Show 1 1 FORBIDDEN V VALLEY ALLEY J FICTION 1 I By WILLIAM WILLIAl BYRON VERY MOWERY I IBy SYNOPSIS By clever means Curt Tennyson and Paul St St. Claire have discovered the contact man of the tho Russian crook Igor Karakhan whom they are trailing jailing into the Canadian northwest Curt has met at Russian lake Sonya Nichols who with her brother Ralph plans to enter the territory of the Indians Curt also has rescued rescued res res- res cued Sonya onya from a drunken halfbreed half half- breed and now Old John a n trapper declares her expedition is highly dan Serous John tells Curt of the Klose- Klose bees hees CHAPTER 18 16 TEE TE LEND LENOIR IF The Thc John went on were hunters living entirely by the chase They had split into two bands a north northern rn one under the leadership of Siam Siam or the Black Grizzly and anda a southern band that lived around the forks of the Sometimes in summer they made little lean tos of pine boughs but most of the time they were eave dwellers the warm dry caves of that region were much better abodes than any tepee There used to be about two hundred hun hundred dred of them he said but five years ago O a wandering trapper from front Fort Nelson had brought influenza in and it had riddled d both bands and now cow they numbered only a hundred They had found the thc man wand wandering wander rIng r- r ing along a Q river starved and desperately des per tely ill had taken him hini in in cared for him till he he recovered and the sickness had spread like a blight among them They had set ire fire to a whole mountain range ange to drive the white while disease devils out of their ter ter- ter I As he hand handed back the thc weapon of those mountain nomads he made up his mind that he was going to to do i something about Ralph and Sonya's trip They didn't know how to take care of themselves s in the wilderness wilder ness especially In so appalling a country and the knew nothing at atall atall atall all about handling Indians They had to be s1 shielded somehow shielded somehow and the Job ob was up to him Outside the rain was wall falling of off the he first gray light was was' reaching up Into nto the eastern sky How about running your net John ohn Curt suggested ill Til go along Old Paxton pulled on his shoes anc and jack Jacket t. t They went outside launched a canoe and paddled off oU to the is is- ands Lands Locating the anchored anchor d chung that marked the net they skirled d ove one end of the seine and W 2 gan Ban working down along it jt extricate Ing ng the fish as they went and dropping t the he e net back into the water Old John Warns to me mc bout you havIn that r with the breed last las eVenin old John remarked tossing a flopping trout into the canoe I 1 know enow you cn en take care of yourself but the same ame you be leery of that tha f eller feller while youre you're here at Lake take Why so Hes Hs bad un a a Is Curt started d a little who His names name's Te ste LeNoir Out of lo long log g experience with crashing crash ing lag surprises Curt never batted an eye eye But inwardly he be was dumfound I ed cd Heavens above hed he'd whip whippet whipped Ci I Karakhan's contact man manI Had made mad madea mada a bitter enemy enemy of the one one person a at Russian Lake with whom he wanted to be friends Yes Yec hes he's a bad un fua Paxton repeated repeated repeated re re- re- re all unaware of of the bomb h he had exploded with Burt He aint aln ab above ve a knife inter a man specially when hes he's been bentlin this thi bush wh whisky ky Curt seized his chance to get a lin linon fine LeNoir Who is he John on Just Justa general loafer No hes he's a trapper G Guides some too when any game big hunter hapPens hapPens happens hap hap- pens to git in this fer He e come from rom the Gods God's Lal Lake e country in bout eight year ago I h heerd erd rumo rumor that he done over ther there there- slipped sUpped a a aman man some som I h heerd heerd- erdan erd- erd an had put to-put his foot In in front o ohis of his nose an git giL Curt wondered how Igor Karakhan the metropolitan criminal had ever eve got in touch with this fugitive Strong Probably y the Cos Co Cosack Cosack sack had bad once hunted in this country coun try and LeNoir had been his guide guId The breed beed could be watched sha shadowed shad shad- owed and through him they could coul nail Karakhan Where does LeNoir trap John Around here close dose I suppose No way ay up the Up nigh nig the forks forkE WIn In e territory How does doe they allow him In there They aint int so touchy breeds breed as whites Sides hes he's got no some stand stand-in with Siam Siam the I never heerd j t what Curt grimaced More bad news Karakhan must be living up north in n those forbidden mountains tolerated toler- toler ted there because of the breeds in in- over the Not so good Paddle to Post He and Paxton paddled across to toI I the he post with their catch atch The three o'clock clock sun just Inching above the northeast ranges glistened against the thc ie many windows of the mi mission ion and ands Its s life giving warmth felt good after the 10 chilly night After they tossed fish ish to the dogs Curt selected half halt a dozen ozen of the tho smaller trout cleaned them iem at the thc water edge edge and and set about getting citing breakfast Did you ever do any s pr up the John he he ho put the trout into asked ti Iu pan Not to speak of You aint ti f an cm prospecting up th J Well far up as as M the p Pass y say cay theres there's no danger th that t fir far C you make me rae a map snap of th the tory Th There rA arent aren't an Tiff any gOve charts I III might m I aint n no at pencil work but I know lh try from A to Z While Curt finished br bre Paxton went to work with wIth a PI sack and pencil stub b and anda anja a chart It was via a rough accurate and dependable Heres the thc pass he hl 1 11 i 1 L int i 7 to Curt Heres the ar r lor v on above This mountain Wee Wt i h here re that's where I trap v Where does LeNoir live liver I On this nab main fork bout bout bouta i Ji up from the prong 5 Curt folded the paper and Z toned it carefully in his shirt cod Good work for lor half haIt an t That one little dot ot LeNoir's cabin w would save S of searching He would make CIO ei of that chart one for himself w Paul one for tor Smash Smas who was WU at iW ing by at with the theone plane kS one to send to K A-K t to let M Mu know what had happened to ti than them j Ie they never came cam out of the Copy Copyright 1934 WilHam Mowery J Tomorrow morrow Sonya Sonya b has a acome very veo come surprise |