The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 11

ae AES > ISABEL fContineed From CHAPTER Xi At ten o'clock the following morn Me Sandy Cove emiled peacefully in the golden sunshine Within the decorousty shadedrawn brary of the Tudor house six por. | S08 Were gathered: Mrs. Tudor her self, her niece Fay, Captain War rem, Kenneth Clayton, Sheriff Hulse Sergeant John Barry. The iat ter Was stated at the long magazine | table in the center of the room with & sheaf of notes spread out before | him, and it was toward him that all eYes were directed. None appeared! %® notice the pasteboard boxes of | Various sixes which flanked the| notes upon the table, and certain it} was that none save the sheriff and| Barry himself knew that ¢ de the door two husky constables waitet! with a Ddigframed beetle-browed Woman for the stenal to add them, selves to the gathering. “The sheriff and I have asked you te meet us all together,” began Rar | TY, pleasantly enough, “in order that | We may tell you the result of our in. Ventigations of yesterday into the ith of Mies Lauret Tudor. It was} Murder, of course, but her death was Meyer intended. You all know the method by which the crime was committed, but what I think that n@ne of you know is that the car ben monoxide was meant not for her but for her cousin, and the fact | that the two young ladies changed | beds during the night was all that saved Miss Fay Tudor from the fate ed out to her, altho dt rebound upon an innocent vittim—inno- cent in that she had aroused no en-| mity in the breast of the murderer. When I said that ‘none’ of you knew this, I meant none except one, for the guilty person ts tn this room at! the present moment™ Pay sat clutching the arms of her! chair tightly, but she made no out-! ward move and her eyes never left! the face of the detective. Clayton growled a sudden exclamation, but Captain Warren sat immovable, ab tho a slight flush crept upon his cheek. Mrs. Tudor started to her feet with « swift ory. “Please sit down, Mrs. Tudor.” Barry's tones were sympathetic but firm. “I know bow you must he feeling at this moment, but I shall not keep you long in suspense. “Some time between three and four o'clock in the morning the murderer | started to enter the room where th two young ladies were asietp, car tying in one hand the receptacie| containing the carbon monoxide, O STRANDERO S| . Issue) | and in the other an clectric torch. ‘This person dared not turn on deadly gas; wense of touch alone. adjusted, upon the wrong face that the lighta in the room for fear of wak ing one or the other of its occu pants, in spite of the fact that they had both been heavily drugged. On the threshold, by a mimole of tate, perhaps, the electric torch went out! “The low light at the farther end of the hall did not penetrate the }room, but the murderer had gone too far to retreat now, for already the fumes of the poison gas were exeaping from the faulty, hastily constructed container, Putting it down upon the floor just outside the door—the container had once noid il, and the-mark of it is still viel ple on the rug upstaire—the mur- erer spéd fo the room formerly oo coupled by the young man whom all then believed to be dead, . ob taining bis gas mask, returned to he room. “There this person went straight the bed ordinarily occupied by Miss Laurel, touched the hair which in the dark could not have beep detected from that of Mise Fay, for both are of the same texture and fitted the mask carefully over the face. “You can figure the rest out for yourkelves—the murderer's advance ta the other bed; the insertion of the tube between the lips of the un- conscious gitl; the application of « bandage over her nostrils so that, perforce, she must breathe in the the departure from the room for a certain, weil-caleulated period; the return; removal of” the mask from one face and bandage PAGE 14 STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY THE OLD HOME TOW AHERN AW-AH =, YT ALWAYS LIKED] MAYBE “THATLL} Bien PIECE = BREAK YOu oF = FAL L OF TH HABIT OF | as iy LEANING BACK... "DOMDENY . “ — | aa V HAIRS cane hes meme { ‘iow yy, WANT \ — ne, BUS TO BUMP YouRF = e er nes WHAT DO You || HEAD ol-TH! / 7 vere PLAY BY~ EAR || SOFT PEDAL: / oR ELBOW?/ We WA SOND HE NEVER "ToOoK A LESSON - HE SUST NATURALLY. FELL INTO Qe eae ee =~ ~"Ercosr' Bus ° $3. To UWE == THE PIANO RETUNED=- OF SPRING TONIC RIGHT ON MAIN STREET TODAY -— BY ALLMAN “There was no thought of murder in your mind when your niece re! DOINGS OF THE DUFFS coming happiness, but the mind of from the other; and hurried exit turned from Wurepe,” Barry ocon-| = ith ¢ \ a (* lett aeet | You BEAT WHEN YOUR EG6S ARE IF YOU WANT THE SIXTY Uitte mere had made the (i werdblaray ena are! SAY, WILBUR IF You CAN TP : See £068 CENT EGGS,! PICK THEM fatal mistake of trusting to the Tt was upon the wrong face that the mask was the bandage was placed, and into the wrong lips that the tubing was na insert “Stop! It ean bear ne more™ The ringing cry came from Mra Tudor’s white lips, and she started again from her chair. “Why not? Barry asked cooity “Does the recital of your own crime bring it back too vividly before your mind? Woman, you are the murder- eas of your own daughter!” A swift change had come over the countenance of Mra. Tudor, & bid fous, malevolent change eh wiped from it the last semblance of youth and prettiness. She eat rigid, her blue eyes fixed with a sort of mocking mirth upon those of Barry. (Continued From Page 6) Green; the butcher's shop which was opened on Tuesdays and Fridays by a butcher who came in from Tid borouch with a spanking horse in frog of him and half a week's sup- ply of meat behind and beneath him the grocers shop and the draper’s shop which, like enormous affairs in Landon, were also a large number of other shops but, unlike the London affairs, dispensed them all within the one shop and over the one counter. In the grocer’s shop you could be handed into one hand a pound of ten and into the other a pair“of boots, a convenience which, after all, is not to be had in all Ox ford Street. ‘The draper’s shop, car fing the principle further, woul only dress you; postoffice you Ynoleum, rug and faper you ink, pencil and note paper you; but would also bury you and tombstone you, « solemnity which it was ont called upon to perform for anybody afout once in five years—Penny Green being long-lived—byt was always ready and anxious to carry out. jeed in the back room of his shop, the draper, Mr, Pinnock, had a coffin w h he had been trying to work off" for twen represented Mr. Pinnock's single and disastrous eesay in sharp busines. Two and twenty years earlier Old Wirk had} teen not only dying but “as good as dead.” Mr. Pinnock on a stock-re plenishing excursion in Tidborough, had bought a coffin, at the under. taker’s, of a size to fit Old Wirk, and for the reason that, buying it then, he could convey ft back on the wagon he had hired for the day and thus mave carriage. He had brought it back, and the firet person he had t eyes on in Penny Green wan no other than Old Wirk himself, mir- aculously recovered and stubbornly downstairs and sunning at his door. ‘The shock had nearly caused Mr. Pinnock to qualify for the coffin himself; but he had net, nor had any | her inhabitant of suitable size WAS SINGLE | USED TOGO Ou AND ay? ort eo tee MARKED FIFTY CENTS AND SIXTY CENTS A DOZEN ~ OUT AND IF You WANT THE FIFTY CENT EGGS You PICK THEM OUT AND TAKE woman in love is more keenly ip tultive than at norma) times, and within a few days you realined some. thing which your niece did not WANT ANY BREAKFAST |] |) THIS MORNING YOULL HAVE To RUN OVER TO dream of—that the man you loved and hoped to marry had turned from you. It was not Fay Tudor alone whom you hated then to the point of murder; it was the com mon enemy of all women of middie Ufe, youth! youtht | “You planned to kiM her on the night of the dance, planned to stab her, I think, with the dagger from the hall arrangement of weapons which I found concealed in your | room an hour ago, and to that end You elipped into the pantry when | Loulse’s attention was engaged elee where and put into the hot milk which the young ladies were to dtink, atx powders of the drug which Miss Fay had brought from Paris for insomaia, « triple dose for each, so that neither would awaken if you entered the room, “You meant the affair te look Mike) & euicide, but during the dagee you | learned from the lips of Profemor) Semyonov of an easier method, and | one practically safe from discovery, | as you thought You determined immediately upon tte adoption, ami that determination was crystalline by & conversation you overheard | Bpon the little porch which opens off the brenkfast room. You planned it down to the most minute detail, even to the use of the gas mask to save your daughter from harm. After your guests had gone you slipped down here to the hall closet to obtain the keys to the garage from the pocket ef your motor coat | which hung there. “You found there, quite by accident, a pair of Miss Fay's castoff slippers, which Louise hoped to have atretehed for her own use, and you managed to put them on, with a tardy thought for pow sible footprints which might be left | on the ground. “You committed the erime, mak-| ting the fatal mistake which I have already described and which you learned of tn the morning when you her away, Joe; you and Yarrell and | | the matron.” eee Late that autumn Sheriff Huts | paid bis customary visit to Barry tn | town and much to the honest coun | try official's embarrassment he was taken one evening to call upon the eat Professor Semyonov, } | heard the volos of the very girl you | EVEREIT, YOU'RE GENTIRELY Teo FAT. DANGEROUSLY OvERWCGICHT. Nov NEGD MORG ExcRasEe, Have ‘You EGvGRe CONSIDERED * thought you had slain. 1 could find | it in my heart fo pity you at that moment were it not that you planned immediately to throw the erime upon since demixed. Longer persons than Old Wirk had died, and much short er and much stouter persons than Old Wirk had died, But the coffin had remained. Up-ended and neatly fitted with shelves, it served an a store enpboard, without a door, pend. ing its proper use. t it wan a ter ribly expensive store cupboard and It stood in Mr. Pinnock’s parlor as a gloomy monument to the folly of rash and hazardous speculation, (© entinved ‘Tomerrow) Kip hetped Nancy and Nick to find the path again on Electric Mountain and then he left th “T'd like to! stay with you,” he said, “but I can’t uu see, Princess Therma, in ber Castle of Mirrors, sees everythin She can see all the trouble you are havin tho she cannot help you Besides y must make the journey alone. She is likely looking at me with you now, but that's a owed. I'm only talking to you, Goodby now.” “Goodby,” said the Twins, “We're ever 80 much obliged. We won't hunt for any more brooks,” at's ht dK “and take the advice of your red feather. If 4 closed your eyes when he you h PartorFun | YONE | For vER MAGIC OCTAGON MATERIAL Four of each of} the cardboard cut-outs shown at left PROBLY these cut outs to form on SOLUTIOD Diagram at shows bow the strips, A, B and C, afe put together. right ADV ENTURES fo) othe we Roberts B: fer 9 Bi TWINS cae > | wrote his last message you'd have | been better off.” Kip stamped on the ground three times and disappeared. This time t | path and soon of the mountain “My! yawned that's over. reached Nancy. “I'm glad Now we can take our goloshes off. There's no electricity here and my feet I wonder what Eiderdown Mountain is like.” “It sounds Ike a good place to spend the night,” said k. “I'm getting dreadfully hungry, too. 1} wish we'd asked Kip where to find Why, hello, what's this?” Right before them on the ground appeared a little basket with a nice! white napkin over the top. “It looks like our supper.” anid] Nancy, peeping in {t's sand. ches and bottle of milk and fruit, too, Ien't that lovely?’ The red feathwr jumped ont of vick'n pocket at that and bewan to rite on the magic paper again “Oh, shucks?’ declared N trouble, I suppose. I simost wish the 01d feather had stayed at home. It's always te is not to do things.” But this time the pen wrote: “The Magical Mushroom sent you this basket. Eat out of it all that you wish, Whenever you are hungry it| will appear with more food.” “Dear O14 Mushroom sald “Nick, the red feather, is our best friend.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Twins kept to the | the bottom | are getting tired. | k. “More | |the shoulders of Mins Fay. You re-| lealled her slippers, which were still’ sopping wet, and you had them con }oealed beneath your negliges whe you demanded admittance to the | room where your daughter lay dead: | you thrust them ander the bed when jyou knelt sobbing beside her body! | “I suspected you first when you! lappeared to desire to bribe me, buat | | why you should have murdered your | happened to bim. Funny how he |own daughter was beyond me until I | Aine to be lost and reported dead, |learned by accident that she and her | | wasn’t it? cousin had changed beds with each|" “captain Warren saw him fall,” | other during the night Then all Wa | repiied the professor, “and after the clear to me.” pose you heard, Professor, that the Tudor house back in Sandy Gove burned down a month ago?” he asked. “Mins Fay--that is, Mrs. Warren—and the captain were away | n California on their honeymoon and | Mr. William Tudor ts still in the hos pital, where they're curing bim of | that shell shock or whatever it was NS rola C por: aw oC tn ae 634 ANOTHER DAVID (Chapter [LD “A plenic?’ cried beth of the | find good pasture, because there were such a lot of cattle to feed. kiddies, “Why, we never thought | 4t some of the anen got to gether one night, and decided to of that was a sort of pienic every time you had to ext, wasn’t | | attack went out to what he supponed divide our train. One-half was to fest I did it” Mre. Tador sprang | to be the body of his friend. It must itr fast f 14, while from her chair and pointed wildly at|) ive peen the body of some other om 50 OP 80 tet Be Nt eouk, wh Kenneth Clayton where he sat re- | “Yes,” Mr. Neeley told them, | the other half rested, and let the young American officer.” garding her with eyes of unutterable |” cereeant Harry nodded. first crowd get a three-days’ start. “Our crowd was the one that was chosen to go first, so the next morning we got up bright and sald good-by to the behind, and “a sort of picnic, and sometimes we had jolly times about ft, too; they danced when there was any- body to play a fiddle, sang around the campfire, told yarns and we| children crept into the big wag | ons and went to sleep with very joathing. “Thatman was mine, and| ; heard q little about ft when T| this minx stole him deliberately from | careq at the hospttal to nee young me, I meant to get her out of the |pugor,” he remarked. “He remem: | |way anf then he would come back.” | hor, that the Germans got him but | There was madness in her eyes, mad-| ne managed to encape. They must |ness in the cry which rang thru thé) have stripped him of his credentials, room, “Laurel, Laurel! God knows | pnt left the marks of his rank on/ I would not have harmed ye my} him, for he was treated as an officer baby! But if I have lost all, y sha all) ani the way thru. early and ones we were leaving started off. “We mado rood time that day, . cheerful sounds In our ears for not have him, Fay! I failed onee, here a pa o ° and had covered a goodly number but I shall not fail now!" pe soe and then the 1) tne most part. | of miles by late afternoon when a | With a sudden epring she was upon The Tudor wormed sever recow ' “But as I stagéed to say, that| man came to my father and said, the girl, her fingers tightened with | ¢eaq her mind before her death.” young fellow, Mt. Yantis, who| ‘Neeley! I've lost my best milk maniacal stre h about her throat “It doesn’t matter.” Barry's tone ¢ \ cow. What'll I do? arry called to the waiting men out:| way grave ped trial here) Ad been selected to rideonshead} tess pit and decited 1 and leaped forward to the aid of | but she has and choose camping grounds, was | fone to a fisher court that no man coyid afford to lose he sheriff, Clayton and Captal . "5 oo . n } |the sh ri Le coe dae bef fore an infallible Judge, and wej} no good, because he forgo’ that! a cow-—much less one that was dink to War the creed womaninn ae will be a/] tho main thing to remember was| giving milk. So there was noth- n o tear the crazed woman | just one é - pg elon «gedit 4 beats to plck & place where there was| ing for it but to go back and look “It's all over,” Barry maid. “Take 1902, by ‘The Renta mary food pasture for the cattle. : (Copyrtent oe “Of course, the fellow eoulin’t risk going alone, so five other men agreed to go with him—my father being the leader. “And that Ittle bunch of men came upon one of the most awful hts any settler ever saw.” (To Be Continued | “Well, wo got a new man for that place, and all the time our party kept growing bierer and | bigger, tin I have no idea how many wagons there were, and it got to be harder and harder to Polly and Paul—and Paris By Zoo Beckley (Copyright, 1922, by The Geattle Mary | CHAPTER XLVI—THE LAST TOAST “A penny for your thoughts! The| OS: She broke off. Paul was amazed | Violét'’s look haunted her—the look ‘Tell me what you're thinking of, | that ‘bald: ° "AL : 4 jthat said: “Ah, Yes®@it's very well lolet? | nothing else.” with your gifts need be lonely—* time-honored challenge evoked a pen I'd understand.” to see tears standing in her eyes. sive half-smile from Violet. With-| She turned squarely toward him,| “You could have anything you) Violet made an impatient gesture. Violet, don't" hie tone had a/{2" YoU to say that—you who have out changing her position, she looked | and looked no lgnger into the silver. | wanted.” “Lonely! No, I suppose not. 1] tender note, “don’t talk #0." bid Ara mse cand sacle hac gi from the moon-bathed courtyard to|ed courtyard. Her eyes flashed, then narrowed. | can trick myself out and practice my if ote, “don’t talk so | ‘uh a. qld wenwemnehhy Shin | Paul's face | “I wonder! Would you understand |Her voice softened, deepened. |arta—play the game eternally, But} PU% Passing quite accidentalty, | turned and faced the room, breaking | “Wouldn't advise you to buy them, | the mood of a woman who felt old | "Could 1? |what do I get for it? The—the love |°" ne errand for her guests,| into the quiet mood of the party. Paul—even at bargain. They're too|and tired of the game? A woman| ‘The tone of it, the way sho held|of any man? Friends who care two |@Usht What he was saying | “Come, you people, time tor good. dangerc the thoughts of a lonely |of 33—yea, I'm Paul, did you|his eyes with her own, threatened | cents about me, or what becomes of | “I tell you, Violet, there's no need | nights and bed!" she cried, “I prow old woman—what do they matter?’ | never guess it? Oh, 1 know what|his self-control for an instant, The|me really? No! In the end a man|for you to be alone,, No man on | pose a final toast! Here's to the one “Stop joking, Vio. he button | pmople think—that I live a gay life,| beauty of her, the appeal for under ome pretty little Quaker-| Whom you set your heart will fail) happy marriage I know! She waved part of the party is over.” |move ins a world of admirers and | standing ad pity, shook him-—as she doll, I've got nothing you. You're worth any big man ‘S| toward Polly and toward Paul. “May “That's just it I feel quiet—a | dances and dinners and clothes, And| meant them to. With an effort he | she kicked at the rug, her voice grew love.” {no serpent ever dare enter their® minor mood, Perhaps those old-tinre | that Pwish for nothing else. * * *|looked aw.y, commanding bis vi bitter, “nothing to look forward to] Again her eyes searched his, Polly | Kden: wongs have got me in their spell.” '! Why, I'd be a monster if [ wished for “Ot coutwe you could, No woman! but loneliness—" hurried on, but Paul's tone andj} (fo Be G a