Lake.
The girl should have known better
than to wander away at twilight
when Irresponsible men were loaf
ing about the post
But stilt she was a girl, slons out
there. . . .
On the rocky Up ot an Island,
where the waves lapped olosa to her
moccasins, Sonya waa having fine
luck with the butterfly lure which
old John Paxton had made for her.
In forty minutes she had caught
eleven trout some of them so big
that their tails stuck out ot her
creel
She waa conscious ot no danger.
(OopyrtoM. tm. William B. VoiMrvJ
Curt, tomorrow, uKss a hsavy
risk.
Long Mountain
LONG MOUNTAIN, Nov. 99 (8pl)
Howard Gold of Med ford, who hss
been working In Klamath rails, la
pending several days at Mr. and Mrs.
w. R. Holman'a and family.
Delbert Mongol, who has been In
Washington for several months, la
pending a few weeks st Mr. and Mrs.
Oeorye stowtll's. Delbert Is the con
of Mrs. Atowell.
Ross Kline has Inst recently rt'
turned from Boise, Idaho, where he
attend the National Orange.
Mrs. A. H. Case and daughter Alice.
of the Rnxy Ann district, spent Wed
nesday afternoon with Mrs. George
stowell
Mrs. Thelma Short la spending sev
eral days In Klamath Falla visiting
mends.
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BEAGLE, Nov. 34. (8pl.) Mr. and
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born November 19, named Margaret
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Boyle. She has been 111 two .weeke.
Rev. Randall of Medford waa a
visitor at the Antloch Sunday school
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Edler and fam
ily. Jack and BUI Edler, were Sunday
dinner guests at the Zuck home.
Sunday dinner guests at the Bla
choff home were Otto Prey and small
daughter, Eva, Harriet Fry, Mrs. Flora
Prey and family of Lake Creek and
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Purdue of this
place.
Sunday dinner guests at the San
derson home were Mr. and Mrs. Merle
Jacks and baby, Mrs. French, Mr.
Nash and Edward Jeffries of Reeee
creek, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sander
son of the Dodge ranch and Doran
Mom of this place. Afternoon guests
were Mrs. Flora Prey and daughter,
Helen, Otto Frey and daughter, Eva,
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Harriet Frey of Lake creek and the
Reeds of thla place.
Med ford visitors Saturday were Mrs.
Ryan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Grant
and son, Donald, Charles Mulhollen,
Mr. and Mrs. Seegmlller and daugh
ter, Marie.
Seventy grade will put the scene
In the sand box thla week-end.
Mrs. Merle Jacks and baby, Edwin,
of Reese creek spent this week visit
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the first of the week.
Richard, Paul and Mary Sakralda
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