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PAGE SIX StEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933. ,11' ' 1 1 Ui 1 L LI t V1UUUI v- tl Witt'inMA Ruhnu fflrviilohlL SYNOPSIS: Curt Tennyson and Paul St. Clair art trailing Igor Karakhan, millionaire crook, into the wilde ot the Ltlluar. They hav0 joined parties tolth Sonya and Ralph Nichols. Sonya and Ralph claim to be entomologist on a ci ontitlo expedition, and to be troth er and elater. Curt, who is much interested in Sonya, finds they are neither eclentiste nor related. Son tin ie hound on a eeoret mission, and will not explain it to Curt, who neverthelese promisee to protect her ae beet he ran against the dan gerous Klasohee Indians, whose territory they are entering. Chapter 21 THE BATTLE AT THE mouth of the pass the next morning, Curt atood up In hla canoe tor a last look ahead. To get hla party through that narrows waa a Job that he would gladly have h ".tided to someone else. He bad the uneasy feeling thateyea were watch ing his three canoes and dusky hands were toying with fluted ar rows. The pass waa more than a mile long, with a atrong current to buck and no midstream Islet to take refuge on. He and Paul bad scouted It out that morning while the others were still asleep, and had discovered only one favorable circumstance. Sometime that spring a lightning fire had awept down the east ahore, cutting a swath halt a mile wide, and burning to the very water edge, Along that whole eaat ahore there was hardly a place where a rabbit could have made Its form. It the Klosobeos were watching the pass, tbey bad to be on the west aide. By bugging the eaat landwash with his party, he could make them hoot all the way across the river. No bows that he bad ever seen could do effective work at that distance. Before sitting down, he gave his final orders'. "Paul and I'll lead, Eonya and Francols'll come neat, Ralph and Jocku last We'll keep strung out In single file so It'll be harder to hit us. One other thing nobody shoots at those men unless I say shoot Jocku, that's meant for you and Francois." They skirled Into the narrows. In pita ot the stiff current they put the rode behind them, hoping to lide through unmolested. A quarter way through. It hap penedthe thing Curt bad expected. Twenty yards ahead ot his canoe something plunked Into the water. Watching the opposite shore closely, he saw second object, so swift that It seemed a mere flash, come whizz ing out ot a rocky ravine and sail 'across the river In a low -graceful arch. It too fell ahead. Another and another followed, not aimed at the three craft but delib erately placed In front, as a warning to turn back. They came faster and faster till perhaps fifty arrows bad been shot. Then they suddenly stopped. The range ot those horn hows dauntod Curt. They could do dam age at tbat distance. They could do deadly work. He stopped and let Sonya'a craft glide up alongside. "You He down, girl, flat In your canoe. Don't expose yourself; you'll be taking chances on your life If you da" He pulled her blanket roll beside her and laid his own sleeping poke on top of It tor extra protec tion. "Francois, you and Jocku dip those paddles deep and tastr The quicker we get through here, the less time they'll have to make targets ot us." They skimmed on, hugging the east landwash. AS THEY came exactly opposite the rocky ravine, the Klusoheea opened on them again, thta time in ' earnest. If the arrows bad come singly, they could have been dodged by an alert person, tor their polished beads glinted In the sun and tbelr flight waa visible at the height ot lta arch. But they came too thick to watch. One struck Paul's paddle, upraised tor a stroke, and pierced clear through the ash-heart blade. One bit the canoe In front of Curt'a kneea, clipped through the thin aide, and whanged Into the spruce-gum poL tJeblnd him some body yelled. He turned and saw Francois grabbing at hla hat as It fell Into the water with an arrow through the crown. Ralph bad gone pale, but he kept hla eyes straight ahead and was pad dltng valiantly. Tenderfoot though be waa. In those hectic moments that brought out a man's real nature be showed mora courage than the 'breeds who bad spent all their lives In the bush. Disobeying orders, Sonya hod sat op, aelted her paddle and wns help ing Francois. "Get downl" Curt ordered her. "Don't you know you're liable to be killed" Orrgon Wraftirr. Rain tonight and Tuewlay; cooler north went portion tonight; southerly Clf offshore. World production of boot nnd aliom during the first half of t.hi year reached the grand total of 075, 000.000 pair. Sonya shook her head as though saying, "Well, aren't the reBt ot you?" An Instant later a vicious ar row whizzed over her, eo low that she dodged and gasped. Another splintered the thwart she was littlng against, A third hit the sleeping poke which Curt had placed at her side. It tbe poke had not been there, that third arrow would have ahol her through the breast Francois shipped paddle and grabbed for bis rifle. "Drop that!" Curt snapped at him, "You can't touch 'em. They're Id cover, we're on open water. That paddle will get you out ot danger quicker than a gun!" Bent low, they clipped on up stream, trusting tc sheer luck. Slowly tbe arrows tailed off, began falling behind, and Anally stopped altogether as the range became toe great. Curt let the other two cancea catch up and looked them over. Nineteen arrows In the three craft! It was a miracle that none ot his party had been killed or vrunded. Ralph flicked the sweat from his face and 'stared across at the forbidding woods, wltb fright In his eyes. Francois and Jocku were ready' to turn In their Hacks and whip bock south. Sonya was the cooleat of tb lot. He picked th6 arrow out ot thi aleeplng poke an-) examined It curl ously.' A superb piece of workman ship. Its obsidian bead was pointed to needle sharpness and Its shafi waa neatly feathered with spill hawkqullla. Paul touched hla arm and pointed to the rocky ravine across the river. '""pHEY'REJ leaving ' the ravine. Watch. There by tbe four birches goes one now!" Curt glimpsed a shadowy figure slipping Into a buck-brush thicket Another and another followed. Eight ot them. To be only eight, they cer tainly had let loose a flock of arrows! He knew why they were hurrying up stream. Their first ambush had failed but tbey still had time to lay another one before hla party could get through tbe pass. No use to race them; tbey were loping along agame trail while bis canoes were fighting a ton-mile current. There was noth ing to do but go ahead, keep a sharp lookout, and try to get by them again. He gave the word, and his party went on. ' Near tbe upper end of the narrows a long granite rock Jutted out Into the river, extending fully a third of the way across; ana at Its tip a big pile ot break-up debris had lodged, quite sufficient to hide eight men. Curt looked at It sbarply as tbe canocB approached. It tbe Klosoheea were biding there, It waa suicide to try to get past On above It lay a big river-widen- Ing, the end of tbe pass. It tempted him, tbat broad sun-glistening water. In ten mlnutos his party could be skimming out upon It He reached bis binoculars, drew tbe granite rock up close, studied the pile of dobrls, but saw nothing suspicious. He bad almost made up hla mind to take the risk, when a magpie wltb a atolen egg In Its bill came flapping down stream. Direct ly above . the rock It suddenly breasted up high, nearly tumbled over Itself In tbe air, dropped the egg, and veered abruptly out across the river. Curt and Paul looked knowingly at each other. That magpie was dead give-away. There' were men lying behind tbat drift. The throe canoes, pulled In to ahore and landod. Sonya spoke up. "1 know how yon can do Hi We're not stopped I We can't pose them on the river, but why can't we portage around themf Just as we would at a raplda or tails!" The move waa ao simple and self evident that Curt felt ashamed for not thinking of It himself. If hla party kept three hundred feet back from the water edge, they would be entirely safe. They could pqrtage their stuff at one hitch and be up at that widening In ten minutes. Paul and Francois shouldered one canoe, load and all, and headed for the bank above. Jocku and Ralph staggered after them wltb the sec ond. Curt hsnded the paddles and hla rifle to 8onya, awung np the third canoe and followed. At the bank he put down bis load, told the others to wait there, and started back along the beach. Directly opposite the ambush he walked out on the sand to tht river edge, palma out I: the algn tor peace It waa a risky act; at so short a range he was completely at their mercy. ICopyrtght. 1M. William B. afowsryl Tomorrow, Curt raete death. KlHht hundred men will move 350,. 000 cubic yarda of earth, using pick and ahovela In lieu of power ma chinery, to level Fort Moore hill in Los Atiftrlea, aa an unemployment relief project. There are 30 municipal libraries in Tokyo, Japan. 5 WORTH mi nrfyA'i.i.i..j.uj 1 With the approach of the holiday season, Frank Messenger, Oregon-Id S'MATTER POP "W-AmS J WAS A WTifAii Vl VM&vJ lj was TS fiPT-fje-N -Mow wP "VJ,rf! ( foot 3) ivaC me. rr-t BT DoVeoffi-Jow W T-flevitE's f-He- A. oVta-ict W4, I D I was, a YA Sr"-T ftfaECSt-v Le"T "Wis 1L m V 'J&gP' ' ) IJ (Copyright, 1933. by Tht Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 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Employees paid on a weekly basis are to be paid tielr full weeks salary during any week containing a legal holiday. Employees on a dally or hourly basis of pay need not be paid for the holiday. It was further pointed out that Brownie Disappears MY POOR ClS JOHN OOeW 'Hl THeLU5,0AjliFlUSH?HOUi lfnJ fooMT 6 FLrNNVi?lWoH,HlH?Ht LEFT 8V 1 , IN THIS 6ANS?k, CSv j tfi-gk fiT I OiHER.eS JC nr MUCH DO VOU Jbu fYMASTE( MEAN JOHN yTV FIRST TRUCK - n c'--S.l legal holidays were taken Into con slderatlon when the codes were drawn, and that no employer may require an employee to work longer houra on other daya of the week to make up for the time lost during a legal holiday. Tftat Is, If an em ployee may work no more than 40 hours weekly under the code, and loses 6 houra work by reason of a le gal holiday, hla employer may not By C. M. PAYNE Again DEAR'. I JUST DONV KNOW HOW TO TELL VOO-VOU bEEi WE. 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American Capital corporation de clares dividend of 7S cents a share on $3 cumulative preferred stock first payment since Cct. 1, 1931, TO WAHDER6 INTO 6feTfiR,5 ROOM fO DISCUSS CHRISf MA6 PRE&EWS, LEMK& OHE SHOE THERE TAXES Off OlVlER SHOE While keadiN6 ma&atWE IH HALL, 5H0E KEMAIrMfc UNPER HALL-TABLE COMES ODT WiTh KNIFE. LEAVING 1R0U&ERS ON FATHER'S BED foKES OFF SToCKlNSS ON SIAIRS WHILE tlSUS5IK6 ww mother Whether he HA5)To6lVE AW EM A 'MRlSfHffc PRESENT Bell Syndicate, Inc.) iWm( ftp J. C. Penney Company reports No vember sales of 19.315.788, up 27.T per cent from November 1932. Torrlngton Confpany Increases an. k nual dividend rate from S3 to S3 a, sbsre. 1 The sight-seeing bus has arrived In India, the first line to be operated, for the convenience of tourists be. Ing known as "The Ganges Valley Pullman Service." By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ar&ues with mower, over hail raiuk6 WHETHER HE HAS 1b "PRAC TICE TOMORBCW. 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