The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1922, Page 11

PAG? 11 BY STANLEY, — LUCKY NUMBER WITH [J EVERY POUND OF TEA THE SEATTLE STAR INDAY, JUNK 19, Izy. \" p OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | re |F/ DONT GET EXcITED*|-/oracious! Y/ poe ols a Mare ae A | . HORNSBY _ WORK ¥ ; A fe eT CALMYSELF* A COOL | hye J SHALL rRUW \{-tewnio-To pur RTHUR VE HEAD 1 WHAT PUTS AD | ‘ LEFT THE ELECTRicl UP ANOTHER Vlour aN ELECTRIC ETE SR BEERS OUT A FIRE t= STAND) | Co TURNED Ons A LADDER AN' SETH iron) wit WATER (Continued From Saturday) Jing to atay at the Unonia. A ntco| f] BACK VCAN'T TELL Foe ooo WH LIFE NET? a “HW ONLY “THING ~ oR V little lecture ts coming to me for be . r Speaisieecn ing out two nightstand smashing | || WHAT MIGHT HAPPENS warn us we GREE, | |wer urns wl For an hour or more Dick watted | my car. ‘Think of it—her getting GET SOME MORE ABOUT IRONING A HIS COOP ARE tent); By ° dictagraph | out thei ag ny owed in ATC! ae Getartty ot in wirsnes ictagragh|out_ tere and swing 1 tov WATER You mour Roons!/ \MATCH sot } \T ro ct In the silence, broken now and) phoned to for a wrecking car—only | | DUMBBELLS ' ieee’ A FIRE? THE OLD HOME TOWN — hen by some amateur, he had) first! That's some of Garrick's work plenty of time to think of Ruth.|/ I'l get... Well... no rum oO» In spite of himaeit his suspicions car-| running arrest yet It might} ried him on to the Parr robbery, now |dampen the ardor of someone I known to have included the taking| know. whose ardor 1 do want ‘Of valuable jewels as well as the loot. | dampened . . . Brock, you sald thin | ing of the Parr cellar of some of its| would be a lark. It's & lark, all pholcest vintages. His thoughts ran | right, We wake up the laiks q beyond that, to the radio dance an “Ruthie, old sore-bones, how do the suspicious signaling from the} you feel? I heard you talking about) tower of the Gerard house. }& lark, You look as if you had been | Who was the ringleader of this/on one that took a nose dive , | Miserabio affair? He thought of| It \ tae 5 ¢ is any lark, let me in on it.” 7 Brock, of Georges—and of Jack Cur-| It was Rae who was at least one | Us. He gritted his teeth. He hated | of the new arrivais. M the very name of the debonair ad-| “Lark! This from Ruth, con venturer ltemptuousty, “Yes, One thing leads Dick started from his reverte, ‘The | to another, all right, First we start | @lctagraph was working! | this place, ‘Then we get tn over our | e' in getting our Thru the bigh © resistance head-| heads, T pleces he heard voices, almost as if) own stuff to sav ney, Then we from one of the old phonographs. Ho | begin getting more than we can use strained his ears to recognize the|here—to make some money-—to pa: fi voices. It was Vira speaking, To|the other expenses, Then—oh, . eee Lordy!” “Well, here we are again, For a| Ruth subsided as another votce second last night I thought we were | became audible alvo to Dick, Glenn never going to get to the old Inner, had tly been another of the ad cle again, You're some driver, | new arrivals. nyhody else at the wheel and-—well Now, Ruth, watch Glenn desert “oad girls tell no tales!" }me for Vira, He was glad enough As Dick's keen ears focused at.| to come down here with me, Never tention he could recognize Ruth's; mind, Glennie, I'll get you, yet.” jaugh. Dick could hear Rae laugh teasing: | “Vira, that sounds good—because | ly, “Vira, if you don’t put more pep | I know you mean it. After what we/ into Glenn, I'm going to take a went thru last night we're pals for. | hand. ever. I feel a little shaky yet. I “You're taking a lot for granted, think TN le down for a while on| Rae,” put in Ruth. this chaise longue. Some more of “Rae bas a very taking way,” said ‘ ur massaging would do my poor | Vira pointediy. i x a lot of good. If you ever go| “Now, fellows,” smoothed out wet . , 5 fo and have to open a beauty |Glenn, “Quit doing your stuff, No| ‘There was a volley of laughter|| DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Wlibur’s Thoughts Got Busy as a Bee BY ALLMAN, | - or something, count on me as| good ever comes—" fro THE EXCITEMENT AROUND “THE GRAND PRIZE AY ROBINSONS STORE SORATTLED LITNE BERTIE BENNET. +t THAT HE SWALLOWED THREE TICKETS’ ON. THE HANG/AG LAMP. very body your best patron.” ‘ Cte ow = pressed on out,” | hat was a call from the garage,” GEE, i’VE BEEN CALLED MY NAME IS WILBUR DUFF - MR DUPF, DO YOU KNOW OF ANY There was silence for a few min. | Ruth fini with a laugh and some) came Jack's voloe, “That Garrick To APPEAR FOR JURY { RECEIVED ANOTICE TO REASON WHY ‘You ARE NOT (‘tee utes, Then Ruth spok in, “I) claws in the soft voice. | the as a laugh, for they LEO, SCRATCH wonder when Jack is coming, “He's| "I hear Jack and Georges down-|were all in a stage, where a pun isi] || DUTY-I'LL HAVE TO oo phi antl AVAILABLE FOR JURY DUTYP worpuR ure! DO SOME SNAPPY THINKING TO GET AN EXCUSE. SO | CAN GET OUT OF iT- becoming such a rushing lover, I felt| stairs,” Rae changed the subject/as high a form of humor as any I had to do something to rise to the| diplomatically, “Oh, here's Jac “has been banging around. My man game standard of energy he shows.|now. Well, Jack, what's the dirt?’ | jeft. But someone saw Garrick In These boys aren't going to get} Ruth did not wait for any answer,/a taxi.” | ahead of little Ruth. “Did you—t” “With Dick? Thia quick query Vira chuckled. “Well, it wouldn't} “Yes I did, Ruth,” hastened Jack.) was from Ruth and a bit anxious, | fake much to grt ahead of Glenn | “Got a good scout to go up there to| No, alone.” these days. He looks worried—and| Vira’s house and remove those Parr\| “On . . ." Her votce died off in that makes me worried. Have you | cases as soon as the coast is clear— | rejlef. Noticed it, Ruth?" “I've gent another fellow out “Not thru your eyes of love, dear,” | Hope he’s tn time. keidded Ruth. “Where?" This was from Vira. Dick, at the other end, had been a ‘our pla Jack seemed to Dit worried about the ethics of what | pound « table. “They'll give him the Garrick’s detective proctivities had | beating of hi tfe, confound him! > him into. He told himself that | mash bis face if-—put him in th he would stop if it were not for what | sheets for a weele—maybe—" Guy would say. If he had stopped | Blater long enough he might have admitted | Dick tinkered and tickled and a4 that he was just lke the other mil- jjusted. All he got was some foot Mens in similar circumstances who jamateur on the same wave length. Would have liked an earful on the | He swore, He tried to ewear over other follow. | the ether, bue with fl) su The ‘The fact was that Dick was almost | Interference was there to stay, am it Deside himself with jealousy as he y| Always is when one is listening tn | Heard Ruth discussing Jack. The on something pretty good. | ‘ely consolation to which he could Dick was sore, But he was not treat himecif was the nonchalant surprised, When he first became! ' alge fitppant way she spoke of lereatly interested in wireless some He wondered. Did he imagine | 18 months before there had been! ‘that, because he wished it? perhaps 60,000 wirelesw telephone re | celving sets. A yenr later there had | been €00,000. ‘Today, he knew, one! authority had estimated « million, | al jand the government had esttmated | ts million and a half im the papers Dick cast the receiver from him [that week. No, Dick wow sore, bul | not surprised. In fet he would have say, 11 o'clock.” been pleased at almost any othe fast night. You'll get somebody “What time is $t now?" time. For, even if hie family were} caught one of these days and—" “Must be about that, now . . .It's| wealthy, Dick had vistona of himself ‘These was a thinly velled threat | after.” some day doing better than the big- im the gruff breaking off of Brock's; Again Dick felt his heart throb-|gest of the radio firma which was ‘k. bing violentiy when the Hertzian|doing business at the rate of fifty “Just because tt was the Parra, | waves were reconverted into sownd/milliion dollars a year. Thoughts some friends of—" | waves and brought the next conv’r-|like this had no place in his mind, “I know,” interrupted Ruth. “But | sation to his ears. |now. All he knew was that he was when you all picked us up after the “Ruth, dear, how do you feel?" |the victim of Interference. And he SmMash-up and took us to Vira's—| Dick was tense. It was Jack speak-| was sore—and worried, too. UR DUFF YES siR,1 Do- VE GOT THE A Melting Argument YOU "TOLD MY MOM, fT DIDNT ENWER=s TAT PIECE OF ICE You T WEIGHED IT MYSELF “LEFT YESTERDAY TWIS MORNING AN IT WEIGHED FIFTY ONLY WEIGHED “You oughtn’t to butt tin and try t@ stop anything, Ruth—not when it RAs gone as far as'that thing did Why did you leave the bulky stuff at | ing For the use of the ether (verging her house? Suppose someone comes| “A little weak, Jack But| the pard of Einstein and his i tn there—and finds it. A pretty little|ready to begin again when I get) theory) in not limitless. It will ao || front-page scandal!" home and quiet Mother’s fears. I/commodate just so many wireless Ruth had been characteristic. | live on excitement.” " # and no more—at Jeast until §¥ithout entering a defense she had! “Well, I am coming over to the| «uch an invention ax Dick was Work-| phe tight of the four now swung | ified the subject until the other|house—maybe I can help you with|ing on was perfected, When that! entice neaieat Garrick and Dick pan was on the defensive an alibit—or meet you i some|limit i# reached, the alr becomes a| Urey Seninst Garrick Oonce had “Don't worry. No one will find| quiet place where we can talk over | botier facto ib pos ip ton le igang anything. Jack will take care of|the future, the exciting future—it| Dick cast the hendgear in useloan| “ny. ‘nurey or feet A whistle, thet.” | you get what I mean.” vexation on the table. cee >. ln ror Ragone Vira made a little suppressed ex-| Dick frowned. Unconsciously Jack| It seemed to him that he had been| vk on ‘the curte making hollow { stamation. “I can imagine my Ma.| was stealing his stuff jon the point of getting just tho tm-|ehecg er if I was caught in a bootlegging! “Always ready to try anything—| portant thing he wanted to hear. rhe four fled {, slean out! That'd be the last straw | once, Jack.” [had been making notes as penetra TARO mm the dromedary. She'd be looking} “I’m going to do It soon. Of course, | along newhere he had h andl Dicks anearemncniouiiy. to thelr 7 for some new sheik for me in the|no one has tela you how beautiful | sor put the methods of de-| reet | } whape of a grand ol4 octogenartan| you are. I'm going to tell you more | tec “You're under arrest!” One of| j Wsband. I was straight on the rond| things about yourself than all the His mind was in a whirl, as If al inem fiashed badge ‘Saw you } perdition when I went into plc-| psychoanalysts in ich Vil-| dozen people were sending in his) gome out of the cellar of the Inner tures. I shock the folks a dozen|lage—or Greenwich, t, Or| mental ether at once. Then, sudden. |; Maat night. Also you wiee.om times @ day. But a rum-running| Gretna Green, or some place! |ly, ax if unconsciously ‘he had! that eat tonight!” scandal! Go, get thee to a nunnery,|. “And he's some teller!” snapped | sharpened the thoug gor ses ne i SAY, Smite, Lb ASH KOU WOULDN Ge To LUNCH RIGHT NOW-THERS'S A Bis PEAL ON ANO THE BooxKes IS AWAY Sie, You KNow. ar vattle * By abel C icland— + SN Page 706 THE STORY OF THE RED WAGON * the little lady assured It was a big, big ploneer mect-| “¥ Vira!” P Pr ts to the exact; ¢ k looked at the badge, They Rae portly wa h, one idea seemed to) were » enforcement men. He ¢ ee | “ a pioneer right “Speaking of mothers . . .” Ruth! There was another tilt verging on | «war others he ea toe on noes pecs yt = ing; bigger than any other one| ber, “I am r paused, nothing fippant in word orjwhen Georges’ voice interrupted.| Dick felt that he must get to thin|bomptrolier of the state. ‘There was || the kiddies had ever seen, Of|enough, 1 crossed the plains In aad Reon, See place where Ruth had spent the| 4 moment of perplexity, then ex course, this June pienio ts always | 1969, but I have lived in Seattio Dick at the other end was aghast. Jack went out, apparently Ai night and where Jarrick was Tun-| planations and apologies. larger than others because that | ies, than 30 years. We came to {¢ was all surprising news, this clue | Georges, be sound, mus ning into danger, if he had not al Thought you were in the Velvet a where Ruth en the night | shut the door y fallen into it. And he must! Gang. too,” |] the day when earlyday people| wag Walla, you see.” pefore. Also, it was some mitigated Did you get the low-down? No? there first ‘The Velvet Gang?” and their sons and daughters get . Seg felief. She had got back to town|His laugh punctuated the remark.| He tore out of the apartment, Yeb—that'’s what we nicknamed tomethéet Ceead all aver the atatx|, 1on ee bows it,” sald Peggy, fhaken up by the accident and had|‘Ver’ good. The steamship, ‘Ar-| grabbed the first taxi, rode only «| that bunch of aristocratic rum-run showing her dimples, fore with Vira to Vira’s erapty town | royo,” has wirelensed in that she was|few blocks, dismissed him at the! ners,” | Rouse. More than th here was|heid up by a government boat out-| corner and started running down the| ¢ sk | and starte yning do NM yne of them had picke@ up the! Jomething he did not get; but some-|side the threemile limit, and| atreet sac taba Wee ae bow her smash-up had been con-|searched, and that 250 cases were| As he sped down the block, he| so, without the formality of a ed with trying to frustrate some off. That's the report. But] could see a car in front of Gerard’s.| search warrant, they entered the ing, not perpetrate it | ¢ y in|‘Then @ man ran acroan under the} Gerard house. | T won't go back there tonight. | that vicinity at the time. Eh? Now/are ight. Dick quickened. He saw If anything had ever been there—| ira,” she said at length. “I'm go Well, Peggy was almost fright “Tt’s*a long story,” Mrs. Davis ened, there were so many and x sald, (That is the little lady's name they were all so busy talking with each other, and being glad B=] OH, NEVER MIND; GO ON ANO ~~ Ger SOMETHING WARM IN WouR STOMACHS Look VERY SICK, TOO, Au OF A SUDDEN !! orgetown to tell and she lives right in G |now.) But I shall be g lit to you if you want to hear and happy. e was no governm: But way over In the corner near about it the plano she epted a dear little | ‘ lo you male of that?" |in the shadow two men the stuff was gone! | a —— land a third creeping to Then—why the fight—with us?” | | Di puzzled Dick as they parted from |was just in time. He hurled him-| the chagrined raiders jrelf at the other attacker. They| “Just to get us out of the way,"'} » were two against two, now grunted Garrick. “Gosh! I ache! Oi] ADVEMTURES OF THE Twi NS But at the oment when it seemed Humph' The Velvet! by Clive Roberts Barton ~ that each was getting the upner!Gang... 1 ion't:- know. Mattes! MOON AS TWINS SEEK|)8h4 of his man of othern| it's a detective that needed so much | Bret “I was just 9 years old when could make out ( mite of a gray Indy—altting quiet asa mouse all by herself just | looking sweet and peaceful, and father made up his mind to come West. We lived in’ Wisconsin, : : ; vey | Bear Madison, and he decided not ‘ery crept up to her #0 f eeKY crept up to her softly and) cot his outfit for the trip across said, “Are you being a little bit 9 od »t to Omaha. | the plains until we “You know about the big, gray- frightened, too?” SPRINKLE-BLOW MINDS |ran in. Evidently had been|—or a psychoanalyst an alienist PEERABOUT trailing him from Garriek’s, where|—or a spiritual advis 17” sald the Httle lady in sur | covered wagons the settlers had? they much have been watching. (Continued Tomorrow) |] prise, “Oh, no, dear, I'm having | wen, when we got our wagons It Just seemed the poor moon got moon while you go and hunt for Mr out of one kind of trouble to get |Peersbout.” |e ‘tate another—sort of out of the fry hat's a good idea," agreed Nick & beautiful time, but I don’t hap-| father didn't like the gray. He pen to see anybody I know, *0/tought strong, bright red olleloth I'm just watching the others to-pevewwhin Gesions end tee Werk Now it was Peggy's turn to be | known as ‘the folks with the red Mr. Peerabout, the Mamnin-the-jhat. Then he went and looked at | 4 ~~~ ~~~... 7 | Moon, was lost and now Comet-Legs, lthe calendar . Te By ginride |] surprised, “Aren't you a truly pio. | wagons,’ because there were no hat awful fairy, had run off with| “Hum, hot’ he sighed. “Let's nee, CHAPTER XL—ETIQUET IN LETTERS neor?” she questioned, disappoint-| others like them." he magic powder and threatened to |It says ‘Full moon—shiny.’ The first} In sad contrition I went to work, Why yield to temptation when, | ment written large over her face. (To Be Continued) urn the moon square. \thing to do is to push all these ‘ doubtle 1 know wh { : n . a to guther up Jack’s laundry. In my |@oubtloss, I could know what was in Y v Nancy and ie ee sryeicdl or handles back to place and begif| oon for. used bandkervblete 7 | that letter for the asking? Just 24 | ——_——_———__<\""— #94 8% meen? | heir wits’ ends. ‘ast a good | over a6 riglibees ert Mary Smith could know all about} ~~ “———"_| that he loved \ Is pha gtr | : ee : d nuld me, and that he didn't/I told Jeanne. hing kind Mr aoe swe! he 4 Pigg 0 he did. Then he pulled out jmme upon a small envelope tn his| Andy's affairs for the asking, But|that he would cherish a #entimental | cided that as.a spinster Joanne would |love anybody but me, und wasn't|chess with Mrs, Herrod when I res) > yome to the moos, nelp - roe ee : randie marked “Full moon raincoat pocket }she would not Inquire, Well, neither |letter from Mrs, Herrod jhave positive views of an aggressive | pretending to, anywhere nor at any | hearse. But she's gone North for the ~ ‘The th of them stood in the | shiny “Fine paper—certainly no bill! Tj would 1! And I kept saying to myself that/nature. She would be for direct | time, summer.” = {ttle house where the Moon-Man| And folks on the earth quit wag-|turned it over. ‘Mrs, Herrod's writ-| 1 would not read that letter, and 1/1 did believe, in Jack—only—only |action, while I, as a rie. . “Ther sept the handles for running the|ging their heads and gazing up thrujing! Addressed to Jack's office. Now| would not speak about tt to Jack, | what reason, what excuse had Mrs, | woman, had already Mmcoeired tint | suite Prin regisy viatbae 8; x rhe auinea haere ot bis witete, * noon. Comet-Legs had been playing |their long glasses at the queer|if she must write to my husband, if/and if Mr. John Cuthbert Madison | Herrod for mailing her note to Jack's | diplomacy has its place in wedlock. | seated in the living-room, Jack and I| Was Teanue, sarcastic? I couldn't 10h with these handles, king the | antics of the moon. For the moon|her letters are merely friendly,|cared to have his wife know what | office rather than his home? Jeanne is always a welcome guest |"made up” partially and Unsatiafac. guess. She gave me an odd planede yoor old moon this way and that|suddenly had become quiet and|about chess and nothing more, why|his Indy friends wrote to him he| Fortunately Jeanne Alison came in |even when I have a heartache and |torily in a corner of the kitchen, | I know her well enough to realize ike an automobile someone is just | peaceful and beautiful again—shin. jdoes #he not send them to Jack’s|could show met! the afternoon. We planned our|want to mope, and so, of course, I Never before had I found Jeanne that she thought me a little idiot earning how to drive. ing down over the treetops like a | home" | And anyway, according to our pre-|clothes for the motor trip and stud-|asked her to dine with us, and thus| superfluous, She really is quite a|for some reason. I wished I had Mr. Sprinkle-Blow looked thought | lamp. | I thrust the thing back into my|nuptial agreement, 1 hadn't the|ied the road maps. ‘To know where | spoiled my chance “to make up” the| wonderful girl; Jack calls her a|told her all about thé letter I had not ul. Away went Nancy and Nick| husband's pocket, afraid that if Ilslightest right to object. I was|you are is part of the fun of an auto|/minute Jack entered the door. : Pe ag tere | ‘ yushi 4 | pu are ts Pi 3 < door, peach, found, Perhaps I was an idk ret, my dears,” he said finally, {to hunt for poor Mr rabout held it I might read it. I had been|bound by our contract not to be|tour, More than once I started to| For in spite of the discovery of} After dinner we set off to the Lit-|to have read it a {there's only one thing to do, I'll z (To Be Cont ) brought up to dagpise persons who |trivial, 1 was supposed to@rust my}ask Jeanne what IT would better do|Mrs. Herod's letter I wanted to|tle Playhouse. (To Bo Continued) - ftay and run this old shebang of a! (Copyright, 1922, by Seatue Star) Iread other people's letters, husband, and to be above suspecting | about Mrs. Herrod’s letter, then I de-' have Jack reassure me a dozen times “I's Jack's first view of ‘Skoal,’" (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stag) PM We a WW TUNE Oe att