The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1921, Page 9

SDAY, MAY 12, 1921. ee ynthia WGrey re We Eduoating Fu- ture Criminals by Pop- war Fiction and Mo- tion Pictures? Dear Mie Grey: TI wonld tte to “The Golden Scorpion” Ry SAX ROMMER Copyright by Robert M. Moliride & Ox (Continued From Yesterday) CHAPTER VIII On the following morning Inspec tor Dunbar and Dr, Stuart prepared to set out upon grewsome Dusiness To an Hast End morgue the cab bore them, and they were led by a| something about the baa effect | COMStable tn attendance to a stone: | the current stories, and particu- | Paved, itighted apartment in whieh ly of the lurid movies of today, —e-7 form lay upon 4 long deal able. fm our young folks, especially our)'*Nn te stuart—*he's about 9 . ut) the build, certainly, Hair iron-gray | And close cropped and he seems to| have worn a beard. Now, let ua see," | wt How tragic for the boys then| 4 Bent, making a close inspection ptt ge Tne Dat ye Of the wkull; then turned and shook | jr reading material were traced aime head, ™ IM be shown that it consisted of] arnt’ "tue the eatasnn, ‘here vs 6 cal ere of ns Gutiaws, And then! 9 wound corresponding to the one © into the motion picture | 1" a | and see screen favorites en-| "hich T dremed. those very roles, character-| ant,” answeret Dunham, ove} Gs brave, “Ped Blooded," “two/ Be up the ghastly face “That's * gunmen, who must have his | you eakk Pts oom lapse and tho really a fine yea wreee, “4 he is depicted ax following i eee be anal ys who left the) of adventure, becomes tntoxt. | Yelon consorts with trampa drug]. No" mused Dunbar, “we Py shag Ly vouae te sen wrk “Your theory that Max, jealousty working alone, had left particulars of oe of his own valiant | iis inquiries, his clewn, in my hands, | 7 knowing that they would reach Scot: | n when his Mttle adventure ts land Yard in the event of his death, mde just takes a bath, resumes! surety collapsed when the envelope} Ggnity and commands the same) proved to contain nothing but @ bit ; , : - | Ee doubt these boys have thritled | ee te ala. mut It! the Donte bandit of the screen 'sounded so much Uke Max’s round | oad one i br “4 “pat |about methods, Anyway I wanted to | See cea Prov ee par | make sure that the dead man from et pn vos ep ey | Hanover Hole and your mysterious com: mentee his sister and jcabman were not one 4 the same,” te to establish institutions for i Madd oan oun binar tay nected oe New Scotland Yard and went up to/ Dunbar’s room A thicket florid/ man awaited them. This waa Detee: | outwit or outshoot some I |iive sergea, | it So by on officer and fight Uke a ertaent| ive 8 =. Sica) Gia pal Fescue the daughter of a million-/" «Good morning, Sergeant Bower-| Pr ? Tam thinking fust now of the boy indits who killed Patrolman &te- ma, and other officera, What a ¥ Havent al of us teen amused Watching some ecreen dare whom he eventually marries! yy = Dunbar said her father's “God bless you"—| ““atere's Dr, Stuart's desortption et | Bpally elected mayor and has the/ine missing cabman,” he continued. | faction of showing up the vil-' taking out his note-book. “Dr, gtuart officer who abused him Whe hay viewed the body and it is not the | was down? r You had better take a copy at} ~ upon sober consideration, |{).1, 8, is nothing funny about seeing) phen the cabman wasnt Max? idens, or the attempt to carry! cried Sowerby eagerly. “I thought out by the wayward youths of| no. « country. Such pictures Rever! Leaving Sergeant Sowerby seated the retribution or the ridicule] at the table studying the note book, their fellows that the inevitable! stuart and Dunbar proceeded to the of these heroes bring upon th®/amoke-laden room of the assistant lonable boy; nor the decline | commissioner, The great man, suave fithess and ability that goes with |). satanic, greeted Stuart with that cing or the lost opportunity Ligh | study and the building of real bese wd courtesy for which he was ly character that the keeping of ideals before them brings, the wasted and the eventual dis- of thelr neighbors, when in- of depicting these herole char- tics In tMeir own individuality, are merely boodlums who can't bin, have here,” he sald, “confirma tion of the telegraphic report recety- | ed last night. The name of M. Gas) ton Max will no doubt be familiar to our” . Stuart nodded, “Well,” continued th} commiaston- er, “it appears that he has been en- gaged in England for the past month = os oe bist tae ever. tur | endeavoring to trace the connection Lod hero expects them to.) which he claims to exist between the of ruin to} sudden death of various notable peo- pia, reeently—and some organization repres@nteg by or amociated with a Hil persomal theory got being avallable—poor fellow, you that ae ae tolls ployed. exaggeration. Tat the pubite Ts Aickes the'eeh from his, clyas. ‘and put a stop to this flithy|°t Ana resumed: re of blundering and not wreak ee wo r EL. | SxPert consulted in the other eases ei which—according to the late Gaston Max—were victims of ‘The Scorpion,’ do not deem to have justified their /| titles. I am arranging that you shall D Miss Grey: What and where | be present at the autopsy upon the ‘the oldest city in the world? body of Gaston Max. And now per- J. M. [mit me to ask you & question: are you acquainted with any poison which would produce the symptoms noted in the case of Sir Frank Nar- combe, for instance?” Stuart shook his head slowty. “It is only regsonable to suppose,” continued the eommissioner, “that the telephone mensage which led In- spector Dunbar to leave your house oe ee oanctiy aber. | ast night waa originated by that un Pp Micnlgen’ sapoess dt for |*te® intelligence against which we only, and Rhode Island, only|“%d ourselves pitind. murder committed by a life term| ciag tor the box of cigareta— “were it not for the telephone mes- sage, we should be unjustified in as-| suming that Mile. Dorian had any ege connection with the case of M. Max. | Dear Miss Grey: What colleges| But the message was so obviously de- | Cox and Harding attend? signed to faciijtate the purioining of L. L._ | the sealed envelope and so obviously _ Coz is not 4 college man Hard-| emanated from one already aware of | eg was graduated from the now de-| the murder of M. Max, that the send. | Ohio Central college or is Mentified at once with—'The ° ee Scorpion.’ ” sks About g at 4 CHAPTER IX octor Knott ¢ Deep tn reflection, Stuart walked Dear Miss Grey: Who was Proc-| stone along the embankment, Stuart | Knott? ED. ‘dames Proctor Knott (1880-1911), American lawyer and politicia born in Marion county, Ky. He Practiced lawe in Memphis, Mo. He e @ member of the state house of wentatives and later attorney A ‘al of Missouri Afterwards he d to Kentucky, practiced law banon, was @ member of con- (1867-71) (1877-83), where he noted for his humorous speeches. 1883 to 1887 he was governor Kentucky. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of the fully recognized that the commis: | sioner had accorded him an oppor- tunity to establish his reputation—or |to wi it, The identity of the missing cab. man now engaged his mind. It was quite possible, of course, that the man had actually found the envelope in kis cab and was in no other way concerned in the matter. But how had Mile, Dorian, or the person tn-| structing her, traced the envelope to his study? ‘A mental picture of the envelope arose before him. His reflection led by 1891 and the following VeSr| him to a second definite point and he the chair of otvtcs and econom™| rumbied in his waixtcont pocket for a tn Centre college, Danville, KY! time, geeking a certain brass coin tm 1894, he was appointed 12°0| snout the size of a halfpenny, having and dean of the law facu-| 4 sanare hole in the middie. yee vecigues ta 5901, He failed to find the coin tn his ee pocket, however, Entering a public embers of telephone call-box, he asked for, a esent Cabinet number. Dear “Miss Grey: Who are the; There was a short tnterval, then: mbers of Harding’s cabinet? “fullo!” came Dunbar’s voice, “is 8.M. |that Dr. Stuart?’ Charles BE. Hughes, secretary of| “Yes. That you, inspector? I have j Andrew W. Mellon, xecretary| just remembered something. ‘The treasury; John W. Weeks, sccr envelope bearing the number 30, has of war; Harry M. Daugherty,| been sealed ith a Chinese coin, torney general; Will H. Hays, known as cash. 1 have just recog. “} Postmaster general; Edwin Denby, nized the fact and thought it wise to teoretary of the navy; Albert fi.|let you know at once.” Wall, secretary of the interior; Henry ©. Wallace, secretary of agriculture; know at ones. At HOYT’S, Fourth Pike and ‘coin wits » drawing-pin. | Stuart’s Mepensary was merely a DOINGS OF THE HE'S NOT GOING VERY GooD! ‘ar & Story is * x oo “GIVE ME OF YOUR BALM, 0 FIR TREE” Tt was time for afternoon tea, and while David and Perry usually actly as if they were used t ting up in chairs and having ladies ask them if they drank tea or would Iike a stags of milk. But Peggy was enough of Ue woman to wonder about her It didn't look like a tin Plate, it didn’t quite Jook like a silver plate, and it wag far too heavy to be one of the aluminum kind Uke those in the auto kit. Her hostess watched hr, and plate finally- said, “Weill, Pergy, do you think of a plate like that?" Poggy’s little face turned red as a rose. “I—4—I think, I think it is beautiful,” she stammered. “No dear,” her hostess laughed back, “it Is not beautiful, but it is interesting. You me pewter plates are wicht like to eat off these Longfellow plates” David was all eagerness. the one who wrot he cried. that. Are you sure enough k that Mr. Langfellow? enough?” * “Sure enough kin,” she smiled, curtained recess at one end of the coin with the cork still attached. waiting room and shortly after en- tering the house he had occasion to | adhered to the coin! visit It. Lying upon a shelf among flasks and bottles was the Chinese ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genu Warning! Unters you see the “Very good. Thanks for letting me | name “Bayer” on package or on tab- It seems to entablish |lets you are not getting genuine Bervert Hoover, secretary of dom-|a link with China, don’t you think?” | Aspirin prescribed by physicians for mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mo nouceticacidester of Sulicylicacid, playing “squares” or something at that hour, when they were visiting they acted ex Longfellow Plates. My mother belonged to the Longfellow family and thought maybe you and David iawatha’ "? “I can recite stacks of THE SEATTLE STA DUFFS Tom Would Never Make 1 DON'T ‘TopoLe ESPECIALLY WELL TONIGHT! PERHAPS THEN You COULD SHIMMY BETTER: PoP, Do THEY WAVE GRAVEYARDS FoR us | EVERETT TRUE " Qrattle % fj * od eland_ “though not so much ‘kin’ as you are to Pegsy, and I often thought of nome lines of ‘Hiawatha’ when we first came out bere, for it wae bitter hard for a Mamachusetts girl to come tnto this wilderness and have only Indians for neigh bora, were Tpgie a “Many a time I have looked up at the tall trees and felt like ery- ing out, ‘Give me of your balm, O fir tree’ “‘And the fir trea tal and sombre, Sobbed thru all its robes of @ark- nen, Rattled like a shore with pebbles, Answered walling, answered a tt quoted the verses, but it sounded ve 4. Peggy looked gravely at her pewter Longfellow plate and asked, “Should you think it was too aad a story to tell to David and me?” “Not a@ big of it; you never maw @ pioneer yet who didn’t like to think back over the early days, no matter how hard they were. “I was about the lonesomest young wife you ever heard of the morning we left the home of Dr. H. and took the trail to our claim, I wasn’t aa strong as a pioneer wife should be, and the Indians and the feat forest frightened me, We walked along as we had been difected and watched eagerly \enough for the marker which was |to show um the boundary of that what thene 1 very “Not THE TWINS in to|land which we had traveled Sure | thousands of miles to make our Clive Roberts Barton home, fo Onn. ZIPPY ZEBRA kaetkke Fragments of black sealing wax I. (Continued Tomorrow) “Say, Mrs. Ostrich, is my ear blushing?” Now then, Zippy Zebra, who lived ‘way off in the Land-That-Was- | Parthest-Away-Of-All, was kicking up hig heels and cavorting around in a carefree manner at the very minute he was being talked about. On one side of him was Mr. Os trich and on the other was Mra you asking for?” “It's burning hot." Zippy ex- plained, “and they used to say in |the cireus that when your ear burned lke a hot coal somebody was saying something about you. My ear is as hot as a whole kitchen stove, so I feel sure that my name ce; James J. Davis, secretary of| “It doom, bit It merely adds to the|twenty.one years and proved safe , | mystery.” by millions. Take Aspirin only as Ostrich busily eating stones. Sud-|must be being mentioned some —-| Stuart now remembered having |told in the Bayer package for Colds, le le Je |denly Zippy stopped with a worried | where. Now whatta you s‘pose?” left this particular cash piece (which | Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, ZHE Lotion for Skin look and began flapping his right| “Oh, shucks!” answered Mrs, Os- HOYT’S DOUGHNUTS | i v:o21y carriea) tn nis dispensary. | earache, ‘Toothache, Lambago and ear, trich disgustedly, “Don't be so sos 1 Fie had broken the cork of a ‘flask|for Pain. Blandy tin boxes of re wil euch re ay, *Mra, Ostrich, ts my ear |picious!* j Now 20c Dozen and had manufactured a temporary |twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost Bashing?” he asked anxiously, Mr. Ostrich snorted. at least he i stopper with a small cork to the top |few cents. Drugegists also sell larger Mrs. Ostrich stopped eating stones | made as nearly that kind of a noise of which be had fixed the Chinese|packages. Aspirin is the trade and squinted ateways, “Mercy me|as a bid can, ord he sald, “My suiped as an awning? What are'don't mean suspicious, you mean on us! How can I tell when it's as|dear, your English is shocking. You DBUG STORES | BARTELL'S NO, | SHIMMY DO You GO ‘To DANCES IM THE MORNING? WELL, IT Ed@ith Dot Gives Me s Back-Handed One self for the second time. to say that “I wanted to find out ff ft were possible to get you to answer the telephone, You're quch a fearfully I mustn't take up any more of your time, Good-bye.” busy man! She rang off. This annoyed me considerabty. The two stegographers looked af me with interest; they are always curious when a married man gets telephone calls from a woman who They would have if they could have guessed the ideas that were isn't his wife, been more curious passing thru my head I had fust decided that I had ‘been foolish to attribute any out, of-the-way motions to Edith; girl. and I wondered could. Poor fellow! from the bottom of my heart. bim! That evening, as we were dress ing to go out, Dorothy said to me: “They're a funny couple.” “who?” meant. “Edith and George.” “What's the latest?” “raith was telling me today about It was a very quiet one—just a few people there. After the ceremony they went to the Bilt- more for luncheon; they were going South and their train didn’t leave their wedding. until 4 o'clock.” “What's funny about that?” “Weil, Edith was tremendousty hungry. She ordered nearly every: Then it came George's turn, You know that quiet He turned to the waiter and said: ‘I wish you would bring me a pot of tea and some dry thing on the menu. way of his. toast,’ * 1 gave a short laugh. “They're not very much alike, are they?" “No, but than they used to. “Have they a past? “Well, I hear they used to quar. nnn superstitious. Believing in signs ts called superstitious, and anyway it’s very silly.” “That's what I was trying to tell him,” answered Mra, Ostrich, “and I think my word svunds quite as well as yours. Do tell us, Zippy, won't you, why you left the cir- cus?” “The gnomes untied my rope and I bolted,” nodded Zippy, “When I got out of my tent, you couldn't see me going for dust. I simply beat oe . “My, my™ said Mrs, Ostrich, “Talking about grammar, 1 think it is time you were getting among refined folks and learning to speak something besides slang. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, N. B AQ, \ “W PAPER “Two / IN COLLISION ., ONE KILLED ! Confessions of a Husband 19T1, The Seattic Star} Pays Me @ Compliment and The next morning when I was told that Mrs. Slocum wanted to speak to me on the phone I an- swered the call at once, for I had no desire to make a chump of my- Today she was not delivering & just wanted to remind you of our engagement this evening. Be sure to look your handsomest; you know you are taking me to the theatre.” I made some foolish reply and asked her what she wanted. 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