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

PAGE EIGHT “THE SECRET TOLL” WELL, ARE By eu end Ponsel apoE Authors of You GETTINS Y ERIDAy IS GONNA e Sh 2 neridan Road Mystery Sparc- PLUG Ge A PLUM FOR INSTALLMENT NO. EIGHT. ie SHAPE SPARKY = SASSY CHARACTERS IN THE STORY | her atter Forrester departs for the oR Tas Susie's Scr AS e Froends o! he FP © at 10 o'clock, sees her come out ton whic prey of the Prentice drawing room and BIG MateH ised sa y men c so. Th meet a man. AEXT % AS. ate mes asa certa: a ERIDAY 7 A BARBER HAS s of money n oak tree in| “There will be detectives there to- : Jasper Lane, off idan Road, are| night," sald the man. “It will be Rae ead unmolested. Those who have not|very difficut for anybody to ap- obeyed are found proach that tree. It may spoil our| strange asphy | plans.” though always out of doors. | "Mr. Torrester’s case certainly young engineer,! seems to be attracting more atten- y written note) tion than the othe 's."" commented the he leave $10,000 in the| girl te comes Wednesday/ That's because he is putting up a and the time L im't set for the deposit) real fight. To tell you tho truth, I is Saturday midnight. ‘have my doubts about the package Frederick Prentice, a otvmoney “he is pitting *in>thedtees rester, tries to pers | tonight. It probably isn’t worth’ the quiese in the blackm: danger involved to get it. He points out that the police have; Geo," muttered Green. the dope now. I'm wasting here—me for the tree.” He started off at a run. . . . been’ unable to capture the Friends of] the Poor even though the money has| been taken from the tree right under their noses ws then comes of the time lbs Aged rear? ta), Forrester did not make any effort ig! as, ©) to concea imself as prom Josephine Forrester, Robert's sister sparen tein TEEN aN the great oak. Cautiously picking tive of ive Of/ his way through the darkness so as cinder Reis not to disturb the Cetectives’ strings | the black they were in place, Forrester ; that the) reached the tree, found th r blackmatlers live near the tree. For-| = es eEaa SENS HET, and placed the package in It. Then he carefully returned to the road, and 1ked noisily attng it for short distance. Suddenly he ed aside and paused. When he was assured that everything re mained quiet he crept silently back to an opening in the underbrush dl- rectly opposite the tree. Then crouched anc waited. rester promises to Green the ten thou-} gand if he does so. Humphreys, a reporter of the Times suggests that Forrester use his train- ing as an engineer and turn detective himself. Humphreys’ theory {s that the blackmailers make their headquar- ters in some more luxurious place than they are believed to have by the ity detectives " Cahill and O'Connor, who declare}, 48 the minutes slipped by without they traced them to a west neident, Forrester grew restless. He age and that they are an ord emembered that on other cocaalces “black hand’ crow of etectives had waited there t - | tell Forrester to put the pack: out the night, only to discover inj in the tree at s urday night the morning that their quarry had | and they will ‘his is some-| coms and e. Was this about ‘| what disappointi ¥Forrester,| happen once more? whose invest and those c Had the package over which he Green ne trea developed some 1 nd the detectives were watchhing al teresting Green has been been removed frightened away from a night vigil by) § down tho lane, For- ghostly sounds, includ » rester heard a slight creak * that) clanking of cha med to him like the pplication} ing of a bell, and by a flaming hand, of the brake on an automobile. Li tening intently. he felt sure that he hear the soft purr of an At last they must which rose above the tree. Joshua, giant negro employed gardener on the Bradbury place near! Jasper Lane, tel's Forrester that it Is/ not men but ghosts who haunt the| tri He attributes the manifesta- could also {Cling engine. be coming! Strain his héars as he might, how- ever, Forrester could detect no other tlons to the spirit of the husband of |sound. If anyone were approaching wage ER ANGE ana = “bad aica niggah wom-|the tree it was with a catlike treas y , Joshua pee “had mur-|that no human ear could hear. hil.. “They never got noar enough to os @ered him, Forreser visits Lucy in| ‘hen, $2 a moment, evermthing| the tree i. | the guise of a reporter. He obtains|changed. There was a short, sharp| . "Then." | ‘orreater, ‘tiring: £2} little information but is astounded to| exclamation, followed by stifled oaths; Green, Ww come up, “you see in a dry aquarium a b nd the rush of feet Forrester Would better get that package and) live snake He remember could tell from the ncése that a strug-| We'll take it back with us. It may snakes are used in Voodoo worship was taking place come in handy some other time Mary Sturtevant, a néxt J nomen! thatarkness een went to the tree and inserted staying at the Br: was scattered by two electr pocket his hand in the opeffiing. He felt ef 2 aimips a Moprester jrecoqa ureful’y around, then withdrew hk tha itxee!| bill “and <OrGoniioes ktantite y arm an¢ turned to face the others. vas tem lbhdinea ithe cena rami hettred In the dim light of the pocket lamp man, in-l with a man in his grasp. still perplexed.” ae - ‘I am,” admitted Forrester shortly. | IS THAT So! GIMME “] have heard Mr, Forrester, that YOU'RE _,\ | 15 THAT So} TOATW NER to unmask theso people, you have| [impossieie!| | wei you're || /aacue, ARGUE \If MR. NOSEGAY DO ANYTHING taken grave risks. Do you think yuu] ue re STUPID! ARGUE - ALL Shona be RIGHT- BLA: BLA- are i | DAY AND ! {his was followed by shouts and oaths and several pistol shots. “ywhat do you think I shou'a dur") |SKUEST, EvERY Day!! troducing her to Forrester’s mother. Forrester darted across the road, sakes phalicnra answered, qtick-| Mrs. Forrester {s rather surprised) but at tho same moment there came) jy, emphatically. that her riemd in New York did not|® Duncing flash of Mgbt that blotted!" tis face grew grave Why did she write to her directly. Forrester is} Ut everything about him. This was| want him to go away? Did she) Warp dalidn atheaeted ty hee | followed by shouts and oaths and) reatty feel a personal interest in Mrs, Forrester and Josephine movo| “vert! Pistol shots. | hint?’ 5Did yao “dekire! fo, save Bim » Woo i n a lc pocket lamp once) from the retributio . praia seer ny i Maco! Then an electri ket 1 ‘th h tribution sho knew .was PR peas ee Tig Friday more spread its rays across the road.|sure to come, or had she actually invited to a cu the Prenties Forrester then saw that tho man who] become @ menace to the rogues who aaantad ; *| held it remained alone in front of| apparently held her allegiance? For. home nea: night, where PP Mrs. Forre a. Mis lrtevant| the tree, and he hurried over to join} rester was confused in a tangle of WME ss a ienaath ceva nieet ene eee | hopes, doubts and conjectures. Phen Sbhiect waite asda anttte teen how! “What's happened?” cried Forres-/% passionate “longing for the girl) > halgmady Sia apache etter: | surged within him, | =: Nicpieti gaat deviant itis poe Always when’ he was near her St| [oe ead ley aie MP on That's what I'd lke to know."! .cmed ag if he had reached the end| Not long after Prentice comes to! growled the man, who proved to be of q dimieult Journey. Despite thelr} } Or man and later a woman| Cahill |short acquaintance Forrester knew | find out the time For-| O'Connor, who now approached! that he was deeply and irretrievably | to put the money in vay, Joined them Inleve: | each 10:30 1 ned O'Connor, “they! \A5tn his usual impulsiveness hoj ciation; but when a man meets his|some hidden influence controlled | Poor'—that I have guilty knowledge ordance with the! got away. I stood no chance chas-! swung his chair to face hers and/real mate he knows {t—instantly.” ou,” imparted Forrester. “It is that} of it?” she asked. tide ‘agen (eel iar ans “eatenichties? Fawlow¥ | Robert," said the girl, timidiy—| ‘mowledge which impelled me to dis: “r have sispected it," confessed that Forrester’s best move would) “What do you know about that?") «yfary, I love you!” land Forrester thrilled at the souna| ose my feelings toward you so s0on-| Forrester. “Many of your actions be to acquiesce in the blackr red Cahill. ‘Those Dagoes! «owe can you,” she asked, “In 80/ of this name on her lips for the firat| 1 Want to save,you. If youswill| have implicated you seriously.” ¢ s. After Pren' in our hancs, Then that flash; short a time?” |time-—‘the fate that has so strangely | marry me, now, we can go away! “And you still want to marry me?” s astonished to find off and blinded us, and piff—|" “Mary, I am old enough to know/ thrown us together still holds us m| and leave this hideous nightmare be-| she queried. note were gone." tll make some picture!" came excl mn, and Humph “rve. got! he| Che Casper Daily Cribune BARNEY GOOGLE--If the Gas Holds Out Spa rky’ll Do His in 2:00 Flat. THar RACE AExT | — WHAT DoYou KHow | ABourT THis — Here's A MIRE FRom THe OFFICE — WANTS METO Go Ste A PARTY Namen J. M. Swiecins ~A PoOssiBle CUENT. over AT THE HAN2UPP Hotet— # THoucur | WAS —_OH DEAR! — Business !' ALWAYS Business! CHEWED UP A MILE H TAKE A TIP FRomM ME AND PUT THAT DOG OF H YOURS IN SHAPE OR SASSY SUSIE S GonwaA Make Him LOOK LIKE A LAND-MaARK — THAT HAIRED You R= RUNNING AROUND WITH 1S TAKING Your MIND OFF THE CALENOCAR RiLL ME SUNKIN Tews “Me sosic AND A QUARTER s 2:24 Muovy_ TRAeK. Te SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1923. By Billey De Beck ZZ, —\ Ber THis Biro 1S Too OLD To Play GoL.F EVEN—— — Just MY lucie Now THAT 4 Becuuwi To Like FloriIDpA TS Have To Play UP. Perhaps wo can pick up these Dagoes fram their photos.” “Did those fe'low: get my pack-! | age?" inquired Forre: | er, , they saw that his eyes were staring | wildly, “It's gone!" be cried. . . . . Green had been stunned when he learned of the actual appearance of the supposed Italians at the tree. While he frankly confessed that an explanation was beyond him, he stoutly maintained that the real “Friends of the Poo! were undis- covered, and cited the mysterious dis- appearance of the dummy package as proof of this claim. Green was in thorough accord with Forrester in the conviction that Miss. Sturte- vant was in some way the key to the; problem. il After conferring with Green along these Unes for some time on Sun- day morning, Forrester left the de-| tective to watch the house, and tak-| ing his roaceter, started out to visit the girl. On the way he stopped his car in front of the tree and made a careful examination of the ground in every direction. The wooden pegs | which the detectives had placed in} the ground near the tree were still there, though the strings that had connected them were broken off. He| found no other indications of anyone haying been at the tree. Miss Sturtevant was sitting on the front porch when Forrester arrived. The girl was frankly pleased to see him, rising from her chair and com-| ing part way down the steps as he/ approached. Her eyes softened as she observed, sympathetically. ‘It has been a great strain. I am sorry| the case remains unsolvec.” | “You have heard what happened | last night?” he queried. Miss Sturtevant stiffened percep tibly, and the guarded nature of hor reply was evident. “Your defected attitude tells a plain story, Mr. Forrester. Whatever hap-| pened at the cak, I am sure you are| AINT FEEDING AT |my mind and heart. I have’ danced) its hands. and filrted with the women of two|jn the meshes of a m continents without a desire for any|and until such time one of them. But from the: mor’ quishes its present he y wanted you—just give th I sa 1,1 BLOSSOM DIDA ¥ LbT FOR ME DURING THE ADOPTION AND I'VE TRIED TO GE NICE TO HER— How ©me HAROLD Both of us are entangled BUT IF SHE'S SO FOND OF HERMAN THAT'S UP TO HER . SHE'S MISTAKEN IF SHE THINKS I'M 7 GOING TO \ CALL HER uP. SINCE HE Got Sweer on Miss DEAN, HE HAUAITS TH’ SCHooL LUNCH 200M! 4 Mish TO SEE Me—\ Att ‘ T.M, SWIGGINS: aes WY \\) \ \ AN hind.” nalignant force} A peculiar expression drifted over| ute I know you as fate relin-].the girl’s face. Her eyes sparkled us| “Then, T know you really love me,” ad upon us I] she laid her hand car y upon|she murmured. “But, Robert—I can v are | h not draw back now. If you wil! wa that AN’ WOT D'YA MEAN BY WRITIN' ME A LETTER LIKE THAT LAST ONE- Gy YEAH - AN’ HE ARGUES ABOUT SUCH SILLY | TRIFLES If “Yes; I want you more every min- —then I will answer you.” Mary Sturtevant rose to her feet and Forrester knew that she was dismissing him. Acting on a sudden impulse, Forrester took thé girl. in his arms and held her close to him. She neither resisted nor responded, but her soft, warm body aroused in Forrester a feeling of reckless deter- nation to solve the mystery quick and at any cost m! eo © we Several days passed without inel- dent, and so far as Green or For: rester were concerned, proj had been made. ere Forrester existed in a state of feverish but profitless activity. He studied several books on criminology and spent hours watching the trees or spying no upon the » Luey, | He could not free himself from the dom this ¢ colored woman | nn .eOR 6 Way. ected with the (Continued on Page Nined