The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 7

THE CAPPY RICKS Written for The Star by Peter B, Kyne—Another Coming Next soy LL rped uma) * wmall bisck e Bilgewate: f Wa PAG! ~/TEETH EXTRACTION FREE DAILY 7 - The Tan gle e (Am intimate story of innermost emotions revealed im private letters) He Discusses Horseback Riding Saturday A Story of Seattle and The South Seas offee b H.R LETTER FROM SALLY ATHER TON TO BEATHICE GRIM SHAW, CONTINUED 1 s08 “The Beacon Hill Mystery” | BY FRED V. WILLIAMS safned te humas beings now 1 |presentiy they © be spreading \o the Personally since I read that t fter throwing Albion's H. jem that he mr , they ke ‘T tnt t was a very I think that ¢ t with ‘ ee er heme of the board of r ; 4 rid of undesirat ae pe, kicked " s to © However ART ERE TODAY | mind was the o: ; i. g on growth and th the face arsed deeper, ¢ . : th icture of the oo 39 Bedchast edge athe tag hae pdb Gum Lyke Rubbe duction of the bumap GOLD CKhOWN BIIDGEWORKK Most of our er, ° up or dire Grubt 1 safety — tho island now, but where Ben tm Might it was ever twill Mies bussed crooked way © certainly present patronage by our early patients, ath at the | weds under warns Puaring de on the A storm wrecks ef island. The sole Tags 8 white gir ship jealous, we Clark to have her for his second wife by tribal | From the wrecked ship apnears Beason, & Tough mate, whom Miss Page fea Beton, discarding Clark’ were ne, takes Mola ae five girl, for bis wife, an Clark oh h will ® place. Now Gi “oN WITH THE sTORY CHAPTER 26 Benson wiped the blood from his fips and stared stupidly up at Clark Toba, at her king's side, rose on her bnees and looked down on the cower- fag wretch. “Answer me,” the girl dead?” “No, whispered Benson. dead. Just knocked out. 7 demanded Clark. “Ts “Not T ‘a all T didnt want to finish her. I just put her out. A lucky blow, and I ame here.” @ scream behind them brought Benson to his feet, glaring wildly about, | “Go,” cried Clark. “I'll do what IT ean to save you. But get away.”/ Benson, with a moan, staggered | away and Clark watched him plunge | into the jungle, @ pitiful figure, his} courage gone and with it his| strength. The next moment, leaping like a fawn, the girl who had been his bride, came into their pres- ence. Her face was bruised and swol- én, but her eyes were akindle with | 4 fanatical light. | “Where is he?” she cried to To- de. Clark selzed Toba's arm. “Do not tell her,” he commanded. | Toba remained silent. She stared own coldly at the girl and repiled: “My king commands silence, You; ust find him yourself.” i The girl wailed. A pletous note} aig in her voice. Despatringly she joked up at Toba. , “I failed,” she murmured. “I failed. The god of fire will break terrible vengeance on me, I must | send him to paradise to wait for | And with that she was gone. Clark | iid Toba watched her disappear tn | the jungie. By coincidence, by fate perhaps, she took the trail Benson| ted taken. Benson, far ahead, stumbled on, Fiions of his battle for life with the} | @arderous Amazon bride racing thru brain. His breathing was heavy, laborerd; steps Clumsy. The girl, behind, | and listened. Far abead she Benson's tell-tale stumbling | the jungle brush. | then, from her lips, burst the ~ Sasaedh of death, high and shrill. Benson heard it and it sapped his courage. He screamed from fright and fought blindly on, deeper into the jungle, | Reason had left him now. He ew only that death stalked at his eels, On seven seas he had faced Man and the elements and gambled ‘With life as the stake and there was/| Bo record in his life that he had been | afraid. But this was different. Down on | Ail fours he went, bellowing his fezz, | Graven thing bereft of reason. “Row hoe paused and listened and| to-his ears, acute for sound of pur- alt, there came the light, panther | fread thru the leaves of his Nemesis. It gave him strength to push on. ‘The jungie path became narrower. } “The great palm leaves and sword- Grasses thitker. They tore his But he did not feel the pain. | ) He was beyond that now, in his! |At every foot he sank deeper | Now he was choked with /#earn now.” tne mud | ner aide. | peared unconaciogs of hig presence. | of @ jungle growth, a—— Ike « madman; | not the thing t jeofled jungle reptile, wound round | jand round like a great rope, } tightlytaced growth, Lazy rawled thru siime of Tits throat tongue on i» head in the ooxiz and sucked the putrid water Refreshed for the moment } mised his head and ned. The steps P arer w He could almost hear the sharp in take of breath of his enemy. She w nearer, Beare: t m comir £0 0 Benson renewed his flight. Deeper G@eeper into the web of jungle land he crawled. His arms and legs, as he crawled, sank deeper into th mire. Now he rose unsteadily to his feet rt to the tall grasses for sup por A patch of sunlight tn the dis , &N Open space and across his the girl tn pursult and torn and bloody, as was his, bat her eyes were alive with a fanat flame. In them Benson saw the grim determination to take his life. In the brief moment he stared at her she saw h uttered @ ory of triumph. Benson dropped down again and crawled slowly forward. ° the mire. His eyes blurred. He feit | weak and faint, yet the knowledge that death was near gave him at this/ |time unusual strength, He was not) ready to die. Now, with a leap, she was upon him. He cowered and whined And then a strange thing hap- jpened. ‘Tho blow he expected did not | fall. He had covered his eyes to shut out the sight of approaching death. He had waited, tense for that moment, lowered his arms and looked Jupon the woman. She stood where jhe had first seen her, an expression of horror upon her face, her eyes jwide with terror, Ler arms loose at Tho girl aid not move. and stared, and staring, looked on be yond him. Benson turned and stared, too, and for a time saw only A dense| mass_of slimish green. undergrowth. Then, out of his weakness, E son saw a ray of hope, Sho stared ap-| Perhaps he had not seen him. There might be @ chance to craw! away and avoid her. He started to rise, but could not. He was held fast by something| against which he had leaned for) support. It seemed to be the trunk Benson screamed, The thing which held him was soft and spongy. It was allve. It shimmered tn the half light, It was a reptilian monster, a hug snake as big as a large treo. Ho struggled. Its grip tightened. | He was held tn go fast an embraco hat he could not move. He fought wan fighting for | life, | ‘The girl was tten. Bhe was lear now. It was) this great, coiled, creeping thing, this | Where did it start?. Where did it end?. Benson looked up | and saw a great head, slant, | smooth, with eyes of green fire | that played in brilliant lights upon the woman who had pur- sued him. Apparently ft did not move, Yet} }it held the girl in the grip of its| gaze, held her entranced, spellbound, hypnotized. Slowly he saw {ts great head draw back and with a sliding motion shoot forward, covering the space between it and the maiden with incredible} | swiftness. Its jaws snapped open and from them spat a tongue like fire, with a dreadful hiss. Ben- son, in horror, saw the girl sink to her knees, a great red splotch upon her bare, brown breast. ADVEN OF THE NO. 10—RED RIDING HOOD’S HOUSE “Would you like to go and call) Saag Riding Hood?” asked Mr. as Nancy and Nick seated ale in the magic automobile E their next adventure in Once-/ Time Land. | “Shall we see the‘ wolf?” asked Mek, “I'm not so sure about that,” an- M¥tred little Mister Muggs. “You 4, the wood-cutters chased him so} and gave him such a beating he may not have felt like com | Chug, chug, chug! they went) Wer seven ‘counties and seven i, and in tho twinkling of Reyes they camo to the forest Wo Red Riding Hood had met If, there stood a Uttle house sign which ald, Cottage—Lift up the 0 they all walked in—and there d the old wolf. h, my!” cried Nancy, rushing the cupboard where Red Riding said little Muggs bravely. “Don't be mid of this fellow. I never did o that he meant to burt Red bg Hood or Granny, either!” Uddenly two big tears fell out of wolf's eyes, “Oh, no, eirl I dn't have hurt « hair of thoir Nancy,” | she lives?” TURES TWINS prince. A wicked fairy put me un- der a spell for 15 years. The 15 years are up ‘and I'm waiting for the spell to be broken. This is my kingdom and I own this forest.” “Well, well, welll’ declared Min- ter Muggs. “Who would have thought it? I shouldn't, for one,” “And 1 never forgot tho sweet} little girl I met in tho woods pick- ing flowers. Do you know where asked the wolf. “We are just on our way to her house now,” said Mister Muggs. “If you care to como you may follow us along the path.” Red Riding Hood, now grown up, was making beds and looked out of |P the window and saw them. “Look what's after you!’ she cried, sticking her head out of the window. “It's a dreadful wolf,” “Oh, please, ma'am, I'm not dreadful,” sald the wolf. “If you'll only let mo come inside I'll bo good as gold and sit in @ corner.” “Well, if you sit in a corner, you said Red “Come in, everybody.” So they all went in and Red Rid. ing Hood ran down to meet them, But when she got thero the wolf had vanished, And there stom a handsome young man in his place, The 15 years were up that very minute, and the prince was himself again! How did {t ena? With a wedding, of courses, and Nancy and Nick and Mister Muggs stayed to nee it. ed vision there swept the face of * It was scratched ‘ }the |Your ey jeat and eat properly in order to regain | Riding ‘Hood, | Good And thie {9 the real way the ntory about Red Riding Hood ends! (To Continued) (Copyright, 1924, Seattle Star) oft a smile. ‘Oh, the boy's a dead game sport hotels. It seems ind a horse th @ me every time I Id switeh to mules. The worst « mulo will do, after he's thoroly t n, Is to He down on you, and bat he gives you so much warn. Ms You have time to get off, kick im in the belly and make him get up again,” . 6] TAKE it you've never done much horseback riding, Cappy Mr. J. Augustus Redell, of the West Coast Trading con suggested, in the sheer manufacture of co: sation but hoping to get a rise of the old gentieman “You're right, Gua. rida & horse, since boyh © horses I rode then d were alive until worn outa club on them. navigate an old Tommy-horse up and down between the rows of corn on our farm back in Maine, but the soll was #o thin and infertile that m years we couldn't raise a crop, for practical pur; 1 ben addicted to horseback Tank God, I'm too old to 80, a a, havo} never riding. “You missed something, Cappy Horseback riding fa one of the most para aod vigorous forma of erciae, It's particularly good for torpid liver; alsg, it shakes up intestines and induces better digestion.” Thus spoke Eddie; |} Smith, the insurance broker, who was more or leas of @ hypocondriac. see “ ELL, I've always taken right smart care not to acquire a rpid liver, and by eating lightly but intelligently and masticating my jfood I have never had to rely on y horse help out diges. retorted eatdes, athletic elub| a to Cappy belonged my I've to an for yoars and the club has a patent j Teepectable cowboy would feel jborse that I can ride if I want to} jehake a few teeth out. “You mount this pony and close ; the attendant tums on an elec switch and the horne/ begins to trot up and down on an eccentric rod. After five minutes of this the polite physical instruc. tor and two attehdanta carry you! to a mat and rearrange your y¥is- cera, axking you the while !f that} delicious sense Of weariness fan't) Her eyes turned toward him and/ in them he saw the pain, the agony | of Geath, yet her sensen were clear| and ber lips moved. Sho was speak- ing to him. | Benson, dazed, numbed, stared stupidly, hardly realizing bis own predicament, and then he saw the bronzed body of his fair foe turn a/ dull purple. “She was dying! With a | gasp she was dead. Now to Benson camo realiza- tion that he, too, was in this ereature’s power and he did that which only hastened death. He | struggled, and the reptile colled | about him untl} he was hidden from sight, When a minute Inter | it released him his body was but | a crushed bulk of human flesh. (Benson {s dead. Mola Its dead, | What has fate in store for Clark and | Miss Page? Read the next chapter In| The Star.) 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Cappy been betray« y who had roached the you grabbe instead, meas by the best llowever, the reins, and joeman ha ou decided ¢ soft s you owned yo begtnne horse of your own one bright day you your ambition to a gr iding academy and afte Immediately he'd keep p a nice horse at velf The hore and the park continued on, and when th jman rode back with you beast, you gave him 45 ¢ ire back the rid his property emy. “Tour blood realized your He knew exactly what you| ed, but what you wanted waa hard to get; you must give him time around and find to pl ea! You want k “ 1] tomstonal to teach He tmp’ cept the secret and keep your head josing his, ture whic ‘t born w OUR TELL, finally you + W think you were pre We the fren no up at was following week phoned 4 o'clock. A mi aving for Bu ts horse. after arour you got tn and. by ‘clock yourself the proud owner nddle : horse, d recetved $ ent going to t . your you t a tel Wikes ia the great gift 1 the Pein watching ‘oom. caper ean, to the hors wher You'd dash around the rid » your horse ar ou had got y after a You wife your ie at 6 o'clock 1 begin money's worth to y plan ry morning and ride two he the park before going down to the offico—and the very next night she kept yeu out to & party, where you ate too much jand drank too m . SOX, JHEN the alarm clock wont off, at 6:30 and you thought $69 a month to board the brute|of Mike adding your horse at 6, and two weeks later you began to|¥0U called the deal off by telephone. secret apprehension that | Then you discovered you had to go horse wasn't getting enough |t Mexico, and half-way there. you to eat nor was he being suffictently |@F? @ppatied by the thought that groomed, ‘Thereupon you called |YOUF horse would not have any ex upon the hostler who cared for him |°'i#e While \yourwere away, Bo you at the academy and handed him a| Wie? back to have Mike ride him dally. $10 bill. And, of course, you had to MoM! didn't, but buy & maddie and bridle and n ike didn‘, but. you gaye ‘him $25 for {t when you got back, a anle; then an alleged: Bag! month later, Then your horse got mate you, &. riding eutt |nick. Hy the time ho was fit t |ride again you were sick, and by the jhonor bound to riddle at sight.|time you were well things were mo and tn order to prove to the humble |tutied up at the office that you pedestrians in the park that yod/hadn't time to ride, However, you wore real horsey fellow, you md the privilege of riding added to your paraphernalia a pafr/|h! y. and, of course, the! jof dinky spurs and «. riding crop, |friend knew all about horses, nelther of which speed accelerators} ‘The first time he saw you He you would have dared use on your told you your horse was not bridle steed {f, ag a reward for your brav-| wise, that he tossed his head tn & manner, that ho Your income taxes aince 1912. shied so frequently at nothing {t “Finally came the great day when | must be that his eyesight wan fall-| you decided to ride your own horse |{ng; that he was shod poorly becaus lin the park. Arrived at the acade|he interfered, and that he favored my, you found Mike, the hoatler,|ohe front foot slightly, #o he must holding your horse’at the mounting |haye @ corn. block, and your heart thrilled as| “By this time you were thoroly Aingusted, 80 you old the korae for! and {$125 and twios a week thereafter imparted | herished jarise s¢A ND then your troubles com. menced. Immediately the horse had to be clipped and shod:| you had to buy «@ light summer sheet to cover him and tn cage the weather should turn cold you had] to have a woolen blanket for him. o- You mounted and rode away © grows more be Yesterda ng particu: ry evident tha preciated the g som 4 them 60 qvickly't reall first «tin IT had a distin wa's death, of lows, Once tn the long agd looked at me mo a fee Sam had dit had 4 supreme had been ath, yet re Sam's de d the meme ire @ horse at the academy 0 and your worrles were you'd for . JOBODY had any response to make to Cappy'’s description of the delights of horseback riding on ‘one's own horse, thus proving thelr | Finally, however, Ulysses Grud asked: “Where aid you get all this inside information, Cappy?” | Cappy tittered. | “From Skinner, my general man ager, Skinner's Itver began to act up about atx months ago and his doctor prescribed a horse for him. | Two weeks ago he burst out cry ing, when the horse bit him, and gave the animal to Mike, the hostler. Mike entered him in the horse show, Jeaned up all the blue ribbons in aight and sold him to a check-book | lsport yesterday for $2,000. | *Just before I left the office to Joome up here for luncheon Skinner | read the fatal/tidings in the news-| paper—and, somehow, I was re) minded, when he tried to smile, of | HO RW The Prince of Wales He'd had a kick tn the face and | |waa trying te veo the humor of tt, | jfo right after luncheon I'm going | to buy Skinner something for his Iver. 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