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PXflE ETHTTT BLOND New Serial -JSL, SYNOPSIS: frank Orahamt hat Hit Janice Kent the alrl he lovet. under the orotectlon ol hie criooled aviator triend. Bill Lanaton. In a valley ol the Yucatan iunole. and U trvtna to lonl to the eea down on underaround river in time to eave them trom thi rittno flood that will drown them. The malevo lent hlnh orient ol a lunale tribe It imvrleoned with them, Janice. mourning Frank't departure, i trvtna " toraet Frank in eleen. Chapter 46 CAPTURE T?OR noun, it seemed, sua lay wide-eyed staring at the reflec tions from the are that shifted over the nnevor. arch of the cave's root. Finally she drifted Into slumber. . . . She dreamed restlessly. A kal eidoscope of dream substance shut tled across her mind. Bits of her Bollywood Hie, fragments of her Jungle experience pulsed In weird oscillation. Frank's face was there, and Lang- ton's, and that of poor Horatio Greene's mixed up oddly with that of the Mexican boy Juan. She made again the trip up the aide of the pyramid to the high' priest's house. She saw again the panoply of the ritual before the tone of sacrifice. S) smelted the resinous odor of copal Incense, and heard the flat, dismal thudding of a hidden drum. 1 The face of the high priest came closer. Even In the dream the chill. Inexorable fanaticism of bis eyes eemed to shrink the membranes of her soul. The arms of the guards and the lesser priests seized her. She felt her throat bursting In a scream. She struggled desperately. Her eyes snapped wide. Curious shadows loomed between her and the rosy Are reflections on the cav ern roof. A rmell of unwashed In dlan bodies tingled ber nostrils. Sbe struggled :o arise but she could not. She was held tightly to her cot. Sbe heard a voice shouting, cnarged with pain and despair. "Janice! . . . Janice!" Suddenly tbe cavern was tilled with HgbL Torches flared. The girl saw native faces about per. Tbe crossed rows of cartridges upon their breasts. Sbe realized that she was bound to her bed As he wldeced her bewildered eyes at tbe scene, the figure of Langton wab brought forward be tween iwo brawny natives. He was Bound hand and foot but his eyes naanea and his shoulders writhed In paroyxsm of futile effort. i nerve got uj, Janice!" be breatbed hoarsely. "That devil oanea them ... 1 know. Helpless, yet be sent them his summons . . waiting 'til Frank was gone or tbe rains came!" Sbe moistened her lips and stared oowuuerea trom brown face to Drown face. It was too strange, too direful tor ber to accept at once. ene saw the ahk n a eves obaanrine her beyond the circle of faces. Hla expression was triumphant indom- itaoia. As she caught bis glance he mut tered something to one of his at tendants. Two men stepped beside Dim; they lifted him and carried him forward. He addressed tbe girl to rapid Spanish. She shook ber head and turned appeallngly to Liaugum. But tbe tall blond white man'a yes showed his Incomprehension Turning to hla Indian attendant, the hlgb-prlest spoke In the gutterai dialect or tbe sublevadoa. A space was cleared about the In dlan. He pointed to Janice and book bis bead; he repeated the ges ture toward Langton again shaking cis neaa. He pulled a lock of black hair away from his forehead and nodded. "Me means Frank," muttered Langton. "He'a trying to tell us tomethlng about Frank." Whereupon tbe man took an un mlstakable posture. He allowed bis body to sag. Slowly be kneeled to tbe Boor and stretched himself out upon It. He closed bis eyes and let hla mouth open. There could be no doubt of the horrible Import of his position. It told Janice aa plainly as If Frank were lying before her that they wanted ber to know that Frank was dead! - Sbe cried out distractedly, "No, no! That Isn't what he means! Billy, It -an't be. How do they anowr How could they know!" Langton, misery In hla haggard eyes, glanced sidelong at tbe nigb priest, with the fascination of bird for a snake's eyes, sbe tot lowed Laugton's glance. Instantly as she met those ob sidian depths, the realisation surged In ber that 1Mb man bad called lo his people across miles of trackless Jungle and bad commanded them this bidden valley. What other powers did be Dos essT 3lnre he could throw his will BEER WINDOW DISPLAY BRINGS TWO ARRESTS PORTLAND. March t. (API Two tfriRRlst and one grocer wra arrwt cd hen today tor violation of th ordlnanr bsrrlng window displays of liquor. Ech had a fow bottlrs of bir In tha windows of thfir shops. THE FLAVOR GODDESS by Herbert Jensen over a distance, could It be that ha owned also tbe power of divination? A little moan broke past ber throat. She felt ber knees growing weak. "Frank I" she whispered. "Dear God . . . don't let It be!" Swooning, she fell back upon the cot, JANICE! stared dry-eyed over a succession of flat roof tops to ward tbe great central pyrr Jild. From the platform surmounting the vast edifice puis of incense smoke gathered and disappeared as vagrant wind-eddies blew about the lofty corners of tbe head-priest's bouse. Soon, she realized, she and Billy Langton would proceed slowly up those dizzying steps. Then stretched tor agonizing momenta on tbe, sacrl- 1 Octal stone, flinching to the Inexor- able plunge of the knife, they would die, and their bodies be hurled Into tbe depths of the rain -choked cenote. A snarling and coughing sounded trom below the rim of tbe parapet that bounded the roof top that held their prisoner. Sbe shuddered but stepped to the low wall and looked downward. She knew what ahe would aee but tbe seven jungle cats that roamed In tbe surrounding enclosure fas cinated ber. They were Jaguars. Lltbe muscles buncbed and writhed beneath their black-dappled tawny skins. They were restless seemingly forever In motion. At night, as sbe lay In ber room below, sbe could bear them above tbe drumming rain as tbey whined and quarreled, or fought over the scanty scraps of food thrown them by the guards. They were given Just enough to keep them strong, and hungry and ferocious. She rested ber elbows oo the stoLe and observed them. As It by some uncanny Instinct they lift ed their beads and looked at ber. Tbelr yellow eyea gleamed, a whine of crazing- sounded In their throats: almost as one beast tbey flattened to tbe ground only the tips of their tails moved. An Involuntary trembling rippled across her shoulders. Without locks or bars she was constrained to ber prison. Bemlndful of a water moat about a castle In the days of chival ry, this was a moat of living, hun gry Jaguars. It was nearly a week since she had been placed here. The soldiers ot the abkln had hauled them by means of ropes up tbe concave walls of the valley-cenota and bad carried them back to the city. Since then It bad rained Incess antly. She knew tbe women de tailed aa her servanta had told ber In pantomime that when the rain ceased aha and Billy were to be taken to the pyramid top. There would be no escape this time. Even could they get so far as the underground river, that avenue waa closed by the ralna that bad charged tbe caverns with water. The Jungle, soaked from tbe continuous down fall, was Impassable. Had Frank got to the sea through the caverns and ber faith bad rallied trom the hlgb-prleat'a Intima tion that he hadn't It would take weeks for him to travel through the morass that lay between the coast and tbls bidden city. . TTOPELESSLY she walked about the roof. Today tne rain bad ceased. The sky was clear except for occasional sullen groups ot clouds that bung In patches across the blue. She was grateful tor this day la the open, but prayed, nevertheless tor rain. She and Billy would not be molested while It rained. Tbe root waa like a garden a lovely, sinister, garden. Rare tropic shrubbery was placed cunningly about Fine fabrics were draped over the simple furniture. Upon a central palm-shaded table a bugs bowl of fruits and condiments waa set Her clothing, which had been taken from her while sbe slept, had been replaced with an ankle-length robe of Unest linen adorned at the throat and hem with tbe moat ex qulalte colored embroidery she bad even seen. Sbe bad no cause to complain about her comfort. She bad been given everything sbe might desire except freedom. Wearied with her pacing, sbe 'at Anally upon a ilvan and watobed the sun arc toward the weak It painted the pyramid with a brush daubed In gold. Aa It -ank lower tbe gold changed to rose, then deepened to red. The red darkeued to the varnished sheen of fresh blood! ICrtmtU. tl). i Hi'tnl Initml Temdrrow, Jsniea spproachss ths luprims saerlnct. HOLMAN NOT TO SEEK SHERIFF NOMINATION Bill Hclmsn of Bagla Point, who his twn mrntlonsd sa a randldaM fcr th Republican nomination as Jackson county sheriff, announced I yesterdsy afternoon that ,ha hsa de cided not to run for tha office. L-A-S" SfEDFORD MAIL SOCIALISTS PLAN THER BLOW AT E By Wade Werner, (Associated Press Foreign Staff.) VIENNA, March 7. AP) Evidence that socialist resistance to the gov ernment of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss has not yet been complete ly crushed appeared today when handbills were scattered urging workers: "Hold fasti We will send more weapons. Only hold fast. Placards appeared also, on the walla of the shell-torn Karl Marx apartment bunding, reading: "We are coming back. You can depend on us." There Is even talk of a new gen eral strike. Radical leaders who have escaped being thrown Into Jail con tend that many workers did not re alize the destruction of Austrian so cialism meant the destruction of their labor unions and the confisca tion of their property. "Now," said one of these leaders, "they realize it and when a new general strike Is cslled tfiey will act accordingly." Whether In prepartlon for a social ist uprising of other dangers the Helmwehr, or fascist home guard, continues Its recruiting. The proximity of the German and Italian borders to the Tyrol may be a contributing factor, but at any rate, patriotic organizations in this province have been rapidly trans formed Into armed auxiliary govern ment forces. Reports trom the Italian border m.nt fnrron. I tt-.wr- l" I I Ut I I I I SMATTER"P0pT" ByO-M-yn. tH. a-?-Zf iL- ls '1 J IV (Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Byndicate, Inc.) 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They were employees. .NOW TAKE m I A DEEP BREATH Ptlf AWATVWS A CARRIES If UP UR51IR6 &P1AINS IHAf SUESffc 60ES PP1& CHAN6E.C0Me " V WWr'- ' Wl Packing:1 t&( WOX 'ROUND AMD AKD RSfuRKS 1b flNP ARE C0MIN6 AND THAT TXMN 10 RECEIVE 60E5T.?, Ji BSJ $&slr SEK WRP1ANE WHICH HWf OMlOR Hffc UK- SHE DOES W WANT A UIS0WERIH6 JUNIOR'S Wf- v T ' la&uuMW Ji SHE & SURE SHE Put EARfHED 1HE 801VD1H5 5W61-E ONE OF HIS 1WS 1EK6, SWEATER AND ONE MmM'IPGlUf M wl $ WAV BtrWE &1DCKS A&Airl IN 1HE LMH& ROOM OUEIWHOt IN fHDDlS OF OREGON, TTEDXESDAY, STATE POLICE BOAST NEW PATROL CRUISER PORTLAND. March 7. (AP) cruiser "Spldkit" today entered the; service of the Oregon state police ! a patrol boat. 1 The craft, originally a naval of (1-1 cer's gig. Is 35 feet long, haa a, beam of nine feet, la powered with an en gine of 100 horsepower and, It Is said, can turn up a neat burst of speed Wihen necessary. AW, VOU WON'T FIMO NO ' VtMOCK. IN MV IOIOK, n- 1 T 1 ie fiAo.T fAMDARD GA50LIME Unsurpassed) MARCH 7, 1934. 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