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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, JIEDFORD,. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933. P.YGE TEN kt Mi ill UUIUILII V I 1S-1-L. s K, til ',!!lnM Ruhovt fTlmueJui. tlYNOPalUt The severest blow ot Curt Tennyson's life comet when he dlacovera that Jb'onya Volkov, chom he line saved rom dcitlh in the Canadian wilderness at the hands ot the danaerous Rlnsohee Indian, was secretly trying to roach Igor Karakhan. For Cart tt tracking down Karakhan, who Is a millionaire, and a crook. Sonya just has met 'Teeste he Nolr, Kar. akhan's contact man, and persuad ed him to carry a letter to his chief. Chapter 31 SONYA'S LETTER !k 'EW -nal Instructions from - Sonya and grunts of assent from LeNolr and their brief meeting ended. Sonya refloated her canoe and crossed to camp. Le Nolr -Talked back through the willows to lis own craft and vanished toward the mainland shore. After they had gone, Curt got up, haky and cold, with that terrible coldness which had come oyer him when he first heard Paul's report. 'As he stared at the dark' channel which had swallowed her enjioe, all his previous questions about her 'trip, all the puzillng aspects ot It which had so limitnllv Hear. I In Victoria she had known Kara 'khan, had been attracted by his Paul saw no trace of guilt brilliance, bad fallen under the spell cf his magnetic personalityas Hel en Matbleson and others bad done. And after bis disappearance she had started searching tor him, to be with him again. Somehow she had found out in a general way where he was biding ud had persuaded Ralph to come north with her. The pretense of the scientific work, her passionate deter mlnatlon in the face ot every dan ger, her secrecy, defended so tight ly -all that was clear enough to bim now. He understood, too, why she bad staved him off; It was a friend's act, to save him pain. Stumbling through the brush to ,the island tip, he swam back across the channel, took off his clothes and lrrung them out and dressec again. Be tumbled In his pocket and got out Paul's copy ot Sonya's letter. He still dreaded to road It, but now he was driven to. In spite ot what he had heard, his hope In her Integ rity still flickered. She might have lied to the 'breed. TTB made a told of a blankot to bide the glare of hi . flash and 'laid the lotter Inside. Except for the salutation and a tew stray words. jit was all In French, the courtly 'French ot one educatod Russian to another. Loubemet Moy: 1 know what a shock of aurprlse this will give you to learn I am seeking you and am bo noar. Please, F lease don't become Instantly angry, have not endangered you by this beslra. In everything i have said and done I have taKen the utmost care to guard your safely. I hail to come, as one Tnust breathe to live. Why did you f o away ao audilenly, without a word o me or even a hint of where we mlRht later be together agalnT Driya and weeha with no niosxnge from you 1 nearly came to thing that you had forgotten your "little puritan" : but I would not allow mv eelr to believe that. Oh, It wni lone ly In Victoria, with you gone, wllh Carl and father gone ao long to Vladivostok. Your sharp disappearance was an awakening for me an unbearnhle realisation of what t had lost when you went. I knew you would have taken me with you had It been pos sible, and for a time J lived upon the hope that you might be able to send me word of whet you were: but when the slow weeks passr-d and no word came, my work dropped from my hands and 1 began searching for you. I would have come to you even If the path led back across all the horrors of those earlier years. You are.d-mnndlng to know how 1 found out where you went. It was a task of black discouragement. No one else, certainly none of those tuptd police, could ever hare fol lowed your trail, but I knew yon were acquainted with Jim (iunnar, who la doad now and hia llpi sealed ; and he told me, guardedly, that you were hiding somewhere in the Lll luara. . . , . It was my Intention to make friends with the Klosohees and And you through them, but then I took the notion that Le Nolr was In your ser vice, and the guesa proved right For the rest, this Le Nolr will tell you of the party X am with and my situation. I have arranged to meet him and he will bring me to you. . . . When Paul lay down In bis tenl that night, he Intended to go back out and join bis partner as soon as Curt returned from the willow Is land. But two days and nights ot guarding the camp all alone had tired him more than he realised, and be dropped off to sleep Is spite ot himself. It was long after sunrise the next morning when be woke up. He stopped outside the tent and looked around. On the other side of tbe boulders Francois and lockj sat off by themselves, smoking stolidly. Sonya had breakfast almost ready, and Ralph was trying to help her. THE camp scene was peaceful and ordinary, as on a dozen other mornings, with no suggestion of treachery abroad; but Its peaceful ness was ghastly to Paul, knowing as be did that one member ot the party was on ber way to join Kara khan and last night had connived with the vicious Le Nolr, who bad tried three times to kill Curt and himself. Curt was not about His canoe also was gone. Somewhat alarmed, Paul took the binoculars and swept the lake. On a pine Island near the Iskltlmwah mouth he saw Curt's oa noe upturned on the landwash. He understood. Sonya came over to the tent, bare headed In tbe slant morning sun. Her eyes sbowed signs of sleepless ness, but In ber gaze Paul saw no trace of guilt or shame, only a com radely friendship as she smiled good morning. '.'Paul, Where's Curt!"' Paul steeled himself against hei witchery. She seemed too splendid a girl to write that letter t . Kara khan and to betray men wbo bad been her loyal friends, but he knew what he knew. "He'll be back after a while, I sup pose." Sonya's eyes opened wider at bis sharp tone. "Did you sleep well last night. Paul 7" she asked casually. Paul smiled grimly to himself. It was an innocent-seeming question, as clever as a well-set ptarmigan snare. "I slept very well," be answered her. as poker-faced as she. "One does, after two nights awako." "Won't you come and have bronk faat7" she Invited. His unfriendli ness hurt her, and she tried to be nice to him. "Thanks," Paul rofused. He felt that he could eat no breakfast that she had prepared. Not after what she bad done to hla partner. "When I want breakfast, I'll get It" "Why Paul!" she exclaimed, sui prised .and wounded at his rebuff. "What's the matter?" Paul took a pleasure in turning on his heel and walking away. She do- WASHINGTON, Dec. 32. AP) The Administration today disclosed that a rush of foreign liquors Into the United States had brougiit a ma jority of the Import quotas near ex haustion, and at the same time moved to combat domestically what Attorney Genera) Cummin gs described as "a rather wholesale plan to violate In ternal revenue laws on liquor." The attorney general told newsmen the entire force of 1170 prohibition agents will be deputized by the in ternal revenue bureau, to prevent bootlegging and other Illegal liquor operations, SALEM, Dec. 22. p Final hear ing on valuation of the Northwest ern Electric company was being held by Public Utilities Commissioner Charles M. Thomas here today. Oral discussion was declared preliminary to the order on rates and charges to be Issued shortly by the ctvnm las loner. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Dec. 22. P Z. D. Banner, former president of the Commercial National bank here, and John H. Cunningham, prominent lo cal attorney, were arrested today in connection with a 9250,000 mall rob bery In Chicago, December 0, 1033. Federal agent arrested Bonner here, and a deputy United States mar shel took. Cunningham from, a St. Louts bound Katy train at Austin and brought him here. They were arrested on fugitive warrants based on indictments returned In Chicago. OR. LOWELL REFUSES NRA CINEMA POST WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (Pi -Dr. A. X-awrence Lowell, president emeri tus of Harvard university, has writ ten to Hugh S. Johnson, declines appointment as s presidential mem ber of the motion picture Industry code authority under NRA. S'MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE -tW Caw-ATi. it J ' Jl ' ) T-t"W. SoTME-Tiu-T-rETCtTD I i ' ( AHit5wTTCTLT5ot4- I 6-lcxji-3) Tie. Tou T V f J V. f 7?M 1 llSr r w-tfl fts-l) (Copyright, 1933, by Tbe Bell Syndicate, Inc.) kA THE SECRET ROOM By GLUYAS WILLIAMS WISHES HEKWEWWMM IS IN E ROOM "Surf's AIWAV6 KEPT" latKED BEfORE CHRrSTMW best or-iriewmy m W.WAM5 P0PPM46 W AMP OUT ON SKRE-f ERRANDS Biff MPS NER AUOWED ivl PECHJK If-EPFS r HARM W VAIKIM6 UP axd town past -me lKftH5ftfXrVH0l. MttrtER'S USUAUY WrtlS PER1N6 10 SOMEONE IN IrlERE, BUT NOBODY'S IH IkfRE NOW ON GENERAL PRINCIPLE LOOKS fHR006H KTV H0LE BlK CANT SEE IDLY "TRIES DOOR HANDLE AH.fi.0U6H HE KNOWS DOOR IS ALWAYS 10CKED ' 6SWIED.-I&FIND TrtKfDOOR OPENS I SOMEONE TORCOf fO Lock if SCRUPLES BETWEEN CUR H O&rt- AND CONSCIENCE. HA SUDPEN PANICKY" TSli IM6, CLOSES TO0R HASTILY; AND SCURViFS DOWNSTAIRS 6iirrs WMU WHS (Copyright, 1983, by Wis Befl yndicats, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY The Wreckage Identified! By GLENN CHAFF1N and UAL FOBKESI uauArs tommv DdIN .' Hto CHASIN' THROUS H TH BRUSH LIKE A BIRD Francois and Jocku sat off by trem t selves. served, he thought, to do o worrying: about how much ha itn-rr. Getting Curt's rod and turtle, 1? paddled north to a rocky headland and killed three hours by prelenltr, to fish in the swirling shallows. CCopyriuM. 1JJ irilllon B. VotrrvJ Temmor'row, Curt eomea te s painful decision a,bout Sonya. FALL PIG CROP DROPS UNDER PREVIOUS YEAR WASHINGTON, Dec. 34. (IT) The total fall pig crop for 1033 was estimated today by the bureau of agricultural economics at S per cent below that of 11)33, with a decrease of 8 per cent In the number ot sows to farrow next spring. Tbe total pig crop for the entire year was estimated at 80.ong.000 head, about aoo.ouu larger than In 1933. V I DON'T KN01O, BUT HE'S h'. 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