The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1922, Page 13

fHE SEATTLY STA BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN HMMS “This \S WHAT You CALL A REAL PAPERS ABOUT MFI =) | SCRAP- Book] = | 1M A FAVORITE WITH"TH’ "KID PORTLAND Is } SPORT EDS BECAUSE oF | | TRAINING HARD For! pas Be MY MODEGTY™~ I DON‘T His Bour with GUY SPUN WORK A FAST CHIN ABouT]| “TONY CANOE; Him FoR A MYSELF AN “THATS WHY AN GAYS WE WILL GNIFE OF ERD —FOLDING 'S BLAU TOGRAPH 2 LA Because, while in the British secret hatred of the Bol tki, DRE DUCHEMIN Is summarily “@iamtesed” by the government and Hey LIKE ME Look For ret SMELLING i to leave the try at = SWRERTHEIMER, the official who brings the news, gives Duchemin a TH OWE WHERE t PUT ROUND "= SALTS, EH? dsome sum to be used on his travels, Duchemin decides that he can , encape from the revengeful Bolsheviki by following Stevenson's itiner SAN, THATS fy in hie “Travels With a Donkey.” FINE w | He ts soon tramp! in the Cevennes, the ittle-known hills In the south France, Reaching the deserted city of Montpellierte-Viewx, he is sur d to see vA peasant and a marhdressed as an American soldier duck into rutna, | Following the pair, Duchemin finds them attacking <éo SIEUR D'AUBRAC, while d'Aubrac’s fiancee, ‘ DEMOISELLE DE MONTELAIS; her grandmoth: DAME DE SEVENIBE, and the widow of the latter's grandson, DAME EVE DE MONTELAIS, look on tn horror. Duchemin goes ‘the rescue and succeeds in Killing the peasant and driving the man fn 2 away. | I accompanies the party back to Nant, where he stops at the Grand ‘ de Univers. He ts half in love with Eve de Montelals. | A mysterious party comes to the hotel, three men and a beautiful are obviously Americans, and #0, Duchemin discovers, is the lovely de Montelais, with whom he has dinner that night @ automobile party, on the pretext that their machine has broken folsts itself upon the French family for the night | © Members of the party exhibit great curiosity concerning the famous col jon of emeraids Eve de Montelais has inherited trom her father, and ‘faution her against “The Lone Wolf.” | Duchemin trudges back to Nant, brooding over the problem of discovering | . anyone should have attempted to fasten upon him suspicion of iden with the late Lone Wolf, Hoe reaches Nant, but finds It necessary to furn back, stopping at La Roque-Suinte Marguerite, where he is served atrocious cider to quench his thirst, Now go on with the story. e & | the way he had come. Half a mile! (Continued From Yesterday) distant he saw the figure of a! MARSHAL CTEY WALKER WAS TO MARRY THE NEW DRESS MAKER Duchemin, however, Fypcoge bs pennant § lowing, the ‘aame road pmo NGTA OF THiS 7 REWARD POSTER®* HE ARRESTEDA é al = seem cml ae rg other to come up, thinking to | Pete chien ge STRANGER. WHO TURNED ouT TO BE THE DRESS MAKERS| | tons of the well path Ps oc ar edon emag erg | LONG LOST HUSBAND -NO WONDER OTEY 1S SORE ams He drank sitting on a bench OUt road and in particular to bis | eite oe ot ee —- ; 7 chances of finding drinkable water | eeaia ene one a he stopped the man ecegged steam ‘douldn't Jeter- tien 3 on upon a rock, iw c patent ennit ateun v0) Tne, 4 conspicuously q chemin was 5 oo ee oe to the|, Duchemin gave an impatient ges UMantness of his surmise, finding|‘W? 8Md moved on. After another BL teas or treet than | mile he glanced overshoulder again. oo pair of eyes set in the iil-| TO? Same peasant occupied the same a ’ oS uauwen ae | Felative distance from him. ‘ tuece |. But if the fellow were following ‘gathered that the dead guide| 4M with @ purpose, he could read enjoyed a fair amount of jocal| {IY lose himself in that wild land] a ly | before Duchemin could run hit While Duchemin drank and|40wn: and if, on the contrary, he 4 and poured over a pocket./ Proved to be only a peaceable way- ee ce of the department, a lout of|f@rer, he was bound to be a dull ‘a lad shambied out of the auberge| COmPAanion on the road, and an un- } a fixed scow! in no degree "*Yory one to boot. So Duchemin wearing by the sight of the cus-| ‘id nothing to discourage his volun. BY ALLMAN THIS IS THE VERY LATEST THING THE TABLE WITH THE CHAIR TO MATCH- IY, GET IT Wee wire THE SOMETHING “TO WORRY THE PRICE 1S RIGHT AND DO "THE WORRYING we ABOUT AS WELL AS 1 KNOW You witt ENoy mr! AFTERWARDS ! SOMETHING To SIT ON~ TWEY WILL \ SHOULD HAVE Yes, BUT 1ST WHAT do You, nn ea MR pin ' HAVE SOME MoRE WHAT? ARE en “THINK, DEAR BAD NEWS FOR WELL,IF You WANT OF THE FUR SALE AND BOUGHT A NEW FoR CoAT! he B2sesisagceehsk 855224 In the dooryard, which was| t#ry shadow; But looking back from gino the stabieyard, the boy ‘caught time to time, never failed to see 3 saddled a dreary animal, appar| Det squat, round-shouldered figure ly @ horse designed by a Gothic/ !" the middie distance of the land-| ‘Erchitect, mounted, and rode off in| **P*, following him with the dog-| the direction of Nant. jmedness of fate. Toward evening, Then Duchemin committed his however, of a sudden—between two! gecond error of judgment, which} #'Ances—the fellow disappeared as “@onsisted in thinking to find better! Completely and mysteriously as it} Siged eccler sir on the heights of the|he hed fallen or dived into an| 3 Larzac, across the river, to-| #¥¢"- eg a shorter way to Nant—| Thus definite mental trritation on the pocket-map as & was added to the physteal discom. Dy-road running in a tolerably di-| forts he suffered. Mor, if anything, FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS A Fertile Brain Has He aa line across the plateau—than|!t was hotter on the high causse = MOM, \F T WU INVITED ‘which followed the windings of| than {it had been in the valley. An : Sous pace SNOUD ‘joreamn. intermittent breeze imitated to 4 % re he crossed the Dour-| vicious perfection draughts from « > pai cy tolled up a sig-aag path cut in| furnace. And if this were a short : face of the frowning cliff,) cut to Nant, the top tn a bath of sweat,| Was gra at down to cool and breathe) Otherwise the journey was not unlike an exaggerated version of; ‘The view was splendid, almost) hia walk from Meyruets to Mont. the climb. Duchemin could see | peliier-ie-Vieux, except that the road miles up and down the valley, clearly marked and he found leas Panorama wildly picturesque and He saw neither lke a rainbow. Across the nor farmateads, and way La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite| found no water. By the middle of @tood out prominently and with)the afternoon his thirst had be guch definition in that clearairthat| come sheer torture. Duchemin identified the figure of} In dusk of evening he stumbied the landlord, standing in the door|down into the valley again and struck the river road about midway between the Chateau de Montai and Nant. At this Junction several dwellings clustered, in that fading light dark masses on either side of) the road. Duchemin noticed a few) shadowy shapes loitering about, but was too far gone in fatigue and) thirst to pay them any heed. Hel his eyes: the pose of a man ing field-giasses. Duchemin wondered if he ought to feel complimented. Then he looked up the valley and saw, far _ a tiny cloud of dust kicked up landed on somebody's head with n/ automobile did not stop, but drove foremost. found himself already closely|Wrenched away, he was over-| With locked wheels to a stop, and Att .| pres " ot of| & volce cried: “Quickly, monsieur, ler @ time something, call it in-| pressed by a number of men, and Whelmed by numbers. The kn ¢ quicklyt’—the voice of Eve de Mont alate bb hey doen: tos saberee, . A by I1| directly at the group and so swiftly by the boy from the auberge, making | had no thought but to stop at resounding thump followed by a ye rectly @ je group and 9 4 on the highway to Nant.| first house and beg a cup Pe: then of pain. Then three men were|that the Mash of the shot was still le its NOT A As he lifted @ hand to knuckle the| STappling with him, two more seek-| vivid in Duchemin’s vision when the| CA * Bac uu door he was attacked. ing to aid them, and another lay|car swept between him and those oa eS” tae found his road, a mere trail of} With no more warning than a|!" the roadway clufehing a fr: others, scattering them like * tracks, and mindful of the|cry, the signal for the onalaught,| ‘red skull and spitting oaths and) chickens, * Grinks to be had tn the| and the sudden scuffiing noise of S*O*"* Simultaneousty the braker bs . Cafe de \'Univers, put his best foot| several pair of feet, he wheeled,| Hlx stock was peized and Set. the dark bulk began to slide o and % a OE uel to the dust, Duchemin underneath, RD / ; hemin over. | r 95 $0 weighed down that he could not} In two bounds Duel rage 1% | for the moment move @ hand to- ey hoe root eae bie pend lie a “AFTER THE FIRE, A STORM" oa atand aped upe a Ss | ning-board and grasped the side, He (Chapter 5) tinct, tmpelied him to look back| struck out at random. His stick, Struggling figures toppled and went Half-stified by the reek of un. i ished’ ech fe heard broken| had one glimpse of the set white “Now, the mountain rain is not} way’ before we should reach the tes face of Eve, en profile, as she bent phrases growled in voices hoarse “ | With eiteet and exahianent |forward, manipulating the gear like any other rain you ever! promised land naw. It doesn't patter down in| “The cattlemen had said that Then the pistol spat again, “The " y= | whit bal Be eas eee Bie ait ite bullet struck him a blow of![ drops, or fall quietly in a heavy| when we crossed the summit we ax WF, |) ) J phe kniter* sickening agony in the side, |] mist; the clouds just seem to open| should reach a beautiful lake the & a) | Struggling madiy, he worked a pPrseir rg Bee an Gey eerie suddenly and spill out floods of | Indians called Keechelus, which oo ge ng 2 footing ere left of strength and will into one water, rivers of It, in solid sheets, | We should have to cross, “But, they told us, ‘you will find there a large raft all ready, ian't solid. use it, and leave ft on the op x ALL WEIVS.-HEARD So PARIS A be a cove! v" ik pot hore, and so bod: om: See eee ene eworytedy | tne neroen from. that aide wil | |] SLAPPING OF OUR WANDS Foe , | bring it back.’ MPRESSIVS EMPHASIS AT THE END ay 4 ee under It was #o drenched by Mort | ““vephat inke,” Mrs, Gilligpt con- ing that we had to craw! out Uke tinued, “was all that they claimed hait-drowned kittens and make a] for jt. You may have seen it roaring campfire and dry our-| yourself; it's spoiled some now by might. One of his assailants howled [aloud and fell back to nurse a« final effort, throwing his body which soak thru everything which breken shin. Two others ecrambied| #cross the door. Ag he fell sprawl} out of the way, leaving one to pin|'® Into the tonneau consciousness him down with knees upon his| ‘parted like @ light withdrawn. — | chest, another to wield the knife, | Sai Staring eyes caught a warning vilt gleam on descending steel, Duche-| In Re Amor Et Al. | min squirmed frantically to one| In the course of two weeks or #0/ |mide, and felt cold metal kiss the} Duchemin was able to navigate & ee a on ve as he sate pene. paneaies annie; a Syrian ofl pnd selves out pear a the raising of we byes a fringe [IMPROVS THS QUALITY OF KYouR SPCSCH vies his clothing, close under the) balcony outside his bes “Wo were uneasy abou |} of gaunt grey firs, their greeness te armpit dows in the Chateau de Montalais, |] any, It isn't the usual treatment, quite washed out, and their limbs || Je% CHANGING YOUR STYCE To SCAPPING | Refore the man with the knife|and even—strictly against orders—~|] qecorded n tonder thing like that, | stife with age, circles it, but you could strike again, Duchemin,| take experimental strolls. I] but she didn’t even sneeze, none] can easily picture it as we saw It, roused to a mightier effort, threw The wound in his side stil! hurt) of us did, came thru It allasif wo} “put the ‘strung raft’ was such off the ruffian on his chest, got} like the very deuce at every ill-con. had had no exposure, a flimsy, wobbly thing I hhgged on his knees and, raining blows! sidered movement; but Duchemin| Ag soon €0 We crowed theetie | my ite butden end-eaid moutly, Light ringers was mamg behind a queer little board right and left as the others closed| was ever the least patient of men} mit, we came into perfectly won| ‘No, I won't go across on that ie. in again, somehow managed to| unless the will that coerced him derful weather—the air cleared| thing. I wouldn't step on it, or cy and Ni hi the [of the sky,” et” Mancy:* scramble to his feet |was his own; constraint to an-i} ang was bracing, the amoke and] trust baby on It for a million dol- | ceangeegendbnigg soi arta gh Ba gral rai fas Fist-work told, For an instant! other's, however reanonaiin, el heat and the yellow jackets evem: | lara. . I'l walk as fares necessary Siding on a merry-go-round and get-|automobile and she'll think we are"? "td auite free, the center of «| Ditn to exaspersiian: so Nowe er ed lef behind and we all took| to get us around the Inke, but I ting the brans ring. never coming.” circle of uncertain Assassins whose) falterings in forbiliies ways Tre} heart and went forward quite! won't go on that refer tq| Little did Nancy muspect, and ittie| OWaraice wave his time to whip| really (as he assured Eve de Mont-|} gaiy, “Ana that'd ew it: Sapbeded They were in the Fairy Queen's | tlie ait Nancy mu A out his pistol. But before he could| alais when, one day, she caught him “But—(tHere always assem to be| that I waiked the rough miles | Magic automobile, rolling along the | c wm, that @ pair of eyes) ieve: it a man was on his back, his| creeping round his room, one hand bute in ploneer tales just when| under fallen loge and boulders Rice, smooth, white Milky Way up|Were watching them. A pair of wrist way seized and the weapon| Pressed against the wall for support, | Marr TT Sawa | aceeuaiiitia. ‘etremink: “with We fn the wky. And let me tell you, |>right, mischievous eyes, belonging |, 4 lithe other to his Maes} in the mature] — Soe *eriewition .nppegr te ave) acres na Gores aad ' |to a bad ttle fairy called Light * ited from his grasp |] been overconm, ever notice?) we | baby on my back | my dears, the Milky Way is the| fairy called Light) 4 ery of triumph was echoed by, Of 4 sop to hin self-respect i nan ona ‘eioke Eragon in’ ae (To Be Continued) | Yery nicest place to ride you can|Fingers. exclamations of alarm as, disarmed,| “You've only got to tell me not) i | fmagine | Yes, sir! Light Fingers was hid- puchemin was again left free, the| to do a thing often enough,” he) —_——_——"* * #1 end | : It is made of stardust mixed with | ing behind @ queer little board house tugs standing back to let the pistol! Commented an she led him back to} t Goud vapor and then rolled flat and | 4nd weeping out at them. He had ao itm work, In that instant a broad! his chair, “to fill me with unholy| man." He accepted a cigaret and] to ourselves, individually, that ‘some-,% Sense of gratification.” Eve/ insecurity, This in the firm belief @nooth by the Moon. @ pocketful of sharp tacks and he! sword of light swung round a near-|donire to do it if I die in the at-) waxed didactic: “The one thing| times makes the game seem worth arched her eyebrows. “] mean, you) that to plead with you long enough “Of course, some books say it's|was going to sprinkle them on the) by corner and smote the group: the| tempt.” lthat the ego can find to reconcile! the scandal,” have shown me that I share at/to adopt this course will result in Made up of stars, Kreat big ones, |toad before the Twins got there, twin, glaring eyes of a motor car| “Isn't that a rather common hu-| it with existence is belief in its own| “Yes; one presumes we all do| least one quality with you: instine-| your going and doing otherwise out but it certainly doesn't look it. He hummed to himself: flooded with blue-white radiance! man fafling?" she asked, wheeling! uniquity.” think that .. tive resentment of the voice of/of sheer .. .” But anyway, that’s where Nancy} ‘tA dicky bird sat on a juniper tree,|that tableau of one man at bay in| the invalid chair thru one of the| “1 don’t think,” #he interrupted! “But no sooner does one get firm. | Teaser. “Perversity, monsieur?” and Nick were riding. Tum dum, te tum dum, te tum the middie of the road, in a ring of| French windows to the balcony, | with a uevere face belied by amused|ly established. in that particular| She pronounced a plaintive “Mon “Humanity, madame!" Home wonderful things grow dum, |merciless enemies, “That's what makes it all seem! eyes, “that sounds quite nice.” phase of self-complacence than| Dieu!” and appealing to heaven for! ye de Montalais laughed the Slongxide of the Milky W There's|'There never was anyone smarter; Duchemin's cry for help was ut-/ #0 unfair,” | niquity? Because it sounds like! along comes Life, grinning like a|compassion declared: “He means charming, low-keyed laugh of a hap. | the Dreamland Tree, and a Christ. than me, tered only an tnstant before his pia-| Smiling, the woman turned the/ iniquity? They are not unrelated.|gamin, and kicks over our pretty | again to wrestle spiritually with me} py diverted woman. Mas Tree, and a Wishing Tree, and| Oh, tum, dum, te tum dum, te/to! exploded in alien hands, The| back of the chair to the brightest] What makes iniquity seem attrac:| house of cards—shows us up to our-/ about the proper disposition of my) “Rut spare yourself, monsieur, T & Peppermint Tree, and a Peanut tum dam." ‘headlights showed him distinctly the|#lare of sunshine, draped a light| tive is as a rule its departure from| selves by revealing our pet, exclu-| Jewels, surrender et: sibdretient 1. wi ae and a Balloon Tree, and a lot; “Hee, hee, hee! Here goes! Now face of the man who fired, the same | Tus over the invalid’s knees, and| the commonplace.” sive idiosyncrasies as simple in “No, madame; pardon, I am con-|as you wish.” rs, |tor nome fun!” And he reached for face of fat features black with soot| Seated herself in a wicker chair,| “But you were saying—?" firmities all mortal flesh ts heir to."| templating @ long series of exhaus-| “Truly? Rather than lsten to my No wonder Nancy and Nick were |the tacks, that he had seen by moonlight at! facing him “Merely it's our personal belief} “Monsieur x cynic. . .” tive arguments designed to prove it| discourse, you actually agree to re- f (To Be Continued) Montpellier-le-Vieux. “Makes all what seem so unfalr?”| that our emotions and sensations| “Madame means obvious, Well:| your duty to leave your ' Jewels] move your jewels to a safe placst® “We'll woon have to go down out| (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) But the bullet went wild, and the| “The indignity of being born hu-jand ways of thought are peculiar] if 1 patter platitudes it is to conceal) where they are, in all their noble (Continued Tomorrow) *