The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1922, Page 9

THE SHAT YALL’ MR. CHAIRMAN, = LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ~ UH-HUM ER-AH @ UNACCUSTOMED AST AM~TO PUBLIC SPEAKING, IT IS WITH A CERTAIN DEGREE OF PRIDE 1 FEEL AT BEING CALLED UPON “To ADDRESS SUCH AN INTELLIGENT GATHERING = UH ~ HUM =~ “TUNING UP WIS CHIN ON A SPEECH HE'S GOING “TO MAKE “TOMORROW NIGHT = L HEARD Him Go “THROUGH ht ONCE BEFORE, AN' SAY, “THAT F\CROWD 16 GONNA LEAVE “TW’ HALL FANS WHILE He's DOING HIS “TURN # T STILL CLAIM WHEN FT COMES TWeRe'LL BE NO WAY OF - STOPPING HIM UNLESS “THEY RING IN A FIRE DRILL FOR “TW’ AUDIENCE ! — WHAT WE NEED ISA MARSHAL .] WHO WILL DOHIS DUTY- AND NOT SOME LOVE SIO< CALF LIKE AUGUST sion % Upurea COULD MAKE LAA Jp, "CHIEF SITTING the Bolsheviki, BULL” GET UP MADRE DUCHENIN is summarily “dimissed” by the government and jaave the country at once, eeeRTBEIMER. the official who brings the news, gives Duchemin « gum to be used on his travels, Duchomin decides that he can from the revengeful Bolsheviki by following Stevenson's {tiner. ith a, Donkey.” nnes, the little-known hills tn the south Reaching the deserted city of Montpeltiente. Vieux, he is sur ‘a peasant and & man dressed as an American soldier duck into the pair, Duchemin finds them attacking IR DAUBRAC, while d’Aubrac's fiancee, FI DE MONTELAIS, her grandmother, DE SEVENIB, and the widow of the latter > EVE DE MONTELAIS, leok on tn horror, wide rescut and succeeds in Killing the peasant and driving the man in away, ‘gecompantes the party back to Nant, where he stops at the Grand de PUnivers. He ts half in love with Eve de Montelain. A mysterious party comes to the hotel, three men and a beautiful ‘ore y Americans, and #0, Duchemin 4tscovera, ts the lovely e with whom he has dinner that night. Bae automodi'e party, on the pretext that thelr machine has broken pen, foists Itself upon the French family for the night. ‘Members of the party exhibit great curiosity concerning the famous co! ‘of emerakis Eve de Montelais has inherited from her father, and wetea her against “The Lone Wolf.” oe trudges back to Nant, brooding over the problem of discovering sty anyone should haw attempted to fasten upon him suspicion of iden Er eith the late Lone Wolf. He reaches Nant, but finds it necessary to Peck, stopping at La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite, where he is served dider to quench bis thirst. continues his journey. As he arrives at a little village he ts ‘pon by a gang of thugs but ts rescued by Eve de Montelais, who in an automobile, As he leaps into the machine he ts ‘wounded by a bullet. . recuperating at the chateau of his French friends, Duchemin ‘Bye to send her Jewels to Paris for safe-keeping. goon with the story. « _y peeing sposed and kept to her room: she From Yesterday) suffered from time to time from eas ‘At the end of that week he left) arrection of the heart, nothing re @ back to his business; nd) markable'in one of her advanced de Montalais replaced bIM/ age and so no excuse for unusual Dochemin's side, where she) misgivings. But the presence of ‘wall ait by the hour reading aloud | the young girl tn some measure. Bg tim tm & voice as coloriess a8) and the emotions of the others in ; personaltty. erthe-| greater, lent the conversation a con ‘ye Duchemin was grateful, and ‘oak the young girl as gulde for the| time salled with d'Artagnan to) and rode with him to- Belle Isle, with him frustrated machinations of overweening| and yawned over the Insuf-/ Virtues of that most precious | | gig ef all romance, Raoul, Vicomte AUNT SARAM PEABODY SAYS MARSHAL) OTEY WALKER COULD HAVE STOPPED Z THE RUNAWAY AND SAVED AUGUST BLOPPs FRONT WINDOW IF HE HAD BEEN ON DUTY. rr “THAT’S THE WAY YouR HARD VI EARNED MONEY GOES ~ LEAVE IT TO A WOMAN “To GET FOOLED — ILL BET SOMEBODY PUTS ONE OVER ON HER. EVERY DAY- SHE'S ALWAYS “BEEFIN’ FOR House MONEY! f WILBUR, BET ME HAVE SOME MONEY~ 1 WANT TO GEi SOMETHING IN THiS LITTLE SToRe BEFORE WE Go home! On! | BELIEVE HE GAVE ME BACK THE WRONG CHANGE! OH, IT'S ALLRIGMT NOW-HE GAVE ME A DOLLAR TOO MUCH, AND HE Toon IT Back! WELL, You GO RIGHT BACK IN THERE AND SHOW HIM VUST WHAT HE GAVE You-Don'T LET THAT CROOK GET cage oie WELL,GO EASY WITH IT = THIS FIVE SPOT 1S attempts at levity could not pre ALL! HAVE! vail The talk languished and re. vived fitfully only when some tndif ferent, impersonal tople offered itself. The weather, for example, enjoyed unwonted vogue, It hap pened to be drizaling; Eve was afraid of @ rainy morrow, She con. fessed to a minor superstition, she did not really like to start a journey im the rain... She amoked only one cigaret with Duchemin in the drawing-room after dinner, then excused herself to walt on Madame de Sevenie and finish her packing. It wi me too, for Duchemin to remember he ‘gi mending all too rapidly; the) game too soon wher the word held for him all the; significance, he assured him. will never be another night .. . “I know, I know; and the know! sht to detect in her attitude/ him @ trace of apprehensive- You tempt me to seek another! | “Don't be absurd.” Hi tit knew, of course; Duchemin at! holding her hand, and » “ pec aa tht was too weil versed in| move to free it, but seeming for Women to Gream he had suc-| getful of it altogether, lingered on. tm keeping his secret from “I shall miss you, monsieur, The intuition of one of thirty.| chateau will seem lonely when I told himself a bit bitterly—| return, I shall feel its loneliness ffaght to know hit well enough| more than I have ever felt it.” this time to know more, that! “And the world, madame,” said not fear he would ever) Duchemin—“the world into which I heart to her. The social must go—it, too, will seem a lonely set their lives apart was|place—a desert, haunted . . ‘Wide to be spanned but by «| “You will soon forget... Cha Of love requited; and be had teau de Montalais.” ‘much humility and naivete of} “Forget! when all I shall Sto presume that such a thing| will be my memories—f’ MRM ever come to pass. And even| “Yes,” she said, “we shall both ‘RB should, there remained the in-| have memories...” And suddenly barrier of her fortune, in| the rich, deep voice quoted in Eng- face of which the Pretensions| lish: “‘Memories like almighty inilesa adventurer could only | wine.’” Sily ... She offered to disengage her hand, ‘Was permitted to be about the | but Duchemin tightened gently the in the afternoon and to dine| pressure of his fingers, bowing over Eve and Louise in the|!t and, as he looked up for her an- shadow-haunt-4 dining) swer, murmuring: ‘With permis Madame de Sevenie was in-|sion?’ She gave the slightest tn PS EMTURES ENE TWINS | clination of her head. His lips! embers glowed, faint under films of touched her hand for a moment;\ash, like an old anger growing cold then he released it. She went swift-| with age | ly to the door, faltered, turned. | ‘The cigareta were not where he “We shall see each other In th) nad expectea to find them, near morning—to say au revoir. With! one end of a certain table, Duche- us, monsieur, it must never be) min put down the candlestick and adieu.” moved toward the other end, dis) She was gone; but she had left! covering the box he sought as soon) Duchemin with a singing heart that|as his back was turned to the light. would not let him sleep when he|tn the same breath this last went! had gone to bed, stared blankly at) out, | the last chapter of Bragelonne for} 31» stood for a moment transfixed | jan hour, and put out his candle. tn astonishment. There were no ‘Till long after midnight he tossed) windows open, no draughts that he| restiensiy, bedevilied alternately by! could feel, nothing to account for melancholy and exhilaration, or lay| the flame expiring as It had, sud-| staring blindly into the darkness, | deny, without one flicker of warn- striving to focus his thoughts upon | ing, An insane thing to happen} the abstract, a hopeless effort, try-/to one, at such an hour, in such fng to think where to co tomorrow,!a piace... | whither to turn bis feet when the| Involuntarily memory harked back | gates of paradise had closed behind/ to the night of his first dinner in him, and knowing {t did not matter,|the chateau, when the shadows had he did not care, that hereafter one) danced so weirdly, and the strange! place and another would be the! notion had gome to him that they| same to him, so that they were not| wore like farhished spectres, greedy |the place of her abode. of the lights, yearning to spring and/ } The chateau was as still as any/ snatch and feed upon them, as leastle of enchantment; only an old en might snatch at chops. clock in the drawing room, two| A mad fancy .. - floors below, toljed the slow hours;| When he turned back to relight and thru the open windows came|the candle, it was gone, the mournful murmur of the river,| At toast he must have been mis- a voice of utter desolation in the|taken as to the exact spot where night. he had placed it, Perplexed, he He heard the clock strike two,|pawed over all that end of the and shortly after, in a fit of ex-|tabie, But no candlestick was there. asperation, thinking to discipline his} Ho straightened up sharply, and) jmind with reading, lghted the|stood quite still, listening. No candle on the bedside stand, found] yound . . . his book, and fumbied vainly in the) His vision spent Itself fruitlessty | little silver casket beside the candle-| against the blackness, which the| jstick for a oigaret. |cloned window draperies rendered Now a sincere smoker can 40! absolute but for those dull, sar without smoking for hours on end,|donic eyes of dying embers. as long as the deprivation ts volun-| In spite of himself he knew a tary. But let him be without the| moment when flesh crawled and the wherewithal to smoke if he have/hair seemed to stir upon the scalp; the mind to, and he must procure! for Duchemin knew he was not lit instantly tho the heavens fall. It|alone; there was something else in was so then with Duchemin, And\the room with him, something what greater folly could there be| nameless, stealthy, silent, sinister; lthan to want a cigaret and do with-! having knowledge of him, where he lout one when there were plenty in| stood and what he was, while he| !the drawing-room, to be had for the! knew nothing of it, only that It taking? was there, keeping surveillance over He rose, him, itself unseen in its cloak of Sea have ar. *& * ———— ES = . VPage 795. THE DANCE AT THORPS' Girts are girls, whether they| a queer little amile all to herself, Ive in 1922, and bob their hair she carefully folded it away, and oth put on the delaine, She had a and wear short skirts, or whether) tougnt in her pretty head about they lived in 1868, and colled thelr| that white dress—a thought and hair in shining braids about their) a dream. ie their skirts} $0 they went to the dance an can bimorpen ag eS got there with all the rest at about full and tong end bilowy. suppertime, And suppertime All girls love pretty frocks and’ meant about dark, not 11 or 12 have “feelings about what toy o'clock. es or jons. Mr. Thorp—the jolly host eer et ee ee served hot roast, and lots of fresh Now, Caroline was a regular girl, and when ft came to getting dressed for the dance at Mr. garden vegetables, and berry ple, then the dishes and tables were cleared away, fresh logs piled on Thorps’ she had to do quite a bit] 127. ine door and windows of thinking, meing to he a big| thrown open, and the dance be- Y ce was Mm gan party, for pioneer days, and, be ‘There nothing stingy about sides, she iked to dr up and look pretty, and specially she liked to look pretty when she was this pioneer host—for picking up his fiddle he crossed his long legs going somewhere with John Gill- ospt. and began to play. Not satisfied with that, as he played he sang, So she spread her two pretty dresses out on the bed and look- all the white keeping time to his i bP ll tune with the steady tap of his ed at them; the sprigged delaine was a soft wool, light in color and Ne! hil , Mat long-booted foot. \ \l ‘This was what he sang: YY | it was becoming. But the other NW dress wns of fine white Victoria ; “Old Molly Har } i ! Stole my mar, I) i : 4 HI lawn, ede with many a. Galaty, | 204 Went the the woods HAT qi! hand-run tuck, and tiny lace SF edged frills, Caroline looked like As fast as she could tar.” All night long they danced, and a flower in it, and she knew tt. Bhe had worn it just once; that all night long he played and sang, and tapped his foot. And in the early dawn John was the day of the big Fourth of | took Caroline home, and T think July celebration on Steilacoom } they, were too happy to feel tired. plains. white dress was needed, She looked at it now, and with (To Be Continued) a AA I ee RE t.. ¢ OH, You've HEARD 4 CoT oe KNoeks FROM OWNGRS, CH t Now ‘vou CAN SAX Nour FECT ove i Wi >». why) PLL My, how he did storm up and down Toes, the Sorcerer, was pretty soon there was a whizzing in when Light Fingers returned {the air, the Fairy Queen’s automo-| Comet-Legs appeared, hia crooked furious! legs wrapped around the star he al- # how he did storm up and|ways rode. be he Tage and stamp his foot| He tied his star to the top of a tree ae his hair and bite his nails|and climbed down. Sash his teeth! “What's wrong?” he asked when Tight Fingers, the bad lttle|he had shaken hands with Twelve | for it wasn't very long till the girdled about hims his trance-hall, a progress so gradual! perception of that other presence who areched for him, didn’t Where to look. He had done Lert he could. Wasn't his fantt that, just at Minute he was going to tacks on the road tn front pm automobile that Nancy were talking to the Fairy w HOMeone grabved him by the 4nd stopped him. try pong he said when Over his rage. Wie ve.” #814 the Sorcerer, “I'l ° oye Comet-Lexs to come and ‘ "OMe E004 advice,” Put two fingers in his mouth Toes, the Sorcerer, and Light Fin- gers, the bad little fairy. “What can 1 do for you?” Twelve Toes answered: “light Fingers here stole the Fairy Queen's automobile for me, and then the Twins, Nancy and Nick, got it back. I sent Light Fin |gers back for it by way of a magic caught him and stopped bim don't know what to do, us?” “Bu | tively. Now Can you h nodded Comet-Legs, poni I've got an idea already.” (To Be Continued) bo he - @ fire whistle, and (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stary ldressing-gown, took up the candle ‘stick, opened his door. The hallway was as empty and silent as -he had expected to find It of disturbing the household, for his \aiippers were of felt and silent and! the stairs were of stone and creak- ess Shielding the candle flame with bean-stalk, but the appletree fairy his hand, and somewhat dazzled by|one pace, then two to one side, the Nght thus cast into his face, he passed the floor on which the three ladies of the chateau had each her separate suite of rooms, and gained the drawing-room as noinelessly as any ghost. He had no fear) darkness, Then with a resolute effort of will he mastered his imakination, reminding himself that spirits gifted jin the matter of moving material objects such as candiesticks, fre- quent only the booths of seance mediumea. Without a sound he stepped back |away from the table.” They were | long strides; when he paused he was j well away from the spot where he had stood when the light was ex tinguished and where, consequently, & hostile move might be expected was little bettered; he did not quite know where he was in relation to the doors and the pieces’ which fur- nished the room, That old-time habit of memorizing the arrange ment of furniture in a room imme- diately on entering it had fatled thru disuse in course of years, He was acquainted with the plot of this drawing-room in a general way but by no means with such accu. racy as was needed to serve him now. So he waited, straining to cheat that opaque pall of night of one recting another old trick, he meas: ured time by pulse-beats, and stood unstirring and all but breathless for threo full minutes, But perceptions stimulated to extra sensibility by apprehenston of danger detected tnothing. And his hearing was so keen, he told himself, no breath could have been drawn in that time without his having knowledge of it. Still, he knew he was, not alone, Sorfewhere in that encompassing murk an allen and inimical intelli. gence skulked, Baffled by powers of patience and little hint as to his whereabouts immobility that mocked his own, he he could have sworn it must be imperceptible, Yet he had a feel- ing, @ suspicion, perhaps merely a fear, that he did not stir a finger without the other's knowledge. A hand extended about a foot encountered the back of an up- holstered chair, which he identified by touch. Assuming the chair to be occupying its usual position, he need only continue in a line par- alle! with the line of its back to find the entrance-ball In about six paces, Within three he stopped dead, a The fire had diod down till only to develop. Otherwise his plight] who had removed the light, Resur-| moved again, edging toward the en-jif paralysed by sudden instinctiv close by, Whether he had drawn near to it, inch by inch, or whether it, see ing him about to make good his escape, had crept up on him, he could not say, Ho only knew that it was there, within arm's-length, waiting, tense, prepared, and some- how deadly in its animosity. Digging the nails deep in the palms of his hands, until the pain relieved his nervous tension, ho waited once more, one minute, two, three. But nothing... é ull (Continued Tomorrow)