The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1919, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, ee PAGE 4 VHlearts ok Tlttee’ the zovel W, } Jack Lorton i COPYRIGHT i EDITOR'S NOTE.—The Star today reprints the first installment of Jack 9 4 | London's “Hearts of Three,” along with the second installment, in order that u of t | those who failed to begin the novel may begin today. Do not fail to read thi re) an = ‘ last novel of America’s greatest writer of adventure. oo ecreh a i ing orders from me Non: | ir What's up with Tamptco I UE ren Who wants control? It's pure | tr am ok th bo emma pardon, I mean it's merely tem-| with fir CHAPTER I porary Now I'm going off flahing for very VENTS happened very rapidly |® fortnight, If it goes down five | sponaib with Francis Morgan that late PO! ts s, be : - a Phe at's one 1 weare ne ee ce onc eeccnd bo 7halnbrae Reh marehadh th npahy Uae nsyened [eM none Hie ewe an hush cher 4 across time into the raw, red drama | "le property be ing bu 2% ite me ad . a sh na . Re e and tragedy of the primitive and the |*# Dad as having the bears after «an consulted the ticke “ey it Mediaeval melodrama of ‘sentiment 200, Yee mies Tense u e TURKISH that man, and Destiny was very im.|shtedly to his fishing rods, Destiny, | with," was the reply of youth ceadiehe upen hinh in Thomas Regan's downtown pri You mean “Parker,” he said to the valet, who| Yate office, was working overtime ity re Ju t th at If she drops, IN : had been his father's before him, “did Fy pongrenn Mier : 1 v +b none ice any signs of fat o brokers to bey, and thru hig divers! A LEADING QUESTION , . s 7 Ww ee ee ery gate. °C “tO | channela of secret publicity having |S... \UING QUEST i You object to the high cost of living. “On, * F ‘ let #lip the cryptic tip that something pe ow sar wou you a . ‘ he a t DL s o ne searchin , , , tered with ail the due humility of the | "## Wrong with Tamploo Petroleum's | PUY") waa the next searching But some of you forget it when you buy wut accompanied by iconcessions from the Mexican gov. Tomation, masked by an i ; ar ; ate trained servant. but accompanied by | oom ene ‘Thomas Ragan studied are |MNEled good humor and ay cigarettes. You pay for an expensii F oui n'a apien, | Port from his own off expert emis |"O% os a a om Se eee ee ye taunes cir, [SFY Who had epent two months on| “All I've wot! came Francis Mor box, get fewer cigarettes, and pay ; Tin fare |th@ spot spying out what Tampico OER ohew f 0 : Faia Mas always the came; breaa|Fetrolum really hed tn sight and|yran.tt's immense, : higher price. That’s poor business. > Listen ou, Regan, it's the the chest, dig | Prospect on-pure emitien eran bet lee, diwaye lean, sir, in| A clerk brought in a card with | Sm sy ch noe gcoree pert: si " , he Infe n aito ast 8 ename ata - the middle jthe information that the visitor wee! :" Gone 'heve to wreck anybody or If you bought that way for your rs - Tilana: Wrintly. Moreen, inheritor | MPF unate and foreign Regan ed ptr Resided a ; @f many millions as well a8 Draw ea eee er Sener Atanas | Will be better for 1 Into tt ployer, you wouldn’t last very long. stretched his legs after the manner | Torres of Giodad de Colon that 1 | *™ afraid to aay bun dreds of millions of barrels I've got one well a a feld, th & day for seven months of real ott of & full vigored menagerie lion, and | can't see him.” glanced at a headline of the morning | Five minutes later the clerk was paper which informed him of a fresh | back, this Ume with a message pen slide in the Culebra cut at Panama. |ciled on the card. Regan grinned as “If 1 didn’t know we Morgans didn't he read it fun that way,” he yawned, “I'd be Dear Mr. Regan | LORD SALISBURY TURKISH cig- arette is the inevitable solution of th cigarette-buying problem, because you at's gushe And n't want it to gi. id “Don't you, worry about that, my fat already from this existence. . Honored Sir—I have the hon. , ot to me ‘ j Eh, Parker?" | — oe te tates you that Dheves. [rises ene he eee re get 5 extra cigarettes instead of a box. “Oh, yes, sir." he said hastily, “I | tip on the location of the treas lg oc pose mean, no, sir. You are in the pink of} ure Sir Henry Morgan buried Mane GhitK’ vexce maaan eondition AAR in old pirate days tit” RR veoh wore * - KISH ci tt jot on your life!" the young man ALVAREZ TORRES. eile olantehn’ . " . \~ T U Gesured him. “I may not be getting) Regan shook his head, and the or DuuEh we aseitee Sorta eard It is the only high grade R " ic ett fat, bet Iam cortainly growing soft.” | cierk was nearly out of the room| with the penciled note, “Look whee in the world that sells for as little money as “Yes, sir. No, sir; no, I mean no, ‘etr. You're just the same as when | you came | home from college three | when his employer suddenly recalled him, “Show him tn—at once” In the Interval of being alone, Re just been to see me?" Apparently struck with an idea, Regan retained the card « moment “Why go fishing for mere trou years ago. “Parker, I'm going fishing.” 20 cents for 15 cigarettes Yea, ait! crf ecpormlncir sspears Moy aged OF Rgra-edrenage aaa fem the ‘once over.’ The iden éritts| “rains he can play the lion part oMd| the renting ot the mera ee me Th for the | that LORD SALISBURY 4 Set < acat ws aan ya RH. M. played. A trimming in| “He's « plausible cus” Regin ex e reason for the low price is that pe teres the hots tity tren, Tora re-| Thomas F wit nc th the aete ri doen there aa ‘n or sadict TURKISH cigarette is packed in the most i popes e most ember Sir Henry?—the olf original ay correct am hia modish spring tult,| private papers in his tarally, ‘ot | attractive machine-made paper package instead of the expensive “Nbackler™* es Nipatdees at Late Kecerhias bevas or tedarenh oo ast ceiring cote hand-made cardboard box. For these practical reasons time or interest to get started belie: | ing in stuff outside of my own feld.” “Yes, sir; I've read of him, str." Parker had paused in the doorway pie aay ace tho his big black eyes were eloquent of the mixed lusters “Do you know where I can find ob gavel saline beamadirg his /of Spanish and. Indian long com | him?” Francis was asking the next rene te an Om the errand, |Pounded, nevertheless he was as thor-| moment, all unwittingly putting his | mit part od oly New Yorkish as Thomas Regan neck Into the net of tentacles that} “Nothing to be proud of; the old} pirate!” | “Oh, no, sir! Parker protested. “He was governor of Jamaica. ‘died respected.” “It was a mercy he didn't die Francis laughed. “As it the only disgrace in the ‘farnily that he founded.” Parker faded out of the room in ‘the ensuing silence, during which Francis could have wished “By great effort end years of re) Thomas Regan, He | "eareh, 1 have finally won the clue to. snare him. | the buccanser gold of air Henry Mor Re Sa Rs Nae ae gan,” he preambled. “O course, it ‘The next m jon the Mosquito coast, I'll tell you! place in } now that it's not 1,000 miles from the | varez Torres start , |Chiriqui lagoon, and that Bocas del! himself at first «ight of Fra Toro, within reason, may be de-| This was not mined by KK scribed as the nearest town. 1 was grinningly demand ,born there—educated in Paris, how ke the old Morgan buried himself in the |ever—and I know the neighborhood like a book. A small schooner—the outlay ts cheap, most very cheap- but the returns, the reward—the treasure!’ Destiny, in the visible incarnation of was casting out to Regan's ~ LorD SALISBURY. TURKISH CIGARETTE is inevitable him pirate welt. NOT TO B Francis was a youth who was not to be denied. Modern maj@ and cient charts were pored over, as well | “Yes,” Senor Torres quickly ad-|* the old documents, hand-written in mitted, “I am somewhat embarrassed faded ink on time-yellowed paper. —how shall I say—for immediate | @nd at the end of half an hour he an funds." | nounced that the next fish he caught “You need the money,” the stock | Would be on either the Bull or the operator assured him brutally, and Calf—the two Islets of the lagoon of he bowed pgined acquiescence. Chiriqui, on one or the other of Much more he admitted under the which Terres averred the treasure rapid fire interrogation. It was truce, | l4y. |he had but recently left Bocas del| “I'll catch tonight's train for New Toro, but he hoped never again to go Orleans!” Francts announced. back. And yet he would go back ff} But at a privy giance from Regan possibly some arrangement. Alvarez Torres lied with swift em ciency Panama column and learned that the canal was not expected to be open for traffic for three weeks to come. A telephone buzzed and, thru the ; lectric nerves of a consummate civ. ‘Mlization, Destiny made the first out. Teach of its tentacles and contracted with Francis Morgan in the library | of the mansion his father had builded on Fifth ave. “But my dear Mrs. Caruthers,” “was his protest into the transmitter. “Whatever it is, it is a mere local flurry. Tampico Petroleum is all right. It Is not a gambling propo- sition. It is legitimate investment. ‘Listen, please, it's not a flyer. Our Present contract for tanks is over a 3 a —which means that if you don’t like LORD SALISBURY REGAN WRITES A CHECK * million. Our railroad and our three I must join you later, I regret pipe lines are costing more than five|’ But Regan shut him off with the Mr. Morgan. Some little business Cigarettes you can get your money back from the dealer. millions. Why, we've a hundred mil-| abrupt way of the master man deal that presses—how shall I say?—an lions in producing wells right now, |ing with lesser fellow creatures. Hie insignificant litte lawsuit that must ? and our problem is to get it down wrote a check, in the name of Al be settied first.” | country to the oil steamers. varez Torres, and when that gentle And Senor Alvarez Torres re ADVICE TO STICK os glanced at it he read the figures | mained with Regan some ttme longer Bs SCSI SOR NE 2 ies eeaire ce ay “Yes, good-bye, and hold on to of faraaase ¥ j"eeatviog explicit Instructions for the " - ; _ pe e Memnpico Petrol If {t goes down, | «+, aa ie ek eee ke ia iad coe pr se th cial one, with whom he could fool and /he had already come to consider as|on his shoulder in a breakdown of| ‘The Bull belonged to them, they| man, who stepped from t Mi ft ’s bulled | a rin you ay rancis ad | tun away a few minutes of the calm customary with her, and slipped! tears. Despite his am: ment he was/ told him thru the medium of his Ja- I automatic pistol in After that Minnesota farmer's bu |story. But I have a young friend—|culminating in similar retardatic jo we! f young « 1 ardation | that fettered the Angelique to immo |away down the runway. Almost he| aware of the revolver pressing flat-| maicar lor's interpreting; but the | shouted: it, buy a little more. I’m going to.jmy heart is bound in the boy:/and delay always to be continued. . : 7 up in pay ; | lay y ntinued bility whistled with astonishment. He Wise against his back between the h used to belong to them| “Vamos! i's finding money. Yes. Yes, surely.| but he ig too much about town; the| “In short,” Regan concluded, “T | «xe god shes!" It's teo good to dare sell on a flyer | ; Ry When the skiff. grounded he| might have whistled it, had he not Ide She lifted her tear-wet 6 season, now re oda and Stake y' white lights and the white lighted | don't almost care if he never comes " tow, because it mayn’t ev Gown. stepped out and with one sturdy arm | heard her voice, not distant, in Span and ved him again and again madly impossible grinned, half-humorously, * yn jer gO ladies, and the rest—you under-|back—if you keep him yn there Of course, I know what I'm talking ane?” . lier the geek of bis tant thud rie lifted ite nose high enough up the | ish, sharply interrogate men whose 4Md he wondered to hims he s, dominating ways had) ously. “A fellow can't move about. I've just had eight hours’ ‘Again Acvapih Macves towed land Seubae.” . ®\ sand to fasten it by its own weight | Spanish voices, half-humbly, half-in-| Were a cad for me ver kisses em the respect or fear) parts without having a 6ua sleep and haven't had a drink. Yes,) «you anni the peices 2 vie pee Then he turned around. sistently and half-rebelliously an-| With almost equal as mys exred hu ature Who in his face. And everybody yes, good-bye.” = | . ~_— And he, who had anticipated a few | swered her terious impulsiveness fearful than themselves. out pronto.” J tinued, “Strive to interest him. That CHAPTER IT ents of diversion merely, was di He heard them move on, still tall With a feeilng that he did not in| A HEATED ARGUMENT Nobody invited you," He pulled the ticker tape into the | thousand is for your effort. Succeed| Money, like youth, will not be de : t 4 - Ss Loe A atten’ tive dieu te mek tka Meas ing : “ * D2 MES a by omfort of his chair and languidly | in interesting him so that he departs, nied, and Francia Morgan, who was |)" = + rE Se ay us site! oo heard her call him re "3 . "ft ight hey h nee cartied ee et Multan Prag nd. ran over it, noting with mildly grow-|after old Morgan's gold, and two) the man-legal and naturecertain rep“ fh Meroe viterage piven P< yipendin pate biel Guia Graaiek Gtraee matter -0f: moenente, Bal aero aa ing interest the message it conveyed. |thousand more is yours. So thoroly | resentative of both youth and money, | “Oman Who, in the flash of Ypres Pe ° aie h hipaa De dent Resa binned free ne 0 he tenon OCS aes bey “T tting sore, triend,” i fd sabe ait guiediah Gham | te tateneating tims that he ¥e|found bimesit one afternoon, th vouchsafed him, demonstrated that INTO THE JUNGLE a as anger and contempt bi d/ f nhospita greeted him on m getting J Par! ak ae Taiteston perky of ar-|mains three months, tw@ thousand| weeks after he had said goodbye to|*? Was the pirl woman ripely ma He followed her, no longer hand in be - in si na ane As — meni | the part of a tal barefooted young (CONT'D ON PAGE Frve _ tisanship and art, Francis was out |more—six months, five thousand. Oh, | Regan, becalmed close under the land | ‘UTC 8nd Yet mostly girl, sprang out) hand, thru the jungle to the beach Peiathema cot ee = — of his chair, ticker flung aside and| believe me, I know his father. We|on board his schooner, the Angelique. | Of 'heasteen wall of jung Md pohvey wegen ole mag / vary nr dooal hed sqhaarhedgee eels forgotter: as St the exultant joy of | Were comrades, partners, I might|The water was glaswy, the smooth | 2° ands seized bi Pipa and faced her, still under the impress He shrugged his shoulders as if to icy he exaiithed the toys and, one |Say, almost brothers. 1 would sacri-| roll scarosly perceptible, and, in aheer |2'e%'t sieht of grip in the sezure | of the fantasy which possessed him| Say that he could not say no to a after another, began trying them, | fice any sum to win his son to man-|ennui and overplus,of energy that | "UPrised him his hat off with his shad 3 wee Gaels ONT EY: B08 SHEER, MINE 00 Switching them thru the air tll they |hood's wholesome path. What do| likewise declined (0 be denied, he|,,H® fumbled his hat off with his| ‘The anger of her blazing dark eyos | Oars facing her ast n row made shrill whiplike noises, moving|¥ou say? The thousand {s yours to| asked the captain, a breed half Ja. fee hand and bowed to tho strange scorched him. — MEE crntty wich orvtsnes’ ond pre |tenin with. Well?” maica negro and half Indian, to order | Woman with the Imperturbableness 0 You fool!” she cried, lifting her The virgin save me from ee te ary crake a tal With trmabling ingore Senor Al-|a paell saitt over the aide a Morgan, New York trainec and dis-| finger with what he considered undue | ward } w DRESS A T Made believe to cast upon the floor | varez Térres folded and unfolded the Looks as if I might shoot a par — Nas pe tsar Reagerjcon in 4 y, to oe toothbrush mu h an it a re into some unseen pool of trout lurk- | check. rot or a thonkey or something,” he | M4 received another stp i bees # if that cond Glaguiss | ond, in 4 9 en - ‘ eral surprises compounded you!” > fling nament ir * ing mystery. : L + « T accept,” he stam-| explained, searching the jungle-clad | °" rd “ie mered and faltered in his eagerness.| shore, half a mile away, thru a 12-| The double grip on hia arm became) | “ut, my dear lady . . . .." he} midway between them THE ANNOYING PHONE Ty How shail I say? power giase a draw, as she mutter 1 tensel began to protest his certain unac From the edge of jungle he A telephone bussed. Irritation was|t any yours to command.” "Mout problematé, sir, that you| “uch! Follow me ‘ quaintance with her ‘ saw three men, armed with rifles USE YO UR swift on his face. Five minutes later, as he arose to|are bitten by a labarri, which in a|, 4 Moment he resisted. She shook! «My dear lady . . . .," he tried | fun toward her where she had sunk “For heaven's sake, answer it./go, fully instructed in the part he|deadly viper in these parts,” grinned | '™ in the fervor of her ¢ again. vse Sgn ec tn Parker!’ he commanded. ‘If it 1s|was to play and with his story of|the breed skipper and owner of the | *trove to pull him toward her “I won't talk with you,” she shut ae ae bs Some silly, stock-gambling female,| Morgan's treasure revised to con-|Angelique, who, from hia Jamaica! #fter her. With the feeling that it) him off. “Go back to your schooner, | {who had: Ree tell her I’m dead, or drunk, or down | vincingness by the brass-tack busl-|father had inherited the gift of ™ ve atapia unusual game, such As One/and goaway . He guessed lgirwirgy tere J Ht wal with typhoid, or getting married, or|ness acumen of the stock gambler, | tongues night meet up with on the const of|the inaudible sob of the pause, ere the Snaeeenn. |< ‘i These are things we all anything calamitou he blurted out, almost facetiously,| But Francis was not to be deterred, | Central America, he yielded, smiling: | she concluded “forever.” a Ah 8 ies? planeta de ee to d 1 CAN do them “It's Mr. Bascom, sir. He wants| yet ever more pathetically | for at the moment, thru his glans, he |!¥+ scarcely knowing whether he fol-) “1¢ you ever come back—the Ma-| Water toward him =e x Asi © do, and you you." “And the funniest thing about it,|had picked out, first, in the middle|}owed vs luntarily or was being! donna forgive me—I shall shoot you | °" trio-oh the be Pechigaye lp at the. i stern. “Tell Mr. Bascom to go to ——!"| Mr. Megan, is that it tm tree ground, a white hacienda, and nec. | dagsed Into the jungle by her impet- | myself} ed, ¢ man, wa a rec i rt said Francis. | “I have had access to records inac-| ond, on the beach, a white-clad wom. | Yost Guess I'd better go, then.” He! ® Pata ci “Mr. Bascom says it's about the | cessible to the public, which is neither | an's form, and further, had seef that, A SWIFT COMMAND turned to the skiff, toward which | ™Om hata (sit Summer market, sir, and that he'd like to talk | here nor there, for the men of my|#he was scrutinizing him and the| “Do as J dot” she sh k at him|he walked fn stately embarrassment, | 5° W Neer : 4 Cloaks 1 Millinery are with you only a moment,” Parker |own family—they are family records| schooner thru a pair of binocular over her shoulder, by this time lead-|half-filled with laughter for himself 5 Abie OAKS Ane iliner urged, but s0 delicately and subdued: |—have had similar access and have| “Put that stuff over, skipper!” he |ing him with one hand of hers in|and for the ridiculous and incompre: ||" * = ade, af marked at Special Fier Ty as to seem to be merely repeating | wasted their lives before me in the| ordered. “Who lives around here—| his hensible figure he was cutting psp sat ott , 1 » “Credit Glat an immaterial and unnecessary mes-| futile wearch white folks?’ He smiled and obeyed, crouching | WOMAN'S WEAPON “ ; 6 ESI A Da Oe days and our Credii wage. | “The early navigators all played| ‘The Enrico ano tamil ir,” | when crouched, doubling over : . And spc Io xt, pull re ‘ ont easy. “ ” " . ob compelled him to desist fro ng tily, he saw the men separat in makes paymen All right.” Francis carefully |such tricks on the charts they drew. | was the answer. ‘My word, they are| when she doubled, while memories of | .,0,S°? compelled him to desia’ from | ing lustily, 1} Rage ire tare de pa) Weaned the rod against a table and| My Spanish race so hid the Hawailan |!mportant gentlefolk, old Spanish,|John Smith and Pocahontas glim-| hi, toad, ‘The strong young woman, | kaw her threaten. them with hers went to the ‘phone. |islands by 5 degrees of longitude und they own the entire general land. | mered up in his fancy | ee Sele ‘ Fligntede ints ireea Sips ; N. F. ll M d i “Hello!” he said into the telephone.| All of which was in turn Greek| scape from the #ea to tho Cordilieras| Abruptly she checked him and sat| [oye yr mopped to hen allo was coy: | volver beige) ; ew a oaels “Yes, this iw 1, Morgan. Shoot! What | to. Thomas Kegan, who smiled his|and half of the Chirlqul lagoon as|down, her hand directing him to sit! stant, and the touch of his hand on|‘S FAREWELL KISS visits fs it? | acceptance of listening and with the|well. ‘They are very poor, most pow. beside her ere she released him, and| her arm was sympathetic and inquir-| Before the land wind, the A The results of our ai 's ow He listened for a minute, then in-| ame smile conveyed his busy busi-|erful rich—in landscay nd they|presved it*to her heart while she| ing. she shuddered at his touch,| gelique made the outer rim of Chirt to the fashion terrupted irritably: “Sell—hell! Noth-| nessrnan’s tolerant unbelief. | are prideful and fery as cayenne pep-| panted aeaw é from him, and gazed at| qui I n and the Bull svide Ay woe e fing of the sort. Of course, I'm glad| Scarcely was Senor Torres gone| per. “Thank god! Oh, merciful Virgint’| nim repeoschfully thru her te lee Ge entlan derive as Pape) “% Gvident in avery, de to know. Hven if it goes up 19 points | when Francis Morgan was shown in. STRAIGHT TO THI BEACH “My dear lad * he began, Pay licomeeny ho Heges, Glen MEE by midnight, when’ tne seioees models arriving daily —which it won't—hold on to every-| “Just thought I'd drop around for) Straight to the white beach of coral] But an abrupt gesture checked] faltered and swallowed, “you might 7 to to walt for daylight. gira thing. It may Be a legitimate rise,|a bit of counsel,” he said, greetings |sand Francis rowed, not trusting | him; and with growing wonder he | kiss i-bye.”" a kfast, rowed by a Jamaica negro | and it mayn’t ever come down. ava | over: ‘And to whom but you should) himself to look over his shoulder to ched her bend and listen, and] she need impulsively, with] sailor in the skiff, Francis landed to solid. It’s worth far more than isis apply, who #0 closely played the|see if the woman remained or had rd the movement of bodies pad-| outstretched arms, the revolver dan-| re er on the Bull, which was Mated. I know, if the public doesn't.| game with my father? You and he| vanished. In his mind was merely|ding down some runway several! gling incongruously from her right] the larger island and which the skip. | A year from now it'll list at 200--| were partners, I understand, on #ome|a young man's healthy idea of en-| yards away |hand. Francis hesitated a puzaled| per had told him he might find occu ee. Mexico can cut the revolu-|of the biggest deals, He always told| countering, a bucolic young lady, or! With a soft, warm palm pressed | moment, then gathered her in to re-| pied at that season of the year by | a yn ‘ mo to trust your judgment, And,!a half-wild white woman for that|commandingly to his to be silent,| ceive an astounding, passionate kiss| turtle-catching 8 fror | 2b Stre 2.34 Second "Whenever it drops you'll have buy- well, here lam, and I want to go fish- matter, or at the best @ very provin-' she left him with the abruptness that on his ps ere she dropped her head Paanlasd ae Pay. ae i sialon crc