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MEDFOHD MAIL 'TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.
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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.
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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. W. .Secrest, V. 8. park service en
gineer, attributed the tragedy to
blasting on the opposite side of the
canyon. The blasting apparently loos
ened the 50-foot sandstone cliff tow
ering over the toad on which the men
were working. Earlier blasting to
loosen rocks farther above also weak
ened the cliff.
Residents of Meacham, Ore., bid
"Old Oeorge," a pet elk, during the
fall hunting season to save blm
from ntmrods. 1
BATTLE VICTORY
(By the Associated Press.)
Paraguay claimed a victory today
in Its wsr with Bolivia in ths Chsco
Boreal.
Prom Bolivia came the announce
ment of a new chief of staff for the
Bolivian arm.
Asuclon. capital of Paraguay, re
ported the surrender of more than
13.000 Bolivian soldiers Monday and
the capture of large quantities of
Bolivian munitions.
ANOTHER APPEAL FOR
BRIDGES TO BE MADE
SALEM, Dec. 14. (AP) Another
personal sppeal for the Oregon cu.u,t
highway bridges will be made by J.
M. Devers of the state highway lie
partment who leaves for Washington
Friday to confer with Senator c. L
McNary and the public works art-mtnlstrator.
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BEN WEBSTER .VOUTOLD ME
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LUKE .VOLi'Re A PRINCGT AND
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come heps and Live with Vou
BUT IT WON'T P,r TO ?VOF
MONEY BECALiee X HAVE MONEY--
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IT LOVELY OF YOU-Mft.JICCb,TO
GIVE THE YOUMG ORLs OF OUR
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