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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
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By "gluYas Williams
SUBURBAN H0I7SI- '
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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
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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.
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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
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as low as null-price.
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