The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1922, Page 11

THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN LCAT Figure wiv @ “tH! PAPER HAS A BLOOM ¥ = | LIKE HIM DOIN'"TH' SHOWS = \F WE COVERED “TH’ BURNING OF ROME HE'D RAZZ TH PLOT AN' MOB SCENES —- WHY SAY, OUR ACT GOT A BIGGER HAND THAN “TH! STATUE oF LIBERTY = ~f PAGE 11 OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY STANLEY | 7 LISTEN “> “HIS HOT \ : ’ SEND-OFF “THAT CRITIC GAVE US ON LAST AMIGHT'S SHow CLOSING "THE BILL |” WERE DUGAN & DIXON, SONG AND DANCE COMEDIANS FOLLOWED BY AN EXCELLENT ACT OF “TRAINED SEALS -“THE SEALS WERE REMARKABLE” | THE OLD HOME TOWN 2] “MAT CRITIC IS Zs A HoP- HEAD IL © We JUST WoKe 7) UP FOR“TH’ SEAL AcT™ an! THose SEALS WERE FRANTIC “THINKING “MEY WERE GONNA BE DONE ouUT OF A FISH EVERY TIME HE OPENED His MOUTH TO YAWN ! EE ZZ — a “ | Seated tn an easy chair, tn the m| tempered light of an awninged win- T before him right|@ow which stood open on the ter. ‘ene point of the arc,/ 8686. nothing in her pose—she was left, his finger tips | waiting quietly, hands folded tn her gemething. He thought he/ IAP in her counte ‘stir ta the darkness, a] BONN, in the unlined brow, the ‘stepped forward quick. | #T@V®, serene eyes, lent any color the alr, and caught be. to his apprehensions, And yet in fingers a wisp of some! his heart he had known that he uke ot 4 nothing € hey silk, sheer and glace, would find her thus, and alone, no pe ot ome warme | matter what had happened. . . ; ly he heard a amoth./ Her profound reverie disturbed by Mf anger or alarm, and| %I® Approach, she rose quickly, ad. feaned to split and be|YaNcing to meet Duchemin with iGagmente by a thousand Seth hands offered in wympathy of colored flame. My dear friend! Drutally on the point of) fring-—t* Die head Jerked back, he! He met this with a emiling dental, nair,| “NOt now; at first, yes; but since my bath and coffee, I'm as right Fs i tate You are sut \ And you, mada: “A little weary, monsleur, wise quite well.” Hg — her chair, signing ae. ‘uchemin to take one nearby. in hie bed, oy arde. jile drew it closer before aitting ae cireurnstance he) put mada Send / rather grogstly, tmust De ne emcee” ae mn of the forencon:) “No, meonsieur, I ha | , ,. ve postponed << 1 about oat ses @id the te" a slight pause prefaced one round to the poe | more word—“indefinitely.” ‘Deary with los of slumber.) At this confirmation of the fears wits ecoupted themscives slug) which had been haunting him, p with ape tlinacargeorsing Duchemin nodded slightly. cy eed “But the men sent here by dankers—?* c a “They have not yet arrived; we fy ™ay expect them at any moment other Mustard Seed . ‘had not been called. Then, re-| that noon was the hour eet departure, fear lest she now." without his bon voyage) “1 see," said Duchemin thou: | ieht- bim sharply up ine sitting fully; and then—"May I sumgeat gs Nat aa our conversation ingtish. One ni @utched temples that prom) may overhear . saps bag that Her eyebrows lifted a little, but |ahe adopted the suggestion without) | “Broadly epeaking, everything, 1) fancy. Not in any detail, naturally. But one pute two and two together, ++. I may as well tell you to begin, : I was wakeful last night, and! | AFFAIR WITH "THE NEW DRESS MAKER BLEW UP “THE YOUNGER ELEMENT HAS RUN THE Town \ WE Wap Anicg Game, RCHARLEN BuT (M AFRAID IH Gowe To te LATA Foe Ss 5E He nodded: “Or anybody.” “Then you have guessed—?" ab 38 Lim iiss 5s took It away and put it! jew minutes later, while trying to steal out of the z i é i lt i a g ut bi i SEP i Be HL il i 4 $ § i i t ili sEabage g riveetl i fis 33 bts 83 i : i E ‘ Sax iF “put might not the wind—T | “There was no wind te speak of “And your jewels, of course—T" last night, monsieur, and what fhe pronounced with unbroken when I) awake, pum brond day) notice? that the whieh e@tands in front of my 0 was out of place. The safe built into the solid wall, you! , I got up then, and found &|the safe door an inch or so ajan! the draw.) Whoever opened it last night, closed | | composure: “They have left me nothing, monsteur.” Duchemin groaned and hung his) head. “I knew it! he declared. “No eredit to ma, however, Nat- urally, whoever stole my candle and knocked me out didn’t break into the house for the fun of it... 1 fmagine that, what with finding me insensible, waking Jean up, and get- ting me back in my room, you must | have been away from yours fully half an hour.” | “Quite that long.” “It couldn't have been better ar ranged for the thieves,” he declared. | “It only 1 had stayed in my/| reom—!" “It you had, ft might possibly havo been worse—mightn't it? The burgiar—or burgiars—knew precise ly the location of the safe, They were coming to my freom, and if they had found me awake... I think it quite possible, my friend, that your appetite for cigarets may) have snved my life.” “There's consolation in that,” he! confeaned—"it it's any to you, who] have lost so much.” | “But perhaps I shall get my jew. back.” vhat makes you think that?” | re’s always the chance, isn’t there? And I believe I have a ciue,) there was didn't blow from that) quarter.” Bhe added as Duchemin stepped out thru the window: “Where are you going?” To look for footprints en the tiling. It was misting when I went) to bed, and with the mud—" ' “But there was @ heavy shower just before daybreak, If the thieves had left any tracks on the terrasse, the rain goust have washed them clean away. I ha’ Iready looked.” With a baffied gesture, Duchemin | turned back to her sida | “You have communicated with the Police, of course.” | She interrupted with an accent almost of impatience: “T have told) nobody but you, monsteur, not even my mother and Louise.” “But why?" | “I wanted to consult you first, and...” She broke off sharply to ask; “Yes, Joan: what ts it?” | The footman had en’ to bring her cards over which Eve de Mon-! talais arched rw brows. ; “Show the ntlemen in, please” ‘The servant retired. “The men from Parts, madame?) “Yes, You will excuse me—?" | Duchemin bowed, “But one word: You can hardly do better than put the case tn the hands of these men.) tiemen, They are apt to be of a b las they call ft, an indefinite one good order of Intelligence when ne! Biuster-Guat Land, and if we « |lucky enough to find the Weath man away, we'll take his barrel marked ‘Regular Pourdowns’ and| |dump {t all on the earth. “It will make the roads so skiddy, jthe Twins will mever get back to the Fairy Queen's Palace.” Light Fingers and & cave where Twelve and Light io fairy, were told him how sot the Fairy Comet-Legs |climbed the tree where the star was | tied, and got Then the two of |them whizzed away |toward Blust Mr, Sprin toni 40 & thing,” storm. Teen 8%, masic auto Want tt, but every time Seals st for me some- man, was out, as luck would have ft! Fingers wi } I come with |two bad littie fairies } had overythin, = mpnake it nicely,” \thetr own way, Bid cnt saw the Twins | They got the blg rain-barrel, rolled jit on @ cloud and opened the tap. earth on a nice, every road on earth was as skiddy behind wD te | bay but something to work from, per at fa that?” ; seems to me ft must have) nm what the police at home call was apparently knew the combina-| tion of the safe.” “You mean it wasn’t broken open That signifies nothing. I've ne’ seen yours, but I know so bout safes, and I'll undertake to pen it without the combination in ten minutes.” You, Monsieur Duchemia?” He nodded gloomily. “It's no great trick, once one knows it; with an ordinary safe, that ts, such as lyou're apt to find in @ private home. | of etroumstantial evidence . . . you looked for finger-prints?” iden how the) thieves broke in?” | “peru this very window, I tm-| I was up early) ine, You om tion, dressed hur.) and, in my set (or bad Wek, you might say), and the riedly and came downstairs hours! game of thief-taking, before I usually do, The servants were already up, but hadn't opened the living rooms for the day. ‘I myself found this window unlatched. Down poured the rain and soon| The fastening 19 insecure, you see;! sta it haa been out of order for some) feet, ex- ected to serve bankers, you know.” “I understand,” she replied in her) cool, sweet voloe, She went to moet the men in the middie of the room. Ducbemin lan inside fob’; because whoever it| turned back to the window, where, standing in the recess, with the |light behind him, he could watch and reflect without his interest or motions, becoming too apparent.| And he was grateful for that mo-| ment of respite in which to com- pose and prepare himself, Within an hour, he knew, within a day or so at most, he must be under ar. rest, charged with the theft of the Montalais jewels, dammed by his yesterday as much as by every turn Tho men whom Jean ushered tn proved be, outwardly, what Duchemin had expected: of a class only too well-known to him, plain men of the people, unassuming, Woll-trained and informed, sceptical; not Improbably shrewd hands in the to Saluting Madame de Montalais with calculated ceremony, one act- ing a8 spokesman offered to present their credentials. Duchemin had a rt of aufprise to dissemble when 6 saw the woman wave these nsid course ft will make no difference In |your bill; but I have brought you! here to no purpose, ‘The napessity | for my contemplated journey no longer exists.’ prise to which she put an end with the words, accompanied by a charm toe smile: Jam afraid you will have to make! | allowances for the traditional tncon |pigtency of my sex: I have simply changed my mind.” paid. “I regret very much to| mystified, the men withdrew, Brug” he said;|have inconvenienced you, altho ‘The smile with she dis. rage 196 THE FIRST WEDDING IN ELLENSBURG What Mrs, Gilleept found when come and marry tiem, Dut there sho left the kiddies eagerly walt |was a Sustice of peace, and Mr. ing, she brought back in her two|Splawn telis how be dresed for hands. In one a newspaper, grow: |the wedding, and the bride was ing yellow with age. In the other, | dressed all sweet as a flower, and a narrow, velvet ribbon, white, |the groom was there: proud as with a center atripe of turquolse | could be, and all they needed was blue, its ends finished with athe justice of peace, but he hadn't got Ranbir 5 Philo th ted, up rode Jack was a copy of the Vhile they waited, up rode Jac! Enenwbore Dawn, dated Senuary [Splewn, Just on hie way trom 7, 1903, and on its front page was | Yakima to Kittitas, Jack was a a’ story ef his own experience, |folly cod ' fellow, fond of the Stitten by this same Mr. Splawn, |Becker family, and he went in In whidh he alle of Caroline's |Ninking how glad everybody qwedéing. would be to nee him. From the old pewspaper, and | But, #trangely enough, nobody trom the bride hereeit, the kiddies ooked glad # bit: “There they all " Mee jet, Liney (thgt’s what he calls eg © the ROSEN FS | Careline) in her lovely dress, John , Gileept and hie father, Mr, and The bride's dress you know | land Mrs, Becker, all as quiet as about, for, of course, that dainty Pi Ot 4 everybody gave Mr. white gown was saved for just | EU) ee eee which almoat this very time. And the bride | (remem eas #0 cold. groom camo all the way to Beat-| “14 tried to talk, but they hard- tle to buy his wedding finery. Alyy answerad him, except to say, long Prince Albert coat and troum|"Yes" or “No ers of satiny broadcloth, kid boots ek earatened |e ae and a velvet vent, and this very |SHOUsNt, NOW anne OP make bit of blue and white ribbon which |theae nice people mad? and think of a thing. But I'm sure ey held tn Ret By for Minot popular here. Guess I'll get Ue. out an fast as I can.” But there was to be no crowd of « So yo ted ry rt a pacty (feot: teasing neighbors at this wedding, |bY® but as ho started out to get No, Caroline and her lover want: |, hia Horas, that Jinp of afity ed only Maggie and her husband and the little ones to witness thelr wedding. poing vo he ft Iran out and #aid, ‘Say, it No minister was near enough to (Vo Be Continued) |Splawn, you better hang around. ‘They's going to be a wedding Si cdhathatielhederemmanmnseemansnsceteneeentl ee here today. Liney and John are missed them Mogered, delightful and enigmatic, as Eve recognized the moved to remonstrate with her, “Madame!” he cried in a low voice of wonder and protest—"why did you do that? Why let them go without telling them—?" “I must have had a reason, don't you think, Monsieur Duchemin?’ “I don’t understand you, madame, You treat the loss of jewels as tf it must be a secret private to our solves, to you and to me! “Possibly that is my wish, mon- sleur,” Ho gave a gesture of be- Wilderment, “erhaps,” she con. There were expressions of aur. Frankly, messteurs, I There was nothing more to be Openly more than a little WAITING YOY CAN We'RS INVITED To TAS JONGS PARTY TONIGHT. ARS. TRUS, Wr BE CLAD Go, L UNDGESTANP THEY'RS Sone ito HANG SOMG@ GOOD; OLD> FASHIONGD KISSING GAMES. 7 HELLO !- Hacto! IDGNcS ¥ iS (8 MRS. CRUE, MRs. JONES’ OH, HGiLo, Mees. JONES. UM AWFULLY Some BUT JusT AT THS Last NOMGNT SOmMe= THING HAS WTGRFEReD AND WS CAN'T SSIGLY GET TO THS PARTY. tinued, meeting his blank stare with eyes in which amusement gave ol | stupefaction with which Duchemin| piace to a look almost apologetic yet utterly kind—“perhaps I have more faith In you...” Duchemin bowed his head over hands so tightly knitted that the knuckles wore white with strain. "You would not have faith,’ said in alow voloe, “if you knew She Interrupted in a gentle voice: “Are you sure?” ‘What I must tell you!” “My friend,” she said: “tell mo nothing that would distress you. AWEULLY, == N= struggle going on within him was only too plainly betrayed by en- gorged veins upon his forehead and exceeding pallor of countenanes. “If you had told those detectives,” he sald at length, without looking up, “you must have known very soon, They must have found me gut without too much dela, And who in the world would lieve anybody else guilty when they learned that Andre Duchemin, your suest for three weeks, was only an alias for Michnel Lanyard, other wise the Lone Wolf?” s roe