The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1919, Page 13

ETT TRUE HALT} CASSED DON'T ATTEND SERVICES Here!!! THE VENTILATION 18 SO POOR IT SMeccS LIKE A DOE Houss, AND ft JUST NOW TOLD THEM SO cS iy ‘ . From Yesterday) le Closed the door behind the re figure of the landlord, and, Ko tq Carlotta, stood looking did you "nean by doing what?” ‘were no more faint than I closed her eyes. don't remember tk. The lanterns rossed the room deliberately # went out, closing the door be- d him. He «aw at once where he es. what danger. If she in- @ that whe was il] and unable to there would be a fuss. The ‘Would come out. gE foot of the stairs Schwitter the consultation Jed himself together. After ail was only il, There was for the police. ==, } t t i Copyrignt. by Mary Roberts i f giles Roberts Rinehart He lied, and Dr. Bd knew he lied Dr. Ed sat and waited. The bag with the dog collar in it was on the floor. He thought of many things. but mostly of the promise he had made his mother. And, having for gotten the injured man’s shortcom ings, he was remenbering his good qualities—his cheerfulness, his cour age, his achievements. He remem bered the day Max had done the Ed Waat’s The MATTER. WAL YOUNG MAN? WHY 90 Down HEARTED, WITH ALL NATURE SMiLINS AT | MUST TELL You THAT YOu ARE A VERY PooR CONVERSATIONALIST AN’ YOu LET EVERYBODY RUN OVER You SQUIRREL FOOD “YO STOP OTTO AUTO. PUT A MIRROR ACROSS THE ROAD AND WE WILL MISTAKE HIS * WHAT 13 ON Your, MIND? LET Me Herp You-I"'MA SMART FELLOW THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919. Wilbur Helped the Poor Fellow Out WELL,| BovGuT A horse. AN’ IT Toox. Au MY MonaY 30 | CORON" FEED Him AFTER | NAD Him — “THEN I TRaoGD Him FER Two y DALES OF HAY AND Now LAW'T Gor No Horse ___ “Yo BAT THE / YOU'RE “Too SHORT ‘To BE A GOOD LOOKIN’ MAN AN’ YouR Now LET Me Think A MinUTE — PerRnaps | CAN WELD You ouT— LeT’s sen, You Now HAVE THE WAN BUT NO HORSE ‘To EAT IT — YOUR CONCEPTION OF THINGS 1S ALL WRONG AN’ YOU DON*T EAT. TASTE FOR DRESS IS AwFuL | RIGHT FOOD Nou'RE AN’ You SMOKE Too MUCH REFLECTION FOR ANOTHER NUTTY AUTO, AND WiLL STOP TO AVOID A COLLISION Bop BRABON . a | wardes operation, and how proud he |, Nery thing | nad been of him car. Would they never | room for Dr He figured out b not 41 yet, and atready perhaps. There he stopped think ing. Cold beads of sweat stood out on his forehead. I think I hear them now said the Lamb, and stood back man old he wae air,” Everything |*Pectfully to let bim pass out of the be gone. Schwitters, of all | door Carlotta stayed in the room during No one seemed w wonder why «he was there, or to pay any attention to her. The staff was stricken. They moved back to make Ed beside the bed and But perhaps it was the | then closed in again man edged his way into mouth to keep herself from ac confronted him. Carlotta waited, her hand over her m: ing. Surely they would operate; the Just arrived heree A wouldn't let him die like that! ‘woman—in white. Where then, after all! nf bedroom to When she saw the phalanx break | up. and realized that they would not the | against operate, she went mad. She stood was still unconsciods. Ed remem bered about her when, tracing bis brother's career from hie babyhood to Man's estate and to what seemed now to be ita ending, he had re membered that Max was very fond of @idney He bad hoped that S14 pey would take him and do for him what he, Eid, had fatle » do So Sidney was summoned She thought it was another opera. Yon, and her apirit was just « litte weary Hut her courage was indom able. She forced her shoes on her tired feet, and bathed her face in cold water to rouse herself. The night watchman was in the jhatl. He was fond of Sidney; she always smiled at him; and, on his setivity had caught Dr. Ee, lone her face buried} t the back of a chair hing doing now,; * he offered. What are they going to 4 “Going after the bullet know who's going to do itt Hitt voice echoM the subduet ex citement of the room—excitement | and new hape | “Did you ever hear of Edwardes, the surgeon?—the Edwardes opera tion, you know here, It sounds like a mir ‘They foun him sitting on a bench in the hall now Do you Sidney rained her head, but she downstair ] WELL LOOKIT THAT GUY . COMIN’ RIGHT STRAIGHT STINGY AN’ You ‘PAGE 13 By ALLMAN | wave ITE You cer we MAN “TO LET His HORSE Come OER AND EAT THe _—_—— ae WAY - i fir po IT~ fo A never J THERE YOU GO=TRYIN’ To “TH PICK A QUARREL WHEN GEE TWATS QUEER-- 1 HEARD A CRASH SUMPIN' LIKE GLASS, BUT I DIONT GET ANY JOLT ~- \T MUSTA BEEN in was 74 years old, but was active in the work of F al was a resident of Seattle. Mrs first orphans’ home in Seattle, died PIONEER IS DEAD Clara Meee, matron of the The Western Washington Spirit- ualists’ chatauqua will open at the Knights of Pythias hall, First ave. and Pike st., Thursday night. Revs. Eéward K. Earle, B. E. Robbins and Dr. J. L. Elmore will be the speak- ers, The chautauqua is open to the public, Alberta, Canada, recently. She mouth Congregation- church here. For 40 years, she ORNTON W. BUR (Copyright, 1919, by T. W Burgess) Why the Phoebes Changed Their Nesting | Do you go to work fully dressed? | Place Lear Me and Phoebe told! get back HEN Peter Rabbit that Mra, Phoebe ’ ! here before the rest of hem, Usually we have begun house Are your shoes polished? could not see the miraculously found) and thetr nest were under the very keeping by the time they arrive. I door, and accused them ot) Edwardes. She could sce the fa-|bridge Peter was sitting on, Peter certainly do love my home and hate) wig 6 i gon va chyna oy br wclock *°) miliar faces of the staff, and that | looked aa if he didn't believe it. In |to be away from it. My cousin Che wou any| " olce | | of you die like that?’ she cried. “Die| Ways amiable. 80 she found } rv other face on the pillow, and—ashe fact, he said as much bec the Least Flycatcher should be THE SiunovA HOME SET | His teeth chattered. Surely. coward wowed he reaped. } up the staireuse. At the e There was K. here by this time, “Haven't you the landing, he confronted | ike a hurt . He fired at him without a/ ure @ hand?” him fling up his arms and striking first the wall, then of conversation on the ceased. Joe put his tm his pocket and went qui the stairs. The crowd hot daring to open the door, The night assistant sent coffee down | sound of « car as it swung the road. CHAPTER XXv dog, an@ none of you to It was Pfeiffer who drew her out of the room and iried to talk reason and sanity to her “Its hopeless” he said. ft there was a chance, we'd operate, and you know it!" The staff went hopelessly down the | ataires to the smoking room, and emoked. It was all they could do. to them, and they drank it. Dr. Ed stayed in his brother's room, and said | to his mother, under his breath, that he'd tried to do his best by Max, evening of the shooting at and that from now on it would be there had been a late op-| up to her. bn at the howpital. t might she received well-de prai When the Lamb, tele-| he hoped they would be very gentle | hysterically, had failed to lo-| with her. ; younger Wilson, another | waiting. was called. was over, he told Wear yourself out, girl,” he . “We need people like 4 was good work tonight—fine LE 1 wish we had more like you.” y midnight the work was done, nurse in charge sent Sidney the Lamb who received the about Wilson; and because not very keen at the best use the news was so xtart- Frefuxed to credit his ears. is this at the ‘phone?’ doesn't matter. Le Moyne's + Get the message to Dr. are starting I mustn't make a this.” | Wilson, the surgfon, has been came siowly and distinctly staff there and have a room ft Get the operating room Lamb wakened ana the house. He ineo. rather, so that Dr. Ed got the on that it was Le Moyne who [ shot, and only learned the ‘when he got to the howpital v1 fa he?" he demanded. He d K., and his heart was sore bim. | then FEE TE Ft A Mr. Le Moyne Staff's in the ox- been shot? 1 Lamb turned pale at that, and himself. worry—1 thought you under I believe it’ not—not seri | It’s Dr. Max, wir.” B4, who was heavy and not young, sat down on an office hate, Out of sheer habit he had the bag. He put it down floor beside him, and moist ‘Bis lps. “Ig he living?" yes, wir, I gathered that Mr 4/4 not think it serious. K. sat alone on a bench In the hall He wondered who would tell Sidney; He sat in thé shadow, He did not want to go His keen home and leave her to what she a Sidney—felt her capac-| might fave to face. fiber, #0 to speak; and, when | chance There was 4 e would ask for him. He her | wanted to be near, in that case A desperate thing had occurred to Carlotta Somehow, she had not thought of it before. Now she won: dered how she could have failed to think of it. If only she could find him and he would doit! She would go down on jer knees—awould tell him everything, if only he would con sent! When she found him on his bench, however, she passed him by. She had a terrible fear that he night go away if she put the thing to him first. He clung hard to bis new identity. So first she went to the staff and confronted them. ‘They were men of courage, only declining to undertake what they considered hope! work ‘The one man among therm who might have done the thing with any chance of success lay stricken. Not one among them but would have given of his best—only his best was not good enough It would be the Edwardes opera tion, wouldn't it?” demanded Car lotta ‘The staff was bewlldered. There were no rules to cover such conduct on the part of a nurse, One of them Pfeiffer again, by chance—replied rather heavily “If any, it would be the Edwardes operation.” “Would Dr. Edwardes bimseif be able to do anything?” This was golng a little far, ‘Possibly. One chance in a thou- and, perhaps. But Edwardes is dead, How did this thing happen, Miss Harrigon?” She Ignored his question. Her face was ghastly, save for the trace of e eyes were red-rimmed. ardes ix sitting on a bench hall outside!" she announced Her volee rang out. K. heard her and raised his head, His attitud: was weary, resigned. The thing had come, then! He was to take up the old burden, The girl had told, RN SAE ere Ne? ime Teer ir, 6d had sent for Bidney. ea Max |the hail, holding a cup of tepid cof- |fer. He was old and bleary, unmis- |tnkabty dicty, too--but he had di- | vined Sidney's romance. “Coffee! For me?” tonished “Drink it sleep.” She took it obediently, but over the | cup her eyes searched hia. | “There is something wrong, daddy’ That was bis name, among the nurses, He had had another name, but it wag lost in the mists of years. “Get it down.” ~ So she finished it, not without anx- fety that she might be needed. But | daddy's attentions were for few, and | not to be lightly recetved “Can you stand a piece of | news?” | Strangely, her first thought was ork “There tas been an accident Wilson “Which one?" | “Dr, Max—has been hurt jmuch, but [ guess you'd | know it.” “Where Is he?” | “Downstaire, in 17." e | So she went down aj ho the |room where Dr. Ed sat in a ofiair |with his untidy bag bealde him on | the floor, and his ey@x on « straight | figure on the bed. When he saw Sid |ney, he got up and put his arms Jaround her. His eyes tom her the | truth before he told her anything She hardly ligtened to what he said |The fact was all that coneerned her |—that her lover was dying there. |near that she could touch him with her hand, so far away thad no voloe, | no caress of hers, could reach him The why would come later, Now |she could only stand, with Dr, Ed's |arms about her, and wait “If they would only do something! | Sidney's voice sounded strange to her | ears. “There is nothing to do.” But that, it see d, woe For suddenly which had always sedately revolved In one direction, began to move the other wa The came in Bhe was as You haven't had snuch bad Dr. It ain't Uke to wrong door opened, and the staff But where before they had moved heavily, with drooped heads, now they came quickly, a4 men with @ purpose, There was a tall man in © white coat with them. He or. dered them about like children, and they hastened to do his will, At first Sidney only knew that now, at last they were going to do something-— the tall man was going to do some He stood with his b&eck to nd gave orders. | » heaviness of inactivity room buzzed wh lifted, je the staff did nurses’ work. nior surgical interne, emmying assistance, was shoved aside hy the senior surgical consultant, and «tood by, agerteved Jt was the Lamb, after all, brought the news to Sidne who The mew Sidney’s small world, | The nurses stood | leave a little ery | How like him to be there, to be wher lever any one was in trouble! Tears came to her eyes—the first tears she | had shed. | KK. stood beside Sidney, and looked down at her. Just at firet it seemed if he found nothing to say. Then “There's just a chance, Sidney, dear, Don't count too much on it.” “I have got to count on it. If I | don’t, I shall diet” | If @ shadow passed over his*face, no one saw it ‘I'M not ask you to go back to your room. If you will wait some. |where near, I'll see that you have immediate word.” “r am going room!’ ot to the operating room; some where near His steady voice controlled her hys terla, But she resented it. She was [not herself, of course, what with | strain and weariness “f shall ask Dr, Kdwardes!* He was puszied for a moment Then he understood. After all, it | was as well, Whether she knew him as Le Moyne or as Edwardes mat tered very littl, after all Th thing that really nattered was that he must try to save Wilaon for her. If he failod— It ran thru his mind that if hesfailed #he might hate bim the rest of her life-—not for himeelf, but for his failure; that, whichever way things went, he must lose Dr. Edwe says you stay away from the operation, but to remain near Hehe promises to call you if—things go wrong.” She had to be content with that Cate a eee The course to K |His back to the operating Jes are to miracle was miracie, of Hut something had happened that savored of the marvelous faith in himself was coming not strongly, with a rush, but with all humility, He had been loath to take up the bu but now that he had it, he breathed a sort of inarticulate prayer to be able to carry it And, since signs since men have lookta the’ beginning of he. asked for a sign, Not course, that he put it that way, or that he was making terms with Prov idence. It was like this: if Wilson got well, he'd keep on working, He'd fee! that, perhaps, after all, this was meant. If Wilson died Sidney held out her hand to him. “What should I do without you, ’ she asked, wistfully “All you have to do ix to want me.” His volce wax not steady, and he took her pulse in a most business like way to distract her attention from St for time, of too, K (Continued Tomorrow) “Let's so 1414 3rd Av.; downtow “eat at Boldt’s—uptow: 913 2nd ee hen You think of advertising | | | think of The Star, a oe ‘Look and see for yourself,” said Dear Me, So Peter lay flat on his stomach on the bridge and tried to stretch his head over the edge #0 as to see under it But his neck wasn't long enough, or else he was afraid to lean any farther. Pinally t ve up, and at Dear Me's sug . lvery edge of the Laughing Rrook. Dear Me darted out to catch another fly, then Mew right in under the | bridge and alighted on a little ledge lof stone just beneath the floor. There, sure enough, was a nest, and Peter could see Mrs. Phoetje's bill and the top of her head above the edge of it It was a nest made of mud, covered with mos« and lined | with feathers. “That's perfectly splendid,” eried Peter ax Dear Me resumed his perch jon the mullen stalk. “How ever did yo ne to think of such a place? And why did you leave the shed up at Farmer Brown's, where you have built your home for the last two or three years?” Oh,” replied Dear Me, “we Phoe bes have always been fond of build ing under bridges. 1 do not know jof any safer place, Then, too, we |like to be near water, We just love it Always there are Many insects -~ "Haws There, sure enough, was a nest. flying around where there is water, so it is un easy matter for us to get plenty to eat We left the shed at Farmer Brown's because Black Pussy, that pesky cat up there, dis covered our nest last year, and we had a dreadful time keeping our babies out of her clutches, — She hasn't found us down here, and she wouldn't be able to trouble us if she should find us.” “Ll suppose,” said Peter that as usual you were the first of your fam fly to arrive.’ or course," replied Wo always are the first, | Vegetable ( n Phoebe and [ don't go as far | South in w er as the other mem. bers of the Flycatcher family do. 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