The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1922, Page 11

{ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1922. On YingsoF Wrote y AxTHuR BR REEVE Oopytiaht, 1922, by N, RM A, Be Parent es iS , Contined Vom Page ® he tate 7. ana were net off”) H CALLING UPTTH’ BUTCHER | - uch what she wanted to kno ack had tangled himeelf with his . tho for the life of him he hadu't|own legs or else it was an added} THIS MORNING To SEND quite figired out yet what that was. | pressure ag tn Greek wrestling, He | OVER FIVE POUNDS oF Par dowtl the porch Vira caught | was on the floor while the other fel: FOR , sight of Glenn and had no intention | jows were laughing and Ruth, smil- Liver ' aa d of playing the figure longer. Girls | ing, hauled him up. TONIGHT! = I'M GONNA om and fellows were passing and with | “Dia 1 keep you waiting long | STAY DOWN AN’ HOPA nudge at Ruth, Vira breke up the | Dick? 1 love this one.” Dick tingted | x party and the three continued down | with joy as he waltzed off to the| STOOL WW SOME towant the ball room, leaving Gar | dreamy strains. or Tick to figure it all out, especially| It was half over when Dick felt | | Ruth, who, the moment they were/ himself pushed aside and heard | <= | gone, seemed to resume leadership. | Jack'y voice, ingratiating, “May I | Dick had been sauntering alone) out in on this? We all do that now? | about the club, speaking @ few words | Dick swallowed: “I'll leave it to} to friends Jolling in wicker chairs.) Ruth.” Ruth's only answer was a/ odding two others, when he heard! gentle pressure of his arm, a nega | the noisy entrance of a group of | tive nod in Jack's direction—and she | young peoyte was dreaming again. There was | Ditk Defoe was the quieter type | something so comfortable being held : of man “undoubtedly destined to | closely by Dick make any reasonably nermal girl happy. A gracious, if reserved, man- her seemed to announce to the world his reserve strength of character, if troubie brewed. He quickened bis pace as he saw Ruth. His face lighted up with one! he orchéstra hesitated at the of his charming smiles, Ruth was|snarp alarm of the club steward, talking vivaciously to the girls when i | then decided it was not like a the she suddenly caught Dick's smile} ater, that there was no panic dan- and answered it. op it fiddies and saxo “Fath,” he jeald aa he Grew her | Seas en sear aside with eager deference, “may x + hited grmirelbon cvening?’}on the village power house split the ty, thre hee Th ccirar -aiehes | other. pick, neve the jostling Ad } mob in evening clothes, Ger as if debating whether to say | sCuoss we'll make « de luxe buck- fast worker! 1 belleve you bribed the | Sipirinncg” Danuet, Tony Bisecker 's the Basi musicians. ‘They're playing a walts| |; ee ibeates Welk. ht wetle e e of the club casino, where were the ay Wrap up. IM be with you in 4) living rooms, licked a hungry red Paes. shaft of flame, Dick looked in dis. may, On the third floor were Gar. rick’s rooms, ‘A moment tater he was bounding up the stairs and had flung his shoulder against the door, It did not yield—until he turned the knob. It was unlocked, Thru the stifie of smoke he fought hin way to the chest and flung it open. The hat and the films were gone! ‘The suffocating fumes of chem!- cal extinguishers sent him bitndly Outside he could hear the bells and the shouts of the local fire fighters. Handkerchief crushed over his nose and eyes he stumbled tnto the hall- way... “Don't get up, Dick. You! stay here with me tonight.” In @ daze was one waltz when he could not find Ruth. He hunted all over, | She was not dancing; nor on the veranda. Nor did he see Jack Cur tis, Rae, Vira or Glenn. “Fire! Ther } LbPRS PEFSER FACE “I don’t 1 made (Copyright, 1932, by The Seattle Mar) Seecccccccvccesovcccoces MONTANA _ gg rm is wea. min town, Where copper, sole ana Are taken from the OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton COMET-LEGS SCORES A POINT—BUT SO DO TWINS! Comet Legs was the rival of Mr.yWhen I am the Man-in-the-Moon, Peerabout, the Man-in-the-Moon.| As I really expect to be soon, One day he rode up to the moon on/|I'll run it about, thru the clouds In his star and hopped off. and out, “Now then,” said he, “IN just go|And I'll turn night and day Inside ) round to the cities of the moon and out without doubt! show the moon people how hand-|And at midnight I'll see that it's some lam. No doubt they'll put old noon, Peerabout out and give me his place. “He's too old any and earth|"The moon I'll send ‘tother way folks want a chang I'll bet they’re ‘round, good 'n’ tired having the same old| That'll interest folks IN be bound, \ moon run the me old way.” From the West to the Kast, I shall j The idea tickled Comet-Legs #0 shove in at least much he began to ho, ho and hee, | Quite half of the time after daylight hee till his round tummy shook up has ceaned | /. 4 down like a plum pudding. By|From Pike's Peak to Long Island ‘n’ by he came to a mountain top Sound.” and looked down at the earth. When he got up, there was old Peerabout! Suddenly he stopped and gave a looking at him! joud yell. “Stop that!’ he shouted Quick us a wink he gave the| But he was too late foon-Man @ push, and away went| Nancy and Nick had come up to he head over heels into space.!the sky and cut the rope he fastened . Comiet-Leen went on his way. Helhis star with. ‘Then they rode off on was so tickled he began to make up |it towards the Kast a song of his own. This was it: | (To Be Continued (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) | phones and snare drums and ran, A} moment later the shrill siren whistle |B LETME GIVG You | ANP OFF IF You GUYS ARE GoIN' HOME ‘To PUT ON TH’ GWORD ACT I HEARD MRS. HOOPLE boat with such « nameM exclaimed Garrick as they stood on a dock in his friend's sbipyard observing the “Bacchante.” “Splendid lnes™ enthused Dick. “What I'm most interested in is what I believe must be a very effi cient wireless on her,” muttered Garrick. A small beat bad put out from her and was rowing toward the shipyard. The shipbuilder himself | joined them. “Take that former submarine pa- trol boat.” winked Garrick to him. “That's a fast craft, capable of go- “Who |the approach of two men from the| town. “Professor | street to the Vario. . . and, by Jove, Jack™ ‘The four stood talking boats as the skiff with a sailor neared them. jook ft over. If there's anything The skit¢ | this time |the bullder of Curtis, “you seem to know my customers here. If I row them out would you mind if they took a look at the boat?” Then. aside, “I think I can make « sale— maybe get an erder to build.” Dick nodded ungraciously and the two ekiffs set out. It was perhaps an hour, or even more, that Vario buried himself tn the cabin, going over everything from aerial to headgear, tenting vacuum tubem, getting a fine ad- justment on the variable condenser. The atr tairly reeked with talk of tuning colls, transformers, vario- souplers and variometers, rheostats and regenerative sets, the merits and demerits of nearly every con- troversial piece of apparatus known to radio, It was to be expected. thought Garrick, with « practical man Uke Vario meeting up with Dick, of the inventive mind, In fact he was pleased. The second hour was lengthening when Vario had the apparatus work- ing property. Curtin who had spent moet of the time tn the little pilot house going over some charts with the navigator, rejoined them. “Suppose you're going back to our cottage, Professor, not to Rock Ledge yet?” he asked, then turned, inbending « bit, to Garrick and Dick, “Like to take a little run over to Shelter Isiand with us and back while we take the Professor home?” The shipbuilder excused himself and dropped down into his skiff and the hante” was cutting across soon at a great clip, as if proud to show her paces. | At Manhaset Curtis decided to |iand with Professor Vario, to be | picked up later, and the scout boat |swung about to land Garrick and Dick back to Greenport. It did not take Garrick long to | find an excuse for one of his hasty |surveys of the cabin. As usual, as |if by instinct, he put his finger on | the spot. It was a slip of paper tucked in what passed for a log | He passed it to Dick: cKC OUR BOARDING HOUSE — Me car munwy——- So I thought of the Professor bere | and he agreed to come over and| 22 260 cases 8. 8. ccumadeny! Z AGAIN? = WELL THERE'S GONNA BE 7] ANOTHER IDLE KNIFE —| RUM TABLE TONIGHT} I WORKED on THAT LAST EXHIBIT TLL 1 GOT A HOT BOX BEHIND TH’ EARS TRVING “oO cuew ret quickly, “Smuggiing from Latin American ships?” Garrick did not even anewer. His forefinger was traveling down & lst of calls pasted in the front ef the book: “CKGGG The Inner Cirela. **W. 4th St.” “E-yah™ growly a thickty Norwe- sian volce as the navigator poked his head in. “Snooping—eh? show! He blew sharply on a whistle from his pocket. Instantly it seemed as if the crew swarmed from every direction. It was a glorious, if ignoble, fight. In about the time that ft might have taken to tell it Garrick and Dick found themselves flung overboard in |the open of Greenport Harbor with the tide running strong out of.Pe conclc Bay into Gardiner’s Bay. Onty a couple of athletes would ever have found themselves again on shore, wet and dripping, strip- ping off what was left of their Clothes and hanging them on the ribs of an old wreck to dry in the biazing sun after the tough battle in the water. “Well,” chortied Garrick as ‘Ney gat on the deserted sand naked and exhausted, “we had nothing on when we came into this world . . . but they've got something on us now!” Dick laughed and looked over at Guy. Garrick was a man after his own heart “As we used to say at Upton, ‘Where do we go from here?” Garrick rolled over on his back Jond stretched as the sun boiled out sait water that had puckered his skin “Squaring the ‘Inner Ctrele'™ he replied tersely as if it were all in the day's work. (Continued Tomorrow) [OUR FIR it —~— By a “rn never feel | Ronny married,” | plainea “She's | she's already given up cigarets for safe until T get Mr, Tearle ex unmanageable, a pipe, a carved meerschaum—gold and amber trappings—but still a pipe! She thinks it’s cute! Some way, she thinks it eute te elope’ Mr. Tearle dropped into my larg. ext overstuffed chair, I was glad I had something big enough to make him comfortabte. “And so, Peg, I've came to vou,” ST YEA Bride CHAPTER XXXVI—TERRIBLY TEMPTED “Bonny ien't it love with George,” |I assured him, “nor with your Swisy |chauffeur. ‘I really think that child is suffering from what gbe considers la broken heart. Mr. Teale, you know that she's been in | with Bart Elliott a long time? | “Then she’s going to have him! | What's the matter with the boy?” “You see—he scorns don't love ‘So Bonny takes to ol’ George as sup- plying more excitement than boys of her own age.” DOINGS OF THE DUFFS | 1 BY AHERN HOLD TER _ NEWT. SHES AREARIN’ C'MON, LETS Go OVER Jou's STREAK CIRCUS AN' BEND VER HIG SPREAD ~ I'M OFF “THOSE LIVER TOURNAMENTS: WAT BUTCHER OF OURS \S SENDING HIG GON “THROUGH DENTAL COLLEGE AN'HE'S MAKING US INTO CUSTOMERS FoR TH’ KID WHEN HE OPENS A PARLOR: < AND NOW “THE OLD HOME TOWN TH’ LAMP ANY WAY- \NEVER STAY UP (M AGIN’ USING ‘STINGY” WIGGINS ‘TELLS WHY HE DOESNT MOURN THE LOSS OF THE TICKETS WHICH WERE STOLEN ALONG WITH HIS PANTS THE OTHER DAY. WILL YOU PLEASE GIVE ME “TWO NICKELS FOR THAT ? | WANT TO USE THE PHONE ~ * * Page 702 SEREPTA AND THE POUNDING-BARREL Bo, early in the qorning, they | didn’t stop on the box, not she; were up and at it © up she went to the top of the bar- Tt takes many a tin backet of | rel and, with one foot on one side water to fill a big barrel, but the | of its narrow edge, and one on the girls had to fill it other, she proceeded to pound. Back and forth, back and| And the way the suds few and forth, they went from the river to| the water splashed ts a wonder to the barrel which stood out by the | Rosetta to this day. back door, Rosetta Wallace and] But Serepta’s troubles were not her sister helping Serepta as if| over with the hanging out of the the Taylor's laundry was their] clothes, tho they looked very own responsibility, white, indeed, spread over the They did that, the pioneers—| bushes in the sun, everybody helped his neighbor as| No, Mr. Taylor had yet to treat soon as need was known, every-| his invalid daughter fo¥ malaria, body helped till it was supplied.| “What are you giving her?” And having three carrters, the | Mrs. Wallace asked, water was brought mucs sooner| “Gun powder, o' course,” he than you would have expected. growled. “What else would you Against the barrel leaned the| give a person for chills?” pounding-stick, This was a heavy| That was nothing unusual, but block of wood about 9 by 12! the way in which he gave it was inches with a firmly fixed long] simply brutal. Usually it was handle, and its under side scored. | made palatable by mixing it with ‘Water was heated in a great iron | molasses and swallowing it quick! pot hung over the fire, a box| But he mixed it with bacon placed beside the big barrel upon | grease (which they called web- which a girl might stand while| foot butter) and spread it on she pounded her clothes, bread, a tablespoonful, if you Finally it was all ready, hot and | please! cold water, soap and clothes were in the barrel, the younger girls had done all they could; it was, ab it were, “up to Serepta.” And Serepta was no Inefficient girl. Seizing the heavy pounder, she mounted the box, but she eeeeeneeeecreeceees © 1% WS semcnnnsnemnnetsaend po rn rn enn wi lhts Merr v ranean nn In telling about It, Rosetta «ald, “It was awful stuff, and I said, ‘Please don't make her take it. She don’t look sick to me. I saw her washing the clothes.’ Serepta begged, too, and then we both crted, but she took her medicine.” “So EMiott has some nense after |Get her away from Bradshaw, and all? T supposed he was only a mat-|throw her and Bart — together. ines hero,” propinquity! That's — everything. “Bart's a peach—awfally poor—no | family—nothing! But he's too good| “Mr. Teale, could you tend me a for most girls! car or two for a motor party in the “Peg, I'd accept any son-tn-law on | Berkshires." your recommendation! Elliott can| “All the cars you want—new cars have my money—if he can win my |if you say so. Peggins, I'll give you daughter!’ |a ear if you separate Bonny from Throw them togetherf flappers! * “But we'd better not put it so--to| Bradshaw!" |Toathes them! Never looks at them! | him? I laughed. “Suppose Mary Smith and Andy “But we can put It #0 to ourselves, |Smith and Jack and I and Bonny Peg?” Then we laughed together. | take a trip, and 1 invite Jeanne Alj- “Get her out of towg can’t you?/ son and Bart to go along?” WOULD You LiKE SOME NO, 1 GUESS NOT BUT I'D LIKE “TWO -"TWO CENT PERFUME P STAMPS, PLEASE - WHAT'S THe IDeA The WHOLS OrricEe HANGING OvT oF I's a OF Citevs Force | eaeave, We TRUG f yn ey} Sse !~ “Pegging, as a little girl you were always the cleverest in our neighborhood. There's a big divi- dend from this—if you succeed, And| I guess I'd better give you one of the cars, anyway!" After the dear man had gone I sat me down and meditated upon several | exciting possibilities. Bonny and Bart—what a fortun- ate girl Bonny would be! And a for. tune for Buart—without working! Really, matchmaking was a wonder, ful game! And a brand new car for mo, .. Whether or not I saved Bonny from. ol’ George! Mr. Tearle often given lovely presents to me, and to all of his daughter's friends. He had: given a chest of flat silver when 1 married, Nevertheless Jack never would let him give us an auto, No use of trying to make Jack see any- thing like that! Well then—what if I were to ask Mr. Tearle to give me a check to cover all those horrid bila in my desk? Just by explaining to Mr. Tearia, 1 could oes them all. And dear old Jack would never need to know {To Be ants ra