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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUtCE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4. 1941.
sllKUAY: first Anna Wtl
i tt and Ilia two msn tcho were
taking her to her parents desert
camp trrrt abandoned, well fed
but without any further provU
lions, by the servants of the Cmlr
they had thought they vers es
raping. Mow Anne finis that
Blaze Sherwood Is still with her,
but that Pete Hackey, the only
one with a revolver, has disap
peared. Chapter IS
No Place To Go
"DEns had a gun," Anne re
' called. "Maybe the men are
chasing him."
"Or he, them," grinned Sher
wood. "But it doean't look it, ac
cording to the condition of the
camp."
They regarded each other
bit hyly.
"Well." they let tu life." Anne
remarked, "and air and water.
Lt's go get a drink."
It was then Sherwood noticed
the scroll lying beside his trav
eling bag. Anne watched him un
roll it, she stared over his shoul
der at the strange script.
"Can vou read it?"
"I can figure it out in time. Go
get your drink."
She looked down at her long,
ruffled dress. "I'd better change
ana nave a plunge too. '
"Good Idea." He wont out and
tossed in her bathing suit before
closing the tent. She found him
working busily with pencil and
paper wnen sne appeared.
'Have you deciphered it?1
He shook his head. "I speak this
tongue easier than I read it.1
When she returned he did not
look up. She put on the tweeds
she had worn the dav before and
came out and sat down beside
him.
Presently he threw the papers
down and turned towards her, his
face unreadable.
"What have you found out?"
she asked, and felt he waa de
bating whether to tell her or not.
"A message to me from the
Emir," he said at last. "Do you
want It?"
"Of course I do." He searched
her eye intently for a moment,
then he smiled that special amile
of his that always changed the
rhythm of her heartbeat. "We've
faced death together before,
haven't we, Anne?"
Her hand groped for hla and
clung to it. "What is his message.
Blare?" '
Sherwood's eyes turned from
hers to the papers between his
feet. "The Emir is very frank. He
acknowledges his debt to me for
saving his lire. Had he followed
his usual procedure, he assures
me, Mickey and I would have
died at once and you would have
been aent to the alave market. As
it is, he gives me a taste of nara
dise this castle in the desert,
and you, for the length of time
It tanea us to die from starve
tion."
"Sent here to starve! I can't be
lieve it! Anne whispered.
"The Emir thought ha was lv.
Ing me Mackey, too. A friend to
taiK wnn ana a girl to love
what more could any man desire
during the final daya of his life."
Slowly Anne drew her hand
away from his and sat up
straight
"But you aald he would take no
chances on the Nagaras avenging
my death."
"Not death murder. These
?eople make a nice distinction,
aking life as an unsanctifled
butcher does is murder. Letting
Seople die of hardships or hunger
i the will of God."
"How dreadful."
"The Emir warns me that men
die of thirst in a very few days
on the desert while with hunger,
after the initial pangs, he has
heard, the aullerlng is not se
vere, and one lives much longer."
Sherwood gave Anne a swift
scrutiny to see how she was tak
ing it, then he went on toneless
ly: "The Emir had once hoped to
raise an army and conquer the
Nagara tribesmen, but Shani Lun
and Sinkiang discouraged the
idea. Now he is negotiating with
Russian archaeologists to fulfill
the Nagara prophecy when you
can no longer claim the dagger."
Anne remembered the words in
her father's last note. "Fulfill the
prophecy."
"What Is the prophecy?" she
asked.
"I have been two yeara ferret
ing it out Your father atumbled
upon it accidentally. Recently the
Emir learned it I don't know
how."
"Tell me," she urged.
"Let's move into the shade
first."
"Up under the rock." she sug
gested. "I'm thirsty again."
He caught and held her eye.
"Hungry?"
"Not in the least. I'm too
stirred up. Food and emotion
don't mix."
"Something to be grateful for,"
he smiled, and rose and picked up
the small nig. She brought an
other from the tent.
Mysterious City
THEY stopped at the falls and
she put her mouth to a trickle
of water that ran down a shoul
der of the rock. "Whv doesn't
moss grow on this rock?"
"It must be that the water runs
only a while in spring"
Anothet thought occurred to
her. "Couldn't we fashion a water
bag of tent cloth?"
"The tent is made of porous
native woolen weave. Pete and
Dorlrlsp are our onlv hope."
"How could Doddap help us?"
"I haven't the least idea." he I
admitted, leading the wt to a
shady ledge under the cliff where
white sand had accumulated to
make a softer bed than granite.
"We'll climb this mesa later and
take a look around."
She spread her rug beside his
and lay down flat. "There is
something about staring at the
sky that always soothes my
spirits."
-Jhen 11 try it after a wh le "
He sat facing her, bent forward,
tracing the pattern on her rug
with hia pencil.
-now tell me, she Invited.
He smiled at her. "As to the
prophecy. In the heart of the
Bekkan Bula mountains there is
supposed to exist a high level
Slain on which is situated the
idden city of Shy-a Nago."
Lin a city be hidden on a
plain?"
It can If surrounded by higher
mountains inhabited by a race of
nerce natives pledged to keep all
knowledge of the place secret
from other men until the ar-
pointed time."
Which has come?" she asked.
It all depends." he said with
an amused glance at her, refusing
to be hurried. Tradition has it
that in this section of Asia a great
colonial nation, springing from
some continent farther west, 'a
land of bliss and mystery, had
been established thousands and
thousands of years ago, before
the mountains rose. This country
here is supposed to be the land
bridge between the Pacific conti
nent and Siberia, reaching to Eu
rope." He changed his position
and stretched out beside Anne
resting on one elbow.
"With the rising of the moun
tains this one city was lifted up
intact neither shattered by
earthquakea nor buried in vol
canic ash."
"That seems Impossible," she
murmured.
"So does the great nvramld
seem impossible when you think
or It, but there it stands . . . The
story goes that ruling inhabitants
of this city of ours soon sank with
their slavea to a savage remnant
from which has iDrung the Na
gara tribe."
How wonderful If It Droves to
be true?" murmured Anne with
shining eyes.
ine onlv man not a Nagaran
known to have aeen the city was
unetan hunter who came out
carrying this two-headed image
of mine in one hand and two
rubies the size of marbles in the
other. But his hardships had been
too much for him. He died In
delirium a few weeks later."
"And the prophecy?" Anne
prompted.
On The Roriion
SHERWOOD walked back and
forth while he talked, and,
happening to lift his eyes to the
horizon, suddenly stiffened like a
man turned to stone.
Anne sprang to her knees and
then to her feet. She saw the same
object.
"Is it some one moving?" she
asked.
"I cannot tell. Let's climb to the
top of the cliff." For the object
they saw seemed to move behind
a ridge of clay like a man behind
a fence moving with only his
head visible.
From the crown of the rock
when they arrived there, climb
ing swiftly, thev could see no
sign of movement. Anne felt sick
with disappointment The view
that spread out before them was
revealing in its desolation. An
endless expanse of shallow clay
ridges, dunes encroaching on the
east, reached to hazy distances
that had no background save sky
except in the direction of the
Bekkan Bula mountains which
rose, afar off, to glistening snow
heights and merely aerved to
show the helplessness of man.
in is will be a furnace in an
other month," said Sherwood. He
looked at Anne, who had dropped
down panting. "We shouldn't
race like this and use ud our
strength for so little proflt." He
reached out a hand to pull her
to her feet "Let'a go back to the
tent."
"There's no oblect" she aald
listlessly.
Well have eometh ng aofter
than atone to rest on."
"I am feeling bruised." she ad
mitted rising and examining the
weathered rock pattern indented
on the heel of her hand.
They looked once more it the
ridges across the bowl. Slowly an
eagle rose and glided away in
the sunset
"So that'a what It wasl At
least we have aristocratic neigh
bors." murmured Anne. Sherwood
made no reply.
Anne's feet lagged as they ap
proached the tent and he slowed
down with her. She felt buffeted
by cross winds of secret emotions
trying to tear her from her moor
ing. "We shall be rescued." she told
herself vehemently. "I refuse to
believe anything else."
Thev paused before the tent
and Sherwood turned and re
garded her in an odd way. his
eves dark and narrowed under
their thick lashes. She frit her
pulses begin to race despite an
effort at calm.
"What about our relationship,
Anne?"
"Iet's not think about It" aha
cried. "Let's wait"
"Walt!" His hps tightened tn
a smile more grim than amused.
"Wait! When there are enly a
few more davs in which to feel
really alive?"
"Mavbe we'll be rescued."
"Maybe!" He put out his hand
to open the tent and heard a sob
in her throat
"Are vou going to crv. Anne?"
"No." she said, and a tear rolled
down her cheek.
Te ee eanuaata
Supreme Court In
Summer Doldrums
Salem, June 4. IV) The
state supreme court, which will
begin its two months' vacation
early in July, nlready is in its
summer doldrums.
When the court met in con
ference Tuesday to turn out
Its weekly batch of decisions,
there wasn t a single opinion or
even an oral order.
Em U14 fiibuu armat ada,
Zumwalt Auditor
For State Police
Salem, June 4 ) Chester
G. Zumwalt. auditor in the sec
retary of state's auditing divis
ion, was appointed state police
captain today in charge of ac
counting and property.
He succeeds A. D n,uMrH
who was sentenced to 18 months
In prison for larceny vt state
iTvlic funds.
On the Radio Chains
TATIO.NSI
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late.
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Wednesday
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ItOIK, KSL, KNX: Hemisphere Re
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IN A JIFFY
SUVA
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
MOV.EB CALLS IT'S TiMt to
S1ART ToR BED
FrTB AM IMPORTANT PIECE OF H
6UILDIH6 SET IN PLACE
MOTHER CBLL4 DID Hi HEAR HER?
m HE STARTED ?
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MOTHER REPLIES AT SOME UHelr)
ME KKOWS PERFECTLY WELL WHfrf
SHE SAID, AND rP5 NO USE "6
PRETEND HE DIDN'T
CALLS ALL RIGHT, -IN JOST A
SKOHD
A FEW MINUTES LATER MOTHER
CALLS DOES Ht MEAN To SW HE
HASN'T STARTED YE?
REPLIES WELL, HE HASN'T ACTUALLY
STARTED, BUT HE$ JUST 60IN6 16
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1
AT THIS TOlhJf TAWS STEP
JS HEARD ON TrlE STAIRS,
STARTS TOR BED
6-4
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10:30 p. m. Ed Blocker. KOW;
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11:00 p. m. gklnnay Ennls Orch,
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Tractor Drowns
Driver In Canal
Woodland, Calif., June 4. (&
Claude Merson Jennings, 27,
drowned today in levee canal
into which he waa thrown by
his overturning tractor.
Jtnnings had been operating
the tractor in an asparagus field
on the Del Monte-Yolo ranch.
The tractor upset on the levee
edge, toppled into the water and
pinned the driver bneath.
Jennings came to Yolo county
from Klamath Falls, Ore.
Erarett Coach Quits
Everett, Wash., June . (JF)
Roy Sandberg, who in hia two
yeara as head football coach at
Everett high school led the Culls
to two cross-state championships,
today announced his resignation
from the Everett system to be
come superintendent of schools
at Stanwood.
Seattle, June 3. P) Boeing
Aircraft Co., officials today an
nounced construction of a 40..
000-square-foot building in which
to camouflage bombers at their
plant No. 2. They said all the
glistening duralumin craft would
bear a camouflage similar to
that used on British warplanes.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
by JOHN MX
6 1 1 r TF Kw ' TV J f . a "
Af?M0R OF
CLOTH WAS
WORN BY lfeth-
CENTURY
RUSSIAN
CAVALRY...
Pi
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WAS OUTLAWED FOR 2 VEARSf
A6TA1E ACT OP 1913 BANNED .
all re.0 flags...
Students had 10 carrv,
white flags during 19lt
Tne act was repealed
IN 1915...
The naval observatory,
where u. 6. standard time;
IS DETERMINED, WAS
FIRST BUILT BY
LIEUT. CHARLES WILKES
WITH HIS OWHMOHSV, AFTER
C0N6RE66 HAP REFUSED
AN APPROPRIATION
1833.
LI'L ABNEH Lost Childl I
AS FISHERMEN
HANfl TriEIR NETS TO
DRY, TriE PELICAN
DRIES ITS POUCHED BEAK
Bi TURNING IT INSIPE OUT
OVER ITS CHEST
i iHieraMramRMMw.iM.
tm. Mm. v. a, fm. 00.-4J1 maw immi
RED FLAG SCARE
di J". i-9i3i M"!ch""- "larmed by radical political activities, passed an ordinance forbid
.12 it . -9. . f"Pi.ty,ei Wl,hln " bord"- Lawmakers overlooked the fact that staid Har
m yiC .' had e!n crim'on 1858. Even th. flag of Canada, with its red
Held, and the red auctioneers' banners wera automatically taboo under this rulinol
The Boston press raised sufficient protest to secure a repeal of the act in May, 1915.
Tomorrow: Rock That Fell for 1000 Vearsl
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THEY BRUNG UP T'ME. IS
POISON NOTHIN' COULD
TASTE. LIKE. THAT STUFF AN'
MOT BE
POISON ..
YUM .' -YUM.'.' -MAMMY AN'
PAPPY SHORE. TREATS
Mt FINE..'.' THIS ISTH'
SAME. KIND O' FOOD THEY
BRANG THEM CUSTOMERS
TWO DAYS AGO
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TAILSPIN TOMMY "Dirty Work" at C... Grand. Y Casm.ttol
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