The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 11

“MBE great abock ts yais of the entire m and ta a @ rule, Deneficent. The brain seems to be im a great preoceupation, | BMke @ wall, and the messages of pain Patter against (ttn vain. fend horror brought by (the nerves The senses @ulled, the perceptions blunted, full realization does not come & long tima to which time 40, Ben eat beside the | his olf counselor and ohild might sit among je half leaned forward, his ,» his hands resting in his deep wonder and bew!tiderment eyes, Dully he watched the Utting tn the sky and felt the ‘of the wind against his taos, only from time to time at body before him The whined softly, and sometimes Teached his hand to caress the R_28, 1922. SKY LINE OF — SPRUCE OF Ute bow & Gampany } the right beet tm the boot leg, fust as Heram had promteed. Ben found a scrap of white paper He spread tt on Dis knee, end an folded ft with care The moonlight Was not sufficiently vivid, however, for him to read the penciled sorawt He felt Im Rie pocket for a mateh. | Recause his mind was operating lelear and eure, his thoughts finshed at once to Dis enemies In thelr cabins jalong the cresk fe @i4 not want them te know he had found the body » work tn the ark, to achiowe his ands by stealth nd cunning! Tt wae strange what capacity for cunning had come upon him. Oh, he would be crafty—sharp —eure In every motion It was unlikely, however, that the faint glare of @ match could carry so far. To make eure he walked be hind the covert, then turned his back |to the canyon thru which the creek | flowed The match cracked, tnor @inately loud tm the silence, and hts | eyes followed the script. Meram had OTR ROARDING HOUSE MY REAGON FoR WAILING You FROM ] ME wiKTDOw MY GOOD {MAN WAG "OD PRESENT You Wrth THis GIFT Berrie ONE WHO “TOILG GO"THAT “Wie WHEELG OF IWDUGTRY MAY REVOLVE = AND bj) So 1 AGK Vou “To ACCEPT THIS “| BRAND NEW Surr OF OVERALLS, WE GYMBOL. OF LABOR! CUBAN TH’ SNow | ORF TH’ WALK « \ (MAT COMPLETES | MY WARDROBE AN’ Now 1 CAN “TOUR “TO THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN HAHA HE WAG WORRIED DIZZV How TO GBT RIDOF THAT WORKING TUXEDO’ AN’ LOOK AFPLAGH OF HIM W HERE He'D 6o OUT WITH ENOUGH BUMPS ON HIG HEAD PASS OFF FOR GIVING (Tb TH’ ONLY GPADE WE EVER HAD IN WIS WAND WAG IN A CARD GAM | You BOYS WILL HAVE To Quit + CROWDIN In 50 CLOSE But slowly his wandering faculties | been faithful to the Inst: | Feturned to him. He began to under. | To Whom It May Concern: Im case of my death I leave all I | s-mone from his life as amoke goes die possessed of including my broth fe the air. Never to hear him again, er Hiram's claim near Yuga river to | Of see him, or make plans with him.) my pard and buddy, Hén Darby. _@& have high adventures beside him| (aigned) EZRA MELVILLE. | @long the lonely traiia. Fenris had} The document was as formal as him tn the darkness; here he | Bxram could make It, with a cerefully Grawn seal, and for all tte quaint | wording, it was « will to stand tn God given him his chance, his old/any court, But Bxram had not been 4 * who had brought him home. | able to hold his dignity for long. He “Phe thing was not credible at Grst; | had added @ postscript: + here, dead as a stone, lay the) Son, old Hiram made « will, and I | @hell of that life that had been his| guess I can make one too. I fust salvation. He studied intently | found out about them devils that : gray face, missed ite habitual| jumped our claim I left you back 4 and for really the first time|there at the river because I didn't Riis gaze rested upon the yawning | want you taking any dam fool risks 4 in the temple. ti I found out how things lay. 4 He gazed at it In speechless, grow- | fg borror, and something Ike an in- AUNT SARAH PEABODY AND CARTED AWAY THE LARGE Box -MOST EVERY GODY /N TOWN KAS GUESSED ON WHAT MIGHT BE JN “THE BOX THIS MAIL IS READY FOR You To SIGN, MR. DUP F- 1 GUESS WE’D BETTER Look THIS OVER AND SEE HOW WE STAND! | | 2c8 s f : i, fi 33 bs E A FH 3. i Bs [ if it [it sf tt geRSeP li Hy 3y¥8 TE2% ji oH if 3 i ! i A iit iH if i t : & i i had the quality of a vow. And now, | as they knelt, eyes looking Into eyes, ft was like a pagan rite in the ancient i i fui EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO OUT OUR WAY i us i . g i i 3 1 WISHT THAT T COULD GET A BARBER SHOP HAIR CUT ONCE! MY POP ALLUS CUTS MY HAIR. I E 3 Bs Be MY BUT rT SMELLS \/m-M-M-UH SWEET t MENEM-H || 1CAN SMELL M-m-M-AAH « /( 07 FROM HERES alk aH t He iF if & H : | #3 jance, mercy-—esemed to pass away from Ben as light passes into dark- . ang|nees. Only the Wolf was left, the dominant beast—that darker, hid- mand. It!den side of himself from which no| — |man can wholly escape and which |civilization has only smothered, as fresh fuel smothers a flame. Not for | nothing had his fellows known him as |“Wolt” Darby; and now the name | was true | ‘The beast that Gwells under every |man's skin, in « greater or lens de- gree, was in the full ascendancy at liast, The unnamable ferocity that | marks the death-leap of the wild hunters was in his face. In his eyes was cunning—such craft as marks the pack in tts hunting. All over | |him was written that unearthly rage | that Is alone the property and trait ‘of the woods creatures: the fury with which @ she-wolf fights for her cubs lor a rattlesnake avenges the death of ite mate. Mercy, remorse, compas- sion there are none, And the demon gods of the wilder- ness rejoiced. For uncounted thou- sands of years the tide of battle had flowed against them; and it was long and long since they had won such a victory as this. Mostly thelr men children had forsaken thetr leafy how- ers to live tn houses. They tilled the ground rather than hunt tn the for- est. The cattle that had once run wild in the marshes now fed dully in enclosed pastures; the horses—that mighty breed that once mated and fought and died in freedom on the high lands—pulled lowly burdens tn the cultivated fields. Even some of the canine people too—first cousins to the wolves themselves—had sold themselves into slavery for a gnawed bone and a chimney corner, But tos! night the wild had claimed its own again, Here was one, at least, who had come back Into his own. The forest : g 7 FE THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR Moore is a good story-| headed on a slant for that hole, » and the kiddies had seen/ and before anyone could catch at ploneer meetings lots of| her, she had gone into ft head but this school story was| first. first one they had ever heard “Now there was commotion ber tell. enough upstairs, for it was a “Our teachers were not much | startling thing to see your teacher Hike the ones children have now,” | Suddenly reverse and stand on “he said. “I imagine there ten’t| her head, with her head in « hole, ‘8 Woman here who ever attended | Put if we made a commotion, ‘Hat school who hasn't been| ownstairs there was bediam, and ‘whipped by the teacher.” no wonder. “To be sitting at your desk Ss “pong hn laughed snd) inaing one teacher, to hear a sudden sound, to look up and see | “This day that I remember, | 1 neae of a second teacher pean yO", say recall. * | sticking down thru the ceiling | “In cold weather the stovepipe ‘was enough to cause a disturb. ame up thru our room and gv! ance in any school.” us heat, but this was spring and) The vensenenase. cOmest: wats @ laugh tha: ver ; 0% sata gaa Se rE oie ine semee ton story, but they ¥ suppose because of the laugh that “Miss Biank had had her troubles with us all day, and I all was well. “We did have an awful time | reamed to whisper and thrill with | think whe must have been over. | tired, tor when she started angrily getting her out,” Mrs. Moore | rapture. said, “we had just sense enough (Continued Tomorrow) | to know that if we weren't care- ee | off her little platform to one of us and give him (or the shaking up he deserved, warner govehene dev it | CASTORIA ‘As they drove home, David said, “Grandmother, do you suppose F I'll! bave funny things like that or Infan totelt when I grow up? 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