The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 6

i 1 ME SYNOPSIS: In sparkling fioonlight, a beautiful girl slips into the Guyfford mansion— # burglar seeking a dangerous fetter written to Richard Guy | ford, dashing nobieman. Dis- | eovered by Sir Richard, and believing him to be his cousin, Julian, she begs his aid. Rich- | drd is amazed by her talk of | fetters he has not received, ¢alls Julian’s valet, Tom Pitt, and beats that scoundrel until he gives up the latest note. | flanding it to the girl, he re- veals his identity and asks that she tell him more of his own black character, to which she has referred. Against ncr will he aceompanics her toward the village. | CHAPTER 2 { MOONLIGHT—AND FAIR LADY It was a warm, still night, lit by the soft radiance of a rising moon | and full of the languorous frag-| réice of honeysuckle, while from | thé shadowy woods stole the soft, bubbling notes of a nightingale. ! 8ir Richard, glancing at his com- panion, espied a glistering tendril| of hair, a slim, proud-ar and a voluminious clo “Aye me, m sighing heavily, night mos| to sighful dalliance, how say you? “That 1 would be alone, sir.” “Nay, but consider yon bright moon.” “Indeed, 'tis very bright,” atiswered. “Too bright for folks—highwaymen, for instance! * ‘Hig “Gad—so!" he exclaimed waymen!' you say. Now I wonder why?” They had reached the high-road| by now, stretching white before “Here, sir,” she said, “I will give! you good-night!” | “Which I refurn, ma'm, with all| My heart,” he answered with care- less bow. “’ Tis night to be en-| POLLY AND HER PALS DONT TELL PROPER AN’ WHAT AINT.’ GO N THAT PARLOR AN’ - ik i rose " he exclaimed, |8 | denly. WHATS For The Love Of A Lady By JEFFERY FARNOL “You did this—for a woman?” Well, 'was 10 years ago, ma'am and m > fools!™ | And Oh, mar what mo; | ma'm, married. Buf | myself’ [ d she un “tis | rumored you do co with thieves—highwaymen 4 % gentlemen o' the High such as contrived llingly, sort Toby, rath saved my r! 'Twas one head for me, the miracle of my escape, a clever dog and hath my abiding gratitude. And yonder is your inn.” And he | nodded where, across the village green and close beside a square, church-tower, rose the chimneys of the Guyfford Arms, a great rambling place of jutting gables. They were close upon the when from the wide-flung case-; mentment of an upper rhnmborr » sudden tuneful roar and the | words “Of Helen we the pra Our love and wor: inn hip tellin’, To Helen, let our glasses ring, To Hel, to Hel, to Helen—" “Ay, hark to ’em!" said Sir Richard. “Poor {ool guided wretche: rched ‘mHY»:lynr>vl’ to this moment.” on and was walking swiftly away, he hurried after her. “But the inn, ma'm—will | “Beeause I am going home, sir.” “Home?" he repeated. ’ “I am living in the lane beyond | the o' the poor wretch- toll-gate.” in he some frowning thought, and distance, she laughed sud- | | Tijuana randmark that became fa- He made no answer, but \vnlkedimous. not through antiquity but when ;rather because of its rapid had gloomed beside her Lhus‘soon is to give way to prog {1916, the home You are, I think, by nature a racing stake in THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE .27, 1929. SMACK? WoTs THEM KIDS SEARCH ME, MAW! I ANT SEEN x NUTHIN 1 | TIJUANA WRECKING CREW ‘ LCP;‘,-,“"" b ;;"agg“f,;‘f;:;‘ DOOMS COFFROTH'S PLANT DOUGLAS |2 romawipers aboard the| . souise. NEWS 1. PACKING CO. READY TO START is in readiness at th annery, according t E. B. Dudden, to By CLIFF STERRETT DID I HEAR A E | Princ TRINITY GUILD MEETING The Ladies of the Trini Guild will meet at 2:30 o'clock ‘on v afternoon, June 28, at the ce of Mrs. Wellman Hol- on Seventh Street. A full ‘attendance is desired. FOR SALE ONE SUNNYSUDS Electric Washing Machine NEW—Polygon Gyro Type Machine is all metal with a full size | COPPER TUB [ Price $125.00 | Fully Guaranteed Free Trial Bl L | 1 Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. ty Church Juneau Phone 6 Douglas Phone 18 —adv. J - e | Fresh roasted peanuts und pop-; cern. v operations toward putting| |up a record pack during the en- ! 1g season which opened in this district on Tuesday, June 25. While may not be as plentiful as last | year, it is hoped that with increas- 10(1 facilities, to at least equal last | year’s output, he said. | With practically a new founda- tion of piling which was driven by the city this spring and consid- erable new decking replacing the fold‘ there is more floor space avail- able, which with some rearrange- track at Tijuana. ° By RUSSELL iWLAND TULIP WEARS RING { 'ult (A. P. Sports Writer) 5 LR { | TOLEDO, Ohio, June 27.—A. F Keller, a district fire chief, has a| tulip bulb with a ring in its nose.’ {Keller planted a bul") growth, | and Vegetables TIJUANA, Mexico, June 27 last spring. head above with it. When it pushed its ground a silver ring sets was embedded in three ARRIVED ON “ALASKA” race track built in of the richest horse the world—the Cof- | The Tijuana We SPECIAL1ZE on rinting and sunees 100 Greann saren| Old Papers for sale at Empire Office Pete Says: “An opportunity for every Housewife, STRAWBERRIES for canning pur- poses, that can’t be duplicated $3.75 per crate . . . by the basket or box 3 for 50 cents . . . they are WONDER- FUL BERRIES.” “WHY PAY MORE” PHONE 486 Personal Delivery Service mort creature?” she inquired. |froth handicap—has lived its day “Why, I'm better company wl:onland like so many other relics of drunk, they tell me,” he answered. earlier times, is doomed to crumble “And I suppose the worst B Praming Pictures. Call in and see! adv. Jjoyed; let us go on.” | “So you will afflict me with your | presence, sir?” “Gladly, ma'm—until I weary, or| our work. Coates Studios. e | Try a HOT TAMALE after the California name before the wrecker’s tools. Choice Fruits and Melons CANTALOUPES—nice and ripe, 2 for you reach your friends or carriage,| or inn, or—" \ “Sir, you grow but the more de-! testable.” “Perfectly, ma’'m! And our near-| est inn is the Guyfford Arms, two| miles hence. Walking at four miles to the hour thus gives you but half| an hour to endure the infliction | of my company, and in half anj hour you may tell me of myself,, my sins and frailties, than I am at|complete man o' fashion my—ha— | present sensible of—mine ears at- tend you.” | “So be it, sir, and now shall they tingle.” She tossed back her hood with sudden angry gesture, show- ing him all the proud scornful beauty of her face. “I know you, Sir Richard Guyf-|turning to be gone, but she stayed | ford, for one of infamous life, a menace to &)1 purity and inno-ir think perhaps you may' send back |ing a score or more of champion- eence.” “Egad!” he exclaimed, shaking his head, “and I know myself a; plague! . . . Continue, I beg!” “I know you for drunken satyr— a cold-hearted libertine—" “Now, 'pon my soul, ma'm, you shock me.” “And oh, most vile — a black- mailer of women who—" Even as she gasped at his fearful oath she was stayed and swung by powerful hand to behold a face so transfigured that her courageous #pirit quailed at last, and, bowing proud head, she covered her face against those awful, glaring eyes. “You are indeed Sir Richard Guyfford?” she inquired, in voice| strangely hushed. “Never doubt it. upon my honor.” And now as he went beside her, his sombre eyes staring down at; Wwhite road or up at brilliant moon, she looked at him often and with ever-increasing uncase. ¢ “Come, proceed, lady, I beg!” And now his eyes were twinkling, his lips twisted in their sardonic smile; she met his eyes and— spoke, yet in her tone was subtle change. I am he, ma'm, | fool, I, for sake o'/ as fair, enlisted for the i said, Sir Richard, that you |} and —condemned to § any woman may answer to is— Helen!” “Oh, sir! And why?” “Well, sne was a wanton, brought ruin and destruction on a brave people. A somewhat wholesale lady for your ordinary woman is—" “Too good for your ordinary man, sir!” “Hum! ma'm. Now, touching yourself, You ha' never met that dear cousin, Julian Guyfford? “No . ... And here is my house sir,” said she, pausing at a gate set amidst a very high, thick hedge. “I bid you good-night.” Sir Rich- ard took off his hat and bowed. “Y'r servant, ma'm.” said he, him with a gesture. “Sir Richard, those letters—some day?” § 35 i i f iment of machinery gives the can- | \ 9 i % |nery an up-to-date appearance. | 4 ¢ | About the same crew as last year | ) T ‘ |is again employed at the plant, and ; 4 4 A ! |in addition to a number of small- : 3 ‘ boats, five large seine boats have | been engaged to fish for the can-, : 5 A | nery. Three of these, the Volunteer, ' 1 Defender and Lister are already y, mis-| N | here and the other two are on the tossing down th(*irj N8 way. Gill net bonts_ are also com- { some regardless she ! X j4 |ing in to change their nets and ge who is probably smiling on another | | e COFFROYH ’i‘flhl"., for tl\_f'_iomn«uu. | g | g | Here, finding the lady had nnnoj i ' | | | ,\'0!11 “Sunny Jim” Coffroth who created the world’s richest turf stake— not enter?" | the Coffroth handicap—will just be one of the firm operating the new Fresh, she studying his face. “You have never asked my name, sir.” “§'life, ma'm, it never occurred to me.” “I am Helen D'Arcy.” “Helen!” he repeated. “Ay, I feared so. Madam, I salute you.” (Copyright, 1928, Jeffery Farnoy) Richard, it is shown in to- morrow’s chapter, may have been painted blacker than he deserves. rress Your Suit. Phone 528. LET Amauis We call and deliver. G 5 JAPANESE TOY SHOP H. B. MAKINO Pront Street P.O.Bflllllotmwl e e e Pretender, was taken at Sherriff- .Whpflm.mdi » ax by a miracle—and was flnal-‘ “I think, perhaps, I may, ma'm.”; " After this they remained silent|Coffroth moved bag and bagy very Cato, fleeing Woman like al,while, he staring up at the moon,|to Lower California. | And while its wooden walls arc |being demolished, a new plant of | |steel and concrete will be reari iits unromantic outline a short dis- tance away. Horse racing, of course, is to be continued in Baja, California, as it has since James “Sunny Jim” Cof- {froth first came to this western X part of Old Mexico more than 13 years ago. | Coffroth, an international figure as a San Francisco boxing pro- moter during the 45 round days, gave up his promotional enterprises in this game when it was voted il- legal in California in 1914. Horse irace betting in the state suffered a similar fate about the same time. Sensing the opportunity and flushed with his success in promot- show. Juneau TIce Cream Parlors. | Grocery E Phone 478 Free Delivery E ki | CAPITAL LAUNDRY | We Call and Daliver PHONE 478 =) ANNUAL PICNIC Serbian Flag Society NO. 114 Salmon Creek FRIDAY—JUNE 28TH iship bouts ranging from the ban- tamweight to heavyweight divisions, e His plans were declared imprac- ticable but the track was opened {January 1, 1916. Nature conspired against him, and two weeks later {floods wiped out the project. But |2 new racing plant sprung up and with it the Coffroth handicap. The first running of this classic had |2 winner’s value of only $4,000. The (last running in the spring of 1929 had a gross value of $130,000. The new race track will be known as the Agua Caliente Jockey Club | and will represent an outlay of more than $1,000,000. While the new combine includes Coffroth in} its membership, he is not expected to participate as actively as before The leaders in the new organiza- tion are Wirt G. Bowman, Baron Long and James N. 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