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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUTE, JrEDFORD, OREGON", TUESDAY, JANUARY 2. 1934
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BYNOP1S: Curl Tennyson, hit
partner Paul and hit friend AaJ;A
Aaue been marooned on a Canadian
island without provisions or a ca
noe bti tht Klosohee Indiana. Son
Ia Volkov. whom Curt loves, hat
2ed to Igor Rarakhan. and Kara
han It the orook Curl It truing to
capture. Novj Tenn-Og. a Kloaohet
whott lift Curt had saved, brinot
them a canoe, and tellt them hovj
to avoid the Indians.
Chapter 88
THE ESCAPE
"ALL right," 3urt agreed, "well
try the west But understand
this, If anything happens It can't
happen too quick to keep mo from
putting a bullet between your eyes,
trlend. you understand?"
Tenn-Og nodded, without a flicker
of expression on bis dusky face.
They went back past their camp
Island .nd paddled on west toward
the mainland. They were not chal
lenged. Tareo hundred yards from
t shore they swung south. Still
they beard no signals, saw no shad
owy mottles.
jurt bardly knew what to think.
Twice now the Indian's advice had
proved right, very right By the
route : e bad suggested they bad got
free of the Island and through the
cordon of canoes. That didn't look
like treachery. Furthermore It was
Sonya who had sent him with that
boat; and certainly she bad not
wanted then, to meet harm.
With the wind pushing them
along, they dropped down toward
the narrows where Vrancols and
Jocku had been killed. The memory
of that death cry was still vivid with
Curt As the dark bottle neck loomed
up Just ahead, be touched Tenn-Og.
"Any men guarding that?"
Tenn-Og nodded and held up six
lingers. "When they call, 1 answer,
you say nothing."
They skirled Into the entrance.
The dark timber flitted by, close on
either band, five hundred yards
down, down j.t the narrowest part
they were suddenly challenged. The
voice came from a clump of Junip
ers, ahead of them and on the right
hand ban''. An Instant later another
voice rang out on the left Two bid
den parties, with loss than a bun
dred feet separating them no won
der Francois and Jocku had met
doom there.
Tenn-Og stood up and answered.
Curt held bis rifle at alert with the
trigger safety on red. The canoe
came In between the two parties.
Nothing happened. It drifted on
past Still nothing happened. Be
fore they could make themselves be
lieve It they were through the gant
let, safe with the open river
ahead I
' A mile down, when they breathed
freely again and were speeding
south as fast u three paddles could
take them, Curt crept forward and
laid his hand on Tenn-Og's arm.
"I make mistake," he said slowly,
In the Jargon. "Tenn-Og talk
straight save white-man friends.
I'm sorry. You understand?"
Tenn-Og shrugged his shoulders
and grunted, with no more expres
sion on his claw-scarred face than
when they -had suspected hlra of
treachery and bad threatened to
hoot blm.
SOMETIME utter midnight they
came to an Island where Curt's
party had camped on the up trip.
Whipping ashore, they ate part of
the food which Tenn-Og had brought',
and flung themselvea down on the
and for a live-minute rest
That camp site held memories for
Curt poignant memories of the eve
ning his party had stayed there. A
cluster of wilted auemones. the Im
print of mall dainty moccasin
long the landwaah, made him re
call how 3onya had wandered lone
omely about the camp, trying by a
doien little kindnesses to get a
friendly word out of him.
As be stared up at the stars and
thought of ber going north wltb
those three Indian guides, It came
home to blm tbat In sending Tenn
Og to them wltb the canoe she had
run - big risk, closely guarded as
be had been. It was pretty line of
her to do -ha, It It hadn't been for
her, he would have gone across to
the Klosohees camp and likely got
killed In his attempt to steal a boat
The Incident made him look back
on their wiiole relationship with
leas bitterness and more honesty,
and be had to acknowledge that
from flrst .0 lost she had shot square
wltb him. She had not asked for
bis help on the trip; he had volun
teered it that morning at the moun
tain torrent
And later, when she saw he was
falling In love with her, she bad
aid and done everything that a girl
could do to halt It At least she bad
a conscience, a thoughtful regard
tor other people's feelings. Rosalie
Marlln would never have tried to
PEACE SUGGESTION
WILL BE EYED BY
PORTLAND, Jan. 8. (AP) Sug
gestions of the American Association
of University Professors for an "or
derly adjustment of the dtfftculttr"
nhkli have benet higher learning In
Oregon, will be conntdercd by the
state board of hlaher education at a
meeting here Monday, January 15
Wlllard Marks of Albany, acting
chairman of the state board, has
described the oufe.oa as being "de
cidedly encouraging."
The A. A. 0.H. has prefred a
memorandum on Oregon's higher
is l. i v vi n-1.1.
stop him. Rosalie would have taken
pride In having another scalp at her
belt
The more he thought about her
Joining Karakban, the more It
seemed to clash with all that he bad
seen ot ber daring two weeks ot In
timate association. In Helen Mathle-
son one could understand such a
flight; Helen was blinded and en
tirely dominated by passion.
But Sonya was not Helen Mathle
son. Sonya had gone through more
In her lite; she was more mature,
deeper of Insight, far more thought
ful. For all the fire In ber, she did
not seem a girl who would ever let
passion overrule her sense ot right
Her association with Karakban
was simply out ot harmony with all
the rest ot her nature.
When they got up to go on, he
saw tbat Ralph had drifted back to
the borderline of consciousness; bis
eyea half open, his Hps moving. He
was too far gone to talk, but be rec
ognized his friends and understood
what they said to blm. Curt bent
down, encouraging:
"Don't let go, Ralph. We're leav
ing the Lllluars a"1 taking you out
Tomorrow at this time you'll be In
Prince Rupert nd tbere they'll fix
you up." '
Twice more during the rest ot tbe
night Ralph came out of his stupor
for a few moments. The second
time he tried bard to tell Curt some
thing. Curt believed It was some
thing about Sonya, for ber name
was dlstlnguls' able In the broken
whispers. But whatever It was. It
went unsaid.
Mc
ORNINQ came at last with the
gray smoke-mist curling up
and trout breaking the surface In
silvery flashes.
They stopped ten minutes to rest
and then hurried on all the taster,
now tbat they had light to travel by.
With enn Og In the prow, guiding
them down, the river tbat be knew
so Intimately, they shot over dan
gerous white water without pausing
to scout a course. Their bands were
blistered from the paddle work,
tbelr arms ached Intolerably, but
for Ralph's -ake they drove them
selves to the limit .
One hour of merciless paddling,
then Ave minutes of rest; another
hour and another Ave minutes on
the sand In that steady relentless
fashion they reeled off the long
miles ot tbe flight south.
- At noon they came to a sluggish
lake ot reed patchea and sloughs
where ducks and geese and teal In
countless numbers had tbelr sum
mer rookeries. As they were thread
ing a short-cut channel, Curt glanced
back toward the lake head and hap
pened to see a colony ot little black
terns rise out of a slough and ex
plode like a putt ot feathers, with
shrill cries of alarm.
Evidently something out of the or
dinary had flushed them. As he kept
watching he saw scattered ducks
and teal go up, lower down the
slough. Indicating that tbe cause ot
the alarm, whatever It might be, was
coming down stream.
Suspicious, be and Paul stopped,
backed Into a thick clump of flags
and waited, A minute later two ca
noes came skimming around a reedy
point and headed down toward
them. Traveling light three stal
wart men to a boat they had come
south even faster than his party.
To let them go past would only
bare meant an ambusb and tight
further down river. They bad to
be stopped. Waiting till they were
within easy range, he and Paul
opened on them with a sudden blast
The ricocheting bullets, smashing
through the wind-water line ot the
craft sank them before the thun
derstruck Klosohees could realise
that ambushing was a game which
two could play at With their canoes
foundering under them, the six
leaped out and swam for the near
est flags.
Muddled and bedraggled, they
stood on their bit of quivering bog
and stonily waited to be shot a
Curt's canoe, nosed across toward
them. Curt looked them over. Like
Tenn-Og they were tall rugged men,
hardy mountaineers as virile a
type ot Indian as he had ever seen.
"Tell 'era we're not going to kill
em," be bade Tenn-Og. "Find out
where the main band Is and what
they're doing, and where the white
girl is."
He listened closely as Tenn-Og
talked with the six, but he could
not understand a word of the clicks
and grunts except the names ot
Slam-Klale and LeNolr.
When the palaver was over and
he had made sure that tbe six men
could get across to tbe shore, be
backed the canoe off and headed bis
party down stream again.
ICovunahl. imi. jrwiom S, Uowerv)
With thtlr triple burden, Curt
and hit men continue thtlr night
tomorrow.
educational system and the Inter
school atrlle, and the results of this
survey will be before the board at
Its next meeting.
Chairmen Msras yesterday belled a
prepared statement on the matter.
It said In part:
"The A. iV V. P. committee as-1
signed to study the Oregon situa
tion made a most painstaking and
Judicial study or the controversies
here. It dtscuaeed the problems not
only with the chancellor and with
the faculty, but wlu as many board
members as could be reached con
veniently at that time, and It em
phaeierd above all things the wel
fare of education.
"When the committee left Oregon
December 1 It forwarded to the
board members a very brief memor
andum for the orderly adjustment
of the difficulties. These sugges
tions will come before a full meet
ing of the board, scheduled for
Janusry lit."
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