FltTE TWELVE
MEDFORD MSIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, -I93i.
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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.
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Or cutHprctaa of bird, a ITntver<y of
Colorado nattiralUt reported.
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of the construction of the first tele
phone line Into tbe state of Washing
ton, and who waa one of th oldest
men In point of service In the V. S.
weather bureau, died here last night.
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