The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1934, Page 7

. ' at THE DAILY ALASKA El MONDAY, JAN. 8, 1934. TS TOO HC!ME E.A%DEYO%QNDNT s E%‘\" CQLL. RE HAD MET G e VOPSIS Tennyson has e with Sonya wadian wilder ykhen, mvllvm( 1ire cro i derness hiding place ; Sor 1o ICorakhau with the Ralph suddenly orsalkes Curt’s party to go Curt after a battle losohee Indians tn which Nichols Sonya's kelper. is led. tries, to rush tion. The atiempt diftng, Ralph tries to Simya's, purpose in vy Karalkhan. dangerously we Ralph to eivi is Jiopeless ; tell Curt u/ fiadi Chapter 4C SONYA'S MISSION URT knew now béyond all doubt that ‘Sonya's trffp bad some sig- nificance whigh' he, in his - hasty cocksure certainty, had missed en- tirely. “Ralph,” he pleaded urgently, knowing that Ralph had but-a min- ute oritwo more; “tny to tell me— what did you mean ebout her being feft alone up there?” Ralph dfd not’s€em to hear him, but pursged ‘his- own drifting thoughts. “I'm glad—she listened to you and—didn’t go. | L.now she's got courage, but just a girl, by herself, she'd never have managed—to kill him. She'd have failed, “and he'd have left her there. He'd have thrown her—to those others.” “To kill him-=?" “Curt echoed, Jjolted from head to feet. That broken phrase sent his world crashing out of its orbit. He could only stare at Ralph, stupefied. “Him"—~that word meant Karakhan. It pointed straight at him. But Sonya, killing the man to whom she had written that letter —surely Ralph must be so delirious that he did not know what he was saying. Or was he delirious? “Ralph!™ he begged trantically, in a race against the hovering' Dark “Why's she hunting Karakhan? Tell me ‘hat. What does she want with Lim? Ralph do you understand me?” His question went unanswered Ralph - lay quiet, his lips apart. his eyes closed. For a minute he did Tot stir. Then with a sudden jerk he moved, rose to his elbow and grasped Curt's arm with an unnatural strength. “Curt! Don’t let her go back there! Don't ever let her try to kill him! Take her out of this country!” “I will, Ralph. I'll ‘take her out. But Ralph, listen! Tell me—" “Curt! Wake her! Bring her here. I'll—make—her—promise—" His grasp broke from Cart’s arm and he fell back. In desperation Curt shook him by the shoulder, “Ralph! Ralph!” But ‘he got no answer. He pressed a fin- iger into Ralph's wrist, and felt-no ‘pulse. And then he-slowly realized vthat the answer was forever:-beyond him. OR a long time afterward Curt sat there beside the fire, with his ‘thoughts in a chaotic whirl. ‘His ‘mind, so tired by two days of incon- ‘ceivable strain that evem Ralph's ‘death could numb it no further. re- ‘fused to g -apple with Ralph’s broken words and make a coherent story ‘of them. It was like trying to fit to- gether a most paffling puzzle when 7¥he parts were all jumbled and the key pieces missing. . - Sonya, trying to kill the Russian— ! f¢ turned upside down everytbing | fhat he had been feeling and thinking about her. He had read her etter, ‘had heard her owu words to LeNoir; ‘and @gainst al that-he had only a «few halting phrases from a man who @was dying. v Yét he believed Ralph, and all his former idealization of Sonya came flooding back to bolster up his be Ilief. Ralph’s mind undoubtedly had ‘been wandering; but evem in the most wandering thoughts there was somewhere a core of actuality; and Ralph had returned again and again to that one colossal fact—Sonya had 2ome into this countiry to locate and %kill Igor Karakhan. He got up, after a time, and stum- bled aimlessly along the landwash. He was unconscious oi his exhaus- tion, of everything except tie daz- 4ng. revelation which he had just ‘barely cheated death itself out of. /i The explanation of her letter and of her tryst with LeNoir had been ‘cut off; but he knew that those tacts, which had started him on the path J6t his horrible mistake, and the sother damning facts which had-con- /firped;iyim in it, must have thelr in- Aterpretation. Throigh all his numbed groding ran an fnexpressible gladness. He “could Mave faith in Sonya’s fntegrity /mgaim.; He feit as though nhe had vbeen staggering through a black /morass aad -had come out Into the ssunshine once more. E had no Idea of the motive driv- ing her-tg kill Karakhan; VORI B TV iR e b H » uld not even’ ‘tuu atit; Vbnt,h‘ W - THREE OF %EC UP‘SS THEY H You HEM' ORBIDDEN VALLEY™|f by William Bynon Mowouy did see now that it had crowded everything else out of her life. “She zouldn’t rest, couldn't live, till she’d hunted him down”—that was how Ralph had worded her.burning pur- pose. Nothing existed for her except to reach Karakhaun and kill him. With a singleness of purpose that put his own hunt to shame, she had refused to look aside from her trail, or to think or feel. The intangible thing which had made her seem so cold and faraway was not “some- body else” but her chaotie heart. There was one thing he could do to make partial amends—get north to that headwaters lake and protect her and bring her out. In @ general way he had already planned to start “Fraivs end for Batph. back north, and'now his realization of her danger galvanized him inmto action. Should he return by canoe, or go up the Iskititowah mnd rum the risk of Smash not being there with the plane? If only he could feel sure of 4Smasi. One counld never depend on him. { ‘A pretty face at Tellacet, a dance at Hazleton, would make him forget a rendezvous with a partner. But.by canoe the trip would take a week; it was up stream, and be could travel only by night, for parties wpuld pe eombing the river and lmhushlu the portages. A week would be too late. He hld to, be there atthe lake when Sonya came. According to what Tenn-Og hdd safd about trail and distance, she and her guides should resch Karakhan’s refuge late the next eve ning or on the morning of the fol- 'lowitg day. By plane he could mko it, but-aot by canoe. When dawn,came, he searched t {isiand for a “suitable place, carrf Ralph’s body to it, made a sectire cairn of rocks, snd then scattered seed pods of woodbine and phiox arpound. it in the fresh woods logm. Selecting a tall minaret pine that stood conspicuously to ftsell; ‘he climbed it, and with Tenn-Og’s Iflt— ax, cut off all fts branches except the rounded crown, meking a stick to the unselfish héroism of the man who had dfed theére. Ve He woke the other two then, told Paul about ‘bis talk with Ralph apd abotit his plans. They left immedi- ately, Weading up the Iskitimwah. (Copyright. 1938. William B. Mowery) Tomorrow, Curt's plans meet a " new danger, =R e '™M G\.ADI DIDN'T 'S HSYE ‘%‘%\"EAT SRR non- CHRISTMAS IN. RUSSIAN CHURCH OBSERVED HERE Religioys 5erv1ces and Open Houses Characterize Celebration of Holiday Formal observance of Russian Christmas started on Christmas Eve, Saturday, at 7 o’clock with elaborate and impressive services in the Russian Orthodox Church when Vespers and Matins were conducted by the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff. A feature of the service, was the “blessing of five loaves of bread” occasions. During this observance, five loaves of bread, wheat, oil and wine are blessed by the priest and following the services the bread is cut into small pieces and distribut-| ed to the communicants, who are anointed on the forehead with the ail. On Christmas morning, yesterday, at 10 o'clock regular Christmas services were held. Music for both Saturday evening and Sunday was {urnished by the St. Nicholas choir which sang beautifully during both services. The church was well filled on Saturday eyening and Sunday morning, though many who had planned on attending were home by the inclement weather. Sing at Hospital Yesterday afternoon, members of St. Nicholas choir met at the Gov- mas carols, pital and later in the tubercular ward, which were greatly enjoyed by the patients. In the evening, a grand banquet was held in the St. Nicholas Society Hall'to which every resident of Indian Village was invited. Before the banquet was served there was community singing of the Russian Christmas songs. Open Houses Held In addition to the religious ob- servance of the holiday, the mem- bers of the choir and others of the church went from one friepd’s house to another singing carols and enjoying the open houses which were held by all members of the church, until the small hours of this morn- ing. Many Juneauites who are not members of the Russian Church, Joined in the celebrations held at ‘a number 'of homes in town. .- —— DENY PAROLE T0 BILLINGS | Cahforma State Board Turns Down Man Con- victed with Mooney FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Jan. 8. —Because of his past criminal record, the California State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, last Saturday denied the parole appli- cation of Warren K. Billings. Billings was convicted with Tom Mooney. in, the bombing of the 1916 parade. DEFAULTER IS SUICIDE CHAMONIX, France, Jan. 8.— Serge Stavisky, founder of the de- funct Bayonne Pawnshop, shot himself in the head when the police discovered him here today. He died instantly. 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