EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEKrPHlLAD03LIHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919
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THE GUMPS Only One Move Day to Do Your Shopping
A DAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS
Copyright, 1013, by th Trtbon Co.
,Bu Sidney Smith
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By LEROY
'No. 11 Washington
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1 Copyrleht, loll), by I.croy Skott
T)UT Brack Jerry was thinking of
" something, and long nflcr Uncle
George bod gone, rind u the tirU day,
that thought Kept rising mid niMng with
Ills, pride, und ccuttutlou In .Icnuic's
rise, nud mixing In with his iieicc af
fection for her. In cousrn,ucncc, lie
that evening hired n touring car, and
Boggled as he hnd been on the day of
Jeunlo's graduation, he rode out toward
Silver Bluffs.
At 10 o'clock lie left the car on the
roadside a quarter of a mile uv.ny from
Slltcr Bluffs and cicpt inside the
grounds. lie had had training neither
ns burglar nor ns spy, but he would
linrc made a fair success at the preca
rious trade of cither, lllil among the
shrubbery he watched the house, study
ing, listening to such talk ns he could
OKrhqan and he slipped about the
grounds, getting the location of the out
buildings, and the lay of the laud, and
particularly noting the M.iru which laj
at anchor lu the little .harbor.
The three following nights he did the
tame. On the fourth night, at about
half-past ten, ho broke the lock of the
buathousc and, subduing his mice, lie
telephoned up to the big house asking
that Mr. Kenneth bo told that the cup
lain of the Myra wished thut certain or
ders loft for the morrow bo made more
Wear, and that the laptaiu would be
awaiting him unou the nier.
There wag a turn iu tin path that led
down, (torn the house, aud at thin twin
there was a clump of thick nhrubberi
Behind this Jcnv stationed himself
1,'rcsently lift heard footsteps, and after
b few' moments a solitary figure cume
around the turn. In the daikness he
could only sec that the figure was a man.
lie stepped forward and saluted sailoi
fashion. "Mr. lcncth Harrison, sir?" he in
quhed. "Yes," confirmed the other. "But
Where's Captain Graham?"
Terry stepped closer. "That message
about the captain was just a fake to
get you out here."
"Then this is n hold up I" cried
Kenneth, and instantl his list shot out
at his- dim opponent.
But Jerry had been on the Hlert;
nnd he had eyes to which night was al
most the same as day. Keu as Ken
neth struck, both his w risrts w ere seized ;
nnd country club athlete though lie
was, he was helpless iji those twin
giips.
"Listen, said Black .Tenj I nin'l
going to hurt jou. J just want to talk
to you."
"What about?"
"The girl jou're going to marry
Jcnnio Sliller."
"Jennie Miller!" exclaimed Kcunelh.
VWho are jou?"
Black Jerry had given much thought
to this poiut. "I'm n soit of cousin
pretty distant haou't seen Jennie
since she came cast I'll nccr lagmc for
anything iu her life. Jennie wntes to
her pcoplo out west about her engage
ment: no closo rclatics, but some peo
'plc who think a lot of Jennie we ail do
that, though wc'ie nobody computed to
her. So they wires me to look oer
what soit of n fellow this Harrison is.
' You get me?"
"Yes." Kenneth had begun to re
cover his composure. "And what tort
of fellow do you think this Ilairisou
Is?"
f "I don'-t know. And since I don't
linow, here's what I got to say to 1,011."
j Jerry's naturally heay oicc. subdued
though it was, was vibrant with menace.
"Sojno people bav I'm a lough guy,
aud raebbo I am. I'm going to be watch
ing you all the while but I'll nccr
bother, you and you'll necr sec me if
you treat Jennie right. But if you
don't treat her square" Jcrrv was now
holding the two wrists in Ills big left
hand, und his light hand had slipped up
and closed softly nboub the other's
throat "if you don't treat .lctuir
square, I'll wring jour damned neck
off. So I guess you'd better treat her
square. Remember I'll be watching.
That's all I want to say."
Ho drew quickly back into the shrub
bery and clipped through the heavy
shadows, out of the giounds.
To Jerry's mind bis action had been
n wfso precaution. When there was
the slightest doubt about a man, stiffen
him up in advance by tiuowing into
him tho fear of Hod or the deul , that
was plain common scuso as life had
taught it to Jerry Maloue. What he
Jjnd just dono was tho only fuithcr
thing ho could do which would guar
antee the safety aud happiness of .Teii'
tfie's future,
Within the house, somewhat shaken,
Kenneth told Jennie of his experience.
"Ho had a dcjip growl o a voice and
though I'm no weakling he could have
twisted my aim right off if he had
wanted to. Ho said ho was a sort of
relative pf Yours a cousin. Who was
he, JenuioV"
Jennie knew well enough who the
man wag. So her father had gone to
such nu cxtiemo for her sake! But
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
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"TICKLE TOE TUMMY"
(Peggy, Billy and Judge Owl, made
fiiil as mice by going through a
tnegaphoiie, aro earned to the Un
derground City, icnerc they find the
Underground Folks in a hubbub be
cause' they have been aieahcned from
their ic-Mer sleep by Ttchle Too
Timmy, an elf.)
'The Up-Sldo-Down Trees
T"0 YOU youngsters like fun?"
JL asked Tickle Toe Timmy of Billy,
I-eggy and Judge Owl, as he slammed
tho door of his hole shut in the faces
Of tho muttering Underground Volks.
"Of course, we like fuu," chuckled
Billy. "It was very funny tho way
father Babbit kicked you."
"Aw, that wusn't so funnv that
hurt!" snickered Tickle Toe Timmy,
erinning uncomfortably and rubbing his
shins. "I mean do you like having fun
Slaying jokes on other folks. If sou
o. corao with mo on a tickling spree."
Bang! Bang! Some one thumped
on the door. It was toe Underground
Folksr eager to punish 'iicklo Toe Tim
tny for waking them out of their winter
nap. "My, those sleepy-heads are cross
over being waked up." giggled the elf.
"Come awav before they catch us."
Tickle Toe Timmy led the way
tbraugh a dark tunnel which soon
brought them to what appeared to be a
forest. But it was the queerest forest
Peggy and Billy had ever seen. The
trees instead of growing up from the
ground. i seemed to be growing down
Irpm the roof. .
"Jiminy crickets! Wc vo been turned
topsy-turvy!" exclaimed Billy Bel-
' giurn, and quick us a wink ho stood on
his head so as to be right side up.
Peggy just as quickly lay on her back,
for she didn't know whether her feet
ought to bo up or down and thought
tuat the safest way wasf to keep them
neither up nor down, fs for Judge
' 0Jl he turned somersaults in the air
1i7irT kpnt on ftiruinff them bncaiibo lift
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Bauart," "llaru Ktacn," fie.
though dictated by lovo she saw his
action for that moment as ill-considered,
as a terrible risk. She had n
feeling that Kenneth was eyeing her
suspiciously. Tor nn iustant sho trem
bled inwardly lest the whole truth
should come out right then and there.
But sho controlled herself and spoke
steadily enough. "Yes, I suppose the
man is a sort of relative." She forced
a smiic. "As I'o always told you.
I'm ery much of a nobody. And in
people out West, or such as are left,
are ptctty lough and direct "
Kenneth smiled though wryly aud
she knew that her danger was oicr. If
indeed therd had been any "Your cousin
was dliect, all right 1 Kirn if I didn't
want to treat jou square, us he put It,
just because 1 loo jou, I'd certain!
do it after hating had lluxo hands
about niv throat. But, Jennie, do you
mind ealliug the lousiu off? I ncer
did like big dogs."
"I will if I can reaih lilm," prom
ised Jennie.
"Hluie mother scut out the an-
uouticement of our engagement this
afternoon," Kenneth wcut on, "it'll
ptobablj be in tomorrow morning's
papcis and uadlug it iu blink and
whitn maj reussure and quiet him a
bit "
"Ye?, I think it will," Jennie agreed
llarrj Edwards Learns the News
"TOT tery far from the Bekin, and
' not far from the Criminal Courts
Building, and not far from the City
Hall wheie the formalities iclative to
such items ns public coutrncts are con
ducted, thete stood and still stands a
grimy, uuprelentious brick building bav-
ll IIIJUU Mil' IMUll 1US3 UL US UlSt IIUUI
the tainishcd gilt sigu of
Samuel Conway
Heal Estate and Insurance
Always there was n group of men in
the big outer office sometimes a crowd;
but none came to sell or bur property.
or to safeguard against loss by lire, or
to place a little bet (odds l'ned bv the
actuary's handbook) upon the great race
between life nnd death. Sam Couwav
had long since dropped business of such
u sort: his quarters hnd become an
unoSiclat biibstutlon of the cit got -eminent.
Hero many a matter was prir
otcly worked out and privately settled,
later to be submitted in City Hall to
tho public appiotal of a pcrfuirctorj
vote.
Tho time was 10 o'clock of the morn
ing following Black Jerry's brief sccuc
with Kenneth Harrison: nnd in the
inner office, alone together, sat Harry
I'dwards and Sam Conway himself, his
bulk swelling ocr and uuder the aims
of Ins swim I rhuir.
"(iiart to see you, Hnrry," he was
saying in his hearty toico "llteiy
lluiig looting along all right for jou
oter to the office?"
"My cud of things is going great
thnnks to you, Sam 1" reclaimed Harry.
"Thank jourself, mj boy!" with a
dcprccdloiy wuc ofn big hand, und
a genial smile 'on his floiid face. It
was easy to see why men liked Sam
Couwav and would light for him: he
Leer belittled them, "Of couisc1, I
may bo able to put jou iu the way of u
good ihaucr, but the rest is nil up to
jou. If jou make good, it's because
jou an good But how does it come
jou'ie awjt from tho office in the mid
dle of the morning?"
"There's sonicthiug Mr. Harrison
wanted to know. Since lie didn't want
to telephone, I guess he felt it was con
fidential." "Shoot, Harrj," said the big man
ioculaily. "I got too muny good friends
in the police department for them to
plant any listening machines about this
shop."
"Mr. Ilnrrison seemed worried about
this Murdock mix.-up. He wanted to
know if theio were auy new dcteiop
ments." Conwuj's face became grave. "I
guess I don't need to tell you. Hairy,
that there's nothing to all this stuff
Murdock sajs he cau piove against me.
Nothing crooked, I mean."
"Of course not!" Harrj exclaimed.
"You're square ns they make 'em !
There's nothing to Murdock but just
jealousy and spite!"
"I guess you've got it sized up just
nbout right. But thanks lor feeling
that way about me." He piused. eyes
full on Harry, then spoke with delib
eration. "All the same, Harry, you
might as well know that if he can go
thiough with all he's threatened, I'm
done for finished I'm a has-been.
"And it mill etcn mean a stretch In
the pen for uio. Of coup-c. he's got
some pupcis; I'tc tiled to help some
fiiends iu my time, aud those papers
Can bo twisted to look mighty bad."
"Thej'ro all lot!" Hurry declared
lojallj. "And Murdock'll never put
it across!"
"No, I don't think Murdock will,"
tho other said with quiet incisiveuess.
"Shall I tell Mr. Harrison that?"
"Yes." And then, as Hairy started
to use "Watt a minute. ' Conway re
gurded tho Jouus mau steadily,
How
much you getting now, Hairy?"
'Tift a week."
(CONTINUED TOMOKItOW)
"Ho! Ho! Ho! Tho joke is on you,"
he cried. "You think jou nrc topsy
turvy because you aro looking at the
bottom sido of the forest instead of
the top side. Don't you know tuat
things growing in the ground !ic down
stairs ns well us upstairs? There arc
the trees of Birdlund."
Pcggv and Billy stood up, feeling a
bit foolish over beingjo muddled. They
could sec now that they were looking
at a forest of tree roots instead of ut
tree trunks and limbs. But Judge Owl
couldn't understand it at nil.
"Hoo! Iloo! I know cciv tree in
Birdlaud, and I don't know these
trees," ho hooted. "If this is Bird
lund. where are the birds?"
"Tho upstairs birds have gone bouth
for the winter," snickcied Tickle Too
Timmy, -'und the downstairs birds
tho moles, the gophers mid other Un
derground Folks-ought to be snugly
asleep hero in the cuith, but just now-
"The trees all seem to bo asleen "
quiet the undergiound forest was
a in ,collrio . they are. Tho Treo
MVm0 "' tB0W3 dnstairs out
of the cold, and have brought their un
-the lifeblood I of the trees-down wuE
them so Old Man Winter can't freeze
It up with his icy blasts. The Tree
Spirits arc all soundly asleep amid these
roots, and tho Shrub Spirits and the
Flower Spirits aro asleep, too. We're
going-to wake them up in our tickling
spree. We're going to make them think
spring has come. My, but they'll have
a lit of the shhers when they hnd Old
Winter is btill raging."
Tho elf plucked long feathers from
his coat of fur and feathers and handed
ono each to Billy and Peggy. "Tickle
the trees hard," he snickered, "but
keep away from Mother Nature. Don't
you daro wako her up, for if sho iluds
us tcusing her slumbering children she
is buro to glvo us au awful spanking."
(TomorrvK wltlfjte iold hoto the
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