The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1922, Page 9

TUFSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922, Copyrieds Write Mac Permission of ‘and by special arre (Continued Fron: Yesterday) CHAPTER XIX An Involuntary Bath Jackpot No ooked its tools the gecbnd day after Sanders’ visit to that location. A few bourse later its engine wag thump merrily and the cable rising and falling monoton Qualy In the casing On the after eon of the third day Rob Hart rode @& © the wildoat well where Dave was building a sump hole with a gang of Mexicans | He drew Sanders to one side, “Trouble tonight, Dave, looks like, At Jackpot No. 3. We're in a layer of soft shale Just above the oi) bearin’ sand. Soon we'll know where we're at, Word has reached me that Doble ans to rush the night tower and the engine.” | “You'll stand his crowd offt / “You're whistiin'” “Sure your information ts Sight"™ “It's c’rect." Bob added, after a ntary hesitation; “We got a spy in his camp." Sanders did not ask whether the| ‘Mifair was to be a pitched battle. He Waited, sure that Bob would tell him when he was ready. That young man | ame to the subject indirectly. “How's yore shoulder, Dave?" “Doesn't trouble me any unless @mething ls slammed against it” jtheir preparations. The three men jspet, Buck, Suit yout | }Colorado miner in his youth, He] }examined the dam and came back to |Nis cout He picked up the hammer, | Core y OUR BOARDING HOUSE UNSIGHT PASS PARU ALL THESE YEARS WOVE | BY WILLIAM My \eLEOD RAINE ALWAYS BEEN eat with Houghten Micfiin any MINE « if we pull this off right, Dug v Now ON Met AN, FORGET™Me pretty near be laughed outa tr NOT i ee AND BE MY " VALENTINE | Weed We know JG) You-etay at the ISN'T HAT CUTE? = I GOT His” \" VALENTINE FROM A VERY \CHARMING OLD ADMIRER OF Well to keep Doble’s gang ba we slip up. I'll give the etgnal, and the third man will fire the fuse. Ruck Byington will be here IN get him to set off the thofJuly celebration, He's a regular clam—won't ever say a word : (Now intr THAT SWEET® about this.” When you hear her better bring the men jump,” © off, you'd own on the trot j After dusk had fallen they made men slipped away from the bunk house into the chaparral, Bob car ried a bulging sunnysack, Dave a lantern, a pick, a drill, and a ham-| r. None of them talked ull they | had reached the entrance to the can yon. “We'd better get busy before it's too dark,” Bob said. “We picked this! Byington had been a hard-rock the place ychosen. “After taking off {TOUGHT TO READ ce NTURY PLANT A SWEETHEART FLOWER OF NSTEAD OF FORGET | 4 * Byington came up the read half | ee an hour later at a cowpuncher’s jog AY “Interfere with you usin’ a six |"“Les* start. The sooner the quicker.” shooter™ Dave soaked the gunnysack in “Na” water and folded it over the top of “Like to take a ride with me over |the drill tovdeaden the sound, Huck to the Jackpot? wielded the hammer and Hob 19 “Yeu” the dritt “Good enough. I want you to look After it grew dark they worked vy| the ground over with me Looks | the light of the lantern. Dave and Row as if it would come to fireworks. /Bob relieved Buck at the hammer. But we don't want any Fourthof.|They drilled two holes, put in the July stuff if we can help it? Can/‘dynamite charges, tamped them we? That's the point” |down, and filled in again the holes ‘At the Jackpot the friends walked |The nitroglycerine, too, was prepared | West for Sunday. { don't know yit —— ground together. Rack of and set for the explosion, jam I dead or nok Mither o’ Moses, tion and to the west of itan| Hart straightened stiffy and |phwat was it hit us?” @rroyo ran frorg a canyon above. [looked at his watch. “Time to move| Bob bere down upon the eeene at i) {Follow it down and it'll take you |back to camp, Dave Business may |the head of the Jackpot contingent. ht inte the location where Steel-|Ket brisk soon now, Maybe Dug may/He gave a whoop at aight of the Ma is drillin’” explained Bob.|*¢t in a hurry and start things|wrecked derrick andvengina “Kin “Dug’s gonna lead his gang up the /“ariler than he intended. alin’ wood and junk,” was his ver arroyo to the mesquite here, sneak) “Don’t miss my signal, Buck. Two | dict Where's Dug and his down on us, and take our camp with Shots, one right after another,” said| Dave rel rang? ved the halfdrowned rush. At least, that’s what he aims | Dave. man of his revolver. “Here's one. to do. You can’t always tell, as the| “I'll promise you to send back two |The rest must be either fn the ar feliow says.” shots a heap louder, You sure won't |royo or out in the draw.” “What's up above? mise ‘em,” answered Buck with a| “Scatter, boys, and find ‘em. Look “A dam. Steelman owns the ground srin. Nout tor than tf they're h Col up there. He's got several acres of| The younger men left him at the}icct their hardware first off.” Water backed up there for irrigation dam and went back down the trail| ‘The water by this time had sub purposes.” Lad their camp. jsided. Released from the walls of “Let's go up and look ! over.” o report yet from the lads |the arroyo, tt bad spread over the Bob showed a mild surprise. “Why, | Watchin’ the arroyo, I expect Dug’s | devert. yes, if you want to take some exer | Waitin’ till he thinks we're all asleep| Hart ealled. “Come here and meet . . This is my busy day, but—" [except the night tower,” whivpered|an old friend, Dave Sanders ignored the hint He led |the man who had been left in charge| Saunders made hin way, ankle deep he way up a stiff frail that took by Hart. lin water, ¢ © «poe from which them to the mouth of the canyon; “Dave, you Detter relieve the boys /that irrepressibly gay voice had Across the face of this a dam /&t the arroyo,” suggested Bob. “Fire-|come. stretched. They climbed to-the top Works scon now, I expect.” | “Meet Shorty, Dave Don't mind of it, The water rose to within about| Sanders crept thru the heavy cha-|hix not risin’ to shake He's just siz feet from the rim of the curved parral to the live oaks above the been wrastlin’ with a waterwpout and wall jarroyo, snaking hit way among cac |he's some wore out.” “Bome view.” commented Bob with tus and mesquite over the mand.) The squat uncher glared at his &@ grin, looking across the plains that Dave was left alone | tormentor. done bust my lalg.”~ he Spread fantike from the mouth of) A twig snapped in the arroyo. In- | said ast, wu the gorge “But I ain't much inter distinct movements of blurred masses | “That worries u» a heap, Shorty,” ested in scenery today somehow.” were visible, The figure of a man/answered Hart ca: ously, “I'd aay “When were you expectin’ to shoot detached iteelf from the gloom and{you got it comin’ to you.” the well, Bob? crept along the sandy wash A seo| The hand hitched in the trouser “Bome time tomorrow. Don’t know /ond and a third took shape. The dry |band moved slightly. Bob, awure too ‘gt when. Why? bed became filled with vague motion. |late of the man's Intention, reached the nitro here yet?" | Sandere waited no longer. He/for his sixshooter. Something flew “Brought it. up this mo'ntn’ my-| crawled back from the lip of the| past him straight and hard. sete.” ravine a dozen yards, drew his re-| Shorty threw up his hands with a volver and fired twice. yelp and collapsed. He had been | His guess had been that the attack: |struck in the head by # heavy re “Any dynamite in camp?” ing party, startled at the shots, would | volver. “Yea. A dozen sticks, maybe.” hesitate and draw together for a “Some throwin’, Dave. Much “That the job,"| whispered conference. This was ex-| 4." said Hart. “We'll disarm |actly what occurred. 1 and pack him back to the “Yep. Tha's what we usually use."; An explosion tore to shreds the ” “I'm speaking of another job. Let's stiliness of the night. Before the| Weak as a drowned rat, Dob! et down from here. We might be/first had died away a fecond on came tir “ge Out of the ravine. He 4 ween.” {boomed out. Dave heard « shower sat down on a timber, very sick at s “They couldn't hit us from the/of falling rock and concrete. He/the stomach from too much water q Steelman location. Too far,” said heard, too, a roar growing every mo lowed in haste. After he had 4 Bob. “And I don't reckon any one/ment in volume. It swept down th* | relieved himself he looked up war ge Would try to do that.’ ’ |walled gorge Mke a railroad train | and recognized Hart, who wan search “No, but they might get to wonder-| making up lost time. ling him for a h » aie shooter, " ing what we're doing up here.” | Sanders stepped forward. The Must ‘a’ teat wave Garte-dive whitet 4 “I'm wonderin’ that myself,"|gully, lately a wash of dry sand and | yoy wan in swimmin’, Dug. Waa th 7" Pine , Grawied Hart. |baked adobe, was full of a fury Of | water good this ovenin’? I'll bet you|;. &* * Screened by the heavy menquite|rushing water. Above the noise of It)ang yc ed oft * a ef ts when the water come lown from Latiore or w wand the nad {t corrailed.” Dar nck dart below, Sanders unfolded his proposed he caught the echo of a despalring | fa n¢ plan of operations. Bob listened, and |scream. Swiftly he ran, dodge fs Dave talked there came into dodging among the o Hart's eyes dancing imps of deviltry. prickly pear like a half tered mischief lit the ¢ He gave a subdued whoop of delight, | ing the ball thru a broken field. HI®|ouneher, “Well, I'll & y slapped his durty white hat on his objective was the place where the liown get a great | at yore com. | DUS: thigh, and vented his enthusiasm in arroyo open to a draw. At this|cay stuff. You ce'tainly did a good,)°*™ ™ murmurs of admiring profanity. precise Iman had located /turn. Oh, you've sure earned yoro| Doble swore sa 4 “It may not work out,” suggested his derrick. laugh.” with his friend. “But if your information| The tower no longer tapered gaunt-| «you blew up the dam,” charged Who war y is correct and they come up the|ly to the sky. The rush of waters) nobis backgre released from the dam had swept ft Me! Why, it aint my dam. | respon *It's erect enough. Lemme ask (from its foundation, torn apart the| pian't Brad give you orders to know? j JOU @ question. If you was attack-| timbers, and scattered them far andthe «juices to make you a swimm viet! 4 tin’ us, wouldn't you come that|wide. With it had gone the wheel, bled 7 way?” |dragging from the casing the cable.) phe searchers began to straggle in, | @thought of It in 7 “Yea.” , |The string of tools, jerked from their | pring! with th " hed | Hart “Sure. It's the logical way. Dur | socket, probab ne bottom | and battered jot of gunr There | he figures to capture our camp without |of the well 2,00¢ was not an ounce of fight left in any | It « firin’ a shot. And he'd a’ fone it, too,| Dave heard a moved to- | o¢ them. too." if we hadn't had wa ward the so lay on a! wrhey m g Sanders frowned, his mind busy jrand hu over the plan. “It ought to work, | tide. unless something upsets it,” he enid. | tadly hurt?” asked Dav “Sure it'll work. You darned old| “I've been drowned Intire’ fox, I never did see yore beat. Say, lowed by a flood and knocked g ApDvV ENTURES OF ane, TWINS Clive Roberty Barton ry “TEAKETTLE TOWN” “Teakettle Town’ called out,member you said that you Seootalong, who appeared to be en —_— if the any Ww gineer, brakeman and conductor of (MY ‘une. T cor then, but I « funny little train, all roiled intO jand and up by the iphem shot e “v of tt if ye | He ash man who had b er this, Hart,” Doble | us. that, Dug,” retorted Bob lightly Every time you hook yore heel ¢ you up their | vain now as this i you can understand me. me day I'll a one. With that they came to 4/|There were words aid they went | q— outfit sor for this,” the bi¢|back to the standstill and Buskins said they had like this: hook-nosed man threatened black Crawford made A fat, puffy, litte fairy saw them) ‘The water's boiling and I can sing, | get away with it a came running up. “Hello there, Get out the sugar and spoons and | —— - pee Nancy and Nick, | know you tea The Twins looked puzzied. “I beg! Imp yOor pardon, but who are you?’| “It' asked Nancy, timidly. in “] was rattli the id on your'me,” went on the puffy teakettle Grandma's teakettle one day when fairy | you and your brother camm in. I) “Why?" asked Nich Wan playing m merry tune and the! “Py at was purri os - kett are queer that way, if I myself. Put 1 must be off , uppity, pop gee.” good thing riier and stand lidn't come se the watched contentedly , 1 re- ‘boils, answered the other CHAPTER XI—A S$ don’t ‘either t At last nerven | to the comforting to teach a million steam f song today so they can JELLY is guaranteed by 30 years 1 aw to be ed service to millions of ty, uf Paul, “Perf Americans. Kondon’s voloe We 1 | Violet works wonders for your cold, sneezing, cough, chronic catarrh, head- rn ra) we | some he called. “It's tt (To Be Continued Grand Ba But t " FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS ‘I'm laughin’ at you, k outa some men who a Byington, this moment, saun ound in simu be bath night over at youall's « kinda drookid yore @ shaking ¢ * OD IS v THE WHITE HORSE AND HIS RIDER the man who's a thousand yeara, ‘Tha's what I say reary, was ce blew the dam up.| A laugh mnapped the tension. The inted to a figure without spirit. emerging from the arroyo. demanded one who came dejectedly into view was belligerently. large and fat and dripping. * one ventured | Jackpot weeping cactus burrs did not take up the |big prickly If 6 was @ thing fll to| Miller, the human pincushion lady with the and the steady look in her eyes which marked her for a pioneer,| thought it was a good plan, and PRACTICING MYSELF um XI Sues She was a very special pioneer, “Look who's among too, who remem that she had to name over the things she could tell stories about and let the ehildren choose | The boys'l! look after | right now and find out if the ‘ for him to take « sort © m the choo- | The fat convict looked to Doble in er limped pain 1 remember it.” |fully to the Jackpot in front of Hart - real, bad end make yore whole |Two days later it a point to se Polly and Paul—and Paris By Zoo Beckley (Copyright, 1922, by The Beattie Stary try when I came in 18 adver “Our childhood was one long Cent enshaw’s | closer by and she's gone | , went off together to | to do Hetween Polly t follows a feminine rivalry over en this epise why, it was almost amusing © how excited some people got over t ship, the law| "I told you it was 5s to be read: ‘T told you It wan nothin nlong the line." So made it im-| oust’ them, Nancy, Nick ro to her rescue—| got te heir beat ain fr 4 hours at least. | band? train, the like of w newer peen t iv oward the | said Violet SEATTLE STAR AHERN \ Yer >= CUPID WITH | A CRUTCH ® THEIR | ROMANCE HOLDS NOT = ['D LIKE TO i TH’ ENDURANCE GE TA FLASH ATH VeTH 20MEO WHO SENT [r+ THAT'S A PLAY OF SECOND CHILD RECORD © THEY \ BEFORE TANDEM ) BIKES WERE TH’ RAGE® GETS HER ANNUAL HEART THROR =e AFRAID You SHOULDN'T HAVE Grandmother had been plan- ning for more than a week Mke the Idea of so much silly verse-sending on the 14th of Feb food St. Valentine, she thought she, too, would make it a red let-| ter day. So when they came tn from ethool, there, before the fire was grandmother, and there was a tea party all ready to eat, and best of tall, gray-haired there was ight shou! h would come first David wanted a bear story with not just ff Davie said, “Oh, I'd just n hear that one, if Peg wants r it; I like Indian ones awfully well.” So Mrs, Kahler began: “It was all one big Oregon coun- and it ra and he wild and full of dang thoughts “You'll be glad when the vpyase | ly over, I take tt which added as to marry him to make ¢ man hers for life.” ed every moment of the trip of the ship stop nothing.” suppose you mean me. Woll, ure you, Mra. Dawson, the’ perience if not~-stupidit \STARTED COURTIN | One Way to Sell Perfume YOUNG LADY. I'M You ARE age a surprise for the children | She didn't but because everybody else sbrating the birthday of red so much liked the sound of | “An Indian With White Blanket,” id Violef in a poor little , who thought all a woman had|am not so stupid snapped Polly, “fve| “I hadn't noticed it,” Miss Rand to | ested." tenderly jyou draw. I love | burst into tears. cre both angry and over ly expressed. If you'll excuse me I'l! one hand drawing her to him, the! (To Be Continued) A PAGE 9 THE OLD HOME TOWN bd BY STANLEY aa | LEFT my “ GLASSES F HOME You fem SSS | WONT MND GRANDAA eee THREADIN YOU THREAD 0 ee GRANDPA PuRDYS SECOND SIGHT CAME IN HANDY TODAY WHEN THE LADIES SEWING SOCIETY HELDA ul QUILTING BEE AT “THE PURDY HOME - iim be 1AM NOW, BUT | DON’T | LISTEN-You OO wes THINK WILL | BOTTLE OF PERFUME BE AFTER! }) ANO TAKE IT To uR GET Home! | WIFE AND You CAN SAY IT / AND NOW | ees, GOT THE fee SHAVING SOAP! £2 OH, 1 Se! MARRIED! BY BLOSSER nO: * er OA tale of escapes and ‘close calls’ and perils, but we were not un happy. And most of us grew | sturdy and strong. “T was one of the less fortunate | girls who didn’t stand the strain of it all, and when I married I was a frail girl, seemingly unfit © up the life of a pioneer | “My young husband felt that I Satie canes Spar ae ELL eee ae. NO Fecowg WERE HIRED half, he said, ‘I'm going to take To MAKE mMUs(e ut \F tov CAN'T you and the baby east of the mountains and see if you won't PRACTICE In YouR BAND RCOM grow stronger over theres you DON'T Do i HERS RSTWwWeen look so little and white, “Well, our mothers and fathoms | |SELECTIONS OR LLC Do SomS there was a great deal of fine and over there in Eastern Oregon and ‘fou NEWER SAWA SAXOPHONE CRA I did like to think of sunshine and CCAR Net warm days, so We decided to go. “The is a story all by it- self. We will skip over that part, and begin with the day the horses got lost. “Our claim was on tha main road to California, and Mr, Kahler was very careful never to kave me alone tn the louse, becaure so many tramps passed by and de. j manded food, The hired man was out after lost stock, and my hus- | band had just cone in from a deer | hunt, when a tone Indian came up | to the door riding a white norse, j anc having a*white blanket folded behind him go down for a nap.” other groping for his handkerehieg | Paul came into the dim light of to wipe her tears, wrought, Polly's claws, usually soft.| their cabin a few moments later. Go ttalk to your now flew, “Polly! Polly, dear, I say, what- | MIL and, She—interests you—£ ome experiences I pee. ever have you been doing to Vio don't.” (A gust of sobs). “I'm not & fer not to have. As for stupidity, 1 Rand! She says you had a regular:celebrity like her—a writer—and® as to fling myself cat fight on—hello—why my own |singer and ey-rything, 1’'m only & at another ‘woman's bh and, to his what's the matter! Tell me, | »tupid—in-experienced-—* 4 intense distaste-—and boredom.” Paul shook her gently, “Polly=—* ad not seen her tying there on | you're upset, nervous, You know — her bed, hair in disarray, slim shoul-|love every hair on your head—the ders shaking, Now he bent over her|ground you walk on—every breata [stifled an elaborate yawn, “On the contrary, I thought he seemed inte “Paul is very polite,” ored Polly,| Polly answered only with renewed} She twisted from him, Junwinding herself from her wraps sobbing, pushing him away as“she| “Go away! Go back to—her! & and preparing to flee before she eaught her breath conyulsively, He|want to be alone—alone—or I shal “I suppose in Paris had never seen her cry . . . He had | scream!” where life is so free and worth. never dreamed she could push him} Paul left the cabin, closing tha, while, everyone's feelings are frank. away He knelt in an agony, |door softly after him,