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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. American dishes will ba featured,
together with Italian meals and
steaks, and chops will be available
on a la cart orders, according to
Mrs. Dur-lghello's announcement.
NEW YORK DOCKERS
STRIKE IS AVERTED
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. (AP) A
truce was reached today between
deep-sea steamship operators and the
International Longshore men's asso
ciation preventing a threatened strike
of 40,000 waterfront workers expected
to be declared Monday,
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lief administration here today. Con
siderable damage U dene every
spring by the overflow of Mill crerk.
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Foreign Wars will be held at the
armory Monday evening, October 1.
at 8 o'clock. Annua election of of
flcera will be held ind full attend
a nee is requested.
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survey to provide complete field data
on a plan to control flood waters
of Mill creek in Salem, wan ap
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BOY SCOUTS TO HOLD
HONOR COURT MONDAY
Boy Scout Court of Honor will be
held on Monday evening, October 1.
at the courthouse auditorium, ac
cording to announcement tasued. The
board of revue of tvhlch U D. .tones
la chairman will meet at 7 o'clock,
and all sou ar requested to be
prompt for . :vlewi on their tejts.
The court will be at 8 oVlcvk with
Don Newbury as Judee.
A large number of awards are to
be pre."ented Monday, as this la to
be the f tret court since summer
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