The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 12, 1922, Page 11

mae orm ey eM fate Spee Perntien AY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1022. Taal aa Sail “TW ONLY “THING SHE'D PUT HER WE “TOLD Me He WAS GOING “To BUY | A SEAT IN “TH’ BROKER “TODAY, MARTHA MDEAR, aid HE ADVISED ME “TO "TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF “THE INVEST MENTS FOUND IN “THIS. BOOKLET = IF YOU carve To PUT A PART OF YouR CAPTTAL “To WORK &T & GOOD RETURN, I WILL SEE “Tat rr 1S PLACED RIGHT! ui Go Ger FIFTY CENTS FoR You "TO INVEST NTE DRUG STORE FoR SOME BATH GOAD AND SEE War Nou MAKE & Good RETURN! IF) FIND THIS SUSPICIOUS STRANGER IS. | | HAT NOTORIOUS (77 CROOK ~ \LL NAB HIM-GET TH’ REWARD ANDSETTLE DOWN INA HOME OF MY OWN Wa-WA* CAN You |] He's Some IMAGING “THAT } FINANCIER FATHEAD 2 = [| (Continued From Yesterday) TT's ALL HE CAN FIT CHAPTER XVIT. “sty mother!" Barneys ipa} ‘The Engtish medium, Mra, Brand, one a fame to Chicago, “sitting” In pri feemed to himself. “Mothert vate homes of several of the most Yet now he had to know beyond) prominent people of the city and epeculation. He saw that Mrs./demonstrating evidences of com. Wain was just within the door; #o/ munication to the full satiafaction Ye dropped back to her and turned /of the increasing groups of devotees, te her in an appeal which she could/and daily convincing the skeptical get refuse. “She ts my mother?” jof the reality of her powers to “Your mother, sir,” the house|reach the world beyond. Keeper said, “If she calls you in| She established, therefore, most Der sleep, sir—or awake, if she says| ideal conditions for the trial of Dick, she means you, sir, Dick—/ Lucas’ plan to demonstrate the fact you understand jof Agnes Cullen's presence in the “I understand.” Rarney whis-/ realm of the dead, q “You mean she has been| Shortly after Lucag Cullen, asking for met" } Sr, had communicated to his fam: “When she did not know ft, she! ily his decision to attend the “sit- asked for you. “Dick, my baby; my! ting” of Mrs, Brand at Mrs. Stan- boy—Dick,’ she sald this morning. | ton-Pielding’s, Barney reecived by That was why I brought you.” special messenger one of those cards| Barney's eyes dimmed. | which admitted the holder to Mra, “How jong has 7 been tr | Stanton Mielding’s drawing-room be-/ Since the injury, sir, when the) tween 4:30 and 6:90, hip was torpedoed.” With the card came a note en- "What ship?" }Soining him to be present early, to! “The ship that she was going) occupy an inconspicuous position | tack to France on, sir, last Septem-jand particularly to avoid recogni- ber to find you. The Gal * |tlon by the Cullens but to closely “To find met” Barney repeated! observe them Garedly | These directions were not stened, “Yes, str. You see, Mr. Dick,! but Barney was that his moth- she'd just got track of you at last.jer had written thi AN your life, for 23 years, she'd) “You shall hear all—all,” she had Deen searching for you; and then—"| promised him, when she last clasped Mra. Wain stopped. jbim, “all in its proper time, my A SEATIN A aw PE wav! Late in the evening Barney went to Scott street and presented him. elf at the house which was his son, If I tokt you now, I would) spend too much—too much of what) I've kept within me for 20 yedrs.” R-TOWN MARSHAL AND WELL KNOWN) TEY WALKE NOtMELOR TELLS EX JUDGE ADAM HORNBLOWER HIS PLANS— WHO KNOWS: WE MAY HEAR WEDDING BELLS YET appearance at that hour had) of his mother’s handwriting that oo a aroused. “She"-—he hesitated and currences at last favored her, shy | then did not name his mother, wut|had sufficient strength to play her’ DOINGS OF THE DUFFS at fn repeated—“she was gaining strength) part and the time—her time and when I left. | Of course, I under/ his and Lucas Cullen’s—had come.| stand much more than I did this eee | 1 CAME OVER THIS EVENING TO ernie. me et course 5 eet to} t explain for the benefit of thoee! HAVE A CONFIDENTIAL TALK WITH yw everything—everything yOu) who otherwise may find confusion,” YOU TWO CHICKENS -1 WANT YoU ean teil me. aid Mrs. Brand when the seance! To TELL ME THE TRUTH - I'VE “It's always been between her opened, “that when tn the trance 1 ARD A p and him,” the housekeeper iterated appear to be gesierally subject to a| Lapel Baya ie ny one G ? Ll WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT'S 'T ALL ABOUT - mother’s and asked for Mrs. Wain. And he understood that she did not! “Nothing more has happened,)mean solely her strength, “But it Mra. Wain,” Barney said to her at) is almost time!" ence to quiet the alarm which his} Today Barney read in Uhose lines WELL,I'M GLAD YOURE HAPPY AND THAT THERE JS NOTHING TO THIS FALSE RUMOR THATS GOING AROUND - VLL LOOK INTO THE MATTER FURTHER AWD LET YOU KNOW - Goon NIGHT ! BETWEEN THESE YOONG FLAPPERS AND THESS’ OLD HENS You DON'T KNOW WHERE You'RE AT? THEY SAY, WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE'S FIRE,BUT ) DON'T SEE Any! NOW, TELL MB, HAVE. You MAD A TILT LATELY OR ANY LOUD QUARRELING ‘THAT TWE GHBORS MIGHT HAVE OVERHEARD? HAVE YOU BEEN ON SPEAKING TERMS RIGHT ALONGP GOOD NIGKT Vit KEEP mily, “between her and) ‘control’ who styles himself Doctor You PosTeD! fou ! Keppel, whose personality employs j|my material bedy for expression.” | Thereupon servants drew the win- dow biinds and turned on the lights) WHY CERTAINLY! WE NEVER QUARREL DO YO LIKE To KNOW WE, HONEY ? MYSELF, TOM ICANT dope iT ouT! “God?” the housekeeper repeated and lsughed. “The Devil om earth in the ceiling. Bimeelf; Mr. Lucas Cullen, Sr.'| Some profound transformation tn- Don't you see? She's fought him|nuencea Mra. Brand's posture and| Bince she was a child, @ little girl.) her manner of utterance; and, when | air, and he downed her; he die| her lips next moved, her speech in-| graced her and—and she lost you!) dicated the control of a tnarkedly| ‘Then she came here and beat him— beat him—beat him and his family; all of them; she beat them all. But she couldn't find and she couldn't—" the housekeeper stopped. ai | af rf g & if : i 28 Hy An ® d up the approach of the Rush bridge and the driver, disre- garding the danger singals, hurled Bis car thru the barrier and into the river. The bodies were recov. ered; and there followed very fair) mort descriptions of Miss Platt's hushand and the gir! who had been frequent. Y seen with Kincheloe. Att Out flew Nancy and Nick like beans from a bean-shooter Away whizzed the enchanted auto- Mobile with Nancy and Nick inside. You'd never guess that it was dif- ferent from eny other nice, new, | whiny car, but it was different—oh, awfully different. For it wasn’t a really truly automobile at all. was Flap-Doodie, the mischievous fairy, who had changed himself into 80 automobile in order to get rid of Ur Twins. He didn't want ‘em around. And he didn’t want ‘em nebbing, as he called it. He knew they were hunt Ing for the Fairy Queen's wand he had stolen, and that's why he want. senesononcn It} robust, abrupt and masculine seem- | ing personality | “What a cloud of witnesses are! Present! So many come here to; | meet your “T would ike to learn whether communication can be obtained,” ‘| sai@ a smooth, perfectly assured, feminine voice, and Barney saw, not by any motion of her own but by the attention of those seated about ber, that Mra. Lucas Cullen, Jr..| was speaking, “from Mra, Oliver; Cullen—Agnes Cullen—who was lost) last September on the Gailantie and) presumably is dead.” Barney's sinews seemed of them- selves to draw taut. This demand plainly was part of the Cullen plan! which his mother was there to) counter; or rather, ft had been part of Lacas Cullen's scheme. “All the while a spirit has been beside you; a man; a fine-looking| man, middle-aged, with dark hair) nd brows. holds a book in his} hand. It is the Book of Mormon.”|! Evidently the Voice was replying to Mrs, Lucas Cullen, Jr. Others} im the room took this as answer! to her; she so understood it; be } yond any doubt, Lucas Cullen at her right thus received it “He is showing Doctor Keppel an open space outdoors; about it is a/ big woods. He has cleared away | the trees In the space. There ix a woman there; very young; he is/ young too; and very strong. It is! than 40 years ago; more than that, be says. Tt te in Michigan, | visses both of them. You are there; he mays. The young woman bas! you come by; you are young, too; & child; a little girl, he says. He) tai and very «trong. You walk Into the shack, He is showing the in side now; it is very plain; no fur- niture; just a bunk of boards; & table; @ bench of boards. On the table is a book; the Book of Mor mon; you pick it.up; you drop It down and kick It; you kick it out the door. Something happens. Doe tor Keppel gets wondering what; It is confused; he cannot see. He feels | passion; strong anger; hate. Many men come—" The “you” described by the Votce no longer was Mra. Lucas Cullen, |Jr. Clearly it was old Lucas Cul len, htmeeif. If any one had doubt, « glance at old Lucas was quite sufficient to find it confessed; he sat, attempting to appear unmoved, indifferent The Voice, which had halted apoke on. | “Another stands near you. Now |he shows a space with trees about; sreat trees; a forest; men cut some pf the trees where is a steam of water and @ mill. Doctor Keppel feels a vibrating and buzzing; it ts « lumber mill, Over the door ts & sign; Doctor Keppel can read it all now. H. L-A-Y-LOR. H. Lay lor, it says. He nods; yes; it, It looks like long ago; thing there; but many ye ago, Now there is @ mist, It must be smoke; yes; he ways it is smoke. Now Doctor Keppel feels like heat, flames; and much heat; roaring; great flames; a forest fire approach ing the mill. Ho is there and tries to save the mill; he does not to get away; not till too late—" Ssa-a-a-we! One Ts-swe!! RTP me eve new fed to get them away an far an he | could. |. “My?” | cried Nick, “this is fun!’ “Oh, 1 could just ride on forever jand forever and never stop once,” declared Nancy happily Suddenly the automobile gave a jerk and a jump and turned over like @ mud-turtie on ite back. Out flew Nancy and out |Nick lke beans from a | shooter. Plop! Plop! They landed right to- |gether in @ great puddie of squashy imud and annk down so far there |was nothing to be seen of them but |their heads. | “Help! they cried, as soon as they flew bean NO. 11—OLIVE ecaued + ’ | The v that is} try | seaenetsnseseaeneseeneesmet BY ZOE BECKLEY DANCE THAT ENDS WITH) KISS enevenegse @ found their voices. “Help! Heipt’ hi slick with But what do you think, my dears! Pimento Cheese Comfort Baby’s Skin With Cuticura Soap Fragrant Talcum ercharioe Dept. Wasok Mass. The automobile turned back on its wheels and rolled calmly away as tho nothing had happened, never stop- ping even to blow its horn in sym- pathy, Put then that’s not surprising, considering that it had done it all on purpose, No sooner had it turned the corner than the automobile turned into Fiap-Doodie, the milschievous fairy, again. “I hope no one helps those Twins this time!’ he declared. BEGIN HERE TODAY led to a love duet PROGT DRAN, « OLIVE BARAMINTO, who is openly flirting with wi wi kiexs mood. With her com- TED HARKER, fearfully watches Possy’® Bob succumbs to the attractions of Olive. GO ON WITH THE STORY Bobby's honest face showed in pink his pleasure at the Intimacy to ane (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) which he wan being admitted by Olive—Olive, “the Saraminto,” who —full, emphatic, ant~-dominated the silent, darkened lroom. The Voice, which had all but! materialized the presence of the de parted loved ones to many others, was endowing—with all but ma teriality—phantoms of the past for Lucas Cullen “He knows,” sald the Voice, knows that all your life you won dered how much he suffered. When he came over long ago, he thought to try to punish; before he died, he swore to; but over here, he did not He tried to help, instead, the ones who lived to suffer.” Bennet for a while had mpted indifference; but now he abandoned it and, reaching across his mother, he seiged his grandfather's arm “You're sick,” he said, “Come out with me.” it's queer, he thinks,” continued the Voice, “how ail your life you| wondered about him—how long he wuffered and didn’t think about the other at all; the other who didn’t] send the torch.” } “Come,” Bennet commanded, at | most loudly, Barney arose and stepped down the line of chairs. “ © going to stay this out! Lucas gaped up at bim. here?” Barney caught his breath and! glanced toward the medium who was sitting silent in the big chair. | “They have been asking,” he sald] distinctly, “for communication with Mra. Oliver Cullen; can you obtain} wr” | * slowly #ald a con- “lam Agnes | | “TE am trotied, vibrant voice. Cullen; 1" (Concluded Tomorrow) ‘waa billed as a headliner on the Bis | Time. He went to the rack where the phonograph records were. He panned all in favor of a weird Ortental thing to which Olive had danced the |"Apache” with Lee at the studio party where he had first seen her, Duncan Lee pulled an automobile joap deep over his face, took off his collar, tled fn its place a colored silk handkerchief and with an added touch or two became the stage ver sion of the Paris Apache. Olive flung her hair loose, dragged a lock of it over her eyes, hitched her black frock shorter and with a “You ||) ar. ee Geattle _ + Story Fook: Page 779 AND AFTER THAT— The children looked with wide eyed horror at Mr. Judson, when he got to the point in the story where he stumbled over the run- away villaid in the darkening woods, But neither of them ask 4 a question or sald a word, and the story went right on: “Yes, sir,” Mr. Judson was say ing, “there he Iny; on the watch, and ready to shoot the minute I made a move. I think @ man's hand moves quicker than his mind in a case like that, for I surely didn't have time to think what I might do to save my life—-I Just raised the fron bar I had picked up as I left the jail and gave the fellow a sharp crack across the arm. “He dropped the gun. T picked it up and I marched him back to jail so fast I guess he thought I was in a hurry for supper. “The others? Sure the others were caught. We kept right at it till we had them all back fn their cells with their jewelry on.” David giggled, for he knew that by jewelry the old sheriff meant “Some of ‘em didn't like the irons,” Mr, Judson continued, “thought I was harsh and cruel, I wasn't. But I figured that when the state sent me a prisoner, it id it because the man was bad, and dangerous to other folks, and needed to be locked up to keep him out o’ mischief, And as long as barred windows and big doors wouldn't keep ‘em, why—I used the shackles. “Yee, and they sent me prison- ers from as far away as Colville, because they knew I wouldn't let them get loose “T had lots of friends among the Indians in those early days,” the exsheriff said, “and it was an tn. teresting thing to hear them talk about the white men they had come to know, “One day an olf Indian sald to me, ‘Long time ago white man come, He speak true. When white man tell Indian this, Indian knew this going to be. Now, now, all changed. All white men got two mouths; one speak true to his own people; one speak lies to In. dian. Two mouths.’” the heavy tron shackles, | cold, Nec BB ener nar magio change of posture became the mate of Lee. ‘To the nasal strains of the phono- graph, its stealthy glide alternating | with bursts of rage, Lee and Olive) danced the familiar yet never stale | little drama of the underworld—the | slavish wooing by the woman, the slow cruelty of the man, the gusts of sensiious embrace and vio: | wnt flinging of-the woman by the man after the sated kiss. With euch apparent sincerity was | it done that when Lee dashed Olive | to the floor and the girl lay th an instant, seemingly stunned, Bobby Raped to his feet. Bo genuine and spontaneous a re. action was it on his part that when Olive, in time to the music, began to rise, the others—except Peggy— could not help a snicker at his ex- pense, He blushed furiously, Olive was too good an artist to look at him tho she had missed noth. ing. Nor had Pegey. Winnie, herself intent not only on the dramatic performance, but also on the unacted drama in the audi STORG TO GOT A 3MOKS AND FIND THe CCAY Kort JYVST AT HE PROPER DEGRES OF MOISTURG } IT CORTAINLY 1S GRATIFYING BUT WHGN THEY HAND “ou ouT A LING OF SMOKES “THAT ARG AS DRIGO Ovrt AS AN GGYPTLIAN MUMMY THEN You PECE LiKG HANDING! tho her pity was not unmixed with satisfaction that the girl was being punished for her shameless. pursult of Bobby. Winnie clapped enthusiastically when Saraminto and Lee came to their whirlwind finish, “Oh, more-—moref!” she digegarding a savage Dew. Olive kissed her hand gayly, and whispered to Lee to let her dance alone. From the phgpograph rack she chose @ selection and Olive, with professionally skillful touch pleaded, look from |head in abandon, trans: | Four teaspoons she converted int castanets and began the feline, am dulating dance Carmencita oned made famous. With the burst of climax at the finale, Olive flung herself on on¢ knee at Bobby's feet, threw back het her scarlet pe quivering, her arms tensely oub stretched in invitation, It was th¢ perfection of artistic abandonment Even « clod would know enough respond, And Bobby was no clod. (Lo Be © Continged) enea, was sorry for her cousin, !ferred herself into @ Spanish| (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Sta