The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1922, Page 9

: MR. PORTLAND «So WHY SAY CAP « HA- HA - HNOUR PUGILISTIC \E=/1! BIGGEST FIGHT |] NAPOLEQN FUTURE WOULD BE LEVER HAD WAS [-) COULDN ie WF You PUT |<] with A MANAGER = [MANAGE “THAT |") He couLDN'r “We BUSINESS Sipe |"| He GvPED Me our |.|HAM= He's AS Pl ees Hie at 1) STUBBORN AS |) BookED UP “1 OF Roxie ui -me | | oF HY SHARE. OF STH!| |S TNE ice SCRAP aul OLD GATE AN'T DIDNT |] "ben! ~ Vou CAPABLE MANAGER®| | EVEN GETA HINGES) | Gayibr -ei L\ SUPPOSING You LeT | | THATS WHY I'M HIM How “To \ ME ASSUME “THAT PACKIN’ MY PokES/ | FiaHT A y) RESPONSIBILITY 2 | Continued From Yesterday) so TL got up when the first streak of “Didn't you know who waa the | laht showed tn the sky-there'd been mier crackaman of France? That|® young cloud-burst just before that, gotng on Mademoiselle Delorme’s|@Md I wae soaked to my skin~and unt of him; she says there was|*truck off across the causse for anybody lke that poor devit| God. knew-where, De Lorgues and I iP putting the comether on a safo— had fixed that, if anything did hap. ng yourself, Monsieur le Loup | Dn to separate ua, we'd each strike Beul, in your palmy days. And she| for Lyons and the one who got there ht to know; those two have been | first would walt for the other at the | Ing together since the Lord| Motel Terminus. But before I could when, A sound, conservative | do that, I had to find a raflroad, and Bird, de Lorgnes; very discreet, tight 1 didn’t dare go Millaueway, 1) thed even when drunk—which| thought, because the chances were | Was too often.” a gendarmes would be waiting | a> oat Interesting—| ere to nab the first bind that blew saan sate ae eparated: yan ana|!® all covered with mud and carry: | ALONE NOW = 3 ing a bag full of diamonds, | y de Lorgnes? “Ts saw Sar TH I'd managed to hold onto the grt "Bod luck, a black night, and—T/enry fr all, you ace: but before that | we) ber? BA guess there's no more question about | day was done I wished I'd lost {t. The | f ; Split Mhis—your friend. Popinot-Dupont./ damned thing got heavier and) ‘ mt TH say this for that biighter: as & | heavier till it must have welghed « x ; ty geiftmade spoil-sport, he sure did give | grows ton. It galled my hands and| f : servi rubbed my legs till they were sore Ww Phinult gave his whisky and soda) | Areminiscent grin. ‘ “And we thought we were being right, at that! We'd figured every | move to the third dectmal point. The only uncertain factor tn our calcula tone, ae we thought, was you, But . IL was sore all over, anyway, de nnd out. . . “Some time durtng the morning 1 climbed out of those bum mounds | they call couronngs to see if I could jsight any place to get food and! you disposed of dead to the /@rmk. preferably drink. ‘The wun | world, and Madame de Montaials off| Ad dried my clothes on my back | and then gone on to make ft a good tn another part of the chateau call. | & Ing the servants to help, leaving her | °° © soaking up all the moisture in }my system. I figured I was losing rooms wile open to us—the job/ ee sie ee aden ae Ewe eleven pounds an hour by evapora. de Lorgnes made that safe give up| 2 Alone, and expected to arrive Be ee cee uni wherever I did arrive, if I ever had raised tt by hand! We stuffed | STV" Anywhere, looking like an the loot into a grip T'@ brought for| SY eyptian prune, . . . the purpose. and beat It—aitpped out |_“The View from the couronne didn’t thru the drawing-room window one |*20W Mme anything I wanted to see, second before Madame Ge Montalale/OWly ® number of men in the dis-| te ae |tance, spread out over the face of . er re ne eat Oaliring fre usse and quartering it like SALESMAN $AM ween STERDAY MAYOR DOOLITTLE CLEVERLY AVOIDED " (Si’ PORTLAND K.0'S HE =< Coo “atormana NEW MAN To TAKE MARSHAL. CTEY WA MATOR'S IDEA : PLACE - BUT AUNT SARAH PEABODY CoRNERED HIM TODAY __ Sam Certainly Explained BY SWAN man of hers, But they never even | t?¢ looked our way. I bet they never | bones I moctennse Pleased whet (/ %y YOU WONT ai there'd been bbery till the | *0rt Of game they were hunting, and WGONT = ~ , WHAT! \— Yoo WAN poT oem tk pote cor . “| slid down from that couronne and be rx cs Boe omy ox 100 vyat com al we men: “No, monsieur; you are quite |‘f#veled. ' But they'd seen me, and| SB hy fon LATHER FOR A WHY MAN, YOU 30ST STARTED Monte plan) |somebody sotinded the view-halloo. |] |" SHAVE> GUESS TLL HAVE TO DOTA. COURLN wens Aco J \ Mt MOREY. WITH 4200 — NUTHIN' DOIN’ yr > CAN Se er eon DO “HAT? fa BY CONDO S32 (T ACC SIMMGRED Down To 4 CARE “Well then: We had left our ma. |! was grand exercise for me and! ra Reha FOR MoRt MONEN Millnu—Just over the brow of the | Couldn't totter another yard 1 felt! Bill, standing on the down-grade, | into ® hole tm the ground—one of | Meshed in third, #0 she would start | °F Httle cave, and lay thero list without a sound as soon as we re te the suck and gurgle of mi when we got there, it t hi to waste under my feet, and me teagan ae gag mane | dying the death of a dog with thirst for your candle, after de Lorgnes |®°¥ longer. I crawled out, prepared had Nifted tt behind your hack. And|‘® surrender, give up the plunder, Popinot and his crew; tho we didn’t|*p me @ cup of water, But for! know who in hell: tt might have been | S0mM® reason they'd given up the | thought ft was... ever they were. And a Ittle later | “T lost de Lorgnes tn the shuffle found a peasant’s hut, and watered had become of him till we got Liane's|ONCd pup. They give me a brush. Se aad = it wire this morning. I was having al! / Gown. there, and something to eat . - . . LO: SER thank you. I happened to be carry.| Millau. It evemed that I was a hun-| "4 * y on ing the grip, and that helped a ik dred miles from anywhere else, so it FRECKLES AND HIS F RIENDS swings, and I life sentence tn a French prison. “I sneaked into the town after as pitch,| Nobedy took any notice of me. I night—and beat {t biind. Idjcowldn’t see the use of going all where I was beading than an| have had to in order t6 make Lyons. at nogn of @ sunny day. But | By the time I'd got there, de Lorgnes to see tn the dark all right: | Paris.” I was looney with fright.) Phinult finished his drink. “I'l! say mnake a pass at me | time I fee! the call to crime, believe V'a duck and/ me! I'm going out and snatch nurs. I found myself} prams . . . But they must limbing a steep, rock slope, and | asleep. ae: bs the chateau. It was a sort of aig-zag | trom his chair. path, which I couldn't see, only; ““It was a good yarn first time I they were stil! after me, or I thought | I notice, even the Sybarite Is gett they were, so I floundered on. The | reatleas.” . ides: with mud, and about every third step tive the black disks of night framed Ta silp end go sprawling. 1 can't|by the polished brass circles of the legs shoot out Into nothing. and dug | violet, then int. ul my fingers into the muck, or broke |ly into a warm yet crt ay vont ‘The captain graphically rubbed a) simpler than you'd think.” dine—we had driven over from |STeSt_ sport for them. When 1/ headed for Nant, with the gears) ‘hose avens—and crawled into a sort | leased the emergency brake. Rut of Sallons of nice cool water r me think of you pawing that table| “After a while I couldn't stand it i then of a sudden they jumped usa, | 80d lick the boots of any man who'd | the chateau people. In fact, at first | CDs. I saw no more of them, who. immediately, never did know what! ™yself till I swelled up like a pols i I could do to take care of myself, | Se*ides, and put me on my way to) f —— Somebody's head got in the way of /W9* Millau for mine if ft meant a dark, and took the first train north. my flashlamp and had no more| found Robin Hood's barn, as I'd Popinot outfit—seemed to} would have given up and gone on to & while somebody or | it was a gay young party. The next Ing bottles trom kids asleep in their Ruessed It must be the cliff behind| Monk Ufted himself by sections guess at. I was scared stiff; but| heard it,” he mused aloud. “But now, path, tf it was a path, was slimy! In the course of Phinult’s narra. tell! you how many times [ felt my! stern ports had faded out into dusky my hails on rocks and caught clumps |the main deck overhead was a souna.|‘Dumb over two fingers, donned his) “One has found that true of most of grass with my teeth, to keep from |ing-board for thu eap, buttoned up his tunic, and strode | mysteries, monsieur.” 0 ry going over... and all the while |many hurried feat hm And rustle of rorth with an impressive gait | “1 don't mind telling you all I feet} FCAVIAT EMPTOR” Bur, OF Cours6,- that all gone feeling in the pit of my| “Pilot come aboard, you think?r’| “Still wakeful?” Phinult binted/at tberty to . . . You seem to have | ar Geattle * TRUS, THIS (S ALL "INTER Noss! ” san, You, Know * | . ; rd ; OD lic Cleland 4 Page $13 stomach... Phinuft inqutred; and added, as Monk | hopefully. la pretty good Iine on mademoiselie “However, I got to the top In the | nodded and east about for the visored| “And shall be till we drop the pilot, | and I've told you what I know about | end, and crawled tnto a hollow and | white cap of his office: “Didn't know | thanks.” | de Lorgnes. As for the skipper, he’s lay down behind some bushes, and! pilots were such early birds." “If I hadn't seen de Lorgnes make |the biack sheep of a good old Now |} 4 Panted as if my heart would break,| “They're not, as a rule. But if| that safe alt uy 4idn’t | En«lad family, Rar away to 5 4 . p and speak, and 4idn | and hoped I'd die and get over with} you treat ‘em right, they'll listen to|know you were bis master, I'd be | 48 & boy, was disowned, and grew up it. But nobody came to bother me, ' reason. tempted to bat an eye or two. How. in a rough school, It would take all ns fever . , .” Phinnit sighed despond.| tight to name half the jobs he's had | hand in, mostly of a ahady nature, | a ently. “What can I do now to en-|#! a tertain you, dear sir?” in every quarter of the eaven seas: | AND THE WIND BLEW i tarts ea . ad 4 c . Camus thie outfit?” Lanyara | in his early days. He's a pompous old || Mra, Densmore nor Mrs, Goddard to — esd ; Leptin gs ca ~ asccnted, and. Phinult. deliberated | Duff in repose, but nobody's fool,|| had ever rowed across Lake) hround ihe lake med J TWINS RIDE BACKWARD teer the question. “I don't know as| nd a bad actor when his mad is up. |} Union, to the house of the for- ame set, 11 ought in the absence of my es-|He tells me he fell In with the De tyne teller in the woods, Pegsy. Well, " * Bred Ny gcred ™ Bion weg eg s{lorme a long time ago, while acting ‘ a time in that one little house, teemed associates . . . But what's) and David determined to save up Teall do ot ne herw, that We aid. a8 & personal escort for a fugitive | the|South Amorican potentate who world, monsicur, and as you are| crossed the borders of his native innd| aware not a little of the underside| With the national freasury in one of it; but never have I met with aj hand and his other in Monk's, and, / combination of such pecullar ele.|of course—they all do—made a bee} ments an thie poxseases. Regard it,| line for Paris, ‘That's how we came if you will, from my viewpoint, that|to make her acquaintance, my rev of an outsider, for one moment." _| ered employer, Mister Monk, and I Phinult grinned. “It must give) thru the skipper, I mean. $4 you furiously to think—as -you'd| Pbinult paused to consider, and say.” ended with a whimsical grimace, ‘Put assuredly! Take, for example,| “I'm talking too much; but tt yourself, a man of unusual intelli-|doesn't matter, seein’s {t's you gence, such as one is not accus| Strictly between ourselves, the said tomed to find lending himself to the| revered employer is an annointed | bothering you most?” “{ have seen something of that story for another day, D4) Ai the time we were building our find ® pioneer who had been of | mil, which was, as I told you, one such a Journey, who could tell! OP it very finest industries on them more about her. alee Yalan, Mrs, Goddard sald, “Sorry, T| “averything was hard to get. can’t tell you @ story about that.| Not enough men to do the work But I can tell you how different] of the building; not enough good fs Seattle 1 found when I came} roads to haul the lumber over; here tn 1888 from the one you| Mot enough of this, nor enough know now. of that to build a plant. : fat “You see, my husband was go- Feeney esexet a the | 2S to tart the first wood-work- le Kast. We had to buy it to| '"s pe get "by genie weiss : t Tacoma, and take @ boat from} | "Tf 1 could get sone logs SVS Both schemes of ordinary eriminals.” fraud. Publicly he's the pillar of the |] there to Seattle. ° tart, “But you have just admitted that | respectable house of Monk. Private: | “Then when we landed tn Seat- a rg eye tages dra uP AGAINST CT ! we're anything but ordinary.” ly, he's not above profiteering, fore-|} tig there weren't any street cars| hone nocommodating enough to . “Then Mademoiselle Delorme, One| closing the mortgago on the ol4|} or rather there weren't any that | just flont over here at my invita. knows what the world knows of her, | homestead, and swearing to an odortf-| that she hag for many years meddied | erous income-tax return, And when| with high affairs, that she had been|he think’s he's far enough away | for many years more a sort of queen! from home—my land, how that little of the demt-monde of Paris; but now|man do carry ont would take us anywhere near our | tion + new home in the forest on the “We talked it over and thought shore of Lake Union. it over, and then he said if I “Mr. Goddard's father and] would help him he would go mother had come out here with] the mill, get what logs he wanted, And the next thing they knew they were going backward t about a dozen miles a minute. Nancy and Nick were riding along “I don't know,” answered Nick, in the magic automobile as nice as | “but we'll you tell me she has stopped to profit “The war made him more money o 4 " ery “a Ror Se te avon on by association with a professional|than he ever thought there was; #0 begeed poe me eta ign eg aco to the towboat and They never suspected that Light] So he said, ‘ burglar.” be bought this yacht ready-made and Sot toky Sha sigated chris Mad a. pg cate peg hap Fingers, tre bad little fairy, was fly- “Profit? T'll say she 414. Accord. | started on the grand tour, but never . . +4 . - “ * to bulld a house on, so we were| mill, and he got the logs, made ing right over their heads. “Magic auto, what's the matter? |!8 to my information, it was she|got nny farther than Parts—natur-|} oi out to tholr home until we| his raft, and wo started back who mapped out the enampaigns for | ally his first stop. News from home| de Lorgnes; she was G. H. Q. and/to the effect that somebody was he merely the high private in the|threaténing to do him out of a few front line trenches; with this differ-| nickels sent him hightailing back to} jence, that in this Instance G. H. Q.| put a stop to ft. But before that — es perfectly willing to let the man | happened, he wanted to see life with could get ours bullt. toward home. And ff it hadn't “We hired some sort of closed | beon for the wind—but that's my carriage at the dock, and every-| story.” (Lo Be Continued) PEE And they never knew a@ thing| You act as crazy as a hatter.” about the magic pill that Light Fingers had tn a bottle, “I don't know what's wrong with This magic pill made everything !t | me," answered a voice. “But some touched go backward, and at this |thing’s queer inside of me. Try an- a little dirty work, why shouldn't we |} valley, and then back by way of the ver minute Lig! ‘| other h ad Nic e ete Aa Pg, oes lad i bang charm.” 8 Nick made up this |q¢ the front cop ail the glory... .|a, large Li and Cousin Whitaker] consumption before the Grent| ‘Where do Monk and I come in?! get together and do something for dante - Bho took the cash and let the credit] gave him a good start by introdue-| Drought set in, The Delorme found] Oh, like master, like man, Liane was| ourselves on the side? Ge Sharhongne Cevennes, just to get the lay of the a heeded rumblings of the dis-|ing him to little ingenue Liane, And/ that out, then that his ancestral! too wise to crab her act by - . land. I don’t think there o be At last the bad Ilttle fairy got the | “Magic auto, don't go back, ts auee | 4 Y Propor| could be #o easily smuggled into the jn’ ink there can. ep of thé take unscrewed’ and tn |You'l bump our heads, tks Jit and has yee! picturesque confrere singin kag ae tanaicte ore wih og ree thal gee ag Mes age i? the states, why not diamonds? We} much more you need to know.” anoth: cond Ke? nies, h vo me . | his bonnet,’ and finally that the Sy! owner, and wise enough to know " a the vod yg he had dropped in Jac Captain Monk: and the singular ofr-| “Smuggling!* & loafing its head off, What could be| nothing could shock the skipper. And are + JAE tae eoraeny 00 the pagel: pag wombs ag f - cumstance that he owns a wealthy} Lanyard began to perience | more simple, she suggested, than that/1 was wise enough not to let him| “a; ‘ontinu: morrow) “dong boda @ Nancy and Nick} But that charm didn’t work! cousin of the same name; and this} glimpses... monsteur should ballast his private | get away with anything unteas I sat een he eee coup at the pero 3 tle car stopped with aleither, The magic automobile kept |peautiful little yacht which you seem| “Champagne. If ever all the trath| yacht with champagne on the home-|in on the deal. “Not the first, but the biggest. De| 2%, EDWIN J. Jerk and they fell right off|on whizzing backward right toward go free to utilize for the furtherance |eomen out, I fancy It will transpire| ward voyage, make his landfall some} “Mademoiselle played all her cards one BROWN'S Fr att onto ees floor. the cave of Twelve Toes, the Sor-|of your purposes. In it strange, then, |that Liane's gotting a rake-off from | night in the dark of the moon, and| face upwards with us. She and de ane rid wed nee they knew they |cerer. t ] one's curiosity 1# provoked, one’s |nome vintner. You see, Friend Hm-|put the stuff ashore on his own | Lorgnes, she sald, were losing money ne, eae bad kward at about @| Tight Fingers was pleased to|jmagination alternately stimulated | ployer was displaying a cultivated | property before morning, Did he tall| by disposing of their loot this side, — # a ininute. ,, [Pieces and baffled?” taste in vintage champagnes, but|for it? Well, 1 Just guess he did!’| especially with European currency at h, my! cried Nancy, “What's (To Re Continued) “Not I suppose not.” Phinult con-}he'd been culpably negligent in not “This ta all most interesting, mon-jits present stage of depreciation. pened?” (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) ‘coded thoughtfully, “Still it's far! laying down a large stock for private} sieur, but. . | And so long as the owner was doing for the Montalais stuff for a lon, time, {t seems. My boss had private | 106 Colunmbla st, business of a nature we won't enter Seattle's into, In London, and gave me a week Leading Dentist off and the use of his car. We made|for More Than 2) up the party, toured down the Rhone| _ Years, Lorgnes' mouth had been watering | pmwpaL, OFFICES ax Pree eo secon aman PNP ET