The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1923, Page 11

MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928 1 smashed a perfectly good thur fa doing #0, T * and many tan | t st ' PY ee was coming hungr COPYRIGNT INRE By SB y Ty PRINTED By ARLANoH DENT Worrm i Constant familia " the : SYNOPSIS OF FIRST THREE CHAPTERS house had mercifully the o jon | Calvin Gray, self-styled soldier of fortune, arrives in the ¢ Ad city of CUPANt's appreciation of its natural na j Dy AS, Texas, with but.a few small pieces of change in his kote. He| deterioration 4 the effects of his ‘lt / euts the governor's suite in the city’s best hotel, sleeps over night, and] ® ’ he fi straigh ee the next morning goes forth to acquaint himself with the town’s leading| ® his aching back 1 regarded a mon. | the results of his herolo efforts, it wd Possessing that rare quality of magnetic charm, he soon has the hotel) #emed to him that everything shone manager and the town’s leading banker believing that he is in the city in| ke new and that the the interests of large capital holdings tn the East. Hoe arranges an inter-| Peat and as clean as view with the paper, eats lunch with the mayor and then returns to his| “Bob” went away, Pre tel cules thought the Augean stables mn He finds that the hotel ts owned by a man whom he befriended tn Frar Were spotless and fragrant when on nd that the pwner has left word that everything he asks for shall had finished with them Mr é bin. That night he eats in the hotel dining room and picks up an haps they were, but Tom Parker x, sequaintance with a jeweler, Coverly by name. demigod, He was just a Bob After much joking, Gray offers to take a consignment of Jewelry Int Id man, unaccustomed to n- the oll fields to show a certain rich prospect. Coverly tella him of t indoor “doings,” and his eyes at Mehjackers” who prey on jewelry and other salesmen and Gray mak i the last few days had) he Coverly believe that he ls doing this favor simply for the afiventure of t countably dim—as, for in ol trip. stance while he was at work in ho y ‘That night he makes the acquaintance of the nian who ts believed to be| Barbara's chamber ee the ring leader of the crooks that infest the country, The two plan to} He did not sleep much on the « make the trip together, [night before the «irl's arrival, He Now go on with the story | sat until late with the framed photo CHAPTER It | ker went East and before the Burk.| @4Ph of Barbara's mother on his OM Tom Parker was a “type. burnett wells hit deep sand—but in-| 8¢¢, and tried to tell the dead and Ho was one of a small class of men|©ome from that source had been| Fone original that he had done his| at one time common to the West,| Used up faster than it had ne best for tho girl so far, and if he ow rapidly. disappearing, A/and “Bob,” as Tom insisted on falled, it waa because he knew noth:| 5 urbulent lifetime mt in admink ing her, would ave had to me | {ae about raising girls and—nature is the law in a lawless region| home had it not been for a hadn't cut him out to be @ father sd stamped him with esting discovery on her father's part|"nybow. He had been considerably veittatina OF a trontinr ¢ aac hasdiseaciy od a mein older than Barbara's mother when mee, caut scif.restraint,| vice of the law entitle a “mortguge.”|@ married her, and he had never ang-froid, For more than 30 years! Mortgages had to do with a d ceased to wonder what there had) he bad worn'a badge of some sort,| ment of the law unfamiliar to Tom,| been In him to win the love of a/ nd, in the serving of warrants and/his wit, his intellige and hig} Woman like her, or to regret that processes of law, he had cov-|dexterity of hand having been ex-| {te had not taken him instead of first In the sadd con buck:| ereised solely in upholding tho dig-| Det. Heaven knows his calling had 4 later in Pullmi nity of tt riminal branch, but| ben risky enow But—that was 1 bi most of thi once he had realized that mort how things went some! the oo = between the gage, so-called, was po m than was taken and the chaff re < the Cimarr h A meaningless banking term used sf virtually all of what is to cloak the impulsive generosity of in the morning! Tom was Texas and Oklahoma. He still spoke! moneyed men, be availed himself of | UP before nt and had his of the latter state, by the way, as|the discovery and was duly grate * washed and his things in the Teveltocd © ama’ there “ware tow [fal r long ere the town was awake orners of it that he had not ex-| Tom carried on «a nom fire en he went: down to .the office} plored long before it ceased to be! insurance business, but as a matter|#od walted—with the jumps. Repeat-/ a hayen of hunted men. of fact the tiny two-roomed frame|*@!y be consulted heavy gold That is what Tom Parker had} structure that bore his painted sign| Watch, engraved: “With the ad: been—a hunter of men—and time| was nothing more or less than a{/dmiration and gratitude of the was wheh his name had been fa.| loafing place for him and his rheu-/ citizens of Burlingame. November mous. But he had played his part.| matic friends, and a piace in which! Sfth, 18 It was still two hours 1 times had caught up with and| the owner could spend the heat of of train time when nw ed up assed him, and no longer in the! the day in a position o comfort nd limped off te ra th station administration of justice was there! to his stiff leg—that tx to say, asleep | MUt—It was well to be there early need of abilities like his, hence the|!n a high-backed office chair, his, Of course he met Judge Holloran shield of his calling had been taken| feet propped upon his desk. Jt was 0% tho street—he always did—and awa. here that Tom could usually be} course tho judge asked when Now, Tom did not reckon himself and when one of those hate-) “Hob” was coming home, The obsolete. Ho was badger-eray, to be atements arrived from the Judge always did that, too. Old sure, and stiff in one knee—a rheu- roused himself, put) TOM had Hed diligently to the judge matic legacy. of office inherited by| on his wide gray hat, limped around | °very day f By. ROW, ; 208 2 son of wet nights in the open|to the bank, and pledged store of| b® had no tr sharing this and a toodiligent devotion to duty) his oil roya ea another) 48y of da ith a tiresome old but In no other respect did he be-| mortgage, W © policies! Pest, and now he again made an jeve ‘age t u appar His| he wrote were brought to him by evasive answer deacketnlier esas were as bright as his pals; the oney derived Mendactty m at once the lowest ever, his hand was quick; realization | therefrom he sent on to “Bob with{*94 the commonest form of deceit, love and an admonition to be a good the Judge indignantly announced. that “he had been shunted upon a a ee Apps ateg ord | track filled him with surprise, irl and study hard and hurry home, ‘ou know perfectly well when sh and bewilderment. It was char-| because he was dying to weo her,/ Coming, damn yout ot a acteristic of the man that he stil] This office, by the way, no longer} Sap pacar =o sees | | 7 c suited Tom; it was becoming too! eeeeberes PITENT.© betwen of am 1 € 100) efou've been as mysterious aa: a| and order, a do facto guardian of| noisy and he would have sold it and the peace, and that from force of| sought another farther out had it habit he still sat facing the door} not been mortgaged for more than and never passed between a ltghted|!t was werth. 80, too, was the lamp and a window. house where he lived amid the dirt = Among the late comers to Wichita| afi disorder Of all bachelor estab- 4 Fails, where he lived, Tom was! lishments. 4 known as a quiet-spoken, emotion-| Now Old Tom would have resent- less off fellow with an honorable|¢d an accusation of indolence; past, but with a gift for tiresome) bare implication of such a charge reminiscence quite out of place in| Would have aroused his instant in y e 3 the new and impatient ord of|dignation, and Tom Parker Indig- i things, and none but old-timers and| nant was a man to shun. As 5 his particular cronies were aware; matter of fi he believed himself of the fact that he had anothec side| sadly overworked, and wan forever to his character. It was not gen-| complaining about it, : erally known, for instance, that he| The time came, nowover, when he q | was a kind and indulgent father and| was forced to shed his habit of q had @ datghter whom he worshiped|slothfulness as completely as with biind adulation. This ignorance| snake sheds its skin, and that was was not strange, for Misa Barbara} during the week before “Bob's” ar Parker had been away at college) rival, Then, indeed, he swept and forfour years now. and duging that) he dusted, he mopped and he po! time she had not onc returned | ished, he rufbed and he scrubbed, home. ty: | trying his best to put the house in There was a perfectly good rea-|order. Never in all his life had he son for this protracted separation of|iabored as he did then father and daughter; since Old Tom|years of “batching” will make a was no longer on pay, it took. all| bear's ngst out of the most orderly could rake and scrape to meet! house, but he was jealous of his her bills, and railroad fares are high. | task and he refused to share it with That Hudson River institution was|other hands, Pots and ‘pans, rusty indeed a finishing school; not only! from dfuse or bearing theflaccumu had {t.polished off Barbara, but also| tated evidence of many hastily pre it had about administéred the coup | pare menis, he took out in the de grace to her father. There bad| back yard and scrubbed with sand been a ranch over neur Electra with | leaving his bondy knuckles skinned some “shallow production.” fromj|and bleeding from the process; h which Tom had derived a small foy-| put down 2 new carpet in, “Bob's alty—this was when Barbara Par-‘room, no easy task for a man with ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS &Y Olive Roberts Barton WHAT THE “Now then!’ sald Mister Tatters, ters. the leader of the Ragsics in Ragsy|} “Spring cleaning!’ cried Nancy, Land, “Everybody knows everybody |clapping her hands. ‘That's funt else, so that's off my mind, Now| May we help? We helped Mr. Ruba- for business. Do you know you/dud one time to spring clean the have come to the busiest place on|animals that came back from Dream- this square earth?’ he rald to the|land where they had spent the win- RAGSIES DO Twins, ter. It was lots of fun,’ “Why, the earth Is round!’ cried “This in entirely different,” ex- Nancy. “It says so in tho geography |plained Mr, Tatters, “We spring books.” clean plac for the animals and “Oh, ja it? Excuse me," aaid|birds to come to, Also we help the spritig fairies in every way. hu can't hang up clean lace curtains Junti! the house is serubbed, and neither cin the apring fairies scat: ter their pretty blossoma and flow: ers around until the woods and meadows and orchards are cleaned up. “That's what wo! Ragses dol Wi spring clean all outdoors, But you certainly may help if you wish, Our first Job in to fix up Mr, Scare Crow for the summer, We are leaving at once." Mister Tatters, winking at Nag Tag. “Well, anyway it maken no differ- ence whether it is round or square or three cornered, it keapa us Tage sles no busy at this time of year, wo haven't time to eat three round mealp a day.” “But meals are squore! ways speak of square meals, rected Nancy again. Oh, are they? Execute me," an- swered Mister Tatters, winking at Tiog Tag. “What ame you so busy about?’ aehed Nick, curious: po usual, said Mister Tut. (To Be Continued) " (Copyright, 1929, by Beattie Star the! for four) bootiegker for the lust week, but I| |eould always read you like a book, |‘Tom Parker. You know, all right. High P) sers Be School Girl Writes »blem—"S Prohibited Dear Miss There has Grey: for some time and I finally thought of you and the re read of your ning for been solved. First of all, column, as I have some time, and I kr I am a pupil this city and in the last year this question has bothered me:| “Has a teacher or principal a what the: y can wear as long modest? Some time ago the girls sta to school, ing them. But what I want wrong in that?” Of course, wo! than wearing those bri Why The other trousers” to school. The anything, but these were the bright silk. He was “kicked and sent to the office. change his cloth Had he a Is there any law in the st earrings or toreador pants a Mother and I have been wondering about this for some time | and she says she can’t se what to wear or not to w uniform dress, They may not be very appropriate hi ar t for achool, but whén a teacher about | 60 years old wears dresses designed for a girl of 16 and halt way up to her kneos—is that appropriate either? You would be doing me a favor if you would answer this or publish tn th paper asking for other people's opinion of it, with the idea that it ts the parents’ or guardians’ money that is buying their “foolishments” the school board's. SHIRLEY MAD, My dear Shirley, you're very foot- ish indeed to bother over auch a trifle as the matter of earrings and tor- not eador trousers for high school stu-| If som of us would just h time making an effort apend asm Mrs, Halioran wanta to come over and fix things up her, She sald no this ‘Ob, I got ev ag fixed,” Tom hastily declared. “Ha w | judge glared Tom ten his tongue for that sl You pitiful attempts to mislead ‘Barbara admirers expose you to rid and offend thone of us who tolerate you! out of regard for her The judge had a nico Texan drawl, and he pronounced it “reegy'ad.” You're on your way to the train at this moment and—I propose to accom pany you." “What would I be going to the| train for, now?" Tom inquired, in a deceitfully mild tone, Inwardly| he was raging, and ho cursed the Judge for a moddiexome old fool, (Continued in Our Next Issue) Sugarless Recipes More Housewives “Reduce sugar consumption 50 per cent," says Frank Kannair, secre y, of the Seattle Retail Grocers’ assobiation. ‘*‘Produvern will have} to bri down the price. Since the governme cannot the people must." And we agree only must continue, trengthened. Numerouw writing this de! tment @aily they are using the recipes and are finding no displeasure in playing the boycott game. But we feel, nevertheless, that not enough Seattleites are conscientious ly on the wagon. May our numbers) nt now | The boycott but it must be! * people not are} Dl to say} ein, at all| increm Mrs, Isabelle Clarke Swezy, local } culinary who is supplying sugariess desxert recipes for | Star readers, today in presenting two | | recipes for that favorite American ldish—pie. A third, sent in by a ft reader, is also being offered | COCOANUT PIE | 2 cupfute milk | 4% cupful corn syrup or maple | flavor ed syrup 1% cupful cornstarch % cupful milk (additional) | 3 eggs beaten separately | 4 teaspoonfal vanilla | 1 cupful streddded cocoanut Add the syrup to milk and heat in |dowble boller, mix cornstarch with| additional milk specified and when} smooth add to it the beaten | exe yolks. Pour onto thia a little of, the hot mixture slowly, stir well, and return this to the double boiler. Cook until very thick. When almost cool, stir In the cocoanut and vanilla, Chill, then turn into] a pie shell previously baked and| cooled, Cover the top with meringue | made by beating the exe whites! until stiff and sweetening with hlespoonful of honey, Brown deli cately in a rather slow oven. - we 214 ounces unswedtened chocolate | (cake or powdered), (or 3 ounces of | sweetened powdered chocolate). 2 cupfuls milk, %4 cupful cornstarch. 4% cupful corn sirup. 4 tablespoonfuls honey. 3 eue# beaton separately. % teaspoonful vanilla, % pint of whipping cream if do- sired (may be omitted). Put the chocolate in double boiler with 11% cupfuls of the milk, If cake | chocolate ye used, cut into small) pigoes that it may melt more quick: | ly) Into the balance of thie cold milk | stir the cornstarch until dissolved, then turn this into the double boiler with the alrup and honey added to tho well-beaten yolks, Cook until very thick, stirring almost constant. ly. When done, beat the exe whites until stiff, If whipped cream in to he used, carvfully and very slowly pour a little of the hot mixture over the exe whites, adding more slowly until all Js ned. If the oxg whites are turned into the Hot mixture, they will cook in small lumps. Chill thors oly, then when ready to serve turn BOYCOTT SUGAR! More Popular Co-operating Mrs. Swezy Has More Delicacies into @ crust which has been baked gnd cooled, and over the top spread % pint of cream whipped stiff with a tablespoonful of honey, If a leas pensive plo is desired, omit the ped cream and use the oggs| whites for a meringue, beating them until stiff with 1, tablespoonful of| honey, and piling on the pie and browning slightly in a moderato oven. see RAISIN | PIE By Ruth Sullivan, 11% cups raisins, 1 cup water 3 tablespoons flour. 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Speck nutmeg 1-3 cup brown sugar. Boil raisins in water three min: utes. 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Um, RAT OFF Should Earrings and Toreador High Schools?” BY CYNTHIA GKEY The teachers immediately made them stop wear- don't they put a ban on those? day one of the boys wore his new boys had been corduroy trousers to school and the teachers had not said} The principal sent him home PAGE 41 Absorbing BUILD HOME - INDUSTRIES for Help With s been a question botheri “Cynthia Grey” e 10w how many problems ave | If all the fireworks, firecrackers, ship’s rockets, railroad fuses, lifeboat lights, “ngs im | etc., used in the state of Washington, were manufactured in the state, the payroll would be increased at least of one of the high schools in right to tell the boy as their clothing is rted a fad of wearing earrings “Is there to ask is, anything wi it was a fad, but was it any $50,000 a year, and an additional ; ES Prcee tr tsgs a $50,000 would be spent for raw prod- “toreador ucts. This means an increasing popu- ring the light lation and an expanding market. ancy ones split and faced with out” of his first period class any right to do this? | e of Washington saying tXat not to be worn to school? Buy Washington Products and Build Up the State ow they n tell the students © school as long as there is no Pacific Northwest Products Committe Mins Grey will receive callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 1 to 2 p, m, anc on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a. m. to 12 m, each week. Please do not come at ptner times, as it seriously toter- feres with her writing, “Always” Good Gold Skield Coffee CONFECTION im packed to retain the | flavor and strength. SCHWABACH Importers a ply with rules as we do in over them, I think that per- haps this old world would be just a trifle more peaceful! 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