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PAGE RTX MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNE. MEPFORD. OREGOX, MONDAY, JANUARY 15. 1934. ill vr IIUI 1 uui a ' Si A,, fillffinAn Buiovi Rlowettu. T Chapter 49 THE KISS "UUT knew something was iroubl V lng A-K deeplr. He had been noticing It ever since the old officer arrived six hours ago. "What la It, A-K?" he asked. Marlln turned to him with a reso lute air. "1 might as well get It over with. I suppose. She, 1 mean Rosalie, told me to break you the news. I should have, before now, but It's a dismal duty." In a flash Curt gueasod the trouble, Rosalie had landed a more suitable candidate than himself! He won dered sardonically whether the gen tleman was the Edmonton banker or the Seattle ship owner. "I believe 1 know what you're going to tell me, A-K." For Marlln'a sake he hid his sheer delight over the unexpected good news. "Rosalie came to the conclusion that she and I just weren't suited for eat-h other, and so he " "You're being generous," Marlln Interrupted, more sharply than he had ever spoken of Rosalie. "The conclusion she came to was that she wanted to marry money; and she went after It, and well, she got It, got a whole steamship lino!" He made a weary gesture and stood up. "Well, you know now. I don't think It's altogether a surprise to yon. Nor," he added pointedly, "very much of a disappointment." "No, It Isn't," Curt admitted hon estly. "I was Intending to have a frank talk with her when 1 was In the city a month ago, but she wasn't there. Rosalie and I can be a lot bet ter friends as things stand than If we'd have Liarrled." "Yes, yon're right. She's got one Idea of what life's all about and you've got a different Idea, and the two would're been oil and water,' - When they went out to old John's camp, the company had already gathered. On the packing oox Sonya aat talking with Mrs. Hodklns and Paul and a glrL The -Indians and prospectors were there, and the youn; trapper had brought his two wolf cubs, still fuzzy and playful but now grown too big for his pocket. One person of that former eve ning was missing, though: and Curt felt the loss keenly. As his glance occasionally met Sonya's across the Ore. he knew that she too was think ing of Ralph Nlchol and a lonely lobstlck up the Lllluar. Like some wild creature brought In from the mountains, Tenn-Og bung back at the edge of the tire glow, trying to understand all those strange tongueB and strange people of the outerworld. After an exile of one hundred and twenty years, a Klosohee had returned at last to the ancestral home o. bis tribe. Ourt felt a proprietary Interest In that proud little band which had fought him so fiercely. They were bis clan, and he wanted to give them a helping hand. and some desperate ly needed counsel. Even In that Iso lated country they could no longer hold out against a changing world. Now that the primitive Slam-Klale 'was dead and Tenn-Og's halt brother was leading them, he-bellevod be could wean them from their unso cial ways. Curt noticed how tired Sonya was, too tired to talk or even listen to the others. The long trip out of the Ml luars, ended only yesterday, had been hard on her; he himself still felt logy from It A LITTLE before midnight she looked across at him with an understanding glance, excused her self and went up toward the factor's house. After a decent Interval he got up and left, as Inconspicuously as pos sible. In the moon shadows of the trading post he found her, waiting for him. "You were so long, dear," she whispered, "1 thought you weren't coming." Curt disarmed her with a kiss. "I had to wait soveral minutes, and then I swung out around the Indian tepees so those folks wouldn't know I'd followed you." He linked his arm through hers and they started out the path toward the old fort. "Does A-K still think I'm an ad venturess, CurtT" "When I told him how you trailed Karnkhan, he wantod to sign you up for the Mounted." "Oh, that'd be fun! I think I'll do It" "You will not! You're going to cast your lot with the Provincial Police." Opera Hlnxtr Kit 11 NEW YORK. Jan. 18. ( AP) An Injunction requiring her to work for only one mnnter during the two weeks, nurtlng JnmtAry So failed to top Mnry MrCormtc, the opera inner, from wiling today for Lon don. Heating coati ci. oa reduced. FY: complete heating aervlce call Art 6chm.dll. 418-1H6J YEAR AFTER YEAR ft A" PERFBCT Th I THE STANDARD 111- QUALITY T . She mused: "Cotnmlssiuno-. u.le of the Provincial Commissioner that's an awfully high position for me to llvo up to. Curt I don't know whether I can make good at It or not" "But think of what I'll have to llvo up to, sweet. Look" be took her band ind laid It upon his-own, her slender tapering fingers upon his rough calloused ones. "Don't!" Sonya stopped him. She raised bis hand to her lips. "This haqd fought for mo, and was wounded. Do vou remember" they were passing Curt's tent "remem ber the evening when I came by here and Paul said 'Bon solr' to me? 1 didn't know you were In the tent or even that you existed. Six weeks ago It doesn't seem possible. Curt" A thousand yards from the post they sat down on a lichen-covered rock near the wave edge. Sonya nes tled against him, her tired bead against his shoulder. She was motionless and silent so long that he believed she must have dropped off to sleep, but when be glanced down he saw that she was looking up at him, studying him. "You're sorry, aren't you, Curt?" "Sorry for what, dear?" "That we're not going to live In a country like this. That we're going back to tbe cities." "I am, a little," be admitted. "1 can't help being, dear. But my place la down there, oa helped me see that And besides, we'll have all this summer for our honeymoon In the Lilluara. I'm being honest with you. Sonya I don't want to go back down north. This work I'm taking on Is a rosponBlble position, and I'm egoist enough to believe that even tually I'll climb on past lt.l SHE twined her fingers with his, as though she had been worrying about bis happiness and now was reassured by bis words. In the distance he could see the ruddy glow of old John's camptlre and the twinkle of figures passing back and forth In front of It. A night wind rustling In the woods behind brought him the purl of an ovorfalls and the sad elemental song of the pines. Low In tbe southwestern sky red Antares, Sonya's tryst star and the star he had watched at Ralph's death, was sinking out of sight In a notch between two mountains. When he glanced down at Sonya again, long minutes later, ho saw that her eyes were closed. He did not stir, or wako her; it was coo pre cious to have her asleep In bis arms. She seemed so different at heart from what she had been on their trip north more cheerful and at peace. With the doath of Karakhan a black load had fallen away from her. Sho could begin to forget that tragedy In distant foggy Vladivos tok, and start to live again. He marveled at the strange des tiny which had brought her to him from the Volga of old Russia, across Siberia. China. Canada, to this uorth ern wilderness where he and she bad mot. He thought of the night when he had seen her looking out into the rain, lonely and moody, with thnt fearful trip ahead of her. Far away across the lake a wolf lifted Its wnlllng croscendo. Its voice laden with the lonellnoss and sav agery and beauty of tbe Northland. He would miss all that, Curt thought sorrowfully the Arctic prairies, the Nnhannl Mountains, the happy free dom which had been his for a year and which ho would put behind him Irrevocably that fall. It seemed to him that when he had sont his plane crashing Into Karakhan's ship, It had been like folding up bis wings and bidding good-bye t -arenture. From the very beginning of the Karakhan hunt Intangible bonds had been tightening upon him little by little, drawing him back to his destined course of life. But he did not foel that he was leaving the wilderness for good and all. They could come back to It, be and Sonya, and live tor a while In It There would be times when they would need to come back to keep their perspective and got a new hold on their strength. What If be did regret the musk-ox prairies and the white-wolf bills? One could not have everything. He felt as he smoothed a wisp of hair from Sonya's cheek, that he had received his full share, and more. He hnd health and courage, and a position that challenged all his powers, and the vista of still more challenging heights toward which he and Sonya could climb together. fCnpyrleht, ITUIiam B. V --j'l THE END. 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Circulation I today to protrt American lives and piuiii, in uiouiuci. u,ilJJ..,...0 me evaluation oj una muen ituci capital by the retreating 19th Route army. At the request of Oordon Burke, vice consul In charge of the United i provlne. States consular district, a naval party Early today, two nationalist mar came mhore from the American gun- j lnee were slain by a leaderleaa rebel boat Tulsa and Immediately went. band. Further disorders developed on guard In the quarter. among opposing Chinese factions. f THIS 13 A OUM6 BILL. BUT VUUAT CASJ- A.,,'m4 , THE GREAT MOVIE ACTOR., 13 A. OUM& BILL. BUT VUUAT EVPECT IkJ A ui Cd .lollOT I THE COOK TO SO DOUJKJ TO BOTTOM WITH HER SPOOM AtOO SOME CEAtOS AMD I'LL TAKE OP THAT SMOKED PORK REOCAB8AGI AMD AJKJT KJO STOMACH '''''T-r jL r 1 I'LL. SHOW VOU A COUPLE TO WHOM HOME M&ANlS SOMETHING- ARt "fOU LIIIHNINti - The Tulsa had been standing by ,,,.. nationalist troops began their drive southward down the Mln river valley north of Foochow to put down the secessionist movement In Fuklen CAN X .,. ,MM , THE GREAT LL V'l IS OUT THERE THE., PICK. SHOT TO THE COOK THAT THERE'S NOTMIU& afJTTg r3V. Hs-3h'e MA.TTER UJITW WIS DIGESTIVE ' if IS IX ALU. I I I RIGHT IP I 1 r iTlTjjT mm 21 CALCUTTA, Jan. 15 least ai persons were ! MQWIE ACTOR., AUO HE UJAVJTS JOMESfe OUST SEC WOW MICE QUIET AMD OEACE FUL T S MERE III I I I I'M AFRAiO ; , TO AMSWER 1 YOU. man; were Injured In a protracted earthquake which shook all India to day. The wife and children of G. W. Brown, the British manager of the railway work shop, and the wife of the Indian district medical officer lrlll.4 I. U. Anll,,.. (Via Uamalpur railway station. . (AP) At ( The additional number of casual killed and ties were not determined. I'LL GIVE HIM PLEMTV OFTEIsJ I'LL KILL HIM -IT'S TOO BAD LOI-IEIvJ.A FELLER SETS SO STOCK OKi HISSELP KJOBOOV IS PITTIEJO TO WE MI&HT BE A GREAT LUHAT WE UftORER 'hip STOMACH J STOMACH TTTTTT I'M SORRM NOT AT SPOITM I IV 'I 1 II I COUMTRV FOR A REST AMD MR SMITH IS OVER IM EUROPE FOR . r i . i il I. r n a Eight persons were killed at Patna, and nine at Gaya. Office occupants In Calcutta, pan ic stricken, rushed Into the streeta and many buildings were allghtly damaged Including the high court and electric corporation buildings, two churches, the Imperial bank and t the general postoffice. I The quake started here at 3:45 p. 'm. local time (3:45 a. m.. E. 8. T.) By SOL HESS IP HE EATS HERE -JJITIH IAC6E PORTIONJS THAT HE THIkJKS ASSOCIATE LUITH HIM . ACTO, BUT VOU CAM ORDERS HE'5 STILL. A (Cerr-lfM, ltu. tj n BJl Srtdleiu. Ik 1 I 1 Trtdi Mvk Eef D S. Pit Offie By George McManus - - THEVRE HOME MRS. 1 irsl THE MO WOMOEP its Quiet HERE T .TA-A.hPrr-r-.r. it
