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PAfiE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OREGON'. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1935. A 9 . RAPIO-FIRC ROMANCE BY EVAN EVAN RYSOI'SlSi Mateo Jlubris, tht subtle Mexican J'obin Hood, and Brother I'a&tuul, the gigantic friar, have lurid the Montana Kid south into Mexico so that he vlll help Mateo steal bark the emerald crotcn of O'tr Lady, stolen originally Irom the church in Duraya by the gov ernor. The Kid f.ed the United Stairs because Mateo's schemes put him outside the law. Hut the real reason he is now at Miguel Pantos' inn in Dttraya is Hosito. v ho cears a fiove in ths black of tier hair. Chapter II AT THE INN IjiAU.N'D a certain point of tim, A- no one knew the past of Ssntos, There was a horrible rumor to the effect that not time, but torment, had worked the evil pattern In the fare of Miguel Santos. It was even aid, though this was a thing that no one really believed, that he had lost his leg In escaping from the Val ley of the Dead. But men did not escape from the Valley of the Dead. It was against chance and against thought that anything human could escape from that well-guarded pit ot destruction far In the south, where men and women were made into animals and sold for labor on the tobacco plan tat Ions. Wunien lived there for two years or three. A strong man had been known to endure for ai much as even or eight years. But that was the limit. Yet It Miguel Santos had not es caped from the Valley of the Dead, then surely he had been through some frightful experience early In his life. He might be fifty now. But twenty years ago, when he first ap peared In Duraya, he had appeared almost exactly as old as he was now. He had enough money to openthe Inn; he had enough money to per suade a protty girl to marry him. Rosita was born, and her mother died shortly after because, It was said, she could not endure the ugly torment which was printed forever In the face ot Miguel. On this night, when he heard the song which ended with the name ot Rosita, Mlguol Santos Instantly left the rear gamlng room and burrled forward, walking with a certain awing which kept the wooden leg In effective motion tor long striding. Moving with a peculiar hitch and away, he could get about almost as well as a normal man of his years. When he came Into the front room he had a mere glimpse of Rosita disappearing through the front door. "The little bird heard some one whistle," said a tall young caballero at one of the tables. Then he laughed, his breath knocking a rag ged hole In the smoky air. Miguel Santos went straight on and through the door Into the street, There he saw the mare, the girl, the man. The rider had dismounted. A dim hint of light sparkled over the little silver spangles ot his outfit; the same light gleamed on the red latin of the mare's flank. The eye of Miguel was tar sharper than a hawk's when he looked Into certain matters. Now he was able to lee the wide shoulders, the lofty car riage, tha faintly gleaming smile of the man. And he felt the stranger's Importance as though the voice of a arlcr had struck suddenly upon his sr. "Will yon smoke?" the girl was laying. "Who would light a match In a dark street?" answered the strsn lcr. Something in the words, some thing In the voice, clung to the mem ory ot Miguel. He came closer. "Do you know this man?" he asked of Rosita. "Somewhere I have known him," aid the Rlrl. Miguel Santos came so close that he could smell the reek of the sweat ing horse. "Who are you?" he asked. ''pIlEY went Into the little patio of the Inn. On one side of the court was the barn and stables to accom modate the horses and mules of travelers. The larger wing was the hotel-saloon. They crossed the inclosure with nothing but starlight to show the way so Rosita took the hand ot Mon tana and led him. In that manner he was able to pass a broken-down cart, a pile of nnmeleHS Junk, the curhstonr-s and wooden top of a well. Anything might happen here. Out of the dark litter men might start starlight would hnrdly show the knives with which all Mexicans know how to work. Once he snatched his hand from the soft fingers of the girl when something moved on the ground. It was only a grunting pig that got out ot the way with a volet half deep and half whining. And the girl laughed while Montana slipped back Inside his clothes the gun h bad drawn. He left his mare at the foot ot an open stairs that angled up the wall. Sally rubbed her munle against his shoulder. He could see the dim glass ot her eyes. She blew out a long breath on him, and stamped, as though to make clear that she did not wish to be left alone In this strange place. But the girl wis al ready a few steps up the stairs, and Montana followed. At the top landing she pushed open a door. He followed ber right Into thick darkness. He could hear her breathing, close to him. It this were a trap, the shutting of the door would wall him away forever from the world that had known him. He looked back for an Instant into bis past and saw the faces ot men, sav age or laughing, and the broad, com fortable facade ot the Lavery home. and Ruth Lavery last of all. But even out of the darkness of this moment he had no regret Then a match was scratched. The blue spurt of the flame showed him only the face and the slender hands of the girl, at first. They were the hands of an aristocrat; the touch of them bad been so soft that It was plain she had worked most of her life with her smile and her eyes, rather than with her fingers. The flame burned yellow. He saw a room with two windows, lace cur tains across them tied back with yel low ribbons. There was an old four poster bed. The floor sagged a good bit under the century-old weight of it. A little porcelain stove glittered yellow and white In a corner. THE girl was lifting the chimney ot a lamp on the table. The flame ran across the wick. A white spot of light sprang out on the celling as Bhe pressed the chimney down. The whole room was warmly Involved in radiance that let him see all ot the girl for the first time. She was blowing out the match, knocking a thin shower of sparks off the charred wood with her breath. Her eyes were down; she was being looked at. Well, she was worth seeing. She had no place In a room like this. She looked no more at home, here, than a great opera singer doing a one-night stand in the sticks. "Sit down, seflor," said the girl. My father will come at once. There -you hear him on the stairs?" Montana heard the bump and pause ot sound as the wooden leg labored up the way. The girl put her head to one side and sighed. She seemed to be pitying the effort of ber father, and yet she kept smiling, as though she had learned one lesson so thoroughly that she would never be able to forget It. "Rosita, you're a dancer, eh?" said he. "Who has told you that?" she asked him. "Just because there's a song about you. That old song, Rosita." "Song?" she echoed, tilting her head. He sang to her his second song. Although he suppressed the strength of hla voice, the resonance vibrated Intimately through the room. The meaning of the words ran somewhat like this: "You have seen the stream leap, And the trout spring In ths current. And the water-ouzel wing through the spray, But I have seen Rosita dancing, Dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing. "You have seen the wind blow out ot heaven And the loaves whirling round In the wind-pool, But you have never laughed with Joy, Seeing Rosita, Rosita dancing. Dancing, dancing, dancing, danc ing." As the first words came from his Hps, she began to sway her head a little with the rhythm ot the musle until the lights quivered along her throat and the rose in her hair nodded a trifle as though In agree ment. The grating knob ot the door, as It turned, ended' the song and the slight flexion ot her aocompanlment. Miguel Santos came Into the room. He was dressed in white cotton trousers and a clean white apron, but nothing could make him look the part of a bartender. Inside the door he paused for moment and stared at the stranger Lines not only seamed the fnce ot Miguel, but also cross-checked it The closer Montana looked at him the older he seemed. (Copyright, 1IJ, Harper rf Brothers) Tomorrow, Montana aonfiaaaa hla purpota to Santos. BACK FENCE GOSSIP TROUBLES OF HOLLYWOOD. Cflllf.. Ftb. 8 (AP The movl colony vm rhort llni; ovrr a piece of literal "bark Once" ROMlp today. The topic wm the back fence of C o palatial new estate ConUnc K mutt u building In Holmby Hill H r.ft'ms that no sooner had the tw.ee b;en built than Roy W. Clark, a (outrncior. tore- It down and pro cecded to dump a lot of naaty old de bris all over the nice, clean land where Connie li building, according to the actreM' complaint to city of flclnla. Clark In mnsirurUim a houar on property adjoining that of Mlu BecmeLt, UNITED VERDE COPPER CONTROL PURCHASED NEW YORK. FVbT T- (p) Dow. Jonea fc Co. ald today the Phelpi Dodre Corp. hiu nuircd a lurifie block of aharea of United Verde Cop per Co. It was understood, the neTi agency aald, that the holding air nearly larse enough to Involve con trol. United Verde's production .' parity la said to ht 98,000 nort loni ot oopptr Jr. fCnntrlbuted) February la membership month In the American Legion and Command er I. B. Poy urges all delinquent member to get their dues In. Membership In the post la nearlng the 100 mark. Those who do not pay this month will not receive the state and national publications and con gress In session now, we are aure no one will want to lose the best veteran papers In the country which gives so complete a story on the happenings at the nation's capital. Our membership committee has been working but we have to in crease the membership of our post, It la not only the privilege of an ex-aervlce man to belong to the Le gion, It la his duty. Let's get busy and back Commander Foy up with a paid up membership by March 1. We don't know whether we'll get our adusted compensation thla year or not, but one thing we do know, and that la if the ex-service don't get Into one organization like ours and work together all the time they'll find themselves up the creek with out a paddle. Edw. L. Boatright, department vice commander and membership chairman, has prepared an Interest ing analysis of Oregon's population.1 showing the census figures on coun- ty population and the number of ex-service men In the county. The' percentage of veterans to population should be a guide to the percentage of Legionnaires which should be en rolled in this county. Study these figures and help your commander build up his membership. Jackson county, with a population of 32,916 has 1,271 veterans within Its boun daries. I say: "Hats off to the past, and coats off to the future. You want the bonus. Our comrades need It. We can use it. Our national com mander Is fighting for It. We have got to pitch In and dig dig up old and new memberships because that is how we will win. In fact it Is the only way." Next meeting of Medford post will be Monday evening at the Medford Armory and Commander Foy is ask ing every member to bring in a member's dues. At 6:30 p. m. the post and auxiliary members will hold a covered dish supper. Oregon XV eat her Cloudy and foggy tonight and Thursday, moderate temperature; moderate easterly wind off the coast. STAIR CLIMBER PORTLAND, Feb. 6. flp) The de cision of the U. 8. army board of engineers to recommend appropria Hon of S3, 600.000 for installation at Bonneville dam of four fish ladders each 30 feet wide; three flngerltru? passes and two double sets of flah lo.-ks, Is not satisfactory to the fish and game commission of Oregon and Washington. , On behalf of the two commissions. John C. Veatch has asked Senator McNary to impress the war depart ment with the fact that the decision of the army engineers Is inadequate and contrary to the recommendations of t!he fishery departments concerned, and does not provide fishway facil ities specified by all fishery depart ments. The fishery departments estimate the cost of what they consider ade quate equipment, at $4,600,000. WiUiro The blonde star's attorney, Dudley Purse, declared she was "all burned up" over the situation when he ask ed Issuance of a ma 1 Icons mischief complaint yreterday. He said not only has Clark dumped sawdust and other building refuse on the Bennett land. but he haa helped himself to some choice soil from a spot where the actress Is planning a garden. 1 A public hearing will be held by ! Deputy City Attorney Sydney Wil liams Friday In an attempt to reach a settlement. -.? IIYA WTM TAMQ I A UVU A LU M i ll ill II I 1. 1 1.1 of Legionnaires which should be en- IIMIll I I. II I I HI II II II iZiiTr Llllll I IUII U IUULII 1 ni mn nnnnnrrv V r v nrnAn r hU V "t. with . population sM k flN. llrr lrn I i m u ui i uulu 5 PORTLAVD. FVh. 6 IP The tie-. I . Y jj .Vii . I KNh xxm AKT r.rtrrrrtir- ( i fn 7 Mc.r w I o "JJI 1 I I ' I" V I I -dm. -1 1 I I i IS ItTf ALONE FOR A CRAWW Ol)f Ifffb HAU. WOULD UKf 1b 60 DKIDE6 1b "fflCKlE fHF FEU) MINUTES AWO AND REACHES HAP 6f VOM SfftlRS, BlK PROBLEM IriE OwER. 60ES Em0RM2 THE SfAlfcS NErtf SfEP SEEM5 A WAY KOUND J.0K6 AV OFF fr (fx ' , fh , . i I I I I I .1111 I I I-n I I 1 r 1 M Mr- . X - sT t , . - fiTl , r 1 ,-r ; V niMgamv'l V3- j3t end work toRether nil the time they'll - n , M ill 1 TlH1 i "l I L J I II iind themselves up the creek with- ,Hli; WW iLViJJ4-rrTV 1 1 I I fHRUSfS ONE FOOfODI FEEI& HIMSELF BEStH- ARRIVES UEW SUPPEK- DOPES HE HAS HAD out. pddie AVllVrn ii lA J M-XJ)Vl ' lMrt SPACE Hirfelb SLIDE. WISHES LV A"f NEXT SfEP N AIL fHE SfAIR CUMBMS chairmen, ha. prepared an Interest I . . .1 V TTyTZA I APtfElWRE FORHELP Ing analysis of Oregon's population. 1' U yt iS y!-r-r 7 m ' c- 1 eiTi& ' showing the census figures on coun- VlWl i IUII I iTjBiffj"- ty population and the number of yrfAxAp7-77A,?Z?rf ex-service men In the county. The ' fceaassJs ?Ssttiemvhie fc (Copyright, 1938, by Tha Bell Syndicate, inc.) STEBTfOP- I " " ... , P.,.n; l'2--5"-" ftr) y "tj j"7' ioWit, 1935, by The Bell Syndicate, lac.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Raymore Protests ! By Hal Forrest lfi"?!'6,? I ASJ f IF 'VD(J'0 PUT AUL THAT 3 IVOU CALLED)!'' &! DRAG THE WlISTEN. FELiPG. M'SHlfte UV1! I GB.HOO. RAVCIORE WanO DON'T FORGET ti FIRST HE CSEEVS ME THE , ENERGr INTO THIS FORME., f PERSON OF BKL l,A VANK--I OONT CARE HOa VO' PER'APS FORSE.V FFLlPF THAT I f.7' tto iku APiBUKfcEBo" -eav, OF lOA6Tm IT ON ONE . ME--1 SHAu MAK .VOU SLAUSrfTER THE SREAT FWRIOT S C RAVMnCP thf THlcn NOW '6E4 FREE -MY BEST If MAN YOU'D BE tru - frTTTl. EXAMPLE OF SWCf? BUT YOU CANT GEEV TEIZflrTf SPLrlNS THt ' KpmVW5- WFT LOi SCWIOFMINE! , HERE-I ? OM THVS HERE J il BEN WEBSTER'S OAREERMr. Crm'ssiwir p.j '' , KM FINALLY SUCCEEDEP IN GETTING SOME I W WMIT MeSIRJO 66 OF WMf3 6UGHT I S X TEE, HEE, HEE II 5: MO.TEB HEE QRPER flBOAgO THE BOAT SERVICE-LEAO THE WAY TO THE tk ( WILLIB! V I'M TAME NOW, ,,.,,- v.,..-. HEE.THEy' OIDNT 7 y Yvoo AINT 1U6 6A-5TILE WHENCE THESE WRETCHE5 I IT YOU ? ) MR. CHIRP-I AIN'T SinTuiLo ZoZZ'tc OO IT TEE, CALM DOWN, WE WANT THOSE JCb V WALL FORCVERMORB Be CONFINED BLESS ME, MILD NO MORS o:,ZJk I hi i ) HEE, HEE, HEE' V AW)60M UTWOARRKTEPy I WHAT' LIKE I USED J Xo V J5- J 6EW THENEM ' ' . - iri hv am Hesa M(VVE SOU BEESJ Vf" 1 DOM'T PXXV MO OF COURSE VOU'CE THE SMART li ' ' ' f 1 AlrjT ASKIIU' VOU FOR " -')' C. v- j KJOTICIMCb CAReOKJOTED) A.TTEIOTIONJ TO &UVOWE OF THOSE G.UYS WJMO ' ' " NIO ADVICE - WHAT VOO pif 'fs ;'r-;:i J BEVERAGE, SWYLOCK? ANJVBOOY'S BUSIMESS PLJTS SPIKES nl VOUR SHOES J .I'-VZMj SHOViMS IT AT ME FOR.?.. -- A-a,roF s A BET" SCO BUT MINJS EUPECTIMS SOMETIME VOU S a' THErae'i OJLV TuJO PEKSSOSJS "-SHOULD MAVE misht STEP OSJ A BAKJAWA iij X TAKE ADVICE FROM THAT'S V PEEL. VOU WOULDU'T RELEASE; A . 1 A LAVUVER AKiD A DOCTOR AMD r DIME. PROM THIS PERSOM UMLESS h ""tSOU AlljT EITHER. OK C m-v f, r iTTm ( (J-H. 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