The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 11

PAGE 11 ATTLE STAR BY STANLEY OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN , THE OLD HOME TOWN NoPE I AIN'T GoIn' TOM WeLL~ \] 1 HAD OL WILKY \/WHYSAY, fF D E TO MAIL MY INCOME TAX | / Vpeoaec, |] HOPPING» IToLD It HAD/AT OL A | RETURN UNTIL THVERY H CoS Ore HIM “TWAT CONGRESSI Loe te PI | LAST MAIL COLLECTION, H an’ ~HouGHT ; | H AND THAT'S A QUARTER || MAYBE You'd j | "To TWELVE ' = L'VE Gor |] LiKE ME “To B oby JOHNFOX Jr | || ATL MIDNIGHT BY Law || DROP rr IN-TH! | | Th Mi GWAM! 1H 110 by } AND T AIN'T GOIN To vata Wig pedals A os SEND [Tr ANY SOONER» You! y rushed for it = | he and} patience, vor | gone—and they | silence. | * (Continued From Yesterday) “I know more of your career than you think, Grey *PY as well as « traitor, fought now you are crowning your infamy bY |“ irpore Rregpenee sn yyw RO Wattving some spell over my cousin. and it was evident that the game] TI ean hardly hope that you « had ended in a quarrel and the play: | @igte the honor I am doing you ers were coming up the river-bank | Diack boy ran down the steps | toward them. Hrskine heard, but if Presently Hphraim was in the! Grey did he at first gave bo sign of the thicket he was too much concemped with the} be one to Mr. Grey, Ephraim. |qeath that faced him. Suddenly 884 the other to me.” |Korakine knew that Grey had heard, “Hphraim,” warned Erskine, “take | for the fear in his face gave way Bir pistol You may need i, t0/to a diabotic grin of triumph and Protect yourself.” he lashed suddenly into defense—if | Indeed, yes,” returned Grey, “and could protect himself only a lit-| Bindly instruct him not to use it to tie longer! Erskine had delayed the Protect you.” For answer Erskine ¢inishingstroke too long and he! wang from the shadow—<discarding must make it now. courtesies, | Grey gave way step by En garde! he called sternly parrying only, The biades flashed | The two shining bla clashed | ike tiny bits of Nghtning, Erekino's | Nightly and quivered aguinst each face, grim and inexorable, brought | ether In the moonlight the sick fear back tnto Grey's, and Grey was cautious at first, trying) Erskine saw his enemy's lips open. eat his opponent's increase tn skil! He lunged then, bis blade went ¥You have made marked improve-|true, sank to the hilt, and Grey's aad warped soul started on its way with “Thank you,” smiled Erskine. @ craven cry for help, Erskine “Your wrist is much stronger,” sprang back into the shadows and/ dowy grasa Damn a | Wheeled DERNED IF T you furiously quite in deadly You have been » ‘And now |&nd_ caution he atep i “Naturally.” Grey leaped back-/snatehed bis pistol from Ephraim's | ward and parried just in time a vi hand: 1 ~ ge that was like a dart of nant gut ot, the way now. Tel Riaatn aoe DY por “Ah! A Frenchman taught you) Once he looked back. He saw HIS CIGAR INSTEAD OF HIS that.” |martera at the hall-door with o NEWS NOTES, UNDER HIS HAT "A Frenchman taught me all the Mammy behind her. With a run Bittle I know.” | ning leap he vaulted the hedge, and, “1 wonder tf he taught you hew/ hidden in the bushes, Ephraim heard to meet this.” | Pirefly’s hoofs beating ever more “He did.” answered Erukine, par-/ faintly the sandy road. easily and with an answering| ~ that turned Grey suddenly} xx anxious. Grey began to breathe! Yorktown broke the British heart, heavily. |and General Dale went home to Red | “1 think, too,” sald Erskine, “that /OQnks. He had pieced out the full my wind ts better than yours—~!story of Barbara and Erskine and would you itke a short resting’) Dane (irey, and wisely he told her err lfirst of Grey's dark treachery, and | From, the shadow Pphraim chuck | the girl listened with horrified si-|' “Yes he went en, “the white woman whom he found in the in) BY ALLMAN BN I'VE JUST GOT TIME NOW ‘TO ; GET THIS TAX RETURN IN THE } [_ MorHER'/ |"! mai, BOX BEFORE THE LAST COLLECTION! wildness and his wanderings, his) marriage, and the capture of his| wife and the little son by the in| diana, all of which she knew, and | the girt wondered why he should be | telling ber again. ‘The general) Paused. | “You know Erskine’s mother was | not killed. He found her." The girl looked up amased and incredu- lous, j OH GEE, DADDY > werent IS CROSS “TON Re | Jed, and Grey snapped: }lence. i a ' “Make that biack devi—° | “1 have never understood about (dian village was his mother | “Keep quiet. Ephraim!’ broke In| myseif-—and that man,” she sid,| “Fatherl’ she lifted her head _ Erskine sternly. |“and I never will.” quickly, leaned back with hands “{ do.” said the general gently,| Caught tight tn front of her, looked Grey was getting angry now and) her own crimson ‘was beginning to pant | and 1 understand you thru my six |UD into hiv face—he) “Your wind is short,” sald Ers-|ter, who was so like you. Erskine’s|!me and paling as #he took In the kine with mock compassion. “I will father was as indignant as Harry ts | full meaning of it all, Her eyes give you a little breathingwpeil pres-| now, and I am trying to act toward | dropped. | omy.” lyou as my father did toward her."| “Then,” she mid slowly, “that In l'rhe girl preased her lips to one of |@ian girl-Early Morn—-is his half | his hands. jsintor, Ob, nof* A great pity flood |ed her heart and eyes. “Why didn't Grey was not wasting bis precious breath now and he made no answer. “Now? said Erskine sharply, and Grey's blade flew from his hand an lay like a streak of aitver on tne'and he told of Erskine’s father, his Indians™ “I think I'd better tel you the whole story now,” said General Dal | aed ESABEL OS (Continued From Page 6) a See TRANDERS = She had turned to flee, when a | “I think Erskine is going te try |Erakine take them away from (he “Hila mother wouldn't leave them.” And Rartara understood. “Poor thing-—poor thing? now.” “Did you tefl htm te bring them | here’ The general pat bis band) on ber head, “I hoped you weald any that. did, but be shook his head.” “Poor Exnkinem ashe and her tears came waned tack and for « moment lowed his eyen “There ty mora” he sald finaly. | eldest | the “Eervkine’s father was brother—and Red Oaks | ‘The girt eprang to her feet, ago- Rook where she could be undiscor-| iow, vaguely familiar voice fell upon |"!#ed. shamed: = “Relongs to Ere ered, she felt that the covl air would | her ears. |kine,” she finithed with her face in ther hand “God pity me,” she refresh her. Like @ moving shadow she glided past the teabouse and to the edge | “Miss Tudor! you here?” Miss Tudor, are “Captain Warren. Longhead, the Wisernan, who lived (Copyright, 1922, by Seatthe Star) Oh, IT am so} | “I drove him from his own home.” whispered, jfrom the food she was playing with! face and offers congratulations! Con-|differeat with her, She knows—" | FRECKLES AND HIS CANT COME T* k STOOL WITH You ¢ AN SOMETIM, FRECKLES? VEAN -1F BOM WILL, UBT Nou. FRIENDS CU, Pom TwrT ScMoot vera FRECKLES, WELL, wauT DID You Ste? selfvespect in order to convince enough or educated enough or—any- AUTTLE 6iRL WROTE ON A WALL, ef the wood. | slad you found mer No," sald the eld general with All at once she became aware of! A hand was lifted from the rung |% eentie smile. He was driving the the crunch of gravel upon the path. | of the crutch and clasped bers warm j barb deep, but sooner or later it} They were dragging, halting steps,/ly. “I did not know yout people | had to be done | with an odd sort of thump in be|were giving a dance tonight or [; “Look here He od an old) tween; surely not made by the light | should not have intruded. I heard|Dlece of paper from his pocket and | | that you had returned and I wanted|handed it to her. Her wide eyes |so much to see you. I've been|fell upon a rude boyish scraw! and | alone | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | staying with friends in the neighbor |a rude drawing of a buffalo pierced In the earty «pring, when he! |hood, but I am leaving tomorrow.” |by an arrow: brought his mother home, she ae = | “It was good of you to come”| “It make me laugh no|that Black Wolf had escaped and) CX ie aie = | There was a shock not of pity in|use. I give hole dam farther into the wikderness-— . Qoob BMS | the ho , nat Early Morn had gone wit 3e | the sict’s tones. me man who had Berbers os y Mo * FoR SvSErRr => cot het i" er her's men. dl si friend, had been no cripple Jwhere is bev |] Braking, not knowing that Par + Sood BYE PoRcve RFF ‘ell me ali that has happened| “Waiting at Williamsburg to get’ bara was on her way to find him. |since I saw you in Paris his discharge.” She rushed swiftly) started on a hunting trip. In @ few * Sd Qoob ~ co St eae = ‘This, you mean?” He indicated |down the steps, calling | days Barbara arrived and found his jthe crutch. “I got it in the Art| “Ephraim! Ephraim!’ | mother unable to leave her bed, and abel ClelandJ & gonne However, I hope to discard And te minutes later the happy.| Lydia Noe sitting beside her. ~ o | my props before long and get about |grinning Ephraim, mounted’ on the) farbara was dismayed by Pore | Page 624 }as well as before, 1 heard that|thorobred, was speeding ahead of!yine's aheence and his mother’s p o . you ‘ad been very fil.” }a whirlwind of dust with a little | ijox of wuffering and extreme weak WHAT THE GRANDFATHER INDIAN DID “Jost a brevkdown.” Fay's tone! scented note in his battered slouch | nein and the touch ef her cold The old Indian looked puzzled there, tearing down the road, wes lighter than it had been for a {nat | ningers when the young husband said he| Were the five bust cows, and be- jong time. I never knew that I You said you would come when There was no way of reaching her ‘ | hind them, showing small regard had nerves before.” lever I wanted you. I want you to|,., she sald--he did not know o couldn't go, and be argued with ; “ . | . hi \ | for their “bad feelings” or the fe nodded. leome now.—BARBARA inher tines. Barbara told her of him. | | “I know. I've felt that way, too.”| ‘The girl would not go to bed, and | ierakine's giving her his inheritance, ae rm } hotness of the day, rode the old od) | There was an unconscious wist-/the old general from his window ang that she had come to return it ‘Go! he mid, “Moos-Moos) Indian, whooping only as an In bey | et eo in hia tone. |maw her like some white spirit of| Meanwhile Erskine, haunted by|] sick; white man mamook klak! dian can whoop, and waving a “I could not speak of your broth-|the night motionless on the porch.|nis mother's sad face, had turned lor r is mother’s sad fac 7 ° ong whip over bis head. Tha girl saw to her amazement |¢r’s things to you in Paris,” he went | And there thru the long hours she | homeward. To his bewllderment, he | malish totoosh. pda maa pits oe iy {hat the intruder was @ man on “I knew that it would distress | «at. The dawn came and with it/ found Barbara at his mother’s bed-| But sil the white man shook ‘an Neate: Gaki e erutches. yee too much then; but I h Ephratm. The girl waited where wide, A glance at their faces told was breathing heavily, but the f | saved them for you and I was sure |she was, Ephraim took off his bat'| him that death was near [q_ Bie Bend and sald be could not | old man never paused until he had feet of any of bogs magpie ; j that you would want them.” |tered hat. | Mis mother held out her hand to|f Then the old Indian said, “Wod-| the last cow inside the fence. In & moment a lesser shadow de) “I do; more than anything else in| “Marse Erakine done gone, Miss | him while still holding Barbara's. || ew.ow.coeer and jumping on his| Nor did he pause then, for with tached itself from the deeper ones| the world they are precious to me."| parbary,” he said brokenly. “He! as in a dream, he bent over to kiss | ul Baa the girl saw to her amazement | She spoke very low, and there was/done gone two her. and with a last ‘effort she pony, rode off without another! °M® last mighty whoop he sprang that the intruder was & man onja pause. After s time asked in| ‘The girl ing, and there! joined their hands, clasping both. | word | oft his tired horse and ran as if erutches. Could it be the misereant|a change of tone: “But is every-|the old general found her still mo-| A great peace transformed her | ' z | the seven demons were after him ev sop i comer and | thing soins right with you?" tionless—the torn bits of her note! face as she slowly looked at Bar-| “Now I wonder what he's uD] _ straight into the creek garage two nig mre pntinued Tomorrow) and the ord sre bara and then up at kine. With |f} to,” thought the young husband.| ‘There he sat down in the stream - ane red ahogt Dar 4 sigh sg head sank eid = All day long the sun beat down! with a contented “Ugh!” and be ee her lovely dl in, yes me | 1 AD ENTUR Ss | |the final oe pate i °) on the dry ground, and the day} gan splashing the water over his Vv Ee XXIV | "Two days later they were married.|{| Was scorching hot. Back in the! face and neck and shoulders fo) T HE T w i NS On the summit of Cumberland Gap! In the silence that fell, Erskine|| shelter of the big trees where the} When he felt himself coot again, wy Clive Roberts Barton | Erskine Dale faced v4 r ise t = spoke of the life before them, of its|f young couple had built their home| be calmly walked to the house, looked his last on the forests that| hardships and dangers, and then of o Ay 17 " aiuh 2 say | J there was shade, and not far away Me friend,” he guid, “Me long es Ss I? swept unbroken back to the river|the safet 4 comfort of V : ‘ ‘ THE GLASS MOUNTAIN Speen eFon : pry aa rt Irginia. |}. creck ‘rippled by, whispering | time friend. White woman kind ancy and Nick were getting |at the third end of the earth om é ge ondy j 1 e 7 MTL ra; cued grstnayes admee| | wus eorostting havens | That winter he made hin clearing| “You choose the wfidernem, and || stories of coolness, but everything | when baby die, Me Chope (grand: the Glass Mountain | At the very top of the Glass Moun. |°™ ‘he land that Dave Xas a had | your choice is mine, We will leave was hot! father.” They took the advice of the Rub-|tain stood a large glaax priem with | PICked agg eend him, and ‘ “ bce fend diner engllbaeryas She flushed | About 4 o'clock the stiliness w: How he knew them, how he ter of it thre > a rude log hut | wudde 4 bent her head ber mountain and went up back sharp corners ider the sun's Se i ae he h a th = ro . gg gag Plann Resco ber a broken by the lowing of cattle,| knew the cows which belonged to wards, #0 that when they took a(rays, of something cqually bright,|'" Whleh to house hie mother, for) “To those who come after wn, the noise of shouting and the elat-| the girl-wife and her young hu map forward they would slip twolstruck it and it flashed out like ,|bia remembrance of her made him | finished Erskine. | | wens Se steps backward, all the time getting thousand streak of tichtning: | believe that she would prefer to live THR END |] ter of noots. | band they never knew. But that nearer and nearer to the top ight into the eyes of the Twink |” . eraeenciatiostnoe ———~ | ‘The girlwife ran to the window | he had a true and grateful heart Finally they reached the tip top mh, I can't se cried Nick, |] to see what it was all about, and| was very plain. summit, which, if you look jn your | blinking hard D ° | geography book, you will learn iy the| “I'm blind,” screamed Nancy, rub () F awli—am aris eT ie , eee sole ean martinis toe een ( | | him, |thing enough for you. Even in Lew “Hurrah! cried Nick. “Here we! But no matter how they blinked et a gelb gpa AO |ratulations to herself for getting! “That's tt—she knows how, and 1|_ “it's no good, Paul. Don't try to | /6F Walls, it used to come into my are! Now for n jolly slide down and rubbed and winked and twisted bingnechisraniadaaciacien lich welomenand aie |you the contract--after 1 had|don't! She succeeds where I fail, 1|™&K° Me out anything but what 1| Peart sometimes, that thought. But other side.” He clutet d the phono- | the blinding gleams dazzled them so {faltear” jam not a competent enough wife to am—e provincial, prudish, silly little} rig perenne: sag E eraph record tight complet that they couldn't tell CHAPTER XXXVI-—THE DEPTHS | Polly bit her lip and cupped her |help my own husband in his busi fool who couldn't mana, licklish | “Then fight it back now, You never do now to lone y|Faxt from West or North from Jquivering chin in her band ness affairs, She comes along—and | U8ton without flying into a panic. /don't know what you're | saying, td come so far, and hea had such |Bouth : “pAsten, dear, let's not take ityon her plate. | “You did not fail, my darting. If| helps him ina way he cannot refuse, | LYE Tealized it ever since that night, | You're getting hysterical, Polly I'm nd time to get It. OF course the] Woven the magic red feather pen| tragically. After all, there's nothing | “And you can tell me that! Why, |you had accepted that beast’s atten jand flaunts her triumph in my face.|™! Bet the kind of wife you need, | surprised you can be so silly.” Nn eee ee ie ee tee tee, ANY Meaenge it would] vont it that need upset you. Miss |‘%® tnatant 1 Game inte your (office | tons: should have called that tall.|Her contempt for me kills me, 1 You ought to have a dashing woman) “That's it—nilly, you said it yours the magic red feather pe in , write would be usele for tt pa : _ |i saw something was worrying you | ure. hate her—and I hate myself.” who knows the world and ail sorts of self! Paul, 1 feel completely out of pocket had wri ten os tiie wkgic 1 couldn't see the word Rand mad saud reconsider giving | horribly, You never even told me| “Did Mins Rand ‘accept the beast's| “Polly, stop being foolinh! You in. | POoPle—someone who'd be a credit to} my depth. T want my own kind of paper that they. nad setter take Small wonder then that when they|mm the contract, that's all—a you'd got the order. I only saw the|attentions’ then, to get you the|terrupted me. What I was going to |7oU Someone like—her | people, ‘These clever, worldly Kuro: along anyway. ; * 3 rindaes . stumbled down the mountain they|act of friendliness, and that's all | thi by accident in your desk. | order say was not that she knew how and| “Polly!* | peans are on my nerves, I want te would know i is was th ri Mt | took the wrong path there fs to it.” | And now she cores in, with triumph | He was silent a moment. you didn’t, but that she knew} “Oh, I know it. Nothing you can |s® Paul-—home to simple things and record—if it was the me from (To Be Continued | poll miserable eyes looked apland self-importance all ower esa “LT don’t think so necessarily, It's | Mig: and didn't have to forfeit|say alters it. 1-1 never feit smart |my own folks. I—1I'm going home,” “To Be Continued