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PAGE KTfiTTT ii., FORBIDDEN VALLEY 1 1 BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1934. BYX0P818: By the help of Tenn Og. Klosohee Indian whom he had befriended, Curt Tennyson and Paul, his partner, have escaped the Slosohees and are taking their friend Ralph Nichote, badly wound ed, to the Canadian lake where Curl's plane is hidden. Curt hae temporarily abandoned hts hunt or Igor Karakhan, wealthy crook, to get Ralph to a hospital. Curt hopes to have newt of Bonya Vol kov, whom he levee although she hae run away to Karakhan, from a band of Klosohee Indians his party just has halted. Tenn-Og has talked with them. Chapter 39 . NEW8 OP 80NYA THE main band, Tenn-Og said, bad discovered the escape of the whites and had started north to Karakhan's place to guard him. These six runners had been sent south on the chance that they might catch np with the whites and am bush them. Eonya was on her way north; nothing had been beard of her since she left with her three guides. "Do you know where this white man Is hiding?" Curt asked Tenn- !0g. ; At the headwaters lake of the iLllluar. the Indian told, dim. He him self had once lived at that lake, al i most at the very place where the 'white man's cabin now stood. A week ago Curt would bave con' ildered that Information priceless, but now It meant little. In a general way he did plan to return later and make a second attempt to get Karak han; but In all probability the Rus- aian would be out of the Lllluars and gone by that time. He was nobody's fool; in cer tainly had read the handwriting on the wall. He had a plane and plenty of gas for It, as LeNolr's trading ac count showed. The wearisome Job of following bis trackless air path would have to be done all over again, "How can you go back to your people, Tenn-Og?" he asked. "Those . fix are going to tell the others that yon were with us, helping us. . With a grunt and shrug Tenn-0 stated that be did not care whether he went back or not. He was almost an outcast now, he said, because of Blam-Klale. Ever since his talk with Tenn-Og that first night, when the Indian . gave blm so much Information vol untarily, Curt had felt that he stood off somehow from the other Klo- oboes. His tones now and his ref erence to the subject implied there was some bitter personal feud be tween Slam-Klnle and him, The stories about the brutality In Slam-Klale's nature, made Curt sharply uneasy about Bonya, She was up In that country alone, In the charge of Indians who were com pletely undor the thumb of the sub- chief. If he and the main band overtook ber party, he might seize her. brush LeNoIr aside, and disappear with her somewbere In that unknown coun try. Once she reached Karakhan she brightened as night shut down. Fil tering through the pine branches, It cast filigree shadows on the woods floor and lay In a wan ghostly flood over Ralph and the wolf-foot and the plot of black lilies. Far away, so tar It seemed a mere pinpoint of sound In the night silence, a crescendo walling arose, and was taken up and answered from a dozen mountain peaks. - In the last two hours, since realis ing that Ralph was not to be with them, Curt had made up his mind to go back north and try to capture Karakhan. Tenn-Og could take them to that headwater lake. If Smash had kept bis rendezvous, they would have a plane and could make the trip In less than three hours. . , With any luck at all, he would not only end his long hunt then and there, but be could shield Sonya and bring her out In spite of her associa tion with Karakhan he felt It bis duty, as a man, to look after her safety. She was a white girl, she had shot square with him and helped him and Paul out of a desperate plight Besides, he was vaguely beginning to suspect tnat tnere was something to ber relations with the Russian which he knew nothing about Her letter to the man and her talk with LeNolr stood as mountainous facts against her, but still he was troubled. His bad mistake abont Tenn-Og, of whose treachery he had been so sure, mads him wonder whether be might not be partly mis taken about Sonya too. TpHB time verged on midnight Red Antares, glittering In the southwest, hung low over the dis tant peakllne. Through the trees he watched It sink and vanish. When he glanced again at Ralph be was surprised to see that the tatter's eyes were open. He took Ralph's hand, to let him know that a friend was with blm.- Ralph looked around, evidently look ing for Sonya. The delirium bad passed; he seemed to be in no pain whatever; but he was not altogether clear-headed, and his consciousness was the last faint flare-up. He gazed up at Curt for a moment His lips parted. Curt bent lower. Where are we, Curt?" Down river, Ralph. Back at the Iskltlmwab." "You thought could get me outr Curt nodded, not trusting bla voice. "Where's Sonya. Curt? I'd Ilka her a little talk"' Curt started to say that Sonva was on her way to Karakhan. but he checked himself. No need to re call that painful fact to Ralph's wandorlng mind. 'She's sleeping, Ralph. I'll wake her before long. She asked me to." Then she didn't try to reach him, Curt?" Ralph asked, struggling weakly against the fog In his brain. LOCAL PEOPLE IN fLOOD TRIP A party of local been spending the people who had week In long Beach, Cal., reached Medford Monday night, and reported coming north through the torrents of rain which have killed and Injured so many In that section. The group, Including Mr. and Mrs. J. Wlngfleld of Medford and Mr. and Mre. Wilbur Erlckson of Reese creek, left Long Beach at 8:30 Sunday morn ing, hortly after the storm had started. Mrs. Wlngfleld aald today that In many places ine water came half way up on the car, while in other places It was a foot deep on the high ways. , Phone 543. We will haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. 1 Broken windows glazed by Trowbridge Cabinet Works. E SALEM, Jan. 3. (AP) Orders re garding temperance for all employe of th state highway department were luued today by R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer. Violation of the rules set out In the order will result In Immediate dismissal, Bal dock stated. "All employes of the highway de partment are public servants and as such are subject to a more critical Judgment than are others not to S'MATTER POP- employed," Baldock aald. "They are also charged with the maintenance of the highway system and the erec tion of signs and safety devices for the protection of the traveling pub lic. It Is especially necessary, there fore, for employes of this department to avoid any use of liquor for which either they or the highway depart- , ment can be criticised." By C. M. PAYNE v v ll By "gluYas Williams SUBURBAN H0I7SI- ' -3 FRED PHRLEv7 HM SW&RW OFF NEI6HB0RUKE55 FOR THE" COMlffc VtTAR BKAUSE AFTER GEffir6 UP EAR1Y AND SHOVELING OFF THE DRIVEWAY" AMD FRONT WALK FOR MRS. WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS AIaAV, ERNIE HIMSELF OPENED THE DOOR 16 TriftNK HIM AND SAY HE HAD 60f BACK UNEXPECTEDLY LAST KI6HT (Copyright, 1984, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY-A Voice From The Grave! ofLir1"3 m "a.fe: b.Utn.7 one Curt Bom nlm rPnK to recall' of a dozen accidents might Inter vene to strand her In those wild mountains and keep her from reach ing Blm. as mo aiiernoon wore along, a perceptible change came over Ralnh At first Curt could not doclde what the change boded; bat as the signs became more pronounced, he recog nised their grim meaning. He could never get Ralph out, or even get to tne plane with him. TOST at twilight they reached the Iskltlmwab mouth, having cov ered In twenty-four hours a stretch of river which had taken his party four whole days on the np trip. He .called a halt. All need of hurrying !had naased, and the buffeting of the waves was causing Ralph Intense the happenings of that dim time be fore he wu stricken. "I thoua-hf sne am go." "No, she gave that over, Ralph." "I'm glad. She'd have been left- alone In there with those Indians. I tried to tell her so but she be lieved sbe could get out somehow afterward." Curt thought that Ralph's mind must be wandering badly. What did he mean by "left alone In there"? She would be with Karakhan, wouldn't she! And what did Ralph mean by "she'd get out, somehow. aiierwara r After what? "You'll watch out for ner now. uurir" Ralph begged. "She likes von more than she lets herself think. Vou'll take care of her, won't you?" curt promised. He felt himself on By GLENN CUAFF1N and HAL FORREST .Pm 22 ..T1?. i0 1" th MrM f om.thlng portentous to ease him for the little time that remained. , Near the tributary mouth they went ashore on a pine Island, the lsland of black lilies, where Curt ihal spent some dark hours once. He did not recognize the place till tney had landed, and then he would inot change. Inland at a mossy spot itney spread the sleeping robes and ;carrled Ralph there aud laid blm down. All three of them were stumbling !irom exhaustion. On top of the I heavy strain of the fight and the long day of Imprisonment, they bad .had no sleep In more than sixty hours, and had Just finished a terrific : stretch of canoe work twice around the clock without a pause. Curt made Paul and Tenn-Og eat a little food, and then took them a coupla of rods aside. "You two lie down," he bade,"and get soma rest. In our condition we're fit for noth ing, and we don't know what's ahead of us. I'll stay up with Ralph. I can do everything that needs to be done. Ood knows ItVnot much." In the eastern sky the moon a dtsoorery of the whole truth about sonya's trip. Very plainly she had told Ralph. Before he could word the Ques tions In his mind, Ralph's lips were moving again. She wanted to trust you. Curt Wanted to tell you, and ask your help. But she felt she didn't dare. She wasn't sure Just who you were; and aha was afraid you'd Judge her harshly. Afraid you'd send her back out It you knew. That would have been a terrible blow to ber. She couldn't rest. couldn't live till she'd hunted him down." Ralph sank back, lime and auleL A tremor psssod throui'j nlm. For a moment Curt thought It was the end. But then came a faint rally. The incoherent words he had lust listened to bewildered Curt Ralph wsa distinctly Implying that when Sonya reached the headwaters lake she would be exposed to some great danger. (Copyright. f.i, vmiom . Uawery) Curt cuts a lobitlek, tomorrow. I'matllla Pays SALEM, Jan. a. (AP) Omatllla county today paid Its last hslf lmi taxes to the atnte treasurer by pay ment of iio.000. Wheeler county submitted a part payment of 1B07. RED BLUFF, Calif., Jan. S (AP). Paul Btoll, to, pioneer retired busi ness man, died here yesterday. Born in Oermany, atoll came here In 1873. He la survived by six sons and a daughter. ADR1ENNES aenil-annual clearance starts Wednesday. Big reductions on Coats, Dreaees. Hats, Including some as low as null-price. 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