The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 13

eee ane atest THE OLD HOME TOWN: “BY STANLEY Ha-HA® LIGien WHY CLYDE, LooK am = 4 NEWT SHES <4| NAPOLEON «= HE US! = “TO HiM= Jes'as \-~ 1F HE COULDN*T >| To SLEEP ON WIS WoRK His DREAMS ot \” | HORSE HALE TH! TIMES® A BED “THAT IGNIT a Vow “THEY © (OME “TO CALL ITA MADE- UP = TLL BET NIGHT MARE! MANY'S “IH! IME HE SLEPT IN A FLOP WHERE] /“CLype, or ; MISTER. WALKER ‘ rmf SEATTLE STAR G HOUSE BY AHERN | | OUR BOARD AN'THATS WHAT They (747 CALL SERVICE WW “THIS MILL, EH? © LOOK AT MY SNORE SHELF = THERE HASN'T BEEN A HAND LAID ON IT SINCE I quit “W! FEATHERS THIS AM. < WELL, I AIN'T GONNA SPREAD, ete 8 ee, (Continued From Yesterday) phasis which betrayed to her Lake gared at Me father, uroer.|*oMething of what he had pent up ON Thar 4 Va tain for a minute whether the obj| Within AT TWIST “TONIGHT HE HAD “TO USE A You'Re "1H THINKS THAT ere wholly serious. Wis fath For a moment Rthel stood . oy ee oy nevee, me cehantes ‘ta bas dulled with feeling for him ioe tbe rt ANE ‘To STAND Suwanee FEDERAL ts 4 MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. than when he chuckled th eatiafae.| boy from the Indian shack’ tn the AN LET MY FEET \ NS WAY LEAGUE- | ING To SKIP OUT— tion at his own smartness, Charlevotx woods finding, at lant, GOT S_eEP! ) 2 7\AMONG TH’ SHEETS! “HATS AM GO HE DONE ASKED Whe next day, when Lucas com.|*omething which traced to his ring pleted his business with his lawyer, p@nd to himself, Then her thought Jaccard, he himself made an ap.| Went to that photograph upstairs, pointment with &@ private detective} She went over with him in detall who proved so competent that when | ¢¥erything she had done since leav- Fthel left the house on Scott st,| ime him, Including her call of that F that afternoon she had no tea Afternoon at Mra, Davol's where, S whatever that she was followed. she reported, sho had made an ap “Started work 245 p. m. oppostte|Polntment for a sitting that eve — Scott st. Mise Ethel Carew, left | Ding. by front door 26%." So read that| Sho heart a servant opening the portion of the confidential report | front door and realized that this Dy which was supplied to Lucas earty| Was the hour at which Bennet that evening dropped in to scold and argue with “Followed her to -~ N. State et. | her. Po where she rang, was admitted at, “Hello! he called before him, com- $20 and remained unt! seven min.|!me Into the drawing-room; then, utes to four, Inquiry established| eine Barney, he squared abdut that number — ts establishment of | Challengingty. a Mra. HL. J. Doval, a professional; “Mr. Loutrelie, this te my cousin paychic medium of apparently high-| Bennet Cullen.” class practice; no policecourt reo| “Loutrellet Bennet repeated, OuT! NO-NO-1 SAY 'TS NOT YouR ord of arrest or conviction.” facing about to Barney again. “So catia | You are Loutretle:" CHAPTER XII | The exclamation was go insulting that Ethel rejoiced that Barney of- fered no reply. “What do you want here? Ben | net was demanding. Miss Carew knows why I am here.” Barney replied quietly “I'll ask you to tell mel Bennet attempted to command. The young man who called him. self Barney Loutrelie had never, for himself and upon his personal errand, entered such @ home as that on Scott street. Ethel, upon the floor above, had been ready for many minutes. She! + LKER fad seen Barney approaching the)“. ~ C) PORT u house, but she had waited for the] ananine ui vil ino opt, Re Bolg EMI - ~ THE. vane Jeervant to tell her that Mr. Lou- 7 Tt was no use, and Bennet was oe ‘ OEsielous quest 4 BING AT : trelle had come anc ‘ STOPP, = na me and then, sneastan, |alertmin ded enough to recogniee it | 4 j SUSPICIOUS GUEST ING AT THE MM wes she reached the head of the stairs}, Fislly ho became calm and tho| The sieht of his strong. vigorous|"*W Sevelopments were thoroly ex- E figure striding toward her had) Plined. He examined the envelope | Detirea a flutter in hee breast which | X04 Postmark of Ethel’s letter from ~ mt of argument with seit) uston Adley; he again pronounced | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Helen Gets an Earful HOW DO You DO,MRS. DuFF! YOU DON'T MEAN ‘To say [42a HELLO, DORIS, HELEN SPEAKING! jthe entire affair @ lunatic’s hoax a spoke her! M4 then determined to accompany | | WAS SO SORRY TO HEAR YOU HAVEN"T HEARD THE f ABouT \T | WON'T “TELL You- | Meany Toes! "Twa You AND * hia cousin and Barney to tho sitt- THE SAD NEWS ABOUT ? SCANDAL? | PRESUME 1 DON'T BELIEVE IN CARRYING Ls + ° S) “Tm so glad you're here! ene)! With Mrs. Davol that night. MR. AND MRS. WILBUR DurP - THEY'LL BE DIVORCED SOON-| | DON'T KNow| NEWS - You'LL HAVE TROUBLE -1S IT TRUE? Sead. “Oh, I'm so glad! A great Gtivten san THEY ARE RELATIVES OF ey ¢ 1FEEL SO SORRY FOR WHAT You | FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF) | CERTAINLY HER - SHE 1S SUCH A ARE TALKING SOME WAY ~ WILL-AND 1 SWEET LITTLE THING- ABOUT - AM SURE THAT You KINDLY EXPLABt WAVE BEEN WHAT SCANDAL You know asouT! } deal has happened. I found out a ~ | Ethel explained the detatis of YOURS AREN'T THEY P Ges] more shout James Quin-| sire communication while Bennet,| SAD NEWS? Barney and she drove to Mra, Da- WHAT SAD vol's in Bennet'’s car. Barney, hav- Ing attended aittings In England, was of course familiar with the ordinary methods; but Bennet was almost wholly ignorant of the aub- Jeet. “I tol@ the landlady where he a that I wns a Cullen and of S@ourse concerned about him.” |) _ “Something had happened inside James Quinlan after Robert was Bhot down in flames which probably The medium wore a plain, gray, woolen drees which closely fitted the ample lines of her figure. “These your friends? Mrs. Davol inquired as Ethel greeted he: She Pointed to seats close together while she herself took the large, leath chair near the center of the room volun- teered. “When I do, of course, I'l! tell you what I sea” Strangely the presence of the me.! dium, instead of intensifying for! Ethel the solemnity of the room, had dispelled it. “I feel # lot of force here,” the medium sald. “She ought to feel the police force,” Bennet whispered deristvely to Ethel, who made no reply while) she watched Barney, who had sup | ‘CAUSE % WALUED ALL TH WAY 1 BACKWARDS: plied himsgif with a pad and pen cil, which ‘he now took from his Le pocket, ready to record what would be said. “T see @ great ship sinking. Tt ts| “I think sure we'll get some- dows” thing,” Mrs. Davol continued. “tf see—I ste & woman, very beautiful. ft tmpossible for my wuncle.| She ts no longer young: she ts mid had taken grandfather's place|die-aged; she—now I see water; I to keep on controlling Quin.| see a lot of water and people swim. the olf way.” she said.| ming; she is in the water; she is “Whatever !t was, It made Quinlan|drowning; she ts trying to swim. ‘want to go to Resurrection Rock;/I see a great ship sinking. I think I don’t know whether he went/it ts a steamer; it is going down. here to find you. I can't quite see| Yes; {t is « steamer. I seo many how that could be, but he certainty| people in the water; but now I do went there, and grandfather was| not see her.” @fraid of seeing him. That's quite| The voices of the medium halted, clear. Grandfather was afraid, too,|and Barney filled, in, from memory, |X think, of Quinlan coming to him.|the gaps of unimportant words! 5 cast herself in—but now some, but made no comment; Bennet) + es to ot. purus at ‘ar te sa sels pee too Sat fer! one appears in a boat—paddiing—| waited silently; and Ethel knew that) Ei @ent to Resurrection Rock, end] “I still ste water,” continuea|'* * * cance—” b blbcy * fg ‘gs “anu be tol Kincheloe found him there and) Mrs. Davol, “but not the samo|, Again the volce of the poacegp 41 7 eager om | . bee ; ted; and now, though the de-| s / LA werd ag hone he could never) water; this ts smooth and Very | cription recalled nothing to Ethel's| “Does that ‘Galilee and _ torch clear. Ice floats in it. 1 trees | rout” “Your ring,” Ethel recalled to her-|on the shore and & pon in = cloay| mind, yet the manner of this recital stuff mean anything to yout’ Ben- gelf suddenly. “And the device walking under the trees. She hears|° Vision lessened Ethel's feeling oF | tt Gomeneet a aes weal | carved on the mantel in that room.”|a burden beneath her coat—now 1| U4 She ebook her hea ond Bhe did not need to mention what|see her more clearly—the burden| Mt*. Davol suddenty ‘thrust her-|that it did not as the medium be-| Toom; he was thinking of {t, too. |she bears te a child—unborn—she| ®t back in her chair end her| gan to speak again. i “They wore. identical, | Miss| stumbles and {9 afraid—she jooks|Y!C® marvelously altered Some ong stands behind you, ” Carew,” he said with a sudden emJupon the water and seems to think} Siaereets tks Weeoks etn | EVERETT TRUE | || wHaT‘S TRS €¢ WEDDING INVITATION FROM WALLACE BOGSS! Wer, WELL, ttle * wecc t! a BACHELOR AND WOMAN o P How He TD ENJOY RUBGCIN — IT IN ON THE MARRIGD MCN ‘ar Story ls “There is some one here with|she said to Ethel, and Ethel turned) CET Page 776 much difficulty,” this new voice | about, startled. j said. “Quite old. He wants very! “Who?” Ethel cried, bending for hard to speak. He is with two|ward. “Who do you seo?” | THE SHERIFF AND THE PRISONERS ‘The sheriff's house ts quite big “Men drifted in here from all and old-fashioned, and the sheritt| about—bad men, wild men, mur others, both much younger. Eva has “One who loves you much; he fs) seen one of them before; Eva feels| tall; middle-aged: he amiles lovingty. one of them was waiting for him,|He has brown hair, blue eyes, good ts, of course, a very old ploneer.| derers, and cutthroats, and thieves, and robbers, and life was WECL, WALLIS, OLD Boy, IT wice NOT BE N@eCessARY To SEND ANY eland_ ¥¢ the old man not well built up. He) (atures, He says hegis your father. | had « long, troubled life—he wants! His hair ts lighter than brown, Eva! \to eay—but cannot—" The voice| cannot see his face very clearly, He trafled off into murmurs, unintel-| has been trying to come to you} In fact, he is that pioneer who was a big boy at the time of the! interesting enough for the sheriff. | ligibie and then Inaudible. |many times before; but there have; “g PRESENTS “[ suppose,” said Benset, leaning| been many difficulties. Indian war tn 1856, and to whom ‘Stiiacoom used to be a very i ina 4 again to Ethel’s ear, “this fs the| “What did he want to say?” the Indian came with the warn-| {mportant town, you know, It =— trance; she’s under her ‘control’| Ethel demanded again. ing, when the savages were about; was the county meat of Pierce to massacre all the settlers in the | county, and, of course, that gave little settlement which grew to be| us the court house, It was the important port for California ships, in fact, the only port on the sound for years, and the fort Little Eva spoke that piece.” “He builds up something; « tet-| “Can you describe the man bet-| ter,” the voice continued. “The let-| ter now? Barney inquired of the|ter L.. medium, writing his own question} “What does that mean?’ } jas ho had recorded the others. “Tt is his name; no, hoe shakes hin | “He shows mo a capital Q.” the/head. Jt is the name of # place;} voice of “va” continued strongly|a city where something has hap-| Tacoma. You remember him—Stephen and distinctly Now a J with it;/ pened.” Judson, He has kinfolks in Seat- J is before the Q; J Q” “London?” Ethel put in again, was here, and a big mill that gave 2 Bennet challenged. “Yes: London. He says it is the|f tle right now, who could tell you joue to settlers who had lots of The voice did not reply aiventty, sage ted x Langreon dsm es all this story, except the part) land and no cash, and we all : You" Have | "Iva feels like a blow in the breast;| “What about that person? a 4 ~uteL lthere {* gushing from {t. Eo does) “Iie says important events will|| about Pegsy’s and David's vislt, thought we should just keep right \ hd |not know he is giving this, He has|come; he wants to say, they are| But Mr, Judson told them his| °° srowing till wo were a city, PLENTY Comine it on purpose; they have| happening now with L. Now he ts “But I was going to tell you a = i To You ( |tried to make him forget that; but|going. Another ts presont. He isif very own self. fail story, not a town history, “A gets it from him. ‘lam happy,'|a brown-faced man with straight,| he says, ‘It is true, I am happy.’| black hair; an Indwan—" | “Hello, here,” he cried. “Who are you?” Hie can way that; but that 1s all| Barney put the ntxt question in| Aft e now. He holds up in his hand a/a strange word, and Ethel, glancing Apa beac Loconn ti A seal pert. cp ay eiae torch—a flaming torch. Associated|at his pad, saw that he wroto us @@4 left poor Nancy and Nick lying] Why, at that minute he was) with the torch is the word Galties.| his question | | Ev “Yen,” he said (and his eyes) wasn't 1? About the bold, bad fairly sparkle they are so bright).| men IT used to have to put the “Sure, I can tell you stories about] iron shackles and chains on, and the jail. I ought to know some,| stuff like that. Sight in the midst of a big field of |laughing fit to kill at the way he|The younger man leads him away."| “Otchipwen?” |] I suess, my father cpg a wae ‘Well, one time when I was Why pi @orny thistles they scrambled to|had gotten rig of the Twins who in. |The voice again ceased. eS ig nods ae" replied “Eva.” |} it's mee na rs sash ko i up oe pest halen attending t ) IC d ithel gazed 3 ho had| “He was a Chippewa.’ second sheriff to handlo {ts pris:| a session ef court, I came pretty \ a! , ‘ound. sisted on following him tn orde Ethel gased at Barney wi | : x Om their feet and lodked aroun: d s * tO! topped writing and turned to her, (Continued Tomorrow) oners, I was sheriff from 1862 to| near losing the whole lot of Me, \y/ The thorns tore their clothes and{get the magic wand, ge em y SS pricked their feet and held them| “Ha, ha” They'll have to stay | sgessesssssssssssssesset: 1868, and those were wild days In i A Stilacoom, (To Be Continued) Pack like # hundred hands. there forever,” he chuckled, flapping = “Goodness!” gasped Nancy, “we'll|his great ridiculous ears with de “FNTER THE FLA PER” ® tee te ttt , set out 6f here.” light. ertacae never get ou 9 — P were—mere school kids, “flaps.” meddling, then by Olive's daring. “Let's wish,” said Nick quickly.| But something was going on he “Our Green Shoes can take us any-| didn't know about. seeeeategsesseeesesseeeseesststt! BY ZONK BECKLEY stessssssts rage. Her cousin was already in the | child, that puts tt up to us to pursue “epg awnne the car about, co Poor Peggy had for the moment no. where.” As Nancy and Nick stood looking BE ee foyer telephoning. She called up-|our erring parents. Get in, Salva- Nive leaned her lovely arm on the| weapon other than her rage—and But, lo and behold, when they |helplessly about, along camo a jolly NO. 8—PEGGY STARTS FATEFUL TRIP \etairn, only to be told that the|tion Win! back of ita seat and offered diree-| that was not enough to win a boy. wished, not even the magic shoes |fairy in a rubber sult, right thru the 3 | Hollises and Mrs. Dean had not yet} Good-natured Bobby, sensing the | tions in a low tone. Peggy caught! she was in this mood of despera- could move. For the thorns held|thistle patch. He was wheeling a| BEGIN HERE TODAY OLIVE GARAMINTO and anaret| Feturned. |imminent clash, intervened. jthe scent of delictous. perfume, a! tion when the car drew up before them tight, too. wheelbarrow and singing merrily. | clonen Pegay wishes to continue the| Winnie was now frantically tele} “Bure, Get tn, Win, We'll just laa ny et in the professional | Mikado inn, « lovely pieture of Jap. *f believe that bad donkey brought| “Hello, here” he cried. “Who are alice Mer| Party despite Winnie's plea they re-|phoning the Yacht club, ‘The re-|blow in on your people at the inn |dancer’s armory, ances gardens, glamorous with dane ere on purpose and dumped us|you? I'm the thistle-pateh fairy, 1] mother and the parents of her cousin, | as hs veuret man atény | port depresned her still more. She re-jand drag ‘em home," Her rich voice, with a velvety rip-|terns glowing softly beside a little ff," declared’ Nancy ‘indignantly. |gather thistledown for fairy pil-|WINNIB HOLLIS saves the aperts | Joined them, “Where is Mikado Inn, ff anybody | ple of amusement in it, was saying | stream. #he didn't know how right sire was, |lown. ete at mine “Just wait for me a second, won't) “The stewart at the club"? she| knows?” nsked Bobby, his cheery | things Peggy could not quite hear.| But a search of the inn resulted for Hee Haw, the donkey, was Flap. When he heard their story, he lift-| pen VANDERPOOL and innia de | you?” Winnie's voice was entreat-| stammered, “thinks they've gone to/tone trying to dissipate the sultry} But there was no need to hear the|only in a new problem. Neither N00die Limself, the very fairy the}ed them both into his wheel barrow] cided to chaperone her, accompanted | ing, “TI want to phone upstairs.” some inn-—Mikado inn it sounded | atmosphere words; the voice carried its message | Peggy's mother nor the Hollises were ehildren were hunting. Yes, sir He land saved them. by i i “Sure.” Bobby's cheerful acquies ‘Out on the Merrick road.” Olive's | without them. there, J had taken the Fairy Queen's wand (To Be Continued) THD HARKER They 0 to wm ecauonal [cence to Winnie's intolerable med y's Jooring laugh Jarred her, | level, amused voice making the other] Peggy's face was set, The fight (To Be Continued) 4 he had stolen and turned bimself| (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) dancera, \dling, us Veguy suw it, made Peggy! “Kich! Great! Well, Win, my’ girls appear exaggeratedly what they! in her was aroused, first by Winnie's] (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) ‘ ‘ ‘ 4 penn nents ei ii aia ie al ali