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ts #0 nice of you to come he ot re, atic, Cullen will be so © hears of it." Mra! o Aa. always spoke as tho Amnes| Goord. fey Certain to return, “I was won: erbere yestentiay if this might mean were goon to arrive” nis was a letter which the ere eoper was offering——a aquare, uy om wellfilied envelope with Brit. stamps and with the British F won Te. opened by the Censor.” The was written tm bold, vige netog, {ting which Bthel ob. eh ot with a start. peared letter was from Barney's _ of the Canadian battalion id a — 4 (Continned From Yesterday) nm had written Barney of her attempt to speak to him, told Barney to hasten to Resur- on Rook and had foretold that find some one named Hag ead another person named thera The letter read: ~ Ethel Carew; as f addressing you without the seus! prefix of Miss or Mrs. because c pot. know which to use , ban oe you to report the a 1. t for "ts afternoon, when sitting with Brand, Prilip Carew once more Present and wished to speak. Decause it was cartier in sitting and the medium was fired, I recetved several per. ly clear and coherent messages. “Thad done tn regard to Bar. y le was Wrong. When I he how wrong, I received the “Not eo much wrong as in- asked what I should do to i complete; and I got the re te no use, really, at all. Eartior so, but not now. It in without Quinlan.” T asked for Quinlan's whole Qnd address and who “she” I got the reply, somewhat im. to do with anybody, it always matters easier to give that fn a good dinner, and tn his gin “Eth” he found he had an ate proposition. big room In the Blackstone 9 clearing a# groupe departed for Bi opera; the nearest tables all deserted. Bennet paid his and it a cigaret; he leaned fly upon the tabie. Do you know any one named T she asked. a 4 Jim Quinian? Surely. Father to have him about the south yards for old time's sake.” Saag "We was with grandfather years 3% was there some one con- 4 ea Suddenly he stood and Nick rode away from ingle Dell on Hee Haw. Haw was the donkey the old Erd had given them to ride, #0 could hunt for the lost wand Fairy, Queen. it really Hee Haw wasn’t a don- at all. He was Flap-Doodle, the pany fairy the ‘Twins were searching and who had caused all the mis ut Nancy and Nick didn’t know of courm. Gid ap,” sald Nick, bhey a poke. Haw switched his tall and ed away. jo of bim he was laughing and hing, Hee Haw was. He thought a good joke it was for the to be searching for him every: » and here they were riding on his back. soon lose them,” he said. take thei first to the thoray- giving the communication | you and which wae re! from & person who le dead.| een eee Hected with him named Robert?” Bthel asked, . “Hob Quinian? He was his grand fon.” “Waat Ethel 5 daar repeated. “He's “Shot down in flames near Cam. Dral, he was,” Bennett anid. “He got Into aviation as observer and) machine gunner, Old Jim—I hear he went sort of nutty not long aft. erward, It seemed that Bob was all he had left, Lost most of thy rent of his family in diaasters, #0: One saidr-then the war took Bob, “How long ago was he associated with grandfather? the! returned. “Where was it?" "Why, back in the olf pine days,” | Bennet repited impatiently, “Old Jim was head sawyer of one of |wrandfather’s milla. Lost his fingers | then; has only half his fingers on hig right hand. Why?" “IT came back here because— Ethet began, looking steadily at her }cousin, “The trouble I had with erandfather at 8t. Florentin, Bon,” she made another start, “waa over & man whom Kincheloe killed on Resurrection Rock.” “Killed a man?" her cousin was }Tepeating [2 @ whisper, looking j about swiftly and then bending fur ther across the table, “You mean—murderea him? “Oh, Ben, I don't know, but I'm afraid so! “What—what the devil—* Bennet scolded. He glanced about and! shifted hig feet ae tho to rise, | “Give me all of this,” he com manded, “Straight.” So she told him quietly and with- out passion as “straight” as she) could. | “You ay you accused grand) father,” he aasailed her hotly, when she had finished, “of killing this Loutretle pick-up of yours!" “That's true, I said I was mis taken. It wasn't Barney; it was—" “You-—you fool,” he said to her tn pitying Glagust. “You little fool.” She sat back, quite white and quivering under the constraint of controlling herself against Bennet’s) anger. tte. ny Before writing to Barney that night, Ethel reread the letter from) Huston Adley. Her immediate) course of action had become quite plain to her; yet she reconsidered thoughtfully before recerding ber purpose. “My dear Mr. Loutrelle,” she a4. dressed Barney. “Last night I had @ remarkable experience—" and she detailed how she had confirmed, | the articles chosen and arranged by Agnes and 0 expressive of her tire- less vitality, to believe that she could have been completely obliter- ated. There was « large, flat package from London, tied with cord ‘and stamped with English postage: the consom had opened it, sealed it! again and sent it on. The paper! bore the legend, “Photographs.” She found three photographs, all) identical, of a group of young men/ in uniform who appeared to be of. ficers of the Canadian and of the) American armies, The faces were! all strange to Ethel until, with a! up on his hind lega patch and pretend to be frightened fand@ that will be the end of them.” away. They'll never get out of that, and that wil be the end of them.” After while, not #o very long, Hee Haw turned into a side path, “Where are you going?” called | Nick. “Just heref’ answered Hee Maw. Suddenly be stood upon his hind legs and Nancy and Nick rolled off his back like two ripe plumbs drop- ping off a tree. The first thing they knew, Heo Haw was jumping @ fence and tear- ing off down the road. mam) | OUR BOARDING HOUSE | way, he seemed wholly purporeless THE SEATTLE STA - Ste HERE, MARC ANTONY * T HEARD ALL ABouT YoUR SPEECH 1D “ME BOYS LAST NIGHT ASO “THEIR HOURS FoR MEALS AND RETIRING !~ PLEASE REMEMBER, YOU ARE ONLY PART OF “THE FURNITURE AROUND “MIS HOUSE, BUT You've NEVER - oa 4 BUT MARTHA, - M'DEAR = AH~ “MEY =~ AU: MISCONSTRUED MY MOTIVE © 1 WAS ONLY TAKING A * PATERNAL INTEREST IN MER WELL BENG, AS IX ==> Sie "MATOR’ LOSES ~ ANOTHER ROUND DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WILBUR [I'VE SOMETHING STRANGE TO TELL You = OUR NEIGHBORS, MRS DRAKE AND MRS LEE CALLED HERE AND SAID THEY HAD SOMETHING OF A SERIOUS NATURE TO TELLME- THEY STARTED OUT BY SAYING THAT ON THE EVENING | WENT TO THE MOVIE ALONE ,SOMETHING AwfUL HAPPENED -THEN TWEY STARTED TocRY AND GOT UP AND LEFT AND NEVER FINISHED IT ~ So TT MOST HAVE BEEN WIPOWTANT IF THEY start which stopped the beat of her! communteation not dissimilar to that heart, she recognized Barney Lou-| letter which had wa: Ethel at troll. In each of the prints his} Scott street; but Lucas’ letter, tn- identity wae unmistakable, stead of being from an unknown} Her Uncle Lucas called earty the| person, was from an English peer next morning to ask what she was!of international reputation for his doing about her business matters.|work tn sciences. He wrote to When she said that she had failed report a message which he had re- to obtain help, he told her he had|csived from the othér world which decided to “protect” her interests in| stated that “Agnes Cullen,” having! the projects under way. | become cognizant, In the néxt exts-| That afternoon ahe recetved a let-|tenoe, that uncertainty as to her ter from Barney in which he report-| death was causing confusion tn this ed that upon his return to the Rock! world, wished it known positively he had found affairs just as she! that she was dead. had left them, CHAPTER XI “{ have seen no one from St.| Lucas Cullen, Sr. reosived Infor} Florentin,” Barney continued. “But| mation of this extraordinary bit of I think that Kincheloe has got out. | intelligence soon after bis arrival at I have found an Indian who saw a/ his son's home, stranger sbout here three days ago| “What are you considering doing?” who, I think, ts the fellow that slept! has son inquired. fn that shack opposite Rest Cabin,| Lucas laughed as he liked to laugh Miss Carew. From what I can| when planning a shrewd and clever) make out from Ozibes, he was an|coup. “Hale Sir Horace Clebourne| old man who seemed a bit off his|into court, of coursé, to swear for) head from exposure, perhaps. Any-| us that Oliver's wife Is dead! Then when we have our English ruling,| | we'll carry it Into our courts on the| | verity—is that a good, jogal-sound.| ing word, Lake?” | and harmless, and I think we were wrong in connecting him up with our affair, 1 couldn't obtain any “ET igoR MATOR~ Yee \F HE'S PART OF TH! FURNITURE, HE MUST BE “TH! SOFA TH’ WAN HE GUTS SAT ON! = We HAD IT COMING TO Hide “MONLY RULE HE CAN LAY DOWN IN \S HOUSE IS AVARD STICK IT WORRIED Mf AND YESTERDAY | GOT TO “THINKING ABOUT Ir AND WENT “YO THE PHONE "TO CALL'YOU. WHEN I HEARD SOMEONE ON THE LINE MENTION MY NAME - | LISTENED, AND ONE WOMAN A OworRCE, “| SHOULD THINK SHE WouLD!” |ers took the train from Quesnel for better description of him than he was tail and gray-haired and wore a short mitten on his right hand as the ends of his fingers were off.” This determined Ethel to tele graph Barney to come at once to Chicago. But before him, two oth- Chicago— Lucas Cullen, Sr, and his) “I think it will do,” Lake said. “On the verity of the death of dur) dear Agnes, as already presumed by the court—but not proved. So we prove it; Witness, Agnes herself; ten-| timony taken and sworn to by Sir Horace Clebourne, Doctor of Belence, Baronet and the rest; eworn to by the best brains of England, We'll larrival, the first news confirming | new; but the old man never had to wife. And upon the day of their| get ‘em. I know It’s new, son—it's the assumption of Agnes’ death | wait for some one else to show how reached the city. to do @ thing.” It came to Lucas Cullen, Jr., in a (Continued Tomorrow) “ENTE sheataneaeseaeaeesesteneaesgsnstt: BY ZOK BECKLEY trsasestett NO. 7 “LET'S MAKE BEGIN WERE TODAY | In a moment of reckIesanes | i her to @ at night, Her cousin, — | shocked, insiste on chaperon- | Ing Peggy, accompanied TED HAKICOR, Atgthe on ned by SARMINTO, & dancer, and her partner, ret they are professtonal ‘The Twins got up and looked around. “on! erled Nancy, “look at the thorns?’ “Yen,” answered Nick, “And thisties, too! This ts a fine place to | bring us.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Lith Pees: Jontousy te | sroused aa Olive fiirte with Bob. | When the eabaret clones, Winnie tn-| sists they return, but Ted Harker onila| their apartment and as the girls’ parents #ttil are away, | GO ON WITH THE STORY oven Winnie felt the influence of} ‘Ted's news that her parents and EsSsstetssseg FLAPPER” | IT A NIGHT” Pegsy’s mother had not yet got home, As for Peg, sho shrugged a pair of. gay little shoulders and took the final brakes off her truant mood, “It dosn't matter, tho,” began Winnie, her tone as firm and deter. mined as a schoolma’am's, “we've got to go home.” “You mean you've got tol came Peggy's quick retort, “Tob?” Winifred turned to the boy at the wheel. “You'll go home | yourmlf, won't you—as soon as you've taken us back?’ Ho laughed embarrassedly. “Dunno, Win!" Winnie got into the back seat be- PAGE 11 BY AHERN” ZA} =f 8's ‘To Wim= He's BIG LAUGH THATS HE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY ME CUT OFF TAS BUSH fou SAY- 7 AUNT SARANS MEDDLIN “ AGAIN? | MARSHAL OTEY WALKER HAS A Te | CONVINCING THE BARBER SHOP GANG THAT HE DID NOT PROPOSE TO THE NEW DRESS MAKER AS RUMORED THOSE KIND OF OLD GOSSIPERS MAKE ME LAUGH ~- DON'T PAY ANY - - AND THR OTHER ONE SAID, THEY MUST HAve BREN SOME CRAZY MUTTSI 77 | a ‘ar, ec * lv OW) IS Cc DOS Page 775 THE PRISONER AND THE SHERIFF * beautiful Persian cat, and he ts probably the only Inmate that cell has had for many a year. Peggy and David stood still and looked and looked at the prisontr with-wistfuleyes. And the prisoner-with-wistful- | eyes, at the little wirdow, looked | thru the bars at Pegey and David. Tt wasn’t @ “dank, dark, arip- Greary dungeon,” because! But David was not satisfied with any make-believe like that, just as you aren't satisfied this minute, and he said—well now, what did you say when you came to the cat? Probably that you would Itke to know about the really for ping, the afternoon sun shone fn bright ly and lay in a golden patch oh the dusty floor, and if it hadn't been for the strong iron bars at the window and the great rusty chain on the door tt wouldn't have seemed a dreadful place to be in at all, Pegey reached her little hand thru the window and tried touch the prisoner-with-sad-eyes, Dut he was too far down, but I think he saw that she was a friend, for he turtied his head a bit to one side, and, looking up at her, said, “Meow!” You sea, this prisoner was a true shackles and shivered in terror in the old cell. ‘Well, David sald that, too, and Mrs, Collins, the ploneer, who was showing them the jafl, told the kiddies that she knew the sheriff who used to keep the prison tn the old, old days, and she showed them his house, and presently they found themselves talking to him and he told them the story of the man who— prisoners who wore the But that’s tomorrow’s story. (To Bo Continued) ee TTT eee hind Olive Saraminto and Duncan | gled herself. o, who had been invited along. and they drove off. Jen, But as she noticed no aispost tion on the part of Bobby to woo her out of the mood she grew resentful. “You're a fast worker, Bob, I'll say that for you!” Peggy twisted the words out of the corner of her mouth, that Olive Saraminto might not hear, “Well—you told me you watehing my speed tonight.” Pegsy realized how sho had tan- me!” |Bobby to Olive Saraminto! ankles” of her set—to be jilted, were Not if Peggy knew it—huh! She could not snap back at him, bold as she was tn Harker climbed in beside Winnie | verbal fenoing: ‘Yes, but I didn't Porgy was sul-|mean you were to speed away from Her unaccustomed defeat drove her to a sort of fury. So she had actually furnished the fillip that sent Bhe— Peggy Dean, daughter of the Lenox Deans, conceded absolutely “the cat's only temporarily, for a chorus girl! Suddenly sho drew in her claws MR. WILBUR DUFF — I'VE BEEN ADVISED ON Good =“ ATHORITY THAT SOME CARRINGS ON HAS BEEN GOING ON IN YouR APARTMENT AND WANT TO SAY IF IT CONTINUES TO BE REPEATED’ YOU WILL BE THROWED OUT» SIGHNED ~ The janitor MY NAME (3 SvsRerT TRUS. YOU ARE THE PRGSIDGNT OF THIS CONCERN, MNO IL THOUGHT XT WOULD DROP IN AND UU HOW XT AM IMPRGSSSeED WITH GLAS XOV CAMS IN, SIR WS “LIKE TO KEEP TovCH WITH Z WGLL, You'RS IN ToveH Now $ PACKACE So CLOSsLY RESS THAT OF ANOTHGR FIRM IN Ss UN® WHO HAve PR yy Mb BS apt SVSRXWHSRGE THAT IT ALMO WOOGHT ONG !tl ay and purred, “You pinked me tbat time, Bobby, she murmured on. a minor not “Also, there's nothing wrong with your spee except the direction, Now just keep your nice eyes open and watch me for speed tonight.” “I have watched you,” Bobby’s good-natured reply. “Talk about fa&t work! Whew! Regular vamp, that fellow must think you." “Well? There was a note of tri- umph in her whisper. “What of it?” “Nothing.” Bobby's cheerfulness was insulting, “Only don't hand me any medals for fast work,’ ‘The car drew up before the Nine. veh apartments. Winnie and Ted jumped out. Peggy did-not stir, ‘Aren't you coming, Peg?” Anxiety was in Winnie's. voice, “What's the rest of the mob going to do?” Peggy demanded, “Oh, don’t mind us," drawled Olive cheerfully, “We don't work till to. morrow afternoon. We'll stick, Mm Vanderpool,” Pegsy settled back tn her seat, “That goes for me, too,” she am nounced defiantly, “Blow! (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Sta (To Be Continued came if