Show FORBIDDEN VALLEY rF r FICTION By WILLIAM 1 BYRON MOWERY l SYNOPSIS i Curt Tennyson has slipped lIpped away from his camp in the Canadian wilds hurt and a lItt little bewildered He and his partner Paul St st. Clair have picked up Conya saved her from certain death at the hands of the Indians and Curt has fallen In love with her Now he finds she has sent a letter declaring her love to Igor Karakhan millionaire crook whom Curt is trying to bring to justice Unable to face Sonya's treachery 1 ery cry Paul too paddles paddies away from camp CHAPTER 32 Paul wondered If Curt would throw up this Karakhan case altogether What a stew Sonya had made of it iU Except pt for her they would already have closed In on the man Not only had they wasted precious s days but their best hope had gone glimmering gUmmerIng the hope of ot shadowing L LeNoir for without a do doubt bt he suspected suspect d them now and would never let them fol follow follow fol- fol ol low him to his chief Occasionally he glanced down toward toward to to- ward the mouth but saw saw nothing of his partner A little before before before be be- fore noon he could stand it no longer Dropping down lake he landed and walked back into the pines Curt was sitting a against a boulder tracing meaningless patterns on the wolf foot with a stick He was plunged into deep thought motionless motion motIon- le less a dead pipe In his teeth His face was gray and haggard his eyes had a hard light in them and when he looked up and smiled it was a bitterly cynical smile But in spite of those ravages and of the many times Umes when Paul had seen the steely self control that lay deep down In Curt he was surprised that his partner gartner could have taken so terrible a 3 blow and then within tho the space of a few hours could have shaken it off and got himself In hand He no longer seemed confused am and bewildered as last night at the sentry sen sea try rocks Curt pointed with the stick sUck See that pair of black lilies illes there nodding nodding nod nod- ding cUng their heads together The smaller one is Sonya and the theother other Is her cossack Im I'm going to pull Karakhan's head off in a min min- ute Ill I'll do It as an agent of the law lawand and not out of ot any jealousy over her Lord no nol no-I I couldn't be jealous of anything that he ho owns Ill I'll take the blossom over and give It to her and then after we nail him Ill I'll tell her what I meant by It Nail him Youre You're still going ahead with this h hunt nU Why not We started it well we'll go through with it And from now on I therell there'll be no more pu pussyfooting or 1 generosity to str strangers 1 I want to ge get through with this mess and get back I down north to our Three Rivers coun coun- try Ive I've been thinking of the Nahanni Nahanni Na hanni mountains Prospecting in the will be a good way for a fellow to forget He got up put on his jacket and plucked the taller of the two black lilies Over the other one he hesitated hesitated hesi hesi- a m moment ment A shudder wen went through him as IS he ho took hold of it But then with a savage gesture he be jerked it up by the roots and flung lung it away and brushed his hands you going to find him Paul queried LeNoir is suspicious of us He Hc wont won't ever let us shadow him now We wont won't try to shadow LeNoir Wove go got an easier way of ot finding Karakhan Sonya has been hard luck for us w so far but were we're goIng goIng go- go Ing lag to turn her Into good luck Well We'll us use her Its It's only fair she used us Use her Well she's going to him Isn't she What's to prevent you and arid me from following her Shell She'll be a dozen times easier to shadow than that bush bush- stinker Well We'll use lIse her as our bait She's a pretty bait When she goes to join him bin well we'll go along and when she gets there well we'll be there tool Karakhan Surprised I After a d day y and night of hard trav tray cling eling LeNoir stood in Karakhan's Karakhan cabin Ds h he once again D s Is your said sold and with no other explanation he handed over Sonya's letter Mine Minel Karakhan echoed struck all In a n heap Its for me you say His faco face turned ashy Who knows know Im I'm here Who In hell pumped that tha ou out t of you LeNoir trembled Read heem h he urged You den His eyes eye went to the table tabla behind behin Karakhan where lay his colds cold's heAVY t. t au automatic matic He backed up a step and his lis fingers Lingers closed over an tipped iron ski d staff leaning against the wall aIl If It this his girl was no friend of his cl chiefs chief's cf's but jut an enemy who was playing some Infinitely clever g game me Karakhan might shoot him In his hh tracks Karakhan ripped the envelope and held the letter to the window where the 10 gray light dawn was filtering through In bewilderment he scanned the he first few lines then whipped overto over overo to o the thc last page and glanced at the signature to see who his dent ent wa was Sonya Den you know her She no lie to tome tome tome me The question went past the Russian unheard unheard-he he had turned back to the fIrst page and was reading the letter with an Intentness that shut out everything every every- thIng except the words before him Even yet LeNoir could not tell whether his chief would burst out at him In la a fury or would or-would would fill his pocket with money as the girl had said he would He watched anxiously But then little by little he saw how tow his chief chic was taking it Karahan's Karakhan's Kara Kara- khans hans anger and astonishment passed swiftly and arid changed to disbelief as though lough he simply could not credit his go good d fortune and then came a leaping leap- leap lag ing ng exultation which his habitual cold mask could not quite hide Where is she LeNoir The pages quivered In his unsteady hands Why the ic devil didn't you bring her ber along with you man LeNoir drew a breath of immense relief elief and his jumpy nerves smoothed themselves out The girl had spoken the he truth I She down der at dat camp wit de he explained Thinking this a good chance to impress Karakhan I with his caution he added How I know wedder she straight or not I dont don't know she right aw-right you say Me I don tell nobody you hide and I don no strangers strang strang- ers era here But you should should should-No No I su suppose pose you did do right since you didn't know the uh he uh circumstances Sit down Ill I'll get some coffee for us w. Looks Out Window As LeNoir e eased ed onto the wall bench his glance strayed out the window window win win- dow to the where half hat a dozen lean honey-colored honey huskies were nosing water edge for dead fish A pistol shot e east of the hangar langar 14 canoes lay side sideby sideby sideby by side on the sand like ike basking seals and in the timber Umber just behInd them smoke was rising from three big campfires The Thc party was the Black Grizzly and his men on their way south They had come a hundred miles without stopping for tor food tood and another another an an- other hundred lay ahead of ot them The Tho sight of them comforted LeNoir LeNoira LeNotra a lot alter after his two dismal failures to wipe out Ralston's party He certain ly iy y could use 30 more men o on the job One swoop S and smash and the business bus busi ness would be done The Russian came come out of the boarded board board- ed off ed-off off kitchen with a pot of coU coffee e. e He poured two tins and laced them with brandy LeNoir drained his cup cupat cupat cupat at a gulp Slowly sipping his Karakhan Karakhan Kara Kara- khan listened while LeNoir told him of the happenings down river About the two suspicious strangers who were drawing closer and closer close to his hiding the Russian asked no questions just then He was unable to focus his thou thoughts on that pair pair pair- the sentences of or Sonya letter lette were vere galloping too madly through his mind and his emotions were too muc much In n a turmoil over her She was near nea him within a hundred miles In ln five or six days das more she he would be there therewith therewith with him LeN LeNOir ir suggested carefully She Sh tell me dat you be veree bilge blige for m me bring yo dis letter and you pay m me He thought i it good policy to mention the tho mone money matter while his chief was still in th the first flush of ot el elation and more likely likel I to be generous Won Wen I go on d da t Islan I take beeg chance o on walk into trap and den I mako make hJ his long hell Karakhan n took out a billfold selected selected se so a yellow note and passed it over LeNoir blinked his e eyes ees es as ns h he saw the two denomination two Os O's trailing trail trail- Ing a 5 His chief had always paid pal him very handsomely but halt half n a thousand dollars for one trip trip the th girls girl's letter must have hit Karakhan hard Therell bo be others like that h his chief chic assured when you bring brine he lies her here lere to me Several others You'd better etter get some sleep now Slam Siam lale's lales outfit got in just a little while ago go and they wont won't be ready to starton start on n till nearly no noon m. m Copyright 1933 William WIlHam B. B Mow Mow- ery cry Karakhan tomorrow makes some significant preparations |