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PAGE EIOTTT XfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OREGON. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1035. A RAPID-FIRE -at ifSIB: The Montana KI4 deserted Ruth Lanery, hit t.nde-to-be, in order to accept a challenge to finht Jack toifor ta the. death. Lascar is domed, end Montana finds himself outside the. law. Fleeing south toward .'errico. he meets Mateo Rubriz. the elrange Mexican bandit, and Brother Pas cual Pascual saves Mateo and Montana from the uruls pi bu etarting a landslide. But Mon tana does nnt knotr that Lascar was persuaded to challenge Hon tana ill Kubm. trha icont.ii Mon tana's help in recovering the emerald crown of Our Lady, stolen by the governor of Duraya. Chapter 10 MONTANA CONSENTS THIN, screaming voices came wav ering through the air ahove the tumult of the landslide. Brother Pascual was alread. hur rying down to the trail, where he re mounted his mule and logged on after the other two, while behind him the boulders still skipped and danced, hurtling down the trail with force that chewed great portions out of the lip of the rock: the overflow made a cataract of thunder Into the bottom of the ravine and set the echoes rolling. The whole slope above seemed to be In motion, a river of down-flooding stone, and even when It stopped rushing, how could the men of the town climb their horses over those vast blocks which now obstructed the way? The delight of Rubrls was like that of a child. He laughed till the tears were rolling on his face. "Where's the fool who denies the power of prayer?" he demanded. "There's Brother Pascual, as simple as a sheep, but he's sharpened his wits by arguing with the saints and gossiping with the angels till he's able to think of a trick like that You and I can do a few little things, but It takes a man of God to more moun tains, Montana!" Here the friar came up with them and. In response to a few words from Rubrl!:. took the hand of Montana In Iti- fV AT - rial, ' He held out his hand, saying "Good-by, Montana." t vast, slow, anil long-continued pres sure, while his doubting eyes seemed to be struggling to grapple with the soul of the Kid at the same lime. - "Here's three ot us that make one man," said Rubriz., "and while we're together, let'i see the mountain we can't fly over and the river we can't lump across." THEY came to the verge ot the Rio Grande, where the yellow currents flattened out to a shallow, width that a rider could ford easily. There they dismounted as Montana aid: "I turn north here, Mateo. I ran travel in peace, now, thanks to Brother Pascual." "Adlos, amlgo," answered Rubrls. "Now I look on you (or the last time; and while I lira I shall remember rou." "The last time?" asked Montana. "I go now on a trail from which I can never return," said Rubrls, cheerfully. "What trail Is that?" asked Mon tann. He noted that Brother Pascual, with a troubled (ace, was retreating (rom them. "Our Lady calls to mo," t,ald Ru bric, waving towards the horizon. "The task she asks Is more than one man can do; but I must go." Montana sat down on a rock and lighted a clgaret. "I'm ready to listen. There's no hurry," he said, looking around him at the broken steps ot the canyon, at the yellow workings o( the current. Rnhrls mado a great sound, clear ing his throat and scowling, to cover his satisfaction. And he told, strid ing up and down, how In the town ot Duraya the governor'a (ort on the TRIO SAFE AFTER PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 4 (API Lending their own resourceful new to the heroic work of reacue parties, three Portland men were safe to!y aftr having felt the cold peril of a 1000-foot plunce down in Ice chut on Mount Hood. Bill Blanchnrri. 24 and Joe Dan tele. 3fl, ware badly Injured but phy. alclana Mid they will re.-orer. Lester Smith, 3.V third member of the party waa reached a few hour after the othera hid been reacned. Hl only injury wj a sprained ankle. The three hid reached the hih ummlt of Mount Hood and hart itartd down when imall alide truck BlanehArd on the head. He pitched forward ind alld Into Danlela Then both akidded Into the perlkm 'chute." finally dropping into an iff cinyon. Smith became a victim of the ranvrn while etWmptlnaj to aid ftba oua.a ROMANCE BY EVAN EVANS hill stares across at the big church of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He told of the little Bishop Emlll ano, with a head as bald as a pol ished stone, fringed around with silver. 1 He told of General Estrada, the governor of his huge brush of a mustache and his rapacious eyes, which could only find devastation and poverty In bis new province until he heard of the restoration of the emerald crown of Our Lady to the church from which It had been stolen. He told of the light In the church, the felling of the bishop, the savage atand of the great friar, and that despairing call for help which Brother Pascual had brought Into the mountains. "CO I knew that I must make the " try," he finished. "One man to enter the fort? I could never come back. Before I died, I wanted to see you once more, friend. I could not tell what I would do when I saw you. I might want to draw a knife and try for your throat, or I might see a brother In you. Well, I saw you and I did not want to draw a knife." He stood over the Montana Kid and smiled down at him with an un affected admiration and fondness. He held out his hand, saying- "Then, good-bye Montana!" The kid failed to see the hand. Hi made a r--' "' his clgaret. "Walt a minute," he said. "I gel things mixed up, down there In Mex ico. Duraya let's see it's In the loop o( a river, eh?" "The river runs almost all the way around It," agreed Rubrls. "The (ort tas big stone walls, like those ot a castle in the old days?" "Just so!" "And down the hill (rom the (ort tbero's a cafe run by Miguel Santos a man who looks like a caballero. But be has a wooden leg that's pulled him down in the world." "I know the man," agreed Rubriz. "What about him?" "Nothing about him. But there's a flash of a girl In that cafe, fihe keeps a red rose in the black of her hair. The men look at her and torget bow their tequila tastes. They drink it like water while she's around. Her name her name Is Roslts." "There is such a girl," agreed Rubriz. Montana stood up, throw aay his clgaret. "Thank Clod (or an eye which can remember! Mateo, I am riding to Duraya with you." "No, my Trlend!" protested tn Mexican. "There Is danger (or you, south of the river. The Rurales re member you. They would smell oui your trail as if they were blood hounds. The; would be at youi throat in a day." "Mateo, I must go to Duraya. I must see that girl Roslta again There was something about her thai seemed to say, 'Come once more. 1 shall remomber." Besides. I want tt see the mustache ot General Ks trada." (Copyright, Harper A Brothers'! Tha trio, tomorrow, rldet south Into dsngtr. GUSTAF ON VISIT tVTOCKHOLM. Peb. 4 (APi Un concernM over report that he will be guarded by detective. a.mjt h will ir ne.fary. during htn atay In Prance, K:nn OuUf planned tod to leav Tuewlav for h!a outomr;. annua! aojourn on the Riviera Th? SwedlAh niw.rtrch. wo 1a par ticularly ever to win$ hsa well known tennia arm in the Mediterran ean eunshine. win travel m an ord inary train accompanied only by hi court attendant. Tranc. according to report, la de termined not to have any more klrw.- iAMAflnMed on Fren.-h aMt The nvtr der of King Alexander at SUri'.l appear to have made the Fr n, pollce especially apprelinuive lo royal aafety. V JtUii Ixiouu taut aiJk AN 'EPIC PATTERN SENATE CHARGES K GAME R fl A D n PUMDIMJ WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. (AP Congreut headed into Its second ; month today In a restless mood as It prepared for further consideration of . the administration's two new bl? re covery measures the M.880,000,000 j relief bill and the controverted Boclal I security program. With little accomplished In the first month tf the session, the democratic dominated assembly today heard In- i creasing opposition rumblings ia a republican charge that the relief program was patterned after Upton Sinclair's "E. P. I. C." plan in Cali fornia. It came after senate R? publicans decided today not to follow a set plan of attack on the bill. Instead they will propose their own amendments designed to curb the delegated presi dential powers already approved by the house. They hope for consider able democratic support from con servatives. To avoid possible charges by the administration that congress is with holding .relief, senate Republican agreed today, however, that should the majority so move they would grant unanimous consent for segre gation of the aB80.000.000 emergency relief fund from the 84.000.000,000 work relief section. j While many senate Democrats are withholding their fire on the 4,880, 000.000 relief bill. It Is generally ' iJ"ATTERP0P- "T BvCM. ' pj TAl--- i,l ,,,b .?:-(. lew Un ' ' By Hal Forrest BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Round Two I . , p a-nwrv '-'j I "Xw - --wr-rj W COMING, W GUARD VOM W VOU ULa ja Kr v 1 1 au-u-u-u-u I ciicic I . 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LZi - ' known that many are planning to ot ter amendment which would specifi cally prevent the president Irom talc Ins over private businesses, making direct grants to needy, and payi.m rellf workers less than the prevailing wage In the various communities. j SALEM. Pb. 4 (AP) Dfxter Pice of Rivebiir? Saturday was elected chairman of the new game commission when the five members mt in Initial sceslon here for organization purposes. Several names of present personnel were mentioned, but no action waa takeri. Charles McClees. state game warden was complimented highly by the majority of members and It was early Indicated he would be retained. There was 'no Indica tion any clean sweep would be made In the staff, at least at present.. Salem Youngster Drowns in Lake SALEM, Feb. 4. ( AP Frightened when the boat Into which he had climbed drifted away from the bank. Raymond Leroy Mlnty, 5, was drown ed In Goose lake Sunday afternoon when he jumped from the boat. The body was recovered several hours later. I The youngster with a cousin and ' other companions was playing near . the home of his father, Ray Mtnty when the tragedy occurred. Royal Sportsman I Near Drowning BUDAPEST. Hungary. Feb. 4. (API I Archduke Albrecht, pretender to the Hungarian throne, narrowly escaped drowning today when an Ice-boat plunged through thin Ice on lake 'Balaton near here. I Five other Ice - yachtsmen were 'drowned. i Unusually mild weather weakened I the ice covering on the lake until It jwaa unable to bear the weight of the I craft.. THE ERRAND MOTHER ASKS HIM 16 6Ef HER THlMBlE FROM UPSTAIRS AND miS HM waciW Whereto find it W RESP0H5E To HURRV' UP CAllS FROM 8a0W SHOUTS HE'S STiLL LOOKPte FORlT WAU UPSTAIR BACK-WARD6 PAUSE AT TOP TO SHOUT WHERE PIP SHE sav The THiMBie was? CWRIE5 ATOMIZER ID HFftP OF STAIRS 16 6K WHAT It IS, WHAT MOlrl- ez. uses it for, and CAN HE WORK it? CARRIES BACK 5J0MV, . 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