The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1922, Page 9

THE SEATTLE STAR ‘OUR BO. ARDING HOUSE / ‘GFUNNY \eor * A GNAP OF ME FALLING OUT OF “TH! BoaT, BUT WHEN LT PUT ON A SWELL Pose You GET SOMETHING PAGE 9 BY AHERN “J THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY 4 7 ANTINIS \S SPOSED jo BE ME, EH?= / WELL,\F I LOOK Like “MAT, I MISGED MY « CALLING* T OUGHTA BE HOLDING DOWN A DON'T MoaN ME, OR MY CAMERA « fT “TAKES WHAT I'S AIMED AT © REMEMBER, “THEY Aint NAMING ANY COLD CREAM Y AFTER YOU SHEIKS ON Edwin Balmer 5 YES SIR-1 SAW HIM RIGHT JN THE DRESS Laue, Raven ant, Company — ~ WEWICOMERS RACKET S . JoB WA CORN FIELD . REGIN HERE TODAY left, which was the Interfor wall y ‘ “MAT LOOKS LUKE L ACCOUNT OF YOUR MUGG= MAKING SHOP DOWN the b a « fe New| . AS “TRAFFIC COP FoR SK MOUSE TRAPS ~ PERFUME — RAE y LOUrneLLM, tying cota ana | With a Bek, tere ne mect| CROWS = I'D TAKE WENT THROUGH A $No WONDER WHEN You ON HIS KNEES ee a cee none Brix ike'cuoe and scot" hie aa| cee aah acw tte MAT CAMERA BUS, SMOKESTACK AFTER Look IN “TH! MIRROR OF A PROPOSING ~—~ ] LACE CAPS AND RAT POISON ETC tearm the hear "Ss ‘The room showed no sign of dis : when ahe rushed from | Order or of violence done there; Gum: SLOT V'DON‘T Ger ANY GUM OUT OF fT vith AN'USE IT FoR A A CANARY |} yet her erim old srand-/atght of the room Itself amazingly i LUNCH «A ir Re" cuLLeN, SENIOR, who naa|laturbed her, She did not know || NCH BOX + ¥ \ n otruck with anger and ¢ why, at first; she merely felt fright. | | en be learned that Loutrelie was go: | ¢ ee eal . pg nee eg ee agers “os ned as by something uncanny tn Lake Huron, with ite unoe ‘Asa, I've been tn this room, I've rouee Rever been in this house before, but a mthel had met wnfee | I've been in this room!" Ethel ex mete med. | tostructing him to} “Yes? Asa inquired, ka trip which he hoped | comprehend her, : It was plain to her that this room | to the BR unable wp hie obse once had been part of a French building, French of the sixteenth jor seventeenth century. Bthel's under Cullen's or ‘trtes to reach the Rock ber if. GO ON WITH THE sToRY recognition of this partly explained her impression of familiarity here;} when she was a child at her aunt's chateau, aunt Ceellia had taken her on visits to chateaux. of many of Uncle Hilaire’s friends, She might indeed have been In this very room before, It was hopeless for her to CHAPTER VI reached the lake and re. her skis. Kincheloe was still ghead of her, but he was ¢x-/try to recalhtrom her memories of pg an uneasiiess which re-|when she was five and eight / to nel her fears of the} Her mind was not now dwelling AH ANNONEN Vt anon na AAG > heehee’ seemed | upon what might have been her own hesociation with this room. What losing was Barney Loutrelle’s? He had was hurrying, but was glanc-/ been sent across the ocean to the ck often at her, and he was|room. Why? | off from the direct line| She moved nearer the mantel and! ection Rook, fazed at the design incised over the Moticed that something on) fireplace; it bore a dignified, formal shore seemed to disturb him, | device like—yes, very like—the de. Jooking about, Ethel observed| vice wrought upon Barney Lou Asa Redbird had emerged from | tretle’s ring. | trees and was hastening after} They searched the house thoroly.| n. Asa was carrying hie rifle.| No one, living or dead, was tn the ‘ou want me to stop Pim?” Asa | house; nowhere had they come upon wired when he came “up. [sign of violence or indication of mhel shook her head. “Just come| cause for Barney Loutrelle’s disap. me.” j bearan Oe. silence they completed their) “Where's he gone, Asa?" Ethel DOINGS OF THE DUFFS y to the mysterious house on/ appealed finally at rrection Rock. There were no| “How do I know? the Indian re-|] || MRS. DUPP, AS GOOD AND of life and when Ethel an‘ turned irritably, and Ethel appreet | FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS OF Redbird reached the main en-, ted that his nerves were on edge | YOURS, MRS. LEE AND MYSELF . the girl received the first ~ heard seratohing at the door | [) FEEL THAT IT IS OUR DUTY and, remembering the dogs, she re pouT glass panel over the knob had/ called the brown mat in Lad’s hair } TO. SPe % re — a RY A broken. After a moment’s| “Let them in, Asa,” she directed. |} || MATTER THAT IS VE tion, Ethel thrust her arm! When the door was opened and PAINFUL To US BOTH ~ the hole so plainly prepared the dogs ran in, she thought that the key from the out-/they rushed into the salon because | she was there; but Lad only brushed she did so she realised that| against her on his way to the fur Bagley nor Barney Loutreite| ther end of the great room, where have need ‘o enter in this| he thrust his head down and smelled on. Jf the floor, whimpering and scram ley got key from Wheedon,”| dling about in a circle. | explained. “Barney Loutrelle|} Lass biundered about near him so yesterday and Bagley right/¢xeitedly that Ethel followed to see ‘and let him in." what was there, only to find space he hall was wide and pleasant,/of bare, varnished floor, But her ished with cay, bright wall pa-| interest stirred Lad to leap upon! picturing tall heron: tanding| her and dash to the door on the reeds, ‘There w south which communicajed with the chairs in gray and gold,| outside steps down the Rock to the @ table and a ‘ounge| summer landing. | had cushions of black silk} When she looked thru the siass with gold herons, Un-|of this door, Ethe! observed for the! was a handsome, silky rug) first time that those steps showed blue and yellow designs of | the depressions of deep footsteps. | weaver. It showed no} The dogs jumped into the snow and floundered down the steps to! Miss I determination; he no! ITS RUMORED THAT OTEY WALKER, BACHELOR. AND TOWN MARSHAL. HAS PROPOSED To THE NEW SS MAKER, WHO RECENTLY CAME To TOWN. YES, YOU SAID YoU WERE GOING To A MOVIE - WELL- WELL - AFTER | LEFT You AND STARTED FoR HOME = 1 WAS WALKING ALONG MINDING MY OWN Business — {)] WHEN | HAPPENED “To Look UP AHO- OH-1 CAN'T “TeLt You! 1 CAN"T Ter.You! WHAT WE HAVE “To TELL ‘You 1S OF A VERY PRIVATE NATURE AND WE HOPE You witli ACCEPT Tm Bian SPIRIT THAT IT 1S OCCURRED LAST EVENING ~ YOu WILL RECALL THAT | M You OW "THE CORNER LAST “NOUNS BAD A Aer e FUN ws TM ALL READY Dom, the fee, where they shook themselves | and rolled over, barking. She was| fearfully expecting that Lad was) leading her to the sort of horror| SUMMER, WANENTT You? WELL, & YOU'LL Go UPSTAIRS AND GBT ALL CLEANED UP TLL WHERE AQE You GONNA which she had belleved to be in| the house, where she came upon! chunks of ico standing beside a hole, about a yard in diamete ee which had been chopped thru to the water. | Young tco had frozen over, not) yet half an inch thick. She knelt and leaned forward with her hands/| on the edge of the hole, peering} down thru the new, giassy crystal | into the dark, deep water under neath. She felt footsteps on the} floor of tee and, looking about, she} saw that Asa, after some delay, had descended from the Rock. He came to her side and gazed into the hole. “Water hole,” he sald quiétiy. “Bagley chop it here yesterday to fill buckets. Bagley did not chop it so big.” “Yeu; that's ft; why? Why, Asa?” she erted, suddenly losing control of | the Rock ‘OW want me to stop him?” Aaa ‘or soll; nothing showed use, He led her to the part ot] “But who—Asa, who?” thet stood amazed at the beauty) herself, “Why should any one want|the floor where the dogs had been} “Who was here last night?” Asa; ; brightness; she found herself| that hole bigger?” | sniff_ing returned logically. | DIDN'T = ALL RIGHT, AY Deae, ing of a woman in connection| “Nobody would,” Redbird assured] ~gomebody washed right here, a Bhe flinched. He meant, of Sea ie HeaR ME Aue RIGHT IL’ Dows this house on Resurrection | positively, “for water.” | sec Bemctoay did it last night, 1] couree, her friend of yesterday, DiInwnSR'S ON fact Ex reget a woman of positive and} “No,” she eald. “No, no, no? Shel think; sotnebody scrubbed, But no) Barney Loutrelle, md ATED ! ~ tastes. meant, first, agreement with Ama;| piace el CHAPTER VIT THS TABLS ; om SS Come !! “Somebody burned cloth in fire- “Well,” Lucas hafled Ethel on her} < place,” Asa informed, going to the| return. “Well, you're back from. hearth and producing a handful of| your little sunrise expedition, Kin exhibited the woven |cheloo tells me. Tell mo all about) he produced also] it." wertes hung tn a wide door.| then revolt at, and denial of, the Opening into a big room at the images tn ber own mind. The In Bright, diffused light fell dian and she now understood the a large, heavy, carved tabie| same events alike; Asa, indeed, had the center of the room; upon| discovered more than she. wiheh © of cloth; * | tex and a couch on one ‘side;| “What kept you up there?” she! a charred bit of shaped wood which| “GQrandfather!” she cried, breath. @ grand piano at the east end) asked him. had been the back of a scrubbing| less from her excitement and from —_ ee Daa aee eo @ tall lamp and a music cab-| He sald he would show her; andj prush. Asa offered it to her twirrying. “He was just here, Kin-| In the wall to Ethel's| together they ascended the steps iniahe put out her hand to take It,|/cheloe mustn't go away; he—" THE BEAR ——— ee and then she could not touch it.) “What's the trouble with you? “That tree,” anid Mr. Fisher,;pounds) and how I loved tho hiood had stained {t before it had|her grandfather demanded, seizing || 4. ccoventently placed and #o|whole blooming West country ADVENTURES Dee a ete had put i in| her arm "Step im here and expla "Wet county the fire to burn away—blood. | what's come over you." |] perfectly bont to our needs, we and everything In it, when (o) a HF, WINS “Asa had let go of it, thinking] He used just cooteti fores tol] catled it the resting trea, And I) beard « rustling in the leaves, al that she was taking it, and it/overcome her physical opposition.|1 toy you what, we were mighty! “I didn't pay much attention to dropped to the floor between them tha oe hae pore g ant|] gind to woe Mt when we came|it at first, but pretty soon tt : WV , a ire an such| his gras arned Co ° aaa a see: make sure that tuiy|exerted ‘more strength’ he would|{ climbing up the trail, puffing un-|rustled quite considerable just up tines ne thought, that Kincheloe| also employ more and overpower|} der the weight of a heavy pack. 'back of my head, and when I wished to come to the Rock early | her. | Ona Guy X tak been oe looked around there was a—great this morning He was angry with her for what —blg—black bear waddling down 2 buy provisions, and among other things I had bought « nice salmon from the Colonists, but it was just that much added welght and I was good and tired when I She could think these things, but| she had done in the night and for them, having gone out early this morning ,bout the mat of} but he was big and firm-handed and so much as usual, that she cried out confidently irandfather, you} | don’t know what he's done | the crooked trea and aiming straight for ma, “Well, I thought I was tired, I really thought I was, you know, but the way I made tracks up NO ‘ou ay cone — Riisdedlanee So! tty she could not say She told him blood in Lad's hair Asa went out and examined the/ dog. cS oC ow.” ) es “Who done " h wa (yy Bom gee Gueve wine helo ny see that trail would leave the Univer. wen “Well, well,” he demanded.|f “One beauty about the thing), o¢ washington champion run- Off” aght her to the door to|“What'a he dons that I don't/{ was that that crook was shaped |e, so tar behind he couldn't see witness for herself that, since her| know? ‘Teil me all about tt," hel} just so you could te back on the my dust, “But right here let me tell you that the bear was some champion himself, and no matter how fast I ran, the bear seemed just so far behind ma “I kept saying to myself, ‘Tt’s that fish he's after, I just know discovery early that morning, some) invited. aes "had eres the hair close un- “You know about ft; all; all!” she der the dog’s jaw? Who had done/cried aloud. “Ob, grandfather!” And that? Kincheloe? Or Miss Platt?| she shrank back before him under Or—her grandfather? her share of the horror and guilt} “gomebody was killed here, Asa?! of what had been done, “What else to think?” (Continued Tomorrow) tree and your pack fitted into the crook and you didn’t have all the bother of taking it off and put- ting it on again, “T lay there puffing and resting and thinking how giad I was we had found the old tree, and how Instantly Flap-Doodle turned dito. a beatuy old man as a rail when we came West, almost ready to die, I weigh 205 gained nearly a hundred know, I've sometimes thought I ran faster than any boy ever ran before, but 1 made it home.” c yan to live in the ble tim: |i r ap-Doodle heard Rubadub, the) Instantly Flap-Doodle turned into ‘6 as | eg sp eee ‘ua al : {t's that fish! But man-alivel I man, tell Nancy and Nick some-|a bent-up old man with long robes EN ER, per, aever stopped to throw tt away, I and « flowing beard. And at the |] was getting (you see, I was thin |just Kept right on running, You cicero BY ZOE BECKLEY sttsssesestts: | as eee tli od tub said he|#ame time pretty bushes and flowers & wizard who lived in @ Dingle |SteW Ail around with « tinkly tittle stream flowing merrily along be tween them. NO. 5—THE DANCE—JEALOUSY now, his wizard,” said Rubadub,! 4 pretty arch-way with rose vines ¢ TODAY } fac laughed the exceedingly i help you. He's as smart @8/\ growing on it bore some Betroed York fiap-| Pretty Woman at the table xt see was forced to stop. The next min-/floor, It seemed to her, Olive’s perweed and he'll find some way| which read, “Dingle Dell! Your for-| "her parents’ | "Can't you think back to Iast fall Bobby rose, the napkin-covered |but Winnle and Ted, ute Bobby and Olive were out on the | beautiful, slim arm was shamelessly @ you to get the Fairy Queen’s|tune told for nothing! All magic] « ‘ and at 11:90 starts| Billy Hetherton’s studio party—and | gift in his hand. Olive Maned a smooth elbow on | slistening floor walking into the un: |close about Bobby's neck. d that Flap-Doodle stole, just as|freet Step int” out with her boy shun, 1, {SOME party it was, 1'll say “Delighted! Now, won't you Join|the table and turning to Bobby, re. |@ulating, syncopated step she was}! “some button-polisher, that girl,” le as anything.” By and by when everything was |?OP YA‘? >| Bobby's face fired up with pleas. | us?" |garded him with bright, amused |teaching him with her practiced, |she murmured wickedly. ‘Then fee, hee, heel laughed Fiap-|ready, along came Nancy and Nick inde’ edad: 0\en guilt. “With pleasure,” erfed the man | eyes. supple touch. Peggy bit her Up, realizing that Duncan Lee was offer- die when he heard this. “He will, |and Ttubadub, natvie, cousin ts| “Why—you're the girl who did the|with « goodhumored glance at| ‘They're playing the last dance, |The orchestra was playing a “rag” jing her the instrument of revenge— he? Well, we'll see about thatr’| “Why, 1 declare!’ sald Rubadub, 4 inviting @ Co-| Apache dance and—"* Bob's party. |Want to be taught the newest|!to Which the strains of “Good/thy weapon of jealousy, with which p-Doodle flew down to the earth | “This isn’t the Dingle Dell 1 was) lumbia sophomore mavie to buy! 28nd behold the Apache,” cut in| Saraminto and Lee abandoned |'scandal’ step? Night, yaa anes interwoven. |/to bring Bobby to his senses, she 4 been sitting on a@ star, you|looking for, but I suppose it's as| TED MANIKE maple to bur the lovely lady's partner, getting up|thelr own little table and joined the| Bobby jumped up, his boyish face | Duncan Lee, watching with interest | turned quickly to him. and waved his wand three| good as any. Let's go in and wee if| 4 ‘near-by paevoctiase (and making ® ceremonious bow.{others. A walter brought chairs qnd|ruddy with pleasure and excite-|{® sirl's evident flash of feeling, | sy teu the crosseyed world, I ' over his head, \this wizard can help us catch Flap. STORY “Ladies and gentlemen, Olive Sara-|Olive sat next to Bobby, Duncan | ment. leaned to her and whispered: wilt’ |Doodie and get back the airy minto, cleverest Latin dancer on the|Lee taking the place beside Peg. “Surest thing you know!" “I know it just as well as Olive.| Then come,” sald the man, and Ic, magic, cast your spell, Queen's wand.” Robby turned to look at the donors | Big-'Time even If I—Duncan Lae, of|Mrom the napkin-hidden source} “Bob!” exclaimed Pegey, eyes|Let me teach you?" they arose, me a wizard in a Dingle Dell,” (To Be Continued) of the napkin-shrouded gift. firs minto and Lee—say so my-| poured a clear, brownish liquid into | widening, “You've promised—"* Peggy's angry little face was (To Be Continued) 4. (Copyright, 1922, by Beattle Star) “You've a short memory. for! self!" the iced ginger ale of all the party But he had not promised, and she!turned to the two on the dance! (Copyright, 1922, by Seuttle Stax) ©