The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1933, Page 7

el 10 4 i M BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG 41T _ALONG - LITTLE HOSSIE- PN &t A‘.ON?"- FORBIDDEN VALLEY by Witliom Byron Mowery 'PON MY WORD- E T AINT OUR OLD PAL- BARNEY &OOGLE-- HI YAH-BOY ! SYNOPSIS: Ioor Karakhan, swealthy crook hiding in the wild Canadian northwest, is overjoyed fo receive a letter from Sonya Vol sazing she is joining lim "t Tewnyson. is trail has seen Soitya. whom he hos protected it the 1wilderness Curt. embittered, | plans to 1ollow Sonpa to Kara- khan. Angd Karol:han congratu- lates himself on his luck. Chapter 33 THE DEPARTURE FTER LeNoir had gone to sleep, Karakban left the cabin and walked down the lake shore, uncon- sciously seeking the open where walls did not limit his mood. He could hardly yet believe his| good fortune. He had never dreamed Sonya wa arching for him or even that she liked him well enough to join him. He could easily imagine §t of Helen Mathieson or others like her, but not of Sonya Volkov. In the course of his dealings with her father and brother at Victoria, he had met her and immediately thrown over the Mathieson girl for Der; but she had proved the most elusive creature of his wide experi- ence. At times he had even been a little afraid of her—and now she was actually coming to him. He believed he understood those six weeks. Her letter, especially one sentence of it, explained her aloof- ness there in Victoria. She’'d been playing a girl's shy game with him, leading n on, perh.ps feeling her- self hampered by the presence of her father and brother; but after he had dropped from sight ... “Your disappearance was an awakening for me, an unbearable realization of what I had o . . . No coyness there, but a cry of sheer longing for him! A mile down the lake shore he came to a small cove, screened by sweeping pines—a beautiful little retreat with its tinkle of water and scent of cloudberry blossoms. Lean- ing against a lichened rock, he watched a pair of Harlequin ducks tipple and feed in thc shallows. In the back of his mind he was imagin- ing Sonya Volkov there witu him in that seclusion; but his thoughts were gradually sobering, for those |two suspicious strangers kept in- truding, a jarring discord in his fancies, He knew now that they were not prospectors, whatever else they imight be. Gold hunters would hard- |1y have disregarded that warning at 'the pass; and after that night at- |tack they would certainly have got {out of the country as fast as a canoe could take them. To judge by LeNoir's account they were a pair of competent devils. A small voice whispered that this Ralston was one of those damnable Mounted, who had struck his trail somehow and was sticking to it like a human bloodhound. gency, and ten extra gallons still in one of the drums which LeNoir had brought. Seventy gallons altogether, it would take him to some coast town far south of Novonesky. nother hop would put him in ttle. Thirty hours after leaving hiding in the Lilluars, ke would p out on Mexican soil, safe from extradition and with no tracks left in the pathless sky. At noon, when the Klosohees be- gan waking up, he went in and roused LeNoir. “You go back south with Siam- Klale,” he directed, “and hook up with those eight others. Your first move will be to get Miss Volkov vay from that party, so she won't be exposed to any danger. Then choose your time and place, and fin- ish this business off. Don’t try to ambush or outwit those two. When you've got an advantage of eighteen- to-one odds you ought to use it by making a head-on attack. It may cost eight or ten men, but we'll let the Klosohees do the worrying about that.” LeNoir nodded. He was not fool- isbly confident, he knew what a ter- rific fight Ralston and his partner would put up; but they were only two men, against three dozen. The others did not count. hols was a raw tenderfoot, and those two guides would not be worth anything in a show-down fight. “Don't run any risk yourself,” the Russian cautioned him—needlessly. “You won’t bave to. Let the Kloso- hees do it. Now, just one other point. It anything at all goes wrong, I your first smash, fire a runner to me at once. I want to know about | it. 'll come down there and help you out. You'll do that, now?” LeNoir thought it odd that his chief, who always before had kept strictly away from danger, should want to get into this fight personal- ly. But he promised to send the word. They walked outside to the Kloso- | hee camp where the men were get- | ting ready to shove away. A silent tight-lipped band, they were going |about their little war with no cere- mony or fol-de-rol. Even t Kara- khan, who was heartily tired of them, they were an admirable body of men. Siam-Klale, trundling along the water and giving orders, was the a head taller than any of the others, he had the massive build of a grizzly, the close set eyes of a carcajou, and an indomitabie physical courage which overawed even the mountain men that he ruled. He could be de- pended upon to put some fire into the attack. The little flotilla pushed off and started east along the shore. When they had disappeared around a head- land, Karakhan pulled the plane out of its shelter and set to work on it. The overhauling job took him six It put him in a dilemma. He was in danger and ought to escape. Though LeNoir had thirty-some men now and stood every chance in the world of wiping that party out, still something might slip up and those two might bore on through to his refuge. By all the rules of caution he ought to go. But to leave just when Sonya Volkoy was on the way to him and he had the prospects of having her there during the soft summer moons . « . For once he could not make a clean-cut decision. Suppose, he reasoned, that he let | LeNoir go south with the main band |of Klosohees and spring his attack. { LeNoir could send back runmers iand keep him constantly informed |of what was happening. If Ralston { was killed and all danger from him { was ended with the bang of finality, !well and good; he would stay there and wait for Sonya, But it Ralston was not killed, he would escape. There would still be | time. That plane in the hangar was an ace up the sleeve. It gave one an almost magical power of vanishing. ! T bothered him more tha.. a little {% to think that he might have to . leave Sonya in the lurch, so helpless, so far.back In those appalling moun- ’tnln& But he had long since passed the point of allowing any scruples to stop him, or any dalliance, however nleasant, to endanger him. His own safety came first. On his return he stopped at the hangar and looked over the plane ‘carefully. It needed a bit of work— frayed control leads to replace, fouled plugs to scrape, a few trifling adjustments to be made: but in gen- eral it uad come through the winter in fly-away shape. He checked the gas again to reassure himself. The wing tanks showed fifty-four gallons, with six more in the emer hours, but he did it thoroughly, (URT looked up from cleaning his rifle. “You saw some caribou, you say?” he asked of Jocku, who stood in front of him with gun and canoe paddle, “Where?” Jocku pointed down lake at & birch island, barely visible in the twilight, “On dat'n, Francols and me, ‘bout ten minit ago, we saw ‘em edge out to drink and den tromp back into de bush.” The trip seemed safe enough to Curt. His party did need meat, as Jocku said. A yearling caribou would come in handy. “All right, g6 ahead, you &nd Francois,” he consented. “But don’t stay down there and let dark catch you, or these Klosohees might shoot out canoes and cut you off.” The two guides promised him and hurried away. Curt was glad to see them go. Ever since his party had broken camp at the Iskitimwah mouth and come on north, they had lived in a nervous funk. A bit of hunting would do them good. When he had finished with his rifle, he began loading extra maga- zine clips, to be ready if something unexpected burst on him and Paul before morning. From signs they had noticed that day he believed rived and was camping over on the northwest shore. LeNoir had prob- ably got back too. If so, the stage was all set for trouble, a whole bar- rel of it. The camp was entirely safe at present; as long as Sonya was with the party LeNoir would hold oft, for a fight would expose her to dang off the avalanche. Mcnday, Sonya makes over- tures of peace to Curi. mean if you don’t kill those two at | only repulsive one of the lot. Half | that Siam-Klale’s main band had ar- | r. But as goon as he got her | away, LeNoir was going to touch ! | F. S. SCOBEE {Copyright. 1938. William B. Mowery) | f Vice-President — — | EASTERN STARS ELECT THELMA ENGSTROM, W. M.| _and children like | morning breakfast focd—let it re- |m Annual election of officers for the coming year was held by Nug- get Chapter No. 2, O. E. S, last | night, when the following were|; named to succeed the present staff: Thelma Engstrom, Worthy Mat- ron; Sam Devon, Worthy Patron; Grace Bowman, Associate Matron; Ed. Andrews, Associate Patron; Flora Kirkham Secretary; Conductress; Geneva Feero, Assoc- iate Conductress; Bertha Goetz, Trustee for Three Year Term. Appointee officers will be named within the coming week and in- | stallation will be held jointly wi the Masons on January 6. - D A. T. COMPANY RELIEVES { WATER SHORTAGE HERE FROM TREADWELL DITCH Water from the Treadwell ditch | was made available to Douglas to- { day by Supt. W. E. Cahill to ro- | lieve the shortage which had be- | come acute. Up until about three ago there had been sufficient | water to the central business por- ion of town to supply the rest of | the residents by carrier along with | the water from private wells | springs, but this supply was hausted and the new suppl in the nick of time to pre utmost inconvenience e .- S. S. CHRISTMAS TRE {St. Aloysius’ Church, D their Christmas tree ce. n sterday afternoon. Thanks to | the merchants of the town Ladies’ Altar Society, there was s abundance of good things f n to eat—the foundation of ldren’'s party. As usual on s, had bet than one hund. > > HI-JINKS OFF The } Jinks, plan ned for v night by the Doug- las Eag and memb:rs from Ju- neau been cancelled weather and the lack of w. called off the event. 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Jus' LIKE oL TIMES- NO MORE WORRIES - By _IiII"LE DE BECK then the wings, then slice and then divide the |legs at the joints. | Dl H szlvE | CUTTING OUT COOKIES | If cookies are to be cut out they jcan be handled more easily if the | dough is chilled several hours be- fore it is rolled out. As little flour COOL, IN AIRTIGHT JAR| ¥ 4 - |as possible should be placed on 1L youl Ksep Browa S“%ar S l:gn_d(lhe board, since extra flour and gzttt “r\mubh handling produce tough vl e HO}cc:;kies, Roll out and cut a few n an airtight jar, except the.,oiec ot a time. nall amount used daily. Also keep £ e "m‘f)zlu‘;x‘""ffi- for brown SUSAT | 1O MAKE WINDOWS GLISTEN G st gl P To give windows a good polish {after washing, rinse chamois in a DE-GREASING DISHES If dishwashing is hard because f‘ 0 O A leam. But use rubber gloves for kind of dish-washing, as am- onia is hard on the skin—drying MAY SAVE TABLE TEMPERS Slice meat against the grain steak cut ac ss the entire slice in crosswise fashion and then ide into pieces as with the | teak. Carve lamb between the ibs. For chicken or turkey carve Douglas Church Services for this cnurch column received by The Empire * than 10 o'clock Saturday w0rding w guarantee change of ermon topics, etc. onal Community Church | Congreg REV. J. W. CADWELL, Pastor 10:30 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:30 am Preaching service The general public is cordially - Luke's Episcopal Church Dean C. E. Rice in Ketchikan “Douglas Catholic Church | . December 31. Sunds 9:30 a.m.—Holy Mass. Monday, January 1.—New Year' day. .The Feast of the Circum- ion of Our Lord, a holiday of bligation. 9:30 a.m.—Holy Ma: Juneaun, Alaska g b i ) gllllflmllllllllmlullllIImHllIIIHIIIIIIIIMIIIIIHIIHHIIIllllllllllIIIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlflHIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIII_HIII!IIIHlIIlIIII' small amount of rubbing alcohol strength or two ps the alcohol to one of water. This | makes them gleam and the outside world seems brighter FRIED ORANGES—TRY THEM and separate into nd remove seeds. Dip batter and fry in plenty of fat. Remove and sprink: orange sauce. 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