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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON". WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1933. TT'' RAPID-FIRE 8YXOP8IS: Tht Uontam. and Mateo Kubrit havt enterea ) governor"! apartment at Duro'i recovered the emerald crown of tiv Lady which the governor ttole troy, the church, and Montana, hat rt turned hut halt ol the crown to tht bithop. Hut Uateo hat been caught, tortured, and ie to be tent to the Valley ol the Dead. Roelta, who be ' frayed Montana and Mateo to the governor, just hue intuited the gov ernor on "10 ttreet. Montana it following Rotitu. Chapter 39 PASCUAL'S STORY THE rata of the governor at this public thwarting had come to a white heat. The others ol the crowa could aee the girl refuse the Im mense honor he offered, to make her the queen of the festival by placing her at his side In the carriage, the humbling of Ignaclo Estrada by making such sn offer to a girl In the street but none of them could have heard the murmur which she placed between two lines of her song. "Blood drinker! Man-eating swine!" Ehe had said It for his ear only, and still smiling. The madness that entered his brain kept it whirling like black smoke. But through the crowd that came laughing around the girl, congratu lating her, wondering over her, the taller figure of the Kid stepped with a singular ease. He never seemed to Jostle man or woman, but, as though ha knew magic spots where bis feet should rest, he gilded through the press snd came to her. There was something about this man, dressed like themselves, masked Ilka themselves, that made the other youths lose heart, and they gava back a trifle from around him as though they wanted to hear him and see blm better. For he had begun to sing In a good, rich, ringing baritone, that fantastic old Castllllan song, "Weave Me a Mantle." With the very first strains, the girl struck up the accompaniment on her guitar and gave the song her own voice, so that they walked on slowly, surrounded by tbelr owu music as by wall ot, quiet, leaning their heads a little to, one another. So long as the song continued, the crowd kept Its distance, moving slowly with the slow pace of the singers, but as the song ended the tide of the festival rushed over the place and the level-streaming heads began to bob Irregularly up and down again. So, in a moment, the girl and Mon tana were more alone, more private In tlint crowd, than they would have been In tho most secret of gardens. She caught at his arm so that she walked close to his side, but she said, with her face upturned to him: "If you knew me If you knew what I have done" "I saw Estrada pull his bat over his eyes." "But before long before there In a thing I have done" "Look!" said the Kid. He held a gold piece In his hand. "This Is the past," said he. "Watch It!" And he tossed the coin high over his head, so that It winked In the light of the lanterns. SHE, over her shoulder, saw the gold flicker, arch up, fall. And the slim hands of a girl flashed up and csught It. Roslta laughed. She had no envy tor that lucky flnder! "That's the past and let It go!" laid Montana. "Do you know?" she ssked. "Enough to make It worth the for getting," said Montana. "Governors come snd governors go, but Montana rides forever," said the girl. They began to laugh together un til he cried out: "There's Brother Pascual grinning his big grin over the heads of the people! What a man that la, Roslta! Let's go to him, be csuse he can tell me about Rubric " She made the Kid pause. "You don't know about Rubrls?" she gasped. She began to read bis face from side to side, up and down, ss though somewhere In It she must find tho knowledge. "1 don't know. Whst Is It?" "God forgive me!" cried the girl. "I can't tell you. No one dares to speak of It, but everyone knows Brother Pascual he can tell you." "Rubrls?" said Montana. "Has something happened to him? Ma teo?" He looked down at the agony In the eyes of the girl and then he went E DELAY FOR U WASHINGTON. Feb. 37. ( API Hope for ratification of tha child la bor amendment thr year by all the required 36 itatei virtually has been abandoned by aome of IU chief pon wm. Twenty four at a ten have ratified the measure. "I don't think It will be poaalble to get ratifications In 13 more state this winter,'' Miss Katherlna P. Ln root, head of the children's bureau of the labor department aald today. Wyoming, Id ho, Utah and Indi ana ratified the amendment this win ter. Rejections were voted by Kanaaa. MMehuetU. Nevada. New Mexico. I" :r.ir-.-e nnd Texan. baa MU Tribuu waul ad. ROMANCE BY EVAN EVANS V "" pldly, cutting through the crowd y strength and adroitness, drawing he girl through the easy safety of '.lis wake. When be came up to the friar he said two words st the shoulder of the gisnt, whose eyes were so filled with the noise and laughter of the crowd that they overflowed with a sort of blind brightness. Every hon est happiness that csme to his fel low men wss as two happinesses to that good fellow. But at the voice of Montana be turned suddenly and threw up his hand as though to defend himself from an attack. Afterwards he, crushed the wrist of the Kid with a terrible grasp. I "El Keed!" he whispered. ' "Be quiet people are staring,; brother," cautioned the girl. "Rubrls tell me about Mateo!" urged Montana. ' Behind the town, In that little sandy hollow where Montana had left the red mare, the three stood while Brother Pascual told to Mon tana a tale that curdled bis blood. Not everything was known. Men only knew how the great Rubrlz had fallen to numbers and chance; how he had lain In the hands of the gov ernor for a single day; and how he had been brought out of the fort dur ing the middle of the next night a changed, perhaps a ruined, man. He had been placed In a carriage. Few had seen. But there had been a glimpse of a limply sagging form, arms and legs over which there was no control, the head hanging weak ly over to the side. Like a body newly dead, except that the eyes were living. THAT was how the girl repeated words she had heard. And then the closed carriage had sped away on the southern trail. "Where?" groaned Montana. "Where could they have taken hlra? What have they done with htm, Pas cual?" "They have taken him where I am going to follow," said the friar, quietly, "but where It would be foolish for you to go, my friend. Foolish for me, also, but since Ru bric Is dying tor the sake of the churcb, I must go to Join him." "Dying?" echoed Montana. "Don't you see?" put In the girl. There's only one place that a devil like Estrada would aend him. To the Valley of the Dead." The name came over Montana like a horrible nightmare out of an al most forgotten sleep. He had heard of It before. All men in Mexico had heard of It, but It waa a thing not to be whispered, not to be thought. "We go together!" said Montana. But he hardly heard his own voice or believed that he had spoken. "Pascual!" moaned the girl. "J told you what he would nay! I told you that he would go. And I shall go also, then!" 'Hush!" sulci the friar. "You an a child. And what could you do?" They went south through the mountains, over the green plains, Into a stricken land whore running water was no longer found. Instead, there were standing pools or "tanks" of water that was foul with scum, filled with twisting. Jerking forms ol Insect lite. 1 They had to dig shallow trenches a yard from the margin of these stink-holes and let the water seep In, purified a little by the filter through . which It had run. But even when It had been strained In this slow and careful manner, that water would grow unbearably foul In half a day's ride under the southern sun. It was the sun that possessed the world, and no one who had Jour neyed through that country could love the great bright disk again, not even If he found himself again in the cold north where It Is a friend. Here It filled the entire sky with intolerable light and It blazed up again from the pale soil and the hot rocks. Even the cactut was burned brown at the edges and all tha thorns were black, tempered Iron. The only other growth lay on the ground like gray smoke. There was no life for the eye and there was no sound for the ear. All waa furnace by day, and, In the night, a black pit with the stars burning thin and far away through the dusty air. They had the feeling that they were not on a surface, but Inside something. After a day or two, not even Mon tana was capable of much speech and the songs with which ha had cheered the first part of ths Journey ended. (Copyright, J9J, Harper d Brothert. Montana learna tha hnrrlbla atory of tha Vailey of Death, tomorrow. LEAVES FOR ROAD IE! Paul B. Rynnlng, county engineer, j left today for Portland to attend a ; meeting Thursday of the state high way commission. Rynnlng. represent ing the Pacific highway association, wilt make the trip In place of A. 8. V. Carpenter, who Is In Pasadena. Allocation of funds for highway projects In south?; n Oregon will be mane at the meeting, and Rynnlng will combine with other representa tives of the Pacific highway associa tion In behalf of the Sirkiycu route project. The pacific highway associa tion Is competed of rrpifsont stives from this city. Ashland, Or ant a Pass, Roseburg and Eugene. Home pott 'tit t rmt.) ro ;j ana children st special Prior 6tudlo. FUo.ua 13l, 1 LOSE BATTLE FOR SHARE OF ESTATE SALEM. Feb. 27. (AP) Validity 1 of the will of Anton Knutson, de ! ceased Portland resident. In whlrh the entire estat valued at 35.000 was bequeathed to his niece. Thelma Knut&on, was upheld by the Oregon supreme court yesterday In an opln Ion handed down by Justice George possman. The opinion held that contestants of the will, other relatives of Knut son. were not entitled to any of the estate and the court held no evidence was given that Knutson lacked suf ficient mental capacity to make such a will and that undue Influence was used by the niece. The opinion held further that the niece, a school teach er, took care of Knutson without any offers from others relatives. Mrs. Lyllls F. Price was unsuccess ful In her suit for a divorce against Oscar B. Price, prominent business man of Salem. The supreme court In an opinion by Chief Justice Camp bell, affirmed the decree of Judge L. Q. LewelUng. The brief opinion concluded with the following paragraph: "We have diligently read through the 467 type written pages of oral testimony giv en on the trial and have carefully examined the 28 exhibits Introduced in evidence. We have also attentively considered the masterful briefs of counsel' as well as their able oral argument in this court. But yet we 1 . . . c. -. T nnnn Ylflt-T S T K..)CrilOnD A-i.A t" . Vf"0 nnn l --"rn i :3 " , ' . -JW L riil 4 ' L (Copyright, 1935, by Ths Ml gyndlesu. Inc.) TAILSPIN TOiVilax 'me Nazilian Air Corps! ' ; By Hal Forrest Jf 5 M. E 0AD P PLAN-S yik- AERONAUT CAnE TO NAZIL YEARS S. , r-3ft O i 'j YOU lOON'T HAVg NSWCR BGEvj7 W'faP NOT TOO LATE. ' ! MISTAKE.: ) J) ID NOT J? HA.VE YOU jl4 A68--HE OlSO OF A FEVBd AMD J flh tMJ . f- A CHANCE UHEN FIBILDtlPON Z?TtllVTHIS D06 OF A! REALIZE THAT toe SOT, MB.. i&A VL. EL LIBERATOR'S - SHOULD WW TO USE 5PRE&lPENT?f ti- PLANES. FLT 0VCI5 BRrT HK ASSCMBUEOl 1 006 w flLJKorft tMW 'XfiSW eyU terrorize LJMlWrJmT-' BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER In the Lion's Den Bv EDWIN ALGER - tf3-..'yEvi60V,0E"t THAT OOG OFF- WERE NOT 6CW6 NEAR y4t&ik& VES.YOU-MY NAME i Y I OONT AMD MR. CHIRP DOE5NT V' " fjg?, THESE OROUKOS AIN'T VOU T THE WILD ANIMALS IN U, v BEN WEBSTER, AND I WANT ANY WANT ANY TRUCK. WITH YOL V Z 1: GOT SENSE ENOUGH TO TELL lOtofr CAGES, MR-CHEETS tE ? gs REPRESENT MR ARCHIBALD TRUCK. WITH 1 PERSONALLY -6UT I DO ' WE D WHATS !p; YOU NOT TO BRING A OOG I COME TO SEE YOU Jt LJt - CHIRP OUESS YOU KNOW CHIRP- BETTER GO INSIDe' - i HAPPENED? i jjfj? AROUND WHERE THERES j V r r,C CWT-fl fM' WHO HE IS J-nT H.rt?H mM. WILD ANIMALS IN CAGES ? X-w x Mrl fiiil " ? fj 7?KC I BHII W&AwTX I THE NEBBS Fin's n a., us HI " 1 I II irtr r- A Til nSCeS WHERE 1 CASU ISJ .TM'S MEV.LO! HBLLO'. IS FRIT7. MAVEI5") "Z2 some folks :""". I rJ-'t-'Z. . 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Wll ill 3 wm ' cannot say that the plaintiff has es tablished by a preponderance of the evidence any of the alleged acta of cruelty, and therefore conclude that the learned circuit court committed no error In dismissing the suit for the dissolution of the marriage con tract with prejudice." ' WOULD WED 1 BAZ1L NEW YORK. Feb. 27. fAP Mrs Wilma E. Gould admitted under cross examination today In her $500. 000 damage suit against relatives of her husband, that she had known Sir Bazll Zaharoff mystery man of Monte Carlo "intimately" but In dignantly denied she planned to di vorce Edward B. Gould so that she might marry him. Mrs. Gould charges that the rela m aVa?BpuaKaIaVnaaPaaaar.aaaSaalJSaBBl wiz .. ...... . , -- - tives of her husband whose home Is In Seneca Falls, N. Y., conspired to get evidence on which Gould might base a divorce action. Harry Gerguson Prince "Mike' Romanoff to Broadway and Park Ave. alike Is named In her suit as being hired to take her to his apart ment in New York. Mrs. Gould, In answer to questions, said that she had dined with the multi-millionaire munitions manu facturer at Monte Carlo several times In the presence of his daughter. "Were you ever with Sir Bazll t alone?" she was asked. Henry A- Uterhart. attorney for Mrs. Gould, objected, saying: "Why he's 85 years old!" The court room went Into an up roar. PARIS, Feb. 36. APj Violent Btorma continued today to batter France's Atlantic seaboard. At least six ships were reported In distress off the west coast, many fishermen were lost and damage estimates mounted ashore. Phone 542. We'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. INTERSECTION APPROACHES lUtERSEC-tloW, THERE'S A CAR COMIrfe ON SEES frittf HE CrfHER CAR. SfOPPEP TO LEf HIKJ PASS SRK1E iKSfANf OfHER ACROSS- BOTH STOP WITH H1 MlMitRS WEU SOMEBODY'S S0f1o MAWE ISP HIS MIND, FlKS CAR INTO 6 EAR AWD DIS COVERS HE HfiS SfAUED THE EM6INET Wlf REMARKING HIS IEF HAS ALSO wire savs WANfS HIM -TO 'CAR ALSO SfARfS OCCUPANfS OF BOTH CARS S)f MOTiONIN SCREAMING BRAKES TO OTHER CAR 10 60 AHEAD . CARS IN TriE REAR BESIN TO HOMK TW ACfiON AIL SIDES (Copyright, 1938, bj Ths Bell gjmdicsta, lie.) By CLUYAS WILLIAMS Z32T SfOPS fO lf CAR CROSS, REMARKING if DOESN'f HURf 0 BE POUlt MV flVE 1HE Of HER FEUCVJ 1HE RkSHf OF UAV sue iwink ihc ofHER mam 60 FlRSf. SlARfS ACROSS 6EfS If SfARTED Af lASf AND SHOOT'S ACROSS, WlfH VEW BHD FEELING ON 2-27 W'WB
