The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1930, Page 6

e e e i e S0 RS GONE TO FETCH A LITTLE PLAYMATE GooD! C ON SIGHT! SYNOPSIS: Foul play is sus- pected when Caroline Brent mysteriously disappears from the quiz into Dan Parados dcath. A searching party gocs out. Allan Hunt, in love with Caroline, hears her scream as he enters a room in the Para- dos home. A man leaps at him and he is knocked unconscious. Waking up, Hunt remembers the man’s face. It was le Balafre, cne of the two French con- viets who had come to the is- land burning with hate for Parados, whom they believed their betrayer of 25 years ago. Hunt has a hurich they have taken Caroline to an old fish- ing village at one end of the icland. Telling a maid to noti- fy others of the scarching par- ty, he races there, only to find no trace of anyone. BABYLON ouldn't do chance > destina- launch THREE MEN OF I chook myself. That 1 had not given the pl I the co tlon of the was oul there some The Wharf attracted ed along it, cautlously way over the J king. I moved with absolute quietness, The wharf w some perhaps 200 fect lapidated sheds occupied end of it Spddenly I stopped. I had to stop. ‘The wharf ‘was broken in two. Where I stood, some hundred long al di- had collapsed. A gap perhaps ten feet wide separated the two sec- tions. It was impossible to get @cross the gap, except by swim- ming or boat The lower half| where the sheds stood, formed aj little island—a little fortress. | Just then I saw a light. A mere thread cf light it was. In @ twinkling it had gone. I breathed deeply, gratefully. They were there » was with them. Not a shadow of a doubt lingered in my mind. How was I to get her away from them. As my eyes drilled into the dark- ness something heaved itself up, stood erect and became the figure of a man. I dropped, my heart in my throat, 1 supposed he was either le Bal- afre or Bec; then I heard the faint | dripping of his garments as hej wrung them and I knew better. He would be Flique or Samuels—the former, I hoped. A breaker sloshed | apound the piling just then and| he did not hear my low whistle. By the time the water had subsided he had moved down the wharf and passed from sight. Slipping out of my shoes and overcoat, I let myself down over the edge of the wharf, which was gome four feet above the water, Then 1 hooked my right arm| around one of thé piles and slid cautiously down it. I clung to a pile for an instant. The tide was ebbing fast, Letting go, I was swept along 25 feet or so, when I anchored myself to another pile—the one up which the man had climbed, I thought, as several cross Dpieces were nalled upon it, forming a ladder. My hand was upon one of these cross pieces when I heard @ voice. What it said I could not make out, but a penetrating metal- lic quality in its tone called to mind the livid face of le Balafre, The voice was blown toward me through the piling from a point gsomewhere under the wharf and I Mstened. The gurgle of the water was all T heard, but T did see some- thing. A barricade of planking was erected against two of the center in a cross-wise direction. I thought the planking made a right angle turn and ran lengthwise with the wharf. {1 knew in a flash what it was, Phe convict§ had buflt an oblong enclosuré large enough to give thelr jaunch secret harborage, or they had found some sort of 4n enclos- ure there and adapted it to their needs. The latter probably. A carelessly erected barricade of totting pliiking beneath a ruined whar{ would not be apt to attract the attention of anyone putting 600D NIGHT! For L=y Y MEAN!! = ERTRUDE f:z -{ GERTRUDELL 1< : f -8PROE:ABLY sLAY ) THE ROOR CHILD, =11 heard le Balafre’ A trap would connect the en- | closure with one of the sheds on the wharf, I supposed, and it occurred 0 me that T could do no better n make use of i. Flique—or Samuels—would have his hands full as 1 doubted if either le Balafre would be taken alive. out for the barricale, 1 er and toe hold in the had surmised, it rown together with de- essness—and holsted to the top—which was soms t below the wharf. he enclosure the launch craf! ngle of light de-|. ap in the floor of the launich, whi had made it ricade. Iron piles gave ac (I learned ble to see the bar- en into the wards that the ers had construct- ean approach to ate their smug-! g operations.) s I dropped | | o the enclosure |and clung to the e of the launch, voice again You will tell us what we desire ito know, mademo e.” “How can I tell you when I don™ |times! If Parados wa who Laco! my wrist! don't know he Is! O ! breaking | Caroline’s voice frantic with ter= lrort “If Parados wasn't Lacote” itered exéept those devils - Bringing Caroline here hurt- ing her. Something inside my head ed in bloody flame. Two! trokes brought me to the pile with the iron kars, Parados . . . . not Lacote! “I shall break it if mademoiselle will not tell ws!” “Oh, no, no, no!” “Ciceroh, you will take that oth- er arm.” “Do I not have it, fion ami?” A different 'volcé, thils ohe, bt of the same witked pitch. “Come, ma pe- tite, It will be desagreable, those broken ‘arms.” “Mademoiselle!” “I cannot! Oh, Aflan, some oneé! My arm! Please!"' “A 'little more, my Oiceron, and she will open the heart. Come, mademoiselle . . . ."” 1 was not quite mad enough to be blind to folly of what I was doing. As soon as my head appeared above the trap I'd get a bullet be- tween my eyes. But I couldn't help it. A man can gtand only so much of some things. As the top of my head reached the trap, the cross bar upon whith my feet were set broke from the pile and I went down. My head struck thé side of the launch and if T had not flung out my arm and clifched at the edge of the Haunch 1 should Have gone’ ddwn, I' had come up on the other side of the craft. X began ‘to haul miyself abodrd vt R s s 1 had Bre'leg ovér the side when 1 noticed ‘that'the sHed Had become sileit, Perhmps Carolide had “faint- ed. T préyed that she nhd. ’ 1 Something Had' happeiiéd. A vital matter to Messiéurs le Balafre and Bec, 1 thought. The Biléfice pinned me to the floor of the launch. A whlsper ‘floatéd down. “Ciceron . . . ca fenetre la” The window! Some one was there. The man T had seen of course. I had forgotten him, but I had sense enough not to move. “Non, non!” Ciceron Bec scream- ed suddenly. “Pas la penetre la porte.” A door was opening! That would be Flique. It ought to be Flique. He would glory in this ironic fin- ish. A pistol cracked. “Ah . ., mon dieu!” the cry was ,strangled. “Mon Ciceron . La- cote—Jules Lacote. . . ." “Lacote,” he'had $aid, Lacote! Had I gone entirely mad? I was feaping to my feet when the falling body of a man struck my chest, al- most pltechihg me overboard, and dropped in a huddle at my feet, It Wwas le Balafre. A pistol wits in his hand. He would not need it any more. 1 reflected, as I wrenched it eadually into the cove. It was not unlikely ' indeed, 'that they had out of his grasp. The other pistol barked again e cockpit of thel ras empty. The light | | he shed above. YeR QUITE SURE YOURE EQUAL To THE JOB. MR KRAUSS? (PosTvE ¢ MR PERKINS Ive PLAYED &( LD% PARTS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1930. WHILE YOUuRE " GITTIN’ YER MOUSTACHE SHAVED OFF ILL BUY You A INFANT.QUTFIT! By CLIFF STERRETT 15 GERTRUDE IN, BLESS MY SouL! MAWR SHES 60T ) (\WHeRE'D Y/BET ER? ACALLER! WHOSE LITTLE GIRL |§ SHE? SkrrE s, for the first in the moment of his death. My | eves flew to Caroline who was | crouched on the floor against the |north wall of the shed. I went ‘numb with horror. i A lantern swung from a nail smoking a little. The oscillation of |the lantern and its uneven yellow flame caused the agony in Caro- line's face to beat like a pulse. She | did Her head was turned { “I'm s | afraid me to ’ | As that voice fell upon my eafs,| 1 almost lost my fooling in the |launch. In a twinkling the various {nints tems of informatién Flique had conveyed to me during| e past two days flew together like | parts of a magic puzzle, 1orm-; ing a perfect whole. 1 “I suppose not,” Caroline said.| “You might as well finish the job.” A touch of scorn was in her voice. afraid of you.” 1930, William Morrow | and Company) him not Brent, but I am| 1 not be possible for Caroline in a death trap! To- | morrow’s chapter may decide her fate. { — ., ——— | DOUGLAS NEWS de and|know? I've told you so a hundréd | PREPARATIONS STARTED FOR !graduuwd this 4TH OF JULY CELHBK.\TIO.\'i | Pursuant to the call issus acting Mayor Cochrane, a public meeting was held in City Hall last evening to consider the initial pre-! paration for celebrating the com-| ‘{ing July Fourth. After it was for- mally decided that Douglas should| have a celebration as usual, an or-| ganization was formed to make all| arrangements and look after the| business. Robert Bonner was elect- | ed chairman of the Association and | Guy L. Smith, secretary and treas- urer. Chairman Bonner then appointed the following finance committee to bolicit for funds: Rangnar Krfom- fuist, chairman; W. E. Cahlll, J. R. Guerin, Jas. Edmiston, W. E. Feero, Gust Lundell, L. W. Kilburn, Arne Shudshift, A. J. Balog, Glen Kirk- ham, A. R. Bdwards and Dick Mc- ‘Cormack, Jr. The next meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, June 17, giving the committee ten days to have their report ready to enable the Assocla- tion to proceed with arrangements for the actual celebration. Sl FIRE PROTECTION BEING INCREASED, Through the efforts and cooper- ation of the officials of the Tread-| ‘well Company, a good pressure of water is now extended to that por- tion of Douglas, known as Nob hill, iving the residents there mneeded fire protection, it was reported at the regular meeting of the Fire Department. last night. Housing for a chemical has been asked for lof the Oity Council by the depart- ment to further 4dd to the protec- tion of that sectton. ———————— YV‘TH THF CAMPERS Bringing reports of what a fine time the 'Campfire girls are having @t the enid’of the Island, Miss Impi | ~—=—— ‘Aalto returned home from the camping quarters there last eve- ning. Mrs. Robert Fraser left this morning to ald in the supervision of the camp with Mrs. Charles Fox, leader of the organization. e e ae— GORGEOUS SCENERY FEATURE] OF LUDEN’S ‘SHOOTING IRONS’ | Some of the most gorgeous scen- ery of the far west has been caught by the camera for “Shooting Trons” the ParamOufit -Western starring | Jack Luden, that comes to the! nah. Douglas Coliseum tonight. = Much of the picture was photographed’ at Lone Pine, Calif., at.an altitude, of 3,000 feet in the high Sierras. Sally| Blane is the leading woman .and the c: includes Fred Kohlet. Richard Carlyle, Loyal Underwood, Guy Oliver, Scott McGee, Arthur Millett Richard Rosson directed from an adaptation of Richard Al- len Gates' story by J. Walter Ru- sen and Sam Mintz. AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Eunson; M Agne Skag I Annie / Abbott Chenowith, city; and family, Sitka; | midoff, Sitka. | Alaskan | Bill Biesline, Fairbanks; W. P.{ Randolph, Seattle; Long Lock, Taku Harbor; Charl , Takn Har-| bor; Fred Wol Ketchikan; | Mr. and Mrs. Eli Shoreland, Hoo-| James William F,' Schnabe! MRS. WHALEY RETURNS TO WRANGELL ON STR. QUEEN After morning o their home Whaley cam ment exercises School from w NOTICE TU EAGLES Joint installa officers .of | Aerie Number 11 Auxiliary will be ning, June 9 their ladies ar attend Social follow the Max Factor's Toilet Pre You control as you beat the cream- puff mixe ture . . . if you add the €ggs « v | | i i i at a time: Hirs Bros. control the flavor of their rare blend of coffee— only a few pounds at a time | pass through their roasters, Never in bulk! This process — Controlled Roasting — pro- duces a flavor no other coffeq has. ) i) Fresh from the original vacuum pack. Easily, opened with the key. HILLS BROS ! COFFEE. DANCE Elks Ball Room Saturday ! 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