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PAflE SDC MEDFOTtD UATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNEgipSY, DECEMBER g, 1933. Vll Ul 1 1 LI K VI I LLL I sy1:- fl WittiniM Phi mi fTlrmlehu. SYNOPSIS: At union Lata . the Canadlin Arlfcuiear, tafcart ;. is eearching tor Igor Karakhan, itt ternationat crook Curt Tennyeoii media and saves from a drunken hatf-brsed a Russian girl known as Sonya Nichols. 8he ts deter mined to press on tnto the land 01 the dangerous Klosohee Indians, apainat Curt'e advice. Ourt U chagrined to find that his tto enemy, the halt-breed In the eaee to Karakhan's contact man"; hm obtains a map at the Lllluar terri- tory from an Ola trapper, however, and determines to protect Sonya ae beet he can. Chapter IT OUT OF THE FOQ TWO mornings later, at tier camp forty miles up river Sonjra awoke at daybreak, parted tbe tent flap and looked out, Ralph and the two guldei were still rolled op In their sleeping bags. Through the gray smoke mist ris ing from the cola waters ot the Lll luar, pairs ot nesting teal and ducks lipped overhead, their swltt wings whistling long alter the birds were (wallowed up in the mist. Overhead Id the tall pines little Tlreos and llamfrcolored rarblera, flitting through the branehes and darting jont Into the air, were already busy wun ine neagnng prooiem. Stepping down to the water edge. he propped her ulrror against tone, bathed her face and hands, and braided her hair. Back at the IcampSre, she raked some coals out lot tbe ashes, got a fire going, and 'cooked bacon, trout, scones and cof jfee. Ralph and the two guides stlU showed no signs of waking, so she 'took a small bucket and started up a mountain torrent to a thicket of jred raspberries. i Not long after she reached the .patch, she happened to glance back camp auu woe siarueu u see canoe nosing out of the river fog, a canoe with two men In 1L They glided ashore, beached tbe craft and walked up to her fire, with their rifles In tbe crook of their arms. And then she recognized them as Curt Ralston and hie young partner! They were a welcome surprise, out of the fog. For several reasons she was never 'gladder to see people than those two. But what were they doing up the Lllluar? They hadn't mentioned that they Intended to come north from Russian Lake. Through a screen of boughs she watched them a minute. They did not wake Ralph or the guides. Curt pointed at her breakfast keeping jwarm In the ashes, and looked around for her, evidently knowing iane was up. " She stepped out to the timber edge. Curt saw her then and came up along the torrent. "You're awake early," he greeted with his likable smile. He was casual enough, as though Just meeting some chance acquaint ance; but Sonya saw tbe man'e tribute to her In his eyes and noticed how his glance clung to her face and hair. She felt sure he had not come upon her camp by accident but with aome definite purpose. "I couldn't sleep with a morning like this Just outside the tent," she answered. "Your breakfast looked so good that Paul and I almost grabbed It and broke for tbe woods." "You will stay and hare breakfast with us, won't you?" "It you'll let me give you a band (With that berry-picking." ; "All right." ! He took up her bucket, and they rwent back along the torrent to the patch. "I didn't know Paul and you were 'Intending to come up this way," she Iremarked, bending down a tall briar. , He answered her unspoken ques tion. "We're prospecting up the iLllluar." eONYA did not know whether to J believe blm or not. Ever since meeting him she bad been trying to figure blm out. He eertalnl7 didn't appear to be a prospector. He was imllee above the type. Eicopt for her Itther, she bad nev er met a man whose quiet efficient power Impressed her as much as his. She hated to think that bi was Just a drifter, leading a caiefree exist, nee. That was all right tor the men at Russian Lake, but he had better stuff to him. "Paul and 1 are going up as far as the pass," he volunteered prosently. And then he came out with the pur pose of his visit. "If there's no ob jection on the east side of the fence, our parties could sort ot be neigh bors. In this country people usually throw In together that way." Ills offer, as fine as It was unex pected, nearly took Sonya's breath. She wanted to snap it np Instantly i before be could change hie mind. rwo days 01 river travel nan snowea her bow little she and Ralph knew about tbe Strong-Woods and bow worthless those laty gulden were.1 With Curt leading the party she could feel safe, and It anybody could get on good terms with the Kloso hees, he was the man to do It. "If the Idea doeen't appeal to you," he said, "please lon't be hesi tant about saying so. You mustn't let us break Into any of your plans." "Oh, but It does appeal to met" "You like It, thenr Sonya hesitated. In Curt's tones and his manner she could see that he waa Interested In her. On a lengthy wilderness trip together where the.v would be thrown Into constant Intimate association, he might come to like her a very great deal. It wouldn't be right to allow that. "But youH be traveling so much faster than we," she objected. "Oh, no; we'll be taking It leisure ly, scouting for float as we go. To be frank, I don't believe you and Ralph are used to water-dogging on a mountain river. Till you get on to the hang ot things It mightn't be a bad Idea to have a couple of experi enced people along. Also, It those guides don't prove dependable, you wouldn't be left In the lurch." "Your offer Is magnanimous, Curt." She stumbled Just a little over bis first name. "I don't know anybody else who'd have made It But we'd be a positive nuisance." "Your company and Ralph's would be a real pleasure to us both. Talk It over with him, won't you T" Still wavering, Sonya looked down Into the torrent, where a number of tiny trout were darting about in a pool like little flashes of sunshine. She knew that the safe unselfish thing was to refuse. But then she thought that If she steered their association . carefully she could guide It Into a comradely friendship. And she did need bis help so badly. With her it might make all the difference be tween success and abject failure. We might we could try it," she assented Anally. "At least we can start out together, and If It doesn't work we can always split up." As they went on filling the nail Curt congratulated himself on hav ing neatly solved a tough problem. He would be going up tbe Lllluar on his own business, and at the same time Paul and ha could look after Sonya's safety. And he would have her company for a week, a week of wilderness travel with her. At the pass, when she and Ralph came face to face with the Klosohee danger and real ised how serious It waa, they would undoubtedly turn back to Russian Lake. That would free him and Paul, to go on Inside and nail Kara khan. . "pHH report to which Karakhan had Just listened make him un easy. His cigarette, forgotten, burned to ashes at his elbow, and hi fingers, long and sensitive aa a musician s, topped the rough table thoughtfully. Looking past LeNoIr. he stared out the cabin window at the lake, pondering the 'breed's sto ry. The account might be a lie. Le NoIr might Just be trumping up a non-existent danger In order to lack his pay higher. But then the story might be fact. With fiftr hard canoe-mllea be hind him since dawn. LeNoIr leaned back against the log wall, watchlna bis chief sharply. This man of the steel-cold eyee and calm voice one could never so much as guess at his thoughts. One only knew that he was great ly wanted by tbe Yellowa'rlces. that he bad burled himself In these moun tains to shake oft the police and that ha was planning flight away at the end ot summer to aome new land. About his getting drunk, his light with Curt and hie shooting up their tent, LeNoIr had wisely eald noth ing. He knew his chief too well. Karakhan would not hesitate to pump a bullet tnto any person who endangered him by going on sprees. In his way LeNoIr was altogether loyal to Karakhan, who had been very generous to him In the matter of money. The 'breed nad a code, such as It was. Ha had bargained to protect the Cossack, and he waa giving everything he had to that Job, for he waa hard-set In his loyalties aa In his feuds. (Ocpyrtght. 1111. milium B. Mowers)) Karakhan, tomorrow, asnsas a earlous dsngtr. SHARE SAYS ICKES WAflHIVOTON, Dee. 8. Wf) Secretary !cke today expreaaed the opinion that 19 states and the Dis trict of Columbia had been allotted, public works funds In eicras of amounts believed by the administra tion to be equitable. He said that, although the ad ministration would contttnue to con alder projects from thces states on their merits, they would have to be a little more discriminatory until other states had more nearly reached their quotas, The states described aa having ex ceeded their quotas were Arlsone. California, Colorado, Delaware. Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Ne vada New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ore iron, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. BWX?Sr WORTH .tf&'A IANF OHIOAOO, Dec. . (UP) King of North American wheat growers for the next year Is Frank tssckcon of Elfros, Bask. Isackson won his crown today In competition with 200 exhibitors of the continent's finest grslns at the International Livestock exposition. It was the fourth oonsecutlve year In which a Canadian grower has won the eoveted honor. The winning exhibit, Just a few handfuU of the hard red spring wheat of the reward variety, became prob ably the most valuable grain In North America because of the Importance attached to the "wheat king" title among growers of seed. The same type of grain was ex hibited by Herman Trelle of Alberta, who won th echamplonshlp in the preceding three years. IGNORED BY BRITAIN LONDON, Eng., Dec. .fl) Great Britain's answer to Irish Free State President De Valera's question sa to whst Oreat Britain would do If a Free State republic were declared wss a refusal to consider such a contingency, J. R. Thomss, dominions secretary, told a packed house of commons thst the government treated such a contlngencsy ss Involving a purely hypothetical assumption which the British government declined to entertain. WOMAN IN BATH DIES WHEN LIGHT TOUCHED LADYSMITH. B. C Dec. . (UP) When she touched a light globe while standing In her bathtub. Mrs. H, Blckerton was Instantly electro cuted at her home here today. S'MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE r AU.-T34t,TCIii.T1.jK SfWrSnr I CH-TAICT ) WOT J VJttAT AUoo-r yf-tsmi i if 'r" l ess (Copyright, 1933, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 5TM AS SECRETS By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS x-b WAFERS IHTo UV1H6 ROOM fcSSOOtf (6 HC APPEARS MCffHcR AND AONf SOE FAU SHEW AND THEN B6IK SPEUIH6 EvTRf 1WV SOr1 KOTVERV IKltRESfifft f VoODOMTKWOv. 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