Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1923, Page 10

oe . PAGE TEN. The Casper Daily Cridune 99! BARNEY GOOGLE-- So aa a ~ “FIRE =MOUNTAIN” A Tale of Mystery, Treas ure, Love and the Se: BY NORMAN SPRINGER < Author of “The Blood 5I INSTALLMENT NO. TWO Who's Who and What's Happened: Martin Blake, law clerk with a long-|1¥ move forward, Next show starts| ing for adventure, gets a taste of it,Tight. away. Especially staged for] when his employ young gentlemen of the law.” { Josiah Smatt, who handles some| Martin moved forward promp mysterious cases, directs him to carry First the weeping boatswa'n, now tb jhappy hunchback. It was a night of| Capt. Wild Bob Carew, who is to be Odd meetings! Hl found in “Black Cruiser” saloon} “Ah, ha, my amiqb!o acquamtance| at Green Street and the Embarcadero, of the afternoon walks abroad!” San Francisco. While Blake is chucked the voice. “Is it thus he tructions as to de'ivering cools a brow ‘evered of too much! pe, Trent and Blackstone?” | Dr. Ichi, a dandified Japanese, sits) “Well at Smatt's table. While Ichi previous-'a coolir ly has been closeted with Smatt, /retort. supposes book agent who Martin later! «uy, admitted the other. “And! 2 other things than the law fever the{ Little Billy, a hunchback, steward |heag—heav yordinnes of cruisers of| of the Brig Cohasset, apparently tries accursed blackness, the fatal rum and to eel a “Compendium of Know gum, the devious workings of the pa ee ay aves '8| Oriental mind, the slithering about of| = - varlets. Ye: many | HAMBURGER STAKES (MEW ORLEANS FAIR GRounDs ENTRIES “Sp, | | } rm “The audience {s requested to kind- SPARK - PLUS \ELYING CHINAMAN BARBERS (reH it is a good night for such} * was Martin's good-natured talks, His attempt at a sale is int rupted by Sx s summons. When Blake with lope in his po | « ie a D c re-enters main of Sma fers office he has a sense someone's Of alcohol met his nost as with| having just left. ‘Th the boatswain, but none the less. | nat night, or errand, Blake encounters aa The Bosun of the Cohass holically mournful over the disap ance of Little Billy, with whom had started out to b ie jargon confirmed | ed. | of his expert-| day » with the mournful bosun. Did} present for the br: you give him the slip?" sald Martin. | mate.” When Blake refers to ‘Did you run away from him to be-| {come a book agen' ly| ‘You do not understand, | hunchback with dignity. was but) _ ja manifestation of the wanderlust.! Martin did not await the onslaught.|Behold !n me, sir, the rover, the ar: He dashed out the door and boarded |naut, the adventurer!” | @ passing street-car. He sank thank-| He straightened his slouched fi and Carew, the Bosur hiess Englishman, bec belligerent. } ated the | ATTA BABY OH SPARKY COME ON, Srarky- ‘come > COME ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923. SS F-EEASTER B =I lf That waG YOU'RE PULLING For WINS IM R- RUINED! F-F-FASTER —- DONT CET EM GAIN: ON You -- Come ON come ON By Billey De Beck : fully into a seat, aglow with his ad-|and attempted to strike an oratorical | z venture. Something to remember,|posture. He lost his balance and t that affair with the weeping boat-/lurched sidew!se owards Martin. He z swain! But what was the fellow so|grasped Martin's overcoat. t sullen about? | Martin good-naturedly put an arm/ £ Thus did Martin consign the boat-|around the other to steady him, Lit- t mwain to the limbo of memory. He/tle Billy he guessed, was rendered t was inside the street car, so he did/dizzy by that rum and gum he had ‘ not see the automobile, driven by ajdarkly hinted at. The hunchback figure in gray overcoat and cap, that|teetered and clung to Martin’s over-| 3 @rew up at the crub beside the boat-| coat ot for an instant did ’ ewain. tongue cease wagging. | ‘ Nor @i@ he observe that automo-} “I am an explorer of strange lands. | : bile’s consequent strange behavior in,strange men, strange pursults,”” he) \ persistently keeping half a block be-|told Martin. ‘Behold in me one who : ' hind tho slowly moving streetcar the|/has fol’owed many occupations. A) « ee : whole distance to the waterfront. — |sailor—yes. A book agent—yes. Also.| _Thees way—comef’ he bade. | 3 Martin brushed through a door, rich man, poor man, beggar man, "The clock on the tower of the ferry sir, ; A woor, mw wizard, a king of opened Just wide enough to admit h’s| building showed fifteen minutes past) thie Student, actor— But |Pody. He expected the greasy siloon-| |keeper to follow, but instead that! worthy slammed the door upon him| and turned the lock. Martin was left | alone in pitch darkness. A cold ‘c'ammy hand grasped his wrist and| ‘drew from him a startled yelp. | ! “Have no afraid,” soothed a soft| “I make show the way to the! 7 nine when Martin dropped off the legerdem: car at the foot of Market street. He) why continue had plenty of time—it was then forty-| He had regained h's balance ani . five minutes till ten o'clock. Hejfinished with a fine, sweeping ges turned end walked slowly northward ture. along the Embarcadero. | Mart! Pedestrians became ew, mainly | pressed atraggling seamen bound for thelr flight of time Ips. Across the way, the steamers! He reached for his watch and noted | vo! at the wharves were smaller, and) tho Billy's clutch had opened) hon’ here and there loomed the spars of a his sailing vessel, a delicate tracery upon the blue-black starlit sky. 5 Martin epeculated upon these last.|saloon on t Tle wondered what the brig Cohasset|this meeting. was Ike, He wondered what the| ‘“Good-by No, you'll not forg “blessed itt " as like. He responded the hunch. foned that surp ng person who eited, “youl re such influence over rough boatswains |r me all right —a prim little man with mutton chop| A figure in whiskers, he decided cap, lounged a 80 musing, Martin came to a by-/ncross the street from, Mi street that divided two warchouses.|tination. Martin passed it by almost |of the stairs. He crossed the alley, but lingered on| without nétice the street. the far curb. | 600) te ‘They gatned the upstairs landing! The alley was dark, but he noticed} He stepped into a low-ceilinged b: fartin saw before him| some distance down it, the outline ofand dingy room. A’ battered bar |a long hall with at least a dozen doors | as charmed, but also op: yusness of the his con! . : figure moved, and the clutch e you,” he said to Li is wirst urged him to follow. an errand to t » corner. I won't forg: moved forward some twenty | and encountered a stairway taire, It was not so d gas light burned somewt n the hall upstairs His conductor rleased his wrist, and| - greatcoat and commenced to ascend ths sta’rs. Mar-| telegrph pole |tin, as he started to fol!ow, noticed | tin's des- there was a second door at tke foot| He guessed it Jet son this. meeting ad|back. * he r yea “It was @ woman those chunky allens were urging along, a white woman—young and beautiful.” fn automobile h Nghts nd before it stood five opening upon it. As he had susp a row, hooded. He had at ttended upon by aled from without, this place wa the presen: unched and aproned fellow.{had been, a cheap lodging-house. on = eer RIE P| “He, hon'bie, (Btop by here his The next e Mr. Spulvedo.” y - | a Ego, minke. propass on the next cor face, this officer of the|~mqr, seen one. snare, prauealy — destination, the ok Cruiser, and most, thick lps.|Ratles to an audience with this Capt.| =—— He pulled’ out rtin recalled Little Billy’s reminis- ord + Through tho-doof the Jap| and enty before . ten}cence concerning the “slttherng about bea hinge he rok theoutlines of ‘a o'clock. of fat and greasy varlets.” {peas ana rag of carpet. When he /tenth rate hostelry, The single win-|turbed the unearthly quiet, of the]tho hall?’ Tho scuffing had reached |the door camé open a few inches As he stood there under a dim light| He shot a glance out of the corners|sjoP Pea rough the door, the musty| gow was shuttered. house, ho head’ of the stairs; now it Was! prere was an exclamation fr Sonsulting his ce, there came|of hs eyes toward the five patrons. apes ie room smote his nostrils like There was an allen, talnt’ in that A door siammed, below stairs. THe! »pposite his door. hi as jamation from som to his ears out of the darkness just|‘The glance revealed five stolid, yel-|® Plow : |nelaonous room, Was this Spulvedo| heard sounds of a scuffic. The sound Several pairs of feet were making }ONe Whe Stood to) tront “gt ithe ‘soar: ead, a voice, a and throaty |low-brown, faces turned toward’ him,|, The Japanese closed the ‘door, and |conducting this rookery as a Japanese|drew “tiearer—grunts, exclamations,|¢%f noise. Martin heard a voce ex-|+. clinched f'st shot through the open- inging an ancient, tilting, five pairs of black, obliqueset eyes|the retreating echo of his footsteps) jodging-house? footsteps. , | im chokingly, and in English— . |ing, impacted against the pit of his regarding him intgntly. Five Jape et enh from the hall, Martin nad] A strange place for a sea-captain| They were coming up the stairs. In| + "Let go—let go of me!” s:omach and sent him reeling back ese! Martin sensed some connection |Mot expected to be thus shut in dark-lto lodge, ‘This Carew must be soms|the hail outside a door was no‘sily| It was a strange voice, a rich and| ward, ru-u-in, betwee himself and tho ve, That ness, but after all tt was a small matel roneh rene io, Perhaps he was not} opened, . hrilling voice and it carried an ap But in the instant he had he'd the A envelope in his inner pocket! ter, Ho felt hin way ta the bed and/eyen white; perhaps he was a half-}| Some one ran past his door. and] real. A man's voice? had witnessed a sight . os I wish to see ( Carew,” palBat down on Sts edge. uate sentences were spoken in a harsh,| Martin felt his wa n to = Pe a > ‘ee shter ‘ wee ne oes ment ho struck a mateh,| Thus far had Martin got with his/cticking, alien tongue. jiaust see wi rine a oS hee: rhe reves.od. as he expected, musings, W his nttention was at| Mart'n toneely on she edge, at) woer OF inal Xo! 1 A grouts of little yellow men clu |the meanly appointed bedroom of a trucied by noises that sudden'y d's the bed. What was about, faere in He turned the ad pulled, andtered about and urgir BEFORE THE COURT THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMS, SHE LEFT SKEEZIX ON YOUR HONOR, [VE TRIED IN) IN TOUCH > INTERESTED PEOPLE. 'VE WRITTEN AND TELEGRAPHED HAVEN'T LOCATED THEM. IF YOU COULD GIVE ME TEN / ‘, EVERY WAY TO GET WITH THE BUT WALT'S DOORSTEP, CAN SHE “K PRODUCE TO FIND Lets TAKE INA MOVIE SHOW, TNIGHT. SILLY- Sure, SIMNP AOVIES 1S WY DISH! OH FawTHaw! QUICK! THERE'S A FIRE IN APARTMENT @ A, Ill! DAYS LONGER GASOLINE ALLEY—MRS. BLOSSOM STEPS FORWARD Ce's Move— NoBooy BoT A lotta ov Lames ‘PASS DIS WAY — Now You CAN Come out PeTeY DEar— 1 CAN'T LET THIS GOON! oe YOUR HONOR, | KNOW WHO THE MOTHER 1S! THERE CAN BE NO OBJECTION 0 THis CONTRIBUTED A ADOPTION ! ne oh ae Se OS REPRE ame How BouT TAKING. YouR sisTER, DoLeRES, aw, HECK! | KNEW Thece wur A CATCH TO 'T SoME- wieres! Hoty cats! | @INT BEEN OvT WITH SIS SINCE T WAS A KID - SHED THINK | WAS STEWED, om SOMEPN (F (ASKED HER - THEN BESIDES -SHES A AWFUL EGG - WHATS TH’ IDEA OF SPOILING TH WHOLE EVENING ? A MOTHER WHO LEAVES HER CHILD OM A DOORSTEP ON) A WINTER'S NIGHT—PERHAPS TO FREEZE—WHO HAS NOT IGLE THING To THE CHILD'S SUPPORT OR COMFORT IN TWO YEARS CANNOT BE MUCH CONCE | WILL NOT GRANT A FURTHER CONTINUANCE. é {AWARD THE CHILD TO THIS MAN, LSS —— = AWRIGHT! THis once! BuT I DONT GET TH IDEA OF KAVIN’ & f SKIRT eee my BABY’S IN THAT BURNING Room — OH SAVE MY a paruing easy! /<—7 DON'T WORRY DEAR! 1M SAFE !! a le(Amotdicr fine r topped them; out. tin looke > had fal'en from the head wonderful m of hair tum- a f gure At th a gray ca and a bled down about gray clad shou!- ders, It was a woman those chuncky aliens were urging along, a white wo: }man—young and beautiful. 1922, by the Bell ate, Ine instalment tomorrow) ee,