The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 1, 1922, Page 11

He Buspecting there is something wrong in the way that FRED THAYER is conducting the Empire Lake mill for him, BARRY HOUSTON makes a secret automodile trip to the property. On the way, while crossing Hozard pass, his automodile ts wrecked and he is ploked up with a droken arm by BATISTE RENAUD, who carries him to the home of a deautiful mown- tain girl, MEDAINE ROBINETTE. Thayer comes to the scene and identifies him, 20 Barry feigna amnesia so that his employe will not be on the lookout. Ba'tisie, however, discovers the ruse when they are alone by tickling Barry's feet, explaining when Barry protests that he would not de ticklish ¥ Ae really Aad amnesia, Ba'tiste then explains that he ts not what he teems, dut a physician, He professes friendship for Barry, because he Feminds him of his own son, Plerre, who is dead. His wife, Julienne, is ‘also dead and he is lonely. Ba'tiste explains that he went to France during the war to look for his gon. He found him just too late—the doy died in Ais arms from wow and the father, wnabdie to save his own son, pledged himself never to try to gave anyone else. Returning, he found his fortune of $10,000 stolen and Ais wife murdered. This story leads Barry, convinced of Pa'tiste’s friend~ ship, to admit a shadow over his own past. ‘Now go on with the story. *Eet ts enough!" came abruptly, | j# something you do not) which I am to have a hundred dol- lare a month, nothing more. That’ to tell, I lke you—-I not ask what I'm out here for, Ba'tiste, to find out why, in apite of the fact re i ages ee bo gh ge that I've worked day and night now . } for @ year and a haif, In spite of the By Bed beter Tou “have! ract that I've gone out and strugsied and fought for contracts and even “I've had plenty of that. tn the) eaten down the barriers of dislike Mast two years,” came quictly. “I/ang distrust and suspicion to get think I've got plenty ahead of Me! pusiness—why I can't get it! Some @o you know about Thayer?” | thing or some one is blocking me, “He no good.” and I'm going to find out » hat and “why? who {t Is! I think I know one man -, ‘i Thayer, But there may be more. se gtiaemellbaae ee ex en t’| That's why I'm playing this game of ‘rest Bip ls ‘ pkg eo lost identity. I thought I could get Bovtecss ne lke Ho have havit/OUt here and nose around without fev talkin’ about himactfche ask| BM knowing it. When he found out You question an’ tell you’ nothing.| | once who I was, and seamed to Be have ‘hatchettuce; Barteese no} DAYS had & previous tip that I was Tike & man with a hatchet-tace. Be-| Cmne out here, I had to think fast B® and take the first scheme that pop- Gide, he make love to Medaine!’ | neq into my head. Maybe if T can 1S GoIN' UP “To HIS UNCLE'S FARM aN’ HE SAID I COULD KEEP'M ALL SUMMER © HE SAID NoT "> LET'M BITE ANY STRANGERS ‘CAUSE HE'S A FULL BLOODED WATCH DOG AN! HE OR SOMETHIN’! ing magpies as they went about the work of spring house building, to MIGHT GET POISONED DOWN!!~ Weir NouUNG MAN, You CAN MARCH RIGHT BACK TO CLIFFORD WITH THIS LAD I'LL NOT HAVE HIM AROUND “THIS HOUSE> NOW. THAT GETTLES, | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS PAGE 11 WAS A DECIDED SLUMPIN RE BUSINESS AT ROBINSONS STORE TODAY cw stank “No. Ba'teese no care. But tf my Pierre had ltve, he would have make love to her. She would have marry him. And to have M’steu ‘Thayer take his place? No! Mebbe —" he said tt hopefully, “mebbe you like Medaine, huh?" “I do! She's pretty, Ba'tiste.” “Mebbe you make love?” But the man on the bed shook his head. “I can't make love to anybody, Ba'tiste. Not until I've—I've found ge ely i He c i i : i if 3° i ! | lesa you love ‘em. Ba'teese, he know. Ba'teose, he been many home where there love.” “True. But you don’t know the story behind it all, Ba'tiste. And I can't tell you except this: I got in some trouble. I'd rather not tell you what it was. It broke my father’s heart—and his confidence !n me. He —he died shortly afterward. “And you—was it your fault?” “If you never believe anything else about me, Ba'tiste, believe this: that tt wasn't. And in a way, it wai proven to him, before he went. he had! been embittered then. He/ a will—with stipulations. I was to have the land he owned out here) at Empire Lake; and the flume site) leading down the right side of Hawk | Creek to the mill. Some one else) owns the other side of the lake and the land on the opposite bank of the stream.” “Out, Madaine Robinette.” “Honestly? Is it hers?” | “When she !s twenty-one. But go/ on.” } “Father wouldn't leave me the mill He seemed to have a notion that I'd sell it all off—and he tied everything | up in @ way to keep me from doing | } anything like that. The mill is rent @d-to me. The land is mine, and I} can do everything but actually dis | pose of it. But on top of that comes Snother twist; if I haven't developed | } the business within five years into/ | double what it was at the peak of Barry laughed play the game jong enough, {tt will “Evidently that's @ sore spot withitake him off his guard and cause you, Ba'tiste. him to work more in the open. They beaucoup. But don’ marry ‘em. un-| moment and let the saw pick it up in tooj| up the whole plant for three weeks. But | town. That may study the colors of the hills, the| mergings of the tintings and deeper | hues as the scale ran from brown to! green and blue, and finally to the! stark red granite and show whites of | Mount Taluchen. Ba'tiste and his constant compan: | fon, Golemar, were making the round! of the traps and had been gone for | hours. Barry was alone—alone with the beauties of spring in the hills, with the soft call of the meadow lark in the bit of greenery which fringed the atill purling stream in the little | valley, the song of the breeze thru | the pines, the sunshine, the warmth —and his problems. Of these, there were plenty. In may give me a chance to krow where I stand. And I've got to know that, Ba'tiste. Because—" and his voice was vibrant with determina } tion, “I don’t care what happens to me personaliy. I don't care whether five minutes after I have made It, T lose every cent of what I have worked for. But I do care about this; I'm going to make good to my father's memory. I'm going to Le able to stand before a mirror and look myself straight in the eye, knowing that I buckled up against troubié, that ft nearly whipped me, that ft took the unfairest advantage that Fate can take of a man tn al- lowing my father to dle before I) the first place, how had Thayer could fully right myself tn his eyes, | known that he wae on the way from } but that if there is Justice, if there|the East? He iad spoken to only |i anything fair and decent tn this | two persons,—Jenkins, hin bookkeep- | universe, some way he'll know, some | er, and one other. To these two per. | way he'll rest in peace, with the un-| gone he merely had given the informa derstanding that his son took up the/tion that he was going West on a! gauntlet that death laid down for| bit of a vacation. He had deliberate. | him, that he made the fight, and/ty chosen to come in his car, #0 that that he won!" there might be every indication, | “Bon—good! Old Ba'tiste leaned] should there be such a thing as «| over the foot of the bed. “My Plerre/ apy in his rather diminutive office, ——he would talk like that. Bon! Now that he merely intended a jgunt thru what Is it you took for?” & few States, certainly not a journey | “In the first place, I want to know | half across the country. But just the| how so many accidents can happen | same, the news had leaked: Thayer | im a single plant, just at the wrong|had been informed, and his arrival! time. I want to know why It ts that | had been no surprise. I can go out and fight for a contract,| That there had been need for his | and then lose it because 4 saw was)coming, Barry felt sure. At the) broken, or an off-bearer, lugging | least, there was mismanagement at | slabs away from the big wheel, can|the mill; contract after contract lot! allow one to strike at Just the wrong | just when it should have been gained told him this, tf nothing more. But —and he drew a sheet of yellow pa | per from his pocket and stared hard I want to know why it le that only |at {t—there was something cise, about one of three contracts I land! something which had @rounsed hin are ever filled. Thayer's got some-| curiosity to an extent of suspicion, thing to do with it, I know. Why?| something which might mean an That's another question. But there| open book. of information to him if | must be others. I want to know who|only he could reach Tabernacle at they are and weed them out. I've) the right moment and gain access to only got three and a half years left, | the telegraph files without the inter and things are going backward in-| ference of the agent. stead of forward.” Then suddenly he ceased his atudy “How you intend to fin’ this out?” | of the message and returned it to his “I don’t know. I've got one lead! pocket. Two persons ®ere approach —as soon as I'm able to get into! ing the cabfn from the opposite hill, give me a good|—a girl whom he was glad to see, deal of information; I came out here,/and a man who walked, or rather at least, In the hope that it would. | rolled, in the background: Medalne After that, I'm hazy. How big | Robinette and a sort of rear guard | | and drive tt thru the boiler, laying of the—what-you-say—the peanut.” be able to get up tomorrow. Maybe| like a candle on a dark night In I can walk over there: It's only a | stine | YY On THAT TweY O10 SOWELL by her evident “Oh, you're ¥ disa, ppointed 1 came to 4 walk again. A bow-legged | Barry's emberrassment “Ig there ever a time when the| creature he was, with ill-fitting cloth. | at as hers. “if—if it'll do operator isn’t there?” ing and a broad “two lion” hat! any I'll climb back into bed || @& “At noon. He go out to dinner. | which evidently had been bequeathed | again, | and he leave open the door. If eet|to him by some cow-puncher, long| “No—don't. Only I thought you By 1 cl ndJ “Thanks.” A strange eagerness! ders, and a beaded vest which shone “I am-—~I was—1 will be. That is |was in Houston's eyes. “I think I'll| out beneath the scraggly outer coat|—gosh, it's a shame for you to go! Page 717 out and pick a vely Barry knew him to be the| me sitting up here strong as an ox mile or two, isn’t it?” | grunting individual who had waited! j | Grandmother came out on the! and miles and miles over a road nak ating Somioerow oti, tt found | outside the door the night before “Oh, don't worry about that.” he |} porch just as Peggy finished the | #0 roukh jdorary pean to 8 mel e ure t pat » Medaine’s Sioux servan’ niled at hi ith that sweetness eiphhes f ea ge 0 on to pe Seakly in front of Ba'tiote’s cabin, |evidentiy a, acitconstitited body |eiicr only c woman can know when || Abraham Lincoln story, and) Cet) wnere there were no’ral nothing more. Strength of purpose | guard who traveled more as a shad-|ghe has the advantage, “I didn’t|| David begged her to finish the! roads and no mails, and where and strength of being had proved|ow than as a human being. Cer-| pick them. Lost Wing”—she pointed || Tandolph story there were no women except the two different things, and now he was | tainly the girl in the foreground gave | to the skuiking, outlandisbly dressed “‘Cause Peggy sort of mixes| little wife and one other, and you OW, WHAT BEAUTI FOL. ROSES! OM.) vUST Pie) LOVE ROSES! FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS MRS. BLACK | WANT ‘fou ‘TO TAKE THESE wri You- ME ABOUT WORKING IN MY GARDEN -COME IN WERE A MINUTE AND LET ME SHOW You YES.TOM PLANTED THEM- HE WORKED SO HARD IN THE GARDEN THIS SPRING -SOMETIMES IT was DARK BEFORE HE'D Qurr-) WAS GLAD HE HAS SOMETHING ‘To Show For Ir} } yi] LH} caberrecmment. | in an almost Then with al ner vattle telegraph office is there at Taber-| who twenty or thirty feet behind her, | ginnes toward the grent cluster of ca facie?” - ie se 1, | fllowed her every step, trotted when| wild roses in her arms, “I don't NEWS STAND “How Pood Py ughed.\ she ran down the steep side of an|\now what to do with these things R bf | “How petite! Eet is about the sizelembankment, then slowed as sheinue” * CORNER F [0+ those and then have SNOWED IN its best development, back goes) quite content to rest there in the/|no indication that she was aware of | Indian in the background—“attended |}, srandmother," he ex.| ca” Just imagine how ft felt to her | everything into a trust fund, out of | May sunshine, to watch the chatter-| his presence; nor did she seem to|to that. I was going to send them 7 ED, Senee, to be taking her blessed wee baby 1 care over by him. But I didn't hive any plained with her into so wild a place. i Closer she came, and Barry watch-| thing to do, so I just thought I'd “I may mix them up a bit “Tt was all beautiful when they : ADVENTURES od her, taking a strange sort of de-| bring them myself.” myse grandmother warned! went in among the hills, soft WINS light in the skipping grace with| \“Thanks for that, anyway. Can't pink <iate Ga A home act e Go DOWN THEES ANDO GET SOMETHING fo) T GE which she negotiated the stepping | I keep them just the same—to put on him, “but w e ast green mosses and ferns, and To ReaD! FIND Some NEw TOP | Clive B a M |stones of the swollen little stream the table or something nearly as I can as she told tt to) tumbling mountain streams, and TO TALK AROUT! THIS CHAWED- AND . which intervened between her and| “Oh you care t Barry felt |] pogey nivastnitilin *-eeermreln treed ‘ST YOU'RS ALWAYS SPILLING j ) 5 ¥, BU eS IT in of Ra'tiste Renat 8 4 truly disappointed that ‘ | |ARGVED Ue | MR. PEERABOUT STARTS TO MOON, BUT cca ws [the cabin of Ba'tist iz naa on | that owas tru os sap nt a +p Stor teh wan sane to cant | and the wonderful blue sky, and | |GerS MIGHTY TIRSSOMS * rator b move, slowly | ciambered over the straggling pile| he wasn't at the point « ath, or | cree agp spade ese tamed en ee oe Mater, ay |of massed logs and” dead timber |at least somewhere near it. “Where's | Randolph, she didn't tive tong in| the crystalclear air—very, very |i] To YOUR FRASNDS Lb tn the apple tree, looked at poor | Him. ter " R which strewed the small stretch of | Ba'tiste?” |] Springtiel4, for Mr. Randolph nad beautiful 2 \ if. Peerabout, the Moon-Man, in They passed all sorts of odd places, fiat before the rise began, leading| “Out looking after his traps, wet what some people call a ‘roving “And the short summer passed, surprise. Mr, Peerabout had fallen | pyt Buskins was #0 interested in the| © Where he rested. More like some|ing them up, I think, for the oome) foot," always some wonderful} and early in the fall, snow down trom the Moon, you know, and | Moon-Man’s story and the Moon-Man bon g By -ore — Biehl eye i mer. He'll be back soon. te thate it > in things in.ahothen etaie, | Com , a oO hue a either o' “4 OtnING Wis aa | 1 “No suc! s ol av landed in the top boughs. ‘ a a msl that neither of | iol tine all too soon taken the| “Ito, 1 usually come over every something father west, either | a we bg sng he . Peg te When Buskins found out who the rr ay looked very hard they vere the & peal fe | a pated be ee . hie, : Cogs Cal et | gold or land or some other chance | preni, soft flakes, solidly, und with Moon-Man was he offered to take /wouid have seen Nancy and Tana seather futions tee (aie aiel besbars: earsodbe "Die y68: Forbenbad to make a fortune to live on drew | business-like determination. Snow Rim ‘up to the sky in his ittle ele-jand the Weatherman riding @ DIS! drawnstight upon her head and en-| yet who you are?” | like a great white wall, soft, but ee i |sreen umbrella, But they never #@W | -aseq in the shielding confines of a| “Less right at this minute than at lived in Omaha, Ne. | °h! 80 smothering thick. It fel} “Oh, thank you,” said Mr. Peer-|a sign of them. eap, worn low over her forehead, the| any other time!” spoke Barry truth braska, in Council Bluffs, in Den. | 224 fell. and all the green world Shout gratefully. And he lost no time) And what do you think they 4147) visor pulled aside by @ jutting twig| fully. “I'm out of my head entire a | was lost under the white blanket, in climbing thru the apple branches |They went right past the Moon—|anq now standing slanting out at ally!’ He reached for the flowers, || Vet ®nd then there was tho rush | and Catherine and her husband to the funny little house, or elevator Pp on up—past stars and | rekish angle; her arms full of some-| se don’t joke that w It's |] for gold far back in the moun. | and her baby were shut off indeed or whatever it was. planets and the Milky Way and Mars / thing pink and soft and pretty. Bar-| really serious. When I was across tains in Idgho, and he sald, ‘We'll | from the outside world, for now Buskins pulled a handle and the|and Venus and everything. ley wondered what it could be,—then|—army nureing<I saw a lot of just|} #0 there.’ | the wall of snow had added itself NN All at once Mr. Peerabout looked | brightened with sudden hope lsuch cases as yours. Shell shock “So they went to a mining/|to the miles of rough mountain around “Wonder if she’s bringing them to| you know. One has to be awfully camp, far, far back and far, far | road, and stit! it snowed.” “Where are we?” he exclaimed. | me?” c ful with it.” up in the great mountains, miles | (To Be Continued) Buskins stopped the elevator. The answer came a moment later| “I know. But I'm getting the best | Blest if I know,” he said. “I/as she faced him, panting slightly |of care. I—ouch!” His interest had| bfandndlbothad | i guess we've gone too far. We'll have | from the exertion of the ellmb tho [exceeded his caution yi ) that mustache. Jack had been cul- unreasonable; or convinced him that | Characterizes our methods in}\to go back. Here's Bluster-Gust | natural flush of exercise heightened (Continued Monday) But I hadn't a particle of right|at all. Sometimes I surmised thle | tivating it about two weeks when |T was, Certainly he must have been | oy transaction, and our cus- | Land where the Weatherman lives.” | — sais ———————- | to be cr if Jack was living up to) he must have been Jealous of Bert,/one morning I announced, impul-|convinced of something very dis | lesy consistent with sons Sauk: || But Mr. Peerabout’s sharp eyes | jour contract far better than I | little bit, or he wouldn't have been | sively, that I would not kiss him|agreeable when I absolutely refused sess Judgment. had spied something. He'd noticed | Somewhat vaguely sald I to Me:|so stubborn about not shaving off | unti he shaved it off. to kiss him good-by, and he had to the Weatherman's house with its big | “Peg Madison, that letter from/his mustache, ‘The story sems| “Neyer again, Persins?” go off to the office—for the first time. chimney, and tied to the chimney | Mrs. Herrod was only a little rift be- | silly, now I look back at it. Jack put his tathered face into|—without it! 4% Paid on Savings Acc: Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE #7. by @ long rope was a star, eck,” he ried, ieatebing Bus sia hy as deep and broad as the grand|tache, thinking {t would make him|man looks like a hero in that state, kin‘s arm and pointing. "There's the | CHAPTER LI—TRIVIAL TROUBLES tsduen Cyr you keep on imagining |look older, would add to his dignity |It was easy for me to say with de-|band went to work, star that Comet-Legs rides. Do you| When a girl marries she expects, Jack never asked me why T had|things ax you've been doing the last jas a business man, | cision Embrace me he might, kiss me he (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) it did before, By a Bride ——~ “pose he's here? He's the one that | life is going to become a succession| gone to the station, vor whom 1/| few days.” I developed an intense dislike for| “I mean just what I say! I will|might net! Becoming a real cave pushed me off the Moon. Let's |of startling events |had seen there. His lack of curiosity) In spite of this wise admonition, |it from the first not kiss you until you shave off that|man, upon one occasion, he got stop!” Pretty soon she discovers that life |made me awfully cross. He ought 1 permitted our next big trouble to| I like to believe that T have almustache! So—you'd better do it—|soundly slapped for his pains, | (To Be Continued) goes on after her wedding much as|also to have raged about the play,|develop over a mere trifle. sense of humor, but { must own | NOW!" (To Be Continned) [but he did not, tween you and Jack, but it will be| Jack had decided to wear a mus No So we went along for two weeks, my kitchenet before breakfast. Jack was obstinale about nothing! up that 1 was unreasonable about’ 4 suppose that-domand made Jack] (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stay