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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.
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