The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 1 OTR ROARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD) HOME TOWN BY STANLEY, WeHae T Kilow You, GIR COURTNEY PLASTER!« Nou ane “SNAKE MC GAFF,” WANTED #3 WYOMING FOR GTICKING PIS Wl DOORBELLG! = AND AG OW JACK DEAREST DO BE CAREFUL! REMEMBER, “THAT JIG FAWTHAS ONLY SHIRT You ARE WEARING = STRIKE HEART PEELS “IW CHILL OF MY COLD STHEL, JACK DAGHLEIGH, I WANT You 7 KNow THAT TL FALLED “TH” FOUNTAIN PEA You UseD how DID MY PUTTY 1900-Littie Brown & Canpany ' tH powN For ! Pape BEN (“WOLE") DARBY, expert woodsman and canoeist, pene shocked ow ae utils =P ce “to SIGN“TH' PAPERS KNIFE GET IN THE JAILS in France and loses bis identity after returning home, Ho drifts into a NEWSBOV HAS “TAKEN WITH WWNISIBLE 1 WAS USING IT A FEW criminal life, but he partly recovers while he ts robbing a bank tn Seattle. HEM TD ALGIERS !- BLOTS '- AND Now As a result he is caught and sent to the state penitentiary at Walla Wall Der where ts confined unttl si Ron nlc, Mow, 7END TRAMPS OUG OUT CRA MELVILLE, aged friend of hin family, finds him and persuades the YOURSELF !+ WITH 1T-ANSWEP ME governor to parole him in his custody, Together the two men walk out of Seattle, northward toward British Columbia. Ezra promises Hen an | THAT, OTEY WALKER interest in a gold mine which his brother, } » HIRAM MELVILLE, bas found at Snowy Guich, B.C. The matter died shortly after writing to Bara about the claim. In his letter he explained that he had not had time to record the claim and warned his brother to look out for IRFFERY NSILSON and his gang. Ben protests against Bara’s generosity. NOW GO ON WITH THE sToRY Tt might have been in the moon her. Its mystery was undying. Born Right that Esram’s eyes giittered per | in ite shadow, her love had gone out eepubly “You're in my charge,” be / to it in her earliest years, and it held gtinned 1 guess you ain't wot any her just as fast today. All her comin’, jdreame—the natural longings of an “Walt-—walt.” Ben sprang to his imaginative gir! born to live in an feet, and caught by his earnestness, | uninhabited portion of the earth. Exram got up too. i sure-—-I sure) were inextricably bound up in it; appreciate the trust you put if me," | whatever plans she had for the fu- Ben went on slowly Wor my own ture always included it. Not that part I'd give everything I've got and | she was blind to {te more terrible all I'd hope to ever get to go with | qualities; tts might and its utter re- you. its a chance such as I Rever | morsolessness that all foresters, soon dared believe would come to me again er or later, come to recognize, Her @ chance for big success-—a chance | thewa were strong, and she loved it to go away and get a new start 19 all the more for the tests that it put a country where | feel, instinetively, | to tts children. that I'd make good. But that's aed Bhe was @ daughter of the forests, the beginning of it. and ite mark was on her, Tonight ‘The dark vivid eyes seomed to glow jthe same moon that, a thousand im the soft light. “Forgive me if | | alles to the south, was lighting the talk frank; and if it sounds silly liwey for Ben and Karam on their can't help it,” Ben continued. “You've | northern journey, shone on her as never been in prisoo-—-with @ phe Fd hastened down the long, shad year sentence hanging over YOU—~|owed street toward her father’s and nobody giving 4 damo. FOr | snack, revealing her forest parentage some reason | can't guess YOU'V® | for all to see, The quailty could be already done more for me than I discerned in her very carriage—swift can ever hope to repay. You #ot M® | gad graceful and silent—vaguely sug- out of prison, you wakened hope @Md/ geuting that of the wild creatures self-respect im me whee I thought | themselves. Mut there was no coarre. they wore dead, and you've proved &| noes or ruggednem about her face friend when I'd given up any thought and form such as superficial obser- of ever knowing human friendship | vation might have expected. Phy al- agein. 1 was down and out, Maram. /calty she was like @ deer, strong, you want me to do I'll 40 | straight-limbed, graceful, slender te the last diteh, You know I C®®/ rather than buxom, dainty of hands know how & MAB CAR | and feet. A perfect constitution and healthful surroundings had done all this, And good fairies had worked THE “TWO TRAMPS WHO WERE EATING THE TOWN INTO DEBT DUG OUT OF THE JAIL WITH A PUTTY KNIFE-NOow CLEM PoTTER OWNER OF THE PUTTY KNIFE WANTS To KNOW HOW “THE KNIFE GOT INTO THE HANDS OF “THE JAIL BIRDS - DOINGS OF THE DUFFS ANOTHER THING -WHEN | ASK WIM IF HE WOULD UKE ME “To GO WITH HIM WHEN HE STARTS OUT HE WEVER HAS ERRANDS "H DO AND THINGS TO ATTEND W AND THATS ALL THE BXCUSE HE EVER GIVES ME- IF 1ASK LATELY~ ME EITHER QORS NOT COM@ HOME To Dinner JUST How >) OR IF Hm DoES coma Home | LONG HAS HE PROMPTLY LEAVES AGAIN Bow dgeco ag Ano Wen RIGHT APTER DINNER - HE'S " Y ING ~- o NO THEN FLL CALL further magic: as she paawed beneath Ne = MRS DurR? {[1M WHERE HBO CO You AT Your Home. the light at the door of the rude Law = ' GOODBYE AND DON'T hotel there wan revealed an unquos- WORRY= tioned and rather startling factal Tt seemed hardly fitting in this stern, rough land—the soft contour and delicacy of the girl's features. | “Good Lord, it charity!" the eld man shouted. woing him out. “Tm gettin’ as m pleasure out of % as you” is voice sank again i F 3 z a : &E ri long ago, In Montreal,” went on, after a peus. “TI your mother, ae a girl, She “ ee secry wish of hers was tow ee ’ fee Youre her som” ateetane FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Two Shorts and a Long Ww marvelously 7 : i zee 2 E Th saa ' i E ju i i : ! iH tif i i | | d rf ! Hi | ! | fe Hd Hl rd i fri it E lf Ay FE 5 > ie ii; g 3 BF if iF : it alk | i Hie th 5 HF 4 ' not a time when human her garb was neither fiaanes are ot hele best. ait strong. bet & was pretty of ‘There is an instinctive, haunt- and evidently | self, but a bastard breed—the ten- ‘Ing fecling which, though not fear, so ern tha | Aer. wistful half-scalle sped from her Ff F g i H H gf ayn : i | “I'm going up to see your pop, and TH see your there, if you don’t mind.” : . 9 A Ray Brent's voice had an undeni i] had | ble ring of power, It was deeply O | bass, evidently the voloe of # pas- y] over-' stonate, reckless, brutal man. The A 2 ‘covetous caress of his thick hand » (@ a [upon her arm Indicated that he was Sal A 4 ee 6 wholly sure of himself in regard to DB teeeee t at ee te |her. } She stared with growing apprehen EVERY PLACE § GO IN Tes HOUSGS, |xton Into his even-featured, not Tes, & GOT MKED VP With lunhandsome face, Evidently she 17 omG AAIRS 4 They 'ee IN THE HAL found it hard to meet his eyes--eyer | holly lacking in humor and kindli ND IN THS BATH erage 4 In THS | ness, but unquestionably vivid anc IVING ROOM AND IN lcompelling under his heavy, dark |ONING] Room AND — brows. “I'm going home,” she told him at last, “I guess, if you're going up to see Pop, you can walk along too.” } | The man fell in beside her, his powerful frame overshadowing hers |Tt was plain at onoe that the man- | |ner of her consent did not in the) least disturb him, “You're Sunt let- |ting me because I'm going up there ‘anyway, eh?” he asked, “I'll walk jalong further than that with you| \before I'm — ey : Come HOMGe FROM THE OFFICS » girl paused, as in appea’ we've thrashed that out long | Tt NavoR py pirg ashe XA Sat lago,” she responded. “I wish you| [= = HOSS 3} | wouldn't keep talking about it. If you want to walk with me—" “All right, but you'll Ne changing your mind one of these days.” Ray's voice rang in the silence, Indicating utter Indifference to the fact that many of the loungers on the street | were listening to the little scene. “I've never seon anything I wanted yet that I didn’t got—and I want you, Why don't you believe what your pop says about me? He thinks Ray Brent js the goods,” rk sas “I'm not going to talk about It any | that was rising, incredibly large ai f g : if gee : Hy f ve David said, “don’t “You,” David answered serious 1d stay down-| ly, “I've heard lots of people talk these days?” | ing abdut Seattle Spirit—heaps of Peggy, looking | times when I've been downtown k—she was sew-| with daddy. And grandmother for grandmother’s| was saying to mother-dear this morning, “We must teach the chil- explained, “it| dren the spirit of giving,’ and ‘all sort of queer,’ we're the children of Seattle, so inside. You re-; that's ft. @eattle Spirit t# the spirit of giving. “Just the other day I heard about the first Christmas Judge for Jesus to walk | Ronald ever spent in Seattle. t you see? If I “He wasn't a judge then, he 1’ pay tt seems | Was just quite « very young man thrilling to have| with a litte new wife and they decorated up k®| were as blue and lonesome as anything. And they lived tn the woods up on the hill not far from Peggy,” time people threw THE JAY WALKER on, wholly rapt in his own, devour- e4 her little the Wards’ home on Lake Union more. I've already given you my) white, above the dark line of thejing desires, The dark passions of/® man’s country. Oh, I know you|tainly the hardest, going fu his lips to hers—three times. when she's thi “And Mra. Meany and Mra, | ®newer-—20 tien: spruce top¥. For all the regularity | the man, always just under the skin,| Well enough. It's time you got down | get your own way—but a real man | he released her, his eyes glowing like Bushnell used to be Nttle girls The man talked on, but the girl) of his rather handsome features, hia| seemed to be getting out of bounds,|t© brass tacks. If you're going to} would break you in two in a minute. | red coals, % walked with lifted chin, apparently | was never an attractive face to her,|“When I want something, I don’t|be @ northern woman, you've got to| Some one more than a brute to beat But 6 was a northern thought. then and their mother and father hat mother-dear| were Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Ward, told grandmother | end they folt #0 awfully sorry for the lonesome young couple that they begged thetr mother to invite the strangers to share their Christmas. 80 Judge Ronald says he always will remember that Christmas which two little girls thought to make happy for them.” not hearing. They followed the board] even in first, sugceptible girlhood; | know how to quit till I get it, It’s |® content with the kind of men that sidewalk into the shadows, finally|and in the moonlight !t suddenly | part of my nature, Your pop knows|STOw up here. Up here, the best turning in at @ ramshackle, three-| titled her with dread. Ray Bront was|that—and that's why he's made me/™an wins, the hardest, strongest Troon house that was perched on @/a dangerous type; imperious willed, | his pardner in « big deal.” man, That's why I'm going to win hillside almost at the end of the|siave to his most degenerate instincts,| “If my father wants men Ike you | ou.” street at the outer mits of the vil-| reckless, as free from moral restraint |—for his pardners, I can't speak for| Because he was secretly attacking | way up here—not a story-book way. |his lips, a blow that extinguished i lage. as the most savage oreatures that| his judgment.” her dreams, the dearest part of her} The strong man gets what he wants| laughter as the wind | The girl turned to go tn, but the | roamed his native wilds. Now his} “Walt just a minute, ‘He's told me| being, she felt the first surge of/—and I want you. And I'll get you, | match-blaze. man held fast to her arm. facial lines appeared noticeably deep, |—and 1 know he’s told you too—that | rising anger, too—just like I get this kiss.” “You lttle—devil!* horses to death and jump claims. I'm | trained self-defense, As he going In now, Please take away your|her, her strong, slinder arm hand.” out and up—with really “One thing more, This is the/force. Her half-closed hand North, We do things in a man’s/with a sharp, drawing motion “Yen,” wala Peaay softly just a minute, Bee,” he urged. dark lke scars, and curious ttle} 1’ sult him all right for a son-in-| “You're not the best man here,”| He suddenly snatched her toward} ‘The tempest of the forest tg! Seattle Spirit.” 4 got one thing more to my to you." | flakes of iniquitous fire danced tn his|Inw. He and I agree on that, And|she told him, straightening, “If you|him, A powerful man; she was| upon her, and her eyes mere The girl looked into his face, now | sunken eyes, this country ain‘t like the places youl were, I'd move out. .You may be] wholly helpless in bis grasp. His} hastemed around duay. and cor- faintly ilumined by the full moon” “Just one minute, Bee,” he wentlread about in your story book»—it's the strongest In your arms went about her and he presse " _ ‘i spi , Llekekalelal