The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1919, Page 11

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There was time enough | Beyond Schwitter’s the high rc stretched, broad and inv you drink some beef tea if I the state, or he wor te you” gone that way, his litte car r ot hungry. I will, of course.” | up the miles all that night, or— K you try to sleep?” would not formulate his fear of what while be—" jmight have happened, even to him to tell you if there is | self. try — areca He rented @ car ut a local APR} A) waiting in the parlor, and had] “I'd go to Cuba, but I haven't the| * like of he snorted Mrs. |me and drove himself out into the coun-| Mo wilgesporsd Ee geen PAR as e the rave from the chair be try. He was not minded to hav nea: v ning | money She's late with her con 1 was in a hurry dow bed, she put out her eyes on him that He went to rigs oar a wi bd growed K. ro I think I can get it.” X I'm thinking a fi in th an 3 Schwitter's first. Schwitter himself | 0 Arnie’ down iy the wages of} le turned In the doorway at night,” K. remarked, hi igieseuinas’ "tates Hadar: nocames Was not in sight. Bilt quwtiingien Cotes ‘ s Sidney need never know who/ 0 the wheel, but car stopped, henitation m keeping straigh jain were wretche * and misery had @ child in there, It—it's rather | to 4 ‘the porch, and a farmhand was gath- | did it , @ut with Carlotta. He cring bottles from the ‘grass into a| Ne of ft paid. No one got away “I'm not ashamed of it.” But hia|ke very old times, isn't it? A How are you getting along it . Pretty well. I've had my salary} and he broke his promise.” | pox. The 4 lanterns swung in| With E face showed relief man-child, Mra, MeKee, not in al iguay have been ressons.|the morning air, and from back on| Th? foom under the caves was manger, of course raised I Therej are mes when rome cate} pv 3 it until he can ex-|+he “ i teremre on o¢ | stifling. An unchade bed stood in) tig 0 say eirenk: dss ont unate dae Do you have to walk as fast aw we wail jthe hill came the staccato sounds of |"" te “Tom nafis in the rafters | 2cl’sm tears down the walls of r What do you want me to di this? BY THORNTON W. BURGESS e & reaping machine ) serve between mon. That tine had | Mra. MeKee's tone, which had been | (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) he in?” And, when) “Where's Schwitter?” hung Bill's holiday wardrobe. A I said I was in @ hurry. Once a . . W. eeplat come Joe, and lesser extent|ferce at the be x, ended Bil bring all my trou-| “at the barn with the missus. Got |!" cup and a cracked pitcher of | 9) ay "The Fairy pc ne followed by he Wewinning, ended fee-)q week I get off a little early. 1 Peter Finds Chebec You, as if you had none.|4 poy buck there.” [spring water stood on the windowsill. | )OF (0. Na asad : He eyed her suspiciously RP eant go to Aunt Her! pin grinned. He recognized K.,| 20° was sitting In the corner far |i Gove you tell her the whole|her, ees fo go in and vielt|* “Marty! What fort" PERHAPS ic was because Peter they get out of it, 1 don't unden awurse: tacther— Car-lang: mopping dry a part of the| eet from the window, When the! 1.09 ine whole filthy story?’ helwne'd had a new taby wad enmit | telde ee ae te noepltal. The Rose Rabbit was thinking of him stand. They are queer, anyway, for # great deal for him. She) porch, shoved a chair on it jdoor swung open, he looked UD./ uoq “she'd never look at him | who'd hed @ new baby ad needed teis bey te oun there, you ASW." ! that aimest the Stet voles Bé heard | they never build theit nests in trees, inet bin. Does any one| “Bit down. Well, how's the man|He showed no interest on seeing K..| 0001 youre crasy about her. T1Ker nee ee” Airs. Me ‘Oh! jon reaching the Old Orchard was|as the rest of us do.” * that?” = who got ‘his’ last night? Dead?" who had to stoop to enter the low t wea’t got & ehance. It would give Kee «£ ped Tell her the baby But « moment later he burst out/enat of Chebec repeating his own “Are you the smallest of the fam- Sisk. Plensastop think-| “No.” | room pr genie pretty. ‘Tell her you've been want-| irritably name over and over, as if he loved ily?” asked Peter, for it suddeniy “Hello, Joe.” y “| want her, God knows! 1K jing to see her His tone waa sud- That was an asocident, € ef. the sound of it. It didn’t take Peter | struck him that Chebec was a very “Tf thought you were the police.” But ae Psi Seana vaca er eae joer poriag “Lie a little, for your jan thong “en chance Bae n he | jong to find him. He was sitting out | little fellow, indeed. sem thas £1 loan en “Not much. Open that window, | ; soul's sake enKed to drive the car “ory, on the tp of one of the upper| Chebec nodded, “I'm the small- js, and no enem at {| nustant. 2 mueas we lose our Heenwe | Nay place ts stifling.” : ae Witter had taken in five hun-| "She wavered, an He ahs of course. I dream of the little dev-| branches of ae apple tree, where he jest.” said he. “That's why they cal @eemed to stagger about) “What does Schwitter say? Ia he dead pies Reuien oa? ay vette [VOTES Ne drove her in unde ‘| sometimes, lying there. I'll tell) could watch out for flies and other |me the Least Flycatcher. I may be Making little excursions,| “Oh, him!” Bill's tone was full of Yo, indeed.” an Inin. “R 7 arch with the shameful name you what I'll do,” he added mag: } insects He looked so much like | the least in size, but I can tell you 0 man hastened to explain. “But you're hack to the barn. hut there he had | 24nimously i stop in and talk/ Mr. Phoebe, except that he was/ one thing, Peter Rabbit, and that is back to tne one! disgust. “ ‘opes we do. He hates| “! Wish I'd ki him? . egming disgust. “He hope 0 hates right, Mr. Le Moyne. And I « the tact to remain in the car, and|t0 Wilson. He ought to have done|smatier, that any one would have paee the place. Only man I ever knew| “Ob. no. you don't a'redamned| it would please her. It's going bard ; , iia | . od s glad you didn’t, and so am I.” ” i a} Ord | Mire. MeKee's 5 » with 1 was | Something before this. known they were cousins, “Chebec, | drunken visitor to the road. pie tearing That's what this | *™ Wihnt will they @b with me?’ — ee ee titel iat ia peers [made alone When, five minutes : Mo he on s not strong enough yet. | chebec, chebec,” he repeated over have killed himecit for} did you see the man who| “Nothing until they find you. 1) f0Y tm et Naten’s had. time |mter, she beckoned him from the Tage ligne A n do anything and over, and with every note he | fis the moment they were) fred that shot last night?” ee ee ee nen” SPOUe to taken te 09 the bank.” Be seemed} nog, °F He barns her eyes were!” ‘tne monstrous injustice of sa | Geaed dart ow Beet pre May thee) a - Pee aye Ag rated © onrscta | to apologize to himself for the un-| "come in, Mr. K.,"" she said, ““The| thing overcame her. Palmer and|up something so small that Peter, | iheay the story.’ promptly: K. sat down on the bed. | coca, abhe Batter ta an fhe "| going to be married right awny.”* watir” ssi see it at all | “Surest thing In the world. Close | “If I only had some rao oe ee it ood. tuatnen “yj | The clergyman was coming along| “He worries about bis mother. 1¢|_."Hel! Chebec!" oried Peter, “Tm | |to him as you are to me. Dark man,|9uld. “But never mind about that,/ 98 Somme lie. wou! Oley ince, |{e Path with Schwitter at his heels. |... pte gee ae Pinos thge sae | glad to see you yack again, Are you | | |About 90, small mustache—" 1708; a wet ie tenets pa |if shina desedh Wias tea > K. entered the barn. At the door | would help.” ‘ eine to build the Old Orchard uet get up and go on duty | “Bill, you're lying, and I know it.| | oud calls below took Bttl| sie voice trailed off. He had come |? Tillie’s room he uncovered his!” “Money! Good Heavens—1 owe |S Year d ‘glad to be stern with her.| Where ix he?” “1 “Rion gg rebinm ened! the |. ‘tar way from the day he hag | Bed. ‘The child was asleep at her! everybody,” | “Of course T am,” replied Chebec, | her rising. When the| The barkeeper kept bis head, but |400r behind him, Mee TOOK OF | a iked down the street and eyed ite | Oreest | "You owe him too, don’t you? He| Promptly. “Mrs, Chebec and I have ein with the belated am- | his color chanked : ia soplard with onatemind crane trl’? et 8 wiser *| ehtanever walk Ageia.” | built here for the last two or three | found K. making an ar-) “I don't know anything about Ese bara Moe ecto : ay. Now he had a son, and the| The $5,000 check m Mr. Lo-| “1 can't give them ten dollars, |*@80nS, and we wouldn't think of | and Sidney looking up| him.” He thrust his cnop into the} “You knpw.” : child’s mother looked at bim with|f®®” had saved Palmer Howe's|1 don’t see that I'm under any opt. | soln anywhere else, Mrs. Chebec | ously. | pail. K. rose. BOW enw — pb ay eo tragic eyes. It was arranged that K,|Credit. On the strength of the de-| gation, anyhow. I paid his board |! looking for a place now. I up: Page is not to go on duty) “Does Schwitter know? |the White Springs, and followed) void go back to town, returning |Posit he borrowed a thousand at the|for two months in the hospital.” | P0*"e T ought to be helping her, but "Bhe is to stay in bed until) “He doesn’t know anything. He's | them?” | late that night to pick up Joe at a bank with which he meant to pay) When she did not acknowledge |} learned a long time ago, Peter,| “The Phoobes are a funny lot,” re 4 been out at the barn all night.” en lonely point on the road, and to drive | bills, arrears at the University and| this generosity—amounting to for-|'%t in matters of this kind it is! plied Chebec. ery well, Dr. Edwardés. The farmhand had filled hin box} “Do you know .who was with) "i page dere. gyros At as{Country clubs, a hundred dollars|ty-eight dollars—his irritation grew. | J#8t as well not to have any opinion "onfusion in Sidney’s mind) and disappeared around the corner of | hen?” it happened, he went back that after |lost throwing aces with poker dice,| At the entrance to a side atreet|%t all. When Mrs. Chebec has/ that I can catch just as many bugs away suddenly. K. was Dr. e. K. put his hand on Bill's| “Yes, and #0 do you. Don't go|'t happen . Mt Atte i ead various auail ctligations ef |she stepped picked out just the place she wants, | and flies as any of them can.” Suit- re It was K. who had per- eved arm. into that. I did it, and I'll stand ie hae 1s hii ‘: Christine's + ture off here Til help her build the nest. It cer-| ing the action to the word, he dart- the miracle operation—K. got to get him away from| by it.” lo had told Schwitter he would be/ iearhedints reawit of. thé May I come and see you some-|*#inly is good to be back here in the/ed out into the air. His little bill dared and perhaps won! sini.” Has tt oceufred to you that you|%t the hospital, and the mensage| |i ts dvank’ sieths | time 5 Old Orchard and planning a home| snapped, and with a quick turn he with his steady eyes and) “ciet who away?” wale waditaue? fqund hin there. Wilson w gpl cage pees once more. We've made a terribly | was back in his former perch, jerk- H fingers! Then, because! “You know. The county men may| “ and tell that to somebody |/n& his own, wtp Peete one 8 of the new venture with Chris-| “That's flat, is ite” long journeg, and I for one am glad | ing his tail and uttering his sharp to see ahead as well as| come back to search the pre:nises who'll be your” he sneered posers lly eothisiny "ag aan father, sat at home with “It is, Palmer it's over.” little cry of “Chebec, chebec, che- ithe past in that flash that| “How do 1 know you aren't one|‘‘They came here and took a room. | from Schwitter way very brief Christine of her balcony in the eve-| He swung around savagely and|_ “I've Just seen your cousins, Mr./ bec!” until Peter began to wonder the drowning and to those | of them?" { met him coming out of it. 1'a|, “Something has happened, and) 1S svin the knowledge that he left her. and. Mrs, Phos nd they already/ which he was the most fond of, rom shock, and because| “1 guesn you know I’m not. He’s|do it again if I had a chance, and|Tilile wants you I don't like to trou:| ta pay his sts, he postponed| The next day he drew the thous-|h@V¥e @ nest and eggs,” said Peter | catching flies or the sound of his that now the little house|a friend of mine. As a matter of | do it better Poe et a eee venat {the day, He liked the feeling of aj and dollars from the bank, A good| “The Phoebes are a funny lot,” re-| own voice. : m0 longer be home to K., she fact, I followed him here; but I waa| “It was not Sidney - Hn Wan Eater BPAY of zene of mets baik account in four figures |many of his debts he wanted to|Plied Chebec. “They are the only s oe . e ide into her pillow and|too late. Did he take the revoiver| “Aw, chuck it! ime, having had no sleep and li Who ties aeueduie Ge tees Eevias (pas 4A Gelli pe gach se members of the fami who can) Next story: Chebec's Fighting World had fallen, indeed. | away with him?" “ n tact. I got here not two|f00d since the day before. But he|... easure in having him there| ting ch, with stand cold weather. What pleasure! Was not true, and might ‘I took it from him. It’s under fter you left, The girl was| ®t into the rented machine oni 1/Sratified him. He felt kind, mag-| Mating Indorsements. Also, he Sty et Moe ni f her friend would go away the bar.” It was some one else, | its anaae was reac Pat a va Ranimous, almost virtuous, On the| the tdea of carrying a roll of money | world, which was not the ‘Get it for me.” Sidney was not out of the hospital | ah Lig i gph ay fs are'| third evening was restless, It|around. The big fellows at the In sheer relief, K.’s spirits rose,|last night. She attended a lecture, 90 ay dies ve drove | ceourred to him that his wife was| clubs always had a wad and peeled her at last and went back | After ail, it was a good world: Tillle|and then an operation back to the street, and walked with: | Poourren 10 Mie nla uae y aloft bills ike skin off an eas ee pe Dr. Ed still sat by tha with her baby in her arms; Wilson| Joe listened. It was undoubtedly |°Ut ringing into Mrs. McKe matter of course. He wanted cold| took a cou of drinks to celebrate MtIOn+was telling on him |consctous and rallying; Joe safe, and,|a reliet to him to know that it had| K., who was privileged, walked|) 104 beer, When he found that|his approaching immunity from would only open his eyes, «0 without the revolver, secure fro-n| not been Sidn but if K. expected | back the fee waa out and the beer warm | debt | tell him what had been in| his own remorse. Other things there | any remorse, he did not get It “I've got a car at the door,” he) 4 gat, he was furious. | He played auction bridge that aft: | our a ih these yeurs—his pride in| were, too—the feel of Sidney's inert| “If he is that sort, he deserves|@nnounced, ‘‘and there's nothing #0) Co risting had been makin ernoon {nh a private room at one of y and all that body in his arms, the way she had| what he got boy grimly, | extravagant an empty seat IM) nent altho her heart was only haif|the hotels with the three men he he wick man opened his eye turned to him in trouble. It was not And K. had no reply. But Joe was|4n automobile Will you take @//)" i 16 was resolutely good-hu-| 4d lunched with. Luck seemed to - what he wanted, this last, but it wad’ glad to talk, The hours he had spent | ride?” mored, ignored the past, dressed for| be with him. He won eighty dol nue oO e CHAPTER XxVI worth while. The reaping machine|alone in the little room had been| Mrs. McKee agreed for Palmer in the things he liked, |!4rs, and thrust it loose in his Bad ehilied well, and things | was in sight now; It had stopped on| very bitter, and preceded by a time| | He was counting on pay MeKee's| ‘They still took their dinners at the| trousers pocket, Money seemed to bright for him. Ilis patient | the hillside. The men were drinking | that he shuddered to remember. K,|0ld fondness for the girl to bring 7 orenz house up the ot | bring money! If he could carry the Ss ere el in i yi ills hot need hicn, but K. wax anxious | out of a bucket that flashed in the | got it by degrees—his descent of the| them together, But, as they neared) On the night "nat shot Max | thousand around for a Gay Or 20, | ans sitio a ky Th re ight “er id Joe; #0 he telephoned the gaw| sun staircase, leaving Wilson lying on|the house with ite lanterns and ta-| wiison, Palmer was noticeably rest.| Something pretty good might come ; eave ® Dee aver ere ought to Sand got a day off. The sordid) ‘There was one thing wrong. What|the landing above; his mad excursion | bles, its whitewashed stones outlin-| teas, Heh seen Grace Irving | of St | some balance and a good share of that p trageds easy to recon-| had come over Wilson, to do #0 reck:|into the darknews, until his gasoline |ing the drive, its amall upper win-|tnat day for the first time but once| He had been drinking @ little all| ought to go into your savings account at Dexcept that, like Joe, K. did| less a thing? K., who was a one-|gave out; his resolve to walk dow behind which was walting | «ince the motor accident. ‘To do|@fternoon, The losers mentioned the old First National. We in the innocence of the | woman man, could not explain it and surrender bimeelf at Schwitter’s,|for night, his heart failed him, | him justice, his dissipation ef the dinner and various engagements, th Schwitter’s. Hix spirit) From inside the bar Bill took a|so that there could be no mistake rather, He had a masculine dislike| past few months had not included | Palmer did not want to go home | Figure out what you think you should save, sy with the conviction thet | careful survey of Le Moyne He|as to who had committed the erime, | for meddling, and yet Mra. Me=) women At 9 o'clock that night he found and take ¢ f v a Saeed . . #ived Wilxon to make Sidney | noted bis tall figure and sha suit nded to write a confession | Kee had suddenly seen the name in| ‘he girl had a strange fascina-| Grace She had moved to a cheap | and take care of your First account FIRST. daly wretched.” * the slight stoop, the hair graying on shoot myself,” he told K.|the wooden arch over the gute: /tion for him, Perhaps she typified |*Partment which she shared with two other girls from the store, The She prevent. at least, K'* re over his ears Barkeepers know | “FR barkeeper got my gun out | ‘‘Sehwitter's.’" p care-free days before his mar- > ls rT 4 P identity wos wate. Hospitals| men: that’s « part of the job. After|of my pocket. And—" I'm not going in there, Mr. Le| perhaps the attraction wag) others were out. It was his lucky) FIRST NATIONAL BANK their wecret« well his survey he went behind the bar| After a pause: “Does she know who | Moyne."’ |deoper, fundamental, He met her|%¥, surely | Joe's affair with Sidney had|and got the revolver from under an|did it | “piie's not in the house, She's|in the street the day before Max (Continued Tomorrow) | FIRST AVENUE AT JAMES ST. | | i" | the tal’ of the neighborhood. | overturned pail “sidney? } back in the barn." Wilson was shot. The sight of her THE DAY OF DAYS . Established 1882 Y ie | Big 2 County detectives were here| Gi, K.? He bed 90! bright and early, After the lady's ~ he | bey disappeared, a seandal K. thrust it into his pocket | “Then, if he gets better, she'll mar | “In the barn!" | walking » y along in her shop-| P, Sybarite made $25,000 on his | Be inevitable. Twenty people Now,” he said quietly, “where is ry him anyhow.” | “She didn't approve of all that|girl’s black dress had been enough|“Day of Days.” ween him at Schwitter's and 5 | “Possibly. That's not up to us,|went on there, #0 she m out.|to set his pulses racing. When he| — {know him again | “Ip my room--top of the house."|Joe. The thing we've got to do is/'It's very comfortable and clean; it/saw that she meant to pass him, wave Joe, then, was Ke first) K. followed Bill up the stairs, He|to hush the thing up, and get you|smelix of hay. You'd be surprised /he fell into step beside her try, Uptown, 1414 3rd Av.; down. | a |remembered the day when he had | away,” how nice it is’? “1 believe you were going to cut town, 913 2nd Av.