The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 28, 1922, Page 13

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1922. iumphs of 4 }) M.Jonquelle \ | by Metviiie Davisson Post hf © 1999 NEA Service, Inc eyntoally nan had Go on With tho Story CHAPTER Il The invalid criminal lifted him. gait on his great hands and turned the whole of his body toward me. “] tell you,” he shook the arms his chair in his great hands, thing begun to get my goat! father, a lawyer in the South. @ead, She had only the oid on grandmother (I heard the ‘among the women) and the was getting scarce. played im form, every correct, and he was goin’ to her. | “T ween itr” His yoice became cold, level, even ke @ metallic click “Now, my little gentleman,’ T to myself, ‘we'll just see If you Right here ts where “Alibi Al" fm with a stack of blues’ “J got up, folded my newspaper, took a turn up and down the as tho I was trying out game leg, an’ then TI limped to the fashionable church just from the library. “I stepped up inside the door.” He paused, and his voice changed its former note. “You see I had to have a iittle on this fob. It had a big, loose os t im and sat down in a was dim and quiet and I down to business, I didn't of the prayer-book cur. I put the thing right the boss, ‘Now, look here, Governor,’ I ‘has a helpless little girl got @ with you, or is it bunk? Be. Tm agoin’ to call you, and ‘the line your barkers are putting fs on the level, you've got to across with the goods. If nothing to tt, the Govern ought to shut ‘em up on a order—I'mm agoin’ to carry one of this thing; get busy at the end? (Then I went out. “That night I went over to see Wostridge, ‘Was surprised to see me— Understand it; he'd never met ity formal, as you'd int throw any stut- Your little} ‘That was her nickname among | the youngsters, because her blue black hair In the sun had a heavy | enly copper gtint “He looked mixed up. ‘What, pre cisely, do you mean?’ he says. I didn't pay any attention to him, I went on just as if he hadn't {said a word “Women's got no sense about | Dusiness—cho's agoin’ to lose it.’ | “"Lose what? he says, “Rotten the way they bring girls * I says, the same as if he hadn't Here's this steel bunch beat tng the stuff down; her broker wires for somethin’ to cover it, an’ she jsticks the telegram up against the lookin'glass go she'll remember to | write to him next week—can you | beat itt | “I saw everything that was goin’ thru him, same as tf you'd rolled } it out on the picture-reel. | “The ‘old friend, no.manners, darn jthe difference’ stuff, had hooked |him. And there were two other hooks: this girl had some property that be didn’t know of, and the friends of the family, like ma, was @-coming to him about it. “He set up now, pleasant as you please. | “Aber, yea he says; he! hadn't got the name I was playing under. “I bellowed at him, an* he mighty near Jumped. “‘Johneon!’ I sald. son, Kansas City!" ‘Alonso Joho quick, same as you'd apologize, | ‘there's some business affair to dis- ouss, I fauncy “He fell right in with the tine of dope mighty easy and comfortable. | | You see it was something lke the! | way they do thingy up in his coun. | jtry. The old uncle or the family lawyer calls on you, when ma thinks that things are pretty well under- stood with the young people, and | site down to figgerin’. ' “It was near enough to my Ine |to go across with him. He knew |that the girl hadn't got any men- | folk, #0 aa an old friend of the famtly | would (it the form as @ sort of next- of-kin, as the law-books say.” The big man linked his fingers to- gether on the chalr-arm. “As I was sayin’, he walked right in and made himself at home with the notion. He called her ‘Carrots’ [straight back at me; it wna, ‘Kiss | her’ pape; she's our’n now,’ and he begun to grin. “He bounced up and got a box of cigars and a large dish full of| matches and shoved them acroan the | table. I took one, built the end off, scratched the match dn my foot, lighted tt, and went ahead. “It's the butt end of what she's sot,” T says, ‘an’ it's in the door.” “He knew all about business, and he picked the things right out. “You mean,’ he says, ‘that her "| solicitor has invested her fortune In ;|m stock on margin and the market ie declining? “You get it’ I saya, ‘only sho “| done it herself, on some tip from 4 C 2525252524 the curative prop- own “ready-made” you probahty could curative power in this simple home-made jich is easily prepared ounces bottle of really better cough syrup iy ready-made for Tastes 4 ‘pou! i ind has bee extract, tions to break se fo avoid disappointment, ask your Pinex” {i of fall directions and don’t else. Guarani’ bao) satisfaction or Boat Schedules: | SSAVE Money- f gavel by sfeamer TACOMA iy : IRT DAILY fon stkdun ie FOR ROUND TORIA,BC RAIT POINTS F ad AN ISLAND POINTS fet strs. from Anacortes or Holling. Lam. Ly. Beattie dally ox. Sat. 10 p.m. INGHAM - ANACORTES 2WNSEND. RAIL CONNECTIONS YO MILL PORTS >0 CANAL POINTS LS WAY PORTSEH TION CO 21ON SOUND NAVIGA teed to give money funded. i ; ie a The Pinex Co, her swell friends’ “‘How extraordinary!" he piped; his voice got thin when ft hit money. ‘Is it ao legitimate stock T “‘Sure,’ I answered, ‘one of the six good ones,’ I didn't know how many good ones there waa “Why does it dectine? His votes went up like « singing-school. “"The steel bunch are clubbing It!’ T says. “He understood that, and began |to finger around his little. wax mus- | “Quite so,” he cheeped, “quite so, | Then he squared toward me. | “Aber, Mr. Johnson, he says, |'T fauncy you came with some plan | about ft.’ “Plan nothing’, I says; the stuff got to be covered—they'll git it beat junder her figger tn another day's Doundin’” “‘Ab-—er—quite so,’ he was cool as OUR BOARDING HOlL MAR HA MDEAR = 1 WAVE AN EXCELLENT PLAN “THAT WILL SAVE YoU PRACTICALLY HALF WHAT AMURKEY WOULD COST YO SATISFY THE PALATE OF THIS HOUSE = \F Nou Give Me FIVE DOLLARS L CAN GET “IWENTY RAFFLE CHANCES ON A “TURKEY ! = You SEG, MY ODDS OF WINNING FT WouLD THE SEATTLE ISE HA-HA« THAT TURKEY We'D WIN WOULD Have A NECK ~ BUT ‘THeRE'D Be A CORK IN MMM ww T WILL Give You JuSsT one CHANCE “to RAFFLE YouR- SELF OUT OF “MIS KITCHEN ! BE OVERWHELMING! “Quite so, Mr. Johnson,’ be says, | | DADDY 1S GOING To TAKE You OVER TOA WN PLACE WHERE THEY RAPPLE OFF URKEYS - WE MAY id of genuine Norway used fi | “Hig money!” 1 gurgled tt, like a | man choking on a laugh. | a Julep; ‘you are intending, I fauncy, to cover the margin?’ “I leaned over the table and blew & mouthful of smoke on him. “ ‘Sure!’ I roared to his face, ‘If I | can get fifty thousand dollars quick.’ “He ducked out of the smoke. “That's a very large sum of money,’ he says. “I lolled over the table an’ smoked on him like a Dutch uncle. “Big money!’ I gurgled tt, like a man choking on a laugh. “Do you know how much Carrots has got hanging on It?’ “He didn’t answer that; I knew he wouldn't. | “where, precisely, do you expect |to get this money? he saya. | #1 set up more calm-like at that. | “Well! I says, ‘I thought maybe we could raine it together.” He wanted that fake fortune saved for him, so {t would come |along with the girl, but he wanted |nomebody else to carry the chance. “1 knew It, and I smoked on him, I hung over the table and puffed it lin his face. He tried to duck out of it, and I followed him around. It | done me good-—I couldn't spit on the | ttle tightwad. “Now, look here, Mr. Westridge,’ I says, ‘don’t you git a wrong notion in your head; I'm not agoin’ to let |you take any risk on this. I'm \agoin’ to take the risk; there ain't none, in fact; the stuffs got to bounce back, It'll go to the sky when the steel bunch get all they So when the Twins left the soap at Mrs. Bunny's house it was really the corn cake she got. “Here, my dears!’ said the Green Wizard, “is some magical soap I wish to send to Mrs. Ben Bunny She's such @ good soul I couldn't re fuse her request when she asked me for some magical soap to wash her son's ears, Ben Jr. won't let her touch them, it seems, so she asked me to help her out.” “Does she still live in the same place she used to?’ asked Nick. “Yea, down under the ground by the old oak,” answered the Green Wizard. “And, by the way, it's Cobby Coon’s birthday and I've made him a nice little cake out of corn-meal, the kind he’s so fond of. You might knock at the Coons’ front door as you go by and leave It, with my compliments.” Nick took the magical soap and Nancy took the nice little corn-cake and they started off thru Whisper: ing Forest. But, as usual, Light Fingers was peeping. He tiptoed Twins and very softly Nightly behind the changed ound the packages, Then he skedaddled away for dear life. So, when the Twins lett the soap at Mrs. Bunny's house, it was really the corn cake she got, and when |corn-mea! cake for his birthday, he received the pink soap intended for Ben Bunny's long ears. Now I suppowe you think there was all sorts of trouble mistake was discovered, but it never was, For this is the note Mrs, Ben |Bunny wrote |“Dear Mr. Green Wizard “Thank you for the soap. It smells so much lke corn-meal that all I want “Gratefully, “MRS, BUNNY.” This was Cobby’s note; lkake wt fine { ate it all up plense tell me wuz it strawberry or pepper mint. COBBIE COON.” (To Be Continued) (CopPright, 1923, by Seattle Star) ————— can grab of it. But whatever risk there may be, 1 sputtered tt out on him, 4# mine, I'll put up the back~ ing an’ you got me the money by tomorrow at noon.’ 1 was nearly across the table, an’ I didn’t wait for him to cut in with a question. I took a big envelope out of my pocket and flashed the stuff on him, He came up with a chirp. “My word!’ he says, ‘where did you got this?’ “well, I answered, ‘London's big selling-point with us—you can’t trade with the English and not take their stuff, can you. The Johnny whose name’s on that stuff put tt up with me—same as I'm putting It up with you. There's fourteen of them Ain't they good for fifty thousand” “He spread the certificates out on the table and run his fingers over them, It was old-fashioned love- touchin’, Ben lets mo wash his ears with it “Deer mr, grene wizzerd the pink | they presented Cobbie Coon with the | when the} STAR BY AHERN Yeu, iF we DEPENDED ON HIM FoR OUR “THANKS~- GIVING FEED, TH’ ONLY MING “THAT GET ITs FILL WOULD BE rte “TH! BATH TUB! <2 some WELL, [VE SPENT TEN DOLLARS NOW AND NO TURKEY! (/ ONE CHANCE May DO TWETRICK! T SAID AO @ You WURRY CF WD BED SD You CAN 6B UWP BARLY AND 6G OVER To Ar Graille a * * * fell OT i Cleland _4 rage 54 oN’'T KNOW “Captain Eli explained to us,” daddy went on, that the whale gun collected moisture in tts bar. rel very fast, and that he had put in @ thimbleful of powder to ex- plode, so that 11 would be dry, and ready when he fired his big blank charge. “Well, the darkey couldn't manage the lights, he said, ‘Hey, Marse Cap'n, sposen wo swap jobs, I'se a great hand with guns, Sho is. I fire him ofrr “So the captain went up on the the stage and the darkey went forward to the gun. ‘Whoop-ee!” he exclaimed, as he picked it up, dis shore am some gun! Dis mus’ be @ son-of.a-gun! “He fumbled around a while, and Captain El called back to him to light a lamp #0 he could seo what he was doing: “He sort of mumbled as he worked, ‘Dis yer ole gun non’ want to go, See dat fusion? I gwine put in al » mite o' powder and blow him off; den he go. Uh-huh! Sho will go, go fine! “He fixed his ‘fusion’ and lift- ed the gun, ‘I'se a-gwine to shoot straight up, Marse Cap'n. I'se| streak of flame was alarming.” aimin’ high, I'se gwine to shoot (Lo Be Continued) — FOR el IT WAS LOADED" @ angel—come on, gun! “Now the captain's way was to load the gun with paper wads and @ little powder, and it made a mighty noise, and did no harm, But Mickey MeCrone had put ina pint of shot, The captain had added powder and paper, the darkey had added more powder, and more powder for his ‘fusion.’ “ "See dat! called the darkey, and bang! went the whale gun, with a sound like @ cannon, In stantly every light in the ball went out, and the air was filled with the crash of falling plaster, and furniture being knocked about. “The first bang was followed al- most instantly with a mighty 2222222! and a second shock. Then utter blackness, and still. ness, but soon the stillness was broken by the crashing of chairs and @ little streak of fire, ning round and round, “The captain held his -breath, waiting to hear the dying groans of the darkey. The air was full of dust and smoke, the circling when run- “‘Oh!' his voice flickered up, ‘be- yond question.’ “"Done!’ I says. back with the cash “I want you to promise me that you won't ever say anything to Car- rots about this, nor to anybody; It's between us—she's @ high-strung youngster,’ I added; ‘this thing's got to be buried with us, no matter what happens. Is it a trade? “We shook hands on it and T got out. “Before twelve the next day he sont mo a draft on New York for the money—an’ I'd won a lap.” ‘Keep it until I your money--an’ before noon to- come Ket me morrow.’ “*Don't you want # memorandum? he says. “T waved my hand, careless, like it was nothin’, “That's all right,’ I says; ‘Tt don't want any promises about that, but there is a thing that I do want a The concluding Installment of “The Girl in the Picture” will appear in our next issue, promise about.’ “I threw my cigar in the fireplace and set down, THE OLD) HOME TOWN PAGE 13 BY STANLEY YES SALLY, TA BRINGING TH’ BEAN Pans THE LODGE SUPPER WAS A BIGGER SUCCESS THAN FOLKS THOUGHT, DOCTOR PILLSBURY , TODAY CALLED ON FOUR YOUNG FOLKS WHO ATTENDED “IME AFFAIR — BY ALLMAN DANNY, YOURE THE Lucky GUY -NOW WELL HAVE TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING GEEHE'SA PRETTY TuRKEY! FVS DoccaRs. Go OvuT AND GET GIVE MG THat FIVE AND RING Ve "No SALS* Cranberry Conserve By Bertha E, Shapleigh Of Columbia University 4 cups cranberries 1 cup water (boiling) 1 cup seeded raisins 1% cups English walnut meats (cut in small pieces) 3 cuips sugar 2 small oranges Pick over and wash berries, Place over the fire with one cup cold water and bring to botling point; when skins of the berries break re- move from fire and rub thru a sieve, Add boiling water, raisins, nuts and oranges thinly sliced, with seeds removed, and sugar. Simmer 80 minutes, This will keep well and is a very good conserve to serve with cold meat, especially with chicken or turkey