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PAOTC STX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1933 kt cnppinnnM VAiitv '111 W IIUILLLll VI ?r?r- tni Illiffi'nAM Buhow PlouiOul SYNOPSIS: Jlavtng beaten off a email band of Kloaohee Indiana, Curt filea to Vancouver tor infor mation about Ralph and Sonva Xichole who are bound on a dan geroue mtaeton in the Canadian iiorthweat but villi not tell what it ia. Curt hlmaclt ta tracking doum loot Knrakhan, wealthy crook who hae taken refuge in the Indian country. Curt ia reporting to A. K. ilarltn. hie old chief in tho Royal lfounted. when Am Baldwin tcle phonca that he hae a line on Ralph Xlchole. Chapter 27 SURPRISE FOR CURT "TTAD do trouble with Nichols; J- didn't have to go farther than the telephone book to place him, continued Baldwin. "He's lived here in Vanvouver meat of his Ufo, 1 find. McGIll graduate, start captain over- eas, got a V.C. at Vlmy. For the laat ten years he's been with a city con structlon company. Their head arch I tect now. Bachelor quarters at the Trailer Club. Nothing out of the or dinary about him that I could dig up, and I've been digging some," "What about the other personr "I've got you a bang-up lead to work on. Just talked to a. couple of Nichols' friends who've ' met her several times. Her name's Volkov, Sonya Volkov. Lives In Victoria. teaches In a private school, and's secretary for the Emigre Society of Canada. That's all 1 was able to find out, but I've located a party here who knows her very well, and 1 think he can give yon a lot of detallsaboui ber. Shall I ilp around for you In the staff cart . . . Good, I'll be there In twenty minutes." Volkov, Sonya Volkov Curt re peated the strange name to himself as he went back to the porch. At least he knew he. name now, and within an hour be was going to And out something about ber life, ber background. After that she could never quite vanish from him. He rejoined Marlln outside. While they waited, A-K remarked casually: "Did you know that Laydon, the head of the Provincial Police, Is go ing to be relieved this coming fall?' "Is that soT Who's taking hie place?" "You." Curt's cigarette dropped from bis Angers. "I?" "It you want It. I've been doing some quiet investigating and 1 know the lay of the land A'dozen political hangers-on are after the Job, but the Premier doesn't want that kind. He phoned me yesterday and asked when you could come to see him for a personal conference. I can tell you positively that It you want the Job I've got enough support lined up to swing It for you. "No " he waved Curt's Interrup tion aside "don't thank me. I'm not doing this because you and I happen to be friends but because I consider you the best available man for that Job." Curt wanted nothing to do with the offer. One as It was. He saw It as another attempt of duty to keep him from returning to the far North; another of the Invisible bonds that ere being thrown around him But till he did not refuse It outright, then and there. Baldwin came, and they started down town. Parking In a section of dingy stores, Baldwin took him up a creaky stairway and knocked at an apartment. A young man, a stocky hatel-eyed foreigner, opened the door, saw them, and bowed politely. "Meester Baldween? My fader he ozpect you and your freund. Kum In, pits." He led them Into a small sitting room and stepped out to get his father. URT glanced about the room. Everything In It breathed of imperial Russia the Ikon of Holy Mary, a sword above a bookcase, a cheap lithograph of Nicholas II, a Kremlin snow scone, a samovar on the table. It was typically the dwell ing of an emigre, living In poverty, futllely hoping that some day the old order would be resurrected from its grave and they could return to !bomeland, estates, ease. An old man came In the room, fol lowed by the son. His hair was white, his thin face ravaged with furrows. Curt Judged him close to eighty. He was astounded later to learn that the man was only fifty-seven. Baldwin Introduced: "Feodor Pie khanov, I want you to know my com rade, Mr. Ralston. He is the one of whom 1 spoke." The old Russian bowed graciously and made them welcome. Curt pitied him. His hand was bony, he looked to tired and despairing, and his eyes seemed to hold some great fear In their depths memories, probably, of that horror trail out of Siberia He broached bis purpose care OREGON DISTILLERY 1 FIRM IS ORGANIZED SALEM. Dec. 18. (fp) The Urn articles of Incorporation for a du ttlltry alnor the Knox taw waa piuui-J were 1 1 led here by the Pacific state Dlitlllery corporntlon with headquar tera in Portland. fully. "Mr. Plekhanov, as my friend here told you, I'm a government agent gathering data about the vari ous foreign associations In this country. Our object is altogether friendly; we're merely making rec ords of their personnel and activities. Miss Volkov Is secretary of your so ciety, and I'd like to And out a few facts about ber. My friend tells me that you know her quite well." "Yes, I know Princess Sonya for twelve years, and ber father before that" "Princess Sonya J" "Her father Is Prince Stephn Vol kov." Curt caught bis breath sharply, "Prince?" he managed. "A courtesy title?" Plekhanov smiled, a bit conde scendingly. "You know very little about Russian heraldry, friend. The Volkovs are an old Kiev nobility, on of the oldest in the Empire." He told bis son, "Bring our guests the picture that Prince Stephn gave us." Curt whistled beneath bis breath. Sonya's father a trlncel He had sus pected she was well-born. But be bad never Imagined that ber blood was quite so blue, and she herself bad not once hinted that she was of noble blrtb. "You mentioned her father does he live here In Canada?" "At Victoria. And ber brother Carl." "What do they do?" 'When Prinze Stephn first cam) over, he accepted work In a lumber yard as a grader of timber. Like any common muzhik." Plekhanov mad a gesture of shame at his country man's lack of pride. "He rose In his employment; he Is some official now, and Carl is a Held expert for the com pany. For a time Sonya was govern. ess In a rich family at V'ctorla. Now she la teaching language In a pri vate school." THE son banded Curt a photo, a medium-sized studio portrait. With a queer mixture of feelings Curt looked at the picture of Sonya' father. At bis first glance be saw Sonya's resemblance to him ber stubborn determination and that proud poise to her bead came natu ralhe could see the traits In every line of ber father's face. He passed the photo to Baldwin and listened to what Plekhanov was saying. He had first met Prince Stephn more than a generation ago In St. Petersburg, Plekhanov said. A man of brilliant parts, Sonya's father bad been very close to the Imperial court at one time, but his liberal views finally brought him Into clash with the reactionary clique that sur rounded the Czarina. As . a genteel banishment to Siberia, he was mad commissar of the Crown forests along the Yanlsel. When the Empire crashed, he threw In with Kerensky's Provision al Government, organized the vast Irkurts region In southern Siberia and ruled It for the White Partisans. When Kerensky In turn was over thrown by the Leninists, the Reds put a price on his head. His long liberal record did not save him; a nobleman, an estate holder, a mod erate, be was automatically con demned. At Irkutsk, Sonya's mother and sister and younger brother were seized and shot, their-home burned, their immediate friends killed. Her father was at Vetemsk on the Lena when he got word of the butchery, and by a provident mercy Sonya and Carl were with blm at the tlm. Taking his two surviving children. he fled Into tht Lena Woods on horseback, a bunted fugitive; and begnn the long bcrror of the escape. "I met the Volkovs In a woods on Lake Baikal," Plekhanov recounted, his heart full of his subject. "Sony was but thirteen then, and her brother fifteen. It had taken Prince Stephn all winter to bring them across that four hundred miles from Vetemsk. They had frozen, starved ; had been wounded; bad fought bat tles to get through the cordons of their enemies. Once they met a rov ing party of Terrorists, six of them, and wiped out all six and took their guns, horses, food. They were all three wounded badly when they came to Baikal, and sick with mala ria, and nearly driven mad not by what they had endured, but by what they had seen. Our little band of refugees at Baikal were betrayed by a fisherman. A company of Reds, recruited from the convict colony at Chita, sur prised us one night and rode down our camp, with pistols and axes Only a few of ns managed to escape In the dark and across a river on Ice rafts." ICopvrtoM nil. William B. Hewer) Curt hears, tomorrow, s .strange thtory eboul Sonya. Members of the firm are Will Red head, JR. Fred Emery, O. M. Atllann and Frederick Piper. The capital stock la 110,000. Christ maa cards, all kinds and brlces. nrlnted or blank. Order now, time ia short. Mall TrlbunV Job De partment. BIG 5 WORTH BEAVER COINS OF E ALB AN 7, Ore. 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THEV ' NAME WAS I AfTeRT6LUH'THe M16Hl, EZRA PARTON,TH6 FORE SEE WO 1 HAVE YES, I HEARD IT DIDN'T EVEN GIVE THE POOR J- VMILHOIT, THE POLICE WHAT WB J BUT I 1 MAN OF THE TROPICAL LME, VOUHEAD U LAST NIGHT, AND FELLOW A CHANCE FOR HIS S PAPER9AID--J HEARD AN'SEEN? DON T 1 16 SOINnDBE ABLE TO SET ' S THE NEWS? kl READ ABOUT IT WHITE ALLEVI6HOTHIN DOWN ) HS WAS WOULDN'T THAT ( THINK ANVONETO WORK FOR HIM? , . lSHj list THE PAPER INTHE DARK! AN' 3U9TTHINK,L BRAND NEW A GIVE 'EM SOME; WE ft AFT ERTWO MYSTERIOUS WHygggTHIS MORNSING BENJHEMMUSTVeBEEN n-11 ON THE JOB, KINO OF A LINE ON J OUSHT K NUSDERftTWELL,! SHOULD j IE TECr C THE NEBBSLucky?- " : By SOL HESS ' : BRINGING UP FATHER THERE ALONG DISTANCE 'PHONE CALL FOR VOU - I THINKJT'S FROM VOUR WPS.- lS I PUEAAIMT ?J 1 K J A There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B. C. Circulrtion pieces sought by collectors, are on exhibit at a bank here. The coins are minted at Oregon City under the Oregon provisional government In 1849. Dies were made from wagon tire. About 6,000 5 and 3,650 610 gold pieces were made, from the pure rcwtal. The coins bear & fac-slmlle of a beaver on a log on one aide. Oregon was essentially an Inde HIT A TT Rumors Make Skeeter WELL, HE GOT NfvoU'R.G. A LUCKV WOMAu LUCKV ? WE'S VOU SO OKI HOME ANJO KEEP VOUR &&n rr, - 1 6BABBE LiZLV SOT MV BOAJDS 1 MOUTH SHUT THERE IS SJO WEED OF ZTefT Y erITMJlo i TIMeL TO BP vou IanjD Mowerv 'twe whole towsj wowikis about twis. Zlf VF w,s CAT: ,u HACy proving vjhat a fool A TH1S STOKV IS -too-rare awd -too good j ' v A NWOMAM CANJ MAKE ' FOR. THEM I'LL SEE IF 1 CAM GET VOUR - rcu r-- IsaS&I n 1 pendent republic at the time the coins were minted. Territorial gov ernment was not set up by the Un-lted-Btatea until later. Christmas Card's. Time is getting short to get Christ mas .and New Year greeting cards. Order now. See the choice llnea to select from at Mall Tribune Job De partment. Prices reasonable. By C. M. PAYNE Skeptical UlftTEtsl- I fORCOT TO BRING MV FOR BOA I WANT TOO "TO oE.NO IT TO MESV EyPRE'bft IMMEOIATELT- PRECIS JEWELS IN IDAHO HILLS BOISE. Idaho. Dec. 18. JP) Now don't start a Jewei rush but there SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN WRAPPING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS bt glutas williams GOES WTO TEN 10 WRAP UP HIS CriRISfMPft PRE6-ftffS,MAlN-rAlrllN6 THAT Of CoORSE NEED ArtV HELP aoSK POOR MD OPENS KA6WH ALMOSf AfOKCE 1b ffeR TbR TriE SUSSORS MLLArr I I VsHERS. Ift IT? WHAT VOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS.' HOW DO VOU EXPECT ME. TO PlMDIT? OH-ALL RIGHT'. DON'T HOLLER- I'LLPIND IT AN' 5END IT- HUH? YF.S- I CWV ALL THE Bll-Lb AS FA"3T AS, THEV COME IM are diamonds, rubies, opals, topaz and garnet around Payette lakes, 80 miles from here. At any rate there are unless 6am Hayes, Boise attorney, has gathered them all. He displayed a group of them at a local luncheon club meeting and John Carpenter, former University of Idi ho geologist, said likely there we more, not only around the lake b t P OPENS POOR 1b cm. Villi SOMEBODY" 8S1K6 HM SOME fiSSUE WER ANP SOME REP RlBBOH A fttJ MlHOfES LATER EMER&ES h6NN 10 A N00NE HIS HANDLER -rllFS TOR AlMf EM ARE Hvm 5J RETIRES, T)AWlN6 0lK PPKEHTW 5HOUTiN4 FOR -THE IODISE, HPS ClTf HIMSELF BAMDft&ES WOUND AMP C&U.S TOR SOME OKIE TO COME HOLD A T1N6ER ON KNOT'S WHllE HE Tift friEM (Copyright, 1953, by the Bell gyndicste, Inc.) CONTINUED - ruxijn FORGlTS " -L X 7-' some place In the mountains from where they were carried by streams. Oregon Weather. Unsettled; local rain west and lo cally In east portion tonight and Tuesday; little change In tempera ture; fresh southerly winds offshore. Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann's Semi-Annual Clearance Sale Now in progress CD WMI1.Y DROPS EvTRV WIK6 To LOOK FOR THEM UNTIL HE CALL'S NEVER MIND THEY'RE HERE, Iri WITH ANOTHER BUNDLE EMERGES fit LAST Wlfij BUNDLES WHICH WIFE WILL WRAP ALL. OVER. A6AIN To MAKE 1HEM LOOK 'PRESENTABLE By GLKNN CHAFUN and UAL 'FORKESt By George McManua I WISH MAGGIE WOULD M ' t) OUY THINGS TO KNOW
