The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1933, Page 7

DPLECTELE TWO MINUT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1933. IHLLE DF BECK THIS IS *SPARK PLUG" COME ON -- OPEN YOUR BAZOO, OLD FELLOW---- AN' T'LL S GIVE YOU : A NICE RED APPLE 2g/ N L FORBIDDEN VALLEY by Wilkiam Bq\um Moworuy who kad been insy them by Le of Igor Kar SUDDEN DECISION ‘\71[[. this band of yours attack us again tomorrow nig he asked T | n the sout! itively they would wait. It was or at LeNoir's insistence that they had not done so fu the first place. “How long other men 1 It would take a runner two suns and two ts to reach m- Kiale’s band, and three suns and two nights for the band to come south Cart continued his questioni for a while but learned not more of any great importance. The information that it would be several before the other Klosohees ve him an idea. T [l Tl BT 'mb \ Wi J | Y Sonya made the His party would not need hine dur- ing that time. He certainly could put that freedom to good use. For one | {hing he could keep that rendezyous | with Smash; and for another he could find out something about Sonya—who she was, what lay be hind this strange trip of hers She herself would not tell him, but he believed he could easily enough get at the truth by a roundabout bit of strategy. More and more he had become | convinced that her trip was some | crucial and weighty mission.’He had made up his mind to stop his own search temporarily and see her through; but he could do nothing so long as he was working in the da His hunt for Karakhan was already at a standstill; she was all tangled up in it, and he was hampered by a clumsy party. The quick and clean cut way of handling the muddled si unation was to find out her mi drive it through for her, and then go | after Karakhan, Outside the tent he and Paul talked his plans over and agreed on them. “I'd better leave now,” Curt con- cluded to be far enough away from here that the Klosohees can’t spot me. Sneak my canoe down to the Im\(rk end of the island, Paul. Don't let these others know what you're do- ing. Put in one blanket, one patdie | and a bit of grub. “Now, Pau!, you'll be in charge here while I'm gone. Everything'll be up to you. Keep a good guard at | night, and make Francois and Jockn walk the chalk line.” T tho fire he talked : few words Sonya, who was making some hot broth. Paul presently and gave him | the sign that all was ready. Slip- ping away from camp, Curt hurried down to the canoe, pushed off, and crossed the dark lake to the Iski- timwah mouth. Not until he started up the river on his lone trip did he realize how desperately tired he was. Three alghts hand-run without sleep, the brush in the pass that morning and | the fight two hours ago—it was the climax to a whole week of heavy strain. “When day breaks I've got | when he was the temp bling ss a long portage nwah. When At moraing he p er hiome. 1 shore hin nestled under pin jan was rid With a sigh of e dipped his paddle ded for ship. An exultativn itened his wearine ¥ if AN the vast N | when o th, @y stepped me out of t n and | ca he prow of the canoe as it osed ashore. “Hullo, old man! I began to think ou wasn't g to show up at ali.” He noticed Curt’s hag rd face, the lines of exhausti looks, you just did get | “How lor Indian hot broth. ‘ “Three days.” “Have any place “Not a speck. trouble finding hat chart was a | beant tiredness, he nobly suppressed all the questions boiling inside of him. | “What d'you say—what's on deck? Cl'l('l‘ beached the canoe and un tied the mooring ropes of the plane. . You take | the contrc nsi 1e cabin he unfastened the | me i seat and rear stowed them in the fuselage cubl _|and made himself a pallet on the | floor. | Smash climbed in with the coiled | rope | cas “South,” Curt bade couver. And don't let any ducks roost on your pontoons while you're getting theri | Smash started the motor, out upon the lake, lifted the ship |onto the step, took off, and circled for altitude. High [ the ranges, he headed south. sed over the first tower- | cap, he glanced down at | With packchute for a n arm bent under his | head, Curt was dead alsesp. It was the stopping of the engine | that roused Curt. He had become =0 | pillow and accustomed to the throbbing roar | 1 through many hours that the sudden | silence jarred him wide awake. | With helmet a Smash was ‘s.umpnd down in the pilot’s seat, I'dog tired, a dilapidated cigarette hanging from his lips. Qutside some- body was warping the plane along- side a pier and making it fast. He slid open a panel and looked | out. It was early dusk. They were {i~ some good-sized city—a mass of buildings stood limned against the sky, and into the distance strétched long rows of avenue lights. Rupert?” man, you're in Vancouver!” “Vancouver? Already?” “You mean all day. You've been batting it off for ten hours straight.” (Copyright. 1933 William B. Mowery) Tomorrow, Curt takes up the dif~ ficult trail of Sonya. HELD YESTERDAY‘: e BY NORLITEMEN - Seventy-seven the third monthly of members of the " Qut ‘of sympathy for Curt’s ! “Where to, old man? North, | stood | nougl to clear | He sat up, ce hiimsel. | “Where are we, Smash—Prince | Smash stared at him. “Hell's bells, | tizing dinner, an intere pro- tions, for uhxm P uxl Brown play: nlln as the speaker. Mr. chosz comm ) ng. 1,4 of C b ind Carols colmml and app. which Cli the Capitol an Colisel heat furnished r ided a nov- as his slubject “Propaga importance of indi- prite The individual's sense of value reflected in such institutions 4 el el fzat he n ol words p to Christmas with , and motion pictures, the le posed as in a which are subject to im- Saw puzzie which afforded an changes. B ise of ment and entertainment. 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