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Newspaper Page TextfAGE TEN MTTFORP MATT- THTBUTTK, MEDFOTiD,- OREGON, THtTRSDAY; OCTOBER 20. 1938. By MAX SALTMARSH.Swwc&ygp' Chapter 44 Into The Fiery Furnace IinS CARRIED Noah More out and laid him on the scorched (ran under the orange trees, and be lay there like r dead thing, eyei closet breathing hardly percept ible. Fleuriot dropped on one knee beside him. struck a match, and raised an eyelid. Be turned to Dunning. "Go then to the house, my friend, and see U you can find some brandy." "See here, man!" said Hugo harshly. "Why all the anxiety about bringing this vermin round? Don't you realize that Miss Wills Is in deadly peril, and a minute's delay may mean life or death to her?" The man from Marseille looked up at him. "My friend," he an swered gently. This Auberge des AllouPttes is Drobabiv some small unknown inn and without the help of this wretched clod we may never And it" ' Dunning had been fumbling in the pocket of his white coat and now proaucea a serviceaoie-iooK-tag flask. I 1 PI.. .hni.ln. -A UCIH UICI ICU11U, IIIUUIUUi hold'ng my breath, as 1 watched the still putty-colored face on the (round and gradually it seemed to me that a faint tinge of color spread over it The eyes opened, staring straight upwards at the night sky and the riding moon, and suddenly there came a cough, a choking con vulsion, and Noah More sat uo and stared about him. He pushed the dank hair from his forehead ana then suddenly gave a hoarse cry "Thej shan't get mel" he gasped "I won I be caughtl" "Steady friend." 1 said. "Get a crip on yourself. No one's going to nun you. oui a gesture irom Fleuriot silenced me. "There is more here than fear of the police, he murmured, and then to tne vagrant: wno is it, tnen, tha you fear?" The tattered object gave him a swift, sideways glance. His eyes were wild, his Angers plucked and twisted at his tattered snirt "I don't know." he said, scarcely above e whisper. "I can't think. My brain there's something the matter witn my Drain. And tnen, with a swift crafty look: "And why should 1 tell you? If you are the police, you have nothing against me. "You're perfectly right Mr Noah More," i retorted. 7The po lice have nothing against you, but I wouldn't say as much for the Club des Sans Clubs." He gaDed at me, his jaw dropped, and his face contorted, and then suddenly he threw back his head and screamed. "You see," I said, while Fleuriot awore softly to himself, "we know all about it, but if you help us, 1 guarantee that the police will look after vou until all danger Is past You saw something last night In the villa of Monsieur Geiss, didn't you He stared up at me with wild, terrified eyes. "I did not sec, but I heard and I guessed, he mut tered. "Just so," said 1, "you guessed that Geiss had killed Miss Adams, and ' think you taxed him with it, to et money from him before ne tied. To Grips With The Fire HE PASSED a long, bony hand across his eyes. "1 knew that It was the end of everything," he aid. 'The Club des Sans Clubs was Hnished: Geiss was on the run. When I asked nim to settle up, he laughed at me and told me U was cheaper and saler tor mm to report me to the club as a traitor wno must be extermi nated." He smiled, a wry. drawn mile, and tor a moment 1 saw shadow of the man he must once have been. I cannot blame him, he admitted, "for it was his life against mine. He knew I could testify that he had Killed thai woman, but he knew too that the club would kill llrst and ask aues tions afterwards, if once he said the word. That club he shud der d. "You do not know what II Ul" "Listen, man, you know where this Auberge des Alloucttcs is?" t asked He nodded. "But you will never get there," he said. "Geiss might nave got through this morning, but now the place must be a red hell." "Not half as ruddy as we'll make It when we get there," i retorted "Come on. vou've got to show us the way. With Hugo gripping him by the other arm, we half dragged half-carried him up the steps and across the terrace, and in another minute we were pack ing ourselves into the Hispano. Dunning, by virtue of his weight took the place beside Hugo, while Fleuriot and I set tled oursel es In the tonneau with the bony form of Noah More wedged between us. and as we iwun; out of the lane and whizzed off along the highroad, I turned curiously to the vagrant "One thing," 1 said, "before life gets tor full for words do you happen to know lust how Geiss got hold of Miss Wills?" He turned soulless, lack-luster eyes towards mr. "It was easy," he answered in his toneless voice. There is a chambermaid to tne Carlton who is a member of the club. Gens knew that Miss Wilis had been absent from the hotel ail night and he instructed this wo man to wait in the corridor until she returned and tell her that by her uncle s orders, her room had been changed to one at the back. She accepted this without ques tion, and once she was inside the room, we seized her, gagged her, and led her down the fire escape at the back to the lane where Geiss's car was waiting. She fought" he added, with a wan grimace, "but Geiss threatened her with a revolver and forced her to do what we wanted." We had been running straight tovards the cape, with the sea on one hand, redly illumined by the reflection trom the naming cape. and on the other quiet dusky slopes ol woodland, but now we had come into the main street oi a village. Here, for the firti time. we came to grips with the tire, tor though the place itself was un touched it was brightly lit: every inhabitant was out in the street talking gesticulating, or standing in frightened, silent groups, watch ing the rim of flame that danced along the crest of the ridge above, threatened every moment to sweep over and come crackling down through the pine trees towards us. "Death To Venture Farther' THERl were troops too. infantry of the line and Chasseurs Al pins, shirt-sleeved and tin-hatted, grimed to the eyes; some lying prostrate by the roadside, sleeping the sleep of utter exhaustion, othtr refreshed, piling into lor ries to return once more to the fruitless struggle. Fleuriot called to a young lieutenant, whose red rimmed eyes looked glazed with weariness, and after a minute's whispered conversation the lad scribbled something on a card and handed it to him. Our passport" he explained, as we crawled for ward at snail's pace, hooting our way through a mob of people. "The cape is In the hand: of the military, and after Le Trayas the road will be closed even to me. unless we ha permission." We came to Le Trayas, where the thoroughfare was a milling mob of frightened, hysterical people and where bayoneted sentries at the further end barred all egress. But the lieutenant's card was a magic token and we sailed through. The Are might have been a hun dred miles away, for the brows of the hills shut off the fiery glow, but suddenly, rounding the bend, we camp full into an inferno of blinding, glaring heat A wind like the opening of an oven door struck at our faces; glowing sparks bit at our naked arms and faces, and our eyes were blinded by the fierce glare of light from a valley of sheer flame, lying directly below us. Troops were hacking away the undergrowth, felling trees. Straight ahead a tall fellow that 1 took to be an officer raised a warning hand, checking our prog ress. "Out of the question," he said sharply as Fleuriot bent and whis pered to him. "The valley is im passable. I can let no one through." Fleuriot turned quickly to Noah More. "Is there any other way to the Inn?" he demanded, and the scarecrow shook his head. "There is no other way," he mut tered. "It is the right-hand fork at he bottom of the valley that runs up to the hills." Again the detective leanec' out whispering, and this time 1 fan cied that he told something of out errand for the officer gave us a curious, commiserating look as he slowly shook his head. "It would be death to venture farther." he said. "I feel for you. messieurs, but one can only hope that the fire has not vet reached the inn If it escapes during the night by tomorrow it may be pos sible to get through." Fleuriot looked at me. "You hear?" he said, but there was more inquiry than resignation in his tone, and even ar he spoke, Hugo swung round: his face, illumined by the ruddy glow, showed hard and drawn and his iaw was set "You others must do as you please, ' said he, "but for myself. I'm going through." Fleuriot gave a short cackle oi satisfaction. "You see," he mur mured regretfully. "We are will ing to take the risk, and the re sponsibility is not yours, for 1 am an olllcer of the law, in pursuit ol a dangerous madman who is else a murderer, and these gentlemen are, for the moment my assistants. I fear that. In this case, mv au thority overrides yours. The other hesitated for a mo ment and then his hard, smoke grimed face broke Into a smile. "1 compliment your courage, mes sieurs," said he. "and I wish vou luck!" At a word of command from him men came running with wet clothi which we wrapped round out faces, leaving only the eyes and nostrils free, and at tne last moment some Inventive genlui dashed up from the cottage with a water-soaked sheet which we bound shout the radiator of the car. In an instant we were off. shooting down the long, curvlnj slope, straight Into the fiery fur nace below. rCopiHaM iSJS. Mas SilfmarM Tomorrow! Th Inn. FILM STAR PARTIES JUST LIKE OTHERS HOLLYWOOD UP I Mntt people mnlne that the parties held in Hol lywood Are Uvbth fflrt that would do credit to ft Roman empror What diMppolntmcnt It would be if the; Attended film colony prty and fotind the nima parlor games being played that are played In the aver age American city. The lada and IiumIm of movledMn gather at parties to chat, talk ahop and have a Rood time. Someone us ually playa the piano, ami n.-tneone 1st alnga and everybody eata, Occaalonally an Impromptu quar tet or chorus atarta a aong. and they hit Just as many wronir notes aa any similar party group. But every one has a good time. An outsider, of course, would oe Interested In the film celebrltlea and how they hare a good time tc-ther. But to the celebrltlea. the party is not any different from a party In Hoboken or Aprlmtf leld. Jut tinnlm tlhttftelf TOPRKA. Km. (AP There Is this notation In the police blotter: "Drunk reported on sidewalk at Sec ond ftnd Kansas avenue," In the col umn headed "Disposal of Case" Is this remark - "It wasn't a drunk. Just an Indian reAtlru on the sidewalk Rhrplt:g under the sunny sky Is Just an old Indian custom, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Bee TJ. S. Fat. Oft. S. I -I "- --rn- ...... k HhlfP0U.hR'. rS o0f- P0D6& STORE rj o? cHfcRtee R. corbett, ltanhoeA c & 60 CROWDlD WITH MERCHMPftB, 7MAT CH9TOMSR9 CANNOT ENTER WITHOUT fYSTSMt . m fcL&NP oHli MINIONS Wte TB6 FIRST lfNP fipphp To THB ZA 5. 0JT5IPE AMERICAN SHORES... (IftttfJ (THE IftRSER Of THE PACIFIC MIDWAY ISlANDg The Country Store Keeping things In order Is Just a wate of time" to Charles R. Cor bett, who runs a auccesful general store In Ivanhoe, N. C. Strange as It eoems. such a Jum ble of miscellany la the Corbett store that customers cannot even enter the placol In five years, he boasts, not one customer has set foot Inside his store, yet his business flourishes on a "system" that would make a more up-to-date department store manager gasp In astonishment. Aa new shipments of goods come In, they are tossed unconcernedly on top of the pile of foodstuffs, plow points and dry goods that fill the Corbett atore to overflowing. When a customer calla for anything Corbett worms his way Inside, paws around the pile with an Instinctive know ledge of where everything Is. His filing system Is equally Im pressive. New mall he thrusts on the Inside of a stack of unanswered cor respondence In a coat pocket; when he gets around to it. the outside letters are answered first. Island Conquest Only one and three-quarters mllea long, the larger of the two Midway Islands, northwest of Honolulu, was the first of the domains of the United States of America beyond the American shores. Discovered In 1850 - by Captain Brooks, an American shipmaster on an Hawaiian vessel, the Island was claimed by the United States eight years later, on September 30. 1867, by Captain William Reynolds of the U. S. S. Lackawanna. SwIMies Uncovered WICHITA. Kas. (AP) Razing the old Lincoln school building, work men, discovered a bundle of thlrty flvo switches hidden under a stair way that had been walled In when an addition was constructed 33 years ago. Miss Hazel Watklns, principal, said they were relics of the day when "llckln and larnln' went together. lojt Hlte Cows ELYRIA, O. (APt Biting cows about the head la the latest depre dation of stray dogs In Lorain county which gives farmers many anxious moments and the sheriff's office much extra work. The cows have been bitten at night whlje tethered In pastures. Pin tits iet Around BOONE. Iowa (AP) Boone resi dent are wondering where next they should look for plants. They found an ivy vine growing through the brick wall of a school room and crawling across the celling. Then they found a weed patch In a cornice crack on top of the city hall. Mumps Stop Boat MELBOURNE (AP) Because of outbreaks of childish diseases meas les, mumps and scarlet fever the Austrian cruisers Canberra and Syd ney have cancelled visits to New Guinea, Papua and New Hebrides. Mop l'p Ether . HUNTINGTON. Ind. ( AP) A truck wreck on route 34 was a headache to Sheriff A. L. Thompson. The truck contained 4.000 pounds of canned ether. Cleaning up the mess gave the sheriff several woozy hours. GETTING ASSEMBLED By GLUT A3 WILLIAMS IS SMH( FH SCrtDDl. WHEtJ flCrfMER ASK 1$ HE SURE HE HAS EJfl?r -rmM6 ? REMEMBERS HI W6E crWRrfitN home Work AND W&HES UPSTAIRS TOR If 5H6UfSrfWA$ONfo?OF HIS 'DESK AMD Ifi 60ftt. FAMILY SEARCH l)KEARr)S rflH HIS DESK "DRAWER RRlEH'DDWU.PlK5 If WlTtf BOOKS OM HAUJ TABLE AND 6DES OUTTO KlTCrW FOR HIS BA& OF LUNCH COMES BACK AHD MM FAMILY J01NIN5 IN" lf'5 AfeRlH.WHV SEARtH A6Alrl, rf IS CAN'T REOPIE LEAVE FOUND ID HAVE SLIPPED HIS r)IN6S ALONE? 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