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rErFOT?T) MATT, TRTBTTTTTC; ftrEDFWin, OREGON. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1938.
Chapter 46 1
The Clouded Moon
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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suddenly withdrawn into herself,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
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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
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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.
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