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PAGE 17 THE SEATTLE STAR Y STANLEY BY AHERN 4 OU, L GEE Vou WANT “To Z| CROWD “TH! ACT, BH? = You'LL ~~) WG ALL“TW! MIRTH For Y'SELr ~\SAN, TM GONNA SPRING A LINE “TONIGHT “THAT LL GIVE You AN BARACHE WHEN You HEAR “WW LAUGHS TLL co.vectT} LETS SEE YouTIE “THIS owt « "FOR HEAVENS , y ALL RIGHT GALLOWS = 7 TLL GN& Vou FULL SwiNG OF “TH! ACT AN’ Leet You KILL TT’ Go AHEAD, PULL THAT FLAT CRACK OF YoURS ABOUT TH’ FORD = IF IT Gets A SNICKER ouT OF EVEN ONE GUY, Ir’LL Be BECAUSE | 0) @ myriad facets the red gold of the! FROM A % « about me? Why, I gues I'm ‘Ob phenomenon of the \ J waa & good citizen before told me then I'd be in this today, I'd probablyy have young business of my was engaged to be married I “bare 1 found my girl married to an- business wrecked, other oe mY to support a governm was Wasting money fe solemn promises to the men had fought for It T had to take and now . . . Well, if I can ‘adit of my own back by defraud. with the unorganized leeches on ty, nothing I know ts gotng to knocked the ashes out of a ‘gold pipe at which he had been suck war, nwadiding and everything you for & goal I had a =. got back from hell over batt of It crippled by extortion. sailor and too cynical to gebag necretary toa man T couldn't government or classing my my doing it!” for some tima, rose, and “The worst of It ts." he sald in a DT eerious turn—"I mean, looking at rial ears od thing from my bourgeois view. point of 1914—the war, but more par ticularty the antics of the various after the war, turned out several million of men tn my | frame of mind the world over, We went Into the thing deluded by pa- trletic Dunk and the promise that It was & war to end war; we came out te find the olf men more firmly en frenched tn the seats of the mighty fhan ever and stubbornly bent on perpetuating precisely the same rot @ ten conditions that make ware tn. evitable. What Germany 414 to the treaty that guaranteed Belgtum's Reutrality was child’s-play compared | to what the governments of the war + Lng have done to their cove- with thelr own people. And if anybody should ask you you can [courtesan Liane Delorme. weetering sun, and the lift and dip | of 4 far horinon whose banks of violet mist were the fading shores of France, Tn those ciroumstances of the eea he loved so well there was certain anodyne for those twinges of chagrin whieh he must suffer when remind ed of the sorry figure he had cut overnight. BUN there were compensations—of ®& more matertal nature, too, than this delight which he had of being Ohoe again at sea. To have cheap- ened himeelt tn the estimation of Liane Delorme and Phinuft and Monk Was really to his advantage; for to | persuade an adversary to under-est! |mate one ts to make him almost an ally. Also, Lanyard now had no | more need to queation the fate of the |Montalaia jewels no more blank "paces remained to be filled tn his hypothetical explanation of the tn- trigues which had enmeshed the Chateau de Montalals, tte lady and his honor. He knew now all he needed to know, he could put his hand on the Jewela when he would: and he had « fair fortnight (thé probable duration of thelr voyage, according to Monk) in which to revolve plans for making |himselt in exertibn and exposure to reprinale, Plans? He had none ae yet, he Would begin to formulate and ponder them only when he had better quaintance with the ship and her com. |pany and had learned more about that ambiguous landfall which she |was to make (as Phinutt had put !t) “in the dark of the moon.” i Not that he made the mistake of despistng thos two social maicon- tenta, Phinult and Julea, that rogue adventurer Monk, that grasping ; Indtvidu- ally and collectively Lanyard ac counted that quartet uncommonly imiely promise them that several mi). | CHV", resourceful, audacious, un- soreheads tke myself are what | TUpulous, and potentially ruthiees, politicians call ‘a meance to the social order.” ” Gaylight filled the porte. The deck nearly deserved the ain. Commands and calls dawled in Engtish, and polygict profanity. A yengine wae rumbling, a clattering. a capstan-pawl Alongside a tug waa pant. “and something more; for tt Jy stz in the a es te piace of Epl-/tt quite ikely that she was; before |Jarge for @ pleasure boat. Captain (couple of deck: physical re-| sensibly be making seaaickness an|of many guests {n addition to the by the garcious | excuse to get thoroly rested and set-|crew of thirty required for her navi- friendly | tied in her mind as to her course|sation and comfort. A good all- @ vision of |ttent, and put tn his time to gooq|nothing In her appearance feae now-plumed and mirroring profit taking the measures of hia| least suggested a vessel of commer He reached down with his way around, Backward flew the magic automo- bile with Nancy and Nick in It. It certainly did look now as tho Never would reach the Fairy Queen's Palace, and they wondered What the good queen herself woujd be thinking when they did not re with her car, But it wasn't their fault. It was Fingers who had caused the by dropping a magio pill into the gasoline tank. Back they went, back and back and say-4 right toward the cave of @ Toes, ihe Borcerer. They whizzed by the field with the ] Crow in {t, and the Scare Crow ee grins he fell over on his They whizmd by the chimney the Sweep lived, and the Was 80 surprised he fell clear of the chimney top. Whiszed by the three-cor- door of Brownleland and Mr. utterly callous to comptinetions when their interests were jeopar- | dined. But tt wns inconcetvable that }he should fail to outwit and frus. jtrate them, who had the love and | faith of Eve de Montalais to honor, lchertsh and requtte. | Growing Inatght Into the {dlosyn- | crestes of the men left him undis- mayed. Ho precetved the stee! of tn- Merely a thell for the cold, caloulat- ting, undeviating selfishness that too dvancing Ho had to wait, however, that night and the next three before the woman when he/ showed heresif. She wae reported {11 | ship. with mal4omer. she wns out of the channel the Sybn- eve ‘was contesting a moderate gaia from the southwest. On the other hand. he tmagined that Lianne might with him. Bo he schooled himself to be pa- toe and turned the car all the Pim Pim, looking out, was #0 sur prised he fell down his step-ladder. They whizzed by the orchard where Buskins, the apple-tree fairy, lived, and he was so surprised he | felt out of his elevator down to the ground. They whizzed by Rubadub, and Tingaling and Seribble-Scratch and jall their old fairy friends, and every- body was #0 surprised they fell Gown, too, every one of them, ‘Then something happened, The Green Wizard saw them and saved them, When they were passing the big tree where he lived, he reached down with his toe and turned th car all the way around. It was eit going backward, but in the right di- rection. They were on their way again to the Fairy Queen's Palace, (fo Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) inclined to be @ bit abrupt in « pre- | janother kind entirely, an Amertoan He JUST C AME » AN! AINST Gor | |away with them at minimum cost to | shipmates and learning his way about The Gydartte seemed unnecessarily Monk had designated her @ ship of nine hundred tons. Certainly she had room and to apare on deck as well as below for the accommodation weather boat, very steady in @ sea way, her lines were nevorthelons fine, in the cial character—“all yacht” wae what Monk called her. ‘The first mate, « Mr. Swain, was @ sturdy Britisher with a very red face and cool bine eyes, not easily impressed: if Lanyard were not tn error, Mr. Swain entertained a private opinion of the lot of them, Captain Monk included, decidedly uncompll- mentary, But he wae a civil sort, tho Gefictent in sense of humor and/ oceupted fashion. Mr. Collison, the second mata, was with the drawl of the South In his votes, @ dark, slender man with eyes quick and shrewd. His manners wore excellent, his reserve notable, tho he seemed to derive considerable amusement from what he saw of the passengers, going on his habit of tn Auiging quiet amilen an he letened to their communications. He talked very little and played an excellent gamo of poker. The chief engineer was @ Mr. Mus- sey, stout, affable, and eynic, a heavy drinker, untidy about his per: son and exacting about his engine- room, a veteran of his trade and— it was eaid—an ancient croney of Monk’s. There was, at all events, a complete understanding evident be- tween these two, tho now and again, enpectally at table, when Monk wna putting on something more than hin customary amount of aide, Lanyard | would observe Mussey's ‘ayer fixed In contemplation upon his superior offi. cer, with a look in them that wanted reading. He was nobody's fool, cer- | |tainly not Monik's, nnd at such thmes | lanyard would have given more lthan a penny for Mussey’s thoughts. Existing In dafly contact, more or lens close, with these gentlemen, ob- |nerving them aa they went to and \fro upon their lawful occastons, Lan- lyard often speculated an to ther atti- tude toward this lawless errand of the Aybarite’s, of which they could hardly be unsusptcious even if they | |were not intimate with its true na- ture. And remembering what penal- ties attach to apprehension in the act of smuggling, even tho it be only n few cases of champagne, he thought it a wild risk for them to run , SA for the eake of their dally wage. | Bomething to this effect he intt | mated to Phinult. | “Don't worry about this lot,” that) one replied. ‘They're wise birds, | tough as they make ‘em, ready for anything; hand-picked down to the last coal-passer. The skipper isn't a | man to take fool chances, and when he recruited his crew, he took nobody he couldn't answer for, They're | more than well pald, and they'll do as they’re told and keep their traps | as tight ae clams.” “But, I take it, they were signed up bafore this present voyage was) thought of; while you seem to Imply | that Captain Monk anticipated hav- | ing to depend upon these good fel-| lows in unlawful enterprises.” “Mnybe he aid, at that,” Phinutt| promptly #urmisnd, with « bland eye. | “{ wouldn’t put it past him. The| skipper’s deep, and I'll never tell you | vhat he had in the back of his mind when he let Friend Boss persunde | m to take command of a pleasure} yncht. Because I don't know, If it comes to that, the owner himself never confided in mo just what the | large idea was In buying this ark for @ plaything. Yachting for fun ts | one thing; running a young floating | hotel {# something else again.” “Then you don't believe the gran- lore Mlueions dus to sudden wealth were alone responsible?” | “T don’t know. That little man has | a mind of hin own, and even if I do figure on hia payroll as confidential | secretary, he doesn’t tell me every. thing he knows.” stil,” said Lanyard drily, “one cannot think you can complain that he has hesitated to repose his trust tn you.” To this Phinuft made no reply oth- er than a noncommittal grunt; and puresently Lanyard added: “It ia hardly possible-~eh?t—that the officers and crew know nothing of what te Intended with all the champagne you have recently taken aboard.” “They're no fools. They know there's enough of the stuff on board to do a Cunarder for the next ten years, and they know, too, there's no lawful way of getting it Into the states.” “So, then! ‘They know that. How much more may they not know?” Phinult turned a startled face to him, “What's that?” he demanded sharply. “May they not have exercised thoir wits as well on the subject of your secret project, my friend?” ‘What are you getting at?” “One is wondering what there ‘wise birds, as tough os they make them’ would do ff they thought you were—as you say—getting away with something at their expense as wai ara KE, GO-TO CHURCH Wh HA- WORK YOUR FAT AN’ TRY “To out” “THINK “THAT GAG ! ‘ar. * Or We. Cant ORE art tin eS Qeattle Pool." « By abel Cleland ¥ e Page 814 THE WIND BLEW! “Put, Mrs, Goddard,” David ex claimed, “I don't seo how you would know about making rafts when you were just new in this ‘West Coast forest sort of coun- try.” “We knew how to go. about making the raft, because we bad Itved on the Missiasippt river,” Mra. Goddard told him, “and we had often seen men working with the long rafts and log which were being floated down from the timber lands of Minno- sota and Wisconsin. “So we made our raft of the piles we selected, got the rowboat, Mr. Goddard gave me the tow- rope and he took the oars, and we began our slow journey across the an you hold ft all right? Mr. Goddard asked me. “Oh, yea!’ 1 answered, ‘the rope ts pretty harsh in my hands, but T can hold tt’ “I noticed as we got out into the lake that the water grew morw and more rough, and the strain of the raft against my wrists grow stronger. “1 noticed, also, that my hus- band’s breathing grew @ little la bored, and in spite of a strong, cool wind in his face, he looked warm and flushed. “Rougher and rougher the lake became, and harder pulled the raft, until we found that no mat- __sssiaiaiel booms : | the lake with the big forest all | ing afver me, turned Into a strong ter how hard we worked we were traveling not toward the spot we were trying to reach, but in the very opposite direction. “We might as well quit until this wind dies down,’ Mr, Goddard enid. 1 didn't say anything, but it felt, not very comfortable, to hay the least, to be out there on the lkae with the big forest all | around it, night coming on fast, the wind was blowing a gale and black monster which was drag: ging us evory minute farther from our home shore, “We had no control over it whatever; we were at the mercy of the wind and the raft, and could only keep steady in the boat. A mile and a half we drift- ed in that way before the wind blew us ashore, where we could moor the raft and—freed of it— make our way back, “We did strange thin tn thom early times to get Seattle's indu tries started. Yor instance, we lived for quite a while right tn our new factory, because we had our ‘Do you know how the firet Industry in Seattle wan started?” Mrs, Goodard interrupted her Fremont story to ask, “That was the Yesler mill, started in 1863. It stood where the totem pole stands now. Maybe you do not ety 7 they managed a mill nm 1853-—" (To Be Continued) kak — ee — well as the owner's.’ “What have you seen or heard?" “Positively nothing. This Is mere- ly {dle speculation.” “welll” Phinult sighed . stbilantly and relaxed, “Let's hope they never find out.” By dawn of the fourth day the gale had spent ite greatest strength; what was left of it subsided steadily ti, as the seafaring phraso has it, the wind went down with the sun. Calm ensued. Lanyard woke up the next morning to view from his state- room deadlights vistas {llimitable of Mat blue flawed by hardly a wrinkle; only by watching the hortzon was one aware of the slow swell of the sea, its sole perceptible motion, And all day the Sybarite trudged on an even keel with only the wind of her way to flutter the gay awnings of the quarterdeck, while the waters sheared by her stem ran down her sides hissing resentment of this vio- lation of their absolute tranquility, Also, the sun made itself felt, elec tric fana buszed everywhere, and perspiring tn utter indolence beneath awnings, one thought in sympathy of those damned souls below, in the hell of the stoke-hole, At luncheon Liane Delorme ap- | TRREWE OOET) AED LOLA EERE UE AUNT SARAH PEABODY “TODAY- FORCED MAYOR DOOLITTLE TO APRONT A NEW MARSHAL To TAKE THE PLACE OF THEMISSING OTEY WALKE BY SWAN. HL WAITER Fh ht WE JUst Gor TimMG vo Cacti UP MY MAN DaFoRE HS (L@aves wy SERRE ENTE THAT THING'S BG TIMGS THIS week ComPLeTe peared !n @ summery tollette that would have made its mark en the beach of Deauville. Voluntary or enforced, her period of retreat had done her good, Mak- ing every allowance for the ald of art, the woman looked years young: er than when Lanyard had last seen her, Nobedy would ever have be- lieved her @ day older than 26, no ope, that is to say, who had not watched youth ebb from her face and leave it grey and waste with premature winter, as Lanyard had that morning when hoe told her of the death of de Lorgnes in the res- Ls pamnmyiigeioNes atc eNeet ere! ocr teeHH Ree orRtmbtntnttes waist wlansm tment nnte tn taurant of the Puttes Montmartre. Liane herself had long since put quite out of mind that o~auvais quart Wheure. Her present serenity was ee flawless ax the sea's, though, unltke the sea, sho sparkled. She was as my «8 any echoolgiri--the any | school-girl guilty, of even capable, of ® scintilla of the amesing impro would have