The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1922, Page 9

i . Sad " sald ~ GUNSIGHT, PASS BY WILLIQM ™ Copyrignt reer Macteod 1 Permiasion of ana ‘ . facL EOD RAINE (Conttnurd From Yesterday) To the cattiem of his wour Tight in a few ently & scratch “Tha's good, fon. Swered. “Weil, now Simin’ to dor 1 got OR the ranch if tha's want. “Or I ma « ites i we Crawford what joo f what use you for Daye without ment of hesitation 1 learn thag business from the up.’ I've been reading all I t oa the subject “Good enough, but don't you #o to playin’ geology Dave PU ix where it's at. The formation don't amount to damn. You find it where you find it “Mr, Crawford ain't strong for the scientific sharps since a college professor got him to drill a nice Straight hole on Round Top plum> halfway to China.” drawied bob with a grin. “I suppose, it's a gamble,” Sanders, “Worse'n the cattle market, and be livin’ man can guess that,” said the owner of the D Bar Lary R dor matically. “Bob, you better put Dave with the crew of that wildcat you're spuddin’ in, don't reckon? “I'll put him on afternoon tower fm place of that fellow Scott. I've been intendin’ to fire him soon as I could get a good man.” “Much obliged to you both. You've found that good man,” Sanders. “We have. Ain't either of worryin’ about that” With a quis sical «mile Crawford raised a point that was in his mind. “Say, son, you talk a heap more like a boek than you used to. Yollsdidn't slip one over on us and go to college, Md you “I went a mo want to ground could too strong agreed Hope paid to school in the * tentiary.~ Dave said He had been immured In a plac of furtive, Sbacene whispering», but he had found there not only vice ‘There was thé chance of an educa tion. He had atcepted it at first because he dared not jet himself be idle in his spare time. That wry Way degeneration and the loss of manhocd. He had studied under competent instructors English math | ematics, the Spanish grammar, and mechanical drawing, as well as sur veying and stationary engineering He had read some of the world’ Dest literature. He had waded thru @ good many histories. if his edu cation in books was‘ lopsided, it was in some respects more thoro than that of many a college boy {Veard from Burns yet “that Three’ about | Bob asked Crawford. “Only that he thinks he hooked the tools and lost ‘em again. Wisht you'd run cut in the monin’, son, and see what's doin’. out to the ranch.” “I'll drive out tonight and take we with me if he feels up to it. ae Know the foreman keeps dandy” The cattle | Nag to Sanders. “But I reckon better stay right here and rest up. Time enough for you 40 go to work when yore shoulder’s ell right” “Won't hurt me a bit to drive out with Bob. This thing's going to keep me awake anyhow be outdoors.” They drove out In the buckboara bahind the half broken colts. The young broncos went out of town te @ flying start. Not UN they bad worn out their first wild energy Was conversation possible Bob told of his change of occurs tion. “Started dream’ tools on a wild tat test for Crawford two years ago when he first begun to plunge in ofl, Built derricks for a while. tan a dril, Dug sump holes. Shot @ (coupla wells. Went in with a fellow on a star rig a# pardner Went busted and took Crawford's offer to be hafidy man for ‘Tha's about all stock in twothree dead ones and some that ain't come to life yet.” The road was full of chuck and very dusty, bo ts the heavy travel tHat went « day and night. They were oil field now and gaunt tapered to the sky to right of them. Occasionally hear, the kick of an éngine see a big beam pumping “I suppose most of the Lesy R boys have got suggested Sanders man, woman, in eck deer holes er rricks and left or could D Ba into ar Ever’ @round is answered kid Bob crazy and spe thi you} us | penb | in’ job on Jackpot Number | I got to go} I'd rather | except that I own | the | oft | The ‘ ppedtat Vited his friend to get out | “Make yoreself to home, Dave reckon you aint sorte that foo! t tin’ yore shoulder ing for the string of going on by lamplight good deal of interest Day 4 the big hooks that had ait de in AN unsuceessfu attompt to draw out the drt. It war a slow business and a not very The tools seemed am fis lowt was ard to hook as a wily old trout vresently Sandere wandered to the nkhouse apd sat down on the | fromt step. c | After a time Bob joined | Paintiy there came to them sound of an engine thumping. Steelman's outfit,” mand Hart gioomily Tis Wl old engine goes | right on kickin’ al! the darned time. If he «ets to olf first we tose, Man ]who makes first discovery on a claim wins owt in this count.” fow's that? Didn't you locate p ty?" ‘ Had no time work after we jsump hole, maybe. when the fleld here began to ke UP. Company will sure win out.” | “How deep has he dritteat “We're a WT deeper-—not much Roth must be close to the sands We were showin’ dritier’s smut when sve lost our string.” Bob | reachda >» his hip pocket and drew out “the makings.” He rolled {pis cigaret and Ht it. “I reckon teelman's a millionaire now paper, anyhow, He was about b d when he got busy in oil He was tucky right off, and he's crooked a daws’s hind lhig— don't care how he gets his, so he gets It. He sure trimmed the suck ers a-plenty.” | “He and Crawford are still frien Dave suggested, the Neetin voles making statem stion. “Ontriendly™ drawleéTlob, lean ‘ing back against the step amd let ting & smoke ring curt up, “Well, thas a good, nice partor word. Yes |T reckon you could call them on. |friendiy.” Presently he went on, io explanation “Brad's goin’ to put Crawford down and out if it can be done by hook or crook. He's « big |man in the country now. We haven't been tucky, Ike he hes | Besides, the ol man's company’s on [the square, This busid@s ain't Ite cows. It takes big money to swing. pane make or “break mighty sud him the to @0 aseesemen’ located. Dug a Brad jumps in ik in the “And Steelman wont stick at « thing. Wouldnt trust him or any of hin crowd any further than I | cobia sting a bull by the tall. He'd | blow Crawford and me sky high if ‘he thought he could” get Pend j with it.” With a thumb jerk beating engine, hie story. “Got a buneh of thug over there right now ready for bus iness if necexmry. Imported plug ugties and genuwine bottle home talent Shorty’s one of the gang, and our old friend Dug Doble is boss of the rodeo, I'm jlookin’ for trouble if we win land get to oll first.” “You think they'll attack.” A ray }danced in the « of the oilman, “I've ® kinda notion they drap over and pay us a visit one these nights, eay in the dark of the moon. If they | we tainly alm to we aigacs ert well cer them proper.” ome XVIII him. | Out of the night the call came |to the men at the bunkhouga |) Bob looked at his companion and grinned ms I recognize jthat meleji voice.” A man stepped from th with masterful, arrogant | Lo Hart,”"he eaid lend m@ a rea er Bob knew he had fout the land and you come to not borrdw Don’t seem to me to en Ww in yore casin'?” 4 notice it we've hardly Dug.” itting on 's the trou got dra tthe f ak you ee ary reamers spare led the an ble? ¢ | “Not so but you never n tell when are OF yAE. TWINS _ “MIST skins Mist another part of the ‘The next place to which took the Twins It was Kingdom-of-U p-in-the Air. When matric apple vator stopped and they all got out, was called and. the tree ele there was a nice little train of ‘cars to meet them and a jolly engineer lodking out of the window Buskins introduced th and Nick, this is Scootalong, tt steam-fairy. Scootalong, theu the Twins, and we're on adventures I'm glad you are here to meet us.” foootalong touched his ¢ and sid that was much obliged to meet them, and that he'd been look m. “Naney he 1221 Therd Ave: “COR UNIVER SITY LAND” received they were Buskins explained that the reason all raight up to the sky was beqause it w 4 million fairies going to Scootaiong for He was chief of them * known how tmpor went on Buskir 5:10’ express down on the earttr depends him and his fuiries time. He tells the ste how to push the whee to the Twins steam went on on just ine for bein around wh throttle, and to blow the whistle at the crossings, and how to stop the in at important © places, snd Wurinine Yes, Mr ‘ootalong ia & very important person Mr. Scootalony ed find touched uted that he his cap and rep much obliged for compl ment. “Won't young friend you We're all busy up here in from the teaketilefairies to the f fairies, Mr, Sprinkle-Blow male all the weather.” Yancy and Nick thanked him Buskin one little en (To Be Continued) pyright, 1922, hop od in’ no “TN take you Mist 1 around and show things: yt doesn’t wed into of the Heattle | un Bob took up adesn| blown in the | ght of cool recklessness | young | apy OUR BOARDING HOUSE Sie ana WELL, THE ROOM \ 1S ON*IHE TMIRD FLOOR, BUT IT 5 SO NICE AND QUIET=) Myusty THE PLACE FOR A MUSICIAN WITH TALENT eng TEMPERAMENT LIKE You = IN ) that shows ofl first inte bad tuck, He sat down on the todk a cigar from his What With losin’ tools and “nother, this ofl game Ry the way, how's Job comin’ on?* Dug. We aint hooked our big feh yet, but we're hopeful.” Date was sitting in the shadow Doble nodded careienaty to him with out reeognition, It waa eh istic of hin sudakity that Dug had walked over impudently to apy out the camp of the enemy. Bob knew why he had come, and he knew that Bob knew. Yet both ignored the tact. that he was not weleom~ “I've known fellows angie a right }tong time for a trout and not catch him,” said Doble, stretching his long legs comfortably “Yeu,” agreed Bob. “Wish I cowlt hire you to throw a monkey wrench in that efiging over there Its chug lgin’ keeps the awake. TH bet it dows fellow, you can't hire body else to stop it.” an edge to his voter “Well, 1 just mentioned tt,* mur mured Hart, “I don't aim to rile yore feelin'’s, We'll talk of. rome thin’ " yen enjoyed that reunion this week “with yore joa friend, absent tar, but dear to ever” in run can you hn and pocket one thing an’ belf Yehin sure is ye Wert, me young or retorted Dobie. olen memory “Referris” tot Gemanded Dodie with sharp hostitity, “Why, Ad Miller, Dug.” “Is he ® friend of mine “Ain't he “Not that I ever heard taf of ~ “Giad of that You wont mixx him now he's lit out* “on Ne oot, has her “A bird’ whiepered to | haa” “When? “This evenir he's mM me he retand.” didn't leave any sddrene Called away on sudden business.” ntion the business > t to me Hob nd. Did u about that In the one heard a watch tick forward, bis ten large in nehed fist Bo you're back turned to bh he say anything Dave? to stlonee might have bedy rigid, 4 hie burning he xald at al I'm ba It a’ pleased me “J put a rope round yore Con viet w, harsh volve. k would neck ¢ made no ¢ Note his ati 08 pre mment have guemed f ae how fiere the ure at his temple | “It's a differen | makes forse + mn n wal wie | ° of opinio mid Bob né big ex-foreman rose snarling For balt I'd gua and now like you did Geo nders looked him hands s cent you here re.” steadily hanging loosely who feared ne A primeva blood, put had that ve savagery Nike /moet "man he n of caw in hin make-uy to find te ifs knew Hart toh wotd, One cannot with a ‘ kno arterie “Declagin’ yores you?” he demanded ing his teeth “I've | Took whand at whieh out whether the | his cif in on this, are ominously, show been in on it the first deal Dug th nlwaye Pollly and Paul or ’ CHAPTER X was Paul? and expla that the ant nothing n't thir Where only come ure her ship minor repal Polly didn’ \know Then she saw him, eomin ard, Aw he Rand, and who had eb me the corner, forw hurr toward her, Violet whose place was nearest hin, riven in exeltement from her either flung herself or was flu the lurch of the ship almost into his Paul put out a hand, She clung what i# it Mr. PD happened? yerious, 1 “Nothing (went, UH THATS. r2= 1M AFRAID 3) CourpNT TAKE ~ I'D BE Bow- heals INA wane] FROM LUGGIN' MY | BULL- FIDDLE uP \WREE FLIGHTS oF Per Se. << Ub-HA> SHE CANT SCRAMBLE THAT EGG EITHER = I WIGH HE'D TAKE tT=1'D LIKED SEE How HE'D Eititey | UNDER HIS CHIN = TW ATC, \SN'T AN' THOSE STAIR PLAY A SQUEAK SRS ! ! THE vical BONE TOW. be INQUISITIVE ERNIE HICKS FOUND OUT ‘THAT THE ~ far ATTIC ROOST IS STILL VACANT w= DOINGS OF THE DUFFS TOM, 01D You HEAR WHAT HAPPENED AT MY APARTMENT LAST NIGHT P HAD BurciARs! NO, WERE : BURGLARS ? DID-THEY GET Figuring the H.C. L. NINETY DOLLARS - BUT WY ARE “ou ASKING ALL THESE AN wow Mu 2? RENT ARE WE DAVIN’, Mom.ow MucH ‘\) 04, ABOUT wur ove eroceey } | PiFTy DowLaRS, Blu LAST U FREES \ MonTu ? fr i ya ¢ the you're ke eee OLY IS abel ‘Pook. = tae ‘age o¥S HOW THEY GOT ALONG héud day for race. with Dave ‘ « double.” » backed away Ul his figure grew v the darkness. Came the mue crack! of a rev from the wall of the kt ding. A to the tw ra) eartied on the light ata: jeering & ight but 4 out his reve Hemand his frie of the Bob whippe er tid not fire ped quietly to th we and found ab Ain't that Ike * * round the There shopping tour that day Sut the faflure of the bank was the talk of the village, and of course it became known that we had lost heavily, Grandmother noeded her the Ned it, the damned money in-his purse. pered Rob. “1 awful hard to to show good will he didn’t try very aid Dav ame within wh ax she re “Yen,” | was no doudle-crosne slowly hit 1 she « yea, | remember now. | D about that rascal Warren! “His strong nafnes many but most of the Just sent bh you know, I had forgotten all hard a foot | and nobody the The bullet and of | Was far enough 4 safe lint bank sounded ay from the te had a jong ne bad admitted hard days of haveggrown selfish backing ft, and a good early pioneering’ to strangers if you ask Hart out how came to He had t t eauin’ Mise re were deceived, “We were five months in st Know ‘old-timers’ were the with Did your with the wise enough to stay the log cabin on Cherry and our Phillips-Horton bank father lose everything?" arve bors were so good to us that neigh for all our loss we spot in our hearts for the town “Clara Shoddy, was one of the early mayor of Seattle, pli to realize fully was 80 good to’ us, but I can re sldn't have it a min 1 right with it—tried Crawford took a bave a warm Reautiful except his “Every penny,” the an been onaMilter ¢ owt, Sines Lady gaid the few d ry penny, rs he had whose father of and then Dug in puree for change. 1 coliese, too little how yad it wr better was, was my mate, had loge a killer, Ive her mother wa those dreadful days before our 4 fool notion that he to aybo help Steelman bust bim he can turn nd get Mins Joy en mer how mother looked and ‘ nimi {2 bim: that money came the T b | round-ubout lieve the truth j mother how they stood looking at sramg had to go a very iia wenews loxed door, too stunned to Dug must a’ be makin’ money fast in Bred mpany. He's on the in ‘ wailed peoph children will on and were slow him and uncertain, so it was quite a Myiet SORES ean. We Ge whilg that we were moneyl ‘We do not know these We The Epes “My father—Peter D. I planned and built the first build ing in Now It where the Tacoma theate/ now (Continued Tomorrow) have nothing! tarve! ma stood face was grim and white, ‘I shall telegraph back to Paul ang sell what property ye left there, and in a few hall have money, In ! he coupted out | Father's stands, chance to get a big contract which took and it was that —and Paris st Beckley we weeks we the meanwhile us away from Seettle. (To Be Continued TUG O' WAR 1 told her it , The wand che 1 times dp thi | hands hi clasped imploringly, with her eyes to hurry. “Listen, dearest. If unything's wrong 1 want to know it. If not, there's nothing to worry about and VL return at onee and tell you why thé thing stopped, That's sensible, isn’t it ¢ * © Ah—here's Mr. Cren Ye urged Surely you are hot going ou come pleas, Paul. except couldn't be anything fr her ner Won't words burst m born of and sit, here obody i Rand, The pa that if danger in a panic engera all real threatened there Violet retorted and 1 without in tarted You®ebut it wouldn't hurt to make | shaw Paul hailed thin, quiet man do let's | walking slowly down the deck, “I |say, fridnd, come ‘stay a minute with 4 moment or|my little wife here, while I trot off |to see what's happened—don t know, drew |do you The man I did." he answered “the vacant chair beside Polly. “l'l go to move “on and see.” And Paul « away inqut a course—of course--Oh, Dawson" don't go! Take me with you « The captain’) tet as. 1 must I'm horribly mervous “Paul.” Po Polly clowed her fips tehtly. and dan sharp breath thru "dilated now out of wh and looked away moved, to her, while Mr It would only ty Hy ng.” “me in & from the had not tr “Wish into shook hid hea droppin. ul came Violet, THEY DIDN'T GET A THING: LES SEE, FIFTV AN NINETY 1S brobbed. “But | moment or two with shut cyes, try: | JUG WHICH ABE TRUMAN LEPT NEAR THE STOVE TO THAW OUT, CON TAINED A SWARM CF BEES 1 LAY STILL ,DION’T MAKE A MOVE OR A SOUND AND THEY GOT ist ibtaee 4 E AND BEAT it! 1 SCARED FIFTEEN ADDED To A QUARTER IS EVERETT. TRUE Now, HERE ARE Two BRANDS THAT WE Seu, MR. TRE. “THIS Ove HERE (3 VER | wer ADVERTISED on Bcc RD STICKING YP IN THS FoRE GROUND EVERY WHERE, MAKING IT (MPo SSIBCE To See ANMGRICA FIRST, So VEC CONFING MY PURCHASE tS THS OTHER ONG. —— Two Dozen CANS. I'd rather stop and chat with Dawson than fuss around it crowd." Paul hurried off, and Polly cloged her eyes so as not to see Violet Rand clinging to his arm. Crenshaw was the man witt Ine and the prematurely wy hair who sat next to hor at the She liked him, -He gave out @ gentle friendliness, unobtrusive but definite, and bad a restful way « keeping still when you didn't want to talks and of saying the righ thing when ‘you did. If Polly had followed her she would have put her bead down on his tweed-coated shoulder and Instead, she sat for/another Mrs. the ing to command her frayed oerver forves into placidity. “How sensible you are, Uttle lady, not to go squawking about like like these peo who think it is the mark of the experienced traveler to see disaster in every unusual hape penir the smile you don't think dreadial?" think ots of things look dia juietingon the surface that have perfeetly commonplace explana tions * If Crenshaw had any fears, he ave no sign. and in his answer Polly somehow found comfort, why didn't Paul and Violet i's any table thin mpuise Stith Rand come be k (To Bo Continued)