The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1922, Page 9

PAGE 9 SATURDAY, JANUARY BY STANLE 7, 1922, SEATTLE STAR sions ~ BY AHERN = THE OUR BOARDING HOUSE THE OLD HOME TOWN 71h A om seal ot En tel Se Ahead 4 tod Pk 5 Stiowshoe: ete ne 7 @rer1 by Lite Brewn - i) (Continued From Page 6) Maly were passed around, Mill said. the otter and the fiaher got their slips mixed, and the misnor had followed them thru the centuries, He showed her the tracks of the ermine @nd, now that they were reaching the high altitudes, the trail of the Ptarmigan in the snow, Mink, fox amd coyote had hunted each other ly thre the drifts, and all three hunted the snowehoe rabbit and on. mouse, a haif-diind gopher had | @merged from hits den to view the| morning and had ducked quickly back at the sight of the snow, an owl had enatohed a Canada jay from | hee perch and had left a few clotted | feathers when the daylight had driv en him from his foast ‘The rigors of the day's travel were constantly increasing. The wet snow steaming on their sides sapped the | Vitality Of the horses, to keep them at a fair pace required a constant stream of nefvous energy on the part of their riders. Virginia found i almost impossible to dodge the smowladen branches, They wo ap mow into her face, down Beok and into her sleeves: it sifted into her eyes and hair and chilled | er bands until they ached. The cof garments that she wore fem priceless After the first mile. insbury had an even more try img time. His clothes soaked thru at once, and the piercing, biting cold of the northern fall went inte him He was drenched. shivering, inco- herent with wrath when they stopped fer.noon. He was not enough of a sporteman to take the consequences of hie arrogance in good spirit. He didn’, know the meaning of that an clen law—that men must take the “eaponsibility of their own deeds and with good spirit pay for their mix yakes. He didn't know how to smile & the difficulties that sim. That ancient code of self.mas- ‘ery, of taking the bitter medicine f life without complaint clear to the and uneasy; the jays flew from tree | Ming out astant of death was far bevond his rasp. “You've made everything just fa hard for us as you could.” he Lormed at Hill “If I ever get back ive fl! get your guide's license Mteted away from you if I never &pother thing, You don't know to guide or pick a trail. You ht us out here to bleed us. And (Tl pay for it when I get back.” i scarcely seemed to hear. it on with his work, but when Simple meal was over and the haut done, he made his Me drew « cloth ‘ik from of the packs, swung iffon his der, and stepped over to Louns y's side. ‘a & couple of things I want you,” he He spoke in quiet voice, so that Virginia could Bea hese. _ Leunabary looked up with a scow!. SSI Gon't know that I want to hear _ “I knew you don't want to hear Dut you are going to hear ‘om the came, I want to tell you that I'm doing everything any being can to make you com bie. You can't take Morrie along on @ pack train. You 't take electric stoves, and you fant boss the weather, It's your fault you didn’t provide your- @lf with proper clothes. And I'm fired of hearing you yelp.” Lounsbury tried to find some @ushing remark in reply. He oniy uttered. “I ean only stand so much, and then it makes me nervous,” the Buide went on, in a matter-of-fact fone. “I don’t care what you do When you get back to town. I just font want you pestering me any More with your complaints. I've food & lot for Miss Tremont’s mke =the probably wouldn't like to see SBything happen to you. But just 4 few more littie remarks like you Mate before lunch, and you're apt (find yourself standing in mud up . knees in one of these myd -wrong end up! And that o_o be becoming at ali for an 1 can millionaire.” Lounsbury opened his mouth sev. fal times. The same number of times he shut it again. “i see,” he Mid at last, clearly “Good. And here's some clothes @ mine. They're not handsome, and they'll not fit, but they'll keep you ry.” He dumped the larger portion of Bis own waterproots on the ground In the two days that pack train crossed the divid PCearwater. From now on the little pfivers, gathering headway as they oursed down the ravines, flowed @ the Grisly and from thence into Great Yuga. far below. The par had crossed ridge on ridge, hill on that were a bewilderment to Vir. ih they had gained the high places the marmote whistied shrill clear at the mouth of their ty burrows and the caribou paced Manes gleaming, in the snow had seen « grizzly on the fat slide_rock; they had toat their and found it again, walked hillsides where the horsex scarcely carry their packs, de- imto mysterious, stil) gullies: reeks and picked their way treacherous marshes; and made Roon camp on the very summit high ridge. Tie anow waa deep Bere—nearly eighteen inches the gray clouds were breaking in the sky. Apparently the Was over, tor the time being had had trouble with slipping On the steep pitches of the ‘starch and had made slow BU) gianced at his watch displeasure, He rushed thru Boon meal and cut their usual by a full half-hour, We're behind schedule,” he ox d, “and we've got a bad balt before us. 1 counting on a Gray Lake cabin tonight WS've got to hurry to do it” hat in beyond Griasly River,” bury remarked turned in nome wonder. t known that Lourab acquainted with the topom Of the region. Stranger wtill, 0 sacied at his glance, flush ‘onmy. “{ heard ome one that Gray Lake was beyort River.” he explained lamely.|'The pac means make it if we can.” re WAN NO ponuible Aed from the n to Incident, #0 Bill | gree of which is as essential in He) y was! | aeemed to be studying the curr Trail ae ok lars, all © Ca and WHA Service Nia \"s 0 + [turned hia thought to other matters. | 10s almost Necemary—that take it he said. “Th # no hore feed nor decent camp aite between here and there, Besides, 1 don't like to put Mise Tremont up in a tent t hight, ‘The beat cabin in my whole string is at Gray Lake—a really soug little place, with a floor and a stove. Keep most of my trapping supplies there If we can make the ford by / rk, We'll run in there easy, it's ly & Mile or so over a well-run mroese trai.” i “Add you think we're entirely safe) in going ont" the girl avked. “As far as 1 can see, i'm a little bit worried about Grizaly River—i'm afraid it's up prétty high—but ru try it first and see if it's safe to ford. | The snowstorm has quit—1 think well Dave nice weather in a few days. If it should begin again we coukt turn back and make it thru before the @fifts got too deep to crose—that is, if we didn't delay And besides, when we get across | Grimaly River we're ins favorable jcountry for your search. We can } put up at the cabin a few days and | make @ thorough hunt for any sign of the miming man. If the weather j will permit--and I believe it will we cat follow down the river to the Yuga and make inquiries of the In dans.” itis words heartened the party Even Lounsbury had begun to show | some eagerness; Vosper, flinching |before the hard work of the trail }was jubilant at the thought of « few days’ rest. They pushed on} [inte the snowewept waste | | The clouds knit n overhead, | jdut as yet the air clear of enow. | ‘The temperature, however, seemed! | wteadily fallin, The breath of the | | horses wae a steam cloud; the pot | holes im the march were gray and confronted | lifeless with ice. And it seemed to |‘ £9 on.” | Virginia thet the wild things that) | they passed were curiously resth the wa the to tree with raucous cries, | terfow! circled endlessly over Bray lakes, This impression grew more vivid as the hours pasead: and there was fan elusive but sinister significance | about it that engrossed her, but! which she couldn't mame or under stand. She didn't mention the mat. | iter w Bil, She couldn't have told [her simplicity she waa not aware of her own virtues. A sportswoman | to the last hair, she simply did not twieh to depress him with her fears. | | There was a suspense, a strange) jhush and breathiessness in the air/ [that depr her. |The sna, recmeeanene that she! jobserved in the wild creatures be }gan to be noticeable in the horses. Time after time they bolted from }the trail, and the efforte of all the | | party were needed to round them up) de a) jagain. Their morale—a high |pack train as in an army breaking before the eyes. | seemed to have to apirit to leap the | loge and battle the quagmire. They | Would try to encirele the hills rather |than attempt to ctimb them. | She wondered if the animals had a sixth sense, She was a wide: awake, observing and through: out the trip she had noticed In- | stances of « forewarning — Inatinct | that she herself did not pomess. On leach occasion where the horses| | were more or lé#s unmanageable she) lfound on programing farther, some dangerous obstacle to thelr progress —a steep hill or 4 treacherous | marsh. Could it be that they were forewarned now? | Fatigue came quickly noon, and by four o'clock she wae longing for food and rest. She was cold, the snow had wet the slice and throat of her undergarments, the control of her horse had cost her | much nervous atrength, The next hour dragged interminably But they were descending now, @ steep grade to the river. Twilight, | Uke some graydraped ‘ghost of a| shepherdeas whom Apollo had wronged and who still shadowed his steps, gathered awiftiy about them. | | Bil urged orne to w faater | walk; tired wan reaponded nobly. Because Virginia's horse was likewise courageous he pace, and the distance widened the two of them and the remainder of the Louns. | bury’s abrill complaints and uta could not urge their mounts to a faster gait. The #h ows deepend in the tree aisles! the dimmed; the tree trunks faded in the growing gloom ‘We won't be able to see our way lat all in five minutes more,” Vir ginia told herself Yet five pa and still the twilight simple explanation was that her eyes gradually adjusted themseiven to the soft light. And all at once the thickets divided and rev he river She didn’t know why her breath suddenly caught in awe. way the scene before her eyes scarcely seemed real. The thickets hid the streatn to the right and and | all she could ree was the stretch of | gray water immediately in front, It! waa wide and fretful, and in the nalf-light someway vague and omin ous, It had reached up about the} trunks of some of the young spruces | on the river bank, and the little trees trembled and bent, stirred by the waters; and they seemed like drown: ing things dumbly signaling for help. Because the farther bank was almost lost in the duxk the breadth of the stream intermin able. In realli vas They | | this after the | b an e pack train ed, and ten Uingered. The minute aled Some eft appeared it was @ full ninety at the shallower head of the rapid where the moos trafl led down to the water | ‘The roar of the river had come no | gradually to her ear that ashe wos hardly aware of it; indeed the wilderness ecemed weighed with sil. lence, But it wae true that she heard a terrifying roar farther down the stream. Yet just beyond, perhape a mile from the opposide bank, lay camp and rest--a comfortab in, warmth and food, she they would hurry and make croming But Bil hal MA at the water's edge and she ftode up beside him. He vt up, and nudged at the anima! “wen “What'y the | now train Lounsbury’s horse flank of her own | Lounsbury questioned. caught MP REMEMBER TH =f NIGHT WE were \- RIDING HOME AL, AN TH ENGINE WENT "DEAD RiGuT fi (IN FRONT OF AN UNDERTAKER'S 2 WAHA: THAT was A A KEEN acts || WAS or — a “GAY AL = MAYBE ‘TH HORSE PowER TH HEAVES* THERE'S A | \oose NUT! WANT ME “TO GET A NUT- \ Pick 2 FULL OF SPOONS DUMS ARE ABOUT AS MUCH HELP AS A WATER LILY AT fi : Y ae AA L. MOORE GETS SOME HELPFUL z ADVICE ON HOW TO START A COLD GONDOLA>~4f) " DOINGS OF THE DUFFS delay? map “It's pretty high,” softly, “I've never tried to cross when it was #o high ae this” It was true, The rains and snow had made the stream a torrent man, we can't camp horse feed—no cabin We're in @ hurry to get to Rit replica! here. We've got “Wait just a minute. Time Precious, but we've got to think thin We can put up « tent nd cold a» it is, make through the night someway, I'm not Uet we hadn't ought to do it river looks high and or than it looke—tt's the twilent Ure bead re The may be high fd to tell m Ordinarily I cross at of the mapide—water lear than three feet damp. But it isn't the depth that jcounts—it's the ewiftness, If the!river i much Hejwhy, for the plain reason that in |VCF three feet, a horse simply can't keep his feet—and Death Canyon just below. To be carried down into that torrent below means to die—two Or three parties, trying to ship fure down to the Yuma, have already loat their lives in that very piace shallows jump right off into ten feet of water, It'll be tough to sleep Out im this snow, but it's safer. But say the word we'll make the At least I cap ride in and see it gote—whether it's safe for you to come.” Lounsbury didn't bh by what fustics he sheaid take the fak-—why be should put hie own Ufe up as & pawn for thelr cortfort and safety. Nor did Wii) axk him self. Such « thought did not even come to him. He was their guide they were in his charge, and he followed bis own law “Try , anyway,” it to awk bite Lounsbury | urged, Bill spoke to his horse. The ant mal still stood with lowered head For one of the few times in hig lite Bill had to speak twice—not sharp ly, if anything more quietly than at first. And the brave Mulvaney headed into the stron. (Continued Momday) LOOK DANNY! SEE BIRDIE - Now WATCH! APY arty ES ° on fF, TWINS At the gate itself a keeper stepped out and asked for the password. ‘The town of Balloonatick was very Nancy andkNick could see, even Busking led the way in thru the big gate. At the gute itielf & keeper stepped out and asked for the paxsword “Thingamagum! said Buskine quickly. Nanty said, “Thingamagum,” and so did Nick “Any matehes?’ asked the gate. keeper | “No matohes;” said Busking, Nancy seid, “NO matches,” and so did Nick The big cate ewung open and the three travelers entered like conquer ing heroes, Buxkins on his green paper elephant, Nancy on her pink pig and Nick on bis biue puppy The city was built of tinsue por houses: streets and brid were of time paper, It was the queer eto. towers, lof Fourth of July balloons The Twine thourht it the most curious of all their adventures, thin Land-of-Up-in-the-Alr. Down the street they rode, trying not t aw, but it w ermber one's people anners with ut ax th y were qu usual thi ry fat, cound Mumpty Dumpty k hearty Uncle and jolly old King Cole was rid lown street on talkin, {i ing A purple rooster All of ther bad hurried away ror he earth and come up to the 6. N paid the slightest tention to the visitor the chil dren began to think that thelr man were wasted. V noticed whap polite ing pussycat stout Queen Most aaniably ners wo're Buskins took them the that got burned @ bit on the ext to the how pital where slloona were re paired, way “And now," said he back to our apple-troe have still much to se." (To Be € intued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stary vator, Confessiens of a Movie Star (Copyright, 1991 Beattie Bitar) | CHAPTER LVII-—THE RED DRESS AFFAIR KEEPS ME AWAKE Rose contributed the last chapter in the story of the red dress. Of course, nobody rula what Mra. MeMasters had Matthew, said Kose, but it guens | sald to became | lity was ende evident that Rosalie Bruce's prosper. that the dancing suddenly for fouth “It's always so girl had de Amerten tee when it comes tc LD START THIS CAR) ITD BE RATTLING AWAY UKE A WASHING MACHINE tare tod curiously at all they aM most difficult to ré& tinwue ugh | a lemon-yellow | rid. | ky | We Henry had told Rowe 'e You OTEY WALKER, THE MARSHAL - See MOKELE SS STOGIES FOR. INDOOR. USE ~ THAT | NON-STOP PIPE © You SAY THEYVE GoT | SAY HE COULDNT UNBUTTON | HIS COAT"! 1S PRETTY ToucHy ks, SINCE A PRISONER WALKED AWAY WHILE OTEY WAS ING HIS Co THE LOOK AT THIS OnE! DO You KNOW WHAT IT 1S CLEVER ISNT HE, SON ? ar Srattle _ « wy Ri * ; _By Mabel Cleland _»% = Page 567 ONE MORK CHRISTMAS STORY (Chapter 3) “My! How glorious that pioneer went on with her story,| looked to me! All lit up with “time neem to fairly fly; did you| candies and hung with long gar and other lands of cranberries and popeorn. “Bright with silver paper cornu Copias and nuts wrapped in tin foil. And every with mysterious bundles or fascin ating with burdens of little drums or horns or wooley lambs, of dolls which had ho paper wrappings, but only a piece of paper pinned on, bearing the name of the child for whom it was intended “High up m the tree, looking | out at me, hung the largest, doll of all 1 caught my breast and almost squealed, But I didn't say aworl. knew, but nobody knew that [ knew that, that great big doll had my name on tt “All thru the program I looked at her and she looked down at me, her lovely, mouth made into a smile which could never, never come off “At laxt the program waa over, and the superintendent began to read off the names and little boys stumbled up and took their gifts and said, ‘Aw, pshaw! “And little girla danced up and ‘awitched’ back to their seats and said, "Thank you," (Lo Be Continued) “Sometimes,” the not-very-old. tree ever notice? times it! creeps along #0 slowly hold of 1¢ and shove it long, #0 the day# or the hours | the minutes which stand be | tween you want to take branch heavy or you and what you are wishing for will get out of your way ut ho mAtter how slowly or how fast the days and the hours and the hutes always finally { they may seem to eo, | pans 1, on that day before Christ it finally grew dark and the lamps were lit and the ehurch windows shone out with their wel coming glow and motherdear said, “Come, children, get your things on now, or We shall be late for the program at the church,’ | T took her hand and danced along beside her so happy that 1) carcely left the board walk be H] neath my feet | “Pretty soon, pretty soon, | pretty soon,’ I sald in my heart, | ‘4’ have my bie dolly.” “And 1 ist could feél myself walking yn from the platform with the! doll in my arms. a choice, @ man liké him will throw | remark, Mr. dow romance at his wife's bid: | sleep ding!’ wad Rose's comment I was awake for an hour. | in sorry you heard this gossip, | Many hints T had heard about Mo 1 Mrs, Nandy after we had | Masters were interpreted by J out on our narrow cota, |iffair of the red dre I'm in for a p tly good It was so unrelated to me that it scolding from y Motherdear. I/ought not to have kept me awnke. deserve it, But since you know #0 | But it did because it explained Dick's you may as well have the rest. attitude toward me. Doubtless Dick bly will hane|had convinced Nimaelf that 1 was “around this camp all week, He'll| ike some other women whom Me. want to keep away from his wife for | Masters had atarred a whiler* | 1 was neither crieved nor hurt “What an advertisement of matri-|whon this truth broke upon me. Tf 4 mony-—in one of the richest homes of| was defiant. I defied Dick—Mo- th land!’ 1 Maaters—Cissy > rocking And 1 would Nandy dropped to an The “Now much 1|MeMaateré prot With which evade MoMasters —_—— |That would was the star, fact. receive atiention the} schol girl Who had been assigned a lot of work by a high schoo! professor |named Demaison, 1 couldn't imagine jthat 1 | persons of my time and the highest paid person in MeMasters’ company, that | with hit new thheritance, had to pay |a larger a very homesi¢k little girl, who f the world about wobbly, a child who wanted to see| RON RAAr b p | (hid / HOW CAN YOU STAND HERE AND CHAaW DOWN THAT SANDWICH WITHOUT WING A Brre TO HuR DOS = - NT EPO not he easy because 1 | I kept forgetting that I was constantly surprised to and consideration im the othors, To myself I seemed just a little was one of the conspicuous only the producer and Cissy, income tax than I, ‘That night I was only May Scott, her getting rather and ‘tT TO GET THE JAiL KEYS =s] vain ‘The smell trees had got said. [ returned to my eat feeling that the same influences were upsetting my nerves, hoping that I would ge ;to sleep at once, and knowing very well that T would not. CEA tt RH ennneensy ftom the minute he joined the camp. her Motherdear very much indeed! ee en ‘The big cats finally took my mind off from the gossip about McMasters, Pep erty icy Barnes, as well as from my home sick longings for Motherdear. leopards heard niademotselle talking to them, trying to quiet them. and helped her cover up their cage earth and the into their blood, she were of the (Vo Be Continued restless, I joined her