The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1931, Page 6

1 | 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1931. POLLY AND HER PALS ' By CLIFF STERRETT HON HEAVENS!SO }F YEP/ 1 PST, HON PA/, X1 GREAT GUINS! {I KIN HARDLY| |MISS SAVAGE J{ LOOK AT THE HERSELF IN PERSON. ? A LOAD OF THE YOUNG OPSIS: threats against Querdling, clderly lam her hcuseheld. Her neigh- bor, Donald Wade, learns of | them and sends her niece, Eve- lyn Blake, to London, to con- | culf a young lawyer and ama- teur detective, Jimmic Haswell, | his cousin. Evelyn calls and dis- | closes her fears. Jimmic notes | | Sinister death Annabelle pinist. that new cuff links, gloves and a tie, wern by her compan- puts the fluff in - fuffy mufins? It’s the millions of tiny bubbles in his birthday, and quickly ccents romance between the two. She cenfirms his inferences, but tells him that Miss Querdling, with whom she and a siste Marjorie, live, frowns on this as well as all other love af- fairs. Told that the woman has no real enemies and that the police have taken the case in hand, Jimmie advises thca to worry no further. | the batter released by the cream of Chapter 2. | | “TWARN'T NO ACC{DENT” tartar in your Baking Powder. Un- tutes for cream of tartar. They make you had come to see us when we kind. Ask any domestic science . i teacher, or 7% # b 4 any dieti- in' Yorkshir hey trudged |s right. Al valescents here Jimmie agreed as Perhaps she w tian. The tiny fluffy The big and little bubblesmade by ~ bubbles made by cream of tartar, _ the substitutes. Not every baking powder contains. ] . . cream of tartar, for the substitutes cost a lot less. Look on your baking powder tin. Sece if you can find the words “cream of tartar” anywhere. —adds 2 It’s important! he was dangerously stricken after a particularly hard day in the Lon- idon courts. 0Oddly enough, on that same day he had declined the Wade’s invita- tion to visit them, but after his long siege, he had written to say jhe would come. His ' wife and Jimmie junior remained in London. The game proceeded without spe- cial incident. They had started ‘at the tenth tee, for the Wade's little house, that- they had chris- tened Fairways, adjoined the links, their garden having a gate that opened beside the ninth green. Aft- er six holes Jimmie had made the match all square. Then, as they were crossing to the next tee, he said: | “By the way, I have a bone 0 pick with you. That was a very pretty girl you sent to see me a few weeks ago. Evelyn Blake, I " |think she called herself. Why on earth did you tell her to come?” “Didn't she explain? She and her sister were fearfully worried about the letters their aunt was getting. 1 thought you might be able to help them.” “She explained all right, but how could I help—except to tell them to keep smiling? I suppose the old lady is still alive and well?” “Very much so!” “Rather a grim old party, I gath- ered. An odd name—T've forgotten it “Miss Querdling. Annabelle Querdling. Claims to be a descen- dant of Richard Couer-de-Lion “If a hard heart is the proof,” declared Donald, “Miss Querdling CREAM of TARTAR pure juice crysials of guapes CTEA . EpicHE v _COFFEE FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 Valentine Building Old Papers for sale at Empire Office " TLHE CRIMIE [ DUTCHT G/ARDIEL] | Jimmie as he watched his ¢ end its run far down the fair as straight. (he replied. j ress. know, before he went to Mid | Moor, and both the girls, Marjo: her blushes when he observes |a ymine. encourage little boys. I was rath ion, Lionel Duckworth, suggest Jafr‘xid of (really does a lot of good. | the local Lady of the Manor, a la |of hig | every , | just how she wants it. | |will be unsparing in her kindness.| |TI always loved the place, and when | Nancy ' bought Fairways for us.” “Evelyn brought her fiance her. imet again on the green. V‘ . { ONALD and Nancy Wade step- “Whnat apout the letters?” he DOUGLAS HI ARE STARS fortunately, there are cheap substi- A e e o e Jiter, DA ihey| Not only do graduates from the 3 WESIOONDH IiD Jaety: CYIRE ST a s he B Douglas high school go forth to| the fairway. {there any more? U\;ghm' instit S or o Bt <4 “Fine!” approved his cgusin. “The old lady still gets them,’| p s “Say, you don’t play like a man answered his cousin, “but no onc just up from two months with in-/knows where they come from. T . il i S s accompanying them, bubbles too, but not the tiny, fluffy Huseat, < g e ol (B e te R SR S 1 bt imany times Dave Tttnbers Of | ow, you see,” Nancy said, “if what 4 L . |basketball teams from the Island {asked you, you wouldn’t have been |the end of the co ill. We know how to treat con-jiso, Jimmie r 5 fat man y rate, he could look back now|down her “Tworn't no accident,” said Ben as Jimmie and Don came up. MY WORD/ W{JAT |denly presented itself. In an un- |suspected hollow there a deep "pool with a miniature cascade dash- g over a number of jagged boul-| b But his companion hurried| A man in shirt-sleeves stood | de the waters. Perhaps he could | ve information. | “Ben,” cried Donald, {about Miss Querdling? { lady, | “You are not fond of her?” asked | “is it truej | “Ay, it's true enuff. Poor A ‘I allus sed they letters mun mean | summat.” “I used to think her an old 03- | “You suggest—it wasn't an acci- My father lived here, you!dent?”’ Ben Acres shook his head. He e/was an elderly man and had been| of 'gardener there for many years. | “Tworn't no accident,” he said.! (Copyright, 1930, J. B. Lippinc e Company) | ald hit a longer ball, not As they strode nd Evelyn, were sweethearts But Aunt Annabelle did r but I believe .She is} her, | “No accident!” There's evil | mystery behind Ben’s words, as tomorrow’s chapter shows. and mighty manner, a one must do what she w: Then | and I married the pa h What sort of a chap is he ite all right—sings well, and DOUGLAS bad at this game.” | Their paths diverged, but they) '{ BASKETBALL PLAYERS FROM i reers well prepared with schol- tic training, and frequently with some honors Tk ayed on until they reack e R ¢ ‘lschool proved themselves better cngmze(i & deci’: \_‘lhan the average. : trylng a {pw’[ An instance of this is illustrated in a news clipping from the Fair- «wy, | Danks News-Miner, wherein a re- d. You | ) olf at last!”|cent game between the Collk | L t and the Fairbanks high| | school girls’ team, is described. The | College defeated the high school 18 to 14 in what was no doubt 2 ‘hnrd contest. On the College team |are three graduates from the Doug- llas high school: Misses Roberta |and Mae Fraser and Violet Lun- |dell. The Fraser girls are the {chosen forwards from the college land Lundell is center. Mae Fraser |scored 10 points for her team and |her sister made 6, a total of 16 of| 1Lh:ir team’s total of 18. who w hots with a mas “Hullo, SILVER TEA A silver tea will be held by the Ladies’ League Thursday afternoon |at 2:30 o'clock, in the League rooms. The hostesses will Le Mesdames R. Bonner, Inga Dick- jenson and R. M. Davis. Everyone is cordially invited to 4 |attend. P.-T. A. BOARD TO MEET There will be a meeting of the Executive Board of the . 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FEMMER, “Pretty well.” Then, more seri-| —3dv: Phone 114. ously, he inquired: “Heard about SRR A T, 8 the ytmgedy?”z i i Daity mmpire want Ads Pay. “What tragedy?” Jimmie thought he was still talking golf. ; “Old lady in a house over theére.”| He pointed across the links. “Died last night. Some say she was murdered.” “An old lady?” cried Donald, who | had been listening to their banter. ' “Not Miss Querdling?” | “I think that's right,” said the man. “A name I had never heard before. Some one brought a mes- sage to the clubhouse.” I Jimmie and Donald looked at each other. What an extraordinary {thing it would be if such a fate! {had after all befallen the lady they |had been talking about! | “I will go up and inquire,” said the latter. The clubhouse stood on high ground, and he dashed up the steps that led to it. In a few moments he was back, pale and excited. | “It is true enough,” he said to;| Jimmie. “Miss Querdling died, or| was killed, last night. No one, knows much about it. Let's leave! our clubs here and go over to see if we can be of any help.” l Jimmie assented. They handed their bags to the caddie-master and hurried obliquely across the course | towards Merrow Craig, the Que.rd-" Admiss lllng place. . Jimmie followed without ques-| tion. He might have paused at al picture of unusual charm that sud-’ Fishermen’s Dance A.B. HALL TONIGHT Music by “The Merrimakers” EVERYBODY WELCOME A Good Time Is Assured For All —adv. ion Free Quick-Step The best floor paint that money can buy. Juneau Paint Store Stationery, Diaries, Autograph Books, Photo Albums, Candles, Tillicum Boats and Autos Geo. M. Simpkins Co. Printing and Stationery Open Evenings DON'T FAIL TO ATTEND FIREMEN’S 25TH ANNUAL BALL K AT THE ELKS’ HALL 4 FEBRUARY 12TH This Space Compliments Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. Alaska Lumber for Every Purpose 44 PHONE 358 Old Papers for sale at Empire Offic