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.
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of the boundary at Brenner were
continuing.
ONE WOMAN KILLED
TWO HURT IN BLAST
SEATTLE, March 7. (AP) One
woman was killed and two women In
jured in a fire and explosion at the
Hltt Plreworks company's plant here
today. Tbe woman waa Mrs. LHlia-n
McCrea, 86. The two Injured are
Mrs. James Smith and Mrs. Olive
Veshlage. They were employees.
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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.
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