The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 11

; a tn and chs ase tar et. itor * ry ~ THURSDAY GUNSIGHT PASS BY WILLIAM MacLEOD RAID Coprrient 19rd by Ww permiasion of and by FEBRUARY 16 am Macleod Ratna, epectal ara: od. Printed by Mictiin All rlehte rene ment with Houghton company (Continard From Yesterday) ready for business there at the first! CHAPTER XXII streak of light. Must be «ome trail | Number Three Comes In jleft by the hold-uy | the door to the| Cr@ford shook his head »- | ang men, At sight | SPW) hot. Applegate had a posse | e lit out there right away. You know | ' Applegate. He'd blunder if he had ‘OR, so glad you've com nee, His boys have milled a | ahe are in her yOlce. She! over the place and destréyed any qaught her hands oF - ae trall that wae -left.” ‘vest * te aoe “tan od | We'll go out anyhow—Dave and Geactul? ive been afraid ah Me! weve and I. Won't do any harm time that something awful ‘would | We able to discover something, | happen—and now it has Sutheen pecbont “Don't you worry, Miss Joyeé@."| “\taybeso. Who's that knockin’ Rob tokt her cheerfully. “We ain’t}on the door, Joy - gonna let anything happen to yore} Some ove was rapping on the| | } paw. We aim to get busy right} front door imperatively, The girl away and run this thing down. i it to let into the hall a man ks like @ frame-up. Tf it ts, you} in greasy overs Wetcha we'll get at the truth.” | “Where's Mr. Crawford?” he de “will you? Can you She }manded excitedly turned to Dave in appeal, ey star “Here, In the sitting-room. What's like in @ face that was a white and | wrong?" . hining oval in the semidarkness. “Wrongié Not a thing™ He “We'll try," he said simply. | talked as he followed Joyce to the Something in the way he said or of the rooms pept that fa the quief reticence of his pr Number Three's come in the biggest fee, sent courage flowing to her|gusher ever 1 see. She's knocked eart. She had calted on him c the whole superstructure galley: | before, and he had answered «ple west an’ she's rip-r'arin’ to beat te @dty and recklessly. Duten.” | “Where's Mr. Crawford?" asked) Emerson Crawford leaped to his Boh feet, for once visibly excited. | “He's tn the eittingroom. Come) “Wnat™ he demanded. “Wha's| Fight in.” | that?” Her father was sitting if a big) “Jjus' like I my. The oil's a @air, one tem, thrown carelessly | epoutin' up a hundred feet like o ever his arm. He was smoking a/tan. Before. morain’ the #u cigar composedly | holes wili be full and she'll be run “Come in, boys,” he called. “Reck-| nin’ all over the prairie.” mn you've heard that I'm a stage} “Burat sent you?” | Tustier and a murderer.” Yep. Says for you to get men | Joyce cried out at this, the wide.!and teams and scrapers and gunny-| Mobile mouth trembling jsacks and heavy timber out there | “Just now, At the Gusher,” sal@jrignt away. Many as you can | Bob. “They didn’t arrest you™” | send | “Not yet. They're watchin’ the| wford turned to Bob, bis face Yore job, Bob. Spread the Rustie\ up everybody you Arrange with the railroad Rouse. Sit doWn, and I'll tell it to| agiow, u,"* | news, He had gone out to see a home| can get about doing some work for| grade contractor to let us have all Bim. On the way he had met) his men, teams and scrapers till we d@hnson and Purdy near the Bend.{ get her hogtied and harnessed Dig Just before he had turned up &/ wages and we'll feed the whole out draw leading to the place in the/ ft tree Hife anybedy you can} Bills owned by the man whom he/ find. Buy a coupla Ntndred shov Wanted to see. Two hours had been/els and send ‘em out to Number] @ent riding to the little valley/ Three. Get Robinson to move his Where the nester had built his cor- | tent-restaurant* out there.” | mals and his log house, and when| Hart nodded. “What about this Grawford arrived neither he nor his| job at the Bend? be asked in a| “wife Was at home. He returned to | low voice. ‘ the road, without having met a soul| “Dave and I'll attend to that mince he had left it, and from there} You hump on the Jagkpot job. Sons to fogged on back town. On the|we're rich, ail three of us. Point ne want rgummsatun te de way he had fired twice at @ rattle }is to keep from losin’ that crude |‘ Caaand Gd honed Make. on the prairie. Keep three shifts oy draduall a “You never reached the Bend, goin’ till she’s under controb jes wsied. i then, at all.” said Dave. “We cant do anything at the| A#sin Dave's err rane out cle “No, but I cayn't prove Tf dign’t."| Bend til} morning,” said Dave jpedl rer Mig dlthe ge ages ine The old cattleman looked at the end | “We'd better put the night in help | Th? Teport is that we. ane ot tes of his cigar thoughtfully. “Nor 1 | ing Bob.” | Diawent strikes ever known e the qayn't prove I went out to Dick! “Sure. We've got to get all Mal _ . The rrick an Grein's place in that threefour/api busy. A dozen business men | Knos reat ol age hours not accounted for.” “Anyhow, you can show where | have got to come down and open up | thetr stores so's we can get sup- Jou got the ten thousand dollars| plies,” agreed Emerson. ‘ Loo wus ; You paid the bank.” maid Bob hope-| Joyce, her face flushed and eager, | "OTs B aa SN; SWICKS = T WISH WUL0« TT Re OW, THANK rr GEE,CMON® TLL fally. |broke in “Ring the fire bell | |! yoga Pa eee ae | | |, T HAD SOME MONEY GOOD M-MORNING* Lb \VqueVoURE WY MOTHER GAVE A moment of silence; then Craw-| That's the quickest way.” BLY CANDY GOING T ScHool i ME ford spoke. “No, son, I eaynt| “Sure enough. You got a haid on| ill be running to waste on the Bie —_ = 3 ? pope bi tell that either.” yore shoulders. Dave, you attend | Prarie, Wo need men, teams, (ovis BEFORE To eS WANT NET : Paint and breathless with eus-|to that. Hob, hit the dust for OA lide geek fhe weees Hl be ene * T SCHOOL. CARRY YouR. » Joyce looked at her father ith dilated eyes. “Why not?” big saloons and gather men. I'll see Me on those conditions.” | house and talk to the crowd, We'll Dave himaelf war steps of the court house ds away. He had ver attempted to speak in he bad a queer, dry f the throat. But as began to talk the words 1¢ eanily enough Jackpot Numbe ee has come in a big gusher,” he said, lifting hiv ice so that it would carry to the edge of the « Cy d feet.” lO’Connor about the railroad outfit;|"Y & day more than the run of “Because the money was loaned) then. Kil come down to the fire | "ast 0 the camp until the emer OUR BOARDING HOUSE WHATS “THAT You ASK, ALVIN? How COLD IS TT AT “THE NORTH POLE?» WELL, WHEN |: T WAS THERE, AND WHEN WE TALKED, THE WORDS WOULD FALL FROM OUR MOUTHS IN CHUNKS OF ICE = WE'D HAVE TO THAW 'EM “Td FIND our WHAT WE SAID~ BUT (TWAS GO COLD WE COULDN'T START A FIRE = THE FLAMES WOULD ! Ds FREEZE ! aN | YS rn an ow the Jackpot Hundreds of crowd wned stock in the proper es. At Dave's words a roar went p into the night. Men shout anced, or merely amiled, according temperament. Presently the men in A second great shout dfowned his has beem met, and Emer THAT'S A BEAR AND THATS) Yes THE NASTY A DEER ~ LOOK MOTHER, SEE THE MAN SHOOTING (“TyAT BEAUTIFUL FOX- THAT NICE LITTLE FOX - ~ EATTLE STAR BY STANLEY HOLD ER NEWT- sHeS AREARING OW YEH = TT WAS Quite CHILLY WHEN HE WAS Here |= IL SUPPOSE HE KEPT WARM BY SLEEPING UNDER A BLANKET OF SNow af Si warns COWS UP AT TH’ NORTH POLE GIVE ICE CREAM! UNCLE AMos 2 Ym LF JIM WATSON, THE BARBER,SPEQIT SEVERAL DAYS IN THE CITY AND RETURNED WITH SOME GLOOMY NEWS. Tom Loves Animals AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BIRDIES THAT THEY KILL AND PUT ON MOTHERS HATS- OH DEAR! YES,DANNY IT MAKES DADDY FEEL BAD Too WHEN HE THINKS OF THE PooR ANIMALS! IT MAKES HIM CRY WHEN HE THINKS OF MOTHER'S FUR COAT.AND MOTHER'S. FOX FURS-THE POOR LITTLE ANIMALS !- MAN SHOOTING TT ALWAYS MAKES MOTHER FEEL BAD WHEN SHE THINKS OF HUNTERS KILLING PRETTY ANIMALS FRECKLES AND HIS FRIEND iS Freckles Is a Youna Srv — arena A “But—but—don’t you gee, Dad?—|wake this old town up tonight," Crawford will board all the ff you don’t tell that——" sons.” Bho erggeallbmanbon ten hig eed They'l think I'm guilty. Well,| “What about me? asked the mes-|, Th? “poaker was lost again, thi I reckon they'll have to think it, beenger . fee a eee Joy." The steady gray eyes looked) “You go back and tell Jed to hoid | "But out of the hubbub Dave's Straight into the brown ones of the|the fort tll Hart and his material | "MOU becwme heard ‘ gig “I've been in this country, | arrives.” | mon weeere of Seeane and. tools boy and man, for "most fifty years.| Outside they met Russell riding |*! dealers in hardware ag Beste Any one that's willin’ to think me|down the rond, ¢wo saddied horses | jen jiqntee’ 10 Ste? as ae & cold-blooded murderer at this date, | f@llowing. With a word of ex:| #4 Bide of the crowd Boe why, he's welcome to hold any | planation they helped themselves to | “'t! Mr. Crawt yn Madang dD opinion he pleases. 1 don't give a|his mounts while he stared after | "OTe tl! the cusher is under con damn what he thinks.” them in wu , ep lhe in Boe = roam ah 3 = t weve. est 10, prove Ai | “Pl be dawWPgoned if they.all a nye een ste tee y cooks “No, we haven’ ey got@ do|three gents in w hurry,” he mur. | a i aie” y the proving. The law holds tle in-|mured to the biecana of the night, | Chance to make momey fait. Fight | «pree. It was a big strike, the big: SVERETI TRUE noce®t till I'm found gullty.” Well, seein’ as I been held up, 1[ re at the wnt in, the, history. of the Settet, “Bat you' don't aim to keep-still| reckon Til have to walk back while |,,FO" the twenty-four hours) and to control the Gow of the gush EVERETT DrP wow || YES, MRS. TRUG, LT and let a lot of miscreants blacker |the bawssthieves ride.” her as fi ight in Malapi.| or would necessitate tremendous ef CA ie * Bene HOME Some Foe SOT. yore good.name!” suggested Hart Five minutes later the firebett| Steets were with shouting®. | torts on a wholesale lan Ec, “You bet I don’t, Bob. But 1/clanged out its call.to Malapi. From }8aTi4 footfall pisr ad One of his men he sent tn * ie hyp ah Free Ai Rot Break my word to | roadside tent and gambling-hell, | rumen” siete ete tt oe ee eae | Malapl on horseback with @ hurry * gs succeSsSTtSD F CANIT YOU PLAY SOME nd either, especially pnder the| from houses and camp-fires, men up to Emerson Crawtord, pres , HIS MORNING ¥ THE OLD +4 circumstances this money was|and women poured into the streets. | Wit” buyers. For once the Gusher) igent of the company, for OF Pues teamed” om |¥or Malapl was a shell.town tightly |°! , the Olt Pool and ot ner revorta |r hhinery, men and teams. & a DID “ov ForR- “Hell release you When he un-| packedgand inflammabie, likely to | Weld small attraction for the crowds. | others he put to salvaging the en: Geslinnde,” cied Joy des |go up'in amoke, whenever a fire| Th? town wus moving out to #°) cine and acsessorion and to throw. || iy By Mabel Cleland J ye “Don't bank on thaé, honey.”|should get beyond control of the |'? Die Rew discovery that was toling up an earth dike around the | By Mabel -leland—_s* Crawford said slowly. mu ain't to] volunteer npany. Almost in leas |TeVOlUHOnIze its fortunes with the! sump bole ax a barrier against the tion this, I'm tellin’ you three | time than it takeseto tell it, the |OPenins of @ new and tremendously ‘escaping crude, Afi thru the night Page 601 Private. He cayn't come out and | square was packed with hundreds oy ‘ - | fought .impotently against this | THE WHITE HORSE AND HIS RIDER ten that be bot me he ° the mogey. | of lightly clad peopie and other hun fend aoe | _ giant that se more ‘engl eho td “One thought seemed to be} Our land, our fish, our deer, Some derstagg? You don't any of®you | dreds just emergti ‘om the nt ee oe ey ** | prison two thousitnd feet belo 4 "1 c " vp le goddig Soni | Ces pies coma from the night | iinstion was Cottonwood Bend. Tw surface of the earth. dealing itself into my brain,” con- vp Mea canes cer] end that ten thousand. I've refused to| ‘The clangor of the bell died away,|°! ‘he™ were Bn Crawford) with the first faint streaks of tinued Mrs. Kahler, “ ‘I am alone ss om man's odes. ea? Siiswer questions about that money. | but the firemen did not run out the |*04 David Sanders fbeen a {22% men came galloping across the |} with my baby, alone, I must bel "ws Gout know how 1 thought f That's my business.” hose ‘and bucket cart. THe man|°" ol Prospector who had by | desert to the,Jackpot. They came] rave’ ’ “Oh, but, Dad, you can't do that. | tugging the rope had told them | >as#enser on the stage when it was|ar first on horseback, singly, and | ™ 5° al en: tne, batel ere en oe eters You'll have to give an explanation.|why be was summoning the cite |'>>*4 later by twos and threes. A buck 7 om em that I wasn't going to let 80 dirty, You'll have to—” leon } board appeared on the horizon, the |} Plants I had started in earthen! i) ostening Indians into my “The best explanation I can give,| “Home one's got to go out ane CHAPTER XXIII irivet leaning forward ag he urged || pots outside the door. I went and/ jouse with my little baby asleep der. is Se sind out whe held up the |explain to the crowd,” #aid the fire] Pe ree rage had come | °%, 22 teem Pe | \ drew water, and steadying my| there. tage and ki im Harrigan. It’s | chief to Da “If yo ow abou eons th tapas wei et ee | aes co giv.| "8 ‘No, y It's the only one that will satisfy | boy ~ [for half a mile. Deep below the} Other teams followed, buggies,|| ine them their evening drink| ioe Gian satis Bacetie tee tuly friende.” “Crawtord said he'd talk.” an.|*utface there was a hiss and 4] gurreys, light wagons, farm wagons, |] when I heard the sound of hoots,! snery if he finds you in his “That's true,” sald Sanders, swerS. Sanders. . crackle, the a ¢ . of rending ger and at last heavily laden lumber |{ not the familiar beat of the hoofs; Koude,’ gee Sa ae iain] te gat tite it's wn ee giving way to the pressure of the |wagons. Business in Malapi was 5 licen, A fais oe hawsses,” said Bob. “We'll ride dy-awiee 4 Just bn fale, wae yin oil pool. From long experience as| snot to pieces,” as one merchant |) °% ™Y hudband's horse, but th “With a black scowl and a yell out to the Bend tonight@and be|rang the bell 7°" la driller, Jed Burns knew what was| expressed it. Everybody who could|] latter of many feet, and close| he mounted-his horse and led his Riese Meare. 2 bates sn al nreny coming. He swept’ bys crew back | possibly get away was out to see upon that sound came tho noise of/ band away, but not far away ; LPO gl SP from the tform, and none too] the big gusher. eavade yale Right in front of the house, about | >) ENTURES c. | jon Ft ~ disaster Bj ow 7 Lag gy eee ranges ef “tndiaha, of cures oo away, they made their still fying acro pred wh the wa rom ten to fi housand | 14 -4\ OF THE TWINS |e crown box catapulted into the | barrela a day, moat of which waa|{ “The leader came up toqgee,| «night fell and the red tare of Clive ss Berton mB jsky and the whole drilling super-| till going to waste on the desert speaking in Chinook, and said,| their camp fire lit up their faces RAIN TOWN and sand were hurled inte th ait |enined contro! over the, Gow, tho | “{ pulled myself up td my fuil| SPs the space to my door, to come down ir hower th of met i “One 7 9 com p an army of men in overalls and|} ion and assumed a calmness 1 ‘Once in a whild 1 went Inside When the Twins and Buskins left,;to do was to turn a spigot and the| bombarded everything within @ F@/siickery fought the gusher night to keep the fire going or to hush Dew Town, they once more boarded | "in would flow forever? No, wirge!| us of several hundred yards. land day did not feel. I was conscious of} tne haby, but I never left my Ghontaiouiys ‘tease ‘tekia and were | it’ the job of the rain fairies to fil| The landscape next moment was! ‘The attack had two objectives my frailty (1 weighed just a bun-| watch for longs * | the © barrels and elo When the|@renched in black petroleum. The |The first was to check the outrush dred pountis) and said casually, “The hours drageed, Eight oe pod cg and town in Mistland|rain goes down to the earth |fine particles of it filled the air, /of ofl, The second was to save the |] ‘Gone after the horse.’ 9-10—11—the clock on the shelf ealied Rain Town. a to be gathered up to use over 5 sprayed the cactus and the grease, | wealth emerging from the mouth of “thty' eae der hia ‘pact Kae .| struck, It was nearly midnight ‘The rain fairies tive here,” ex-| Son folks say that Mr. Sun does jt| 00d Rivulets of the viscid stuff|the well and streaming over the lip 14 ti bax | when I once more deacried the plained Scootalong and you will find|by-drinking it up, but they don’t|besan to gather in depressions and of the reservoir to the sandy desert ee ved bd Pes Saks rsgenareo | ‘white bores, that they are just aa bury as the|'HoW ax much ay they think they do, [to flow In xathering volume, 4 On the evening of the tenth day|] Inf way » ih Cheanth waa RAK WH the nu | “It's a gecré ut the rain fairieg, | ttibutaries joined the stream, Into! Burns put in the cork pon 9 dian! dew fairies. They fly’down to the creeks ad sump holes prepared for It.| six hours later a metropolitan | ‘Why baat tpl = pisos Ok CeEIEe. ROMs AD, But Nancy and Nick remembered | rivers and ponds and lakes and fill pungent odor of crude ofl, 8%! newspaper carried the headline: || YOU come? oo tf the wonderful visit they had had|their pails and then fly up to| well as the touch and the taste of itty WW 1 eniernneentiontnntineanainnsindys . | with Mr. Sprinkle-Biow, the weather. |SPrinkle-Hlow’s rain barreln and filt|it, penetrated the atmosphere | BIG GUSHER HARNESSED merit RaDe coon IT BER 47 pod ,moatiens: urgiiga. of Paul oe ta the Cate de Ia Fait, ea * thern. Then when SprinkleBlow| Burns counted noses and discov-| AFTER{WILD RAMPAGE z aur re, say,” he went on, choosing a table i Up ae Bie ser, and they DOA) oats to turk on a warm spring | ered that none Vt his crew had. been eal opened In awe as she gazed about the} Next morning the gay spring sun-| In the ‘street was the fresh smell! watt to the trot whece PEE not forgotten how he kept all sorts | rain, or a hard storm, or a emulur | injured hy falling rocks or beams. | Jackpot No, 3 at Malapl Tamed-¢| old vehicle and up at the fat chauf-|shine striking across her face woke! of morning. Cafes were being swept | 1 * 4 7 of rain stored up in big barrels. |pourdown, why it’s all ready He knew that his men could Long Battle Ended feur, and maybe this old fellow | Polly early, Sho kissed Paul's eyes, | and garnished, bakers’ boys trudged | “!™08t srazed their toes, “that if you Nancy So they spoke of it now and asked and Nick and Buskins What the rain fairies had to do/| went to Rain Town and what do you with it. think the rain fairies were doing! “Oh, hot’ eried Senotalong. “Dia | Making tiny agp Only as they had you think that all Sprinkle-Blow had |* “et Journey ahead of them, they * were dressed in swimming — suite | Sprinkle Blow had used up so much rain in spring showers, that his rain w little rain fairies would have to work (hard to carry enough from For Infants and Children |the rivers to the aky to thru IN USE FOR OVER 30 YEARS the summer Always bear (To Be Continued (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) water lant Paul, [io we a war | ructure toppled over. Rocks, clay possibly cope with this geyser on el (Continued Tomorrow) himself was one of the men who! "Come, blessed old boy, dén't slecp|along with baskets of yardiong Sit here an hour you'll meet every- a _ - —_——— —~———---— | pushed back the Germans at Meaux./another minute! 1 give you quarter | brown loaves, a shop at the corner |body you ever knew!" ~ a —'s e's of an hour to drtss and get down | was a blaze of oranges, carrots and| “I don’t want to meet a’soul,” murs q But herve cat hotel, dear.” to breakfasty I can't wait! If you{luscious lettuces and then suddenly |mured Polly, “I would spol “every. 5 D ° “On, Paul” squeezing his arm! %00't hurry I'll Jump out of the win-|upon Polly's eyes burst the glory}thing.” F ollll an ls au All i) aris 9 quses! : dow and mess up that sweet little |of the flower market about the! ‘The words had scarcely passed her tight, “I love this one. What an ile-stoned courtyard! Madeleine. Sho was on tiptoe with | lips when the smart, self-assured By Zee Beckley adorable little street! And there's) ‘We don't go down to breakfast, | joy. Lusty pea&ant women in fat| figure of Viola Rand, chin in air, (Copyright, 196%, by Phe Seattle Mar) the Madeleine—I recognize it from | Madame Igworance. Breakfast comes | skirts smiled at the couple. swung along. Would she pass with: the pictures I've been brought up on |up to us—rolls and coffee. That's} “Ah-rah—les violettes pour Mig-|out seeing them? Polly prayed so ‘ re c eae! , all my life. What splendid pillars! | you get!’ non! Fifty centimes la boite! Sweet|* * * But no such luck, She saw, CHAPTER XIII—MORNING GLORY \Nnddocks Paubshere’s Ws. irke| Whe neat inald brewbht faa dh tray |—sweet!” And Paul bought Pani {ibs came, Paul rose with a welcom: “Do you know, Polly darlint,” maid) thowe blessed old rattletraps th saint that had his poor head blown |and Polly alternated her nibbles ef{non” a bunch and pinned them on|ing smile, And across Polly's sun 4 “that this very taxicab we're | ch d up to the Marne on that/off by Big Bertha, ¢ * * Ob, what/crisp roll and mouthfuls of coffee-|her jacket swept a little gray clow \ be veteran? For Burns and Hart Ive one of lawful September 6th,” Polly's mouth |g sweetie hotel!" had not yet ‘Your men all gone? and threw flickering ‘shadows Where? (To Be Continued) the Indian. You have no right | jand-hotwnilk with squeals of delight “Let's sit here,” said Paul as they (To Be Continued)