The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1933, Page 7

2 s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESD AY, DEC. 13, 1933. FO SYNOPSIS: Just hefore reach- ing the land of the dangerous Klosohee Indians in the Canadian Northwest, Curt Tennyson and Paul St. Clair, trailing the inter- mational crook, lgor Karakhan, join parties with Sonya and Ralph Nichols. The Nichols are on a mys- terious mission they will not dis- cuss, The party just has beaten off an attack Ly the Indians. but an_wnfortunate shot by one of its guides has eliminated all possibil- ity of making friends. Curt is in- terested in Sonya. but she will 1ot listen to his pleas Chapter 24 ERRAND OF MERCY ‘ THEN they got dowr to camp they found the place badly shot up. Arrows bristled in the canoes, stuck out of the packs and sleeping bags, and both tents had been rid- dled Paul went into his tent for a | flashlight and came out, holding his | left arm queerly. “Give me a hand | witl this, partner.” “What's the trouble?” “One of those mosquitoes bit me.” Curt leaned forward. “Good Lord!” An arrow was sticking in Paul's left forearm. It had struck | hir- just below the elbow and passed clear through, the head ztanding out two inches on the other side. “Paul! Why didn’t you tell me about this before? When did it hap pen?” “When I was going back to those boulders to make Frangois and| Jocku quit shooting.” Curt whirled around in a rage and | looked for the two guid But they | had wisely sidled away into the| dark. “Did it break your arm Paul?” “No. It slid between the bones Pull it out, won’t you “It’s going to hurt, Paul. Can you stand it?” Paul braced his foot against Curt’s. Sonya steadied his arm.| With a firm pull Curt drew out the | arrow, as gently as he could. A srasm of pain Swept across the © 1933, King Features Syndicate, Inc., Great RRIDDEN VALLEY By Wilkiam Bynon Moweny n rights reserv ves and not get killed uly was and surv tween the instantly, Th hard—fighting gri £ itg a shot in the head! He brought water and washed the Indian’s ce. A granite pebble, no larger than a pea, as lodged in the forehead wound. Curt pried it out with his knife point, examined the wound and the gre e pebble, and suddenly understood what had happened to the Klosohee. One of those heavy Winchester bullets had splaated into the gravel iu front of him, kicked that stone against his “ead, and knocked him senseless. Stretched out limp, with a hole between his ey no won- der the others had ought him dead! he cold water on the Klosohee's mo- face brought him to in & few ments. When he saw th nan was bending over him turned suddenly cold. Hi: fell upon the hunting knife in Curt’s cand, and his expression c tc a stony tight-lipped defiance. Too weak to move, he merely stared up ad stooped down tc hold the f “Good heavens, he thinks I'm go- ing to kill him!” He hastily pocketed his knife. “Well, he's certainly a stoical cuss!” E spoke in the Jargon to the In- dian: “Don’t be afraid. 1 am friend. I hear you say burt-cry, and L come over here. I take you now to my tepee and make you no-sick. You understand [ am friend?” The Indian’s look slowly changed to bewilderment. He had expected the white-skin to gloat over him be- fore finishing him off, and the stranger was speaking in tones of sympathy and kindness! “What name you?” Curt “Hai-ee-Tenn-Ogshamowam. ed. young Canadian’s face, but he di not say a word. A tricklet of blood | followed, surprisingly little for so| bad a wound. | “We ought to be thankful it didn’t | hit that large artery in there, Paul I'll fix this up properly. and then you | want to take eare of it till it starts to heal. A wound like that can be ugly if it gets infected.” While he was bandaging Paul's | arm he heard a low groaning sound from somewhere out in the night. A moment later it came again, more distinetly. | “Why. it's somebody hurt, in pain!” Sonya exclaimed. “Paul, did you catch the direction?” “Over on that willow island.” “Then it must be the man they | shot! Those others thought he was | dead and left him. Finishing quickly witL Paul, he got a canoe ready and carried it down to the water. The anguish in that low moan tugged at him. Sonya followed him to the water edge. “Please, Curt,” she begged, | “don’t run a big risk like this.” “‘Risk'—? What d’ycu mean?” “Those others might still be over tlere. This might be a trap. Don’t go.” She was visibly afraid for him. “Wait ll it gets light.” “But Paul saw them lea.e, Sonya. We can't let the poor devil lie over there and die.” “You're sure there’s no daager?” “Step in,” he bade her, by way of answer. “You can go along, if you like. You know I wouldn’t take you it there was any ris T the willows edge ~ Klosohee, clad in moccasins and deerskin ‘rousers, lay sprawled on the gravel, face down, his body twitching in pain. Curt knelt down and gently turned him over. The Indian was about his own age, a well-built and rugged man, his hair coarse black and his skic the color of smoked leather. All in all he was the wildest-looking fellow that Curt had ever run across, much wilder than the outlying Si- kanni nomads or the primitive Din- neh men of the Nahanzi Mountains. Yet there was something likable about his untamed fierceness. He was cleanly of person, as hari as an oak knmot, and his smoke-tanned clothes had the pleasant odor of mountain pines and innumerable | campfires. Curt pointed at five long whitish weals which scored the Indian’s left cheek and ran down his shoulder to his breast. “Look at those, Sonya. He's been in a fight with a grizzly jsome time or other.” | He examined the Indian to see | how badly he had been sk.ct. One bul- ‘let had struck him in the shoulder. a painful but not critical wound, for it had not shattered the bones. An 'other had bit hir: squazels in the !torehead. ! That forehead wound astonished Curt. It was the first time he had ,ever seen a man lake a bullet be M Curt smiled. “S'pose I call you Tenn-Og, huh? Now we take you to tepee.” In the tent he gave the Klosohee a drink of diluted brandy to b and then began dressing the woun The shoulder bullet had gone almost entirely through. Curt extractad it, stopped the bleeding, bandaged the wound, and stuck a cross of plaster on the forehead cut. Feeling stronger, Tenn-0g leaned | back against a pack, watching the hree. “I guess he's convinced we're not going to kill him, at least not im- mediately,” Curt remarked. “Now let’s try out his lingo, Paul, and see it he speaks anything besides grizzly bear and porcupine.” They managed a three-cornered conversation. The Indian talked readily enough, freely answering all their questions about his people and giving them some invaluable bits of information about Siam-Klale and LeNoir. Curt was surprised that he shouid do this and should seem so indiffer- ent to his own clan. It was only later, when he knew Tenn-Og better nd had heard his strange tragic story, that he undersfood. He learned that the southern band had broken away from the main group because of Siam-Klale's tyran- ny. Middle-azed, apparently having some queer twist of cruelty in his make-up, the tribe leader ruled with a brutal memory he had killed three men outright and made broken cripples of several others. Besides that, he possessed a shaman power ot deal- ing some quick mysterious death to anybody he disliked. “Sounds like poison,” Curt re- marked to Paul. “I shouldn’t be sur- prised to find LeNoir is slipping him that powder. Say, 1 wonder if this isn’t the explanation of LeNoir's stand-in with Stam-Klale!” * “Let's ask him about the man we're interested in,” Paul suggested. “Better not, Paul. He might get back to his band and report our questions.” He turned to the Indian and went on with his questioning. LeNoir had planned the attack that evening, Tenn-Og said, but had stayed on the mainland shore and taken no part in the fight. He had ordered that the men should be killed, their bodies sunk in the lake with rocks, and their canoes set adrift down the Lilluar, to give the appearance of a rapids disaster; but the white girl must not be burt, if they could pos- sibly help it. Curt wondered why LeNoir had given those orders about Sonya. Certainly he hadn’t intended that she should return to Russian Lake, for she would report how the party had met its end.-Had he wanted her spared for himself? (Copyright. 1933, William B. Mowery) Tomorrow, Curt suddenly de- cides on a trip. hand. Within Tenn-Og's | anged | fuch good is being accomplish- | i here by the twelve men em-| ployed under the C. W. 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