MIND YOUR own business. Drawn for Sol THE NEB3S— HeMj THE DIAMONDS I < ^ \ NO-tT WAS A TOAOuM LI &WOia< TMObE BIRDS I'MONEmTL I OH LOOK WHO'S HERE! c>UUuS CAESAR ( By J. S. FLETCHER. 'W/DOUT You\ 1DU> tMEy CANT BLUFF ! WE’LL COOK, W«tt LET You vou fwMO HOMO DROPPED IN roR) coalTp ME TEU. 60MtTUiN)G, You YlGHTlNG ) (WW PONT TXW Voud GWb ONE OP THOSE SCANDAL GASOLENE. OR OVER A BONFIRE BEFORE DEMON) — You Gcrr AS MUCH SYNOPSIS. asked 1^1 Dass, with trus oriental * dmoking Tobacco yes- S CHANCE WITH SELL EIRE ? THAT WAS as you John KJndxny. of stalwart build and politeness. "It is customary in your WORKS, PEDDLERS BOwDOwnToTMiS G$aSPiN6 the Gas Co. would haue putting i while about TIEftDOY- WE Told me (J uncouth appearance, strolling order tor the good V OBiE ? v MV CORPORttflOtfJ OUT A WITH of the maritime village land to something ^,w' > PARTAKING OP TOREST flRE AN EYE DROPPER/ the Town Houare ME VjJAS L01TW TUE GAS of Plymouth, stuns at the postofftce, of the house, is it not'!" its i—a HOWTAUtV ? — Go Down make \ company and me: and uP, You r-~*rrf\ where lie receives a letter containing "Yes,” answered Lindsay, “I'll take money. Half famished, ho cote a hearty MAD RaQBiT ! a ale—and we'll have the nj^ TURNED Woo |7 If rv /wTfr’r-^ at a lions*, then walks down bottle of [ eiOST wt meal oohllc h&vje the street leading to Devonport. He stop# cork drawn here." GAS ovr r— small short and views with amarement a Lai Dass rang a bell and gave the brass.hound tmv exhibited In the window to a stout middle % boxes i of a naw nhroker'a clmn owned by Aaron necessary orders Josephs. He re*-ogni*ea the box as one aged woman, who greeted him several yearn <F of great value which he loot When she had retired and before Josephs refuses to sell It at a familiarly. fall- to themselves, he (V 2FIAOO price tjmlsav can pay and IJndaay. left the two men ing lo obtain It with the aid of a police- bent forward and laid his hand on man. lava other plana to secure the treas- arm. "It was in this ure. He starts down the street and comes Lindsay’s "that face to face with a strange Hindu who house," be said in a low voice, has been watching Undent'I ef- secretly Stefano was robbed of the brass- forts to obtain the box. bound box.'' (Tontlnued from Yesterday.) "Ah!’’ exclaimed Lindsay “So It that eh? Well, CHAPTER II. was Stefano got It, blow me if I didn't always have some The Hindu’* Story. notion that it might be him. And yet. curious smile on the There was a again I've thought as how It must Hindu's face as he looked into the have been you. Well, but how do you the pea- eyes of the man in shabby know?” there was no answering jacket; but "It is not a difficult thing to work smile on Lindsay's. out.’’ said Lai Dass. 'There were which had rested on The angry look three of us that knew of the box"— had turned ob- it since Mr. Josephs "My box," interrupted Lindsay. brass-bound box stinate about the "Your box! Certainly There were and suddenly faded away gave place three of us that knew of your box and fear. to one of mingled surprise and what it contained. I am one. You »*n started and his mouth i.|a)riafci. man. %■ t** sumMcm*. !•*.* ^ *»«»* turn- Lindsay- back, were another. Stefano was a third. in a of astonishment. opened gape We were all three on the Brohrnapoo- the did you come "Where deuce tra when she went to pieces, and it from?" he staring at the growled, is evident that only one of us could other man smiled again Drawn for The Omaha Bee DeBeck Hindu. The have carried the box away with him.” He It. by Billy -a that was neither pleasant BARNEY GOOGLE-— This May Cost Barney More Than Got Out of smile "That wasn't me," growled Lind- nor reassuring. say. "Worse luck!" "From to and fro about the going "It was not T," sjid lAtl Das* "But 1 sunsmwk = i m gonna l*t -yoGnJ lie answered in AJyrm 'THAMK-GooONrS?? earth, Mr. Lindsay.” then, of course, only I myself knew l IN ON* A SEOWET ONiV ONE OTMBR. and with a low mu- j X Got a perfect English that. Kor a while 1 thought that you BE SIDES MySSLV KNOVl^ X WA/ROLV TJunK sical tone of voice. "Always seeking, ) PERSON A6miT| f xoevtHV Tuat had It: but it was not until last year not until now finding, certain 'its ACCESS ART To but that I knew that he had i ad if." X X CA*» , \MOT DO matters that 1 much desire to set OAvmoA Vo*J RE^ARW«6- "Which means for to say that he on." V VIE Alt CtVT eyes had it no longer?" UTmST SECREC* I "(Jo set on ’em. then, and L Tm*e. r„u,y and eyes "Exactly. He had it no longer, and frO' KEEP!* OUR to you,” said Lindsay. Vs Vow N*JSr MainTaim jlie hanged 1 never knew where it was until I "Ah, but I have set eyes on them, ALL SMUTi saw it a few minutes ago.” AT "flCAES-SC f see one of them now. It is you. \ \MOUF< The two men sat staring at each V <30 OM ABOUT I saw- another but a moment ago. VouPy other after Lai Dass' last words. That was your elegant little casket \aUSH46SS -_' Each searched the other s face—the with the biass corners.’’ Hindu with keen fteadfa«t eyes; Lind- "Ko seen it?" sand Lindsay. you’ve say with a half furtive glance. 1 have known you "Curse it! might "Look here," said Lindsay. "What’s to some It’s a were up dj-vlltry. it all mean? What's the true signifi- nice sort of day, this—a sort ptecious cance of it? I ain't good at riddles of First of all, my surprise day. and mysteries; give us a plain reckon- that never did me a good brother, ing of It.” sends me a o’ turn before, couple It means,” answered the Hindu, he might ha' sent quid—damn him, “that in the beginning Stefano car- me 10 Then I come across pound. ried away that box. Somehow or box—it's in the hands of a pawn- the other he got to this place. Plymouth, broker. Then I met you—as I thought at last. As I explain it, he deposited was eaten the sharks long since. by the box with the man who then kep' Well, there’s something else perhaps this inn. no doubt asking him to tak» like to see. Mr. Lai Dass. eh?" you'd care of it until he returned. He must "The other that I wanted to thing then have been a long time away and see," said the Hindu, calm and im- 1923. when he came baefc the man had sold Ciurrffrt. by Km« fmtmre* SytwhcMt Inc, even "I have already j perturbably as the box." seen. That was our friend. Mr. "Well, well!" said Lindsay. "And btefano Vasstlli.” then"— "It’s a lie,” said Lindsay, making Drawn for TbaOmalu Be* by McMamu "Or at any rate as I read the sto-y, as to seize- the Hindu by ‘he BRINGING UP FATHER-u. .TSSSrtm. KLo'^oL^V^uNa./aS if the box was not forthcoming Per- throat. He’s d'ad." haps the man thought that Ftefano Lai Dass and shook his smiled was never coming back, and had dis 1 LL NOT action. I t>AID TOO ARE NOT have you JEOPARD head with a decisive posed of it with Stefano's ether ef- not. He lives. But do not TO THAT IZ.E My SOCIAL OH*. l*b TKW rbo? "He is fects.” GOING PRIZE- POSITION be alarmed. Mr. Lindsav: he is where e>y WELL ^)EE All zufMWOTK. mierruDwa FIGHT- COINCj I DON'T <bEE HOW fLL he cannot harm either of us." FIGHTING say contemptuously. "It'A your In- -rt you CAN A&OQT THAT- n That’s rood news." said Lindsay, VULGAR AND NO DECENT LOOK AT I Wlt>H I COULD fernal way of putting together things v. 11Pi relief. He took out \ ‘such b^oTAUTy unfeigned that never had no existence.” PEOPLE WOULD GO TO LOOK AT OOME and his 3> a dingy handkerchief wiped go. when Stefano found that out “bEEiT- <- OF THE Ftc^HTts fi rehead. Arl where that v'V-» might continued Lai Da as Imperturbably, I M C«OIN AROUND HERE l>?" he r *>; inquired. "there was a disagreement. You re- The Hindu smiled again and aw:what) INSTEAD OF member that Stefano was a man of stretched a forearm north by A«.EVOU ALWAYS DEIN' skinny violent temper. I conclude that he fp east. TALK\N- I' laid hands, on the man, and that they »r* ’em: w~ over there on tne moors, ne saia. AeooT? foi.ght. And of course, Stefano had a "In Dartmoor.” kn.f>-. and it was with the knife that y stared at him His face Lindsay he killed him.’ into fresh lines of pdckered itself Killed hin V‘ He shook *his head. wonder. ••Yes. he killed him In this very "Here.” he said.