The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1922, Page 13

THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOW. \Z Veee WE'RE DON'T BUY “THEM STRANGERS HIRAM « REMEMBE! IN N'YORK, AN! F] we PROMIGED THA WE Jes’ DROVE! NiCE MAN WITH TH’ iN * Do You HONEST BLUE EVES RY STANLEY “MAT PRICE MBANG WE CAN “TAKE “TH’ SEATS HOME WIT US AFTER THh'GAME, Game R= 1 CANT eH?* WHAT KIND KNOW WHERE We'D BUY TH’ MAKE UT AN’ TLL] || AREE THEY,-GILT2-|| THEVS AFEED] | o.oane Rights LET You GUYS | [$0.50 = Vou'ke || STORE WECAN) | pig mH aye You SAY SURE THEY AIN'T [| GET Some HAY SEATS IN TH’ FOR OUR STOCK EXCHANGE? Hoss 2 From Yesterday) comte Was Waiting there to keep a affair involved several pun) Fendexvous, And it you asked him, Tue or he was traveling Nght|LANYArd would confess his firm con. chases; y.| Vietion that the other party to the indeed, having left even his ruck:| rendervous would prove to be the sack at the Chateau de Montalais, | person (or persons) who had effected Nevertheless {t was no later fan/| the burglary at Chateau de Mon seven in the evening when he lett talata, fq room which he had engaged tn Bo he settled to keep an eye on a hotel so pretentious and heavily | GRAB EM OFF % le FOR $Q.50 itty, Nia Monsieur: le comte, and promised himself an interesting evening patronized that he was lost in its) put as time passed it became evt ebb and flow of life, an inconsider.| dent that there had been a hiteh unconsidered bit of Motsam | Somewhere; de Lorgnes was only atte and human, he couldn't rendesvous all and left tt a changed man, . y himself alone, and nobody turned ¢ The pointed beard of Monsleur) uy to help him out, He was fret: 7 Duehemin was no more; anda little) ting when Lanyard first saw him; ; tain, artfully applied, had toned! defore his dinner was half served ® his nerve was giving way, Contin. the tan of ° EN) door only to turn back in disap tweed walking-sult had been re| pointment to his plate. Everlast placed by @ modest and common-|inaly he consulted his watch. His 4 appetite failed, the hand that too ce blue serge, the cap and heavy 5 pla s ° joften carried a glans to his lips brown boots by a straw boater and plain black shoes, the loose-throated| — ee ai ee apat flannel shirt by one of plain linen! not even keep a ent 2 with stift cuffs and a fold collar| surned more matches than tohaces ’ BEY, end neat foulard ti. Bo easily WAS) A heavy aweat bedewed hie fore Madame de Sevente’s Buccaneer met-| head ithe ruddy color of that plump 2. countenance grew sadly faded. the ‘amorphored into the semblance ¢ 7 pinched with worry By nine ‘The papers of Andre Duchemin were | o'clock the man was hag-ridden by Gris black ashes in the fireplace of| fear of the unknown. te tereor ot een ter the wna had just! learning what fault had developed qu . os me te oredi in the calculati ol h oor on. and this last was inclowed in an en-| pee to Came! ene. opnteer velope, to be sent to London by reg-|, Etforta to fix bie mind on an istered post with a covering note evening newspaper failed miserably to request that the unpaid balance, AR¢ this was not for lack of inter eee ee cd in French Lanknotes| eat 18 the news ft published to the to Monsieur Paul Martin, poste re-| itisens of Lyons. For Lanyard had stante, Paris; Paul Martin being the! ¢.°c"* Of the same sheet. and knew fame which appeared on an entirely | *™8t Eve had loyalty kept her prom-| new set of papers of identification| ins, %, Oriel dispatch from Millau! Rew set of papers, of identification |told of the atmultancous disappear Which Lanyant bad thougntfully sejjance of one Andre Duchemin and pus bitate Weaving Lakden. the Jewels of Madame de Montaia! If Lanyard wanted better testi-| sui, Added that the police were al: mony than that suppiled by his bed.| "A4Y Rtive In the cane room mirror to the thoroness of the! length, unable longer to en-| s transformation in his looks, he had Se Growing tension of ansiety “ om Pp Up & pretense of eating, | | Mt unsought, and that twice within] 4 Lorgnes called for his, addition’ an hour. and fled the restaurant, Lanyard The first time was when, leaving! finished his own meal in. bi the hotel to seek the postoffice and dispatch his letter to London, he pre A gl od = cgprresai | found himself suddenly face to face| account at the bureas and hear him with Dupont, who was seated at ®/ instruct a porter to have his lu cafe table near the hotel entrance! gage read: | y for the one-twelve rapide and narrowly scrutinising all WhO) tor Paris. In the meantime, any:| passed in and out; covering this! pogy who might inquire for Moi eceupation with affected interest In| seur ie Comte de Lorgnes shouid | the gossip of his companion, the! be directed to seek him in the cafe.| Mttle rat man of the Gare de Per-| ‘rnither Lanyard dutifully re! ; Tache. paired; and wasted the rest of that} 4 ae yes rencontre, Lanyard kewl evening, which he had thought sew cet ms of doubt; perhaps) would prove so amusing, watching! amr Mant clover as he had) Dupont and company watch de thought himself in, trailing Dupont) Lorgnes, to whom Dupont'e barely | _ ~d Combe-Redonde to) dissermbied interest plainly meant ges t the beady little eyes! nothing at all, but whose mental . ® pig comprehended him in &/ anguish grew to be all but unbear- Blance, and rejected him as of post-\abie. Nor did the quantities of > tively no interest to Albert Dupont, | veeskysoda consumed by the tun- .. sue ete stranger and a cheap| happy nobleman help him bear it, one a t. So he fared serenely! tho undoubtedly he assured himself , en his way, and Dupont gave him| yt aid. 4 __ Bever another thought. By midnight he was more than ‘ ‘ Returning, Lanyard was favored! nalt-tuddied ahd Wholly in despair. 4 E even less attention; an error) Half an hour later he finished his % ¥ MARSHAL OTEY WALKER SS a RECENTLY TURNED DOWN BY =~ . THE NEW DRESS MAKER SPENDS Hou’ LOOKINGAT TIME TABLES AND MAPS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES aAAaanannan eau . WE'D FREEZE ‘T' DEAT. fm judgment which enabled him to| eighth veeakynoda - Femark that Dupont was in an usly| steady but most guinea way: bot temper, sullen and snappy, it might! to the foyer of the hotel f be because of a disappointment of; Immediately Dupont and hie fel- Some sort, possibly in consequence! low, both marked! | low, y the worse for | of the liberal potations indicated by| wear, paid and left the cafe. the tall stack of little saucers at} Lanyard returned to his room to * saree As for the lesser villain, | get a new-beught traveling bag, and) was emp silly with drink. started for the train afoot, a neat! oo — have been giad of @| brown paper parcel under one arm. 0 eavesdrop again upon/On the way he made occasion to those two; but there was no vacant/ cross the Sacne by one of its dozen bridges, and paused in the middie span to meditate upon ¢ ) Bo he reentered the hotel andjwitchery of the night. When ro sought Its restaurant, where the un-| moved on the brown paper parcel J tring Long Arm of Coincidence) was bearing merrily downstream the took him by the hand and led him! mortal remains of Andre Duchemin | to a table immediately adjoining one| that Is to say his discarded clothing, seenotes sactusively by Monsieur le} In the Gare de Perrache Lanyard ae ee. Witnessed ‘ Met Gl eee er iceting tas ee a iftecting farewell! wed in turn: he was able to see) With some editing in the way of oh scllage tie Bagge sodbor wed Ca : een the little man and's,. himself that Dupont had con-| punctuation, it follows } od fn him not the remotest flavor ttl he ‘Aiosbvened thet the ps nen aan trtved Be ba Bentheg ta she oumne| “Tene. Old Beanr—Peseee | adtvinn | [ME Feminiscence, returned divided at-\ not traveling to Paria tat 4 learriage with de Lorgnes; proving! prefecture de Police without reveal-| tention tos soup and the door of| after allt ne wey es tnat mieht.lthat he did not mean to let the your source of information, uni ) the restaurant, which he was watch-| count alone th: Faken eo] Cunt, out of sight, day be w mucrage Merona nengetry ing just as closely and impatiently | much trouble pos cage Ravan boat gs leer dag vrear! (RE? Sk mneung. seagped. vestt oof Te Eeend prpeloarrad jure the change! nie own compartment, in the car! thirty this morning stopped yester- | the main entrance, and apparently; And when Monsieur te Comt lahead, and turned in. A busy day./day Hotel Terminus, Lyons, under With as little reward for his pains.|Lorgnes had wavered thru the o fejand not altogether unprofitable; name of Comte de Lorgnes. Dur But now, Lanyard told himaeit,| way in tow of a neethrs the wate-l whatever expectations had been| ing entire, evening before entraining dias’ baew what bind dragest Dapoot | tor, md Senn =e laden POr-| thwarted in this mild outcome, one) he was shadowed by two Apaches, in such hot haste to Lyons, Some-| away from hi sot pape (lon glare, coe: 4 Ca kicicer stages aR erage SOE Wiid bad toscher eeu, prom itoebec’ one Fig calle sears and/ one would resume the chase @new| pont—probably recent and tempo ii Dee Sebdgranh, that mentions Wisued, ater 's nes’ |, and Lan-land, one rather fancied, learn @ rary alias—booked thru to Paris oc-| te wait, had fol-| geal more. | cupying berth tn same carriage with | BEGINNING WITH THE WEDDING Mrs, Wilt looked as if she was miles to Steilacoom and get it, But he was not of those who sleep! Lorgnes, but detrained Laroche six ae awake at Dijon, at four in the morn-| physical Dupont is here deleted.)| ing, and again at Laroche, about &/ In return for gift of this opportu-| AGIC— N WIZ “tage vrarcs|Quarter after six. There, peering! nity to place Prefecture under obi! — WIZARD COMES, TO, HELP TWINS) out of the window to identity thel gations, plesse do me a service. AS |etation, he was startled to see the! stranger in Paris I crave passion broad, round-ahouldered back of Al-| ately to review Night Life of Gre bert Dupont making away across| City but am naturally timid about the raile—leaving the train! | going about alone after dark, Only It was not feasible to dreas and! society of beautiful, accomplished, pursue, even had it been wise. And) weli.informed and agreeable lady of Lanyard was vexed. Dupont, he| proved discretion can put thor. felt, was hardly playing fair, after! oly at ease. If you can recommend giving one every reason to believe) one such to me by telegraph, stipu he meant to go-thru to Paris, And) jating her amiability must begin to what under heaven did the brute) function this evening, you may de think to accomplish in Laroche?) pend on my not ‘hesitating to ask Was he still after the Comte d@| further favors as occasion may © we would be married in Piero county,’ mother finished. “They like that better, anyway. © much more im: ADVEMTURES |weil on drains. In apite of his @x-|fitteen, murder remaining undiscov-|] not quite sure what to tell and and— OF T a WINS treme fatigue he woke up every) ered till arrival in Paris, [An ad what to leave out after she had| “*And go across the river to <iage the, vapite steppes, . Tie W768 mirehly spestet chem of the <incald the | Bob Moore’s and be married there Clive eT ; the Kincaide family settied on th oor 160 tae ar tar) . e bank of the river, then she said, “Ot course you are too little to IN “THE M SEASON care about that romance, but, as I told you, my mother was a very | Stellacoom w beautiful girl, very beautiful, and‘ portant a town than Seattle, it father was young and strong and | just sounded nicer to go there for fine, and they soon began to love | thelr lense. store long were| “So in January of 1855 they were married and went to house- keeping in their own little log house right across the river from a trip was a trip in this country. | wrandpa’s with a foot-log between, Not oniy were the roads unspeak: | eee ea a ae cunger brothers ably rough and often muddy, but and sisters could run to mother there was #o much rain that tho | 009 Mites aia run to them. { each other, and t planning their wedding! “Even when I was a little girl Se Fe Ow eS Lorgnes? Then the latter must ike) arise, Presume you have heard trees bung full of water all the |“... a ‘ wise have fled the train! Or| your old friend Duchemin, now mint-|J time, and the roads wery so very | (9 4 eu cae A hae KEEP Quiet!!! Yim SITHER Gone TO elma... ling, is suspected of looting jewels narrow that when we rode thru ; pence Ma van | Something sinister in the slant of| of Madame de Montalais, Chateau|} the woods in our uncovered wag: | A0AIs eral gt gars | FINISH MY OWN SENTENCES OR ‘ou ons (that's all we had to ride tn), | the branches would swish against us and shower us with rain drops till often we were soaked even | when it was not actually raining. shoulders, an he van-\qe Montalais, near Millau. He indescribably evil) counts on your discretion to pre: in his furtive yet heavy tread Of ®/ werve secret of his innocence pend beast of prey, struck a thrill of/ing further advices. Paul Martin horror into the mind of Lanyard.|nere stopping Hotel Chatham. He shuddered, and warned himself | toodie-oo M, L.” he must learn to hold his imagina-| 4 telegram trom London ad ‘i He strode up and down in the tree-tops tion in better check |dreseed to M. Paul Martin, Hotel] Tho newspapers of Paris, that! cnatham, Paris, was delivered late! ‘The Green Wizard had given the )Moon-Man, had in his ten and how|Aay, had a sensation that crushed); ym Pare Magic automobile to the Fairy Queen |N# Wked hin eggs for breakfast, and) into insignificance the news from|"” © DF ey. all aboet him \Chateau de Montalais; In ‘a cdn-| Prefecture tipped off. Many the Dupont forests of the Puget Sound coun- try, “But they put no faith in the stories they heard of the Indians planning to make war on the set- “Bo they planned things pretty | tiers and went happily to work carefully. When father got his} porting in their first crop. marriage license he was quite wor “Why should they be afraid? ried. Indians worked for them every “We'll have to get it In Seat-| day, clearing land, and choppine , tle,’ he said, ‘if we are to be mar-| and building and digging; they ried in King’ county, but that ts! were a simple, friendly folk, - He could see as far as the Milky! ch he had occupiea! thanks. Heartfelt regrets poor And when Light Fingers stole tt| Way, of course, and it was he whe|-inne on im hight ‘rapide. from Duchemin’s succers keeping out of|] 40 miles away and the roads are} “But before long they know.” the was #8 mad as anything. sent the Uneasy about him as long as awful. But we could go the 18 (To Be Continued) pple-tree fairy to the sky! Lyons, a man had been found with | #80! It was one of the Fairy Queen’s|in his elevator the time Light Fin-| his throat cut, his clothing ripped to) ® remains at large. Fully appre eounctlors who told him Nancy and | fers tried to throw tacks in front of rags, even his luggage slashed to| Site you cannot trust yourself 1 1 ° Biek had gone to get it back and you |the automobile, ribbon: alone in the dark, Therefore cheer-| promise to ask me to dine the first! obviously exorbitant cost as a post-| What he hoped to accomplish to on hand and eager when Lanyard May be sure the Green Wizard was| Now he was ati on the lookout! Whether thru chance or intention,| fully delegating preservation your| time you came to Paris, Since you) war luxury did nothing to make| night, and for whose accomplish-| strolled into the Ritz on the minute and he saw Light Fingers and every possiifie clue to the victim's Vi'tue while in Paris to Mile, Athe-! jaye it to me, shall we say the| amends for their utter want of per.|ment evening dress was indis-/of their appointment. To the con- He strode up and down in the|Comet-Legs coming after the Twins. |identity was missing nais Reneaux, maiden lady mature| pitz, at halt past seven? Ino sonal feeling. For one needs sym.|pensable. Since Wertheimer had | trary she was all of twenty-five pte where he lived, and smiled a also saw the magic automobile | - - Pvesheg whom Ae oe ik eh your memory for faces is poor—it| pathy in a dress-coat quite as much| passed the word on, the Ty ‘ot minutes late; a clreumatanoe 80 con: mine #kid In the mud and stick there. xu. ROOM OA FOU would my mater, Sh-| has been a long time since we met,/as cloth, the Comte d@ Lergnes woul sistently feminine as to rob their “I know those Twins will get the! “Oh, oh, ob!’ Nancy cried. “Here Athenais ing you enjoyable intellectual eve} hasn't it?—I shall be weartng the| Still, it was a tolerably personable! published to the world in the morn-| meeting of any taint of the extraor orbits back!” he said cheer |Comes thoxe bad fairies, Nick. What| In London, about noon of that) "!ne— W." J oonventional fast black with my) figure that suffered Lanyard's erit-\!mg papers, and by evening the) dinary; they might have Sener y. “They are too smart for any-|shall we do?” + day, & gentleman whom Lanyard It needed receipt of a petit-bleu,| very best ingenue expression; and) teal inspection. And an emergency birds, if they were wise, would be) sweethearts meeting to dine thing! But at the same time I'll keep} “I'll help you," called the Green mott often thought of by the name| while he was dressing for dinner, to| my feather fan will be finme-col-| ix an’ emergency. Those readily sery.|1n full flight. Whereas tontght,/ from jealous or censorious eyes, My eyes open and help ther. A lit. | Wizard, Il throw my enchanted of Wertheimer deciphered a code|cure Lanyard of an attack of pre-| ored. Always to you~ loeable clothes were of more value) While still that poor mutilated body| rather than one of the most useful tle magic might not come amins.” jshoot over you and tYe car, too,and message whose contempt for cus-|monitory shivers brought on by rec-| “ATHENAIS RENWAUX.” | than the most superbly tailored gar-|14y nameless in the morgue . . .| Parisian agents of the British secret -|ments that could possibly have been Mademoiselle Athenais Reneaux! service under orders to put her tal. The Green Wizard was remark-|no one can see you then, for every-\tomary telegraphic brevity waw/ ollection of the awful truth that one| Now that sounded more like . . able. Tle had eyes that could aee|thing it touches becomes invisible. {nae characteriatic of the sender,\is never really safe in trifling with| Only it was @ bit debilitating to| made up for him in any reasonable| lived up in most gratifying fashion|@nts at the disposition of @ man takin gy %* far as the Moon—and beyond.| it all happenéd just am he said, voucher for his bona|an Englishman's sense of humor, |contemplate, as the mirror insisted] length of time, For tomorrow night|to the tone of her note, In the| Who was to her nothing more than gee exactly how many spoon. (To Be Continued) fides than the initials appended in| Dear monsieur Martin:—It is too}one must, the shortcomings of ma-| it might, and os Lanyard held sure-|very beginning she demonstrated) 42 everyday name. Nee Sule of sugar Mr. Peerabout, the! Qopyright, 192% by Seattle Star) place of a signature, sweet af you te remember your|chine-made evening clothes, whose ly would, be too late to accomplish] excellent discretion by failing to bel (To Be Continued Phe