The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1922, Page 11

_ chance.” | horror of the tragedy began slowly to ) and the cold and their own discom: | They {ConUnued From Page 6) ! fer all their shelter they were} @retohed and crushed by the might derness about Qem—Cutilo things that were the gern of oven the ts sot never find dation.” sugkented et. “No chance, that I can see. The) Winter's come to stay, We won't be gope to get any men from Bradiey Burg to help us look for ‘em. They dnt get through the snow,” | “You think Lounsbury's voice | wavered, “you think—we can get back al! right ourselves ?* “Sure. That is, if we start first} thing tomorrow, There's a clear trail through the snow most of the Way--our own trail, comin’ out. But) Mt will be hard goin’ and not safe to wait” “Then I suppose—the horses will De sent down below, because of the @now. That's another reason why | they can't even search for the! Dodies.” "Yea. Of course they may float #own to the Yuga and be seen some, | where by the Indians. But not much terrified. the w the} at} UTNE Lounsbury They lighted their pipes, and the from them. The blinding snow rt ‘There | that in back | pupied all their thoughts. only one ray of light the 4) ng they could turn > gut of the terrible wilderness, dows | _ wow 1 the cities of men. j They didn't try to sleep. The! now and the cold and the shrieking wind made rest an impossibility. | did dome, however, between times that they rose to cut more fuel for the fire. The hours seemed endiens | ‘Darkness still lay over the river! when they Went again to their toll} Ldunsbury himself offered to cook Breakfast ahd tried to convince him @eif the act entitled him to. praise. } Jn reality, he was only impatient to hasten their departure. Vosper packed the hungry horses, slyly de pesiting portions of their supplies 60d equipment in the evergreen thickets to lighten his own work. He further lightened the packs by put ting a load on Mulvaney, And they @imbed down to the water's edge t glance one more at the turbulent | “No use of waiting any more,” | Lpunsbery suid at last. Or course mot Get on your " Then they rode away, these worthy men, back toward the | te. Some of the pack! the yeni ~ Baldy and Rie kind—moved eagerly they saw that their masters changed directions, But Vosper| - Rad to urge Mulvaney on with oaths blows, vut Virginia's firet moment of could not distinguleh @reams. All the ex of the night before seemed | only the advantures | ut disillusionment | her eyes and the “rant | her situation swept | » | der clothing, in them, and they were simply natural expression of her fear ad her Joneliness and her distress. | long moments she sobbed bit terly, yet softly as she could. But Virginia was of good metal, and in the past few days she had acquired certain measure of self-discipline. | began to struggle with her tears. They would waken Bill, she oe oe | —and she had not forgotten bis brav ery and bis toll of the night before. | She conquered them at last, and,| miserable and sick of heart, tried to 60 back to sleep. Her muscles pained her, her throat was raw from the water, and when} she tried to make herself comfort. | her limbs were stiff and aching. she knew «he had to look, her Positionin the face, She turned, | pains shooting through her frame, , nd gazed about her. The cabin, she could see, was rather larger than any of those in| which they had camped on their journey. It was well-clinked and sturdy, and even had the luxury of & window. For the moment she didn't see Bill at all. She wondered ff he had gone out. Then, moving Bearer to the edge of her cot, she looked. over intending to locate the clothes she had taken off the night | before. Then she saw him, stretched | on the floor in the farthest corner of the room He gave thé impression of having @ropped with exhaustion and fallen; ta sieep where be lay. She could) eee that he still wore the tattered overcoat he had found hangime on the wall, and the two blankets were still wrapped ‘about him. He Paying for his magnificent efforts of the night before. Morning was vivid and full at the window, but he still lay in heavy slumber She resolved pot to call him: in rpite of her own misery caried in a half-amile Vaguely touched; someway the sight this strong forester, lying #0 pleas and exhausted in eleep, went straight to some buried in stinet within her and found a ten derness, a sweet graciousness that had not in her past life manifested itself too often, | But the tenderness was supplant: | ed by a wave of ley terror, She Was a woman, and the thought sud @eniy came to her that she was Wholly in this man’s power, raked except tor the blanketa around her, unarmed and helpless and lost in the forest depths. What did she know of him? He had been the soul Of respect heretofore, but now—with her uncie the other #ide of the but checked herself of feeling. The had saved her Would save bim against himself v would find a way to get out today; and éhe thought that this at Irast, she need not fear. He had been busy before he is clothes and hers were hung on ix back of the little stove to dry had ent fresh wood, piling it be id the stove. She guasned that he had intended to keep the fire burn ing the whole night, but sleep had claimed him and disarranged his Dian Her next thought was of supplies ter (of food andj iret iewue in the wil and she sipion nlept liove of mu }ly won't | just |suddenly urged. dernens; already she this lesson had learned Her eyes glanced about There were perhaps ¢ hanging trom the ceiling af th ach of the omnivorous rate that oft wreak such ha unoccupied cabling, But further than this the place seemed bare of food. Miankets were in plenty; there were a few kitchen utensils banging back of the stove, and some sort of an ancient rifle lay across a pair of deer horns. Whether or not t were any cartridges for thie latter) artiole ahe could not say. Strangest | of all, a small and ba red phon graph, evidently packed with ¢ culty Into the hills, and a small stock | of records t on the crude, wooden table, Evi & real and fervent | ad not been omitted from BiUl's make-up. Then Bill stirred in his aleep. She lay still, watching, She maw his eyes | open, And his first glance was toward her | He flashed her a smile, and tried painfully to answer it. are you?" he asked. “Awfully lame and sore and tired Maybe I'M be better oon, And yoen-¥P A little stiff, not mach, Mm! hard to damage, Miss Tremont. I've seen too much of hardship. But I've overslept—and there another ad to be lost, [ve got to dren sod KO and locate Vosper and Lou ne | bury “I suppose you'd better—right away They'll be terribly dintrewed thinking we're drowned She turned her back to him, without | nonsense or embarrassment, and he! started to dress. She didn't eee the! slow smile, balfsardonic, that was on his fips. | “I'm not worrying about their dis / trean,"@ he told ber, “I only want} to be sure and cateh them before they give us up for lost—and turn back. I can never forgive myself for failing to waken. it was just [that 1 was #0 tired e | “L won't let you biame yourself! for that,” the girl slowly | but earnestly “Besides, Uncle Ken-/ go away for two or three! days at least. He's been my guard. ian—I'm his ward—and im sure he'll make every effort w learn what happened to us.” “I suppose you're right. You know whether or not you can trust Louns bury I only know—that I can't trust Vosper.” “They'll be walting for us, don't fear for that,” the girl went on. She tried to put all the aswurance she could into her tone “But how can we get across?” “That remains to be seen. they're there to help, with the horses, we might find a way.” The man finished dressing, then turned to go. “I'm sorry I can’t even take time to ght your fire. You must wall two or “0k, led with prov one eel tent replied, bia | stay In bed, anyway-—all day.” He left hurriedly, and a» the door opened the wind blew « handful of snow in upon her. The mow had deepened during the night, the fall was heavier than ever, Shivering With cold and aching In every mus ele, she got up and put on her un. It was almost dry ty. Then, wholly misernbie and dejected, she lay down again between the blankets, waiting for Bily’s return. And hie step w heavy and «low on the threshold when he came. She coulda’t Interpret the expres. sion on his face when she saw him| im the doorway. He was curiously sober and intent, perhaps even a little pale. “Go to sleep, Miss Tre mont.” he advised. “I'll make a fire for breakfast.” He bent to prepare kindling. The girl swallowed painfully, but shaken |with dread shaped ber question at last. “What-—what did you find out?” He looked squarely into her eyes. “Nothing that you'll want to hear, Mins Tremont,” be told her sober! }*t went to the river bank and looked across. They—they——" = | “They are gone?” tite girl cried “They've pulled freight. I conid nee the amoke of their fire—it wan | about out, Not a horse in sight, or a man’ There's no chance for a mistake, I'm afraid. 1 called} and call t no one answere alre ‘The tears rushed to the girl's eyes, but fought them back. There was an instant of strained silence ‘And what does it mean?” | “1 don’t know, We'll get out| someway. | “Tell me the truth, Bil,” the girl) “1 can't stand it.| I will stand it—ddn't be afraid to | tell me.” | The man looked do infinite compa girl,” he said. hat do you want to know?” c She didn't resent the words he | only felt speechlessly grateful and | someway comforted—as a her tn} {might feel in her father's Does it mean—that we’ lost after all?’ | “Our lives? Not at all.” She read in hiw face that this, at least, | was the truth. “I'll tell you, M Tremont, just what I think it men If we were on the other side of the | had horses, we could and get out— we haven't got hors le drowned—and and we push through enough. But even Buster rivet, ousy ‘| would be a hard fight to carry sup | w plies and blankets on our backs, for the long hik to Bradleyburg It would likely be too much for you Besides, the river lays between. In me we might go down to quieter aters and build a raft—out of log ut the snow’s coming thicker the time. Before we could get it done and get In't out—for the snows have cc and we haven't got enow We conld rig up some kind 1 suppose, but unt packs we couldn't make it It’s too long a and too cold. In soft snow even a strong man can only little way—you sink a foot and have lift @ load of snow with every we look there's a block caught in a cage.’ come to look for | across, we col roush to slay shoes of the town way snowrhoes into town. to step. Every way We're like birds, Hut won't men ve been thinking about that, Mins m't come till spring aif northern bat | Tremont then for t Death lool country. know thin la too common lor do. | to pieces, OUR BOARDING HOUSE 7 I GUESS “WAT e SUPPOSED To BE CUTE } / TO LEAVE'EM OPEN aN’ FLAPPING LIKE A BROKEN GATE IN A GALE = SHE fy Aen r Ms JRN AROUND IN NEM Ww ‘EM on HAs L WAS WATTING { FORTH’ GOOLOSH } EPIDEMIC ‘To HIT Mis Wut = SHE LOOKS) | LIKE A SODA STRAW A VIOLIN CASE thing to cause much stir, Loune Dury will tell them we are drowned 0 One Will believe we could have gotten out of the canyon, dressed uke we were and on a night like last night. If they thought we were Alive and suffering, the whole male population would take a search party and come to our aid. Instead they know-—or rather, they think they know—that we're dead. There won't be any horses, it will be a fool's errand, and mushing thru thoee feet of soft «now is a job they won't un dortake.”* “But the river will freeze soon “Yeu. ven this cataract freeses, but it Ikely won't be safe to for some weeRs—maybe January or February on the weather, You see, Mins Tremont, we dont have the awful low temperatures earty in the win tor they get further east and north. We're on the weet side of the moun. tains. But we do get the snow, week after week t when you simply can’t travel, and plenty of thirty and forty, and sometimes more, below zero, Hut the river will freeze if we give it time. And the anow will pack crust late in the winter. And then, in those clear, cold days, we can make a sled and mush out.” “And it meane—we're tied op here for week»—and maybe months?" “That's It. Just an sure as if we had iron chains around our ankles.” Then the girl's tears flowed again, unchecked. Hill stood beside her, his shoulders dropping, but In no situation of his life bad he ever felt more helpless, more incapable of aid. “Dont cry,” he pleaded. Don't cry, Miss Tremont. I'll take care of you. Dont you know } wit Her grief rent him to the depth. but there was nothing he could say He drew the blankets high er about her. Perhaps you can get some more sleep,” he urged. “Your body's torn of courre.” (Continued ‘Temerrew.) ross clear o That depends BY AHERN 1 owl Guess “1H! \ / WOMEN * THEY PULL A SHOE V2] STORE APART To GET A PAIR | oF PUMPS WITH A STYLISH PINCH, THEN "TURN AROUND AN! CLIMB INTD A GET OF THOSE tm] \ STUMBLES = AS SHAKESBLER | ||| \ SAID, "INCONSISTENCY, THY NAME IS WOMAN'~ .€ HOUT LIFTING /2 m'FLoor 4. | | THE FIRST GOLOSHES == DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WELL,IF WE GO DOWN TO THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW WE'LL HAVE “TO TAKE DANNY WITH US - f NO,WE WON"T TAKE Him AND THAT SETTLES HE CAN STAY HOME WITH OLIVIA~ SHE'S NOT GOING OUT FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS HOM, CAN T ly MENRY, Do YoU"THINK So ( WANE Some PREAD nol MLASSES wa ei MUCH BREAD AND SYRUP al WHY, CERTAINLY = 7 BREAD 1S THE starr | S OF LIFE, You THRE OLD) HOME TOWN Stop THAT STOMPinG ! | DON'T KNOW WHERE HE GETS ALL HIS STUBBORNESS FROM ! Treth Will Out Know. an | a A as 569 GRANDMOTE They were up in grandmother's} work! grand Some: room before the fire, mother and het friend. times their fingers were busy with a bit of darning or knitting and | sometimes their soft old hands just lay idly in their laps as they | | talked. eutti ut paper dolls and ar. “Now tell me what the trouble is,’ Now tell me what the trouble ts about,” naid the Fairy Quee the two battered-looking k Nancy, Nick and taken seats In the front row rtroom and they could he verything that went on “They been fighting again, your highness,” said the policeman kite, coming forward and making « stiff bow, “It’s the old trouble again. They've been jealous of each other these hundred years and they are getting worne instead of better.” The Fairy Queen turned her kind eyes reprovingly on the offenders. “put, tut, tut,” she said. “This “r do! Aren't you both of yourselven! I keep thi dom, the Land-of-Up: to make you happy are acting like n to Buskins had of t ar p in-the-Alr, a here siflies: ju you “Dear only knows, when you kites | things get away from the strings ‘n tie you to earth,” you quick you make @ ax you that know you line how come Confessions of a Movie Star 1921, (Copyright CHAPTER LIX—GE Ciaey I accepted as a very desir able of the camp life 5 dosen his genius smoothed feature water for my tub when the commis: it} 'TING READY FOR THE LEOPARD | STUNT them in of old sometimes her mind was ranging lke ladies, said the Fairy Queen the hands the two severely | | | | ‘1 would be happy if ft wasn't for thi said the first kite “He knows I am the most important, but he won't say fo. “Why I've bee all the history earth and the me. “I'm the kite that carried the con that pulled the rope that drew the cable that started the bridge “Oh Anes!” cried the kite heard it a time. Then | Queen « fellow,” and Just what the old ladies were saying. “It to was saying, “that adays have too little to do, That's leads young wives into #0 stopped n written seems me,” books down on children study about in the about women what much mischief. for card second parties and fancy work and fool millior ec ishness Peeey was just turning her mind back to the paper doll fam all that and stupid, when the caught her atten. he turned to the F lly becaus of quarr next sentence | “As for me, your majesty, J « Benjamin Franklin's silk kite,” waid T went up into the cloud during a storm and discovered elec ~ Don't you recall how we women who brought up our fam- in times had to ilies tricity | And he held himaelf so straight pioneer | that fell over backwards. The Twins wondered the Fairy Queen was going to decide the question. But F (To Be Continued) 192 by Beattle he nearly how were not invited to join their swim ‘|}ming party. At least, the men said it Was too far vking maid to wait. (Copyright Star) 5 until the 1co—T surmised the boys ‘t want the girls with them. I bad an idea that men often like to flock by themselves, like to get away from the women sometimes. 1 said so to the girls, but they ridiculed the notion. Cissy saw that other comforts and |luxuries besides the water for my the other|hath were at my command, There | waa incense to keep away mosquitoes and the citronelia whieh T had for Having a dear brother. Seattle Star) bring it half a mile for girls hole ev men went off to a swimming y morning before breakfast sounded sort | } Over by the window, Perey was families and, | o's FRIEND ~ We bad to work, and we had to know how to act when we got in a tight place, too, and do somebody else's work if it came to the potnt.” ick! click™ snapped the old ladies’ knitting needles. Pegey eld her blunt seissors in mid air waited. his pioneer looked and seemed er than grandmot Aunt Ellen, even, ¢ “I recall one trip Capt, Noyes made when it would have been a bad thing for him if he'd had one as Ok AS maybe older. | of these helpless wives. busy with play and sometimes it} waited to get) the friend | now. | ) ‘Too much time! | . parties and week-end | ™ptain wasn't | | cold, | | records gotten, and fresh fruit from a distant | cata. sary failed to| It Was wo far away that the girls farm daily and @ phonograph and!or her cheek as amiably as a Per- with Gairee, she said. ery time that m went to sea, Mrs, Noyes went with him, her children were as happy on board ship as on land, and it wasn’t long till Mrs. Noyes knew much about sailing a big vessel as many a licensed gavigator “One winter they left Seattle and set sail for Hong Kong. The well when they left, and the weather was rough, and he took an awful cold, and, as they sailed farther and farther out to sea, instead of getting bet- ter he got worse and worse. “1 wish,’ Mrs. Noyes told him, ‘you would go to bed and stay there and let me take care of that You've no business out in this weather, no business in the world!” (To Be Continued) Nt #8 ® eens | rented from the nearest town. My most bewildering discovery about Cissy was his patience. was careful not to remind me of my promise to give him an answer when we went bh And 1m matter what interests were urgent, or what | sporting event was afoot, Cissy sta- tioned himself as an extra guard whenever I played with the leopards, | There were two of them, beautiful creatures, both as tame as kittens. Mile. Wisa could pick up the little one and carry it around, and it would purr like @ full orchestra of domestic It would rub egainst her feet He | OF COURSE THE BREAD WONT HURT HIM, BUT 4 So MucH SYRUP — i | {slept at the foot of her bed. (No-No- | SAY \ aan, | THEYRE, (You SAY \DELAYIN’ |r Qurre) TH’CANNOy— § {A FALL /\BALL iA Oo . THE SNOW SLID OFF THE DEPOT ROOF TODAY HOLDING UP THE CANNON BALL EXPRESS TEN MINUTES WHILE THE BOYS DUG OUT A TRUCK LOAD OF BAGGAGE. BY ALLMAN NO, YOU'RE RIGHT = You KEPT ALL OF Yours ! 'M SURE HE DIDNT GET IT FROM me! BUT, MOMaI. DONT EAT MUCH SYRUP + T EVERETT TRUE Tt NGVER Mw A PUNKER Comeerony lor ALLEGED ART IN ALC MY CiFSel LOOK AT THAT CRIM ve THeRe — TAGE Feucw TAIT PAINTED THAT 9 was Coco7r BUNDY Ano WwoK At THE pee spective ! I PAID MY GooD MONEY TO Come IN HERE AND ENJOY THE PLCTURSS, NOT To USTEN TO SOME COUD-MOUTHED WOULO-BE ART Critic IMPOSE HIF RIVEL ON THE CROWD! ise Come GR HERS AND Tee Youve TTRovaceEs To THE COMMITISGS {If sian pussy. I loved the Nopards, I was per fectly deligted to get acquainted with fectly delighted to get acquainted with them, vor our rehearsal, the scene, the carpenters set net in the woods, inc! jtrees, The beasts were not savage, but they were too valuable to lose. Mile, Elsa was a famous trainer. |She had reared these pets from the bottle, she said. She rubbed them down and manicured them herself. Until recently, Laski, the baby, had |larger leopard. Laski, the younger cat, if he liked me at all, would let me know at once. He would decide jon sight whether we were to be friends or not. Leopards were like cats, that way, Probably I'd be “Jake with the older from the beginning, so we wouldn't bother to rehearse with her, She was a good-natured, fat old scout, Moreover, Gairee would be doped just a little, for the play, just enough to keep her poised on the limb of the tree, according to the scenario, When the netted space was ready, Otherwise she might get restless Mile. Bisa proposed a rehearsal when she beard the click of the would not have to get acquainted | cameras. That was the’ (To Be Continued as well as for cat