MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, JIEDFORD,. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933.
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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
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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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SCRUPLES BETWEEN CUR H
O&rt- AND CONSCIENCE.
HA SUDPEN PANICKY" TSli
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AND SCURViFS DOWNSTAIRS
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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.
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Y BEAR CAT AT SOLVIN' Al ) TE.U. VOU? TO THREE-POINT,? S THIS NECK OF THE LAST -SUMMER.- JTxL US HtSH AN DRV
W.--!iS R.V0DLES AN HE HAS JB. 'jLtS. .GUQ HE'S FOUNO JlJ AT ALL-- J S U30OOS-- lOHlLE MAKING "h3I AS FAtt AS
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BOUND TO WIN Luke Has His Doubts
By EDWIN ALGER
(h E V.4.0, LUKE ! Wt Alt'T WAPPH 1 h TO BE ON HAND ATf iS
1 60T THE JOB ! W I AM TO HEAR Nlt-JE O'CLOCK TONGHT WDflgg
I GOT THE JOB ! Kl VOU IT I WORK UNTIL SIX lr-4 THE ffip
L HELLO. V; BUT WHftT TIME MORNING-EZRA PARTON W WHAT 1
3. BRIARS! E '. J V.DO VOO GO TO HIRED ME, BUT 1 REPORT W KIND
--1 fmLS- -- -rt sflWORK? DIRECT TO MR. ASA MOORE -J OF Pi
lil
1 HAVEN'T MET HIM
VET BUT, GOSH,
LUKE, IT'S GOING TO
BE EXCITING! I'M
60ING TO HWc TO
CARRY A REVOLVER
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FIRE V01TH FIRE
BUT, BEN, ME BOY,
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seeiN vou goin
DOWN THERE TO
THAT
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THE NEBBSSo Near And Yet So Far
By SOL HESS
wft.T IOOM 7 , W f 5V, HA.V6 VOO X VES, HE MUST X ' T HEPCOuao Wu. VOHEeN T 1 TOL VOU
fwE'THE bus , TSlJrt I J -sot a FSJetoseR. ) f ee aroumo herecA -that PfeuLeR eY"e WAS A
I STOPPING UP ) tVr THAT'S) Vl,W v ( A FLOW WITH A pcACS GOT ?TM15 .3 TWt fM-S?.-sLICk:e.R. WE V
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V-- V ' tJAl 35 AMD COUL.O BSL-50 V CORMERS HADE. VWEJU., I'M BEWIMO HIS OVUeJ J
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BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManus
"Piety Hill" section ot California's
83-yeara-old mining town. Oraas Val-'
ley, has stiv-ets with names chosen
from the Bible, Including Zlon. cieth-
aetnane. Jordan, Cross snd TrlbUia
tion Trail.
CZLn t'A
71
ARE YOU CiQIMG
Itsj THE POOL
t--il-R'5-OICiGS
N-E-b- MVDEAR- BUT t
MO-"T PHOWE TO MY
HUBAMD B IR'bT- YOO
KMOW HOW Wtr GIRLS
ARE ABOUT OOR
MU5I3ANDS-
OW-'K'i-M--'GGlE' EVERYTHING
AP(AREOTmThe SOCIETY
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WORRY- I'M CLEANlN' THE
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PER ONCE p WHAT YOVJ BELONG TO LO-5T- I'LL COUMT t
1 IN IME LIFE g WlO- CM g THE P MEELriwNNS.E
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