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9 PAGE TEX MEDFORD JfATL TRIBUXE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1934. kt cnDDinnrM uaiicv rMA Ruhrm fTlmilohiL Uliaptor 47 HOT FIGHT ALONG yell arose. It was taken up and echoed by those below. The Klosohces at ttu lean-to's swlted their weapons and sprang to covor In a rocky ravine three rods to their left. i LeNoIr started to follow them. Paul's bullet caught him and sent him rolling. He staggered to his feet again. As Paul drew another bead on blm. two of the Klosohees leaped out and g abbed his arms land helped blm toward the gully. It was so courageous an act that Paul refused to shoot again for fear of killing those two. Down the shore Slam-Klale had warred his canoe In toward the bank when the yell went up. Paul ! swung on blm and emptier- Vit rifle, I but tbe range was far too long even 'for Paul. Splashing turougb the (Lallows, Slam-Klale dived out of I sight Into a Juniper clump. I At the cabin Karakhan appeared lis tbe doorway to see what the com ! motion was about. Curt whipped up his rifle and shot. His bullet splln tered the door frame, and sent tbe 'Cossack Jumping back Inside. After that first pandemonium a Hence, fell. Curt saw notblng, beard nothing. The advantage of surprise was gone, they were thrown on ,the dofenslve; and now they were up against overwhelming odds, In a timber light where the Klosohees were deadly. Tenn-Og pointed down at the ra vine. Slam-Klale and the 'breed bad got their men In hand and were bringing them up the deep brushy cully. 'We'd better get back to the cave," Paul warned. Curt shook his head. It they did. the Klosohees would keep thorn penned up In there for hours. Karak- kan would escape. Sonya would be taken away. He hung on grimly waiting for a break. Without warning, an arrow burned Into tbe tangle and pinned his Jacket aleevo to the log he was lying against. It came not from level range but from above. He turned looked up at the cliff. In a clunp of buckbrush on top of the rock a bush wayed. a man's head and shoulders appeared for an Instant. It dawned on him that tbe Klo sohees bad out-maneuvered and cor Bared them. While part of the band was coming slowly up tbe ravine, tbe others bad circled out tbe slope and up on top of the cliff. He Jerked up his rifle and shot at the buckbrush clump. A man leaped up. staggering blindly, took a step or two, plunged over tbe Hp of the rock, struck once against the face of the cliff as be tell, and bit with a heavy thud on the boulders beneath Almost at that same Instant third arrow came hurtling down at Curt and hit the bolt of bis rlile. De flected downward, It struck his right hand that gripped the trigger guard, and sheared off his ring linger like a Tutor-edged chisel. He lifted his hand and stared blankly at the wound, unable to reallte that his linger had been cut off, till the blood atarted spurting and darts of pain hot up his arm. COMB swift flashing object, whit Bin down from the cllff-tnn like tiny cartwheel, caromed oft a boulder, glanced sldowlae, and mashed Paul across the forehead. His rifle dropped from his hands, he went limp and sank over against a log. As Curt whirled to see how badly Paul bad been hurt by the whining belt-ax, be caught a glimpse of Karakhan making a dash from his ,ebln to the hangar. Flipping the blood from bis stinging hand, he .ruse up, pointed his rifle ard took a careful aim at the scurrying figure, Before his anger sguersed the 'trigger, sudden agonising pain 'truck him In tbe right hip and nearly bowled him over. Giddy and faint from the shock, he looked down and saw an arrow burled head deep In his thigh. He seised bold f the shaft shut his eyes, gave a hard Jerk, and the arrow came. Curt grabbed Paul's shoulder and hook him. "Paul! We've got to make a break. They've got us, here. Pull yourself together. If we can get to the cave we mlht save our elves." He helped Paul to his foot, steadied him; and they started for tha game trail. TonnOg led the way, tearing a path through the tangled brush. Behind them the Klo sohees In the ravine poured out of their cover and came yelling up the iope, to overhaul and spear them. But tuey reacheu the toot of the cliff, hit Into the trail and dashed out along It to the cave mouth, "Qet on back!" Curt cried to Tenn-Og, who bad halted In the en trance. "We can't hold 'em off. All hell can't stop 'ami" Tbey hurried Paul back to the bridge, and between them they got him across the logs to the cave. Curt whirled to pull tbe logs down and stop the Klosohees, In halt a minute tbey would be pouring Inside to fin ish off their wounded enemies. Neither he nor Paul could put up any light. But as be stooped down and grasped the log ends, he thought of the consequences the three of them cooped up In there for hours,! Karakhan escaping, Sonya being snatched away and hidden. It was; this last thought that stopped him.: He could not sacrifice her In order to save nlnuelt. He straightened up. "Tenn-Og! Take the lead. Qet us out to that ledge opening." Tbe Indian seized his hand and atarted away Into the Inky black ness. The ne.it 'few minutes were I blind and aimless groping. Tben on bands and knees they squeezed through a silt In the rock and came out on tbe ledgd near the Assure. Curt grasped a bush, leaned out and glanced back along the face ol the cliff to the cave mnuth. The ferns and dwarf birches hanging against the rock obscured his view, but he saw enough to know that moat of the Klosobeea bad swept on inside. Oqly three or four men re mained at the entrance. Ho drew back. "They're In the cave, looking for ua. Paul, stay here. You're too wabbly, Tenn-Og and I'll try to trap 'em." THEY scrambled Into the fissure and down to the game trail, and headed back to tbe cave mouth. With automatic drawn Curt rounded a Jut and ran headlong Into LeNoIr, Slam-Klale and a third man. ! The 'breed aaw blm first, and grabbed with hla felt hand for his belt-gun; but Curt's. automatic cut him down and he toppled over, ahot cleanly through the heart. With a hoarse cry Tenn-Og sprang past Curt and flung himself bodily at tbe otner two. The third man stabbed at him with a spear and tore tbe flesh In his arm. Tenn Og grabbed tbe weapon, wrenched It away, and whlrleu on Slam-Klale. Tenn-Og's arm went. back, his body tautened like a steel spring, be lunged forward and drove the spear borne with all the 'orct of bis long cherished bate. The point struck Slam-Klale square In the breast. He tried to grapple with Tenn-Og, but his arms, wont limp, he staggered and tell backwards, and went roll ing down tbe slope till he fetched up against a tree. The third man dived like a acared marmot Into tbe cave. Curt smashed blm with tbe butt of his automatic, and reached tha log. Bracing his toot to keep himself from toppling, be lifted the logs, swung, and let go. When be got bad. outside he saw Tenn-Og atandlng down the slope, staring at Blam Klale'a body aa tbough tbe end of bis vengeance had left him dazed. Paul waa stumbling along the game trial toward them, hla face so coverei with blood that he was hardly recognizable. "You you knocked the logs out?" Listen!" From the cave came yells of fear and terror as tbe Klo sohees groped for the bridge and found It gone. "Does that sound aa ' though I did?" A caribou spear came hurtling out through the cava entrance.' Paul i Curt hastily Jumped aside. Down on the lake a motor started up with a spluttering roar. Curt's wounds, tha quick desperate work of tha last minute, and tha smash- ' Inj success of his trap, had made ' him forget about Karakhan, but the roar brought him alive. , He turned, threw down his gun. Stay here. Paul, you and Tenn-Og! i I'll stop him!" "But bow , . . You can't stop him!" "I've got tol I wllll" He plunged down the slops, passed the cabin without checking himself or even looking at It, swerved west along the lake shore, aud headed for the cove at a dead run. The wound In hla thigh pained till It sickened him; he breathed In gulps, and every stride Jolted a gasp from his lips; but ha shut his eyes against the pain and ran on. tCopvrloht, William B. Uowtry) Curt, dMpfratcly, takts to the sir, Monday. SEVEN PACIFIST COLUMBUS, O., Seven Ohio State Jan 12, (pi uniVBMity tudnta who revolted tkgaiiut compulsory mlU- fuMd "to take drill on "coiuclentloiu tary training, were luspendep from , objection' groundj. laaued a atate- ine cnooi mw ay dj rreaiornv ueorge W. Rightmlre. President Rightmlre announced the student would be "automatically reinstated without prejudice when ever they are willing to comply with the university rule" requiring mili tary training. The seven students, who had re- ment saying: VWe cannot return to Ohio State university because we can not conscientiously take military training." An eighth student. Robert Rosa nf New York city, avoided suspension by revenlng his former stand and elect ing to don the blue of the R. O. T. C WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Huee losses from stock In the Guardian bank group of Detroit were related today by Edael Ford to the senate banking committee after he testified the Ford Motor company had $32. 500.000 on deposit when the banks were closed by the Michigan bank holiday. The eon of Henry Ford told a crowded committee room that he had about 00.000 shares of group stock when the bank holiday came last Feb ruary. At one time, previous testi mony showed, this amount was valu ed at approximately 15.000.000, but since has become worthless due to assessment of stockholders. Ford denied a suggestion by the Investigators that the Ford Motor company purchased seven and one half million dollars of government bonds at the end of 1932 to avoid a state tax. S'MATTER POP - By C. M. PAYNE 1 l--'t-3 ' jf (Copyright, 1934, by Tht B.U gyndlrite, Int) 4 .L THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS q ON- REACHING friE CUK1AX OF VoUR ELABORATE CARD TRICK VOU FIND THAT THE PARTY HAS SWITCHED ITS ATTENTiOt "TO A CLOWN WHO CAN WI66LE HIS EARS COMICALLY WiLUMS (Oopyrlght, 1834. by The BU Syndicate, Inc.) l-tZ TAILSPIN TOMMY The Bandits Board The "Blind Baggage!" By OLKNN ClIAhUN and UAL FOKKEST f ! pjg s Wyjse riYAs cicveQ 84GM2 7VAfSty"S S70r& 72 BOUND TO WIN A Sudden Decision By EDWIN ALGER O HE VISIT OF ASA 'GIMME MOORE TO RtM QMr- UKt CTT THE 3EPPARO MANSION WAS HAROUy OUilML tjLK.tCto'O UUVt: WHS NOT IN WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED A UtNlHL MOOU , RNU MOORE WAS ILL. 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