PATSE SIX
'RfEDFOTlD WATL TTITBUNE, MET)FOftD. OTCEGOy. MONDAY, IaTTGUST 30, 1937.
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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
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ATLANTA. AilR. SO. ( AP) Oen.
Motvs Oray ZAlinnkt. 74, retired army
offlrrr, died today.
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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
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THE EN my IN THE cNTlRe
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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
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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.)
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