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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934.
blonder goddess
A Wew Serlel Herbert Jensen
BTSOPBISt Prank Qrahame.
Bil i Lana ton. Janie* Kent, and
their war** enemu tfc* high priest
of the savaa* Yucatan iungle tribe
that has tried to kill oil of them,
or* trapped in o iungle valley- The
hiah priest is badly injured and
helpless. But the rainv season is
beginning, and soon th* valley Will
be tilled with water Frank plans to
float in a balsa-wood iaektt doion
an under ground river to the sea.
and bring f<* it ha is not
drowned.
Cbapter 42
THE START
“lirlTH lack." repeated Langton.
can be back here and get
yon oat. With a ship I could fly
from tbe coast to bere In twenty
SHnotea.**
Frank smiled remotely. Turning
on bia heel be walked back to tbe
aback. His movements thereafter
Were methodical.
He brought out tbe balsa-wood
Jacket, and for the time being, eet
It aside. He brought out two coco
nut shells, split and pat together
again and sealed with pitch.
Wltbln them was a quantity of
dried meat, matches, and— he
entiled at tbe apparent Incongruity
of it—tbe matted pad of bis book of
traveler's checks. They could be
used at the coast—lf ever be got
tbere.
Tbe two coconut shells be slipped
Into a bit of liber netting be bad
made for them. Tbls arrangement
eould be tied to tbe Jacket float.
He pat on tbe crude device that
was to keep him afloat—with luck—
for tbe eight or ten boars be would
be swept through tbe unknown cav
ern. Although tbe morning was not
warm baads of perspiration gatb
ered upon bis taco.
It was with a straining effort of
Will that ha banished thoughts of
the accidents that might happen to
him la the darkness.
Would the river be like the sur
face ones? Would there be water
falls. rapids, or Jagged submerged
rocks to 'car at him as be paasedf
Might not eddies aweep him Into
blind pockets where he would
thrash his way about until exhaus
tion claimed him?
He walked down the trail to tha
stream’s edge. Langton. straining
at tba tying of tha last timbers of
the raft, looked up startled. Janice,
eoils of fiber tn her bands, ap
proached from upstream. Puzzled,
■be looked at tbe crude girth of tbe
hales-wood Jacket.
Bhe said Jn a curious voice,
•Trank, what Is that? What do yon
Intend?.. .**
“Nothing doing, Frink that’s
mg Job,” said Langton quietly.
Frank’* voice as be replied was
level and brittle. M *** J *‘ ' ' '
“Nothing yon can My—or do. tor
that matter—will alter the plan,
Billy. This 1* just a job 1 can do
better than you can under the clr
cumstances. We’ll My no more
about It!”
Janice made a gesture ot appeal
to Langton. Her face was pale be
neath its tanned allklness. “What
la It Billy? What la be going to dor
“He’s going to float down the cav
ern to the sea and get help. If a
pop bottle made It. so can he, he
thinks.”
The girl put the palm of her hand
to her mouth. Her eye* widened.
The coils of fiber over her slim
•boulder fell to the ground.
“No!” she whispered. “Oh, n0...
please!"
Frank stepped Into tbe water. His
face wm set “Billy,” be began, turn
ing to hie friend, “before 1 start, 1
have a few suggestions—”
J A NICK splashed Into ths water
beside him. Her hands caught
him by tbe shoulders and she
pulled at him until he faced her.
"You’re not ig oI n g!” she ex
claimed brMthlessly. “You can’t!
Ton shouldn’t!” She tugged at him
with little desperate Jerks.
“Bither EMIy or 1 must. Please,
. Janice. Billy will explain. We
haven’t much Ume now, since the
rain. I’ve-”
“Yon mustn’t . . . tit her 70a or
BUI?. What do 70a think 1 amt
What do yon think l*d ba It 1 let
7©uT .. Her voice broke on a
little note of hysteria. “The raft la
nearly ready. Well all go together.
Why should one et ua take rtaka tor
the others T The raft will support
as all—*
Gently Freak pat np hit anas and
disengaged the girl's hands treat
his shoulders. He turned his tace
toward Langion.
"Bill, it would be n good Mea, 1
think, to make more et these Jack
ets to wear on the raft when the
water rises. Provide yourself with
n stoat rope and n rash for an an
chor. And a long rope with n atone
to threw to the hank. Toe might
get done enough and high enough
to roach the ell* tope, ru he hack,
rn be all right—*
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The girl waa sobbing against him.
She lifted a tear-wet face.
"Frank,” ahe cried with choked
voice, "FraoW, dear. You said once
you love me! As you love me.
please don’t go! Billy, stop him!"
‘You don’t know wbat you're say
ing.” said Frank gently. "Billy will
explain why I’m going—'"
T do! 1 do know wbat I’m saying.
1 love you Frank! 1 love you so
mucb that I'd—Frank. I’d die if any
thing happened. Take me with you!
We’ll go together—"
Hia heart ached. He blinked bia
eyes to clear away tbe mistiness.
He was pained that her distress bad
brought her to confess a love be
believed she did not—could not—
feel.
He pressed ber gently from him.
He backed Into tbe water. Sbe
■trove to follow. Step by step she
waded deeper, still facing blm. Over
hit shoulder be sent a glance to
Langton—a glance both belplesa
and full of appeal.
Langton hobbled Into tbe water
beside them. Gently but with firm
ness he took ber by tbe arm.
Trance-liko she stared at Frank who
backed away toward midstream.
Tbe water swirled above bis waist.
Janice’s face was dazed; pain
showed In ber eyes, but with Lang
toq’a band upod ber arm sbe made
no move to follow Frank. The water
eddied nnder bis crude life-belt. He
was floating.
Swiftly tbe current caught him.
He saw tbe bank and tbe figures of
tbe man and girl recede. As tbe
darkening shadow of tbe cavern's
month fell upon him, be saw Janice
turn her bead suddenly and bury
her face against the shoulder of ber
companion, as If she could not sup
port the sight of his disappearance
Langton lifted his hand ant
dropped it. It was like a salute.
BLACKNESS. Impenetrable black
ness.
The water, gurgling about him,
seemed to Frank like a living in
visible substance. He waa conscious
of a variety of sensations. At one
moment he felt that he was sus
pended immovable in a void, at an
other it seemed that be was being
impelled forward in a vacuum—a
swift, silent projectile—and must
sooner or later crash Into extinc
tion.
He strove to unclench his aching
teeth, to allow tbe nervous rigidity
of bis muscles to relax. He won
dered it be could bear for several
hours tbls vivid expectation of an
nihilating Impact.
Then suddenly he was curiously
aware of a glow about him; It waa
at tho level of his shoulders, below
him. surrounding blm; but it was
ndf above' his head. It came from
the water; It was minutes before
hie reason Informed him that these
were phosphorescent glimmerings
tn tbe water.
By counting be tried to estimate
the time he bad been within the cav
ern. Already It seemed hours, but
he realized that It was probably !
much less than that
He spiMbed his way to tbe right
or left until his outstretched band
would touch the aids wait He
hoped to estimate the speed ot bis
drifting by finger-tip contact with
the atone.
But It -was slimy and chill, foal
with a slippery growth that brought
to mind the wormy life that lived
within the Jungle swamp-bogs.
Thereafter he tried to keep In mid
stream.
The gurgling grew louder, the
phosphorescence brightened. Dim
ly be cpuld see the tufts and
plumes of glowing light as the cur
rent splashed and whirled against
the dank walls.
Suddenly he struck something
that gave. Long, fingerlike tendrils
raked his face. He cursed his re
pugnance and strove to claw away
the obstruction.
He was held tightly. The current
seethed end swirled about him,
tugging at him. Automatically he
looked upward. A faint gray slit
parallel with the current was above
him, so close that It seemed he could
reach it.
Instantly ha raallsed his situa
tion. Hare wm a break In the caw
era root—the beginning of a cenote
—aad the obatrucUon that held him j
was a netting of vine# growing over
the Up of ths opening down to the
water.
He thrashed himself loose. The
teadrils were gone from about ble
taco; the gray silt above disap
pearod.
Ha wm bagtanlag to fe el chiliad.
Long weeks *n the sun had thinned
hi* blood. The water la this under
ground stream wm touched by the
sun only at the Intervals that It ap
peared from the caverns.
I*l4, h trial Immm)
Prank Waste throufb eaeeaw
aerit*. tomorrow.
Baseball's Little Napoleon —By Pap
—— '■ ■■■i ■ —i npiH i, mmmm ———i " —■■■—h
Central figure of rpany, of baseball’s most dramatic and exciting episodes dur
ing the last four decades. John J. McGraw served the national pastime in many capa
cities. Asa player he compiled a lifetime batting average of .334 over 16 active years
and stole 443 bases. He starred at third base for the famous Baltimore Orioles before
the turn of the century with such immortals as Hughey Jennings, Wilbert Robinson
and Willie Keeler.
It was as a manager, of course, that he wrote his name most boldly on baseball’s
book of all time greats. He managed the New York Giants continuously from 1902 to
1932. winning 10 league pennants and three world championships. Only two of his
teams, those of 1915 and 1926, failed to land in the first division. It was McGraw who
made “master-minding” virtually a household phrase by his constant and thorough ap
plication of psychology and “inside baseball.”
KEY WEST TEAM
DOWNS PLAYERS
FROM WYOMING
HARD-FOUGHT GAME OF
BASEBALL STAGED YES
TERDAY AFTERNOON RE
SULTS IN SCOkE OF 8 TO 4*
By O. L. MILIAN
Bucking up against a strong
team selected by Roy Hamlin of
the best city baseball players, the
mighty Wyoming nine went down
to defeat the hands of the Key
West Stars by a 4 to 8 score yes
terday afternoon at the Navy
Field. ,
With the master of catchers,
Cyril Griffin, behind the bat, Joe
House, the mighty speed ball tow
er, hurled a wonderful game for
the locals, letting the Wyoming;
club down with five safe- blows,
two of which were gotten by frap.
poly who hit a double and a triple
for the d*y. Casa fanned 11
fdbiV from the’ U. S. battleship. <,
The content was ee exciting one
with the score being tied up in
three different occasions. *
The Key Weft team btt>l*e the
tie in the eighth round when the
‘‘Couchs” got together and hit the
pill freely around the lot to put
over four tallies which were three
more than needed to sew up the
game.
i Little Gopher GonMies sprung
[ a surprise in the seventh round
when he connected with one of
Rumblaugh’s fast ones and crack
j ed it out to deep center for a hom
| er with the score standing four
; three in favor of the visitors. The
I local outfielder got a good hand
1 from the big crowd who jammed
. the grandstands. There were two
; men down and no one on base at
i the time of the four-bagger,
j The box scorn*.
WYOMING AB R. H. PO A. E.
Goan, 3b SI 10 3 1
Mays, 2b 4 0 0 2 3 1
Heitxman, If .. 6 1 0 0 8 0
Frappoly, 2b . 4 1 2 6 4 1
Seheunk, ss.. 311181
Zinnermon, cf 3 0 0 0 0 8
Evans, lb-rf . 4 0 1 9 0 1
Pierson, rf-lb 4 0 0 8 0 0
Rumblaugh, p 3 0 0 1 3 1
Totals— 35 4 5 24 15 6
KEY WEST AB R. H. PO A. E.
Acevedo, ss.. 422223
Fruto, If 3 1 0 4 0 0
Cates, Sb 4 110 12
Upe*. rf 4 8 8 1 8 0
Griffin, c 3 8 1 18 1 0
1 Pena. Ib 4 1 8 0 8 1
1 Carboneli, 2b 4 1 1 1 3 1
THE KEY WEST CITIZEn
MAN CRAWLS FOUR MILES
LEXINGTON, Ky. Joseph
Kenning of this city crawled four
miles with a broken leg after be
ing struck by an auto that failed
to stop after hitting him.
Gonzalez, cf.. 3 ,2 1 1 0 0
Casa, p 3 0 0 0 4 0
Totals— 32 8 6 27 11 J
Score by innings: R.
Wyoming 100 002 100— 4
Key West 001 020 14x— 8
Summary: Runs batted in:
Seheunk, Evans 2, Frappoly,
Acevedo, Gonzalez. Carboneli;
two base hits: Frappoly, Gates;
three base hits: Evans, Frappoly,
Carboneli; home run: Gonzales;
stolen bases: Acevedo 2, Gonzalez;
double play: Acevedo to Carboneli
to Pena; bases on balls: off Rumb
laugh 1, off Casa 4; struck out:
by Rumhlaugh 7, by Casa 11; hit
by pitched ball: by Rumblaugh
(Gonzalez); left on bases: Wyom
ing 6, Key West 3.
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that “Auto-Knock” gasoline is now
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ular price of other gasoline. This
should have been “Anti-Knock”
gasoline.
Anti-Knock gas is said to have
the highest octane reading of any
other gas on the market today
and was formerly sold at a higher
price than other gasoline.
Today’s Horoscope
You have an intelligence of
high order, with apparently a de
votion to patient research, but
there is beneath this a restless na
ture that will drift the mind into
many channels. Therefore culti
vate concentration of thought and
effort, and weigh ail schemes
carefully before going into them.
. DIES FROM SHOCK
ST. LOUIS.—The shock of
burglary in her home caused Mrs.
J. C. Hendon, of this city, aged
68, to suffer a paralytic stroke
that resulted in her death.
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