The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1914, Page 8

Lamplio Winter. Saturday THE SEATTLE STAR ¢ HANNA REFUSES TO CASHVOUCHER FOR PPER AUTO | , eomed to need any more name Haldy had, for tt looked a mile Considering charge ht in the ner squabble = | van that, The other was mostly by this time quite a way up the thy of inve 1 Treasurer Hanna has refused to cash } nerican, with a dash of every cliff face, and the dim valley he $4,000 war < 1 ppe r » ambulance | else you can think, He was below, filled with shadows and bought from him t ’ t } k ‘ looking, except for his the roar of the river, looked big The case i be ‘ Uement . which was just a kind of a and deep and empty as eternit I 1 have been as © of sale and a gash across his face By CHARLES G D. ROBERTS mianced Gown once, a 1 was r vefore: acco ding to feense 4, the property of ame he answered to was climbing the ladder, then fiat Commissioner Harollton a it Complainis have Baldy tened a bit closer and attended] H ‘ been coming In wo ra ty to demand an investi (Copyrighted, 191%, vy the News: little feet she grabbed my rot tO lene pee to think. As if ion before any mc paper Enterprise Association) Well, I was glad to see them, and fairly dragged me into the to business Ul 1 KOl 10 lithe Indder had suddenly become The Commercial wie the auto w and they came right to business. ly ‘ red hot, #0 1 couldn't hold on tol her D tr eae ode 1 tt tothe ee ae ‘ The bare, three-storied, barn-like |" "Jt was a man's Job, all right, that meh. : The ledge we were on nowli 1 let go f fate deepen | Hamilton to Uppe ‘ » the count A Structure which served the mill: they were putting up to me Niche whienered, all shalt ait an the narr down like «# Then | saw a Hands for a boarding house was on | And ft was a rank one, too; but leacatala: of at. But when we| len we had str yet, and We | man's look over the} | 7 fire, The old fire hose homes I'm ashamed to say that, deaper-| to Malay ‘and Antonio endl one ver na Ve penne ode at usa Kober, | hurriedly from the mill, had bu te as | was and seeing yellow cared and slipped bering |(2e,.ledder without making | a) A " avage nor finder the first strain, The Mame* ang in a land where right and one nolse, It looked junt about| gad, but Just kind of final, And| dog ' Were having It all their own WAY. | wrong aoemed to get mixed up at They're friends,’ saya 1 to) (crMlent u down: but the | right beside that awful gray face | But suddenly a groan of he every turn, the rankness of it b Thi tie hi top see steady ap the face f a girl looked down! ‘Went up, and the calm of the crowd | jugt didn't strike me. | her. . aa oa! oe eed quick! ax if into a groove made On put land gmntled The tadéer leaned! broke It, A child's form |*"..., . . ome on hen come quilc nose for it. Bald nd L were hold: | noe , + leaned | a ecerca ta saat topiaet. wil You fellows have never heard, | | she pa and started to drag ope * and os vif ye pushe rhe her out, and I saw that ¢ | : i MUMEEES Gt the right. Men raced for|/kely, of a Iittle tribe called the |me away as if to get me out of! Antonio to get to ft, 1 saw bim|ome and Sit! were holding | the Be eetgert “ur sne tail” figure, in| Quetzals,” down in Yucatan. No,| the canyon, but I wouldn't stir. liner at her and give her a sauces (bo ton cule With ns onan t| . ad of course no! ut every one “'No!' saya Il. ‘Not that way, prere Habe enctioh Ooe, tell ear ith a wild effort . . 3 3S wi Fy Row down round Mexico and Central lyet, We tiave come to get (asl are tur ncotires wee «for |1 wrigsied up and lay fat on the| pra . ‘ oe Ma hlock.” went the word |America way has heard of them gold. I've saved you, We'll fight anwn in the valley, and I saw the | cae, clutching at the rock with) poRTLAND, Feb. 21—Two thou-| Dr. Woods Hutchinson, phystet . . and their treasure. They're so fi u, but you must show ¢ th hands and staring, be < le the , . " ee D> among the crowd, “If anybody kin, | BM) way Be i. for you, bu must 6 as bow| siri flash back into that greaser's iaet ¢ nd signatures © already bee 1 author of national r a + cl y are able to pay the! to get the gold Peano inde th it lool . eyes @ to the n and of described a BSH git through” into place, |Kovernment well to let them alone Bhe A toreibly frightened |. ‘) With dreadt ‘ t * [ 1 . seas te ce ‘A ladder was thrust into pla 0 e ' « ¢ } A « \ « r good health popular held almost perpendicular by the Nag igo =e seer gold, every-| at this and fell on her knees and ever #a ‘ P farther. i: é and ty Cor ‘ pear at the Y. M. C, A. aud. \ at. It did) not quite |body knew well enough was some: begged me to take her away at Fe. me | ue ‘ r ¢ he . t : t Wednesday evening a fereh the seine ow sill but no one; Where up among the tremendous or we'd all be killed AB feos Dp the ' it ri ; ©, toda ature of the entert ais 56 ted that Block could get to {t/mountain cliffs, But it had never kind of signa to show 1 1”) ej toward the pole naants to . rs — dou t Ithy ¢ Then 1d th ae agape ig arden. Nevertheless, he|been considered healthy to try to rtured; and she ¢ bey spay methine Pr Dr. Hut on, from the a ' or te wosttat find out anything more aboat tt a string of stuft now! Aiba i ion Shine. va raéng the vena bol torm aud thtoyet the. peeter a oat “Come up and get her, some ages ho 3 2 injuns baving just mur pow!” | with it. ‘The man and ut — action a meteolin thoes Pies { 7° , erma “Well, t going to tell you| he other, and having t or, BO : ’ the « hi P bh 1 one!” shouted Block. A riverman i, I'm no r om Q pa vi hat indder Joath ¢ and the the sick and the well, tak. Twas half way up the ladder before |about that journey Into the bed [condemned her to death for | which hang by ite lene ree ae out of my! yy retaining his position a in stand that no permanent the tence had passed his lips, |{ntertor !n the heat t was ba kind of witch—and about bowlteeth on brin ot etarnity.ia 8 for a good bit ma Then er of @ life insurance « of disease may be effec “Block reached out. put the child |enough to make another story, | lena’ to us all abeat the eold, by tna yon art © so Phas es 1 beard the girl's voico calling to| any vince his sitotiie: that the ean 0¢ Ares aad pidiginsined into his hands, and watched her hip cut tt all ont. boned Jand by, #0 as we could come back | stairs er Ppivenay ing pa ‘ unfit for office becauso the and dirt are the most expensive Deing carried down to safety | well clear of the trail, you ter Jwith a lot of soldiers and get it, fis Wnaks Wink ot “What are you going to do?” she! pron more ¢ . vege : this aoe But he made no motion to fol-/delleve, and worked higher and/ and all such crazy childish etuff./tain was now in a br sai © careie ast six mo hb He has a popular and witty style Hight flashed tnto the room | higher, aiming to come down upon | | Baldy and Antonio, not mder: | elare th w Nothing, | reckon!’ says I, aft t d g any 1k of presenting acientif . A lig! | a 1 at we ‘ onrin 4 during i * scientific truths. Debind him. He turned and locked | the town from the interior—a direc- | standing her lingo, got imparwnt © as if we wer 5 : ee neers fn the city’s history, and extrav this lecture may be re- at it, Was he mad? Suddenly he/ tion from which the Quetzals would | and Baldy began to F fe a theatre, and | we PP ply a Will,’ Bhe | ance in the city’s ministration. | ser at the Y. M. C. A. business _ shouted: never be expecting a visitor, When | thing ugly fut, says I . A pre y — office A rope! Fling me a rope!” | we did come on the place ft was just | Raldy. Who's running th ip sally ¥ a shall live, If you aula a In a moment a coll came circling by accldent—I was going to say show Then, say# I to t pe ame 8 somber ce. And the| there on the ledge and she heiped| mp to him. Block selzed it and geod luck, but that wouldn't be Just | in her own gibberiah > my Ral ‘ od me lower the tndder s at climb OBJECT TO TAX it fast to the bedstead in the the right word. | girl, that won't go. We after 4 eat this 4 | eray down—well, I got through it some Yoom. Then he slipped out from, “Baking in the sun, the village | that gold; we've helped you and for al yr Ae yn th - 8 Why I demanded how without letting her see how 1} © the window and, to tne speechless |lay huddled beneath us, a sort of will stand by you, and you must Th. we whted, th Wea @ You don’t deserve it, that is| felt; but however I kept from just) TACOMA, Feb, 21.—That the D> bewilderment of the crowd, camie a nest of brownish yellow, flat-| jhetp us » more talk. Will y hare we Salt “ars eatin oon true, she answe , coldly You pitching out in that hollow, moon-| state has no right to place a tax on swiftly down the rope hand over roofed adobe houses, on a great) jor won't you? on my back My heart thumred |0r0_.%. thief, but, as far as we|light space I never will know. It | the “good will” of the railroad wasw 6 oring the very existence | shelf of the mountain side. i | Well, at that time, she A burst of voice - ow, you are not a murderur. 1) we night then. It is a/the statement today by George T. hand, ignoring Hi of voices came r beside him. “Then we started off to work! kind proud and straigh e . by a aw the old man the boy | nigh » now from which I wake Reid, chief counsel of the Northern ‘of the ladde’ n and clear a : - “ An hour later Martin Block, his|our way around the head of the| then her eyes began to blaze depths, 1 wondered what it} et, 224 1 saw your face, and |up shaking and all of a sweat Pacific, Suit was started in Thurs- © scorched face and hands shining canyon. It was nigh sunset when she said that maybe, with t pant. Then ft : 1 [knew ft was not your will, I saw epee: ton county to eliminate the assess- ©) with sweet-ol!, was sitting in the | We reaghed the bank of the river leuide us, and being brave m iit them: tee os t you would have protected me And now, boys, you know why on $12,000,000 of “good will.” ca room of the Mills store. The above the canyon, and found it we were, we might perhaps. Wan-|over the ledge You shal! live. I preferred to come down @ re nt a keeper, Sandy MacNutt, waa here a pleasant, quick stream, age {t. With that sho fell to mut-\clamp something “"What do you want me to| tonight 1 was a fool, I know, and big Steve Corrigan and/Tunning between two low banks, tering to herself about reenee.)a heavy pole do m asked but I couldn't help it P + the river boss. and looking as if it might havo/ nd seemed to forget all shout! solid onto the to ou shall leave your knife| And tipping bis chair forward to drawled Sayres, “what/trout in it Here we knew we! how scared she'd been 'WO Me | hold it fast ’ and your guns there on the ledge the table Martin Block began re} ‘did ye do it for™ lwere In danger at once, so we tes before “Tt te tint and t this ladder and climb | filling his pipe. > “Do what for?” asked Block after backed off {nto the brush again ne Next Inute she fe finished,’ she said, cold| gown and deliver yourself a pris Rut how did ye git away?” de : and decided to Iie 1 ext = minu and hard as fate. ‘Come quick.|oner to my le yonder.’ ~ |manded Jim Sayres t | te low until moon- head and listened ebar You hold the ladder foot be east ene pestis , a) * grunted impatiently | rise. }we couldn't hear anything, then) . Il, | had some sense left, for} “An’ what become o’ the gurr! “I was afraid to come down the| “From our hiding place we quick as lightning she turned leqtyatitn't understand her last(a wonder. 1 took off my knife and |asked Corrigan Ws .” answered Block quietly. |could see quite a way down the | this: She was to a = oe think much sbout)my guna and laid them down on| “An’ did ye bring away any of An incredulous laugh greeted this Slope, to a spot where a heavy the face of the ener | Seem. ee could all see that|the ledge beside me. Then I took|the yellow stuff when ye came?” 4 \ [pect statement. spring spouted out from under a lby « ledge she knew, till we came) i, 4), eae had fixed the top of|hold of the ladder. But would you|inquired MacNutt. ! “It's true, so help me!” persisted rock. When Baldy and Antonto lto the place where the ladder was! 5 the prey bores safe and solid | believe it, boys, at the thought of) ” Martin Block answered, “Boys, it was just some- (got thirsty both at the same time [kept With this we'd mount from side of « house. Hut it/climbing down, down, from narrow | “that’s another story and too long) 2 T couldn't do. I'd have jump- !t seemed quite right that they |\edge to ledge, palling the Indder| Bo straight up and down that|shelf to narrow shelf, on what/a one for this night. The main| Ready for use, economical, reliable. “@d out sooner. I'm scared of a Should creep down to the spring lup after ua. in the cave at the palty -coulene RO Up very quick. |looked like the very same one I/thing Is I'm here, and right glad Dircetiqns tn 15 lnngwanes ee ' jana ket a drink. |top—it was not the mine, she anid, rg ns impatient and ugly at bad seen pitching into space with | of it.” PRT ie.) | “Once upon a time I was just! “Woll, the fellows had no more but the tribe’x treasure chamber | pot, S0!Me first. went close at his| Baldy and Antonio clinging on to| (THE END.) ume r ten Years younger than Iam than reached the apring when I|"What Are You Going to Do?” She|—thern was always a guardian gyout PR od M5 Bagg was jit like spiders, made me eo sick the nae - | caw - © 0 way | bright cliff to sw r , and more than ten years fool- ——- of stiffen up, pull Asked, Quite Carelessly. sleeping. He was a kind of &/u5 thon I just couldn't walt any |m —_ began to swim sround pTURRISH-RUSSIAN | BATHS NX Mr. Out-of-Town Buyer or gentlemen. Washington Bathe. F: , down at Progresso, on the their Next second I | Gulf of Mexico I hadn't been overly heard a cry and a scuffiing. 1 ty. but I'd found enough gold to| W484 up and after them in a ‘itty, | me the taste for it. And just Pulling my own knife as I ran, for! my head was buzzing with fool You will understand that w of buried treasure. When/| 0 time nor place to use our guns gets that bee in his brain, he's !f we could help It. There at the ly for most any kind of non-|#lde of the trail was an old man, that’s put up to him. jerumpled up on bis face, with “I was sitting alone tn front of Baldy just pulling the knife from of murder, a Fight to Hittle posada, looking out over out of his back, between the gg hot shining water, all streaked |shoulder biades. In the middle| rested until and green so lovely one never |of the trail lay a boy. He had tired staring at {t, when up/ evidently been running away) &@ couple of hard customers. when Antonio's big bowle knife knew they were bad ones all caught him. The way the greaser t wh n e ) en th irl started us moving. right. 1 knew there was lots of could fling a knife was a caution. |the tail Ney N® MAES MP eae we'd want all the time Fope looking for both of them up “At the sight of the old injun| “1 tell you we didn’t make any|there wan before sunrise She “along New Mexico and Arizona,/and the boy lying there in their h: ‘where more noise than so many ghosts|knew what she about, all i the climate had got un-/ blood, I felt pretty sick, I can telllag we crept along in the biack- (right. She led the way through healthy for them. jyou. This was not the kind of/ ness of the shadowed side of the thickets black as soot, me close : eras of the two, and a ‘greaser’|fighting | was looking for. It /trail. Pretty soon we came to the st her little hess and keeping eraatonto, he called himself, never | was just the coldest-blooded kind bridge. It was one of their injun|hold of her all the time, while — | bridges, flimsy enough to our eyes,| Baldy and Antonio kept touch be but answering their purpose as|bind me the same way. We were e | well as anything more fancy so quiet we could hear things rus | “From this point the trail left|tling to get out of our way e on esslons the river. It climb snakes, maybe, or maybe only climbed, zigzagging through a| those big lizards they have down tumbled, broken country for) there Ad | maybe a couple of hours. Then it} “It seemed an age we went eee 0) a e jbegan to descend—first little by|crawling along that ledge; always dud Mttle, then so quick it was like|founding the tremendous bulge) going downstairs. And at last wejof the cliff, And 1 tell fareuy PRAT ONT Ire ; reached the mouth of the canyon,|We moved as ff our TWO VIEWPOINTS OF LIFE with the river rolling out of It were ea shells w might | “The mouth of the canyon was| afraid of bre came uy wide and the woods cs down |to a deep, narrow fissure, and there CHAPTER LXXXIV with the toast beside {t and the|thick to the trail. We reckoned|the girl showed us the ladder, hid Father Waverly was much better| Coffee in the tiny pot, a boy|{t would be no kind of a heaithy |den : this morning and has improved att | Pronahe pol ng —_ of roses for| piace for us around daylight; a0, It was a mighty long ladder. day, but poor Mother Waverly ts) it a ae cle ® Pink one and Iaid|the first grayness just then sift [strongly bullt, and heavy. We quite sick. Sh o te rule ing down among the trees, we quit/had to carry it maybe fifty yards lee her’ be polbe-mccge nd like me) It would have tempted anyone.|the trail |along that ledge, and that wasn't ‘about her better than Mollie and|When Mother Waverly saw it she| = leu tok ¢ ee. Porning, after I had her| gave a little cry of delight and ex Pa Nebo the Brg of ke Shae cad he Br Vober and her bed ight | clat “ 100 caught a queer edge he darkness and and night) claimed: “Margie, how beautiful. kind of noise. We made it out,|the necessity of being always as clothes changed, I went into the|I know I can eat every | y bit suit case I had brought over and| And she did! haa found one of my pretty boudoir| When I went back do ing and moaning. I said I'd go|how helpless we'd have been if y € wnat iad pat Jt. on. her. took eit the flowers ant eimai di and kind of prospect around and|We hadn't had the girl, When The pink ribbons looked lovely |card with Eleanor Fairlow's name, |PTiBE back word what was the} ¥e came to the place where we ‘ om her white hair and a flush of|I wondered how she knew Dad was| Mutter; | but Baldy and Antonlo|tAd to tllmy to the next ledKe i Pleasure tinged her cheeks as she|sick and then took myself to tank |“/Owed they'd go along, too ne Hagel » yey god ali { ald, deprecatingly: “Oh, Marie,|for suspecting Dick of telephoning | Fed dba gli Rd Aled ere le gt no ret a i 'm too old to wear this dainty | her. ’ before we saw what It was. There|you !t was a job, hoisting that 4 thing!” t t y te 4 a he Maiden sete dcnaid Jat the fend of the trail, tied to aljheavy ladder up to its place with “No, you're not, mother, dear,| when I took them Ragooy i lle wae. S161, WI0t | Jone coal Cus letting At bump of aide, By fast look at yourself,” I said, giv-|was awfully pleased. 1 told him|pitek hair all down her face to|the time It was done you could ‘ ing ved the hand glass Miss Fairlow sent them and he|%e knees And in front of her,|have wrung us out like dish. 5 woman is never too old to | said where she could see it plain, but | rags But that girl wouldn't let B take an interest in her looks | “Oh, yes, she 2 jcouldn’t any way get at it, was ajus rest a second. The ladde a eee ar interes fook x th , she is that pretty girl] {or oe water hecpl + pall Ttnie cant id wi ceases to be | that Dick used to go about so mi jar of water keeping nice and cool| was almost straight, but up it she pleased with a compliment you | with.” Then he looked up quleaty. jin the shade, It struck us—we|went, light as a cat may know she is ready to die. | “But I'd rather he would have mar.| "ins thirsty ourselves just then] "All safe. I'm holding it! 3 Mrs. Waverly was far from wish-| ried you, Margaret, for you remind|~~*%,® Mighty simple but ingeni-|came her whisper down the face 3 ing to leave this world and her|me of my sister that died, and she |# kind of torture. jof the rock through the dart 1 z face lighted up with pleasure when | was not only the prettiest, but the “Well, whispered I, ‘I reckon|sent Baldy up first, not wanting she saw how pretty she looked sweetest dispositioned girl I. ever| Wee Kot to see what can be done|to leave Antonio a minute alone ‘Now, you just lle still and look | knew. for that kid. Antonio's eyes| With the girl, and he went plucky : out of the window while I go down Don't you bank on my dispout.| showed their whites at me with alenough, but clinging so flat to | bring up your breakfast tion, Dad. You know I was an old| er Of misunderstanding and ap-|the ladder you'd have thought “| don’t want anything to eat, |ma school teacher when Dick | Preval; but Baldy protested. he'd scrape his face off on the Margie. I could not taste a thing.” | married me and they are always as|_." What for, Martin?’ be demand. | rungs vay penis iby thinking about | ‘raspy’ as a green peralmmon.” jed, |, “Antonio followed, also cling ; tt mother, ear, 1 sald. Walt un “Don't talk of being old, Mar. | You havn't got much sense,|ing flat. 1 was going to wait till sates what f Will bring you.” | garet. You are only a child yet Baldy, have you? Can't you see|he was all the way up before I ‘ J isd seen some | us looking | and | sometimes feel sorry for | {iii I our big chance? We'll make|started, but the girl's whisper | 3 sae ° pe i aA her grocery| you, my dear, for | know how | her show use the way.’ jcame down to me very sharp and later and 1 knew ‘they « igh it is| many hurts will have to heal: 1 slipped out of the brushjurgent, #o T came along just] . eer $0 ; mee i y would he how many mistakes will have with my knife in my hand The| about ten feet behind Antonio. 1 peerage, 21 Setarm med to get| to be rectified; how many tears |&it! Kive mn cry of terror as she|flattened myself Just as flat am 4 ee 30 Se Ja ath ppeti a. | will have to be shed before you |#iW me coming Then her face|away, up there into the dimness, ‘ ee eek at owt memes, | are really old, [lighted up with hope and the ladder was so straight 1} ee ae Hy “peters , think of Don't be frightened, we|felt as if | was going to “pull it Beate some bread a delicate| how many |won't hurt you any,’ saya 1 im|ovér backward | 4 | and strips. While songs; how |Spanish as 1 cut the leather We pulled the Indder up, 4 the coffee was making I even| much will come between.” thongs that lashed her to the|noiselessly, after us, and imme ‘ churned a little pat of fresh butter “Oh, dear, it's the way of | tree Miately hoisted ft to. the vabat ii the ison cream whipper. Then | looking at lHtewyou are look She didn't seem to understand |ledge. This climb was shorter fixes up the ray with Mother ing forward from aim the be Spanish, bat began to thank me|and not quite so steep. But the Waverly’s daintiest doilies, china ginning of life and | am gazing kind of wild Jike in an injun lingo} next after that was a cautic It and silver, The strawberries 1) backward from almost the |which I'd picked up down on the|was as long as the fi an Jett with their hulla on and jugt as| end.” da MEAL Mad: he Aiea PICT A OIE erate attalent cy T had them arranged I . ° nd to kine my | po nore straight up { arranged on the ‘plate | (To Be Continued Monday) The moment I'd freed her|and doWn, Furthermore, we were But expect. urns, well while the other kept There o watch, into injun would enderatood it all in a glance—and having gone|*ecred, and into such a game with those rufflans, it was no more than I had| Would ever dare to interfere with lest his curse But sleeping we the night, [when the moon was just getting up. Then, knowing that ft was the time when every be lunatic, she sald, and regarded by the was | him, nothing I could say very well, so 1) ther. just stood there chewing in dis-|she declared, with her chin In the She did not f alr thermore had marked her that mother for witches, give me tribe as two|of the gods; ah ber very terrible, and under the protection so that no tnjuns should b t he was not an Injun, ¢ him. © reckoned {ft was he and = her And she bad of my two one knives, which I did very willingly It wasn't more than full at last, to be a woman's voice ery-| quiet an shadows. dark We saw just Fur | | | i} longer. ladder and began to climb. Well, I hadn't gone above two went pe, | rungs when an awful chill down my backbone, and I stop: The ladder was ving ONLY ONE WEEK MORE Star Pennants 1 slipped round onto the| ‘Walt.’ anid the girl, and I saw Moore Theatre Bidg. Masseurs. Order your printing by mali oy jher start down the ladder. ‘You Wm Wicklund. graduate Dr jure my prisoner. I'll go down with |I— KJsibere’s | toatl rages FRANK P. NOLAN you.” And that seemed to put the ate of Prot Dr Institute, 1407 Fifth Ave. etiffening into my knees again. Seckhetm, Ee will save you money on all “We left my knife and my guns i printing orders. . TO GET The Number Is Limited—You Must Hurry Sweet Sixteen Debutante Stage Beauty Seattle Your Choice— By Mail— No Coupons Required—Buy as M HERE THEY ARE: Summer Dream Office Girl Co-Ed Tacoma Two for 25c Or 15 Cents for One Two for 35c Or 20 Cents for One any as You Wish