The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1920, Page 13

DECEMPER 46, 1999. ‘ar * Tots Pag PIONRE EGGY and David waited breath: Ceattle 4 ~¢ & elas — x e 247 R GREED Joame out and made his own mark leesty for Mra. DeMontis to| for the border of his claim, and Begin. She doesn’t live in Seattle, |the next m&n who came was sup powed just to begin at the place And tt tent often that they get 4) the frat man had marked. hance to hear one of her stories, and she knows #0 many, because remember her grandfather grandmother were very, very earty settlers tn the Puyallup Val wey. Her grandfather ts the John Carson about whom you have al “Peady read, and this is the story Pod Mra. DeMontis told it to Peesy “and David: © >In 1853 my grandfather took Sep © claim tn the Puyallup Val Wey, and right next to Bim there was the claim of a _ bachelor. “When people buy land now, they get a surveyor, who mea sures It off and marks exactly where your land ends and your Beighbor's lund begins, and it ts Bil written down in a big book and sealed and signed, and fixed nobody can take it away from afd s0 you can't move over ur fence a few feet if you want more ground for your garden. “But the Pionters hadn't any- _ thing Ike that, o that a man crusty old | “Well, grandfather marked off his land and he took a big old black stump for his marker, but [when his neighbor arrived he didn’t seem to like It. No matter how much other land there was, he just could not be happy with- lout that strip inside the tne marked by the black stump. | “He grouched and grumbled, | and he nuiked, and being a lonely |man with lots of time to think, Jand no one to think about but | himself, he spent most of bis time trying to think up a scheme for getting that strip of land “By and by grandfather had to }go to Olympia as a representa tive to the legislature, and he took af of his family, shut up his house in the valley, and went to work there in the little new cap ito) making laws for the wtlata “Now! thought the bachelor, ‘now in my time; wheo Carson gets back that strip of land will be mine? (To Be Contingnd new RRAREE ADVENTURES OF CTHE, TWINS ~~ CQust Pour Aun OF SEATTLE STAR Tom Gets a Kick From His Conscience Goon EVENING | 1r WW Your RADIATOR. Auo You wou’ w | Worry ApouT [TS | | FREEZING UP lout to work for any strong-arm out jfit—net if 1 know itr | For a little while he mt blinking “THAT BUS OF FINE 16 OWE SPEEDY Lu GPARK UN- FER = Ws Do You WANT "TS We WANTA [o S6E Your. ZA PAGE 13 By ALLMAN ‘The next Tine | oer ALconon [™ Gong TO Tave, THe CAR WITH ME ano Wave IT PUT AY ‘THe GAS STATION! WUISKERS™ WAG! / am DO- KID ME? WHY D> SAY: COMING FROM found the brass knob, somethin happened, I don’t know just what. In the tiny little fraction of a sec of pie-faced woman in a nurse's cap and apron start to get up from where she was sitting by the window. Be J patting my pillow just like my grand lomd that I had left, as you might | fore she could come over to the bed, my, between the hearse und the somebody opened a door and tip | grave, I had a vague notion that the | toed in ahead of nutsey. I had to |door was falling over on me and/blink hard two or three times be- mother used to when I was a little kid and had the mumps or the jmeasies. “Are you still roaming around tn the Oregon woods?” at me from under his tushy eye | browa, and his hard mouth was drawn into a straight line with @ mean little wrinkle coming and going mashing ‘Once upon « time.” began Santa “there was a fairy who hadn't to do.* ane ee cee ttle ars slid a “4 the fairyman’s neck. What “Py @etic: place! A big fire—a coy ir —and a “once-upon«time’ ‘The twins were so giad the Queen had sent them to ta’s house. ‘and like people who hadnt any. : to do.” went on Santa, “he into trouble. This fairy who Ce ’t anything to do, didn't have it ® he didn’t want it, and he *twant it because he was too to bunt for it. And hunt for it ‘wouldn't! What he wanted was credit for what some one else Gone. If he had only known it. = about as hard as rea! work be Only it does happen times, I'm sorry to say, that do get credit for other folks’ “Well, anyway, this fairy bad an idea. He crawled into a cave at the South Pole and set up & big sign which read, ‘Mr. Blue Santa Claus’ ‘Then he sat down and waited.” “Why Wid he say ‘biue’T” asked Nick curiously, peering into Santa's ruddy, kind face. “Oh, yes, I forgot,” nodded Santa Claus. “Because be wore a bive coat and cap instead of red. and hin hair and beard and fur trimming were biack instead of white. He was as tall as I am short, and as thin as T am fat, and he had a sour dispo- sition.” “What waa he waiting for™ asked Nancy. “He'd heard the eld exying that |*ATl things come to him who waits” and he thought he'd try it, He de cided to set up In business ax I had Thought he'd fool the kiddies into thinking he was a good fairy in, | stead of a bad one,” aid Santa, i (Copyright, 1920, N. BE. A) THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE at the corners of it. ‘When he got ready to speak again he sald, “You're only a boy. You want to get on fm the world, don't the best you ever had. You den’t owe Norcross anything more than your job, do you?’ “Maybe not.” “That's better. Put on your hat and come along with me I want in a better field ever was, or ever will be you" very nearly jot my chair, Of course, ft waa af plain enough. The boss had him on the hip with that kidnaping business, with me for a witness, And he was trying to fix the witnem, It's funny, but the only thing I thought of, fust then, waa the necemdty of covering up the part that Mra Sheila and Maisie Ann had had in the holdup affair that he was so anxious to bury and put out ight | “I guess we needn't beat about the bushes any longer, Mr. Hatch,” 1 suid, bracing up to him. “I haven't than railroading and he named a figure that | Norcross, what I know about a cer tain little train holdup that happened & few weeks ago down at Sand Creek Siding: but that isn’t saying that I'm not going to.” | At this he flung the stump of the |biack cigar out of the window, found another in his pocket, and lighted it to show you what I can do for you} It'll pay | made me fail dead out) | | } | told the sheriff, or anybody but Mr. | | mood." 1 like @ fighting man; and you've got nerve, Take a night and jaleep on it, Maybe you'll ahink dif- ferently in the morning.” thing to be stood off by it Stewing and sissling over tt, 1 puttered around with the papers on my desk for quite a little while be- me fat; everything went blank. CHAPTER X The Big Smash ‘When I came to Mfe out of what | spammed like an endless success of |bed dreams it was broad daylight land the sun was shining brightly | thru some filmy kind of curtain stuff | in « big window that looked out to ward the west. and after that, ton and bandaged. | hadn't more than made the first rentiess move before I saw a sort 1 was in bed, the) |room waa strange, and my right! | hand was wrapped up in a lot of cot- | fore I could really make up my mind that the tip-toer was Maisie Ann. She looked as if she might be the nurse's understudy. She had a nifty Mite lace cap on her thick mop of hair, and I guess ber apron was meant to be nursey, too, only it was frilled and tucked to a fare-you-well. I don't know whether or not I've mentioned it before, but she was al ways an awfully wholesome jolly girl, with a laugh so near the surface that it never took much of anything to make it come rippling up thru. But now she was as sober as a deacon—and about 14 times as pretty as I had ever seen her be ‘That brought my dream, or one of them, back; the one about wander ing around in a forest of Dougias fir and having to Jump and dodge te keep the big trees from falling om me and smashing me. “No more woods for mine,” T said, pec feebly. And then: “Where am I? service men and in-service men are buying Shoes at CURRIER'S, 103 Yesler Way (under naval re cruiting office), because PRICES &re cut so low that they can afford to BUY.—Adv, Sensible Shoe Savings at Shuart’s Sale This Semf-annual Clearance Sale is attract- ing buyers who appreciate the better grades of shoes for women. The reductions include the entire stock, arid a call will convince you of the splendid values offered at these Sale Prices: Sale Prices on Fine Boots ‘Ceprright, 1980, by Charles Seribner’s Sens) START HERE TODAY Dodds, ateretary (who teile nd his bows, Grane Noe- Jeted c@natruction Midland, are en Chicago via the by the cousin Mra. Sheila Macrae. Jump off to help them get ja and that instant off tt s 2 tora bein vn aha A tne water tank and of & spectal train of car by four pre bh in auto. The car and engine fy ‘an old mine road leading up into @uich, bat not before the ony is recog~ . ‘se the “Alexa,” owned by Jo! wiek, Chie wheat king. ‘The s drive away, and th atehers by tank walk up the mine road, coming the locomotive, which bas been dis Jocomotive is soon repaired, and Private car is found with Chadwick account for ‘uninjured, m, A greets Mere Norerows } ey say that misfortunes never J singly. Here were two new is hurling thernselves in over the rex ail in the same quarter hour, the one I had up my sleeve. it there was no use dallying. It i up to me to find the boss as quickly as 1 could and have the ree-cornered surgical operation l@ver with. I knew the telegrams Wouldn't kili him—or J thought they optan’t. 1 thought they’d proba t things and be fired—if he be pot fired—fighting it out grim- Wy on his own line, But I wasn't #0 re about the Mra. Sheila business. t was a horse of another color. 1 had just reached for my hat and Liwas cetting ready to snap the elec- oft when I heard footsteps in Rothe Suter office. At first I thought was the dixpatcher’s boy coming ith another wire, but when T looked UP, a stocky, hard-faced man in a derby hut and a short overcoat was Manding in the doorway and scowl ig crows at me. “It was Mr, Rufus Hatch, and 1 Bad # notion that the hot end of ie run | 'y make him take a fresh, strangle | his Diack cigar glared at me like a baleful red eye ghen he came in jand sat down. | CHAPTER TX And Satan Came Also “I mw your office lighta from the * waa the way the Red Tower president began on me, and his voice took me straight back to the Oregon woods and a lumber camp where the | saw-filers were at work. “Where is Mr. Norcross?” I told him that Mr. Norcroas was | uptown, and that I didn't suppose he| | would come back to’ the office again | that night, mow that it was no late. jInatead of going gway and giving it up, he sat right still, boring me with his little gray eyes and shifting | the black cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other. “My name is Hatch, of the Red Tower company,” minute or two, “You're the one they call Dodds, aren't you?" I admitted it, and he went on. | “Norcross brought you here with | him from the West, didn’t he?” I nodded and wondered what was coming next. When it did come it | nearly bowled me over. It was on the tip of my tongue to cuss him out right there and then and tell him it was none of bis busi- ness, But the second thougt® (which isn't always as good as it's said to be) whispered to me to lead him on and see how far he would go. So I told him the figures of my pay check. “I'm needing another shorthand man, and I can afford to pay a good bit more than that,” he growled “They tell me you are well up at the top in your trade. Are you open to an offer?” I let him have ft straight then. “Not from you," 1 said. “and why not from me?” Here was where 1 made my first bad break, All of a sudden I got #0 angry at the thought that he was actually trying to buy me that, I couldn't see anything but red, find 1 biurted out, “Because 1 don't hive he grated, after a! “What pay are you getting here?” | lif 1 had had the sense of a field |mouse, I might have known that 1) | for such @ man; but} good | was no match I lacked the sense and hard “You're Ifke your boss,” he mid shorty. “You'd go a long distance ont of your way to make an enemy when there is no need of It. That holdup business was a joke, from start to finish. I don’t know how you and Norcross came to get in on lit; thé Joke was meant to be on John |Chadwick. The night before, at a |little dinner we were giving him at the railroad club, he said there never a railroad holdup that couldn't |have been stood off. A few of us |got together afterward and put up la job on him; sent him over to Strathcona and arranged to have him held up on the way back.” Agnin I lost my grip on all the common, every-day panities. My bent play—the only reasonable play—waa to let him go away thinking that he had made me swallow the joke story whole. But I didn't have sense sh to do that, Chadwick "1 retorted. 1 know he didn’t; and that's why we're all anxious now to dig a holt and bury the thine decently. Pe haps we had all been taking a drop at the club dinner that lacked it didn’t take it as a |too much night.” At that I swelled up man-size and kicked the whole kettle of fat into the fire “Of courne, It was a joke! T ripped out. “And your coming hpre to night to try to hire me awgy from Mr. Norcross is another, The woods {are full of good shorthand men, Mr. Hatch, but for the present 1 think I shall stay right where I am-—where & court subpoena can find me when I'm wanted.” |. “That's all” nonsense, and you know it--if you're not too much of a kid to know anything,” he ¢ shooting out his heavy jaw at me \"" merely wanted to give you a chance to get rid of the railroad cok lar, if you felt like it. And there'll be no court and no subpoena. The poorest jack-leg lewyer we've got in {Portal City wo' make a fool of you in five minutes on the witness jstand, Nevertheless, my offer holds napped, Here wna another cance for me to eet off with a whole skin, but by this time I was completely lost to any sober weighing and measuring | of the possible consequences. Lean ing acrom the dewk end I gaye him & final shot, just as he was getting » to £0 Listen, Mr, Hatch,” I said. “You fore 1 remembered the two tole | grams, and the fact that I'd have to| #0 and stick the three-bladed knife into Mr, Norcross, When I did re-| member, 1 shoved the messages into | my pocket, flicked off the lights and started to go uptown and bunt for the boss. After closing the outer door of the Boot values up to $22.00, Black Kid, Black Calf or Brown Kid—heels military, full Louls or Cubaa— NOW PRICED FROM $8.85 .. $14.85 Regular values from $14.00 to $20.00 office I don’t recall anything par tioular except that I felt my way down the headquarters stair in the dark and groped across the lower jhali to the outside door that served |for the staircase entrance from the street. When I had felt around and cur Tr en’t fooled me for a single min’ Your guess is right; I heard every word that passed between you ute. and Mr. Henckel that Monday morn. ing {n the Bullard lobby, As I say, I haven't told anybody yet but Mr Norcross; but if you go to making trouble for him‘and the railroad company, I'll go into court and swear to what I know!” He was half-way out of the door when I got thru, and he never made any sign that he heard what I said, After he was gone I began to sense, just a little, how big a foot I had made of myself, But I waa still mad clear thru at the idea that he had taken me for the other kind of a fool—the kind that wouldn't know enough to be sure that the presi dent of a big corporation wouldn't get dowfh to tampering with a com. mon clerk unless there waa some hig OUT—IT IS WORTH MONEY Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Co, 2835 Sheffield Ave., Chicago, I, writing your name and address clearly You will receive in return @ trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills for pain in sides and back; rheuma tism, backache, kidney and bladder Jailments; and Foley Cathartic ‘Tab liets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing eathartic for constipation, | biliousnesas, hea and sluggish bowels, Advertisement. nes, Kill That Cold With sills CASCARA QUININE g Colds, Coughs #omi\? 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