The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 6

POLLY AND HER PALS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 23, IF oo EVER TELL THAT ME AN’ YOU GOLD, B SYNOPSIS: Driven into the deserted Lundy saloon by the fury of the Skull Valley sand storm, John Pecbles is pursued | in the dark by an unknown | enemy. From behind the bar | on the first floor, Peebles flees | from his assailant’s bullets to a gallery on the floor above. Peebles hurls a chair at t man, grapples with him and is thrown against the wall. As he he discovers a i which he crawls door strikes it, door, throu, into another room. The bolted, Peebles collap porarily safe from hi er. Chapte POKER FACES The storm lashed at the ing and loose boards rattled like skeletons dancing in a closet. I was vaguely aware of the man inves- tigating the other side of the He would rap on the door with the butt of his pistol, then hurl him-} self upon it, but without effect. I| HEY LISTEN! LOOKED ALIKE. M JESS AS WHEN I HADNT ANXIOUS MY MOUSTACHE, | [ T'KEEP IT (LL SKIN YE! DARK, AS | You 15, INK! small |moved build- | th h that I was not! They must know I was here. Why didn’t they move? They sat in da . Why didn't they 2 light? I me my lps in speech, but 0 word fell from them, and I amered on the floor Wwith my Again I tried to speak, this h better suc there! I wish you'd help me, | The two men neither spoke or| fi time wit coldness bega ing That pa Lo crecp over m t off. Strugglin d to get to my mightily, I haunches. Then [ remembered the solita match | in my hand. The very thing to attract their attention! the match sharply across but it must have been defective, for while the phosphorous flared up it did not light the stick, but hissed and sputtered and began to go out. The brief and feeble flame made little impression on the % face of the room but it did htly illuminate the surface of | e — e was too ill to care and too dazed move. Some time passed and n I heard him no more. Presently I began to feel better. The room was pitch black. I still had a single match. Treasuring it between my fingers, I was loth to use it. If I struck the match the flame would burn out and I would have lost my last anc glity. In a way, I think I feared the light even more than I did the dark, for I had an uncanny sense of some fresh horror o ng me. This sounds absurd, but it will in- dicate to you the abnormal state of my mind and how unfitted I was to pass on the nature of what was to follow. 1 tried to rid my mind of its ob- session by focusing my attention on the events that had brought me to this graveyard town. Gold bul- lets—poker ps—playing cards— the man “Jerry"—Andrew Ogden and Alex Peterson the same man— blackmail—Mrs. Joe Lundy—Dillon —Furie—Jerry flying for his life— but it wasn't J —Nathan Hyde LJerry and Lucy driving into the sandblast. And then: who had fired on me at the mine? Furie—Dillon? Dillon—Furie? Furie—? “God help me!” I thought. “It can't be real! Or else I am going mad!” 1 found then, that the storm had stopped. When, I did not know, for I had lost track of time. The si- lence was more devastating to my tortured nerves than the uproar which had preceded it. I wanted to weep, to laugh, to scream, to dash my head against the floor. And then I made a discovery. The room wasn't as dark as it had been when I fell in through the door. I made out the shape of a small window on the north side of the room. As I continued to stare at the window a paralyzing coldness came over my body. 1 was not alone in the room! Two men were sitting facing each other over a table in front of window. The outline of their and shoulders merged into shadows which enclosed the , but they were unmistakab- there. That is, unless I were gnad, and I was not at all sure ge in re- | ¥ the table. At what I saw I drop- ped the match and flopped down {on my back again. “I am mad, or else T am dream- [ing,” 1 said quite aloud. The two men did not In moment of light I had seen ing cards and stacks of on the table. The two plaring poker in the k and their cards were exposed! was a showdow Crouched against | fought the horror rising in my east. I was asleep! That was it of course. Afterwards, I would laugh |at my crazy nightmare! And yet |—and yet—I ran my hands over the floor. Sand scoured my finger |ends. I felt of my body—thin and |bony, but real enough. Breathing deeply, I lifted my eyes to the window again. The outlines of the two I and shoulders were still there. “Well,” I said aloud, “if you want to. sit in the dark pretending to play poker, why shouldn’t you? It's your business, isn't it? And if you don't choose to take notice of me I can likewise ignore you.” But this nonsense didn't check my rising hysteria, which suddenlv got the better of me. “Who are you?” I shrilled. Silence still. “What are you doing there? You peak. | | 4he floor, I 1 | rEOOD.NlSHT.' IF WE LOOK ALIKE FROM THE NOSE Down. MEBBE SOME X DAY WELL LOOK ALIKE ) IF THE EARS LIP defini solid ULLETS DISGRACEFUL |Body of Carey Hodgson can’t play poker in the dark! You! can't make a fool out of me!” I| pounded on the floor with my fists. | No response. | “For God's sake speak to me!” I screamed. “Who—who are you?” Still that devastating silence. 1'got to my hands and knees and crawled towards the table.| “Why don't you speak to me?” I| begged. “T can’t stand it! I'll make | you talk! What are you?” | Sliding my hand over the edge| jof the table I clutched one of the| {playing cards. That, at least, was | real, and I thrust it into a pocket. Steadying myself with the table, I climbed to my feet. I thought I would fall, but somehow I managed | |to remain standing. . | | My trembling hand went out to the arm of the figure on my right. | I felt a shirt, gritty with sand. Still | Xhalf blinded, I could make nothing \I Fratar Sarsie. o, Grat Brtan rghe errers > of the man, but there was! uff beneath the shirt. I fear- fully ran my hand up to the shoul-| der. No word or movement from the figure. s ! “Speak to me!” I implored. “A word! Oh, speak!” | Still that dreadful silence. Hor- ror clawled within my breast. My hand clept along the shoulder to the neck, and then to the face.| The sh was cold. ‘ | Somethir pped in my brain. All feeling t out of my arms and legs and body and I pitched censeless to the floor. (Copyright, 1929, 'Wm. Morrow Co.) driven Poebles insane? Will he tomorrow’s chapter. Treadwell cave-in. 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