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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORL). OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1934. G Ajuu SjuuaS by CjcuvjvmeuA AIcvUl Chapter 83 HUMAN BAIT ASA boy. Bowers bad mixed 8sh- log with (hooting, and had mended and area made roda. To wrap the gun with wire he uaed the aame technique with which the Joints of a fishing-rod are wrapped. Layer succeeded layer until he (elt sure that the plecea ol the bar rel, when It waa buret, would not fly dangerously. He added many ex tra layera of wire to those already concealing the Junction of the bar rel and the breechblock, the real danger-polnL Few nights now passed when the tigers could not be heard making angry lamentations In some part of the Island or the other. Bowers may have been right about the new spring crop of goata and the care less mammas, but bis eara told him that the tlgera were not getting enough meat to content them. Ivy's best efforts to capture one of the wild monkeys bad been un successful. They relished any food that was thrown them, they made great and on the whole Ingratiating chltterlngs and chatterlngs, but neither she nor Helen could Induce one of them to climb all the way up the notched palm trunk and submit to capture. But one day Ivy came softly through the cave to the back door where. In the pleasant afternoon shadows, Bowers was whittling her s spoon out of orangewood, and said that the monkeys had come on a visit, and she thought perhaps If she herself kept out of sight they might actually come on the ledge and play with Helen. "If they'll only come once," she said, "and And that nothing awful happens to them, they'll repeat Some of them In their hearts long to be tame monkeys." After a while she stole back to the front of the care to see If she had guessed right. What she dis covered was the opposite of what he hoped. The wild monkeys bad not yielded to Helen's Invitations and blandishments. It was she, the bad little egg, who had yielded to theirs. Ivy was disappointed, and at the same time she was more amused than troubled. It waa not the first time that Helen, as Ivy expressed It, bad listened to the "call of the wild and gone native. She return-id to Bowera and re ported. He cut a delicate shaving from the handle of the spoon and thought to himself: "If not Helen, then what or" and a smile flick ered In the corners of his mouth, "who?" That night the tigers paid a visit, but this time they came up through the back valley and kept certain dtstance. Bowers' arrangement of heavy logs all read, to fall waa viewed by them even In their ra venous state of hunger with pro found suspicion. To the question "Who?" there eould be but one answer. No pig or goat was to be obtained. Helen bad run off. Ivy was of course out of the question, and It seemed to Bow ers that be himself was the only possible solution. TWO nights later, while Ivy was soundly sleeping, the opportu nity offered. The moon was nearly full. Having looked from the front of the cave and seen nothing and heard nothing he had gone io the back. He perceived the tlgera almost, at once. One was standing and one was lying. Their heads were turned In his direction. The one that was lying down growled and rose to Its feet. The beaata looked thin and ragged. Their ribs were prominent Bowera fetched his gun and hammer-stone, to be on the sate side, also his ax, and climbed down the notched ladder Into the gully. He believed In his deadfall. He believed himself to be In no more danger than If he had remained In the cave. Nevertheless, at Sndlng himself on the same level with his enemies, bis heart beat taster. "Well," he thought, "here I am, a big I'Jmp of sound meat Come Hid get It!" Finally the (em.! stepped one paw a little way Into the network of shadows and then the other Nothing happened. She looked ner vously to the right and left and then upward. In the Jungle she had never seen Just such an arrange ment of tree-stems, and she did not like It Nevertheless, after another long period of balking, she made one more step forward: and then, her eyes on Bowers and the tip of her tall rnovlng ... .. cdlc Jerks, she began to creep slowly toward him. She could have reached him with one bold leap. In building the dead tall he had not thought of this pos sibility. She looked for all the world as It she were getting ready to spring. Ha waa badly frightened, but his bead remained clear and bis bands did not tremble too much. He calculated as well as he could where she would be toward the end of bar spring. Holding the gun with bla left band, be directed tbe muz zle toward thla Imagined place, and with bla right band grasped the hammer-stone with which to strike the Orlng-pln when the time came. The muscles of the great gaunt she-beast were all tensed and quiv ering, but she did not spring. She tensed forward Inch by Inch until presently the first trigger obstruct ed her. She placed one forepaw lightly upon It Tbe first touch could not have broken an egg but as she continued to edge forward, the paw bad to support weight and suddenly the trigger gave way and In a moment ahe was broken and burled under a ton of heavy tlm bera. Now. of course, waa tbe male's chance, but In tbe crash of the dead fall and tbe sound of bis mate's one scream he forgot tbe hunger that tortured him and fled In an abject panic of fear and with no more sublimity than a common house cat when Jumped by a dog. The crash and the scream waked Ivy from her aound sleep. She hur ried through the cave to tbe back door, stumbling, tripping and bark ing her shins In tbe darkness. When she reached the opening Bowera was already more than halt way up the ladder. He waa badly shaken, and bis nerves were Jump ing like fleas. He was panting as It he bad been under water, and words came from him only In Jerks. WE COT one . . . phew!" This waa followed by a broken laugh. He leaned against the side of tbe cave and bit bis lips. "You're not hurt?" His breath now came and went more smoothly. "No," he said. "But was I scaredl" "What happened?" Worda and phrases now came easily, and be told her full speed ahead. "And so," he finished, "all we have to do la to build our trap again and wait until tbe male cornea Into It Just now he probably thinks that be would rather starve to death. But be w,on't ' be strong enough to do that Hunger will hurt blm so that he'll be willing to try anything once. The yellow dogl Sending bla wife in first to see what would happen! Then, If nothing had happened, and she'd got me af ter taking all the risks, he'd have driven her oft until be bad eaten all the choice pieces." They rebuilt the deadfall only to find, one morning, that It had been sprung during the night Examina tion disclosed the crushed, mangled body of McLeod's thirty-foot py- tbou, which bad swum ashore from the Boldero. Hitherto they had hardly given the great serpent a thought but now they experienced retrospective thrills of horror. He could have oozed up their ladder and Into the cava at any time, and without ef fort and crushed one or the other of them as they slept At tbe base of the gully where the volcanic ash was loose and deep, they scraped a shallow pit and burled the remains of the py. tbon. When the deadfall was once more set they thought the odor of these remains, uncovered tor tbe purpose would draw the remaining tiger Into the trap. But the remaining tiger was again ravenously hungry. He lurked in the neighborhood of the deadfall all the time they were rebuilding It and behaved so menacingly that they laid and maintained a barrier of fire against blm. Sometimes be came close to this fire and roared at them. While Bowers tolled Ivy stood by with the gun and the hammer-stone, ready to pass them to him it the need arose. This time he was work ing backward from the mouth ol the gully In order to place at least a tew heavy logs and one loosening trig ger between them and the enemy. But this necessitated certain cbangea and rearrangements, and what wltb this and the fact that he was working nearly all the tlma with one eye on a tiger, made prog ress slow. Tomorrow, Ivy breaks a llftlons biblt BOSEBUBO. Ore., Sept. 30 (API Broke and with a cupboard barer than Mother Hubbard's, that la. If he had owned a cupboard, which he didn't; a few rags to keep hjm from being a complete nudist, thla waa W. T. Pen nlnger, "depreaalon miner," the first of the week aa he panned gravel in Cow creek canyon to eke out a bare existence. He waa shoveling gravel Wednesday In order to glean the few small specks of gold It hid, when a yellow, lop sided dlk about the alze of a sliver dollar, appeared in the slulcebox In front of him. It looked like gold. Pennlnger fear ed his Imagination was beginning to play tricks on him. It had happened to other miners. He trembled as he reached Into the slulcebox. The In stant he picked It up he knew It waa gold a flat nugget with blta of fine grave Interspersed through It. Pennlnger went to a neighboring mining camp and borrowed a shirt, a pair of trousers and some shoes and took the nugget to the Glendale Pharmacy. It weighed 31 penny weight, the largest nugget to be found In the Cow creek district In many years. 4 He waa paid $43.40 and returned to his diggings with warm clothes, good shoes and a winter's brugstake. Last week of Midget photos at Peasley Studio. Hudson to Stage Ruggedness Drive A ruggedness' run embracing a tough I860 mile circuit through Washington and Oregon will be started early In October by the Hud son Motor Car company. A Hudson Terraplane which will be selected at random from among ownera of 1934 models will be driven continuously over the route night and day for a period of two weeks. All sorts of roads are Included In the run which has been laid out as a real demon stration of the stamina and rugged ness of the car. A year's hard driv ing will be concentrated In the two week period. Three shifts of drivers will be employed These men will be o,' aver age type and not professional or race drlvera. Performance demonstrations are Included In the program along the route. It Is estimated that the car will complete the circuit every two or three days. Newspaper and radio announce ments will Inform Interested observ ers and spectators of 'the progress or the run and will tell of the projected arrival of the car In different towns along the route. Not only will the car be selected from among Hudeon-Terraplane own ers by a drawing, but owners will also be given an opportunity to name the car to win a cash award and later to write a slogan descriptive of the run to be used in future newspaper advertising. Winning slogans will earn substantial prizes. The car will be painted conspicuously with Its name and the roads over which It passes will be indicated by route markers. The car wlnda through the two statea by devious roads as to touch Important centers and also take In sections of unimproved highways snd will afford a real test of the car. The car will leave Seattle traveling nortn to Belllngham and south through Taccma and Raymond to Portland. continuing to Eugene. Marshfleld to Klamath Palls. Tbe route then pro ceeds north and east through Bend. Redmond, Walla, Walla and up to Spokane. The circuit then swings westward to Rltzvllle, Prosser, Wen atchee and back to Seattle. Thla two-state run taking place In .this vicinity la part of a national program of ruggednea runs which will blanket every section of the country during the coming month. Approximately twenty Hudson-Terra-planes all selected In the same man ner from private owners, will be sent on their way over circuits approxi mating 1800 mllea In length through all kinds of roada In what Is con sidered to be the most extensive rug gedness demonstration ever under taken by an automobile company. Dur'Igello's To Serve New Lunch Dur-lghello'B Restaurant, located north of Medford near the Pino Cone. Is now featuring a popular priced merchants' lunch from 11:00 a. m. to 2:00 p. m., according to an an nouncement by Mrs. Thelma Dur Ighello, proprietor of this new estab lishment. 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