Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1923, Page 15

1 ‘crude little sick room and closed the > 3 : The Yellow Trail : By E. MANCHESTER BODDY (Copyright, 1922, by Times-Mirror Press. Printed by arrangement with* Metropoll Newspaper Service.) . - | €xpression of fear in the lowering | tace ’ot éh.il gangster. Hawkins felt | Then it was. that ‘Browning, with | cértain Buller must have met Susie greatly affected emotion, told her that | O0, the trail. forgen Oher, maeding money, had | py oMt at once. Gries ana " hamiliasion; stunned her, | Hawkins indicated mystery at the and for & time she Kknew not which | QUeEtion as best he could with his} Tote Clettar atier ihter %n her| . “Oh. hell youwve been talkin' all Brother, hut remsteny AteT (10 mer|rignt.’T'm wise to ya, but you can't| age in reply—a message that stated | 9U€er me,” Buller paused and seemed | Jimply: L wm tuoocant, mining law |13 EUa S0t AL et e | respousible.” After this, she = L. -4 seemed to have lost faith in mankind, | APParently satisfied, but craving more o the | “Now, lste 5 FEtnn Be g g g el g g began, us he pulled o chalr close to| and praye 2 | the bedside, “yer not quite dome fer Phore’ 1o for BUldance: - father's] Yet. even if sho does think ya might | cold grave, that she had sworn ven. | De.” Another reminiscent pause, and = hen he went on: “Ya know why we | ;:la;';ro fimmn Browning and me"‘m Lo Bhadd e Thought ya'd Salmon River Gold Co. ya? & She opened her campaign of ven-|dig up some old stuff on me, huh? Sitnce, br. felsafneoomplete sub- | HCH T MAS T ! Sinrar loast | on, -~ w 3 3 . tell her what CheCmight do to keep|Was strange talk to Hawkins. “But ker brother's- plight from becoming | the other stuff did. J. D. wised e h;l:wu! Brn\;’nms was quick to use ;1‘: n::'"r‘if h‘nwmy-dwm ‘;)r(fl;xl\dwherfi and gra as weeks passe s of the deal into mnn’ih\‘. . he “‘:‘r;:.-akm{)(ymsmgi an’ fasten ’em onto me.” Hawkins was fchemes and plans. until at last she|learning things. Replying as best he his - trusted propagandist | could with his face and eyes, he kept miners she knew, obvious- | the man talking Cor Browninga camsa’"jt| “Don't know how much ya think Vice that she had first | ¥a know. That's what I'm takin' a d while she had met | chance on. But I just slipped up ually, nevertheless, sol|here to buzz ya on one point, what- 1 did she play her part, that Haw- | evér think ya know, fergit it. ‘A’i‘r‘n:"w(v_ er down at once'as clever | REEEIE what Shaphennd o old Dan's gent of the company. mine, most of a Hero, too, she had met Buller| Buller's cunning eyes watched nar- Garret 'and his gang. rly in their | Towly the effect of his words, but acquaintance Buller had become in- | Hawkins acted well, and Buller dis- cthated with hem ana taie come. 10 | covered little that either confirmed Wit her habit of cavesdropping from | O, dlsproved his suspliclons. = e attic of the cabin, made it easier There's nobody hittin' this Tam- 1'\”“]’[!01'[ to onns‘.»(l odds and ends of :;a“}; "_”“l‘m:’d\!l";:fdnfl“{'l = ) everits th o " | finally res , Rnbent ned Many mysterl- | iring on anybody from the outside. nerest chunc e had happened upon | If Yer do. it won't be healthy fer y Buller th, ery day his gang et | OF yer scissor-bill friend down at the ut to bush Hawkins and Deter. | Shacks. Don't want any strangers to AL first she had pleaded with him to | come sittin in SR B ed vod, b Stantly saw hew| saying, he walked leisurely about the take, 105 1o 'show. the. siightest | Toom. until hia roaming glance fell Dathy or concern for any other|©On bits of feminine apparel that man sealed his death warrant if | until now had escaped him. His eyes +Garret had the authority from head- | brightened, and he ugck‘og in ;sxu;: u‘xjnrurlhxn,v back him up. She had nxhxh e lhl:mdeep reaths, succeeded, howeve ersuac oked a em. - I te anane Wever in persuading | 00 aded slip of blue, which any one long enough to permit her fing |but Bull would have recognized as the out the (rue location of the mythical |Temnants of happy girihood daye $50,000, vi o caught his eve. Close by, and pas Aoy Of yhich she had overheard ) (U8 g it, hung a huge fur coat. He far matters were wet well in|dwelled on it for a moment, and his but Tam was becoming visibly | face darkened. He had seen the coat . the sullen mood in which | before, on Peter Alden. The expres- found Buller on their last meet. |Sion of a thug wielding a blackjack Keep Towpind muster If she Wwas 10| room. Would he never quit associat- o 3 Lt s Ot Te- ' ing the two? He cursed, and bit his e e ant would DADGOR . After|yins :as he #tood scowiing: at the e et ogy U0t think. Even & crumpled coat. He tirned again to he ended her story in appadered | the faded blue dress and continued coi i ttorls S | his brooding silence. Seet - ped bitterly ageinat the NOFROE| iy, wiciis opked! into 2 new face Little wonder, then, that Hawkins |Yhen, Buller again approached b looked upon her with something akin |, B O s toi cenom L sheer R wd y i ro wonder, as she finished | {rHamed by L Sing s dpie Moapa. Before she| Yot he said not a word as he gath- his~ bedside, she let him read|ered up his coat and cap and made the note she was to post, and seemed | gor the door. pleased when he nodded his head| Hawk alone agaln, shivered at in warm approval, as he handed the|the thought of his fellow-prisoner in elope back. the cabin below. ‘God bless you, child.” he mur- mured fervently s she tidied up the (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) Buller came to 1 CHAPTER VIIIL oE ] : R ; “Don't tell me about it, John, don't r nearly an hour Hawkins lay{yq " e (here, mtaring ot the boiing ang A2y itcll me about it.” The feeble voice of ing over and over again the pathetic|Alden, sr. could scarcely be heard story of the child who now held his|against the roar of pounding waves. life in her hands. Then the door)“you saw his letter, so did I. ‘Now opened again and Buller Girret en 5 1 _ : tered! Triumph, or momentary gloat- | YOU have the truth.’ he wrote. 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He tried hard to tell Alden how de tectives were proceeding with their work. Though he had little to tell him, certainly, still he would cheer- fully have perjured himself a hun- dred times rather than witness the constant grief his friena was suffer- ng. For over an hour they sat thus in the sun; neither speaking, each ap- parently watching the oily sea lions pop up from foaming waves, shake thelr heads in the spray and glide back into the water. Alden spoke: “Then, why doesn’t he deny it, why doesn't he come here?” For an instant he had forgotten him- self, and the rest of the sentence slipped back on the silent track of his mind, where it continued its cir- cuit, starting and ending always in the same place. But the few words had given Judge Stivers the proof he wanted. Alden, in spite of himself, still doubted his son's guill Faint as the doubt might be, it was there. It must be fed, enlarged, until it crowded out “”“fi%““%“fl%““w%“fi%“fi“@“\B tapped uncertainly. and looked, |questions and problems at his friend, none szemingly near “the thought in both of their minds, yet all, never- theless, used for a purpose. As they talked, clonds gathered in the sky, and a sudden rift played sunshine like a spotlight on the seal rocks before them. “See those seals, Peter?’ John' stick pointed out the playful animals. mees John. Ive been watching m. “But, do you notice that some of them have been perfectly still on the rocks these two hours ¢s, some of them have, I believe.” “And some of them are constantly scampering about?" 11 6% #ome of them, yes, I've naticed “But do you notice that the ones lying so quietly there in the sun are mostly old ones, Peter?" Peter's eyes had been looking in the direction of the seal rocks, but seelng far, far beyond. Now he stirred himself as though from a dream, and observed' more closely the movements of the animals the Judge so insistently pointed out. “What was it you asked me, John? Excuse me, but the waves are so nolsy here.” “I was wondering if you noticed that those seals out there, the ones that are quiet so long, are mostly the full grown ones”" 'Oh, yes, ves, yes. So they are. Strange, isn't it™" against the old duffer? Now watch him.” Alden was beginning to take an in- terest in the antics of the seals. “See,” continued the judge, “he de- liberately waited for that big break- er before he plunged. See, the old one hardly noticed him.” Strivers watched his friend closely from the corner of his ey, “You'd think he'd go in after him, wouldn't you?' old Alden mused. “Yes," Stivers hesitated, “one would think so, but you see, &eals under- stand each other, I guess. Look, now the younger is gone for good it seems. Yet the old_one has not even flapped a fin! Only his head in the air, notice that? “But wait a minute, the youngster will come back. Il in the game of guess. _Yes, yes, , Tight over the top of the rock. ! Ha! Good for you, youngster!” Even Alden had become {n terested, as the baby seal came pldy fully down the shiny rock, after its long plunge in the foaming waves. You see, Peter, the old one is wise after all; that youngster's got to face the ocean alone some day, and he know, he must learn to buck the waves now. “Well, he's a thoroughbred, John, he surely picked a big one,” Alden mused, with just a flicker of his old self in his expression. ~ The eyes of the dear old friends met, and something passed between them, something warm and comforting. Per- haps it was a silent message from one man’s soul to another. 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New Body Styles —destined by their graceful, symmetrical design, distinctive have you around. Come home with mie, tonight, won't you?" “Business first, then pleasure, fully answered the judge. “I've some business at tho office, them I'll come out and give you the worst lambasting you've had in your entire pinochle career!” “Judge, you're a darned hard cuss to beat, guess that's why I liké you. But I'll teach you yet, that you can't beat an Alden, The cards will be ready when you come, John. Good-bye.’ ‘As Judge Stivers made his way toward his office, he breathed his first sigh of relief in fourteen days. He entered his private suite almost briskly, gathered up his mail and sat running it impatiently through his fingers, keeping his eyes the while on the door as though expect- ing a visitor. Promptly at six the door opened, and o keen-looking man of perhaps forty, with heavy head, a square face and gray cropped mustache, that blended harmoniously with silver-sprinkled hair, entered. 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