Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1923, Page 8

PACE EIGHT BY OTTWELL BINNS, AUTHOR 0 INSTALLMENT NO. SIX. WHO'S WHO IN THE NOVEL Roger Bracknell, who !eft England decause of differences with his uncle, Sir James Bracknell, and became a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Polee, is assigned the task of ar- resting a man known as ‘“Koona Dick," charged with the serious of- fonse of sel:ing liquor to the In¢éans. | He learns after trailing his quarry | for 400 miles that “Koona Dick”) in realty Dick Bracknell, his cousin, who fled from England after selling the| gecret of a new gun to a foreign coun-| try and enticing into a hasty mar-/ riage Joy Gargrave, “the Lady of North Star," as her Lodge in Northern Canada {vy called. By the terms of) her father’s will she must, to inherit} his great fortune. remain at the lodge vhree years after hia death. The three years are nearly up when Ro- wer on the traif of ‘“Koona Dick”| (atil] unaware that he ts his cousin)| finds the body of the man, apper-! ently dead, neer Joy's lodge under circumstances that seem to throw | suspicion of his shooting upon her. Later the body disappears. Telling Joy of the reasonableness for such suspicion, Roger obtains from her the atory of how Dick, scheming for her fortune, tricked her into a wedding. ané how, learning the truth she had left him and now loathed him. Babette La Farge of French Can- adian descent, whom Joy calls her foster sister, is her companion in the lodge. With them is is Adrian Rayner, a cousin of Joy's, and son of her guardian, Str Joseph Rayner, of London, a well known solicitor. Fearing that the disappearance of the body means that her husband is still allve, Joy weloomes a letter from Sir Joseph summoning her and Adrian to Lon- don on business, As she leaves she aske Roger to ascertain whether or not Dick is really dead. Roger still hunting “Koona Dick.” enters a cabin and finds his cousin in a bunk, bad!y wounded. The officer 1s knocked unconscious by Dick's In- dian servant. When he recovers he finds his arms have been bound, but upon his giving his word not te mo- lest his cousin ho 1s freed. Roger is forced to travel four days northward with his cousin. ‘Then the latter, leaving him with) only three dogs, take the rest and go wn further. Roger turns back. That night his dogs all dle— from polson in their food—and a day or| two later his leg is broken by a fall-! ing tree, Meantime Joy, in Englané, signs certain papers at the request) of Sir Joseph, who !s glad at the} progress his son reports in his plan! to marry her. At a restaurant Joy meets Geoffery Bracknell, brother of | her husband. There was a light in Geoffrey} Bracknell's eyes that Sir Joseph no-| thoed and {t troubled him a little. “You did not tell me you had an admirer,” he said to Joy, rallying her, later. “who—” “Young Bracknell! He ts most ob- viously in love with you.” | “Oh no! no! whispered Joy, all the laughter dying suddenly from her face. “You are mistaken. It.. + it would be too... too...” ‘The sentence went unfinished, and, tr Joseph spoke again. “You have another,” he said “Indeed,” said Joy, embarrassed. | “Yes! Adrian is very deeply in ove. He confided the fact to me this morning. . . . I hope, my dear, that you will be able to give a fa- vorable—" { “Oh! interrupted Joy nervousty, “you must not aske me, uncle. T shall never marry. Never!” “How?” | As Corporal Roger Bracknell open- ed his eyes, this characteristic Indian | greeting broke on tis ears. He stretched a hand towards his broken | Joy laughed. leg. Another hand intervened hast- Sty. “No, ‘You damage se leg, if you touch. It vaire bad!” “How aiC I come here?" Roger ask- @4 the man who spoke, a half-breed. “Lagoun and Canim dey find you on ze trail. A tree hav’ fallen an’ crack your leg, Dey bring you here to ze encampment of my people an’ Isct ze leg. Dat is alll” Bracknell thanked the man and the others who stood by. The speak- WOMAN SICK TWO YEARS Caused by Troubles Women Often Have—Relleved byLydiaE.Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound Medina, New York.—‘‘Ihadagreat deal of trouble such as women often have, and this af- Forovertwoyears I suffered this way, then Ireadin the'BuffaloTimes’ sults. Ty much better and - feel isiiied in praising the Vegetable yund to my friends and neighbors who suffer from anything of the kind.’’—Mrs. Wn. H. KINS, 811 Erin Road, Medina, N. Y. er was Chief Louls of the Elkhorn | Buddenly, an’ dere js ze roll of thun- )mans he say dey go back and look | disappointed, you understand. Feels Like Girl Sixteen Rochester, N. Y.—‘‘ After my twin | irls were born I was all run-down. fy neighbors thought I was going to die. the pa our advertisement in pd and bought Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. The first bottle helped me and I kept on taking it. I only weighed ninety nds when I began taking it, and I have gained in weight and feel like a girl of sixteen. I never can ay, enough | for Lydia’ B. Pinkham’s tab) | REX, Isaw 1pound.”’—Mrs. NELLIB 16 Siease Park, Rochester, N.Y. F “A MATING IN THE WILDS.” tribe, son of a French Canadian and an InCian mother and who throwin(/ in his lot with his mother's people had risen to the headship of the trite. Roger told the story of the polsoned dogs. “Where did the trial lead for you, m’sieu?” asked the chief, ‘I was mnking for North Star Lodge in the first instance.” “You ever know Missi Gargrave's father?” ‘No!’ answered the policeman. He was, dead before I came so far north. I understand that he was caught iff the ice in the Yukon— and lost. The bottom droppec: out of the! tria] or something.”” “Him die, out,” was the reply. I) tink it was not good ro way Gargrave| die, Non!" Bracknell recalled nothing about the disappearance of the Northland! millionaire which indicated that his death had been due to anything but an accident. As he remembered the story, the river-ice on which Mr, Gar-! grave and his party hed been travel- ing had euCdenly turned rotten— in Northland phrase, ‘the bottom had dropped out of the trial!” and all bad | been drowned, except an Indian who! had managed to crawl out and later, in the day reached an Indian lodge | there, after telling the story of the! disaster, to die of cold and exhaustion. | The police, hearing of the event months afterword, had seen no rea: son for investigation. | Suddenly the half-breed leaned for-| word and said abruptly— | ‘Ze bottom nevaire drop out of ze| trail under Rolf Gargrave!” | “No?” The oorporal's voice was! eager. | “Tt was blown out! I veel the un-| fold," said Louis. “Four winters back dere come to my tepee a white man who was not used to ze ways of ze North. With him vas another mans who hat’ zo coughing-sickness, and dle vatre shortly. Ze first white mans want two men to go on trail with him to ze North. I ask him what for he go North before ze spring?| And he say he go to find Rolf Gar-| graze, whom the wou'd talk with on business of importance, “I send two men of ze tribe with/ him, good men, who know ze ways| of ze trail as none other, but dey are gone a vaire lonz time. an’ ze river; it fs free from ice, when dey return. It is many days dey travel with ze/ stranger mans whom I know not. | an’ dey are on the trail of Gargrave) all ze time. Dey hav’ word one day dat ho is but one camp ahead of dem, | an’ dey push the dogs, an’ soon dey pass Gargrave's camp.” “Pass it?” cried the corporal. ! *Oul! Dey push on five mile, an’ Pitch camp, an’ ze stranger mans say he wait for Gargrave dere. Dey sleep one hour, two hours, tree—I know not. Den Paslik an Sibou dey wake der in their ears. Dey listen In won- der and again dey hear it, a crash! “Dey look about. Ze white man's sleeping bag it is empty. Dey walt a long time, an’ presently, ze stranger mans he return, He hav’ on ze snowshoes, an’ he hav’ been on a Journey. He tell Pasiik an’ Sibou dat he not sleep, dat he hav’ been for a little walk to help him. But he is yalre tired, an’ dere is a strange! look on his face, and Paslik ho whis- per to @bou dat the stranger man hav’ beg a long journey. 1 next day, dey walt for xe ing of Gargrave, but he come not and Paslik he see dat after a timo ze mans look not toward ze river trai an‘ dat dare is a pleased look on his face, a look as of one who has his| desire given unto him. Ze next morn- | ing, they strike camp an’ ze stranger for Gargrave. Tree miles down ze trail dey find the ice hav’ been broken in. It hav’ frozen over again. but ze snow about have melt an’ frozen in with ze toe, an it fs rotten. Alec dere are great chunks of ice thrown far out over ze snow, which is a strange thing. “Dey reach ze camp of Gargrave) dat dey pass on ze way. He is not/ dere an ze camp is remove. Ze white mans he look, an’ he laugh, but it was ze laugh of a man who fs not ‘We hav’ missed him,’ he say. ‘We return to Dawson.’ “So Pasiik an’ Bibou, Cey go to Dawson with him, an’ dere dey hear| that Gargreve !a lont, because of ze bottom dropping from ze traf! an’ casting him in ze river. One mans he have crawled out, he tell ze tale| an’ die. An’ Paallk an’ Sibou say| nothing, an’ ze stranger mans ho give them his dogs an’ sled an’ stores | and leave Dawson, and presently when ze river 1s open dey come back, | and whisper to me the tale of their) wanderings, and I say ze river it not) fall in, but it is blown out.” | The half breed broke off and passed | from the tenee. After a few minutes | he returne’ bringing with him four cakes of dynamite. ‘Ze stranger mans he leaves this! in zo stores dat he give Pasiik an’| Sibou." sald Chief Louis, “Remem-| bering ze ‘thunder’ which Pasifk an’ Sibou hear in their sleep, I say 20 | trail it was blown up, an not fall in.” } on Sir James’ death. A dark thought shot in the cor-| poral's mind. Four winters ago this | had happened, and in that year Dick | had fled from England. Rolf Gar- grave's death might be concelved to serve the interests of his son-in-law, and Rolf Gargrave had been mur- dered. “Louis.” he asked abruptly, “what sort of a man was he whom Pas‘ik and Sibou served?” | ‘He was tall, with full beard and dark eyes. Ht? voice was of ze English an’ not of ze American.” The description was not very illu- minating, and the policemen almost groaned. “His hair? aia you mark the col- curt” ‘It was like ze bear—what you call ze brown of ze woodnuts In autumn!” Brown! Dick Bracknell's was brown, but then so was the hair of hal the Anglo-Saxon race! oii . . . Joy Gigrave went to visit friends a ttw miles from the home of Sir James Braknel! at Harrow Fe'l ©H,BoY, I'M = Las ST Rip OF 'SPARK-PLUG = FROM Now ON TM GONNA “TRAVEL ALONE © THAT EGNPTIAN QUEEN CERTAINLY DID ME A GOOD TURN YESTERDAY = SHE'S ; Hor STUFF WHEN IT Comes 7S “TEYUING FORTUNES = Thar Horst WouLn HAVE GEEN -A OtL- STONE LANDER MY CHIN FoR THE REST ce ow Lire = IM etAd Che Casper Daily Cribune 9 BARNEY GOOGLE-Well, Anyhow, Spark Plug’s Got a New Iob. The Lady of North Star Mt PRIEND =I Ste God I Gave SPARKY To HER IMSTEAD OF PAYING HER FINE GUeKS AW ESQUIMOS IGLOo 1S THa? THis 1s COo“nER— — Boy" 1 wisn Tat COAL MAN WovLD VA af \) Ee iva Le SS ON x) ONAN Ta. LLeK COMING To You = PLEASE CONCENTRATE = ‘FS (NM CONKECTION UTR A RARE HORSE NAMED SPARK PLUG «IT SEEMS He IS ENTERED IN A BIG RACE = THR HAMBURGER ‘STAKES, a ———— N Mf GREear SCoTT- I'VE Got To Ger vack AT iNeE CHU: Anu SPARKY AU CosT = “Thar EGYPTIAN QUEEN WAS A FAKER = SHE'S Adrian haunted her stens, He was always at hend with assistance whict. she did not want; and when Geoffrey Bracknell also arrived there was something like open r:valry between them. Her hostess laughe | “You will have a brace of pro-| posals before the shoot is over, Joy.’ And it was as her friend said. On the day of a shoot, Geoffrey Brack: | nell walked with her across the moor | toward the “butts.” “Miss Gargrave, there is er—er--:| something that I want to say, and to—a—ask you.” She hasti!y put up a protesting! band. “Please, Mr. Bracknell, spoil our friendship!” “Ah!" said the young man, ‘you j understand what I want. Is {t rea‘ly quite imposs ble?” | “Yes,” she answered, “it is quite impossible. | Geottréy whistled softly to himeelt. | He had suffered a blow, but he| strove to behave like a gentleman. | She held out a hand impulaively, “Geoffrey,” she said, “Con't let this spoil your life, or our friendship. I e@nnot now explain what makes my| refusal imperative. Some day I may! be able to.” He laughed with forced’ lightness and waked away. Joy watobed him go with pain at her heart. How like his cousin he was, and how unlike his brother! From the butt where Geoffrey | Bracknell waited, shots came at regu: | lar intervals, and Joy saw birds drop every time. Then a covey of grouse came driving with the wind straight | don't? towards her nefghbor's shelter. She | waited. i There was a sharp report. and al sudden cry, an¢ the birds drove on. Another flock of birds drove down the wind, but this time there was no} shot from Geoffrey's gun. A sudden | fcor assailed her, Leaving her owr | gun résting against the turf wall, she ran towards the next butt. White faced and still, with a ghast-| ly wound fn his right temple, Geof: | frey Bracknell lay there, dead. A} Great agony surged up in her heart.) Had he—? But before the though! | which had assailed her was comp.et ed whe knew that it was groun¢ iiss. The lock of the gun was blown outw and the base of both barrels was fractured, It had been an accident, That night Joy's hostess, discussing the tragedy, set a problem vefor her. which kept her awake far Into tre r grt. ‘Poor Sir James," she said. “He is left without a child, for as 1 told yeu re one knows anything at ul about Dick Bracknell, and it doysn't matter very much whether he 1s alive or dead, to. any one but his cousin Roger, for he can never re- turn to England.” “To his cou Roger,” Joy, visioning the corporal, should {t matter to him?’ “Because if Dick {# out of the way, Harrow Felj will pass to him ‘The estates are echoed “why entailed, you knok.” (Copyright, 1923, Bell Syndicate, Inc In Tomorrow's Installment Adrian Tells a Story. a Wretchedness OF Constipation _ Can Be Quickly Overcome by | NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION MR. WALT — I'M THE BROTHER -IN- Pf] LAW OF THE WOMAN THAT STARTED TO MAKE TROUBLE AT YOUR ADOPTION HEARING. 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EYES ON YOU AGAIN YOU'LL WAKE UP INA i \ A NOTION COUPLE OF HOSPITALS! 2? a VA HOLY SMELTS! HE'S” MARRIED AN' HAS Wyoming; F. M. Botner, Tea- »ot, Wyoming. CARTER'S LITTLE Department of the Interior, U. S.| township 84 N., range 78 W., sixth B. J. Nt. LIVER PILLS, = Land Office at Douglac, Wyoming,| srincipal meridian, has filed notice| publish Jan. 2, 9, 16° 825° "30, ALON December 28, 1922. of intention to make final thre -| 928, » snd gently on | Notice is hereby given that Har-| Year Proof, to establish claim to the EEN IN flere Biliow’: |vey M. Perkins of Casper, Wyo-| Marion P. Wheeler, United State | NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION ness, b rs i 'ming, who, on January 12, 1922,| Commissioner, at Casper, Wyoming, ache, diszi- “ January 28, 1922, made home-|on' the 5th day of February, 1922.1 Department of the Interior, U. S. Sey, on ation "Tay See snes oad ween bomen sae aaemeee came Tree | ao Detien ad Decann, Woensian Susi Pil—Small Dose—SmaB Pri) homestead, Wi section 8, and ad-! Wheeler, Jesse Forester, all of Cas-} Notice is hereby given that Ar- FROM Nour NEIGHBOR 7 thur J. Carlson of Arminto, Wyo- Marion P. ming, who, on July 28, 1920, De-|Commissioner, at Casper, W: i » A 20, * ‘ . yoming, cember 2, 1920, made homestead °" the 6th day of February, 1923. and additional homestead entries,!, Claimant names as witnesses: D. No, 024718, 024719, for homestead, |q74p°Gielan, R. M. Taylor, T. A. NEM, NY4SE%, SWXSEX section) Women Tavior, all of Arminto, 9, NW%SW% section 10, and ad-| Y7°™nE- ditional homestead, W% section 0, Be US BRYAN township 36 N., range 87 W., sixth ; bing principal meridian, has filed notice|,,Publish Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, of intention to make final three.| 1923- year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before: Wheeler, United States > ‘Try Tribune Want Ads for results,