The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 11

(Continued From Yesterday) Then only did Blood realize the Tashness of his proposal, and in at- tempting to draw nick ho almost Precipitated a battle between the fwo parties into which that same} “It could ‘not, and you Know It. pro) hig now divited the buc-| $0 Why Fepine 3 caneers, And ‘meanwhile those} “There 1s more than that to It, French sails on the horigon ‘were STowing less aid less.” Blodd was. Feduced to despair.” If he went oft| Row heaven knew what would hap- re to the “fown, the temper ot ose whom he was leaving being What it was, Yet if he remathod, it would stmply men that his own pes. Hagthorpe's crews would join} Im the saturnaila and Increase tho! Dideousiess “of evénts ‘now “Inevit= able, Unable to reath a” decision, @ Own mien and Hagthorpe's took 0 give chase to Rivarol.”” Not ‘only @ dastardly cheat’ to pe pun-} ished, but an enormous treasure} WAS to Be Won by treating as an my this Krench conimander who, self, Rad so villianously broken lance. en Blood, torn as he was be- tween “conflicting considerations, SUI hesitated, they boro him al pest by main force aboard the Ara-| Within an hour, the water-casks gt least replenished and stowed @board, the Arabella and tho Eliza- Deth put to sea upon that angry chase. “When wo werp well at sea, and) the Arabella's course was laid,” Yrites Pitt, In his log, “I went to seck the captain knowing him to be in great trouble of mind over these events. I found him sitting alone in“his cabin, his head in hig hands. ; torment In the cyes that stared Straight before him, seolng. noth- “What now, Peter?’ cried the Young Somerset mariner. “Lord, gn, what Js there” here to fret! you? Surely ‘t isn't the thought of Riyarol!" “Ne; said Blood quickly. And for once he was communicative. It May well be that he must vent the thing that oppressed him or be @riven mad by it. And Pitt, after! $1. was his friend and loyed him, 8nd. $0, B proper man for confi- Sences. “But if she knew! If she knew! O God! I had thought to Bayo done with piracy; thought to! haye done with it forever. Yet! here baye I been committed by/ is scoundrel to the worst piracy} at ever I was guilty of. Think @f Cartagena! Think of the hell! those devils will be making of it| Row! “And I mugt have that on my soul!” “Nay, Peter—t ts n't on your| ho he Jn action but against friends| tall ships, somo It Is thatiof ours? I think it may concern i foul; but on Riyarol's. er off his hands, eager to! - W Rafael Sabatini! © RAFAEL, SABATINI AQROK NEA SROVICR We \ dirty thief who has brought all this about, What could you have dono fo prevent tt" “I Would have stayed {f it could have availed,” ”* groatiéd Blood, What now? What remains?’ Loyal service with the English was mado imposaible for me. Loyal gervice with France has Jed-to this} dnd that is equally impossible hereafter, What remains} then?’ Piracy? I have done with) it. Egad, jf J am to live clean, 1) believe’ the only thing ts to go} and offer my sword to”thw king of Spain. | But something remained—tho Jast) thing that he could have expected something towards “which they werd rapidly sailing over the trop-| foal, split sea, All this against] which he now Invelghed so hitterly) was but a necessary stage In tho} shaping of hls oda destiny. Setting ‘a course for Hispaniola, | since they judged that thither must Rivarol go to refit before attempt- Ing to ¢rogs to France, the’ Ara- bella and the Elizabeth ploughed briskly northward with a moderate-| ly favorable wind for two days “and nights without ever ~ catchtig a glimpse of"thetr quarry: ‘The third awn brought with it’ @ haze which clreumieritied thelr range’ of vislon to something’ between two and three miles, and deepened thelr growing Yexation and thelr apprehension} at M. de Rivarol might escape) them altogether. Thelr position then—according to} Pitt's log—was approximately 75 degrees 30 minutes W. Jongitude by| 17 degrees 45 minutes N. latitude, so that they had Jamaica on thelr/ larboard beam some $0 miles to) westward, and, indeed, away to the} northwest, faintly visibip as a bank) of clouds, appeared the great ridge| of the Blue Mountains whose peaks! were thrust {nto the clear upper| air ahoye the low-lying baze The wind, to which they wero sailing very close, was westerly, and it bore to thelr ears a booming sound{ hich” In’ leas ~ expértenced © earn| might have paased for the breaking; of surf npon '& lee ¥hore. “Guns!” said Pitt, who stood with Blood upon the quarter-deck. Blood nodded, Ustentng. “Ten miles away, perhaps somewhere off Port Royal, I sho judge,” Pitt added. Then he loo! ed at his captain. “Does tt “con-| cern us he dake’. 7 } ny off Port Royal. ., that should argue. Colonel Bishop at work. And against whom should 15—| a OF TH &Oli The Maid-in-the-Garden had a bandage around her nose,|«. and a spectacle she was. Suddenly Missez Sprat sniffed. Bhe smelled something! Bacon fry-| ing! | “My lands?’ she cried, springing | up from the floor like a bouncing | yy), Sprat, “if it is quite, quite | la Fubber ball. “Can I belleve my | fat : jcal Bose? Do I smell bacon, or do I not |" v1 strata jt naw some atres | smell bacon, my di Jtean in ity? sald’ Nancy gig’ 7 “Yes, you do,” gaid Nancy. ‘1|'"* seas et just had to try out some of the new tin things and the nice little stove. | And as the Butcher Man just lett | @ nice piece of bacon, I decided to ailee some off and fry it in my new| frying pan.” | “I always did say Thursday was my lucky day!’ declared Missez| Sprat. ‘Would you mind putting on | w another piece for me?’ Society SOrves -' ADVENTURES TWINS | | | “No, indeed!” si on her kitchen ap: just love to.” ¥, trying ain. “I'd | | | nay I inquire,” went on can thought of himself to cc out. He brought jiffy. They me and help t ran across the Mister Jack or it, ft stood the “Well, I d itse Maid-in-th 1 exclaimed. orld eating t the Queen ead there nobody had sald a that matter, ne But there wa The d-in-the bandage o nother reason. Garden had and a body could say at Usually und hor nose hen one one's nose bandaged, he stays t Jobseryed things apparent only to the| | made j sels was Rivarol’s Victorieuss, jing THE SEATTLE §t “Q” GLEE CLUB SIYLES } 09 MAKE TRIP Two dozen pongsters and 10 or: chestra stars of the student body of tho University of Washipgton wil start on the annual Glee club tour of the state Friday under the Jeader- ship of Irving M. Glenn, dean of tho college of fine arts. They will return to Heattlo Sunday, January 6 David Burnham is the violin #ol9- iat this Your, with Vérhér Deliiiey {tho tenor star, A comedy quartetand & saxophone group algo feature. Alumai in the towns viaited—Spo- kaho, Yakima, Ellensburg, Toppen- Ish, Kennewick and Prosser—will en: Torta the" Glee club WIN Tutieheons and dances, according to Student Manager Charles ‘Tyler. Juvenile Wards Get Christmas Baskets Forty wards of the juvenile court wero made happy Christmas Day when the Young Men's Business club delivered baskets filled with turkey, groceries, candy and toys. Boy Scouts aided jn the distribution, which Her. man G, Celian, club president, says will become an apnual event, pals incl SC ca Aen FLOUNCES FEATURE panols, Sketched here are two puch frocks.. The long-sleeyed model is |intended for practical general wear jcharmeen, Tho other is @ pretty Uttle afternoon dress suited moro |to heavy satin or crepe, other excellences, Both show conyincingly that flounces have a high place in winter foxhions. A graceful feature of many new resses is on apron tuple of flounces, or tered and flounced mide la i us Anyway, we'll stand in to in- vestigate. Bid them put the helm |and could be made of fine twill or! NO. 6~THE PLAY N my last article I explained the object of mah jongg an being the Complétion of a hand {i four sets of: threes and a pair. You will re- member that, immediately following the draw, each player had 19 tiles, except East Wind, who had 14, Thuy ag four sets of threes and a palr total 14, it is obvious that Kast ja the only one who could Mah Jongg on an original hand, The chances of the other players (and of East also after play starts) come thru a system of drawing and diy carding. East starts by discarding one tle. ‘This should be the tle he considers of least value to him, J. ©, the one which he thinks Jeast Ukely to work into A three-ofatkind, g three-run nequence, or a pair, This depends on the remainder of hig hand, and (which ty true for ajl players) on the discards pfter the first play. HOW PLAYERS DRAW TILES As soon as East discards, and un- Jeag someones “pungs,” (which Jy ex- plained below), South either “chows” (which {§ explained below) or else draws from the wall. ‘The draw It has Bl trom the wall {s of the top tile {m-| order of play, he who “punga’’ then new short sleeve in addition to | mediately to the left of the opening. ‘Then South discards and (if unin- terrupted by “pung’ or “chow’) West, the next player to South, wall (the bottom tile -hauled they tacked aweath- er, guided by the sound of combat, whith grew in volume and defin ition ag they approached It. Thug! for an hour, perhaps. Then, as, telescope to his eye, Blood raked the hage, expecting at any moment} to behold battling ships, the gun: abruptly ceased. They held to thelr courso, never- theless, with all hands on deck, eagerly, anxiously scanning tho 9ea| &head. And presently an object] loomed into view, which soon do- fined itself for a great ship on fire. As the Arabella with the Ejiza-| beth following closely raced nearer on their northwesterly tack, the outlines of the blazing- yensel: grew} clearer. Presently her masts stood out sharp and black above the smoke and flames, and thru bi. telescope 1 mad’ out plainly} the pennon of St. George fluttering from her main-top. | “An English ship!” he cried, | Ho ‘schnnéd tho seas for the con- queror fh the battle of which this| grim evidence wis added to that of! | B the sound they had heard, and] whon at last, as they drew closer to the” dootied veasel, they made out the shadowy outtInes of three e Of four miles standing in toward Port ‘al, tho first and’ natural as- sumption was that these ships must belong to tho Jamaica fleet, and fhat the burning vessel was a do- feated buccaneer, and because of this they sped on to pick up the threo boats that were standing! away from tho blazing hulk. But, Pitt, who thru tho telescope was! examining the receding squadron, eyo of the trained mariner, and the incredible announcement that the largest of these three ves- They as they boats, took in sail came up with the dritt- laden to capacity with survivora. And there we adrift on some of the spa: wreckage with which thé strewn, who must bo rescued. and hove to; The Service of King William One of the boats bumped along: | sido the Arabella, and up the en- trance ladder came first a slight. spruce little gentleman in a coat of } mulberry satin need ith got manent—the white coal that makes yellow gold—for you! {sh faco was framed in @ heavy periwig. His modish and y apparel had nowise suffored| |} by the adyenturo thru which he ad passed, and he carried himself! |} with the easy assurance of a man| of rank. Here, quite o y, wasii! p aneer. He was closely fol-|§} sno who in eyery partic that of age, was bis pbyal-|]+ power systems in the world, one of the most progressive Se pp corpuisot ina brawnyit/ and profitable public utilities in existence—Your CITY mouth} him an alr of vigoroug au-| | (Continued Tomorrow) | | LOW RATES—you have it! A French Dainty from Alberta (A recipe taken from a pricatel published Canadian Cook Book (All measuremente lerel) Crust 8 cupfuls flour 4 eupful Crisco | pinch of salt CO-OPERATION, Seattle owns and operates one of the greatest electric LIGHT, whose economic record of development stands today as a glowing tribute to PUBLIC OWNERSHIP on a BUSINESS basis for the people’s profit, and a sharp refutation of the groundless arguments of selfish interests. COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY is dependent on POWER that combines EFFICIENCY, SERVICE and Your CITY LIGHT not only has given. Seattle the lowest power rates of any American city, but has made PAat-GixJon BY J.P BABCOCK itor dal PAGE 11 a discard by Kast, the play would £0 North, Bast, South, ete, WHAT “CHOWING" IN GAME MEANS A “pung’ takes precedence oypr how."* “Chowing,”* Tho chow’ ts minsible only to the player to the a 49 immediate right of the discarder. Thus when Kast discards, South (and du ri South only) can “chow. When Book of South discards, West (and West only) can “chow.” An easy way to of the pair of which South just | remember this is that the next in drew the upper tile) and thus the |order of regular play is the only play Proceeds, counter-clockwige |one who may “chow,’* |around the table. A person “chows'' when he says Pung.” When a plece is discard. | "chow" and picks up a discard ed, ADY player can “pung’ it if he| Which enables him to fill a three has two Of the same denomination|TUn sequence. Thus, when he in the same ult in bis hand. This|“chows’’ a Four Bamboo and he he does by saying “pung’” and pick-| holds the two and three Bamboo, or ing the ploce up from the table, ie me and five Bamboo, or the MEANING ve and wlx Bamboo, atpunaise “PUNG" OR "CHOW" ON ‘vhus, if Kast discards a “two LAST PIECES ONLY bamboo” any other player, regard-|, 4 “Pung” or @ “chow” can only Jeas of where he wits, can “pung’ |® made on the last piece discarded, if ho bas two or more “two bem-|*!! other displaced pieces are dead. boos” in his hand. But a player|, Courtesy of the game demands can never “puns” to fill a pair, or |‘Pat both punged and chowed pleces |to a sequence, exeept when the fij|-|%4ll immediately be Iaid in front ling of such a pair or sequence will |f the punger or chower face up, give bim goms, or Mah Jongg. A |together with the two pleces which “pung” can always be made to com. | FAY? him authority for making the |plete a hand for Mah Jonss, and | Play. Thus on a pung, the entire vich ‘a “pune” takes precedence |tMFeeof-a-kind should be exposed be- over a “pung’ whichedoes not com. | fr? the discard, while on a chow plete a Mah Jongg hand. When|'he three cards of the sequence two can “pyng’ for game, he gets should be so exposed, the plece who ts nearest the dis-| Next Article; Four of a Kind carder in order of play. It Is not jee called “pung’ or “chow’ in this jease, but “Mah Jongg.’ A pung” automatically shifts the A YOUTHFUL TRAVELER LIVERPOOL. little 65-year-old jorphan boy has just traveled all alone a distance of 6,000 miles, And his total fare emounted to less than $0. He tu Noel Victor Fernesborough, whowe parents died recently in Al- berta, Canada. Friends here will care for him. |dixcarding and the game proceed ling to hig right. Thus, if Edst dis- |cards and West “pungs,” the next player to draw after West discards will be North. Or if North “punged” MONG the truly great cities of the world SEATTLE STANDS FIRST IN POWER— electric horsepower, the vital foree that quickens the pace of modern industrial and economic development—the power that makes the growth of great cities per- perity, you A CITY OF HOMES, a City of Industry, a City that WILLS to attain commercial su- | premacy, MUST, in this day of electric development, be rich in electric horsepower. these low rates pay a handsome profit, with service con= sistently reliable to more than 73,000 customers, And SEATTLE, the “SUPER-POWER’ CITY,” is BEST LIGHTED CITY in the world. the You build for yourself, you promote your own Ppros- reap the profits through co-operation with CITY LIGHT. Even now, interest on the great Skagit hydroelectric project is all being paid out of CITY LIGHT net earnings, Early in 1924 the Skagit will begin supplying .an addi- tional 55,000 horsepower, while another half million horsepower LIGHT will, as in lies dormant in the Skagit awaiting Seattle’s call for greater progress, CITY LIGHT BUSINESS in 1928 increased 21 per cent over 1922. The economic re- sult of CITY LIGHT gain will soon be still greater revenues and even LOWER RATES! You, who make your homes here, have a personal interest in CITY LIGHT development. YOUR PROFIT through CITY the past, be measured by your Yours for POWER and PROGRESS—Your PROFIT. nora till it’s off off COlfee | Maney (| Telephone Direct MA in-4271 Th00.000 cups were Served id “Here it at tha PANAMA- PACIFIC |""" * T mean until be her v tr for KI: n to } around? 12 time 1 my b "Ot ¢ hi __ Bufficlent water to molsten Line shallow muffin tins with this crust, after rolling out, and put 2 tablespoonfuls of filling in each. hb “ Filling 7.2 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco Superintendent, 1 cupful brown sugar Seattle-Tacoma 1 cupful currants “ ” 1 teaspoonful vanilla Power System Beat egy t, add the sugar, SEATTLE melted currants, “and Cedar Falls 30,000 h. p. vanilla together. Bake’ until ikagi fr set, about one-half hour, Skagit 0000 TH. (When Complete) Steam Plant .50,000 h. p. TACOMA Lake Cushman > 140,000 h. p. Nisqually .. 27,000 h. p. Steam Plant.12,000 h. p. (RISCO light, tender cakes ror digestible and flaky pastry Dor ett digestibl Hel foo oncy,— Cook Electrically” (To Be Continued Zaternational EXPOSITION) (conyr , by tie tar)