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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
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PENDLETON, Ore.. Jan. 13. (AP)
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