The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1922, Page 13

THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 13 THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY | OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN WA-Hae Nov V'oee WHY “THEY CALL ‘eM, H A"TRUCK GARDEN” \'WANT "TO SNEAK OUT. SOME NIGHT BUS WHEN TH’ HARVEST MOON 1S GLITTERING AN' REAP AW, THIS GARDEN WOULDA BEEN “TH’ CUSTARD IF \T WASN'T FORTH’ SOIL = ALL Y'CAN RAIGE ON FT IS DUST = Ir HASN'T Gor ANY - MORE NOURIGHMENT IN Nex! ME You'll KNow How Y ‘To Go ABOUT Ir i AM! NOT PLANT TH’ SEEDS GO BEGIN WERE TODAY the ring and tried 0 think to ; L THAT “TRASH on = of Rar father, dead onl much about her, ‘Then’ the werl| | \© THAN A PUNCHED CLOSE “TO “TH egy CAN! Ray K-. | came along: and I went.” MEAL TICKET = IM GROUND™ I “ToLD ‘ P “In 191 “I wot in our own army then; but ; THROUGH “TRYING “To >” a/ | | a STILL. TILL Vou LAGT SPRING COAX ANYTHING I had the luck to go just after the | LYcouLD GET UP BUS. 1 GET SOME Fior- | Marne, with the Canadians, I spen OUT OF IT! «= AL p 4 $ * a the "winter ee s0ibaeres tnt Taw onTMis ParcH / [/XOURE TH WORKIN) Bors ruse WOULD BE. A BoRROWED GARAGE ! tri} don, I was Just a kid, temporarily } On crutches, with a slight wound is Prt He nad askea | “AU England, Ming Carew—was * the way ¢ wurrection Reek, that | full of people trying to get in touch 4 nd of myatery tn Lake a. and | with fellows who'd been reported | q turn. | Killed, trying to reach their dew. | fain «the; You see ‘Raymond’ had recently ; Lime of the armistion “Rut my fath- | been killed oro” cried Bthel, “was killed tn dune! | sven mean GO ON WITH THE sTORY | “Sir Oliver Lodge's son; yes, Miss | | Carew. His father and mother and “Yes; you told me so,” Loutrelle| friends were receiving messages | Replied gently. | which they published and which “You don’t mean father’s alive| they were sure must be from him; % tand— ” Ethet began. | and thousands of other people were | No,” Loutrelle denied quickly. | getting communications which they ‘No; no; You mustn’t think of that.” | believed must be from thelr men “De you Know Boyne across) who'd been killed.” here?” he asked. “Oh” Ethel murmured again. She “You mean the little town?) did not hear what he said during 4 ‘What's that to do with my father?"| the next moments. “If I knew, I'd tell you right out acai en | ¥ - 6s? & > ere still following, mechant 3 a a the assured. “But as it is, the only! cally and without effort, the wide “SA; STANLEY y I see is to explain how that etter—and what followed—came to . P « + talked a lot at it. Lou} ; e; and that involves a good deal|treiie was Reds ssiygy 2 Page 8 hd if . AVA WAS ( Ae AUNT SARAH PEABODY LEADER. OF THE SOCIE FoR SUPPRESSION" 4 Sho glanced up at him quickly. 3 “E don't know where my own|CeMIRE me. And I found out that my father was dead but my m OF PIPE SMOKING -DISCOVERED MARSHAL OTEY WALKER HELPING THE NEW DRESSMAKER JN SKIRT FITTING — course of the old St. Fiorgntin road. people lived, or what they were,” " | ¥ Loutrelle continued. “But Boyne is| *** Hvis. The medium knew about | ch like this,” he glanced about at|™¥ Te and Azen Mabo and Noah trees, “second ‘growth woods,| 2% About my friends in Boyne high] |G Dik Ii . F SPrinia“ts LAST RE er VP 7 enly a bit older; and Indiana like | "°%0°!—People I'd never mentioned) KeTER'S Asa Redbird.” to any one. “You aes | “How did she know?" “| lived with them; yes, Miss| “That's what me a jump, Of Carew. Until T was seven pears o1g/COUT#, she might have learned I thought I was an Indian myseit.|‘DO%e things, if she'd taken | the ra BY ALLMAN HAVE HIM TELL WILBUR HELLOTOM? SAY, OLIVA, DORIS, DOINGS OF THE DUFFS @ome Chippewas—a good man,| “Ud!e. or if Hus had sent a staff HELLO, HELEN, THOUGHT OH HELLO, A VACATION LIKE THAT YouRE RIGHT. Ane, COMING n [of detectiv here. Everything ' DOESN'T MEAN MUCH To ’ THAT | DON'T FEEL LiKE . DANNY AND MYSELF ARE COMI zen Mabo and his wife—had me.” | 004 re oe naturally." | 'D COME OVER AND SEE }) DORIS, COME Sia Outi. BIDE OP Tae: PORIS - ALL I COOKING DINNER ErTHER!) I'LL CALL HIM DOWN AND HAVE. DINNER WITH You HOW You WERE FEELING) RIGHT IN! Wi Page Pend AFTER OUR VACATION! ) | DON’T THINK Hy tt VLLEVER GET ABOUT AS MUCH TO [] Quite Resteo DO AS IF SHE WAS Home! UP AGAIN! He said this quite without bitter-/ hess, simply as a statement of a fact; but Ethel saw his lips press tightly together, involuntarily; his eyes gazed vacantly far away, and Sicaaa within Ethel's breast tug and draw trot, eres told me he got me from @nother Indian—a man named Noah do, who had had a boat and moved) around a good deal,” Loutreile went on. “He didn’t find out much about ‘me; for Noah Jo was sick when he went for Azen and died about the time Azen got there. Azen took, ‘with me, Noah Jo's rifle and boat} end gear and some other things; ene of them was a ring which Noah Jo said went with me. Azen showed it to me then, Miss Carew; and years later, he gave it to me. Would RIGHT UP AND II) AnD WILBUR THIS EVENING ~ TELL HIM THAT widens mn! WE ALL THREE WILL BE Down! DID WAS CooK “Then why didn't you think it} . AND WASH DISHES ee 7 NONE OF US T haven't said {t was learned un- DO IN FACT! naturally, but it was such a mixed | lot of facts, Miss Carew. I'm nor:| mal, Miss Carew; I don't prefer} weird explanations, But I admit I walked the streets of London that night.” “So you believed—" “Nothing yet. The next day I had to go back to France. I was at the} front; but Hus had stayed in Lon- }don and kept trying to find out more for me, and on November! seventh wrote me the letter I showed you.” “About my father! “Yes. Then I got a special dis | charge. I wired Hus in London that/ wou like to see it? i was coming. But he wired back | “Ph ” Bthe not to come to England but to eet tus earn at the thew ee passage to America; said he was the was saying to her was no oft.) V#ne in explanation. This letter Fepeated came two days later.” Repeated, OF cheaply told tale, she) tie halted again and put his hand It was an old ring, not marked| 'Bt? his coat pocket, drawing out an envelope similar to the other and! (with a date, but of a fashion which| Win preiish stamp and postmark ihe rome ® century, oF tWO C#-/ Eine! recognized the same vigorous handwriting. “What @id that mean to_youT’) nor Barney: If you've never taken anything on trust before, take this from me, old | top. Beat tt for home—particularty | to the town of St. Florentin in| Northern Michigan. Do you know it? Now I'll tell you why I'm ordering | this, You'd say tosh and rot; but 1 Particularly find a place named} Resurrection or perhaps it's a house | or a town near the water. Walt) around. There'll be someone named! Bagley there and Carew—not Philip Carew, I've mentioned before, unless there's another; maybe a relative You're to tell Bagley you're Dick) and you'll take things over. Now I} don’t know what this refers to; and neither will you, probably .But it's all I can find out. I don't think! | you'll learn more except by going. | [Only believe me, if I were you, I'd go at once. Hus. P.. 8. You may have to look out} when you get there. But you can|one cabin dound and stocked with Lt CALL THAT VACATION Ay FLIVVER: one’s there now, but we keep| know that, surely you must have told him. Bring him here with you, | “We're coming to an old lumber| see for yourself. | firewood.” my dear. I would like to see him.| ¥ I KNow HOvséwor Dorp.” Ethel looked up. “Did anything} Loutrelie pushed ahead and thrust| Bring him here with you; do you! (ed ACTING, BUT YOU MAKE follow this?” lopen the weather.beaten door. Hoe! understand?” He considered it for a moment, “In explanation from Hus? No. | removed his skis and Ethel’ also holding {t in the palm of his bare} He put his letter away and pro-|and stood them against the wall. | hand; they were proceeding slowly| ceeded in silence. After a few min- Loutrelle closed the door, and al “Bring him here with you,” the/ Gide by side. “Being a woman's! utes, the trail left the road abruptly| single, rudely glazed win lighted | old man ordered again and Ethel! ving,” he said, “I supposed it was|and vanished between the trees to|the interior. A telephone instru-| heard him hang up the receiver. | ‘My mother’s—whoever she was and| the south. |ment was upon the wall. There| Ethel crossed to the door and, fhowever she happened to give it.| “We're coming to an old lumber|was dry wood and brush under the| opening it, looked for Loutrelle. He | @ By Mabel Cl Cleland _£ icland—_£ oft And me, to Noah Jo. So I just kept camp,” Ethel said a little Inter.|chimney, ond Loutrelle struck a/had tramped thru the snow, on match and lighted a blaze. without putting on his skis, and >, After a few minutes, the bell] evidently was exploring one of the aia 770 “L understand grandfather,” wihei| | anid. Ip rang. old, dilapidated shacks on the other “when the Fishers reached Port | body's money and land and every “Ah Ethel? her grandfather’s| side of the road. | : _| single thing into one pile and ngeles there were about 25 peo: volee recognized her with irritable dam Green Sky, an Indian, is|} Anse! y tats the | divide it out evenly. And they welcome. “Bo you did come, did/coming to meet ux with a team,”|[ Pl living there down om the) iuq 4 jot of laws all to them- you?" she announced. “I told my grand beach; there were five log houses, | seives, issued their own money and that was all. and it sounded fine. But some of “They had some great times,| the people soon found that the too, getting Port Angeles started, | scheme wouldn't work because a lot of It was really bad. Ethel made the obvious response| father that you were with me, and and inquired about him and about! he invited you to St. Florentin.” | her grandmother, inquiries which he| “Do you want me to go with) ignored ” hé asked her directly 1 “You're at the cabin at last, I ‘o." she replied frankly. “That | suppose, Alone?” ie, if 1 were you, I'd go right out to Ethel acarcely hesitated before re- jon Rock.” plying “No”; but her grandfather] She had not considered at all noticed the hesitation |what she said before she spoke; “Not he mocked her quickly.|her words—as one’s words some- “Why didn't you want to tell me/times do—had surprised her by be . who's with you? How many?|traying a feeling which had not Port Townsend wanted the cus toms house and Port Angeles had} “After awhile, Elmer and his it, and they had a lot of trouble/ father were tn the west end of over it till one winter when the| town and the Colonists were in rains settled the dispute. the east end, and such times as “The old customa house stood | they had! at the foot of Valley st, and there| “Of course it was awfully hard used to be a little creek which| to get supplies of any sort, just as it was in Seattle when it was scurrec’ ran down the valley A Mr. Loutrelie, ndfather.” | yet formed itself in her thought “Well, all at once that creek | new and iitt ‘And once when “Who's a Mr. Loutretie? A lawyer! “You may haye to look out when |} arieq up, but nobody pald any at-| Armour & Co. shipped in two |you're bringing, or one of your! you get there. ¢ found the|} tention to it, or thought anything| great hogsheads of meat the Col- qrotitecst” " | warning | trom Loutrelle's friend about it. Then one day, after it| onists were so mad because it 4 “No, grandfather. Wo just came) iterating itself upon her had been raining for a long, long | didn’t have a unton labor mark Ae [this far together, that’s all. He's on} “Some one slept in that shack/f (ne yerwwash! a great big] that they cut the barrels in two i y hie way to Rasurrection Rock.” across there—under hardly half a/f swollen creek rushed down the | and threw the meat into the bay, VAY uf | ‘There was delay now at the other| root and with no door,” Loutrelle| Yiiey and swept the whole cus-| Mr. Fisher tells a story about es S }en4 be jac fl eg Meg 1354 er pate hivery thought possensed |} ‘ms house and everything in it] one funny thing which happened SS waited, could hear the mum r queer, shivery thot nme se Bye owet to him, He says: SS |not the words—of the old man talk-| her. She did not speak it; out Lou.|f UL {nto the Deen cae kadlt G man When tatat And x were : |ing to himself. trelle did | “No one goes to the Rock, Ethel,” Wonder if he might be Bagley?” he said at last aloud. “If he doesn't (Continued Tomorrow) gradually been stopped by a fallen | living down on the beach, I saw tree, and then leaves and trees} lights one night down at the mill, and ferns, and then when its up-| I called to father and said, per banks got too full this natural] “Father, look at thoso lights. dam broke out. What do you suppose that “Well, after that Port Town-| means?’ send got the customs house; has} ‘‘A fellow named Smith was it yet running the mill at the time— ‘aen there was trouble be-| Norman Smith, He was a sort of tween the Colonists and the Non-| dreamer. Always making some Colonists, The Colonists wanted | grand scheme.’ " everything in common, put every: (To Be Continued) “It's our beloved Mr. Tingaling!” After walking until he could, tiptoeing over to the lettuce bed as Scarcely stand up, Mr. Tingaling, the | softly as you walk in your stocking fairyman, stopped beside Fartner | fect when the baby is asleep. Bmith’s sass-patch garden. But what was his surprise when, He was looking for the Twins | instead of running away at the sight whom Flap-Doodie, a mischievous] o¢ xo queer a creature as himself, fairy, had turned into two whité| the rabbits gave two joyful hops} Fabbita. right toward him, almost knocking | ‘Whoo-ee, it’s hot!” he extlaimed. | pin over, ESL TT OL ee _ iiloceta maa BY ZOE BECKLEY NO. 2.—TO VAMP OR NOT TO VAMP? THEN THE) } *T've just looked ever: ywhere. I'l] ug ae ; pe PR es gon begin to think those Twins £4. Tne pally de aaa rg mr. FLAPPERS FELL OUT IT, @ren't on this earth. Old Sprinkle. % 7 N 0 Sa Pe Brent , e Me aan Ot on eee Phky, ut wetner glad to bee youl! Fis giay eaten cae ten tiie ot ts Go ON WITH THE sToRY vet, my mother and youry willthe dive in his guawagon, say £0 Dan be a ground-gripper. I'm fed) Peggy glared indignantly. Under Umbrella and look up among the] Said the other rabbit. youthful “For goodness sake, Peg—telling an red | Cott - A 4 bade, hatin | einen 2m Oe, ROUEN Se aek pet Ore weennn ares @tars next, I guens.” Mr. Tingaling was completely flab. | PEGGY Di " Bob to come over at midnight! You'll |¢xPect me to sit in If any boy" calls | Cotton's, for an toe and back, that’s | without a bib. I'm not going to] “Say, Isten, Winifred Hollig, Suddenly he stopped talking and | bergasted, shock Mrs, Vanderpool to death, and|on you at half-past eleven with the | all.” vamp Bobby or anything like it." what's the big little idea? Yeu fell mewhether or not they have| “Stars and moons!” exclaimed the! derpool informed Peggy that Rob |against her fingernall Then, with an attempt at mollify-/ mouth and was reaching for a match jfire, “And what will you do—/|She herself expected Bob Vander+ fanning, for out trom under the} “I—you—excuse me, but I don't| {he sendfastnene |make Bobby lose his beauty sleep.” | folks away, that's all.” | “But, Peg—you really aren't going} winnie turned the leaves of her/aten’t thinking of Bobby's father's fence stole two little white rabbits, | believe I haveever met you hefore,| cousin, Peggy bad been making «a grimace| Peggy sniffed. to start out for a ride at 12 o'clock | Geometry. couple of measly millions or any+ Making straight for the lettuce bed. | have 17” he remarked, in a puzzled | WINNIW Pops | anteltement — ona |at the unseeing Mrs, Van, whose} “My mother and yours and Uncle |—alone!* “I—wonder!" Her voice was/| thing like that, are you?" I'll bet those are the two rabbits | voice. knowing that she and Winnie would |volce came telly over the wire, | Pit are twosing and toddling to Jazz} “With Bobby, my angel.”" | musing. Winnie's reply was spoken into 9 the creatures have been telling} “Of course you have,” erted both | nt with the exeeption of two «| “Well, old darling, you needn'tlon the Yacht club roof—and they! Winnie looked as she felt—shocked| Peg looked sharply at her cousin. /the telephone. ‘To Pegey's astonish: te about,” he whispered to himself. white rabbita tog r “We're “ ~ Fer eo pines sue beae ? jem | 1008, YOUR beauty sleep sitting uplexpect me to he sweetly napping in and worrled. “That's a nasty crack, Miss Y, W.|™ment she heard her staid cousin in+ ri I can just get near enough with-| Naney and Nick. Flap. Doodle be] EO oe. with : |my girlish nightie at ten of a sum “Pe Cc. A!” For an instant her eyes | Viting Ted Harker, Columbia sophor it scaring them, perhaps they can | witched us and then flew away |pom VANDBRPOOL, When Mra. Van | Pep was tapping a clgaret| mer eve--fine nerve Peasy had put the cigaret in her/snapped; then they showed sullen |More, to come at just the same time Men the Twins.” fat fairyman Would not return until 11:90. Pewey| “A little nosey tonight, m'dear?” |ing Win: "But, honey, I'm not |when Win's exclamation made her | snitch?” pool, — Tingaling squeezed hia fat body (To Be Continued) 1 Sie a ere, ft |, Winnie flushed, then threw up |siedgehammering you, get me. 1'll/drop the thing guiltily Winnie smiled. | (To Be Continued) ween the fence palings and went) (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) that hour, her head as if summoning courage.! got Bob to give me a swing down| “Oh, whale biling you, Winl! “No, J'll chaperone," fCopyright, 1932, by Beattle Stay |