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Chapter SS
THE THREAT
"TASY, Greene old man," cau-
tloned Frank
"I'd like to write hla obituary,"
narlod the mild Mr. Greene.
Ahkln'i rolce apoke, flat with fl
nallly. "She dlea wltb the others!"
Green waa breathing rapidly,
He turned to Frank. "I didn't get
11 that. What did he ay7"
Ortega had spoken to them In
English. Frank did not believe that
the high-priest understood the lan
guage. Yet he must have understood
the substance ot what Don Raoul
had told them because bis threat
against Janice bad tied In wltb their
discussion.
He muttered to Greene, "I'll tell
you later. Ortega, listen to me
You're a white man. Thla native
here la mad. You can aee It In hla
eyea. You got her Into thla never
mind us get Janice out ot this, or
by God, If It's tbe last thing I do
I'll get you. Get you, bear me! I
know a way!"
Ortega smiled uncertainly. "The
girl will be all right," he said in
English. "Abkln la blunlng."
Again the priest spoke In level
tones. "She has eaten, with these
men, the food ol the Gods. She bas
ainned. Yum Chao will sot accept
her alive as a bride; he will take
her dead as food."
Ortega's face paled slightly. "No,
be said. "We did not agree upon
that"
Grahame muttered in English,
"The man Is mad, I tell you 1"
Tbe high-priest's glance exam,
lned Ortega coldly.
"Senor Ortega," he said softly In
his slurring Spanish. "Has It oc
curred to you that your usefulness
tn thla matter la ended? In fact, 1
am wondering about your future
wortb to us."
"What do you mean?" Don Raoul
moistened bis Hps.
"Yesterday a runner from Merlda
told me that the revolution has end
ed, unsuccessfully. There Is a re
ward offered by the new Governor
for your capture.
"I do not care for the money
offered," be continued contemptu
ously, "but It seems that your serv
ices have no value to us now." Ah-
kin's voice became brittle. "Take
care, man. Cama-tots is a thirsty
God, and your heart would be as ac
ceptablo as those of those dthers."
Ortega stepped back Into the
shadows. As the group filed out of
the doorway, his big figure seemed
queerly shrunkeu.
Greene mopped hla forehead.
"Whew!" ha exclaimed. "I'm
wringing wet 1 wondor If I've got
Cever. Botween that big slob Ortega
making me hot, and that wicked
looking prleat giving me tbe chills,
I ahouldn't wonder. What all went
on? 1 didn't get halt of IU"
Frank considered. Ha wondored
It be should tell Janice's press-agent
all the Implications. The little fel
low bad proved hie courage. He waa
I little ashamed of his former an
noyance with him In Hollywood.
Hollywood! how remote It
seemed. He decided to explain the
situation to Greene In every aspect.
Two heada were needed to pool,
very scrap ot Information that
might be ot possible value to them
In their extremity.
While Greene waa excitable, the
chance ot hla flying off the handle
must be taken. He said In as light
a tone as he could muster:
"Got your notebook, Greene?
This Is the hottest stuff you've ever
heard."
Greene signed. "I wlsb 1 had It
at that, only" He studied the bare
of tbe window. " Myberg probably
wouldn't let me use It If 1 could."
Despite himself Frank smiled
slightly. The little press agent'a ob
session labeled blm an artist.
He apoka to Greene primarily to
Inform blm of the circumstances
and also to piece together and clar
ify the blta ot Information that were
awannlng In nla own mind.
"We'ro In a baJ spot. Greone," be
began. "I'm atnaied at Just about
everything I've seen and hoard. The
people on the coast call these In
terior Indians aublevadoa. Uncon
quered fellows.
"l)ut thoy've alwaya boon report
ad as a friendly. Ignorant lot so long
aa they were let alone. Occasional
ly they drift (o the coast wltb blocks
ol chicle chewing gum and
E
TO BE HELD HERE
The 1035 annual convention of the
Active Club International la practi
cally assured tor Mrdford, Gltn L.
abrlrk, president of the local Active
Club, reported today following his
return yitrtlay from Brattle, where
ha attended a district meeting ol the
organlsa-lon Saturday and Sunday.
He was accompanied by William Mc
. Alllstfr, International board member
Cheater Huicard, local vice-president,
and Kenneth Denman, .local
secretary.
Mr. Psbrlck reported' a succesa
fJI meeting In the Puget Sound city
where the session was held as a pre
liminary to the annual 1014 conven
tion at Spokane In a short time. The
Medford delegation received encour-
GODDESS
by Herbert Jensen
haven't gained any particular imi
tation for ferocity.
"Did you notice some of them
were nearly white? Tbe old Span
ish strain fc. persistent. That guard,
for Instance, that brought the water
bad ruddy hair.
"Some ot them have come Into
the cltlea and have been absorbed
by the modern way of living. A fel
low told me once that some, even,
have gone to the States to be edu
cated, but like our own Indians, they
generally drift back to tbe jungle
and lapse Into the old ways.
"It just shows you what dynamite
will do It aomebody provldea a fuse
to touch It off. This Abkln for in
stance. He was the same one I saw
run away from the automobile tbo
night Spin Wlnslow and I caugbt
up with Janice . By the way, why
wasn't Spin along on this trip?"
"His arm waa still on tbe fritz,"
Greene explained. "He may come
later, I dunno. Too late to do us
any good."
"You've read up on the arche
ology business. When the Spaniards
arrived In this country the natives
were sacrificing, they say, twenty
thousand young men and women a
year in Mexico City alone on their
altars.
"Something like that la evident
ly going on here."
"Pleasant," muttered Greene. "I
road where they took them to a cliff
brink and threw them oft." Hla Hps
were a little pale. "I don't like high
places. I've never been In an air
plane In my life."
"This ahkln ahkln Is evidently
a title, not a name ," continued
Frank, "la doubtlescly the dynamite
fuse In this locality. He must be
quite a man. The jungle Is all
cleaned up and the old templea re
constructed better than the Pea
body people have done at Cblchen
Ida. But did you notice his eyes?
He's mad. Mad aa a "
"Yeah. What a-man," Interrupted
Groene wearily. "Supposing we
catch some shut-eye? They going
to hurt Janice?"
Frank turned hla head Into tbe
shadow.
"I thought so," said little Mr.
Greene, "Listen Frank, and remem
ber tbla: You did a foolish thing on
the temple top the other night. If
you get a break any kind ot a
break forgot me. Forget me, will
you? Take Janice and get the hell
out of this place! Good night- I'm
going to sleep and think about bar
I n g our throats cut Pleasant
dreams."
GRAHAME slept fitfully,' his rest
harried by fantastic visions.
His shouldor wound had begun to
heal and It Itched excruciatingly.
As the moon sailed higher It threw
Its beams against their prison. The
raya filtered through the two open
ings In the walls above him. He
hoard Greene tossing.
Finally he must have slept a little.
He came awake suddenly, aa a dog
awakes, senses alert but with body
motionless. Some sound, he could
have aworn, had broken his rest.
Greene waa breathing deeply but
with the regularity of the slum
borer. . He placed hla feet upon the floor,
and with eyelids widened, strove to
pierce with his gaie the darkness
that blanketed their cell oicept for
the two silver patchea of moonlight,
that stabbing througb the windows,
sprawled one upon the wall, one
upon the floor.
Across the moon-patch on the
floor, grldlroned with the shadows
of the window bars, a faint gray
tracery seemed to wriggle toward
him.
In an Instant he waa upon hla
feet and stepped softly toward the
center ot the cell. His toe touched
an object: he slopped and picked
It up. It waa a atone, the else of a
large walnut. Tied to It was a
strong white cord that lay along the
noor to the wall, then up and out
ot the window opening!'
He tugged gontly upon It. Imme
diately there was an answering
double pull I He drew the cord to
ward him without further resist
ance, watching the window. There
waa a flicker ot white at the all),
and with a taint plop, a paper, rolled
like a scroll, fell at his feet
Ills Angers trembled slightly aa
he untied the string that secured It.
He unrolled the paper and found
that It waa a massage ot soma kind
penciled in Spanish. He held It to
the taint light. It waa addressed to
himself, beginning with the elab
orate aalutatlon of Spanish punctil
io, "Muy esttmado senor, y ml aralgo
Don Francisco Grahame, , , ."
It was algned Juan Pledra the
lad who by thla time, had he
escaped the search partlea, should
have been well upon his way to the
coast!
(Crtrtiltl. Hnti'l Imn)
A plan of sscapa smsrgts, to
morrow. aging revitcnse to the Invitation Ihj
group offered and Is certain next :
venr's innuil rnnclava la slklert for '
Medford.
The Medford club provided Rogue
rtlver tlest Du-Comtce pears at the
Statue banquet at which 150 repre
sentatives from 10 cluba were served.
8A1.EM, Feb. 30 (AD The state
banking department Is handling li
quidation .tiuwta of more than aa,
000.000, A. A. Schramm said here to
day. H was preparing Mi annual
report which would show the prog
ress mads tn liquidations, which he
said were slow because of economic
conditions.
The department has supems on of
1 60 bsnks. of which nine are operal
Inf on a restricted basis.
CRATER LAKE HAS
LI
For several year paat, southern
Oregon has been engaged In a great
battle to keep Crtv.er Lake In this
section, despite the magazine ac
counts of Its location In northern
California, any place else writers
choose to establish the beautiful body
of water.
But while residents here were se
renely thinking the battle won. with
Crater Lake really located north of
the California state line, where It
has been made ft national park, the
United States geographic board pub
i Ushes a voluminous report of over
eight hundred pages, and complete
ly omits any mention of the lake.
Of all the United States territory,
one Crater Lake Is described as fol
lows: Southeastern part of Annette
Tsland, midway between Tamas
mountain and the shore of Felice
Ntralt, lat. 55 degrees, 03 minutes .6
N., long. 131 degrees, 23 minutes W.,
southeastern Alaska.
!A copy of the handbook has been
received by Supervisor Karl L. Ja
nouch of the Rogue River National
forest, and In It are listed decisions
of the board on 25,000 names ap
pearing on the maps. Origin of the
various names Is also Included In
Vie report.
The geographic board, which t I.as
. been serving as national arbiter In
I matters relating to geographic names
since 1890, has given careful study
to pronunciations and spellings.
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MARKS 75TH YEAR
Mrs. Emma Foster, who lives on
Sailing street In the Laurel hurst dis
trict, celebrated her 75th birthday
February 8. She was born that
many years ago In Portland the
daughter of William L. Toney, fa
rin'wi&'n." J mijiii.h
JY WS A&OUT IT- W
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mous pioneer and Indian fighter of j
the McMinnville district, where he
resided for 77 years before death
ended Ails adventures, when he was
97 years of age. 1
Mrs. Foster was one of 11 chlllren
born to her parents, six of whom
died In Infancy or childhood. Their
ptoneer father was known through
out the west as farmer, boatman and
Indian fighter. He was ft veteran -.'
the Cay use Incran war. 1
Mrs. Foster h& lived In Medford
for the past five years.
Phone 543 We will haul sway rout
-efuse City Sanitary Service.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
-TO BR16HTEN UP A PARTY YOU VOLUNTEER. .
TO PO ONE 0V THOSE TARLOR. STUNTS, WHICH
REQUIRES OTHER "THINGS A BROOM AND
"RACflCALLY CLEARING- "THE ROOM OT FURNITURE, AND
REALISE TOO LATE VOU'VC FORGOTTtN HOWfoDO if
(Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS