Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. ‘Are All Men Alike’ By Arthur Stringer Author of “The Pratrle Wifo" "The House of Intrigue,” Eto. INSTALLMENT NO. ‘WHO'S WHO ‘Theodora (Teddie) Hayden, a “poor Nttle rich girl.” seeks “freedom” tn Greenwich Village. Her Unele Chandler, ‘the major,” before leaving for Hot Springs, goes to see her, telling his old chum, re Stillman, “too pretty to be running around loose." Her uno:e !» forced to be ent- iafied with her independent attitude. Raoul . ® portrait painter, forces his attentions on Teddie and kisses her. To punish him she aska Gunboat Dorgan, # prize fighter, to beat him, which Dorgan does. Dorgan thereupon also kisses her and as. eumes rights over her roadster, much to the annoyance of Ruby Reamer, a model, who threat ens Teddie with “the law." Dorgan has apparently thrown her over. Attorney Shotwell, representing Raoul Uhlan, calls to demand $25,000 for his client for the beating. So Ted- die calls on Gerry West, one of her own eet, a childhood playmate, now a lawyer. She tels her story, whereupon Gerry also kisses her, Louis Lipsett, a reporter on the Star, is called in by West, who takes steps in spite of Teddie'’s indignation at being kissed again, to fight her enemies. Teddie, however, decides to pay Milan's claim. Another Kiss and Gunboat Dorgan Goes Forth to War. seen all I want to of men,” Teddie had said. “I despise the whole pack of them! “And you don't intend to marry?” @emanded the commodore, a acion of the statelier years. “Never!” reported Toeddie, staring fixedly at her unfinished sketch of the Macauley Mission by Moonlight. “Then whet, may I ask, do you fn tend doing?” inquired her stiff-shoul- Gered old visitor. She had intended to say that she wanted to live for Art. But she heal- tated. For Art, at that particular Juncture, seemed a very anemic and elusive thing to live for. She had no {dea, in fact, just what whe did intend living for. She was less impatient of others than she might once have been. She even rec- ognized kindliness under the inten- tions of that over-personal emissary from the older world, however heavy- handed he may have been in his exe- cutions of those intentions. And that, impinging on her deso- Yated young spirit, intrigued her into a brief but depressing mood of nelf- pity. There was no trace of tears in her eyes, for Tedle was no habitu ly lachrymose. But, before she four that mood conquered and killed, she was unable to resist the temptation ‘o let her bobbed head sink wearily into the crooked arm which rested on one end of the none-too-orderly cherry: wood table, “Oh, I say, you know; this sort of thing won't do!’ viously disturbed ol won't do, my dear, he patted what was left of the bobbed hair with his fatherly old hand. Teddie, however, was without the spirit either to agree or disagree with that statement. And her unhappiness #o melted the heart of the benignant old Commodore that he took her hand and stroked it as he’ talked to her. And so gratified was he to see even sthe ghost of a grim Ittle smile about her lips that a paternally commisera- | lve impulse prompted him to stoop| ewn and kiss the magnolia-white cheek! © intent, indeed, had he been on his contemplation of this white cheek, faintly shot through with {ts shell- pink, that the door had opened and a third person had stepped into the studio without his being conscious of tWe fact. And it was the voice of this intruder, more than Teddie's sudden recoil of startled wonder, that prompt- ly brought the Comodore to attention. “Bo he's doin’ it, too! called out Gunboat Dorgan, with a quaver of ineredulity in his young voice. Where- upon he threw down his hat and ad- vanced slowly toward the table-ned. “Bay it quick,” the prize fighter’) commanded. “D' yuh want me to knock his block off?” * cried Teddie, already on “There's been too much of that alreadyy!" “But I saw the old bird tryin’ to that she is| -|s0 big about grand larceny and iT EIGHT. Hayden, that a girl of your anteced. with——" But he in turn was destined to in- {terruption. | “Ba yuh want me to throw this |old goat out o’ here?” was Gunboat |Dorgan's crisp and angry demand of |the girl. “Stop it!” cried Teddie, with a stamp of the foot. “Stop it, right here and right now! I'm tire of all this. |I'm so tired of tt I can’t stand an- ‘other moment of it!” Then, with a deep breath, she turned about to the old Commodore with the ud in his buttonhole. 's been very kind of you, I'm sure,” she said, in a voice of labor fously achieved patience, “but you t possible help me, and you can't possibly do any good by remaining | here. 80 if you'll permit Lfr. Dorgan} and me to talk this quietly over, by ourselves——" you are requesting me to leave you?" her would-be benefactor in- quired, as he reached for his hat. “You must,” announced Teddie. “Then permit me, Miss Hayden,” said the other with dignity, “to bid not only you, but also your—your pro- ional boxer, a good afternoon.” And the olf Commodore buttoned his coat and took his departure. He sallied forth with considerable trep!- |dation, trepidation which remained with him even until he stopped in at a telegraph office on lower Fifth Ave- jnue. There he despatched a none too ‘carefully worded message to Uncle Chandler in Hot Springs, announcing that things looked very dark indeed, as Theodora seemed to be mixed up with a young prize-fighter by the name of Dorgan, and suggesting that the sooner Theodora’s uncle could get back to the city the better it might be for all concerned. EDDIE, alone with her trate young prize-fighter, turned and regarded him with a studiously narrowed eys. “Now, what do you want to know?" she quietly demanded. She felt oddly and tmmeasurably older than she had felt only one short week ago. x “I want ‘o know who's playin’ double in this mix-up,” Gunboat Dor- gan promptly asserted. “I don't quite understand,” protest ed Teddle. “Well, first thing, I want ‘o knc just what yuh sald about that car “When?” temperorized Teddie. “And where?” “Just b'fore I kissed yuh, right here in this room,” asserted the over: honest youth. Whereupon Teddle stiffened and winced and had to take a grip on her- self before she could control her voice. “I'm sorry there's been any. mistake about it,” explained Teddle, doing her best to be patient. “I remember now, I said, you could have the car. And, a matter of fact, you are perfectly welcome to it, or what's left of it!" “Then why's this man West talkin’ tin” ‘ked up? What 's he know about been passin’ strictly b'tween yuh and me? Yuh were up ag’inst it, and I could see it, and I helped yuh out the same as I'd help any girl. And I didn’t have me hand out when I aia itr’ “That was the trouble, Mr. Dor- gan," Teddle tried to tell him. “I was willing to accept service from you without stopping to consider whether wh epts has—has come to have dealings! Che Casver Daily Cridune BARNEY GOOGLE--Sparky’s a Real Life-Saver for Barney. WELL. SPARKY. IVE Get You ENTERED IN THE fFouRTH Race Tooax —= DUST GO Our AND RO YouR 6EST ——~— THATs au- No MATTER WHAT HAPPENS — REMEMSER. INS ALWAYS BEEN Your aL Kiss ME - To PETEY DINK--- (aha GoooNess— THese CLOMES OF PETEY'S ARe IN FRIGHTPULL SHAPE HENRIETTA - —rLe “Of course yuh on’t, The thing's got yuh buffaloed the same as yuh got , In'med the knight of the ring. “And the whole layout's 2 wrong. The only thing that got hurt Y BEFORE WE GO DOWN about that guy was his dignity. I TO SEE THE JUDGE THIS eee all the time. ! MORNING, SKEEZIX, YOU I held back on the sleep-punch, and MUST CLEAN UP! played wit’ him. I didn't give him anything that a pound of beefsteak {wouldn't put right inside o' twenty- four hours—and he knows !t as well! as I do. | “But now he's pulled this blackmat! ‘stuff I'm goin’ to put him wise to how} I was toyin' wit’ him. I'm goin’ to let him see that if he ever so much as opens his trap about this business he's | goin’ to have it decorated wit’ a! double set o' plates when I get through wit’ him—when I get through | |with him, And the next time he'll |holler so loud for help they'll be \fannin’ him wit’ a hearse-plume be- jfore he’s finished EDDIE tried to stop him as he turned away. | “Noth-thing doin’! ‘he procatmes, | |with his movie hero side-movement of the hand. “I'm Irish, I am, and me Irish is up. Yuh're goin’ to see this goob bitin’ on a mouth-gag or yuh-re goin’ to see crape swingin’ over his was Gun WHY MR Goosce ARENT You GANG SOT THe. RACES Tooay 23° Ig ITs Au CVER WITH ME - = CANT Foo. THE E L ee coral SAY \T AGAIN Quick! KNoU WHaT A TIN HORN: — Div You HEAR THAT ? ~ SAY, 1 BEGINNING To Tak | cot Hat MoTHer-IK ~ LAW OF MINE ALL WRONG — Now AINT THAT Nice | HAD AN IDEA SHE Was Goinc To BE ONE OF THe KIND Nov SEE In Comic PicTbRes AW THE TMe— THINK OF THAT For A MoTHER- IN-LAW, SHES GONHER FIX UP ALL MY CLOTHES look PRETTY €ooD WHEN | GET “EM Fixep. AND 'M Sure THEY tc Just Frit Your FaTuer. —— HE'S ABour Nour: HUSBAND'S SIZE or not it could be repaid, I mean ade-|door mat!” quately repaid. And that's where 1 made my mistake. You'll have to at- tribute that mistake, I'm afrald, to the defects in my bringing up, It's @ sort of penalty for the past. One ts into the habit of accepting things, just as one accepts cinnamon-toast from the footman, or a trip across the Hudson from the, ferryboat, without being actively conscious of any hu- man obligation. That man had made himself unbearably offensive to me, and I asked you to punch his nose for me, without appreciating the danger I was bringing—”" “Risks!” cried Gunboat, with a de- risive hoot, finally arriving at a def- nite idea in what seemed a morass of abstractions, “Where's the risks in tandin’ up to a big stiff lke that?” “I'm afraid I wasn't thinking of the riaks to you,” Teddie rather wearily explained, ‘I was rather selfishly re- membering the risks to myself." “Well, yuh ain't suffered none from it, have yuh?" derided her still indig- proclaimed the indignant |/nant-eyed cross-examiner. |. “I've just paid Raoul Uhlan twenty- “Who is this young jackanapes?"|flve thousand dollars as compensation interrupted the older man, in no way for his injuries,” explained Teddie, as intimidated by the interloper with the | co y as she was able. ‘ies yuh!” youth. cauliflower ear. “Didn't I see this old mutt pullin’ that muggin'-stuff?” persisted Gun boat, ignoring the stately old gently man with the rose-bud in his lapel But Teddie was herself by this time and she fixed her champion from the East Side with a cold and steely stare “I want to talk to you! she said with great deliberation. And she made that announcement with such an unlooked-for note of masterfulness that, unimpressed as it left the new. comer, {t rather bewtldered tho old Commodore. “And I guess I gotta earful or two to unload to yuh!" countered Gunboat betraying that he was laboring unde an excitement which more rece: events had only temporarily eclipsed “I should be obliged to know just who this young bounder 4s," repeated the older man, in his most authorita tive quarter-deck manner. But that manner was entirely lost on Gunboat Dorgan. “UH just play dead, yuh olf Has-| Been, until I say a word or two| to me Indy-friend here,” he proclatmed as he confronted Teddie and gave hi back to an all too negligible enemy. “I came here to find out what right| a law-sharp named West has got to take that car of yours away from me. | I wantta know what call he's got to! lpad Ruby up wit’ a lot o” talk about me go'n' to BState’a Prisc “And I may be a prize-fighter, but | I've got the right to as if I ain't lived decent and done my work on the square. I've got——" “A prizefighter?” interrupted elder man in the background. Then the strode valorously in between the the Gt NBOAT DORGAN fell back, J gaped a uttle, and then swallowed hard. “Yuh paid—yuh paid that mutt— that money—for—for what he'd get tarred and feathered for—down in my ballwick!"” he gasped, wide-eyed with incredulity, Teddle nodded. And Gunboat, seeing that movement of acquiescence, repeated: five thousand dollars!* Then he began to stride meditatively back and forth, pacing the studio rug with his characteristic pantherlike step, Teddie watched him, without speak- hg, without moving. She watched him until he came to an abrupt stop. “Say, Ruby was right in this, after all,’ he suddenly proclaimed. “I was the guy that got off his nut. Yuh— yuh looked 80 good to me I got my numbers mixed. I got to dreamin’ things. “But twenty-five thousand bucks tn cold cash aln’t no dream. And d’ yuh know what I'm going’ to do, and do right now? I'm goin’ up to that Ublan guy and get that twenty-five thousand back. Just so ‘s you can see I'm a Ittle more on the level than you've been tmaginin’, “I'm goin’ to make that studlo- Nzard come across wit’ that dough— with that dough,” he amended, remem- bering, in his excitement, certain old- tme admonitions as to the utterance of his mother-tongue. I don't want you to do that!" cred Teddie, harboring a strangely muddied up and reluctant admiration Ught in his biaz ‘gyro. “Do you mean to tell me, Miss the Saint Anthony ing blue b “Twenty: | | “It's no use,” Teddie still tried to| ‘tell him. “It's too late. It will only make things much worse than they already are!”* j But Gunboat Dorgan hadn't been! crowned with that soubriquet cf bel- | \ligerency without fit and proper rea- son. is “I'm wise to this layout now,” he announced from the doorway, nd I'm goin’ to have a hand in windin’ it up. It's no use tryin’ to flag me off And I ain't sayin’ yuh're a quitter, for | yuh're only a girl. But youh dont see | mo layin’ down in the shafts wit’ a thing like this under me nose. I’m goin’ through wit’ this, and nobody’ goln’ to stop me. And maybe this'll square up a little for—for them lamps o' yours I put on the blink!” (Copyright, 1922 by the Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) Gerry West ecides to take Teddic “m hand” in tomorrow's installment. | PRICE LEVEL OF | CHANGE, REPORT ‘Wholesale Costs of Com- modities Continue at November Figures. WASHINGTON, Jan, 20. — The general level of wholesale prices in December showed no change from the November average, although 1? tendency was upward, the depr ment of labor announced. increase of 11% per cent over level of December, 1921, was sho however, farm products leading w! an advance of 20% per cent Of 404 commodities on which co parable data for November and D cent, while cloths and clothing aver- FOOD SHOWS NO SH: tetS GARULE SOME OF TH NEW Songs, LILLUMNS — IAA ICH TS GUE MAY BisSILS & WORKOUT — Ze « & INN Tau SHENK 3 or OMeNer 7 6) ome see oF COURSE NOT PAT - BU NIAGRA FALLS HONEYMOON. An compared with tho Falls I HAVE A GREAT IDEA WINNIE! LETS HAVE A REAL OLD-FASHIONED ‘ HONEYMOON ~ AND Go | To NIAGRA FALLS! ptf aaine [Ow ngour | Orient y @ : j AR CAINAS no FOR AHEM-ER- T/A AFRAID. WE. whose ' ss . y . r cent and house furnishing goods | and lighting 8% per cent, and cloth- of Norfolk, Va., killed Thuraday at| surge : jcember was availab’e, 170 advance: 1% cent: No declifies ‘wére 4 eons sald they expected al! to re. | : per cent, while a sma'l incranse | 28 7% per cent. No ¢ Avalon, Santa Catalina vhen | Cover. in price last onth, 70 dec'ined an 4 apticiée: chang “anal island, when the remainder were unchanged. Ap | ‘3 Roted in food articles. Fue! and baat a earnlehlan’ @hedd Wand 9 the seaplane F 6-L-2 crashed into a stator Wane WRT > she , i hting on the other hand, averaged | rugs, house furnishing goods anc ean, * F532 ee Breaieble, increases, were pours J huost one per cent and mecnia 1% | Miscel'aneous commodities, all mak- Y In R rocky beach in a fog, was taken had been spotting t@ ots t cats, rye, wheat, hogs, lamba, cotton | °F cent lower tn Decemt m| tng smal varied advances. to Ban Diego on a destroyer: for| tog- forcnd oth pinnee i y seed flax seed, milk, peanuts, onions | November. Building mat and panibent. They eae tab in the} took refuge in Avalon harbor: They 5 and potatoes, the group as m whole| “mmodities tinted as nooue| —yfon’s Heavy Fleece Lined Two- Hel P Woodman, whose ankles were breken,| coi? S's to get under way for f advancing approximately 1% per] ‘emained stationary. Plece Underverse, $1.50 Value Lieutenant M. B. Gardner, ni ery Diego when the accident occur: for the deluded young fire-eater with aged about ono per cent higher than] December's prices, building materials Inst month showed an advance of 17 and drugs increased 2% | per cent, metals of 14 per cent, fuel in Decembe Chemica! preceding ~~ JESSEN BROS. CO. 115 East Second. LOS ANGELES, 1-19-2t| body of Lieutenant William Rhorback right ankle was broken; Lieutenant L. B, Brix, who suffered cuts and brulses and Gunner W. M. Cole, whose left leg was crushed. Navai —————— Gold leaf can be reduced to thi « 300.000 part of an inch in thickness, and gilding to the 10,000,000th part, Jan. 20—The