The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 13, 1922, Page 9

ee (Continued From Yesterday) ‘Parney gazed into the face of cas Cullen who stared at him pth = eyes widened, «with «Jaws #3 #9 mopped; the dim, pink Meht upon 4 akin lost a tint as the blood the nt from Lucas Cullen's fe and din PRerney knew that he had recog und faleed the voice nce “Direst voice! someone gasped dit awe; and others whispered ver vere hearing a direct volce)— at's her voloe-—I knew her! » Bennet, Cullen had recognined tt and ‘ dropped down into his seat, ust tontshed; his mother knew the ico; and Jaccard; most certainly i all, Lucas Cullen continued in ; conviction that one dead was le king, na “Lam gong to tell the account mut Lucas Cullen and bis family and r myself and my son,” said the clearly and steadily, “It be pre far back; yet ts brief enough.” Bo far, even to Barney, the voice @emed to proceed from no located @uree, He had belleved his mother went among the velled women he left of the rows where the Bebts had gone out; but such was the quality of her tone that it peemed not enunciated from ono mpot but pervasive thruout the room "The beginning,” continued the voice, “was when I was a child in the Michigan forest. My father was the man whose spirit Just now wa: bere holding the Book of Mormon @hose cabin Lucas Cullen entered to | PS FAS? Fass @varre! with him and kick the 5 Book of Mormon from the door wey. My father was Richard Drane. He cleared a farm in the ods, married a Gentile girl from The path of Lucas Cullen who re @atly had arrived to make his for Tune tn the forest.” The source of the volce was dis: @vered. It came from that dark @ped end of the room where B@r- Bey had supposed his mother to be; as people craned about or to see the speaker, she arose d, having cast off her veil and @ark coat she had worn, she Mood a little apart, dressed all in white. “Mrs. Cullen!—- Agnes! — Mrs. O} frer Cullen—She’s _ here!—-That's How could tt be—" It seemed to Barney that every ne must recognize that she was be- fore them in the bedy; yet so strong Dad been the spell of the illusion Wat a few still saw her as a phan tom. Lucas Cullen did, When she spoke on, Barney rec egnized that her deliberate, careful Words were being recited from re sais within herself repeated Pre Beek Cee o asf 4 nt. “My father,” she sald, “had aban ting from lam? he had home. ded and from surrounding sec- which he bought. You could timber land cheap in those but there were men who ht it foolish to pay the gov- t trees on the state lands. They ught one section and set up a4 i and cut over the square miles around. Lucas Cullen was one these men. MY father bobght the government five hundred of standing timber which he that Lucas Cullen was cut- This coused trouble for Cul- n when my father asked for-a re en his purchase money. “But the Mormon Drane—what Mes Collen told against him— one wife only. She was my iether. Crllen spread about ties One of the Iles, which proved In the e8¢ the most Gangerous, was that the Mormon had lust for the wife @f another lumberman, Henry Lay. lor.” forward and showed herself more in front of his nose. Flap-Doodte there they were up to their necks. They couldn’t wish themaelves out of ft because their magic Green Bhees had come off tn the mud. Under the ground Mr. Pim Pim, the Brownie, was just about to eat his dinner when mddenly the root of his house caved in right on top of his dining-room table. The next thing he knew, two pairs of feet were dangling right in front of his nose and four Green Shoes dropped plump into the soup tureen. Rapids, and was living an hen-| @abdie, useful life when he crossed} ghe—Why did she—How changed} years of waiting for such a/ farming to take out lumber, ) st anything at all for the) As she spoke, Agnes Cullen came} The next thing he knew two pairs of feet were dangling had dumped Nancy | and Nick into # mud puddle, and) THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN PAGE 9 “THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY y “NO-NO 1sAY F . OUR BOARDING HOUSE WELL MAIOR, T WEAR VoU'RE PLAMING "W Stock! MARKET Now « MAYBE You'LL Pass) US OUT A Few NPS THAT'LL PAV FasT JACK = | SOR HOLDER . | 5 aere Tt NEWT SHES | ° AIPELA RAN ©! INVESTING IN SOME FOREIGN SECURITIES @% = “HEY TELL ME Stock 1 tH’ EIFFEL“TOWER |9 5000 CLOTHE! E WEARS SUNDAYS '! ON AMALGAMATED PENCIL? « THAT DROPPED SEVEN POINTS ! = ZAPP RAZOR TOOK A SHARP DECLINE 4 }plamly in the light. No one—not PRETTY HIGH = even ‘Lacan Chllen, in his guit-| || HOW ABOUT FIFTY 1] acoisoLiDTEDA] “aN ewies clouded conaciousness—believed her| || SHARES OF ATLAS/\ pDaRacHuTE A ALPINE BONDS ELEVATOR 2 ARE CLIMBING! Do You S'Pose THAT'LL Go UP 2 & phantom now “Lucas Cullen told the lie about Richard Drane and Laylor’s wife | only to harm the man who had/ made him trouble and to injure a/ / } MAD Qurte A DROP! J rival; for Henry Laylor had built ® mill only a few miles from Cul }len’s near a little place called Gall: | le | ‘either would let the other drive | him away; so they fought til! Menry Laylor was burned out; and, as you jhave Just heard, he was killed. “Lucas Cullen had that fire set; |he met near Galilee a man in his! pay—Qvinian—and sent him to light | jehavings upwind from Laylor’s mill, | When it was known that Laylor kified, Lucas Cutlen said that the man who had ‘set the fire was the Mormon Drane who wanted to/ tl was kill Laylor to get his wife. It was | }a savage, lustful Me of tho sort which excited men lke to belleve; they went to get the Mormon and lynch bim; then Lucas Cullen-part ly t. save Drane from being mur dered, let us think, but partly alse to stop suspicion swinging to his guilty self—made a great play for {Justice and for a trian} for the Mor- {mon and stopped the lynching—and | Perjured Richard Drane into the cel! where he died—my father—for a crime which Lucas Cutlea and his} an Quinlan had done { “Ts tt not #0, Tareas Cullen? Stand up and deny it, if not sor } She stopped and waited for an lewer; Lacas Cullen netther stirred replied. see il belt s % .) = ALTHOUGH MARSHAL OTEY WALKER DENIES HE ISTO. v MARRY ‘THE NEW DRESS MAKER- FOLKS CANNOT FIND ASON FOR HIM TO WEAR. HIS. SUNDAY CLOTHES, D DAY a 4 ee eae "ANY RE AFTER: seas “narnerheana"tit"waaser | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Putting on the Third Degree Me BY ALLMAN ( D1D You Tet. Him EVERY THING You KNEW ABOUT THE MATTER? SURE, HE ASKED ME A THOUSAND QuesTions! HE ASKED ME THINGS | DIDNT KNOW AND PROBABLY NEVER wii. KNow! GOODNIGHT, CAPTAIN GumBooT! GOODNIGHT, CAPTAIN GuMBooT ! y. to eet my father free. She died WILBUR AND DORIS, THIS IS CAPTAIN jwhen I was a young girl, and I F A ° took up the useless attempts. 1) rg ie oa. We Yan EN oe jchanged my name and came to Chi. | GET THIS Bota STRAIGHT ENED UP IN, MRS CUFF, PLEASE! feago to watch Lucas Cutten: he left | Chicago and butlt his house at st. | Florentin; and 1 went to live near there | “That was the summer before his |@mughter married, when he bad her friend, the Marquis de Chenal, as/ his guest at St. Florentin. So De | Chenal happened to meet me one jday; he left Lucas Cullen's house} | Several times after that to find me. | He attracted me, too, I thought he loved me.” Her voice for a momept fatled. | “I told De Chenal why I was as| | 1 was, bow my father was tn pris | on, falsely accused by Lucas Cul len. De Chénal swore to help me; he was hot In my cause,” she com jtinued. “He swore to justify my} jfather and punish Lucas Cullen. First, he would marry me. I loved land believed him; perhaps he be-| Neved himself tn those days; I was! very young and he was young pest —we went to a priest— Barney be: to make his way) toward her. Now she was stripping | her soul before these gaping people, not to punish Lucas Cullen, but to acknowledge him, her son. “Lucas Cullen learned of ft, but gave out that his guest had gone on a hunting trip,” she pressed on. “He followed and finally found us. | | His money, of course, was an tn- |fimence; I had nothing: De Chena! jowed two million francs. Lacas | | Cullen made his escape easy. I was junder ge; legal necensities had| been ignored. He married De Che. | ral to his daughter, gave him money | and packed ‘him off. It waa easter | than before to make me an outcast, ‘The next «pring my son was born.” “Mother! Barney cried, forbid ding her, as he stepped toward her under the Ught. From the other | side of the room, where she bad) been, women called her name. But | ahe did not hear them. “This in my sonf she eried, her hands clasping Barney’ “My son |loat to me that summer of his birth I WILL SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND HAVE THE ANSWER FOR You Tomorrow ! Sin | ee NEXT pors! } WOULD LIKE TO TALK To You PRIVATELY MP DUFF AND THEN | wilt INTERVIEW MRS DUFF - This Isn’t a Soda Parlor, Freckles STEP THIS WAY AND “TELL “HE DocToR, WAT You WANT, ALL Bice MY MANS UAT FOND FILLING Do NOU WANT IN T-T-1-T WANT T SET MY TOOTH _¥- FILLED. as her strength collapred; with the|turned away the flames from the | IN YouR AD IN TODy' because I was made an outenst, but|#id of some woman, unknown to/ town. | ; Zs now—now restored to met" {him, but who lovingly called her| Ho himeeit worked tirelessly tn * SHOW A CGRTAIN COMMODITY IN > bot other thru the door at|and 0 » ” tno boak mit the. room and away|his men were missing and probably | * CIRCUS_ADIGCTIVGS.*))T HAVE Come from the hubbub behind them to|had fallen and were lying overcome + PARED THE COMMODITY WITH THS —— where they could be quiet and by amoke and gases, one = cored a STATEMENTS ; AND FIND THE CATTSCR ate lbrought out one man and returned | or . MISLEADING 4 : CHAPTER XVIIt |for the other and never came back:|] Cc ode — DON'T You REALIZE A week inter Ethel was in Cht-| Days later, when the fire had} By abel ce aa! burnt out, and men were able at - s eago, rejoining Barney and Cousin Agnes and learning that Lucas Cul H lien, Senior, tad mysteriously disap |peared. He had not been seen after leaving the seance Ethel and Barney married etx eke later, at the old house at St. orentin. ‘ Bennet and Julla and thelr mother came up for the service, after which Barney and Ethel went West. Agnes |returned to Chieago soon after the tast to go thru the black, smolder: | ing region, they found his remains | beside those of the man for whom he had returned. Identification was | not easy; but soon the wires carried | to Chicago the information that the} old man had been, beyond doubt, | Lueas Cullen. Bennet brought the message his father at the office. | “He went with his boots on,” said “That's Page 780 WERE THEY 100 BIG TO WHIP? it. But I know you are anxious to hear about the school part of this story which has the question in it about the whipping. Another pioneer at Btetlacoom, who told many stories of early days, used to be a school teacher, not a sheriff. She ts a slender woman now, And would just know, by talking to “Well, Anne graduated when ale was 16, and at 17 she went slip of a you while out after a school. Teachers were sult r ck; and old Sarah| Luke, winking wet cyes. ‘ : ; ‘ Callen. sconce’ "at. ie Hersate how hed lke to go. And her, and by glancing at the books’ scarce in those days and people as wk tee Indians until July | boy, it couldn't be better than that."|{ and magazines on hor table that] heard mighty Mttle about the trials of the school board. Ethel and Barney received news together. sho ta educated, and alive, and In- terested in educational things, you | when, after weeks of drought, the | fires, which had rested for the | | forest | AND % REAUZS THAT IF h community had Its little t Do, oe iM many years, ewept thru the tinder. a, nrg ingame aaron might find yourself wondering| schoot house, butlt of loss or | |THE MERCHANT HAS SOMG TRUTH pt cedteae anh buriek tno tit proudly. “You eee, he can better | how che managed to handle) shakes, and a teacher if It gould POUNDSD INTO HIM HE'S MoRS Uk6LyY house to the ground, So Sarah re-| face them all now!" sturdy boys and girts in those] pay one. to POT. SOM “Yeu,” said Barney; and he knew | treated, perforce, to the home of her early days when things were so S OF (tT iInTo HIS ADS WwW “Lots of them had school only olde and wait, she meant her father and mother | ; = a “Thruout the Western forests also|and his own grandfather of the|| unsettled. three months in the year. And no x — drought prevailed that summer. Book of Mormon, and Laylor and} The little teacher ia married] teacher had a regular boarding Here and there the flames sudden-|Kincheloe and Quinlan of the flam-|[ now, but in the early days she| place, she “boarded around,” that ing toreh. “ft guess,” Ethel aald, “old J. Q can put out his torch. TI can’t think ly burst on two sides of little vil- lages, all but cutting off escape; and in one of these places—so the tele went to the old convent at Stella the girls called her Ix, spent two weeks in one family, then moved on to, the next and “Great gingersnaps?’ cried Mr. Pim Pim, springing up and dusting coom and [himself off with his napkin, “Home-| ned news related—a huge old|that one fine act at the end canj{ Anne. Lots of Seattle girls wont) the families gave that much owed yw mE ge Re tbr ' ys than, atrange to the settlers but|chango one all at once; but it's!] to that old convent, too, the Terry| “board” as part. of the teacher's jearth, and am no en, p Yaga A ret hannened to Preeti Nic + |dominating in manner and piainly| something begun which, over there, girls among them, It was the | ‘pay. Ho he called Kip, his chief helper, |@xpert in ways of fighting forest | must have yrdebal END. = only girls’ boarding school on] ‘There were 48 puplla in Miss and they got ladders and crawled up | fire, Placed himself in command and s : —— || Puget Sound, and girls came to It Aune's first school—43 children from 6 years old up to the big boys, the tallest of whom meas- ured an even six feety And’ he— that tall one, ts both the villian and the hero of this story, (To Be Continued) THE FLAPPER” BY ZOR BECKLEY NO. 12—PEGGY BURLESQUES OLIVE’S DANCE | out of a three-.cornered doorway. | And sure enough! There were the |twins with only their heads sticking jout of the mud, “Well, I declare!” exclaimed Mr. Pim Pim, “This ts a nice pickle to find you in.” Nancy and Nick were so glad to from Port Townsend and Olympla and even from Victoria, “Anne” still has some of the beautiful fancy work she did while she was a pupil in that ‘ey and David saw “ENTE school, and F Coens dl we their old friend that they both ee aie 4 began to talk at once. BPGIN HERE TODAY fextended hands, Kissed them fer — ~e} : : yh, Mr, Pim Pim, we're so glad! ‘The flapper and the professtonal | vently eH wait Peg managed with a few skillful|the erles for an encore by a bur make it ae y Flap-Doodie w ‘ fiehting a I duel with All but Peaey applauded, laughing nation seemed to stiffen Peggy into With your kind per-rmmission Ijtouches to sugsest the Apache | esque of Olive’s Spanish dance, you came, You see Flap-Doodle wan |aancer are tin love duel with | n ded, ld Pe pees. 1 give you.a little jmi-tay. fe The sing the best yo hard to catch and the uutomobiie|yOnRY VANDERPOOL, wealthy young |in exhilaration, Olive's dance was |{e*h Purpose. pr pated beat > he a rps hi woman, Then, dancing with an im] As she copied the whirlwind climas. in the West Hit the Dingle Dell that the old| man, ae the prize, The flapper, {no less heady than the wine. She rose dramattéally, drawing all . ot, bash |aginary partner, she shimmied and |tne apex of burlesque was reached, ot gully pen s low yes by her manner, made possible |dances, tho star of the Ten-Twent-| shook her slim shoulders in a really | qy, i ‘i a b wizard who owned the donkey-—" | PE DEAN, bas fnaisted on leaving| Ilushed and radiant, Uke a young |* y «hire, ‘Senorita, Clive: Bit Bodensin’ hose Paros Thruout her Imitation she had man CVCTY MCMDCE Ferrio wselp?’ cried the Brownle-| ber parents’ spartment during thelr| req rose, her beautifully modeled |by the honey-colored bubibtes in her Int | good burlesque of Olive's dance, aged cleverly to caricature Olive } get amemberZ | man, sticking his tingers into sts absence and going fo © roechout|iody relaxing after tts ndon, blood. Striking an insolent posture, When she pretended to be whirled | gestures of wooing into a erude an | 7 lears, “You're making me so dizzy | WINNIE HOLLIS, her cousin, and Olive looked na must a youthful{one hand defiantly on her hip in] A gasp of amusement and yet un+|by her partner, her head snapped | greedy pursuit. in Se TED HARKER, ‘They are joined by laueen in her first realization of tm.|f00d Imitation | of Olive, Peggy | easiness followed. back ludicrously, as tho it were about} yer final gesture was to dive ag OLAVE BARAMINTO, dancer, and Der) oy conauest, In contrast, Peggy |sowly crushed tho fire of her elg-| Poggy’a thrust was #o bold, no full |to be jerked off her neck. When in|pobby, fling her arms brazenty pUNCAM Lim. Olive brings an exnibt-|woemed a school gir! who had ven. |aret. of wickedness, so clever for an ama. | the climax she was flung to the floor | anout his neck and plant a resound tion dance tom climax by knesiing b*-|tured out of her classroom amiong| “Ladies and gentlemen!" Her |teur, that she attracted as vivid at-|she rose with comic awkwardness, |ing smack upon his lips, which she fore Bobby and extending her arma. voice and manner were now clearly Sg | cars. Ve ptemb | with so much talking that I'm likely { Seattle oy [to fall in the mud, too! Besides I Chamber\ | don’t understand a word of It. i { of i | toh ghot and tella wry” mpg nei ag |ies to bring shovels and dig theae SS | (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) ~ en grownups. ro no neidieisdabicir* goeaeighs: Winnbe’ could have wept for her, {an imitation of Olive's. Pegay had Robby, like the gentleman he was, |so obvious war her defeat, But cour-|been leading lady in the “Wig and leaned forward and, taking Olive'sjaye and @ newly desperate determi-|Mask," her school dramatic club, tention as Olive. Only the latter re- mained outwardly unmoved, save for the slight smile in a corner of her mouth, one hand on an ostentatiously dislo- cated hip, The audience roared in apprecin on. Pegsy went on, She answered repeated again and again to the yells of lwughter, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stax) ©