The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 27, 1922, Page 9

i) Dele mn : a We, (Continued From Page 1) @lines of the road, A last final, clattering journey, and Barry leaped from the seat with something akin to enthusiasm. fhru the swirling snow which sifted past the glare of his head. lights, he could discern a sign which told him he had reached the ®ummit, that he new stood at the Uteral top of the world But tt was a silent work!, a black World, in which the hills about him were shapeless, dim hulks, where the wind whined, where the snow swept against his face and drifted down the open space of his collar; & world of coldness, of malice, of icy venom, where everything was «4 threatening thing, and never a cheering aspect except the fact that the grades had been accomplished. and that from now on he could progress with the knowledge that hie engine at least need labor no Yonger, But the dangers! knew that they had only begun The descent wotld be as steep as the climb he had just made, The Progress must be slower, if any thing, and with the compression But it was at once more he working as a drake. Teast progress and etarted. The engine clanked less now, the air seemed a bit warmer with tho @own grade, and Barry, in spite of bis fatigue, In spite of the disap. Pointment of a disabled car, felt at least the joy of having conquered the thing which had sought to hold him back, the happiness of having fought against obstacles, of having beaten them, and of knowing that he now was on the down trail. The grade lessened for a few hundred feet, and the machine slowed. Hous ton pressed on the clutch pedal allowing the car to coast slowly until the hill became steeper again. Then he sought once more to shift into gear—and stopped short! Those few momen of coasting had been enough. Overheated, dis- tended, the bearings had cooled too guddenty about the crank shaft and/ gency had not even last the | thing determined upon self-destruc jmency ed thru th | frozen there with a tightness that neither the grinding pull of the starter nor the heavy tug of the Gown grade could loosen. Once more| tight at the wheel, leaning, white, | Wheel with fingers ghat were white Barry Houston felt his heart sink in the realization of a newer, a grent- er foreboding than ever. A frozen crank shaft meant that from now on the gears would be useless. Fourteen miles of down grade faced him. If he were to make them, it Must be done with the aid of brakes alone. That was ‘dangerous! He cupped his hands and called —tn the vain hope that the stories of Hazard Pass and its loneliness Might not be true, after all. But the only answer was the churning of the bank-full stream a hundred yards away, the thunder of the Wind thru the pines below, and the eerie echo of his own voice coming ‘Back to him thru the snows. La Doriously he left the machine and @limbed back fo the summit, there “Say, is that's what “How do you dof’ said Nancy and) but he sald he wasn't. He sald he'd } Elis eyes had centered upon the Wick when Wally Woodchuck open-|wakened in the night and the Moon |form of a girl standing beside the 4 his front door in answer to their knock. “Well, well, we “If you're not a sight for sore eyes’ ‘Where have you been and what have You been doing since you were here last spring with Mr. Tingaling, the fairy landlord, to collect my rent?’ “We've been on the Moon,” replied Nick. “But the Moon-Man, old Peerabout, is lost and we're hunting for him.” “Say, is that what's wrong?” asked Wally. “I wondered! Who's running it now?” “Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, the Weather- man, until we find Mr. Peerabout, explained Nick. “But old Legs, a wicked fairy, would like to be Moon-Man and he’s doing all he n to spoil things. Why?" “Well, T'll tell you,” said Wally “Last night my wife was putting the babies to sleep and she sang a pong like this: Comet- “Oh, hush-abye, diggers, With woollken fur and nice fat little figgers, All cuddly and warm, and as round as the Moon, As it sails thru the sky from July unto June.’ my lUttle ground “suddenly, our youngest, Woozt kins, said, ama, why do you sing to us all e time about the Moon being roun It was square last night” “We thought he'd been dreaming, For Bad Breath Coated Tongue, Biliousness, Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Bloating, Gas, Constipation, or other result of lndiger tion, no remedy is more highly recom mended then FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS They cause no griping or nausea. Cleanse the bowese sweeten the stom- ach and benefit the liver. Never dis- eppoint. Mra. Biizaberh So, Main St. Hiseric Cor eatly say Foley artic Tables t and Company ag aa tag f°) aft, TY IN ” erted Wally. | Mr. | ’ 3 " cd to seek out the little tent house he had seen far at one side and which he instinctively knew to be! the rest pom an refreshment stand of the summer season, But he found it, as he had feared he would find tt, a deserted, cold, fap ping thing, without a human, with out a single comfort, or the posst bility of fire or warmth thru the night. Summer, for Hazard Pass, at least, still was a full month away. For a moment he shivered within “ft, staring about its bleak interior by the ald of a flickering match, Then he went outside again. It was only a shell, only a hope that could not be realized. It would be less of a hardship to make the fight to reach the bottom of the Pass than to attempt to spend the night tn this flimsy con- traption, In travel there would be at least action, and Barry clam- bered down the hill to his ma- chine. Again he started, the brake bands squeaking and protesting, the ma sloughing dangerously as and again its shee: welght forced tt forward at dangerous speeds until fesser levels could be 4 and the hold of the brake accomplish — their Down and down, the miles sipping away with far greater that even Barry realized, un til at last He grasped desperately for the emergency brake and gripped tight now upon it, steering with one hand. For five minutes there had come the strong odor of burning rubber; the strain had been too great, the foot-brake linings were gone; every | thing depended upon the emergency jnow! And almost with the first strain— | ‘coning, the car seemed to leap jbéneath him, a maddened, crazed j thing, tired of the hills, tired of the turmoil and strain of hours of fighting, racing with all the speed [that gravity could thrust upon it [for the bottom of the Pass. ‘The brakes were gone, the emer. | frst hill. Barry Houston was now & prisoyer of speed—cramped tn the seat of a runaway car, . clutching | tense-faced, out into the anow, as he struggied to negotiate the turns, to }hold the great piece of runaway machinery to the crusted road and check its speed from time to time in the snowbanks. A mile more—halted at tntervals | by the very thing which an hour or so before Barry Houston had come almost to hate, the tight-packed banks of snow-—then came a new emergency. One chance was left, and Barry took it—the “burring” lof the gears in Iteu of a brake. The snow w fading now, the air was warmer; a mile or so more and he would be safe from that threat which had Griven him down from the mountain peake—the poe sibility of death from exposure, had he, in his Nght clothing, attempted wrong?” asketl Wally | Was as square as a soap box,” Nancy looked at Nick and Nick looked at Nancy, their eyes as round as saucers. | “Oh, thank you for telling us, raid Nancy. “Old Comet-Legs must have put the Weatherman out, too! He said he'd turn the Moon square the minute he got a chance. Good. by, Mr. Woodchuck.” Off to the Moon satled Nancy and | Nick and on the way they met Mr. inkle-Blow riding on his um- brel “I was Just going to look for you," he said (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) TEETH | EXTRACTION | FREE DAILY | Our whalebone rubber, which does not cover the roof of the mouth if you have two or more teeth. 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PART I ASSURE You* I NEED TW’ Jack BE AT EASE BUSTER, NoW WORSE'N AN MY LAD = You WILL GET TWE MONEY = MY CREDIT 19 SOUND! GET A BATTERY CHARGED= ALL I'D GIVE Him WOULD BE ~ TWREE CHEERS a? He LerT t ™ Ss ) ‘gen geennaee Sess S Buew? 9 Buster REFRESHES THE "MATOR'S” MEMORY ===« | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS TOM, COME UP HERB AND WALK WITH MB~-DON'T LAG _— BEWIND - Look AT You! ‘ You'Re LOSING Your |g GARTER ~ 17'S DRAGGING! to spend the night In the open. If! [the burred gears could only hold | the car for a mile or #0 more— But a sudden, snapping crackle ended hin hope, The geanm had meshed, and meshing, had broken. Again a wild, careening thing, with no snow banks to break the rush, |the car was speeding down the | steepest of the grades like a human ‘THERE HE Goes SHOWING OFF ON Tue BEST STREET IN “TOWN - tion, | A skidding curve, then a straight |away, while Barry clung to the | with the tightness of their grip. A jsecond turn, while a wheel hung jover the edge, a third and— | } The awful, suspénded agony of |space. A cry. A crash and a dull, twisting moment of deadencd, suffering. After that-—blackness. | Fifty feet below the road lay « | broken, crushed piece of mechaniam, | |ite wheels still spinning, the odor of gasoline heavy about it from the broken tank, one light still) gleaming, like a biasing eye, one| Night that centered upon the huddled, crumpled figure of a man who groaned once and strove vague: | ly, diazily, to rise, only to sink at] last into wunconsciousess, Barry} Houston had lost his tight. | How long he remained there, | Barry did not know. He remem-| dered only the falling, dizzy mo-| ment, the second or #0 of horribi racking suspense, when, breathless, | unable to move, he watched the) twisting rebound of the machine| from which he had been thrown and sought to evade ft as ft settled; metal crunching agatngt metal, for the last time. After that had come agonized hours in which he knew neither wakefulness nor the quiet of total unconsciousness, Then | Vaguely, as from far # he heard a volce—the sort of a ¥ | that spelled softness and gentleness. | Something touched his forehead and stroked ft, with a caress that only |}& woman's hand can give. He | moved slightly, with the knowledge that he lay no loager upon the jTocky roughness of a mountain| | side, but upomsthe softness of a bed. | A pillow was beneath his head. The co |hand again lingered on his fore. " | head and was drawn away A mo-| hand reached for his head hnd felt/ ment more and slowly, wearily, it. It was there, plus @ few ban- M=M~™ -M~ Barry Houston opened his eyes. | dages, which, however, trom their ; It was the room of a mountain/ size, gave Barry little concern, The CA ie a cabin, with {ts skins and snow-.| inventory completed, he turned his HMMMn~- M-M- Mp shoes; with ft» rough chinkings in| head at the sound of a voice—he' MMM-M-mMe Me aed 4 |the interstices of the logs which|—calling from the doorway to some * uM M- MM. Mem “ formed the mainstay of the house,| one without HMM- Wm 14 =n with its four-panel windows, with ‘He's getting along fine, Ba'tiste.” = Soe maceninion get With th-cem| Dey lene’ tae, ene end the ante a jfort. Barry noticed none of this.|thusiastic manner of speaking. “His fever’s gone Gown, I should)| dy 1 Cc think—" ou abe’ Lc nel oul!” had come the answer “And has he, “Ah, booming [little window, where evidently she| | had gone from his bedside. bass. Page 714 tn | Fair-haired she was, tho Barry| what you say, come to?" | j dia not notice it. Small of build “Not yet. But I think he ought “THE MAN WITH THE RED WAGON IS DROWNED” and ‘slight, yet vibrant with the! to, soon.” | on | |health and’ vigor that is typical of| “Oul! Heem no ver’ bad. ‘He be “There was nothing anybody Back from the bank, elther in or about the wagon-home we were contentedly busy about the little could do,” said Mrs. Davis, “there those who live In the open places,|all right tomorrow.” was not a man to spare, and for And there was a piquant something} “That's good. It frightened mo WHY, THAT'S about her, too; just enough of an|for him to be unconscious so Jong. | . ed doll ——s x ! another one to throw himself| tasks which always need doing, = }unturned little nose to deno no | It's bee ive or six hours now, Wa ae ee oe ke ee into the hungry current of the| whether a home Is in a palace or WU ma on Saal THs catesr pendence in her being; dark biue| “Lemme seo. I fin’ heem six river, with {ts treacherous, sandy| @ tent, we were waiting for our YMMING, 2. Ee eyes that snapped even as darker Now—eet Is the noon, saial | bottom, would have been worse! captain-father to say that the ec S eyes snapped, as she stood, half ° rides had returned and we could turned, looking out the window,| “That's long enough, Besides, 1 than foolish. vi cas “sao “Mabk db thn Weddle cid watching with evident eagerness| think he’s sleeping now. Come in- “No; they had sent thetr cap-| 8° °°: rr | the, approach of some one Barry) side and see—" i rnayer || ‘#!2 on @ mission more dangerous | the, Hiver"tiad Onme $0. 9% mm could not see, The lip: arried |} “Wa y’ enfant. M'sie’ ayer s Ht adphos The Ups carried a ‘Walt, sy’. Garant pore than they knew, and they must} "e#re «© man cry out: *emile of anticipation. Barry | he come in the minute. He say he “The man with the red wag: |felt the Instinctive urge to call to| think he know heem.” stand and watch him struggle for pcre |her, to raise himself— The eyes of y Houston sud. his life, Se | He winced with a sudden pain, aj denly lost their curiosity, Thayer? “te A bh al ae Peggy looked as If she were go- |sharp, yet aching throb of agony|That could mean only one Thayer! If only the horse could get! ing to cry, and she leaned against which involuntarily closed his eyes| Barry had taken particular pains;{ back on the bar, if she would try) 1,4 jap of the little lady, as she and clenched tight his teeth until| to keep from him the information to swim against the current, if said, ‘Oh! Oh! Oh! And he was }it should pass, When he looked|that he was anywhere xcept the ihe would struggie ri , , > more and drift | ,° « tn ee | again, she was gone, and the open-| Hast. For it had been Fred Thayer | {° “oUo BTUs , your daddy, just like my daddy! WELL, (T'S NOT any ton a Tus © |ing of a door in the next room told| who Had caused Barry to travel|y Jess they sald. “But it wasn't true, doar. ANO IF You INSL . Ing |him where. Almost wondering, he| across country in his yellow speed:| “But they didn't know—how| pather had thrown himself loose MUSicaAc BIeVKY VOC 3Ec | ne¢ h em e or « | ater, Thaye who fol eC eo turned his eyes then toward th r, Thayer who had formed th could they know of the mighty | from the horse when he felt the || |UHAT YOU Gey Some blankets and sought to move an|reason for the displacement of that } ¥ ver! Th ' me arm--only again to desist in pain.|name plate at the beginning of|f Dull of the swift river! They) poor little thing sinking, and he R He tried the other, and it respond-| Hazard Pass, Thayer who- |] didn’t know that horse and rider) had used all his own strength and Kg cove " me lowered, and| “Knows ol Is ho & a | were doing their level best. all his man's mind to swim to the y's eyes stared down upon a| “Oul. So Thayer #ay @ say! ‘dine | bandaged, splinted left arm. Brok-|he think eet 1s the M’sieu Houston, ‘Someone cried out, someone| other shore. on. lwho own the mill.” |] prayed softly, under his bréath,| “When his strength was almost He grunted with surprise, then| “Probably coming out to look but the river rushed on, bearing | gone, and It seemed as if he must j comec eat yPounetiz, tegen an in-| over things, the ae “ee | on ite swift current. the staunch | b¢ meer aoe, he oe up and |spection of the rest of his human| “Oul. Thayer, he sl he young) “a 0 e caught hold of some overhanging |machine, Gingerly he wiggled one|man write heer about coming little horae, now her head was) \ijows and was saved, jtoe beneath the biankets It| That is how he know when I tell above water, now under, and— “But he came very, oh, very | seemed to be in working order, He|heem about picking heem up from now—was gone! near to death.” tried the others, with the same re-|the machine, He say he know/ sult. Then followed his legs—and| M'sieu Houston is coming by the, em A EHH A enn? | Lee the glorious knowledge that they | automobile,” considering the larger aspects of) would make a splendid father. But-q still were intact. His one free| (Continued Tomorrow) like Jack's new mustache?” any other.” married life. net yet—not yet! . serosa am + — =~ “T detest it! T answered, only half-| He was speaking of the child in the] Never before had {t occurred to} So far in my married Iife I had lw play and the mother’s crime. And I had hoped that Bart's prim. {tive version of love would make Jack wrotchedly Jealous, And Bart had expected it to. And Jack tg- nored it entirely. Instead of insinuating that I and Bart had overacted, my husband was caught up with the idea that a wife could take vengeance by robbing a father of his child! While I was thinking only of my husband's love for mo, Jack was y honestly, because I ought to have | added that I detested the flapper R FIRST YEAR lfreedom which permitted Bonny to ) |kiss another girl's husband, By a Bride From Jack's quick way of getting CHAPTER XLVIKA KISS FOR MY HUSBAND me out of the car and into our suite I knew that the subject of our con- Bonny took us home tn her car,)\the indubitable respectability of this|yersation and Bonny's kiss annoyed on her way to a big dance given for | proceeding. him excessively. His only remark returning college men. After she ick, kiss me good night!” Bonny | about the rehearsal had nothing to us she would pick up two young m tnd an drew up at our|do with my success: at a hotel. Her chauffeur and het “Pogmy first! There! Per, you] “1 suppose & wife could make a husband pay that way—better than taken it for granted that I filled all the needs of my husband's heart, Of course, when we could afford _ children, when we had a real house with a yard instead of a suite in an apartment, I would think It time to raise my babies, No wonder Jack astonished me hy thinking about babies when he should have been thinking about my, success on the stage! (To Be Continued) me that Jack had any particular in- terest in bables, I had the unmarried girl's view of children, I prided myself that It was an up-to-date view to consider the child as particularly the woman's affair. Jack and I had more than once talked of our family. I realized that Jock had an infinite sort of a no- tior that {t was good for a man to dave his children around him as he grew older, also 1 know that Jack we door and University St.|fatner's car were the sole surety of |look blue! What's wrong? Don't you