Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1923, Page 10

Che Casver Laily Tribune CEONES AY. JANUARY 3, 1923. GASOLINE ALLEY—THE END OF A PERFECT HOLIDAY Vv, WALTER, IT HAS.) e wa F | BAKED A 5 x {fo408 F = — BEEN WONDERFUL ef \// FoR You To F THATS ense oe it —— To HAVE You __/ eitames, WITH You YOU MOTHER my? === GOODBYE TO —<——— WITH ME! (7 AND | Fe Sy THINK OF ANY THING a r t q GRANDMA + = Sy MOTHER, IVE tS = 7 3 a { ensoveo petit a EVERY MINUTE = ‘ WITH You! = ; t ay 2 é = @ ponreremmmreerenas.,. MLADAME WH HAROLD MacGRATH — AUTHOR. OF.“ THE, MAN..ON,. THE? BOx% i INSTALLMENT NO. THREE. ee WHO be Fe dua ee ee ee BARNEY GOOGLE---Bamey Is Still Near the Ragged Edge ef @ Virginia planter, has lost her | Married! To what, to whom? She sud. father and two bri rs in the Civil, duly became limp, swayed, and! tigate : i ; IM worRteD STIEF- You sHoutd 6 a ONION HANDICAP - 6 5,000 2 A man Sane Cuine ieee War. (The year is 1864.) Sh ank face downward upon the table— WHATs -4 "5S ,000 = ‘ ANOTHER CHIRP A - . Ae EMOern | here Hier-bolaied «trocparssin: butier-| SPARKY IS OVERWEIGHT.) \ FRET— I_ OoNrT PURSE “To You = WE JOS NS BOER eee ee ROD. Pos OL Oe NOUNS. ZG Mrs. Wetmore, her aunt, that she|?Ut found her. HES GoTTA REDUCE “You DoneT NEED THE MONEY) Alc WNoU) “YOUR HORSE SS toe oe = IM GONNA SMacKk BL Madam Who? ‘ OR WE WON'T Have. NEED. THE will carry out the Bibdical injunctio! A CHANCE TE Cop You ACROSS YouR KISSER WITH for vengeance—‘‘an eye for an eye!’! WON THE BIG ToBasco WHADDA Ne RACE “=< SAV =< =< GET . ‘ THEN Jeanne Beaufort started! : pitied = Means ane meets | W out on her séft-imposed mission }\ THE ONION MEAN 2? ros SOT Cae offen Seale Tn ete une | that night, she had been something HANDICAP NEXT MONEY. You She epee hie ek ne she Ns Mer: | of an adventurous girl. Bhe left that| SATURDAY - KAiow WHAT To rem id ‘ances. Bhe is en-liott wholly a woman—broken, be- oH gaged as a spy for the Confederate government and urged to use all the wiles and power of her sex to find one Her troopers had come to arrest ghgrmn : Henaety rest and oal® band of conspirators; instead they | Sed to tate reeeg eaakel headquarters! 1008ed a tigress who reviled them and with a family of southern eympathy |‘Unted them for thelr slowness. in ‘Washington; <Jeanne Jearns tele | Each and every ons of those eleven graphy and other techinical branches) ™Cn Should pay; and more than bis er new calling, And clad ne a(comrades, the man she had named| boy, often in the Blue of the North) 170": | she makes her way through the lires.|_ arson eKnnedy had had the hardi- She learns of an organization of | hood to discover his saturnine face to eleven Union spies and of their meet-|her- She could watch him in Wash ng place in a Richomond loft. As she| ington, move egainst him in direct overhears the leader address the|@nd open warfare. masked men seated about a@ table} None of them wo Jeanne is Ciscovered and dragged/again; of ‘this she w into the zoom. The leader unmasks| Within three week as he threatens her with death, but 4s dissuaded from shooting her by the suggestion from one of the men that Do with, wildered and terrified, it is true, but] wy — @ woman, her brain seething with| ., ped unimaginable reprisals. “ a recognize her| 9 assured. . : ret. ne’ PETEY DINK- was able to pick up her natural role. She was always meeting Morgan,,| é and he was always sighing for some| — Yy Yiy fi one of their number marry her. She| 0. aiways metaphorically at her —The cirts THovenr Tec lua Y Yj ffl: consents and when one of the masked! 0.0)’ One day she liked him; another! — Ile HAVE v Up, 1 Wow WH vr at men volunteers to marry she refuses! 2) Giciiked him. . | Was ONW BLUFFING More TUNJHAN “4 “Tose. iene DER ig Tt (Etc, | (-» 4 and claims the right to choose. Dorikiie (kis lavas. acosbgtabie ai WHEN | ‘RESOWWED To Oure ENOUGH WATCHING Yj OMEN ARE ANY— SNK THEY CAN WAN. THEY oucHler GET MY GOAT BEEN Home HERE AN Hove. { AGO AKO HAD DINNER READY, TIMES: ANCA Fee speaker paused and then went|the fact that she knew there was a! losing MY TEMPE “rt TRYING Te on so:emnly: [strong and vital man deep down un-| THIS NEAR So :| Get Me Sore ni is ve je) der Ho ohis fop ry. ‘But this I promise you, on the! der uis foppery Mm To Give ON PuRPOSE— word of Parson John Kennedy, that 3ut I do not love you, and I have THEM TWenty- * — "4 Kea no man shall touch you.” no intention of loving you," she pro Twe Doula N THEY'VE STARVED — Hum Parson John Kennedy! The man! tested OUARS p GoT A Fat for whom you had laid and sprung & aq Sau tetend Hob te wve Every Time 2a 7 CHANCE — nousand futile traps. Who bad beat- me} ses hope, Come, Jeanne Bea THEY catcn nem at every turn! And this for-|fori jot us understand each oth e man was playing into uni ‘ow, then, choose” said Trony.|She countered for so the girl had mentally named| _ “You laugh, joke, dance, play—and her tormentor. (Would she ever be |All the while t brilliant mind of able to recognize his voice in case he|Yours is scheming, scheming.” did get away?) “I can certify that we! “In me name, for what? are all unmarried. young and brave."| "The Cause!’ His face grew se She did not look toward the man rious | who ad offered to sacrifice bis lib-| So did hers. “What do you m erty to save her Ife. She looked at] by th: e felt vaguely alarmed. nd myself perfect! Irony. : | Did he know? i “T will marry you, sir,” she said,| “I mean that what you are, T am; “and you shall share the misery you that I search for Death even as you) thrust so wantonly upon me.” ‘do; that hazard is breath to us both “I see that I am hoist on my own|To stab the enemy in, the back, that| petard.” He had the courage to laugh is your work and mine. To a so ‘And few of them realized what fine-\dier who falls into the enemy's grained courage {t wns. He was sav-|hands—to him the honors of war ing this girl's life at the expense of/But to you and me—short shrift, as| . | his future for nothing except an in-|they say. We shall be in Washing./UP, apd the rest of the introcustion human jest Ike this would havelton together shortly; and from time|Was "unintelligible. Jeanne never | swerved Parson Kennedy. ‘So be !t./to time I shall be under your or-|!earned the stranger's names until) Miss, about to become Madam Wholders. Not a word; your aunt 1s ap-|!ong afterward. | —I haven't even asked you to wipe/proaching. I shall see you at the| Morgan took himself off. The stran-| the grime from your face so that J) ball tonight. I expect to join my|ger stood at her side and chatted! Service om. TR BYU 1K HAROLD TEEN—HE’S STYLISH, BUT NO TOREADOR SILLY IDER OF Ma SENDING Ae might recognize you in the future,|regiment tomorrow. Good day!” |pleasantly. He was rather original:| 5 Hew! | Reckon He I am satisfied.” | She felt her aunt's arm steal/and certainly he was comely. In the OUTINTH CounTIey EveRY WeEK~- Meter Took A SQUINT AT THEN. Half an dose! she. thousht 4 }around her. ‘Your _ ball-Cre: has! dale of a sentence he bowed ab-! STILL: Good EGES AND Bacon! DONT Ryd Biot: New FANGLED PANTS OUBTLESS no stranger marriage|come. Better try it on and see if it's|ruptly and walked quickly toward the} =z ceremony ever took place thanjall right.” {door out of which Morgan at that) G0, BAD THESE MORNINGS As & Lame! AN Took Ye FOR @ ' that which Joined Jeanne Beaufort to} “You will break hearts,” said her|/moment vanished. Jeanne looked| this made banterer, unknown ‘9 herlaunt, reflectively. after the stranger lees chagrined| either by face or by name, When it] “I hope to.” replied Jeanne enig-| than astonished. | was done. Parson Kennedy offered| matical! She slipped off the gown Wel the quill to the girl. She hesitated| ‘You're a strange «irl. If you|time I see Mr. What's-his-neme I'll for 2 moment, straining her ears.|weren’t fle: nd blood, if T didn’t/snub him unmereifully Forty minutes, forty minutes— they;know you as I do, I should say you were on the way to her. She wrote/had no sheart “Mary Smoth” on the hastily drawn-| ‘Sometimes I wonder. Perhaps 1 up certificates. Ti@ny seized tho pen|should have been a boy; they don't from her trembling fingers and sign-|have to have hearts.” she murmured, “The next ht while: Jeanne was at} . a man in A half mask en-| tered the garden of her ‘home. He} appeared to be familar with his! ea “John Jones.” Then he stepped| “There are times, however, when a ground, for he went directly hack —just in time. Her hand had/T pelleve that you are a. boy." fadins “hansitie. centact Ake. naaee flown to the curtain of his mask. | “That's an odd remark,” Jeanne de- . | > fence, raised it to the window, climb- Not quite,” he Imughed. “Mary clared, turning quickly. ry, . 7 Smith {s not your real name; no| “Auntie!” ey eee eres Saar See net| more is Jones mine. But you will! “You have made trips to Washing: : | write your real name there when you!/ton. Your secret is not yours. 1| A man who had followed. him| are alone. You have told us that you| understand. But take care. I can pressed closely against the fence and) pelleve in oaths. I'll add my real name| gurneise that you are playing with | Walted among those who witness the trans-|dangerous weapons. You'll want to} The man fn the half-mask calmly action. Find ft {f you can!” |be alone now; so—by-by until sup-|Proceeded to open Jeanne’s trunk.| John Kennedy, D. D. per." There were several sults of male at-| C.WG-L H-RD-M jevyeanne sat down on the bed. For ajtire, one in blue, one in butternut and) A-NK-S quarter of an bour she remained mo-|three in nondescript. He shrugged.| G-RD-A tionless. |Next he opened the Florentine box J-WG-A So Henry Morgan wax a spy and|The thing he sought. however,’ tie| F-WG-S W-BE-H had learned in some manner that she| ‘Md not fir © found a blank slip! Ho folded his bare arms across his|was one also of paphr and drew somathiig’ vpon AC DRAMMER NHETHS PAST. S GBYE KITTY AN’ }S TRAIN FOR = chest, and upon the left forearm she| And the keen logical mind of her|!t. He tucked it into the side of the} ‘o SWAPTERS core \ KENENNETH DISCOVERS KIS WIFE WORKING DON'T FORGET DINKEYVILLE = winnie! My DARLING! raw a bit of tattooing, a blue circle/aunt was no longer to be ignored. If/dressing-mirror, blew out his candle «cwiNK\S, A Poor \ “TD SUPEORT HERSELF AND CHILD, FEARING IF YA SEE THAT if BLOOP MUN WELCOME HOME ) | How ARE You? IM with a curious little device in the cen-|they two had found out her secret.) 7d stole away | . Ys STROGGUNG cea Fob OUT OT TOT ie HE, GETS IS, Goon WAW: Hoooo KENNETH! I'M MIGHTY GLAD TO BE ter. The glanco was suffictent to/others might. Henceforth she must] The other man followed him cau PRENTY WOME, TE Amity MPE TS TOWER PAYS WER 97S. Awe e THROUGH, HURR) } ben hn ge SOGLAD YOU'RE }) Back with You DEAR! print {t indelibly in her mind step with the utmost caution. She} tiousiy. } er ANOTHER FORTIS WER BOSS. ONCE RID OF HER, HE PURSUES: ‘you’ ’ i] r Fifty minutes! Dear God, why 4!d, was strong only because she was un-} Suddenly the shadower ran_ for} O08 AFT WHO Fe DOOR, WINNIE UNRAMPERED, FLOWERS CANDY AND 5 they not come? known [ward on his toes. The other heard v i+ e ROE SMILE. | WNE-TN, FRAVE TOO NICH FOR DR. KAPSUL, ‘All over!” said Parson Kennedy.| Married! She laughed; it was a/him, but was not quick enough. They | Br AR BENEATH Sur ATTEMPTS TO ELone MENAE TT Gets! putting on his mask. He pulled out/queer little sound fought silently, but the advantage | baie yd (WINWE A NEW POSITION. HERE SHE MEETS ITTY CLAW. KUTTY 1S DEALOUS OF WINNIE} KATTYS AUNT TDA FROM DINKEYVILLE COMES the Crawer and tossed upon the| How sho had pored over that docu-!lay with the assailant. With a grip table some stout tw ‘Bind her.|ment! Vainly had she striven tolof tron he held the other's arms| NE, Renedict, and tie a handkerchief over! make sense of those broken words. |against his’ back, reached over and \ TH DAK OF FORT ENT TOTOWN FOR THE MOUPAYS, MELTS KENNETH h ir c] re TAR. AND TED 'Y ALL ABOUT KENNETH'S PAST~ her mouth Then her inom snatched a paper from the inner ANG EUROPE NM, DINKEY= yTTy CONCEALS THE TRUTH FROM WINNIG chatr. \HE must go to the ball that night,|pocket—neatly, as if he knew that TO ANS NO! wooo SWEET- \ WOE To GAIN HER GOB WHEN WINNIE S ugh and chatter. paper would be there. Then he DR AND Sra 4 LEANES TO AREY WERNETH REAUTING THAT NOATS and hats were picked up “Yo 3 he ul: flung his victim roughly against the WEART. a x wy knows pera en Tg do furious haste, papers stuffed into] «Now, Major, if you please!’ wall of the house and took to his} \ GATE! WAsts BIA FOR A FUR CORT AND A HAT. FEAR- pockets; and then, like so many fall ‘But this night is my ‘last, Mor-| heel NNG AUNT LDAS PRESENCE IN Town, KENMETH ing rockets, they leaped n théigan declared. 11 would not send| When at length he stopped, tt was| 'k PRETEXT, GOES AWAY OVER THE’ HOLIDAYS - < riskety statra, ‘close-pressed: and ‘Sos:|"se 45° ane front! anhapeye' Junder a street lamp. He straight-| ns Penance YeNRS Ne MEETS. ON NAL TAS WL GUE NEROINE HAS BEEN ALT Reval (\\ ting ‘Where ie your regiment” ened out the purloined sheet, read it,| WERE, NETER Tino WORKS FOr EACH, RRCTER OF HER FUTURE HUSSAND. | f i % “Curse you, you have wrecked! yio smiled but did not answer. A|tore it into little pleces and dropped SUN NYE HIRES FALL TN LONE NG OF GO ON WITHTHE STORY — ASS three lives this night!” whispered alyoung man in civilian dreas ap-|them into the gutter. ARSON NEVER DRE oie d NY = voice in Irony's ear But as he proached. He bowed ceremontously| He looked at his watch; he had one zy 7 = = SS DRANG turned, the speaker disappeared. to Morgan. Thon he bowed to Jeanne|hour. In that time he must find two ‘el | Up in the loft the girl struggled! i¢ was almost a salaam. | horses and ride ten miles. 7 and strained futilely. Beaten, Cis-| «yfiss Beaufort, Major Morgan| “Ah, my friend, I was right,” he| honored, humiliated! It was intoler-| promised © present me. 1 beg to|said to bimec:t. “T don't know what| e able. It was all some hellish night-!recail the fact to his mind.” |you were doing in that house, nor| hd reality. And yet, that dreaded man |. She saw his body stiffen ever| that you carried’ the Ife of my a e com son K he had been i “Everybody’s Paper” -A e arte) Another installment tomorrow, RRA