The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 24, 1922, Page 9

THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE SH-H» EASY © : Y'can Pick'M OFF RNS THER OUT THIS, ‘ = \ RY brett spreap WINDOW =" GRAB A ‘ TH’ PricHeR an! ALL FooT STOOL CLYDE on Wim AN! MeL H WATER WONT SCARE ME ~ wrth A H iis VoWLER= te cA ow taeaocun GO OVER NIAGARA f SOCK OF “THIS WILL “N 01 yet hs! Silence was thelr portion as they | “No. ear i ee on FALLS AN!’ COME OUT Pur A KNOT WwW She looked at him queerly, then Lis “TAIL! turned away. Houston again took the lead, rounding the stretches, then waiting for her, haltin; Barry obeyed. Thus their pilgrim. |@&ngerous gulleys and guiding age progressed, safely across, but silently, He had An hour found them in the hills, / id enough; more would require ex- plodding steadily upward, following |PiAnations, And there was a pack | the smoother mounds of snow which | ¥POn his back which contained a tiny secure drifts, at|frm with tghtourled hands, with eyes that were closed—a poor, name. | les little thing that he had sworn to carry to grace and to protection. | igeing At last they reached the cabina. and literally pulling themselves up,| Howson untied the bond which con. step by step, Here, where the crags | ®ected them and loosened his snow. Tone above them, where sheer gra shoes, that he might plunge into the walls, too steep, too barren to f smatiest drift before a door and & resting place even for the driven | fre? his way within, There was no wood; he tore the clapboards from & nearby cabin and the tar paper from the wind-ewept roof. Five min- utes later a fire was booming: « girl tj tired, Dbentshouldered, her drooping from a sudden destre sleep, huddled near it. Houston | Walked to the pack and took food. “You would rather eat alonet* “Yeu. “I shall be in the next cabin— awake.” “Awake! ; “Yeu. I'd rather—keep watch.” “But there is nothing—"* “IDness—a snowslide—a fresh drift. | t would feel easier In mind. Good night" Then with his snowshoes and his pack of death, he went out the door, to plunge thru another drift, to forces hie way Into « cabin, and there, a plodding. dumb figure, go soddenly about his duties of more than once in the howling, blus- tery night which followed, Houston shivered, shook himself into action You WAVE To Look ou! CLocK KiSS'M ON TH! EVEBROW © tr Ate ANN GOOD AT WAKING I You uP, BUT I'LL PUT?" “WAT BATTLER TO Sleep! Then: CHAPTER XXi “Are you afrall—of yourself?” ED WURGLER WHO DELIVERS WASHINGS FOR HIS W' - 1S ANTIKIPATING THE RETURN OF PROSPEROUS DAYS HE BOUGHT A NEW PURSE TODAY ON HIS CHARGE ACCOUNT EY is ir over Yone is \i OH, I'VE HEARD ABouT Dieed, the 7 ¢ we ever )i| THIS GREAT PIANY The trie dia ‘wile bo had oat Renched waif || LIKE A, WAITER a pura om fs | | PLAVER-He BELONGS m | GET ATAx! that hie the hard, uncomfortable chair beside TO GO TO ONE OF +, ; THE B.V.D. LEAGUE ~ | i i it, trying to fathom what ihe day THESE MUSICAL yf y ONE PIECE! had meant, striving to hope for the } \ 7 keeping of the that on AFFAIRS | i il Hi i FF : W i & fe fi i it i held him, without a/ his own defense, And sor jouston felt that euch a plea be in Hi ey tf iF i bygi ul PeEs it 2 A Pe Ht i i j Hi i fe | & t I t E ' seg fil dripping from his lips, her features again shielded by the peavy folds of the bandanna; the moisture of their \ I a a . ~ breath at times ewirling about the: NW \ 5 i ¥ . like angry steam, at others invisible t) in the areas of sudden dryness, where a ) | the atmosphere lapped up even the ew his? . , MF \ vapors of laboring lungs before it! : ae =] could visualize. Snow and cloud and = 2 d J Ms | Pising walle of granite; this was their world, and they crawling pigmics within it. Once she brushed against the pack on his back and drew away with @ sudden recotl. —— duly! She nodded. looked at him with frankly question: realized the reason. The seifish,| ‘y+ means Tollifer now. The de-|ing eyen, eyes which told that a 2 Ki . The snowfall ceased, to| gripping. hands of winter, holding| gaunt te more dangerous, |thougt was beginning to form GAKING THS LAW? GH E © grayness of heavy, | nothing eacred, had tvaded even) “Do you know It?" Jeomewhere back in ber brain, a ques | po You KNOY seudding clouds and the spasmodic | there. “Not as well as the other, If 1| tion arising as to his guilt in at least | \ flurries of driving white, as the gusty| Noon. And a half-cry from both! onty had something to guide me.” | ¢ oft things which cireum- WHO t @rifts and whirled it on, like} soon faded. For above was Crest-| usted for a moment. Gradually the| Some way Barry felt that she knew harassed, lost souls seeking in vain | line—even as the little Croatian set-| wing stilled, in one of those stretches | that a man willing to encounter the & place they could abide. And It was|tlement had been-smokelea, lfe-| of calm which seem to be only the| dangers of a snowy range would lean. They had gone from here hiso, | preeding spota of more terror, more! hurry again to the side of the wom hurrying humans fleeing with the|pitterness. But they gave no heed/an for whom he had dared them, un- last snowplow before the tempest, |to that, nor to the red ball of the|less—- But suddenly she was speak: beings afraid to remain, orice the| gun, faintly visible thru the clouds. | ing as tho to divert her thoughts. lines of communication were broken. | yar below, miles in reality, straight] “Wo'll have about three hours— But there was nothing to do but g0/ jets of steam rose high above biack,|from the looks of the sky. Unless > curling smoke; faintly, distantly,| conditions change quickly, there'll Roofless houses met them, stacks | whisties sounded. The snowplows! not be another blow before night. of crumpled snow, where the beams! pH» gripped her arm with the sight | It's our chance. We'd better cout | had cracked beneath the weight of|o¢ it, nor did she resist. Thrilled,| thin cord—the one in the lead may high piled drifts: staring, glassiess|enthrailed, they watched ft; the | fall and pull the other one over. We) “Yes. Probably on to Crestline. 1)| windows and rooms filled with white; | whirling smoke, the shooting steam, | had better make haste. ” was afraid of it.” stoves that no longer’ fought the|the white spray which indicated the| Houston stepped before her, A mo- “Night's coming.” clasp of winter but Iyuddied instead) grinding, churning progress of the|ment later they were edging their; “It's too late to turn back now.” | amid piles of snow; Xhat was all.| piows, propelled by the heavy en.| way down the declivity of what once And in spite of the pain of bleed. | Crestline had fled: tlicro was no life,| gines behind. Words came from | had been a rallrotf track, at last to lips, Houston | no sound, only the angry, wailing cry | the swollen lips of Houston, but the| veer. The drifts from the mountain the smile that a manj|of the wind thru halffrozen roof! voice was hoarse, strained, unnat-| side had become too sharp; it was a sister of whom he was| spouts, the slap of ¢lattering boards, | ural: easter to accept the more precipitous wind caught up the loose fall of the|of them, a burst of energy which| and as if in answer, Yhe storm| stances bad arrayed against him. | | | By bel Cle P; 736 GET OUT AND GET UNDER One day the kiddies found a, chopping down baer who had | typhoid fever, or needed an opera- asenlggh eg egaa pared irk tion or anything, the only doctor whole pile of olf phonograph|, i. had was Dr. Sheets of Gelighted, but mother-dear—well, | puckloy. poor motherdear nearly had @| “go, of course, no matter how fit, for of course they had to try | tired or sleepy the doctor waa, or them, every single one, how bad the weather, night or “ » ong up| day, If somebody came to his door There was “Tipperary” and “O) a4’ called-out the doctor would Johnny,” “Destiny” and “Every | nave to go. Little Movement” and a whole| +7 think maybe tt's a good thing pile of others, and when daddy | they didn’t have any telephones; loosened the ttorm. Gloomt!: “ rted fight!|and short journey, straight down. Houston 1 Alon the desolate are Fi ld sei bei " ward, the tet cut toward those came in to luncheon they were rig on aie have worked ture, at last to turm to the girl. “It's on the second grade, up from| Welcome sptres of «moke. happily grinding out “Get Out and |” een "one night when it was [ must go on./ I gave my prom-|Tojlifer. It’s fairly easy there, you| Gradually the snow shook or was Get Under.” ~ \vraining like everything od Bolse She 414 not answer for a moment. | ise." know, for 10 or 12 miles. They're} melted from their clothing, thru “For the love of Mike! Where| creek was rushing along Mke a making that without difficulty—|sheer bodily warmth. Black dots thelr work won't come until they|they becnme—dots which appeared ® strike the snow-sheds at Crystal lake. | jate In the afternoon to the laboring @id you get that?” he called out |torrent, and White river was ris- as he came in, shut off the ma | ing every hour, a hurry call came chine and removed the record, al-| for the doctor. ADVENTURES) Oh—” and there was in the voice all| crews of the snow-fighters far be- o oF T HE wi NS the yearning, the anxiety that a pent: | low; dota which appeared and din. most before they knew he was : yg Lepreon “ fine horse and Clive 3B: ; up soul could know—- “I wish I| appeared, edging their way about home. nA — er how he hated to take — = were ® man now! I wish I were a| beetling precipices, plunging forward, is Shrew, i Re gle wish bee gh — engerg be ft a «to help!” thi it ing; pulling themselves out je anid, vor" on | hw 0 be done, and got Into his GUINEA-PIG’S LIFE IN DANGER & rT hore” and Houston ead it{ot the heavier drifts, where drops of || and I'll tell you a got-out-and.get-| saddle and started off. under story. “Now, almost the first thing he “Along about 1889 there wasn't | had to do was to cross the river, @ great deal of travel around | and when he got to the ford the Poor little George Guinea-Pig was) “Oh, me, ob, my!" he wailed. “I'd! without thought of bravado— “that I| 10 or even 20 fect had thrown them; unhappy. He was tired of being |be the happiest person in the world) may have the strength for both of| swinging and tacking; scrambling if only I hadja tail.” us, I'm a man—afterga sort. I'm|downward in long, almost running | made fun of because he had no tall.| ow, o14 Cmcar Owl had heard the! going to work with them.” descents, then crawling slowly along || Enumclaw and Buckley and South | water was so swift and high that So one day he went to the house | whole thing/ and he cooked up a| “But—” the ice walle, while the jutting peaks Prairie, not much travel, not) the horse stumbled and fell and of Dr. Snuffies, the fairyman doctor, | plan. f He knew what she meant and! about them seemed to close them tn, many people, and not much of| rolled over in the water with the and told him his troubles. “I gee where I get two meals to-| shook his head seemed to threaten and seek to en anything but forest and clearings, | good doctor on the under side!" “Is there anything I can do?’ he| night instlead of one,” be hooted.| “No—she does not need me. My/|gulf them in thelr pitfalls, only to|} with once in a while a mill and) “WHAT DID HE Do?" Both asked. “Is there any medicine I can| “Little Filppy Fieldmouse just got | presence would mean nothing to her.| break from them at last and allow |} shanties about It. children asked. take that will grow me « tall?” done telling his mama he was tired|{ can't tell you why. My place—|them once more to resume thelr jour “And in all that part of the) “Th: what T sald.” laughed state there was only one doctor. | dadd, "Dr. Sheets chuckled and “Nothing I know of,” answered | of his long tall because It was always | is down there.” a the kind ttle doctor. “Nancy, ey, ving aay his hiding hole. I'l| For an instant Medaine Robinette (Continued Tomorrow) No matter who got hurt in the|said, ‘Do? Why I got out from mills or what happened to a man| under and pulled him upf * Nick, did you ever hear of anything | telephone/to both of them.” good tor growing tails?” lalled up the hen-houss and ener SS ney The Twins sald they had never/ asked Mas, Leghorn please to get | “My dear girl! Have you forgot-|I couldn't comprehend, thought I ! heard of anything. George Giuinea-Pig to the telephone. can wo be happy together? jana ail that. You are to play chess /ten your journey back to nature in| saw a ghost, went to your room and Bo George padded off home again) Geo came at once. J “We thought we could, We;-—and be gone any night—up to any|the pines with Bart Elliott? The) knocked, Jeanne said you were not 1 to the old box beside the hen-house.| “This His a friend,” croaked Oncar | ™ By a Bride | tnougnt you could io your way and hour—and T am not to care” first night of our motor tour?” there." : % He feit so unhappy big tears dropped Owl. “J know where you can find J. WIT: Ej1 mine, We pri ourselves on| “And you were to play emotional] “Why, Jack Madison! What are] The situation that night flashed from his funny little black shoe-but- a tail. { Come to the edge of Whis LXx. ACK ew 8? eee HM being pioneers in a new and better|theater parts opposite a former | you talking about?" before my mind's eye, me aroused a ton eyes. pering Worest under the old hickory kind of marriage.” suitor—-and I was not to care, You “Did it mean so little to you that me that queer bit of perverseness 4 ne tree $ sharp.” “Fortunately for both of us, I can;to spending Barnick's gift, you'll) “And now we find married life/could take long walks tn the moon-| you've forgotten? Well, it means |{fdamy nature which makes me dumb Joyner’s Wonderful “1'l}} be there! squeaked Georgie |do as I like. You'll see, when it's |have to count me out.” tan't so easy to make over,” said|light with the handsomest man we|more to mo, I can’t forget it. You/when I am unjustly criticised, I happily. over, Jack dear, 1 intend to go| “You mean-—I'l have to choose| Jack. “Just now It seems to me| knew and I was to keep still! Peg-jand the girls had gone to yourjcould not explain, I would not de Catarrh Remedy in Oscar called up the Field.|downtown tomorrow morning and |hetween Barnick’s offer—and you?” |like any other partnership, In any) gins, I have kept still!” lrooms. I went into the woods to|fend myself. Said I to Me: Is now sold by drug stores at $1.00/mouhe’s. Only he told Flop that he | pay our debts—and have enough left |I stammered. “If I take—the money |combination of two human beings, “But—but-—" I stammered, not at | smoke, couldn't sleep? “Those pearls! I guess they've Per bottle—enough for three months. | how he could lose his tall—|to live upon until you find what you a one has got to have the final word.” |all understanding, “you easily could “I missed--you—parted from you | brought me as much bad luck ag ‘ If you have Catarrh of the Head, try | Whi¢h was more like the truth. want.” . you ee, Peggins? Just iv-| “An obsolete theory,” I put in./be silent about that because—when |—the first night, I saw you and good.” } thi medicine once and save yourself (To Be Contfhued) “Very well—so far as you are con: |ing side by side isn’t marriage, You|“Quite different from our little;—have T taken a moonlight stroll! Bart in the moonlight—that tweed | (To Be Continued) Copyright, 1922, bx Sewttle Stax) _ Reediexs wuffering.—Advertivement. | opyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) | cerned, my dear, But when it comes | and 1 must see things alike or how scheme of equal rights, equal duties ‘with any man, handsome gr not?” leult ef yours and the gay aed hat, NeGhobre tial | A UE AE WF,