The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1922, Page 13

e THE SEATTLE STAR ; ~ OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN Q JUST THINK = Ve Listen “To WiM= <y VEH AN! We We Ger AY : jf THIS BALL CAME «=F —/ WeLL BE FANNING \-—] BACK HOME We'LL WARM x z =] UP A PARADE FoR You, | | FROM BABE RUTHS |= /ouR EARS ALL WINTER ior AN' KIGSED ME |"/ ABOUT IT SAY BUS, HEADED By! MAYOR | | ON “TH' SHINGLE = WAY DoNTCHA “TAKE CARRYING “TH! BALL ON A WHAT IF IT WAS A NOUR HEAD DOWN 710 VELVET PILLOW = AN You Foul BALL'2= ‘BABE’ | | pina an! HAVE Him ,CAN RIDE ON A FLOAT BY STANLEY Sort ~ Pa v A NUDGED TT, AN THATS AUTO GRAPH “TH! ‘WITH A BIG RED ARROW SEEMS FUNNY THE ee, rat won another laugh of per elven Aaliutind bec OD pring ALL I CARE = “THIS BUMP oO WouR POUSTING “To “TH! EXACT MARSHAL OF THIS MAKES A NEAT SPOT WHERE TH’ BALL SS tion. “What then,/@ls, the property of Madame de yoral apprecia: Montdlate nee Anstruther.” TOWN CANT GET UP SCALP 2 a men aml f that “But I am recently from the Ch | A Sed Sees UNGERED on ENOUGH fUMPTION “ Fe se ree ing unattainanie| eeu @0 Montalais, aod In a pealtion \ G pSOUVENiR = Your SKULL ! TO QUELL THESE NO-NO-HES > often ‘aspiring to possens it.” be oi ein that this | Z Z STULL MOANIN eypatiainadic®” Liane repeated tn low, Duchemin, ts unjustly) |) ‘7 What a dismal word, | “ONO oe Me heart again that taugh of broad derision which had seemed so | out of character with a great lady We contrary, monsieur, fi when he had heard it first, that gaat you wish ' to we Right now nearly a month old, Tou seat revise your lexicon. “Mademoinelte does not beltevet" *teg, Ble mademolselia who W8/ «7 think monsteur must be a good And where is that! trend to this Monsieur Duchemin." t Monk tonight? “I confess I eritertain « sneaking oman overiooked the 190% / fondness for his memory.” per, rather, buried It under @! you can hardly call yourself an ef emotional acting. impartial judge—" monsieur! but I am deso-) «re is nevertheless true he aid not tmoonsolab'e He has gone jewels,” Monk? tanyast tell me who did take his eyes wide. “Unfortunately for Duchemin, @ise? He has left France.) that remains a mystery.” Feturned to his barbarous) “Rather, I should say, fortunately | with his beautiful motor for him.” bis Kind heart, and all his mil.) «you would wrong him, then.” “But why, event, di the exceltent Phinuit? mare one as well « “I imagine, because he knew he jong exo? would surely be accused, ta which jomorrow they did sail) case ancient history would be re arg. It is & week sinc?! vived to prove him guilty beyond a/ ard me laugh. Question in the mind of any sane compassionately fished| court,” of the cooler and Fe/ “Does one understand he had a foe Panis history? mademolselle, every @9-| “1 have heard ft intimated such AC! y profound sympathy."! was the case.” ees K WN & heart, my friend") “ut I remain tn the dark. The! “| theft presumably was not discovered discohsolate. tl after his disappearance. Yet, ac- ry truly at made| cording to your contention, he must tee.” have known of it In advance. How sniffed mournfully and! do you account for that?” at her nose with @ ridieulous| “Mademotselle would make a fa ofa handkerchief. “Be 20) mous juge d'Instruction.” she said tn a tearful voice, “That does not answer my argu- were quite dry and, if| ment.” | closely, calculatihg—""! “Eiow ts one to answer it? Who what It means, made i i i iy retreat i rfl i i } 2 AUNT SARAH PEABODY CALLS MARSHAL OTEY WALKERS ATTENTION TO THE WAVE OF LAWLESSNESS THATS SWEEPING OVER THE TOWN, fi it g E 4 5 = 2 EE E ft i A : VLAY AG Where's Ano) Waren O88! DANNY, Hened P| nim roe Two noveS! $f E ' knows how Duchemin discovered the inferred that the storm wasitheft before the ladies of the cha- Lanyard tendered his clgaret/teau did?” and then a match, wondering! “De you know what you make me Bext. What he had reason to; think? That he was not as inno te was sure to come, the| cent as you rt.” question was when. Not that) “Mademoiselle will explain?” red when; he was ready for have a suspicion that this Mon- y time. And there was no/steur Duchemin was guilty in inten- Athenals, finding herself) tion; but when it came to put his with an uncommonly g00d/intention tnto execution, he found i Le Brun, was consider | he had been anticipated.” making good use of this pre-| “Mademoiselle is for remaining on the floor—| me. were two bands to furnish | thofght of that.” cally continuous music—and) “He would have been wiser to pare Lanyard to finish uninterrupt-|stay and fight tt out. The very! ‘What she perfectly understood to/tact of his Might confesses his & conversation of considerabie/ guilt. “Perhaps he did not remember) 4g for Benouville, he was much} that until too late.” | well trained to dream of re] “And now nothing can clear him. ees, withont being bidden by| How sad for him! A chance meet-| “But tt is wonderful,” murmured ene, pensive. And there was that tn her tone to Lanyaré mentally prick for his ears. He sketched a point pili, i 1 @ncounter so much under. tm one who ts a complete te'T™ : Lanyard consid. “I think {t's coming .. .) must not think me un- persuaded me. I am convinced that he fs Innocent.” “How good you are “It makes me giad I have so well mademoiselie! he protested) forgotten ever meeting him. I do saliy—"dut you forget so easily.” not believe I should know him tf I) ‘That we bave met before, when| found him here, in this very res 1 frm you « complete stranger? | taurant, even seated by my side.” Wel yes.” “It 's mademotselle now whose ts because I would not be in heart is great and kind.” debt” “You may believe it well” “a “And does mademoteelle’s forget- ‘2 wil repay sympathy with sym-| fulness, perhaps, extend even far- Paky. I have already forgotten) ther into the so dead past?” tat I ever visited the Chateau de| “But, monaieur, I was « mere. So how should I remem-|child when I firet came to Paris, I met mozsieur there under| before the war. How could anyone ++. but I forget.” reasonably expect my memory of 4 Duchemin?” those innocent girlish @ays to be|it is wonderful.” Gy Rever knew there was such @/exact? Regard that, even then, I © woman looked suddenty aside, | I swear'—before I aaw it in| met people by hundreds, am @ young| eq tat he conta not see her fuce;| clearly betrayed in Leet J today.” girl studying for the stage must. I* but he perceived, with tonish —— ee | it likely one face would stand out! ment which he made no empt to} the “ does not read the! in my memory more than another?'|fite that she was quaking bedily| But there was no tty te Taw “Quite, if you ask me, id Lan-! with some wunconfessed emotion. egg lng De gpl soe | Gist all of them. mademotselie:”| yard drily—“quite likely, tf any ctr-| And when she faced again his un ee is aed | cit appeared in Le Matin today,|cumstance connected with that face! broken look of grave bewilderment, | doné; and in his hearing at Stat Dow DISPLAY - were ow $ Quaint name Duchemin, in & were at all memorable.” he discovered that she was really| 4 the echoes of those words with * : << od h but with. from Millau stating that! “But I assure you I was in those po which, obliquely enous! } Wife person of that name, a guest of| days much too self.absorbed to pay| MPAD® Of tears. out misunderstanding on the part of By abel Cleland s Jie Chateau do Montalais, had dis-| much attention to others. It ts that] Bienayanry rg 8 cnges Bal gp et either, she had ge reappear d | —— ame - ‘ : $ or not, never ose him to the police unless he| age ppd eee Mader Lnsil ‘hen amine Jone with whom I was so completely| POTS tea to some sort of an alll: BACK AGAIN : moisel @ injustice to|on® Nipport. And instantaneously! th her, @ collaboration whose “One gathers that he took some|her memory,” Lanyard insisted tn ance with Q strain of care and foreboding; tn- deed its evidence were only too) CoMS VP IN FRONT HERE, ¥ WANT To DISCUSS THE SUBIECT Of WINs omni Whig heart thumped that day when thing ” It ts priceless, this! We must #¢e/ vitae could not but be dishonorable | “Well! It was two years before) his ny eine?” Polite astonishment, “In ° WAY"! more of one another.” if it were nothing more than a sim-|} ¢nings had settled down enough eeaeeties noe eee “Much more,” Lanyard assented| >i, conspiracy of mutual atl for them to come back to the| {lO} to the teacher. And ay ‘And purposely he delayed his an-| gra Bound,” Mra. Wilt sald, “and! now frightened he felt when he PLAY SO LONE YOU Can HARDLY a ee Sd Maer a Seve | ew et tae ie wen win] thought {t safer| saw her disappear through the | |nAMGeS ! + T os ith significanse, “I am|she was clutching his with] even then they $3 ure, wo shall’ get along together| frantic hands + any tol] © come te he fort ft | Ser saat taxe un | [FADED THEM OUT THE PUSS Have FINISHED a famously.” “What is the matter that's how ft happened that T was . . ND YOU BELLYAC \BOU 7 q Why | to school,” Mra, Wilt assured )]SOW COMES FOG—TWINS AGAIN DELAYED IN] ‘Mademoteetle ofters me ere you Took at, me. tie eerste eay-|] born tn the old fort at Btetiacoom. | Y0,20RG. TE. Tur tuneh for a a HOMEWARD JOURNEY ‘othing less than my friend.| thing to tell—? om “My childhood memories, how-| us, told us if we wee parses - r the we musi : ship.” I was hesitating to sh you, ever, are all centered about first pg on tes eee cane bak “ deed an ingrate to| Liane.” " sities te mt question: Wili| “Never mind ma What bas hap-|J| Sumner and then Seattle MY) no to be afraid, and we start not people talk?” pened to de Lorgnes?” brother and I started out in that) eq off. . “What!? Amusement shook her! “It is in all the evening newmpe-|] ttle house by the river and I] vit his aia a eae again. “How talk? What more can|pers—the murder mystery of the think we weren't much more than inane the snainan“ ‘ah mB vn - Pa cali 4 Countess de Lorg:| Lanyard inclined his head. The/] canoes and race across foot logs. | Oe ie n ° woman breathed an invocation to “Nobody seemed to worry about “1 think that was the first My friend: that was a good Joke|the Detty and sank back a ainet | ai Ws air So te peta tie Cl reece les See dace jonce; but now you must forget that/the wall, her face ghastly nea up the stream and drift down! Seeker, Ezra Mecker's brother, name as utterly as I have forgotten! its paint. ee , with the current to make a land-| way the teacher, He was a fine age met Be yoy > board the! ‘ng on the other bank, how we! ginger, and I want you to know “Imponaible.” “I was « Leng cla Tucore it || could calculate I don't know, but] that we had public school music “What do you say?" She frowned! rapide, and oaw the v we wouidn’t miss the spot We] even then. Mr. Meeker had a © little, “Is it possible you misun-| was removed. sane’ tee We 0. ok tuning fork, ana be trajied us, icles sist amc ts oe agape pees roel “One day grandpa stood watch-| tiny tots that we were, into a “L never thought he was.” poor on her dry lips. She wwal-|f ing us as we were coming down, | chita chotr, which people sald was “You had reason, Because wellowed convulsively, turned to her} and somehow or other we tippe rea y. t p 4 found it empty, Tan- the canoe and both fell into the Tt was a good school and ev- were thrown together, and our| glass, an Hl saver, 1 rechembér how calmly 26| ¢erthing waa gotig nicsly exoigt y pmething alike in| yard hastened to refill 1t. She took » And that's where the fog came from para it nmused tuxcrot the two|the wine at a gulp, muttered a word|f stood and watched us scramble} that every little while the chim ish vould catch fire, and cause " offered the glass to out, right the canoe, and fin! ney would : The magic automobile in which;and CometLegs, the other bad little alone, but all our party—t - po rengp lr getting & had the trip, I don't think I could| musi excitement, aud tien ene Gay aid Nick were riding to|fairy who had crooked legs and rode ~mapllbont rect comtenes, Me AS dat eneonauie ae it,{] have been more than 6 oF 7.” we walked thru’ th a se nee. ar lignan, “Who knows? ‘It was the styte| staring witlessly at nothing, 80 lost David asked about her first day | ali our books with it iad Waan't mud this time—it} The two of them, mind you, were by bishecl he bad always passed with|to her surroundings that all the at school; he still remembers how (Po Be Cont! x thick, white, steamy, wet|up in the sky in Bluster-Gust Land P has uscles of her face relaxed and her et WH ened thet had settied down like aland were monkeying with Mr, |": < ru that mask of) eee eee e rg ‘| “Alas! aighed Lanyard, and bent) years peered out thru thi the body, on the arrival of the) “But to the joo?" Damas ore overt 1a|icle Blow, the ‘weatherinsa, 'was|® Sombre suze upon his glass, artifice which alone preserved fot | quiringly to him. With a look Lan-| except the author of the murder” | oq.°At "the Gare de Lyom “Is tt phe digmc woman gave * awtully queer?’ sal je- Blow, ne eatherman, W8S) without looking he was a eofiher the Ulusion an nr Paces ed her to compose herself,| “Tell me.” ‘ 4 TErh -Wereen: Nir abstracted ry “The sun was out just a Mt |away. & questioning gesture of the wom-| beauty. then lifted an eyebrow and glanced) Quietly, briefly, Lanyard told her Absorbed, with eyes him a blank stare. “Pardon, made ako as bright as anything) “well” said Light Fingers glum-\an'y head, Ho said no more, but| Thus the face of an evil woman meaningty toward the doors. The and intent, and a mouth whose ¢%/ motselle; but ts it likely that the ar dist look at it. I never naw |iy, “the rain we went down didn't 40 | ah " | if i the Comte de Lorgnes at Dc his own. Ceo en eee ideounly| east of Mods answered him before] ON It Yvone of the uneasiness | sential selfishness and cruelty WA8liate Andre Duchemin would have fimae in the daytime before.” , hideously “ wid any good. It didn’t wreck the Twins What is this?” she asked sharp-| hope of redemption, was : Le Brun swung Athenals toward the tive, unconsciously stressed by the com: tt Hs mage ont said Nick. “Mayte|at alll Now what can we do?" ly. “You know something about de/| revealed. igi gree Py Ripe middle of the floor and other couples oe anager ag Pee ive) presslen sé her loa the Woman — - nee h the police than he ¥ sa Suddenly Comet-Legs saw the bar- | Lorgnes?” ot seeing it, an jooke: tntervensé. he I h heard him ag he mi ‘ve been vot: Met you that's tt,” " Pog.” ” no pisinly Betrayed as the last hows lon, Ni 4] “You would gee a cold-blooded It,” declared | rel marked “Dense Fog. “Had you not heard?” he coun-| away, Delorme otirred abruptly. is life wore on, of the Apaches{® disembodied vo! jow an yee you Light Fingers t#| “Oh, look here,” he cried. “We'll|tered, looking up in surprise, Beyond the rank of tables which| Llane Delorme fo demanded | ee eee on OF tne, Apaches again, however, she nodded intently] crime go unavenged—t" 401? Meal our automobile again|empty this and they can’t go an- “Heard—?" stood between him and the dancing| | there any olue?” poh and the fact that one of them| "4, When he finished, had a perti- (To Be Continued) Bs i something with the|other inch. Then we can catch He naw her eyes stubbed by fear,| floor he saw Athenals Reneaux with i? po very Heaps by Gescrip-| had contrived to secure a berth in nent question ready, rm the mgr hat’ h the ft A aa oer dnt “§ tae vd tg fra rement ht a ee * he “arts si tit ententig yy the same carriage with his victim; bien 4 ri gaa of this! LONDON, Oct. 9.—Efforts to fores ma could that's ere the rmines. day she had been ex ¢ 7 4—wt assassin exists?” police ‘Thames and has they inane a ap Ht Pong ¥ ‘i sk costing do Latent, or word from| face wore o startled expression, her| “But eeu. por, few meas: ~d hop ieaed y a oe ring | “Have t pot communicated it to ive peated age alias couple a | Light Fingers was (To Be Continued) him, all day and all thie night. One| gaze was, direct to the woman at] you know? —— y With the weather—he| (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) could imagine the hourly augmented Lanyard’ Bde; then it shifted in-] “As much as anybody, I fanc Laroche; and of the discovery of] yout have failed. ~