Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1923, Page 8

Une Caspet Oallyp Cripune the Gods SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923. = Sho pulled Tess down beside her| “Pout!” laughed Yasmin. “Sam-| Again the bell-like laugh announced |does when a quick cloud hides the 50 on to a great soft divan and they/son sahib would make a nice clumsy] utter enjoyment of Tess’s bewilder-| sun. 100 all ate together, the maids munch-| accomplice. He would send me to Cal-| ment, “What is your husband's contract x ing their share while they served| cutta, where I siould be poisoned with Gungadhura?) May he dig for Ln PAGE EIGHT their mistress. sooner or later for a certainty, be-} “N® 1 will kill nobody! Y will not| Poly co ywhere? He is digging now, * . “Now we ought all to go to sleep,” | cause Gungadhura would send agents| even send snakes in a basket to/ isnt he, close to the British fort? 100 | said Yasmin!, but we have no time.| to attend to that. There will not be|Gungadhura. That scorpion shall} «r¢ your husband finds anything 300 5 wd I must escape!” room for Samson sahJb in Sialpore| sting himself to death if he sees fit! near the fort he will get nothing, 500 2 88, “Nonsense, child! Let me go to when I am maharanee!” with nothing but disappointment and because the English will take it all. 00 = ge heen OF"THE EYE OF ZEITOON the commissioner and warn hin that| “You maharanee? You yourseit| fear and rage! I will kill nobody!/1¢ he digs tn certain other place 00 I a ; G has lots mafaranee within the ” Illustrated Robert E. Johnston you are being starved to death in| told me that Gungadhura has lo Be will get avery’ great. fortune! this place. I will threaten him with] of children, who all stand between | month!" “But, my dear, supposing that *| public scandal if he doesn't put an|you and ‘the throne. Do you| Suddenly she grew deadly serlous,|were true, how could he convince “A STORY OF INDIA “TREASURE. ROMANCE and MYSTERY | lish scab sirius] ae non Sree esl dam Darter. 7 orem dai subitn xe DARNEY GOOGLE = By Billey De Beck WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. g 7 - Yasmini, charming, vivacious an4| cally guards are doing off their post! : ity courageous orphan daughter of the! Now then, wher your officer? Give] " < = me Maharajah Sialpore and a Rus-|an account of yourselves!" a ar TD EY say * SASSY : i ‘ on sian Pri not allowed to reign| ‘There followed an interlude in the YTS THe TALK OF “THATS WH susie’ tS a os i all W Like TH KNOW = HE'S KEEPING HER A MYSTERY: “The Colrowet Was FoxY - HE EASED ME INTO MAKING THE WAGER WITH THE THE TOWN, BARNEN + SENSATION, BARNEY~ THE COLONELS GOT ABOUT “Ten EXPERT “TRAINERS WORKING, For HIM -ANO THE HORSE DOES Alt HER WORK: OUTS BERING as maharance in her father's place| native language of Rajputana, Tem because the British government of|Tripe becoming more b!asphemously India decides not to put a woman on| vehement as {t grew clearer that tho the throne. officer done entirely right. Gungadhura, her cousin, a rapac “Lady, sald presently, riding fous, dissoulute man, is selected in-| round to Tess's side of the dogcart stead. He knows of the existence | “J’m going to have hard work to con-| AGAINST. STIPULATION Thar NO of the Sialpore Treasure, the ac} vince this man. I'd orders from Gun- D SPARK-PLUG* ONG GOULD SEE NS cumulation of generations of maha: | gadhura to search your house (Krish-| an gies M NAG TL MaRcH tem, In WOKLD WIN © SAY* Wwrar DOES | * Sassy Susie BRACE = bis NAG. "SASSY SUSIE™ , but does not know where et having died wit Yasmint's father. Dick Blain engineer, is employed by Gungadhu ostensibly to look for gold. Theresa Blaine, (“Tess”), D: wife, strikes up a friendship wi Yasmini. She later overhears a con. versation {n which Sir Ronald son, the English commissioner, tells Tess of the Stal pore Treasurer, of probabilit that it is that which Gungadhu really {s seeking and that the Bri government ought to get first in: mation should Dick discover it. To this Dick, when told later, refuses to_agree. The Priest of the Temple of Jin- endra, anxious himself to get a clue to the treasure, is enlisted as an ostensible aid by botn Gungadhura and Yasmin. « Tom Tripe, an English drill ser. geant employed by Gungadhura, is induced by Yasmini to tell his em ployer that he had heard she had been to see the Commissioner. Gun- gadhura’s spies bring word that she had called on the priest also. Yas: American mining a nows what for) and I rode up to k your leave to do it. Your butler Chamu t me you and your hus- band had gone out, and I guessed where to head for.. As luck would have it I rode into these two men on thelr way to Gungadhura. If they'd reached him, we'd all have had to| make new plans tomorrow morning! | You want to see {tie princess, of} course? But what have you got that can get by the guard | Tess produced Samson"s scribbled | note, and he studied’ {t in the carriage) lampl Then she reca‘led .Yas- mini's warning that Tom Tripe had no brains and must be told what to do. Her own wits began to work des. p . peratel ETEY DINK.-- “I'm the Iady doctor, Tom. That is my written order from the Com-| { missioner.” Tom scratched his head, and swore In a low voice fervently. “Oh, I see! I have it!” he said at last. He turned on the corporal. | “What do you mean,” he demanded in the man’s own language, y | standing in the way of the maharajah | sahib's orders? Here” 's his highness) | Veu Be EASY if Pe“kas= wort / | | Make. A Sig HOUER IF 1 Tee HER WHAT 1 PaID FoR THIS Coat — Sorte Jus? Cor THE PRICE | Ih HALE AND TE. HERI ONLY PAID A HUNDRED FoR 1T— — 1 KNow Te wife’S Gounee’ THe Day or THe mateu! " I SAY (IT AINY sQuaARE — WHAT HAVE You Done Now— It ~ How MucH D1D THEY TAKE AWAY FRom You OVER On THAT POOR BOY— SIXTY DouaRs for THar— MY Sour —HERE— 1 Too Back THAT Coat Nov Bovent AND Mave THE MaN Gwe ME Your Mone’ HERE'S Nour Sixty 22 mini asks Tess to accompany her| sending a lady doctor to the princess | Dorars 100 on a trip which, to avoid the guards| for an excuse to confine her else- erro roc of Gungadhura, bo made secretly. where and have all this troub‘e off ‘oe The Blaines have made Tripe wel-| our hands, and you, like a blockhead, 1 come at their home, and the priest} stand in the way to prevent it! See— i having (at Yasmini's behest) told his|there’s the letter!" a employer of that fact, Gungadhura orders him to search the house. Gun gadhura, belleving from the reports brought him by his numerous spies, that Yasmini and the Commissioner are in league to get the treasure and make way with it, decides to wring the secret of its whereabouts from | her if necessary, by torture. In any event he is anxious to put her out of the way, but his attempts to p: her are rendered futile by her ance. Tess and Dick drive up at night to palace gate, t pictous of a penc by the commi ist led I explain. it. The {ference that if the princess can be The Rajput looked perplexed. All the world knows what privileges the | rare American women doctors enjoy | in that land of sealed seragllos. | But it is written tn Engtish,” he objected. “The maharajah sahib does| not write English. “Idiot! Of what use would a letter / in Perstan be to an American lady d * or “But to me? the guard How can Tf rv “rn r It {s I who command 1 must read the letter. ad the letter?” it to you. What's more, | commissioner and the maharajah agreed at a con- the Rajput. “No, you idiot! A lady doctor only. And nobody's to know. You'd bet ter warn your. men that {f there's any talk about this night's business the palace guard will catch the first blast of the typhoon. Gungadhura‘s anger isn’t mild in these days!” | “Show me the letter again,” said “Let me keep It in case I am brought to book.” | ‘Tom translated that to Tess and her husband. | “Let him keep it,” sald Tess. | Tom turned on the Rajput again. “Here's the letter. Take it. But mark this! What his highness wants tonight is discretion. There might be promotion for a man who'd say nothing about this night's work. Is Tom Tripe's friendship worth hav- ing? Now sult yourself! I've said all I'm going to say.” The officer folded the letter away In his tunic pocket, and made a gesture of assent. {| “Now, lady, hurt sald Tom. “Once you're safely through the gate I'll have a word or two more with the guard, “and then your husband and I will go to a place close by that I know of and wait for you.” But Tess objected to that. “Please don't leave m waiting for you in the dark outside the gate when [ return! Why -not keep the carriage here; my husband won't mind.” \ “Might make talk, ma'am, I'll leave my dog Trotters here to watch for yau. He'll bring word in less| than a minute.” Tom Tripe dismounted to help her out of the dog-cart. The officer | struck the iron gate as if he expected to have to wake the dead and take an hour about it. But it opened sus: | piclously quickly, a bearded Afridi | beckoned Tess and in another ten! seconds the iron clanged behind her, shutting her off from husband and all present hope of succor. The| chance of any rescuer entering the | palace that night, whether by force or sublety, was infinitesimal. | Inside, Yasmin!’s merry-eyed maid led her into an inner hall fifty or sixty feet long. Down the center of the hall, leading NOW THAT SHE Sys | CAN CALL HER PHYLLIS INSTEAD OF MRS BLOSSOM | SUPPOSE, SKEEZIX, YOU'LL HAVE To CALL HER AUNT PHYLLIS ! GAS SHE HASN'T BEEN DOWN TO HER GARAGE TODAY. | GUESS 'D BETTER <ALL UP AND SEE IF SHE'S ALL RIGHT BYE BYE, PHYLLIS— OLINE ALLEY—IS WALT GETTING FICKLE! I a "LL SEE YOU AGAIN SILLY -1M\ GONNe Do This Because! UKE YAH- THis AFTERNOON IM GONNA INITIATE You INTo TH CapPa PI FRAT! USUALLY WE DONT TAKE IN BIMBos LIKE Stuy — BUT ! Gotta GET IN STRONG WITH His SISTER, DoLoRES! Good Heavins! trS S¥evesTeR! MY LAND SAKES, AIN‘T THAT MAN JEST MORE'N CUTTIN’ UPS HE GOT ANOTHER LADY ON THE HafoLD SOT ME INTO TH to a gallery, was a magnificent stair- way of marble and lapis lazuli, and at the top of those stairs Y mint | stood waiting the loveliest, bewitch- | ing girl in silken gossamer that Tess | had ever set eyes on. “I knew you would come! she shouted gleefully. “Oh, I'm glad!” ‘ i 4 She plrouetted a dozen times on! YASMINI'S DAGGER SHOT FORWARD LIKE A STAB OF LIGHTNING | bare tocs at the top of the stairs Jetting them enter sends messengers] proved mad, then the maharajah| spinning until her silken skirts ex to Gungadhura |sahib may do as he's minded about|Panded in a numbus, then danced { _ sending her away into the hills. If|@ownstairs into Tess's arms, where > f s ess. | she t mad, then he's to give h she clung, panting and laughing { You'Re GETTING WELL ITS VERY HERE THEY ARE! “No chnace tonight, I’m a If} her MW Lo you understand, you “I'm so hungry! Oh, I'm hungry! | AWFULLY KIND ALL SWEET OF YoU T'LL WRAP THEM only I'd done what she told 1 0 and | ¢ rhead? Did you bring the food?” | OF A SUDDEN! > fo PERRY! L'LLGO UP FoR you !f THERES A BIG consulted with Tom Tripe etter) “Hah! I understand. But why ct] 4. woke tan ou apo the be noe of HEY WINNIE, YOU mind Sie pebetl: poke iad GET THEM GUY OUTSIDE news Dl as : ‘ S| delight ‘as she saw the hamper o * 5s ¢ + The unreasonablenese of the at-| ing?" — i . “I've brought enough for a square TH’ CARVIN’ KNIFE oN PENED, 1 TLL TAKE ‘EM FIGHT ME! @empt convinced and discou er 5 ae meal for a dozen.” AN’ MEAT CHOPPER OUGHT 1 MIGHT 3eS'TH' WAY it was like | fon of tncomprehension! Does! «we have eaten a little, little bit SHARPENED! WELL AS WELL TAKE ‘EM, e But reinad the horse about there came ou of the mist the sound of another Borse at a walk, and two men march ing in step. Thon @ man’s voice broke the stillness. Dick reined in a second later Trotte: huge ft ag Te mah the maharajah sahib wish still more scandal than already has been by permitting @uch a visit in the day time? Doee he wish the British to say afterward that it was all the ah'@ doing? He agreed pole- ndition that the commissioner sign the letter and relive his highnese of all ame in case of a of madr An¢ vas de. send an_Ar there shou cach day of the servants’ rice, wash ing it first for hours,. until today, | when two of the servants were taken sick and we thought perhaps their | food was poisoned, too, by Gungad.| hura’s people. Oh, we're hungry | Hasamurt!, Yasmint's maid, opened the basket on the floor and crowed aloud. Tess apolo; ed, nothing about the caato | tetiona!" knew talk ame the Brit < bid nell a Yasmini laughed | ! bhi sows da, you! “und Iam as Western as T ¢ > otal ae and only pretend to ci en | ‘ te # to en “A man and a fit. My maids do ax I do. or | hey seek ancther mistress. ( TLL TAKE 'EM “TO TH’ SHARPENERS FOR THASS’ALL !f ‘THEY ARE —