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PAOE TEN rErFOT?T) MATT, TRTBTTTTTC; ftrEDFWin, OREGON. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1938. Chapter 46 1 The Clouded Moon j I FELT wildly tn my pockets for the matches that were not there, and as I did so, heard Hugo swear sharply. Next moment a darker shadow hurtled past me and through the window, . I sprang after it, heard a chok ing gasp from somewhere below me In the darkness, and recog nized the voice as Fleuriot's. "What's happened?" I called, and Hugo answered from behind. "He landed me one with the knife and got away." "Badly hurt?" I asked anxiously, and he answered impatiently: "No. no. Only the wrist. Get after nlm, man, for Dity's sake!" But as he spoke, a sudden flare of light from a pocket-torch cut across the room, and I saw Dun nini's anxious face peering in and behind him Fleuriot, doubled up witn pain ana nugging nis waist line. I turned to Dunning. "Which way did he go? I demanded. "Out there some way," he an wered dolefully, "and that mad man slipped his leash and made alter mm. But 1 woman t worry Archie," he added rather anxious ly. "There'll be time enough to look for them when we're straight ened up nere. "You can do the straightening, I retorted and with one bound I was through the window and run ning across the yard. As I turned out of the gateway, the hot wind lashed my face, and I halted a moment, holding my breath. Now the Are was half-way down the valley, driven by the frantic wind. Death and destruc tion were leamns down unon us and t could not believe that any living thing could have been crazed enough to venture through It. turned to find Dunning at my elbow. "Any sign of them? "None." said I. "They must have fone the other way." I broke off suddenly and clutched his arm. I was wrong. Look there!" And I pointed upward to where, a little to the right, on the fringe of the nery torrent roaring down the val ley, a dark shape pranced its way upward towards the tree-fringed skyline. The big man gasped. "That's one of them all right, he commented bitterly. "And what's more, he's tot the rope I tied him up with, ee it trailing behind him? But what's he heading for and where's Geiss?" "I don't know," I answered hope lessly, "but see here, man. If we want to get out of here unsinged. we'll have to get a move on" We packed them into the car, Hugo silent and irritable, nursing his bound wrist, Ottilie pale and suddenly withdrawn into herself, and Fleuriot still rather green about the (ills. I took the wheel this time, with Dunning beside me, and turned the car up the track on the way we had come. But now that we had our backs to the Are. the night was dark, and it was un commonly difficult to keep to the road. Half-way up the slope I halted, feeling rather than seeing that the going was rougher than it should be, and Dunning clam bered out and flashed his torch on the ground ahead. "No road here," ho announced, "and no road any place that I can lee." End Of A Cartoonist I GOT out wearily. "There's nothing for it," I told the silent occupants of the tonneau. "We can't take the car blind across country. Dunning and I will have to foot it till we hit the trail." We set off, scrambling upward over uneven tussocks of grass, heading, as far as we could, to the right, where the path must lie: but there was never a sign of it. and presently we were up among the pine trees. Dunning suddenly gripped me by the arm. "Look there!" he whispered, his voice shaking. We were standing on the edge of a little clearing on the very crest of the slope. The smoke had thinned away; the moon was shin ing fitfully through the cloud wrack, and by its light I saw. in the center of the open space, a small stunted oak. But It was not the tree that held my gaze, but the figure that dangled, grotesque ly, from Its lowest branch, and the second figure, gaunt and gangling, that pranced and capered before 1L 1 took to my heclt across the clearing, with Dunning close be hind me, and the dancing creature made no effort to escape, but sidled nearer insteod. "You see?" said Noah More, and giggled foolishly. "I have done what you came out to do 1 have hanged him." I ripped out my clasp-knife and hacked through the rope that held the ghastly figure, but as it dropped limply into my arms, I knew that we were too late and the man was dead dead, I thought, from shock and heart-failure, dead almost be fore he had hung from the tree. "A1 T turned tn Dunning, letting the body slip to the ground, and saw to my horror that Ottilie stood just behind me, her eyes dark and frightened, and behind her, Hugo and ueurioi. 'There, lies the greatest cartoon ist rtf hi no ' Flmiriot announced quietly. "But I could wish that he nao not lanoea wiin sum iui. my abdomen!" Hugo gave a short laugh. ' "You ve all played your parti most nobly," said he, "except me. I appear to have filled the role of the clown in the circus who takes the knocks and looks foolish, but it seems to me it's time we got a move on." He gripped Ottilie with his free hand. She looked up at him piteously. "But Hugo" she began, and then suddenly her expression hardened. "Oh, well," she said, "if it's foolish to have saved my life, I've nothing more to say. Come on, then, let's go!" But I lingered, for there was more to be decided than that Geiss's body could not be left alone on the hillside, neither could we find room in the car for the whole party. Someone had to stay behind, and I had a feeling that that some one would have to be me. But Fleurjot had sensed mj thought. "No, no!" he said sharply. "It is I .that must stay. It is my duty. I will remain here very pleasantly with the corpse and the lunatic, and you will send a car back for me from Le Trayas. See, the wind has shifted and the fire will spread no more.", I looked up and sav that it was true. Even as I turned back to him, the first drop of rain struck cool against my cheek. To Have And To Hold' LL the same," I said dubi ously. "I don't like leaving you here alone" but he cut in sharply: "Once more, I Insist! It is my day's work, and, furthermore, 1 feel there is a little something that should be adjusted between two members of our party." I glanced over my shoulder. Ottilie was already sitting stiffly in the back of the car, with an ex pression that said she didn't mind who sat next to her so long as it wasn't Hugo, while he, on the other hand, was standing stiffly aloof, nursing his wounded wrist and staring gloomily out over the valley. "All right," I said resignedly. "I'll go, but t think you've chosen the easier job." The trip back was a simple mat ter, once we had located the track, for the flre was dying and it was comparatively easy to see the road. We came to Le Trayos in the gray light of dawn to find that the street was empty, save-for one car which held my attention as we drew up at the barrier. In the tonneau Ada, disheveled and wild-eyed, clung to the arm of an impassive but gray-faced Virgoe Wills. It was Ada who first caught sight of us, and with some thing between a sob and a scream, she scrambled from the car and came running towards us; but quick as she was, Dunning was quicker. He was out of the His pano in a flash, meeting her half way and gathering her into his arms. We were all on the road now. and as I turned to speak to our friend the lieutenant, trying to make him understand that I wanted a car at once to take me back to Fleuriot, I felt Ottilie pluck at my sleeve. Archie, she whispered, do you think that Hugo realizes he's I hesitated. "I believe something of the sort has occurred to him, I answered cautiously. Then, said she, for mercy's sake, make him do something about it quickly! 1 crossed to Hugo and touched hu arm. Old man, I said, the Prayer Book says 'to have and to hold,' but in this case It's the latter verb that matters. She s waiting for vou to kiss her. and I can't get back tc Fleuriot till I've seen you do it" Almost as the words left mj mouth, he had swung round to ber. his arms wide, and in another sec ond they had closed about her. I drove back through thf scorched and smoking countryside. with an Inquisitive soldier besidt me and a taciturn gendarme in the rear, and as I drove. I felt singu larly lost and lonely, for it seemed that, in all this weiier oi marryini and giving in marriage, there wai. no Dlace left for me. But when 1 saw Fleuriot squatted philosophi cally under the blasted oak, I knew then that there was still a world of men left for mo untangled b the snares of petticoat-strings. "Fleuriot," I said, as he rose tc greet me, "are you married?" He grinned back at me. "Yomu man. I am too wise!" "Then," said I, "you and 1 havt a lot in common, for we are twt free men in a prisoned world I" But he shook his head, smillnp cynically but very kindly. "M young friend." said' he, "say thai io me in a year's time and I wi)1 believe you. (Copyright. l.i.!. Wn Sattmarth) THE END CLEARED IN FATALITY hip and finally lodged In thf left elbow. Mills Mid. MrMurrny. Mlim Mid. wiw of th onininn n unidentified hunter hud Hied the nhot. CloMiyj time for Too Late to Clas sify Ada ti :S0 p. m. OLVMTIA, Oct. 23. (API Funeral Mrvtcee for Jamet Ruwel Jordan, state highway employe who was a victim of a hunting accident Tueaday will be held this afternoon. Arley Mills, who Is In charge of the aervlre. aald that Frank R. M--Mur-ray, father of the young bride who was with her husband on the hunt ing trip, told him that Okanogan county official had cleared Mrs. Jor dan of blame. McMnrray said. Mill added, that the fatally wounded hunter told hie wife "You could not' have fired the shot that struck me. 1 waa walking towards you when t was struck by the bullet.'' The bullet struck Jordan In the rlgUt Ui, COUiat-a UifuUAh 10 UC kit, New Serial Starts Monday lteriine of MmiMimI picc In li diiy's ("tie. ptjnllniltnn of (tie flrt lli(i)ltiuent of lite Mull Trlhinn ' thrilling new wrlal story "Dnu't M.im the Man," will he deferred to Mnmlnv. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, Induing stamped envelope for reply. Rf. TJ. 8. Pat OS. of ihe laie Hstrtl Moudini, tna&ician, ftCKfDlHg M, Of H14 Cft66 AND ESCftPEP - Hollywood, July, If3& frftflACK AND 4 WU RIVERS JOIN To foRrA THE WHITE NIUE I !S80 NLA" I 2RICK CHlMHey. gk f -Hset.inAlsnd, I Atoas- ft I 1X(rW) Tulane's ffrel fooiball coddr btfo C0MH5D HIS OPPONEM ttR MB He iNVftflep hi, debet Tu imte c6u&, ZtltcfcV A rTO rW MX FbSiS, JAPiNbGEO TICKET 3MS AND aWPlREPTHS dm frteN Wlvs flWEN r6REHUM3Rmh '(079) Ttilane'8 First Coach If T. L. "Nervy" Bayne, Tulane Uni versity's first football coach, had cur ried the ball during the first game with Louisiana State, nobody would have been very much surprised. Bayne, It seems, did nearly every thing but Invent the game In prepa ration for that first great football classic of the South In 1893. Today the Tulane football squad uses an average of 200 footballs dur ing a single season but in 1803 Bayne owned the only football In Louisiana. Bayne had starred at Yale In the i's and brought back to his na tive Louisiana a first-hand knowledge of the game, plus an Inspired dream of making the southern state foot ball minded. As coach of Tulane, he east about for a likely rival; In Baton Rouge, Louisiana State loomed as a good prospect. He coached the Bayou Ti mers, and whipped Into shape a suit able rival for Tulane. Next he had to find a playing field. I bul'd a set of goal posts and mark off the yard strlpes.( A yell waa nec essary he Invented one. The team needed uniforms he designed them. THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS : n. .. . . r r I I MrlOUGH HF WAS ONtV IN frl AME BECAUSE A loT cf The bcs weke home with colds, little shrimp wller. was the hfrc whem he brought k)wn the opponents' sftr halfback vho seeded off for a certmm -touchdown . shrimp never let on that he was. ortiv twins for a nickel that he HAD OUST NOTICED 6LEAMWG IN TriE SRSS (Copyright, 1938. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The first fans would want to wave Tulane school colors there were none, so he picked olive and blue. On November 35, 1893, be pitted his two teams against each other and umpired the game. Before 2,000 pio neer rooters the Tulane Green Wave swept over the Bayou Boys 34-0. I For his splendid services. Bayne was rewarded with the gift of a green silk umbrella, which he lost the next day. ' .Monday: What three notorious American gangs were composed en tirely of cousins? NINE BITTEN By DOG WITH RABIES REDWOOD CITY. Cal.. Oct. 22. iP) Another mad dog bit nine persons. Comity Henllh Director Charlea C. Oans said today as he attempted to locate them to administer Pasteur treatments for rabies. Dr. Oans said a report from the University of California laboratory showed the dog had rabies. The animal died hut night after biting lta victim Tuesday and Wednesday. PORTLAND. Oct. 22. (,V) A mad dog. the 61st victim of rabies since the first of the year, bit two young sters and the Janitor at the Ockley Green grade school yesterday. The Janitor waa. nipped when he rushed out to protect the children. Neck Broken. REDDING, Cal., Oct. 22. (Ft Hnrold M. Jenkins, Minersvllle achool teacher, died of a fractured neclc suffered when he fell from a hotel second-story window here last night. Court Aspirants Cross. GRANTS PASS. Oct. 22. (tP Chief j unsure nenry j. Bean ana circuit Judge Howard K. Zimmerman, both aspiring for the same state supreme court position, crossed southern Ore gon campaign trails here today. 3 MATTER POf . " Rv C K PAVN8 rJO LIONS ""IfJ ' -- 1938, by Th. Bell Syntonic') CSi TAILSPIN TOMMY An Invitation ... to Adventure! 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