Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. ooorecwermrreenes, = ADAME WHO By INSTALLMENT NO. SIX. “We have warned him as much as we dare, But the Senator is a thick- headed mule. He stakes his life o Morgan’s integrity. And until we g Jeanne Beaufort, we can't lay the! facts before him plainly.” | rushing from the cabin Jeanne} had gone straight to her tethered| horse and ridden awa: Armitage!) She had heard Parson Kennedy roar out that name Armitage with Parson | | Armitage one of the eleven? It was! not possible. There had been nothing! n his attitude to suggest that he had| AUTHOR ,.OF >THE .MAN, ON; TH WHO'S WHO Jeanne Beaufort, bea 4 planter, r and two brothers (The year ts 1864). Iful daughter | as lost her| the Civil he swears; | Mrs. Wetmore, her aunt, that she! will carry out. the Biblical injunction for vengeance—“an eye for an eye!” While at Richmond she meets Henry Morgan, a debonaire officer, who falls ir > Ww She pels his advances. She is en gaged as a spy for the Confederate governme: w 4 to use all the; Kenned: wiles ar of her sex to find recognized her. She was dressed al-| one |most exactly as she had been that| Parson Kennedy and bring him) night in Richmond | within the southern lines. It is plan-| Armitage was purely an outsider; ned to have her make headquarters with a family of southern sympathy | relief. in Washington. Jeanne learns tele-| That Parson Kennedy had spoken graphy and other technical branches] her name did not alarmher. She knew of her new calling. And clad as a! that he had but taken a chance shot boy, often in the Blue of the North|{n the dark she makes her wey through the lnes.| | Why should he hate had wronged? She learns of an organization of eleven Union spies and of their meet-| she entered Washington. She had As she! sworn to run these men down. | ing place in a Richmond loft. address the! rywo days later Armitage called) overhear: the leader masked men seated about a table Jeanne is discovered and dragged into| — UPen Alice Trent. They were to the room. The leader unmasks as|&° out riding. It was a glorious Sep- he threatens her with death, but is| ember day, mild and sunny. Aissuaded from shooting her by the| ,, How Je it that you are not rwith suggestion from one of the men that| ‘Hose beloved troopers of yours? one of thelr number marry her. She consents and when one of the masked, men volunteers to marry she refuses and claims the right to choose. She rejects the volunteer and se- lects the one who suggested the mar- riage. His she names “Irony.” To her surprise the leader is no other and this conviction afforded her great! her whom he “Oh, for the present I am aide | one of the chiefs. It is my business to see that fresh troops are promptly| entrained, that the recruiting officers| are not permitted to get into the dol-| drums ;and sometimes I draw or copy| maps. By the way, did you witness} the riots in Baltimore at the beginning| of the war?” | than Parson John Kennedy. He per- °F,‘ Sorin 4 tok dabeecony: 2h ioc! Fal No, I was not there at the time. 7 How wonderful those elms a Is his name fs among those who sign as Gow, Ondermul (hore elms aver is\ witnesses, (Just before they leave her, S°n*! se a , *) DO a cou omee poce Saree “He is—and the finest old chap in \ the world, too. He's just a man, but 5 something of a martinet; and to tell| G RDA r I'm rather afraid oi him. npany is among his » old regiment he was in, an f before his promotion; and| s on idea that, when I'm around, I rama on should do double turn so that noone pile could accuse him of showing favorit-| ees |ism. The boys in irony call me the Baie aaa that ‘Morgan is| 04 man's pet. Lord, how he makes} me grind. But I like it."" “And so you draw maps?" “Of a kind. To the uninitiated my maps would suggest Chinese charac-| ters. Have you any men-folk at the! front?” | ly father died at Manassas and) my brothers-at Gettysburg,” she an- swered, staring across the fields. beg your pardon! «I'm sorry.” shouldn't you ask me? Bu B spy. To her surprise she receives a let-| ter bearing tlie curious device she had seen tatooed on her husband's arm.| The letter, ironical in its tone, shows that her unknown husband {s still In Richmond and knows the name and fdentity of his wife! She cuts her hair, stains her face and, going to Baltimore, assumes the name of i t Alice Trent, not, knowing such a ; person lived in Baltimore. POL AUS NOE. Hen An intoxicated man accosts Jeanne dy unwttingly opened AS wliet ix ebcdiol “by r, Sho was Jeanne Captain John Armitage, a young Dale Soat core sated Union officer whom she tells her as- GED Ath teeta ee eek NO iat age da Meigs satibo| with. thin, Yankes ay elie’ had age ra 4 with oth What subtle mark and at her request he agrees - bs was 18 >i cl my to abduct Parson Kennedy #o that she, D’tTier was it that blocked each tn! can question him about thé names on 8 My WAS ORR Ta og ins atatPlawe * corttoate cause he was virile, good to cok at fora? eanedi- thie: sac 4 frank and pleasant? Or was it be % Z cause the heat of her hatred for Service officer, directed that Armite : arches diay hat Armitage) Northerners had abated, and that she, watch him (Kenn Kennedy” ia) Occ ratiy bunest aed: akeookieraial carried away and bound, but as vot PONSA AD: Sate eens | hypocrisy, was beginning to weary of Jeanne is questioning him, Armitage peeee bie this game in which hpyocrisy was the chief essential? She was groping} and Armitage, lay;in a blind alley. Jeanne escapes. HE PARSON quietly in the thicket for fully| After the ride she gaye him te: half an hour, when they they rose| but the zest had gone out of every and plodded off toward the city. |thing. She hated herself; Morgan, Evidently the abductors had con-|Armitage~-hated the world viened ves that a lone man| ARMITAGE returned to his rooms have attempted the rescue} {1 in a thoughtful and analytical nd they too| frame of mind. He must not see this fon over that] lovely girl often. She drew him too closel where we are? On the following morning he was ordered to report to his regiment and Y be five miles below the remain with it until it was necessary ¢ s the Potomac c there.|to recall him. He wrote a note to hard work hi Allee Trent, regretting that he would ing ont told, r Sh to see her before he lett that letter; but she was| had gone from town. She} n heart also, and it was glad th had see hums 1st as wonderfully made as his: | Ww © went about her affairs as usual.| ‘ © she ted the house with the c et doe nd left her information {nj jrawer of the deal table in the] a left the wom: med able There was no sign “To rent’’| this house; yet it was vacant.| to was ¢ seen to enter it in c time. ‘he house belonged to ee nfederate Government, sub If Jeanne found the candle out bottle, it signified that the v sug-|were orders in the drawer for her ‘ 1m: Thus, on the second vistt after Cap-| You that night| tain Armitage's departure, she learned! | with delight that she was to be given| she was| active ser again, | | \ SERTAIN general, who was one| you had a good look at her £1 of the few great stategists left in t the Confederate Army, was in danger ve The dodger reads that|/of annihilation, and only an exact! ne E t yale; this girl] inowledge of his enemy's plans of the c |campaign would permit him to slip] 2 by using the] out of the net ce of Bhe'a clipped! These plans were at this moment !n Whenever you see|the tent of General Armitage, having ora and been carried to hi tage hir n by Ci Senata ptain Arm!-| X had ne fends in Aur follow nd what the 2K hand and . ufort's shoul top he’s hoodwinking “B t abs Morgan auryes?’ oops, e hidder legraphic ‘instruments. The lower wire was to HAROLD. MacGRATH eerns” E BOX [BAR Spares OW Oos HANDICAP TODAY PE. oy. ENTRIES SPARK- PLUG BARBERS (TCH TRoSkyS NECKTE DUKE CF PELL ST- SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923. MES. You See (Ve aways) ADVOCATED FRUGALITY AND ECONOMY AND 1M STILL [>> INS FAVOR OF ‘EM ON SCENERAL PRINCIPLES WHAT'S, THE MATTER WITH THE FINGERS, AVERY, ACCIDENT OR CARELESSNESS ? BUT YoU CAN do TOO FAR, AT LEAST You CAN‘T BE TOO CAREFUL. YOU SEE 1 RAKEO THE ASHES OUT OF MY NEITHER ONE, WALT — THeeT A AND | THOUGHT THE Al UNBURNED CHUNKS SPARK -PLUG WINS BY 18 LENGTHS al, @ Te (0 SHOT O8 MONA; Barbers mou SseT eM bP AGAIN, ‘ be tapped. Communications here had’ not yet been destroyed. | h night at nine the receiver would be at his post. The mobility of the troops would not ke it advis: able for her to attempt to communi- te in person; hence the télegraph. All she had to do was to get the in-| formation required and telegraph it. | “All I have to do!” she mused, with a crooked little smile. All she had to} do was to steal into an army of form: dable numbers, go straight to General age’s tent, glance at the plans | and telegraph them! She rocked with sudden ironic laughter. But there was a glow of pride in her heart She was given this hazardous exploit as casually as if she had been asked to tea. It meant that her ability, her jcunning nd resource, were highly, prized. She would mke the attempt; she would prove definitely to her in- surgent heart that there was nothing but the Cause. | The cloth dodgers were growing dingy on trees and fences. ‘Dead or Alive." ‘To cook your hare you had to catch it. HE camp lay in the Virginia hills It was early October, and the night alr was chill. The men were gathered in groups about the fires In General Armitage’s tent he and his staff were discussing the final de- tails of the campaign which was to be set in motion the following night and end in the scattering of the Rebel! forces. Success meant that they would| be in Richmond by Christmas ! ‘Trooper Murphy. whose picket-duty lay between the stream and the tenth| telograph-pole to the south, felt the need of extending his line of march.! He was disobeying stringent orders. He determined to go ten telegraph-| poles beyond his allotment. So, when} he reached the end of his beat, which| twisted westward, he paused, counted the poles—and rubbed his eyes, There| | was still a tint of lemon in the west, enough to throw, out in distinct rellef each pole Now, if his eyes weren't deceiving him, something was moving] up that tenth pole, nearly a thousand feet away. It stopped at the cross: bars, twisted itself about the lower) one, and seemed perfectly content to| remain there. | Private Murphy knew now what) this meant—espoinage; and some | | frowsy butternut was sending {Morse “Come down out av that, Johnny or I'll coon yer potaties in saltpeter SUARTER of an hour’ jater tho orderly outside of General Arm!- ge's tent stuck his head inside the flap. | “Private Murphy, sir, to report with) 2 prisoner The General and h ff looked up| he officer of the da3 r rectly to you, &' Kio Mave THar- — WONDER \uitio ATS SUPPOSED —@a SN om ee te ent ey Te bye HA ROLD TEEN—THE ULTIMATE = =) PRT ion igs You DRESS i) GuiTe AS WELL AS He, HAROLD! a RET fen! BUT TH ci@cw RENCE B® OF HIS BELL-BOTTOMED _ Teous&es is Tuo INCHES mMoREN MINE! There's TecTH Picks wotHe -TH BEST Dressed BimBo Winni WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER. ‘GIMME TH LETTER - TLL GWE Ly To MISS WINKLE ~You RUN -ER= 1 WaS JOVER To SauISH JES GONNA, | AN' CO. WITH THIS GIVE MISS | PACKAGE - An’ / WINKLE HURRY! THs Lerrer! e’s Letter Goes Astray GOOD LAN'S! 1 Lost THAT LETTER FROM AUNT IDA TO WINNIE! GOSH, IF SOMEONE FINDS IT AN’ GIVES IT TO WINNIE, TILL BE COOKED!!! IVE GOT AN IMPORTANT ENGASEMENT! L WON'T BE BACK To*DAy !! ALETTER mal FoR ME? NOT DIDNT) GET IT! UM’ ITS FoR MISS WINKBE ! THERE SHE, GOES Now TLL JES" SNEAK UP AN’ HAND 1T TO HER — DID'SA GIT GOSH, SomMesUDDY DROPPED A AN! GAVE IT To TH' Boss! HE SAID HE'D, GIVE IT TO YAM! ‘There was something in the sound of this sentence that caused the man bending over the maps to look up. “God!” he murmured, as he saw the face, Jeanne Beautert! Suddenly the dark eyes met his, and thelr glance acid, “What troop do you belong to?” “None.” “You were sending a message?” “IT was, sir.” There a pause. “You knew the penalty of such action, coupled with alr, I took mentally.” Connaught, Lord Grenfell, Lord General Armitage ran his fingers| Methuen, Earl of Ypres, Earl Haig, through his beard. ‘Very well, then; | the Emperor of Japan, Marshal Foch, i1l grant you that much. Take him| Lord Plumer, Viscount Allenby, sir away, ‘Private Murphy. Orderly; | William Robertson, Sir Arthur "Bar. Take this messago to Crompton Bun-|rett, and the K rise. ‘Tie his hand d tho King of the Belgians. Captain Armitage, however, did not look up. What's A spy, this about?’ sor, I caught him in the tillygraph-poles, sor, an’ brought him General Armitage turned his flash-|the wearing of a blue uniform, and} bit into his, soul ilke i and feet.” i ies : eyes upoh the jrisone Have|t nelt¥er youth nor age matter? Sarch him,” said General Armi-| Copyright by the Bell Syndi ” 4 . 2 * ©. ‘And be quick about it cate, Inc The w ‘ 7 ” nything’ to say os | tage. And a “ ps | The word “stentorian” comes from é; aie ou were sending information. to| ‘It will not be necessary, sir, until| Another “fine installment MONDAY.| the name of a Grecian herald aneed “How long haye you bee the enemy. What information after—I am dead." There was not — | Stentor, whose voice, according’ to inp? . if The information: which will pre|the slightest tremor in the tones: | ames Aro cn twelve British field legend, was.as'loud as thet of fifty *MDy , , “What away. trom ent, marshals. are the Duk t SS WO Gay te are Pap ee eS veut the springing of the trap. ‘What I took 7 ay 9 Duke $f men shouting togdtber,