The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 12, 1922, Page 13

PAGE 13 BY STANLEY THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHRFRN THE OLD HOME TOWN i (Continued From Yesterday) ce owas not knowl his attention from je defenses of the low: to the second. Here all the were of the type calied and opened inward from Dalconies with wrought failings, Lanyard was ac with every form pf fasten. fag toed for such windows; all were gale, none could resist his per. ‘ provided he stood upen ee of those balconies, Nor did he qeot Moa difficult matter for a re of bis activity and strength “ig male the front of the house as far as the second story; its wa were builded of heavy blocks of drewed stone with deep hortzontal ‘Gannels between each tier, These would be greasy with rain; ene could hardly ask for > patter footholds, A climb of some ) gor 18 feet to the balcony: one ghould be able to make that within {wo minutes, granted freedom from . The rub was th the quarter seemed quite fa 7 4 t | g@ieep; in the five minutes which @lapsed since Lanyard had en. : Nimeelf in the doorway no gar had passed, not a footfall Pad disturbed the stiliness, never 7g wound of any sort had come to ike attention other than one distant Dare of « twotoned automobile “horn from the neighborhood of the are de Triomphe. But dne dared Inet count on long continuance of och conditions. Already the sky goowed a lighter shade above t of the roofs. And one wake- 3 watcher at a nearby window would spell ruin. Nevertheless he must adventure the consequences. . . _ Poised to leave his shelter and |) @ert across the street, with his it of attack already selected, hia te already busy with consid- q@ation of steps to follow—he checked and fell stil! farther back into the shadow. Something was happening im the house across the had opened the service. paused behind the bronze was no light behind " . yed per- ‘eeptons had wone the lesy been tn- to remark that slight move- Ment and the accompanying change im the texture of the darkness barred by the gate. Fillowing a little wait, it swung slowly out, perhaps eighteen inches, “the man advancing with it and ‘again halting to peer up and down ‘the street. Then quickly, as if alarmed, he withdrew, shut the gate, disappeared, the ae: closing service- Listening intently, Lanyard heard of latch, such as should i! fastening the door. But he up to? Why this fur. rance, why the retreat so iy executed? of answer came the soft a high-powered motor; then it : i : id § g stately limousine coming from the _ direction of the avenue de Fried- land. Before the corner house it ae pres, a a ran to the door; but Liane Delorme would not ; him. The car had not when she threw the door the instant when its whee! to turn she jumped down toward the house, heedless open; Fy time one side of the re swung inward, and out to open the gates. with the umbrella, tho briskly, failed to catch up Liane before she sped up the eps. 80 he closed the umbrella and trotted back to his place beside the chauffeur. The footman shut gates and door as the limousine Moved away: it had not been sixty spends at rest. In fifteen more 345 OLD WITCH’S RUSE GOE: itself rolled into view, a| street and house were both as titey had been, save that a light now shone thru the plate «lass of the latter's great doors, And that was soon extinguished. Conceiving that the man who had appeared at the service entra | Was the same who had admitted | Idane, Lanyard told himself he un | derstood: impatient for his bed, the fellow had gone to the service gate to spy out for signs of madame's return. Now if only it were true that he had failed to close it se | eurely—! | It proved so. The gate gave read fly to Lanyard’s pull, The knob of the amali door turned silently, He epped across the threshold, and | shut himself into an unlighted hail, thoughtfully apeing the negtigence | of the servant and leaving the door j barely on the latch by way of pro. ion against a forced retreat | So far, good. He felt for hia pock.| et toreh, then sharply fell back into the nearest corner and made him self as tnconspicucus as might be. | Footsteps were sounding on the other side of an unseen wall, Ho waited, breathlexs, stirless A latch rattled, and at about three }yards’ distance @ narrow door| opened, marked by a widening glow} j light. A liveried footman—be-| yond 4 doubt he who admitted the} Mistress of the house—entéred, car-! rying an electric candle, yawned with a superstitious hand before his mouth and, looking to neither right nor left, turped away from Lan-| lyard and trudged wearily back to jthe household offices At the far end of the long hallway a door closed behind him—and Lanyard moved swiftly, The door which had let the foot Man into the hall admitted to a spacious foyer which set apart the entrance and—as the play of the electric torch discioned—a deep and richly furnished dining-room. To one side a broad flight of stairs as.| j condos Lanyard went up with the activity of a cat, making no more noise. | The second floor proved to be de-| Yoted mainly to a drawing-room, a| lounge, and a Mbrary, all furmtwhed! in @ weird, inchoate sort of mag:| nificence, with money rather than| with taste, if one might judge fairly} by the fitful and the torch. The been less questionable than Lan- yard thought; but the evidences of| [luxurious tendencies and wealth | recklessly wasted in their gratificn | ton were irrefutable. | Lights were burning on the foor above, and a rumor of feminine. | Voices drifted down, interrupted by tan occasional sibilant rustie of silk, or @ brief patter of high-heeled feet: Rolses which bore out the conjec ture that madame’s maid was un- dressing and putting her to bed; a. ceremony apt to consume a consid. jerable thme with a woman of Li- — eae and dispositian, passion. ately bent on preserving [stave & semblance of freshness tn jher charms. Lanyard reckoned on Ten minutes more, and Liane ought to be asleep. If it! turned out otherwixe—well, one would have to dea! with her awake. | [Ne need to be gravely concerned jsbout that: to envisage the contin-| gency was to be prepared against it. Believing he must possess his soul! in patience for an indeterminable| | wait, he was casting about for a! [Place to secrete himself, when a change in the tenor of the talk be-| [tween mistress and maid was con-| veyed by a sudden lift of half an/ octave in the latter's voice, sound. ing a sharp note of protest, to be! answered by Liane in accent of overbearing anger. One simply couid not rest with. yout knowing what that meant Lan. yard mounted the second flight of stairs as swiftly, surely, and sound. lensly as he had the firet, But just | below a landing, where the statrease! |had an angle, he paused, crouching j low, flat to the steps, his head lift- 4 just enough to permit bim to see, above the edge of the topmost, a section of glowing, rose-pink wall— it would be rone-pink! | He could see nothing more; and Liane had already silenced the | SS WELL AT FIRST BUT—) The stone wall appeared It all happened just as the Sour Old Witch, had said. You know she had given Light Fingers, the bad little fairy, a magic “If you break thin es in the road In front of the Twins,” she said, “a stone wall instantly will appear in their path, so high and so wide the Magic automobile will never get past ft. Then you can shove the Twins out and take the automobile home to your master, And it had all happened just as the Sour Old Witch had said—that is, this much had happened, the stone wall appeared and the magic (ar had to stop or get wrecked. Light Fingers, up in his tree-Top (where tr had hidden in order to throw down the egg at the proper time) laughed and laughed. He wax #9 tickled about everything that he forgot about grabbing the car as the Sour O14 Witch had said. But somebody elme was watching _ The Green Wizard had seen every: thigy. He bad helped the Twins right along and he wasn't going to desert them now. So he thought and thought and thought Suddenly he slapped his knee. “1 have it,” he said #0 loudly his volce echoed and re-echoed over hills | and forests and valleys like thunder. | Off he strode over his treetops and stepped down to the ground where @ three-cornered door led into Brownleland. He knocked three times and instantly a Brow | up hin head pres og “May I see Mr. Pim Pim, the King of the Brownies?” asked the Green Wizard. “Certainly, sir,” said the Brownle Pim Pim appeared at once and the Green Wizard whispered something into his ear. “My goodness! Is that so?" claimed the Brownie. “Of course 1'il help you. I'll get Mike Mole at once and all his helpers, We'll get that wall down in a hurry.” And away he went (To Be Continued) . Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stary ox A OW AUNTY= <> LOoKU'T “TH! SWELL BOAT MY FIDDLE MAKES != L WAS PLAYIN’ ON tT AN! ALL OF A SUDDENT L THOUGHT How rr COULD BE A BoxT~ lh Now I HAVETA GoUP AN! See IF PL 4 y FLOAT IN “TH! BATH TUB ! = OW, PANS WILL You GET ME SOME BREAKFAST | WANtTTYD Go OVT YD PLAY GOLF THIS MORNING ACK DAW, A WWHA§ WATCH H FoR MUG A WARMING & VESTER SHE CAUGHT HIM GHOOTING *< \ (MAGINARY ARROWS WITH STH! VIOLIN I= Vou COME DiSscar Now \G EAR \c GET y WTR ALL / WIS LESSONS We'LL NEVER BE ABLE "IO GET ANYTHING ouv oF “THAT bey FIDDLE BUT A FEW NICKELS AND PENNIES = WE USES IT FoR & BANK, too~ DAY BusNess 13 SHO’ A Funny GAme- DEY HAS TOGET UP BARLY | GUESS To GHEAK ARECUAR ARERICAN BOY, HAT STARTEO OUT TO FIND A TREASURE WHICH IS SUPPOCROLY BURIED FAR, FAR Awhy PROM HIST ME HAD A AAP WH GIVES THE BxACT LOCATION OF Tha BURIED GOLD He wanTS THiS AOAEY CO THAT HE CAN PROVIDE FOR HIS WIDOWED MOTHER. <jpemr HOR CE, LIGHTNING, AND We FAITHFUL DOC FLIP, AR& WIT COMPANIONS ON THE TRIP NATURALLY, THE LITTLE BOY MEETS WITH ADVENTURES. mAAY prcrero TOORY ARE THE ARIA CHARACTERS \A THE CTORY, JACK paws maid, or rather reduced her to re sponses feebly submissive, and, con- sonant with the nature of het kind, was rubbing it in. “And why should you not go with me to that America if I wish it? Lanyard heard her say, “Ie It jike ly 1 would leave you behind to spread scandal concerning me with that gabbling tongue in r head of an overgrown cabbage? It is some lover, then, who has inspired this folly in you? Tell him from me, if you please, the day you leave my service without my consent, it will be « sorry sweetheart that comes to him.” “It ie well, madame. I more. 1 will go.” “L believe it well—you will go! You were mad ever to dream other Fetch my jewel-case—the of steel, with the Ameri say no wine large one can lock.” Madame takes@ ati her then?” the maid inquired, about the room. “But naturally, What do you think? That I leave them here for| the scullery-maids to give their! maquereaux? 1 shall pack them to-! night, before I steep.” | (‘Damnation!"—from Lanyard. neath his breath. More delay) “And we leave tomorrow, madame, at what time?” it matters not, Cherbourg by midnight cide to make the trip by automo bile.” jewels, | moving be-| so we are in| I may 4de-| nd madame'’s packing ?”* “You know well what to pack, better than I, Get my boxes up the first thing in the morning and use your own judgment. “If there are questions to be asked, save| them until I wake up. I shall sleep till noon,” | “That is all, madame?” | “That is all." You may go.” | “Good-night, madame.” yd-night, Marthe.” | stairway was no place to] stop. Lanyard slipped like a shad ow to the floor below, and took shelter behind @ jog in the wall of the grand salon where, standing In| deep darkness, he commanded a} view of the hall. The maid came down, carrying an electric candle like the footman’s. Its rays illumined from below one of those faces of crude comeliness common to her class, the face of an animal not unintelligent but first | and jast an animal. With a hand on the lower newelpost she heat Th if her mistress, Potsed lost in| lifted | of her thought. ae thus, face partly turned away from Lan-| respect to this; there was no key;| ground and thudded softly, speaking|er to compromise him. was|and the combination dial was smug|a living language to his hearing. In| what vanity is man's!" yard, its half-seen expression hopelessly ambiguous, But .some weoret. thought amuxed the woman, *ADVENTURES' of her full-dipped mouth. One something sardonic in that covert smile. | She went on down. A latch on the ground floor clicked as the door to the service hallway was gently closed. Lanyard eame out of hiding with a fresh enterprise abrew, One must kill time somehow, Li a yuld be at least another half an hour busy with hy jewelry, and the thought presented itself that the library immediately beneath her room, should be worthy an in Yestigation, In such establishments it ja a tradition that the household safe shall be located somewhere in the Mbrary; and such strong boxes apt to be naive trivances. Lanyard did not hope to find the Montalais jewels st d away in such a place, Liane would surely take better care of them than that assuming they were in her posses 1 they would be under her hand, ¢ not confused with her own treasures; still it could do no harm to make sure } Confident of being warned at a need by his hearing, which was normally supersensitive and, when he was engaged as now, keyed to preterhuman = acuteness, he went coolly about the business, and at} hig first. step found a portable read ing-lamp on a long cord and coolly switche The lbrary bulky old Italian pb of carved oak, not especially well selected, but are | suitable, enough with one exception, & ponderous buffet, an exquisite bit ot workmanship beth in design and in detail but completely out of place} in a room of that eharacter, At} least nine feet in length, it stood | out four from. the wall. Three! heavy doors guarded by modern} locks gave access to the body be neath ite tier of drawers, But—this drow a frowning stare— there was a key in the lock of the middie | “The luck,” Lany the servic this, ready to my He swung sharply round and} searched every shadow in the room! with the glare of the portable lamp;| but that was work of supereroga-| tion was alone on that floor. door | ‘s such a thing as#.too much a muned. “First wi . and now UP ON 'EM~ * AUNT SARAH PEABODY FINDS OPpposITION To HER CAMPAIGN To FIRE MARSHAL OTEY WALKER-, abe rage ovo DOUBLE TROUB “Well, that's too long, and too grown-up a story,” sald Mra. Wilt. “but af 1 sorts of discuxsions and tryings of one sort and an other, in 1861 the university actually was built in Seattle. “It was not where it is now, of course, you know; it was on the corner of Third and University st “City lots didn’t those days. All that beautifu Denny Fuhrman tract was bought for about 50 centa an acre, in 1870. | “There weren't any unions in thoxe days, and most of the plo- | neers did whatever work needed to be done, So it ned that s of men worked with thelr t the clearing of the land and the digging of the excava tions for the foundation, and ny ing the bricks, and the sawin and hammering that built our firet university, “Then, when it was all done, with the university itself Gust one big white building), house for out-of-town students, and a president's house, there wasn't money enough to oper: ate it, ‘You see, even in 1870, there weren't ax many people in all of Washington as there are in Ever: ett today. Bo there weren't enough people to pay the taxes that would support a state univer. sity, and it was closed again and again to know, {t had yet to be dealt with by the shade of the Lone \P it Amused by the conceit, Lanyard | he had already made sure he) jaid hold of the knob with steady, nothing to interest him, whose one bound with | delicate fingertips that had not yet,/aim was the recovery of the Mon-, and clearly docketed. Placing the lamp on the floor and} jp spite of years of honorable idle-| talais jewels, ‘The safe was, in fact,|ing else whatever, But his eye was cost. much in | cost much ID) Wino has been a civil engineer for | diploma; a boarding | 9.” You wouldn't be interested to hear about all the men who toll ed to make the new university Some of them you know about already, and some of them are alive and busy in offices in Seat. ight now “There's Mr. Clarence Bagley, who wrote the big history of Seat tle, and Mr. F, H. Whitworth, here's Mrs. Edgar Hill, the teacher, who came as a bride ou remember she and her hus- pand tried it for a while. 1 went to school to Mrs, Hill when she first came “And there were Asa Shinn Mercer, the first one, and a Mr Barnard, who thought the West Yonst in general and Seattle in articular were simply too bad to and then the others whom 1 really remember-—dear Dr. Whitworth, who signed my Prof. Hall, who was president when I entered the ; Miss May Thayer and ra, Tell "Of course, it wasn't really a university then. But all those brave men and women held firm- | ly to the belief that If they didn’t kive up, some day it would grow into # sure enough state univer- every single teacher had Money to pay them, opt Miss Thayer, and r Bagley calls ‘a (To Be Continued) to leave you see) the bolts slide back into their sock. | PAPers: ets, and opened the door wide, But the racked pigeonholes jat hazard, and emptied it of sev-) held eral BY ALLMAN BY ELTON [Rem ntoraeg rar cnr] [pomreveewon.] N THE NEXT CHAPTER WE Wits FIND JACK ON HIS! WAY. PICTURE? AND STORY wits TELL,DAILY, WHAT HAPPENS TO JACK LICHTAING, AND FLA BY CONDO OH, NOTHIWG, MR. TRUE — Tee -HGE,— ONLY WHEN JENKINS WAS AGouT To SIT DOWN COULDN'T RESIST z THe TSMPTatTiION To PULL THE, CHAIR | MWERETT TRUE ° WHAT'S ALLE THis Com- MOTION OvTh Here & I AlLwarS HANDLE A PRacticalL JOKGR IN a cociliniaaiinniannsiiimiimmssanih | A ea ef, emammancmmaneeeet He selected a pigeonhole} Suddenly he put out a hand and witched Off the light, a gesture letters, tH: uite involuntary, simpie reaction to ihe “or faded ribbon | {® mutfled thump of a chair overs .| turned on the floor above. It held noth Sounds of scuffing followed, as if bundles of adjusting its hood so that it fo-| ness, forgotten their cunning, Then/ dedicated simply to the storage of; caught by @ great name indorsed) ane were dancing to no music cussed squarely upon the section of the buffet, he turned the a small safe. of the safe. To his informed manip. middie} he flattened an ear to the cold face) documents, “Love letters!" tated, looking up toward the room| key and discovered, behind the door,| ulation the dial whirled,” paused, re-| with a grimace of weariness. “And, his brows rose high while his lips versed, turned all but imperceptibly,|each believed, no doubt, she cared shaped @ soundiess whistle, jon the face of the packages; and) With a heavy-footed partner, Thon Lanyard mused! reading what else was written there|® groan... His hands moved so rapidly and If an|eftly that, altho he seemed to rise ‘The run of luck did not hold in| while the hidden mechanism clicked,|too much for him to hold her pow-| inference were fair, Liane had kept| Without a second’s delay, the safe with ill-grounded ite inviolable integrity. confidence in three minutes he sat back on his Then the consideration “\¢ offered | Still (Lanyard| heels, grasped the T-handle, turned| that property of veal value might|in his band an instrument to bend| pocket, @ shadow deepened in the visible told: it) it could hardly be expected] it, had the satisfaction of hearing’ be hidden behind those sheaves ofj the woman to his Will... Good Lordt| not only guch documents asx gave! was closed and the combination her power over others, Lanyard | locked when he did so, the buffet wondered If it were possible he held| door was shut and its key in ‘bio