The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1922, Page 11

EL mm mie NR te i i Rai aN THE OLD HOME TOWN HOLD ER NEWT , SHES AREARIN BY AHERN SAV = WHATS “THAT NEW GUY “KID PORTLAND” TRYING “1D ‘DO +"TURN THIS MILL AITO A “TRAINING STABLE Qe LIGTEN TD HIM= HE'S DOWN W-TH’ CELLAR Now “TRYING “TD RAIGE A BLISTER ON A PUNCHING STEPS on 112 ~ WHY GAN» WHEN Hels mn TH’ RING WE SPENDS HALF OF “TH'"TIME LAYING ON rr! <THaT’s How THEY GOT “T CALLING HIM , A "CAIVAG-BACK DUCK He's ONE OF TH GEST AGTRONOMERS IN “TH! FIGHT GAME = EVERY ROUND HE DIGCOVERS Our oF HI He DOESNT DEPEND ONLY ON “IM! GLOVES. FoR HIS CAKES He HUGS TRUNKS DURING “TW! DAY, AN! ONCE IN AWHILE STEPS ON “TW CANNAS FoR A telono Wo . Joseph Vance International Magazine Company 4S i H oo) pause, while in the British secret servi tred of the Bolsheviki, RE DUCHEMIN ts summarily “diam: to leave the country at once, RTHBIMER, the official who brings the news, «ives Duchemin a Sum to be used on his travels, Thuchemin decides that he can pe from the revengeful Bolshevikt ad following Stevenson's itiner- » he has earned the murder * by the government and his “Travels With a Donkey,” fe soon tramping tn the Cevennes, the fittledenown hills in the south jance, Reaching the deserted city of Montpellierie Vieux, he our. to eee & peasant and a man dressed as an Amertcan soldier duck Into ine. the pair, Duchemtn finds them attacking SIEUR D'AUBRAC, while d'Audrac’s | fiancee, DEMOISELLE DE MONTELAIS; her grandmother, DAME DE &e EB, and the widow of the latter's grandson, AME EVE DE MONTELAIS, look on tn horror, Duchemin goes! Fesoue and succeede in killing the peasant and driving the man in away. Sccompanies the party back to Nant, where he stops at the Grand _ \ de Univers. He ts half tn love with Ive de Montelaia, | ysterfous party comes to the hotel, three men and a beautiful j are obviousty Amertoans, and #0, Duchemin discovers, ts the lovely Montelaia, with whom he has dinner that night. } Automobile party, on the pretext that their machine has broken | foists itself upon the French family fot the night. | Members of the party exhibit great curiosity concerning the famous col- h of emeralds Eve de Montelais has tnherited trom her father, and | on her against “The Lone Wolf.” ‘ Now go on with the story. : history, others fiction: either would de insufferably dull tacking thetr| influence, But they were as much} alike ag 90 many peas, out of their Duchemin took back with him to/ several shells, and the man who saw| ‘Naat, that night. not only monsieur| one inevitably remembered all. pe cure In the hired caieche, but] Setting aside, then, the theory of im plenty for thought, together) positive personal animus, what oth. | “OTEY WALKER COLLAPSED FIVE MINUTES Pica i DRESS MAKER THREW HIM Down, have, AFTER. THE NEW daily: & nebulous notion, which by|er reason could there be for the! | # bad ED THE SUSPICIOUS STRANGER AS, 2 he wok | efte rad / AND CLAIM yes TIMIIIEA taken ings 46 &.fined canvic!| svapleton of \aentity with te in| [im PorTLAND OPENS HER LQNG LosT HUSBAND OFFICE INTHE BASEMENT === - sition, that he had better resign him-| Lone Wolf? . to stop on indefinitely at the; A sinister consideration, if any, Hotel de Univers and « . ./and one, Duchemin suspected, not! ‘what he should see. unconnected with the much-tatked- ‘That fatality on which he had so) about jewels of Madame de Mon ly reflected when acting as|talais, , . mey coachman en route from) But tt wag absurd to believe that tpellierte-Viewx to La Roque-| persons fostering a design euch | Seinte-Marquertte, had him now Dature would so deliberately and} ly by the heels, ay it were his| obviously advertise their purpose! shadow, something as tena-| Cheerfully admitting that he wu to think of such « Duchemin set his mental) alarm for six the following morn- ing, rowe at that hour, and by eight tramped the five miles between BY ALLMAN HELEN,| HADA BOTTLE OF BRANDY HID DOWN IN THIS COAL BIN - DID THOSE COAL DRIVERS TAKE IT? TOM, WE HAD SOME GOOD Luck TODAY! TWAT COAL You ORDERAD SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WAS “ DELIVERED THIS AFTERNOON: 1 GOING “THROUGH WITH IT - IT'S WoRTH ITI THEY SEEMED VERY ) PLEASANT WHEN 4 at the chateae by Mr. his party. ¢ there ha@ been malice tn that, if not t where he dis patched a code telegram te London, requesting any information it might have or be able to obtain concern which per ing Mr. Whitaker Monk of New! the most patient scrutiny. [| York and the several members ot} ‘Now malice without incentive {s| his party; the sald information to| inkabie. But Duchemtn/ de forwarded in code to await th " hin memory tn vain for|aftival of Andre Duchemin at the he could have said or| Hotel du Commerce, Millau, to make anybody desire to| And then, partly to kill time, part. Mt him im the sight of the! !y to get himself in trim for tomor. of the Chateau de Montalais| the attempt so to do had been| a 5ae H BY CONDO reputation m one 7 isfied it should be otherwise Du-| chemin used bitter language in trict confidence with himself, dis. liked his @inner and, after con) ecientiously loathing the sights of; Millau for an hour or two, sought his bed in the devil's own humor. | Tho ho walted till 11 of the fol- lowing forenoon, there wan no sup plementary telegram: London evi @ently meant him to understand sroomed sight—he heard a curious, intermit-| With one re cog tage) little distinetion of manner, | tent rumble on @ steep hillside| Smid vast eplashings, found tts last or acquired, with every ap-| Whose foot was skirted by the road,| Testing place in the river. to the senses and more or less,| "4 sought its cause barely in time| Duchemin moved out of the way : to leap for life out of the path of| of the miniature avalanche that fol ® great boulder that, d! from | lowed, and for some minutes stood | ts Bed, posaibily by met eet de}.| Teviewing with a truculent eye th ‘VE COME Dow HERE D FIND OVT WHY ‘vou SITIN YOUR CaR IN... FRONT OF THIS . APARTMENT HovsSe S'vEé CoT A FRIGND Cvine HERE, THat's Uge, was hurtling downhill with|ffce of the hillside, But nothing y and often dirastrously| uch momentum that it must have| Moved thereon, it was quite bare oft circles of more sedate society,| crushed Duchemin to a pulp haq| 00d cover, little more than «@ slant their portraita In every Salon,| he been leas alert. of naked earth re eae na a ir photographs in every issue of| Striking the road with an impact; m&nywhere with ulders, cousin: fashionable journals. Some made! that left @ deep, saucer.shaped dent,| to that which sought his life—none,/that the Surete in Parts had oom-| abe paring Bb pine ety eeneg 0) org = el pt gr Bie = peed Page 792 agency had moved it, the of Monsieur le ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Rob Barton come from the high skyline of the) and his consort. | CAROLINE GIRLOCH hil; and by the time one could) Inquiry of the administration of (Chapter 4 PLOT—TWELVE TOES PLANS TO WRECK TWINS’ CAR ON MILKY WAY fp of the half-world, fluttered con- climb to this last, Duchemin was) the Hotel de Commerce elicited the : ia daeaeis been sure, there would be nobody there) information that the Monk party) “Ia you ever dream that low jacket; ego . te had stopped there on the night of|[ something horrible wae about to} then the honey yor the storm, doubled back tm the|] get you, and you couldn't run;| it was next thing to being ag bad morning to visit Montpelilerte as tt could possibly be. Vieux, returning for midday éo|| Coulén't even move Mra. see agg hegre Pes NOE Oe Jouner, and had then proceeded for|] Gtllespt asked, when she had 80 Paris, just like any othor well-be-|{ reached that potnt in her story him out of it, and back to the haved company of touriets. |] where uttle Bily’s scream had| Wagon. We had to stop right reached her ears, there and make camp and care for “1 think that best describes the | the boy if we saved his life. For ‘There was nothing more to be! would be eelf-betraying, since Du-| done but go back to Nant and—| way I felt when I tried to run up| Pours he lay, #0 swollen and #0 the trail to Billy, with baby| tortured ft didn’t seem possible ho chemin had no longer any immed!-| what made ft even more disgusting strapped to my back, vines and| Could live. We kept compresses ate intention of moving 6n from|-—nothing to be done thero except) rocks hindering my feet, and my| ®!! over him of cold spring water, Nant; finally, he rather hoped to|, . , walt .. « get news et Millau that would! horoly disgruntled, more than) heart pounding in my breast ti 1 | 894 salaratus, and after a while could scarcely breathe. his healthy blood threw off the ‘atrengthen @ prayer to Eve de Mon-|haif permunded he had staked a) talais to be sensible and remove her|clatm for a mare’snest, he took) jewois to a pince of eafekeeping| the road in the heat of a day even | before it was too late, more oppreastve than its yest Millau, however, disappotnted. At/In the valley of the Dourbie the air “1 think his mother reached him eter seaieas acta aa first. but I don’t think elther the| srioke agnin, but it waa with a ehild or his mother suffered any| very subdued little Billy, who more than I. showed no desire to run away into “Hoe hed run straight tnto a to find. ‘The remainder of the afternoon ‘was wasted utterly on the terrasse ot the Cafe do I'Univers, with the/ chateau ever in view, wishing {t) were convenable to make one's duty call without more Gelay, But it wasn't; not to wait «a decent interval A FRienn, Gu & WeLL, NSS me ONLY’ FRIEND You Have IN OTHIS NEIGNBORHOSD !!! of suffocating heat, Duchemin| miles of tt Duchemin was guilty of | plodded wearily into the Hotel du|two mistakes of desperation. | Comunerce, engaged a room for the In the first Instance he paused tn the end of & 20nile walk on @ day! wns stagnant, lifeless. After eight) |night, and was given a telegram! Ta Roque-Sainte-Marguerite, and forbifiden tratis, It grew to the sky ina ‘ive Toes planted « magic bean a instantly it grew to the sky in jong, strong, green vine exactly the one Jack the Giant Killer bed up. “There now," he said to Tight t “scramble up as fast as you ut walt a minute. Here are very sharp tacks. Put them in Pocket and scatter them along _Milky Way. “When the Twins come along in Me Butomobiie, that I wish to have pmy own—pop! hang!—all their ¢ Will blow up and they will have Phen you jump tn and bring the obile to me at once.” it Fingers grinned. sir! I'll do all you say, air. res anything I like to hear, it's Eblowing up. They make such a hoine.” it Fingers put the tacks in his On4 started to climb. Dean stalk wan high and And pretty soon he'd passed Sule long, strong, green vine Up, he went-—up and up and up. Next he passed the Moon and waved a howdy to Mr. Peerabout, the Moon Man, Up he went—up and up and up, and by and by he came to the Milky . Ho stepped off the magic bean wtatk, which disappeared instantly, |then he stood shading his eyes with |hig hand, and looking this way and | that to see if there was any sign of | the Twins. } By and by he heard a sound, “Gr. ar, gr, chug, chug, chug,” away off in the distance. “Here they come,” he chuckled, nticking his long fingers into his pocket and ptlling out the sharp tacks, “I'll just sprinkle these around now, then walt behind that funny little house I see over there, “When thetr tires blow up the Twins will get out to see what's wrong. Then I'll push them off the Milky Way, and fix the tires, and |take the ma automobile back to Twelve Toes (To Be Continued) 4 Mopyright, 1924, by Seattle Star) from London which rewarded decod jing to some such effect ew thin; “Monk American independent means good repute no Information ag to others have asked Surete con- cerning Lorgnes would give some- thing to know what mischief you are meddling with this trip and why the deuce you must.” Few things are better calculated to, curdle the milk of human kind- |ness than to find that one's fellow. man has meanly contrived to keep “ENTER, THE FLAPPER” BY ZOB BECKLEY & | NO. 24—PEGGY sLEARNS HARD LESSON | Pogry faced her mother, squarely jmesting her eyes. For a moment her pluck and defiance came back in @ nort of last stand, “Mother, you were out-dancing-— having @ wonderful time. And then you went to some inn afterward— we tried to find you. “Here 1 was cooped up in the house on a hot night—cramming for exame—bgred stiff, If a dance is tormented by thirst, refreshed him- self at the auberge where the barouche and guide had been hired} to convey the party from Montalais on to Montpellier, The Jandlord remembered Duchemin and made} believe he didn't, serving the way- farer with a surly grace the only drink he would admit he had to sell, an atroctously acid cider fit to ren- der the last stage of thirst worse than the first. {Continued Tomorrow) good for you, why tan’t it good for me? If ride to an inn ts right for you, why isn't it just as right for mo?" For some moments Mra, Dean pon- dered her daughter and her prob- lem. Then she took Peggy's hands and drew her to a divan. They sat a ttle apart, facing each other soberly. “Perey, 1 have no apologies to make for golng to a dance, i don't W example, yellow jackets’ nest, and the hor rid, poisonous things were sting: Ing him to death, hands, feet, and head, and face and litte bare feet, all up under the loose legs of his ‘wee trousers, inside his blouse, up his sleeves, everywhere they wero crawling and stinging till it peem- ed to us he must die before we could get him free of them, “You know, there are degrees of poison in the flying insects which sting. First is the hornet, that ts a terrible sting; next is the yel- ee eereannnnascenaenasnssssennenktiteiioMaliatallhennsnssmssssrensuemmessse edt mean that T am trying to dodge your charge of showing you a bad It is everybody's duty to keep wholesomely young as long as possible, “If going to dances wil) help do it Tl go to dances. Only remember this, Peggy: When you were a six month-old baby I ate beefsteak with benefit to myself. That doesn't mean beefsteak would have been good for ou.” ( “But I'm old enough now,” broke in Posey rebelliously, “to go to dances—-to enjoy myself.” Mrs, Dean waited unt the mood was spent, “As the climb grew steeper, the heat increased and wo made camp not far from the summit one night, with not @ Mttle dread of the fires which never came very near, but filled the air with so dense a smoke. “About midnight we were wakened by a thunderous roar, and etartled, thought of the fire, but @ cool wind struck our faces, and almost instantly rain began to fall in sheets.” (To Be Continued) “That is not the question, child, I had you taught dancing that you might enjoy yourself—at the proper time. When It was my time to stay at home and take care of you, I did it. Dancing had to wait. Just now your first duty 1s to school and your development. “Your playing truant tonight ts just as wrong as it would have been for me to go off and neglect you when you were a baby and needed me. You are old enough now to be in turn responsible for your duty to yourself. “One more thing, Peggy. You like Bobby, Do you | Lope some day to spon crssonanse toa marry him? Or do you only want to be—his mistress?" Peggy sprang to her feet, her checks flaming, genuin@ly shocked. “Mother” Mrs, Dean nodded, “I'm glad you’ shocked, Pog. It shows me you're not altogether lost to pure purposes and—common sense. I think I can leave the rest to you to think out, “If anything worrles or puzzles you, come to me and I'l) always un- derstand and help you. Now, what 1 want you to tell yourself—after the examinations—is this: To which Bobby, are you appealing—te Bobby caraguneciractive | ttre adventurer? Or to Bobby the man with whom you hope some day to build and work and hope and suf- fer and rejoice and win? “And for whom, if need be, you are willing to give up all the jazz and flapper joys in the world?) Think it over, my little Peg. And now, good night.” She rose and bent swiftly to her daughter. And Peggy, surprising even her self, suddenly broke down, crying and clinging like a little child, to her mother, The End. (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star)