The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 27, 1923, Page 19

J FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1923 —_ 5 A 4 tra falle many NOW GO ON WITH sroRY To the girl it was an eternity be. fore the m \ peered thru the tops of the tangled cedars, Trees and brush began to take shane. Mercedes Went on. She found a tiny spring trickling to her ri Sho wet her Ups with followed its course on she caught the beat of waves d come out to the shore of the lake. She erted out with new courage. Her voice rolled over the water to the cove where her brother lay Esteban jumped at the sound of it KUISP ERING (i gnition possible had schemed well to b Acki The never-halting approach of the raft, the black bulk of the mine ris ing from its surface, the glowing fuse masthead, brought no ery from her lips. This Was the thing she had }come to stop. | It came so close to her that she could hear the sputtering of the fuse. An eddy or 4 whim of the wind caught the raft then and sent it | away from the shore, She could not swim a stroke, Just what she In tended to do she did not know; but she knew she could never reach It riding along as it was, the bank. She found, however, that she kept abreast of It ax she fol-| come from, lowed the margin of the lake toward the dam 50 yards from} and beat the iron thit bled afresh, but sho was the p fee ran into the corners of her # cuts on her knucklos a pain, Ba From } in er ano cry Ups came @ wild, « | CHAPTER XXVIII The Rescue Esterban was coming to the higher ground where his trail turned to the south when he heard a horse whinny He had to put hat over his mount’s nose to keep him from an ewering. The ¢ horse calle The b ain; nearer thin time did not wait. He wheeled and gal-| loped back over the path he had just When be ne two mile had retraced he his way ac turned Cynttlnia Gr AR € 1 Girl Who Would Be Poputa e Mu i Some Effort Along That Line—Can’t Sit Back a Expect to Be Entertained. BY CYNTHIA GREY How can 1 be popular like othe rls? write y T have no boy friends—they « on hi at co U Why? writes another. These and ones f their way into th departm ntly a boy friend, and that is to keep h terested. You ea not expect a young man to call on you and entert while you sit quietly by, waiting for him to make the ne move in n k DO SOMETHING! yeu d Find out the subjects he is most interested in—then lea make a deep study of every topic he happens to mention But learn to talk about athletics and other things men are iterested in, This is especially necessary if you have no usic in your home, If you play the piano find out the ind of music he likes best and learn to play those piece Learn to entertain and not expect tobe entertained. The secret of the popular girl is to know what to do and when to do it, as et; He had already waited long past the | to scan the lake far below him, His @ppointed time to send the raft adrift.|_ This was all very well for a time.| pulse Jumped as he caught aight of| 4 Meaning @ echo of that cry in the awful| but as she came to a cove t cutlthe flaming logs: pow so near th 0. 3." ftilimess decided him to tarry no| back into the hills she began de-| dam that from where he watehed I M Grey 1 onger, He cupped his hands to his By the me she had sot! seemed they must strike NNULO. | tell me the meaning of “BR. O Vighted match, and the long fuse be-| Around it, the raft would be far| What had gone wrong? What had aning fan to sputter. The wind at his back| ahead. But without looking back she| set them afire? Had hin companions | SP Mection with the F Was strong and steady, A healthy|*tarted on the attempt. She had not/ been caught by the Double A mon ?] w push, and the raft with its deadly} made more than half of the way, | Eatot oved higher up to t] "SO. 8” ina lo load floated away across the silvery | When she darted a glance at the mov-| for the In t fusion : water. t topped | resulti tended ah f He did not walt to speculate on beheld. If! another ' No seal cares a the success of its ¢ d. He bad the | matter Ww ve sare of the impres bad hours that. Before long he more were, the must be fa , bbrevt for Was dashing the buttes, intent a more directly for | ¢ en am he s ar ath only on reaching the valley ' tle cove on t shore of which And while b waited th Double Al eee His going brought and to the stood. Mercedes ran toward It.!men, from Disaster Peak to the) apy girl, The moon had given her her} She saw its speed slacken. Then) Hull's Head, } thetr watch, un-| /reedom of bearings, and kee ever within} came a second when it ne to | aware of the er that was aweep-| the Seas’ : fight of the lake, she stumbled to|#tand still, The next m theling down upon them, Kildare alone,| Dear Mixx Grey: Just t a the north, dr i her tired body |Current was moving it back into the| of ali Acklin's riders, moved nervous. | exact meaning of “The } “ F to new tortures. A glowing pin-point | ake. |ly about. Blaze had not forgotten the | t Thanking af fire moving across water} Without stopping to ask herself|/talk that morning with Mercede R. § ; taught her attentic lis even, un-| what she we do, or how she would| Esteban's mysterious trip, oupled| ff means that « may be ¥ hurried flight fascinated her. It was back to the land, If she wore/ with Morrow's belief that trouble was! permitted to s upon the} if deautiful, unreal, ghostly. Hut as once on the raft, she Jumped for it.) brewing, seemed to argue more than | high seas unmolested. | : Watched it, the raft moved out of) The force with which she landed was| mere cc jen: } . 8 0 the shadows of the opposite shore| impetus enough to send It bobbing | He was within a quarter of a mile| To Exterminate | into the full light of the moon thru the water yntil the cove waslof the water w he caught the) anfy | She knew what it was then, even| yards behind her | first dim reflection of the burning | “ : Before the wind had sent it close| She scrambled to her feet and withi raft. From where he stood the fire} Der M m Gre What is tt t - - — seemed to be on the other aide of the | Method of killing ants ‘ canyon. He could not wen the lake | )ruunte ax to fod them cele nal ADVE NTURES Itself, but the faint red tinge in the |e ss penee pprinkind ne | jnky moved. By that he knew tha ; # erown OFTHE “We must build .a fort.” soldiers. 5 "What kind of a fort, sir?” asked Major Starch Front. “& wooden one, as we are wooden ourselves,” answered the general stiffly. “Private Ram Rod, take the truck and go and get us some flocks at the supply house. Get “ones that haven't got A B C on them—and hurry.” ‘The soldier hopped Into the motor truck and honk-honked away. Soon Re returned with the blocks. Everybody pitched in and helped to bufid a new fort, and Nancy and Nick worked as hatd as any- id fort it was, A wooden cannon Was sticking out of every window and a flag floated bravely from a tall flag pole on top. . Suddenly Nick cried out, “Oh, look everybody! Here comes a ‘The whole army turned and look- d with amazement at the queer ob- “John,” said the wife, “that dog docs see something. There must be either a wiid beast or Indians neart’ “He's just playing. Full of fall vim,” Mr. Bradiey arsured her, ‘But hardly had he finished speak- ing when, with a whoop and a yell, eight painted Indians came riding toward them. Remember, this was while many settiers were still in the shelter of the block houses and forte and the Indians all wore tribal “chips on their shoulders’ and carried knives still stained with the blood of white victims. morning was as it had’ been when John Bradley brought his wife and babies into the new made field to watch him plough. But Sts beauty was changed with horror for the young father and mother. Not a minute must be loat, Not move made which would not wount for the anfety of the wife and helpless babies. John spoke low and quickly, “Take the baby and ru dow! the short trail to the hous he directed her. “I'll go meet them. Cate, hing bis staall son upon one arm, fe ran toward the #ay~ ages, and grasping the bridle rein of the leader, spoke qutetly to him. "Why do ‘you do this thing? he said. “Hortons (white men) come only to do you good; they have never harmed you, nor your children. There in room enough and gaine enough and fish enough fo Why do you kill, r all, kill, kill, and make hate between Suddenly Nick cried out,“Oh, look quick, everybody!” said fect that came lumbering along like) his reata from hin saddl General Gold Braid to his wooden/a huge bug, knocking over fences | ran to the very edge of the*bank. | Soon it was finished and a splen-| TWINS and trees and everything that came ling?” {ts way. It teiongs to the enemy. It is full of tin soldiers.” hid, too. whole fort wan in ruins, The tank had bumped it so hard {t tumbled to pieces. The tank went wardly awny. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 192%, by Seuttle Stary lumbering awk- NEAR SPANAWAY LAKE (Chapter 11) yourselves and us?” “Look!” the Indian leader ans- wered, “even now you are «poll- ing our camas bede with your plow! You spoll our forests and take from us our best-loved hunting grounds. Nothing fs any more as it was. Now ail ja Bos- ton Our right in to kill, We rT ag He was excited and angry, too excited to shoot straight, else the story would have a andder end- ing. As Mr, Bradley stepped hack a few paces the Indian fired at him point blank. The shot tore away Mr. Bradley’s thumb and knocked him down. Stumbling dazediy to his feet he picked up the little boy who had been thrown back of him two or three feet by the fall, and ran toward the houge, a shower of bulleta and arrows following him, and the yelling Indlans not far ‘behind Meanwhile the mother with her wee baby had tried to make way over the “short trail” to the house. But the trail was rough, and her strength not very great, 40 when ahe reached @ newly fell ed tree whe hid herself deep in Its prickly boughs, hushed her baby and fay still, Mr. Bradley reached the houne. The little son in all thia time had uttered not a sound, and when hin father, daring not waste a fanest threw im upon the hed, he jay ne atill sw a rag baby, Junt an he had been thrown down, only his wide, frightened eyes showing him to be alive, Seizing hin gun, John Bradley took his position at the little port-hole rade ready jn the log wall, and began to fire upon the Indiana, (To Re Continued) “It's going to run over the army" | cried Nick, “If you don’t get out of | stop. | | | | something wan burning on the water wasn't timber of any sort east the dam. He sent My Man into In kaleidoscopic fashion he saw the Ine; the petrified girl the shielding her face from the dam nem ypod his hax t stop to ask how she nly saw the leap ng flames, and guessed the intent of the black thing that bulked on th surface of the ra: Nothing could save was doomed! A it would be Jumping to her rescue would not help. If he ran out on the dam both of them would be killed or swept away and drowned. | He called to Meteedes; but she} barely moved her head. Mlaze called again. That volee! It memed to come from leagues away; a phantom voice! Kildare saw that she did not move. | He cried out again. The wind the dam. It and minute or two, all ove whipped the sound of it behind him. | Scarcely had they reached their| his rope. Lhiding place when Crash! Bang! The | Wa¥, !t leaped out | But the girl looked up, and rained her handa. She saw him | Blaze jerked | horn and “Take off your skirt,” he cried,! in ft» path, like so many tenpins. | “and wet It and wrap ft around you. A wide belt with spikes in it cov. | Catch my rope when It drops. ered its wheels and kept it from| Mercedes nodded her head | slipping. There were openings in| Seconds—they are hoursx some its siden out of which guna were|times—were droning by as his rope pointing circled lower and jower, There “It's a fort on wheelaf* cried Cor-| Would never be time for another poral Clothes Pin. “Where is it go-| trial. He had to make it now! There was fo room for a mina } An instant—pbrief: life seemed to Kildare blinked his cyen clear them of the film that blinded him. Seconds were moving at ex. to ‘The wooden soldiers fled tn all! Prem-train speed: yet even so, mean-| directions as quickly as their stitt|Inaless, irr | legs would carry them. The Twins | °d themselves in their entirety. Noth-| want thoughts prenent- | ing seemed hurried. He had thrown In quite its accustomed He watched it now, It was dropping. The girl's! hands were still upraised. The rope | was falling over them. It wax at her | waist. He wan pulling then, It was subconscious effort! A scream rose from Mercedes; she shot away from the raft. He could look down and see the water cascad- ing over her as he dragged her thru it. He heard the raft bump the dam. Some one wan calling; Chet or Melody, no doubt. A second in which to brace his feet; and hand over hand he began paying in his reata, lifting her to safety. She was half- way to the top of the ragged wall when Kildare felt rather than heard | a snap, His hands tingled. He had} been dragging his rope over the ledge, using the rock for leverage One of the strands of the finely wov-| en reata had given way—cut in two} by the jagged quartz. His arma trembled. There was nothing to do but risk the chance that the unraveling reata would hold He leaned out over the water until Mercedes was a dead weight on him, and pulled. Another strand broke, but he had raised her to the top. His hands caught her arma; a last lift, and she was beside him Then it came, without warning—a trembling of the earth. Thunder rolled in his ears, The dam was gone. They were down, knock flat! My Man went to his knees, Pieces of rock, from the size of a pea to big, jagged fragments of Branite that would have killed had they struck, rained about them. Water splashed down in sheots, Mercedes did not move. Kildare rolled her over and over. The girl's body was cold; her pulse seemed to have stopped. Blaze slapped her, and beat ‘her with the flat of hin hands, He continually raised her arms to expand her lings, (Continued Tomorrow) SCUFFED SHOES Rub scuffed shoes with vaseline before polishing, The scratches will soarcely show, EURALGI/ or headache—tub the forehead —melt and inhale the vapors PoRuBs Over aie Jars Used Yearly “Kr Stronge & Warner Co. 1110 SECOND AVENUE Ground Floor, Denny Bidg Near Columbia Theatre Hats, Including our entire stock at Sale Start 9 A. M., Saturday. Extra Sales Your choice of any Hat, at. See Our Window of Sale 1: Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a zone" on an aching $4.00 corn, ate. 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