The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 13, 1922, Page 15

From Yesterday) time Lanyard aso without heeding what ne Nevertheless his actions never awkward t-timed; he sggeea® was not heard, his ar eat on the upper landing Was un- {Instantaneous pause he to the rose-pink room and Liane Delorme, in a negligee af a eb over a nightdress more sheer, kneeling and claw: wen ber throat, round which a handkerchief was slowly ! tigen her face already purple girangulation, her eyes bulging from their sockets, her tongue pro truding between swollen lips. ‘A thick knee was planted between noise or jonded the) Honless, | the halfehut lds. He was so mo- he seemed scarcely to breathe, Lanyard dug the toe of a {boot into hte ribs none wo gently, | but without sath mction of any jdoubta, The fellow gave no sign of sensibility, but utterly re. taxed, with the look of one dead. Lanyard frowned uneasily, He | had seon men drop dead from blows | leas powerful than his, and tho this one had well earned a death swift jand merciless, Lanyard experienced {@ twinge of horror at the thought Often enough it had been his lot in times of peace and war to be forced to fight for life, and more than jonce to kill tn defense of it; but that had never happened, never could happen, without his suffering 3 Nintes. ‘The ends of] th® bitterest regret. Even now, in bo ETc ast rere tn the atnewey the caso of this bloody-handed - hen Loon hbeedrg butcher, this ruthless garroter . . i ants yest Dropping to his knees, Lanyard — bent over the body to search for ae symptoms of animation, He per conceivably even a journeyman| ved them instantly, With incon Kaew the thrit of} ce¥able suddenness Dupont demon ngler may ate al pride In a good job well @one: Dupont was grinning at his work, and so intent upon ft that Ris first intimation of any Intorfer ence came when Lanyard took him from behind, broke his hold upon the woman (and lamentably failed to Dreak bis back at the same time) Whirled him round with a jerk that all but unsocketed an arm and, be fore the thug could regain his bal ‘ance, placed surely on the heel of his jaw, Just Delow the ear, a blow that, coming straight from the shoulder and carrying all Lanyard bad of weight and force and will to in spite of Dupont’s heavt fess fairly lifted him from his feet and dropped him backwards across & chaise-longue, from which he to the floor. ke th & crowded, Ao“ SCe Tt was just | Dreathiess business ith bruised and achin « knuckles t the blow had been @ee to stun an ox, Lanyard be Heved it safe to count Dupont hers @e combat, for a time at least. In any event, the risk had to be yehanced: Liane Delorme was tn a demanding tmmediate relief. all likelihood she had lost con- some moments before ri's intervention. Released, had fallen positively inert, and Semi-prostrate on a shoulder, Imbs grotesquely slack and i in unpleasant mimicry Broken doll. Only the whites Dioodahot eyes showed in her / and distorted countenance. Arms and legs twitched spasmod- feally, the ample torso was violently shaken by laboring lungs. The twisted handkerchief round her throat had loosened, but not enough to give relief. Lanyard re- she lay supine, wedged silken pil lows from the chaise-longue be- neath her head and shoulders, then reached across her body, took from Ber dressing table a tollet-water Mask 0f lovely Italian glass, and @renched her face and bosom with it~ pungent contents. She gasped, started convulsively, and began to breathe with less ef. fort. That dreadful rattling tn her ‘throat was stilled. Heavy lids cur- tained her cyes. Lanyard continued to apply the feented water with a lavish hand. In time the woman shuddered, @ighed profoundly, and looked up ‘With a witless stare. Man is measurably a creature of Gestures stereotyped when the world was young: Lanyard patted the Womap’s hand ag one might com- fort an abused child. “It is all right Bow, Liane,” he said tn @ reassur- fag voice. “Rest tranquilly. You will soon be yourself again. But wait: I will find you a drink.” | She said nothing, her look con- tinued cloudy; but the dazed eyes followed him as he got up and cast{ about for a giass of water. But then he remembered Dupont, d decided that Liane could wait Snother minute while he made it ble for the Apache to do more mischief. He moved round the longue and paused, chaise- moved it, turned her over so that/ strated that he was very much alive. An arm like the flexible iimb of a tree wound itself affectionately round Lanyard’s neck, clipped his |head to Dupont's yearning bosom, |ground his face tnto the flannel j folds of @ foul-scented shirt, simul-| taneously the huge body heaved | Predigiously, and after a brief in-| jterval of fantastic floppings, tke] & young mountain feli on top of! Lanyard. | But that was the full measure! }of Dupont’s success in this gem. If hopelessly victimized and jtaken by surprise, Lanyard should have been better remembered by the man who had fought him at Mont- | pellierde-Vieux and again, with oth ers assisting, on the road to Nant; tho it Is quite possible, of course, rate. that Dupont falled to recognise his ar tent enemy in clean-shaven Mon. * Paul Martin of the damp and | bedrag: evening clothes, However that may have been, in the question of brute courage, Du- }Pont had yet to prove lacking, His every instinct was an Apache's: left to himaelf he would strike always from behind, and run like a cur to cover, But cornered, or exasper-| ated by opposition to his vast pow-| ere—something which he seemed quite unable to understand—he could fight like a maniac. He was hardly better now, when he found himself thrown off and attacked in jturn at a time when he believed his antagonist to be pinned down, helpless, at the mercy of the weapon for which he was fumbling. And the murderous fury which animated him then more than made up for want of actenco, cool-headedneag and imagination. | They fought for thetr most deeply- Teoted passions, he to kill, Lanyard to live, Dupont to batter Lanyard into conceding s moment of respite in which a weapon might be used, Lanyard to prevent that very thing from happening. Even as animal in a pit they fought, now on thet: knees straining each to break the other's hold, now wallowing together) on the floor, now on their feet,| slogging like brulsers’ of the old school. | | Dupont took punishment ta he role doses, and asked for more.| Shedding frightful blows with only }@n angry shake of his head, by | would lower it and charg: a wild boar charges, while his huge arma| flew like lunatic connecting-roda. The cleverest footwork could not alwa: the could not wholly escape that frantic | shower of fi Time and again Lanyard suffered | blows that jarred him to hig heels, time and again was fain to give ground to onslaught that drove him beck till hix shoulders touched @ wall, And more than once to. ward the end he felt his knoes buckle beneath him and saw his jshrewdest efforts fall for want of | force. The sweat of his brows stung jand dimmed his eyes, his dry| | tongue tasted its salt. He stag-| gered tn the drunkenness of fatigue, and suffered agonies of pain; for his exertions had strained the newly! looking down! knitted tissues of the wound in hie|‘é, issue. ADVEN The little car se Nancy and Nick got into pecks of touble on their way to the Fairy Qiten's Palace in the magic auto Mobike, but they always got out gain. And when the Sour Old Witch Gtived a high wall to appear right Sree the road in front of them Mike Mole and a thousand of his Belpers became active at once They dug and dug and dug until they had tunnels running cris Cross and cross-crias in every diree- fon right under the wall, and in @ Mitty the whole thing tumbiea down quite flat, leaving space between the fallen stones for the little car to slide thru. Of course Nancy had to way a Sharm like this: *Magic auto, hurry fast, And we'll reach Fairyland at last.” And Nick had to turn the knob on the whirligig betweon the Jigama- and the thingumabob, But that was all, OF THE TWINS ea ehifully. Since his fall Dupont) side, and the hurt of this was whol.|_ Chairs. the chalselongue, tae eae sipaeaeite Bad made neither moan nor stir.| ly hellish. Ol-| were overturned and ed about.| like a sot... y hellish, lla idl No crescent je Priceless bits of porcelain and glass,| At that momen i quuebaeesnetaiante saat Seawesbennate! | Wet ‘siete “be he enaard some-| iginps, vases, the fittings of the| not have mustered a show of Inter-! Page 806 ldressing-table were cast down in/est had he been told Dupont was] TURES ooted right thru The little car began to move, and |scooted right thru the gap like a |shiny red bug scurrying toward its| hiding hole Light Fingers, the bad little fairy, who had really caused the trouble, was up in a juniper-tree laughing jand laughing and laughing—laugh- ing because the wall had stopped the |Twins, He was holding his sides and jwas 0 busy laughing he never |noticed the wall fall down and the magic automobile roll away Suddenly he stopped and stared so |hard his eyes nearly dropped out of |his head. | “Wh-wh-what'’s happened?” he |masped. He was so astonished he {fell plumb out of the tree and landed on his head | “Oh, oh, ob! I'll never get that old | automobile,” he howled loudly. | ‘What's that?’ asked a sharp voice. “Who said you wouldn't?” Light Fingers turned and saw the Sour Old Witch beside him. (To Be Continued) Wopyright, 1922, by Seattle Star Jed up and tottered hither and| ing bones Peray's eyes en Mke a bewildered child, in the were dreams poisoned by chagrin telling memory stories to a pair! geology, and she bag noice bee (inning too bemused to be able/ when what was mortal no longer : yo ~ 4, »y| the children never learned wha + proreay hyp the way of the com-| mattered Three times had he|| f kiddies. “You see," she said, “I| 01 oo, nad to learn to win that batants, If she crouched against; como to grips with Dupont and, entered the university tn 1869;) ¢irst diploma. a wall, battling bodies brushed her/tho he had been Le we serge that was the first year of its Peggy's eyes got bigger and |away from it pi she take re tuge the road to Nant, tn Langart'e sighs et eee ue ee hs birger, and rounder and rounder, orner she must abandon it} the hone ere fa 7 ab tire, Wik. wateed off O10 ply yd Fr Once she sturmbled| Neither would they be while yet|] ‘closed its doors’ since. words, til] she looked like a very =< , yetween the two, and before Lan-| the other lived or was at large “I went to school like any other! much astonished little pink and — peste adudd' taco her aside Dupont] The bitterness of failure and de- uid as firet. caliah thar then | cane ook THEN THESE Two Cetter lL cave had failen back half a dozen feet|foat had so rank a flavor in his/} Te nut my parents were not sat-| And David flopped over, hold- Yov to MAIL ARG and worried a pistol out of his thoughts that eae aed TB = iafied to have me Just study along | ing his head with one hand, and MWwO WEEKS OLD Th) cloth concerned him now of oe imless! id, feelingly, “Some studies! aie gong A first from the hip, and|ten Liane Delorme for oe grammer a on Ae hd ah saiial a aid’ ‘chek “eatie pou, itr. THAT'S HOW "Dear” ° or att a the irror of| her arm passed beneat his shoul-| # na “ 4 ou call ‘em? the Srouatthe’: Sra te bet-| ders and tried to lift them from) ary sock i onan ok a ven peas hip ng wh of 3 AM TO You ne ter alm, he lifted and leveled the| the floor, He looked up then wet are going now you could gradu-| philosophy or something. Did ¥ weapon with a iy te arm which a ome gs —_ esda tits te tin | te from college when you are 18.| you really learn all that stuff you he nought to steady by cupping the| knee by his side, p “ bi pons sce an hie lett bend, But the| ture .tiet sontident Aik! reasuriagit- “kes eave sos the ambition. (01 nemam wre 1a necond bullet ploughed into the ceil-| smile with which he had greeted worth arranged a regular college | Wilt said, “Yes, young man, I cer- pan seep ie ee Se a eee eg oF sit up, mon-|| Preparatory and four years’ col-| the whole class and there was no and narrowly succeeded in kioking| | “Come! she sald—Oalt up, mon |} toys ‘wor, yA saga greg ae dl t istol from Dupont’s grasp. sieur, and a . ve St ge oe the ": his last hope—they | lend you strength. You need it.” What did I study? Let me] one had to be lea et, et re too evenly matched, and both| God knew he did! His throat wi see—higher arithmetic, geog-| didn't get me a very brilliant de- ‘00 evenly matched, and bo tod knew he did t . ‘ ! te én Prtiarge Minoan to force a|like a furnace flue, his mouth held Hg Ont eel &e0 mores v ~ - I gongs pigyssacead |victory with his naked hands—the| the taste of leather, But for that See ates by P < ee Paglia Apache swung round and ran, at| thirst, indeed, he coulé hardly have n joa daleiee fot s GL MEE the mame time throwing a heavy| found the energy to ald her efforts per dss cs a Kae ieee Posey, by Scipio oe chair over on its back in the path! and lurch upon an elbow, A white- o yee pid beset La Hy a4 fn! hye 0 of pursuit, Unable to avold it, Lan-| hot lancet pierced his wound, and/ pod Li agar er ra ee’ Sete eres damived yard tried to hurdle it, caught a!tho he locked his teeth against it a oor Be: adh Sak tetae oct lc co A foot on one of its legs and, as Du-| groan forced out between them. The we ro ‘ Pp iy: 4. THE OLD HOME TOWN THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN OUR BOARDING Hol SE WOOP ~ #!- GOSH HANG “1W’ LUCK —: “THAT'S “TH' EXPENSIVE “SEXTET FROM Pa LUCY RECORD = MA THEY ALL Gor ai CRACKED VOICES, BY STANLEY NO-NO -1 SAY OPPOSITION 1S BEGINNING | ANSHAT RECORD 1S MRS. HOOPLE'S FAVORITE SHRILL« 27 WA-MA- BUS* AN! /Nou Ses’ GOT DWE / SHOUTING ABouUT SLIPPING “THROUGH You'D BETTER STEP FRIDAY “TH! THIRTEENTH OUT FAST AN! BUY | Wrihour GETTING f-——] ANOTHER COPY, OR NUDGED BYoL MAN [| GHeEILL PACK YouR WARD LUCK = HA-HA- EARS FULL OF YoU WERE “TH' LAST” SNARLS = AN'GEeT CUSTOMER on SOME COUGH WiS ROUTEs DROPS FOR “His ONE = 7% Now ~! 22 whtd e Po AUNT SARAH PEABODYS CAMPAIGN ‘TO OUST MARSHAL OTEY WALKER 'S \DAY THE 1374 ADDS BUSTE “oO THE LisT DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Tr a - ul thy Alar ‘ Guess (iu BE A MOE GUY AND WALK UP A COUPLE BLOCKS ) AND GeT A Stat! 4 4éQ\TOP right where you are, you young scamp,” commanded the man when Jack reached him. “Can't you see that this ts a private road, oF aren't you able to read?” (Continued) ACK’'S horse, Lightning, used his strength and tore down the road. In the meantime Jack spied a man some distance ahead. Hoe was standing in the road holding @ gun. ACK looked over his map carefully and found 1EN tho little adventurer decided to take & that by taking this road he could cut off many chance ahd continue on this blocked nai miles from his journey to the hidden treasure. “Come on, Flip,” yelled Jack. “No more stops unt! This meant the saving of much time, we find the buried gold.” | ar Seattle _ « Lanyard pillowed his head on al forearm and lay sobbing for breath. } Liane Delorme turned and ran to) the front of the house. Presently she cama back drooping, sank into a chair and with lack lustre eyes regarded the man at her) te | how, strangely to him, to escape annihilation and find enough in re- serve to fly back at Dupont's throat upon the first indication of desire on the part of the latter to yield the offensive. To do less were to permit him to find and use his weapon, whatever {t might be whether knife or pistol was beside she sald super. “T saw He got away,” fluously, in a faint volee. + Sd + By Mabel Cicland—_» fr + FIRST GRADUATE tronomy, physiology, botany and geology- Mrs, Wilt caught a glimpse of just as she said THE Mrs, Wit hurried on with her story, for she really didn't feel as if she could spend a whole day returning at the head of a horde, He closed his tired eyes and envied the lucky dead whose rest was in-| pendent of bruised flesh and ach Neither, he supposed, fragments to the floor. Constrained to look to herself or be trampled underfoot, and galvan- ized with terror, the woman strug her reviving senses... a long, long! ing as Lan in desperation exe course for me, with two years’! tainly had to arn it all, I was ences—chemistry, physics, as- (To Be Continued) es A HTT A ne 1 out at the rapid ebb of his face. pont threw himself headlong down| woman ert the stairs, crashed to the floor with! color from “But you are suffering! i t that shook its beams. ri vain willpower lifted him to his! He forced a gray smile. “Tt ts) “Your thanks!"—sho laughed with| the hearts of men... We are all| said bitterly, again and again as he—not unaided knees bafore he collapsed, his last| nothing," he whispered hoarsely—| indulgent scorn—"your thanks to| very much alike, I think.” Lanyard gave her a weary smile.| got upon his feet; and tho he man+ ce of endurance wnsted, Then|“it will pass. If you please—that| me!” “No,” the woman insisted: “you|“Why should I not? And as for Se webas, With Ming Graveries,| trite” He offered to rise, but was re-|do reproach me, In your heart you|that: Why should I have faith in| ®8e¢ to gulp down his groans, no a figure like « fury, sped to the! She put a knee behind his shout-| strained by kindly hands. have said: ‘She has forgotten that,|you, Liane? Our ways run leagues| &tinding of his teoth could mitigate banister rail and leaning aver emp-| ders for support, and he rested his| “No: rest there a little longer,| but for me, she would have been| apart.” his recurrent pallor or the pained little time before tied the several shots remaining in| head back upon it and drank deep) give yourself a dead long years ago. This service,| “They can be one.” contractions of his eves, Further Dupont’s automatic down the well!from the glass which she held you try to get up.” too, she will presently forget.’ But} She met his perplexed stare with! more, he wavered when he tried @ of the staircase, It is doubtful if| his lips. Nectar of Olympus was) “But T shall tire you...” yo uare wrong, my friend. It ts/an emphatic nod, with eyes that he! walk, and was glad to subside into she saw anything to aim at or ae-|never more divine than that deep| “No, And if you did, what of/ true, the years between had made} could have sworn were abrim with|a chair to which the woman guided eomplished more than to wing the| draught of brandy and soda, Hoe|that? It seems to me, my friend,| that other time a little vague with} tendernes: He shook his head as| him, Then she fetched him another Apache's flight. Dupont had gained| thought he quaffed Life itself in| I owe to you my life, s old remoteness in my memory; but|if to shake off a ridiculous plaguing| brandy and soda, put a lighted olg- the second story while Lanyard was| its distilled quintessence, its pure| “To me it seems you do,” he) tonight has brought it all back and/ notion, and grinned broadly, “That}aret between his lips, picked up @ still fighting up from his fall. The|elixir. His look of gratitude had| agreed. “But such @ debt ts always|—a renewed memory never fades."|was a drink!" he declared. “I as.| chair for herself, and sat down, so last report and the crash of the|almost the spirit and the vigor of| the first to be forgotten, is it not?"} “So one is told. But trust self-| sure you, tt was too much for my|close to him that their elbows ab “You reproach me interest at need to black it out.” elderly head, Let mo up. “No, mademoisell most touched, “You have no faith in mo” she] ‘The cruel agony stabbed his side| front door, slammed behind Dupont| himself renewed. were as one heartbeat to the next. “My thanks, mademolselle ,, .” not you, but Tomorrow) ecti-taliniatanina engi startin mineeiiiable