The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1922, Page 9

OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN 7 SAN, AINT MRS HooPLES|\ YEH, HED TALK You \\Y HERE'S WHAT He STOP ° N Stowshoe: \ . Gy “re HUSBAND ATRICK? He's NN INTO AN EARACHE = ff) ME WITH TELLING ABOUT oe GOT SOME LINE TELLS TOLD ME HE LEFT | HIS EXPERIENCES wittH tH : | | ME HE'S BEEN ALL oveR {TH JUNGLES oF | HEAD-HUNTERS' I BORNEO “TH WORLD A DOZEN TIMES |] AFRICA BECAUSE ALL SAID HE RUBBED DYNAMITE |= | : nal TWAT HE WAS ON wis way |] 7 BIG GAME PUTIN A) DUST IN HIS HAIR. AND TH BACK FROM TH’ NORTH POLE || THEIR TIME LEARNIN: || NATIVES WERE AFRAID TO WHEN HE MET PEARY Gow!) TRICKS "To JOIN UP TAKE “TH! CHANCE OF UPTO DISCOVER tr! __/| WITH A CIRCUS, AND WHACKING OFF HIS SKULL : (Continued From Page 6) Jone ‘oe blew, He was face to| SN. veces ee WOULDN T eter ones PIECE \e VCANT TIE . MR? I've heard ali I want to from| face with his enemies in his own | | AND SNARLY ANYMORE | a “THAT ONE " You too—and I'll say and drink| dark lair, He had turned the tables; | i WA BUNT! > Pv, . What I please.” |the advantage of vision on which} | Jf y pt “ Bi rs }they had presumed had been in an | —_——- i 3 é bring Harold to time; he had sup |"© More than he could now, Re ue i Peded the man valued Virginia's | Sides, in the hours since his rescue, | Cc ep ae Jove as much as he, in a similar! b¢ had already learned to find his 1 | ’ 7 Position, would have valued it,/ WY about the cabin ] 7 3 turned to the girl °So| And this was no haif-darkness— | | " re not my woman, eh?” | that which descended as the candies | t “No, no, no! I never will ter | 5a struck down, It was the in-/ 5 Ebb gitts eyes were biasing, and | finite, mothering gloom of an un-| " She had forgotten her fear in hor | *"Rround cave in which no shadow | “ von |SOuld lve, nor the sharpest outline | Bee ca ee nekeoee FOU | remain visible. Harold cursed in |re your own friends.” j the —— as ¥ * . oratious Harold | ten of the leap he had made to legen oe “Yea, ®/ upset the candies, Bill seized Vir-| ‘friends. Don't are MY | ginia in his strong arms, He thrust | aee—ine you suppose I've her to the floor and into the angle ‘Saat fecling = i Were | between her bunk and the wall, the “ point that he instinctively realized Seséling Bin? Sindy at least was! would be easiest to defend and faithfulh—and her form wouldn't! MS jmafest from stray bullets. Then, fake anything from yours. | widening his armas, almost to the Pete, watching Joe, was some | width of the little space between Wyeat amazed at the curious start/ine table and the wall, he lunged the man made. His searching ®A2° | forward again mad leaped Seeinge® Siete form: his) Virginia's pistol was tn Joe's hand = | S @ark, pew ring eyer~ suddenly | by now, and he shot in Hill's direc | ° = : —— i 4 ROG! RING Diazed L There was no othertion. Two spurts of yellow fire| = ~ -_— - ° — EVA PIKE AND ER HER! than red. ‘They were like two! hroke for an instant the utter gloom. | Fs : oS ant “ve MARRIED YESTERDAY- THEY LEFT ON “THE But there was no time for a third I VS TRAY TEN TRIP :? There'ensued a moment of strange| shot, He was the nearest of the| [oo HE SENS CARES Ne Ses ene ies wag re ana power samen ks Pete | three Attackers, and Bill's out-| |— G&A creer heckied, bs S| stretched arms -eined him. The thought. Harold turned to stare at | Woodaman’s muscles gave a mighty | ! him. | eudineti: from their throats — this waa all Joe put his pipe to his tips, then! iris grasp was about Joe's chest |that any of the three could remem a at his pocket. He seemed) a¢ first, but with a great lurch he| DEF Now. It was true that Mill kept ewarch in yain. “Will you give | siung the man’s body out far enough | Mis adversaries away from Virginia's GEe THAT'S A ? me & match, please, lady? he asked. |. that he could loop his ainewy [COf*r as well as he could, but be] ] SWELL NEW j ANE F GAN SEE You ‘The tone was strange, thick and/arms about the man's knees. Joe} Mid it by tnatinet rather than by STENOGRAPHER . BN yet Virginia’s heart thrilled | was shifted in his arma an work {conscious planning. He had not ' DUFF With hope. The request was a wel | men are sometimen auatehed up by |bAted Harold in these months past, | | MR. DUFF HAS! come intertude in a quarrel that} but had ont ded b b & mighty belt in a machine shop:| me ‘Cory regerces Dim Wubi Was rapidly approaching the fight ne seemed simply to "snap in the | conternpt; but hate came to him} Mag stage Perhaps if these men | remorselean grasp. Fill himeslf had | fast enoukh in those first moments started to smoke, their blood would | no sensation of his enemy's weight. | datue Geol; she had known of old that! ize had him about the knees by| Once, reeling across the cabin tobacco was “gh ckicoapioey whyromd i | now Joe's body thrust out almoet|they encountered woft fenh that overstretched roe | | ‘@ | straight from centrifugal force, and) tried to escape from beneath their yg lll the eg tag mils | with a terrific wrench of his mighty | feet; and at first thougtit it head ger sto gg & dozen! shoulders Bill hurled him against | Was Joe, returned to consciousness caeeeee from " | the wat. But in an instant he knew the As her back was turned she) 1 was wel for his enemies that | truth back to your corner, | f mains cee mae ‘it aula Roi none of them were in the road of | Virginia.” he commanded. ive borror. Her wide eyes farmed (frat human minsile, They would! For some reason that he could not 2 have taken no further part in the | guess, she had feen fit to craw! ao tag Bypromesr hes 3 = ing battle. Joe's bedy crashed forth from beg nhelter: whether or SUMED dice’ the innsches: Against the loge with a sound that) not she returned to it he couldn't Instinctively ber eyes turned to/| tell, There was no chance to warn | her again. His foam were upon him. | This was not ao silent fight, at | first. Se that they would not at tack each other, Harold and Pote| cried out often, to reveal their loca | tion and to signal a combined at tack against Bill, In the Instanta that he was free from Bill's arma and he knew that Dis confederate was out of range, Harold fired blind. ty with bis pistol. Their bodies | etashed against the wall, broke tr furnitare into kindling at their fee ney, onarted their hatred and their | cur | | HUl fought tee a giant, a mteht | of battle upon him never known be |fore. He would hurl away one, | }then whirl to face the other: his j fists would lash out, his mighty | shoulders would wrench. onee their eqmbined ar him to the floor, but always his features d wen Grows, his able to regain his feet. Once he burning. ‘The moment was a coni, saree | seized Harold's right wrist, and ft is Mt, Virginiat” Pil! arked.| His neck was broken like a match. | twisting it back forced him to drop of these men—" she an-|The odds were but two to one. jee vistol. Dut Petey interference broken!y—“has taken my! prevented him from breaking his 1 want bim to sive ic| Wa trange and horrible in the ut-| arm. - ” |ter darkness; the pistol epun from | (Continued Monday) tirete laughed then—a harste) is hand and rattled down; then he} PGR ASSP SIO RAPA SREP PE PARP PO FENG FEeTH SCATTERERS Th Leave It to Pop—He's Wise BY BLOSSER TUL LeT You WAVE Dh, 7 WHATLL )( us SAWDUST To PLAY si j _ For am instant she stared tn hor ‘ amazement. The matches idly from her hand. A sob it tn her throat, a sob of hope- utter terror, but she fought little fight to suppress it. ihe must appear to be least she must do this looked at Joe; his evil, told her only too piain- | eager hand had seized her pistol. Pete's face | wn too; Harold only looked} if ill HES j ae ¥ f her last hope, but tn one tiny she raw thie had . Some terrible thought and engrossed him. was eyeing her like a wit-| ( £, ees Ayes = Sood qUzE Hal EPP ESAT IR Ds OP ERASERS han i | nd and sinister sound that filled hér | fll with a crash to the floor. There | with mexpressibie horror. For a| #4 no further movement from bim A ant | Moment she stood motioniens inthe | ‘hereafter. His neck had been DV ENTURES ses ganter ef that leering circle, her|>roken like @ match. The odds (eo) THE WINS cer, eyes wide, her face white as death | Were but two to one. fof “firt. 4 —a slight figure, trying so hard to| Harold bad taken out his own straight, crushed and defense |Tevolver now and was shooting | only her eyes pleading in Inst | >Undly in the darkness. Ducking | appeal. Instinctively ber lips whis-|'0W. Bill leaped for him. In that! pered @ prayer. leap there was none of the gentie Joe spoke then, a singts sentence | mercy with whieh he had deat with Mn the vernacular for Harold's ears, | Dim first,«o long ago in Harold's cab. | | With one gesture he indicated Har. | if. Bill sprang with the savagery and | eid, himself and Pete in turn, then | ferocity of an animal; and death pointed to the girl. His face was|@welt in hin extended arms, But a| ae. ee Page 585 SEATTLE AS 1 FOUND IT “If a stranger should come to; bright morning, and mother Seattle at night-fall now,” con-| waked us up and asked us how tinued Mrs. Martha, “he would we should like to have breakfast have an almost endless choice of! on the beach, and how we got hotels and boarding houses. out our own things and had that “When we came there was no! picnic breakfast. hotel, at all, But strangers did| where was it? Tight on the not lack a welcome. at first made no answer. He had | Moment they were grappling in each | lost her anyway: there was no need | Other's arms. } of further restraint. The silence,| Bill wrenched him back and forth, | Sthe etreas, most of all the burning |*94 in an instant would have fj » ee hela him back. larme and hurt Pete to the floor \ His degeneracy was complete. te! Harold still clung to him, tryi 1 \ \ wee \ b eould mot go lower. Hin father's | to seize his throat, but Bill wrenched | } oo) wicked blood pulsed in his veing;| him down. He flung his own body \ q i) the final brutality that the North|4own on top of him, then seized| “TO “8 2 Ff . bestows upon those it conquers was| him by the throat with the uy! “What's the difference between a jsumping-jack and a upon him. He answered with a| intention of hammering his head| baby?” asked Mr. Crane. curse. — —'/ 4 < RESTING TOSS THROUGH SCAT IN THOoATeR. beach—It was then—now it fs the T remember just how it all! corner of First ave. and Main st. looked to me when we landed and t right on the sand and the how sort f frightened I was, and ewe at Gar Reet, how Mr, Dexter Horton saw me] «artor that we went te nee about a house. It didn't take months to select one elther, If SESORAMER SESSRGESE liquér flung a wild and devastating | Crushed the life out of him {¢ it on the floor; but before he could | flame thrii tis veins, a dread(ul | hedn't been for the interference of | | “Why not? he sald. “Phe stut’s| accomplish his purpose Pete was| Tho storks thought and thought/so that I should mever mistake one | hideous with eagerness. Jauick movement by Harold saved! | | 4 y 7 | Harold started at the words, but | im the full foree of the leap: in a| | « oe oSO) Madness ecized bis brain. There| Pete. The latter breed leaped on was no saving gmce, no impulse of | bis back, and Bill had to negieet manhood, no memory of virtue to | Harold an instant to stretch up ht and lifted me up out of the sloop a and set me on the dock beside tBrown me over. When I'm thru| upon him again. |about the riddie Buskins had asked for the other : ae B yeu can do what you want. And| It was the end of the prelimi: \iiom, the riddie being, “What's the smiled Mr, Crane. “That's crack the skull of that mole with | P@ries. In that second the fight be. wer, daddy. You get the nice him, and just as 1 was feeling Re esta HOT safe because of Mr, Horton's kind, vacant you took it and made the as ' pick and throw him out in the| #40 in earnest. They w both | difference between a jumping-Jack sort pinky-blue silk comfort. I'm|] welcome, I ran straight into ‘Old! post of it F ” | powerful men, the breed and Harojd;|@"4 & baby? afraid if 1 gave it to some of thene Curly,’ that celebrated Indian,| “Mother rented one from Tom , to ‘The two Indians torched forward | and Bill was like a wild beast Mr. Crane, looking more solemn |other stupids they might wrap a and was nearly scared to death| Russel—it stood on Yesler way . B at his words. Bill left nis chair in| Quick as @ cougar, renistiess as ajthan ever, went down the row. | jumping-jack up in it to deliver to | * . ae Sidaighty leap. | grialy——a fighting fury that in the|“What's the answer?” he asked the|a family on earth, instead of a ni again (we called it Mill street), between tain Te, ldarkness was terrible as death. | first stork ft, pink baby. Now begone, “How they told mother she| Cherry and Columbia, and just eon XXXI [Mighty muscles, stinging blows, |p “I—1 confow I don't know,” sald of you, ‘There won't be any m« could take er children up to] over the side of the hill from us Fort When Bill sprang forward to in-| Striking fists and grasping arma;|the stork tooling eet, asthe eg made et gay ee tel Mra, Mercer's, for Mrs. Mercer! was the Indian's village | tac 201 he ol ej|the rage and glory of battle was| “Next! said Mr. Crane al ly, time is over and more soft down “ ous power. There was nothing of blind | It was the death fight—tn the) ‘Me either,” anid the neocon @ stork y workers to use, Well, well, T/] take care of us that night. fraid as I could be, and that's $49 Finesse of misdirection about that leap, |darkness—and that meant it was a|shaking bis b “1 don't know,” lieve there's more coming now “How there were not enough! what made those first days in RESTING Toss It was as if his sight had already |*avage, nightmare thing that called| “Next!” said the Crane Mra. Brown must be having a pluck Teturned to him. ‘The real truth forth those most deep and terrible “No! I don't know either ing. 1 heard her say she needed new | beda and mother made beds for! Seattle sort of hard, and what |; (OUTSIDE THEATSR. us on the floor out of her own) frightened us so when brother ~" was that by means of his acute ear | instincts that in the first of| And so it went on down the line bolsters the other day and some of he heshad located the exact position of |the earth were stored and implant-| until at lat Mr. Crane reached an the softest feathers have run away bedding, and we slept. | got lost.” ave, every actor in the impending drama. |ed in the germ n. ‘The old, old fellow who looked as tho TI “And then it was, morning, a ‘0 Be Continued) | intitjeleiphclicesticcenaigiihlelnteeetetias me What wan more important, he| no longer men of the twenti he wan about to go to.aleep. * came i ane | knew the location of both dies, | tury They were simply “What's the difference between a)| blowing in at the windows and doors | KEKE ees Hues that your father sent you away | wandered hopelessly, aimlessly, Tike ae Her all his almost total biindness,| fighting to the death in a cay It | Jumping-jack and a baby?” anked Mr. of (ie factory, #o the stork Ay ’ . me === [because he intended to take his own/@ soldier suffering from shell Cap he could discern thru his watering | Was a familiar thing to be warring | Cra waited, to think things out for myself. life!” exclaimed Motherdear, “Why | shoe » ae “ 7 “Well,” answered old Daddy Stork (To Re Continned) ite} “ : | * Ay | even the faint, yellow gleam of| thus in the darkness; neither Harold 11," answered of < i nee T was mortenged indefinite T retoped to go to: tay. tenoté's| dia you setura) Sees an “1 had phe leach. ‘The one that burned beside |nor Pete missed the light now.|slowly. “There's enough difference] (Copyright, 1022, by Beattie Star) fay to my father, I could not remind |house, In a London hotel, I stayed | rain : ane . T DAG B08 been: teained £05: Faas ster. him, on the little shelf, he brushed | They were carried back to no lens | ~ i a LR pet ———~| May of my existence, I chught the awake all night and figured out why {oe ession. I was to inherit my father’s ship as my father ha@ planned, May |my father had tricked me.” “Did I care what the gossips | interests, One evening I wandered and my dad contended for first) “He sent you away to keep you thought and said? NotI! And what into a cinema palace, I wanted tg Confessions of a Movie Star] i. 0's mnatre off with one sweep of his hand as| furious battihs, fought in dark eav he leaped. He knocked the second |erns under the sea; murder flamed Strom the table; it fell, flickered,|in their hearty and fire raw riot in| my voyage. |from being connected with his mys: | else was there to come back to? The | forget, if only for an. hour, the room an instant with dane. | their blood | “When I reached London, my terious death?" ventured Mother. | busin was in the hands of a com™ “And there it occurred to me that if light, and then went out. The| They were no longer conscious of | (Copyright, 1991, Seattle Star) Juncle handed me a cablegram,. New de: mittee of my father's creditors. |1 could support myself in the movies, utter darkness dropped down time; already it was an if they had| York attorneys informed him that! ‘To free me from any responsibil: |'There was May to return to, but 1/1 had made a bit as the villain ia ‘The act had been eo swift and struggled thus thru the long roll of | > TXYXYV CK EXP IS : Appr icye|my father was bankrupt. A second ity for the affair. 1 usually drove the nothing to offer her.” |more than one college p I look unexpected that neither Joe, stand centuries. It was hard to remem if HAP. LXXV.—-DICK EXPLAINS HIS DISAPPEARANCE cable, that he was dead, A third, car—he lodthed being his own chaut- ur uncle—why did he not help/the part, you know, Ma: Ing nearest to the girl, or Harold ber what had been the cause of the| “And you decided not to write to; her! Moreover, my future belonged |that I had disappeared. feur, I knew the town—and so did “I can't see that you d com acroes the Yoom, could draw their | fight. 1 didn’t matter now, any-\mef!’ So I reproached Jimmy. to my father! “It was up to his,son| “The news of my father’s suicide he. People would say that I had y uncle is a very successful man| 1 touched my bandaged lids and nat pistols and fire. Seemingly in a| way; the only issue left was the life| “How could I do otherwine Mrs.|to pay off his creditors?’ | paralyzed me, For | knew at once|run off with what I could lay my|who despises failures. 1 and my |we three laughed gayly as people do, e ah. flash the darknene was upon them. |of their adversary. To kill, to tear| Seott, you see that T couldn't? 1 had “LT agree with you, Jimmy,” said that he had deliberately driven his | hands on--and that the car—did not | father were faifures, to him. After|over nothing, when their nerves are Ne more wan Bill the blind and|their enemies’ /hearts from their/no profession—not a dollar of my | Motherdear, “but I guess yours is not | car over the edge of the quarry, You | ge over the cliff—by aceldent!” la sleepless night in the London hotel {on edge. Beipless mole. to strike down with warm bréeasle and their arteries own! Not even a clean name to offer | the business ellos of your Ume, dear can that 1 wanted to be alone “he townspeople never would 1 checked out and disappeared, 4 _ (To Bo Continued) ~ . ake