Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1923, Page 12

THE 'EVENING ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923. | MUTT AND JEFF—This Peppo Business Has Mun Looney. S e THE O v; L TAXI ComiaR faee- WHAY, BT Berore T GAT TLC Bne DRop oF PeePo TACRE'S SOMETHING LNCANNY q w|:t I HAve 3 TAKE A SIP OF THIs .| [6IWUES ME ENOUGH GOING oN (N THIS Housel By Herbert Footner OB DReANeASTE PEBPO ToNIC AND STRENGTH To LET ORDINARILY JEFE |5 onLY 2 5 FEEL LIKG A A SEVEN PASIENGER A CHILD IN STREAGTH YeT Gonsetght it (Gemcyell 12 Dvemnl Company’ 3 . “VSZ"SECGS; RECENTLY HE HAS Been i . 20ME LIETING OBJECTS WEIGHING o) . T —— > Z - §00 PounDs! (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) placed them about him. Hickey was {dispatched in the flivver for a doctor. “I'll be ther: Greg. ou) The doctor came, brought the pa- take him on, and I'll get my cab |tient to, and upon hearing all the Greg and Hickey doubled back |circumstances, prescribed a small por- through the next street and were al- | tion of the houp, which Bessie by ready at the station-house door when {now had hot upon the stove. They the officer arrived with his prisoner. ; forced it down his throat. He seemed Greg had no great difficulty in per- |utterly distraught, shaking and suading the good-natured officer at moaning Spunish ~words. ~ Before the desk to let the wretched young !leaving. the doctor gave him a hypo- man go. The inconsistency of [dermic to induce sleep. ing a man for trying to kill himself | Greg said he would watch beside can not but be apparent to all. It is {the bed until it sHould take effect something that he can not be bre- [The patient still twitched and gasped vented from doing if he wants to. A !like creature beyond all control; mumbled promise was extracted from | yet when the others left the room he the prisoner that he would not try it {opened his eyes and asked sanely again, and he was handed over toenough: e Greg's care. “Who are you?" Wrapping him in the la Gregr told his name. “It would take - & ? - & bunc into th {a long time to explain who 1 am,” -, s, 3 Ve id the plaudits of lhe added. “You'd better try to sleep.” e 2 crowe ed around the sta-( ou Know me?” he asked. 715 OF PePPO R tion hous: The ‘our name is de Sflva.” NW aid not o do you want of me?’ the What Hickey € r asked hoarsely. faced that the peoy othing at present except to put a [better than them that wanted it done. | gate. Blossom's fail ! > s 2 ure to t ved the whole bunc appe: o e mo- Yas plaving the part of little life into you. air Esime TG00 ive a Aeimnior e e e e B e e e e e luneilossor Toowed rate: | MANAGUASINNQUANDARY. [rlicve, the present dstachment o S o “In order to take it away from me lany of the others. They don’t tronu- Ol very, atixions: Bl o = : Stk 5 * |tioned there or act as reinforceme 7 ' sh 1t ¥ ‘Blossom i the girl went down, |ly rejuvenated nents oni ey ke e R O to the | later .. | ble my sleep. But this one—Oh, God!| This was the boy from the drug|pis pnibs follows them, and I follows | ~“The little black book?” cricd |to the American garrison fire’ for him, poor Wretent- Crep takon abchaen len't |hew gotmel L .. orenand, ©)7C0°C,'° 887 that Greg was wanted |his nibs. We goes to the downtown | Greg. “Have you got 12" " | Aroused Over Arrival of New De-| s the cab 21 ‘the young man | your life that I w. 5 n't know him beforehand. 3 ; ¢ atform. On the platform Blosso o i . 4 | A the cab started the vouns man, Yo MU G leh * shuddered. “I|was sent down from New York to| 9% (he telephone. Greg went back o, O e N e v | (Coutinued In Tomorow's Star.) tachment of U. S. Marines. | AUHINIIIENUNUBIIIIHIMIINE never so much as looked up. A B | thoukht I saw a man downstalrs—or | Central America to get mext to him | With him. 5% LiLit ookine & alves bim a ittie —_— e Bt 2 e = ; = liké an old man in wh#m the aid 1 dream it? A cabman— 5 They told me he was a blackguard| Over the wire he heard Pa Sim-|gign that that is his nibs, sce? Blos-| Among Chinese women dresses must A Nlcarsrs uenat 2 | Iell N = ik Lt iterls AlmoRt quenched Greg saw nothing was to be gained [that was trying to raise the niggers [ mons' old volce: Som gets It all right. \Well, a train | be changed according to the calendar, et e e L ERRiE L = t ot Cost = e ety saw Ly furtther concealment ou saw |to cut hell loose down there. 1 was . Yo B e lonts then tnd they ail Kot in.|as it is considered ignorant and un- | o S fHEianTINalion & new Aetichji= | = fae Mo wecmed to be quite indifferent |him,” he e il o e e e | T, Gua, Tw sesry, Bur T lese|foSe Mlong then and they B Gor B |1l Ly ta Weun corta coloms gy cer.|Ticnt Of Americas mesies who 21! You Any More = e e e ot taking him; | you engaged on the pier the night the fcause I spoke Spanish and English, | his nibs, the Spanish bloke. On the|back to Stickn but his mibs | tian materials at various times of the | Dot guartered near here 1t is not|Z J | y re = he seemed mot to care whether he|Allianca docked.” and come back to New York with him’ | level I couldn't help it, He took |ain't come hom ou told me known whether these marines = | ’ = H were In Jj 2 out again, Greg who | The voung man ralsed himself on|The job was to be done here. cter Bl a T 1 took | call you at 9 you wi = = = = —to have a ColbertS had never seen a human creature so |h all is known?" “Well, we were on the ship together | After Blossom and a glrl. and 1 too do now? as = = N roof put on y L = beaten down, searcely knew how Y nearly all” almost ‘@ week. That was what |After him, but they all got In the ™, onsidered a moment, “If his HAY =N ToompUL onyouL omes act toward him. His heart w He fell back. “Well—I'm glad,” he |queered m He wanted to make |Fubway. A L ey teavored | Wife Is alone in the apartmient he = than one not so widely = touched by the sight of such utter|said weakly. “The worst agony is|friends, se He wouldn't let me|boat in the street Whin @ v cculd |Pretty sure to be back soon. Better | £ N known for depend-= wretehedness, but to offer him sym_ | over s .. |alone. Goa! it raked me up and down o Jyarownin s X stay on watch where you are. Call ZERO 1= bilit pend-= s e have been both eruel | ““Drosently he opened his_eyes, at-|with little sharp points—his.friendll- | 1% ' o |me up again in an hour. = ability. H e s pochisical . COn the other hand. |tacked by a new. fear. ~“Who are|mess. It started me thinking, and 1|, iiold oni &Hold on! Begin at the Greg regurned home In no 11ttle anx- s MAGK WALNUT l 2 H ho could mot hit the man while he |vGu?" he demanded. “And those oth-|wasn't any good to myself any more. | PESIINEL" 0 Lo oy goy |tety. It seemed like a gratultous For Better Vision = 1 Conscientious work has= was down by letting him see that his 'ers downstairs? His men?" He wasn't a preacher, nothing like it. | . S Oy ¢ “when his mibs | 8troke of 11 luck that de Socotra % |cE anA" Y = given Colbert tinning= crime was known. - For the present “W ho: ked Greg. perplexed. | Just a jolly old gentleman who could e e of that house, you know, |should just haye happened to run The Right Glasses H N Side’ wepute. but flm’z'- it seemed best merely to try to r tell a story in the smoking room as s o Faoni | into Blossom. Dlossom was a goor = , but th mtore Bim by warmth, food and sleeb: O Javed. “De. | TG as any man, and laugn Wil his tat T He ot iR 834 to Broads | fellow and loyal without a doubt. but | and o8 H dncsdnml mean we're high = until he was better able to meet h The recumbent figure relaved. “De- [sides shook. He liked me; that's what | >% 4 V! down | he could scarcely be expected to 7 =) = riced. Let us m an= fuletliks pim togtives, then? 1 don'tmind that” | ot me. 1 couldn't make I¢ out. No: | ¥a% UP BIOSAWRY {0,0408, 404 Lou a match for the astute de So- Eye Comfort &% ) S@[ el ot vomake mg The you an himself broke the Not detectives, either,” said Greg.|body ever liked me before, He was |0 the Drive h 94th 1 . " And almost two hours had = . s i her,” said Greg. | body over liked me before, He was| . nils we was going through oith f)cotra, And atmost two hours 1ed| Consutt H mlene the principal in [myself. God! it scared me what 1|30 Blossom anc & 8000s (0alk. gtis |Something to kmow what had hap-| i % 4 =MAURICE J. COLBERT spoke with a slight foreign r, not you. 1 only want you|found myself telling him! I told him | SOMIRE m":‘l‘ O e een rem%on, | pened. But all he could do was i tical Co., £ . Plumbi - £ Buck up’ said Greg. s means to get him.” " |lots of ‘funny things—at night on | g8 I8 G0N S L a0 slips out and | A few minutes later Blossom w 708 14th St. N.W. Z Heating—Plumbing—Tinning = d but what it might be worse. You'll never get him,” said de Sil- |deck. He didn't mind; he didn‘t hlame | fF 1o 0% B8 EOP (0% 5050 “rhey | ed tn the kitchen door. Nina was W. S 621 S H rer while he uttered them the |va with hopeless a urance. ‘;n.;.. me. He would only sav: ‘Well, lite's | 1aKOS Bffef TRETG OF /Flehe on a|with him. o 100k In the man's 'rm; Established tn 1900 = F treet = words sourded hollow, addre *d 10 {not & man like others! he's iend out|{a queer affair He didn’t stop lik- = o p a 0l- | told Greg that nothing serious had i - - one dn this young man's position, but |67 netl” Bine A T AilIoathimit OheGoa | LittikwsY, Sturued BE0ONds aRC T S he had to say something. “That may be” sald Greg grimly.|how I hate myself! . . . “uppose I ought to thank you." | “But just the same I mean to get him!| “When we got to New York I was other with weary bitterness. [Better not talk any more. Let your-|in no shape to carry out my job. My oy sdn’t” trouble about that”|self relax.” nerve was gone. But I couldn’t turn sald Greg grimly vo got to talk. I've kept it in|back then. Always prided myselt I nt to do me a real kind- [too long. I'll go out of my mind if{never failled to pull off a job. I 4 man _and let me out (I don’t talk. I think I'm losing my [thought I could work myself up to it. 3 mind anyway. I've been in hell the|And I did it. But my hand shook. He said Greg. |last three days. Couldn’t think what |looked at me as I gave him the nee- »d and war aiting for doing. Gut only of him. This[dle. Just one look!" b e 2 5 2o Lot that do vou for the present.” |is what they call belng haunted, ma “How did you do it?" asked Greg. Uy drove into the vard, and|be Not like books. All of a sudden| “With a hypodermic needle. In the stled the youns man directly [his face comes between me and what | jugular here’—he put a finger on his a . Greg hu into Bessie's Kitchen. Bull Tandy and | T look old face with a half-|throat. “There was curare in_it. Ginger McAfee we itting there or : and qulet ey Oh, God! Oh,|What the San Blas_Indians dip their ach side of the table, smokin ' er can forget 1t now ! |arrowpoints in. Kills like a ham- ‘njoying thelr unwonted evening ot up to 1y better than |mer stroke. De Socotra gave me the ure. Bessie, the monumental, sn't the first job I've donc [needle and showed me how. But I They had been |for different men. 1 sofpt of got in tho |bungled it. The cabman heard some- was wiping _dishe discussing the case all evening, {way of it young. ~Men sent for me|thing and stopped by the curb. M. still i plenty to talk about when |.hen they wanted something nervy [nerve was gone. I Deat it i ¥ . e lo! Greg provided them Ath a fresh lgone. I could get with any- Where did you go then.” asked sensation, The two mon stared at the { thing beequse 1'was little and thin | Greg. ghastly and bedraggled figure w. nd looked frarm! 1 had nerves! ~I went—I don't Know—I ] pipes half way o their mouths: of steel until this happened. 1 was|wen : T went—1 Sie held plate and towel in the { proud of my reputation.” The volce trailed off. Good land! who is he?’ she ex-1" “Good (od!" interrupted Greg|was taking Reces O henamatlc . claimed. aghast. Do you mean to say that said Greg. “HelD|murder was your trade?” CHAPT! v me get him in bed, and to put some | el why not? It takes more Ear hot food and drink in him. Is Blos- |pe and cleverness than holding Blossom's Report. som vack?” c - idiked the snice| Greg heard a new voice promptly took command of | put out before this one only got what | kitchen. De Silva was now in a heavy You. Bull, g0 UD-|\as coming to them. They were nolsleep, and he went down to investi- atairs ‘s room. and TiEht e % i oil heater. jinger, fetch me a pa of \ coal from 2 Greg, you fil TS e ! e ‘s GIIP”, kettle at the sinl nd go into the s nami B o Bt herselt. vigorousty New-laid, White-Shelled, fire and opened the draft SO e Saud wh T :‘,{‘”::‘ Golden-hearted Eggs % of those who live near. “Take —The finest of Salad ofl’ this chair close by the stove until a O Jert e this. solivitude ac- Spice and everything nice— ; sl Chiaced for him That’s what - . abou n 1 g PSOWES g Cy Umery ‘when about on thei T a & ¥ ] GOLD MEDAL ) e o g e ol otov brought him facing . . ; only saved their time—it saved energy and saved clothes; it brought beautiful white results; it assured safety to colors and fabrics. the door into the yard, and when g P Hickey. having backed the flivver under the shed, came in, the young | : b, Tell you late: in the Last washday it saved for thousands of women a precious hour which was once consumed in chipping, shaving, or melting old-fashioned cake-soap, in pro- longed hard rubbing, and in tiresome repeated rins- man s fell full upon him They were brought running from various directions by th und of a 9 choking cry followed by a fall. The N BRI ismade of. Andit's made fresh every day found the man lving face downward cAnother washday is coming soon on the flbor. Hickey was standing so that you can get it fresh any hour at th his hand \(v 1 on the door, red By ¥ Q{flfl'[’iflfi ; D forsot thel/sight of your grocer's. The fresh eggs give Gold g You must have Chipso then. me would be a shock to him,” he Medal the realhome-made flavor. Art in magic bubbles e Yo come” said Greg erimly seasoning gives it the subtle, tantalizing, for. a-memfasbionad We have called Chipso “Condensed Suds” be- cause it expands into a veritable mountain of bubbly whiteness, almost the instant it touches the water. Its users call Chipso “white magic” because it washes so quickly and easily and beautifully, by any method. Boil with it, soak with it, use it in the washing machine—Chipso and waterae all you need. 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