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BYRON MOWER MOWERY VALLEY j I SYNOPSIS Curt Curl Tennyson his partner Paul Pauland and nd his hi friend Ralph have been marooned ma ma- on a Canadian island wi without hout provisions or a canoe by bythe the IndIans Sonya whom Curt loves oves has fled fed to Igor Karakhan and ond Karakhan Is b the crook rook Curt is i trying to o capture Now Og a whose life Curt had saved brings bring them hem a canoe and tells tell them how to avoid void the Indians CHAPTER 38 All Al right Curt agreed well try t he the west But understand th this if i anything happens happen it if cant can't happen too quick juick to keep me mc from putting a bulet bullet bul bul- let et between your eyes eye friend frend You understand Og Tenn-Og Tenn-Of Tenn nodded without 3 a flicker r rot ot of f expression on his hi dusky face They went back past their camp cap L land and paddled on west wet toward the he mainland They were not chal chal- Three hundred yards yard from the de shore they swung wung o south th Sti Still they hey heard no signals saw saw no shadowy shad shad- wy mottles motes Curt h hardly knew what to think thic Tice Twice now the Indians Indian's advice h had d proved right very right right By the She route oute rout he had suggested they had got free of the island iland and through the te cordon ordon of canoes That Tat didn't look like ike treachery Furthermore It i was wa Sonya onya who had sent him with wih that boat bat x af and omd certainly she had not wanted want want- wanted ed d them to meet met harm With Wih the wind puh pushing ns them along they hey dropped down toward the narrows narrows nar- nar rows where Franc Francois is l and had been ben killed The Te memory of that death cry ry was still sti vivid with wih Curt Curt As A the dark bottle bote neck loomed lomed up just jut ahead he touched Any men guarding guardin that Tenn-Og Tenn nodded and held up six si fin fn- fn gers When they call cal I 1 answer you say ay nothing I Tey They skirled Into the entrance The Te dark timber flitted by close on either hand land Five hundred yards yard down down dow dowat at the narrowest part they tey were sud suddenly denly challenged The voice came Yom from a clump of junipers ahead ol of them hem and on the right hand bank bank An instant later another voice voie rang ou out outon outon on the left left Two hidden hidde parties partes with less ess les than a hundred feet separating them them-no hem no wonder Francois Francois- and md had lad met doom there Og Tenn-Og stood up and answered I Curt urt held his rifle rIe at t alert with wih the trigger safety on red The canoe came in between the two two- parties parte Nothing happened It I drifted on past past Still nothing happened Before they I could make themselves believe beleve it it they were through the gantlet safe with sate with the open river ahead II A mile mie down when they breathed freely again and nd were speeding south southa as a fast as a three tree paddles paddle could take them hem Curt crept forward and laid his hand on Tenn-Og's Tenn armI armr arm I r make mistake he said Sid slowly in inthe inthe i the jargon Tenn Og talk straight save white man friends frend Im I'm Im sorry You understand Og Tenn-Og shrugged his hi shoulders shoulder and grunted with wih no more expression ion on his scarred claw scarred caw face than when they had suspected him of treachery and had threatened to t shoot him Sometime after midnight they came camelo cameto cameto to lo an a Island Iland where Curts Curt's party had hac camped on the up trip Whipping ashore they ate part of the food fod which Tenn-Og Tenn had brought and ad flung themselves them them- selves down dow on the sand for a five five- minute rest ret That campsite campsie held memories for Curt Curt poignant memories memorie of the evening eve eve- evening eve ning his hi party had stayed there A cluster of wilted anemones nemone the imprint imprint imprint im im- im- im print of a small smal dainty moccasin along the made him recall recal how Sonya had wandered about the camp trying by a dozen littie lit l. l te tie kindnesses to get a friendly word out of him hi As A he stared up at the stars and thought of her going north with wilh those three Indian guides gides it i came home to him that in sending Tenn-Og Tenn to them tem with wih the canoe she had run a big risk rik closely guarded as a she had been I Iwas It I was wa pretty fine of her to do that I If I i It hadn't been ben for her he would have gone across to the camp and nd likely got killed in his attempt to steal a boat 01 The Incident made him look back backon on their whole relationship with wit less le bitterness and more h honesty and he had to acknowledge that from first firs to lo last lat she had shot square with wih him hm She had not asked for his hi help on the trip he had volunteered it it it tha thai morn morning mor ing at the mountain torrent torrent And later when she saw he was wa falling in love with her she had sale said sId and done everything that a girl could coult do to halt it it At least she had a conscience con can conscience science a tho thoughtful regard for other peoples people's feelings Rosalie Marlin Marli would never have tried to stop sp him hi Rosalie would have taken pride in i having another calp at t her belt belt The more he thought about her heri i joining Karakhan the more it seemed I to clash clah with all al that he had seen o oher of her during two weeks of intimate association as as- a. a In Helen Mathieson one could understand such a fight Helen was wa blinded and entirely dominates dominated dominate by passion pasion But Sonya SonY was wa not Helen Mathle- Mathle Mathe son Sonya had gone through morin more mor morein in i her life Ufe she was wa more mature deeper of insight far inight fr more thought thoughtful ful fut For all al the fire in her she did not not seem a girl who would ever ever- l passion pasion overrule her sense of rig Her association with wih ril was simply out of harmony Karik with ft t the rest ret of her nature H lu When they got cot up to to-go to go on on he II i 1 that Ralph had drifted back Rlph t to borderline of ot half haH open his hi lips moving moving hi 1 jr too loo far r gone to talk tak but he le r ree w rw VI his hi friends and understood b said to him they hi Curt Curl bent d encouraging do- do Dont let go so R Ralph lph Were We're tM ing ng the and taking Y U Tomorrow at this time you'll W o Prince Rupert u crt and there they'll bf r 5 l you up 11 i Twice more during the Iho rest of oi t night Ralph came out of h his hi st ste efte 1 for a few moments moment The Te s time Ime tie he tried hard to tell tel Cu Curt so cd thing Curt believed it i was Wa wan wan- thing tIng about about Sonya fo for her name nce Il W distinguishable in the broken broke w wh Va pers But whatever It i was It h went unsaid i un Cries of Alarm 1 3 Morning g came at t lat last with the gray wll te mist smoke curling ia smoke up and trout Wi tot breaking the surface in in flashes l 4 They Tey stopped ten minutes to r rei 4 and then hurried on all aU the fate now that they had light to t travel trave tu bye by With Wih Og Tenn-Og in the prow them hem down don the river that he heso knew so o intimately they shot over danger ke ous white water without pausing t scout a course Their hands hanth had w wu blistered from the paddle work their tj arms arm ached Intolerably but fo for fer Ralphs Ralph's sake they drove the the t tt to t o the limit One hour of merciless mercie then five en minutes of rest resl another hour and another five minutes anoter on the te sand sand sand-in in that steady relentless faa fath tl ion ton they reeled off fb of the long miles mUc of f the flight south At noon they came to a lake o of reed patches pathe and and where ducks and geese geee and teal in tea countless countes numbers had their summer sume rookeries As they were threading a short cut channel Curt glan glanced back toward the lake head lead and hap to see a a colony of little bla black hap k terris tern rise rie out of a slough and explode like lie a puff of or feathers with shrill cries crIe of alarm larm wit Evidently something out of the ordinary ordinary or or- te had flushed them As he kept kent watching he saw scattered ducks and ad teal leal tal go up lower down the slough indicating that the cause cau of the slam alarm whatever it i might be was downstream Suspicious he and Paul stopped backed into a thick clump of flags faes and waited A minute later two ca canoes noes noe came skimming around a reedy point and ad headed down toward theta them Traveling light three stalwart t nm m m to a boat they had come south e even i faster than his hi party To let them go past would eny have meant an ambush and fight far hr farther ther down river The They had to i e estopped stopped slopped Waiting Wailing till lill til the they were with within e wit wit- in easy range rage he and Paul on them with a blast blast The ricochet ricocheting ing bullets bulet smashing the wind water line lne of the craft craft sank them before the thunderstruck san hees could realize realie that ambushing was a game which two could play at at With Wih their canoes canoe foundering tn uri u der them the six l leaped aped out anc and ad swam swa for the nearest flags fags Muddied arid and ad bedraggled they stood on their their bit of quivering bog stO and ane Bd stonily waited to be shot as a Curts Curt's Ct's canoe caroe nosed across ero toward them CUT Cut looked them over Like Tenn 0 Tenn-Othey Tenn Ten they were tall tail tl rugged men as had mountaineers mountaineers-as as virile virie a type tye of In In dian as he had ever seen seen Tell Ten em were we're not going lo to kiem kil ki em he bade Tenn Tenn Og Find ou out where the main band Is and what wha there they're doing and where the girl is He listened closely cosely as Tenn 0 Ten Ten- talked with wilh the six but he could no understand a I word of the clicks ani ad grunts grunt except the names name of Slam Siam Slam and LeNoir When the palaver was wa over and ad hi Jt had made sure that the six si men get across to the shore shor he backed thi te canoe off oft and headed his party parly down downstream dow stream again gai Copyright 1934 William B. B Mow er ery With il their tragic burden buden Curt anc anchis ad I his hi men continue their flight Monday Monda |