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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934.
FORBIDDEN VALLEY
BYHOI'HIB: Sonya Rolkov hat
tracked Igor Karakhan to his
Canadian wilderness hiding place
to avenge tht deaths of her lather
and brother, whom Karakhan hat
betrayed to the Soviets. Kara
khan, by a ruse, succeeds in tying
Ronya tti a bunk in his cabin, and
tells her he is teavtna her to ths
mercy of tht Indians, tier only
hope is Curt Tennyson, and Curt
is delayed because hit partner,
Kmaeh Deeplaines, has failed to
meet Mm with Curt's plane.
.Chapter 44
DELIVERING ANGEL
UNTIL he reached oU John's lake
up the Iskltlmwah, the prospect
of getting Into bli plane and whirl
ing north bad buoyed Curt up and
kept him going long after he had
gone dead on bis feeL But bo bad
reached the limit of human endur
ance, and the shock of finding him
self hopelessly stranded through
Smaeh's truancy, pushed blm over
the limit Stumbling under a pine
tree, ha slumped down, almost In a
collapse, and dropped into the merci
ful oblivion of sleep.
Tenn-Og began looking around
the cabin, reading signs a crushed
nettle, footprints, a broken twig
wltb wilted leaves. He announced
presently that Smash had not been
there yesterday or the day before
that. He bad left three days ago.
To sit around and watch the sky
for a plane that did not come was
more than Paul could bear. Wisely
ha kept himself busy. While Tenn
Og went down the shore to a small
stream where ptarmigan were chort
ling among the cloudberry thickets,
he drew out the canoe and gummed
it. freshened up the musty cabin and
chopped a dead jackplne Into fire
wood. When Tenn-Og came back
with three ptarmigan, he cleaned
and dressed the birds, cooked them,
and prepared a meal.
. Near seven o'clock Curt woke up.
Paul had supper ready, but Curt
could not force himself to eat. The
thought of Sonya drawing nearer
and nearer that headwaters lake
sent him tramping the landwasb
again In distraction.
Paul and Tenn-Og made a two
pronged Javelin, hardened the points
In the Are; and went down to a rock
Jut to spear trout As Curt turned
once, he saw they bad stopped fish
ing and were listening Intently, look
ing around the horizon.
A few moments later he caught
a far-away bum, faint as a mos
quito's song. It seemed to come
from nowhere In particular; but It
rapidly grew louder, deeper, and
changed to a throaty drone. He lo
cated Its direction, due south, and
whirled to look.
Out above a lofty range hove a
glistening speck, shining In the slant
evening sun. Curt stood rooted In
bis tracks, afraid that the growing
speck was a delusion and might
vanish. But It came on and on, till
at last he distinguished the lines of
his plane.
For him that glistening plane had
all the splendor of a delivering an
gel. From Its height of ten thousand
feet It glided down and down,
bankod over the lake, leveled off,
touched and- came taxylng shore
ward. The three leaped Into their canoe
and darted out to meet It
As they swung around the pro
pallor and clambered upon a pon
. toon, Smash opened a panel and
flipped bis cigarette Into the water
"Hullo! Didn't keep you waiting,
did I, Curt? Darned sorry; but say.
you ought to see the dance pavilion
and the whole layout down there at
Lak Maria uhWny, what's the
matter, Curtt"
' Curt glared at him tight-lipped,
sent the canoe spinning with a kick,
slammed open the door and climbed
Into the cabin.
"I'll take the controls. Get back
In the rear place; I want Tenn-Og
up front with me."
HIS LIFTED the tank flaps and
glanced at the gauges. One
third full! For a moment he was
tempted to throw Smash off on that
wilderness shore and let him get
out to Russian Lake afoot, If he
could. It was like Smash, with hie
mind on Lake Marianne, to come off
wltb barely enough gas to return to
Tellacet
There was plenty to reach the Lll
luar headwaters, but none to bring
tbe ship back south. When they
reached the lake they would have
no gas to maneuver with or get out
to civilisation.
Taking off, he circled to five thou
sand feet and started west, down
tbe Iskltlmwah. Fifteen minutes
later, as he sailed out over the river
widening and tbe Island of black
lilies, be saw Tenn-Og look down at
the country below and blink aston
ished eyes. Fifteen minutes snd
that same trip had taken six hard
csnoe-hours that morning!
Intending to approach his goal
from the west in order to keep frotn
dying over the main band of Kloso-
Afghans Execute
Four Assassins
KABUL, Afglt&nlttAii, Jan. 10.
(AP) Fnurten peroni were exe
cutwl today for KllcRed Implication
In conaplracy rrBiiltlng in the aa-
YEAR AFTER YEAR
THE 5TAIIDARD of quality i
by William BtjUovi ffiouitfuj.
hees, be headed on westward for
sixty miles, then swung north and
started up across the ranges, grsdu
ally picking up altitude till the
needle quivered on fifteen thousand.
Tenn-Og kept looking out of the
panel windows on each side, trying
desperately to guide tbe flight- In
the deep valleys under keel twilight
was already gathering: the visibil
ity was made still poorer by
pearly-gray baza that came drifting
down from some forest fire In tbe
Yukon country.
But his Job was to guide them, and
be came through wltb It As a moun
tain nomad be was somewhat used
to heights, and by recognizing a fa
miliar range or lake system now
and then, he was able to keep his
bearings.
At last he touched Curt's arm and
pointed twenty-odd miles east at two
lordly cloud-wrapped mountains.
"Sunall and Dlnaggwah," be said;
and be Indicated that on the other
side of them lay the headwater!
lake.
Curt studied the giant twins care
fully. He bad to get down on that
lake unheard and unseen, for at the
slightest bint of a plane In that
country Karakhan would escape In
his own ship, and tbey bad no gas
to follow. If the plane could climb
high enough, be could cut off tbe
engine and glide those twenty-five
miles to the lake and so get there
unheard.
But to reach It without being seen
was a harder problem, calling for
all the flying skill be bad. There
was a flock of clouds swirling around
the two giants and filling the pass
between them. Lf ho could keep be
hind some big cloud on his approach
and fly through tbe pass by Instru
ments, be would come out on the
shadow side of SunalL It would be
twilight there and the plane would
hardly be visible a mile away.
H- PDT the plane Into a steep
circling climb. At eighteen
thousand feet he geared In the su
percharge to aid the laboring motor.
The thermometer on the wing strut
showed- sixteen below, inrt at nine
teen thousand feet it dropped to
twenty-one. He noticed his compan
ions nodding drowsily, and he kept
a sharp watch over his own senses.
In the thin air he managed to get
another thousand out of bis plane.
Twenty thousand feet high, be
looked through a rift of cloud be
twoen the two mountains and caught
a glimpse of tbe dark lake valley
beyond. Cutting off the engine, he
pointed the ship at the great cleft,
and began the long silent glide.
Heading on and on toward tht
snowy pass, he plunged at last into
the clouds that hovered around the
giants. For a space of Are minutes
be slipped silently through fleecy
woolpack, where the sky above and
earth below were blotted out and
only his Instruments kept htm
pointed true.
When he came out of the wool
pack, he was through the pass and
down In the purple shadows ol
Sunall.
Dropping on down, with the dark
waters slowly coming up to meet
him, he veered In toward the south
shore, under Tenn-Og's guidance.
Three miles from Karnkhan'a cabin,
he leveled off, plowed water, and
came to a stop. He was there, sll
right; he had made It without be
ing seen or heard: but with less
than six gallons of gas left, he would
never get out of that mountain- -cradled
lake. No escape, no retreat
It was a locked light now.
A light breeze blowing offshore
began drifting the plane out Into the
lake. Paul reached the two stubby
paddles from the canvas canoe out
fit and the four men clambered
down on the floats. By strenuous
work they managed to check the
drift and start the plane In to
ward land.
A mile from the cabin Tenn-Og
showed them a small cove, screened
by several big pines, where the I
plane would be fairly well hidden. (
They warped it Inside, moored it,
got out their guns.
"You're to stay hore and watch
the ship," Curt ordered Smash. He
hated to cut down his party, but
Smash was too careloss for the work
ahead. Instead of a help he would
be a constant dangor. "Now keep
yourself under cover; these lloso
hees have sharp eyes and long ears.
We'll scout the place out down there
bofore we spring the fight, and I'll
lot you know what we're doing."
"Okay. Don't worry about me."
A little distance down the shore
Curt happened to turn and glance
back at the cove. A match was Oar
Ing up Smash lighting a cigarette.
In the black pine shadows the point
of lire could have been spotted hall
a mile away.
(Copyright, William B. Itotcery
Curt's party s p I t eut the
nimy, tomorrow.
hm i nation of King Nadir Shah last
November,
Tht executions took place in Via
presence of Shah Mahmud. minister
oi war. A special court convicted
the defendants and their sentences
were upheld by King Zahtr Shah,
who succeeded his slam father.
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PWA ALLOTMENTS
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 10. (AP)
A special dispatch - today to the
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POESN'T FEEL HUN6RV
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HE'S PROBABLY JUST BEEN
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Joural from Washington said "Sen
stor McNary's ottlce was advised
Monday that there will be no fur
t,her announcement of allotments for
non-federal public works In Oregon
In the near future, which Is under
stood to mean until additional funds
are provided, If they are."
"From public works headquarters,"
the dispatch continued, '"A circular
letter Is going out to disappointed
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MOTHER REMARKS ANVlAAY TO A
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applicants, advising them they were
not reached in time, but If found
eligible and If further appropriations
are made, they will be considered."
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