Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 12

Meh TO Se Le J ; ¢ > ; eee PAGE —> ' MJonquelle by Merviiie Davisson Post Criumphs of ©» 3 Mysterious, Deen the fa ROPMAN, th papers*of Rodman y synthetic chemistry to turn out sheets of rubles weighing sev no more cost than ure of ordinary win- . was shocked. It meant tremendous destructi of wealth. ‘Then one day, bearing a gift worth ousands, there came a strange crea from the Shan Monastery .in Asia. Powerful, intelligent—weird— this man had been delegated by his orcer to e the great came the the world tery was M est of French detectives, Go On With the Story CHAPTER IL S soon as F dease Jonquelle, tt sent hi Rodman’s genius was the common property of the world. The American gov. ernment could not, verdict of a trial court, le death go by under the smok of such @ weird, inscrutable mystery I was to meet Jonquelle and come FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1922. By Billey De Beck ie = Coe Casper Daily Cribune | BARNEY GOOGLE--Bamey Wasn’t Sure, But He Thought Somebody Was Alll to the “'Co-Co.”” MISTAH Gooste * DEY S A FLOCK OF OUT SIDE, WHo |S Pout ANKIOUS To | SEE Yo | Youre SurRE (7 AINT The Cops. HIGGINS = 7? Ft i Ble Thing on the Hearth. = Begin Here Today. incredible tragedy had was strange. he looked at me. Put a fire? he saia.| “I went fn added wood to the tire and came | “The mast rem: eC in she door-} GAL TWO FRIDAY TRIUMPHS OF} way; he reenterei when; I came out.; and closed the door behind him. * © was a Mee after that; then I heard the voice, permit-| ted to the devo ion, thin, metalic, | otfering the barter zo the master. It} began, and ceased because the mas-| ter was on his feet and before the} fireplace. I heard him’ swear again, | and presently rdturn to his place by the table. tenet te chine tovto at eeomes| PETEY DINK- os on By C. A. Voight Thicker anv THicke® before the wincow on, Exeellency,! r- ts lure, and pre-! 7 f— Thue’ — How Hin 2 hes cem™ he: —itm cettuc— * — OH, ITS — Dav BY DAY 1 AM GETING my ace flashes of mater- Nov ARE— How 01D You Ever. FasY—1 Took Taner Ano THinner Nou ite pie. a DAY BY DAY} Am CeTTNG THiwker AND THIKNNER — EVERS —A—uTnE Brt— Distourecen peace detain the visitations uP Tras HEW MeTHoD — 22@ proach to the % — 1— DonT— ‘i — Au! DID Dax — ek&—" vy WAY— - The man paused, | Seem To Lose ‘ Was DREPrAT Slogd aces (Os Beer bi ‘l knew the master contended in > Went) Tes ¥ vain against the thing; !¢ he would acquire possession of what it of- fered, he must destroy what the crea tive forces of the spirit had released to him.” Again he paused. here with him. But my train into gland was delayed, and when tation, I found that Jonquele had gone down +o have a look at Rodman's coun’ house, where the thing had happened It was on an fsolated forest ridge of the Berkshires, no human soul within a dozen miles of {| a comfort able stone house in the English fash fon. There was a dig dgawing room across one end of it. Rodman used this drawingroom for a workshop. He kept it closeshut tered and locked. No: even this biz yellow, servile creature who took ex clusive care of him in the house was allowed to enter, except under Rod. man’s eye. What he saw in the final scenes of the tragedy he saw look- ing in through a crack uncer the @oor. The earlier things he noticed when he wut logs on the fire at dark Time is hardly a measure for the activities of the mind. These refiec tions winged by In & scarcely per ceptible interval of it. They have taken me some time to write out here, but they crowded vast while the big Oriental was speaking—!n the pause between his words. “Thd print.” he the firs: confirmatory but it was not the first indicatory sign. T doubt if the master himself noticed the thing the "beginning. He paused. “The master was sunk in his la por, and while that enveloped him. the first advances of the lure would have gone by unnoticed—and the ten sion of the pressure. But the day was at hand when the master was receptive. He had got his work com plated; the formulae, penciled out, were on his table. I knew by the re laxation.. Of ail periods this is the one most dangerous to the human apirit.” . He sat sflent for a moment, his bis fingers moving on the arms of the chair. “T new.” fhe added. Then he went “But it was the one thing against The continued, ‘was at ° which I could not protect him. test was to be permitted.” He turned sharply toward me, the folds of his face unsteady. “Excellency!” he cried. “I would have saved the master, I would have saved him with my soul's damnation, Lut {t was not permitted. On that first night in zhe Itallan’s tent I said all I could.” His voice went into a higher note. *“Twice. for the master, I have been checked and reduced in merit. For that bias I was myself encircled I was in an agony of spirit when I knew that the thing was beginning to advance, but my very will to ald was at the time environed.” His voice descended. | He sat motionless, as though the| whole bulk of him were devitalized, | and maintained its outline only by the inclosing frame of the chair. “It began, Excellency, on an Au- gust night. There is a chill in these mountains at sunset. I had pu> wood WARNENG! | Desperaté man at large, when AY seen he wore an olf suit that had heen cleatied and pressed and made j te look like new by Jake, the Nifty Tailor. jain Floor, Wyatt Hotel, Phane 11 LINE ALLEY:-OF COURSE, SHE MIGHT BE RIGHT ~ Ahh Goenevitieee i >. IF IT WAS AVERY,NOW, HED BE is NOW WHAT THE DICKENS: ita Sock manne a J WORRIED TO DEATH FOR FEAR THERE i OID SHE MEAN— WHAT CAN Re \MiGHT BE SOME THING THE 15 TH bE ted PS 2 ellie 6l. 7 “WHEN I WENT IN TO PUT WOOD ON THE FIRE I SAW THE! FOOTPRINT.” | 3 Backaches: ith yward morning he wen: out of| the house. 1 could hear him walking | on the gravel before the door. He| would walk the full length of the| house’ an return The night was/ sear; there was a chill in it, and] sound w ible, | at was all, cellency a little later and as-| droom as usual.’ Master returne ended to his t ‘Then be added: “It was when I 1 on the f’re that print on the hearth, | Thefe was a force, compelling and vivid, in these meager details, the se- vere suppression of things, big and trag'c. No elaboration went in to put} 1 saw the foot-) wor equaled, in effect, the virtue of this restra‘nt. | CS ui The man was going on, directly, eliev with the story. | ails ne Jae “The fe ing night, Excellency. | . - = u _ by warming = oa the thing hap2enec. The master ha? — my insis passed the in the ope: He beseAgh mA hy tent aches, dined with a good appetitelike a man es ont Moan Paaee thin, in hea’th. And there was a change Fithout rubbing, it quickly in his demeanor. He had the as-} pect of men who are determined to have a thing out at any hazard. | “After his dinner the master went/ Into the drawing-room and closed the door behind him. He had not en- tered the room on this day, It had stood locked and close-shuttered” The big Oriental paused and made} a gesture outward with his fingers| as of one dismissed an absurdity. “No living human being could have | been concealed !n that room. There | ‘s only the bare floor, the master’s able and the fireplace. The great wood shutters were bolted in, as they had stood since the master took the| room for a workshop an@ removed! the furniture. The door was always locked with that special thief-proof lock tha: the American smiths had made for it. No one could have en- es tered.” Pay: * Te ow jaz REMOVED FON ING EYES. HE It was the report of the experts at| B dite ek AND RUTHLESSLY DEvouRs THE the trial. They showed by the casing; 2 Z ~ SweeTS DENIED HIM Dumine He TEDIOUS GRID SEASON, WITHOUT & THOUGUT oF : | penetrates the sore spot, stim- | -ulating the circulation to and through it. Congestion is re- duced, sorences allayed, the pain reliejed. Sloar's rulléves sore, aching uscles, banishes the pains ¢{ rheumatism and neuralgia. Broaks’sp colds in ‘chest. Stops suffering—wherever Congestion rouses pain, } Sloan‘s Liniment-kils pain!| That wor TH’ Pi@Gles Patamas, Dap- Fuce= Hot Doo! TH fectTBaLL Season! IS OVER, No MORE TRAINING RULES- DAD JENks Is Gonna Exe PeRIeNcR @& . PRESEN) Boost IN Bus- ta? rae we) ss GREAT GUNS, 3 Son THats TH = tlt Take THAT FouRTH Pecan | FIVE POUND Box SUNDAE TOVVE CF ASSORTED Sort Centers! NESS THis Rm. Fresh Roasted COFFEE 35c Ib. _ Our ROYAL Blend 3 Ibs. for $1.00 PIGEON TEA & into the fireplace, and lighted it, and was about the house. The master, as I have said, had worked out his for- mrulae. | “He was at leisure. I could not| sce him, for the door was closed, but the odor of his cigar escaped from the | room. It was very silen:. I was plac- | ing the master’s bedcandle on the table in the hall, when I heard his voice * * © You have read it, Ex cellency, as the scriveners wrote it down before the judge.” He paused. | ‘It was an exclamation of surprise, of astonishment. Then I heard the master get up sof: and go over to the fireplace * * * Presently he returned. He got a new cigar, Ex-| cellency, clipped it and lighted it. | could hear the blade of the knife on the fiber of the tobacco, and, of course, clearly the rasp of the match. A moment later I knew that he was in the chair again. The odor of ig- nited tobacco returned. It was some time before there was another sound in the room: then suddenly I heard h master swear. His voice was sharp and astonished. This time, Ex- | he got up swiftly and T hear hirn There} the sound of one tappin; al, thumping it, as with the ers.” He stopped again, for a brief mo-| ment, as in reflection | “It*was then that the master un- | locked the door and askei for the} liquor.” He indicated the court rec-| ord my pocke:, “I brought it, 2} goblet of brandy, with some carbo- | nated water. He dra: i putting down the glass. COFFEE Co. 228 E. 2nd—Phone 623 ters had not been moved; the wal's, ceiling and floor were undisturbed; EVEN Thowolt (TBE A TURRIBLE TMMVAHE the throat of the chimney was coat-! ed evenly with old soot. Onty the door was possible as an entry and this was always locked except when Rod-| man was himself in the room. Anti at such times the big Oriental never left his post in the ball before it That seemed a condition of his mys- | terious overcare of Rodman. Everybody thought the trial court went to an excessive care. It scru- tinized in minute detail every avenue that could possibly lead to a solution of the mystery. The whole country and every resident was inquisitioned. The conclusion was inevitable. There was no human creature on that creat of the Berkshires but Rodman and his servant. But one can see “why the trial judge kept at thg ‘thing; he was| seeking an explanation consistent with the common experience of mankind. And when he could not | find it, he did the only thing he could | do. He was wrong. as we now know. But he had a hold in the dark on the th—not the whole truth by any means; he never had a glimmer of that. He never had the faintest con: ception of the big, amazing truth.| But as I have said, he had his fing- ers on one essential fact, | Ths final installment of this tale) of mystery and horror will appear in| tomorrow's issue. | =e of rust on the bolts that the shut- WHAT THE MoRRowW MIGHT BRING —= Gee &o WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREAGWINNER. 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