Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON., D. €. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1927. IN RABBITBORO—This Tale Has a Sequel. By ALBERTINE RANDALL SAY. MA Do WOOLDJA LIKE L | WHY YES, )| JONCE UPON ATIME THERE WAS A || |OH No, IT 15N T—DoRA You' LIKE : ME To_ TELL YoU NICE LITTLE RABBIT NAMED DORA DUMBUNNY ! You €OME —7] The Prisoner. | just because she is old and unhappy.” STORIES ? L ONE 7 W SHE SAW A PREYTY VASE WITH ME To THE. WooD SHED ! LL B N H e et i astipn | TS Setathod G e SR = e R e s P A sy without - Winny Page opened | face into her mother’s lap and began Jo LOOK AT IT, AN' SHE ZMASHED, 17 the kitchen door quickly and|to cry softly. I wish we could go E END 0’ THE SToR admitted her daughter. | away, mother, and be happy. Can't 2 “Sh! Don't talk, dear. Tut| e eve ¥ir schoolbooks away and sit down | Winny didn't reply, Her gentle, adfetly.” she said as she pressed & [worn face was sad and her blue eves kif upon Margaret's delicate brow. [ held the wistful yearning of a pris- | #1s Aunt Beolia difficult again®" the | oner striving to glimpse a bit of blue chfld whispered. {&ky. A prisoner she was. and that Winny nodded. They always spoké | made Margaret prisoner, too. And of Aunt Beo tantrums in thut there was out of their prison. why. She was difficult, never ugly.| Winny's and_had died four Npt for worlds would Winny | years before when Margaret was 3, aljowed Margaret to know jus | and left her unprovided for. w*rxh]s was the old woman with whom | “You will have to go and live with | ] Fi (O, slge lived. { Aunt Beolia,” he had said. *'She needs | AVith a_sish Margaret obeved her somebody to look after her. That will mgther. They sat very silent, Mar. | m t with a game she was fond of, | kid. : | ""Aunt Beolia, old and_terrible and | !unloved, had commanded her than | - thump of a cane, the ccase- | requested Winny to come, and never of teet. accompanied by | dreaming of the trials in store for Ler | zs and groans A t Peolia | the little widow had ol - | - - walking the floor. S 1es she mons. Within a few days s d the tithits, which she ate with| Beolia had burned the house heyself, the report of a pistol &hot, r | : e ervant and that she had a dreadful | her own, table, close to the fire, while | tution where she could do no more | _— e. kmistress, house was larse Winny and her daughter ate in the [harm to herself or others. P"EDICTED |N CH'CAGO:MR“ Bests Bandits in Gun Battle of the robbers escaped. Ax Smith 06 Tent reet, has filed a pe S Pttt SR A N\N.xi;:(:\r;dvl:l;nle\: b 1"{'"""' o k""""," i”“: ”"‘I““"‘“, During the days that followed Mrs. e i, covered the third, who was earrying in voluntary bankrupte o e s Pyt 5 A5 it 2 | bedroom ahove were their domain. lea woved her friendship for ’ on Street. the money. a workman struck the \ts at $6.362 and h and_terrible was nd cleaning. She soon had no | Afterward thev retired early and | Wik amd liile Margaret, Likewise,| EXnibitors Refuse Operators’ Plea JRr—— o | robber on the head and knocked him represented bs es burning under | will of her own: Aunt Beolia’s was|lay cuddling close. whispering over |y e LGS P — . Ontario, December 28 [0 inge of hair. The cane in | paramount. She seldom left the house | the events of the day.: Margaret had | "% 2 J (®).—A workman armed with a han ced a weapon so formi-|or saw people. for Aunt Beolia would ! much to say of her new friend, Mr. t was really Margaret who carried May Close. mer and a taxi company manager le that the sensitive little Margaret | not let her. Yet for the sake of hav-| Marble. = jon Mr, Marble's courtship of her with a pistol vesterday thwarted the % Before it with that hissing in- ing Margaret comfortably housed and |~ “He owns the store all by himself [ mother. ¥ | By the Associated Press. efforts of robbers to loot the King take of hreath which denotes fear in a | fed she stayed on. There seemed to and doesn't have to run the delivery [ '“If you don't marry him. mather.| oy p 0 g 4 dstreet and Sanford avenue branch of ld. Instinctively, Winny stepped | be nothing else to do. | car at all, only today the delivery man | he says he will wait for n Dot | ge of movieless days fm Chicago | the, Canadian Rank of Commerce. inigrent of her little daughter. Her| Now fears for her child startled |was sick. Mr. Marble has a house be.|¥0u think you could marry him,|Cege oF Movieless Givs In ChictEs | The robbers had taken three pack- snffle was calm. her voice soothing. | her. Margaret was afraid of the old | sides the store—a little white house, |mother? Then we could live in «he‘m;‘»‘"}_. exhihhfilr« mmflp. dcdmlhpv;, containing nearly $4,000 of the | \hat is it, Aunt Beolia?" { woman and the old woman hated the | Just big enouzh for three persons, he Little white house tozether, and Mr.|bleture | exhibitars contended - they |hankca funds and were leaving the fi heard vou talking. That Cnnnml;li(lle girl. She was always menacing | says, but there hasn't been anybody | Marble says we will be happy as the SY0¥5. for u I8 |)-|- N’::j'"":v‘ .“l emrhul]dlnl when Herh Smith, the taxi wgman has been in here." Beolia| Margaret with her cane. Suppose | in it since his wife died. I think he's | day is long. = £ St andie I\'hl)u diiy "thhv\' | company’s ma er, who had heard Page glared ancrily. Some day the great stick should de.|ver lonely. Yet he's such a kind| What could Winny do. with her lit-| Snges, and a sis Lot AV WSV SV 8 - Wobody has been here but Mar-|scend on that innocent, golden hair!| man, mother. He told me such funny, |tle daughter pleading like her own|GGVF Wew -\ o 0 et and me. Mrs. Cannon doesn't| Winny shivered at the thought. nice ‘stories, and he gave me the big. | heart? | oficots. of e Dhicien B » €ome any more since she found you| A knock at the door startled her. A |gest peach.” | In the Tittle white house she found | felve AL DL C 2 Here's to dop't want her to.” ‘rlargo smiling, kind-eyed man with| The town clock had struck 2 when | Such happiness as she had never """m«.-nn for 't Uit Bl LLGe L Qualifications *I don't believe vou. You've got|graving temples stood there. Margaret awakened her moth {fore known. 1t was then she realized | Meeting for today, =~ © | Tsahibe Havpimens anhiStictess ®ef hidden somewhere. I'm going to| ‘Here's a broiler for your supper.” | “There are such funny noises all | that she had heen a prisoner all her L L Gontract expives JanU- 11 —for the satisfactos tho % = PP 3 { N : fEhetlo-—a DEN - gtern. | ATy 1. Under its terms operators re. ry execution [ he said, handing her a parcel. He | around us, like mice gnawing,” she life hitherto—a prisoner to her stern.|d Ieak.” life e » L oaive $65. to. $195 & £ of any Painting job are—skill, Th Pere ensusd a greet oproing, slam. | pecked in the door. “What's the mat- | said. ; Iuglfteranty (xther; SpHIROner 0 (R | Nheh i o wenk. depending || taste and right. price. roughout the New Year ming of cupboard and other doors as | ter with Margaret? | Instantly Winny scented smoke, and | carcless. selfish husband, a prisoner We shall he giad fo consult Aunt Beolia searched for the object of | Margaret looked at him ruefully, [knew. The house was on fire. There | Aunt ’r;-'mx( R Sl pacity of the treaters. with you on any work you have We have much to bhe thankful for er dislike. Not until she saw Mrs. |smiling. was but one way out of their room—| And that was how she ea ove | = = — | in contemplation—and if you i Cahnon entering her own house with | “Put on your things and come with | to the roof of the woodshed. She low. | Mr. Marble as he loved her. = ] e = o suwis \ in the wonderful preference accorded a market basket in her hand was she | me while I deliver the rest of my ered Margaret down and jumned her- THE END. vou'll he satisfied. { National Ginger Ale—and we are | | pine dports, oy ¥ g convinced. Then. muttering with | groceries, Margaret,” he invited. self, Tanding with a sprained knee. (Copyrieht, 1027.) . Ao » i S i ing i Winth, she withdrew to her own apart.| Margaret was ready.in a moment,| Her cries aroused the Cannons and | sl Winter Hotels Estimates made without obligation || i ’"'""‘h"’( I‘"f{’ ".': ;"'I“"‘ it the same way at made 1 amous. e a good home for you and the S During an exchange of shots tweo Ferbert C. Myers. paint deal l i | ment. | Sha waved as she departed, seated the neighborhood arose to the rescue. | & — 0a. ¢ Kn . “Mother.” Margaret whispered, lean- | beside Mr. Marble in the big motor| At dawn the house was mere em.| Italian workmen are taking up the | ,1027:2%,, BERGUN. Kurhaus: MALOJA. R. K. Ferguson, Inc. C ing on her mother's knees, “why does | delivery. hers. Aunt Beolia had been carried to | beautiful Roman pavement recently || MORGINS. Grandt: PONTRESINA Pt Departiaeit Sold hy rase or hottle by grocers and delica- Al Beolia hate Mrs. Cannon and| Winny fried the chicken and had|the Cannons’, where were also Mar- | found at Dorchester, England, and re. | Fark: SILS " Barblan WEN % B Rt iy tessens. Served at cafes, clubs and fountains | supper ready by the time the child |garet and the helpless Winny. {laying it in the Dorset County Mu- Apnir. Secrets g 212 B St. N.W. Fr. 298 4) W dear. Tt is!ret d. A al, Aunt Beolia had 1t was generally helieved that Aunt seum. 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