The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1922, Page 11

SATURDAY, STAR PAGE 11 ATTI MARCH 18, 1 TANLEY OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN . THE OLD HOME TOWN { suur ur ano BUT MARTHA * WH AHWTH/Mikapo!l-\/TH' ov! Toi. | ; ; re : H SHE'S GOTTH'o' | DODGER 1s 2 ; | WOLD STILL, oR |) THIS IS PERFECTLY} A L | SNARED» HE'D Lee es GLOBE GALLOPER | PULSAR AS Oe edcaake't NED FOR TH' NIGHT] CET TIRED AN) | Fas = IN You t= I WANT |] WH- WH-WHY, T : PLAYED ouT BY | | == : a>. | IYO GET TWIG KIMONA)| HAVE AN ENGAGE- patti es, te MADE FOR MYSELF | MENT TONIGHT “TO Oe & a LECTURE = : r BEFORE I's WORN || GIVE A LECTURE ON ° Barrer c e —— aoe ; /\_ HE CONGO"! LN FAY TUDOR, wealthy orphan, suffers a nervous breakdown in France after earning of the death of her brother, Wilbur. She returns to the Tudor @etate in Sandy Cove and te met by her aunt, an attractive widow, PRS. CLARA TUDOR, and the latter's daughter ZAUREL. Tho summer colony ts frightened by the reported presence of a| ) “wild man,” whom Fay believes she has seen peering in Lhe windows of | the Tudor house. | RIFF HULSE and bis friend, BANT JOHN BARRY, a Now York detective, Investignte. Pay ts attracted by the personality of | APTAIN WARREN, her brother's friend, who was with Wilbur when he fell. On the nicht of Mra Tudor's dance ETH CLAYTON, wealthy philanthropist, who ts thought to be in ave with Mra Tudor, proposes to Fay. She rejects him, After the @ance, and before retiring, Laure! confowes to Pay that she isgn love with RRY CADNUS, an old love of Fay's, but for whom she has long coaned | to care. Fay congratulates Laurel and wishes her happinesa The girls Sleep in=the same room. In the mornin auret is found dead from @sphyxiation and murder is suspected. Fay breaks the news to hor Aunt Clara. GO ON WITH THE STORY “Rector Green, Mrs, Tudor wishes ;congested? Are you In the habit of te go to her, She frightens mo;| taking any narcotic or sleeping po- 2 don’t understand her If she would | tion! nly break down, and ery or faint, ‘Oh, never, My head feels quite i would know what to do for her./as usual, Sergednt Barry. Why do shut the shock seems to have numbed |you ask’ Your questions just now : ber.” made me think of suicide, even tho ‘The doctor vanished down the hall.|i knew how manifestly impoenible | 70 Sergeant Barry motioned toward the | such a thing could be In connection + : Dy: window seat with my gloriously happy little cou 1 pew fg we “Miss Tudor, this may turn out to/sin. Are you suggesting now that De & mere case of natural death, but there may have n something far Shs od nptiiauuicasiiaa HIS WIFE, JOINED “THE SILVERCORNET Bhould it not, it will be a matter for | worse, that some hidtous, unapeak Hulse, and he has asked me, able crime was committed In that cially, to give him the benefit/rodm last night? Do you mean Sa, FOUND FOR ... .. R. = a eS ' LAST NIGHT, My services. murder BAND : “You mean—suicite?” Fay started! She broke off as the door at the Z LS sa MAJOR HOOPLE a tn horror. “Laurel had everything | farth: md of the hall opened wud. / a ee dm the world to live for! [ have al-| dently and Mrs. Tudor appeared, lean-| Fay drew back in pitiful, shocked DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Danny Forms His Own Opinion BY ALLMAN Teady told you how happy ehe was|ing upon the doctor's arm. eospewns 0 but the ores nodded to , fast night—happier than she has ever) “I must see her! You shall let me| her reassuringly and himself esco Ip vo. Been in all her life before.” tal I @o not believe you, any of /ed the sorrow-siricken woman to her] YAdt. HELEN, LOOK! I'VE GOT , PL bag an ba Some 4A HELLO, DANNY! I'M Bae} “Do'you mean that something had / you! It cannot be that my baby is | OWN apartmen' | On “THINGS FROM THE GRocEery- 7 a ~~ q ] pier saptheg: gym Beet sag Pay was scarcely dressed when || balialll THIS OUTFIT ON, AND NOW GOING TO THE GROCERY WHERE’S "KIND OF SCARED To Bene erat || Maso cer Wer pon Mee cI HIE WANT To Go ALONGP A to| “She ts, ma'am, tho I am mighty | Yolces sounded from below, among | : larry to may it.” The sheriff pro-| Which the nasal accents 6f Coroner j Tt has not been announced duced a key and unlocked the door,| Shaw mingled with deeper, more ae yet; in fact, her own mother wan| She seemed not to have heard, but | resonant tones which made Fay catch wnly to be told of it today, but the} made her way with the slow, mea. | her breath sharply. How had Keo Bffair would, I know, have met with | sured step of a somnambuliat to the | Neth Clayton learned of their trage her highest approval. Young Lieu-| bedside, where she fell upon her| ay? What had brought him bere? tenant Harry Cadmus bad asked her} knees and took the small, rigid hand ~— to be his wife” in hers. The sheriff had remained CHAPTER VI “She was thorely happy in the/reapectfully outside the door, but Fay shrank instinctively from ao Prospect? You knew of no other ro-| like a shadow the young police ser-}Meeting with Keaneth Clayton now, | Mance which would not have been | grant had passed him and etood mo. | but as a privileged family friend his #0 graciously received by her moth-|tionless now behind the kneeling | Presence was not amine at this Ume alll | fieure. of tragedy | “None whatever. Laurel was des-| “My baby! Speak to me! You are) As she descended the statry she | Your i Peratety in love. as was Harry. If! only sleeping, you will awaken!” | Tealized all at once that her head H were not heart disease what can| Put the parted hluewhite tips | did not feel quite right in spite of have coused my cousin's death?" Save NO responses, and the fixed stare | What she had told Sergeant Magry. “Until the coroner performs an/of the glased halfopen eyes con.) 4nd in a sudden fit of dimsmess she antopsy we cannot be sure. Mins|vinced the weil-nigh crased mother | clutched the balustrade Todor, are you a light sleeper?|that her plea had fallen upon ears Kenneth Clyton met her at the Would you know if anyone entered | forever deaf, and with the first out. | foot of the stairs and his hand cloned the room during the night?™ | burst of tears she bent her head upon | Warmly about hers “is it true that “I cannot be sure. I returned/ the coveriet of the bed j Door Laurel" from France in a highly nervous con-| Fay came ewiftly forward and dition, you know, and that woult|with Sergeant Barry attempted to predispose my awak at the/ lift ber aunt to her feet. sound, but I was overstim-| “Don't touch me Mra Tudor|#o strangely! She could not believe Iated tact night oy the excitement of | turned hysterically upon the girl and | the truth at first when I told her.” | | } FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS WELL, Come on <— DADOV WALL DANOLE ‘ou ON WS KNEE. the dance and I remained awake un-/then her face quivered and she cried | “That would be only natural, dear. til long after Laurel herself had|appealingly: “Ob, Fay, can't you ses |I won't ask you now if'yoa have gtv- Gropped off to alee.” I want to be alone? That I conid |e & thought to our little talk inet “How do you feel now, Mies Te | not endure sympathy fust yet? My | Slight, but I have come to offer my | @or? Does your head feel heavy orl grief in my own! My own™ services to both you and your aunt | in Any possible capacity.” | “Ohl” Fay cried tn gerutne dis. trees. “I am sure that Aunt Clara ADVENTURES will be deeply grateful, but you will | oF THE wi wS not think me unkind if I feel that 1 ~-I want to be alone? This hae al! afte Tt Barton come so suddenly that I don’t feel I can discus it even with so—s0 good 4 friend as you The coroner's naal tones sounded from the stairway. “It ten't whether It's Ifkety or not, | doctor; it’s what the evidence proves. I don’t care if the other girl got off without betng harmed, or not, nor }if there isn’t a aign of gas in the room. This here's a case of asphyx: | | tation.” | There followed an Indistingutshabie |murmur in Doctor Green's depreca- |tory tones, and then the coroner's | stubborn rejoinder: itt, he is always making mystery | “The blood test will tel, Tr 1 find | out of nothing. Just because a few {the Indications that I suspect from | cushions and a steamer rug were | stolen from Pearmall’s launch, and | |the pantries of one or two of the | summer residences were broken into | Dy some enterprising tramp, our | friend here was cooking up a fine | iittio mystery until this morning’s af. | fair came along to drive it out of his mind.” | “I, too, had forgotten the man” | Fay shuddered tnvoluntarily. That | white, drawn face, with its starng e Se eRRO ge BY CONDO ¢ VLVING DooR. ; LETS PERSON Mj ForcowiING Do rr] THe WORK. | | “What are the other mountains?” asked Naney anziously im Pim and Kip listened to {soles of your shoes.” . he Twins’ story and how they had! swhyps | leyes, arose in her memory. The | Page 627 lost their way on the Glass Moun-| i | | wave of dizziness swept over her 4 tain. Bacon gee = Por % step on the jones more, She got to her feet some. | THE WAR CANOE “It's clear to be seen,” said Pim | 1 ~ oo. ain without getting \ | what unsteadily, with one hand to| (Chapter 1 Pim finally, “that you'll need help, | *"* And every time you get a | her swimming head. “Really, if you [don’t mind, I think I will go and try to rest.” | On the stairs Fay came face to! | face with her aunt. The latter was | lcomposed, but very pale, and in ber “We were all water sprites, 1) colors of the war paint, their shock, you fall down and roll off. | The result is, you never get over tt,” | answered Mr. Pim Pim, “Unieas yu have rubber or glass to walk | my young friends, for you have pass ed over the two easiest mountains of the lot. The five ahead grow harder im turn until you come to the last And you'll be lucky indeed if you can guens,” Mra. Bates said, stroking | Meads decked with the stiff feath- Pegay’s bright hair as she talked. | °? of the war bonnet. foe were ail four taken), "TM Made mo sound, other ey we four taken! tnan tie rhythmic dip-dip of ” “Oh!” eaid Nancy suddenly, think. | bi hy haunted, tor- | get past it. ancy nly, t | ue eyes there was a haun' into that cold water and we all! ,; , P “What are the other mountains?” |!ng of something. “If we only had tured look. | | slander oars; there was no long Rod waney astxiousty. our goloshes, Nick! We left them in “My dear,” she eid. “I @i4 not |] four liked it. | drawn yell, and no chant such as “Well,” said Mr. Pim Pim, “they | the Sorcerer's Cave.” are the Electric Mountain, the Fider- | oloshes! In the Sorcerers I was beside myself, I did not know down Mountain, the Chocolate | Cave!’ cried Kip. “Oh, then, here's what I thought or aid.” Mountain, the Five-and-Ten-Cent | where I come in. It won't take me Fay kissed her and went on up the Store Mountain, and the Mountain-| long, with a couple of dozen Brownte| “You wil mot think me unkind {/ *talrs, Denpite her sesertion that That-Inn’t-There.” |helpers, to dig an underground tun. | feel that I want to be alone?” she could not think of Laurel's death “They all sound nice enough,” raid nei right to the place and yet them | the problem sonfrouted her with in- Nick. |for you. You see, I used to be ao|t{® SPpearance of tho akin this ts | sistence. “Well, fust wait and see,” said Kip. | mischievous and did so much harm, | #0! to be one of the biggest cases| But who on earth would have Wwassing his head. “It's too bad You |that I'm spending the rest of my | “*, county ever knew wanted to harm Laurel? The young Ididin’t get some of the rubber off |iite doing good deeds.” The front door slammed. As the! girl had not an enemy in the world, Rubber Mountain to tie onto the! . ; | loud, measured steps descended from |and she was facing the greatest hap. poiecllaienanse ~| bes open ne nae Enchanted | the veranda Fay turned in horror to|piness which life could hold for her Cupboard,” nai r Pim Pim. | her companion. If this hideous idea of murder could S FUN ‘ee Ponte | “You heard?” she asked. “They|have any basis in fact it must un i PARLOR. Off started Kip to gather Brownies | think that it was murder. But how | doubtedly be the work of some insano | to help him dig @ tunnel and get the| could it have been? The room was | intruder, much-needed goloshen, lighted by electricity, like all the rest| With that thought there came b OR NE (To Be Continued of the house; there is not even a gas|again the memory of that atranga, ' (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) | range in the kitchen, and we had no| sinister fa and Fay sat bolt up t THE TRAINED BIRD mean to drive you from me just now. “People rather wondered that| we have been told forewarned the motter could take ‘even the baby’ | ®ttlers of the coming ss such @ war canoe, only the long, low: te To water, Dat T enjoyed it 88/ wing Wack canoe, with ft enote much as any of them, and on this) or more of wicked savages ready morning I spoke of, mother had} to strike! my little sister just older than 1, “Quick as a flash mother saw the nurse had me and we were all! the danger. ‘The special danger to gaily taking our swimming lesson | per and her little ones, when mother heard the gentle noise of oars in the water round) strike first at those people whom the bend. they call the “Tyee’ or great ones. “She heard no voices, and she| “Here we were—the wife and couldn’t be sure whether it were! children of the great White Tyea, a single oarsman or several. the chief of all the white men— “Sho lifted her head, startled a| ‘he Kovernor, Uttle, and looked in the direction| “To destroy this famfly would from which the sound had come,| ¥* to pay back all in one stroke many of the wrongs done the red And even as she looked, there! men And the warriors coming came gliding around the bend a! round the bend were the dreaded great, black war canoe; a war| Northern Indians—cruel beyond canoe with its freight of stalwart} 4! believing, hearts full of hate, Indian braves, their naked brown or Seer Seeee a ee eee bodies hideous with the glaring (To Be Continued) “In Indian warfare the savages Pah -|fire in the grate. Besides, how tv|right, Now in retrospect, with her Weak, pale, anaemic and thin) jt concetvable that Laurel could have | brain supervensttized by the shock people made strong and well smothered to death and I not even |of the morning, it seemed to her that, HEAMOTONE been awakened?” after all, there had been something * | “Don't try to think about tt, my | vaguely familiar in the strained, half Bobsch oe joe re “lag e peg! As | dear * Clayton patted her arm gent: | crazed face that had stared to hers i” a # GF stores & “Tou o hat jarmist ‘01 e land $2.00 per bottle Advertinement. ee oe oe the ad ee | Coroner Shaw is, and as for the shor (Continued Monday) | tt a MATERIALS: Visiting card. sheet @ paper on which is drawn an €mpty cage, vertical dotted line and bird near the cage, as shown at Fight. VROBLEM: To make the bird en fer the cage. SOLUTION: Place the visiting | Polly and Pawl—and Paris | } | ie = : Pest aio } By Zoo Beckley ncterizes our is every transaction. and our cus- tomers accord every o tesy consistent with sound bu cess Judgment. 4% thought Barray had preferred ner| “Tommyrot! What <i r cheerful chatter of dinner being | lady: golden hair, damask cheek and | type, had set her a little apart from | worthy Aunt Susan expect of area served to the deuxieme etage and| hing. Oh, baby doll! ‘The | the showy women, the “baby doll jar human being—that he shall take presently the siniling walter appear: | fuy’s pretty well fixed in the clothes |Why, she was ont _ ¥ . ; API Ni 84 3 eae . ys 8 only one of dozens he | his grandmother mee! CHAPTER XXXIX—IN THE TREETOPS ed to take their order, line, too, can't see his faco—* Pretended interest in. Probably he | for his wenly ging aad weer rs “I never in all my life,” she} “Oooh, let mo look! Polly left her|had laughed to himself at her all | all anything stronger t rhapsodized for the dozenth time, |cutiet and peered across thru the|along. * * * She felt ashamed—and | citronade?” pares cess “What an adorable place! cried|up and up. Polly squealed with de Ee dgowies dldug the dotted line |Polly, as their walk from the tram: |lisht as they reached the last plat-|"‘saw anything fo cunning! look, | whispering branches. “They're sure | disappointed. | With the well-known freemason , «pT Reine nereaairy |line ended and the big elm trees of |frmm where w Uttle table was laid |Paul, at those people over there in|having ® wonderful time—Why,| Paul came back from the rail, | of men, Paul had flown to the reseus & paper. Press the nose against Praia on Snvings Accounts “Robinson” came into view. “Could | With Plates. glasses and silver, The | tho other tree-—no, this way; you can | Paul, T do believe—yes, it certainly | munching cheerfully "|of his fellow.male, "You don’t ke fhe edge of the card and look at | Meeounte Subsoct to Check Are || Be occal pes red-gold sunwet dappled the white | just barely catch a glimpse thru the|is Monsieur Barray—* “Well, Pussycat, your old beau|a man to be a sissy, eh, Pussyeat? the cage and the bird. Place your esl pa Ail a age. sloth birds chirruped their evensong | leaves.” ; “Goo paul gased, his mouth full|there has ‘left you for An.| Polly's "was emphatic, but Hie, 80g and ihe bird. Place your uch «thing aa building dining |for orchestra “Gosh, but they're having « cork: |of salad, “if It ian't I'll eat the whole |other-r-rrr.'” He flapped @ traxic| she added to herwelf, “1 wonder 1f Will throw a ehadow. The bird will Peoples Savings Bank aye a rab f at voy #| Rustic benches were their chairs|ing time—" Paul ned his neck |tree! Lord, but he's a guy old bird!" | hand, bread and all, over his heurt. | we'ro—I wonder if Paul's getting the te seen to move slowly into the|f SSOONY AVE. AND puis wa |)NNTTY And Grab one at tho very/and nll about them was @ «waying| this way and that. “Never heard #0| Polly said nothing, returned to the| “He's like the rest, I suppose. | Parisian viewpoint that Miss Rand is i | eis : : i : [curtain ef branches lush with sum-tmany corks fying at once! And,|table, A strange fecling of Iumilia-|Aunt Sue says all ~ | They climbed the rustic ladder, up, | mer leaves, Frenchmen | alw » Plog tl From Welow came Ue] jumping Jehosephal what swell’ on Qasked gver bexc—y And she|are~* pctiteericin | kein "Ge Be Cauanag