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

(Continued From Yesterday) 1 have a pistol, if you need one, Athonais offered, matter-of-fact, THE SEATTLY STAR BY AHERN | HA-HA © N= We Sure G “TH' ONLY | 7 plays A HARD Rag eeg,) wally Z| ONARL= WHY EVER HAVE |! GaV-\F He EVER WITH THAT "| Gor MATCHED UP! eng HWAA- Ler im COME IS'Pose V'READ OVER #"TH! ONLY “TIME AGouT “THAT 'Siki! |-] HELL REMEMBER BEIN!' “WW SENEGALESE [7] ON HIS reer \S COMING -Fitre “| DOWN “TH! GANG PLANK «Hy fi idee bbs ood "| WE'RE GONNA SHIP ‘AT bg, Fi FoR A REAL CARPENTIER our | | BABY BACK DTH’ PALMS/4 —ravin@ to PA}SCRAP HIG KNEES OF Focus» t See | fl win More CREASES | |provounice | |WOULD sy ‘ld We'S COMING OVER | Th" iM THAN AN WIS NAME HERE "TD POKE ACCORDIAN | és XYLOPHONE WELL'KID' « ¢ | Athenals was already at the matn entrance. ringing for the concierge Lanyard hastened to join her, but “Then you were more senstble/ before he could cross the sidewalk ALLYOU PUGS CURLEY ! than 1" » Lanyard held a thoughtful etlenes for some minutes, while the cab Jorged eedately down the rue St.) swiftly their way, seeming to search Lazare, then had another look back|the street suspiciously with its thru the little window, “No mistake about that," he re « forward began of several minor fler leaving the the dark Uy streets they passed Hote! Terminus beh down the rue de la only somet streets as wening ‘ you thinking of, mon cht and left into @ heading P Th®! door open and slipped inte de @euce of it ts." he complained, “this! garkness. Inhuman loneliness! If there were! other instant. The car was slowing @ like a crowd In the) down, and the street lamp on the e must have Deen| corner revealed plainly a ma: & motor car poked tt» nose round the corner of the Boulevard Mauss mann, & short bleck away, and bore blank, lidless eyes of glare “Pestel breathed the girl. “1 | have a prt entrance and my own key. We could have used that jhad I imagined this sacred pig of } a conolerge—!" | Lanyard lingered = an. uline [arm resting on ite windowsill; but the spying face above the arm was }oaly @ blur. 1 “But naturally of ridding you of ‘Come, monsteur!” an embarrassing and perhaps dan} Lanyand stepped tn and shut the gerous companion.” door. A hand with which he was “If you mean you're planning to! beginning to feet fairly well ao Jump down and run for tt" Ath® | quainted found his and led him thru Bais replied, “you're a fool. You'l! the dead obscurity to another pause not get far with a motor car PU~/ A key grated in @ lock, the hand suing you and sergents do ville ab) drew him on again, a second door normally on the qui vive becnuwee closed behind him. the crime wave that followed de| “We gre ches mol,” sald a voice mobilization as yet shows moe Signs!in the dark ef subsidin “Ono could do with a light.” | “But, mademotselle, tt makes me! “Wait. This way.” s0 unhappy to have any shadow) The hand guided him across a but my own." }room of mederate wise, avoiding Its “Then rest tranquil here with me. | furniture with almost uncanny eare, Tt ten’t much farther to my apart-/then again brought him to a ha’ ment.” j Brass rings clashed softly on a “Possibly it woutl be better to} pe & @ap cpened in “vy dre drop you there first—" pert ourtaining a window, a S Sothing of the sort; but positive of street light threw the «iri ly the contrary.” | file into weft relief, She drew him “My dear child! tf I were to do) to her tili their shoulders touched. ae you wish they would think—” "You see...” “My dear Paul, I don't give &| He bent his head close to hers, @amn what they think. Remember} conscious of a caressing tendril of I am specially charge? with the! hair that touched his cheek a the Preservation of your life while in| sweet warmth and fragrance of her; Paris, Besides, my apartment is) and peering thru the draperies saw the most discreet little vea-de-chave-| their pursuing motor car at pause, eee one coukl wish. There ts more! not at the curb, but tn the middle than one way in and out. And) of the street before the houss The ence they think you are placed for} man’s arm atill rested on the sill the night, {t's more than they |of the window; the pale oval of the wont even set a watch, but will/ face above it wae still vague, Ab- trot off to repert. Then you can/ruptiy both disappeared, a door stip away when you will E Slammed on the far side of the car, He stared, knowing @ moment of/and the car itself, after a mo- = THE MEETING AUNT SARAH PEABODY CAL-BD To 2 DiISEUSS PLANS FOR GETTING ANEW TOWN MARSHAL. WAS UPSET BY A FRIEND OF MARSHAL OTEY WALKER @oudt to which a hard Httle laugh put a period. “Oh, you needn't be eo thoughtful ment's walt, gathered way with whining gears and vanished, leaving nothing human visible tn the quist of my reputation! If this were the/ street. | Worst that could be sald of me—" “What 4id that mean? Did they Lanyard laughed in turn, quietly] pick somebody upt” int, and squeezed her band) “But quite otherwise, mademol. selle.” | “Then what has become of him?’ "Im the shadow of the door acroas to decetve me about such matters."|the way: don’t you see th. deeper | shadow of his figures in the corner, to this @ide? And there... Ali, ‘The gtr! sala nothing. They no +; longer touched, and she waa for the time so still that he might almost Ij) have fancied himself aione, But tn that quiet room he could hear her breathing close beside him, not “O Lord” Lanyard sighed—how heavily but with @ rapid accent fs one to resist when you plend so| hinting at an agitation which her Prettily to be compromised?” volea bore out when she answered “Since that's settied"—of a gud-/his wondering: “Mademotselie?” | | den the tmploring child was rej “J'y euls, petit Monsieur Paul.” _Diaced by self-possessed Mademot-; “Is anything the matter? elle Athenals Henesux—“you may| “No... no: there is nothing the have your hand back again. I as | sure you I have no more use for tt."| “I'm afraid I have tired you out) The hansom turned off the boule.| tonight.” | yard, affording Lanyard an opportu-| “I do not deny I am «@ nity to look back thru the side win-) weary.” “I can do the latter without the! care if. . . only once” dow. “Forgive me.” | former. It tp better that we show) Bhe clung to him for @ long. long “Sti on the traf,” he announced.| “There js nothing to forgive, not! Mo light; one stray gleam thra the | moment, then released his lips. “But they“ve got the lights on now.”| yet, petit Monsieur Paul.” A trace curtains wo@d tell too much./ “Mon have kissed me, yos ar - With @ profound sigh from the of hard humor erept into her tone: Wait” few." she aipmered, EOS one heart the horse stopped tn front of “It is all in the night's work, as the| A nolse.of light footsteps muffied | face on his bosom, “but you alon & corner apartment pullding and) saying should be in Paris.” |by s rug, high heels tapping on un-| have known my Kins. Go How, tly later, with a groan almost human,| “Three favors. more; then I wil}! covered floor, the perape of a draw. dear, while I aave strength to ie Teaponded to the whip and fingled|4o you one tm return.” er pulled out: and she returned to| You «0, and... make me one litt) the hansom away, leaving Lanyard) “Ask...” give n a little nickeled electric) promise . . henals, the poorer by the exorbitant fare| “Be eo kind as to make a light torch “Wiggeret WR 0M, ADO he had promised and something| and find me a pocket flashlamp:if| “And then—?* io back, unless you ‘ you have one.” | “Llane’s address, tf you know it.| Never poe ny not have 80 om The girl named a number on an) MN , another time.” t |avense not! far inant Lanyard | much strength, angie: See tore |remarked this, hea inet the lifted window-sash | ng pe con well there tn tong nd Mm i! vision to follow his than five minutes And , 2 { yoved thru the murk "Show me the way out.” Again) Po) é pod oH ie |ahe made no response, He pursued 0. aceper gloom of the opposing be 2 rege dud TWENTY-FOUR HOURS FROM SUMNER TO SEATTLE ! Pegsy prompted the, ‘The roads wem go very bad “you did come to our} that everything that could be shipped by boat was sent that way, But, you see, Sumner tsn’t > th atory-te Seattle.” So then,” Mra, Wilt agreed, “we did come to Seattle to live TELL MG, MRS. TRYE, WHAT A LIVING ROOM ‘ |in some constraint: “Thus you will 1 on the Sound, so it was a big ' enable me to make you my only in-| ¥%- es But frat, may dear, there wag] OO ie IS FoR \F IT ASN'T TO LIVE INES = BeTTER dea turn- v > | rie. jf. much getting read 0) ne | ¥ * > “a, ae an geag ads daa: fie oad XVI move “At last they decked to haut || |USE IT AS A MORCUS = > yet ancther apace of afienen; then The House of Lilith We were coming to Seattle be. | things to the mouth of the ¥ yal sare ~ | tood four-square and massive Fee eee eevee craity, and | up, and come around from that ® gusty little laugh. T is aj It stood . ca t Pig Feeat favor, truly, petit Monsleur|on a corner between the avenues 4 iirl's clothes must be made ready | point on the old pteamer Chehalis, Paul! So give me your hand once|Friediand «t des Champs Elyseos, for going to the university | “It seemed a real journey tn more.” | near their junetion at the Placo de “On!” David's yolce sounded | the world, and Seattle seemed a | But she ne longer clung to it as|I'Btolle: « solid stone pile of a town Aisappointed, “Lf thought you] long, long way from the farm | before; the clasp of her fingers was|houso in tho most modern mode came right away, after the bear |"home where we had spent our without architectural beauty, by ing little attempt at exterior embel lishment, but smelling aloud of money; just such @ maigon de ville as a decent bourgeois banker might be expected to build himself when he contemplates retiring after doing the Rothschilds a wicked one in the story, when you Were just a little} lives up to that time, It took us ws 24 hours to make the trip. rhen Mra. Wilt laughed and) phen woe got to Seattle and said, “I was 11 years old. Isn't) moved into our new home on that ‘Just a little girl? You walt. | pnird and Columbia. I_remember I will get to that part of the story | ite houxe faced on Columbia, presently, Peggy wants to hear) +7 wonder,” Mra. Wilt hest- about the moving, tated, “I ‘wonder how much you “You know, there weren't any} jittle people of today know about big stores with clever ready-made | what a hard time that big univer- frocka and suits for children to! ity had getting Itself started, wear. 80 mother got Mrs. Bon-| 7¢ gil started that same Janu- ney to como over from Stellacoom | ary, when the Indians attacked and ‘sew us up,’ the settlers in the Httle new town “Now, Mrs. Bonney just hap-| of Seattle. Wasitington was a ter pened to be the wife of the jus-! ritory then, and there had to be tice of peace, who had married my| an act of congress and a lot of mother and father. And she was! ¢hings you wouldn't understand also @ regular tailoresa. before they could even have a unt- “IT can remember it all just a8) versity. distinctly—the newsclothes, the “Then, after the war, they packing up, and Wstening to} moved it to Cowlitz Farm mother and father plan about how | prairie.” to get things moyod. light, impersonal to the point lof indifference. Vexed, resentful of} her resentment, Lanyard suffered |her guidance thru the darkness of| another room,,a short corridor, and then a third room, where she left |him for a moment. | He heard again the clash of cur jtafh rings. The dim violet rectangle | ¢y°. | Jof a window appeared tn the dark-| It was like Liane’s impudence, |ness, the figure of the woman tn|too, Lanyard smiled at the thought vague silhouette against it A sash|as hoe studied the mansion from a «tam ee ue | Was lifted noinelessly, raineweet air/the backwards of a be ‘cata L/ ia ¢ ine ¥ breathed into the apartment. Athe-|in the diagonally opposed block 0! Break this in the path of the Twins,” she cackled \ nade returned to his side, pressed | dwellings. Her kind wag always) Might Fingers was as cross as 40, “Greetings, son,” she cackled/into his palm a key. |nure to seek, once its fortunes were | ron Alga ere {Uy {2 | when she saw him coming. “Waate| ‘That window opens on @ court.)on firm footing, to establish tteet,| 6 aimalie eut of the dog The drop from the sill js no more|as here, in the very heart of an} ve had dumped down on them. no words for Lalready know your| i" four geet, In the wall immedi-|exolusive residential district; as if “Oh, you're no good at helping,” |trouble. You should have come to| Jisiy opposite you will find a door.| thinking to absorb social sanctity he growled to Comet-Legs an he|™* sooner. This key opens it, Lock the door| thru the simple act of rubbing shoul- hopped off the star the two of them! “I'll help you atop the Twins and! behind you, and at your first oppos-| ders with It; or as wan more had been riding. “I can think of |get the magic automobiléMor Twelve | tunity throw away the key: I have likely to be the with @ woman more things by myself. Goodby!’ |Toes, your master. Ho tg an old|yeveral copies, You will find your-|of Liane Delorme's temper, desiring He waved his hand and jumped |friend of mine, you know, and I'm self in @ corridor leading to the en-| more to affront a world from which down to the earth and hunted up the | glad to help him. I ask no reward trance of the apartment house in| she was outeast than to lay siege caer el» Dial ef aE aeeeeeneeee cemeeennoneneneneerencenemenen Sour Old Witch who lived in under |exeept that he take mo for @ rida on the rear of tits, facing on the next/to its favor, rl > Sepereatl each of my birthdays which come|gtreet. Demand the cordon of the} It seemed, however, truly deplor| Now none of thege could have! Liane Delorme; or if they were not He was afraid to go back to Twelve |every hundred years.” concierge as if you were a Jato/able that Liane should have proved) withstood the attack of a man Of there, the secret of their hiding was, Toes, his master, for tear of getting, “That's just fine,” said LAght Win-| guest leaving one of the apartments,| so conventionalminded tn this par- {agenuity with a little time at his| Rut tomorrow beth, and more than] less of law and order as she he) another scolding. You see, tt was|gers happily. “I'll speak to him He will make no difficulty about| ticular respect. It rendered one's| disposal. But Lanyard could count! itkely Liane as well, would be on/aelf, And was afraid of thal ‘Twelve Toes who had ordered Light |about the rides. And now what can | opening. ... I think that is ail." pet project much too difficult of on only the few remaining minutes the wing; or Lanyard had been sore-|infinitely more disturbed in min¢ airoke, rvesied tka origi and ait Fingers to stop the Twinn and get |I do?” “Not quite, There remains for|ecution, Earnestly as one desired) of true night. Retarded tho it| ly mistaken In seeing in her as bad-| and spirit than she would have been ‘4 or end iteiuared Mie the magic automobile. Ho wanted it| The Sour O14 Witch reached into! me to attempt the impossible, to|to have a look at the inside of that| might be by shrouded skies, dawn/ly frightened a woman as he had/in the face of any threat on the Rica gertcd re lt olihig, for himeelt. her deep pocket and took out aniprove my gratitude, Athenals, in| house without the knowledge of its| must come all too soon for his com-|ever known, when ashe had learned| part of the police, The Prefecture Pr sigs Bh og ny ane ana ton Naan Well, Light Fingers had done |ege. mere, unmeaning words,” fumates, ita napeot waa forbidding| fort, Yet he wng conscious of nolof the assassination of de Lorgnes,| was a known and measured force,| the blow to fall. She was too hig everything he could, but it was of no “Tireak this In the path of the “Don't try, Paul.” The yotee was|and discouraging in the utmost ex-| choice in the matter; he must and It was possible, he thought it ex-/an engine that ran as ft were baad 45 pol ‘dghar aK. p Begg ge om use, The Twinn we iTwinst’ she cackled, “and instantly! softened once more, its ‘accents! treme, {n. spite of everything would know] tremely probable, that Liane De-| mapped lines of rail; its moves Bie Se, NE 1 coo pack to the la stone wall will wppear, so high and broken. “Words cannot serve us,| Heavy gates of wrought bronze] tonight what was going on behind) Lormo was ax powerful a Athenala| might be forecast, guarded againat,| Gofenoe ant, Ih Ble dese MINN! that very minu an fast ay they |so wide, they will never get over {t!"|you and me! ‘There is one way! guarded the front doors, The single| that blank screen of stone. Tomor- Reneaux had asserted; influential,; watched, evaded, But this other sae Gh Gn Ghee thalien Lanne could go. | Light Fingers thanked her, took, only, and that, T know, is . rue| side or servicedoor was similarly| row night would be too late, To-|that is, with the state, with the! force worked in the dark, this hos. any eee ren, Mek uk So off he hiked to the Sour Old | the egg and flew off, | Bare Her sad Inugh fluttered, | protected, if more ximply, And stout| night, if there were acy warren dealora In ita lawn and ne fies tile Fewer pesecnitieg tn the Sia Lah eee 088 waterfall, just as| (Vo Be Continued) she evept into his arms, ‘But atill,| grilles of bronze barred every win-| for his suspicions, the Jewels of Eve) pensers of its proto ‘ we , ‘ (Copyright, 1922, by Senttle Star) petit Monsieur Paul, she will not dow on the level of the street. de Montalais lay in the dwelling of she had not to reckon with such as} Dupont; the very composition of eo (Te Be Continued) THAT'S JUST EXACTCY WHAT Witt Be Don IF ‘COW Go in THERS ! these, but with enemies of her own! being was cloaked tn a secrecy tm- sort, with an antagonism aa reck-|Penetrable and terrifying, its Inten- i pt tlons and its workings could not be surmised or opposed until it struck and the success or failure of the ‘ ‘