The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1922, Page 5

Copy permt (Continued Prom Yesterday) Dave's talk with the great man's seoretary over the telephone waa not Mr Graham, he had every moment full for after which he a business trip ito satisfactory learned. the next two days, wouk! leave for the Bas There were other wealthy men, in Denver whe might be induced, to finance the Jackpot, but Daves in tended to see Graham first, Thegbig railroad builder was a fighter, He wis hammering thru, in spite of heavy opposition from transconti: nental lines, a short cut across the Rocky Mountains from Denver, He was w pioneer, one who would take ehance on a good thing in the ing, Western way, In «his Peed, clean-cut character wasmuch that appealed to the managers of the Jackpot. youthful Cerebus, who kept at the gat tary. Dave made overtures to the boy and established a friendly relation. “What's the best Mr. Graham, son? I've got “Dunno, Hi awful busy, got a five-dollar bill for you if you; can. “I'll take a whirl at It. Jus’ ' he goes to lunch.” Dave penciled a line on a card. “If you are not too busy to make $100,000 today you had better sen me.” He signed his name. for lunch. The big man read the he asked the boy. | “Kinda solemn-lookin’ guy, sir”! ‘The boy remembered the dollar = | ceived on account and the five dol Jars on the horizon. “Big. straight to me.” note in doubt, twisting it in his fin gers, A dozen times a week his privacy was assailed by some crazy inventor or crook promoter. He re- membered that he had had a letter from some one about this man. Some- thing of strength in the chirography of the note in his hand and some | thing of simple directness in the! terview, } “Show him in.” he said abruptty, | eyes took Dave in shrewdly. | “The new gusher tn the Malapi| pool,” answered Sanders at once, and | the big etate-dullder. “You represent the parties that own itt res.” “And you want? wet.” local bank?" company, controls the Malapi bank.” short answers. “Sit down,” ordered the rafiroad) Crawford-Steelman feud. He brought | Graham's eye to sparkling. decided the great man. know my decision then.” missed, but he left the office elated. | Graham had been favorably GUNSIGHT PASS BY WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE < 18Rt by William Mpekend Raine on of and by apecial arrangement with Houghton Miffilm Company Sanders called at the financier’s| at Canon City office and sent in his card by tho, been in several shooting scrapes. He wateh | Was accused of robbing a stage and The card got no farthers| murdering the driver less than a| than the great man's private aocte. | Week aso.” Graham read the letter and catted | After a wait of more than an hour! In Ajeet Canon City on the dollar passed from him to the youth find out if a man called David San. | ders was released from the peniten. | way to reach) tiary there lutely im-{he in for? portant business that won't wait.” | standin’, honest fellow, From Ari-|for saving Jackpot zona or Texas, mebbe. Looked good from an attack of Steelman's men.” The financier frowned down at the fot his caller All riahte reserved, Printed by Meved in its legitimacy and tte pos sibilities, Dave felt he would send an expert to Malapi with him it to report on it as an investment ko, he would almost certainly ag to put money in tt A man with prominent white front teeth had followed Dave to the office of Horace Graham, had seen him enter, and later him come out with a look of victory nm his face that told The man tried to get admittance to the financier and fatied He went back to his hotel and wrote a short letter which he signed with a fictitious name. hie he sent by al delivery to Gra ham, ‘The letter was brief and to the potnt It sald “Don't do business with David San. | investigating his reo. | ders without ord, He ix a horsethief and a con victed murderer, Some months ago he was paroled from the penitentiary and since then has his private secretary, “McMurray ‘phone and If #0, what was Describe the man to the warden: under twenty-five, looks at you level and steady, brown Deo it now." Before he left the office that after noon Graham had before him a type | written memorandum from his secre. | tary covering the case of David San- ders. ‘The grizzled railroad builder fixed Ten minutes later the office boy (Sanders with an eye that had read caught Graham as he rose to leave sinto the soul of many a shirker and }imany a dishonest chemer. “How long have you been with the it kind of looking fellow ts | Jackpot Company? “Not long. Only a few days.” “How much stock do y@ own?" en thousand shares.” “How did you get it “It was voted me by the directors Number Thr Graham's gaze bored into the eyes He wanted just a mo- ment to give his question full em phasis, “Mr. Sanders, what were you doing «ix months ago”’ “I was serving time tn the pent teptiary,” came the immediate quiet retort “What for? For manslaughter.* “You didn't tell me this yeaster wording decided him to give an in- | day” ‘No. It has no bearing on the value of the proposition I submitted and while he waited in the office to you, and I thought it might preju rated himself for his folly in wasting dice you against it.” time. “Have you been In any trouble Underneath bushy brows stee!.gray | since you left prison? Dawe hesitated. The blazer of rail “Any shooting scrapes?" the Jackpot. ‘Were you accused of holding ap| ja stage, robbing it, and killing the| “Financial backing to put It on its driver?” until we can market the es, th Graham fired question after ques-lof the robbers was tion at him, crisply, abruptly, and|made a full confession Sanders gave him back straight,| where the stolen gold was cached |and It was recovered.” I “A man shot at me in Malapl. Ris gaze was as steady aa that pga Gore unarmed.” “Twit all?” “Anether man fired at me out I was unarmed then” “No. I was twenty miles away at eo timesof the holdup and had evi- “Why don’t you work thru your | dence tow prove it” “Then you were mentioned in con “Another oi] man, an enemy of our | nection with the robbery?” “If so, only by my enemies. One captured and He showed The great man looked with chilly builder, resuming hie own seat. “Tell eyes at the young fellow standing me the whole story of the company.” in front af him. Dave told it, and in the telling of having ‘been tricked and imposed | he found it necessary to sketch the | upon. He had a sense “I have decided not to accept your himself into the narrative as little | propositionsto co-operate with you in as possible, but the grizzled million | financing the Jackpot Company, Mr. aire drew enough from him to set | Sanders.” an electric button and a clerk ap. “Come back tomorrow at noon,”| peared. “Show this gentleman out, “TD let you Hervey.” Rut Sanders stood his ground. No The young man knew he was die- body could jhave guessed from his stolid imperturbability how much he im-'was depres@ed at this unexpected Pressed. He liked the proposition, be failure. APVENTURES OF THE TWINS He gave one yell and dropped thesflag Nancy and Nick and Buskins list-jlowe its reputation for safety. ened with interest to the tale of the} ‘There was only one thing to do,” 7 amoke-ring and how it had caused|said the black smoke-pillar impor: 4 the rich man to help the poor one.|tantly. “I took a short cut across “Well, that’s that!’ black smoke-piilar loudly. sighed a|the bill This fel-|#harp black cindars into the eye of | low was large and black and fierce | th man who had :the flag and Horace Graham pressed | tall, | Yous straight as an Indian, strongly built, ain't got no appointment.” | “Can you get a note to him? I'wad hair, stecl-blue eyes OUR BOARDING HOUSE oreo are ‘LEAVE IT ALONE ® ITLL COME BACK “Ib “TH CAGE* T'S BUST OUT TO WORK TH’ RUST FROM (TS WING: AND GET A LIL AIR! mI VE GOT TH' STEM | “Do I understand that yeu are de clining this joan because I am con nected with it, Mr. Graham?" “I do not give a reacon, sir Joan does not appeal to me,” the rail road builder said with chill finality ypealed to you yesterday,” Dave. today Hervey, I wil! see * at once, Tell McMurray Reluctantly Dave followed the e f the room. He had bee i. but he did not know how, In some way Steelman had got to the financier with this story that had damned the project. The new treasurer of the Jackpot Cony pany was much distressed. If hin jconnection with the company was go: | “Weill, what is it?” snapped the road ¢raile rapped out a sharp, ex.| planatory question. ing to have this effect, he must re. sign at once, He walked back to the hotel, and nh the corridor of the Albany met big bluff cattierman the m whose kindness leaped across the years to warm his heart You don’t remember me, Mr West?” ‘The owner of the Fifty Four Quar ter Circle looked at fhe young man and gave a little whoop. “Danm my skin, if it ain't the boy who bluffed |@ whole railroad system into lettin mer j | | | { [anid West prosentiy, him reload stock for hooked an arm under Dav him straight to the bar, been? What you doin’? Whyn't you come to me as you . got out of a job? Whatll you have, boy?" Dave named ginger ale. They lft 4 glasses. “Now, you tell me all about It,” leading the way to a lounge seat in the mezzanine gallery Sanders answered at first in mon Onyliables, but presently he found himself telling the story of his fail ure to enlist Horace bam in the Jackpot property as a backer The cattleman began to rumple his hair, Just as he had done years ago In moments of excitement “Wish I'd known, boy. I’ve been acquainted with Horace Graham ever since he ran a hardware store on Larimer street, and that's ‘most thirty years ago. I'd ‘a’ gone with you to see him. Maybe I can see him now.” “You can’t change the facts, Mr West. When he knew IT was a con viet he threw the whole thing over board.” The volee of a page in the lobby rose in singsong. “Mister Saaan- ders Mister Sa-0-a-andere.” Dave stepped to the rafling and called down, “I'm Mr. Sanders Who wants me? A man near the desk waved a pa per and shouted: “Hello, Dave! News for you, #on. I'll come up.” The speaker was Crawford He shook hands with Dave and with West while he ejaculated his news in jets, “I got it, won. Got it right here. Came back with the Governor this mo'nin’, Called to. gether pardon board. Here ‘t in. Clean bill of health, son, Resolu tions of rogret for miscarriage of fustice. Big story front page 's aft ernoon’s papers.” Dave smiled sardonically “You're just a few hours late, Mr. Crawford. Graham turned us down cold this morning bi bird." “He aia?” Crawford began to boll inside, “Well, he can go right plumb to Yuma Anybody so small as that—" - } “Hold yore hawas Em,” said West, smiling aham didn't know the facts. If you was a capitalist an’ thinkin’ of loaning’ big money to a man you found out had been I prison for manslaughter and that he had since been accused of pin’ a stage an’ killing the dri “+ as in hurry,” explained Dave joing East tomorrow. some one must have got at him after I He gave | of those who w saw him. He'd made up his mind dropped one of my|when I went back today.” “Well, Hi ce O h m’t chan ain't one his views looking. “But 1, too, have seen (one yell and dropped the flag, clap.|for heaven, hell, and high water. All wonderful things. I'm out of engine |Ping his hand to his face. The others | we've got to do ts to got to him and No. 99 that pulls the United States |Crowded around,him to see what was | make him see the light,” said West Iimited, the most wonderful train|the matter. They thought some-| “When are we going to do all ikeieien. thing dreadful had happened. Just | that?” asked Sanders busy ts then my train whbwzed by. 1 haa|¢very minute of the time ti he ‘One time we were carrying some | caved iL” | starts He won't give us an ap valuable express packages, a mil-| lion dollars in gold, I was told after-| wards, I had just come out of the} big black smoke-stack of the engine | and was looking around at the| rough country, when I noticed some- thing. “The track made a deep curve around a hill, and just as the engine started around the curve, I saw ome figures ahead, and one had a d flag in bis hand, Also I noticed | at the figures wore masks and car-| ried guns, and beyond them in @ ing, saddied and bridled and ready to go. I saw at once what was go- ing to happen. My beloved train would be stopped and robbed and | fairies, Buskins, who jtheir hands. chloride little valley nome hornes were stand. |*"monia or soda ash. tery fre most discharged “Finet’ cried alluthe other smoke | pointment.” and Nancy and Nick and| “Buk didn't the men | come back?” asked’ Nick “No,” said the smoke-pillar, “for | \the gold was delivered that day. The next day was too late.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, Seattle Star) NEUTRALIZE ACTION of calcium on metal parts by adding THERE IS little danger of a bat zing, excepta when it is al re Iivtening, lapped pred iB. clapped | Pir veatfallen, he met the two officers | itive courage to trot round alone, into any shop that Woked intérest-|gle a bit (with the aid of her tiny!many American lady, and “He'll see me. We're old friends,” ted West confidently of the J. later. “Couldn't get Polly amd (Copyright, kpot Company three ho to him. Sent — 2 A (TLL COME BACK! _\You'LL Sock tr The une I'm @ penitentiary | | got me at your mercy { WATCH 1H CAT DONT EASE IN® \lc'Mon PETE, |] HOP ON “TH! )\wanrvve! rt OF “TUNE! /// : oft! | it SKATES OUT OF THE ATTIC FOR Me ? $ word out he was sorry, an’ how was | Mre. West an’ the children, but he was in conference an’ couldn't break away.” | Dave nodded. He had expected this | “I've found out Jand prepared for it | he's going on the eight o'clock flyer. | You going to be busy tomorrow, Mr West?” I got business at the stock DUST IT WitH AT » | 3 PILLOW MACK» (4 Mtl/)P) Aik: Hh- LOOK Vy AY BUS WITH TH’ UMBRELLA- WHY CHAIR 2+ tr MIGHT OUT OF ITS GARAGE ===- DOINGS OF THE DUFFS DADDY, Wiki You, DADDY WON'T My RQ | HAVE TIME RIGHT) GET ROLLE Now-HE HAS TO SHAVE - rLi GET THEM RY AHERN AW, T AIN'T GONNA HIT {Te THIS 1S JUSTA J) | BLUFF 1'M WORKIN’ ON WIM = L CAUGHT IT ONCE BEFORE WHEN (T GOT SNARED |NTH’ CORWEBS ON "TH! ‘< CEILING! TI—-4 USE A | DON'T CARE - ) WANT MY AND | CAN’T Get ‘em! IF WELL IF You’LL QUIT BAWLIN’ ROLLER SKATES! iixe THAT, I’LL GO UP AND SEE WHY, TAG, KANE You FORGOTTEN T TOLD You 1 CAN FIND OURING AN EXCITING GAME OF CHECKERS IN THE BOARD OF TRADE ROOMS TODAY JOE HULK HAD HIS HAT CRUSHED — Olivia Came Thru With the Skates ar & ir ory leo ‘ |* By Mabel Clelan rattle _ + Ld * een Page 6 END OF THE COUGAR STORY “Sounds Ifke ‘an irresistible , all the things the hunters said a fore and an immovable bedy,’"| cougar would do if you showed grandmother said when Mrs.| him your back, I turned and fled. Kahler got to that point in her “1 could fairly feel the great } | } |] story, by briars with the cougar behind her and the great log blocking the “What did you path before her. dor | “I was just a little girl” Mra. yards, but I can put it off.” i ‘Then I'll get tickets for Omaha ‘on the flyer, Graham will take his private car, We'll break in and put this up to him. He was friendly to our proposition before he got the| wrong slant on it. If he's open minded Mr. West says he is—* Crawford slapped an open hand on his thigh. “Say, you get the best | ideas, son. We'll do just that.” CHAPTER XXX On the Flyer West, his fr ia not in evidence, artfully waylaid Graham on his way to the private car. j ‘Hello, Henry B. Sorry I couldn't ines you yesterday,” the railrond builder told Weet an they shook} hands, “You taking this train Yes, wir, Got business takes me ast.” “Drop in to see me some time this | morning. Say about noon. You'll lunch with me uits me, About novi, -then,"*} agreed West. The conspirators modified their | tion, West was etill of opinion that he had better use his card }to get his friends into the ra bullder’s car, but he yielded to Dave's wiser for the view that it would be leman to pave the way at lunch eon | Graham's secretary ate lunch with | the two old-timers and the conver. sation threatened to get away from West and hover about financial con ditions in New York, The cattleman brought it by awkward main force to the subject he had in mind. “Say, Horace, I wanta talk with you about @ proposition that’s on my cheat,” he broke out. Graham helped himself to a lamb |chop. “Sail in, Henry B. You've At the first mention of the Jackpot gusher the financier raised a probib. hand, “I've disposed of that | matter, No use reopening it.” (Continued Tomorrow) Paul—and Paris By Zoo Beckley by The Aeattle Star) CHAPTER XVII— Polly's American spirit HE BIG SURPRISE gave her|ing, try out short cuts to the depart row! | new t stores and boule’ rds, and hag: » to meet a new strategic situa. | i Kahler answered, “but I heard many a hunter tell of nar row escapes from cougars, and it came to my mind strongly that they all made much of that star ing business, but as I said, when it came to a steady stare, that beast had me beaten at the start. “1 simply couldn't look ‘shooed’ him, and tried to frighten h 1 my skirts and stamped my foot, but he net my feeble efforta with an increased baring of his horrid teeth and a continued twitching of his tail. “It was more than little girt na- ture could stand, and, mindful of stand still in the and him oye. shook a. Re ee where she was hemmed in had claws in my shoulders aa I ran, | but I didn’t look back; not once. “I reached the big log and clambered up on it, tore down Its length thru the hindering briars, jumped off it and circled thru the thinner bushes back to the house, My clothes were in tatters, my breath almost gone and my strength spent, but the cougar had not caught me. “When the men came in and heard of my escape they went out after the great cat, and shot it. “It's a blessed miracle you got | away,’ they said, ‘Ho is the big- gest one we've | day, and thin as the le seen in many a ever get to Looked starved and wicked | as sin when we found him. “I think a special Providence guarded us when we were pioneer | children on the West Coast,” Mra, Kahler concluded. ON nee? dictionary) when prices seemed high. On one of her trots she discov an establishment with good-looking frocks and tatlored suits in the win dow She could get a smart costume made to measure for 800 fra a. The woman in charge showed her samples, assured her of satisfaction, impressed ber as being a true artist jin clothes, jevery model “It is that IT shall design you a robe tres chic, charmante! I know in every great gown |house in Paris, “1 shall make you the perfect copy at one-half their robber prices, Jame, I have made the dress for for the haute noblease of France, 1 have here their letters of compliment?" Polly was overjoyed, This was Just the sort of place the friendly woman at Paverel’s had told her of. he unpre man prices!) Polly paid her deposit, chose her peace and high hope in her soul told Paul nothing about it to be the Big Surprise, The first fitting was a disappoint ment, Madame had not material of the sample, ntious shop in the side|voluble French, waving her hands, | te street—every bit asx good, my dear,| snapping her black eyes. A without the bunk and the highway-|manufacturer had no more of it she W&ality! materials, made an appointment for|French till her patience gave out.,@nd sent home at last, the first fitting, and departed with | She would haw to take the other! hopeful, tried it on before the long She | She had made a deposit of a hundred) mirror It was | franes, the exact | pleats were She offered | pluined how she wanted them, "ANLEY HOLD “ER NewT- SHES | A REARIN| BY BLOSSER i YES = TANALKED UP AN! RUNE) TH DooRBELL AN' SUG ‘SAID ‘COME RiegT In’! aly CONGRAT ULATIONS Ss T RSRAT UCATIONST Sane “TO You, SHITAY THE OUTLOOK | FoR A PRoSPGROVES R NGar (Ss AND THAT RENINGDS mE — WE WiC HAVE To BE MAKING OUT something “almost the same." But, Woman, the tailors, the sewing girl the stripe was narrower, hado't half’ fired with armories of “words, They Ube style, |drowned out her complaints, ‘They silenced with their noise her feeble phrases, They pointed out other fea: tures that had nothing to do with pleats, They displayed the the. Jacket lining—behold what splendid It had a cottony .ook to Polly, Her heart sank , . . The thing was finished, paid for Polly, still “Can't you get the other? must have what I ordered. like this," The woman began explaining I realky I dont | in i couldn't get it, could she? Polly struggled in her limited in her brightlywunny bed She could not afford to lowe.| room, gused at it fore and aft, inside that. and out—then flung herself across r The second fitting was worse. The | the bed and wept the bitterest tears too seant. Polly ex-\of her life, ‘The (To Be Continucd