The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1922, Page 13

cause, while In the British secret servico, he hae earned the murder | hatred of the Bolsheviki, NDRE DUCHEMID summarfty d to leave the country at once, WERTHEIMER, the official who sum to be used on his tra “diamiased” by the government and brings the news, gtves Duchemin a vels, Duchemtn decides that he can encape from the revengeful Bolsheviki by following Stevenson's itiner. fy in his “Travels With a Donkey,” i soon tramping in the Cevennes, the Iittleacnown hills tn the south France. Reaching the deserted city of Montpellier-ie-Vieux, he te sur. a to pee a peasant and @ man dressed as an American soldier duck into ruina, Following the pair, Duchemin finds them attacking MONSIEUR D'AUPRAC, while 4a: ubrac’s flances, MADEMOISELLE D® MONTELAIS; her grandmother, MADAME DE SEVENIB, and the MADAME EVE DE MONTELAIS, the rescue and succeede in killlag orm away, He accompanies the party back to jel do Univers. He ts half in lov: widow of the latter's grandson, look on in horror, Duchemin goes the peasant and driving the man in Nant, where he steps @ with Eve de Monte: at the Grand tats. mysterious party comes to qhe hotel, three men and a beautiful y are obviously Americans, and #0, Duchemin discovers, de Montelata, with whom he has dinner that night « aptacted automobile party, on the pretext that their , folate iteelt upon the French family for the night ee eee gO On with the story (Continued From Yesterday) jw what could be more reason. Duchemin wondered. and con- that, if anything, It would be truth. But he did not pretend imeelf that he wasn't, quite é ity and with no provocation ir, most vilely prejudiced the lot ef them, “But you must know Amertea, to the language as well as you! Duchemin nodded: “But tly, monsieur.” ‘I was wondering . . . somehow) n't get MH out of my head I've you somewhere before today.”) pvt ts quite possible: when one) about the world, one ts) : ? But) Duchemin added, “is) | “I guess," said Phinutt tn a tone! singular | very) T saw you. in's bow signified that he content to let it go at that. wer, Monk was signalitng to it with his expressive eye Of negative movements of ber) She was looking directly at Inuit, who, so far ag see, made no sign of any sort. neither spoke nor acted on the) which, indubitably, he bad; ed. On the other hand, it was ts of your New York. ay Peas other.” ie ve been wondering,” Mon admitted, bowing to Eve, “it 3 were possible I could be misied by ® strong resemblance.” Eve turned to him with a look of surprise, “Yes, monsieur?” “It lg many years ago, you were ® young girl then, tf tt was truly you, madame; but I have «a keen eye for beauty, I do not soon forget it I was in the private You must Struther, of Cottier’s, one afternoon, selecting @ trinket with his advice, and——" K “That was my father, monsteur.” “Then it was you, madame; I felt wure of it. You came in unan- Rounced, to see your father, He made me known to you as a friend of his, and requested you to wait adjoining office. But that was hot necessary, I had already made pA — I left aimost imme. ely. you by member?" gee Toa The effort of the memory knitted Eve's brows; but Im the end « “But, one presumes, fn Paria, in some impregnable strong box.” “No madam, here.” “But not here, Madame 4 talais!” To this Eve gave Adena nod and emtile. “But afraid——?* + iy otoonl- ype “Of what, madame? That they) THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE | <2 OA, WAS No @ “e/a 2 = 1 WAS “TH NeW INMATES W-THIS, WIGWAM P iy serH AREN'T You 2s oat ” SHORING UNTIL “TH’ w MY NAME 18 “MIRD ROUND~ SAVY BUSTER” ANT FAT, Tel ME~ You've SAW You “TH! nig BEEN WoRKING “TH! You TURNED oT] | GouUP HERE A LONG Time ~ How's “tH \ HASH IN “THIS CAMP 2 | : | joffice of my friend, Edmund An.| | { Boy STAY AND CLEAN OFP “THE BLACKBOARDS. FOR ME - IF SOMEONE WILL VOLUNTEER, LET HIM HOLD UP HIS HAND! } { } | TABLE |= He's Gor US ALL BY AHERN | ‘)Time, AN! He WAS ON “TH? FLOOR SO _ THE OLD HOME TOWN WHEN THE NEW DRESSMAKER WHO HAD PROMISED To-4} MARRY MARSHAL OTEY WALKER SUDDENLY _ CHANGED HER MIND You DiD “THAT VERY WELL, DANNY ANDI THANK You SO OW THAT'S NOTHIN’= IT WAS PAGE 13 BY STANLEY — HOW DARE You ARREST MY LONG LOST HUSBAND ! DONTCHA EVER DARKEN MY, DOOR AGAIN» = Sewer TEACHER'S Per! t HE STAYED AFTER SCHOOL TO CLEAN THE BLACKBOARD FOR TEACHER ! EASY whe acknowledged the ole be stolen? No. They have bean! . courtesy. MY Possession for years—indecd,| 4 « .) “It may be, monsteur. Dindacne do Sevenin tx too eood,|T shouldbe unhappy, stherwion tor] “Aontecaet! Sinauna’ de 0c hoe toe see sone for timtited my father’s fond-| geciared. “Who would dare attempt i pitas ~ : yd ecm DA for them——and nobody has ever|to burgiarize the Chateau de Mon-/as @ spy, acting independently; and re See Se Aa ee. oer ee] © on AONEle 0 tbat thaen.” leaiaiv? Such a thing was neverlafter the armistice, I have heard, ad with me to Millau tonight) ut what of the affair at Mont-| heard of.” he did well for England in the mat fardiess of the weather. Impor- | Deller the other night?" inquired| «riere ts alwayn tho first time|ter of a bolsheviet conspiracy over despatches concerning my bust./the Comte de Lorgnes—“that ; | ra emai “Wo there: 1 must qom| dle attack upon 'y, terrt-| for everything, Madame,” Monk sug-| there, But not long ago, according % 4 you of which “ vas your|to my information, Monsieur the { ested gently. “I fancy it was y y + them and reply by cable to-| Madame de Sevenie has Just told ua?| first experience of the sort, at Mont-| Lone Wolf resigned from the British without fail. It is really of| Surely you would call that an at-|peilier” secret service and returned to ae stews Se “einen haute “A rascally chauffeur from Parts,| France—doubtiess to resume his old we: @ highway robbery, if youla few low characters of the depart-| practices.” eee se pedmoaeroat [natinas ber) ERG, mionsteur le comte. But even| ment. Since the war things aro not! “Perhaps not,” Duchemin sug-! inks Beet.” mi jemasece we had very as they were.” | gested. “Possibly his reformation) 2 ‘ins me. that mat-| “That t4 the very reason why I| was genuine and lasting.” se ae poner eS if liners alt that T would have minded! suggest, madame——" ‘The Comtesse de Lorgnes laughed} . vivac ne. Were here, in a safe piace.”| “But, monsieur, I assure you all/that laugh of light derision which years before the war—this Mon-| |sieur Michael Latyard, Then he Bevenie| disappeared. It was rumored that the was of good sevice to the allies) — AND CHRIS CamGe OVER In THE APUERNOON. YCAM, AND OH, BOY, MAY BG THINGS WASN'T UvGLYS BY THE WAY, T Dipn’rt * Tect. You, ABouT OF BAS Clelan SE rage (91 CAROLINE GIRLOCH CHAPTER 3. catch him. Ho was perfectly “Tt was slow progréas,” Mrs.| possessed to dart off into any ut Gitiesp! went on with her story, | tle by-path on the way. Just discovered? de TWELVE TOES COMES Light Fingers was the tricky lit- fairy who had stolen the Fairy '* automobile. While rolling along the Milky ‘Way he fell out of the machine and Tolied off, down to the earth. | He got up and rubbed hin head Sand tried to think what had hap- pened. “Oh, 1 know now!” he cried. “It's RHEUMATISM LEAVES YOU FOREVER Sented Uric Acid Deposits Are and Rheumatic Pot- Leave the syatem four Hours. in this country te to every rheumatic full pintqbottle of Allenrbu, the eure conquerer of rheumatism, does show the way to stop the agony, reduce swollen Jrints and do away with even the lightest twinge of rheumatic pain, be will gladly return your money Without comment son Starts Within Twenty Every druggist uthorized to wufferer that } “where the suffer- were intense and where the patient was! of Rochester, B. Y., the discov Allenrhu, who for many rs suffered the wments of acute rheumatiam, de- ren ail sufferers to know that he | oem uot watt « cent of anyenes ‘ vely “do you know what I have! You and Madame! talais ate compatriots. she! “Nevertheless,” said Monk: “it you will permit me to offer a word of advice—I think you are very un. ‘0 LIGHT FINGERS’ AID the Twins! The last thing I saw before I fell out of the sky was the Twins hopping into the automobile and driving off. “First thing you know they'll be [back at the Fairy Queen's Palace in Fairyland and then won't I catch it, tho! “I stole the automobile for Twelve Toes, the Sorcerer, who wanted it dreadfully, and now I've got to go and tell him that I lost it, Oh me, oh my! I bet he'll turn me into a worm or something, he'll be ao mad.” Light Fingers went slowly, ever so slowly, to the cave where Twelve Toes lived, his head down and his finger in his mouth. “Now what've you been doing?’ demanded Twelve Toes, striding out of his cave and looking as cross as a hungry bear, “Where's that magico automobile I sent you aft ie Then light Fingers had to tell him the whole thing, how he'd falien out of the automobile and how I Nancy and Nick had jumped in and turned the little knob on the whirlt gig between the Sigamacrank and the thingumabob and driven away. stormed Twelv You're a clurnsy fellow, But it’s not too late © met it back. Here's a magic bean tke the one Jack the Giant Killer planted. “See, now I'll plant it! There, it's growing already. Soon It will reach the «ky. Now you climb up and |chase those Twins as fast as you (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) my life I have lived at Montalais Monsieu® ie cufe will tell you T know every face hereabouts. Ani I know that these poor country folk, these good-natured dolta of peasants have not the imagination, much lens the courage-——” “Hut what of criminals from out- mide, from the great citien, from London and Paris and Berlin? They have the imagination, the courage, the skill; and if they ever get wind of the fortune Madame de Montalals keeps locked up here . . .” “What of the Lone Wolf?” the Comtesse de Lorgnes added. “I have heard that one is once more in France.” Duchemin blinked incredulously at the speaker, “But when did you hear that, madame la comtesse?” “Quite recently, monsieur.” “I had understood that the mon sisur in question had long since re- tured.” * “Only for duration of the war, monsieur, I am afraid.” “It is true, according to all re ports,” the Comte de Lorgnes said: “Monsieur Lanyard—that was the name, was it not?” “If memory serves, monsieur lo comte,” Duchemin agreed. “Yes.” The count screwed hin chubby features into a lughable mask of gravity. “Now one remem- bers quite well, He passed as a collector of objets d'art, especially of fine paintings, In Paris, for | “ENTER, TH BY ZOK PEGGY PROVES SI As the two cars started for New York, scarcely a word came from the joccupants of either, At the door of the apartment house in which the Deans and Flollises lived, the goodnights were stiff and brief, Not unt Winni parenls is almost exclustvely the laugh of the Parisienne of a certain cinsw. | Remarking this, Duchemin eyed her | mildly, “Madame Im comtesse Goes not believe that. Well—who knows? \ perhaps she ia right. Possibly she knows more of the nature and hab- its of the criminal classes than we, | sharing aa sho does, no doubt, the lappareritiy accurate and precise sources of Information of monsiour | le comte.” “At all events," Phinult put in |promptly, “lL know what 1 would do if I possessed @ little fortune in Jewels, and learned that @ thief of |the ability of this Lone Wolf was |at large in France: 1 would charter jan armoured train to convey the loot to the strongest safe deposit vault in Paris.” “Thereby advertising to the Lone Wolf the exact location of the jew els, monsieur, so that he might at his leisure make his plans perfect |to burglarize the vaults?” “Is that Mkely?” Phinuit Jeered. Duchemin gave a slight shrug, “One has heard that the fellow had real ability,” he paid. ‘The servant Jean came in, caught the eye af Madame de Sevenie, and | announced: “The chauffeur of Monsieur Monk wishes to say he has completed re- pairs on the automobile, and the rain has ceased.” (Continued Tomorrow) E FLAPPER” BECKLEY 1E’S A GOOD SPORT and Peggy and her mother were in their home did the longesuppressed storm begin. “Winifred,” Mr, Hollis addressed his daughter in the coldly polite tone she had always most feared on the oceasions when even the right- minded Winnie had need of rebuke, ¥ “slower because of the sort of party we were. When they found the wagons impossible, and fath |] er said I musn't even try to ride |] my horse over the dangerous |] ronda, I saw what I had to do. “Sister Magsie was not at all strong, and she had two bables— Billy, a mischievous imp of four, and the baby, about a year and | {] aw nait old. Billy was all his mother could manage, ‘You take him, Maggie,’ I told her, ‘and Wil play squaw with baby, Sho'll love it and It's the only way we'll ever wot up! “So we folded my big shawl corner-wise, set the baby on my back with her fat little legs of the shawl under so, and tied the ends around—so." (Mra. Gil- lesp! showed the kiddies just how it was done.) “And sho was as safe as could be. “Much safer than that rascal of # Billy, running along on his own sturdy legs, Twenty times a day Maggie or I would have to leave the road and go running up some deer trail or woods-path to will you please explain why you spent the night before your examina. | tions tearing around the country in fa disreputable automobile party?” Poor Winnie, exhausted with the night's events, but too good a sport to #eok an any escape by telling |the truth, esmayed att! one last de- |fensive strugsle. “I'm really too tired, father, to put |up @ good defense,” she said. ‘And if 1 fail in tomorrow's exams—to- day's, this afternoon's—I think you'll find it punishment enough for me. Won't you let me go to hed now?" "Tl be the judge of punish- mont—" began Mr, Hollis severely, around my waist, tucked the point | “Knother thing we had to con- tend with was yellow-Jackets, the woods seemed full of them, and as the weather grew warmer and cloner, they would light on us and crawl and sort of stick, just, as flies do when it's going to rain, * “Of course, every day we got a little more foot-sore and tired than we had been the day before, and the whole trip seemed a pec. fectly impossiple undertaking. “We had come to Steilacoom as pioneers. Why hadn't we been satisfied to there things were already getting civi- lized? “We were tolling up the moun- tain, our minds full of thoughts like this, our limbs and backs aching, and our eyes smarting with the smoke-—when we missed Bill ‘O, dearf his mother cried, ‘He's going up that deer trail! and before the words were fairly spoken we heard Billy seream, such @ scream as comes from 4 child only when in agony, “Bick with read we struggled up the narrow trail on a run.” (To Be Continued) stay where | A oiieiieielied ee , ee nnn a a0BF—E—EoeoeooOEeeww | But suddenly Peggy, from where she had stood dejectedly in the far loorner of the big library, advanced |with @ certain firmness of purpose lin her face, She was weary to the last degree of endurance, All herMard, defiant fire wan out, Only a spiritiess de. spair was left, “Listen, Unele Rlaph, ‘Winnie has done nothing you could disap. prove of. Quite the opposite. I called Bob Vanderpool on the tele- phone to take me out for a ride when he—got home, “Winnie tried to stop me and I woulda’t way attention, When Bob- THEY'VE Gor GNOUGH TSUCLER SiN TIS, defiance flickered into life once more at her mother’s stern face, waited in silence the dreaded interview. “Peggy,” Mrs. Dean began, “we came home from the Yacht club at half-past one, I supposed you were asleep, having prepared for today's examinations, ‘ “Instead, imagine my amazement when Mrs’ Vanderpool informed me put her arms round her, over the telephone you had called “You're a good sport, Peg!’ The|up Bobby—but I needn't go over it, two kissed affectionately and Winnie| “It is you who will tell me what went out without further remark,/you mean by this evening’s die leaving Peggy with her mother, reputable doings, Proceed.” Mra. Dean had been coldly await. (To Be Continued) ing the explanation. Peggy, whose (Copyright, 1922, Seattle @tas® by came, Win went along as chape- rone, That's all there Is to it.” Mr. Hollis’ expression changed, “Thanks, Pegey.” His glance sought the eyes of his sister, Pogsy's mother, | “And—forgive me, Win, | {Good night, my dear He kissed | his daughter contritely and, with his | wife, left the room. Winnie went up to her cousin and