The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1933, Page 7

+ As he stared at 0LD EMBASSY OF RUSSIANS IN USE AGAIN Sixty -room Mansion in Washington May Be Renovated Now By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. 500 d diplomatic relati a and the Ur gan to al when hammer and sickle would flutter from its staff on the old Russian FO SYNOPSIS: The severest blow of | Curt_Tennyson’s life comes when he discovers that Somya Volkov, whom he has saved from death in the Canadian wilderncss at the hands of the dargerous Klosohes Indians, was secretly trying o reach Inor Karakhan, For Curt is RRIDDEN VALLEY by Witliom Byfion Moweruy embassy, wondering— Wondering how t nding; mansion on S for 17 years loc oom re g\m° \\hxch now S. R. F\cm youth a revolutio exiled ) the Cazar, the old Impe: GR SOUTH AT :13 YESTERDAY Bound for the south. by tka, the steamer Alaska, Capi. V. Westerlund, commander and J. McNamez, p left herc afterr oclock yesterday will appeal to | with twenty passengers from Ju- r, although and | neau T an expe mat-| Those leaving here for Sitka $100,000 to it habit-| were Mary Lev Wr n. the em | gell, W. A. Holzheimer; for Ketchi- grandeur Elizabeth Denny, Frank day. Emma Swift, Mrs. F. e RELICS OF magni The ent state room, a your trail, but 1 knew re acquainted ‘with Jim G who is dead now and his and he told me i were hiding somew luars 1t w the Lil- my Intention to make friends K na find you tracking down Karekhan, who is a took the millionaire, and a crook. Son ser- yust has met ‘Tceste Lo Noir, K T akhaw's contact Man, and persnad- e it telt ed him to carry a letter to his chicf. m with and my ed to meet g me 1o you. . . Chapter 31 When Paul lay down in his tent SONYA'S LETTER that night, he intended to go back FEW final - instructions:: from | 0ut and join his partner as soon as ent from | Sonya and grunts of LeNoir and their brief ended. S refloated her canoe | and ecrossed to camp. I Noir walked back through the willows to Lis own craft and vanished toward tie mainland shore. After they had gone, Curt got up shaky and cold, with that terrible coldness which had | meeting | e over him | when he first heard Paul's report.| the dark channel | wallowed her canoe, all| about her ots of became | which hag his previous questions trip, ail the p asp which had so d him, | Qurt retu | 1and. d from the willow is- o days and nights of camp all alone had e than realized, But tv the mo! uarding tired him he | and he dropped off to sleep in spite | of himself. It was long after sunrise the next morning when he woke up. He stepped outside the tent and looked On the other side ot the boulders Fran: and incka sat off by L]\o.' selves, smoking stolidly. Sonya had breakfast almost ready, and Ralph was trying to help her. around. 7P RiEamp seane was peaceful and a§ on a cozen other ordinar brutally c! | h no s stion of Io Victoria she had known, fara. | MOTH 8ES TR O CES ot Khan. had been attracted by, his| treachery avroacs Ju i ness was ghastly to Paul, knowing Paul saw no trace of guilt. | . had fallen under the spell| netic p onality, as Hel-| en Mathieson and others had done. | And after his disappearance she had | started searching for him, to be with| him again. Somehow she had found out in a| general way where he was hidin and had persaaded Ralph to come| north with her. The pretense of the | scientific work, her passionate deter- | mination in the face of every dan ger. her secrecy, defended so tight- ly—all that was clear enough to him now. He understood, too, why she| had staved him off; it was a friend’s | act, to save him pain. Stumbling through the brush t the island tip, he swam back acros: the channel, took off nis clothes and | wrung them out and dressec again. | He fumbled in his pocket and got| Sit oadls govr. of Sonske” iger He still dreaded to read it, but now he was driven to. In spite of what he had heard, his hope in her inte rity still flickered. She might have| lied to the "breed. E made a fold of a blanket to| hide the glare of hi. flash and| laid the letter inside. Except for| the salutation and a few stray words, it was all in French, the courtly| French of one educated Russian lo} another Loubemetz Moy: I know what a shock of surprise this will to learn 1 am secking you and am so near. Please, pleare don’t become instantly angry h e not enddngered you by this a, Tn everytning I have said and done 1 have taken the utmost care to guard your safety. | had to come, as one must breaihe to live. Why did you o away so suddenly, without a word to me or even a hint of where we might later be top-*her again? Days and we-k. with no message from’ you—l neaily came to think had forgotten your “little puritan”: but I would not allow my- self to believe that. Oh, it was lone- Iy, in Victoria, with you gone, with Carl and Father gone so long to Viadivostok. | Your s ince was an gerakent n unbearable t iad lost when I knew you would have faken me with you had it been b sible, and for a time i lived upon iat vou might be abie to send word of where you wei but slow weeks pass me, my work dropped from s and | began seayching for me when th vu + would have come to you even if the path led back across all the horrors of those earller years. + You are demanding to know how 1 found out where you went. It was a task of black discouragement, No one elze, certainly none of those stupid police, could ever have fol- | head | ner, as he did that one member of the as on her way to join Kara night had connived Noir, who had s to kill Curt and and last Curt was not about. His canoe 0 wWas gc Somewhat alarmed, ul took the binoculars and swept the lake. imy he saw Curt’s ca- ed on the landwash. He noe upturn ne over to the tent, bare- d Her eyes showed signs of s! J but in her gaze Paul saw nc ilt or shame, only a com fend 5 ning. . wher “Pa s Curt?” Paul steeled himself against her witchery. She seemed too splendi 1 girl to write that letter * Kara ktan and to bet men who had »oen her loyal friends, but he knew t he ) “lh "1l be back after w a while, I sup eyes opened wider at his sharp tone. “Did you sleep well Paul?” she asked casually Paul smiled grimly to him nocent-seeming que s a last night L :pt very well,” he answered as pokerfaced as s does, after two nights awake.” on't you come and have break- fast?’ she invited. His unfriendli nice to him. “Thanks,” Paul refused. He felt that he could eat no breakfast that she had prepared. she had done to his partner. “When I want breakfast, I'll get it.” “Why Paul!” she exclaimed, sur- prised and wounded at his rebuff What's the matter?” Paul took a pleasure In turning on his heel and walking away SI!P de- Francois and Jocku sat off by them- selves. served, he thought, to do some worrying about how much he knew. | Getting Curt’s rod and tackle, he paddled north to a rocky headland and killed three hours by pretending to fish in the swirling shailows. (Copyright. 1 Willian B Mowery) Tommorrow, Curt comes to a painful decision about Sonya. On a pine island near the | well-set ptarmigan | s hurt her, and she tried to be | Not after what | for| g “One | X Off the state room is the handwmt ton, And so | immen object sion It Booth Ed Ridley and and He J. Menard and infant advar in or for passen- r's Eve ar Se on vage ime v Ye an in attle are done in 1 gold laid on emandous chan like pendants from At one end in a hug bedecked in e] mantel are two lamp worth their we: in leafy gold. larg ball room, per of the mo: striking embas. and one should appeal to tX Soviets conceptio of the is done in only two color lls are Soviet re; The rk white and illun verted and hid $ m. There is not in the room, for there need for one. IN THE GKAND MA te the ball ro throu I the dininz r pronounced by many as the m appointed in Washin; not the state dinin 1 floors parq| of qu 1 oak In pan- t 1 is en of g each panel is gn of ,f on ucture. the building of this m: ence was desir the red ban Soviets remains - R Daily Empre Want Ads P: v over an and through wr oil painting, TS whol» nay th Money was in to seen. Dance BEER INDIAN “INDIAN.” and save. 3 - 4i | WEDDING way of , and for Seattle, E. rs. E. E. Ninnis, Alice tt, M. L. Merritt. V. D. Sato, no, H. W Terhune, M TONIGHT Capital Beer Parlors LUNCHES HERE is A COAL with a Price that should appeal to every Coal consumer in Juneau We have higher priced coals but none at any price. that will give more satisfaction and economy than Stick to known coals that serve, satisfy THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY DEC. 28, 1933. </ALASKA LEAVES | R < e AR e OUGLAS EWS — OF MISS HURCH LAST SUMMER TOLD IN LETTER TO HER FRH{A\'DS; Miss Josephine Hursh, ears ago, at her home in Macoun, Saskat- chewan, Canada to Mr. E. V. Gil- of the same place, accord: to ceived here in the last mall b\ friends of the young lady. Mrs. Gilby taught the fifth and| in 1928-29 and popular leaving | e has remaine | with her mother. | Mr. Gilby is a tek with the Canadian Pacif M n —eo \GIF\" CHRISTMAS is due to arrive at Friday evening | ¥ will pass out bags of candy and nuts to all the en’ of the channel| Ar‘rm that the usual big e celebration of the ered impractical of the sever order on weather. HERE FOR VISIT teachers in En; the Lennie rival on trom wa North ern ngell to spend a few days with his brcther, Engs - - 2 CHAMBER MEETING The regular meeting of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce will B ht at the regular hour city hall e, HE COACHED NAT. GHAMPS HOUSTON, T my Kitts, ball tute new head coac basketb: at gained renown when hi high school national inters Kitts was an South- and first ns. ] twice won the star at BANK MOVES The Miners and Me: Nome. for years Front and Lanes Way, moved to its own bu Squar NOME hants Bank located on has been ng; B 2t racks Music DANCIN Egg-Lump $11 per ton JUNEAU ALASKA who | t in the Douglas School! four was wedded last August parents or near relatives d with F. O. 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