Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT The Lady of North Star’ /°-==S2e— BY OTTWELL BINNS, AUTHOR 0 F “A MATING IN THE WILDS.” | INSTALLMENT NO. FIVE WHO'S WHO IN THE NOVEL |paring his own meal when one of Roger Bracknell, who left England |the animals gave a sudden sharp howl because of differences with his uncle,|of pain. He looked hastily round, Bir James Bracknell, and became a| Wondering what was the matter when corporal in the Northwest Mounted the other two dogs howled simultane-/ Police, is assigned the task of ar-|ous'y, and in a moment all three were/ Staxes < THE HonsSEes Ana AY The Post = Ths Set « THEYRE Core resting @ man known as “Koona Dick.” charged with the serious of-| fense of sel:ing liquor to the Incians.| He learns after trailing his quarry for 400 miles that “Koona Dick” {s really Dick Bracknell, his cousin, who! flea from England after selling the eecret of a new gun to a foreign coun try and enticing into a hasty mar- riage doy Gargrave, “the Lady of North Ster,” as her Lodge in Northern Canasta is called. By the terms of her father’s will she must, to inherit his great fortune, remain at the lodge three years after hia death. The three years are neatly up when Ro- ger on the trafl of “Koona Dick” (etfMll unaware that he is his cousin) finds the body of the man, appar-| ently Gea4, near Joy's lodge under circumstances that seem to throw suspicion of his shooting upon her.| Tater the body disappears. Telling Joy of the reasonableness for suc suspicion, Roger obtains from her the story of how Dick, scheming for her fortune, tricked her into a wedding. @né how, learning the truth she had left him and now loathed him Babette La Farge of French Can- Q@ian Gescent, whom Joy calls her foster sister, {is her companion in the lodge. With them is ts A@rian Rayner, a cousin of Joy's, and son of her guardian, Sir Joseph Rayner, of London, a tor. Fearing that | Bir ‘welcomes a letter from Joseph eummoning her and Adrian to Lon-| don on business. As she leaves she asks Roger to ascertain whether or not Dick ts really dead. x huntihg “Koona Dick.”| and finds his an ih | bunk. t ded. The officer} . bad'y wount i ose recovers he) finds s have been bound, but upen his giving his word not to mo-| lest bis cousin he is freed. | “Dick, ol4 man,” Roger eaid in an unstea@y voice. ou might make good yet, if you tried. You can make reparation.’ “Reparation” exciatmed the other. “ant you ere thining of—Joy—my wife. aren't youT™ “Yes,” answered the corperal sim. vy. Dick Bracknel's mood changed "Wha: Joy to you?” he de A ¢ her, manéed hoarsely, “You know her, you've talked with her, consoled ee I Gon't doubt. What's she to you As his cousin shouted the question the biood flushed Roger's face, end in his heart he knew that he could not answer the question with the direct-| ness demanded. “Don't be a fool, Dick,” he replied quiet'y. “I never saw Joy Gargrave iM four days ago, end if I talk of well, youll own it ts due 4own at ccapeend it haf as as Seed. ‘He threw himself back in oe, ané laughed shakily. Neos you're right.” he said. “put it is one of thr things that can't be done/* ng “You could let her divorce your blurted out the corporal. “It would be the decent thing to do.” “When 414 I ever do the decent thing.” retorted his cousin sneering: | ly. “No, Joy's my wife—end ll keep | her. It {s something to know thst} there sre millions I can dip my hands) im some Gay, ané 2 warm breast I can flee to.” “Not now at any rate,” broke tn the corporal sharply, only by an ef fort restraining himself. “Joy has) started for England.” | “And I can't follow,” comemente’ the prodigal bitterty. “That's part of/ the price I pay. When I married Joy| I loved her—and I wasn’t thinking of) her money overmuch. It was Lady| Alcombe who put that rotten scheme/ fn my head. But anyway. Joy's mine —and no man e'se can get her while I tive” ‘Three weeks later, having recov- ered sufficiently to ‘travel Dick jour neyed with his cousin and the Indlan| up the Elkhorn. | On the fourth morning of that jour ney Roger Bracknell woke, to find| thet preparations were elready well afvanced for departure. One team| was already harnessed with a larger complement of Gogs than usual, while his own sled, with only three dogs standing by. was still unharnessed.| His cousin indicated it with a jerk; of his head. | “We part company today. Tm sorry to rob your dog team, but Joe insists as he's afraid you'll get Gown to the policepost too econ fer us, if Jeave you your frill team. Besides we're tackling a stiff journey and we shal! need dogs before we're through. We're starting !mmediately, anf youll have to breakfast alone. and by the time you're through with your parole ts off.. Bo long, old man.” He turned lightly away and Joe the! Indian cracked his whip to the wal! Gogs. For ten minutes the officer © exclaimed later Roger Brac started on his way beck to the po ot brought an event, which made things even more desperate. He haf fed nis @ogs with the dried mimon-ros which termed thew staple food ant was pre the Gay, however, jen?” . | scheme? tn spasms. Then one suddenly re laxed, and lay stark and dead. A @ark suspicion shot through his! mind, as he in a swift impulse of; mercy he drew his pistol and shot) the two others. He took the dog food, carried it to the fire, and examined it carefully. He haf not to look long before he! came upon some sma’! white crystals. | “Strychnine!” he cried with horror shining in his eyes. “Who has done this thing?” | His cousin? For whoever had) placed the strychnine in the dog food,| had callous!y planned to murder him.| And bad as Dick Bracknell was, the| corporal felt he would not have done a thing like this. “There's that Indian—Joe,.” he said. The Indian 44 {t without knowledge.” Alone and without dogs to carry! his stores, the situation was terrible. It was at least four days’ journey to North Star Lodge. probably five| or atx. There was food for four days on the sled. Barring accidents there| was an even chance of his getting through, but !f any f{l-chance arose then—. Presently he fell asleep. | When he awoke {t was still dark.| Two tiny globes of light caught his eve. He looked further. There were| other twin globes of light, | “Timber-wolves!” be whispered to himself. | Feeling for his automatic pistol, he sighted and fired. A wolf yelped.| Presently a gaunt dog wolf slank out of the shadows towards its dead com- rade, and fell on it with {ts teeth.| Another followed and another, and e| ™moment later there was a snarling) tangle of furry beasts where the dead wolf had been. “Phew!" he whistled to himeelf. “they're mad with hunger!’ | His eye caught the package of po!-| soned salmon roe. “The very thing!’ he muttered. He} scattered the food about. put on his snowshoes, shouldered his pack, and stepped out on the trail. He had gone only a little way, when yelps of pain sached him and he knew he was safe. Not a sing’e wolf appeared through the short day. He camped that night and next morning started an hour before dawn. It began to blow, and then that hap-} pened which put a term to his jour ney. A great tree, well up a bank, co'lapsed und ts we'ght of snow. Roger leaped aside, but the snowshoes embarrassed him and he bough of the fall'ng tree his right leg. snapped it stem, snow. Death was staring him tn the eyes. He took out his pocket book. made shift to write a note to hi Perior down at the Post. took out his pistol, which carried Geath. ewift and merciful. It was no use waiting. | He held the pistol ready, an@ for a moment his thoughts strayed to Joy Gargrave. Would she ever hear? Would she guess that he— His thoughts broke off suddenly. Through the gloom of the falling snow he caught @ sound of voices. Some one, {t seemed, was urging a dog- team to greater efforts. Presently. out of the snow-murk emerged the forms of two men—Indimns, and as they bent over him he lapsed into un- consciousness. ° ke a pipe and pinned him down fn the Sir Joseph Rayner, ‘ks a solicitor, Was at the very head of his profes- s'on, and was supposed to be trusted with more family secrets than any other man in Engiand. And tn spite of his burden of secrets, usually as he walked abroad among men, he wore @ jaunty alr, as befitted a man with not a trouble of his own tn the| ‘wide world | But one winter morning tn his pri- vate office his brow was biack with care as he wrote figures upon a sheet of foolscap. Presently he sat staring} at the total. “Ninety-seven thousand.” he whis- Pered to himself. “God! If anything were to come out! He sat looking at the figures. “Suppose Adrian's fine scheme gots awry? Or suppose Joy refuses to The whirr of the telephone bell tn-| terrupted his thoughts. “Is that really you, Adrian? ... Yes, you are in time, though I have been praying for your arrival for Gays. Things are very tight, and that banker is getting n Yes, the sooner the better. In half an hour? How goes your matrimonial Um! Hangs tire a tle does tt, but you're certain of the end. Thank heaven. I'm her guardian, and there's only my consent to be ob- tained A cynical emfle came over his face. “Sounds as if you had Yea, yes, I know... .. } i] } all, I think.” Putting down the recetver, he once Sir Joseph Rayner, ing cheer- r later an assistant an- iiss Gragrave and tr Joseph.” For some time they talked of the journey. “Where ‘s Miss La Farge?” asked Joseph. the hotel. She knew I was! Of course!" He waved (@ hand toward the desk. “I have an- te4 your arrival and everything js ready for signature. It is really owner of the three there wers T had to take tn ad- Property after my iP ended and I want you to sign these papers that everything I did may be “regular feet” ‘This explanation was t® Joy, and without hesitation she @eued the documents, gcarcely reag You became ' - hesitated. | submitted by Secretary Davis of the PETEY DINK--- — BY Goures— 1M Late FoR DHNER ~— WAT Lc Tew He WIFE — 1 Cant / TEu HER | SPENT THe i AFTERNOON AT JIM DAUBER'S STupio — Ho SIRREE’ — So!! —HEREYou Are AT Last—— Don't > Mov KNow DINNER’S BEEN "READY AN HovR—WMHAT — WHAT Dip You Sav7—1 Coucon't -FR-ER-t SAID, 1 LIKED ONE WITH A — WHAT MODEL , DID You Uke BEST | Got Me PRETYY MucH ABSORBED LOOKING OVER THE New CARS ALONG AUTOMOBILE Row Cortmeut MY TRre we ing them, as Sir Joseph fore her. “I feel quite a woman of business. “But you are not yet out of t wood." laughed Sir Joseph r may wish to carry through all actions relating to it yourself, which case—" “Oh no! no!" cried Joy protesting!s “I shou'd be worried to death. You must manage it for me in the futur? as you have done In the: past.” At luncheon later Joy met a friend, put them be e GASOLINE ALLEY—THOSE WHO CAME LATE MAY REMAIN FOR THE NEXT SHOW a -WALT'S A Gooo Scour AMD A FUE MOTHER. u SKEEZIY¥ 5S MINE BY RIGHT THE ALLEY COULDN'T GET ALONG WITHOUT Hua. Zu Mrs. Will Grasmere. in whose com- _ “ pany was Geoffrey Bracknell. “He is dying to renew the ac- The strancer, quaintance he began in Westmorland four years ago!” asked her iend. “May I bring him and Will over?” | For the fraction of a minuta Joy Sir Joseph, who was! watching her, noticed that hesitation, though he wes the only one who did There was just a splash of color in Joy's cheeks as she replied shorts, | WHO CLAIMS SHE LEFT SKEEZIX ON THE DOORSTEP AND WHO HOLDS UP THE HEARING TO COMMUNICATE WITH "INTERESTED PARTIES® WHO RECOMMEND WALT TO THE JUDGE. IN THE ALLEY. WALT OENIES DOORSTEP SKEEZIx was HE HAS A CRUSH ON HER. er | 1eFT NEARLY Two THE CENTRAL FIGURE “I wondered.” said Adrian. “if he! YEARS AGO. WALT Now It THE ADOETION CARE War's y is any relation to that Mounted po-| HAS A PETITION OF (Racer. SHES HASN'T TURNED His, artorney. WY Uceman who came to North Star,| BEEN NURSE TD SkEEZIx HEAD A BIT. Leave IT vs . Me SINCE HE WAS KNEE HIGH TO HIM ! ‘He ‘s h's cousin.” answered Joy LACK RABSr ; ick} “His father ‘s Sir James => = = Bracknell of Harrow Fell. Geoffrey is the second son.” “Ah! I remember them,” broke Sir Joseph. “There was another = who disgraced himself and his family He disappeared. I wonder what has become of hi The succession to that estate will offer a pretty tangle for somebody to unravel some day, Adria: H's son nodded, but uttered no com- ment. His eyes were fixed on Joy, as if he found something particularly interesting in her demeanor at the mo- ment. ‘YOU GIRLS WILL HAVE TO FiNiSH YOUR FIGHT OUT IN TH HAL — LUST, LANDED THIS JOS" The Bell Syndica‘e, | Inc. | Joy hears Adrian's strange tale in tomorrow's instal!ment. ISLAND DEFENSE UAGED BY DAVIS IN LATE REPORT Commercial Domination of Hawaii by Alien Races Is Scored. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Imme. @iate legislation for the national de fense the Hewallan islanfs and for the prevention of commercial an¢ political domination of the territory by alien races, particularly the Jap anese, is recommended tn a@ report Copyright 1922. EDITORIALS labor department by @ committes he potnted to investigate labor condi-! tions in the islands The commission also recommended appointments of representatives in Hawail of the de. partment of labor to safeguard the interests of labor Grawn from other parts of the United States and Its ter ritories and to supervise the tmporta- tion and treatment of tmported labor. The members of the commission sion recommended that the question A GAME AT WHICH EYER “TRE VICTOR Loses well Davis, commissioner of concilia- by augmenting the supply to such an/| of island domination be immediately | tion representing the labor depart- extent that {t will soon overwhelm| referred to congress for remedial leg-| Federation of Labor, Fred Keightly, Secretary of the Amalagamated Ass> Clation of Iren, Stee! porta < with the approval of| ment the territory numerically, politically | 1 Pre Harding were: The report which was made public} and commercially.” John Donlin, head of the building today says that “attention shoul be| ‘The menace from a military stand. trades department of the American) spect Hed to the menace of alien| point,” says the report, “can be fully ‘ domination and that the present pol fey of ‘parental adoption’ and the nd Tin Work-| importation of ‘picture brides’ by the ers; L. E. Shepperd. president of the| Japanese should be stopped because Order of Railway Conductors: Otto| these practices have defeated the pur- R. Harwiz, president of the Oregon| pose of the ‘gentleman's agreement’ State Federation of Labor and Hy-' to curtail comimon labor Lapostations, verified by referring to the records of related federa! departments. “If these islands are to remain among the assured control of the po- litical, inCustrial, commercial, social and educational life of the islands cust also be American. The commis A DRINK Tribune Wanta Bring Results