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FltTE TWELVE MEDFORD MSIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, -I93i. cnDDinnrM uAiirv Y a o PB I 8; Curt Tennyson, alter a desperate struggle, has reached tin lake in the Canadian tenderness tohero Smash Des plainet should bs waiting with Cart's airplane. Sony a volkoo, irhon Curt loves, has rashly tried to reach Igor Karakhan, wealthy errook, iohom Curt is trying to bring to fustics. Ralph Klchols, vounded in a battls with the for' tnidabls Rlosohis Indians, has ex plained that Bonua tcent to ktll Karakhan. Ralph dies; Curt be lieves his story and struggles to reach Sonya and protect her. Cliapttr 41 NO SMASH CURT took on fiance along th louth snor and groaned hall a tuna and halt a cry ot tragic disap pointment. The plana waa not Id sight They tired ahota In the hop that Smash might have drawn It back Into some little bar. But they got no answer. Smash had tailed them. They paddled over toward the eabln. As thoy drew In, Paul noticed a bit ot white banging trom a low pine branch. It was Smaah's hand' kerchlct, put tl'ere to draw atten tion. A tin cigarette box was tied to the limb beside 1L As Curt suspected, the box hold a note. Old Timer: I'm clearing out for Tellecet. Our left wins tank prune a slow leak and I thought It ought to bo fixed. I'll get hark tomorrow morn liig without fail. Smash P. 8. There's a dance at Lake Marianne tomorrow night, and 1 may hop over there ; but I'll bo back bright and early the next morning. Curt turned the note over, looking for the date. There wai none. Smash had crazlly forgotten even to data his message. In the turlous anger ot helpless ness ha tore the note to bits. It was seldom that he lost complete control ot himself, but that ldlotlo message and the crack-up ot his plana aent him tramping the land wash In a blind fury. A tank leak hell I Smash had got tired of being alone and had flounced off to soak up some of his sociability, He had not been asked to share any of those dangers up the LUIuar; his Sob was nothing more onerous than standing by with the plane; and he had flunked It Now when they desperately need ed him and the very hours were pre cious, he was Lochlnvarlng around aomewhere, several hundred miles away. At the critical time when 8onya would reach that lake, they would not be there, ha and Paul They were stranded. In a God-for saken wilderness, with two hundred and forty mountain miles between themselves and her. the evening ot th third day Sonya'a party stopped at twi light and made camp In a drogue of river-bank pines. The three Indians, her escort on the trip north, built her a little lean-to, deftly wove a bslsnm-twlg mattress tor her blan kets, and otherwise made her as comfortable as they could. The leader of th three, an older half brother of Tenn-Og, called the bait out ot consideration for the white girl In his charge. Sonya her self would rather have pushed on to th headwaters lake '.hat night It was only twenty miles farther and they could reach It by dawn. Now when the end ot her long quest was In sight, she wanted It and Ita har rowing uncertainty over with. In spite ot the hard trip that day ahe did not foel tired. She was at too high a tension. While th Indians went broiling trout tor a meal, sbe walked back the trail to an overfalls around which her party had Just portaged. andsatdown on th lip of th rock thirty feet above the plung ing water. j Dusk waa creeping Into th moun tain valley. Th poorwllls were be ginning to call, and owls drifted on noiseless wing through th heavy timber. The twilight, the solitude, the song ot th waters, seemed to her a kind ot pause and self-communion before tomorrow came, i With a secret rejoicing she had jheard bow Curt and Paul had beaten off those fourteen canoes. But she had known they'd do HI Tenn-Og no doubt had taken them a boat after the attack, and they were sate now. But where were theyt It was pos sible that Ralph had weakened when she left, and had told Curt the truth about her Journey, I In that case, would Curt follow her north and try to help her outT Sh wanted to think so. Even the taint possibility ot It buoyed her up. Alone now, with her bridges burned and utterly on her own resources, abe realised hov completely she had depended on him. She felt lost with out his protection, lost and defense less and woefully Inadequate to cope with what lar ahead. FOREST RANGERS IN DISCUSSION PLANS To study plan for th comlnj field t?uon. the dUtrlct rtngtri of tii Rogue River nation, fore, met Tviwdny and WnwdAjr at the for entry offices in the Federal building with the iiperrtaof'a staff. RAngera attending were Hugh Bitter of Klam YEAnAJEIlYEAR THE STANDARD OF QUALITY In wishful fancy she tried to Imag ine him there with her, his rifle between his knees, bis lean hard face between herself and danger; but th memory of bis change and bla withering coldness drove th fancy away. He had even Ignored her overture to him that last eve ning. Her cheeks burned at th thought of her confession, and hjs silent scorn ot It; and yet sh knew that If she cam out of this alive sh would write to him and ask him to come to see her. - A few yarda down th portage trail two Indians unexpectedly cam swinging around a buckbrush thick et. They wore carrying a loaded canoe, and behind them came others, a large party. Sonya started to her feet in surprise. The churning over falls had muffled the noise; she had not known they were about till they suddenly appeared. They were Klosohees. Why, they were th main band! there were Slam-Klala and LeNoIrl A sudden fear surged through her. Ralph and Curt and Paul what had happened to them! Thla band had Intended to stay down there and hem that little Island In till they bad killed the three men. Had they mads another attack, successful this time? T ENOIR'S glum face reassured " her. As she went up to camp with the party, he told her the news. Nich ols had been wounded, he said: the other two had made a shelter for blm tbe next day and he had not been seen walking about Shortly after dark that evening they bad es caped, In some unknown fashion. They had whipped south; an uni dentified canoe bad slipped through that bottle neck and It must have been tbelrs. They probably were get ting out of tbe country, but on the chance that they might awing north agsin ha was taking the main band horn to protect his chief. - Sonya guessed that Curt and Paul were hurrying Ralph out to elvlllza, tlon where he could get medical at tention. She prayed he was not bad ly hurt She waa glad of tbelr es cape, but In another way the news plunged her Into a black dejection. Hitherto ahe could feel that Curt waa within two or three days' swift travel of her and that she might pos sibly get back to blm. Sbe bad even hoped that he might be coming north on her trail. But now when h waa heading south, out of the Lll luars, sbe felt completely and final ly abandoned. At the camp LoNoIr sent Tenn- Og's ualf brother and two other In diana on ahead to take Karakhan the news. The main party Waa to travel on that night too; hut they would have to pause tor supper and go more slowly and so could not reach the lake till morning. Sonya wondered why LeNolr In. slated on traveling that night For some reason be aeomed In a great hurry to deliver her to Karakhan. He commanded her gruffly, as he brought her some fish and- dried meat: "Tonight, on res' ot dls treep, you stay close by me. Don' step Into de dark; don' get out my canoe; keep hold my belt Wen we walk cross any portage. Onderstand?" Sonya promised to obey him. Dur ing th hssty meal she was aware ot Slam-Klale ogling her with nar rowed eyes, aa be' had dona at th LUIuar forks; but now his stare was so braten that It unnerved her. As the party was setting the boats to water, he trundled over to Le Nolr and said something to him and Jerked a thumb In her direction. Im mediately a violent juarrel sprang up between them, and Sonia gath ered that Slam-Klale waa demand ing she should go In his canoe. LeNolr won th argumont and she stepped Into his canoe. She was grateful to him In a way, but she could read his secret thoughts and they frightened her. Hla proprietary attitude waa relied now, because he waa afraid ot Karakhan; but what about tbe time, only a few hours ahead, when Karakhan would lie dead In his cablnf That incident at Rnsslan Lake showed her what aha could expect from Teeste LeNolr. In tbst whole band aha had but one friend. Tenn-Og's halt brother. Like Tenn-Og, he seemed less bound than th others to the benighted customs of his tribe; and h ap peared to have a certain Influence with the other men. For an Indian, he had been good to her on the trip. He might possibly take her acrosa the mountains by a secret trsll and hand her over to iome treaty band who would get her back among white people. But It was a slender hope. (Copyright, ttii, Tfflllatn B. Ifoueryl Sonya miiti the man she hopes te kill In Monday's chapter. ath Palla, John Hoist of Butte rails. .leu DeWitt of Union Creek, and Lee Port of JackaonTille. UUh Is the habitat of 4M sneolM Or cutHprctaa of bird, a ITntver<y of Colorado nattiralUt reported. 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He spent 46 years In federal service, enlisting with the signal service of the srmy In 1880 and serving In that department until 1891 when he was transferred to the weather bureau with which he was connected until bla retirement in IMS. He came to Roseburg in 1908 and was In charge of the station here until the time of hla retirement. An odd-appearing gray rock which has been shedding a dusty fungus for 15 years without apparent shrinkage Is owned by a Portland, Ore., collector. MAY BE ILLEGAL CmcAOO. Jan. 8. (Pi A de. ciston of the Nevada supreme court In dismissing the divorce sctlon of a Chicago man In Reno court on the ground tbst he was sot a bonaflde resident of that state, wss balled by Chief Justice Joseph Babsth of the superior court as putting Reno's easy divorces in Jeopardy. "The decision plsces Reno divorces in the same category as Mexican snd French divorces." said Judge Sabath. "The supreme court takea the same position thst I hsve elways main tained that six weeks does not con. mute legsl residence. Thousands of divorces already granted In Reno ar Imperiled by th decision." A motorist at Santa Monica, Cel. was charged with drunkeness after his car had mowed down 53 flve-yeaj old shade trees, a mail box and sj post. By EDWIN ALGER By George McManus
