Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1923, Page 10

ptererrres, Che Casper Daily Cribune ee AT ERE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1923. INSTALLM WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY. The Treasure of Si fabul-} T ions. th Persons. T Yasmini, day ajah and 1 of the last n_ princess. h ad of bequeathing the seer of its hiding pla he left only a riddle fr a ¢lue, Gungadhura, a ‘distant cousin of is pl ner’s T who succes y rule the terri > cmplotes spies of all kind Though h lots man, Utirupa Singh, < sin Dick Blaine, he was chese: nother cou mining hura to Theresa Blane, his wits, strike a friendship with Yasmint latter enlists the services of Tom Tripe, the matharapah’s Eng lsh drill master, and his dog Trot ters on her side of the intrigue. | Sir Ronald Samson, the English Commissioner, {s the third anxious” to find the treasure. cn th ment’s account, holding th hura might cause trouble should he find !t and mistrusting Yasm petuous ways if she shou lecky 0} aring to eat gadhura poison her and planning to The govern i's im escape, 1 begs Tess to come to| her own sho {sa pris-, oner.) "Tess comes with Dick, who stays with Tom Tripe while she eins Yasmin While Yasmini and Tess ploy the former's escape, Dick and T waiting some distance awa Gungadhura arriyes with nuchs and Yemands admitt he shows his face at the mint strikes at him with her knife ‘and he suffers ap ugly wound in face. He is forcing the gate, wh ura, find for Blaine Akbar, an clephant maddened by'| sah) new cook and a new butler, rum, chases Tripe's dog Trotters to! who n be trusted not to poison the gate, frightening Gungadhura shim! . and his aids away. Yasmin! opens the gate to admit the terrified dog. Yasmint slammed in tho very phant earnest or he would have fac in ha’f. His charge wa brought th Rate down. An elephat u ver nid it wan pit s could disappear through a. solid for a two, | TORY OF I you saw, adding hib was suspicious, and led the "ce'lar door, | Have you understood me’ “I understand there’s precious | ttle steep for me tonight, and hell in Of mi Mlustrated b the Gods TALBOT MUNDY ~ = AUTHOR OF "THE EYE OF ZEETOON" Robert E. Johnston NDIA.TREASURE. ROMANCE and MYSTERY demanded make ure is my no son to f NO. EIGHT “Did Akbar get him?” A cold nose thrust in his hand was the answer. Up in the Mog-cart Tess and her BS wuars THIS Ne husband laughed in each other's RACKET I beaR arms sae Tue pace . ABOOT YOUR “How many people’ will the ‘car- Se PRIVATE MATCH WITH THE COLONEL tor ®10 000 2 1S hr ON THE Lever * hold?” Yasmint.ca‘led to them and her five maids piled in while Tess, because her costume made it caster, mounted and rode behind Tom Tripe The drunken elephant drew watch- men and all others to his pursuit, so the streets were quiet as the little party made their way to the lyme of Mukhum Dass, the money-lender. At revea'ing her identity, Yasmint ed him to shelter her five maids ar! hour before dawn and one faithful guard, Ismail, who had, fol lowed at the dogcarts’ tail, was com. missioned to watch outside the house. age So she (ur GNe IN uP Now, Tom Tripe!” Yasmint or-| dered. ‘Do you as the elephant did, | and cause distraction. Draw Gun- | a off the scent!” | bells, Your Ladyship! he vered. “All the drawing I'll do r this night's work will be my Mon TH ME Time To G SHAPE PULLED OFF Nexr wore tL PLENTY OF + SPARKY oF BARNEY GOOGLE-- AB So tuTe- ty"! 1S GONNA THe To MOP How va THE NEWSPAPERS ™ SAN The Gotonet S Horse 1S ONE OF Kentucky's FINEST + Thar SEING THE Case, © Think Tee PUT A TEN: SPOT ON "SASSY SUSIE S” “The treasure where the treasure is! 1 offer to share what is mine? have a marriage contract drawn and you shall be a witness. dowry. Cingh my father died without a son— the first of all that long line who left The custom and Samson all bargaining about?” ‘ess. of Stalpore! But I no bargains! I, who know Why should Listen! follow him. was that he should tell his son, and none else, the secret of the treasure. KENTUCKY'S FINEST” Tears A LALGH. MOE NOBODY KAOUS WHETHER (TS A HORSE OR RY GWoCERaLS The @o1onet S Gor- You Know, HE S WISE FOR Him: MEET ME HERE ABOUT MIDNIGHT, I will That treas- Bubru He hated Gungadhura; and, not knowing which the English would choose for his successor, Gungadhura or another man, he told no one, mak- ing only hints to my mother on his death-bed and saying that if I, his daughter,’ ever developed brains enough to learn the secret of the treasure, then I might also have wit enough to win the throne and a'l would be well.” : “And ‘you discovered it? you discover it?” “Not I.” How did SASSY Susie ff ay ay last months pa: “Nonsense! Gungadhura and the guard rnn from the elerfiant like dust de the wind. The guards wi!l be PETEY DINK.--- back at their post before this; but gadhura must find a discreet an to bind a slit face for him! ne guard that Gungadhura Wants no talk about tonight's work In “the morning come to Blaine sah- tb’s house and search the cellar. by lan ht, letting Chaum the butter do it, but taking care not to ¢ what you see. What you| where it lies! Then tell PIANIST 13_J.0TTo OosH, “THE WEALTHY Mouse -Tieap Kine — the mern uu have finished interview- ‘Lom whistled his dog and rode off at nter. * tt this leading to?” de. d Dick, “What does it mean?” It means,’ she said slowly, “that re closing in on Gungad- all way I figure it,” he answer hada pretty nar —~ SE WaT MAN WITH THE WHITE HAT? THAT'S Sicmunp Noisoisky THE FAMouS AND THAT MAN WITH HIM Yasmini knew better than to threa = or even to argue with him} from h your stable and ride for the much less give hii or-|came's, bringing them to the hous cach man kas a Ine of/of Mukhum Dass. Let your wife meet me there one hour before dawn.” “Dick?” said her arm eround him y ow he sa’d at last. “Maybe I'm a lunatic, but have it your own way, girl, haye it your own w: There are camels and camels— | more kinds than there are of horses. but compared to the Bikaniri there are no other desert mounts worth a momen’ onsideration. Fourteen of them were gathered for her and held in readiness by men who loved her and detested Gungadhura. in single file, each driver amel ridden by a won nini dirceted i 1 for the most part showed » her desert-reared guide be ing hard put to keep his own animal abreast of her. | own The surest thing Gungadhura would attempt, once word should reach him that she had van'shed from Slalpore, would be to v around her a network of h men, Watchers from the hills pass word along of the direction ad taken; and the sequel, if Gun dhura was only quick cnoush would depend simply on the lonelines or otherwise of the spot where +h | could be brought to bay. For Yas | mini abduct!on to the hi'ls could only | mean one‘ of two things; unthinkable surrender, or sure death by any of a | hundred seeret me: ns Sc the way they took was wild and }lonely frequented only by the jackals Yot twice they were soon b sun wis two hous high, the fi by a caravan of merchants toward S who took no notice but would tell of the “FOR AN HOUR THEY ‘SAT TOGE (ND REPLIES, HEART ANSWERING HEART.” stood to smell the atr and listen r far the st tru him 1 nz he “oh er rotters Robt mast « f r here Dic The second party to them cons ht o 1 of four men on came Whose rifles, worn military fashion with a sling, betrayed them as Gun gadhuras’ men. } “Desert police’? he ca'led them. | “Takers of tenths’? was the popular description, The four gave chase, for ‘avan in a hurry is always likely well for exemption from delay y had a signal s fon on the | hil's two miles behind th "to them in touch with oth parties north, south ast and west, it looked like Yasmin undoing, for ey wer two for along a but changed dir the pol 1 lost a stern chase on slower | Was their hope but one | fired half a doz shots by .w cain attention to themselve gaining one she advanta | ana only y of then und raced away towa ation on the hil Yas bn ray ee ‘ug’ e at THER MURMURING QUESTIOND fig tn iietie desert onwn who | there brackish water and a great | least resistance rock offered shadow to rest in. “It the guard shou'd tell Gungad ty now," laughed Yasmin! ; hura that your wife was in tis palace | ing a cigarette in the shadow, “Gun me and could give ‘evidence | gadhura knows surely that my pala him, what do you suppese! is empty and the bird has fown, Yet ura would do? There are so} the te ys—snakes—poison—dagge ‘aph will have not been and he to crosa the bord will be wondering an he you suggest?" he askec do So SHE MUST. THINK SOMETHING OF ME AT THAT TO LET ME CALL HER PHYLLS- SHE WAS THE ONE THAT SUGGESTED. —_Ano THAT FAT MAN Goinc INTo THE WATER IS ANTHONY Y. Door Tt —THE Famous INVENTorR—— That's WHY | Cove To Ome To FloRinA— “ov SEE MANY PROMIHENT Figures — WELL, RACHEL, | SUPPOSE OL’ WALT WILL MARRY MRS. BLOSSOM AND YOU'LL HAVE To FIND ANOTHER 0B. i i q ‘Who then?” Your husband did’ “My husband? Dick Blaine? But that can’t be true; he never told me; he tells mo everything.” “Perhaps he would have told if he had understood, He hartily under- stands yet. On'y in part—a Uttle.” “Then how in the world—? Yasmini's golden laugh cut short the question as she rose to her feet.” “Listen! Tonight I am Abhisharika, Do you know what that {s—Abhis- harika?” . Tess shook her head. “I go to my lover of my own ac- cord!” “That sounds more like West than East!” “You think so? You shall come with me and see! You shall play the part of cheti (the indispensab’e hand- mafden)—you and Hasamurti. You must dress like her. Simpty be still and watch, and you shall see!’ rele ue That"was a night when’ the full- (Continued on Page Eleven.) By Billev De Beck ka tne tM —Pelev!— 1 Don't BeEueve Nou ARE PAVING A Bit oF ATTENTION— — WHAT Was | SAYING.” PHYLLIS 2? WHY THAT'S MRS. BLOSSOM'S FIRST NAME} —— SomelHinc ABouT FicuRES MIELE RIGHT Nou “AND JOLLY ARe Oud DEAR' M55 DEAN WISHES To SPEAK Te You, Haroid' = hes Lf OR (ss, WINKLE! OH MISS WINKLE! GEE! BEING SECRETARY TO A PAIR OF PARTNERS 15 NO SONG AND MY BROTHER MADE A SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF ON THE STREET SATURDAY-. AND THEN ( FIND You Put HIMUP TolT - LL ZZA UY WHERE'S MISS WINKLE ? 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