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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.
OG1
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WORTH
TOPSLASJ WEEK
PORTLAND, Dec. 26. (AP) New
biulneAs totaling 33.969,000 feet, 31
per cent greater than for the previ
ous week, wu reported by the West
ern Pine association today for the
week ending December 16. The
week'a business, however, was OT per
cent under the three-year weekly av
erage for December. Of the 136 re
porting mills, A3 were operating.
Shipments were 33.785.000 feet and
production 30,876.000 feet, putting
1 production at 19 per cent of capacity
compared with 21 per cent for the
previous week and 33 per cent for
the year to date. Current orders were
16 per cent of sawmill capacity.
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As':or May Be Peer.
LONDON, Dec. 2b.(UP) Major
John Jacob Aator m&y be elevated to
the British peerage on the king's New
Year's honor list, it was reported here
today. v
WASHINGTON, Dee. 26. (AP)-The
radio commission today granted a
renewal of license to the Oregon
State agricultural college station.
KOAO, at Corvallls, Ore. It also de
nied the application of the Eastern
Oregon Broadcasting Co., Inc., which
asked It be a&sJgned KOAC'a facili
ties and be permitted to construct a
new station at La Onr.de. Ore.
The commission said the eastern
Oregon company "has not shown auf
flclent financial resources or ability
to assure the establishment of the
proposed new station upon sound fin
ancial basis."
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