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Newspaper Page TextPAE TETT MEDFOHD MAIL 'TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933. kt .ill VI1UI1ILIH V ILLL I S!SJ f WlttirtAAA Riihnu ITImiwiniL SYNOPSIS: Juat before reach ing the lantt ot the danaeroue Klotohee Indiana. in tha Canadian Korthueat, Curt Tennyson and Paul St. Clair, trailing the inter nnfionaJ orook. Igor Karakhan. ioin varttee tctth Bonya and Ralph Jtchola. The tchola are on a mye tertoua million then villi not die cuaa. Tha party iuet haa beaten off an atlaok by the Indiana, but an unfortunate ehot by one ot ita luldea haa eliminated all possible ty ot making trtenda. Curt la In tereated In Sanyo, but aha will not . Itaten to hia oleao. Chanter 24 uRRAND OF MERCY WHEN they got down to camp they found the place badly shot up. Arrows bristled In tha canoei, tuck out ot the packa and sleeping bags, and both tenia had been rid dled. Paul went Into his tent for a flashlight and came out, holding his left arm queerly. "Give me a hand wltt this, partner." "What'a the trouble?" "One of those mosquitoes bit me." Curt leaned forward. "Good Lord!" An arrow was sticking In Paul's left forearm. It bad struck hlr lust below the el bow and passed clear through, the head uanding out two Inches on the other side. "Paul I Why didn't you tell me about this before? When did It hap pen?" ' "When I was going back to those boulders to make Francois and Jocku quit s booting." Curt whirled around In a rage and looked for the two guides. But they had wisely sidled away Into the dark. , "Old It break your arm Paul?" "No. It olid between the bones. Pull It out, won't you?" "It's going to hurt, Paul. Can yon tand It?" Paul braced his foot against Curt's. Sonya steadied his arm. With a Arm pull Curt drew out the arrow, as gently as he could. A spasm ot pain swept across the young Canadian's face, but ha did not say a word. A trlcklet of blood followed, surprisingly little for so bad a wound. "We ought to be thankful it didn't bit that large artery In there. Paul. I'll flx this up properly, and then yon want to take care of It till It starts to heal. A wound like that can be lisly If It gots Infected." While be was bandaging Paul's arm he heard a low groaning sound from somewhere out In thp night. A moment later It came again, more distinctly. "Why, It's somebody hurt. In pain!" Sonya exclaimed. "Paul, did you catch the direction?" "Over on that willow island." "Then it must be the man tbey shot! Those others thought he was dead and left him." Finishing quickly with Paul, be got a canoe ready and carried' It down to the water. The anguish In that low moan tugged at him. Sonya followed blm to the water edge. "Please, Curt," she. begged, "don't run a big risk like this." " 'Risk'? What d'you mean?" "Those others might still be over there. This might be a trap. Don't go." Bhe was visibly afraid for ;blm. "Walt till It gets light." "But Paul saw them leae, Sonya. I We can't let the poor devil He over i there and die." 1 "You're sure there's no danger?" "Step in," he bade ber, by way of answer. "You can go along. It yon like. You know I wouldn't take you It there was any risk." P T the willows edge i Klotohee, clad In moccasins and deerskin trousers, lay sprawled on the gravel, face down, his body twitching In pain. Curt knolt down and gently turned him over. The Indian was about his own age, a well-built and rugged man, his balr coarse black and his skin the color ot smoked leather. All In all he was the wildest-looking fellow that Curt bad ever run across, 'much wilder than the outlying 81 kannl nomads or the primitive Din' neb men of tha Nahanal Mountains. Yet there was something likable about his untamed fierceness. Be Was cleanly of person, as ban aa an oak knot, and bis smoke-tanned clothes had the pleasant odor of mountain pines and Innumerable campflroa. Curt pointed at Ave long whitish weals which scored the Indian's left cheek and ran down his shoulder to his breast. "Look at those, Sonya. He's been In a light with a grltsly some time or other." He examined the Indian to see how badly be had been shot On bui ld had struck him In the shoulder, a painful but not critical wound, for It bad not shattored the bonos. An other had bit bin squaiel) In the forehead. That forehead wound astonished Curt. It was the first time he bad ver seen a man take a bullet be tween the eyes and not get killed Instantly. The fellow certaltly waa hard fighting grizzlies and surviv ing a ehot In the beadl He brought water and washed thv Indian's tace. A granite pebble, no larger than a pea, was lodged In the forehead wound. Curt pried It out wltb bis knife point, examined the wound and the grsjilte pebble, and auddenly understood what had happened to the Klosohee. One of those heavy Winchester bullets bad iplaatci Into tha gravel lu front ot him, kicked that stone against bis head, and knocked blm senseless. Stretched out limp, with a hole between bis eyes no won der the others bad thought blm deadl The cold water on the Klosobee'f face brought blm to In a few mo ments. Wben he saw that a white man was bending over blm, bis eyes turned suddenly cold. His glance fell upon the bunting knife In Curt's hand, and bla expression changed to a stony tight-lipped defiance. Too weak to move, be merely stared np at bla enemy, and waited. "Why's be looking a: yon that way. Curt?" Sonya askea. She had stooped down to hold the Hash. "Good heavens, be thinks I'm go ing to kill html" He hastily pocketed bla knife. ''Well, he's certainly a stoical cuss!" HE spoke In the Jargon to the In dian: "Don't be afraid. I am friend. I bear you say hurt-cry, and I come over here. I take you now to my tepee and make you no-slck. Yon understand I am friend?" The Indian's look slowly changed to bewilderment. He bad expected the white-skin to gloat over him be fore finishing blm off, and the stranger waa speaking In tones of sympathy and kindness! "What name you?" Curt asked. . "Hal-ee-Tenn-Ogshamowam." Curt smiled. "S'pose 1 call yon Tenn-Og, bub? Now we take yon to tepee." In tbe tent he gave the Klosohee a drink ot diluted brandy to brace blm. and then began dressing tbe wounds. Tbe shoulder bullet bad gon- almost entirely through. Curt extracted It, stopped the bleeding, bandaged tbe wound, and stuck a cross of plaster on the forehead cut. Feeling stronger, Tenn-Og leaned back against a pack, vatchlng tbe three. "I guess he's convinced we're not jolng to kill him, at least not Im mediately," Curt remarked. "Now let'a try out his lingo, Paul, and aee If he speaks anything besides gristly bear and porcupine." They managed a three-cornered conversation. The Indian talked readily enough, freely answering all their questions about his people and giving them some Invaluable blta of Information about Slam-Klale and LeNolr. Cust waa surprised that he should do this and should seem so Indiffer ent to his own elan. It was only later, when he knew Tenn-Og better and bad heard bis strange tragle story, that he understood. He learned that tbe southern band bad broken away from tbe main group because ot Slam-Klale's tyran ny. Middle-aged, apparently bavlng some queer twist of cruelty In bla make-up, the tribe leader ruled wltb a brutal hand. Within Tenn-Og's memory he had killed three men outright and made broken crlpplea ot several others. Besides that, he possessed a shsman power of deal ing some quick mysterious death to anybody he disliked. "Sounds like poison," Curt re marked to Paul. "I shouldn't be sur prised to find LeNolr Is slipping him that powder. Say, I wonder If this Isn't the explanation ot LeNolr! stand-in with Slam-Klale:" "Let'a ask him about the man we're Interested In," Paul suggested. "Better not, Paul He might get back to his band and report onr questions." He turned to the Indian and went on with his questioning. LeNolr bad planned the attack that evening. Tenn-Og said, but bsd stayed on ths mainland ahore and taken no part In the fight. He had ordered that the men should be killed, their bodies sunk In the lake with rocks, and their canoes set adrift down tha Lllluar, to give the appearance of a raplda disaster; but the white girl must not be hurt. It they could pos sibly belp It. Curt wondered why LeNolr bad given those orders about Sonya. Certainly be hadnt Intended that she should return to Russian Lake, tor she would report bow the party bad met Its end. Hsd be wanted ber spared for himself? lOooyright. 1(11. William B. Uoxcery) , Monday, Curt suddsnly dssldss en a trip. SALES TAX ONLY HOPE OF SCHOOLS SALEM, Ore., Dec. 14. (AP) The ssles tnx, calculated to roduce coun ty tax levlca approximately one mill and to relieve distressed schoola, Is the only present salvation for schools, C. A. Howard, superintend ent of public Instruction, said to day. "Regardless of varying theories of taxation or the desirability of using other sources of revenue, the fact remains that the sales tax Is the only way now open for savlnfr many school districts from disaster," How ard said. "After other proposals hart failed It was enacted by the legislature as an emergenry meaaure to keep the children in school and to keep sciiool districts from becoming paralysed by a burden of warrant Indebtedness. "Heavy tax delinquencies have played havoc with the schools and win continue to do so until property Is relieved." Allow Increase Redwood Quota PORTLAND, Ore., Deo. 14. (AP) A production Increase of 19,000.000 board feet In Uie redwood lumber division tor the first quarter of 19.14. compared with the laot three months ot this year, waa authorised today by the national control committee ot the lumber code authority. Kid Party Planned The high school people of the Presbyterian church are entertaining with a "kid party at the church this even ing, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. An Invitation la extended sll members or ths Sunday school snd sll other high school people, who are not sttendlng other Sunday schools at Una Urn. 9 DIE UNDER SLIDE GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Dec. 14. -(AP) Nine men, members of crew working the second day on ft federal civil works project, died yes terday In a rock slide. There were reports two more were swept 300 feet down the face of ft cliff in the Colorado national monu ment, northwest of here, and a search was resumed today. T. 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