Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1923, Page 12

nme rtaeeenion PAGE TWELVE. GASOLINE ALLEY—A LITTLE SERVICE, PLEASE ITLL SEEM d00D To SEE AUNTIE BLOSSOM AND THE BuUNCcH/ “SKEEZIX! You've PUT OUT THE LIGHT? ( nt | aioe rt MADAME WHO? By HAROLD .MacGRATH — AUTHOR..OF “THE: MAN .ON: THE. BOX INSTALLMENT NO. FOUR WHO'S Wi de Nl ride north, threaten- | e . : : a Joanne Beaufort, veauttut daashter| {ou Goishocr any mas eto ieeet” | BARNEY GOOGLE--Sparky Is Still Holding His Own By Billey De Beck of a Virginia planter, has Jost her| ‘vos. father and two brothers in the Civil) «well, that's all I'm at liberty to War. (The year is 1864.) She swears tell you just now. I came back be: MR.GOOGLE.. > ; , te cause this is my post. You were 5 KES flan 5 5 Mrs. Wetmore, he: that sh 4 here to gi Uft at How's SPARK- N y i SHow SOME pep, rs. aunt, that she|sent down here to give me a aty fae ie GRADUALLY rie will carry out the Bibical injunction|the secret wire. But for quick and SPARKY = FU BE for vengeance—"an eye for an eye!"| lucky work tonight, you'd have gone ALONG — IS COSINE ND: PLENTY OF Wwhil Richmond sh G | 4 ERE WITH THE le at Richmond she meets over” 2 S atl SET EXERCISE Ot Le sea on Henry Morgan, a debonatre young| “Who ts | HE > Hes STi ER SCALES officer, who falls in love with her.| ‘I know; and that is sufficient for FoR THe A WEE 8T es She repels his. a¢vances. She is en-|the present. You're not built for this <i gaged as a spy for the Confederate! kind of work, John, and that is why ONION HANDICAP CNER- WEIGHT government and urged to use all the| I’m not telling you anything. You AST Bur = wiles and power of her sex to find) sttll have some iilusions. But to hood: | SATURDAY = AIT one wink the Parson!” Parson Kennedy and bring hist]. “Pacem (Stennedy ise. Hun.” | SSTHERED within the southern lines. It is plan-| “Yes, poor devil, he's 9 Hun. But/ ned to have her make headquarters) !n this kind of game we need Huns. / with a family of southern sympathy| We are going to let this double-spy) in Washington, Jeanne learns tele-|s0 back to Washington.” | graphy end other techinical branches} “And why of her new calling. And clad as al “There's a woman we want, boy, often in the Blue of the North| Brother John she makes her way through the lines.| “A woman She learns of an organization of| “You're an olf roft-nomp, Jack; you eleven Union spies and of their meet-|can’'t get the idea out of your head ing place in a Richomond loft. As she|that women are hol overhears the lender address the} “But to hunt a woman!" masked men seated about a table! ‘Whose name we don't know, whose | Jeanne {s Ciscovered and dragged|face we haven't seen—h'mph! Fino into the room. The leader unmasks|chance we have of catching her, ex- PETEY DINK- as he threatens her with death, but/cept in one way. This isn't the kind 4s dissuaded from shooting her by the|of woman you and I know: it’s a fe-| suggestion from one of the men that/male rattiesnake. Whenever she one of their number marry her. She strikes, !t's death. Do you know that| } consents and when one of the masked TI think; Well, that young woman we Hes.DING as CWA mR. ROSENRERG — AH, UNCLE PETEY, f — er- ER— You'Re — Just Loo AT y CAUGHT You LOSING Your. 2 a My NEwsPaPeR Atu ¢ ‘ Temree—You REMEMBER LR ere i) arabes RusTcED AGBovT- p Nour NHewNear’s Resoution rey 5 ab Gee WHI2z— WHEN —— TWENTY-Five Dots es 1 THINK How Many Times \ Think How MARY ' PLEASE —AS You PROMISED \_ GoT SoRE AT A UTE, than Parson John Kennedy. He per-|You'll erike our outposts by HH “To PAY ANY- Thc uke. forms the ceremony. “Irony” say8 Here we are. And good luck to y: SHAT BEtoRe. “| 4 ONE CATCHING @ : his name is among those who sign as}/ ‘Then J-WG-A climbed the bank cf THe First oF ; witnesses, (just before they leave her the road. Hi is Cj | — _ How! men volunteers to marry she refuse /all married a few weeks ago may be and claims the right to choose. |the very woman we've been after, \wuar Devou She rejects the volunteer and se-| “When we reach the road, you'll! lects the one who suggested the mar- have to go it alone. I must get hack riage. His she names “Irony.” T° to Richmond. Turn to your right her surprise the leader is no other three t'mes, then go ‘straight friend wheeled his bound), in the following code form: hie am and went splashin, mn Kennedy, D. D. |down ‘st. J-WG-A and G-RD-A 1 | ron midstr: their se te ways forever. | MEANTIME Jeanne had ordered 4Wf Mer carriage, She was tired. and she knew that her aunt was str’ ny aga'nst sleep. ‘When Jeanue reached her) room, she undressed and sat down before \the mirror todo up her hair for tho night. With a s'gh ehe realized that 1 those beautiful ‘tresses must go, and Later Jeanne learns that Morgan 18! no: inter than tomorrow—-must be | | ® spy. cl'pped short like a boy's. j | NN the ittle station at Fair Oaks,| She would save it, and wear it as a wome ten miles out of Richmond, a! Wig dyed brown. She saw the folde: Yelegraph operator sat before his in fae of paper sticking from the m'rror’s | iaebenent: frame. Calmly she plucked forth the| At midnight he becqme galvanized|Hote and opened it. into action. He ran outside to the) Medusa's head! | station plaform, glanced right and) A crudely drawn circle, with | y+ was one of those incomprehen- Jett, to make sure that no one was in|Strange, Greek-letter-like device in the| sue tricks of fate, this id!e selec- sight; then he returned to the office! center, stared back at her, lton: and ‘later it came very tear and put out the light. A moment| Below it was written in cramped) \oving fatal to her. | later he was in the cellar, a candle letters: How could she possibly know that fitckering tn his hang. He pulled| | Compliments of the season to | aice rent was a living being, her aside a stack of gunnysacks and un-| Madam ‘Who, from her fond and |7 age, a resident of the very city covered a telegraph instrument. Over! loving, but neglected, husband. | Sho: bhatohoden ian, .tierbase? this Sthetatocped: |. The man she had married was st!l!|""Ty °tofore she had gone by the In Morse code J-WG-A was repeated !n Richmond! name of Susan Warren. She had three times. He waited anxiously.|[THE following morning Jeanne sent|jived quietly with a middleclass fam- Back came the answer—J-NE-F. The 1 for her aunt. She sat down bo-|{1y whose sympathies inclined toward operator's message contained grave fore the mirror, picked up a pair of|the south. Now she must go out in| news. An attempt would be made the| bright new scissors and passed them|:ho high world; she must gather her| following night to blow up the am-)over her shoulder. }information from military and diplo munition stores in Washington. “Cut it close, Auntie—close.” | matic ‘sources. | The receiver of this message) “But why, why?” demanded the be-| go, one morning, there arrived on ¢limbed down from the telegraph pole,| wildered aunt. the Baltimore train, among. other pale hid his batteries and instrument,) “I am a soldier; soldiers obey or-|sengers, 1 handsome young woman in| mounted and rode off into the night./ders. Tam going back to Washing-|sober gray. She glanced about inde- The man in the cellar piled up the|ton, Auntie—but not es Jeanne Bee 1 Gant AFFORD TH Risk MY Mowe Money WITH THOSE SHARKS - Besides, | KNOW TH QUEEN WOULDNT APPROVE of iT BEEUG AND HORACE WERE SHOOTIN CRAPS Again AT THE SUGAC Bowl Topay. SHEBA' LADY Luck. Hani Roun MA DOH’ — 1 BouGHT H CuTesT UL PAID - oF Oce ToDAY— (OME ON, FADE ME FoR @ DIME! cinively. gunnysacks once more and returned|fort. I may never come back. In| — " os to his office, relighted the lamp and|that case there will be four of us"—| REGIMENT was entraining. Un- slouched into his chatr. with a gesture toward the photo- til the soldiers had passed, it was He had cleared the track for the| graphs. Impossible to make the exit from the const-bound, and when that passed) “Give me the scissors.” station. Company by company the through, he was done for the night.| “Take them to the hair-tresser,|Coaches swallowed up the. troopers. ‘AN at once he assumed the att!tude| Auntie. Never mind the price. Tell| An intoxicated man watched h of a tense Iistener—running horses—|her the wig must be made within 4g|Speculatively. He approached, doffed he was certain he heard them. He|hours. Jt must be dyed a dark|his cap amiably and asked if she reached for his revolver and carefully | brown.” would like a gentleman to see her| examined It | “But why didn’t you keep {t on your | home. | Running horses were not unusual) head and dye it?” | Jeanne had not time to rep A| n the night, Dut one never knew or} jometimes I shall be a boy,|!ean brown hand se'zed the offendes:| could foresee what they might bring. | Auntie.” by the collar and flung him rough‘y | Louder and louder grew the hoof-| Quite naturally her next glance was|t? one side. A pleasant-faced youns | beats, nearer and nearer. "The soun4|into the mirror. She rather admired | Officer re has pbc and offered si] ceased abruptly. the boyish face that loced back at|8** her to her carriage. & : ’ 7 7 eee ees = ts : Tho operator watted, his revolver|her. The hair, freed, of we'ght,| “It was very kind of you,”’ she said) fatene Roun, THINK O° THAT?, ns % peceenrion or TDA HLWAS MUCH AGCOUNT [i RSing TO Send eine Lee ee oy WINESE OHNKLE! DINKEWVILE: ELEREAD YESH ti ready. Then came the sound of run-|shoved a tendency to curl crisply. | @8 she took her seat In a rickety old | HAEMBER KEN {) YEP. IDA WANNER \] LADIES AID SOCIETY Se a was wet ecout TDONT BELIEVE MY NIECE KITTY, TOLD HER ||LETTER TDA WROTE To THar city |B ning human feet. TN the evening of the third day| Phaeton | DARE THAT _ |i JES" GoT BACK KENNETH’ "4 r . CHICKEN! THEN LLL HAVE To SEAL ‘Ths door opened. The revolver| Jeanne left Richmond. Her lug-| The Pleasure was mine, T am JA MDERIED ANNIE ENNETH'S A MARRIED MAN it KITTYS JES LIKE] IT UP AGIN AN'SEMD ft THROUGH! flashed in the ieht—then dropped. [kage was a small bag for such toilet) Captain Armitag r a ¥ 1 pafala SMMTHERS ¢ WA't 1] SUB SEEN Hi 7 ALL TH’ REST OF THEM CITy GALS It! “Georre?”’ cried the operator. ticles as nhe needed. She took noth-| “MY name ts Alice | Trent ait Drees ‘ Bx27-222- HER i Yes, John. old boy.” ing else. She had trunks in Washing-|70UN8 Officers were, eatul, Z 4 NAMES WINKLE “what's up jton, and these contained everything, |. Hé raised his hat, and she was r ‘ e WMS “The whole business. The game at| Ah, but she did take something else. aciven off. A ver agreeable face, Fair Oaks ts foe, ‘The gneve! | a “aheet bf ‘tail Somewhers, whe|*he thought. But he was a hated Js that {t has lasted jong as it has.|might tind an H or a G, some letter |2ankee: and so she dismissed him | Did you send that message?” to compare with those on that docu-|¥t» # shrug "Yea." ment } POLITICAL influence, , unmerited "Thank Go: Forarty 1 get! Before Jeanne there was a long and promotion, jealousy, inefficien mway. Come! I beat tho train to you. | {ifficult journey’ ich ra s| cheating army-contractors, these pro- Five minutes—look alive.” were st!!l in Confederate control she| longed the civil war two years. Tt ‘The operator blew out the iieht, and | made f. Beyond these, horses| was only when the tron ring began to | the two hurried o: eaming all and vehicles of all de-/tighten about Richmond that the) hotnes, | grees |government awoke to the fact that “There she comes!’ eried the new Dressed as a boy, it would have|Lincoln and Grant could end the war} comer, waving his hand down the|been comparatively easy for her to|{f let be, and that there were as dan-| " ‘ 5 7 track toward the point of light which|go directly to Washington; but she|gerous enemies within the gates as Pe ie ' “s a0" erew larger as they looked. “A troop|proposed to arrive this time in her|there were outside of them. SCENE IN DINKEYVILLE. FIVE MINUTES ~ w—~—} wa 5 é TH ¥ of Johnnies, olf boy. all prepared to} present ments, the somber gray| About this time the secret seryice| AFTER AUNT IDA RETURNED FROM THE CITY + - - -p.ne-cnenss mene SSS , : put your . ok to the station clap-|such as hospital nurses wore bureau became a real arm of the gov- —— ards and sail you o ount!” ok her 1 enc! ment. . FOIE. GEAGTAD otter a6 toe. edt: nl wincdieeey Mi eee ee Pee ee ee at tor ga {bulk of thelr fortune Invested in the]atood that her prosence in Washing-|ington life. Morgan took, particular of its illusions and tenaciously clings,|red-bloodea 20 J hour, cross country at first. They|tion. A deep tan lay upon her South,” Aida hed mapped out a route arainst euch |and to th’ IS i \\ Li oads to the could forswear its ata Shaneme from the zest of the in-| ton had political s'gnificance, but be-|pains to keep out of her orbit until] olindly we might say, to the other/dreams by the mere willing of It! eee enh families, known to be tm|ttigue, they were delighted to bave|yond this they did not bother their| Septembe halt. Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Bynd!- Se a tha south, wera |Jeanne. Her dark beauty, tho eplen-|heads. They had been asked to har-| On the other hand, whenever she] Ho was bold one day and diftiden:| cate, Inc. ne knew this and. ar-|40F of her eyes and dark brown halr,|bor her so long as harborage was Ne>-| wong sedha ThA VeoRg Voapeaire The simet Another Guo, tuctilinads aadlatiy: AY Neer pas ad oeeea tht [her low, musical ‘votce—thin captiva:]essary; they needed no more than} To.) “armitage, He attaghed him-| Her interest in htm row, gi] AO Rides. Peon thes star pine peif to her immediately. He was just | quickly, for she wanted to enough different from the ordinary | bottom of and average man to interest her. He]1 Yankee, was really unusual, beIng of that t he word of youth which haw surrendered hali] She had forsworn romance, As if added a sem!-perma this, They walked nent stal ight watched. Jen ab to which sho was assigned as the Prince of € ri exhibitors in the royal cattle show in London. prince beat his father in the > for shorthorn steers, om Baltimore had borne tho| ‘That her skin was artificially dark-| They began to take her crutiny, cheerfully, urbanely|ened, that her hair, while her own.|and within a fortnight'’s time she be- nd successfull was yet a wig, was*quite unsuspected| came a bright new star in the politi- They were northergers who had the|by ber hosta. They vaguely undor-lcal and military firmanient of Wash- pverywher! pecullariy, He was sil) she no longer qualified hat name:} closest ving read