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PATSE SIX 'RfEDFOTlD WATL TTITBUNE, MET)FOftD. OTCEGOy. MONDAY, IaTTGUST 30, 1937. S7 CCSMBSB 0)3 SSSEW&tBS) SYNOPSIS: Kay Crmion lm puljitiely Mrtt Ted Caynor, Jobltu punehtr. H helpj hfr jtoht loth Hatttngi, a "rlfndly" neiphbor who toanti Kay and htr ranch. Ted and Scrap Johmon, a cowhand who moleiu Kay, (hoot it out, wounding each other. Haitingt tneau up and Mill Scrap with Ted't gun. Ted it ar retted and tried for murder, but Kay top the trial by technical proteet. Ted eecapee and reecuee Kay from Hastings' cellar lock up. Then he goet to aid Marion, who saved hit lie urith her nure ina. Her father, a firebug, hat die- appeared; Ted hunts him. A oreit Jlre ragee at Kay reaches Afarlon'f cabin. ' Chapter 48 Fire Claims Its Own IN a few broken words, Marlon related how her father had come back after his mysterious absence, and how she had discovered that he was the firebug that everyone was bun tine. "He didn't know what he was do ing." she moaned. "For whole year he hasn't been himself. He collapsed, after he got back, and for several days ne was as neipiess as a baby. Then, he suddenly began raving, and declaring that he must get back to his lire. It was awful! He talked as though the fire was a child! Again and again, he would say, it s calling mel it needs me I Let me go!' " Marion buried her face in her hands, and Kay put her arms around her in silent sympathy. "Time after time," Marion went on, "he'd try to get up and go, but he was too weak. I counted on that to save him until his frenzy should pass over. But one evening, when I had gone out for water, I came back to find him gone." "How terrible! What did you do?" "I acted like a crazy thing, I guess," Marion answered. I ran in every direction, calling until my voice went completely. I never dared get too far from here, for fear he would come back and not find me. After searching all night, I gave up. There was nothing to do .but wait. It was the next night that Ted appeared after I had about de cided that I would Just head out at random for the fire. I'd gathered a general idea of where it was, and I was crazy enough to do anything. Ted brought me back to my senses, and said he would go after my fa ther himself, if I would promise to wait here. It's too soon to expect news, I suppose, but it's terrible, waiting without word of any kind." For some time, the two girls clung together, the thought of each ' filled with foreboding for her own loved one. "Don't you think we ought to go and try to find them?" Kay said at last. , Marlon shook her head. "Ter rible as it is to wait, I'm sure it's the only thing to do. I promised, and somenow i nave laitn mat rea will get back. They might need our help desperately, and a we started out, we'd be almost sure to miss them." "I'll stay with you, then," Kay declared. "I promised Ted to stay in hiding from Josh Hastings until the trial, and I can do that here as well as anywhere. Then if ... 1 mean, when," she corrected herself With a catch in her voice, "he comes tack, I'll be able to see htm before he gives himself up." Marlon's fnce lighted up with the first real smile Kay had Vcn on it. "Ted told me how wonderful you were," she said, "and I guess he was about right." Kay gave a violent dissenting hake of her head, but her heart sang with reckless happiness that not even her fears could dispell. Duty Despite Risk WHEN Ted left Marion on his quest for her father, he pointed down the south ridge, heading for the faint distant glow that Illu mined the southern sky. It was a cloudy night, but no stars were needed to guide him to the fire. He did not minimum to himself the danger of going into the fire fighting region, where he would be almost sure to run across someone who would .ecognize him. But he never questioned his duty in the matter. Marion had saved his life. It was up to him to save her father if he rould, without regard to his own safety. There was a slender chance that in the excitement of the fire his presence would pass unheeded, if not unnoticed, aiid it was up to him to do his best for Marion. Obviously, the strength of his position in the trial would be greatly diminished if he was cap tured, instead of giving himself up, but that was no longer the main consideration. He reflected bitterly that nothing much mattered, any way, now that he knew his lov for Kay could never come to anything, blighted as it was, by the knowl edge of her treachery. Marion, at least, had been true, so he owed all his edort to her. He eould hear again Marion's indig nant Incredulity when he had told her of Kay's betrayal. But her vio lent repudiation of Kay as being unworthy of him was cold comfort. Hour after hour passed as Ted pushed his way south. He could get a better idea of the extent of the conflagration now, and he mar veled how it could ever have had such a start. Marion's father must have spent several days penetrat ing to the spot where he had first set the blaze. The place had been chosen with diabolical cleverness, as far as remoteness was con cerned. At last Ted reached the final ridge but one that separated him from the fire, and he drew up with an exclamation at the magnificence and terror of the wholesale de struction. It must have been three miles or so away with an intervening lower ridge that from this point of van tage in no way obstructed the view. Even at this distance, the whole scene was lighted up, and the air was filled with smoke and the bit ter sweet smell of burning pines. Ted could see where they were fighting it on the western flank, and trying to restrict the front by E inching it out. It was a practically opeless task, as the fire had un doubtedly originated as a crown fire, and they always proved almost impossible to put out. For the moment, the wind had died down, and it almost looked as though the impossible had a chance of achievement. The immediate problem for Ted, however, was not the putting out of the fire, but the finding of Marion's father. Knowing how Old Man Howell was carried away by his frenzied craze, Ted hadn't a doubt but that he was somewhere in the thick of the fire fighting, gloating with all a madman s cunmnf, while he seemed to be helping to put it out. The question was, which rlanK had he chosen? Deciding that the western one seemed more spectac ular, Ted headed down the slope, and plunged into the canyon thai divided it from the lower inter vening ridge. He worked his way along, urging his mount in spite of his increasing restiveness around windfalls and up the slope, slippery with pine needles. He tried to figure out how long it would be before this, too, would be ablaze. ' A Fatal 'Blaze-Fire' FINALLY Ted topped the inter F vening ridge and paused again. estimating the blaze to be at least a 50- or 75-mile fire. He decided to leave his mount here. Swinging to the ground, he tethered his horse to a tree and walked to a bare ledge of rock from which he could see the whole panorama. As ho watched, he suddenly saw a blaze spring up not half a mile away, and a long distance from the main conflagration. He muttered a horrified oath, realizing he was witnessing that rare and terrible phenomenon, a oiaze-nre. uen erated from the heat around it, a dry part will sometimes explode and burst into flames. From this kind of fire, no one ever gets out to tell the talc. Recognizing that this new de velopment would probably even tually doom the ridge on which he was standing, Ted nevertheless could not resist the temptation to run down for a nearer view. Thoro also was the chance thnt he could be of assistance to anyone who might have been caught on the out skirts of the sudden explosion. As he ran down the slope, he saw, outlined against the flames, a man stagger a few steps and then pitch headlong to the ground. He raced to him, bent over the prostrate form and instantly recognized Marion's father from the descrip tion she had given. The gray hair and bushy eyebrows were singed and he was badly burned about the face and hands. Opening his eyes, he stared straight at Ted, his labored breath ing coming in slower and slower gasps. Suddenly, with an Incred ible display of strength, he pushed Ted aside and rose to his feet. He faltered for a moment, then fell with a crash to the ground. One look at the staring eyes, and Ted knew that his quest was ended. He stood still a moment, gazing al the Dathotic flcure at his foot. Should he try to take the body back to Manonr with a shudder, he turned away No, it would be cruel to take back that body, burned and disfigured as it was! Better for Marion to pic ture her father as she had always known him, and to think of him as having perished In the element that, in his madness, had held such a compelling lure for him. How much better it was, aftet all, than to have him live, and face either imprisonment or an insane asylum for life! Ted looked down again at all that was left of Mar ion's father, lost for a moment in musing on the strangeness of life and death, and the fitness of the end that had overtaken this Door old man. (Copyright, I9M, UttrU iff .VrrromO Ted raptures till enrnir, Josh Has tings, tomorrow. DEER CAUSES PANIC IN RESORT CENTER CHARLEVOIX, Mich. p Clttrnt of this rwort town curried for cover recently when a lanpe Ugh t -point buck it rayed Into town, became, frightened and fled, .raving trull of wreckage behind. The dwr hurdled an automobile In the buinM district, narrowly ml mm it plate fit am window In store and diiatied through the front door of a ft ft rime and plunged out the renr window, anuuhlng the gl (Seii, ultifkl I'SftM-R ATLANTA. AilR. SO. ( AP) Oen. Motvs Oray ZAlinnkt. 74, retired army offlrrr, died today. Phnn 64 WMI (nut Hi) yuui MTuaa, CUy Aftolt&rj itorrtoa. RYE SOWED IN 1935 COMES UP IN 1937 VALENTINE. Neb. (fV It may take time to ralur a crop on the Pine Ridge iwrvatlon, but It can be done. Henry Kraum plnntr-d acme rye In 1P35. but hall beat It to the ground before It got a good start. It wa o dry In 19:10 it failed to sprout. Til l year It finally mode the grade. Krauaa reported it yield of about even bunhelA per acre. Near !( Traced . VANCOUVER, B. C , Aup 30 -,-T Captain James Mddler, Jr. of the flan packer Onna O.. and hi crw narrowly earaped drowning Friday nlcht when their craft wa rammed hT th Mhparker M ullla. under Cap Win W. McMuUea. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof addreai the author, inclosing, a (tamped eorelope for reply. Reg. XT. . Pat. Off. OL -r- . .0$t 6RCWlr4fi OUT Of r WJSeBUD. Raised bu . Mte CamerttteSibsoti Home awe IN l7 MP c-iii'- mm vi riur icrT ni i r'r in n u rt--- tsnr jt- THE EN my IN THE cNTlRe CONHIC, V Hliiclile Fleet On June 31, 1910, a signal flag was hoisted above the crutaer "Emden," flagship of the German high seas fleet at Sea pa Flow, a harbor In the Orkney Ialands. It was the com mand for the greatest mass sinking ox snip ever to occur In naval his tory. Seventy ships were sunk In obedience to It while two other ships were beached. Strange as It seems, this "suicide of a fleet" was due to a flve-doy-old newspaper! Under the command of Admiral von Reuter. the German fleet lay in terned in Scapa Flow, guarded by a British fleet, awaiting the algnlng of the world war peace treaty. Von Reuter, believing that negotiations for peace were by no means certain to be gucoefwful, determined to de stroy his fleet rather than let It fall Into British hands In the event that a peace treaty were not signed. De pendent on British newspapers for word of the progress made by the peace commission, the admiral was always five days behind the trend or events. It took that long for the newspopers to reach him. Newspapers dated June 16 reached Von Reuter on the 21st of the month. They Indicated that peace negotia tions were breaking down, when, as a matter of fact, the Versailles treaty was well under way and brought the war to an end only seven days later. Taking advantage of the fact that the major part of the guarding British fleet had left the harbor for brief maneuvers, the admiral hoisted the algnal that called for the scut tling of his fleet. Seacocks wer opened on nine battleships, five battle cruisers, e;ght light cruisers and 48 destroyers. They filled with water and sank. ' Two destroyers were beached. The number of ships of war scut tled at Scapa Flow far surpassed the number sank by enemy ships In bat tle. Only one German battleship had been sunk by tho enemy during the war, the "Pommern," In the battle of Jutland. Thus, nine times as many were sunk by the Germans themselves at Scapa Flow. Twenty-five other German warships of various types were sunk by the enemy during the war as against 61 ships (not Including battleships) sunk in the mass scuttling. Tomorrow : to f.rnw I'p? What Animals Forget Ochoco Sale Okeyed WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. AP) Secretary Wood ring announced today the national forest reservation com mission, of which he Is chairman, had given tentative approval to the purchaso of 62,000 acres of heavily timbered land In the Ochoco national forest in Oregon. Joe Singer Home PORTLAND, Aug. 28. (AP) Jos eph F. Singer, who served as door keeper and sergeant -at-arms at the state legislature for a quarter of a century, came home Saturday from Washington where he tends the door for the minority side of the senate. , Schooner Circles Olohe SYDNEY. (UP) Harold Nossiter and his two sons have returned after circling the globe in their auxiliary staysail schooner yacht Slrlus In one year and two months. In 30,000 miles of soiling they used their auxiliary engine for only 700 miles and chiefly for entering and leaving porta. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS Br GLUYAS WILLIAMS' 1 ITU lU lrr-r-A FRED PER LEV MftkES SURE OF HMN6 DESIRABLE NEIGHBORS IN THE VACAhlf HOUSE NEf DOOR BY PRAcVfiaNS ON HIS OLD CORNEf WHENEvER PE0P2.E WHOSE LOOKS HE POESNif l)K CONE 0 INSPECT THE HOUSE 6uW)s (Copyright, 1937. by Tho Bril Syndicate, Inc.) S MATTER POF By 0. M. PAYNE . i x u m mm m i - i s j- -v i v- . i -'pQ'pl ) MVfVV To K-now -How IT 1 : f ""ftl fck (Copyright, 1637, by Th BU BynJIcaK, Inc.) 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