The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1929, Page 6

DAY ps ANT THIS GREAT? OR THE HERE WE ALL ARE, AS SNUG AS A BUG NEEMWAH' REST OF US IS ALL HEREY i TW/NT ME BOSS’ Y'LL ALWAYS FIND § ME MINGLIN' W1D MAH WHITE FOLKS AFTER DARK! yimmg For The Love Of A Lady By JEFFERY FARNOL SYNOPSIS: A ghostly vision —a murderer confesses! Vis- ébunt Brocklehurst falls into Pruffeni's clever trap. Julian | Guytiord's face, horribly lumi- | nous and ghastly, appears be- fore him—Brocklehurst blurts O#t his confession, drops to the ground, choking, gasping, dead. | Sir - Richard stands vindicated: The next day another death is diseovered—the Galloping Par- $0n. Captain Despard is sinking | rapidly, life almost gone. Lady i n D'Arcy decides to nurse eaptain, to save him from death. | | Chapter 43 Fyig-o {lies and what not.” LOVE FINDS A WAY For two weeks Sir Richard had | worked with fiery zeal; today the| hedges showed trimmed and even.| Another 24 hours and this revered pléce of earth would be it, was | when trod by his long-dead moth- | ér. Though the day was hot, he was | digging and toilings with a certain | grim fury. Presently pausing to take a breath, he walked to the piddock, nearby, where Gregory | He was yet staring at this mis- |sive when a dolorous voice hailed: “Dick . . . Dicky! Oh, Rich- ard!” sat her upon his shoulder, opened? the paper and read: This to apprise you of a tea- drinking here, this day at four o'clock for purpose touching, very nearly, each and both of us. But what this is, come you and learn from the lips of 1 Your determined friend, Helen D'Arcy. Setting little Shuri gently down, he beckoned to Gregory. “Take her to Abigail” said he “cakes, Greg . . . sucklets, jel- Then he went back into the rose- garden and there beheld Mr. Trumpington, drooping dejectedly against the sundial. ““Alas, Dick—all's over! Hope’s flickering beam expires. Dick, they have made a match on ‘t—" “Who?” “Our peerless D'Arcy pard.” Sir Richard turnihg away and, reaching for his spade, gripped it and Des- mrd crushed Helen to his heart—tear-dimmed eyes bespoke her joy. wu burning a very mountain of and briars. “Gloomily, both stared at the fire, begari to speak thus: Richard: I understand Cap- Despard is at last out o i © Gregory: And was out o' doors yesterday! “Sir Richard: it. Gregory: Leaning upon my lady's am! 8ir Richard: She . . . I hear. agory Samson vows she saved | his life, and but for her most gen- | tle care— "8ir Richard: And now, Greg, now beginneth for him a new life— the which doth mind me! Go bring lther the third volume of Mon- taigne's Essays. Gregory: Eh—here, sir? With look of wonderment, Greg- oty left ' and presently returned with a large open volume, disclos- ing a thick wad of manuscript. The upprmost bore this inscription: ereinunder, proofs showing cwhun George Despard to be the netorious malefactor and highway- man known as—Captain Archer. “S8o you have read this?” “Ii have,” answered Gregory, hic gaunt features grimly resolute. “Then you will forget it. me the papers.” I rejoice to know also nursed | Give “Wherefore?” demanded Gregory “To burn 'em.” “You mean . . . sir . . . Con- sider, reflect—but for this man she be thine _'She? Nay, 'tis her fortune you ha?” *No, no, but for this one-time gue, her heart would turn towards Richard—I know it, boy!” leapt and seizing gory in compelling grasp, took ffom him the closed volume . . . § momént those fatal papers blazing in the very heart of hard, while Mr. Trumpington moan- led: | sighed himself out of hearing, Sir “Thus, today, Dick, within this very hour, at four o'clock I am bid to the Moat House to witness their betrothal—or some such calamity —and hither go I deject—to see anothéer's "1ips mayhap press—Oh! smite me dumb!” “Amen!" growled Sir Richard. “Ah, my poor Dick, 'tis evident that, being man, thou dost love her too. I know, I know—'tis writ i’ thy painful brow.” “So—fare thee well!” Long after Mr. Trumpington had Richard leaned motionléss upon his spade, staring down at the new- turned earth. ' Rousing at last, Bir Richard be- took him to his labour again; he iug thus until afternoon languish- 2d to evening and evening to ten- der twilight. Then, casting by his spade, he sank upon that weather- worn marbleé seat ‘whereon his roung mother had sighed forth her tentle soul so many years ago. Sir Richard’s task was complete. tately orderliness, restored to a semblance of that beauty which had seen so dear to ‘the’heart of that loved one who once had toiled there. In dark gloom, Sir Richard stared thead with unseeing eyes past the Sudding tops of newly planted flow- ers, He glanced up and started to his eet . . . Helen was coming towards 1m down the path, cloaked to the limpled chin of her. “8o you never came to me!” said ‘he, In volce wonderfully tender. “No, I ... I couldn't!” he an- jwered, harshly. *“I was kept by . other business.” “Yes, you burned certain papers. Oh, I know this of Gregory. 1 tnow, also, how you strove with death in that awful pool—and won! [ know how, discovering shameful secret of one you deemed a rival, you kept it secret still . . . Captain Archer, being man of honour, hath told me all . . . And so, Richard here come I to beseech thy for- giveness . . . " She was down—down before him on her knees, and he saw her eyes oright with tears. ~ Awkwardly and speechless still ‘l'\shc: “*Twas for thee—all for ' thee. Hadst but come this' afternoon. he raised her and she, stood before | him a resplendent vision bedecked | with jewels that sparkled in her | glossy tresses—and yet none bright- | er than the tears that gemmed her( 'twas my desire to plight thee my tréth before all those had so doubt- ed theée—even as I doubted—though always was I thy friend, Richard,| because this friendship o’ mine, a5 I do know at last, was very love . 80 Dick Full-o’-love, if thou'lt havc mie. 7% 7 | Heé swept her up to his heart, he | bore her to the arcient marble seat | ——she was in his arms, on his knees, clasped fast against his heart. i “Helen . . . Oh, Helen!” he mut- | tered. “I never Ktew . never | guessed how much I loved thee, what life would mean . . . without thee until I thought thee lost.” | “Beloved man!” she murmured, | touching his moist eyes with ten- | der fingers. “Ah, my dear, my Dick | full of love, from the night T struck this dear face with my hateful whip | —oh, most odious me!—I knew my- self thy very own—thine forever, guilty or no . . . But tonight—nay, ! prithes, Kiss me ot yet—tonight || tis joy far beyond my poor telling to know thyself so truly loved by | onc 'so brave, so honourable, so proud a gentleman as my Guyfford o’ Weare! And now now, my Dick Full-o’-love. (Copyright, 1928, Jeffery THE END e DOUGLAS NEWS EXCITING TRIP UP TAKU REPORTED BY KIRKHAM Farnol) J. O. Kirkham returned home Saturday after two weeks spent on his second trip up the Taku River, | this season. Considerable hardship | was reported but some valuable looking prospects were located. Mis- | fortune overtook Mr. Kirkham and party on their way home, however. | As they were coming down the river the boat hit a submerged tree overturning the boat, throwing Kirkham and another man into| rushing water from which they ex- tricated themselves with difficulty. Everything including the boat was lost, only the engine being salvaged. | Mr. Kitkham will now have to, make another trip to his prospccts to secure additional“samples. \ VISITS FRIENDS The steamer Queen was ‘dn early | morning caller' ‘at the city wharf today with mail and freight. With all first class accommodations| chartered by an Oregon delegatlon., the ship had a capacity list of | passengers. | While the bodt was In port Mrs. | Josephine Simons had the pleasure | of visiting with a number of friends from her former home. —— e VISITOR HERE L. W. Kilburn is enjoying a visit from H. J. Harvey, of Auburn,! Wash,, who is an old prospecting| parther of the former. The two! men prospected together in Prince| William Sound about 25 years ago.| Mr. Harvey who is making a round trip through Alaska expects to leave for his home on one of the| next boats. ———————— HIRSCH VSITING WITH HER BROTHER MISS Miss Wilhemina Hirsch, who is making the round trip to South- east Alaska is stopping over for a week's visit with ‘her brother,| Adolph. The young lady will re- main here a week and then go to Centralia where she is to teachI school this fall, e — EAGLES AUXILIARY IS TO MEET TONGHT Mamie Feusi announces that the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Eagles will hold a regular meeting tonight at 8 o’'clock. Dell E. Sheriff, Juueau’s pl:mal tuner. Hotel Gastineau. —adv - i At the, Coliseum [ Tomorrow | SINGING FOOL i NOR WAS (T T LIKE S LIZA, TWILIGHT ALSOR STIMULATES . MY PASSION FOR THE HON. PALE- FAcr—S‘ /‘v Cigar shaped dirigible trans-Atlantic liner (¢bove), upon its arrival from Germany, seen from an Lower, the ship hovering above Lakehurst, N. 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