The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 9

. eernartr i "abouts MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1922. {{GUNSIGHT PASS BY WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE Copyrteht Lert wy Wiliam Macleod Ratna, Dermission of and by epectal arrangement with (Continued From Yesterday) CHAPTER XXXIX The Tunnel knew no rest that night He Dave F patrotied his line from San Jacinto | to Cattle and back again, stopping | always to lend a band where the at Tho Joyee had been up most of tack was most furious, The men of a. aswup: Sallie oe the night, she showed no signs of ort > wary to exhaustion, | miigue, In spite of her slenderneen AY T FIGURE IT! Dut the pressure of the fire was #o great that they dared not leave the As s00n a8 one blaze was front beaten out, another started, The dense cloud lifted for a mo. Ment, swept away by an air current the landscape told an appalling fact San Jacinto Canon and been swept westward by a slant of wind with the speed of an express train. They trapped by the back-fire in a from which there appeared top to hilltop. The men gathered together to con. | sult. Many of them were on the Verse of panic. Dave spoke quietly. “We've got chance if we keep our heads. There's an olf mining tunnel here Follow me, and stay to- gether.” He plunged into the heavy smoke that had fallen about them again, working his way by Instinct rather than by sight. Twice he stopped, to "Make sure that hie men were ali at heel. Several times he left them, div. Mg into the smoke to determine which way they must go. Dave stopped and gave sharp, crisp orders. His voice was even amd steady. “Must be clowe to it now. Lie back of these down trees with your faces close to the ground. FU be back in a minute. Shorty, you're boss of the crew while I'm away.” It could have been only minutes, Dut It seemed hours before the voice of Sanders rang out above the fury the blast. up! I've found the tunnel! p lively now?’ ‘¥ staggered after their leader. orty bringing up the rear to see & none collapsed by the way. ‘The tunnel was @ shaliow one in a hillside. Dave stood aside and count @d the men as they passed in. Two were missing. He ran along the back trail, denve with smoke from the approaching flames, and stumbled ito 4 man. It was Shorty. He was Arogging with him the body of a ‘man who had fainted. Sanders @taed an arm and together they man. Sged to get the unconscious victim fo the tunnel. Dave was the last man In. He “earned from the men in the rear that the tunnel had no drift. The | floor was moist and there was a «mall | seepage spring in it near the en trance. Already smoke was filling the cave. The fire had raced to its mouth and was licking in with long. red. hungry tongues. The tunne! timbers were smouldering. “Lie down and breathe the air close to the ground,” ordered Duve “Stay down there, Don't get up. He found an old tomato can and used it to throw water from the eeepepring upon the burning wood. a eyebrows crisped away. He. scarcely draw a breath thru his inflamed throat. His eyes were swollen and almost blinded with smoke. His lungs ached. Whenever he took a step he staggered. Bat he stuck to his job hardily. So Dave held the tunnel entrance against the fire and against his own racked and tortured men. Fire-crisped and exhausted, he dropped down at last into forgetful ness of pain. And the flames, which had fought wi uch savage fury to blot out the little group of men, fell back sullenly in defeat. They had spent themselves and could do no more, ‘The line of them. Out of the prospect hole a man crawled over Dave's prostrate body. fire had passed ove: He drew a breath of aweet, delicious A cool wind lifted the hair from give a air. his forehead. He tried to cowpuncher’s yell of joy. of his throat From out | To the fire-fighters that glimpse of ‘The demon had escaped below from © escape. Every path of exit was cocked. The flames had leaped from came only a cracked I DONT CARE WHAT IT SAYS IN THE BACK OF “W' BOOK» MV ANSWER All rights reserved. Printed by ton Mifflin Company | TEN MEN EXACTLY SIX | Joyce was in command of the peer goon ig department. She or MONTHS AND TWO DAYS "To dere and tesued supplies, checked up the cooked food, and arranged | DIG A DITCH FIFTY RODS for its transportation to the field LONG, AYARD WIDE -AKD FOUR FEET DEEP, ‘TH’ of battle, jthe wirl wae pasenwed of a fine ani-| j}mal vigor, here was vitality in her crisp tread, She was a decisive! young woman who got results ec petently. | About sunset Joyee went home to! seo that Keith was behaving prop-| erly and enatched two hours’ sleep while she could. Keith was on hand when she awakened to beg permission to go} out to the fire. “I'l carry water, Joy, to the men Some one's got to carry it, ain't they, 'n’ if I don’t mebbe a man'll haf to.” The young mother shook her head decisively. “No, Keithie, you're too little, Grow real fast and you'll be a big boy soon.” “You don’t ever lemme have any fun,” he pouted, “I gotta go to bed an’ sleep an’ sleep, She had no time to stay and com fort him. He pulled away sulkily from her goodnight kiss and re- fused to be placated. As she moved away into the darkness, it gave Joyce a tug of the heart to eee his small figure on the poreh, For ahe Knew that as scon as she was out of sight he would break down and wail, He did. Keith was of that tem. perament which wants what it wants when it wants it, After a time his sobs subsided. He went to bed and to sleep. 1t was hours later that the voice of |at her bosom. | some one calling penetrated his| A mountain corral teok form in dreams. Keith woke up, heard the {the gloom. The Mexican slip: sound of a knocking on the door,|the bars of the gute to let and went to the window. horses in, A man stepped out from the house| “Is he here?” asked Joyce breath and looked up at him. “Mees Craw ly. ford, ees she at home maybeso™ he| The man pointed to a one-room asked. The man was a Mexican, |*hack huddled on the hillside, “Wait a Jiffy. I'll get up," the} Keith had fallen sound asleep, his yeungater éalied tack. bead against the girl's back, “Don't He hustied into his clothes, went | ¥#ke him when you lift him dow? the dem, Gad pened the Geer. [she told the man. “I'll just let him “The senorita. Ees sho at home? | *eeP if he will.” The Mexican rried Keith to a the man asked again. pile of sheepskins under @ shed and “She's down to the Boston Em: perium cuttin’ sandwic! an’ pack lowered him to them gently in’ ‘em,” Keith said. “Whe wants Joyce ran toward the «hack, There her?” was hbo light In it, no sign of life “T have @ note for her from Seror about the place. She could not P Se aml undemtand this, Surely some must be looking after her father Master Keith eetzed his opportun. ity promptly. “I'll take you down there.” The man brought bis horse from Whoever this was must have heard her coming. Why had he not ap peared at the door? Dave, of course the hitehing-rack across the road. sie uae away fighting fire, but bo ‘ : 0% pena 7 ae. Ger om Tt was dark—darker than out doors. But as her eyes grew accus Into the Boston Emportum Keith raced ahead of the measenger. “Joy, Joy. a man wants to see you! From Dave!" he shouted. | “A letter, senortta,” the man enid, | presenting her with a note which he took from his pocket, The note read: “Miss Joyce: “Your father has been bart tn the fre. This man will take you to him, tomed to the absence of light she made out a table, a chair, a From the far side of the room came & gurete that wes a half a nore. “Father,” she whispered, and moved forward. Her outstretched hand groped for the bed and {oll on clothing warm with heat transmitted from « ho man bedy. At the mame Ume she subconsciously clasified a strong | “ve ae to ee Ps wp as Wan, dena ten ke The sleeper sttrrea uneasily be neath her touch. She felt stified, ‘The girt, badty ion 2 tf in| W82ted to shout out her fears in « Pb hee — scream, Far beyond the need of nal, baerad «| proct she knew now that some | You may ride along with me.” | thing was very wrong, tho she still [she said, her lip trembling. Soon they were gn the road, Keith riding behind his sister and cling ing to her waist. For an hour they jogged along the dusty read which led to the new | off field, then swung to the right into the low foothills among which the mountains were rooted. could not guess at what the dread ful menace was But Joyce bad courage. She was what the wind and the sun and a jong line of s#turdy ancestors had made her. She leaned forward toward the awakening man just he turned in the bunk, asked questions, and again received | {)0"°% screamed wildly, her | for answers shrugs and voluble| (0. vane a ak teaaein oe Spanish irrelevant to the matter.|:irror, she fought like a wildoat The young woman knew that the f “ battle na being fought among tie {twisting and writhing with all her supple strength to break the grip| canons leading to the plains. This trail must be @ short cut to one of on her arm. For she knew now what the evil and raucous rumble. The man was| them ; Penge Bs ache: Shorty | ‘The hill tra went up and down.| “2 ‘at ~~ 7 a telling © bell) He crept back into the tunnel and| It dipped into valleys and mean-|““!™# 1» her heart. | whispered hoarsely the good news| dered round bills. It climbed a CHAPTER SOLE Men came out on all fours over the| mountain «pur, slipped thru a notch, Sank teinns Bae 3 { bodies of those who could not move.!and plumped sharply into a amali ee nove Shorty dragged Dave into the open.| mountain park. At the notch the}, The change in the wind had cost a the fresh air the men revived) Mexican drew up and pointed a three lives, but it had saved the Riickly. They went back into the/finger. In the dim predawn gray-|J®ckpot property and the feed on cavern and dragged out those of their! nens Joyce could see nothing but a]! range. After the f in San companions not yet able to help| guif of mist Jacinto canyon had broken thru themselves. Three out of the twen-| “Over there, senorita, he waits.”| {art's defense by its furious and ty-nine would never help themselv “Where?” persistent attack, nothing could again. They had perished in the| “In the arroyo. Come.” have prevented it from spreading tunnel | ‘They descended, letting the horses|OVér the plains on a wild rampage Ra 538g pick their way down cautiously thru} ¢xcept @ cloudburst or a decided CHAPTER XL the loose rubble of the steep pitch.|#hift of wind. ‘This last had come A Message The heart of the girl beat fast with|@nd had driven the flames back on! The women of Malapi responded| anxiety about her father, with the) territory already burnt over. | generously to the call Joyce made| probability that David Fortunately the wind died down | upon them to back their men in| would soon come to meet her ont| soon, reducing the danger to a min-| the fight against the fire in the|of the silence, with some vague pre-| imum | chaparral. science of unknown evil Gutehing | Dave handed back to Shorty the! = a are ec - revolver he had borrow THE MA ee ADVENTURES 4| OF THE TWINS Clive FRoberts Barton | “Much obliged. I won't need this any more.” The cowpuncher spoke grimly ies Mexico is & good country for a @ \cattieman,” Sanders sa looking GIC CAKE |etraight at him | 0" et bh e t ye. “So | Aw soon as the Twine left the; “That's the Rubber Mountain in|. + ga ncn aa ai | orchard they stepped into @ strange |bet you, where Nimble Toes got |‘ \%, >! | Good range and water holes country. Not Whispering Forest or | bounced off. If the record flew A Ri AR | ight Meadowland, or the low | of his hand it can’t be very far away. |" Yen ry P . o ' t ound e swampy place by Lily Pond, but a| Why, it might be around here any-| 1° | st ay worse than go realm they had never seen before. It was quite plain that the on an adventure into new realms of down hollow stumps, but there was mystery. But then! One would hardly ex- pect to look for Longhead the Wiz | » with the blue the reen beards, in any place one knows ard, or the Diddyev hair, or the Korsknotts with all about. Right ahead was a mountain and | Nick pointed CASTORIA For Infants and Children Ab Signature o: CHAS. SCHWARTZ Optometrist and Mig. Optician bittle Green Shoes tucked away safely un- der their goloshes were taking them! stones, west tt jot go In there,”* a IN USE FOR OVER 30 YEARS |sconcy.” "re feauier In Ioating us| there if he’s worn out thi» | Where! Let's look.” obun So they started to hunt. They | try bent back boshes and rolled sway| “stage robbers and rustlers right poked in puddles and peered | welcome, are they?" asked Shorty | hardily | }no sign of a record anywhere or! wxo questions asked about a anything like one. {man’s past if his present is O. K." | Suddenly Nick felt a slight prick-| “Listens good. If I meet any ing. It was not enough to hurt him, | body lookin’ to make a change I'll more like the electric eparku when | tell him you recommended Mex you comb your hair and then touch | ico," ‘The eyes of the two men still! your hand to the comb. He remembered thm feather and table, “ky gosh, you've passed the looks like a Payerel. It is a Payerel, pulled it out of his pocket. The ne couldn't help laughing, and the ;at the Cafe de Paris turns Nile green | test A-One and then it was And she achieved it without any help feather wie bending frantically away © Vv an aw —al i ‘aris and restored her, She} when she secs tt, it's a humdinger, | the sash that fetched her!’ from me. It’s positively amazing from « hollow stone or © into ed ed the door and the “cat” folded | They tell she knows more about| After a time, Polly how smart she looks. which Vie. wikis were about ‘to By Zoe Beckley her in a warm hug. swell raga than anyone in Gay | scious of the glances of a man at a! At the end of the meal the wai | alter | step. (Copyright, 1 by ‘THO Reathe Stee) “1 was a pig and a brute and a silly | Paree.” | table halfway across the room, He! brought upon a silver tray two said Paul contritely, “I'm a pm the outside, the Cafe de|was handsome and well dressed and glasses of some shining syrup, CHAPTER XXII~—THE CAFE DE PARIS fool about dresses, Mousie. I only |Paris didn’t look so wonderful. But| obviously not intending rudeness, | orange-gold and delicious looking. away.” | know you would look like a peach if] within—it was like stepping intd aj looked hastily away when Polly's| “From the lady and gentleman ag | Nick looked back ruefully. “"No,| With the dressing-room door | her to forgive him, to let him explain, you wore a jade-pink hopsasking |brightly-lighted golden jewel-casket. | gaze strayed toward him. A vase of | the other table, 1 quens we'd better not,” he waid|ioojed, Polly huddled in a wretched @bout the dress, to put it on and with piped fringe and purple tabou: Thick gold brocade curtains covered | flowers hid from her the face ot the| Polly and Paul looked over, Miss slowly, when suddenly his eyew screw | the floor of the big ward. |!t him gee how lovely it really was, | ret# down the sides the windows. A deep yellow carpet | woman he was with, But presently ; Rand and her escort held two simi Wh a6 deicers. "Oh, 1 he | heap on th Polly pt herself tired and, phen why sh-should I spend a lot} wan under foot, The tables glittered | Polly saw the very annoyed counte: | lar glasses and were smiling a toast cried. A pair of hands were fuat|fobe and cried till ber handkerchief | womanti felt better 1 eat up, of money Polly's votee* still in a silver, damask, |nance of Violet Rand peer round the ‘at them. etting rae chocolate cake out to| was used up. Then she wiped brushed back her hair, emerged caught @ bit breathlessly, “on really daffodils, reflected in | blossoms, | > the dress!’ formed Violet's cool natantly the hands disap-|eyes and nose on the frill of a from the clothespress J wondered nice things when you don’t even it mirror As plainly as though she had /lips. pearetl, leaving the ke on a Jowjcoat that hung conveniently near if Paul, disgusted, had’ gone out; he | know they're nice?” The girl took Polly's cloak, swept | spoken, Violet's eyes said: “Well—if| But In the face of the man Polly table, wh deliciou: 1 tempting. and cried some more was so still ‘Then she heard a emall Because, my precious cbild,|her with an all-embracing glance—|it isn't that litte Mrs, Dawson my|saw not admiration of her pretty # (To Be Continued) } Paul had rap on the door in|seratehing at the door, and a lifelike! women dress for other women, not}and bowed deferentially, man js sfaring at with such interest!! clothes, but of herself—the woman, 2, by Seattle Star) | vain; had culled to her, had entreated ig for thelr husbands, Lf the wrap givll ‘Did you pipe that look?” whis- And in a frock that would do credit (To Be Continued) OUR BOARDING HOUSB \S RIGHT = (T WOULD TAKE. OM/THAT AIN'T sie DACOBS = WE DID THAT ONE \ TODAY» tS THS | They PAGE 9 BY STANLFY THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN MANYBETH! DITCH | DIGGERS WENTON A STRIKE FoR SHORTER SHOVELS THE OLD HOME TOWN {HOLD ER NEWT SHE A REARIN YOU TELL YOUR TEACHER “TOMORROW ALNIN “THAT TH’ SHARPS WHO GoT UP"IHAT BOOK OF SKULL WARMERS ARE ALL OFF, BECAUSE AN ' EXPERT ACCOUNT AT’ || AND IT"TDOK ‘EM Nour HOUSE FIGURED 'EM LONGER | LOPSIDED, AN’ “THEY DON'T//GOSH, I CAN SMELL COME OUT RIGHT! FAT SCORCHING = DON'T THINK So HARD CLYDE ! Cae ONE ‘BouT TH’ SHEEP! i BOYS WERE SO TIRED APTER FIGHTING THE TIRE AT THE WAGONWORKS ‘THE OTHER DAY THAT THEY WENT HOME AND FORGOT THE HOSE - - JASLVIN STICKS 'EM WITH HIS HOMEWORK —=- DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Everything Must Wait BY ALLMAN OH HELEN, THIS AFTERNOON WHILE | WAS | GOT THE ae, abs OUT | GOT THE REST OF THE DOPE WHOLE STORY) HELEN, OH, HE n! x ON THAT SCANDAL | WAS TELLING peices deg COME IN HERE (C) a ELE LE ae AND WE CAN YOu ABOUT - SOME HOT STUFF SHUT THE Door! ————— | WHEN DO WE TOO-1 GOT IT STRAIGHT- Pp START! EAT shed. reapect In each man's was a deep for the other's gameness had been tried by fire and come thru clean. Shorty voleed this defiantly. “I don't like a hair of yore head. Never did. You're too damned interferin’ to suit me. But IT may this, You'll do to ride the river with, Sanders. | “I'l interfere again this far. * Shorty. You're too good a man to go bad.” “On, hell" The outlaw turned y then thought better of it and 9 oe 0 aw came back “lll name no names, but I'll say this. Far as I'm con WHERE TH FOUND HI corned Tim Harrigan might be alive “Well,” the minister's little, body and not a soul paying any today.” \] girl continued, “some fanny | #ttention to him; ten to one he's Dave, with a nod, accepted this | out there looking at the chickies. as true, “I guessed as much, You'y things happened in those days, | °" Sibi | Geinece saa a7 Oday tid I've a whole jot of little baby . wn 6 ey ee when almost nobody had enough , pardner.” ones “Have I?” anked the rustler of anything—but hospitality and) “put mother didn’t look as if nd “Did I eay anything about |] grit. | she felt happy yout so much a pardner?” a " alia «| aulet goodness; she had three His eye fell on the three still fie T do not know whether the | ciner small boys, and she looked ures lying on the hillside in a row bride's family weren't expecting jous, aa she went out No a twitching muscle in hin fa father to bring hie wife and chil “And presently she led into the ywed what he house what had been her spotless sur | was thinking, that|]} dren; they didn't seemed they might have been full of splen-| son } prined, ty nen we—the minis lid life and vigor if Dug Doble ha Prined, but when we—the minis-| «1 gon't remember what she not put @ match to the chaparral ter’s family—were seated at the) said; I know everybody else back of Bear Canyon, The man had|| table, I remember that there| thought it was funny; he did look murdered them just as surely as th were neither dishes nor chairs| fanny; mother had found the lit- he had shot them down with a rifie. | aol aes oe tle raseal sitting flat down in the | For weeks Shorty had been getting mnough to serve anybody else, #0 dirt under t house-on-stilta, as hie ffair in order to leave the bride and groom, host and hostess contented as ny of the pigs | ountry, but before he went he in stood around and waited while yund him. | tended to have an accounting with|| we ate “Did you ever go to Seattle HERE! FINISH TYING ve MY STUFE on® man | when your father went?” David AND “THEN YOu Can INVESTIGATE THE MATTERS A man on horseback appeared and Also, everybody ‘waited: while SOMETHING DROPPED A¢ RIGHT, mother, in deep humiliation, went her But tT was NOT ws PRICES uy rode up to Dave and Shorty. The | man was Bob Hart | in “We piled into a cave. Some of | the boys couldn't stand it,” search of small | little girl. “After a while, when | the church & a little bigger, mother and I went over there and missing boy. Dave | 4a whole week at the meet- | | aske “Oh, yes,” said the minister's | | explained. ‘I saw him just as we came! stay: Bobs’ gaze took in his friend, The || In, mama,’ I said, ‘He didn't come | Ing of the Baptist association upper half of his body was almost in here while you were saying} We stayed with a friend of naked. Both face and torso were mother’s, and I was much tm. raw with angry burns. Eyebrows howdy-de-do, He let go of your | pressed because the Soattle chil- had dimppeared and eyes were #0 hand and sat down on che door} dren went to school in the big | swollen as to be almost closed, Helf ate | white university—they naa no |} was gaunt, ragged, unshaven and “*And how nice and quiet he's| other school—that must have | bleedir Shorty, too, appec to}} , rake 1 the bride, ‘not | S200 In the woods on the corner have gone thru the wars reen, too! sald the bride, "not) stood on the woods on the corner |] (Contiaved Tomorrow) |] making a mite of trouble for any- | of Fourth and University,” i | pered Paul as they were led to their to—me! Whe re did she get it? It