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SYNOPSIS: Curt Tennyson has
clipped awav from his camp in ths
Canadian wild, hurt and a Uttl
Bewildered, tie and hit partner,
Paul St. Clair, have picked up flon
ya Volkov, taved her from certain
death at the hand of the Klosohee
Indian, and Curt ha fallen in lav
with her. Now he find eh ha
sent a letter deolartng her lov to
Igor Karakhan, millionaire orook
whom Curt i trying to bring to
justice. Unable to fare Sonya'
treachery. Paul too paddles away
from camp.
Chapter
CURT DECIDES
nAUL wondered If Curt would
throw up this Karakhan caae
altogether. What a atow Sonya had
made of ltl Except for her, they
would already bare closed In on the
man. Not only had they wasted
precious days, hut their best hope
bad (one glimmering, the hope of
shadowing LeNolr, for without a
doubt he suspected them now and
would never let them follow blm to
his chief.
Occasionally he glanced down
toward the Iskltlmwah mouth, but
aw nothing of his partner. A little
before noon be could stand It no
longer. Dropping down lake, he
landed and walked back Into the
pines.
Curt was sitting against a boulder,
tracing meaningless patterns on the
wolf-foot with a stick. He was
iplunged Into deep thought, motion
leas, a dead pipe In bis teeth. His
llace was gray and haggard, his eyes
had a hard light In them; and when
jho looked up and smiled, It was a
bitterly cynical smile.
But In splto of those ravages and
of the many times, wben Paul had
'aeon the steely aolt-control that lay
jdeep-down In Curt, be was surprised
that his partner could have taken
'o terrible a blow and then, within
the apace of a few hours, could have
(shaken It oft and got himself In
hand. He no longer seemed confused
and bewildered, as last night at the
entry rocks.
Curt pointed with the stick. "See
that pair of black lilies there, nod'
, wing their heads together? The
mailer one Is Sonya Volkov, and the
other la her Cossack. I'm going to
pull Karakhan'a head off In a mln
lute. I'll do It as an agent of the law,
tnd not out of any Jealousy over her.
iord, nol I couldn't be jealous of
'anything that he owns. I'll take the
blossom over and give It to her, and
then, after we nail him, I'll toll her
rwhat I meant by It."
'Nall hlra'T You're still going
bead with this hunt?'
"Why not? We started It, we'll go
through with It, And from now on
there'll be no more pussyfooting or
generosity to strangers. 1 want to
get through with this mess and get
back down north to our Three
Rivers country. I've been thinking
of the Nahannl Mountains. Pros
pecting In the Nahannls will be a
good way for a fellow to forget."
He got up, put on his Jacket, and
plucked the taller of the two black
lilies. Over the other one he hesi
tated a moment A shudder went
through him as he took hold of It.
But then with a savage gesture he
larked it up by the roots and flung
It away, and brushed bis hands.
"How're you going to find him?"
Paul queried. "LoNotr Is suspicious
of us. He won't ever let us shadow
him now."
"We won't try to shadow LeNolr.
We've got an eastor way of finding
Karakhan. Sonya Volknv has been
hard luck for us so far, but we're go
ing to turn her Into good luck. We'll
use her. It's only fair; she used us."
"Use her1?"
"Well, she's going to him, Isn't
he? What's to prevent you and me
from following hor? She'll be a
doien times easier to shadow than
that bush-sllnker. We'll use her as
our bait. She's a pretty bait When,
he goes to Join him, we'll go along;
and when she gets there, we'll be
'there tool"
j A ITER a day and night of hard
traveling, LeNolr stood In Ka
Takban's cabin once again. "DIs Is
your," he said, and with no other ex
planation be handed over Sonya'a
letter.
; "Mine?" Karakhan echoed, struck
all In a heap, "It's for me. you say?"
His face turned ashy. "Who knows
I'm here? Who In hell pumped that
out of you ?"
LeNolr trembled. "Head heem." be
urged. "You onderstand. don."
His eyes wont to the table behind
Karakhan where lay hie chief's
heavy automatic. He backed up a
atep, and bis flugors closed over an
lron-tlpped ski staff leaning against
the wall. If this girl waa no friend
of his chiefs but an enemy who was
playing some Infinitely clever game,
Karakhan might shoot blm In his
tracks.
Karakhan ripped the envelope and
held the letter to the window where
the gray dawn-light was filtering
through. In bewilderment he
scanned the first few lines, then
whipped over to the last page and
glanced at the signature to see who
bis correspondent was.
"Sonya Volkovl"
"Den you know her? She no He to '
me?"
The question went past the Rus
sian unheard be had turned back to
the first page and was reading the
letter with an lntentness that shut
out everything except the words be
fore blm.
Even yet LeNolr could not tell
whether his chief would burst out at
blm In a fury or would Oil his pocket
with money, as the girl had said be
wonld. He watched anxiously. ,
But then, little by little, he saw
bow bis chief was taking It Karak
han'a anger and astonishment
passed swiftly and changed to dis
belief, as though he simply could not
credit bis good fortune; and then
came a leaping exultation which his
habitual cold mask could not quite
hide.
"Where Is she, LeNolr?" The
pages quivered In his unsteady
hands. "Why the devil didn't yon
bring her along with you, man?"
LeNolr drew a breath of Immense
relief and his Jumpy nerves
smoothed themselves out The girl
had spoken the truth I
"She down der at dat camp wit'
de u'ders," he explained. Thinking
this a good chance to impress
Karakhan with - his caution, he
added: "How I know wedder she
talklt straight or not? I don't know
she aw-rlght, ontll you say. Me, I
don' tell nobody were you hide, and
I don' breeng no strangers here."
"But you should No, I suppose
you did do right, since you didn't
know the uh, circumstances. Sit
down. I'll get some coffee for, us."
AS LeNolr eased onto the wall
a bench his glance strayed out
the window to the landwash where,
half a dozen lean honey-colored
huskies were nosing along the water
edge tor dead fish. A pistol shot
east of the hangar fourteen birch'
bark canoes lay side by side on the
sand like basking seals; and In tht
timber Just behind them smoke was
rising from three big campflres. The
party was the Black Grlizly and hie
men, on their way south.
They bad come a hundred miles
without stopping even tor food, and
another hundred lay ahead of them.
The sight of them comforted
LeNolr a lot, after his two dismal
failures to wipe out Ralston's party.
He certainly could use thirty more
men on the Job, One awoop and
smash, and the business would be
done.
The Russian came out of the
boarded-o(t kitchen with a pot of
coffee. He poured two tins and laced
them with brandy. LeNolr drained
bis cup at a gulp. Slowly sipping his,
Karakhan listened while LeNolr
told him of the happenings down
river. -
About the two suspicious strang
ers who were drawing closer and
closer to his hiding, the Russian
asked no questions just then. He
was unable to focus his thoughts on
that pair the sentences of Sonya
Volkov'a letter were galloping too
madly through his mind, and his
emotions were too much In a turmoil
over her. She waa near htm, within
a hundred mllesl In five or six daya
more she would be there with hlml
LoNoIr suggested carefully, "She
tell me dat you be veree 'bilge' for
me breeng you dis letter and you pay
me somet'lng, mebbe." He thought
It good policy to mention the money
matter while his chief waa still In
the first flush of elation and more
likely to be generous. "W'en I go
on dat waelow Islan' I take beeg
chance on walk Into trap; and den I
make his long treep fas'ern hell."
Karakhan took out a billfold, se
lected a yellow note and passed It
over. LeNolr blinked bis eyes as hs
saw the denomination two O's trail
ing a 6. His eblet had always paid
him very handsomely, but half a
thousand dollars, tor one trip the
girl's letter must have hit Karakhan
hard I
"There'll be others like that" his
chief assured, "when you bring
her here to me. Several others.
You'd better get some sleep now.
Slam-Klale'e outfit got In Just a little
while ago and they won't he ready
to start on till nearly noon."
(Copyright. William B. Uowtry)
Ksrskhsn, tomorrow, mlhM
soma significant preparstlons,
SALEM, Dec. 33. (AP) Marlon
county's civil works program for un
employed women will begin Monday,
Q. C. Kilos, local OWA administrator
announced last night.
Projects already approved will em
ploy 20 women at repairing books and
cataloguing and Indexing work at
libraries In the county. Several other
projects are under consideration.
Today will be payday for 1400 men
employed on clvll works projecte In
the county. They will receive ap
proximately II 1.000, Nile said.
Commenting on reports that a few
of the relief workers were not shar
ing their checks with their famll.es,
Administrator Nlles aald some of the
men may face suits for non-support.
Be correct. corseted in
an Artist Model by
Bthelwyn B. Hoffmann
SILVER PROGRAM
WASHINOTON, Dec. 23. (AP)
Senator Bora,h (R., Idaho) today ap
proved President Roosevelt's silver
coinage plan but said It was a "mere
Incident to that of broadening the
metallle base of our money system."
"I hope," Borah aald In a formal
statement, "we are to regard this as
only a step toward the goal the
restoration of silver to lte ancient
place alongalde of gold.
'I approve the action of the presi
dent for the purposes for which I
assume such action was taken," Bo
rah aald, adding:
"But of course such sctlon does
not, and I assume was not. Intended
to deal with trte real question of
the remonetlratlon of silver. It Is
st most the first step."
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