The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1933, Page 7

SHO' DIS JES’ IS SPAHKY ! LOOK AT DEM Bl6 BROWN EVES- Gre, 5 Syndicate. Inc MISSA GOOGLE --- at Bricain rights rescrved FORRIDDEN VALLEY bk, SYNOPSIS: C Paul St. Clai Canada on the tr Ehaw, international . join | jorces wilh Ralph and Sonya A ols. They are attacked by dangerous Klosohee Indian cue qn Indian left be retreating bond. and th Jor some days. Curt su cides to fly to Vancouv | what he can learn ab s 1l sleeps while Smash Desplaines f wilots the plane south. Chapter 26 TANGLED THREADS N the pier office Curt called the Marlin home, talked briefly with A-K, promised him a report later that evening, and sent Smash out | there. | At Mounted headquarters he| found Holden and Inspector Bald-| win in the latter’s private office, | polishing their plans for a narcotic raid that night and v ent in, Baldwin looked around and saw him. “Hello, Curt, old man!” He got up, shook hands warmly. “Holden and I have been wondering how you | were making out. But I say, where’s our friend K han? We fancied that when you showed up youw'd have him in tow.” He made Curt take his swivel chair and shoved him the cigarettes. Curt was surprised at hi lines: different from hi ment two weeks ago. Someth brought about a complete ch heart He took a cigarette and lit it from Baldwin’s match. “Oh, I'm letting Karakhan run loose a little longer while I follow up a side If you're not too busy I'd some help.” “Which you'll get. over this hop raid. Holden nodded and went out to the squad room. the desk Curt sketched his wo at Tellacet, at Russian Lake, and his trip up friend- resent. g had Holden, take ipiete data on Ralph B Sonya, and I'd like for you to help me. We won't have much trouble with chols. He's from Va ver the labels on his clothes qu uu[ilt Hv: roll 0’ fil ms; Wheo wo place Nichol, after his acquaintances and get ev- erything we can.” Baldwin scratched notes on a pad. Curt went on: “We may have mére trouble with | Sonya. I don’t know her last name | or where she's from; but I've got | four snaps of her in that roll, and I| think that when we once place Nich- | ols it'll be easy to get a lead on he They're close friends and shouid | have mutual acquaintances.” “Right!” Baldwin agreed. He | pressed a button and a Mounted | constable came in. “Otis, take this | roll of films and have prints in half an hour. Don't fuzzle this.” He| :urned to Curt. “While I'm working | sn Nichols, you can be reporting to | A-K. My car's outside. Take it.” i “Thanks, Arn. I'll go now.” Baldwin walked out to the curb | with him. “Old man,” as he gave | “I read that letter you wrote A-K from Tellacet.” “He showed it to you?” “Yes. I say, it was damned gener- us of you to tell him that I helped pick up Karakhan's trail. [ didn’t | 7, have a blighted thing to do with it, except to sit back and feel cocksure you'd fail. I acted small then, and ['ve been wanting to say so.” CL‘RT was glad he had put that sentence into his report. A few generous words, costing nothing, had wiped out hard feelings and made Baldwin his old friend again. “By the way,” Baldwin remarked offhand, “Helen Mathieson has men- tioned you several times. If you get a chance, call her up and say hello, won't you? You never told me—ub, | what you thought of her.” | “She took me a real surprise, Arn. | I thought she was as likable and | sweet a girl as I'd met in a long | time.” . “Im glad to hear you say that. Just because she—uh, associated with Karakhan, most people think she's of a sort with him. I don't un- derstand what the wonen like in the fellow but he'’s certainly got a way with them. She’s pulling out of it.” “I'm glad she’s forgetting. You've seen her since 1 was here?” “We—uh, take an evening drive now and then. Yes, she’s forgetting; but what I'd like, Curt, is for her to have the whole truth about him. She knows about his swindle game here in Vancouver; and excuses it, in a way; but she's never heard a whis- per about Buenos Aires and those other incidents. She wouldn’t ex- cuse those chapters.” “You know as much as I do; why don’t you tell her?” When he knocked j i | known Sonya less than two out on the | “It can’t be, A-K. | F | of adventuress, by William Bynow Mowowy see, 1'd be deucec me to do it. She knows I'm a p al bloodhound, and besides she might think that the— uh, pe Curt suddenly realized that Bald iterest in Helen Mathieson cut a lot deeper than a profe interest. S3trange—an offic Mounted, and the girl wh Coscack Karakhan had aside. Luck queer sometimes. y “I'll do what ised. “Will you? O1d man, I'll deper | you for that! I know shed listen tc you. On this other matter, I'll be phoning you before midnight.” left. On his drive out to the Marlin home he prayed that Ros would be gone for the week-ex ally was. He had no defir it of ever marrying So Nichols; the whole situatiof be- tween Sor rtain and unpredictable that b could not look alead with dealt I can, Arn,” he;prom any as y with Sonya had strange vi But his intim revealed to him a ne ed at in all his previous known Rosalie for i their as to life or deep: vond a casual comradeship; but it seemed to him that destir itself had led him. to take up the Karakhan hunt merely that he might meet and know her, e Marlin home A-K answered ring. Sm nfo! »d, as he took Curt por aw y 1, A-K | gone—on chting trip t | Seattle. “Sor " Curi heard th A-K brought a pitcher of iced drink, drew two chairs beside the magazine stand, and listened to the de d report. The him uneasy. The big part of the hunt, and the worst part, still lay ahead, and several feature looked omino inst three d into those mou tinue the bunt was like a try death. And this girl So who was she, what was she doing in there, A why under heaven had Curt nd pped himself with in a { situation where he needed above e hing else to be absolutely fr Curt must be inter ed in her, to put it mildly. “Curt, d'you suppose this girl can be an agent of European police? Enough of them want Karakhan | badly. Maybe they sent a woman take him Curt shook his head emphatically I know that p she couldn’t have fooled me mbled, when he “What do believe then?” “I haven't the faintest idea. he added, “ghe’s a m dinary person. I wish you she i you | knew her, A-K.” Marlin glanced at him. “Why?”" he asked, his suspicion almost a cer- tainty. As he listened to Curt’s halting at- tempt to describe her, Marlin felt that instead of liking this Russian girl he would dislike her intensely. {e disliked her even then, without eve: having seen her, for he saw that she had crowded Rosalie en- v out of Curt’s thoughts. He lnlm(-d away, to keep Curt from seeing his shock and pain. It seemed incredible that Curt, who had always been so rational in such matters, should fall in love with a giri of whom he knew noth- ing and whom he had met less than a fortnight ago. Her alien origin, her secrecy, her going off on a long trip with a man who was no relation at all, strongly suggested that she was some sort No doubt she was a brilliant girl—she appeared to be a match for Curt at Curt’s own game; and no doubt she had charm- ing qualities or she could not have swept bim off his feet as she had done. But nevertheless she was an ad- venturs and Curt had an awaken- ing ahead He kept his conviction to himself. It was not a matter in which one mar. could counsel another, Curt had to choose and travel his own path. Perhaps, God willing, that path would bring him back to Ro salie yet At eleven the phone rang. Bald- win was calling from a down-town hotel. “Curt? Arn speaking. Some news for you. (Copyright, 1933, William B. Mowery) A-K gives Curt a surpri morrow. ) to " Thrilling Experience Takes a and himself was so un- | ing be- | he had | had gone to | ted only THE D/\ILY ALASKA E‘VlPlRE, M(‘\D,\Y DLC 18 1933. 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