The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1922, Page 9

be tle tne al —— Oe Be See. ew. eer er tree ee my ts eevrterr eesti & squt T think you're autte as much ry as you pretend to see rather nice, don't you then? At Teast, it gives us an interest in each other aside from sentiment, Some day, perhaps, we't each know All.” “Now God forbid ware you soafrald of learning my girtsh secrets then? I don't believe wou. I don't believe you'd even . i" “eer anyard protested tm hollow voice. 7 Be gpl ami.” She judged him shrewdly with narrowed, smiling eyes, “Tou flirt with far too much finish, you know, It can't be done te auch perfection when the heart's teuly Involved. But for one thing ‘and if only you'd be a little more tragte adout your disappointments tonight; for you haven't yet asked me a single Question about anybody we've met—" “No: thus far we've drawn every cover Diank,” he groaned; for it was after three in the morning, “Very well, But for this and that, I'd be tempted to think you were sleuthing on the trail of some female fair but faithless. But you're taking all with entirely too much resignation; there's a contented glow in the back of your eyes—" “rm having a good time.” “It's pretty of you to tell me ao. But that’s not the reason for your self-complacence.” “See here.” Lanyard interrupted, sitting up and signaling to the wait. er fer his bil “if I let you ran on the way you're heading, you'll pres ently be telling me something you've found out about me and I don't want to hear.” “Oh, very well,” she sighed. “I'm eure I don't wish to embarrass you. But I will say thie: Men of your uncertain age don't go round with such contented eyes unless they're prosperousty in love.” “Ob, come along” Lanyard growled, offering to rise. “You know too confounded much.” He waited & moment, and then as she did nothing but sit and glimmer at him mischievously, he added: “Shall we gor" “Where now?" she inquired with out stirring. He had a shrug of distaste, Max I presume. Unless you can some other place, more like: ly and less tedious.” Ne she repiled, after thought; “I can't. We've pretty thorely tonight; all ex: the tourist places.” “No good wasting time on then.” “Then let's stop on bere tit it time to milk the cows.” “Pre-Catelan? im's leftt—" “Only another tourist shew now. adays, And frightfully 36 “Bounds like the lot I'm after. taking Hy Fee eel nit ee tbe i: £ tn. of ve i i sought to a “Not oniy you're neglecting me. I that, want to asked me in fully half an hour; you're a heavenly dancer—and so ami" & @ thelr wall table and rose. “If! Jou please, monsieur,” One could hardly qvent such charming impertinence. Lanyard. @rew a long face of mock patience, sighed an heroic sigh. and followed) her thru the huddled tables to the incing floor. A bewildering took) rewarded him as they swung into the first movement of a tango. “Do you know you are a dan. = man, Monsieur Paul Mar- 5 “Oh, mademotsetie”’ “Buch fortitude, such forbearance —when I ought to be siapped—en-| chants, disarmns, makes me yanun-| ber Lam a woman, foredoomed al- dance, and you haven't! not dressed if they are not half un- md dressed, and with hi T abjure my boasted Monsieur, 1 submit Tt shall be you wish: on to Max jim's-—-after this one dance, You know, it's the last really good mu sic we'll have to dance to—our last dance together, —pperh who knowe?—forever!’ She pretended to be overcome; the lithe bedy in his embrace sketched a fugitive seixure of sad ness, dropping with a wistful lan guor well suited to the swooning | measures to whieh they swayed and postured, His hand was pressed convulsive. ly, She seemed momentarily about to become a burden in his grasp, yet ever to recover just on the tn otant of falling, buoyed up by the Steoly reaiitence of her lithe and slender body, Impossible to say how much was pretense, how much impulsive confession of true feeling! Perplexed, perturbed, Lanyard gazed down “into that richly tinted . which, with eyes haif.curtained and ips half-parted, seemed to betray 80 much, yet to his next glance was | Wholly legible and provoking | Aware that with such women man's | Yanitymisieads him woefully, and aware that she wan equally awake } to this masculine weakness, he won: | dered, afraid even to guess, telling | bimeeif he were an ass to believe & fool to deny. . . Then suddenly he saw her lashes sweep up to umvell eyes at once | mirthful rod admenitory; her hungry ; mouth murmured Incongruously an | edged warning. “Play up, Paul—play up to me! | We @ance too well together not to | be watched: and tf I'm not mistaken, }someone you're interested in has Just come in. No: don’t look yet, | ust remember we're madly enam. ored, you and I—and don't care a rap who sees it.” | Stung by her words tnto a sptrit of emulation, Lanyard achieved an adequate seeming of response to the passion, feigned or real, with which the woman infused the patterned coquetry of their steps. | Between lips that stirred so little their movement must have been un- discernible, he asked: “Who?” | Im the same manner, but In ac cents fraught with an emotion in- decipherabie but Intense, the reply |come: “Don't talk! This I too | divine . . . Just @ancet* | He obeyed, detiberately shut out [of his thoughts the warning she | bad given him, and let himself go, | body and mind, so that, aeway to the sensuous strains of that most | sensuous of dances, the gtri and the }man for @ space seemed one with |music that throbbed of love and longing, desire and denial, pursuit a retre: surrender and con On & sonorous phrase It ceased. A flutter of applause ran round the tables. Lanyard mastered a sense of daze that he saw reflected In the opening eyes of the woman as she slipped from his arms, In an tn- jetant they were themselves once | more, two PB agece 7 eel contained sophistication, with | making nothing and difficult nee. the way to their table they were tntercepted by « woman wha, with two cavaliers, had since the moment of her entrance been stand. ing near the @oor of the restaurant, apparently spellbound with admira. on, Thru a rising clatter af her volee cut clearly but not at all unpleasantly. “Athena: Tt t# I—Liane.” Tnured as he was to the manners of an age which counts {ts women sensibilities further catloused by a night devoted ine thrust back her end to restaurants the entree to which,! for women, seemed to be condl- | toned on at feast eemi-nudity, Lan-| yard was none the less tnciined to’ think he had never seen, this side) of footlights, a gown quite so dar-| ing as that which revealed the ad mirably turned person of the Indy who named herself Liane, There was so little of it that, he reflected, | its cost must have been something enormous. But tn vain that scant! Beas of drapery: the white body rose splendidly out of its Ineffective wrappings only to be overwhelmed by an incredible tncrustation of’ Jewelry; only here and there did bare hand’sbreadths of flesh un adorned succeed tn making them-| re) “ee FOG DELAYS TWINS’ RACE BACK TO FAIRYLAND! ‘The Green Wizard knocked thres | ties on the big chimney where the | Sweep lived, and the Sweep stuck out | hip head at once. “How, now’ he cried. “What can 140 for you, good mir?” j “T'll have a bucket of ashes and a) An of wot, if you please,” naid the Green Wirard. “Naney and Nick are | stuck in a ditch beside the road and | <an't wet out.” | said the Bweep, and disappeared in santly. P ppem He returned in no time at all and) handed the Green Wizard the ashes ANd the goot, Back went the Wizard over to the place where the based were waiting and he sprinkled ofthe ne and soot right in front | ae netls Of the magic car / an then,” said he, “turn the! hate ht, Whirligig and say your | charm, my dears.” | * aid: t He handed the Green Wizard the ashes and the soot | | | | j “Magic auto, hurry on, There's no more mud, s0 please be- gous.” Instantiy the little car chugged out of the gutter and rat-/ ted away down the road toward Fatryland like @ young pony with his head turned toward the st when he known it's men! time. In about 15 minutes, withdut ‘AY. you shall have it, and soon,” jdoubt, they would have arrived at! jmmodiately of its illymination: Li- would have been well but something, happened A dense fog began to mettle over everything. It was so thick and the |smoky thet the Twins couldn see| matter! thru the windshield Nick turned the knob on whirligig again and the magic auto. mobile stopped { “We might take the wrong road,” | he eaid, ‘no we'd better tay here,” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) TEN DOLLIES EVE ' How WOULD You Like TO AmMowe romP ler me ‘Toe PAPER Th! NW MY HONK AN! TLL DASH TH’ WHOLE SET OF You “1 “TH' “™' SIGHTS ALOUG “TH RouTE WILL Ne LoookiNG FoR A BARGAIN “TAX! To THE BLEACHER GEATS ——- DOINGS OF THE DUFFS 60% wave. San vewr’s Yicnarce ER with AMM EME a. | WUATCHA Gor FoR ‘DINNER, Mom? T@OTTA HURRY AN’ EAT ‘CAUSE T HARTA Go BACK AN’ FINISH A public trtumph f: ¥ BUQNsce of thelr in & rare) s BUILDIN' Ove } i Ane) selves visible FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS At the sound of her name Athe nals turned with a perfectly tndi-}to breat cated start of surprine which she) promptly translated into a little, Joy ful ery. The living pilter satin and precious stones ran Into her arms, embraced her and kinsed both her releasing her half-turned yard, Glints of trifiing malice winked of trowb- behind the open interest ling, rounded eyes of viol yard knew bimeelf known. cheeks, of ivory ardently, to Lan jet. Lan So he had sacrificed for nothing his beautiful beard! ile uttered @ private but heart-| 4 bowed profoundly | tional chairs, the woman made her felt “Damn as the woman, tapping Athenals on | escorts the arm with a fan crusted with! ville et Le Brun, two extravagantly | diamonds, demanded: then The jons is mine ‘That «un spiked, Lanyard began he more freely “Tt is not too late to make up that joss, monsieur.” Liane De lorme was actually chuckling in ap preciation of his readiness, pleased with him even her own discomfiture; her eyes twinkling merrily at him above the fan with which she hid a convulsed countenance, “Surely two people so possessed with regret at never hav. jing known ench other should lose |no time improving their acquaint neel Dear Athenais: do ask us to it at your table.” While the waiter fetched addi. known: Messieurs Benou- | insignificant young men, exquisitely “Present instantly, my dear, this) groomed and presumably wealthy, gentleman who tangoes as I have| who were making the bravest ef. | never seen the tango da: fore!” Forestalling Athenais, Lanyard re an unimpeachable cachet. Comtesse de Lorgnes?” With any other woman than Ath-| casionally enais Reneaux he would bh tated to deal so bold an stroke; but his confidence quickness of apprehension and ber/up another da | unshakable self-possession was both away In the implicit and well-placed. received this overt notification of| acknowledged the salutations of sev-| | the success of his quest without on: need be ave hest. offensive ia ber For she | forts to seem unaware that to be seen with Liane Delorme conferred Lanyard | pied with a whimsical grimace: “I®/ remarked, however, that neither one, then, #0 Unfortunate aa tl ventured to assume proprietorial have been forgotten by Madame lal wirs; while Liane’p attitude toward them was generally indulgent, if oc patronizing and some | times Impatient | Champagne, frothed into freab | lasses, An soon as the band struck oe, Athenais drifted ms of Monsieur Le Liane gazed round the room | Bran. eral friends, signalled gaily to a pair sign other than @ look of dawning! of mercenaries on the far aide of puzziement. “Madame la comtesse murmured with « rising Inflection. | “But monsieur fs mistaken,” the) dance with you. other stammered, biting he “Burely one cannot have stu ut this tn lorme,” Athenais said . . sieur Paul Martin, Liane Delorme! Those were like a spoken spell which had memory ever since first this woman in the Cafe de ! , light began at Nant, A great {flood his understanding, bu denied time to advantage and riposte ir Hp, been so id!" Lanyard apologized, Mademoiselie De . “Mon syliables to break chus:!the power of dark enchantment hampered Lanyard’n to it he was himeelft jthe Fairy Queen's Paiace and ail'gne Delorme was quick to parry “How stvange monsieur should think he had ever known me by a namo... . What was it? But no ly, 1 myself cannot get sieur—Martin, where, sometime . . tin? than one name.” “Then it would seem thi moirelie and { are both For now I look more close over the the impression that T have known Mon did you say some: But Pau! Mar Not unless monaleur has more at made in error, |the dancing floor, and issued per. + + .% she) emptory orders to Benouville, “Go, Chu-chu, and ask Angele to Bhe ts being left | to bore herself while Victor dane with Constance. Moreover, I desire | to affilct Monsieur Martin with my confidence.” With the utmost doctlity Benou- | ville effaced himeeclf. “Eh, bien, Monsieur Duchemin!” “Bh, bien, madame la comtesse?” Laane sipped at her champagne, making impudent eyes at Lanyard over the brim of her glass, “By what appears, last torn yourself away from the | charming society of the Chateau de Montalais,”” “As you nee," “That was a long visit you made at the chateau, my old one?” “Madame la comtesse is well in- | formed,” lanyard returned, phieg j matic, “One heare what one hears.” "One had the misfortune to fath foul of an assassin,” Lanyard took the trouble to explain. “An assassin!” “The same Apache who attacked with others—the party from Mon talais at Montpeliler-le-Viewx.”’ “And you were wounded?” "HAHA THAT MUCH JACK WOULD BUY US ALL A NEW TEAM OF. SHOES » WHATLL in the moment of you have at iF WE * tinued, | } ! | | dians come. ast Lanyard priate notses, yard added, | hear that las the chatea: | no’ Apache of my people. TTLM STAR BY AHERN | You must go now! Now! nted, ‘The lady made, a shocked fags and uttered appro-| described a sign of contempt that sho sald, RIDE IN AN AUTO, HAVE “O BE AN AMBULANCE = Because we'd BE SICK AFTER PAYING “THAT and Put on Your Hat, Tom rage sul A WARNING AND A FLIGHT “Weeks paswed,” Mra. Wilt con- “then one black night a noft “Haloo! at the door startled father out of bis sleep. “MeCarthy? called an Indian's gutteral voice, ‘McCarthy! Take your wife and fly from this place. My people are on the war path this night; my people seek to kill, and to torture and to burn, Hate for the white man ts tn the heart Hate because the white man is come to steal away the Indian's country, country of his fathers.” “Father thanked him, but sald he coulin’t run away just then. He wanted to gather his crop, but the friendly Indian (1 never kitew what his name was), sald, ‘Now’ the Tonight In- “That sounded nerfous, so at they got ready, and with mother on her riding horse, father driving his best cow before him, and the Indian leading the way, they started for the fort. “Phe Indian went with them as for as the Puyallup river.” Again Mrs, Wit paused, ‘The river so changed,” have to get an old, old map to how they ran in those days. e The “As you know,” Lan- ‘Liane Delorme pretended not to! dance.” “And the ladies of she atrocity! And Inqutred—"they mpathetic, one feels sure?” were most kind. | “Mademoiselle may judge when she knows I was unable to leave my) mon ami?’ bed for nearly three weeks.” “But what this THE OLD HOME TOWN i MARSHAL OTEY WALKERS LACK OF JNTEREST JN CIVIC AFFAIRS HAS BRODGHT ABOUTA SERIOUS TRAFFIC PROBLEM ewe 1S A Good Ne AT The ° MONARCH 7 VAN MEN ARE OBSTWATE | WEARO IT WAS VERY GooD! we'll GoTo THAT one! VERETT. TRUE HELO, EvSRerr TO TAKS ve MY two cabins stood on either side of the Stuck river, I can remember that, but later civil engineering between the counties changed it all “Well, no doubt other ploneers have teld you stories about how . crowded {t was at Fort Steiin- coom, and how there was not enough work for the men to do, tho the women had more than their hands full to care for their babies, and do the queer house- work and cooking all crowded in the fort together. “Tho worst of it was there was no way for anyone to earn money. “This is no place for un,’ said father, ‘If you aren't afraid to ride thru the country at much a time, I'd like to go down into the Oregon country, to Eugene. I be Neve I could put what money I have into onttle, and by the time this Indian scare blows over we'd hay fair start. ‘ ual mother seemed not to be ald of anything. 80 they went! And such a ride! I've heard father say that little horse of hers jumped a hundred logs a day with his rider, and half as many more mother had to get down and lead bim over. “But they made it all safe and when they had been there about mother’s first lit. MBE Just AS Soon Aas OF You® HoOvss So Witt Looe SAFE GAT A MAL IN tt mations, “One may regard that tn | more ways than one.” “Ah, these police!’ And the lady was wholly unladylike. “Stull, yo! “Indeed,” Lanyard agreed with are well recovered, by the way you) his most winning manner; “One may for instance remember that I “One eannot complain.” “What an experience! sun—” Lia in buried her nose in her regarded Lanyard with a Mysterious understanding. ing, she resumed; “Still, without its compensation, eh, recovered speedily enough to be tn Paris tonight and meet mademol- | selle without losing time.” “Monsieur wishes me to flatter myself into thinking he did me the honor of desiring to find me te- night?” “Or any other, Do not depreciate the potency of your charms, made- moiselie,”” moiselle. Who, having seen you “Oh, oh! There was any amountjonce, could help hoping to see you of deep significance in these excla-| again?" | | Re-emei not “That ls as one regards it, made. MouancH! WY TRAT'S WAN Dowd = | | Say, WHEN ARE GOING INVITAS THON AND COME OUT AND CCC4AN VP THS OCuUTsiDnSe BY ALLMAN & OF MAIN AND THRO. Town? You it ° “My friend,” said Liane, with a pursed, judgmatical mouth, “I think | you are much too amiable.” | “But T assure you, never a day has passed, no, nor yet a night, that I have not dwelt upon the thought } of you, since you made so effective an entrance to the chateau, a visio of radiant beauty, out of that night of tempest and fury,” Liane drooped a coy head. “Mon. sieur compliments me too much.” “Tmpossibie!" “Is one, then, to understand that monsicur is making love to mo?" Lanyard pronounced coolly; “Ne,” * (fo Be Continued)