The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-12-30

LII DiOuSh It. oCNSHtJ SdiiOuo ultoSStiiSi' it would take him to some coast town far south of Novonesky.
 mother hop would put him in Seattle. Thirty hours after leaving his hiding in the Lilluars. te would step out on Mexican soil safe from extradition and with no tracks left in the painless sky.
 At noon, when the Klosohees be- gan waking up. he went in and reused LeNoir
 You go back south with Siam Klale," he directed. land hook up with those eight others. Your first move will be to get Miss Volkov away from that party. so she won't be exposed to any danger. Then choose your time and place. and in 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 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 ishly confident, he knew what a ter rife fight Ralston and his partner would put up; but they were only two men, against three dozen. The others did not count. Nichols was a raw tenderfoot, and those two guides would not be worth anything in a showdown fight.
 Don't run any risk yourself" the Russian cautioned him-needlessly. You won't have to. Let the Kloso- hees do it. Now, just one other point. If anything at all goes wrong. mean if you don't kill those two at your first smash, fire runner to me at once. want to know about it. I'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 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 only repulsive one of the lot. Half head taller than any of the others, he had the massive build of grizzly, the close set eyes of a carcajou, and an indomitable 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 fotilla pushed off and started east along the shore. When they had disappeared around head land, Karakhan pulled the plane out of it's shelter and set to work on 1t. The overhauling job took him six hours. but he did it thoroughly, lCURT looked up from cleaning his " rife. "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 a birch island, barely visible in the twilight. "On dat'n. Francois and me, bout ten mint ago, we saw lem 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, go ahead, you and 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 nervous funk. A bit of hunting would do them good. When he had finished with his rife. 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 that Siam-Klale's main band had ar- 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 off. for fight would expose her to danger. But as soon as he got her away, LeNoir was going to touch off the avalanche.
 fCopyrioht. I9ss William B. MoweryJ