The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 9

THE SEATTLE BY AHERN Now, CAN YEH* AND HE \ YOU SCRAMBLE! picKs OFF PENS HAT EGG? ATH! posT- HE KEEPS HIS OFFICE AND GLASSES ON HIS! Dore T cross SHEETS 2= I LOST A |iTHERE'S A }/BROW TO SAVE/I-tH'=T's IN HIS WEAR AN TEAR Ml L ETERS So HE \pime AND (T MUSTA BEEN) HOLE IN ONE x \WHEN I LAID DOWN oF TH’ SHEETS Olan ON SAVE FOR A SPELL LAST AND MAYBE IT] \leme OUR BOARDING HOUSE WHEN You MADE UP MY BED THIS MORNING, MILLY, DID YoU FIND A DIME SOMEWHERE IN “TH! —_ (HOLD BR = NEWT Th oe Pye SHES SOME DAY TO ENCLOSE No, MR. WILKY« I DIDN'T SEE ANY DIME IN YouR BED~- Oe BEGIN HORE TODAY NIGHT AFTER SLIPPED » ep of escapes from the hy whor Ne war and takes te0Gg6 1h COWIE Eee oe eel |\ SUPPER! he bas been © and bloody grow was captured by Ind “ or with him, was k Rei "the Indians attack the fort and a Virginian, mortally wounded, recog: | - J piss White Arrow as his som White Wrrow’s real name is Erskine! [i ' volutionary Kentue ky. He states that he \ infancy and that his mother, taken prin Hee ae Dale | pare YANDELE, a ptoneer, acts as guardian and sends Frakine to Red! & axes, the great Dale plantation of the river James, Erskine is kindly wed by his father’s younger brother, | NBL DALB, and by bis cousing, | YY. ae ON WITH THE STORY | Witioughby bowed with noble dignity Get ready for supper, Hugh—| before Mra. Dale, and the two led eee cousin.” he maid, and led the way to the dining room to his room and pointed Harry," she said, “you and Bar he take care of your cousin.” hg hes on the bed. on the bed. to the clot And almost without knowing it the} = ” he asl i “Don they fit?" he asked smiling. | young Kentuckian bowed to iar amen paew—t don't Eas | Dara, who courtesied and took his | te git into ‘em. arm. But for his own dignity and! Young Harry taughed joyously. | hers, she would have liked to equeal | Take off your wardress.” be) with delight. ‘The little woodsman | eid, “and I'l show you |saw the men draw back chairs for With heart warming to such Kind: | tne indies, and he drew back Barbara's | peas, and helpless against It the lad) before Hugh, on the other site of @ayed like a child and was dressed | her, could forestall him, On bis left the a child jwas Harry, and Harry he watched | v. keenly—-but no more keenly than | {The boy stood at a window look: | Hugh watched him. ] gut into the gathering dusk. His} Ono ginss of wine he took, and the | gould catch the last red glow OM | quick dixsiness that assailed him yellow river. | frightened him, and he did not touch ‘Over in his own wilds at that hour! jt again. Beyond Barbara, Hugh they were driving cows and horses | leaned forward and lifted his glass to Into the stockade, A man had gone/him. He shook his head and Hugh fo each of the wateh-towers. From) flushed. the blackening woods came the curl} “Our Kentucky cousin ts not very | | a — Liz JIM HARDY BUILT ANOTHER A oS a LA LEAN-TO ON HIS POTTER 4 jy % Lond LET HOME - ~~ Yi YA, = Zn §2ZZZ, Check the Hat? BY ALLMAN ling cry Of & panther and (he hovt-| polite--he is something of a bar| Near a doerway between parlor re ing of owls. as +s | pager yr toon _ wat an Ooms three. Gab 7 . ‘Away on over the still westward) “He dosen't understand.” mid Bar. | '8at bows and dainty courtesyings THE CHECK GIRL R " OH, SOYOUR HAT 1S CHECKED the f squawr, | ba ckly, e|and nimble f n | WANT ‘THE MOST OVER AT Lo, | CHECK Your . ME Gets waves, vod in. obin, in| tnchtent, und’ sbe tered te er coe [ure ne. IPPINS AIT | CRONOUNCED CHECK LUNCH GETS MY GoaT = HOT STUFF-YOU OUGHT TO GO Bee heart, and rea with hate| ain “L know that dance,” Erskine mid You HAVE! EVERY DAY-WHEN| GO + HAT, SIR P IN BURLESQUE~ HE MAKES UPA the whites. pe I, Hugh then turned to his wine and) to Harry, who told Barbara, and the IN THERE SHE WANTS To FUNNY JOKE To SAVE A THIN DIME! qi was hardship—danger, | bean soon to look more flushed and plittle girl we o him @ 7 s , i ¥ CuC ! n@ Harry and the floor, Hugh came up. SAY MY HAT 15 Checked! gome, but he would not stay | Hugh followed them ASKS ME TODAY /’LL ] YOURE SAFE-NOBODY WOULD away, { - The door opened, andi the Kentuckian mo toward the! “Cousin Barbara, this if our dance, came eagerty in. | head of the table where the men had! | believe,” he said @ little thickly boys paused in the hall’ gathered around Colonel Dale ‘The girl took him aside and Hugh pointed to a pair of/ “Yes,” said General Willoughby. | went surlily sway. Harry saw the Taplers over the mantel | Mit looks aa though it might come.” | incident and he looked after Hugh, | i | “With due deference to Mr. Brock: | frowning. ‘The backwoodsman con ‘were your father’s,” he! ton.” suid Colonel Dale, with a bow | ducted himself very well, He was was a wonderful fencer.” | to the tutor from Engtand, “it looks tthe and graceful and at firet very shook his head in ignor-/as though his country would soon | dignified, but aa he grew in confh Harry smiled. force us to some action.” [dence he began to execute steps’ “Tl show you tomorrow.~ They were talking about the tm/ that were new to that polite ‘land almost cried ent ber) pending war, Through hall and! and rather boisterous, but Barbara and pleasure when she | doorways came how merry sounds of tooked pleased and all onlookers a handsome figure he! fiddle and banjo. seemed greatly amused—all except his new clothing. From! “Come on, cousin.” sald Harry, | pug under Hugh's feet the ground for the | “can you dance | When the last dance came and the Moment was quite taken away, so “If your dances are as different as! dancers were drawn in two lines, the Much to the eye, at least, do clothes | everything else, I reckon not, but I hey who was third from the end make the man, Just then General’ can try.” heard Harry low voles behind hina win and my guest and you will answer to me. | The lad wheeled, saw Harry with » | Hugh, left hia place, and went wo FRECKLES AND HIS FRIE 5 DOWN To Tue STORE FoR MOTHER © He is my ¢ HELLO -wuere } YA Goin! |them. He spoke to Harry, but he Jlooked at Hugh with @ sword-fash [im each black eye. | “I don't want nebody te take up for me.* | Again he wheeled and was tn his | place, but Rarbara saw and looked | troubied, and #0 did Colonel Dale. ‘The tests left with eovety, emilee and laughter, and everyone gave the stranger kindly goodby. Again Harry went with him to his room and the lad stopped again under the crossed swords | “You fight with ‘emt | “Yes, and with pistols.” “I've never had a pistol. I want to learn how to use them.” | Harry looked at him searchingty but the boy's face gave Rint of no more purpose than when he first asked the same question. } | Iv | | From ploneer habit he awoke be fore dawn. He slid into his own) «1 shot between the bark and the bugkskin clothes and moccasins end | im right under the squirrel out the still open front door and|ine shock kills ‘em. Uncle | down the path toward the river. 1-| Boone ahowed me how to do that. “ ‘ en ‘ ‘ ae jstinctively he had picked up his| “taniel Boone!’ breathed Ha. Chattering monkeys!” he shrieked, gnashing his teeth| Dan t t ery rifle, bullet-pouch, and powder _ an’ ar Grattle * & t ad “1 ah A aE Page bio “ONCE UPON A TIME” Bere ts « lovely once-upon-e | built, things Just kept right on time story, all about a girl-wife, | being strange and the boy grew a tiny baby, an old Indian chief, | hardier and stronger with every | and his Wee granddaughter. day that passed, but the girl, | It ia all true, and it was told to | who wasn’t very strong to begin | Pegey and David just as the other | with, grew up like a slim, white | pioneer stories have been told, | lily on a fragile stem, and al, the | but we aren’t to tell where it hap. | time in the hearts of both of them | pened or who the girlwife was, | was a beautiful love for each | “op ” “Deo you k Danie! Boone?” & rage, “I'll have to go back to my cave.” _ |Up the river to the right he could| and then Iugh came in, pale of ‘The dragon (Twelve Toen, the Sor-\(as I have no pocket), Ama I need | faintly see dark woods, and héltace and looking rather ashamed. Geter, he was, really) hadn't gone far my other three feet for walking. plunged Into them with hi# eyes on | its went etraight to the Kentuckian When he remembered that altho he “I'l have to ebange.. myself the ground for signs of game, but he "Il wan rude to you last night and Bl stolen all the magic of the into—" * ‘aaw tracts only of coon and akuink|1 owe you an opology.” ‘Twins, he had forgotten the chocolate! Just what he was going to say | #04 fox, and he grunted his disguit/ fH» chrust out his hand and awk ke. And it was very important we'll never know, my dears, because | Mily the boy ros and took it. that he take it along. something happened at. that very |’ “And you'll forgive me, too, Bar He wus just about to start up the minute. ‘ bara?” first of the Seven Mountains, which| ‘The red feather shot ont of his “Of course I will,” she anid hap-| TesPadeet rupber, when he remem. great horny claw like am arrow out pity | it of a tightly drawn bow and made | _After breakfast Harry brought out straight for the inside of the great ‘ two tolls aad ewe asm, fark cave where poor Nancy, and 7, | “We fight with those,’ he mid, pointing to the crowned raplers on ) the wall, “but we practice with these. (/\ Hugh, there, {# the champion feno- ler.” he said, “and he'll show you.” | They crossed foile—Hugh giving in | etructions all the Ume and nodding | approval j “You'll learn—yon'll learn fast”) id, Amd over his shoulder to | “Chattering monkeys™ he shriek 4 gashing*his teeth in rage, “I'l! have to go back to thy cave, where I Nick were still serubbing at the HM those stupid children. Well, sticky spots on the floor. ‘With these Magic Green Shoes on my| It flew right for the Cloth of fet it won't take long.” Dreams Nick clutched in bia hand, Bo back he whisked. There lay the and in ly the cloth fell t the Ghecolate cake just where he had floor. Then turning it flew to Nancy | Plated it to entice the children into tore the cloth from her hand} cave, on a@ little wooden table al . at was covered with a white nap | The Twins stood up and rubbed kin. their eyes. “Wh-—Where are we?" "Well, welt said Twelve Toes in they stammered, getting up to their S quandary. “1 can't carry a choco- fect. “Why Is it so dark, and where other Night-timea, when he came in from his wood-cutting in the for. even tho she is a grandmother lady now and you would dearly ‘Why, his wrist ts as strong an {mine now, and he's got an eye like! love knowing her. MAKE IT SPIN, DON'T ‘ou 2 est, the boy would come to the | t inte ca his ee 0 we been?” + Weanel.” Once-npon.a-time, then, when } * Ee teers nn, orm. 1 Need one | have we been Wen 6 tons bo eeeiees “thal home of the girl, and he woukd A NUT CIKe You BELONGS IN : My front fect for carrying the (To Be Continued) eB trem hie ant tet’ bead. Sh the great Oregon country was all a ie hae mee ‘ A SQUIRREL CAGE 5 Magic paper and the red feather p ane 390k by Beis | foll from his antagonist’s han | z ing to her, and his voice was i mats Paver and the ry A feather pen'. (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star} 5 | tegtediion was bonwaacad {] wid and tonely miles of forest, | ROl Ut" deep and weet, eo “You t do that again.” | there lived a frall young wife with fine a voice that the earlyday 4 | “I don’t belleve I can," laughed |} ner husband and her baby son. | Hugh j | people called him “the sweet | A’ little Inter Barbara and her} When the young people had | singer of Oregon.’ ' ‘ | cousin were trotting smartly along cromed the plains with their | Then they built their own log i | ‘ @ sandy road through the fields with || fathers and mothers a few years | cabin and when they were mar “1 don’t want sobody te take up ‘he colonel and Hugh loping in front efore, the: had known great ried they went to live in it, and Ploy of them. before, i still the girl was frail, and when * ion ina of them. “ | . hei : s Firefly was a black mettlesome hardships and dangers. Food was | she held her baby in her arms ee and loped ahead for half an hour far. | gelding. He had reared and plunged acarce-—-excepting, of course, the | she looked so white and tired that : ther into the heart of the woods. when Hugh mounted, but the lad/f meat of wild buffalo, and deer, | her young husband was afraid : An hour later he loped back on his|sat him with an uneoncern of his So he got himself a piece of land | | : ish w a lown tracks. He came noislensly be-| capers that held the Kentucky boy's || @"¢ the fish which were caught | across the mountains, and he said hind a negro woman at the kitchen. | eyen, in the streams. to her, “Dear heart, It is dark and door and threw three squirrels on! lor an hour they drove, the boy | And often they were drenched | rainy here. I am going to take WE I E the steps before hee. she ave. 4 evala hardly believe that this coun with rain and often the sun beat | you and baby across the moun shriek, but recovered herself and try was on as wild as his own - tains, where the sun shines warm ' GIVE YOU | Jeti, Bue recovened Mera untae, wil a his own LT Jown upon them in saying nor | fina were the wun einer rm ’ State Supervision grew as she looked them over, for| his own become even a richer land of way will come back again into your s Absolute Safet there was no sign of a bullet-wound,! Many questions the little girl asked And when the long trip was | cheeks, s , marety 4 c the n ‘1d some " 4 : - and she went in to tell how the Inju and some of his answers made her . ‘ ni o¢ ho ‘o Be Continu Good Earnings poy must naturally just “chatn ‘em | shudder ended, and the log homes were (To ‘a edd) - . . : F right out o' de trees.” Mapa sald last night that SVera) | Q——<_<f tT 11 ed ‘I've Just told yor , - ot her t And a service that is sure to please | Colonel Dale soon came in. |of our kinsfolk spoke of going to — an it ton have to" nik ah Soca’ nd to ove lene oer goes cee | i you—the kind that you are glad to rec- ; | “You've got the servants mystl| your country in a party, and Harry | ness session all afternoon. What you) nally he comes round to the real/ business things over here if you! small thing. “Me stood close; she te ommend to your friends H fied,” he said laughingly. “How ia | and Hugh are crazy to go with|been doing, honey?” |business and tells you to call two/ want to put it over.” | withdrew. : my om ne ‘ela? | them. “apa sald people ‘ould y r da ns ee ‘Or ie. ¥ y 5 “y, : ” ‘ ‘a Money received on or before the 6th we ym tiy 97mg or ab pono Pa Poor Bs ph Piss at b y retailed her day's veteiniies Ae” ks from next W inesday at 5. | “You never used to suggest such| “I can see that it's her way, not of this month earns from the 1s ‘ ‘ Deas bare. | umberland | her spirit la And after you've gone all over it) methods. You always sold your heat-| your way, Paul. And it is not @ : ; 1s from the Ist. barked ‘em.’ | on har, Ange jong | “Come, dear, I've news that'll! again, you take him out to dinner, /ers and things without mixing me | small thing. It seems cheap and hor- ; $1 to $5,000 Accepted “Barked ot in Our Next seme) | cheer you. A big business man here |invite him to go automobiling, send into it, I don't quite like to—” |rid to me. 1 can't do it, please don’t ~- =<" | wants me to outfit his factory with |the baby @ present and get your| Polly felt stung and mystified. She |ask me to.” (To Be Continued) f MM | | e furnaces. I've learned from exper: | wife op nae him what a bird of a) had walked too much and was tired | — —— : WN i TTT 5 Mh d P. I d P tenes that you can't put deals over|dancer he is and frazzied; the lateness of Paul’s| at} T . ar ; her coronation in 1701 as Queen ; UOT © V an aw. raul aris in France the same way you can at Whieh brings me to the point. |homecoming had added its mite and of Persia, Sophia. Charlotte wore naind. Polly darling, I want you to dress! now—yes, she was growing more By Zoo Beckley = SEATTLE SAVINGS and LOAN Jewels worth more than $1,090,000. “Over here you wri long letter|in your prettiest next ‘Thursday |and more sure of it—she sensed V (Coprright, 1922, by The Seattle Stary ‘Over here you ten nt nn n she sensed Vio- ‘ ; ASSOCIATION syAibor is all full of greetings and compliments | night and do the snappy social stuff. |iet Rand's fine Italian hand in this.! specimens of smail specles of * of the season, end then you walt a |We're going to take him out to dine| She brooded a moment. Suspicion | turth 2 . 1 CXV yy J 3S INT be ee i ies have been known to lite 9509-34 AV CHAPTER XXVII—THUMBS DOWN Mouth on twos, Then be sonwors, 19:|-coome Hite plage be known. whete| became, oomvietioar |turtien ‘have sc - ° quiring how your family in, and|you get grand eats—and you're g0-|* “Does this—er—business prospect | “Paul, my dearest, where have) pened to your whether your ancestors preferred |ing to put over the big deal” come thru Violet Rand?" Average cost of returning the tedy: fin | MMMM yu een? is nearly 7. was|. “Gee-whle, sirl, 1 am apts. thut\chcom or tailed apricots and hoping) “1 don't Understands Paul. What|itiaund is, an acquaintance ef] ot AT Aste cnt te ' ‘ [irantie for fear yomething had hap, I've been over my head in @ busi: you are enjoying the weather, HL [nave 1 got todo with ik7 “hera yos. 1 think it’s darned decent is $500, ~~