The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1919, Page 3

TONIGHT and FRIDAY Tonight and Friday A pretty human interest story of a girl of the South Carolina moun tains— Few persons care to miss Elsie Ferguson in anything— this is particularly valuable “LOUISIANA” RUSSE for her from an acting standpoint L, on the Wurtiteer Lets eo buy Bolts French pae|Will Hold First try. Uptowns, 1414 3d Ave.; down- town, 913 2d Ave. Boys’ Style Show Probably the first boys’ style show Jever held on the Pacific coast will be held Friday and Saturday by Shafer Brothers, Second ave. and University st. Hoys from the differ- ent schools in the city will demon. strate new models in school and reas suits and all the frills of a regular women's show will be un TRUSS TOILURE ineped. Can ved eliminated by wearing the ESS Lundberg Rupture Support. We)! In Bisbee, Ariz, which is built on & free trial to prove its superior- “_4. LUNDBERG Co. Third Ave. hillsides, “Keep Off the Roof” signs are as common as our familiar “Keep Seattle, Off the Grane.” SELECTED Player Rolls From August Lists “Breeze” (Blow My Baby Back to Me) Fox Trot Played by Arden and Ohman “Broken Blossoms Waltz” Played by Scott and Walters “Cairo” (Fox Trot by Harold Weeks) Played by Zez Confrey “Friends” (Fox Trot by Jos. H. Santly) Played by Phil Ohman “Patches” (Fox Trot by Lee S. Roberts) Played by Roberts and Kortlander Special Attention to Mail Orders Aeolian Player Pianos $645 Pianolas from $700 Duo Art Pianos from $1,045 “Ever Occur to You?” says the Good Judge That it’s foolish to put up with an ordinary chew, when it doesn’t cost any more to get real tobacco satisfaction. Every day more men dis- cover that a little chew of real good tobacco lasts Jonger and gives them real contentment. There’s nothing like it. a THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW 4 put up in two styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco movel wrillenm by Ae. COPYRIGHT SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS was no need for her to point. Thirty « Francis More. feet above, on the top of the cliff = ve , eyes, Fully a fathom neer, im Central cross wan each of the eyes, thelr Me urfaces brazen with white, re The eyes of Chin!” she erted Henry scratched his head with sud Jen recollectior I've a shrewd suspicion I can tell you what they're composed of," he nid. “I've never seen it before, but © heard old-tim mention it "an old Maya trick, My share of the treasure, Francis, against a per forated dime, that Lean t a what the reflecting stuff 4 Do’ cried Francis, “A man's * fool. not to take odds like that even if It's a question ef the multiplt ation table, Pos ible millions of dot (Continued From Yesterday) lars against a positive bad dime! I'd . bet two times two made five on the Quicksand wll the Jandseape to gasp it In fading, ghoatty whie.| Name it? What is it? The bet is ere, repeating it and gossiping |?" Oysters!” Henry smiled, “Oyater yout with gleeful unction ey It's a pot-hole filled with quick | Tr, mot) . : oe se re . ie “ . ind.” Henry corroborated * motherof.pe cunning! ticking back th nthe barking | €! wig Ansty hg = ands,” observed Francis we 70 e to prove me wrang The ghostly whispering redoubled |°UmP UP and see Beneath the eyes score of feet up extending a upon itself and was a long time the cliff dying away and down Ry this time they were midway be.|“@" ® curious triangular outjut of tween the waixt and arm. pits and |TOCk: Almost was it like an excres sinking as methodically as ever conse on the face of the cliff. The Well, somebody's got to get out X of it reached within a yard of ¢ this scrape alive Henry re |th@ space that Interv 1 between sastiel the eyes, Rough inequalities of sur : + LE face, catlike clinging on Fran SAVING LEONICA cis’ part, enabled him to ascend the And even without discussing the | 10 feet to the base of the excrescence: holce, both men began to hoist Le-| Thence, up to the ridge of it, the fea up, altho the effort and her| way was easier, But a 25-foot fall eight thrust them more quickly |and a broken arm or leg in the midst When she stood, f and jof such isolation was no pleasant € & foot on the nearest «ho: of each of the two m Francis said, tho the ed him ww, Leonica, to connider. r| thing ‘onic, caur- us gleam to i up> “Oh, do be careful, Francia Stan on the top of the triangle. landacape we going to tons out to the sold land on your hands jand knees. And, whatever you do, | don’t stand up until you reach the land. Ready, Henry?" etween them. a fit at such sacrilege,” mented The perforated Francia called down, tho {t hastened|time dropping into Henry's o | their sinking, they swung her back} fragment he jand forth, free in the and the | dug le | third swing, at Francis’ ‘Go! heaved| Mother-of-pearl it was—a her shoreward. plece, cut with definite purpose to Her obedience to their instructions | fit in with the many other pleces to was implicit, and, on hands and] form th knees, she gained the solid rocks of | “Whe smoke there's ore Hen | fire,” diged. “Not for “Now for the rop she called to | nothing aid the Mayas select this them }God-foreaken spot and stick But by thie time Francie was too| eyes of Chia on the cliff." deep to be able to remove the from around his neck and w dime is at the same . stretched palm the ir 0 fiat eye there's there coll ‘Looks as if we'd made a mistake in leaving the old gentleman hind his fer one jarm. Henry did it for him d tho/aacred knota behind.” Francia said |the exertion sank him to an equal |“T 8 should tell all about it je #, Managed to fling one end of and what our next move should be.” | the rope to Leontca ie. ret e are eyes there should | Next she | be a none At first she pul on it Leonka fastened a turn around a boulder the} “And here it ia!” Fran size of a motor car and let Henry|cis, “I ne! That was the none | pull But it was in vain. The strain |! just climbed up. We're too clone or purchase wan #0 lateral that {t/against it to have perspective. At seemed only to pull him deeper. The | 100 yarde’ diste | nee it would look like quicksand was sucking and rising|a colossal face.” over his shoulders when Leonica| Leonica advanced gravely and cried out, precipitating a very bedlam | kicked at a decaying deposit of leaven of echoes: and twign evidently blown there by ! Stop pulling! T have an ve me all the slack Just save enough of the end to tle under tropic gales. “Then the mouth ought be where a mouth belongs, here under your shoulders.” the nose," he sald. The next moment. dragging the} Ina trice Henry and Francis had rope after her by the other end, she | kicked the rubbish aside and exposed was sealing the cliff. Forty feet up. |an to admit a where a gnarled and dwarfed tree| opening too small trunk, as over a hook, she drew on | «pace for Francia to Insert his head the slack and made fast to a boulder |and shoulders and gaze about with a of several hundred weight | lighted match. “Good tor the girl! Francis ap| “Look out plauded to Henry | Leonia. Both men had grasped her plan,| Francis grunted acknowledgment and nuccess depended merely on her | and reported ability to dislodge the boulder an a) “This is not a natural cavern, It's topple it off the ledge. Five precious hewn rock, and well done, if I'm minutes were lost until she could/any judge.” A muttered expletive find a dead branch of sufficient |announced the burning of his fingers strength to serve as a crowbar. At-\py the expiring match stub, And tacking the boulder from behind and| next they heard his in ac working with tense coolness while|cents of surprise: “Don't need any her two lovers continued to sink, she | matches. It's got a lighting system managed at the last to topple it over | of its own—from somewhere above the brink regular Wouldn't for snakes!" warned volee nome-goers As it fell, the rope tautened with | surprised if we found an el Ja jerk that fetched an involuntary|and cold wa a furnace and a grunt from Henry’s suddenly con-| swede janitor, Well, so long stricted chest. Slowly he arose out) His trunk and legs and fe of the quicksand, his progress being | peared, and then his voice issued accompanied by loud sucking re-| forth nd reluctantly released | “Come on in! ‘The cave is fine!" let me ports as the him. But, when he cleared the sur-| “And are’ face the boulder so outweighed him| come along?” Leonica twittered, as |that he shot shoreward across the|ghe joined the two men on the level lerust until directly under the pur-|foor of the rock-hewn chamber. when the boulder came round beside him. where their eyes quickly became ac customed to the mysterious perc arms and tops | lation of daylight. “If I hadn't bee the |along, most likely by this time you'd rope chase abov to rest on th Only Francis’ head. ot shoulders were visible quicksand when the end af th abo have been a mile away was flung to him. And, when he|the cliff and going farther and far stood beside them on terra firma, and | ther every step you took.” when he shook his fist at the quick-| “put the place is bare as old wand he had ¢ wd by 80 narrow| Mother Hubbard's cupboard,” she 1 margin they joined with him in| added the next moment riding it. And a myriad of ghosts| turally,” said Henry, ‘This is vided them back, ¢ the air] only the ante-chamber. Not #0 sillll about them was woven by whisper-|would the Mayas hide the treasure ing shuttles into an evil texture of | the conquistadores were so mad after mockery |i'm willing to wager right now that we're almost as far from finding the lactual treasure as we would be if we CHAPTER XIV then the course lies right straight up| 40 paces Hl over 100 feet. Then over the cliff, and, since we can't|it abruptly narrowed, turned at @ climb it and from the extent of it|right angle to the right, and, with a must be miles around, the source of| similar right angle to the left, made thowe flashes ought to be right here.” | an elbow into another spactous cham “Now, could it been a man | ber. with looking glasse: Leonica ven } still the mysterious olation of | tured | daylight guided the way for their | Most likely some natural phenom: |eyes, and Francis, 4n_ the lead, enon,” Francis answered. “I'm | stopped so suddenly that Leonica and strong on natural phenomena since) Henry, in s file behind, collided those barking sands with him. onica, in th nter Leonica, who chanced to be glanc and Henry on her left, the stood Ing along the face of the cliff farther | abreast and gazed down a long ave on, suddenly stiff d with attention | nue of humans, long dead, but not and eried “Loo! jdu “thelr eyes followed hers, and rested| “Like the Egyptians, the Mayas on the same point, What they saw | knew yalming and mummifying, was no fla a rsist-| Henry id, his voice unconsciously ence of white it that b and | sinking to a whisper in the presence burned like the sun, Following the|of so many unburied dead, who base of the cliff at a scramble, both | stood erect and at gaze, as If still men remarked, from the density of | alive vegetation, that there had been no All were European-clad and all Ox travel of humans that way in many| posed the impassive faces of Buro years, Breathless from their exer-|peans. About them, as to the life tions, they broke out thru the brush| were draped the « rotten habili juistadores and of where a not:|ments of the co open space cliff|the English pirates. upon an of rock from the Two of them ancient slide precluded the growth of vegetable! with visors raised, were encased In lite lasses were belted to them or held in Leonica clapped her hands. There their shriveled hands, and thru their ¥ VTHlearts of Thttee’) Londom you out of this. At the word ‘¢ he was gazing, now into one and then | let yourself go. And you must strike |into the other, of the eyes. He drew full length and softly on the ert his hunting knife and began to dig You'll slide a little. Rut don't and pry at the right-handed eye yourself stop. Keep on going. Craw! If the old gentleman were here, youra!" | |man's body. It was patent that the | footed in the crevices, she paused rock slide had partly blocked? the Passing the rope across the tree| way, A few rocks heaved aside gave going around || “We can't be a million miles away | were not here but in San Antonio.” from it Henry said, as the trio} 1 or 15 feet In width and of || came to pause at the foot of a high,/an unascertainable height, the pas steep cliff, “If it's any farther on,| age led them, what Henry judged. | belts were tole of thrust huge flintlock pis archaic model heir swords and cut armor The old Maya wa whispered They've hiding with their mortal rem right cls decorated the and been stuck up in the lobby as a to tr wners. Say! If that I'll bet fathers ins warning Iberian and his chap isn't a real he played haislal, before him.’ a Devonshire man if Henry Whispered ick. “Perforated dimen to pieces of eight that he poached the fallow deer and fled the king's wrath in the first forecastie for the Spanish matin.” Bert" Leoniea shivered, clinging to both men. ‘The red things of the May ae und ghastly And there is a wbout it. T asure And that's naw on adly classe an are vengeance would be robbers of the have become its de fenders, guarding it with their unper house clay loath to proceed. The garmented spectres of the ancient ad held ther temporarily spell Henry grew melodramatic. “Even to this far, mad place,” an early as the beginnin thelr tru were he of on led them on the treasur ven tho they could not get away with it they won unerringly to it. My hat ts off to you p and conquista- res, I salute you, old gallant plun noses smelt you out hearts were br suMclent to fight to it!” “Huht!" Francis concurred, as he urged the other two to traverse the wvenue of the ancient 4 turers ‘Old Sir Henry bh f ought to be here at the head of the procession.” nirty paces they, took ere the pas p elbowed as befor and at the end of the double row of mum mies Henry brought his companions to a halt as he pointed and said | “1 don’t know about Sir Henry, but cw Alvares Torres.” sanish helmet, in deeapt 4 medieval Spanish dress, a big nish sword in its brown and with ve and, stood a mummy whose lean brown face for all the world was the lean brown face of Alvarez | Torres. 1 nica gasped, shrunk back, Jand crossed herself at the sight Francia released her to Henry, ad: vanced, and fingered the cheeks and jlips and forehead of the thing, and wuringly “1 only wish Alvarez Torres were dead as this dead one is. 1 an haven't the #lightest doubt, however, at Torres descended from him n before he came here to take residence as a Maya but w j—I'm up his final earthly member of the guard.” Copyright. tof? 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(ADVERTISEMENT) STORES RAIDED FOR ALCOHOL Under date of August 26, 1919, j|the Seattle Star published an arti-| |}ele, and, finding mywelt falsely represented by the facts, in Justice jto my customers and friends, and| jcompelied to deny any attempt to embarrass ” and embarrass my business, There || which are published statements become ridiculous, as may jbe judged from the fact that the |Sound Drug Company is charged with having five and one-half gal- lons of alcohol, and the Cut Rate two gallons, both stores being prin jelpal downtown pharmacies, while Jatlowance of outlying pharmacies ||ie ten gallons per month in many |instances, and ather downtown \pharmacies ax much as fifty gal- jlons per month; while in another instance fifteen barrels, hundred and eighty gallons a month, was allowed to a newly in porporated company which had ex oo p 4 its desire to enter into a wholesale business. | The article referred to asserts) that a search is being made for An-| lerson. In view of an obituary! notice upon the premises of each} of the stores, stating that they) w closed by reason of funeral| vices being held for my mother, | and that after the services I went| » my residence, where I remained st of the day, and no one |called at my home or inquired there for me, it was certainly un- |necessary to maintain a search |very long. If I had been looking |for any one I was anxious to reach, |I would have inquired at his home |most familiar how so familiar as spirits of juniper jand Jamaica ginger and a com: jmon household gargle, every store Jin this community has in the past old remedies, sold, and will for some time to |Jcome continue to sell these com pounds Why, then, is it necessary to ||make an example of me, when ev |Jery other druggist is doing the same thing, and entirely within |their rights? These statements jare so unfair and biased they must |find their reason in the ‘article published, in that “Anderson was|| broke two years a and is worth |thousands of dollars now, and is helleved to be interested In more than a dozen drug stores through JJ out the efty.” Tt is true that the writer has been a pharmacist for twenty-five years tered, and has oper ited a number of drug stores and is a native son, It is but ural that [ should return to my early associations, where I the Sound Drug Company, a cor and have owned and op Jlerated the Sound Drug store and other pharmactes. |though the writer has gained the nd re oration enmity and ill-will of some design ||ing persons, who, tn _ conse |quence, have kept up a constant | [persecution of me and my efforts|| ito progress, it remains for my |lfriends to know that T have never \|been convicted of the violation of jany law, and will contin \the past, to serve my friends and ||former patrons with the same care ||and attention as in the past, (Signed) WALTER F. 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