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PAGE FOUTt SIEDFORD .'MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON', TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1933. tnmmm VALLEY 111 S IIUIIVI.I" - BYNOP81R! Igor Karakhan. wealthy crook hiding in the wild Canadian northwest, is overfoyed to receive a letter trom Bonya Vol kov eayina the ie joining him. But Curt Tennyson, who is trailing Karakhan, has seen a eopy of the letter and tt has killed his love for Bonya, whom he hae protected in the wilderness. Curt, embittered, plana to follow Bonya to Kara khan. And Karakhan oongrattt latee himself on his luck. Chapter 38 THE DEPARTURE AFTER LeNolr had gone to Bleep, Karakhan left the cabin and Talked down the lake shore, uncon sciously seeking the open where walla did not limit his mood. He could hardly yet believe his good fortune. He had never dreamed Bonya was searching for him or even that ahe liked him well enough to join him. He could easily Imagine It of Helen Mathleson or others like her, but not ot Sonya Volkov. In the course ot his dealings with her father and brother at Victoria, he had met her and Immediately thrown over the Mathleson girl for her; but she bad proved the most elusive creature of bis wide experi ence. At times be bad even been a tittle afraid of her and now she was actually coming to him. He believed be understood those lz weeks. Her letter, especially one sentence of it, explained her aloof ness there In Victoria. She'd been playing a girl's shy game with him, leading him on, perhaps feeling her self hampered by the presence of her father and brother: but after he had dropped from sight . . . "Tour disappearance was an awakening tor me, an unbearable realization of what I had lost" ... No coyness there, but a cry of abeer longing for him! A mile down the lake shore he came to a small cove, screened by weeping pines a beautiful little retreat with Its tinkle ot water and cent of cloudberry blossoms. Lean ing against a llcbened rock, he watched a pair of Harlequin ducks tipple and feed In the shallows. In the back ot bis mind he was Imagin ing Sonya Volkov there wltu him In that seclusion; but ' his thoughts were gradually sobering, for those two auspicious strangers kept In trading, a jarring discord In his (ancles. He knew now that they Here not prospectors, whatever else they might be. Gold hunters would hard ly have disregarded that warning at the pass; and after that night at tack they would certainly have got out of the country as fast as a canoe could take them. To judge by LeNolr's account they were a pair ot competent devils, A small voice whispered that this Ralston was one ot those damnable Mounted, who had struck his trail somehow and was sticking to it like human bloodhound. It put blm In a dilemma. He was In danger and ought to escape. Though LeNoIr had thirty-some men bow and stood every chance In the world of wiping that party out, still omethlng might slip up and those two might bore 'on through to his refuge. By all the rules ot caution tie ought to go. But to leave Just when Sonya Volkov was on the way to him and be had the prospects of having her there during the soft summer moons i . . For oner he could not make a clean-cut decision. Suppose, he reasoned, that he let LeNolr go south with the main band ot Klosobees and spring his attack. LeNolr could send back runners and keep him constantly Intormed of what was happening. If Ralston was killed and all danger from blm was ended with the bang of duality, well and good; be would stay there and wait for Sonya, But It Ralston was not killed, be would escape. There would still be time. That plane In the hangar was n ace np the sleeve. It gave one an lmost msglcal power of vanishing. TT bothered blm more tba. a little 1 to think that he might have to leave Sonya In the lurch, so helpless, o far back In those appalling moun tains. But he had long since passed the point ot allowing any scruples to atop blm, or any dalliance, however pleasant, to endanger blm. His own safety came first. On bis return be stopped at the hangar and looked over the plane carefully. It needed a bit ot work frayed control leads to replace, fouled plugs to scrape, a few trifling adjustments to be made; but In gen eral ft uad coma through tho winter In fly-away shape. He cheesed the gas again to reassure himself. The wing tanks showed fifty-four gallons, with six more In the emer gency, and ten extra gallons still in one of the drums which LeNolr had brought. Seventy gallons altogether. It would take blm to some coast town tar south of Novonesky. .'.nother bop would put blm In Seattle. Thirty hours after leaving his hiding In the LUluars, he would step out on Mexican soil, safe from extradition and with no tracks left In the pathless sky. At noon, when the Klosobees be gan waking up, be went In and roused LeNolr. "You go back south with Slam Klale," he directed, "and book up with those eight others. Your first move, will be to get Miss Volkor away from that party, so she won't be exposed to any danger. Then choose your time and place, and fin ish this business off. Don't try to ambush or outwit those two. When you've got an advantage of eighteen-to-one odds you ought to use It by making a bead-on attack. It may cost eight or ten men, but we'll let the Klosobees do the worrying about that." LeNolr nodded. He was not fool ishly confident, be knew what a ter rific fight' Ralston and bla partner would put up; but tbey were only two men, against three doten. The others did not count Nichols was a raw tenderfoot, and those two guides would not be worth anything In a showdown fight "Don't run any risk yourself," the Russian cautioned him needlessly, "You won't have to. Let the Kloso bees do It Now, Just one other point If anything at all goes wrong, mean It you don't kill those two at your first smash, firs a runner to me at once. I want to know about It I'll coma down there and help you out You'll do that now?" LeNolr thought It odd that his chief, who alwaya before bad kepi strictly away from danger, should want to get Into this fight personal ly. But he promised to send the word. They walked outside to the Kloso hee camp where tba men were get ting ready to shove away. A silent tight-lipped band, tbey were going about their little war with no cere mony or fol-de-rol. Even t Kara khan, who was heartily tired ol them, they were an admirable body of men. Slam-Klale, trundling along tbi water and giving orders, was thi only repulsive one ot the lot Hall a head taller than any of the others, he had the massive build of a grizzly, tbe close set eyes ot a carcajou, and an Indomitable physical courage which overawed even the mountain men 'that he ruled. He could be de pended upon to put some fire Into tbe attack. Tbe little flotilla pushed oft and started east along the ahore. When they had disappeared around a head land, Karakhan pulled the plane oul of Its shelter and set to work on It The overhauling Job took blm six hours, but he did It thoroughly. CURT looked up from cleaning bla rifle. "You aaw some caribou, you say?" be asked ot Jocku, who stood in front ot blm with gun and canoe paddle. "Where?" Jocku pointed down lake at a birch Island, barely visible In tbe twilight "On dat'n. Francois and me, 'bout ten mlnlt ago, we saw 'em edge out to drink and den trotnp back Into de bush." The trip seomed sate enough to Curt His party did need meat as Jocku said, A yearling caribou would come In handy. "All right go ahead, you and Francois," be consonted. "But don't stay down there and let dark catch you. or these Klosohees might shoot out cauoes and cut you off." . The two guides promised him and hurried away. Curt was glad to aee them go. Ever since his party bad broken camp at the Iskitlmwah mouth and come on north, tbey bad lived In a nervous funk. A bit of hunting would do them good. When he had finished with bla rifle, he began loading extra Diana sine clips, to be ready If something unexpected burst on blm and Paul before morning. From signs tbey had noticed that day ha believed that Slam-Klale's main band had ar rived and was camping over on the northweat shore. LoNolr had prob ably got back todt It so, the stage was all set tor trouble, a whole bar rel ot It The camp was entirely safe at present; aa long aa Sonya was with tbe party LeNolr would hold off, for a fight would expose her to danger. But as soon as he got her away, LeNolr was going to touch off the avalanche. (Copyright, mi. William B. Koicfry; Tomorrow, Sonya maktl over turos of porco to Curt, New Pine Schedule PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 39. (AP) The Western Pine Association an nounced today that e new schedule of mtnlmum cost protection prices applying to ponderosa or California white pine, Idaho white pine, sugar pine and other woods of the western pine division will become effective Jan. . Fiend At Large OKAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dee. So WP) An attractive young woman whose batteml body was found todny In a meadow outside the city limits with three bullet wounds In the bead was Identified es Mlas Margaret Peavy, 39. The girl, a deaf mute, had been missing two days. 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