The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1922, Page 11

i’ 4% owen D From Yesterday) was fram for the most part farm and village ed tm atiited folk of the department. There was iva They dared Nowhere in evidence any figure re paturaily, each fear ‘or too much, For! ing | *embling that of an agent de police, Lanyard made inquiry, found that ef that surge of omo, the train was destined for Le Vigan, tho tt had been, In| on bad culm! Vennes, and purchased a ticket for oot between | that point, Aizcussion warning ghost, an tm the eastern slope of the Ce Making himeetf ae comfortable as sealing tts lipe and) might be in a depressingly third eign of ellence rate second clase compartinent must, for the bene | (there was no first class, and the r ta, and talk red bine was far too richly favored pep Uneasy fashion, ee o~ for his etomach) he cultivated a ate «for »|dome as the train pulled out. But, en the morrow./ driven es provincial traing habitual to drive him to Mil-/ ly are, in a high spirit of devil-may- the afternoon rapi@ionre, ita first stop woke him up x fp ft much better afar din. with & series of back-breaking jolts which were translated into jerks @rawing-room. Conscious) when it started on again and fiend. een other and conscipus|ishly retterated at every suapicion “ee emotions = inspired of their igelf, a4 cach fought to mas-|of a way-station bn the course, So by | that he presently abandoned all hope near parting.|of sleep and sought solace tn to th Into the refuge of a dry, bacco and the shifting views afford gool Impersonality. ted nothing of hia| Lam | ed by the windows, Penetrating the upper valley of yware bie failure to do/ the Cernon, the raliroad skirted the be misconstrued, instill an tf possibly unconscious to render the situation @ifioult. The truth was,/ Darely trust himself to eak lest mere words work on his/ Tike tiny streams that sap th of the dike ul it! ‘apd looses the pent fens, past nine, ending @ long! 2 mat forward in his southern boundary of the Causse Laraac, then laboriously olimbed up to the plateau itself; and Lanyard roused to the fact that he was ap- Proaching familiar ground from « new angle: the next stop would be Combe-Redonde, The day was stil! fm tte tnfancy and|when that halt wes mada Aside | trom the station agent, not a soul waited upon the platform, But one or two passengers were set do ir, Reaitated, and covered his and, as the engine began to «nort by Mghting a cigaret. | anew, go now,” he said, puffing | the & man darted from behind ny structure that housed ticketoffice and walting.room, gal her almost tm-|joped heavily across the platform, [and with nothing to spare threw | hiumeelf Into the compartment imme. jong after) diately behind that wherein Lan- —- with: | yant ant alone the ser.) This maneuver was performed so who might / briskly and unexpectedly that Lan. You under-| yard caught barely a glimpse of the siimpes | fellow; but one He Mngered, frown. to convince him he had been wrong | in ensuring that Monsteur Albert nodded hie cigaret. Was enough permission, I wil write Dupont had sneaked back to Paris xen tilmam |? hide from the authorities after | falling to assassinate Andre Duche 1 have anything te re/min more than three weeks ago. | | turned her head ful face to! fim eee her Guttering, heavy but athletic figure so well 5 ied i; k e Ba E b i fl ‘ of | ; i i town iH ebGs a5é may find at rail and : i over—a train epathetic crew sleepy f an ot HG 5 H passengers, wag under scrutiny. 4 gEBE iif, violet Usht) And this without the privilege of of gold, Lan. denouncing the man to the police: @ust and weart. for to do so now would be to en- leagues of heavy mesh tn the toils of the law not inte the sleeping only Albert Dupont, Would-be as of Tournemire. | sassin, station—whose bu- charged with stealing the Montalais such listless re | jowsla. but Andre Duchemin, Lanyard would heave gtren some nowhers| thing for a peep-hole in the parti was | tion, to be able to study the counte and! nance of Dupont unawares that he But he had to a muddy ditch. Swizz! Swump! and Nick skidded right B the road and stuck fast in a) Bay ditch. after that the magio automo Wouldn't move an inch. turned the knob on the between the figamacrank thingumabob this way and 4 did everything he knew Wasn't much, to tell the ‘but it was of no use. I know what to do,” erled @l at once. “Don’t you re- er, Nick? the magic words the Green told us. I'll say them now. wh fo auto, don’t be slow, and I must really go.” tthe auto only shivered and please to hurry, ry Queen will surely All we have to do is! | | |Comet-Legs’ star But never a move 414 it make. “Oh,s goodness’ said Nancy, but she tried « third time: “Magic auto, apit and sputter, And get us out of this old gutter.” But the only reply was a faint whirr, a# tho the poor thing was try ing to tell that it wae all no use, It couldn't move at allt The trouble wan this, Up in the sky in Land, Light Fingers Legs, two bad fairies, my dearw: and Comet had dumped |a barrel of magic rain down on tte | earth and why couldn't go. “Oh, my goodness, look at that, laughed Comet-Lees, peeping down out of the sky. “We'll get that auto- mobile yet.” Then the two of them straddled and rodeo away, right toward the place the Twins were. (To Be Continued) opyright, 1922, by Beattle Star That's why the Twins skidded the magic automobile Bluster-Guat | 'THE SEATT OUR BOARDING HOUSE — MoP- HEADS “HAT Gor “WW LAST MINUTE SKULL FLAGH “IO “TAKE: WH’ WORLD SERIES ~ | ALL WE CAN Do Now 16 HOLD TH’ LINE ALL NIGHT AN'RUGH A BLEACHER SEAT INT’ MORNING » Da VKNowW, THEY Dio TT WA EXPECT You "Wo PUTS “TH! HOOKS IN A GUY FoR Heceoven i ATO! MOTEL THEY BEE YoU A NICKEL For \ BOX OF MATCHES «AN! “WEY AINST MAHOGANY EITHER! = AN! "THIS CHIPPENDALE CRATE 1M SPREADING on COST ME HALF ; 4 i Lu STAR BY AHERN MY PEOPLE ALWAYS PRIDED THEMSELVES BECAUGE THERE WASN! ANY TRACE OF CUCKOO IN“TH’ GENERATIONS OF ANCESTORS, BUT THEY’D LOSE “TH’ SHOUT IF “HEY SAW ME HERE STANDING UP ALL NIGHT"1O WATCH A BALL GAME! Tom Gets an Open | Gv@ss | MADE \ Am ‘ “TWAT SMALL Sreax, PLEASE - content himself with keeping vigil! cept the man at his own valuation jat the windows, making sure that) and give him « piace fn thetr heuse-| Dupont dia not drop off at seme) hold. | one of thoee many waystations| The face of fat festures wee of |whieh the train was #o scrupulous) porcine cast; the forehead low and never to slight, | siantea sharply back into tanta naleur Dupont, however, @i4/0f black hair, the snout long an bal voles di foot out of hie com-| blunt, the lips flabby, the chin re | partment before the end of the run;| treating, the Jowis pendulous; the and then Lanyard, purposely delay-| eves ® pig's, littie, cunning, and pre ling, aw Dupont get down from the|@sceous; the complexion sallow and compartment astern and make for pimpty from unholy living, with an | the booking-office at Le Vigan with-|!ncongruous overlayer of sunburn. out @ giance to right or left—evi-| A type to inspire distrust, one would | Gencing not the remotest interest in| think, at sight; a nature as repel. his late company on the train, but| lant as a enake'é, and ten times as rather @ complete indifference, an|‘eadly; in every line and lineament, absolute easurance that he had|!n every move and gesture, i nothing now to fear, and with this| Apache of the Apaches | | preoccupation of mind #o thoro-| As for the baleful reflections with going that Lanyard was able to| which Dupont was patently con-| edge up behind him, when he paused| cerned to the exclusion of ail con-| at the guichet, and eavesdrop on/ siderations of either surveillance or| his consultation with the clerk of|enyvironment, Lanyard found him-/ the ticket bureau. eelf so inquinitive that he had ney Dupont desired ardently to pro-|@ thought but to follow and study) ceed to Lyons with the least avold-| the fellow till he surprised his se-/ able delay. Under such conditions,|cret, if possible—at least so long acoording to the Indicateur des|an it might seem safe to do #0, Chemins de Fer, his best avaliable) Moreover, nothing could have! route was via Nimos, where the| sulted his own purpose better than next express from Le Vigan made|to proceed to Paris by way of) close connection with a northbound | Lyons. train rapide, due to arrive in Lyons| Nothing hindered the carrying out late in the afternoon, of his design. Still lost in thought ‘There was, however, this @raw-|and inattentive, Dupont entrained back; or so the olerk declared after|for Nimes and at that station a dubious summing up of the dis-| changed to the rapide for Lyonn,| |reputable Dupont ensemble; whereas| where duly at four o'clock—~with) one might travel any class aa far) Lanyard still discreet shadow—he as Nimes, the rapide for Lyons car-| alighted in the Gare rrache. | ried only passengers of the first- Here again fortune favored the clase, voluntary sleuth, The station was But, said Dupont, with other bins-| well thronged, a elreumstance which phemy, all the world knew that the| enabled him to keep inconspiouously sacred rapides had no sacred ao-|oloss to his victim. MFurthermore, commo@ations for sacred passengers) Dupont was obviously looking for of the second and third class, Was| somebody, and #o distracted. Pres- he not the peer of any sacred first-|ently a shabby, furtive little rat of/ class pig that ever traveled by train|a man nudged his elbow, and Du- in France? If not, he proved the) pont followed him to @ corner,| contrary to his.own satisfaction by| where they confabulated Im under-) paying for his ticket from an tm.|tones for many minutes; while Lan-) posing accumulation of Brench yard loitered just outside thelr nor- bank-notes. mal range of vision. An unneoes- Then, with half an hour to walt,| sary precaution: they were unafraid) he lumbered into the buyette and| otf obpervation, interested only in gormed, while Lanyart—having #- (their private concerns, The little cured his own transportation for; man did most of the talking; Du- Lyons by the same route—skulked | pont seeming content with a listen:| in the offing and kept a close eye|ing role, and gratified by what he| on the gourmand, jheard, He nodded frequently, and| | Having eaten feroctousty; Dupont|once or twice a grim smile en came out, slouched into @ seat on| hanced the ugliness of his mouth, bench and, hie thick limbs|smile terrible in ite contained sav-| |aaprawl, consumed olgaret after|agery, fit to make one's blood run cigaret in most absolute abstraction | cold, that oruelly relished in an- of mind. tiolpation the success of some evil Observed thus, off his guard and| scheme. at tolerably close range, with his| Not to be able to hear a word) |tace clean of spot, he projected a| was exasperating to a degree . . | | personality so forbidding that Lan-| The emailer villain produced some. yard marveled at the guilelessness|thing—« slip of paper-from al which mist have influenced the Ia-| waistcoat pocket, and handed it to digs of Chateau de Montalais t ac | hands of the jackal, growled a few sTace wreal & ea ar. od bel C tab HOLD ER NEWT, ES AREARIN AYE NOT GOIN To GET MARRIED ‘SO 1 WONT |= = — MARSHAL OTEY WALKER WHO INTENDED To MARRY THE NEW BEFORE HER LONG DRESS MAKER SCENE, QUIE ing Yes SR- How DO You MIND Your STEAK} * * Page (95 THE FIRST GRADUATE OF OUR UNIVERSITY Thru the beautiful campus of the university, daddy slowly drove the car. David loved that drive because, tho be never told anybody shout It, when he was there he was always seeing him self a grown-up boy with @ cap stuck on at @ rakish angie, a pile of seriouslooking books under one arm, wearing a shortwalsted pincl-back sult, mwinging across the campus with “the other fel- lows.” David was looking forward, but daddy was looking back. “It's come a long, long way tn Jess than 60 years,” he said. “I met the first graduate of this university last week, and she looks scarcely older than 1) graMuated in 1876, the only mem- ber of her class.” “Ie it @ atéry, dad@yT Pessy asked hopefully. “It's a story, al right, Lady bird,” Gatdy answered, “a story which goes so far back that I'm just @ little scary about tackling it for fear I'll leave out a bear or an Indian or something.” fo they all drove to Sumner tho next day and Mra. Wilt, this first graduate of the University of ‘Washington, who used to be little Clara McCarty, told them the story herself. Sho laughed at the dea of mak- fayor, shaking his head repeatedly to the other's recommendations, Of a sudden he ended the argument by thrusting the slip back Into the words of imperative inatruation, jerked his thumb toward the ticket bureau, ar without more ado turned and strode from the termi. nus. Alone, the little man rolled ap- pealing eyes heavenward, Then he} shrug@ed in jon, and trotted over to the guichet. Lanyard, now with no fear of being recognized, ranged alongside and listened openly, Ing a story book out of herself, but by the time Peggy had looked expectantly up into her face for five minutes while David asked something lens than 10 questions to the square minute, she just naturally began, “My mother and father were the real pioneers,” she sald. “My only ‘first’ ts the first diploma you came to hear about. “My mother was Ruth Kin- caide, She was a beautiful girl of 17 when her mother died and her father just felt that he couldn't go on living in the home where everything was associated with her memory. He was a broken- hearted man. “One day he said, ‘Ruth, do you think you could manage with the children if we tried that cross country trip to Oregon? Mnybe in @ new country we could start nd make a home.’ “Now, there were seven chil- dren younger than mother. Think of it! and she had to mother and care for them all, “But they came, came with that first wagon train which crossed Nachos Pass in 1853, moved tnto @ cabin on the river benk and took up a claim right here where Sumner is now. “And things began to happen! (To Be Continued) on the rapide to leave at onetweive in the morning, this lesser rascal had been assigned a certain sleep- ing-car berth. Business of display. ing the tioket: yard ag the object over which the conference had aplit. Now, how. ever, It appeared that a friend was to journey to Paris by the same train, but in another sleeping-car, It was greatly desired by both that they be separated no farther than necessity might dictate, that thin reservation might be exchanged for another in the same carriage with the friend, tit Mi Wdentitied by TAN: of the guighet, ‘Then, as suddenly MENT}! Lost HUSBAND CAME ON THE XM CANCELLED SOME ARRANGEMENTS HE HAD MADE. THAT'S NO ARQvue Use Your REASON 1b! Iv OUGHT To TS AS PLAIN AS DAY TO) ‘ ANY CODY Witt HALE 4 THIMBLE FUL BRAINS |} WELL, OF CouRsE HAO On ( ie Tt Uy Treat MUCH SQAINS I'D BS BRIGHT, Too Ciks Kou ti from the clerk of the ticket bureau. But here ensued inevitably the | violent French altercation between the two human beings on either side ae it had arisen, the squall blew over, an amicable settlement was arrived at, the exchange of reserva. tion wae effected, the small scoun- drei, with ten thousand thanks and profuse assurances of deathless ea- teem, arted grinning. Lanyard secured the rejeoted berth and went about his business profoundly mystified, but not down- Dupont, who examined i with die) Jt seomed that, booked for Faria ‘Thus fag seithous intertuptien| hearted, Beyond shadow of faly doubt Dupont was up to some new devilment, but Lanyard would be surprised if ite nature falled to de- velop on the train or at latest upon its arrival in Paris the next morn- ing. For the present he was weary of the sight of the fat Apache, glad to believe he had seen the last of him for some hours; he had much to do on his own part, nothing less im fact than utterly to ob! te from human ken the personality of Andre Ductiémin. (To Be Continued ‘The first gas street-lamps are said to have beeu used in London in 1802,