Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1921, Page 29

> ~ FEATU ’ RE PAGE. THE EVENING The Twins Meet Their Father | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Reware the stranger with a s Lest it but hide a trickster” The twins, Boxer and Woof-Woof. “had begun to wonder if they and their mother were the only Bears in the Green Forest. So far. they had . Seen no other. Then one day, as they were playing about near the Laugh- ing Brook, while a little way off Mother Bear was busy tearing open an old stump after ants, Woof-Woof “MOTHER BEAR DID! "T MAKE THAT FOOTPRINT.” WHISPERED BOXER. \discovered a. footprint. She showed it | te Boxer. Then the two little cubs sat upand stared et each other and thetr Mttle eyes were very round with | wonde. Mother Bear didn't make that foot- geint.” whispered Boxer, as if he were | afraid of being overheard “Who do| oo euppose did * ¥ Woot-Woof moved a little nearer to Boxer. *“1 h.van‘tha% dlldea,l" nh;‘ ‘whispered back, and hurriedly glance anll around. “It wasn't Mother Bear, | for there is one of her footprints| right over there and it is different. There must be a great big stranger| around here.” How the maker of that footprint| . would have laughed had he heard him- | self called a stranger in the Green | Forest. You see, Mrs. Bear really was| the stranger. She had come downl A Novel of Mystery, {Continued from Yesterday's Star.) *“The last man whom poor Sambo had | words with,” said Peterson reminiscent- ly. “was found next day with his throat torn completely out.” ““A lovable little thing,” murmured Hugh. *“T feel quite sorry at having spoilt his record.” Peterson paused with his hand on the sitting room door, and looked at him_benevolently. “Don’t_be despondent, Capt. Drum- mond. We have ample time at our disposal to insure a similar find tomor- row morning.” CHAPTER VI . In Which He Spends an Hour or Two on a Roof. L Drummond paused for a moment at the door of the sitting room, then with a slight shrug he stepped past Peterson. During the last few days he had grown to look on this par- ticular room as the private den of the principals of the gang. He associated it In his mind with Peterson himself, suave, impassive, ruthless; with the girl, Irma, perfectly gowned, lying on the sofa, smoking innumerable cigarettes, and manicuring her al- ready faultless nails; and in a lesser | «degree, with Henry Lakington's thin, cruel face and blue, staring eyes. But tonight a different scene con- fronted him. The girl was not there. Her accustomed place on the sofa was occupied by an unkempt-looking man with a ragged beard. At the end of the table was a vacant chair, on the right of which sat Lakington re= garding him with malevolent fury. Along the table on each side there were half a dozen men, and he glanced at their fac Some were obviously foreigners; some might have been anything from murderers to Sunday school teachers. There was one with spectacles and the general appearance of an intimidated rabbit, while his neighbor, heiped by a large red scar right across nis cheek and two bloodshot eyes, struck-Hugh as being the sort of man with whom one would not share a luncheon bas- ket. “I know he'd snatch both drum- sticks and gnaw them simultaneous- 1y,” he reflected, staring at him fas- cinated; “and then he'd throw the bones in your face.” Peterson’s voice from just behind his shoulder roused him from his dis- | tressing reverie “Permit me, gentlemen. to introduce | to you Capt. Drummond, D. S. O., M €., the originator of the little enter- tainment we have just had.” Hugh bowed gravely. “My oniy regret to function,” he remarked. told you outside, I'd quite “As I forgotten { Crow far in ‘the di | of the Laughing Brook and the whis- | fanad listen. Bull-Dog Drummond BY CYRIL McNEILE (“Sapper”) (Cepyeight, 1321, by Gesgge H. Doran Os.) SUPPOSE Ygu WERE A BACHELOR GIRL — FTROM CHOICE — there to live only the fall before. But, of course, the twins didn't know jthis. They supposed she always had lived there. The twins drew very close together and stood up that they might better stare in direction. They were la little frightened at the thought that a big stranger might be near. Then | they remembered that Mother Bear | was only a little way off. and at once |they felt better. ~ They saw no stranger. Sverything about them seemed just as it should be. They | cocked their little ears to listen. All! they heard was the sound of Mother Bear's great claws tearing open that old stump, the cawing of Blacky the ance, the gurgle pering of the Merry Little Breezes in the tree-tops. [ Now, not even Peter Rabbit has more curiosity than has a little Bear. | ntly Boxer dropped down to all| nd approached that footprint. | Already he had I i | ANP REMEMBERED A | CERTAIN PARTY Who WAS ned that h is better than his told him nothing. him nothing. Now he is | nose. { He sniffed at that footprint and the | hair along his shoulders rose a little. ! His nose told him_that that footprint ! was made by a Bear he neven had | REJECTED YOR S seen. There wasn't any question about | o 0UR it. It told him that that stranger had Y > )A" passed that way only a short time be- ! 'CA)(EER-— % N WHOM You RUTHLESSLY fore. A great desire to see that| stranger took possession of Boxer. Curiosity was stronger than fear. “Let's follow his tracks: perhaps we | can see him,” whispered Boxer to. Woof-Woof, and started along with | his nose to the ground. { Now, whatever one twin did the| other did. So_ Woof-Woof followed | her brother.” One behind the other, | their noses to the ground, the t\"nns} stole through the Green Forest. Every once in a while Boxer sat up to look | When he did this Woof- Woof did the same thing. It was ver: exciting. It was so exciting that they | quite forgot Mother Bear and that | they had been told not to go aw So they got further and further fro; where Mother Bear was at work. And then, without any warning at| all, a great Bear stepped out from be- | hind a fallen tree. He wore a black | coat and he was just about the size | Mother Bear. Of course, you know was Buster Bear. For who it was—i the first time in their short lives the for one brief second? Kill him now—|slip over enough to form a Darrow jout with a little effort. You might twins saw their father and he saw . throw him in a corner ami let us|pi itch close to the lower edge ) take them out at once and make eyes them. But the twins didn't know that | proceed.” slit; fold the pocket in half | in; i by embroidering little discs he was their father and he didn’t know | He sat down again, amid a further | \ith all the eds ven; stitch along | with black embroidery silk that they were his children. Things | murmur of approval, in which Hugh | jo ypner eds the slit. stitch a like that happen in the Green Forest. | joined heartily. . o = ey == “Splendid,” he murmured. “A mag- (Covright, 1821, by T..W. Buress.) nificent peroration. Am I right, sir, in_assuming that you are what is vulgarly known as a bolshevist? The man turned his sunken eyes glowing with the burning fires of | BUT You GOT PREADFULLY LONELY IF v upP RICH AND STILL | CRAZY ABOUT You BUT| CRAZY ABOUT You — seam at the cast all raw of the pocket with bar ta SOMETIMES — — 4 SHOULD TURN _ WHAT WouLp IT BE YouR Copyrigit, 1921, by Herbert Johnson. STAR,/ WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, ‘lMARTYRS TO DUTY—The Bachelor Girl.—By Herbert Johnson. ‘ND WHEN You WERE THE BLUEST AND THE LONESOMEST — des of the pocket, ove edges. Finish the ends ks. ) . ht, 192 (Copyri fanaticism, on Drummond. o “I am one of those who are fighting | for the freedom of the world,” he| Toys That Help. — =) cried, harshly; “for the right to live of the proletariat. The workers were the bottom dogs in Russia till they killed the rulers. Now—they rule, |and the money they earn goes into their own pockets, not those of in- competent snob: He flung out his Love and Adventure. Most every woman has a theory as to what sort of toy or should not have. U: ories are a child should ally those the- stronger and better de- arms wildly. “It is freedom; it is the dawn of a new age He seemed to shrivel up suddenly, as if exhaust- ed with the violence of his passion. know. An admirable invention of my | & With the violence of his passioh friend Kauffner's nation.” fined before she has had any children | in her own household. She may have thought that she could be a commit- tee of one to pass upon toys that came | within reach of her own children, but is that it failed | A gutteral chuckle came from one { of the men, and Hugh looked at him | grimly. 2 |~ “The scum certainly would not be complete,” he remarked to ,Peterson, “without a filthy Boche in it.” The German pushed back his chair with an oath, his face purple with passion. “A filthy Boche,” he muttered thickly, lurching toward Hugh. “Hold tear out. = The intimidated rabbit rose protest- chair eagerly, the lust of battle in his bloodshot eyes. The only person save Hugh who made no movement was Peterson, and he, very distinct- !1y, chuckled. Whatever his failings, [ Peterson had a sense of humor. . . . It all happened so quickly. At one moment Hugh was apparently in- tent upon selecting a cigarette, the | next instant the case had fallen to | the floor; there was a dull, heavy | thud, and the Boche crashed back. | overturned a chair, and fell like a | log to the floor, his head hitting the | wall with a cious crack. The { bloodshot being resumed his seat a ! little limply; the intimidated bunny {gave a stified gasp and breathed | heavily; Hugh resumed his search for i a cigarette. “After which breezy interlude,” re- | marked Reterson, “let us to business get.” Hugh paused in the act of striking ! a match, and for the first time 2 uine smile spread ove “There are moments, Peterson, murmured, “when you really appeal to me.” Peterson took the empty chair next to Lakington. “Sit Gown.” he said shortly. “I can only hope that I shall appeal to you still more before we kill you.” sat down. nsideration.” he murmured, “was your strong point. May 1 ask how long 1 have to live?" Peterson smiled genially. “Al the Vvery earnest request of Mr. Lakington you are to be spared until tomorrow morning. At least, that is our pr t intention. Of course, there might b an accident in the night. In a house like this one can never tell. Or"—he carefully cut the end off a vou might go mad, in which case w houldn't bothcr to kill you. In fact, it would really suit our book b ‘ou did. The | disposal of corps even in these da - science. presents cer insuperable, | {but a < you go mad we shall not be displeased.” Once again he smiled genially. ! “As 1 said before, in like | | this, you never can tell The intimidateqd rabbit, still brgath- ing heavily, was staring at Hugh fas- cinated courteous bow. ked, “you've Do you mind de- in the opposite di- him with a he ren been eating onic he blas . your menagerie. In fact’—his glance | TeCtion N Tandered slowdy and somewhat His calm imperturbability seemed to pointedly from face to face at the | Madden Lakington, who with a sud- table—"1 had no idea it was such a | den movement rose from his chair large ome.” { and leaned across the tabie, while the “So _this is the insolent young K VEins stood out like whipcord on his swine, is it? The bloodshot eyes of | USually expressionl facy the man with the Ted face rned | )”U’”:\' ”illll dx]lfi;‘:(’)‘w:(h.;cx;-},{] on him morosely. “What 1 canno i e Mumoraun derstan by_now. Hugh waggled an accusing finger at him. “1 knew you were a n soon as I saw you. Now look at Henry up at the end of the table; he doesn’t say that sort of thing. And you do hate me, don't you, Henry? How’s the jaw " + =Capt. Drummond,” said Lakington, tgnoring Hugh and addressing the first speaker, “was very nearly killed last night. I thought for some time as to whether I would or not, but I finally decided it would be much too easy a death. So it can be remedied tonight.” If Hugh felt a momentary twinge of fear st the calm, expressionless tone, and the half-satisfied grunt which greeted the words, no trace of it showed on his face. Already the realization had come to him that if he got through the night hlive he would be more than passing lucky, but he was too much of a fatalist to Jet that worry him unduly. So he merely stifled a yawn, and again turned to Lakington. “So it was you, my little one, whose fairy face 1 saw pressed against the ‘. window. Wouid it be indiscreet to ask you how you got the dope into us?” Lakington lonked at him with an expression of grim satisfaction on his face. S “You were gassed, if you want to is why he hasn't been killed ty man as You won't_be so then. . . " Hugh regarded the speaker lan- guidly. “Your supposition is more than probable.” he remarked, in a bored voice. ting into a Turkish bath to remove :h» contamination to think of laugh- ng." Slowly Lakington sank back in his chair, a_hard, merciless smile on his lips; and for a moment or two there was silence in the room. It was broken by the unkempt man on the | sofa, who, without warning, exploded | unexpectedly. “A truce to all this fooling.” he burst forth in a deep rumbl con- fess I do not understand it. Are we assembled here tonight, comrades, to llsten to private quarrels and stupid talk ™ A murmur of approval came from the others, and the speaker stood up waving his arms. “I know not what this young man has done; I care less. In Russia such trifies matter not. He has the ap- pearance of a bourgeois, therefore he must die. Did we not kill thousands —aye, tens of thousands of his kid- ney, before we obtained the great freedom? Are we not going to do the same in this accursed country?™ H voice rose to the shrill, strident note of the typical tub-thumper. *What is this wretched man,” he continued. waving a hand wildly at Hugh, “that be should interrupt the great work A him the arms of, and I will the throat | SOM€ Papers: ingly at this prospect of violence; the } scarred sportsman shot out of his| and after a moment Hugh | “I shall be too intent on get- | smoldering madness of his soul. curiosity; it was the first ! curiosity was succeeded by a very definite amazement: what had Peter- son to do with such as he? He glanced casually at his princt- pal enemy, but his face showed noth- ing. He was quictly turning over| his cigar glowed as evenly as ever. He seemed to be no whit surprised by the unkempt one's | outburst: in fact, it appeared to bed quite in order.) And once again Hugh stared at the man on the sofa with puzzled eyes. For the moment his own deadly!| risk was forgotten: a growing ex-! citement filled his mind. Could it be! possible that here, at last, was the| real object of the gang; could it be possible that Peterson was organ- | izing a deliberate plot to try apd| bolshevize England? If so, where did the Duchess of Lampshire’s pearls come in? What of the American, Hiram Potts? Above all, what did| self? { that point in his deliberation that he ! him with a faint smile. i “It is a little difficult to understand, | isn't_it, Capt. Drummond?" he said, carefully flicking the ash off his: cigar. “I told you you'd find yourselt in deep water.” Then he resumed the contemplation of the papers in front of him, as the Russian burst out! again. | (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) HOME ECONOMICS. BY MRS. ELIZABETH KENT. Pockets. Anybody who makes clothes for the | small boy or girl nowadays needs to know how to make pockets. The sim- | plest pocket is, of course, the patch | i pocket and may do for underwear and | some little gowns, but is hardiy good {enough fqr the boy's trousers or the irl's middy blouse. Cut a patch pock |«t by the pattern, turn the hem at the {top and stiteh it—as indicated by the | Is i {pattern. Turn the three other edges |in a quarter of an inch. Before plac- ing the pocket stitch a piece of one- quarter-inch linen tape on the wrong side across the cloth on the line of the top of the pocket to strengthen the cloth where the stitching of the pock. et ends. That is where it always tears away. Now baste the pocket into place at points indicated on the pat- tern. Stitch on the edge and them again at & quarter of an inch insGe the first stitching, to cover the raw edge of the material on the Inside of the pocket. For a set-in pocket, the much more difficult task, make the place for the Qocket it with thread. Cut the pocket an inch wider than the slit and ten inches long. Lay the right side of the pocket an inch above the line marking the pocket siit. Mark the line for the slit through the pocket with colored thread. Place a row of stitching all around the marking for the slit, a sixteenth of an inch from the marking. Cut the slit and turn the pocket through to the wrong side of the material. Baste closely &1l around the edge of the slit. letting the material of the pockes {1y ch the toy dren attractive come to us fro They are 0 material,"the parts arc at They are made to look at, not to be played w The ch ure in such toys. fault. profit. stant so One good other cl that h the most pleasurabl children in the of ¢ of bu when broken mak in th &hoy are Hugh looked at him with g"n"e“’::mho finds this impossible. S inds | B oty mer ans ofpinexs fveiid ) e cannel Eadimhi o lt comos HenC visionaries in the flesh. And then the SN (0 T ERS N 1 toys offered by relatives and friend: ill undoubtedly there is much folly committed in the making and buving of stupid and inappropriate toys for 4 tha | that they bre i e matters th Peterson hope to make out of it him-|or favors of flectin 3 ut And it was as he arrived at|then they must b a momen Jooked up to find Peterson regarding | can bc"r:?" regret Often with headed pins supposed to be e find ant to re- s possible of the The worst of them all ary are so fragilely mad k easily. Many of the trifles for children tiat Japan have ade of the flims clied Joode- th, to b d do sold quickly fo not tind pleas- ! 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