The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 31, 1922, Page 11

sp wi | oS i] - 3 =f ae re * e s iif ETE F ie 5 Lt (Continued From Yesterday) = | Last he betray his impatience by | Keeping the tips of his claret too) Ddright (one never knows when one ta not watched) he smoked «par Ingty. But on the twenty-elghth Diare of the whistle after the ring- ing of four bella, he drew out his clguret case and, as the thirtieth raved out, asynchronous with double strokes and « single on brazen metal, he placed @ cigaret between his lips. At the same time he saw Cap- tain Monk, who had been on the bridge with the officer of the watoh| two | He worked with bands amazingly nimble and sure and was qlosing and relocking the door when Mr. Colttson tumbled up the ladder with bis flashlight. So when the second mate arrived upon the bridge, Lan- yard was waiting for him; and in consequence of @ second act of de-| Dlorable violence, Mr, Collison re turned to the deck backwards and lay quite still while Lanyard re | turned to the wheel. } Collecting the abstracted magnets for several hours, come aft with/h® carried them to the rall, cast weary shoulders sagging, and go be-| them into the sea and threw tn the Jow by the saloon compantonway.! key to the little door to keep them And Lanyard smiled knowingly and/ company, Then, back at the din assured himself that all went well—|naole, he unscrewed the brass caps ‘ca va bien!—his star held still In the of the cylindrical brass tube which ascendant, [housed the Fiinders bar, removed There remained on the dridge onty| that also, replaced the capa, and Mr, Collison and the man at the) consigned the bar to the sea in itt heel. | turn. | At the fourth Diast after five deits | By choloe he would have mado b 4 put @ matoh to his cigaret./a good jod of tt and abolished tho he did not pull more than to/ quadrantal correctors as well; Dut the tobacco well alight. He leven held his breath, and felt his y shaken by the pulsations of fhia anxious heart precisely as the dy of the Sybarite was shaken by the pulsations of her engines. With the next succeeding log stg- @arkness absolute descended the Vessel, shrouding {t from to stern like @ vast blanket diackness, Mr. Mussey had not failed te keep pact of treachery. Lanyard was out of his chatr be fore the first call of excited remon. he judged he had done mischief enough to secure his enda, as tt was. The compass ought now to be | fust as constant to the magnetic | pole as a humming bird to one ape clal rose | | Guiding himeelt by a hand the Ughtly touched the rail, Lanyard regained his chair, carefully ocom- posing himaelf in the position tn which he had been resting when the; jlehte went out. Hila cigaret was) } 8 aglow; good Turkish has this | virtue among many others, that left, to Itself it will burn on to the end @atrance rang out wathe only spot of light on the decks.| portable electric on deck—to be of its roll. echoed in clamor, His cigaret| The next instant, however, ho was latopped behind, on the taffrafl, care-|on his feet again. A beam of light fully placed at precisely the height had swept across the saloon skylight, lof his head, its little glowing tip| coming from below, the beam of a torch, It might No matter whether or not it were|/have been the signat for the first noted; no precaution ts too tnsignifi-| pterctng eeream of Liane Delorme cant to be important when life and) A pistol shot with a vicious accent death are at issuo, cut short the scream. After a brief ‘There was nothing of that after-| pause several more shots rippled in noon’s unsureness of foot in the) the saloon. A man shouted angrily way Lanyard moved forward. Pass-| Then the torchiight found and stead ing the engine-roam ventilators he|ted upon the mouth of the com. heard the telegraph gtve a single! panion way. Against that glare, a stroke; Mr. Collison had only then | burly figure was instantaneously re- recovered from his astonishment #uf-| lieved, running up to the deck. As ficiently to signal to slow down. Ajit gained the topmost step a final squeal of the spenking-tube whistle! report sounded in the saloon, and followed Instantly; and Lanyerd oot | the Mgure checked, revolved slowly foot upon the bridge in time to on «@ heel, tottered, and plunged ‘* Mr. Collison demanding to) headforemost down the steps again. if bg<3 3% ble g R an Ht 5 se fel 1 Es ul z ig e il efi! age inot, forearmed with advice from a pedestal, key| trusted quarter, had stationed him- ring which Mr.|self outside the door to Monk's 80 unfortunately and un-/ stateroom, to waylay and garrote the accountably lost opened the door—|man whom he expected to emerge the k therefrom Iaden with the plunder had of Monk's safe—Lanyard appre ciated further that he had done Mr. Mussey @ great wrong. For he had all the 5 ie E time believed that the chief engineer was laying @ trap for him on behalf of his and one by one removed and drop-|ancient shipmate, that unhappy) ped them to the grating at the foot! vietim of groundless Jealousy, Cap-| sof the binnacle. tain Whitaker Monk. Rober’: THE TWINS VISIT MARS me “No,” said the square man. “We're all different.” Away to Mara went the Twjns to|swept a cobweb off my left eyebrow. hunt for Mother Goose’s lost broom janother cobweb on my right eye- VoUR FACE IN fT Dow’ BE AFRAID « tT'S ONLY PLAW WATER » TT Won*T RUST YOUR COMPLEXION ») kal VoUVE GOT “THEM APPLES SCARED “To ee LAUNCH © ["] =| HELEN WAS TO MEET ME ON THIS CORNER AT FOUR OCLOCK SHARP - | UST KNEW SHE WOULD xXVT CA VA BIEN! Fearful lest, left to herself, Liane Delorme would do an injury to his eardrums as well as to her own vo cal cords, Lanyard stepped acrods the | dead bulk of the Apache and planted himaelf squarely in front of woman, Seizing her forearms with his two hands, he used force to drag them down to the level of her | Waist, and purposely made his grasp | so strong that his fingers sank deep into the soft fiesh. At tho same time, staring fixedly into her va cant eyes, he smiled his most win- ning smile, but with the muscles of his mouth alone, and said quietly: “Shut up, Idane! Stop making a fool of yourself! Shut up—do you heart” The incongruity of his brutal grasp with his smile, added to the incongruity of an ordinary conver. sational tone with his peremptory and savage phrases had the expected effect. Sanity began to inform the violet eyes, a shrill, empty scream was cut sharply in two, the woman stared for an instant with a look of con- fusion; then her lashes drooped, her body relaxed, she fell imply against the partition and was quiet save for fits of trembling that shook her body from head to foot; still, each eucces-| sive seizure wns sensibly less severe, Lanyard let go her wrists. “There™ he naid—*“that’s over, Ifans. The beast is done for—no more to fear from him. Now for- get him—brace up, and realize the debt you owe good Monsieur Phi nuit."* With « grin, that gentleman look- ea up from his efforts to revive Captain Monk. “I'm a why, retiring violet,” he stated somewhat superfiuously, “but if the world will kindly lend its ears, I'll inform it coyly that was ZL Ne BNE NOU Z7 ounK YouR MUG STAT : PAGE 11 BY AHERN BY STANLEY, THE OLLI) HOME TOWN — SMOKELESS TOBACCO STEMLESS APES HOW-QUID EATING TRACCo. Ser STS MerCKEs i “HERE WAS A A KMALLOWEEN \4 CAGAME PLIVED “4A WITH CARDS ‘| WHEN T WAS A GIRL, NOT SO LONG AGO, AND WHY DONT You CATCH TH’ BANK ROBBERS NSTEAD OF FOOLIN’ ‘ROUND WITH THAT OLD DILAPIDATED ABNER TUTTLE LOCKSMITH IX! W THIS WATER WITH “MRT MOUTH OF YouRS| OPEN, WE'D HAVE “To PILL TH’ PAN UP AGAW = T AIN'T | KissitG Hese | / THAT Antr | APPLES «I'M Look // No FUN! # \ For A SOFT SPoT | C'MON All! ACT !\ ON 'EM"ID THROW / | LIKE You DONT now AN! TILL SCARE Vou BY MY PUNKIN h, NOMAD GOK Y ere V_ “lM Yb Vy (@ MARSHAL OTEY WALKER 15 “HAVING TRov OPENING THE SATCHEL WHICH HE BROUGHT JNTo TOWN WHEN HE RETURNED WITH TWo HAND CUFFED HOBos — the) Mars ia a,etar, a big red one, and You can see it ‘most any night when | the moon isn’t too bright, or the (clouds too thick, or the air too > Weli—that’s Went. The first person they saw was @ Sauare man, who stared at them in ©@ most unmannerly way, “Hellot’ called Nick. where the Twins “Is this & Jerky voice. hunting for Mother “pid ‘talon it lately?” asked Nancy per ly. “Yea!” enewered the man. “Only years ago, She brow, and one, I fear, in each of my |ears. I can't hear as well as I did la thousand years ago.” "Goodness alive!’ gasped Nick, “A exclaimed old as that?’ aid the equare man “About a million, Nandy. Hon I'll turn to tron.” "And what will you're three million?” asked Nick, “I forget,” said the man. “I'll have to ask somebody. Perhaps I'll Just dry up and blow away.” “This is @ queer place,” declared Nancy. - “Is everybody lke you, poor thing?” “No,” said the square man, “We're all different. Copyright, I'm) only stone now, When I'm two mil-; you do when! |some shootin. Have a look, will you, | Lanyard, like a good fellow, and make sure our little friend over there twn’t playing ‘possum on us, | Seema to mo I've heard of his doing you remember, And, mademotselle, if you'll be kind enough to fetch me that carafe of ico water, I'll neo if we can't bring the skipper to his senses, #uch ae they are.” Hia tone was sufficiently urgent |te rouse Liane out of the lassitude into which reaction from terror had lot her slip, She passed a hand over wttll dazed eyes, looked uncertainly about, then with perceptible exer. tion of will power collected herself, stood away from the partition and picked up the carafe, Lanyard adopted the renetble aug fon of Phinult, dropping on a Continued) gest! 1922, Seattle Star) knee to rest hig hand above the!in the act of strangling Monk; something Mke that before—maybe| > WINDOW MARKED SIXTY DOLLARS - WOULD You MIND TAKING 1T_OUT FOR ME P satisfaction, if not prise, no least Mutter of life was to | be detected in that barrel-like chest.) A moment longer he lingered, looking the corpse over with tn- | quisitive eyes. No sign that he could see suggested that Popinot had suffered hardship during his two weeks of close sequestration; he | peered to have fared well as to food and drink, and his clothing, !f noth ing to boast of in respect of cut or cloth, and though wrinkled and | stretohed with constant wear, was |tolerably clean—unstained by bilge, grease, or coal amuta, as it must have been had the man been hiding jin the hold or bunkers, those tra- mone refuges of your simompure|} 1.4 Loint where the little year stowaway, We , No; Monsteur Popinct had been|| 4 boy argued with his mother well taken care of—and Lanyard | about going out alone into the could name an officer of prestige || woods, when both his mother and ponderable’ enough to secure his|] n14 gather thought tt best that he quarters, wherein prosumably Pop-) ainst search || Should not do it, Creat iia’ Packt be bees | ‘That, of course, is because when the yacht has been “turned) Inside out,” according to Its com-|] David and Peggy have that same sort of argument at home somo. mander, | aa the soures of Mr./] tines, even though they know that It makes mother-dear have a Mussey’s exact understanding of the! sorry look, and makes daddy say business! As to the question of how tho} sharply, “That's enough! Didn't your mother say no?” | Apache had been smuggled aboard, | and when, lanyard never learned) Well, I guess things are pretty much the same, aren't they? the truth. Clreumstances’ were to prevent his interrogating Mr, Mus Mothers and fathers keep on try- ing and children keep on not lik- luey, and he could only assume} ing to mind. |that—since Popinot oould hardly! have been tn the motor car wrecked on the road from Paris—he must have left that pursuit to trusted confreres, and, anticipating their So that's how it was when Mr, Worth Densmore started off all alone to go into the woods, which grew down to the very edge of Lake Union, to meet his father, who had gone hunting. David wriggted self-consciously and Peggy looked a little em barassed when the story got to possible fatlure, have hurried on to} Cherbourg by another route to make precautionary arrangements with Mr, Mussey. Ah, well! no fault could be found with the fellow for lack of determi-| nation and tenactty. | On the point of rising, Lanyard reconsidered and, bending over the! body, ran clever hands rapidly thru| the clothing, turning out every! pocket and heaping the miscellany} }of rubbish thus brought to light) }upon the floor—with a single ex-| caption; Popinot had possessed al picture that Phinult subsequently | pistol, an excellent automatic, Why| confirmed substantially in every de- |he hadn't used ft to protect himself,| tall... + heaven only knew. Presumably he One saw the garroter creeping had been too thoroly engrossed in| thru the blackness of the saloon the exercise of bis favorite sport to! from his hiding place, forward tn | think of the weapon up to the time! the cabin of the chief engineer; sta- |when Phinutt had opened fire on| tioning himself at the door to him; end then, thrown tnto panic,| Monk's quarters, with his chosen jhe had been able to entertain one} weapon, that deadly handkerchief of thought only, that of escape, hig trade, ready for the throat of | Lanyard entertained for a mo|the Lono Wolf when he should ment a vivid imaginary picture of} emerge, in accordance with the scene in the saloon when|agreement with Mr, Mussey, the Phinuit had surprised the Apache! spoils of the captatn’s safe in his hands, Then one saw Monk, alarm “Remember, son!’ his mother called after him, ‘You muat not be gone long, for I shall be very anxious.” ———a——ieileiial his! IN THE DEEP, DARK WOODS In telling the story, Mr. Dens- more said, “Our farm was about where 7éth and 75th and Green- wood are now, and it was a very lonely spot, all such’ heavy tim: ber, except for bare spots which I called ‘yales,’ where @ forest fire had caught and burned over a small section, leaving blackened and fallen tree trunks, and a fresh growth ef ferns and tall weeds. “I walked on and on and on, looking this way and that for my father and hearing no sound at all. “I do not know how far T had gone, nor just how late ft was when I came out into one of those open spaces, and saw a thing which filled me with fear. I knew that the wood felt chill and that the dampness of approaching night was in the atr, and that everything had begun to seem a bit out of shape and disturbed, and right ahead of me I saw a huge dark body movef* (To Be Continued) * od by tho sudden failure of the Nghts, hurrying out te return to the bridge, the pantherish spring upon the yictim’s back, the swift, about his windpipe, the merciless tightening of it—all abruptly 1. jumtnated by the white glare of |the truncated erlmson of the first Pistol flash, the frantic effort to es- cape, the hunting of thet gross shapo of flesh by the beam of light and the bullets as Popinot doubled and twisted round the saloon like @ rat in a pit, the last mad plunge | dextrous noosing of the handkerchief | (77 THANK ‘YOu, VERY MUCH, YOUNG LADY= {'M GOING To MEET MY WIFE OUT HERE IN + FRONT ANO 1 KNOW IF SHE SAW THAT HAT IN “THE WINDOW SHE'D WANT IT= Cy 3) for the companionway, the flight up! its steps that had by the narrowest margin failed to save him... Phinuit and Liane Delorme were too busy to heed; quietly Lanyard! slipped the pistol into a pocket and got to his feet. Then Swain came charging down the steps to find ut what all the row was abo: a |Phinutt’s electrio torch. And then! t on pre to report—which he did as soon as Monk was sufficiently recovered to understand—those outrageous and darkly mysterious assaults upon the helmsman and Mr, Collison, Both men, he stated, were unfit for fur- ther duty that night, though neither (Lanyard was happy to learn) had! suffered any permanent Injury. But’ what—in the namo of insage ity!-could have inspired such @ Moaningless atrogity? What could its perpetrator haye hoped to gain? What——t Monk, stretched out upon @ } er couch in his sitting room, ed eyebrows of suspicion at Lan yard, who countered with a guile lessness so perfect as to make it ap- pear that he did not even compre - hend the tnsinuation.