Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. “FIRE MOUNTAIN” Sa A Tale of Mystery, Treasure, Love and the BY NORMAN SPRINGER Who's Who and What's Martin Blake, law c'erk with Author of *“The Blood Ship.” INSTALLMENT NO. FIVE. ing for adventure, gets a t when his Josiah loyer, and t Ww the envelope, Dr. Ichi, a dand! et Smait's tabi ly has been cl supposed book agen learns is Little Bily, a hun Bos belliger As he nears the “Black Cruise: Little tells of the Though Mar liquor on the r appears unstead maintain his balance, clerk's overcoat, in Carew. Near the saloon Ma: @ figure in a ters the "Bi; Smatt, who hi chback, um, an, becomes sudd pOsUN’s in an empty rooni of house upstairs w! told of the dark room he hears a noise tl makes him iook out group of Japanese draggi ful white girl, clad 1 him back into the ro The Jap messenger who comes to convey Martin to Captain Carew de- clerk's clines to answer t in t om. he law questions about the girl. Blake's excited story. self — an extraord! man—turns a de that Martin deliver Realizin now that come tho ue th discovers that th only blank pape de best r e girl, whose gray was lying on the floor of the tain's room. Martin delivers t velope. As he turned to go Carew envelope contained out He roars command that results in M: being sssaulted by several J servants and Spulvedo, keeper Cruiser.” battle, comes to room. His kick: bring a bullet crashing and a comm kepe quiet. **Yes,! th rescue the capt Ruth Le Moyne, ran) ows Blake ng, white-crested wind. He was be of the Blake, knocked out in small, ainst tho through Spulvedo Martin hears Cohasset. and Carew y handsome anding m the po Happened: a long: e to see a ng a bez n a gray along the passage. As he opens the door, a fist shoots through, hits him in the pit of his stomach and knocks to him- t overcoat the dark door echoed little Billy | bandage. atl coat, was, without pretty girl costume she were ac than hid, front membered shapely that it z mate! This ¢ a very good m aster's ticket and ngled hir denial. Then rur to which he ne-fa ad his he ad to meet captain wore a sailor's pea-coat Ingers that a the | This radiant, laughing | fou seem rather surprised,” ehe |rallied him. “I see your face. But I assure tin stuttered in his confusion | Probably have seen this envelope be- tion. Up through the companion ed old, man old man stepped out on a ‘this cryptic skin contains the secret of Fire Mountain.’ ” | TD Uke “Ye TAKE You To THe Fair- GROUAIDS “ToOAY- SPARK -PLUG RUNS (N THE SECOND RACE AND T WANT You Ye cer A SO@UINT AT Him SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923. By Billev De Beck Lt Thoueur kT wAS OTH Miss VIOLET TN) Pron \\ Jello!’ Our friend seems to recog nize exhibit A,” bantered the hunch |back. ‘Well, Blake, I admit you SKEEZIX, WHO IS THAT OVER THERE WORKING . AN MRS. BLOSSOMS. CAR 2? fore. But I bet the ccntent& .are stranger to your popping eyes!” With that, Little Billy spread the nts upon the table ain sheet of pap Smatt’s angular > of some kind of t, about 4x5 inches prous-white color. covered with what he | multitude of faint, red | upon a second look he scratches were figures indicated the skin with her UNCLE WALT? Now ) (SURE, THAT'S ) THAT YOU'RE * PAPA OVER ACOPTED, THAT ISN'T UNCA WALT, ten upon and a s » secret of Fire Mountain,” she | echoed Little Billy. “This contains the secret of | n. Ichi, the one, | abstracts it from its discoverers and rightful owners and carries 4t to that fine legal rascal who employed you; fine } leliver to Carew. Carew had rakish ;chooner ready to scoot for loot, but OF GuRSE, (TS NONE OF MY GUSINGSS, LILLUMS~ BUT THEY SY THAT HAROLD [5S SIMPLY GooFY ABOUT DoLORES DEAN, THE NEw ENGUSH TeAcHER — AND MIND ou, SHES YEARS OLDER - ITS SIMPLY SCANDALOUS *) HE FoLLOWs HER AROUND URE ‘YOU GO RIGHT DOWNSTAIRS AN’ TEU. THAT MRS. POKER To STOP HER BRAT FROM CRYIN’! WE CAN'T STAND TH’ NOISE If 7 LY mAS.BRIDGE, UP IN [| 3.C. PHONED DOWN SHE WANTS To SEE YOU, FAWTHAW ! 15 THAT TH’ WOMAN WHOS ALWAYS KICKIN’ ABOUT SOMETHIN’ 2 code translation, and latitude | nd longitude; friend Blake. carries de in pocket, fried Ruth carries position in head—so is. plot nd counterplot; ng and hanghaling. You, my. , at the enter of one storm circle. Devious nd devilish machinations assail you t first with failure, for the mate | ost her wits, and the boatswain lost balance But Little Corco Kin ucceeds. With | dextrous fingers 1 cts the young titution then it was conta you placed the} ning the blank paper ed Martin. Your intuition 1s re stated the hunchback ; > not look so shocked. Ichi, the beast, picks Little y's pocket, and the way to Fire intain is lost; Little Billy picks Blake's pocket, and the way to re Mountain {s regained! Is {t not eautifully simple? 2 It won't take me long to tell my, Mmiles of the Kamchatka coast, But ; ame: etter tell yo us to part of the ste commenced Cap-|I guess I had better tell you How | anxio tcked a. looking: tain Dabney. “It happened last sum. |We came to be in Bering last summer.|The Russian, government keeps a’) ever want rou know, lad, I am a trader. | little tin-pot gunboat cruising up and mer, up in Bering Sea. I dodged out hide-and-seek with a Russian and saw the sun for the|Sonable prices, and for the Jast ten ali hands. a week, and at the same I have traded every summer 3 ve a phe Fire Me for thelr ur dodge those lubbers. The I then—goc e Company | they e me W last Av trade in | mad for a fc q upon | he rampaged er cent profitjand then he gi —MyY— I THinic SKIING 15 A Won DERFoLL SforT— > MY DEAR— — Hart's Ate THAT WorD 1S (T AmouNTs To HAROLD TEEN—LILLUMS MIGHT BE MISTAKEN THIS TIME! So THnNsw ScHooe MAM AIMS To SEPaReaTe ME FROM MY SHEIK ~SHE MUST HAVE ME PEGGED AS @ CARELESS BIMI out of the wate al hundred |in dealings with the natives. Natu-| job. t : {ullep of the dearncheticn, toes, rally, the natives are more than] found ourselves almost on top of as | mountain’ sides were overlaid for an |N0 torches _ trade with a freelance. | wicked a looking saw-tooth reef as I “The reef encircled a mountain a ght If | dow vent poaching, and if| that stuck straight up out of the sea of the fog-b : seen |Fur is a mighty profitable trade, if|down to preven’ Li eee seek ith oe ae? | you can get enough fur, and at fea-| you are caught it means the mines] for about two thousand fect : a F 5 f an old volcano—atill smoking. Wel jutting rock that looked. like an|'Tho lettering was almost effaced} we Lord! Any live Yankee can | discovered a break in’the reef, a Uttle|elephant's head carved out of the|made out the letters LUC—and’ be- o1 ber 1 bay tal “The mountain st rus, | fron a bad | bay INTHE MEANTIME —= Dovores! with Your ees of Bue —— UrTH TRESSES, OH $0 SoFT — ' Hope —r-1-T lit Just Have HoRace AND BEEZIE TAY ALONG FoR, & COUPLE OF DAYS, AnD AY SHEIK .Wwite COME DASHING Back TO MEW J Bo! YOU GO BACK UPSTAIRS AN™ ‘You GO BACK DOWN AN’ ee at pike, BADOE TELL THAT WOMAN SHE'S: BABY Don'T - - ETC - AOIse AS HER PRONOGRAPH! onl hyetats you GO uP AN’ TELL THAT BIG FAT -ETC-ETC EIc-ETc-ETC ‘The second morning after, we| like a sponge. A strange place! The jiof witches. We didn't investigate— | : < r “Then, 'way up on the beach, and unknown depth with black lava, y BN behind some big boulders, we 4’ twisted into all manner of shapes. covered the ribs of m whalenoat? a “On the level with the beach were | pust-caten sheath-knife, and a board It was}several cave openings. One ‘was a | that contained part of a ship's name bitten narrowly into the mous] black Java, and beneath the out-flung | neath it the word, BEDFORD. | and a beach. trunk, was a black opening ‘le: up sheer in| {into the mountain. ‘There was the of us and on either side of the| sound of running water from within It was full of caves—riddled!and the wind howled like a sabbath Billy, you commence—it is your yarn from now on!" “My turn to talk?" exclaimed the (Continued on Page Nine) ading | "Nc