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MYSTERY § AAMILNE x Oe BP pee Company REOIN HERE TODAY Gre bad shot and hilled the me'er-ae, | SURE to do “a “They're going to drag the pond— FORRAT ARLETT. within two minutes | bed ita pardon, the lake.” die arrival at The Red Mouse! “We're on the way to ft now, if on gl ggg of Me “wealthy | you'd like to seo it. What are they ABLATT? Robert's bedy was on | tagging it for?” od offic, Mark wae } “Mark.” ne opinion of 0 “ * wwe opines st uupector | “Oh, rot," said ill uneasily, He é _ Scan te } Waa silent for a little, and then, from Australia j eagerly, “I say, when are we gol ahot him aud dieappeared ith | to look for that passage?” there, were mysterious etreum- | *°,,109 ‘ yas thot was fired a few mes} “We can't do very much while amare Cayley's in the house.” tm ANTONY GILLINGHAM, geatioman e@-/ “What about this afternoon when Bi one of Mark's quests, | *@*Y're dragging the pond? He's had entered the hall where he founa | #Ure to be there,” MATT CAYLET, Mark's constant com Antony shook his head, ding on the doo 4 ~ Rg Bay a “There's something I aust do this thre window and fing | Afternoon,” he said. “Of course we . : sa wut continue ventiga. | MERC have time for both.” a continne tvesti¢a: | set's Sime oostnced ena phy |, Hae CAYIAY got te be ‘out ot the . Ee crime. ‘Ehey | HOURS for the other thing, too?* Seoer ate e Ieading trom| “Well, I think he ought to be Fhe Hat, House reine | cacraghad® i# Mt anything rathers ex: . who overheard Mark speaking to Robert | “Ne? . Ft | “I don’t Know. It might be rather . ‘0 ON WITH THE stony interesting. I @aresay I could do it t*some other th but I ott was who heard Mr. Mark | @ A Ball ggg oad tt glo nas Ante fancy it at 8 o'clock, somehow. I've o asked the maid. devon specially keeping it back for ; . m ven ‘You, sir. They had come to the pond— Mark's lake—and they walked atlent- |ly round it, When they had made a the circle, Antony sat down the hance had fee r= his ey a ee erase, and retit his pipe Bill fol- wonder.” | | lowed his example. that's wh cares hate what I Beard, or.) well, Mark. lent. thera” sald Antony. ny looked at her th: Baggs i Pow oughtfully | “No,” said Bul. “At least, T don't syen, 1 wonder, 1 wonder why. | Wite see why you know he isn't.” Pe ea pggereat . it isn't ‘knowing,’ it’s ‘guess. MALL feta of thing, Wikia... .” ing.’ said Antony rapidly, “It's He had found hia pipe and went | ™UCh easier to shoot yourself than coe. te drown yourself, and if Mark had bey nreed was gind to have spoken | Wanted to shoot himself tn the wa- Sine. ai’ ta’ Wad oa t with some idea of not letting ‘ ryan nly sasunanae a body be found, he'd have put big once ary gre 3 nej toes it his pockets, and the only cer gem cna i. P =yay ry tm. | Di stones are near the water's edge, doubt thes pgs al ord Seas | and they would have left marks, and Wists edate cling of a| (hey haven't, and therefore he didn’t, noeiae toward hie | SMt—oh. bother the pond: that can ths ee To Antony tt hed much wait til this afternoon. Bill, where significance, It was the only | 2%. passage begin?” hy evidence that Mark had|q.,*c5 {hats what we've got to y find out, iwn't itt eee ice ‘etal that after. “Xe. Xow see, my Men te thin.” Se go Into the|,.H® explained his reasons for think- wcinr“Oniy Cove ants Snag nat tne cof te Pan find been hiding the truth about the] cr of Robert's death, and went Kore, why should he not be hiding | Gn, — truth about Mark's entry inte| the office? Obviously all Cayley‘s 7 Seng Mi a 2 oe ee err oa geenage for nothing. Some of the time when he began to get keen Re doubt was true; but he was giving both truth and falseheoa [0% croquet. Well, then, when Miss Norris was going to dress up, Cay- ‘With a purpose. What the purpose | ;, wag Antony did not know pipes to ey ore. Seeety be te Mark, to shield himeelf, even | re", Tat She could never get down t fo betray Mark—it might be any of] tresntercy, yer ty. Ae bcr mr being that he knew there was one way in : “es my turn now. You wait,” qpurmured Antony to himeelf, “Yea. sir, Nasty-like. Meaning Mark had gone them beth talking; my net 3 & threat for the future. If | Mark had shot his brother tmme. ) diately afterward {t must have been @n accident, the result of a strug- ™y, provoked by that “nasty of voice. Nobody would wait” to a man who was to be shot. “You wait” “You wait, and see what's to happen to you later on.” ‘The conversation Elsie had over. heard coulin’t have meant murder. Anyway not murder of Robert by “He's got such @ frightful lot, hasn't her” p “It's a-funny business.” thought| which she could do it, and she ‘any. “The one obvious solution | wormed the secret out of him some- 4s 80 easy and yet so wrong.” how.” He found Bilt tn the hall and pro- “But this was two or three days & stroll. Bill was only too) before Robert turned up.” iy. hap: do you want to go?” he|that there was anything sinister about the passage in the first place. \"T ont mind much. Show me Ld park.’ “Righte.” They walked out together. "Watson. old man,” anid Antony, @ s00n as they were away from the “you really muwn't talk so loudly indoors. There was a gen- tleman outside, just behind you, all the tune. Bt “Oh, I say.” sald Bill, gotng pink. Tm awfully sorry. So that's why OU were talking such rot.” “Partly, yes. And partly because 1 46 feel rather bright thie morning. ‘We're going to have a busy day. “Are we really? What are we romance and adventure for Mark, three days ago. He didn't even know that Robert was coming: But some- how the passage has been used since, in connection with Robert. Perhaps Mark escaped that way; perhaps he's hiding there now. And if no, then the only person who could give him away was Miss Norris, And she of course would only do it in nocently—not knowing that the passage had anything to do with it.” So it was safer to have her out of the way?” “Yes.” “But, look here, Tony, why do you ADVENTURES - 7 OF ETS A Chocolate Rooster came out of a@ coop made of sugar) cookies, “Hello,” said a voice when Nancy| “Certainty?” the Chocolate Rooster “nd what do you want?” you blind, my dears?” said Nancy, “Ho stole the Fairy | orange, ye Queen's wand.” leare at al i” And & Chocolate Hooster came | sooner had his eyes spied his choco- Mut of 2 coop made of sugar cookies, |late feathers than he let out a With 4 saucy strut screech like a fire-whistle and a fog “Oh, do you know him?” asked| horn relied into one. i Nick eagerly. “On! “Well, 1 should say!’ answered the| outrage. This isn’t I! Rooster, dior, He's the bows of this star,|not I at al you know, In fact, I'm often mia-| “I know,” sald Nick. “Flap-Doodle ip, “Well, he never told me a word about |at himself in astonishment, and no RRA taken for him, being so handsome | has the Fairy Queen's wand and he} *84 al, only 1 am orange instead of | has used it on you.” ] PUFPIe, and my earn are not quite so| “Sure as you're born,” declared I Jarke and tine as his.” the Rooster. “What shall I do?” i, (Oranget” cried Nancy. (To Be Continued) i" cried Nick. (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) FIRST FLock oF } FROM UNDER “HIS “Exactly. I am not suggesting | It was just a little private bit of| green ond.” know, but if we do that we | prided himself on bis Wbrary “There's one thing, which we have got to realize at once,” said Antony, “and that ix that if we don't find it easily, we shan't find it at all.” “You mean that we shan't have “Il have a sometimes.” time?" with him. The library was worth going into, passages or no passages. Antony|tho an Illiterate one. could never resist another person's | seemed the most hopeless As soon as he went into|any in which to look for a secret the room, he found himself wander- | opening \ing round it to see what books the bookshelves: and Nick and the Magical Mushroom jassured them with dignity. “All| had landed in the middle of the|Tinky-Winklers are orange-colored | ‘Tinky Winkle Star. ‘Who are you|and have big ears to fly with. Are) ‘ wi MOLLY WAYNE ts about to elope We're after Fiap-Doodle, the pur-| “No, but we think you are,” Nancy | win Ple fairy who fica with his ears,” |couldn’t help saying. “You're not} ‘re brown, and you've no| “Oh, hol answered the votos.| At this the Rooster looked down |» Li ears at the station, herssif before an on ‘The terrified engine driver, seeing the flying figure in his path, jammed | he screamed. ‘This 19 an|brakes and levers home. The loco: manufacturer, Someone has| motive trembled. Leila plunged for-|bers of Don's theatrical troupe laid | have grown used to what she had al hold of Leila and half carried the ready begun to realize—that I had out with different |iost what feeling I ever had for her. Wheeler,” |Given a little time, and she would | have found someone else to care | “I'm his lord high coun-|turned me into this creature, I’'m/ward to meet It, ‘Then something stopped her, An| hysterical woman into a Pullman. arm reached out from the edge of| “I compliment the frozen crowd, selzed her clothing | Don's jn a grip of steel and yanked her out of the engine's path by mere | things inches, OUR BOARDING HOUSE ‘ 7 D0 \V'SAV BUS? T “TOLD You “TH’ WILD AIR WOULD Ww shall have to do it openly. It wiflja mixed collect mean breaking open the box, and tions, new letting Cayley know that we've done|cheap books—a library in which whatever his taste, could be sure of finding something to sult CHAPTER X1 _ | fancy lazy person like me.” DONALD er, abandon the station BEN W: | better HEELE: LY BARTC LA, an oid love of ‘oten ing express. | role. | beaten, ‘ a a wloweens DIPLOMA) { He WHEN V'HELPED ME j Pus ' STLTS BSE ne “Wis rent! ne Nou MUSTA STUCK WAN 1M GOING To TAKE A SLAT OUT OF THIS BED IT OF MY BACK AND KEEPS |} about this end of itt | owner read, or (more likely) did not et in at the bowling: jread, but kept for the air they lent to the ho in of books. Old edi. tons, expensive books, | [everybody “And which fe your particular / Bill?” |from one shelf to another. you always playing billiards?’ | *Radminton’ | “It's over in ’Neither time nor opportuntty./that corner there.” He waved aj | Which ts rather a consoling thought | hand. } “Over here?” sald Antony, “You can wash out the kitchen! to it | ‘and all that part of the house,".said| “Yes.” He corrected himself sud. | Bill, after some thought, “We can’t | denly there.” & grand “No. What we want to conalder| library about a year ago. is which 1s the mont likely place of the few places in which we can look] He's got such a frightful lot, hasn’t| safely. The library for choice.” | he?" Bill got up eagerly. “Now “Come along,” he sald, “let's try | said Antony the brary. If Cayley comes tn, wo | filled his pipe again. can always pretend we're choosing @ book.” rearrangement |him more than a week, he told us and he sat down and There was indood a “frightful lot”! of books Antony got up slowly, took his| library arm and walked back to the house|from floor where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even (Continued Tomorrow) WHOM SHALL MOLLY M OO BY Z0E BECKLEY —~~_________ | NO. 8—-BEN WHEELER’S QUICK MOVE SAVES LEILA’S LIFE a wild shout of relief. . Ben had been playing Fate to the} .|three in that tense little drama on ARRY? | Manning how de |liberately Wheeler had Looking aged and for the moment} ‘Molly: and | whose eyes were Molly, who quite unconsciously had | from a white face, “I want you to | to the realize this about your friend here He knew that in time Leila would | of you ts come up and voice was more bitter than ironic, “on your efficiency. You do | for Wheeler needed her now, He brou [rivals in love exactly as you remove | her here, Molly, you know that, don’t | aboard the train. The arm was Ben Wheeler's. The| competitors in the hardware trade, !y¥ou?" tories of the onlookers changed to | without thought of cost—to them, THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN SAY! «IF You "Wo GUYS WILL (DLE Your CHING “THERE Won!t! Be HALF GO MUCH WIND BLOWING |e 4 C'MON, C'MON © GET A A METCH WORKING AN! UNFOLD ME! = I FEEL LIKE A TTY Ks cual iid laouy ii ME Awake! ar. Or. We Hope So, Too By Ma ————— Page 7 my WA? Nou CANT WAKE TAT Dog =| DON'T You FEEL WN TMS HOUSE © Good HEAVENS! be 30 2 SURROUNDED! “What was It, daddy?’ David] two days and two nights did I and Peggy asked in a single breath, “what mado Edwin's father have a new look on his face when the Indians were com ing closer and closer and howling and everything?” “They aid cone closer,’ daddy said, “came pal loping around and outside of the fence behind which Mr. FE Edwin were hiding and yelled deafeningly. But Mr. Eells was Ie and no longer afraid, for among the riders ho had ween thre Indians whom he knev bare, brown arms had t high in friend? greet! smile all friendly and unw lit up their painted faces. “Presently Mr. Kells opened the door and some of the Indians came tn “‘Why do you come upon wus ke an enemy in war paint? he asked them, ‘and bearing your weapons of warfare?" “ "We come, O white father! the young leader answered him, ‘he cause we would warn our white friends of danger. Far over in the Walla Walla country there is war! nearer there is war, and we ourselves found a trafl of the Cayuses Which means death. For Re een J Ht He ————_e—e———— —————— — “ turning to the girl her, But your efficient Mr. ght Bhe was silent, overwrought | walk to tell Bix Star, my fear, nnd rather t | the tr who brave, and he bad rei and ride, might wern our teachers! ‘We did not know, father, that your little your wife are at we are come “It was a long speech, and when Keli# thanked Tshimakain that safe tre Cayuse.’ he had him and asked God" all of th poor Mr. Wi and how th» k surely frighten him. frightened no taking Edwin's hant he starte cross the fields nd “Kdwin 80 well how how tightly fa Ho walked with } carried him over the ground at a very rapid pace, and my short legs K to keep up “what makes you walk so I kept asking him, had hard v fast, father,” “What makes fast?’ " (To Be Continued) “Listen, dear, staring into his|you answer now. back en Wheeler.” There was a steely eyes Molly had hitherto seen aglow only with romantic charm. another word, Life had seemed to spin like a top for Molly that aight PAGE 13 THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY SMES AREARY 1 RECKON THET FELLOW, BE UPTO SHAVED CU MISCHIEF?! oA STRANGER WHO HAS WORRIED MARSHAL CTEY THE SUSPICIOUS D HIS MOUSTACHE SHAVED OFF TODAY. *™ WALKER. FOR WEEKS HA\ GOOD NIGHT! HOPE You REST WELL FEEL SORRY ENOUGH © ‘fo LET HIM STAY ALL NIGUT iyST A TEENY BIT SORRY FoR. TW’ 1 SEG YOU FOLKS ARS BACK FROM KouR TWO WESkKs! VACATION. NERE'S YouR CAT You CCFT WANDERING 4ROOND THE NEIGHBORHOOD To HACE STARVE. * + © i ndJ rans WHY, Sete S6srs wee Nouri SHED A THAT, Ar. TREE, ner the young men of We G VC LbbbEL, n the bloody hand of the inisied Mr then he YES, INTHE Two WEEKS SHE HAS GATEN NINE WORTH OF CRGA THAT 1 ORDERED FOR Hi CHARGED TO YOUR ACCOUNTS ! MEAT AND FISH AND HAD ‘T can remember held my hand is strides that more like a whirlpool |}down with its conflict of emotions, ruthlessness and dizzying speed, An hour before and all that seem. | #entle, ed beautiful in life was hers, @ figure of tinsel, for Of Ben—strength, whose poor love a woman was ready | to pay with death, while Molly had | mured, a catch tn her voice, been ready to stake her life upon it. | Wheeler's volcee was confident as jhe led her to the strest, | her into the car, his firm hand quite The very feel of the deep leather cushions seeaiel expressive comfort, wealth, 1 am going away to straighten But I want you both to know neither hru with me Don was gone “How did you do itt Molly mur Ben swung the powerful machine She | into the quiet, maple-shaded street The strong, | where Molly lived. “I would do a hundred times as It was like be-|/much to win you. You're going to ing moored to land after tossing In | be my wife, you know.” @ tiny bark in a ste “Come, girl.” wavered on her feet. steady arm of Wheeler reached out and supported her (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1023, by Seattle Stax)