Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 10

PAGE TEN. Author of “The Prairie Wife” INSTALLMENT WHO'S WHO t Theodora (Teddie) H. ttle rich gt Greenwich Village. Uncle Chandler, * leaving for Hot Spring: her, telling his old chum, Commodore Stillman, “too be yden, a “poor “treedom| eks Her is forced t indepe ait’ painter Teddie and him she asks » fighter, to which Dorgan does. forées his kisses her th thereupon rights ov Teddie with an has apparer Shotwell, represer n calls mand $2 for his c for the beating. So Ted die calls on Gerry West, one of childhood playmate, She te:ls her story, her own eet, 1 now a lawyer whereupon G also kisses her. Gerry West Gets Busy and Teddic Writes a Check. EDDIPF recoiled three full steps. and stood with her arms straight at her sides and a black rage in her 's own hahds had dropped to his wide and his head fell forward for all the world like a chrysanthe mum that needed watering. “0-0-0-0-00!" Teddie, with the most kable accents of loathing and anger in her voice. “Are men Ike that?” Wait!" called out pily, pteadingly. But Teddic had no intention of walting. She withered him with one short look of revulsion, of utter re- pudiation, wheeled about and strode out of the office. She went leaving behind her a Dluefox canteen muff and a much bluer young attorney, who for quite a number of minutes stood staring morose and motionless out over the East River. He contemplated that wharf-fring ea waterway very much as though he Gerry, unhap. should like to take a header Cown into ft. Then as he slowly and de jectedly turned about, his eye fell on the f otten muff. He crossed to his desk and took the furry up in his hands, turn ing it and over, Ie meditative'y stroked the sniffed at it started for the door, and just as sud pille over deep pelt, Do denly stopper Then he quietly removed two ten nis recquets and a box of golf-bails wrapped in a Tama-wool swaat cont f ne bottom. drawer of hi desk and into this same drawer care fully tucked away the blue-fox muff —after which he stood, irresolute and unmoving for another full five min utes. HEN Gerry West, ns though to! make up for lost time, exploded into a sudden fury of movement “ 00-00-00," gasped Teddle, ‘Ar He ed the buazer-button for his stenographe jerked down th messenger-call lever and caught up the te one directory with one har jo he possessed himself of the re r with the othe 1'll show ‘er e muttered darkly to himself, “I'll show can 1 that caveman stuff around fan hour's time he had omer from a private Oe busily — shadowing Gunboat Dorgan, and another quiet moving agent gathering what data he could as to the physical disabi! itles of Raoul Uhlan and an expe ditious cierk from the outer office confirming the address and move ; t ed hin ed up Louis Lipsett nt the Press club. > said over the wire great news story f mptiy announced the "The House of Intrigue,” Etc. NO. SIX. “Yes./it's so goo® in fact, that you ve got to come and help me kill at \h in the bud.” “Then let me suggest that what you w isn't a reporter, but'an un: dertaker,” retorted ‘the unfeel/ag | young White Hope of bis over: af-; froned daily. | “No, I want you, Louts, and I want you KA Gerr voly averred over t and let m ‘ Louts ca and g00d cigars, and listene veporter’s pang of regret e one thing tha UNan can't’sta ng | ant wa printe Gerry West! y So 8 to give him he's It's up tous to hold inday story 1 unt you to go right s from The ery I've given you ou to let him see unrolled, the entire ursavory story And if he isn't sending a hurr cal for the oft peda before you're out of the elevator I'll buy The Star and give {t to you to play with | when ve got writer's cramp in | the coco 1 upposing our Romeo (oes | n't help it. But {f he’s crazy | not to, I'll bring Gunboat up there myse.f. And if that j 1 the trick, I'll call the rotter out myself and give ‘Im what he deserves. And !f that doesn't work, I'l put a bullet jnto him! The man from The Star office smil ed a bit wearily Say, Gerry, doesn't this strike you as going pretty far ent?" “A mere client?” looked his confederate straight in the eye. “She's a darned sight more than that. She the girl, pease God, that I'm going to marry!" | ‘So at last I get you," the solemn-eyed Louis as he reached ov ha ds with the other man. “And now palette-scraper!" Then let's get busy as he reached for his hat and ‘r a moment's talk over the rry she felt seismic undulations what she had s0 foollshly accepted bedrock that her home-life had pc | haps stood for more than she imag } mt an harboring had meant not an accidental but elaborately sustained dignity, a seclusion an achieved cluttered up — spaciousness | where wheels of existence revoly | ed on bearings so polished that one | ehe felt behind her more than a bh fox canteen muff. She left the last d. She found her. face a that even brutal for of youth vast amount of frantic fruitless thinking she also Dus spirit And after a quite haa and br and her red her out, and baffled her. ken down both her will-power pride for a mere cli-| ‘A mero client’: echoed the other. | he repeated as he} announced | r the desk-end and solemnly shook | wire ey've got that Reamer | for me, and the sooner we have our pow-wow the bett M\EDDIE was beginning to see, as} | ren | s so impressed, in fact by = ‘i = dows of fatigue about Teddie's (ivcoussy KNOW Taine | wite - THERE ISNT A THING aes Mattes, DID ER-SomERN star:y eyes and.the world-weariness foOR A COUPLA . IM KIND@ | With You, YOUNG MAN ~ TH Doc ee ABouT RHEUMATICS: in her forlorn, littlé smile that he con Money pice, Days We Liao WHY DONT ~ worRieD! WouLDNr WoRey ~ \TS Say, SHEIK? 1 FORGET, WHICH! cluded the gravest fears of his o'd af You Go see PpRoBaBLy “GRoWING | friend and major to be quite well Be sweet! PAINS IAD nN A Doctor, Pains’! founded 5 4 But Teddie, accepting him as an Haron? emissary from a world of pomp and order which had seemed ‘ernally lost to ber, was glad enough to en nd herself compelled to eat crow. | 3 BARNEY GOOGLE--Day By Day in ‘Are Al! Mer: Alike’ By Arthur Stringer FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923. RJANUDET Deters. Bv Billev De Beck Che Casper Daily Crioune Every Wav Barney —_ Gos -\T musk 8& GREAT To BE Rich By SHUrY~ (F THE NATWES Down HERE Brink IM A MILLIONAIRE ITS NO BSkin OFFA MY NOSE — T WowT TELL Bem IM BUSTED = THEYRE Gonna Find 1v SUT SOONER OR LATER ANYHOW = So L MIGHT AS WELL PUT UA Boro FRONT Like EF REALLY Hao Tor GERRIES AND Tar ARoUNS Town = way = ABsouT How MuCcH IS MY Bice “HERE - = Im tn THE GOVERNOR'S Your BILC (5 4 go2 ar sir: Fine x mornin, SS GNING ME A GREAT I'll know how to put the screws to! wired ji | and dollars to be placed to the c suggested | Of his niece girl! off to old ¢ | questing | around to see — PETEY— TAKE A SWiee OF THis MINCE- PIE \ MADE ForNou- Nice? —WHATS UP. Now — 7! — Here SHE \S ORDERING ME AROUND AGAIN-WACT et Nou See HER (j — | HATE To Bore You Boys AKD GIRLS WITH MY Famer TROUBLES BUT, BELIEVE ME, A GUY'S GoTreR TELL SOMEBODY or Bust: TRIS OLO LAbY 1s THE KID Joe MIME GOT ALC HIS MoTHER- IN-LAW, Sturr From— JOoN—— HAVE YOU SEEN Her Yet 7 Bor!’ Sue's THE KIND You READ ABout—. instructions for eleven thous dit Then after still another troubled thought, he sent mmodo: hour of a day-letter MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT, | BEVIEVE WE HAVE SHOWN BY Nasturt'um elub explaining that he TESTIMONY THAT MR. WALT'S DEVOTION TO THE CHILD ARE PROVEN, had reason to believe that Theodora PETITION FOR SKBEZIX'S THE CAREFUL TRAINING OF SKEEZIX Was in some sort of trouble and re ADOPTION SHOULD BE 'S INDICATED BY. HIS GOOD im to dro> quietly down to BEHAVIOR — girl's studio and he a look ‘ast what was wrong. the ND the d of being this ca jiamitous intimation of beauty in d's tress. adjusted his cravat and stopped in at Thoriey's for the insertion of a Richmond rosebud in the button-hole of bis right-hand lanel Commodore in question woset by Then he todvled biithely down to the of Greenwich Village. wher arrived at Tedile’s studio Just In time o see an urbane old pocket, .with an air of unqualified satisfaction a narrow slim of nancr which looked arkably like a bank check The imodore stood side, however . ohant-eyed old gentle 4 bowed himself triumphantly | t erevnen it came to his atten-! “rung howtos empalaedndenahy HAROLD TEEN—HE’D NEVER ADMIT IT | sconce him in the brown -velyet arm chair and make tea for him in the bettered old samovar. It was not par- ticularly zood tea he soon discovered, but that in no way damnered his ar- @or or discouraged him in the object of his visitation So he hummed and hawed, and touched lghtly on the prerogatives of deriy and ventured the assertion nut New York was an extremely be wildering city | ally for the young, he said and he became paternal and platitu dinous the perils of the wid wide world in zenere!, and then with awkward unconcern announe that Teddie was making over Orpen cmc niee TRIBAL WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER. Pat Gets the Last Word DONT BE SILLY PAT! WE MIGHT GO TO BERMUDA OR MAYBE A TRIP TO EUROPE rather ed his hope a go of it wasn't making a go of well knew, and forone weak moment she was tempt ed to take this kin¢fy-eyed and clean hearted old gentleman into her con- ver: OH NO PAT! NIAGRA FALLS 15 HOPELESSLY PROVINCIAL! WE MAY GO TO CALIFORNIA OR PATRICIA DUGAN, You'Re MY BRIDESMAID AND ALL| BUT IF YOU MENTION + NIAGRA FALLS AGAIN, YER WASTIN’ YER TIME LOOKIN’ THROUGH ALL THEM FOLDERS WINNIE! OH AW'RIGHT, IF YA YimuST BE CRAZY Y'CAN GO To ALL FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT fidence end exterlorate her troubles A FLORIDA OR MAYBE WINNIE! EVERY- THE ORIENT !!! “THEM PLACES ANY TT, 1 WON'T MENTION hy freely and frankly talking them THERE'S ONLY ONE BANFF IN THE TO oR tte U TIME, BUTT TLL NEVER TALK 10 : sae writlh: ait PEACE TOGO FORA |) POIEE AN Rockiesit |] BODY GOES s ‘ YOU AGAIN Il! NIAGRY FALLS Asain: with one of her own kind. | a revival of her old spirit of nipped this impulse in ‘TELL YA NIAGRY FALLS 1S TH’ONLY PLACE FOR A NIAGRY FALLS FOR BUT "JES' TH’ SAME, THATS. ‘A HONEYMOON !! OR ‘TH’ PLACE TOGO FORA HONEYMOON, JES‘ TH! HONEY (MOON AN ' THATS NIAGRY FALLS: pendence bud, so she merely gave the com ” modore another cup of tea and some HONEYMOON? SAME !! what pensively asked {f the autumn ball at Tuxedo had been a success this year n the old Commocore ad it had been a success, if could call such things @ success But they weren't like the good ol4 days of the Patriarchs and the As: semblies and The Howling Swells The epirit of the times had changed had lamentably changed and the re-[ lationship of the sexes in the younger generation seemed disturbing to the nurvivors of the older era when a lady was accepted as a lady treated as one. and Much as she hated to do It, she felt} that her only way out was to com promise with Raoul Uhlan. Right or wrong, she would pay the man's claim and get the thing over with. A quick assessment of her immedt-| ate means, however, showed her that| to meet his demand. promptly she ator * whe nat¢, A little more than half enough ‘eleven thousand dollara without de-| lay or foolish queation ont. Lovingly, Teddic | Her Uncle Chandler, after fr *}ing for @ full hour over this un Feoted mess: none too willin: as it ts ur And from this diatribe on the de- eneration of the present day Ted- dies’ counselor glided easily and elo- quently into the advantages for the a harbor of refuge when got to kicking up a bit!" the ] seas the Democrats in Crook county with- Crook County Paper) w-«nenern tue was organized in 1918 and only wo [FUNERAL SERVIGES HELD But’ this didn't seem to impréss i 4 terests. General fa'ling off in busi men more than ¢ girl of today, of early marriage and Teddle as he had hoped it would iS *| ness the Inst fe 7 er ible to men { dequate guardianship. very gist of] Td Mud hoped it would. | tops Publications) rer sve mst tow yearn was riven an| ae membership us ve seen all I want of m abel : discontinuation of | Fiven Teddie herself, he finaly ven-| &Mnounced with unexpected pass: Running Since 1893 . H t Roane : ‘T despise them, the wt pack of > | urne¢, ought to marry oe | » Young whippersnapper, mind Keg rae The N | ot 22, by ian a e Needle Trades Alliance propose you," discrestly quatitied the old] (Copyright, 1922, by the Boll Syn-| _SUNDANCE, Wyo. Jan. 19.—The| to embrace in one central body aiane | UANI Wor, Fan. 19 une | Commodore, “but some older and| dicate, Inc.) Crook County Monitor, for the last} unions of the sewing trades, so as to| services have been held for Mrs Hm | steadier man who knows the world] Gunboat Dorgan demands an ex-| 30 years one of the best known week-|leave freedom of action for each in.| ney Shockley resident of the Lecct and its ways, a man to be relled on} pianation—see tomorrow's install: ly papers in northeastern Wyoming, |aividual union and yet have united| der valley for the last 40 Fepdirncy in times of trouble, a man who'd be |'ment has ceased publication. This leaves!actign for their commn protection, | founder of the “63” club. 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