The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1929, Page 6

R RO e POLLY AND HER PALS By CLIFF STERRETT YER SURE MY MOUSTACHE HAS GROWN OUT ENOUGH SO THAT I DONT LOOK LIKE POSITIVELY HON. FA! LIKE VE TOOK THE GLASS OUTTA THIS MIRROR, AUNT SUSIE R WHERE'LL I PUTN [LL LEARN YE T'TELL yTOLD ME 10, I dared no go on; I was afraid to' remain still. Halfway up the west side of the gallery T stopped once more. A I beam of light shot out of the dark- was posted near |ness in my rear 30 feet away. He had kept the torch back until he |was sure I was unarmed. Now he knew he had me. I drove myself {on again GOLD, BULLETS SYNOPSIS: .jme that my enemy Lucy and Jerry out of the ghost | the open door. town of Torridity because the ! I am no more cowardly than tires of his auto were slashed, |most men, but the wind of death on Pecbles decides to explore the {my flesh had set my nerves o-quiv- deserted Two Brothers mine, |er. My hand feeling about under |headlong over a broken chair and owned by the murdered An- |[the bar encountered a heap of |sid along the floor I squirmed | drew Ogden. As he starts to |empty beer bottles. I stood up|into the further corner of a par- | enter a slash in the rock at |noiselessly, bottle in hand, and |titioned alcove next to the wall. | here hurled it the direction of the y pursuer could not see me. My | miral flash. one side of the mine, a bullet in strikes over his head. A second tears off his hat. He leaves, ‘ As the bottle left my hand I |chair 3 jth convinced that the unseen |heard a grunt, a scorching oath, |around the alcove partitfon and let | view {and the crash of glass, | go. (later marksman is guarding the en- 1 trance to a mew vein of gold. | Crack! The bar quivered as the| The chair went home. The man| A furious sandstorm springs up |[slug plowed into it. “Hell be cursed and the light beam swept suddenly and lashes Peebles un- |stalking me next.” I reflected. “If | downward; it fell through the well mercifully. He ally stumbles |only T had a pistol!” The irgny of of the hall. A tinkle of glass as it into an old building. owning several hundreds of them |struck the floor was faintly audi- — and being unarmed when I needed |ble Chapter 21 |one, had not escaped me. | I sensed the man's approach. I STALKED BY A KILLER | I thought of the stair and the heard his excited breathing, and I, The wind yammered and snarled [gallery above. If I could get up felt him, at last, standing in front like a regiment of baboons. Blasts there I might have a better chance. 'of the alcove, gun leveled. The pis- low c I had heard and read of sand-?crept to the stairs and started up hidden, or he would have hit me. storms of Skull Valley scouring the it on my toes. Halfway up, the The flash showed me exactly where enamel off a car and grinding the wind dropped for a minute, and he was. Tensing my body, I let glass of a windshield until it was|at precisely that moment I stumbl- myself go. opaque. ed over a sprung board. The board I struck him like a battering Just then I pitched | LOCAL LAUNDRY BUSINESS Roy Serii, wife and son, arrived |hands fell upon the back of afdence with S. Fujii, proprietor of I picked it up, whirled it the Douglas Hand laundry with the | WINNER OF FANUY WORK One of the features of the sil-|J. Imlach, one of the best known ver tea at the home of Mrs. J. R.|fish men in the north, as Super- Guerin will be the disposing of the intendent. embroidered bed spread and features of the hand-work display |days, at least, at Port Benny. volleyed in through the open door.|Grasping another heer bottle, I tol cracked again. I must have been jat their recent bazaar. STARS PLANNING PIQNIC Nugget Chapter No. 2, O. E. S.,| is looking forward to the annual picnic for Masons and Stars to be’ LADIES’ LEAGUE MEETING There will be a business meeting | of the Ladies League tomorrow | night in the League rooms and all | members are asked to attend. 'FORMER PURSER MORGAN NOW IN | otr Fur Manufacturing Depart- iment is in charge of an expert FISH mDUSTRY]mmer. Goldstein’s Emporium. adv SEWING i DRESS MAKING AND ALTERING OF | ALL KINDS | | | e CARD OF THANKS I desire to thank all of my le- gion of friends for kindness and acts of sympathy during my late | bereavement, the death of my be- |loved wife. DOUGLAS NEWS TOM J. M'CARTNEY. MAY CHANGE HANDS E. E. Morgan, for years wen‘i known purser on Alaska Steamship Company steamers, at one time | | General Agent in Southeast Alaska, P i land for the past two years with gf] !lf]kl:;fi? Zz:ml;at business v pacific - American Fisheries, | ¥ |passed through Juneau on the| iy Aleutian for Port Benny. | Mr. Morgan has organized the TO BE DECIDED AT Tfi‘}l\’lorgan Packing Company with) |plant at Port Benny and with W.| from Ketchikan on the Ad- Evans and have taken resi- Telephone 4754 MRS. L. E. SMITH Mr. Morgan announced pil- that he will have fresh herring for over which were the prineipal bait for fishermen by the next 10 o —— ATTENTION REBEKAHS - | Regular meeting of Perseverance| Rebekah Lodge No. 2-A 1. O. O. F.| tonight at 8 o'clock. Visiting mem- | .l The thought of Lucy and Jcrl}"(‘rvukcxl. ram and he staggered to the bal- out in it gave me a bad minute or| Crack! The bottle smashed in cony rzil, dropping the pistol. Be- two. But I reflected that Jerry had |my hand. The flash had come from fore I could follow up my advan- a sound head on his shoulders, and [the bottom of the stair. I bounded tage he lifted me bodily and flung bers welcome. ALPHONSINE CARTER, Secretary. held some time next month. Plans, for the affair which include the| securing of a suitable boat, are in| the hands of the arrangements —adv. We’ll Make Up Your Torridity—nowhere was a sign of human life. {me against the wall in the lacove. { My head as well as my body Istruck the wall, and I passed into !that borderland between sensibility land unconsciousness. My enemy iwas groping for his pistol. I could not lift a hand to stop him. Then My AT |I made a curious discovery. Jxmsed, but were lying in a room‘ behind the wall. Part of it hfld‘mm“- against it, and the upper portion of my body had gone with it. Ice committee. The “Wallflower,” a comedy dra-| !ma, will be the film feature at the |regular Liberty show tonight. lswung in when I was thrown comedy and news features. . | Where my strength came from lce Cream Parlors. | ! Order . for groceries while you wait and $1.00 Speclal |deliver it promptly when you say | |so. We aim to make our delivery . service watch the character of our LINEN LU CLOTH o - THE LIBERTY TONIGHT | CH groceries and table delicacies. In A short it is our endeavor to make head and shoulders were not piled Ppopular theme, with a human ap- | Lh}is the dpcr{ect _grocery t;erv‘xce |up against the wall, as T had sup- Peal, and an all-star" cast' give . where moderate prices are the In- L D P romise of a worthy entertain-|{ With colored border {|variabie rule. There will also be thel usual SANITARY GROCERY % B PHONES—83-85 cream, brick or bulk. Juneau —adv. Jarman’s “The Store That Pleases” e e ] I know not, but I suddenly found | myself wriggling painfully forward {into the room. Two thirds of my’ body were in when I collapsed, ex- | v ‘;hmlsted. Again strength was given! !me and I got myself completely | linto the room. i A dozen seconds may have elaps- |ed before I was able to grope for | ithe door. It swung slowly before |my feeble effort. It stuck and| | creaked. | | “Dear God,” 1 sobbed, “I've got ito shut it!” | |‘ Crack! The bullet ripped through ‘rme woodwork and by the flash I got a glimpse of some one leaping . |into the alcove. Just then the door | |swung to and a latch clicked. My | B , nothing serious would be happen to them. More comfortable in mind and body, I looked about and decided I had tumbled nito Lundy’s Place. I got some of the sand out of my eyes and stood up. My hrad felt twice its normal size and my legs were as weak as straws. 1 was feeling around for a chair when I stopped sharply, my body turned to stone. likely to Ever since I had come into this graveyard town my sénses had been abnormally aclite. The impression that I was being watched was at me again, stronger than ever. T could have sworn there was some one other than myself in the build- ing. There came a lull in the roar of the storm, and suddenly, out of the profound silence, a definite indoor sound broke on my eardrums. It wasn't the sound that brought me up rigid, heart pounding in my thyoat; it was the sense of danger that came with it. Someone was in the room. Why didn't he declare himself? Who was he? The man who fired on me in the canyon? No, he could not have got down here before me. Dillon, then? This was more probable. Pear held me as in a vice. An unknown, unseen enemy sends the horrors up and down my spine. Moreover, I had no weapon of any sort, whereas Dillon would be armed. I pondered swiftly, desper- ately, and decided on a risky ex- periment. Bending double, I picked my way to the lower end of the bar, knelt behind it, and fumbled in my pocket for matches. I was to try and force this unseen enemy to show his inten- | Still crouching low, I struck ‘match and held it above the %M! Crack! Splinters of glass from the shattered mirror behind {hand encountered a flat bolt. I, 'up to the top. There T “stemd'}dmve it home, and sank in a hud-! {He was coming up at a run. I fled‘dle ot Uhs door, along the gallery until I mmeHCcpyflght, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) | néarly to the other end. I crepti H to the wall, as weak as a glass orl skimmed milk, ; Keeping close to the wall, I| moved noiselessly down the gal-| lery, and entered upon the most | terrific half hour of my life. The| gallery ran around the four walls| Dog Licenses—Four Dollars for | of the hall. Now I cdme to the Male and Six Dollars for Female| end. Dillon was somewhere behind dque Junst 1st, 1929. Unlicensed me. Or was he waiting near the dogs will be disposed of. head of the stairs for me to circle | H. R. SHEPARD, |the gallery and run into his arms? \—adv. City Clerk. Safe for the moment—has | Peebles escaped this killer? A | startling climax in tomorrow's | chapter. | e e DOG LICENSES | MOOSE HALL —TONIGHT— 1 Music By the “Dance Trio” MRS. VANCE—Piano . | MRS. DUFRESNE—Violin a B. PARKS—Drums | Let’s Go 'ALASKA — by Lester D. 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