Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1923, Page 10

PAGE 474 ay? 4s } ‘abul ations of ma three persons. Yasm‘ni, hara jat of ita hiding a riddle fcr Gungadhura, a Yasmini, is pla he> father's place a clue thorities. who ho could net su to: He « to watch Ya has knowledge of its why Though he dissoly lous man, he was chosen ov gh, another d Utirupa § ant cou sin. - Dick Blaine, an American mi engineer, {s hired search for gol¢ pore. : Theresa Blane, his wife master, dog Trot. ters on her side of the intrigue. | Sir Ronald Samson, the English Commisstoner, is the th anxious to find the treasure, on the govern ment's account, holding that Gungad. hura might cause trouble should he find it and mistrusting Yasmin!'s tm- petuous ways if she should bo the lucky one. Fearing to eat lest Gun-) gadhura poison her-and planning to! escape, Yasmini begs Tess to come to} her own palace (whero ts a pris ener.) Tess comes with Dick who stays with Tom Tripe while sho joins Yaamini. | While Yasmin and Tess plot the/ former's escape, Dick and Tom Tripe| waiting some distance away in a shod | Gungadhura arrives with three en nuchs and demands-admittance. As| he shows his faco at the gate, Yas-| mint atrikes at him with her knife] and he suffers an ugly wound in the face. He is forcing the gate when Akbar, an elephant maddened by rum, chases Tripe's dog Tretters to) the gate, frightening Gungadhura| and his aids away. Yasmin! opens the gate to admit the terrified dog. The diversion created by the drunk @m elephant allows the women to cs eape from the palace with Dick and Tom Tripe. Yasmin! persuades Tess to go with her on a secret mission to One could not k aloud, for the spell of mystery 3 erything They walked into, very heart! Guns 5 mov Come >AUTHOR ‘T NO. NINE. creased the sinuous perfection of each pose. She moved now around the water, In a measured cadence that by some homable un ing conveyed a thought of ma‘denr hood and modesty. It dawned on 1 who watched her spellbound Was not one immodest! all Yasmini's throng, of omy a scorn of all immod- ¥ and its pretension: Presently she danced more swiftly, aking no sound, so phantom-light and graceful that the rhythm of her ment touch to earth Then there came a man’s voice call- ing from the tempie in the ancient jasthan! tongue. Yh, moon of my desire! delight! Oh, spirit of all On, dear gladness! antly the dance ceased. her alr of triumph left her new mood clothed her with for all that grace of high given her were nothing. ©, too, made of It a gift. That her purpose was to give the whole of what she knew herself to be. So, with arms to her sides and head erect, she walked stralght toward the temple; and a man came out to meet he tall and strong, who strode lke ion of a stock of warriors. They met mid-way and neither spoke, but In- leach looked in the other's eyes, then took each others hands, still minute after minute. and stood Hasamurti, gripping Tess’ fingers caught her breath in something like a sob, while Tess could think of, noth ing else than Brynhild’s oath: “O Sigurd, Siguré . Now hearken while I swear! The day shall die forever And the sun to darkness wear Ere I forget thee, Sigurd. . .” The man put his arm about Yas- min! and they turned and walked to- gether to the temple. Then Hasamurti | dnd ‘Tess followed, keeping their tance, until Yasmint and her lover sat on one stone in the moohlight on the temple porch, their faces clearly light ed by the mellow beams. It was love-making such as ‘ess nad never dreamed of,—and Tess was familiar of hoydenish amours—gen- poetic—dignified on his part manly as the plighting of the troth of warric sons should be. Yasmini's was the attitude of simple self-surrender, stripped of all pretense.| devo'd of any other spirit will to give herse! than che and all she had, “ONE HOUR LATER, ISMAIL, AN AFRIDI GATEKEEPER, STARTED OFF ON A RACING CAMEL THE BORDER,” Li rent FOR Of ~ Illustrated witchery of her dev!s-| carried her with scarce a «| cellar Che Casper Dally Croune the Gods TALBOT MUNDY OF"THE EYE OF ZEEFTOON Robert E. Johnston COLONEL, WE ONDER STAND, THAT You AND MR GOOGLE ARE God To HOLD = A PRIVATE MATEH Race BETWEEN RIS 7 HORSE * SPARE PLUG” AND KENTUCKY BEAUTY, a SUSIE” ON MARCH ae -™_ I+ Sassy SAN Tus HORSE OF & paaint infra Us 4 Tome For A Sipe BET _/ Tans WUE Yours Look o A | 9 AW CAN GWE anges Bao akc ore BOT. Take | | le Ne tlig: 0501S <4 Yolaiu 0 NFO MATION | Now WERE HERE ABOUT Man So PLeP OSE ° BE | Come Come COLONEL , WE'RE ALL FELLOW Townts - MEN = WHAT Dees We MAY Wanr To MAKE Some pomegranates to the gate in the gar- den wall, A watchman opened the gate and, Yasmint leading, they passed through a double line of Rajput noblemen, who drew their sabers at some one’s hoarse command and made a steel arch over- head that flashes ana shimmered in the torchl’ght. Beyond that one order to draw sabers none spoke a word. In the road were three great ele phants standing in line with ladders leaning against them. The one in ront was a tusker Ww:ih golden caps 4 “His BARNEY GOOGLE--Bamey Tells the World. ia? AWM SORRY , SUH) Man HOSS Is Man PROPERTY , SUH, AND AW DONT PROPOSE DAY OF THE RACE , Sun TS ee and chains on his glistening ivory, IT was i Du Tew he NO OSE BARNEY THE Coveney WOULONT GIVE FROM ME «~ “SASSY SusIE” Mvst GE Some Horse 4" == by saises, Hasamurt!, who} mounted. nervously phant trod loftily, the broke on the stillness. Horses wheeled and a howdah on his back like a min-|out from the shadow of the wall, led {ature pagoda—Yasmini mounted him, followed by Tess an, took their place behind her in the how- dah, one on either side. The other women climbed on to the| koy: elephant behind, and the third one) chattering was mounted by one man, who looked|branches—to the right near the lane like a-prince, to judge by the jewels Yasmini glittering in his turban. brother! and the, Rajput Straight down the quiet road un- der the majestic trees, with the mon- frightenea by the tourchlight, among used the night before, and on toward ‘the shadowy bulk of a Hasamurt! whis-|great house in the distance the ele- swing again a hoarse command'sway of his back suggesting ages of TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1923. and everlasting ages past history, more to come. gentry| Copyright 1922, the and bill todny by the house. The Bell Syndicate, Ine. : Another fine installment tomorrow. tecanuiiazese i caikenahs WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—An ap- propriation of $150,000 for investi- gation by the roclamation service of the Columbia irrigation project in Washington state and its effect on the Umatilla district was added to the third deficency appropriation word © WAS A PRize SAP FOR BETTING “10.000 MIITHOUT KNQWING WHar SASSY SUSIE LOOKS Tv Forks -" 10,000 Serres) OvR FRIEND, “SPARK: PLuG” Wee Loses! yp: By Billey De Beck —1 Sim | ME ONE OF “Those BEACH \ Won't STAND Roses —. For THAT THING ANY LoNcre— py Must GET TAKE (T OFFI! COPYAlnT WY. TRIBUNE Tue — S\x People HAVE ALREADY ASKED Me To Seu ’em TenetTs — — THEN THINK THIS IS A Circus 0 | who w gadhura gladly see the end of Gun GASOLINE ALLEY—AHA! ANOTHER MYSTERY! Tripe came to Gungadhu:a j with h’s story of finding a silver tute in the cetlar of the house occupied by the Blaines and owned by Mukhum Dass. | Dick Blaine had seen him so he haa! not taken the tube he sad. Dick fur- thermore had rolled a fe over the door Tom reported. Mpkhum during the absence of Blane, broke ‘into the cellar and stole the tube. Only Pinga the beggar watched him. | A little later Mukhum Dass, smiling as he rode, was struck down by a Dass, {kn'fe-blow from behind and pitched joff his mule head-foremost. The fact of his money having been taken d prived the murder of any unusual in | terest. e. ewer oe ce Tess and Yasmini were d’scuss'ng |the latter's future. When the cere: | is over,” said ‘and you | mon | yourself have proclaimed Prince Ut |rupa king of Sialpore, there will st |remain the problem of how to Gungadhura out of the way.” “Gungadhura has been — sendin| |messages to the Northwest tribes. [He thinks to prove that the tribes b 1 AT THE REAR OF HER APARTMENT AT THIS. TIME _OF NIGHT } the dickering, and then to offer hs |army to the English—Tom Tripe and | all! Patali put him up to it. Perhaps she wants a necklace made of Il teeth—who knows? Gungad | men’s hura went deeply into debt with Muk hum Dass, to send money to the Mah |sudis. From the daily expens of his Jarmy, he could extract a lakh or two | Patall yearns for dlamonds in the fl QE. OH" How | Love HEC~ ou! How | Love Hee - ANDI Havent The Coueace To Te. Hee —- OH, DOLORES, OH! oH! GREAT JUMPIN' GRASSHOPPER } PHYLLIS BLOSSOM COMING OUT “1 DONT WANT TO SPY ON HER 6UT ILL FOLLOW HER TO SEE THAT NO HARM, COMES. TO HER : a I Have (T- 1c Trust my THOUGHTS, MY INNERMOST THOUGHTS OF MY ADORABLE DOLORES, To THis UTTLE Diary — S a \\ UN \) \N IVE LOST HER— GOSH, 1 CAN'T UNDERSTAND (Tt, THERE'S SOMETHING - ings of her te of silent benuty ‘ rhead, enormous'and knowledge that her gs {ft was more And you have been oking for th trees, in which tho sacred monkeys|than gold and rubies. | treasure ever since your father died slept, dropped tendrils | long arms} For an hour they sat together mur-| “Ever since, My father prophesied yeagning with the love of mother muring questions and reply, heart an-|on his deathbed that I should have it earth. Hefe and re the embers of «wering to heart, eyes reading eyes,!in the end, but all he told to he'p me a dying fire glowed crimson, and the and hand enfolding ‘hand; until at last find {t was a scrt of conundium only occasional sound .was of Yasmini ‘rose to leave him and he “Whoever s for flowers,’ he sald. cattle that chewed the cud ¢ stood Uke a lord of squadroned Jances ‘finds happ'ness. Who looks for go'd 1F. A man's voice singing watch her go. finds all the hi oth of a fireside conjured back for a mor “Moon of my existence!’ was h's war! A By the world’s hard ‘usion; but the still-! farewell speech to her. | day 3 iy She’ ful ness and the mystery o “Dear Jora!* she answered, Then) mor So I haye always looked fo too, and all was true again, and won-/ she turned and left him. Not a word, flowers, and I am often happy. erful passed her lips until they reached the} “Who or what can the hundred be, Hand tn hand they fot! d the road house. who guard the ire day) and to its end and camo » a clearing) Very late indeed that night Tess! night:” ‘Tess wond: at’ a forest-edge, whe an ancient) was awakened by Yasmint’s hand) “That is what puzzled me. At frst, ruined tempie nestled the shadow stroking the hatr back from her fone-| because 1 was very young, I thot ofs t trees. head lthey must be snakes. So L made In front of the temple was a pond What do you think of him?” she! friends with the snakes, learn ng how : edged with carved a8 isked. “Ilow do you like ‘him? Te!l to handle even cobras without, fone ue = tail in. hand. ineylereuaad y |them. Then, I looked for a hundrec A there Yasmint b em stand “D'd you recognize him? |pipal trees all in a place together! Dr: aio eared a nd and “Surely! I know Prince Utirupa But that was only like the first goa 3 “Singh. He came to my garden party! in the very first chukker of the game ; watch Isn't he the one who Sir Roland Sam-|—-as you shall learn roon!” Youre» She had a great blue flower | son told me ought to have been ma-| “Then surely I know!” sald Toss ox MUMBSKULL: bosom that heaved and fell for proof harajah instead of Gungadhura?’ — | ottediy. ‘In the ground of the pa'aco of her own emotion. Hasamurt!’s'| Yasamint nodded and pressed her!acrose the river, that you escaped hand was trembling as she nestled! hand trom the night before you came to see closer, and Tess felt her own puls'n, “To-morrow night you shall see an-!me, there is quite a little forest of to quick-beats as she clasped the other spectacle, Once, when Rajpu-| p'pals,"" \ ert tana was a veritable land of kings, ine and sixty and the roots of Yasm'n! walked alone to the veryethere was a custom that each great four,’ Yasm'ni answered, bh ey edge of the she began king held a durbar, to which princes ° water's edge wt fr turned the i grew quicker, and extended arma that clistened in the light lke {vory in- tothe moon. Put pres came from everywhere, in order tha band from among them lood a |tor a s ran be trusted with a secre day or two! &'s daughter m'ght choone her The 1'ed, nlong with other fashions There are many glowing as if there were fire pohind t them, “The difficulty 1s, though, that they don't change wth the full moon! Pipal trees grow on forever, never changing, except to grow bleger 1 Digger rhey ot centur t clue, not only to the tr . the winning of it!" That night Yasn and ‘Teas f t lowed closely! by Masamurt! and t other women walked between (he SORRY TO INTERRUPT YouR FIGHT, BUT MR, JOHN «J. MADDEN 15 HERE To SEE You! GOSH HE'S A Goop , CUSTOMER! WAIT'LL WE GET OUR COATS ON! “LO RATZLE! ‘Lo DAZZLE! How ARE You Two TURTLE DOVES? 1 Gor A NEW STORY FOR YA !! WELL Bye-ByE Boys! ) RUSH THAT ORDER! / WELCOME MADDEN ! YOU CALLED ME A NUMBSKULL AN’ I CALLED You A FATHEAD! NOW THEN. WHERE DiD_ | WE LEAVE OFF WHEN MADDEN CAME IN? rasxscoeyg ere