Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1923, Page 12

SAGE TWELVE. 5 Ilustrated of the Gods TALBOT MUNDY ==, AUTHOR OF "THE EYE OF ZEETCON" Robert E. Johnston OF INDIA. TREASURE. ROMANCE and MYSTERY | Che Cuspet Daily Cribune FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1923. the im’s jugul 1 tore it} here? wonde¥ed Tess. | “When dia you t know you'd cut. The long knife clattered on the] “Through the hole at the end of| found the treasure, Dick?” asked floor, and then Tom got hie| the mine-shaft, I suppose,” sald Dick.! 0.5 the j 1 hauled him out | “I built’ up the lower one—he came z a Dlame the dog,” he}one day and saw me doing it—but Not until the day that Gungad- “How knew ‘the smell of| left a space at the top that looked| hura found me closing up the vault, n told to kill him ft] too small for a man to crawl through.| 27d asked mo to dig at the otter ce.” Then I blocked the mouth of the tun-| Place. The princess told me I was said Yasimint. “Se| it after ¥ird, and shut him in, 1/ OM the trail of jt that night that you was Tom uppose. He's 4d the workmen's) Went with her ‘by came’; but I didn’t ice and water-bottles, and they left|#now T’d found it till the day that = wounds were not. serious lot of faggots in the tunne’, too,; Gungadhura came.’ That accounts for the| ‘How did you know where it was?'? Tess asked, and Yasimini laughed. statinehed them with torn liner aid Gungadhura get tr remember. mell of smoke. “A hundred guarded it. I lookea for a hundred pipal trees, and found them—near the River Palace. But they Were not changed once a month. I looked from there, and saw another hundred pi rees—here, below this fort—exact!y a hundred... But ne!ther were the nged once @ month. Then I ted the garrison of the fort—exactly hundred, all -told. Then I knew! Copyright, 19: a The Bell Syndicate, Inc, Another Fine Installment Tomorrow. ae ‘A INSTALLMENT NO. TWELVE WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY ment and receiving in exchange the The Treasure of Siaipors, fabul- is'and” f h had been occupied t Meanw smoked a cigar persons st cette int Tess had sur Yasmini, fr Tom Tripe Trotters rer dog a the window with a suc j anic gre s rumbling between ed teeth. at’s t matter with the i that he w come in?” asked Tess. | He's just He stays here Nothing couraging ight.” “It's known all over Sialpore that the Princ is staying here. and G © somewhere.” m. en- to ‘em. himself. su in your hand?” Utirupa Singh * ’ turban that he wore Dick Blaine, an a ernie alpen engineer om replied ve understanding ra St later Tom took his 4 his voice outside THIS HOR COLONEL Ss WHo's Go ty = I WANT ‘You ( HELP me Find our WHat \_UP_AGAINS T of THe can ," SASSY SUSIE NA RUA MY To P SPARK PLUG’ ON THE I6T. DEEP MYSTERY AND SPARKYs| OF MARCH = WELL, THE E] COLONEL S KEEPING HER \ XRAY BARNEY GOOGLE--It Looks Hopeless for Sparky Now. AND You WISH To RENT ONE OUR Cameras-® Qurre Keer | our | ( PRIWATE GRounns | \ HURRY UP AND DEVELOP THe FIM Doe: r Canty Wait ‘ By Billey De Beck Re Aas ‘Trotters!"” he ob the eee ses tall beat three times on) ree the veranda Per asin, 1tsr thee ‘ake a smell o” this!” | ica tte ect re was silence, followed by a ‘Ss acy . holding th grow mlgcutcoublosy It he comes—kill him! there nistrusting Yasmt there's the turban for you to le on 7 she should be the| 8M’ memorize the smell! Kill him! ye to eat lest Gun-| Understand?” A deep growl was the ar and Tom De marched off. Great preparations were made for} a royal wedding. And when Samson, heard that Yasmini was to be Utiru-| pa’s bride he was sufficiently disgust- | ed, even to satisfy Yasmin!, who was no admirer of h He was feeling jumpy about the treasure, too. A company of sappers | had dug right up to the ptpal trees| without discovering ar except a few old coin: mson decided the wisest way was} to » silent and continue digging. even if the operation did kill ancient | trees | And, of course, he could not refuse |to recognize the wedding officially. Yasmini had contrived the novelty ot] we'ding wedding and coronation cere-| hing so far,| 4 he suffer face. He when maddened by s dog Trotters to ning Gungadhura Yasm ens damit the terrifi ion cr a allows the a dog. the drunk women to os D mony and festival in one. Instead of} suad *' two successive outbursts of squander-| mission to iq | ing, there would be only one. Tt was Ace ne distan nomic jp One could not Mukhum Dass, the money lender,| withhold approval it st the silver tube hidden in the sy Mins endeaibivhe tg, NEES | ISH'T IT WouDeRFutt To BE Down HERE IN FLORIDA- So EXCLUSIVE AND EVERYTHING — IT'Lt BE SomETHING To TEM THE NEIGHGoRS ABouT WHEN WE GET HOME LPL Zi iy Vp CORNER FRom vs 77 — GRACIovs"! — AND BY GEorRcE!! “THERE'S THE BRowns String Over THERE ' — WHat DoNou ,, KNow ABouT THAT.” Se er the wedding and coron- ~ tal "bation it began to be rumored that #nno ake Part) Utirupa had given Blaine another con turned into a formes’) tract, and the news, of course, reach rock. In the shad the other| ©4 Samson's care ima of Jinendra ibura, should| 8° Samson called on Utirupa and ntly, it Prince Utir-| Tequested exp'anati He was told grue,” sald Dick succeed him,| tat the new maharanee, it seemed, holding ntern high. Li awa that a fancy to build a palace where Its light na of accordance wi old custom ¢ fort_stood, and the matter was tons, all perfect, each with its head the count has chosen him elving shrewd investigation by toward a brass bowl in the center for the hu 1 has aready nam ‘Those, said Yasmini, “are the ed him maharajah. Dick is directed amson could not go and inyesti- bones of priests, who died when the by Gungadhura—to cease mining Ste what Blaine was doing, because secret of the place was taken from operations and begin a search for the he was given plainly to understand them! My father told me they, were Treasure. The maharajah gives D' that the new palace was the mahar- left to starve to death, This was a map from Iver tt e's bus'nes Jinendra’s temp’e.” Mukhum had he efforts of quite a number of! “‘D'you suppose they pulled that Samson forces Gungadhura to abdi-| §Pirs, too, were unavailing cut stone from the walls, trying to cate ar the election of| So Dick had his days pretty much force a way out? Dick hazard Utirupa ace. Believing that| to himself, except when Tess brought| ‘I would have gone straigh to the treasure is in the River Palace,| his !unch to him, or Yasmini herself the image of Jinendra,” said Yas on plans an exchange by which|!n boots and turban rode up jmini. “Jinendra smiles and keeps The guards on the bastions, and in the Indian government wi!l obtain his secret so well that I should have the Palace and Utirupa the Englishythe great keep in the center, knew] suspected him at onc fort which stood with the boundaries | nothing whatever of what was hap. “I went to that last Dick ans of Siz . pening, because all Dick's activity|wered. “I pried it away from the w = was underground and Tom Tripe, with | at last with steel wedges, and the When he was notified that he was| that ferocious dog of his, kept guard | just room to squeeze in behind to occupy the throne, Utirupa readily | Over the ancient door that led to the) Beyond that is another wall that I signed the contract transferring the | lower ges. | had to cut through with a chisel Miver Palace to the Ind zovern-| Tom keeping strictly sober, slept in| Who goes in first?" . a -2 the fort and said nothing of tmport-| Yasmini would have led the way ance to any one. He looked drawn| but nobody wou!d permit th Blackheaded and nervous, as if something had ter. “Let the dog go first!" pro rified him, but public opinion ascrib-! posed Protters was sniff! os a ed that to th akes” on the night| dark gap behind Jinendra’s | ie ¢ on with eyes glaring and a low Tom Tripe galoped in a great. hurry | bared teeth. he passage w , e } to Utirupa’s palace. That was noth-|ten feet long né a yard wide. The lo Wo We is official capacity he was always| narrow break Dick had in the supposed to be galloping all over the é : enc of It, intoa ‘h, pi dark Why? Pimple-PoisonGoosWhenRod= | Since on some cornu ae unethee neil PaERplaliany Gee Blood-Cells. Increase! S. 8. S. at NEE Gere UU oat . Peer Builds These Red-Blood Cells. snliil ‘rods Gat Ge riite Dethom deme Pore ee ee ogc cells. Fimples | mini in man’s clothes, as usual when vault of Siaipe Paar binod.nadongaatnere are soaugn. (abe Wont on some advyentuié were ancient Maina in Fich red-blood-cells ‘n it. More reé- s8 Was up at the fort before | the floor Bu what male Dick em, waiting with Dick outside he claim we bars of r sta ocked doo: to the ent| ed at th r and ° de passages ey sald nothing sows as. hig man beyond the most perfunctory Breet controct reads gol” said ings, but, each taking a kerosene|“A jercentage of all gold. Theres mm, passed through the doc 1 ret word tn it of v W lo file, Tom leading, and locke « r ve hought of finding « e door after them yvhow, in this o!d mountain I've not bi in” sald Dick's percentage of the gol Z voice from behind them. “All I've! map you rich,” said Utirupa A dc is force an entrance.”’ y all take silver, too.” From in fro: Tom Tripe answered. “Look out yelled Tom uy i “And I wouldn't have Mked your! q-r But the warn te 1 Tt bad enough to sit! inte The sha ( guared door. Atter you'd Out of a shadow rushel a men 6, me gone o' nig s I'd sit for hours wit with 1 long dagger ah: frar abl ished cel my hair end, Mstening; and the|; at Dick. Tome revolv [57713 | a 6 as if he saw/ d, filling the chamber with Blood-cells! in what you need | ©” he Pe TARAORS 1 staring you in t t was snakes Yasmin Down went Dick under his 1 { nd the dagger ro: ud f You Ladyshi This was modic jerks Dick } hold ¢ | th do’ some one digging—dig ‘man’s wrist, but tho dagg | cls of Look out!" t ttackyinereased as Dick appear | oa al wed. but it proved to} to weaken be s own shadow that had lrupa ran in to drag frig’ ter t off, but Trotters pt th They passed down into a sort of chose his neck-hold like a wolf in bat cavern that had been used for am-| tle nd in anothe second Dick was| munition room At the far end one free with Tess kneeling beside h ' very ne was lifted and laid white a life-and-death fight between | back a dark hole. animal nd man r yetween thel I used cannon bal's.”” ja I k irs of silve | a 3 A nolse Once I fo @i t ight of the man's face He wa na he game was simple ashig out savge with the long} Leadig down o the dark nife, but the dog had him by the more steps, des from behind, and he akes you feet @ yourself again — | Toto You WE SHoutp HAVE Gone To HoWNotvtv!! OF COURSE | KNOW WON'T COME OUT THE BACK WAY BECAUSE SHE'S TOLD ME SHE NEVER DOES. AND GASOLINE ALLEY —ANOTHER MYSTERY DEFLATED | THERE , WHAT pip el \ TELL YOU? J KNEW | WASN'T MISTAKEN WHEN t HER WORD'S GOOD WITH IN OUIR HISTORY LESSOAL ToDAaY -) WANT You To Derine THe CHARACTER = 2 INSTANCE - Never Beare ARMS AGAINST & woman — FOR HEAVEN'S GAKE Rosert — MUST. You SING 2? SURE THING CunE! WHENEVER I PEEL HAPPY 1 SES” BREAK INTO Song! NO PLACE. May BS SEE You DE- HOME, MISS ](LIGHTED MANDY ? IF You'p GET THE RIGHT KEY, you WOULDN'T HAVE TO "BREAK IN‘!