Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1924, Page 25

THE OWL 'S HOUSE A Thrilling Adventure Story By Crosbi e Garstin Copyright, 1924, by Frederick A, Stokes Co. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) — The tour was a triumph. Women Tushed to their .cottage doors and stared after her, goggling. At Prid- | den a party of hedgers left work and raced across a field to see her go by. Near Tregadgwith a farmer fel] off his horse from sheer astonish- ment. She was the sole topic of the district for a week or more. John's memory was duly honored. In a month Teresa was tired of the black dress; her fancy did not run to black. Tho crisp and shining new silk had given her a distaste for the old silks, the soiled and tattered salvage of wrecks. She stuffed the motley rags back in the chests and slammed the lids on them. She had seen some breath-taking rolls of material in that shop in Penzance— orange, emerald, turquoise, coral and lilac. She shut her eyes and imagined hersclf in a flowing furbelowed dress of each of these colors in turn—or one combining & little of everything —oh, rapture! She consulted Martha in the matter. Martha was shocked. It was unheard of. She must continue to wear black in public for a vear at least. This intelligence depressed Teresa, but she was determined to be correct, as she had now a position to maintain, was next thing to a lady. Eleven months more to wait, heigh-ho! Then, drawn by the magnet of the shops, she went into Penzance again Penzance had become something more than a mere tin and pilchard port: vigitors attracted by its mild climate came in by every packet; there was a good inn, the Ship and Castle, and in 17652 a coffec house had Leen opened and the road to Lands Fnd made pos- sible for carriages. Many fine ladies were to be seen fanning themselves at windows in Chapel street or stroll- ing on the Green, and T resa wanted to study their costumes with a view to her own. She dismounted at the Market Cross, moved about among the booths and peeped furtively in at the shops. They were most attractive, display- ing glorious things to wear and mar- velous things to eat — tarts, cakes, Tiwutch biscuits, gingerbread shaped like animals, oranges, plum and sugar candy. Sly old women wheedled her to buy, enlarging ecstatically on the excellence and cheapness of wares. Teresa wavered and reflected that though she might not be able to | buy a new dress for a year there was | no law against h rehasing other | things. The bux of silver burnt her | | fingers and she fo1l. She bought some singerbread animals at four for a thousht them sixpenworth to lollipops. She farthing. taste hem ambrosia and bro take with her. went home tren at her extrava- gance, but whe she came to count up what she had spent it seemed to have made no impression on the bag of silver. In six weeks she went in again, bought a basketful of edibles and replaced her brass earrings with large gold half-moons. When these were paid for the bag was badly drained. Teresa took fright and vis- ited town no more for the year—but as @ matter of fact she had spent less than £20 in all. But she had got in of spending now tin works in which John's was investr d up at the i of th lings and 8 | ion), and Tregors | - same day. It/ seem=d to Teresa that the heavens | had op showered un- counted gols i next morn- | ing a t as bay re could sarry her and ordered : dered with real lace and cc all the hues of the rainbow. was oft. Never having had any money she had not the slightest idea of its value and was mulcted accord- ingly. In the third year of widow- hood she spent the last penny of her income. The farm she left to Bohenna, the Bouse to Martha, the children to look after themselves, and rode in Pen- zance market and all over the hun- dred, to parish feasts, races and hurling matches, a notable figure with her flar dresses, raven hair | and_huge earr ing the odds, £ BEFCRE YOU | ORDER COAL | Ask Us About Don't be a shovel slave again next year, when the OIL-O- MATIC will provide uniform temperature, health and comfort WITHOUT ATTENTION, dirt and ashes—and at a saving in money as well. We'd like to refer you to actual users here in Wash- Ington. Ask for their names. G == H HEATING COMPANY Hot Water, Steam and Vapor Heating —- Expert Plumbing Repairing and Remodeling 913-917 H Street N.W. Main 4886—48S7 “Found Reliable for Over 30 Years” OO R ERTIREHTLETRETTH R If You Have Some Bookkeep- ing to Be Done —reference to the Rec- Servi column b Classified Section will put you in touch with an expert who will servie you satisfac- Every advertiser un- der Recommended Service guarantees sat- isfaction to Star read- ers—and practically singing songs and standing drinks in ale houses like any squire. When John died she was at her zenith. The early bloom of her race began to fade soon after, accelerated by gross living. She still ate enor- mously, as though the hunger of 22 lean years was not yet appeased. She was like an animal at table, seix- ing bones in her hands and tearing the meat off with her teeth, grunt- ing the while like a famished dog, or stufing the pastries she bought in Penzance into her mouth two at a time. She hastened from girlish to buxom, from buxom to stout. The bay mare began to feel the increas- ing welght on the pillion. Bohenna was left at home and Teresa rode alone, sitting sideways on a pad, or a-straddle when no one was looking. Yet she_was still comely in a largsL way and had admirers aplenty.. Sun- dry impecunious gentlemen, hoping to mend their fortunes, paid court to the lavish widow, but Teresa saw through their blandishments, and after getting all possible sport out of them sent them packing. With the curate in charge of St. Gwithian it was the other way about. Teresa made the running. She went to church in the first place because it struck her as an_opportunity to flaunt her superior finery in public and male other women feel sick. She went a second time to gaze at the parson. This gentleman was an anemic young man with falr hair, pale blue eyes, long hands and a face refined through partial starva- (The absentee beneficlary al- Obey- tion. lowed him 18 pounds a year.) dark gypsy woman was vaguely at- tracted by him at once and the at- traction strengthened. He was something quite new to her. Among the clumsy-limbed coun- try folk he appeared so slim, 80 deli- cate, almost ethereal. Also, unable to read or write herself and sur- rounded by people as ignorant as she, his easy familiarity with books and the verbose phrasing of his ser- mons filled her with admiration. On Easter Sunday he delivered himself of a particularly flowery effort. Teresa understood not a word of it, but, nevertheless, thought it beauti- ful and wept audibly. She thought the preacher looked beautiful too, with his clear skin, veined temples G STAR, WASHINGTON, and blue eyes. A shaft of sunlight plerced the south window and fell upon his fair head as though an expression of divine benediction. Teresa thought he looked like & saint. Perhaps he was a saint. 8he rode home slowly, so wrapped in meditation that she was late for dinner, an unprecedented ocgurrence. She would marry that young man, If she were golng to marry again it must be to some one she could han- dle, since the law would make'him master of herself and her posses- sions. The curate would serve ad- mirably; he would make a pretty pet and no more. He could keep her ac- counts too. She was always in a muddle with money. The method she had devised of keeping tally by means of notched sticks was most untrustworthy. And, incidentally, if he really were a saint her hereafer was assured. God could never con- demn the wedded wife of & saint and clergyman to hell; it wouldn't be decent. She would marry that young man. : She began the assault next day by paying her overdue tithes and throw- ing in a duck as makeweight. Two days later she was up again with a gift of a goose, and on the follow- ing Sunday she presented ithe as- tcnished clerk with eightpennorth of gingerbreads. Since eating was the occupation nearest to the widow's heart she sought to touch the curate’s by showering food upon him. Something edible went to the Dean- ery at least twice a week, occasion- ally by a hind, but more often Teresa took it herseif. A fortnight before ‘Whitsuntide Teresa, in chasing an errant boar out of the yard, kicked too violently, ‘snapped her leg and was laid up for three months. Tempo- rarily unable to reduce the curate by her personal charms she deter- mined to let her gifts speak for her, doubled the offerings, and eg&s, fowls, butter, cheese and hams pass- ed from the farm to the Deanery in a constant stream. Lying In bed with nothing to do, the inwalid's | ing the law of opposites, the heavy | houghts ran largely upon the clerk. She remembered him standing in the pulpit that Easter Sunday, uttering lovely, if unintelligible words. slim and delicate, the benedictory beam on his flaxen poll: the more she pic- tured him the more ethereally beau- tiful did he become. He would make a charming toy. A As soon as she could hobble about she put on her best dress (cherry satin), and, taking the bull by the horns, invited her intended to dinner. She would settle matters without further ado. The young man obeyed the summons with feslings divided between fear and determination; he knew perfectly well what he was in for. Nobody but an utter foel could have mistaken the meaning of the sighs and glances the big widow had thrown when visiting him before her accident. There was no finesse about Teresa. She wanted to marry him, and prudence told him to let her. Two farms and 400 pounds & year—so rumor had it—the catch of the district and he only & poor clerk. He was k of poverty-—Teresa's bounty had shown him what it was to llve well—and le dreaded returning to the old way of things. Moreover he admired her, she was so bold, 80 luscious, so darkly handsome, pos- seased of every physical quality he lacked. But he was afraid of her for all that—if she ever got really angry with him, good Lord! It took every ounce of determina- tion he owned to drive his feet down the hill to Bosula; twice he stopped and turned to go back. Ho was a timid young man. His, procrastina- tion made him late for dinner. When he reached the farm, the meal had already been served. His hostess was hard at work; she would not have delayed 5 minutes for King George himselt. She had a mutton bone in her hands when the curate entered. She did not notice him for the mo- ment, ko engrossed was she, but tore oft the last shred of meat, scrunched the bone with her teeth and bit but the marrow. The curate reeled against'the door post, emitting an in- voluntary groan. Teresa glanced up and stared at him, her black eye- brows meeting. Who was this stranger wabbling about in her doorway, his watery eyes popping out of his podgy face, his fleshy knees knocking together, his dingy coat stretched tightly across his protruding stomach? A lost innkeeper? A strayed tallow chandler? No, by his cloth he was & clerk. Slowly she recoghised him. He was her curste, ecod! Her pretty toy! Her slim, transparent saint de- veloped into this corpulent earthling! Fat, ds! She huried the bone a There is a National Sewing Machine that you can afford to buy Electric Models, $35 to $135 Treadle Models, $29.75 to $65 Convenient Terms Oppenheimer’s Shop Unique 800 F St. N.W. ARGAIN - B Many floor samples of fine furniture as well as slightly used pieces are on sale Saturday in the Phillip Levy exchange department. Prices have been greatly reduced to make room for new goods. Read descriptions and prices carefully and come early. Everything in good condition and entirely separate from our regular stocks of new furniture. Parlor Saite. Mahogany-finish 3- piece parlor suite, seats covered in imitation i:gack fen_her. Exchange Store price only ....c.een 57-50 Delivered for . . . Baby Carriages. Brand-new floor samples of carriages, worth up to $0, will go for as little Delivered i Ice Chests. Floor samples, brand- new, large ice chests will be sacrificed for 519.50 Delivered fOr «oumr.comiseermenenns Wing Chairs. Tapestry overstuffed wing chairs, npri;gsfsshmn. seat and edge, worth new $65.00. Exchange Store price $12-95 Delivered for . Dresser and Washstand. A marble- top dresser with plenty of drawer space and washstand{ with marble top will both go for ooty * - $9.75 Delivered for . Box Springs. Brand-new floor samples in covered box springs, single- bed siu” I-;nly. wfior;}‘n % $46.50, will be sacrific g il = et 07,59 Delivered for . China Closet. .Oak china cabinet with glass door, will go $9 95 . . for only ..ccviiieveinnnn Delivered for ...u...s Kitchen Cabinet. White enamel kitchen cabinet, with g Sove price. . $14.50 Delivered for ......... Poster Beds. Brand-new floor sam- ples mahogany 4-poster beds, in single sizes. Worth Sorcprice s $19.50 Delivered for Buffet. Walnut buffet from a warehouse fire, in good condition, will be sold for only... Delivered for ... < salvaged 'E‘E‘L GHAANIGHF 735 SEVENT HILLIP - ¥ TN Beds. Slightly used white enamel double beds to be sacrificed for only China Cabinets — Beautiful wainut china cabinets, closed style, with Sh e Delivered for Settees. Odd settees in mahogany and oak frame, plush and imitation leather seats. Exchange Store price only.......... $3.95 Delivered for v..comem.ciossnseecse. Hall Rack. Beautiful oak hall rack and seat, large bevel-edge plate glass Sore price anty . $10.85 Delivered for...... Davenport Tables. New floor samples, mahogany davenport tables, ?.?S to 54 inches long. Worth up to .00. Exchange Store price only ... Wi $l4.75 Delivered for....... Chairs. Odd dining room and kitchen chairs, only one or two of a kind will go at a close-out price of Couch—Folding Englander and Pad, in excellent con- B v n 75 Couch IDEIVRLRAIOr. 1o ocnensinenmnonsopanan Washstands. Ivory and oak washstands sale for only ..... Delivered for...... . Chest of Drawers. Beautiful ma- hogany chest of drawers, best con- struction throughout, mn:fi:: ol‘e.nt double $ 19.50 Delivered for.. . Outfit. Walnut-finish dresser, . -chiffonier, bow-end bed, spring, mattress, chair and rocker and llows. Brand-new floor samples. m:ley lhls fine outfit foxt 589' so Delivered for. TEPARTIMENT W Betde 5C $ D, seeing it was she had fattened him. The metamorphosed curate turned and bolted out of the' house, through the yard and back up the hill for home. 4 ..My God” he panted as he ran, ‘biting bones up with her teeth, with her teeth—my God, it might have been me!" That was tie end of that, " (Continued In Tomortow's Star.) ‘War Mothers Fayor Defense. The Natlonal American War Mothers went on record in favor of National Defense day at a board meet- ing held last night at 1223 Fairmont street. The board adopted resolu- Store No. Manager 19 J. ACKERSON 28 8. ALLOY 5 J. C. BARSSOCK . BASS M. BRENNER § K. BRETTLER v, >2Ez=EA o KE] gm’ 7= P4 ] INSON GITTELSON M. GOLDBERG . A. GOLDEN . GORDON . GREENBERG GREENBERG ®22P mf‘!h 23> dsz ‘Zga STEIN BSON E. P o2 L. K 45 B. KOTZ LEVINROAN DESKIN 46 L. LIERERMAN LIFF 31 8. M'DEVITT 62 B. MATTHEWS P8 1 PINEV BRANCH MKT. ¥ K PACKe 58 B. UDOFF 57 M. VIGDERAOUSE J. L, !KAGMAN 68 L. 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