The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1925, Page 12

THE STORY THUS FAR It was a frightful punishment his bones. knotted Teaped ou! gon and and laid op © sovering. = “Two!” McCask: Strained b ereaked as hi was drawn pulled at { far back It was a frigh jeman's flesh was Phis bones ‘1 4 The count went on pfor the fellow with the whip s slowly, putting his Ghehind every biow. = gelimbed to eight the prisoner’: twas drippin h blood, his t re-band was sodden with it Wait had reach 10 he hu his wrists and on Wwoluntary. “mmuseular r red the caress of the nine lashes. Forty stripes had been voted as @ penalty, but 'Poleon Doret vault ed to the platform, Belize the up. @ralsed whip, and tore it from the Wexecutioner's hand. He turned upon e crowd a countenance white with Mury and disgust @ “Enough?’ he shouted, Whe it “By Gai psomebody, wip me; dish felle ®mos' dead.” He strode to the y and with a slash of his hu wknife cut McCaskey down, ® This action was greeted with an Gangry Yell of protest; the: #rush toward the platform, but Grvas joined by the leader of mPosse, who scrambled thru the and ranged himself in oppositic Sthe audience. The old man was like- face was wet with swe: (Arooping gray GWere set = “Back up, you hyen: he cried, @hrilly. “The show is over. The man Hook his medicine and he took it like Pa man. He's had enough," “Gimme the whip. 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Ifyou mus" w'ip| of his former te: gwise satiated with this ‘torture; his| me itis v Gas Clin ; a Who's got th h ‘ t ‘ Y weeding 1 : son “ tohed ff the canvas drug stor NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY wn the at r th this he we bief; then he washed M CHAPTER VY, (Continued 1 ba A men At the ¢ ft mn joined him in t . thers came t T am a thief 4 me along.’ Thus decorated, he met his crown jing indign restaurant far down the 8 of men had formed. Joo M ‘askey he had borne the other. Men red at him, they flung handfuls Wet moss and mud at him, they spat im, some even struck | him, bound as he was. | Sickened at the sight, Pierce Phil Ups witnessed th 1 chapter of this tragedy into which the winds of mee had ble him. For one ant only did his eyes meet thase tmate, but during hat brief giance Jatter’ made in his u ing hatred. Mc Key's ; ) his upper lip dri similar to tha ran thru hi e fire the last ounce in the sending of Hellish fury Ss soul's ©: wordles a threat for exy elt in that stare then a st r of mire struck film:in the face and blotted it out. Wh n6 last Jeer had died away, when the figure of Joe McCaskey | had disappeared into tho misty twi- |light, Phillips drew a deep breath. What « this had been, what a tumult he had lived thru, what an | experi he had undergone! This an adventure | had made an enemy. Life come his way, and tho consciousness of | that fact caused him to tingle. This | what would the folks back honte s. to this? And the Countess—that | wonderful woman of ice and fire! |the minds of men, whose wit was|hunger, Mo, I'm double-trippin’—| getting it my collat 8 A No. quicker than light. Well, she had) relayin’ our stuff to the Summit and] 1, but you see tha nev r rep ed him, his good name, if| breakin’ my back at It. I can’t make | make mo out somewhat a rounder not his neck, Who was sh | her nd his life What mission brought What hurry crowded on els? What idle chance had flung them into each other's arms? Or wag it {dle chance? Was there ns chance, after all? 1en’s random fortunes all| “You said you was packin' for wages. | of a good act without someone put- | in conformity with some Well, old Tom ain't any help to me. | thing a very different me ing to it? jobscure purpose to form a part of| You look strong. Mebbe Tcould hire| 1 was thinking all these things | | somib intricate des en? Dust he was, | orth, as were these other human atoms which had been borne thither from the farthest quarters of the earth; but when that dust had settled would it not arrange Itself into pat- terns mapped out at the hour of birth or long before? Somehow ho belleved that such would be the case, As for the Countess, his way was hers, her way was his; he could not LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN 2SCOTT TO SYDNEY CAR- TON—CONTINUED It was with great difficulty, Syd, that I kept myself from kicking that old man out of my office, but 1 thought that was probably just what he wanted me to do, so I restrained |my temper and asked with as much a. show of calmness as 1 was capable | of me out with it 1) ald want enough money to move away from this town, T want enough | money to live on after J am away from this town, 1 want to take my What do you ao, ny crowded 1 wolfed a | SF SEES PTO ee ry |{ ( MY FAMIER'S He bore this ordeal ; Hoe had lived, he} ‘ould be something to talk about;| |dust blown upon the breath of tho} SALESMAN $AM > DELIVER THIS CEL PARS. LALAPOOW ITZ PLIYMOOTH RA AR aT (HEY Sam -— TAKE M9 MACHINE 2 CHEST ‘v "Teme. \( DAWNGONIT-1™ c T \ TH WRONG OL AAISY ATO NEVAN OONK » JOB Yo AINT WHEN XO THINKS OE END AM OF BEGINNING ~ DE FOST AM OE LAST AW NEVA HAD SUCH) A CRAZY 308 -—{ > FRECKLES YO '& DONE Yo AM JES STAMTED. LAST NIGHT OR LAST THING AK DONE WAG "TO TIDY "IHINGS OP —DEN Migs BOOTS HAS SOME YOUNG FOLKS IN AN’ LOOKIT VT NOW. WHhOOOoRER //// % AND HIS FRIENDS { A®G FELLA=HES Th BIGGEST MAN IN THIS HERE f pop ! roe, on — AWeKE AIN'T ) JT So #16 AS MY — pee Te L Tuan ANYBODY | \> | TY n s4y! MINes | BI6SER TAN \( Aous } | \( ANT! MINES BiéesR! ~ Sy r | MBS BIGGER " + (| ) i} Y, OCTOBERS22, 1925 BY SWA SAYING- -——|} FE THE GARGS" OEY WASNT A DIRTY DISK IN OF HOUSE WHEN AW DEFT LAS NIGHT NEITHAK. DiS MONIN DEY \SNT A CLEAN ONE. WHEN AK COMES "To WoRK AN COMES "To WORK WHUT AK 1 ~~ MEANS DEX SHO TID RAID OF HEAK Po ICE BOK . LAWS - DEX EVEN FOOND DAT VIECE OCKKKEN AA HAD HID AWAY TO MANGER THAT WUZ AY FATHER SNEEZIN'// WS MOMENT AN EXPLOSION CccuRS AT TRE GAS WORKS A FEW BLOCKS AWAY HELLO MR GUNN- HOW LONGLL IT BE BEFORE You LEAVE FoR Home? UD UKE TO RIDE oa WITH YOO — | bear to think of losing her. She was | big, she was great, she drew him by the spell of somo stran, magi The peppery old man Doret's help, had defied th meeting approached him to inqu ¥, why didn’t old Tom me | back with you from Linderman | “Old Tom? “Bure! Old Tom Linton We're pardnors, I'm Jerry Quir “He was tired out.” “Tired!” Mr. Quirk snorted de- risively. “What tired him? He can’t hat superwoman who could sway! tote enough grub to satisfy his own| loan as hers.| him understand we'd ought to keep| which you know 1 am not | the outfit together; he's got ft sc | tered like a mad woman's hair, But |.old Tom's in the sere and yellow leaf | he's onery, Ike all old men. I try to | humor him, but—ther's a limit | speaker Jooked Pierce over sb owdly you,” Fi Phillips shook his head. “I don't want work just now," sald he. ‘I'm going to Dyea in the morning.” Jim_McCaskey was buried whero he had fallen, and there beslde the trail, so that all who passed might read and ponder, the men of Sheep Camp raised a board with this in- scription: "Here lies the body of a thief.” (To Be Continued) You know that ns well as I, Things nowadays have changed a great deal since ragw were royal raiment, when worn for virtue'n sake. That ¢ scoundrel didn't intend to go awa y “We'll have to have a hand ald y | my house and told me that intend ( BLAST IT!-IHATE TO Y WAL< HOME THE PAVEMENT HOT AND / SOLES ARE GOSH ~HEREBAN OLD \ STREET CAR TRANSFER! } MAYBE L CAN PASS IT § ~~ ON THE CONDUCTOR _/ SAY I'VE ARGUED WITH YoU ABOUT THIS TRANSFER FoR TEN) MINUTES - L TOLD You IT'S NO GOOD - ETHER PAY YOUR FARE OR ULL POT You OFF/ HEE-HEE- LGoT POT ALLRIGHT- DLL OFF RIGHT AT MY GET OFF AT THE NEXT STREET AND LLL ALSO REPORT YOU To “THE COMPANY. | Ho didn’t want to take his day mer! M’DUFFER, THE away, He just wanted to bleed ant keep on bleeding me GOLFER I was if a tight place, he ay tho oid t BR og akit he would ralse such a fu that 4 all the town would think I wa. | neglecting my business and spending | | my money on riotous living. (How | thie reformers love to Fill, those word | “riotous living . I certain | out, but after tomorrow I'm going to | ask my bank to lend me $160, I don’t anticipate any trouble | And the money powers | love to get mo where they could a me all sorts of question | | Good Lord, why is it that 1] ]am one of that kind of men who are not allowed to do the sligh' kind would just Syd, which I am writing to you and also | trying to plan somo sort of a way out of the mess when there was a | knock at the door and In came Sally | Atherton and Maggie Stimpson to. gether. I wish you could have seen old | | Stimpaon’s face! Anger and surprise | | made {t look ridiculous. I think he! » surprised than I ‘s going some, dn’t I tel) you to stay at homo, | Maggio?" he said in a very uely| vole, “I told you I'd fix this thir H right.” , Mra, Atherton camo over to was and (Cope, 1905, Amoclated Tetons, Ine.) of keeping mo dut of the papers you wero over here at Mr. Prescott'n of. fico trying to get $150,000 from him, You know I won't stand for that!" Pted Piper. “Wine! Wine!” erted the people tn High Jinks Land, So Nancy and Nick said “Ine! gine! too, as tt seemed to bo th pI thing t penal cy eae Gare AMES EAC Ct 9 the proper thing to Olive Roberts Barton WCW NO. 8—JACK 0’ LANTERN’S PARTY rn, TOMORROW: Letter from Fon | 4 i Alden Prescott to Sydney Cart el i | other, the They soon got a band to: and the band went down to Jack O' Lantern's Thore Mister gin with, and the Clown, and Old King Colo, and the Gooso Girl, and the Old Apple Woman, and the Pie man, and the Muffin Man, and Mra, Kin Cole = T % reo ae "My three fiddlers will} * | 1CAnre point the finger of scorn at her,” | have a band if the Jack Of tan-| “And 1 have-a fiddle, too," wuld | “That Kot my goat rght, Syd. ‘The}tern is going to give w party,” {the Hi Diddle Diddle cy | and inflammations quickly jold hypocritel Tn the first place, no} ‘That's right,” agrood Mister| “Ant 1 have a horn!” sald Little yeldte one Jn Pittsburg would point the|Corn Dodger, “We certainly should | Hoy Mine e finger of scorn at his daughter Ajhave a band. But there is no band| “And we have a drum!" said the| soorning finger would be thrust out|in High Jinks Land,’ ‘Three Men-inatub, at me for being a fool, that’s alll ‘“L've got three Hfddiors," sald Old] "And 1 have my pipe," sald the MUD CENTER FOLKS I TOOK OUT SO/qe MORE INSURANCE T’ Day. ONE O’ THEM NEW FANGLED “DOUBLE INDEMNITY” KINDIF I GIT HIT BY ATRAIN THEN © I GIT MY MONEY gg | FLAPPER FANNY says | Re ©1925 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Folks who broadcast on the radio do a lot of talking over nothing, DOUBLE INDEMNITY? YEH, BUT Y’ Gotta Gir HIT TWICE Berore Y' COLLECT, ainrcHa? Witch and tho Sweep and every body! And before very long they came to Jack O' Lantern’s house. “What a nico house!” sald Nancy "T think it's a nice party,” sald the Pleman, "A very nice party | What shall we do with the refresh | ments? I brought a ple | ‘Just set them all in tho itch. }en," said Mrs, John, Jack and Jill's | mother, So they set everything in the Kitchen and then out they went again where there was more room “What shall wo play?" sald Jack O' Lantern, “Lot's play Blind Man's Buff, | suid the Scare Crow, “Good!” sald. Jack O' Lantern “Who has a handkerchief? "T have,” sald Nick r his pocket “Who will be ft?” sald Jack ot Lantern, ching tn Dodger, you might the visitors" ou," paid Lou ow while you are at it, | O' give three cheers for Musser itd < “If you are caught and the Clown fuesses your name, you antorn, ; ‘3 » must give him ‘orfelt, No far "T will,” said Nancy, So tho party gave throe cheors| running after on Piddia teal a Say," said Jack ©' Lantern,|for Nancy and Nick, too, "T think Hiv Jinks Land ts tots that's the kind of company to] “Dos anyone clas want to bolot fun," sald Nancy to Mister Corn havel, Who brought these obliging | cheored?" naked Jack O' Lantern, | Dodger haves children to High Jinks Land any-| but beforo anybody vould answer,| “So. do 1," said Nick way?" the Hi Diddle Diddle Cat said im-| “1m gad you tke it, said Mins ‘T did," sald Mister Corn Dodgor} pationtly: “It wo are golng to Play | tor Corn Dodger, shaking the: ashos proudly any gh Jinks at this sparty,, 1] out: of tle corncob pipe,’ #o he hreo cheers for Mister Corn} think wo had better begin, Is this | could run better : Dodger,” anid Jack O' Lantern. | tittle girl going to be blind man?” f (To Be Continued) (Copyrimht, 1925, Noy "Three rousing cheers! “No! T will," said the Glown, A, Horvive, Lac.) fn wrtcnl haya yada ta ace pividecboa iad ity — oo : ee