The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1922, Page 15

(Continued From Yesterday) Lanyard lifted hin meditative gaze €o the face of Phinult. “But surely there le more . . .” he suggested in a pussied way. “yore what™ 1 find something lacking . You have shown me but on the coin. What ts the reverse? te the honor you do ma, I comprehend fully the strong induce ments 1 am offered, But you have ed-—an odd oversight on the part of the plain-epoken man you to be-—you have forgotten to name the penalty which would attach | to @ possible refusal.” #1 guess {t's safe to leave that to your imagination.” “There would be @ penalty, how. by “Well, naturally, {f you're not with WA you're against us. And to take ghat stand would oblige us, as a sim. | ple mattor of self-preservation, to de fond our selves with every means at @ur command.” “Means which.” Lanyard = mur mured, “you prefer not to name.” “Well, one doesn’t like to be crude.” | “But you are asking me re hounce something upon which I have set much store for many years, mon sleur, I can't be expected to do that im an hour or even a day. You shall have your answer, I promise you, by the time we make our landfall to per haps before.” “The sooner, the better.” “Are you sure, monsteur? But one thought It was the tortoise who won the famous race.” | “Take all the time you need," | Captain Monk conceded generously, “to come to a sensible decision.” “But how good you are to me, mon- me THE MALCONTENT Singular tho the statement may Seem, when one remembers the con- | ditions that circumscribed his free. 4om of action on board the Sybarite, that he «tood utterly alone tn that company of conspirators and their lone and unarmed, with nd té guard his back or even to whisper him one word of counsel, warning or encouragement, | with only his naked wits and hands to fortify and sustain his heart: it ts no suet A 7 SONG AT LIGHTS ARE y G HOUSE NOW BUS, THERE'S < A SAMPLE OF How You ACT WHEN SOME FRILL SITS IN “TH! FRONT ROW OF YOUR BRAIN = SWe'S GOT WS HEART WORKING SO WILD Now TT UNBUTTONS HIS VEST Ver, He's AS Loose / AS A BEAN IN A DRUM! THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN EVERYTIME HE “THINKS! OF HER HE LETS OFF A SIGH LIKE A BOX CAR AIR-BRAKE = SAY, “EY AIN'T No MOLLY WILL EVER MAKE ME “WAT DIZZY = HA-HA- MY EYE WOULDN'T wink AT TH’ QUEEN OF SHEBA \F IT HAD A CINDER / THE OLD HOME TOW. fe Peles lee SALE “OF SUMMER Py, UNER WEAR ~ |") PALM LEAF PANS 0% ASSORTED WINTR BOOK a ond OB. 4 CR Re GLOVES N TE GAS CWGINES & HAY WIRE, a 5 A Vp T if y)) Mp (NOT $0 FAST i | “V@ARS BAKED GOODS FRUITS LIGHT WARD WARE Om ILL PUMP *] have my answer, monsteur—and | stil! exaggeration to say that/ many thanks, The parallel ts com-|Lanyart got an extraordinary | {amount of private diversion out of playing In his | those last few days. Sag eyes and twitching at the corners of | Bis tips, Lanyard leaned back and @tudied the deck beams. Liane De. forme eat up with a movement of harp uneasiness, Of what, my friend, are you think. | test" } “I am marveling at something \everybody knows—that history does Fepeat ttaclf.” ‘The woman mado a sudden hissing @ound, of breath drawn shortly be-| “I hope not!) Lanyard opened his eyes wide at Mer, “You hope not, Liane? “I hope this time history will not | together repeat itself. You see, my friend, I think I know what ts in| our mind, memories of old times! hal “True: I am thinking of those| when the pack hunted the Lone} ‘olf tn Paris, ran him to earth at! made him much the same} you have made tonight. | @ Pack, you should know, was the name assumed by | association of Parisian criminals, | ke you, who had grown the Lone Wolf's success, wished to persuade him to run hat happened? Phinutft tn. happened that they when I had made up be good for the rest of | It was all most unfor- and as ‘Th ui ie f z i a8 Hf 8 answer 414 you gtve them, lit "And @id they go? Monk asked. *Preeentiy, some of them, ultimate-| for -® French prisons, like that great Poptnot, the father of monsteur who ‘ caused us so much trouble.” “And 7 “Why,” Lanyard laughed, “I have to keep out of fall, so I # I must have ke; em tee ty or “And no backsliding™ Phinult | Wigrested with a leer. | “Ah! you must not ask ma to tel | } everything. That is a matter| een me and my conscience.” “Well.” Phinuit hazarded with a Pod show of confidence, “1 guess Fou won't tell us to go plumb to hell, | wl you?” “No; I promise to be more original that.” “Then you refuse™ Liane breathed | “I knew that would be his answer,” | Monk proclaimed, pride tn his per. spleulty shaping the net of his eye- brows. “That {s why I was firm that he should wait no longer. You have| foer Gays in which to make up your mint, monsieur.” “I shall need them.” “I don't see why,” -Phinuft argued It's an open and shut proposition, | M ever there w: But suddenly they came face person. Nancy and Nick landed on the; Bumpty Dumpty Star. | The journey had Ppen quite easy, fr all thay 2:4 wa. fo make a wish, | ad wily, whiff! There they were on & hice bright, shiny star all flat on top and with a big castle in the middie The Twins looked around curious Wy. A road led up and down and Over a hill and thru @ valley and Geross a bri¢ but no one was in Bight Nancy and Nick followed the road and by and by they came to a high stone wall. Still no one was in| eight. | But suddenly they came face to} face with the most curious person. | Tt was an my dears, but with arms and legs and a face. | Without so much as @ “hello” ft} started to talk remarked. “What piece? asked Nancy curt ously. jand he knew to boot why she had | offered him the free gift of her love ADVENTURES | OF one ots Bet From the hour when Liane De- lorme, Phinult and Captain conclave solemnly assembled at the instance of the one last-named, com municated their collective mind in respect of his interesting self, the man was conscious of tmplicit con fidence tn a happy outcome of dusiness, with a conscientiousness tess rational than simply felt. a sort of bubbling exhtlaration tn his mood that found {te most intelligible ex Pression of the phrase, which he wont often to tterate to himself: Ca va blen—that goes well! ‘That—the progressive tnvotutton of this Insane tmbroglio—went very well indeed, in Lanyard’s reckoning; he could hantly wish, he could not rea-| sonably demand that it should go bet. | ter. He knew now with what desten Lianne Delorme had made him a party to thie sea adventure and Intimate with every detalt of the conspiracy doubt as to the one, scruples insptred by the other—that reluctance which mag cannot but feel to do a hurt to! & heart that holds him dear, how. ever seanty his response to ite pas sion—could no longer influence him | to palter in dealigg with the woman. | The revelation had in effect stricken | shackles from Lanyard’s wrists, now when he struck It would be with neither hesitation nor compunction. | As to that stroke alone, its bh and place and fashion, he rema without decision. He had made a} hundred plans for its delivery, and} one of them, that seemed the wild. | eat, he thought of seriously, as some. | thing really feasible, But single-| handed! That mad Aifficult. If} only one could devied BOMEe way to be tn two places at one time and the | same! An tmposaibility? He wouldn't deny that. But Lanyard had never been one to be discuoraged by the grim, hard face of an Impossibility He had known too many such to dis aipate utterty, vanish tnto empty alr, when subjected to a bold and reno-| lute assault. He wouldn't say die. Never that while he could lift hand or invent stratagem, never that so! long as fools played thelr game tnto| his hands, as this lot wished to and} Fhat tmbecility! What an encape had been hin when, tn that| time ong sinca, he had made up his} mind to have done with crime once | and for all time! But for that mo. ment of clear vision and high resolve he might be today even as these who | had won such clear title to his con. tempt, who stultified themselves with vain imaginings and the everlasting concoction of schemes whose sheer intrinsic puertiity foredoomed them to farcical failure. Lanyard trod the decks for hours at a time, searching the stars for an answer to the question: What mado| the law by whose decree man may | garner only punishment and disaster where he has husbanded in Iniquity?| That law implacable, inexorable tn its ordained and methodic workings, {ot offe OH-H 00: Bacx canker in the heart even of success iiained . . . But if he moralized tt a cheerful countenance, and his ser. mons were for himself alone. He kept his counsel and spoke ail men fairly, giving nowhere any manner for could he tell in what might wait the instru ded wherewith to work Itering purpose? y eu ment he n out hig un And all the while they were watch wh t was tn | | to face with the most curious “The one Dumpty sat o7 think it's silly >” anawe that goes, ‘Humpty wall.’ Don't you ed Nancy. Neither do 1,” said Nick. it f# just the same,” sald} “and I'll tell you why In the first place I'm Humpty Dumpty! And in the second place, when I fell off th wall, I didn't get burt.” “But the poem says— began Nancy, I know what {t says,” In terrupted Humpty Dumpty. “I know | all about it. That's why it's silty. it says that all the king's horses and all the king me together agai Do you know wh “No,” answered the Twins, | “Because I didn't break,” laughed Humpty Dumpty. “I fell into a fea ” The men couldn't put Now doesn't it? wins were so astonished that Goose’s broom. | (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) ing him and wonderin his mind. Well, he gave no sign Let them watch and wonder to thelr hearts’ content; they must walt until the time he had appointed for the rendering of his decision, when the Sybarite made her landfall Winds biew an sea rose and subsided, the Sy trudged on | into dull weather. The sky grew overcast; and Lanyard, dally scan ning the very heavens for a sign, accepted this for one, and prayed It might hold, Nothing could be more calculated to nullify his efforts than to have the landfall happen on a clear, calm night of stors He went to bed, the last night out leaving a noisy gathering in the saloon, and read himself 4 Then turning out his light he slept Sometime later he found himself in stantaneously awake 1 alert, with a clear head and ev faculty the qut vive—much ag a man might grope for a time in a dark strange room, then find a door and step out into broad daylight Only there was no Nght other than in the y of his mind Even the illumination tn the had been dimmed down for the 1 he could tell by tarn er luminous ¢ saloon vht hed as the gleam beneath his stateroom door “rl say it's decent of your Still, not everyone had gone to| damned decent, Blowed if I'd take bed, The very manner of his wak-|it as calm as you, If I waked up to ing informed him that he was not| find somebody in my room.” alone; for the life Lanyard had led “T believe,” said Lanyard pointed. had taught him to need no better |ty, “you stipulated for a few minutes' alarm t the entrance of another; chin with me. Times passes, Mr person into the place where he lay|Mussey. Get to your business, or| sleeping. All animals are like that, | jet to sleep ain.” whore lives hang on their vigilance.| * you are,” mmented the Able to see nothing, he still felt a | mutter. ‘ve noticed It in you presence, and knew that {it waited,| You'd be surprised if you knew how stiriess, within arm'slength of his| much notice I head. Without much concern, he! thought of Popinot, that “phantom Popinot” of Monk's derixive naming. | stumbled. Well, Jf the vision Liane had seen | question rial form here | pertinent.” on deck ‘had taken m in his stateroom, anyard presumed it meant another fight, and the last, to a finish, that Is to to a death Without making © #0 he gath ered himself together, rendy for a “Inn’'t that the silliest piece!’ it|they forgot to ask about Mother trap, and as noisolessly lifted a hand toward the switch for the electric light, set in the wall near the head of the bed, But in the same breath on! i] thru which Invariably It comes to) he heard a w’ pass that failure and remorse shall | tor, a voice he | was with | 9, | | | “WL ack'suntes UP HIS HEART =2 ae FRIENDS | per, or rather @ mut- ould not place in its present pitch. | “Awake, Monstour Delorme?” it 1. “Hush! Don't make @ row,| ad never mind the light.” Hig astonishment was so overpow: | ering that instinctively his tensed muscles relaxed and his hand fell upon the bedding. | | Who the deuce “No so loud. It's m Mussey.” Lanyard echoed witlessly: “Mus ney | “Yes. I don’t wonder you're sur prised, but tf you'll be easy you'll un tand pretty soon why I had to ha » bit of talk with you without anybody's catching on.” “Weill,” Lanyard said, “I'm damned!" “I say! The subdued mutter took ety. “It’s all right, I mean, you aren't going on a note of anxt it? isn't Ito kick wp a rumpus and spill the beans? I guess you must think I've got a hell of a gall, coming in on you like this, and I don't know as I blame you, but . Well, time's getting short, only two more days at| sea, and I couldn’t wait any longer for a chance to have a few minutes’ chin with you.” ‘The mutter ceased and held an ex pectant pause. Lanyard sald noth. ng. But he was conscious that the peaker occupied a chair by the bed, and knew that he was bending near} to catch his answer; for the air was tainted with vinous breath, Yes: one | required no stronger Identification, tt | was beyond any doubt the chief engt-| neer of the Sybarite. “Say it's all right, won't you? the mutter pleaded. “1 am listening,” Lanyard replied | * you perceive.” © been taking of you.” I'm sure.” here ”“ ‘The mutter “T want to ask a personal Daresay you'll think it im “And flattered, “Look “If I do, be sure T shan’'t answer it." “Well. . . it's thiat Tx or ten't your right name Lanyard, Michael Lanyard?” This time ft was Lanyard who, thinking rapidly, held the pause so long that his querist’s uneasiness could not contain itu’ "HEY, MR, ALLMAN, SOME OUT HERE “To SEE You! Back and F OF YOURS ARE Page HALLOWEEN THI CHAPTER II “Just think how you would feel, David,” Mr. “it were out with two or three Densmore said, you boys no bigger than you (I wasn't as big as you, I was only §) on a dark night, in @ 10-acre woods nearly midnight, and suddenly, as you walked along, you heard a long, pitiful, watling moan. “Where did it come from? We couldn't tell, What made it? We didn’t know, “‘Oh, pshaw? one of the boys said in a blustery volce, ‘I'll bet it's some of the big boys trying to scare us.’ “There 1t was again! I never heard anything lke it; sad and hurt, quivering, a sort of whine; a sort of groan, and a sort of sob. “It's not the big boys,’ I sald, turning cold and shaky, ‘I saw all of ‘em just before we left the chapel.’ “I's got to be,’ somebody else argued, ‘what else could It be? You aren't t enough to believe in ghosts, your’ “We went a few steps further and heard the sound again, and by that time none of us knew wieether we belleved in ghosts or —_— ee KH “Is that my answer? I mean, does your silence-—? “Phat's an unusual name, Michael | Lanyard,” cautiously replied its pro prietor. “How did you get hold of it?’ “They say it's the right name of » Lone Wolf. Guess I don't have you who the Lone Wolf ts.” y say’? Who, please, are ‘ye ‘they “Oh, there's a lot of talk going around the ship. You knoww how tt is, a crew will gossip. And God knows they've got enough excuse this cruise.” MAIN STREET ?-lenty to Do HELLO, EVERYBooy! || GLAD To SEE You | ALL AGAIN! every BoUY HAPPY DID MR. BINKLEY INVITE You ‘To Go FoR « RIDE, TAG? Es 4 Pale bel sis TY-FIVE YEARS AGO not. All.we knew was that we were ready to fly for help before “it” got us. “But you know how ft fs, no boy ts willing to tell ‘a bunch’ he is afraid, so we went on, and just as we got to the old stump— Oh! I forgot to tell you about the old stump, didn't I? ‘phey had cleared that path thru the woods for the children to follow to and from school,and |} all the stumps had been taken out but that It huge thing, looked solid as a rock, and |) it stood on the edge of the trail, |) one. was a so that we had to pass It to reach the gate, y the way, that stump must |} ftood Just about where the || rot’ is now | "Tea Pot'?” David sald in “Oh, Davie! Peggy sounded ds. ‘ou know that tea shop andmother goes to get nm biscuits.” said David, “up close to the Metropolitan.” . Mr | Densmore sata, || “that's where the stump stood, and as we got near it, we discov: ered to our horror the groans came out of that stump!" (To Be Continued) LaliatheMiesesnsmennsssmesmeeeees endl This was constructively evasive. Lanyard wondered who had betrayed him, Phinuit? ‘The tongue of that plain-spoken man was hinged in the middle; but one couldn't feel certain Liane Delorme had made much of the chief engineer; tho she seemed less likely to talk too much than anyone of the ship's company but Lanyard himself, But then (one re: membered of a sudden) Monk and Mussey were by reputation old cro- nies; It wasn’t inconceivable that Monk might have let something slip | "And what, Mr, Mussey, if | WAS STARTLED TO DAY, To SEE THE MISSING MARSHAL OTEY WALKER BRINGING TWO ROUGHLY DRESSED MEW aT GAY, You CAN GET BUSY |) You CAN'T GO RIGHT AWAY AND DRAW ME ACOUPLE OF CHECKS -YOU WENT /i ice AT AMD MAKE AWAY AND LEFT ME ALMOST BROKE! CL) a, US LIKE IT - BY ALLMAN, ‘YES, AND You Cast AWAY ANO LEAVE ) START RIGHT IM US ON THE SHELF / MAKE ME SOME NEW CLOTHES ANO A MEW HATE ee ae mesh GY, THeRS W'S DeaR ft “MATS AGAIN AND THESE ARE THE FEATHERS AND SUCH OTNGR PARTS THAT REorLS should admit I am Michael Lan- yara?” jen I'll have something to say to you, something 1 think’ll interest you Why not run the risk of interest. ing me, whoever I may be?” Mussey breathed heavily stillness: the breathing of a cautious man loath to commit himself, o,” he said at length, in the clearest enunciation he had thus far used, “No, If you're not Lanyard, I'd rather say nothing more—I'll just ask you to pardon me for intruding and clear out.” “But you say there is some gossip. in the And?where there is smoke, there © must be fire, It would seem safe to. assume I am the man gossip says T° am,” * “Michael Lanyard?" the mutter persisted—"the Lone Wolf?” “Yes, yes! What then?” “I suppose the best way’s to put it. to you straight...” “I warn you, you'll gain nothing ¢— if you don’ (Continued Tomorrow) = Among the various economig™ products of the plant kingdom the pith of the sunflower stalk is by far the lightest,