The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1922, Page 11

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1922. (Continued From Page 6) Decne he was at ita end. * Me could not remember that {t was his own trail. How he came here, bis purpose and his destination, were all lost and forgotten im the intricate mazes of the past, He had but one purpose, one theme—to keep tg his trail and journey on, He would make &@ bigger cirele. He started to creep forward in the snow, But as he watted, on bands and knees in the drifts, the Spirit of Mercy came down to him and gave him one moment of lucid thought | pationtly Ww what can you do about it? He's gone, hasn't he, and we can’t call him back 1 suppose not. But if T—we Were out there in that soft «ne and he was here, he'd ¢ to do about it! He'd « there to us—bringing blankets—" “Oly he'd be a hero! Harold scorned. “Listen, Virginia—there’s nothing in the world to fear. Chinook sprang up at nine—" “Oh, it was much later than that.” 1 something me racing out food and The | THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE “Hruevs bot COLLECT ON 'AT TELERGRAM LADY BEFORE Y'READ IT! THEMS 7H’ ORDERS! Don UNPACK MR. WESTERN AN! UNION MADE UP ON COLL! Some ECT RAM HUSH UP, TLL PAY You! “WILL ARRIVE FRIDAY NIGHT- TRUNKS= A." "BUS CLAIMS ITS aN ACTRESS COMING, AND I'M LAYING EVEN MONEY 1S FORMER STAR BOARDER ! ON THE OL BY AHERN | YEP, THATS ONE OF THEIR “TRICKS: SENDIN'A MESSAGE COLLECT = I TRIED TO QUIZ MRS HOOPLE 'BOUT wid COMING, BUT SHE AINT “TELLING “ ANYMORE “THAN A BROKEN THERMOM- ETER wa ° ‘ DRY Goobs CLOTHING NOTIONS A c n> 1, 4 2 A dt uM 3 A} wD HOME TOWN B PAGE 11 Y STANLEY os re All at once full conseiousn “I looked at my watch,” the man turned to him in a sweep ag of @/ lied. “He was only well started then: | tide, and he remembered all that bad! he’s woodsman enough to turn ocurred. He saw all things in their | around and come back if there's dan exact relations. And now he knew/ger, You may see him here before his course | dark.” No longer would he struggle on,| “1 pray that I will! And tf. slave to the remorseless instinct of | anything has happened to him- selt-preservation. Was there any! All at once the tears leaped to her | glory, any happiness at his Journey's! eyes, She couldn't restrain them any | end that would pay him for the! more than the earth can constrain | agony of one more forward step?| the rain. She turned into ber own He had waged a mighty battle; but) curtainedoff portion of the cab! #0} now—in @ flash—he realined that the | that Harold could not see spoll for which he had fought was} ‘The afternoon that followed was hot worth one moment of his hours! endlessly long and lonely. Her heart | of pain. He remembered Virginia, | sank at every complaint of the wind, | Harold, the mine and its reyelation: | and she dreaded the fall of the shad. he recalled that his mission beentows. Three times she thrilied with Merely an expedition after provi-| inexpresaible joy at a sound on the 7, BUSINESS WAS TED UP “TWENTY MINUTES TODAY WHILE THE CLERKS ON MAIN STREET AL FeELvecrem ois uP sions so that the two coukt go ut! threshold, but always it was Just the WAD A SNOW BALL. FIGHT eit of his life, Was there any reason | wind. jwocking her distress. THE MYSTERY -« seegeaeltiiben wi wire he should fight for life, only to She saw the sinister, northern find deatny ching tn the distant |TERt Srowing between the spruce | ——— prone page - Home If He W t on stant |trees, and she dreaded it an never | processes mm re y x sudde' ly crus! with bitterness at/—the supplies were almost gone—but | io carry out he - At fire “4 , marr ; | RECOGNIZE sh eRe dhs + the thought that he had mide thie/uhe had no heart to sit up and talk |had felt wholly helplen at hip. re You Hoe Yor, oe SS THING WILBUR c You-KEEP HEADQUARTERS - WE ARE HOLDING mie ney effort for = goal not worth with Harald. At last abe went be lfusal. Hut why should she not f AND HIDE MY HAT AND OVERCOAT onacow’! A MAN DOWN HERE WHO SAYS HIS attal f he struggled on, even | hind her ¢ rat St . huuld she not go *T GO OUT A y! i manana the omiy thing ee w “ her fears mn pled age ee bs Agree’ had re 1 ou So aero? To RAT OUR = petal nit AO ihe cap) Wee him was a moment of farewell) Alt ne hours of ¢arly night | rw. a rhe “aa , 7 s “ - Te Shictaie nk tee vice ne tetas a hours of ¢ar ht | Twenty-t Sie cata, he would WELL I'M GOING OUT STAY OvT [Ov RIGHT DOWN IDENTIFY HIMr House! intervals: de | at intervals: doxing, | be musxhing home by now: she would INASMUCH AS HE j Mipping away from him, into her | coming to herself in starts and jerks, | y AND | DON'T KNOW jover's “arms. When she departed |and dreaming miserably. The houre| meet ,hitt tomewhere on tix snow. if | AMD | DOME RMON WANTED To STAY only the forest and the darkness | passed, and still Bill did not return. |1¢ might even be a pleasant adveo OUTALLNIGHT € Would be left, and he had these here.| Her imagination was only tOOlture to mush with him thre tne , It would be different if he felt! vivid. In her thoughts she could | " eg es ape herbs snow. The snow itself wan perfect [for travel; and rhe had learned that IN THE MORNii jher strong young body was capable fs Jot long distances In a day. And it || Virginia still needed him. If he could | see this stalwart woodsman of hers win her any happiness by fighting |camping somewhere in the snow. on, the struggle would still be worth | drifts, blanketless, staying awake while. But she had Harold to show |thru the bitter hight to mend the|), wer troubl . “ her the way thru the winter woods. fire, and perhaps in trouble. She|hime ” ° Tuble she could help | | It was true that they would have | knew something of the northern cold| 1; my, ‘ht mean bulldl t@ rely on the fallen grizaly for meat:|that was assailing him, hovering.|the snow and postbly cemphnn on 4m uncomfprtable experience, but | waiting for the single instant when oa bly camping out Rothing to c&mpare with any further | his fire showld go down or when Mele cs bow SF ant oe at We Sees movement thru the cruel drifts. Har.! should drop off to sleep. Ob. It was me be & Grea dful and dangerow @4 would come back and claim the| patient, remorsciess. He was likely nee, yet she sew no fr mine perhaps he would even erect hungry, too, and despairing. [ty piesa in endure it his OWN Motice before his departur: She wakened before dawn; and the | neat of sv - “ al be make and the Rutheford family world | icy, winter stare were peering thru | ite hod coaches ee etuation as this taught he or eo build i Know the full fruits of their crime’ the cabin window, Surely Dill had|in the une hee sony (2, build « fire of long ago. But ft didn’t matter.! returned by now: yet it would hardly | The only thing that mattered now) be like him to come in and not let was rest and sitep. her know of his safe return. Slowly he sank down tn the mnow.|had always seemed no well to un. stand her fears, he was her round, slender arma marie muscular tn her weeks in the ‘t FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS ums soy Bus, 7M COME BLow YouR HORN, Making It Easy wurs waren “A WITH You, TAG ? JUMBO | North—could He | burning. Aer. cut fuel to kee: Bemide, she would carry caribou rohe—one of the cot cover. NES UE CAN ¥ SEE, T EXPLAIN DIO VA LISTEN "| 5 way? #0] ings that Mili had stored in his cab REAL CLOSE, ; XXIV |thoughtful. There was no use try. . " spl ronan UNDERSTAN! 2 | When the Chinook wind, moving |ing to fo back to sleep/until she| wun practieally iene sen ome THE SHEEP'S: IN THE JUMBO ? CANT J "| Rorthwest at @ faster pace than the knew for certain. She slipped from|Benides, there was fo one to, coi MEADOW, THE Cows” “war, waterfowl more south, struck the her bed onto the floor of the icy! ge went awiftly to by "-*- IN "THE CO! > ome cabin, Virginia’s first thought cabin |p ae Seuily Se Bair endian. pa RN. was for Bill. She heard it come, | Shs mined the comy warmth of the | fry faint at first, then blustering. fust fire: but, shivering, she allpped quick. | am Bill bad heard it; she «aw tt rock | ly into her clothes. Then ahe lighted down @ few dead trees, and she a candle and put on her snowshoes listened to Its raging complaints at mushed acrow the little space the window, now. to the men's cabin } had showed her, rolled a compact pack for her back. She took a little package of food—nourishing choco. late and dried meat—the whisky fink that had been her aalvation the nigit |of the river experience. and a stub “T'll show you my hight,” it seemed The east was just beginning to| ,, to my. “You have dared my silent |pale: the stars secmed Iucid as ever | Sa ee ene Coins places, come into my fastnesses, Dut|In the sky. There was a labyrinth | onting’ pegyin, the caribou robe, T now f will have revenge. I'll phy of them, uncounted millions that|tem pounds She tteces on put 3 you—in secret ways that you don’t| gleamed and twinkled in every little | shoulders, hune a one et om ner | ti oe weciets ie trees bee ae, idera, hung @ camp ax at her e belt; and as whe walted for the dawn of lesser n It so happened that Harold's first agnitede that thought waa aiso of Bill, It was a|thru the smoke of ber native eit pars pete - Fore at Then Surious fact that hin heart seemed | had never revealed themeelves were | started away, down the dim wip leap as if the wind had smitten out in full array tonight. And the | pown ng aad dim, wind 2 He knew what the Chinook could Icey air stabbed like knives the in os a 4@ to © wnow crust. He estimated stant she left the cabin door. It ee { that Bill was about halfway between was the coldest hour she had ever Rr My ye! Data 7) 7 the two cabins, and he didn't know known EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO about the ttle, deserted cabin where She knocked on Haro door, then ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton t the éabin was ominously silent. Her feare in creased: she knew that if Bill were ly ip. present he would have wakened he® slightest sound. He would have seemed to know inatinctively that there. She knocked again,| Bilt could find refuge during the! waited for a reply Right. His eyes gleamed with high anticipations. Harold's thought was curt fertwined with the remembrance of the dark cavern he had entered yos day, the gravel laden with sold. | indeed all things went as It seemed likely that they would go, Bil! we fever carry the word of his find down to the recorder’s office. Jt was F something to think of, something to| Harold had been able to cleep! dream about. Yellow gold—and no | wasn't worrying over Bill's aafet further trouble in seeking ft. Such} “It's I--Virginia. I'm & development would also gave the | dressed. Did Bill come by labor of further pisnning. It was, “Bili7™”. No—and what a friend of his, this wind at the | earth are you up thie early for? Fo Window | get about Bill and go back “Won't this Chinook melt the snow! ” Harold.” Gust?’ Virginia asked him. “Don't tell me to go hack to 4 He starte ed |fecl—I know something's happened that this new-found sweethear is|to him. He couldn't have gone on Bnew the ways of Chinook, winds and | clear to the cabin in that awful snow? Mow crusts. “Oh, no,” he respond. |he either started back or camp @. “Why should it? Wind makes, In either cane, he's in trouble—fr WELL, OSCAR, WE CooKGD THIS he was louder, “Who's there?" | a sleepy voice an-| Virginia felt a world of im-| tones. He sewered patience at the @ 1, drowsy Page 581 SIX YEARS LATER “Well,” said the big man, look | I wondered—painfully—if she re- think the story must be} up ack? in tod's membered. “Then learned to ‘set type,’ they brought ing at daddy, * last of this to one day, when TI had rahe chapters made short, as I was growin me @ special job. of Peggy's class by the they happened |" "Get this work out as well as “goon after I finished at the| you can,’ the boss said to me, @usts, not Mftens them.” jing or exhausted. And—and—t Virginia was satisfied for the mo | you to go out and loot ment Harold waa fully little country school, father said| ‘It's avery particular plece of for him wake now ana work.’ Then her mind went back to one day, ‘Son, what do you plan} fertain things Bill had told her on|he had some difficuly in controlling 0 make 0 when you} “And, indeed, it proved to be — @ne of their little expeditions. | his voice. In the first place he had The Green Shoes |] to make of yourself when yo Strangely, «he took Bill's word rather |no desire to rescue Bill. In the rec | grow up? | very particular, It was the wed- than Harold's. ond, he was angxy and bitterly jeal-| What do you think Nancy and|"and we hoped he would pick to: “‘Same thing,’ I answered,| ding invitations of my pretty “But this is a warm wind, Har-| ous at her concegn for him. “You do,| Nick found when they reached the “ay.” ¥ wes 4 phe 5 G4.” she objected. “If the crust in| h—you'd like to send me out On & dite nouns? “All right.” maid a cheery voice, ‘same thing 1 told you when 1) girl B@elted Bill can't possibly get thru bitter night like th fool's er es s clone by, and suddenly Buskins ap. was little—I always did want | “1 did the work with a sigh and % hin Twenty-three Mile cabin to-|rand such a# that > in there The Green eho at og Jone they peared from nowhere at all. “I'm'~ be a newspaper man.’ a valle; giad in my hikert that my Might. What will he do?” a cabin along the way-you'd only e, and beste hem, smiling Out ready, Want to come along, Mr. oe ‘ Tm | tt ‘ aida “Hel! make it thru. The crust kill me without helping bim.” hig funny nice little eyes was the stan room All right! father said, ‘I'm! little-boy escapade was. forgotten, AN® WS FOUND IT "t melt that fast, if it melts at) “Nonsense, Harold. You could take Magical Mushroom. The Mushroom maid he'd be glad | folne to Olympia tomorrow and| for then ahe wouldn't laugh at i Ge A PEC . He may have a long, hard that bie caribou robe and some food,| “1 thought I'd fool you a bit this to, having a few minutes to spare I've been talking with a man in| me, and J decided that onions Oo a mp, tho. Don't worry. Virginia, |and if yon had fo camp out it|time,” he maid. “E wondered if you from the Fairy Queen's work the newspaper business th¥re and | weren't very successful lover's DE RESISTANCG «2. e’ll be coming in tomorrow night— wouldn't kill you. Please get up and had enough perseverance to climb Buskins moved the tron handle,|1 he promined if you still want to| offerings. back loaded with food.” £0, Harold.” Her tone now was one | when you didn’t find the shoes on and soon all four were being lifted r r “Ty 20 y y wish I hadn’t let him go.” |of pleading, “Oh, T want Ml ne: ground. inte the wonderhh-tenim called the be a printer that he would give jen—30 years later—I met tone was heavy and duil.| “Go back to bed!” Rut Harv “You're ever #o nice, Mr. Mush: | Land of Up-in-the-Air." you a trial at it—you'll have to! Ner again and found among some | ut we had to have eupplies membered, soon, that he was room,” said Nancy, ‘We're allowed) ‘They panned the “Land of Lost || begin at the very bottom. | old pictures a photograph of her. | “We could have gone out on that ing to hin squaw, and his voice lort|+y climh now, since Daddy nailed Balloons" and the “Land of Lont » 1 went into town—went| ‘May I have it? I asked her, irizzly meat. It was 80 foolish to ite impatient note Don't WOFTY ihe house all nice and tight and put Kiten” like the second and thin th th ff the pretty! but she seemed not tu he: 4 ’ fizk his life, and I bad a presenti. about Bill any more. He'll come in| sy ome new boards, When we told fieors in a Then with the memory of pretty | ar an i ment too.” all right. I'm not going out on any iis that it wasn't a house at all, /they pnaxed Bubble. Land" |} girl's kindness and the hope that) went away. He was giad Gs me bed hed va ane ee teen a ax [but @ magical elevator that went Up and the “Lefid of Rverything.” At | I would get to know her again.| “Next day the picture was sent gE: os pt a It tg phan sak Lan shamiaeieonpes enti it ie inte the & among the clouds, and floor No. 6, you might aay, they | “It was six years after I had| mo—framed in a wreath of young st dream: tut he laughed it when you thifk abou » atara sometimes, he nd got ou | Ber, and falling into one of his most| “Think!” she replied in acorn. “Tf even Up to the seve fons Am fe topped and got out os given her the pinkwrapped| onions, After all, she remem. i fo thought he'd better stop the| + we are! wuld kine ” Briltiant mo tried to entertain | it were Bill he wouldn't stop to think he thou r i sag A, _Boekia onions as a friendship token, and! bered ‘ Her interest was hard to hold | He'd just act. You won't go, then?” or we might fall through “Welcome to the ‘Land of Runaway e sud vere are you going now?"| Feathers.’ Here comes Mr. Cramp: truth about them, “Don't be foolish, Virginia.” TTT ——e | S0ld in every city of the count Her mind kept dwelling on vy. Nandy was a splendid publicity | j mushing on thru the softening) Angry words roi her throat, |asked the cd gaa ed, Sia ga lene ee T told him to expect | peepee reneereres SN Te eee ee Motherdear and I did not know. Mow, and her eyes kept seeking the but she suppressed them. A daring — te a ts tee ane of mace | fis to Conieuadl Dick in my dreams, only T called himjevolved @ plan. Motherdear ap.|™4n. He was very careful not to! And my physician, having pre Window, iden had suddenly filled her with|would take us to the ‘Land of Fun nt. 1922, by Seattle Stary [bY his name proved, and agreed to co-operate, | lease to the company any pictures | scribed treatment for a week, and She cooked lunch and burned every | wonder, It came full-grown: that she |away Feathers,’ answered} hint donated lea llbesststcon! xine Ye vgunmy! dimmy! You'll take care| Motherdear hag a more romantic na, | Which would indicate that my beauty |having warned that only time i Edieh. Then, no longer able to deny showld start forth into” the snow |” . [of me, Jimmy, if 1 need you? You|ture than 1. had been destroyed. jcould set things right with me, went ; hier own fears, she ventured out in| desert a fing nun herself, es : always have, Jimmy! Meanwhile the doleful bulletins—| But he could not hinder certain for tg -arcgy _— into hiding in e wnow to test its crust. She put Virginia had not been trained to ° | And then Jimmy Aleott put both |all too true—were issued from my | stories from circulating in the stu-|® Yacht for a week, oP her mowshoes, slarting a little! reltreliance. Hxcept for her north. | mressions OF a ovile tar Jarms around me, and the moon|sickroom. Pitiful rumors spread, | dios: | It was the only way he could ay down Bill's trail. She was white-|ern adventure, she had never by 4 Jthone by the spring aud mg ows|The company retumed from Tyoad.| Say Boott has bean blinded in one | *Stch hia summer rest, eed and wick of heart when she re-|obliged to taoe ditfleulties, to care (Copyright, 1921, Beattle star) loot Cicey besieged the place but T re purring Smilodon watched us|bend, heard the stories, and letters | eye. and protect herself, to th | lfor and protect herself, to work with from the bough of thgrapple tree—| ned. | fused to let him enter, | owe and tokens of sympathy poured in, | . “Harold, I'm worried” she cried. |her hands and do everyday tasks. | CHA DTER LXXI—RUMORS BEGIN TO SPREAD|but t could not see the moon, nor| Nandy did hin duty like a Trojan.| Max,has lost her left ear. | Mothertear and the nurse humored A tried to fn thie snow--and To bu ee fire o epee . jeaking | nati Mee lSekaty, Oced seed wheat lt, oburee-thexatiaus of tha lnoceed ¢ May ever ac again, she] me and became partners a © @fe ce eam tal yt Mil making Jt (és. 1 10 ke eee eee aay pol fA ABO stad Weighed with wretchedness IT wak-| upon the litte movie wonder, May W0U!d bave to keep her right ita Sone 2 i th i ickitios Uk ties ee steae piara nl lociat gather, | If my good looks were. spoiled, T]in a very comfortable night, T kept|ened to find Motherdear standing| Scott, had proved for him what he | toward the cameras, ‘ | binder Continued) alent ae Imen would have neemed taske tmpon. | Would have to telease Cissy Sheldon [telling myself that my career wae over ne |called “pier” » Rose, to Ginette, to Colebridge, | (Copyright. 1921, NIA Serviee) He was beginning to be a. jittleleinie of achievernent, At first It had|—rather 1 would have to wend him|ruined. 1 felt forlorn and formaken,| “I've heen acting in my sleep,| One camera man had cranked un.geven to MeMasters and Demaison, | soferenrovehn-taree tae gry with her fears, ‘And he madal neyer occurred to her that she might | my -refusal Cissy would not want to marry me, |Motherdear,” 1 explained |til I was carried out of the nets, these rumors spread, United States has 319,000,000 acrep mistake of answering rather Im- herself be of aid to Bill. The old | ‘That was obvious, I did not put| And then I dreamed and called on} Out of that midaight confusion, I' This exciting news film had been} McMasters could not ascertain the |o¢ cultivated lands, * °