Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1923, Page 8

Sea as GASOLINE ALLEY—NE oo = = = WELL, ALL I'VE GOT TS 09 NOW! 1S 7S GET inTO! MAE SHOES, THani GOOONESS t OSH 1M LATE ty was T SEVEN, AND IT'S OQuARTER oF Now! FEES n ; GREAT Jumpin? GRASSHOPPER! || AMO OF COURSE HE HAD - THAT YOUNG SKEEDx HAS TO LEARN HOW JUST WMEM) UST LACED THESE UP TO VM IN A BIG HURRY, @.PeRE vou WELL} THE UTTLE smrd rgraage 4auny | tee MADAME WHO By HAROLD MacGRATH — ne Ss ges rd qT. AUTHOR -OF (THE MAN ON THE INSTALLMENT NO. NINE. | let this man dle horribly?” he asked} redulously ‘or the evil he has done me, yes.” “I too was guilty.” “In what way’ “I was there that night.” ‘and instructez| The dark eyes merely rose to the r sex to bring level of his own. Everything was clear and uderstandable MH "O4m00 > who's wHo Joanne Beaufort © ginian, sw re ve North’ for and tw She is. enr ji federato ¢ = to use the seonioed Par 5 Ps y stan ing ohn Kennedy, a Union SPY! now. The eyes of Jeanne Beaufort ed in the act of spying upon the, “4 Alice Trent were exactly alike. = group of Secret Service agents of|,..uurryt she cried tmpatiently.| whom Kennedy is the leader, Jeanne|, °eY Will be returning if we wait BARNEY GOOGLE--If a Suit Makes a Sailor Barney’s Shipshape. Yup = ROUND OU = This iy THe fusT ce THE is Whar TCA *ectass” = Ive Always Had Tins f MY BONES To SE A SAILOR ~ StwverR My TIMSERS! spy for the Con- PREVENTATIVE FoR SEA SicKMess a | too Iong.”* (el 4s given the alternative of death or| ‘0 10ns-’ ® tha marriage to one of their number.|, J, pave saved your life that night They are all masked, but Jeanno re- Jects one volunteer and chooses an-| other of the eleven as here husband.| To heree’s, she calls him Yrony. Par-|°F,,7® Socqunable for, what we did." son Kennddy performs the ceremony| neay, “So be off, son, She will blow and the bride and groom, ignorant of ee Mee 4 see me forever in her| cach others names.and she not even| 7° UP—an! etal knowing what he looks like, sign the: teams! Let her go ahead, then; and marriago certificate as “Mary Smith”| Hv a2n.\* her side will be my shadow. and. "Jobn Jones.” As witnesses the| ““,oitage backed toward the chair BCU Ree ae aoe: }dnd sat down on the edge of it. John Kennedy, D. D. j“Both of us or neither of us,” he/ j said. “Oh!” That monosyllable expressed anger, impatience, impotence, despair, Jeanne clenched her hands fiercely. “Fool,” growled Kennedy. “Have I not often told you that I’d rather die than live? Haven't I called to Death a thousand times, to see him mock| PREBLE Em me?” — ONCte Petey, jin the h | “Hurry!” was all she said. “We were madmen. We were none W-BEH Jeanne looked down at her enemy Zz — Here, Por They Jeave her bound and disap | with reluctant admiration, This gray Ls You Ant €o OW THIS MUFFLER peer. man who had called to Death a thou- - SKATING Cie ——— Nov Need: SOME Protection ~-Henry Morgan Southern officer}/sand times and been denied awaken anc. spy for the Confederacy is in|ed the old inherent sense of chiv- love with her but she rejects his ad-|alry. She turned to Armitage. vances. One day getting a letter) “Your word of honor not to touch signed “your identity is known. Dis-| me,” guising herself with a brown wig and “I give it” staiping her face, Peanne assumes| ‘I will let him go. Let him remem- the fame of ber that it was I that gave him his Alice Trent, she goes to Baltimore life, even as I would have taken it, to carry on her work. She {s unaware) ‘ndifferently.” that a real “Alice Trent” Inves in| She untied Armitage'’s hands. He Baltimore. | felt the tremor of her fingers,, but in |no wise comprehended its origin. As WD be) serpy kl phe se eiaad | for Jeanne, since this was to be the llast time she was ever to see this Jeanne induces Morgen to abduct} Kennedy so that she may question| ™8®, © terrible, almost {rrestistible eeagrne aas oe on the certiti,| Gesire seized her to throw her arms cate and about a curious tattoo mark|ioved hint neck and tell him she on the arm of the man she married. s Armitage rescues him, but Jeanne! ,,4/™i‘ege rubbed his wrists energet- escapes. She sees placards, announc-| ‘Sly (to take away the sting of the < | hemp.| ‘Then he freed Kennedy, who sais eee tos tee, cabture, “dead/ was really heipless, and dragged him| 3 | outside the cabin, Jeanne broke off General Armitage, father of the) the fuso ehalf a foot from the keg, captain, is Ciscussing plans for the! applied the flame of the candle, and} final campaign against Richmond) garted from the cabin. when Jeanne, attempting to steal/” 4s Armitage led Kennedy out of them, !s captured. Though she s in|the danger-zone he was thrown vio- boy's clothes, Captain Armitage re-|jently to the ground. The earth had/ ' cognizes her, but says nothing, and 1s8| opened up, and hades had stretched! march to that clothes-press, and re- bound to face a firing squad in the/a fiery arm toward heaven, to with-| member that its death if you speak! morning. |draw it in a cascade of ‘sparks and| A Woman's voice! It was only when Armitage helps Jeanne to escape flaming debris. the operator felt himself propelled for- and she makes ler way back to her [N the meantime Morgan, prey| cibly into the stuffy clothes-press that home. It is now the Center of a Con- I to. singular emotion, walted im.| he realized this was.no unsubstantial) federate encampment. Sentries bring patiently for Jeann ‘What had de-| night-mare. * a word that a Union spy is on the layed her? Where had she gone?) Jeanne, for it was she, wrenc { [the clacking key from the screws.| grounds. Had she any idea that two men in- | stead of one were in that cabin? | Next she smashed the battery-Jars. | The spy attempting escape {s killed.| cabin? ! pds ap ti ymca Tied Came the thud of hoofs. The rider} She rose and 1 Jeanne reads a dispatch in his pocket ee cactan ae was Jednne. She drew u pat his side. 2st window—and beheld Captain indicating that he was G-RD-A and on pat his side. 4 “Where have you been? What Mitage! He was coming slong the hls arm sees the tatoo mark. She now ere have you been? hat f hi 1 you? W’ 2 . platform scribbling as he walked. helieves that he was her husband, as delayed you? Why did you come c Con. from that direction?” he di ded Armitage, Armitage, of all meni Morgan is discovered to be a Con- fF 2 © demanded _ f federate spy and swears vengeance on suspiciously. |From the door of the, baggageroom te ‘ | y anned en- Kennedy. Jeanne hopes to obtain, by, ‘You led to me, Morgan. | the. aby. daw, thet tbe: mameoned if 2" |gine stood a dozen feet beyond the Portus 1t\ necessary; the’ truth about}. 7 Sa aecsitageitnto this| fires iconch, | “ es. You 0 this i aoiwan ore Aatage mecncateeiy | without warning me.” RMITAGE briskly entered the sta-| are kidnaped and taken to a deserted| “Good riddance!"—all his old jeal-| fi tion and made for the door of the, cabin. There, bound, they are seated} OUsy rising. |operator’s room. Locked! He shook ‘when Morgan lights a short fuse at-| “Well, .you overshot the mark,|the handle violently. tached to a powder barrel. thank God! I let them both go.” “Hey, there, Clark: unlock the 'You—what?* door: he cried tmpatientl¥. | ‘0 one replied. Armitage, vaguely) alarmed, smashed a panel and burst) “Oh, you were waiting to see the into the office. A + abs to| Spectacle, and I did not wish to dis-| He ran to the clothes-press’ snd) BE the, etoutest of hearts began to) cintiyou wholly swung back the door. The operator| Hisintegrate in the face eof this horror. | *PP 4 | : tnhenlenl Sond ‘You love Armitage!’ He leaned) lurched into his arms, gasping. | Tepiiaxtt the suey of phy over to seize her wrist, but she; Then came a fusillade of musket- tent is nothing; indeed, death is for-| /Yeivea her horse. cunt Analtage iat ipo tivehopeteene! suien- "Yes, I love him, What then?’ and ran outside. | But to ait still, to reach out ment-| Well, before God, you're unlucky!) He grasped the situation instantly.’ tally and anticipate, is a thousand|you can never, never marry John|The engine was running away. He, times to die! Armitage closed his/ Armitage. You are mine, mine!’ saw the head and shoulders of thé eyes. It ie @ strange fact that, when) Quickly and cruelly he dug his) spy who had acromplished this amaz-| Cee piny 1 GLAD 1 confronted by immediate death of| spurs into his horse and fled to avoid) ing coup in the midst of fifteen hun-| | isk ley ito TH! OFFICE the catastrophe order, instinctively | the ebreaking of the verbal dam, the|dred men. He fired three shots from EARLY THIS MORNIN’ I! wwe clope our eyes. jruination of all his carefully Inid) his revolver. 7HeRe's TH LI ‘ON Perhaps Kennedy closed his eyes! plans. One struck the steam-gauge above, |TNESs.6s peskit too; mayhap he took sardonic pleas-| In another moment he would have| Jeanne Beaufort’s head; the second ae aoe RTEAVENS WINNIE ure in eyeing the dancing sparks. told her everything for the sake of/ shattered the forward cab-window; the DIDN'T GET HERE YET !! There might have been @ prayer on) making that upright figure droop. | third lodged in her arm. She sank his Ups. | ARMITAGE, restored to his tather’s| with a stifled cry to the metal floor- An unexpected gust of cold night! {J division, at President Lincoln's in-| ing “THat— tts Very omens =m Buck! How <oMe. Yous AT EASE ON THs @RNeR! MiINeQva, Meer OP WITH My Good Ole PAL, misTe? Hager TEEN! O.K. MINERVA= Ile Be THERe aT TEN~ ON TH’ DoT? Don't FORGET cue DATE | ME NeW CHICK TO Buck — REMEMBER, Stow —STick AROUND! li Give Your optics @Teear! [JVHAT fiber which holds the stout heart impervious to ordinary perils and Kennedy and Armitake were men WOT YOu BAN DOIN’ CLIMBIN' OVER DAS TRANSOM, HUH YOU GOT NO BUSINESS HYAR SO EARLY IN DE MORNIN’ 3 ANYWAYS. You CROOKER ft WHY_IN BLAZES CC WELL TM: IN LUCK! DONT Y'LOOK 1GOT TH’ LETTER afr striking Armitage’s forehead. tercession, plunged eagerly into his| Twenty miles\to go! For half, an Vy caused him to open his eyes. The! work. hour to fight off this faintness, this G door of the cabin was open. He saw; Shortly after his arrival the entire|horrib! pain! Could she do it? She 4 SS ESS avslender youth enter and step upon’ army began its historic movement) would do it! the fuse. southward, toward Richmond; and in-| In despair Armitage returned to the “Is it you, Jeanne Beaufort?” asked cidentally John Armitage entered a/station. The telegraph out of com- Kennedy. |danger-zone of a different sort. A| mission, the engine gone—they were “Yes, Parson Kennedy, it {s Jeanne! detachment of Federal troops moved! trapped! Beaufort. It 1s the woman upon) out to intercept a train of munitions. ‘OW Jeanne rose above pain and whose head you set a price, dead or) They captured it near a small station. faintness during that twenty alive, dead or alive. It is the woman! you broke and dishonored for doing for her cause what you were doing for yours.” She gazed down somberly at the cropped gray head fo near her feet. “Have you a prayer that you can recall?” | She then ran over to Armitage and|order, a new Federal operator took hii stretcher and ordered the bearers to| again. ven! Hot water Iaid on by nature is found | 200,000 of the nativ fought the knots with her fingers|the telegraph key and eter ed one kureny io she done tt” he cried. “Fit-|carry her to the knoll where the! Armitage and back yonder, and his plan 4 ett, py the Bell Syndi-|in several @eher parts of the globe, pac oaibecamoerbineabbenein 0. | and teeth When she had done, he\a fow friendly greetings to the man| teen hundred Yankees trapped like| horses were tethered. pullet had done this work! Always PIT ght, poe kt Bg but nowhere else do the same xtraor- . ‘was free to walk, but his hands were at headquarters to prove that he! rats in a hole!” ‘As Morgan walked beside her| that man was crossing his bans Oh, BaD ie 2B dinary variations of temperature oc. NEUMO wtill_tled b ack could send tolerably well. But Morgan's jubflation was great-| Jeanne began to babble murmurous-| they must meet some day, in fue cur in pools and streams that are a Y aptain Armitage.) ‘The office was now deserted except ly dampened when he beheld the| ly, Morgan bent his head and caught| colors, .face to face; and then. G One of the most remarkable !s-| cite close tomether. “exergaeyr peti dreben : act of| for self. He slouched tr huddled figure on the cab floor, the|an intelligible sentence. It straight-| help Armitage! tricts in the world is to be found in a jchalr and lighted his pipe. drenched sleeve, the beloody hand. | ened his spine and wiped out the ten-| One day, as 2) recuperatfig.|New Zealand. In the hot-spring | | Se | “If you move or utter a sound, I'll) “Jeanne? My God, they've shot| derness in his face instantly, | Morgan gave her a sheet of paper.Q"I | country you may catch a trout in one; Sleeping sickness has been know: quits.” Ishoot!” seid a quiet voice over his|her! A stretcher!” ‘John—you shot me! . - -How|‘had hard work getting this—iti i8|pool and place him in a second tolon the west coast of Africa for over VARS “You arg a woman, and you would shoulder. “Right about face! Now,! Morgan lifted her again and laid} could youl" Immediately the low what you asked for,” he said boll. In the meantime you can enjoy 100 years. At the end of the last cen Over 17 Million Jan Used Youly On the rear platform of the station stood a number of cotton-bales. From miles she never could explain. She just did it; that wtas all. The final under the newly arrived freight-cars| wrench between sensibility and in- a boyish figure came forth cautious-| sensibility came when she was formed ly, ,crept toward the bales and dodg-| to stand up to close the throttle. ed in among them, wriggling close) From the rushes iat the left of the to the window, which was open, embankment rose a score or more At the same time, under Armitage’s of Cr>federates, ,headed by Moi‘gan/ her ESSSSSSSS gently upon the improvised babble he snap Hicegee phaesa began sheet, It was the list of the names e ‘When he had left she opened tho|a warm bath in a th’rd, a few yards away, whilst the dinner 1s cooking. tury It spread from the Congo “nto Uganda, and in a few years killed