The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1922, Page 13

i FI ¢ H : (Continued From Yesterday) been an unusual number of killings CHAPTER XIV in Denver, The newspapers had Ten Years stirred up a public sentiment for All the way back to Denver, while stricter «nforcement of law T the train ran down thru the nar.| "4d claimed that both judges and row, erooked canyon, Dave's ming| Juries were tio easy on the gun @weit in a penumbra of horror, It/™*2 Who committed these crimes was imposaibie he could have killed | NOW they asked if this cowboy kill Doble, he kept telling himscif. He|** W8* Koing to be allowed to es had fired back into the night with.|SP*. Dave was tried when this out alm. He had not even tried to, Wave Of feeling was at its Leight hit the men who were shooting at | “9! he was a victim of it him. It must be eome ghastly jok The jury found him guilty of None the less he knew by the|™Utder in the necond dogren, The @ull ache in his heart that this |JUdse sentenced him to ten years in awful thing had fastened on him | ‘0 Penitentiary, and that he would have to pay the When Bob Hart came to say good penalty. bye before Dave was removed to West called to eee him at the jait,|C220n City, the young range-rider and to the cattieman Dave told the |@most broke down, He wan great: story exactly as it had happened. ly distressed at the misfortune that ‘The owner of the Fifty-Four Quan | "8d befallen his friend ter Circle walked up and down the| “We're gonna stay with this, coll rumpling his hair, Dave. You know Crawford. He Boon as eff? I knew you was some bull-|* er for a pardon. It's a damn haided, but I thought you had a shame, ole pal. Tha's what it is.” Nek ©° sense left.” Dave nodded, A mp in «bie “Wisht I had,” sald Dawe miser-|t2roat interfered with speech. ebiy. “The ol’ man lont me money to “Wen, what's done’s dona No| UY Chiquito, and I'm gonna keep ese cryin’ over the bustup. We'd} © into till you ret out That"! fix up whatever's left from|D*!P Pay yore lawyer,” continued age First off, we'll get | 50>. “One thing more. You're not bes bs age pos Pda the only one that's hable to be sent “ga left—twen up. Miller's un the way back to Py cin oe Dave Sena Malap!. If he don't get a term for a ah hott want” hawsestealin’, I'm a liar, Wo got ‘West emiled at this babe tn the ® dead openandsbut case against! search tor work woods. “It'll last as long as a snowball in you-know-where if he's ke some lawyers I've met up CHAPTER XV with.” In Denver It 4i4 not take the lawyer whom| The warden handed him a Ucket ‘West engaged long to decide on the | back to Denver, and with it a stereo Vine the defense must take. “We'll | typed little lecture of platitudes. show that Miller and Doble were crooks and that they had wrouged | ™4de or marred by yourself, San Sanders. That will count a lov with|ders. You owe It to the governor @ jury.” he told West. “We'll admit | who has granted this parole and to the killing and claim seifdefense.”|the good friends who have worked ‘The day before the trial Dave was |S hard for it that you be honest aitting in his cell cheerlessty rend-|4od industrious and temperate. If tng a newspaper when visitors were | you do this the world will in time announced. At sight of Emerson | forget your past mistakes and give “He had stolen my horse and 1) Crawford and Bob Hart he choked | you the right hand of fellowship, a» im his throat. Tears brimmed in his}! do now,” eyes. Nobody could have been} Sanders walked slowly out of the kinder to him than West had been, | Office and thru the door in the wal! Dut these were home folks. He had | that led back to life. He was free known them many years. Their | Tomorrow was his All the tomor Kindness in coming meited his heart.|fows of all the years of hiw life He gripped their hands, but found | were waiting for him. But the fact Rimself unable to say anything in| stirred in him no emotion. As he greetings. He was|Stood in the dry Colorado sunseme hie voice, aud he | bis heart was quite dead. hits ashamed of emotion, In the earlier days of his tm.| “If you're up against ft and need | were children of impulse, easily led “The boys are for you streng.|'prisonment it had not been so. He|* dollar" by those who had force enough to} le Deve. We all figure you done| had dreamed often of this hour, At}. “Thanks. I don't I'm looking |push to the front. | re (es) * right. Steve says he wouldn't wor | nicht, in the darkness of hie cell, | fr Work, not charity,” the applicant “I won't mix cement with no con-| Ty none if you'd got Miller, too,”|imagination had projected picture | id stiffly. viet,” the selfappointed leader an-| * Bod breezed after picture of it, vivid, colorful,| Wherever he went ft was the| nounced flatly. “That goes.” “It's bad enough | come too late. you wantin’ it any worse. But don'tithe prison had left its chill, We're | done something to him THE FINE BA laugh again, if he would ever run | Nie nid have ‘picked corenan,| A shadow darkened the doorway | “w ed all night in Olym-| “But father, like the other ‘oss to meet life engeriy as that other| He could have picked up a job|o¢ the temporary office, The Art| biiag eadhadhan tags id moss the fury that too.” David Sanders had a thousand |#Uy enough if he had been will) sonan stepped in with his euxy, pia,” the Beautiful Lady con-| pioneers, wasn't thinking about ‘They did. By the time Crawford, | years oxo. bo to lie about hiv past. But hel swinging stride, a lithe, straight] tinued, “and in the early morn-| how things were, but was busy Hart, and & pair of victims who| He followed the road down to the|PAd made up his mind to tell the | racked Hermes showing strength of || ing got a boat bound for Seattle. | seeing how they were going to be, had been trapped by the sharpere| tittle station and took a thru train|‘*Uth. In the long run he could | caaracter back of every movement. | a |.90 he took us on up town and we ~had testified about Miller and/that came puffing out of the Royal |"°t conceal it. Better start with) «im jeaving today, Mr, Shields.”| T was just a little thing, not Peg sh ; ‘ Doble, these worthies had no shred|Gorge on its way to the plains. |‘° slate clean fla voice carried the quiet power more than three or four years| St 4 house to live in. of reputation left with the jury. It|Thru the crowd at the Denver depot | 7 hen he got a job it was to un-| of reserve force. old, but for years and years 1| “He thought we were lucky to was shown that they had robbed |he passed into the city, moving up| {08d cars of frult for @ commission | «7p because IT want you to,/f coutn’t get over my first impres-| &*t any house at all, but mother the defendant of the horne he had | 17th street without definite aim or| NOU A man was wanted in & | anders.” | ; fait little queer about ‘the saw- trained-dnd that be had gone to alpurpose. His parole had come un-|%UfTY and the employer did not ask} “pecause I'm not going to stay|| ions of Seattle. 1 didn't want to lawyer and found no legal redreas| expectedly, so that within his means. friends could meet him even if they But Dave was unable to prove| had wanted to do so. welfdefense. Miller stuck doggedly | of this. to his story. fired the first shot. He had contin-| freedom. wed to fire, tho he must have seen! go back to Malapi, to the country Doble sink to the ground tmmedi-| ately. Moreover, the testimony of|pick up a job in the city for a the doctor showed that the fatal} month or two until he had # He preferred to be alone, Just prior to this time there had! erty had become a habit. ADVENTURES | OF cies tibet Bon The first to make a speech was the peanut ‘The pasty man had a lovely party sat down and the queer litte candy and cake clapped his and fruit fairies were ever so kind to all busy trying to Nancy and Nick. After awhile there | answer was speaking and they all sat down) The little chocolate drop fairies in rows to hear, came out next in white frilly petti- The first ong to make a speech coats of plaited paper and sang a was the peanut, which said this: fon with a chorus which went lixe | this: “ die! rn acne bs nadie: |"werre plain as to feature, Can anyone tell where T grow? We're k as to skin, Do I grow on @ tree, or an island at| We're fat and we're lumpy, nea, | We long to be thin, Or up North in the ice and the| But right down inside us, sow? | Our hearts are all right, Do 1 grow Ike potatoes way under | They're soft and they're spotless, «round, They're sweet and they're white, Or like strawberries red on a vine, |Our friends count in millions Or on plants like tomatoes #0 smooth | From North to the South, an} so round, And we fit in quite nicely, No one applauded or is, because they were think of the Or lis cones on an evergreen| ‘To anyone's mouth.” | he? On, ni adie aidaie! | Nancy said it made ber hungry Picam inswer my riddle, and Nick said please not to men: I realy have done my best, tion It And I hope you will look in your| But there were more speeches to \reanut book, |be said and Buskins said it was bad If pe answer | pliments they were making. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 192%, by Seattle Star) Ban nut made « stiff bow and “Your future lies before you to be | quick! on way to talk, son.” rejset to music. But his parole had | “me. ‘The years had taken |*he prison, 4 boys |their toll of him. The shadow of |Closed to him. Nobody wanted to} you can get your time.” had |*™Pploy a man that had|Piteh It did made him a different David Sanders | 44 gone, from the boy who had entered. He|%® had wondered if he would ever learn to|@™ned bim was that he had been none of his Ho was glad The cowpuncher had | especially during these first days of It was his tntention to he knew and loved, but he wished to into a frame of mind in which lib. | you haven't | manners to talk even if it were com: | PAGE 13 STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE GOSH SAKES! I CANT FIGURE WHY [T TAKES'EM $0 LONG To SERVE “TH’ CHOW = \T'D “"TAKE'EM AN HOURTD BOIL A THREE MINUTE EGG = EVEN 7H’ MICE AROUND HERE HAVE BY AHERN NO WONDER {T COSTS WIM Two LISTEN "TO HIM MOAN FOR HIS MEAT* 'KT BOY HAS AN APPETITE LIKE A “TRAINLOAD OF “TRAMPS | TH! WAY HE CAN PUNISH "TH! “ —s 4 asm =~ Buster is ie FIRST AND LAST EVA PIKE AND ROGER HERRING, WHO WERE RECENTLY MARRIED, WERE “SHIVAREED® LAST NIGHT. ‘Grandpa Shows No Visible Shortane FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS OMe PRC ae MINUTE! Fanti Cor BY AL | Barly next morning he began his) It carried him to « pao yard adjoining the ruail- x YOUNE BEEN WALKING SUOUT OF BREATH, A 4 = road yarda. * we 2 “We need a night watchman,” the | hs $ Too FAST FoR ME- NOTIN » YCOVE™ superintendent said. “Where'd you ee J You MUST REMEMBER |] ren BOEATHIN’ ra be work Ia “THAT T AM VERY SWORT OF BREATH. A LOT MORE'N THave! “At Canon City.” | ‘The lumberman looked at him & question in hin glance. Dave went on doggedly. “In the penitentiary.” A moment's awkward embarrass | ment ensued. “What were you in fort “Killing a an.” “Too bad. I'm afraid— F was trying to get it back, I had} ho intention of hitting him when | I fired.” “I'd take you tn a minute so far! as I'm concerned personally, but aur board of directors—afraid they woulds't like it, That's one trouble | in working for a corporation.” Sanders turned away, The super intendent hesitated, then called after him. en They were not crue’ AS noon as he mentioned ‘The contractor met him eye to doors of opportunity eye. “You don’t have to, Reynolds.| tarred with that not matter why he under what provocation | erred. The “Meanin’ that you keep him on/ the job and let me go?” “That's it exactly. Long as he! thing that} does his work well IT not ask him} to quit.” | a Page 596 any questions, At the end of an hour he was satisfied, “Fellow husties peaches like he'd heen at it all his It the com dust town and the little log house on Cherry st., not far from First ave, Which was the only thing he even think of it” “Didn't you like Seattle?” Da- vid asked, his eyes big with won- and make you trouble.” “I don’t think it will come to that, | I'm talking It over with the boys| . Your work stands up. I've| a for re mission man told his partner, OS estan” ‘s der at such @ strange state of | CUM find for rent. A few days later came the ques “lll not stay now, Mr, Shields} affairs, ‘We had left a nice home in St. tion that Sanders had been expect ing. “Where'd you work before Paul and we weren't used to log cabins and smelly, sawdust vil- Since they've complained to you I'd ‘The Beantiful Lady smiled un- iy better « andingly as she said, “I e you came to us From to another Dave|y “*rmtandingly i — jai i ‘At the penitentiary.” 4ritted, His stubborn pride, due in didn’t like it then, David, and for} Father said, ‘Now don't you * asked the merchant worry, mother. Things happen fast in the West; you make things comfortable as you can here, and before you know it we shall have a home built, this town will booth and we'll be liv- [] ing in a prosperous city, in a fine house.” anything but how dreadful the} “Then he went down to the [| You see, all the| main street to put his money in sawdust; tides| the bank so he wouldn't have to | keep looking out for it, for fear & peculiar reason—it was so aw: fully smelly, And of all things ugly, I hate ugly smells most. “When we got off our little steamer and started up the waik to the village, I couldn’t think of| rt toa native honesty that would ot let him live under false pre-| in part to a bitterness that | ome doxged defiance, kept| him out of good places and forced} him to do heavy, unskilled labor} that brought the poorest pay Yet he saved money, bought him Dave explained. The merchant | soit good, cheap clothes, and found made no comment, but when helenergy to attend night school where paid off the men Saturday night he he studied stationary and mechan |said with careful casualness, “Sorry lived the man in overalls #p quietly. | aaa his eyes meeting those of the Mar ket Street man with unwavering steadiness “What was the trouble amet! of it was, water front w row: and fell over it and it never ical engineering. He wholly | Sanders. ‘The work will be slack * xi | he would lose it. |next week. I'll have to lay ie within ine If, bts mental reactions dried, #0 it was decaying all the] “Thingy looked not so bad down | ore.” : tinged with morose scorn. He time and sort of—soured, There| town, There was a meat market, found little comfort either in him self or in the external world, in | spite of the fact that he had deter ete, and thete were two banks!” mined with all his stubborn will to (To Be Continued) get ahead | tek tee The library he patronized a good | — deal, but he gave no time to gen eral literature. His reading was of | a highly specialized nature. He | ° find about the oil fields of America, | The stigma of his disgrace con: | By Zoo Beckley tractor employe by the city tinued to raise its head. One of the! (Copyright, 19 by The Seattle Star? This time it was a fellow-Work-| concrete workers. was married to} man who learned of the Arizonan’s| tne sister of the woman from whom | | record. A letter from Emerson ated jhe rented his room, ‘The quiet, up- | Crawford, forwarded by the warden | standing man who never complain jof the penitentiary, dropped out of Basis Gok cocker oh har jor asked any privilegeshad, been a | the other passeng | ; | “As a matter of fact—* Miss Rand|sation, It hammered at her | at pocket where { MDE |) favorite of hers, but she was a|ship clothes and went on deck to lo-! Polly felt an increasing curiosity | jooked straight into Polly's indignant /all the rest of the day and far, | conventional soul. Visions | cate their chairs and settle into them |about the ring on Miss Rand's third eyes—“marriage is the hardest job {into the night... roomers departing in a flock |under the plaid ri the steward finger and determined to n it8/on earth. I'm cowardly enough to} (To Be Continued) turning it to the | when th found out about the man | wrapped so deftly about them. | Significance. » when some men) put it off till I'm thru with the other me began at once to whit-lin the second floor back began to| Upon the other side of Paul was alcame to drag Paul off for shuffle things I want to do. Then I'll feel Farmers of the United States - h 500,000 annually for The subject was dis Perhaps ‘he|chair with a handsome rug folded on | she urged and insisted that petter equipped to court my hus-| about $2.5 was much old fish about and the| ® drum store, @ good bakery, a general store, a newspaper office, | He looked for another place, wa. ebuffed a dogen times, and at last given work by an employer who had vision enough to know |the truth that the bad men do not |all go to privon and that some who |go may be better than th who do not | | Im this place Sanders lasted three | weeks. He was doing concrete jwork on a viaduct job for a con strong, stale, fishy smell mixed with the other, |dislike with a smile, land hold him, It's | Oo, my dear, you wouldn't.” Vio- | gle; that is unless you are |let spoke not unkindly, “You're the pe just a drab little wife. 7 |kind, biess your heart, who thinks @| were the French women are minister's words and a wedding ring | perform magic. You feel that you| Wise. They know a wife must jand your man will automatically | fascinating, not only sweet and \‘live happy ever after’ like the prin-| They know they must con jcess in the fairy tale—just because court their husbands—or some you are married and have ‘prom-| woman will! ised." | Polly could not forget the e CHAPTER VIII—LIFE’S HARDEST JOB After lunch, Polly and Paul, like , ple. She understood men... How she was! | ra, rooted out their | at ea jacross a plank } timid. | The man who picked It up read! of pie: the letter before |pocket. He | per the news haunt her dreams, jcussed back and forth among the} might rob them all at night, In @ large box of cholocates and sev- De | band.” fertilizer and mill feed. men on the quiet. Sanders guessed) moment of nerve tension, summon: |eral new nov Before she looked I'm so interested in your work,| “Court”? Polly had only breath gE i they had discovered who he was,| ing all her courage, she asked the |at the name upon it, Polly felt it|Miss Rand,” began Polly when they enough left to whisper. Vegetarianism is almost wu but he waited for them to move.| killer from the cattle country if he | would t Hiss sand,” and soon the | Were alone, “and your cunning apart-| “Certainly—court him, Court him|in Northern China, }His years in privon had given him| would mind leaving. llady herself appeared and was snug-|ment. It it possible, then, 1a girl lat 4 the strength of patienoe.| ife smiled grimly and began to|ly ensconced at Paul's elbow chat-|to live independently in Party and| v | He could bide his time. pack. For several days he had seen|ting animatedly, Polly listened be- | not—not—" | S BY fod 3 | They went to the contractor, Helit coming. When he left, the ex-|tween hs of her book ‘be talked about™ finished Vio- & ES Se |reasoned with them. pressman took his trunk to the «tas| “Oh, yes, I'm working, Magazine |let briskly. “Of course it is, Just as a | | “Does his work all right, doesn't] tion, ‘The ticket which Sanders |assignments. I'm going on with my |it is anywhere else, It all depends = ES Ee jhe? ‘Treats you all civilly. Doesn’t| bought showed Malapi as his desti-|music, too. Didn't know I sang, did|on the girl. I'm used to being inde = i Sa force himself on you. I don’t see! nation. lyou, Mr, Dawson? Well, Ido, And {pendent and doing what I like. Be- = Sas «oe Jany harm in him.” (Continued Tomorrow) |mother has sold the old’ place down |sides, 1 have my maid—and my \ z Ee ee “We ain't workin’ with no fail] South, so we've a little money. T| music, which is in itself a sort of a Ea Banter 3 |bird,” announced the spokesman. | rating contests are common in{have © darling flat on Avenue |chaperon,” 7, 7 Oey, “He told me the story and T'vel ajaskan villages. Talked with| _ = ded him. He! HAD THAT TIRED, WORN-OUT FEELING Malesherbes—rented from a frien who had to come home, or I'd nev got it, You and your wife must] come see me. It'll be so cosy. I'm} “It's better, I suppose, to stidy in | Paris?” Miss Rand pursed her lips. “Mm-—yos. Especially in my case. looked it up since. |the lawyer that de leays the man Sanders killed was a “Pape’s Cold Compound” is Quickest Relief K bad Jot and had stolen hin horve| ‘That “awful tired feeling,” lame|crazy about it, Paris is the only|If I stayed in New York,” she flash- from him. Sanders was trying tolback, sore muscles, stiff joints, or|place, isn't it?” jed a curious smile at Polly, then Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow: | stops nose running; relieves te it back He claimed self-de'rheumatic pains often ind e kid As Violet rattled on, Polly felt | looked down at her beautiful ring! jache, duliness, feverishness, She rubbed |and began turning it round and) v4 should have to get mar-| Coli Compound’ 709 | more and more nettled had| her the wrong way, and she made | round, ing and snuffling! A dose of “Pape' | fig. taken every two! "Nin. sw Com compouni bk fense, but couldn't prove it.” |ney trouble, Mrs, Roberta Lilly, Don’t make no difference, The! Alton st., Alton, Il, writes: “ Jury said he was guilty, didn’t it? |a tired, wornout feeling. I began |her feel insignificant. Yet somehow |ried, Ned's @ darling, of course, but | hours until three doses are taken | quickest, urest relief known “Suppose he was, We've got to/to improve on the second dose of|she fascinated—even Polly, She|--oh, well, [don't want to marry him | usually breaks up a cold and ends! costs only a few cents at drug |give him a chance when he comes|Koley Kidney Pills and today I feel| personified the great world of self. | till T have to.” all grippe misery, It acts without assistance, TN ae haven't we?” is new.” Sold everywhere. | success, She} “I--1 don't beligye I quite under-| The first dose opens clogged-up/ nice. Contains no quinine, Ji Adver-| reliance, knowledge, Some of the men began to weak-|thement. knew how to meet all sorts of peo. stand." Polly cdvered her growing | nostrils and. air passages of head;| upon Pape’s.—Advertisement,’