The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 16

THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS 1 “TeLtinG You, DOROTHY, This, } | knows rs astac| | iy READY - PARTY 1M Gone ‘To 1S A STAG! | ANO IVE NEVER. | L CAN" “TAKE A GIRL TO. Dorothy Hee Nenex Reen toa Staa Party in Her Life MY New Dress SAN NOUNG LADY, WHATS ‘THe WiLL You TAKE me ee o TWs mMascume selihaenteoreny HAVEN'T ANY MORS — THEY'RE CUT OF STNXLG, ANYWAY. Me we Ones THAT'S WHY 1) Warr NEVER MIND THe STYCS — ree ee THe JLUDSCE 1 HEARTS OF THREE Last Novel Writte (Copyr CHAPTER XXIX 4 tremendously by the mora: | the sagging market had sagging, and some stocks even beginning to recover. was true for practically every gave those lines In which Fran-) owned and which Regan was maring. He continued bearing and them reluctantly fall, and he | with joy the huge blocks of pico Petroleum which were be dumped obviously by no other Regan informed “Play her and going. It’s a double ruff. ber the list I gave you? Seil and sell short. For them there Wis no bottom. Ax for all the rest, buy now, and deliver all that you You can't lose, you see, and by tinuing to hammer the list you'll a double killing.” 7 about yourself?" one of his bear crowd queried. % nothing to buy,” came the “That will show you how I have been in my tip, and confident I am. I haven't sold a Outside the list, so I have noth- to deliver. I am still short and down the list, and the only. There's my killing, and you share in it by as much as you you are!” Bascom, in de in his private office, cried to at 1030. “Here's the whole) rising except your lines. Re- out for blood. I never he could show such pirength. We can't stand this. We're n by Jack London ighted) | arm, “Stop! Francis cried. “Listen! } And they listened to the song pre ceding the singer | “Back to back against the mainmast,4 | Held at bay the entire crew.” ‘As Henry swaggered in, carrying & huge suitcase, Francis joined with him in the stave. “What's doing?" Bascom queried of Charley Tippery, who, still in eve ning dress, looked very jaded a worn from his exertions From his breast poc! and passed over th checks that tot com shook his head sad! “Too late,” he said 4 drop in the bucket. Put them back in your pocket. It would be only| A STAC Panty cw? ws — Teor rae BE READY w TEN LOOK — SOME throwing them away.” 70 “But wait! Charley Tippery cried, | taking the suitcase from his singing | companion and proceeding to open ft “Maybe that will help!" consisted Of @ reat mass of orde: Of gold bonds and fow much is it?” Bascom gasped, bis courage springing up like wild fire. A DOZEN MILLIONS But Francis, overcome by the sight of such plethora of ammunition, ceased singing to gasp, And both jhe and Bascom gasped again when | Henry drew from his inside pocket a bundle of certified checks. ‘They | could only stare at the prodigious sum, for each was written for a mil lon dollars. “And plenty more where that came KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES— MISCHIEVOUS KI0S DIO THAT To WH’ PooR DOG HERE TRix~ You GOTTA CARRY SOMETHW'= TAVE TUIS BADER AN’ DONT DROP Ir [F tty! toy! WHAT A Smart CHILD! 1 NUST TELL ALOYSIUS ABOUT Hitt! MINUTE = "LL TAKE IT OFF, DoGG/ié Mole Must, Line WVA~ THATS AN O0D LOOKING Doc — WHAT DID You WANE WS TAL COT ALOYSIUS MDEAR, HERE LETTER FROM My SISTER' SHE'S GOT TH SMARTEST LITTLE Boy, HES Five YEARS OLD Now’ eK in Vera Crammed Onarters! We SIMDLY HAD T do Ta It Does Look’ That Way. RECENTLY SHE GAVE Hitt 4 SLICE OF PIE: HE WENT OUT ON THE STREET @ND SOON CAME BACK WITH 22 PENNIES! HE HAD RECEIVED TWO CENTS @ BITE*FROM THE OTHER CHILDREN FOR WIS SLICE OF Yea WE WAGGED Tr S’MUCH, AN! Wi UNE IN A PLAT, DAWGUNIT! IT LOOKS To ME LIKE TH kID'S GOT TH’ MAKINGS OF A SWELL Foop PROFITEER!! We're smashed now of us—everything™ ye! . you, | fom!" Henry announced, airily. “All ae ee ae PIE: “ "i | You have to do ts say the word, Fran. j J Never had Francis been cooler. all was lost why worry? was attitude; and, a mere layman in ihe game, he caught 4 glimpse of llities that were veiled to as ‘who too thoroly knew too much the game. “Take it easy!’ Francis counseled Mew vision assuming form and ce with each tick of a second 's have a smoke and talk it or a few minutes.” "Bascom made a gesture of infinite “But wait!’ Francis urged. “Stop! g ! Listen! I'm finished, you ‘His broker nodded. “You're finished?" Again the nod. “Which means that we're busted it busted,” Francis went on to the Sposition of his new idea. “Now. is perfectly clear, then, to your d and mine, that a man‘can never Worse than a complete, perfect. per cent, entire, total bust?” “We're wasting valuable time!” protested, as he nodded af. WEIRD EXPER CE “Not if we're busted as completely you're agreed we are,” smiled nels. “Being thoroly busted, time , Purchases, nothing can be of Value to ye. Values have ceased on't you #e?"’ + “Go on, what is it?” Bascom said, With the momentarily assured pa “lence of abject despair. “I'm busted higher than a kite now, and, as you higher.” Francis | cls, and we'll knock this bear gang to smithereens. Now suppose you get busy. The rumors are around every: | where that you’ e and done for | Pitch in and sh that's all | Buy ¥ last one of them that jumped, you. Shake ‘em down to their gold watches and the fillings} out of their teeth You found old Sir Henry's treae ure, after all!” Francis congratulated No," Henry shook his head. “That represents part of the old Mayas treasure—about a third of it. We've! got another third with Enrico Solano, | and the third’s safe right here in the welers and Traders’ National bank. | . I've got news tor you when you're ready to listen.” And Francis was quickly ready Bascom knew even better than was to be done, and was his orders to his sta telephones, buying ord ) prodigious size that Regan's fortune would not enable hit to de liver what he had sold short “Torres is dead,” Henry told him Hurrah!” was Francis’ way of re ceiving it Died Wi a rat It wasn't pretty And the « dead. And und somebody else is dead Not exclaimed Fran is “No; your wife, Mrs, Morgan Torres shot her, de rately shot her. | I was beside t en she fell. Now| hold on, I'v ot other news! Leon-| ica’s right there in that office, and| she's waiting for you to come to! her— Can't you wait til I'm thru? I've got moré news that wili gtve you the right steer before you go in to| WAA- HERE COMES THAT SLICKER OTTO How. JUS’ WAIT TILL THIS BULL GITS HS EVE ‘ON THAT RED CAR OF HIS'N THEN BY SCARECROW He'LL STOP ~ WELL- LOOKIT TH’ CONSTABLE IN A BULL-SHEVIKI SPOTLIGHT ~- STEP HIGH CUTPLUG~ TH’ BULL 1S AIMING A “TOBASCO LOOK INYOUR DIRECTION - LUCKY POR OU CONSTABLE “THAT WINDMILL WAS SO CLOSE To ANCHOR TD, OR “TW BULL WOULD A RUN r of the|her. Why, if I were a certain China-| ‘Just the same, Francis, boy.) He started for the door, but was Then go ahead, sell or|man that I know I'd make you pay| you're going to marry this one. | stoppedsby Henry. ) Muy, do anything your and my merry|me a million for all the information | know it. 1 feel it in my bones. I'd) “Just @ second more, Francis, and Hearts decide. We can't love. Any-| i'm giving you for nothing!" bet on it!" I'm done,” he said, “1 want to give| ‘thing from zero always leaves zero Shoot—what is it?’ Francis de-| ‘I'll bet you a thousand I don’t!’ | you that steer, 1 am not marri Re i We're shot all we've got, and more. | manded, impatiently “Aw, go on and make It a real| ‘There is only one wornan waiting for| NEW YORK, Sept, 26.-—Ever since | tion of steel ships, now she haa 150,| The Turkish treasury is empty and F Let's shoot what we haven't got!" | “Good news, of course; unadulter-| bet!” Henry drawled | You in there, That one womag ix my | Mile Mistingeuc the Parisian] Last year 185 steel vessels were, the government is seHing tobacco to + Bascom still struggled feebly to|ated good news. Best news you ever! ny #1 ‘ou want.” jsister. Also ix she Leon! , dancer, came to town under the di ext, but Francig beat him down|heard. 1—now don't laugh, or knock one for a thousand and| It required a dazed half minute for| rection of F. -Ray Goetz, and an @ final: y block off—for the good news is y Now go right into the| Francis to get it rly into his nounced that hers were the mast “Remember, anything from zero) that I've got a sister.” and take a Jook at her.” | hes Again, and in a rush, he was legs in the world, Ann | ves zero!” “What of it?” was Fran jatarting for the door, when Henry} "4 of Geo White's | "And for the next hour,” as in a) brusque response. “I always kn “Nope; she's by e | stopped him | "Scandals," has been peeved from I found a remedy that cured me com- itmare, no longer a free agent,|you had sisters in England.” “] thought you said Leonica was in| “Do I win?’ queried Henry the tip of her dainty foot to the top In order te introduce our new (whalebone) plato, which is the lightest | ah han wats token) Tlaseom yielded to Franci#’ will in But you don't get me! Henr rere!” But Francia shook him off, dashed | of her versatile hair She com and strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of mouth; | it to a number maddest stock adventure of his|dragged on. “This ix a perfect! do I did; xo I did, And # thru the door, and slammed it after | forth now with a defiant challenge 70 can bite corn off the cob; guaran | oted |brand new sister, all grown up, and|ica is in there, And she | him to enter her legs in a contest with tocd 15 years, “Oh, well!’ Francis laughed at half|the most beautiful woman you ever| another soul, and she's waiting to ‘INIS | the French woman's. 1 recept vast eleven, “we might as well quit| laid eyes on.” talk with you casein __| the verdict of a jury competent to sow. But, remember, we're no worse| “And what of it?” growled Fran By this time Francis was growing judge feminine underpinning. She + 1 than We were an hour ago. We)cis. “That may be good news for| peevish | proposes some prize for the compett ‘ere zero then. We're zero now.|you, but I don’t see how it affecta| “What are you stringing me for?” tion, or a wager You can hang up the auctioneer’s | me.” he demanded. “I can't make head ” ¢ any time now. A REAL BET nor tail of your foolery, One mo Bascom, heavily and wearily tak ‘ ; | ment it’s your brand new sister in | than any of the imported ‘sg down the receiver, was about to Ah, now we're coming to it!''| there, and the next moment it's your | |a long time, + qngmit the orders that would stop | He grinned. “You're going to! wifet | 3 ™ | Batley held the a's f v Mi by our « @ battle by acknowledgment of un | her. I give you my full per | Who said I ever had a wife?” IHOSS TOMLURE ship for leg w work is still Ask our “pditiona) defeat, when the door “a | Henry eam Can be eliminated by wearing the Long ft pationta w! ave texted our work. When pming to our fice, be eure _ ened, and thru it came the familiar) “Not if she were 10 times y “T give Vrancis cried. “I'm|Lundberg Rupt te Support. We You are in the right place, Bring this ad with cae i ace ing of a pirate stave that made | ter, nor if she were 10 timex onu- | in and see Leoniea, I'll talk fe free trial to prove it» superior. | Open Sundays From ® to 12 fer Working People | jeaneia flash his band OMt in per-|tiful!” Francis broke in. ‘Tho wo-|with you later on when you're back | OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS cimiers. wompene bie) broker's man dosen't exist I'd marry!” =. in your right mind,” _ gor UMIVEMSITY BT. 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