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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.
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SYNOPSIS! Bonva Volkov. who
haa undergone incredible hard
shipt to reach and kill Igor Kara
khan, trill him aha knoica ha waa
reaponaible tor tha daatha o her
father and brother, Meanwhile
Curt Tannyaon, who lovaa Sonjja
and wanta to bring Karakhan to
tuetice tor hia mnny Crimea, la
held back becavae hia partner hae
tailed him by not having? Ourt'a
amphibian at the appointed rfln
deavoua. Ronva la atone with Bo
rakhan in hia wllderncaa cabin.
SONYA'S voice broke. For a mo
ment she seemed on the verge of
going to pieces. But she steadied
herself, dashed the tears from ber
eyes: and her right band crept In
side ber blouse.
It was genuinely news to Kara
khan that ber two menkln had been
put to death by the secret police. He
bad Indeed sent them to Vladivostok
wltb forged papers on a nonexistent
deal, as she said; and he bad written
the police anonymously that they
were coming, so that they would be
arrested.
In the critical days Just before he
cashed In on his huge swindle, the
Bovlet agents had become suspicious
that something was wrong In their
trading with western Canada: but
by pointing their suspicions at the
Volkov men and sending those two
icross to the Siberian port, be bad
made a gesture, as though to soma
ally of bis who had crept up to tha
window and was training a gun on
ber.
"Don'tl" ho cried. "Don't shoot!"
The ruse would never have caught
Cunt Tennyson. But Sonya was ou
the first man hunt of her life; and
for all the brilliancy of that hunt she
knew nothing of the subtleties which
come only from desperate experi
ences. Sbe whirled, glanced at the
empty window and ber second's
advantage was gone.
In the moment that her eyes left
him, Karakhan gripped tbe staff,
lifted It, and swung at her. Sonya
threw up ber arm to save aerself,
but the heavy clublike thing knocked
her arm away and struck her a
glancing smash along the temple.
She reeled, and her gun went clat
tering against the sheet-iron stve.
Karakhan lifted tbe staff for an
other blow, but It was not neces
sary; bis first bad knocked her
senseless.
In the throbbing stillness Kara
khan stood over ber, breathing heav
ily, looking down at ber white face.
As he regarded her he understood
something of the passionate devo
tion and loyalty which had turned
Sonya Into a cold-furled vengeance
of a girl and sent ber on her bunt
When he saw tbat she was merely
stunned, he picked her up lightly,
TO BE DISCUSSED
O RANTS PASS, Jan. 8 fSpl.)
Canning and growing of tomatoes
will be dlecuased by Henry Norton
at a meetlitg Tuesday at 8 p. m. at
the Mines building at tbe fair
grounds, when tbe organization of
the Grants Pass Growers' associa
tion will be completed.
In his talk Norton will also men
tion the canners' NRA code. The
Ray Mallng company, canners and
processors of fruits and vegetables Is
reported by Rich to have been mak
ing Inqplrles about the approximate
acreage ond sraw berries in the val
ley surrounding Orants Pass.
All berry and produce growers are
Invited to attend the meeting which
Rich promised will touch upon mat
ters of vital Interest to all growers
In this district.
RUTH LUY Dance Studio. New term
begins January 8. Tel. IMS.
VANCOUVER, Warfh.. Jan. 8. (AP)
Saved by a parachute leap, John
Oantenbetn, 28, was alive today al
though badly bruised and Injured,
but hia companion, Robert F. Young,
24, was dead, victim of a Sunday air
plane flight.
Young's parachute failed to open
in time yesterday, when he leaped
overboard as the plane sideslipped
and plunged to earth on a golf
course about three miles east of here.
Both were from Portland, '
The plane got out of control at a
height of 2.000 feet, Gantenbeln
said, and the two "balled out" short
ly after as It started to turn over.
Gantenbeln 's parachute opened Just
before he landed.
Manufacture of dry Ice from car
bonic acid gas which provides the
elevating force of the Salton sea has
been begun In the Imeprlal valley In
California.
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ITAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Gets A Telegram!
By GLENN CUAFFDt
and UAL FOBRE8I
Karakhan dallberataly looked past 8onya.
gained time to close out his affairs
and vanish.
"I can't Imagine what you're talk
ing about," be donled, not In any
hope oi shaking Sonya's knowledge.
but to win a few minutes and adjust
himself to this stupefying turn. He
bad not failed to notice her right
hand sliding Into her blouse. It was
clasping a gun, the gun she Intend
ed to kill him with.
"You didn't aend them over to
Vladivostok, did you?" Sonya spiked
his denial. "You didn't Inform the
police privately that father and Carl
were the ones who were posing as
government officials? You didn't
cover your own thieving operations
by turning suspicion to tbem?
"An old refugee who lives In Vladi
vostok and used to know my father,
found out about It and wrote me from
Harh'n. Their business associates
don't know It, even now. The police
don't know a whisper about their
death." She made a gesture of con
tempt at the stumbling Ineptitude of
the police.
IN tho face of death, the nearest
, 1 that death had ever brushed him,
. Karakhan was shaken with a cring
ing terror. He waa at ber mercy, and
he had no mercy.
"Sonya, I'm sorry about your fa
ther and brother." In a frantlo effort
, to stave off his doom, he seised jpon
almost any plea. "Won't yog let me
iplain exactly tha extent of my
guilt?"
He folded his hands behind his
back, apparontly as fc show of help
lessness, but bis fingers closed over
the iron-tipped ski staff against the
walL Even so. he dared not move.
Sonya held only a second's advan
tage, but for him that aecond waa
the difference between life and
doath.
"Let you explain your guilt?" she
net his plea. "Anything can e ex
plained. Judaa explained. And so did
Pontius Pilate." Her hand came out
of her blouse gripping a small black
autonatlc.
Karakhan deliberately looked past
' her, at the window behind. With a
auperh control of hia expression, he
carried her over to the bunk, tied
her bands and feet securely wltb
thongs ripped from his snowshoes,
and gngged her with bis kerchief. He
did not want her screaming when
she came to; It would let those
others know thst be was getting
away from there.
He watched her eyes flicker open,
Sbe stared up at him, not yet fully
comprehending; then glanced about
tbe cabin. When ahe looked back to
him again, he saw the realisation
come into her eyes that her hunt had
ended In a horrible failure.
She broke out in an Insane vio
lence. She struggled to tear the cords
from her wrists and ankles. She
flung herself off the bunk and tried
to roll toward the little automata
by the stove. Karakhan seized her.
She writhed and fought blm, but hi
greater atrength provalled, and by
degrees her violence exhausted ber,
till her struggles became pitifully
weak. He carried ber back to the
bunk acd lashed her upon It.
They stared at each other, Sonya
defiant, Karakhan enjoying bla
sense of mastery.
"So you came here to kill me,
sweetheart," be said. In Russian. "I
should hava known. But better lata
than never. Now what aball I do to
yon In return, before 1 go away from
here? You are thinking 1 will harm
you. Not at all. Instead, I am going
to allow you your fredom. In abort,
I am going to leave you here."
He paused to enJo the effect of
his words upon Sonya. He watched
the blood ebb from her face, aaw a
terror come Into her eyea In place
of her defiance a few momenta ago.
You won t lack attention, Utile
one," he added, with a wolfish smile
on his mouth. "LeNoIr and the In
dian will be fighting over you In an
hour from now. You probably would
prefer LeN'olr. but personally I think
the Indian will win he has a whole
clan behind him. But either way,
sweetheart. It will be a long, long
time before you see a white face
again."
(Copyright. William 0. Uovary)
Smsth's return, tomorrow, brings
a furthor dinoir.
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LONDON, Eng . Jan. 8. (Jf)
Conviction that tha pc of Europe
depend on the nettle men t of a
Pranco-Oermaa armj oon trove ray
wm brought bacJc from tha confer-
noea with continental U teamen by
Forelen sSretArv sir John Simon.
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tlona In which 1 took pert In Parle I
and Rome may prove a useful con '
trlbutlon to the cause of a European
agreement, whlrft la eaaenttal to the
peace and security of all of ia," he
wild.
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