The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1922, Page 9

PAGE 9 BY STANLEY THE SEATTLE STAR ~ OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN BHGIN HERE TODAY A mile from the shore of Lake Mtwron hoatly Reaur aymbel some great a the past, ted with the mind of » CAREW, That to the home ny 1 ane ad morning ot her LUOAS CULLEN, SENIOR, who had Won milliona fa violent struggles for timber lands tm rthern Michtaan. money te carry on thy ken by her killed ip < Defore he had bee “*. NEY LOUTRELLE then entered her ite, The young He tmust go to the Res Wrrection Rock, We felt that the trip Would solve the mystery of his geure parentage and of h m ol ing & seance Leesa Cull he tries to bi she knows © CHAPTER V Tt was fast becoming dark ewift, midwinter evening closed own. With the night came wind and upen the wind returned the cold. The gaunt outline of the Rock withdrew in dimmer and dim Mer distances until Ethel at her Window could see it no more, Sud Genty a bright dot. glowed thru the darkness—a light upon Faction Rock, a ght yellow with @stance Mumining a window, Ethel thought. It went out as suddenly ‘Qs It appeared; then it glowed again @nd once more went dark. Bhe Watched steadily for some time longer; but no light appeared again. She heard a soft tap, tap, tap at the door; Opened it and Lass, Kincheloe to find the collies, Lad who had been out with when she arrived. The dogs, wet from the snow melting fm. their long hair, turned Ethel’s thought to Miss Platt’s husband. He had always affected the man ners of a gallant and always before had made it @ particular point to be on hand to greet Ethel when she arrived at St. Florentin. She had been too excited to attribute any significance to his absence this time; but now the fact stirred dis Quiet. he had taken the dogs with h he probably had been on the lake, for the dogs would not have Been able to run except on the ice Where the wind had cleared the snow. Now what had kept Miss Platt's lazy, comfort-loving husband Out so late this evening in the dark and cold? Every one was at supper when Reaur-. | and ste went over and/ | evening after supper | While Ethel knelt, Hatening to | her grandfather's voloe > on and jon, an amazing panto porseased her. | She was feeling that the long, de- Uberate reading and now the endlens | | supplication was for a purpose other than devotion, and that purpose }was to keep her kneeling tm that stuffy room with her face to} the back of a chair, Suddenly she} arose and slipped into the hall| | where she found her coat and skis, She drew breath when she opened the outer door, as tho she had been | stifling; and she went out upon the anow in the direetion of the lake. She heard her grandfather's voles shouting after her; but she did not heed it, and he did not pursue her, It was after 8 o'clook and very cold, with a constant wind blowing off the fee, The Rock lay lost tn! obscurity, She guzed frequently for the reappearance of the light which she had seen the hour earlier, Its/ absence filled her with dread. | She turned back to St, Florentin And soon heard a shout which she recognized to be Sam Green Sky's! voles. When she reptied, Sam has-| tened up, reporting friendiily | “Old man sent me after ye aw. ful mad; old man tell you to come right home and stay thert.” | Ethel found her grandfather to | be “awful mad’ indeed: he met her jat the door and ordered her to go! to her room and to bed and stay | there, What did she mean by going | T HOPE “HhigiR FEET PEEL AS “NRED AS MY JAW DiD NESTERDAY AFTER “TRYING TO WORRY THAT STEAK WE HAD FOR MESS! AH-NoW COMES OUR OL! FRIENDS, "MEAT MECHANICS © WHICH ONE OF ‘EMIS \T “HAT SENDS “TH CHOICE CUTS “To MRS. HOOPLE 2 « 1 WANT To “Toss Him A BOUQUET oF BENT KNIVES! jout In the dark to mee a stranger! F whom she had met on the train?| }She was his granddaughter and at} his own house, and he would be | obeyed. | At 11 o'clock whea the house.| |hold, except Kincheloe, had gone to j Ded, Ethel rebuilt the fire in her | Stove and sat in a chatr by her win- |dow. From the room on the other |side of the wal at her left she! could hear soundy which told her} that ber grandfatter was etill a! |tess; she heard atm open his door! and go out Into the hall and come jte her door and stand there. He j was listening, she knew; but he | Probably supposed her to be in bed jand asleep. At any rate, he moved Jaway and went downstatrs. | In her stocking fori, she moved nolslessly acrom to her door which! }she opened carefully. She crept halfway down the stajre. Something clicked; she recognifed that her grandfather was loading a repeat-| ing rifle; and « few moments later figure came dimly into j hie Great Asa Redbird returned with a tele| view when he halted before a win-| gram which—lke all Cullen bust-| dow, eas telegrams—wns in code. She could see that he was bolting Lucas at ones left the table and.) hin rifle ready bat lowered: and her with Miss Platt, went into his of-| muscles went taut all thru her. If fice to decipher the brief communt-/ he dared to raise his rifle to fire, Gation from his son. When he re-| she would rush down upon him. But turned to the table, ft was so piain | he did not; he only moved from one that he had exciting news that his| window to another, looking out; and wife could not repress her question:|then he came toward the atatra, | “Something has happened tn Cht-| Ghe recamed her room without | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS HELLO, MRS. DUFF+ GOING OUT FOR A LITTLE STROLL ALL BY YourSELF ? NO, "M GOING TOA MOVIE-MY HUSBAND } DON'T CARE MUCH FOR | | | ALONE ! Lucas?” flothing,” he denied, and he ®Upled half « cup of tea, hot Ethel Watched Kincheloe as Miss Platt Returned to her seat” | He was trying to catch his wife's fre Dut Miss Platt avoided look- him. 3 ‘Asa saw several foxes about,” > gr casually to Ethel: “I sup they're after our chickens.” ‘Lacas was taking another cup of tea, and Ethel was watching his hand and reach again. He was drink when suddenly he dropped his and jerkey up and away from table; Kincheloe and Ethel her- self started also as the report of @ rifle rang, sharp and clear, outside the house. The gun fired again. | alarming bim; and he went back to | his room, Close to midnight, she made out & man's figure moving under the trees! dogs foundered beaide him— | Lad and Lease uncoubtedly So she | know the man must be Kincheloe, returning. He carried the gun whioa ho had taken to aif Asa in killiag the tex; and as he neared the house, Etho! j beard her grandfather go down- jstairs. They went together to the each for the sugar bowl, miss/ “offices” and locked themselves tn. | |For a minute Ethel stood in the jeold hall, held by numbing dread; | Just as she starved to descend the istairs, she heard the office door open and grandfather aay distinct. ly, “All right; all rightr | They had it the office lamp, and WHATS | Miss Platt and Ethel’s grandmoth-| the beam of Nght from the door| alike had revealed no alarm. “Asa said he would get his*gun, Mine Platt volunteered quietly, “and come back for the foxes.” her husband said, dropping back into his seat. Lucag remained at the table only & moment before he proceeded to the front room where, in recent years, family prayer was said each | Showed Ethel ber grandfather stand- ing while Kincheloe went past him toward the kitchen where he turned on the water. Her grandfather slowly tarned about, and the light from the office shone upon his face, inclined down ward a little, strained and with mus. cles at the jaw drawn tight. She had only « lirapse before he @ ADVENTURES Flap-Doodle stopped his Flap-Doodie, the purple fairy, who flew by his ears, went up to the Spiky-Sparkle Star. He didn't dare to go back to the Tinky-Winkie Star where he used to live because he'd treated all the Tinky-Winklers so mean. he'd stolen the a he changed everything he saw into something else. He even changed Nancy and Nick into white rabbits, and dear knows, they'd be white rabbits yet, I #’pose, if Rubadub, the fairyman, hadn't said # charm and changed them (Dr. Macy me! Spectalint Newest methods more lasting rew for the more ser ailments of the Lengs, Stom- art, Blood, , Tuber- pos con- civic All ments, Kido Diseases, aU Weaknesses. 1004 ard Ave, Cor. Pike St, tom-fooling and listened Fiap-Doodie turned round and round by his hands on one of the jon star points, lke neen jacrobats do on @ bar at the circus He held the Fairy Queen's wand tn his teeth and hummed a tune @w- cause he couldn't sing with his mouth shut). He was wondering what to do next. Something mischievous, you may be sure. Suddenly he heard voices. His ears were so big he couldn't jvery well help hearing everything. It was Nuncy and Nick down on the earth, talking to Kubadub and |Tingaling and all the rest of the Vairy Queen's pounctlors. Flap-Doodle | stopped his tom-fool. ery and listentd Nancy was saying, “We'll have to start all over again to hunt for the Fairy Queen's wand.” Then Nick ‘ catch old Fle “TE tell #* voice this t——_«ad? .° I know wily He can giv “Tee, 1% Doodle wh NOW YE ‘ a Sh Copyrig i you've | ’ stepped info the room and turned/ ready done? What sort of deed? out the light; but, having seen, she} “Ah, S'y etals mousquetaire®” gripped bard st the stair rail for an} The voles, Barney instant to steady herself before she| voice, seemed to float to her from crept back to her room and shut! far away over the snow; and she [herself in to think. | mee 4 te ese him, when she shut | Kincheloo and her iher planning some Lad sniffing over him. necret act of Violence “They've done it—they've done |cther way could she account for | it," she repeated again and again to lwhat she had witnessed im ¢hat| herself, without yet daring to allow ape of her grant father’s face—jany closer defining of “It.” | vindictiveness, triumph, fear. [what it wan done. | She “heard a whine at her doo} She waited until dawn was spread land the pat of « dog's paw ac the! ing over the eastern sky before she |panel a opening the door, she} went downstairs, carrying her shoes; let in Lad and etroked his hesd.| she put them on and found her «kis Something matted the white hair! The dogs roused and danced about under his neck—something which her; she took them out with her | seemed have frogen and dried and made for the lake, | there. ‘The light had strengthened suf. When she realized this waa blood,! ficiently to show her the gaunt out- |ahe set her fingers to feeling for 4 lines of Resurrection Rock, white cut from which it might have|and lifeless above the inke ice. flowed; and when she could find) When she glanced back toward no wound, she clung to Lad, Florentin, #he saw that ‘somo manding of him was following her from her “It was the fox, Lad! You caught! grandfather's house, a man who |the fox! Lad, tell me—tell me, you t be Kincheloe, Suddenly caught the fox” thel changed her plan and | But her own terrors denied her; swung from the direct line to the |her own terrors snatched at her) shore and cut into the woods to heart and overwhelmed her strug: | the |gles for calm thought. The dried,) bird lived. lbrown mat in the dog's hair was| “I want youto come right away jnot about his jaws where it must|out to the Rock, Asa,” she said © been had he caught and killed “I'm going there; come after me fox; it was under his neck| quick as you can. You understand?” » it would have come if Lad| She turned away and started | had aniffed over some one who Imy| rectly for the Rock. Kincheloe was bleeding. |ahead of her now and hurrying. | That deed, secret without apparent regard for her and |which Kincheloe and | without looking back, | father had considered. al! (Continued Tomorrow) ‘ grandfather deed—some In no were wrong, | elim ee was, “it to de. | St one | the and her was violent, grand. ft staseeteeeeeeseseeeseesesessteett! BY ZOE BECKLEY 'NO. 4—POCKET FLASK AND JAZZ SUPPLY THE NEEDED PEP BEGIN HERE TODAY tage of her parents’ ab: nd with her bloo “Righto, 4 | side, Winnie forced duty, Pegs, Let's gol” flushed herself my go-cart’s out Taking adve ence at & dance atierad by June | Pr but of w York flap: painfully, along her line WINNIP BOR VANDEL call for: hor at 11:80. . know ing that Peguy i In a reckless accompany her aa ¢ a Columbia sophomore start out im Bob Any room for Ted and ms, Bob? re as parched as Peggy.” y's disdainful frown at her cousin forced Bobby into a show of gayety. “Welcome decides to rone and fr TED WARKER to the caravan, Win land Teddy, We'll mount the old sixseater camel and seck an onsis with something in the water and a pair of lady dvrvishes doing the shimmy, eh, wot? From where I \wit, the Pompelian Everglades is the WITH THE STORY Is an embarrassed pause apeech of rebellion im p with ite passionate sin. hy Vanderpool relieved with a laugh, 4 Loutrell’s , lying stretched out, with | But littie clearing where Asa Red.) ai-| BY AHERN | GOSH, LOOK aT 'EM~ You WOULDNST THINK THERE WERE “THAT MANY BONE BALANCERS IN “TOWN © “TH! GUY “THAT GoT UP “THIS PARADE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR = HE HAS 'EM FOLLOWING "TH SHOE 6 PAS OTEY WALKER. GIVE UP BUGGY | WHEN ED WURG SLIPPED AND MOVIE, MOVIE, MovIE, THAT'S ALL SOME OF THESE GIRLS THINK ABouT! THEY’D WALK "TEN MILES TO SEE ONE REEL- AND LOOK AT THE HAT SHE BOUGHT “TODAY- FIFTEEN BUCKS FOR 1T- WHAT'S SO HOT ABourT “THAT? LOOKS JOST LIKE HAT ToME! ESS FRECKLES! THE MATTER. WAT TLL & 6ST Sone BUTTER AND DUT ON IT, { | ec * + ro nelJ “Ever since I had come to the! sounds were all around me. ¢e - A BEAR STORY “ral fumphf I say to myself, ‘be- | ing brave is one thing, and belng foolish ts another, I have no idea what kind of beasts those are, or whether they are dangerous or I'm going home.’ nd I went; quick. “Well, sir, I told that story they had thelr laugh, The great big sound was made by the very birds I'd gone out to shoot, only nobody had thought to tell me the blue grouse would make such an infernal racket. “That surely was one time when 1 badly fooled, but there were plenty of wild animals around here. Plenty of them. And they didn’t all run from you, elther, I tell you, I remem. ber plain enough once when I did the running. “We were living out on the ranch then and it was quite a stunt to get our provisions out. It's hilly around here, you know, and there were only narrow trails to follow and about a third of the way home we boys had found an old crooked tree near the path, half-fallen in such a way that it made a perfect rest for our tired backs.” coast," Mr. Fisher said, been hearing about grouse shoot ing. Such fascinating hunting stories would make any young | follow want to try his luck. “1 didn't know anything about | not. grouse, except that folks said they) made fine eating and were sport when to hunt. I never had even seen | one, but after we'd been tn Port | Angeles about two weeks I took | my gun, and following the direc: | tions given me by other men who | had been shooting ‘em, T went all| by myself to hunt grouse, was “The country was new to me, and toward evening everything began to look pretty big and I began to feel pretty small, but I wasn’t afraid of course, Just felt —strange. “Well, I went to Muckleteo, and I was listening for the birds when all at once over behind me I heard some big animal (I didn’t know what kind) give out @ sort of bellow, and right before me came the answer. “T looked, but I couldn't anything. But pretty soon (To Be Continued) ——— eel ye ae ! |imitation moonlight and jungle a dance space, was glades, jazziost |filled with a clientele too sophis- lof Broadway's night resorts, at mid-|ticated to be good for high school |night, for them, without chaper- | girls, The head walter, bored and jones |unsurprisable, led them to a ringside “Yeah, let's go! Persy squealed, |table and waited for the order, |selzing Bobby and one-stepping him| “Ginger ale all around, I guess,” |to the door, where his car, a bg| ventured Bobby, beauty, sleek and low, stood| Winnie, nervous but determined, Winn, with a glance at| guessed at the reason for the ginger , followed, the silent athlete | ale in a place like this—and had the along goodnaturedly. jcourage to order tce cream, Resist- palm-filled, lantern-spangled |ing public opinion and showing him Everglades, with © its! self the good sport he was, Harker place we need.” | winnie opened her fips to protest. | ringed about The Pompeiian F jeray waiting Harke onallan [YOu SAY NO-FO~ HES SLOW) a RUN awayy 3 fg HOLD ER NEWT SHES AREARIN BACHELOR AND TOWN MARSHAL HAD TO RIDING WITH THE NEW DRESS MAKER TOMIGHT~ LER,WHO DELIVERS WASHINGS FOR. HIS WIFE FELL WITH A BUNDLE OF LAUNDRY- BY ALLMAN HELLO. MRS. LEE? CAN 1 SEE YoU ALONE POR A MINUTE? | HAVE SOME VERY SPICEY NEWS UE A BURN YO NE 3 ses HERe’S A CITTLE ITEM tw THE FAPER ANNOUNCING. THE PRESENCE OF MR. WORTHINGTON. He's Qutx6 FAMOUS NOW, BUT I KNGW HIM WHEN HGS WAS DOING THS COMMONGGSY KINO MANUAL CABOR MGANS WORK WITH THES HANDS, BoT F Don'y SES WHECS THS DISCOUNT Gomuss IN! “THERE [S DANGER, HOWGVER, OF INIJVRING THE FinGees It You LANO Teo HARD ON A BONGHEAD I! | toyowed her lead without question. jthra a cloud of smoke. “Ginger pop for Bobby and me,” | At the next table, close to them, & lannounced Peggy defiantly, where-|man and woman so good looking and |upon Bobby and the waiter held a|pretentiously dressed that one spot | whispered conversation, ted them immediately for profes “gorry, sir,” murmured the latter, | sionals of the stage, exchanged “put there's two prohibition men |looks. Then quickly the man reach= here tonight, and the boss says the /¢d behind him, wrapped something lid's on—absolutely. Sorry." in a napkin and passed it to his Bobby, crestfallen, announced in a | Pshbers, low tone the terrible news, “Maybe this wil! go with the gine Winnte looked relieved. Peggy |#e? Pop, Mr. Vanderpool,” said he frowned, and reached for Bobby's|With an amiable wink. And Bob cigaret case, took one out and light: |turned round, surprised. ed it. (To Be Continued) “Darn nuisance,” she grumbled! (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stax) :