Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1923, Page 8

=z e t t » t ° Y t t r PAGE EIGHT “HILLS OF HAN” BY SAMUEL MERWIN Author of “The Road to Frontenac,” “The Honey Bee,” Etc. INSTALLMENT NO. THREE WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY | give those to the foreigners, then Betty Doane, 19 years old, enroute} 0Me one must threw away his life Doane,| bY bomb throwing and so repay the gshy Ameri a, mee any. But we trust the company on the efully consider and weigh the matter ot py fansi to Tonat Bracing ve aveitec) & fie! not push Hansi to this rence and rude in her and in him a sketch. she had made, His his at ob: five = stout Frenchman arrived. . Pourmont, of the Ho Shan com- pany, a man of fifty or more, with a} }1ong, square trimmed beard cf which | bé was plainly fond. | He, Doane and Withery had tea in the study. Withery observei when the ge Frenchman turned his] head, that ‘the lobe of his left ear| was missing. | M. Pourmont regarded the local situation serious'y. “Zay spik of you| old, en| unpleasantly in connection wiz the Griggsby | Young girls here,” he explained to onary in| Griggsby Doane. | y Doane merely considered this with- gut replying “That statement of the Gentry and hina, t es Jonathan Bra of mo centered dis-|* ntered dis-|*, permits to kiss | People looks rather serious to me," | ve ig de is | Mr. Withery remarked. ws he 1s married Fi . wife, Brach.j@etly. “But you see the officials {are back of it. These ‘Gentry and| he whole afi of it)*shocks ‘Tt has its serious side,” said Doane | People’ would never go so far unsu | ported. It wouldn't surprise me to learn thet th documents originated | thin the yamen of his Excellency jhousehold in| pao Ting Chuan. | volutionist and| ‘Very good,” sald Withery. “But| © on the ship if he lets it drift much further — the danger will be real. Suppose some Withe: on| young hothead were ta teke that inst | ate March, came, by | threat seriously and give up his life} Mrs. Hasmer, Betty's Li Haisen, fe of Dr. Hasmer, | he age. | uinaman, once | rt asu into} {1 nthrowing a bomb—what then?” drab little man, with “It would be serious then, of| nis said Doane. “But I hardly | course, | think any cno here would go so far | unsupported.” “Yes!” cried M. Pourmont, eyes and a | work of bound on sco and Boxers in for home; leave, in some} nan with Griggsby | ¢xcltement, ‘an’ at who ts it zat may | even in the light. of|t'row ze bomb? It ts at me n'est co America, much ‘They | pas? At me! You t'ink I forget v'en | yet resist-| 2 mob {t t'row ze pierre at me? Mats non! Zay tear ze cart of me. Zay Zay destrow ze beat ze heac: of me. ear of me. Ah, c’ etalt terrible, ca.’ Griggsby Doane stood on the Bund; at Hankeew, by the railing, his great frame towering above the passers-by. fin with the in- workers in the din- brick house; and Mr. ntle eyes took in rather tent prec ing-room of the Withery’s shrewdly curious household. It interested him. There were ele-| He had arranged to stop overnight, ments that puz: with Betty, In a miss‘onary com- of staleness in pound. In the morning they would | ke the Express | hward, weekly Peking n that; a The several native workers smiled tension. “Man after man he knocked down with his powerful fists.” and talked fees, he thought, than on, He dwelt much with merortes of his his former visits. faught he had been a winning Little Mr. Boatwright—slenéer, du-| little thing. Until the terrible Boxer sily blond, always hitherto barning|| Yr, that ended, for tim, in the death with the fire of consecration—wnas | Of his wife, sho had brought cantin- continually fumbling with a spoon,|¥0US happiness into thetr life, or slowly twisting his tumbler, the| She would be six years older now.| while moodily studying the table 8 tremulously eager to see her. cloth, And ibis larger wife seemed} There would be little problems of ad- heavis mind as in body. Justment Over an¢é over he told now of the new discon-| Dimself that he musn't be stern with ; he must watch that. | Doane tolc tent among the popu‘aion and, while | be his classes. Withery read | the steamer warped in alongside a a nt giving ‘five items" of | Rew wharf, d nce between the “Gentry and| Doane stood near the gangway, a2} * on the one side and the Ho|©motian, nearly out of control y. onithelother, | Two acled Chinese merchants last “item” did the emo-|!n shimmering silk robes ‘came down Poor Shan compa Only in | tianal reasoning common td Chinese|the gangway. Then a group of Eng public documents make its appear-|!!shmen; a number of families, Ameri ance 5 “Five In Honan the|¢!n, British French. Finally, coming company boldly introduced dynamite, |Slong the shaded deck, the familiar | kindly face and silvery beard of Doc: whi hibitive. The dynamite } exploded and this gave rise to diplo-|tor Hasmer—then his wife, and,| happen in Ha rith the same evil| emerging from the cabin, a slim Itt! conseq f gure, rather smartly dreased, extra matic trouble, A lke thing might ordinarily pretty, radiating a quick Then followed this statement charm as she hurried to the gang:| “The people of Hansi must held to| Way, there pausing a moment to) the'r mines till death, and {f the gov- Search the wharf. | offidials ' stil: unrig Her eyes mot his. She smiled. the foreigners in their! It was Betty. He felt her charm, | on and flog the people, rob-, but b's heart was sinking. he kissed him. She seemed all en- thu m, even very happy. But a moment later, walking along the . wharf towar¢! the Bund, her soft little é tats » was sad, He wondered, as his ASK for Horlick’s oughts whirled around, about thac,! The ORIGINAL Her clothes, her beauty, her bright Malted Milk me indicating 4 girlish eager ness to be admired, wouldn't do at the m’sston. Young Li Hasten of T’ainan, was on © Peking Express in the morning, cling first-class. The boy's fatn- r, alwaya gen- thelr flesh and bloo¢, to ——_~ ‘ nner, For Infante, Invalides & Children or Drink for Al Ages. °"7'! n son k ¢ Office Fountains. ey ait: RichMilk, Malte ‘actin Po er mevitation, sat dertsTabletforms. Nourlshing-Nocooking, W!t 2" Avoid Imitations and Substitutes 7) 1A tae < 20,000 poaee OH , Bor} T Hops I DONT WAKE UP AND FIND (MYSELF SPRAWLED IN ——S copyright, 1923, by Ring ¥ SS PETEY DINK- -- THe “Goat eicur”—S\3¢s. To.B.—THe Compcele car— - AvTo UTerature | LAMPS—WInD-Swie THING EWcIwe, four WHEELS —Two LD — EVery— IMPRovED Miterom iW STecRING WHEEL Makers \T NEARS AHEAD OF oer cars — — 1S5Posm ¥ SHovipn't Go InN For A CAR. THts NEAR——1! HappA BorRow MONEY TO PAY MY INComE TAY — BuT— 'M GouNerR GET A CAT2 THis SPRING AND NOTHING'S GoNNER STop Me— mired them for adontinz and adapting! to thelr own purpooses the material achievements of the western world He had evidently heard something of less Theodore Rocwevelt and rather of Lioyd George and was of the opinion, the tiffin hour th d haa 1 be had learned in six months 0. | When as he was not fin- hing out Tokig smiled enigmatically and spoke of es ut home. He knew, of course, | » would instantl the reason as meant Chinese way of preferred not to answe Tw four hou later th ferres their luggage to the Line, and he ° year at red hills. Thi the cumpound of M. Pourmont, Ho Shan corr at Ping in ancient unpleasant ge inns. | ‘There were a number of young men at Ping Yang; one French engineer who spoke excelent English; an Aus- tralian; others, and two or three | young matrons who had adventur- ously entered the intorior. They all called in the evening. The hospi ple “Pourmont tcok up the rugs and turned on the talking machine and! the young peop’e danced Doane. sat apart, watched the gracefully gliding couples; tried to was on. Be ir smile. The 3 realized the thick of dance before he what was meant, He coul(\n't have spoken without others hearing. It was plain enough that she entered! into it without a thought. | Pao Ting Chuan was a man of great shrewdness and cons.derable distinciton of appearance, skied in ceremonial inercow , @ master of the intricate cou @ prominent of. ficlal must steer between beautifully phrase mor and ethical max: s on the one hand and complicated poll tical trickery on the other, ‘Tho tao-tai of the city of T’ainan. fu, Chang Chih Ting, was an older man than Pao, less vigvrous of body and mind, simpler and franker. He of those who bewall the back-| wardness of China. From the tao-tai’s yamen, on first day of the great April fai forth His Excellency in full panoply of state—a great offical chair with manay bearers, an escort of twenty footmen, with runners on aheac. Behind this carxvun, hidGen from view in the depths of a blue Pekin: cart, rode Griggsby Doane The principal feature of the open ing day was a theatrical performance. was The stago was a tfurm in | open air. | His Excellency steod, with Doane, on a knoll, looking out’over the heads | of the vast aud.ence taward tne Doane estimated the attendance at near ten thousand Tho play, begun in the early morn- ing, was now well advanced. At its conclusion, the audience was begin. ning to break up when a slim blue clad figure mounted the platform and began a hurriea speech. | Chang and Doane looked at other; then as one man moves fcr ward down the knoll with the] throng. Tho taotais attendants followed, in scattered formation. | The speaker was Li Haien. At first the crowd, at sight of the! magistrate’'s embroidered = insignia made way as well as they could. | But as the tmpassioned phrases of Li Hsien sank into thelr minds re: sistance developed. From here and each here in the crowd camo phrases ex-| These formed a preasing @ vile contempt for foreign: ers such as Doane had not heard for years. Li was lashing himself up, erying|®gainst the Ho Shan company. begged his hearers to be brave, as he the Ho Shan company, the barbarous} was prave, to destroy all the works white governments frum which {t de|o¢ the company with dynamite; to the grounds of ngineer at Ping Yang and k out more and more vigorously against everywhere fore the rived force, The crowds cl sense of violence seemed to increasing. A few of the magietrat escort were struggling = throu MR GOoGte Thar Miss LACA IS WAITING FoR HIM tn Tae — IF Petey, BWYs A@R im GOING TO LEARN “To DRive 1T— — So Am Y AvNTIE— Won't Iv BE FUuN—— HERMAN'S GOT ONE BIG ADVANTAGE — HE'S NOT FAT. OH WELL, | DONT HAVE TO BE EITHER! | FASHION SAYS SUSPENDERS [__| ARE TH VoouE- | WANT To IMPRESS MISS DERN THAT IM ALLUS FI2ST WITH TH’ BIRD THAT LOST 40 POUNDS IN FOUR WEEKS} HM! WHEN YPuT oN A VEST YCANT SES [ays sera THIS TIME fm GOING TW KEEP IT UP. I'M GOING TO WELL- FAINT HEAT Nevere <apTURED A Faire Maip - Lets Go! SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923. WA Nt Ai IT'S NO SIGN HE CAN'T OVERCOME IT. 1 CAN HAVE MY NEW OVERCOAT CUT DOWN= ‘aT QINT LarRey SEMON, ¥ kLUCcK- CAUSE HES IN ALa-ForRNie! WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER.« It Amounts to the Same Thing ee = 1. GOT A SWELL | NEW PROPOSAL % iv R ALL ALONE: IT CANT. miss! / TH’ PARLOR Lf ree ALL RIGHT GANzy! I |{ Gor EVERYTHING SET { -aAND — AND SWEETHEART, I WOULD GLADLY DIE For you! ~~ a 5) + ONS ca and Doane. Lt shouted aut charge after chargo wrock to circle aout him}I am brave. I die for Hans, Can not you, too, die for Hansi? Can not you think of me, of how I died for our cause, and yourself, in memory of my act, fight for yaur belovel country, that {t may again be the proud queen of the earth?” Ho drew a revolver trom his sleeve; shot twice; fell to the atage in a wid- ening pool. of blood. At once-the vast crowd went wild Those near Doane, the white mar turned on hi to idl him: | clothes were to is head cut He the foreign 11 foreigners the a ity at THEN YoU MAY NAME / Orns-cucngormovde. T Fs | IF YOU FEEL THAT WAY || ————_— ABOUT TT MR. GANZY, FOR OUR WEDDING ] h | WINNIE 2 FOR OUR , WEDDING 22? 7 (ror your» \ ( FUNERAL! | i after man he knocked down with his evfnl sts. Before many mom- ents he was exulting in the strug: +. 48 sirength ang the full use of it. The magistrate struggled beside him. For the people, in their frenzy, forgot or ignored his rank and oyer-. whelmed him, wy Then n body of horsemen came the judge's all on shaggy Manch wwinging c! pines rode. Right left, men and boys fell. broke and scattered. Chang, bleeding small wounds, his exquisitely ombroid ered siken garments torn nearly off his body, made his way back to the green char, Doane was ‘escorted by soldiers to the mission compound. |{n to wash off the blood and change charging Into the crowd, soldiers from| his clothes withort being seen | Betty or any of the whites. came two Stort | Excelle Pao Ting He slipped The crowd | ing trays of gifts. Anda Chineso note expressing (eepest regrot and pledg- from several] ing complete protection in the fu- ture, Doane dismissed the runners with a Mexican dullar each, and thoughtfully considered the eltuatfon. Pao was strong, very, strong. Yet the self-destruction of Li Halen wou'd act as a flaming signal to the by | people, It was the one appeal that | might rouse them beyond control, runners of His} (Capyr! yndicate, Inc) Pe resem. B + a e a S t & £ fe