The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1919, Page 17

THE SEATTLE STA TURDAY, MAY 31, 1919. It Looks Like “This Suitor Won't Suit!” You S#€ Me Cou.0 TAKE OUR HodeYmoonl “TRIP. RIGHT IM THe cAR- | PROVE. UP egg Wee. PRom Home nl A Day | WELL, HAVE Yes, | GoT A FEM KIDS AND I BRoUCHT "Bm ALL ALONG WITH ME You Kwow How CURIOUS KIDS 1% Avour Sten” Tuae AEw Weit,im HERE AND | MEAN Busess~You staTeo iW YouR AD THe Mad Sino Be oF, A LOMIN” t MSPosiTion -wei, WATS ME ~ 1 CALLED W ANSWER TO WUY, Yes siR— AN AD OF A NOUNG LADY WILL You come Seeks A HUSBAND — : We = AGENT, WITH SAMPLES A = HIDDEN VNDGR COAT, an CAMOUFLAGED AS HARMLESS CITIZEN, APPROACHING ' | ENTRANCES OF | > AN Bet Roberts ss Rinehart Eo gi Continued from Page Sixteen | Playing! Of course he would not) work all the time. And he was go- jing back to his old friends, to peo- |ple who had always known him, to with | girls— He did his best then. He told her much time—that ts, I of the old family house, built by one | ; to K. of his forbears who had been a king's | ean see him when he comes | man until Washingtop had put the | case for the colonies, and who had f came slowly thru the par-/ given himself and his oldest son to her, all at once.| then to the cause that he made his | ust see a lot of/own. He told of old servants who! now. No doubt he/ had wept when he decided to close | of the house often.'the house and go away. When she! Christine was! She fell silent, he thought he was inter. , too. AU that seemed |eating her. He told hen the family | to win K.'s atten- traditions that had the fairy to be unhappy enough. | tales of his childhood. He described in it case— | the Ubrary, the choice rooms of the | house, full of family paintings fn [old gilt frames, and of his father’s| of | collection of books. Because it was! ul,| home, he waxed warm over it at} - | last, altho it had rather hurt him | baicony./at first to remember. It brought | back "he other things that he want. | ed to forget. | But a terrible thing was happen. ing to Sidney. Side by side with the wonders he described so casual-| ly, she was placing the little house. What an exile it must have been for him! How hopelessly middile- class they must have seemed! How idiotic of her to think, for one moment, that she could ever belong to this new-old life of his! .| What traditions had she? None, of course, save to be honest and good and to do her best for the people around her. Her mother’s people, the Kennedys, went back a long way, but they had always been poor. A | Ubrary full of paintings and books! She remembered the lamp with the blue silk shade, the figure of Eve that used to stand behind the min-| ister’s portrait, and the cherry book- case with the encyci5pedia in it and “Beacon Lights of History.” When K., trying his best to interest her. and to conceal his own heaviness of spirit. told her of his grandfather’s old carriage, she sat back in the! shadow. | “When I was a chiM,” said sid , that all, K..” said | ney quietly, “and a carriage drove iy. up and stopped on the Street, I al ” sald K., “it’s just| ways knew some one had died!" that miserable incident| There was a strained note in her ts. That wasn't the| voice. K., whose ear was attuned ‘of course, but Max has|to every note in her voice, looked y story. It was really at her quickly She fainted in the| “My great-grandfather,” said sid ney in the same tone, “sold chick THIRD ADD K. ens at market. He didn’t do it| |himeelf, but the fact’s there, isn’t | itr” | K. waa puzzled. hey were on the terrace of the| “What about it?" he said. | ie | hotel again. K. had| But Sidney's agile mind had al-| Mi dinner, making a great to- ready traveled on. This K. she had| ‘getting the dishes they both | never known, who had lived in a mow that it was there,| wonderful house, and all the rest of it—he must have known numbers said Sidney sud-| of loyly women, his own sort of| you are kind to every| women, who had traveled and knew all kinds of things; girls lke the| daughters of the executive commit- |tee, who came in from their coun I|try places in summer with great} artnfuls of flowers, and hurried off, Bre trying to mfike me mar-|after consulting their jeweled| aren’t you?” watches, to luncheon or tea or ten | was very properly ashamed | nis. | and, when he failed of re-| “Go on,” said Sidney dully. “Tell| @f sheer inability to think|me about the women you have that would not say too much,| known, your friends, the ones, you fent hastily to something else. | liked and the ones who liked 4ou.”| hard for me to realize that| K. was rather apologetic | you lived a life of your| “I’ve always been #0 busy,” }, & busy life, doing useful things, | confessed. “I know a lo’ pre you came to us. I wish you| think they would inte you, They Me something about your-| don't do anything, you know. Tra We're to be friends when | around and have a good time. Th @way,”"—she had to stop|are rather nice to look at, some of for the lump in her throat|them. But when you've said that! Want to know how to think you've said it all.” ho your friends are—all| Nice to look at! Of course they at.” | would be, with nothing else to think | “He made an effort. He was think-|about in all the world but of how @f course, that he would be| they looked her, in the hospital, in| Suddenly Sidney felt very tired.| ile house on its side street, aw| She wanted to go back to the hos-| pe | Just then, her eyes like! pital and turn the key in the door| tare, her lips just parted, her hands|of her little room, and le with her ed before her on the table face down on the bed f shall be working,” he said af “Would you mind very much if “So will you.” | 1 asked you to take me back?” D that mean that you won't| He did.mind. He had a depresned time to think of me?” feeling that the evening ha Afraid I'm stupider than|And his depression grew as he tonight. You can think of|brought the car around. He under mever forgetting you or the| stood, he thought. She was griev. working or playing.” ing about Max. After all, a girl t you come and sit | fairly stammered his aston- What on earth have he| but I don’t) | are You Tue LaoyP SQUIRREL FOOD “TLLTELL You How ‘To STOP Tro AUTO - Ve GIT Some Move /A THE DANK ANO | ALSO HAVE ThE CAR The CAR STANDS RIGHT ouT INL PRT. COME 1 WANT You TO See fr rer NOvROELF = ¥ HERE | Am HYPNOTIZE WIM -" ~ HU SALE WHATS BL.GAL ca wy leanne couldn't care as she had for a year and @ half, and then give a man up because of another woman, without & wrench j “Do you really want to go home, Sidney, or were you tired of sitting there? In that case, we could drive around for an hour or two. I'll not talk if you'd like to be quiet.” Being with K. had beconfe an agony, now that she realized how wrong Christine had been, and that! their worlds, hers and K.’s, had only touched fora time. Soon they would be separated by as wide a gulf as| that which lay between the cherry | bookease—for instance—and a book lined Ubrary hung with family por- traits, But she was not digponed to skimp as to agony. She would go through with ft, every word a stab, “if only she might be beside K. a little | longer, might feel the touch of bis| old gray coat against her arm. “I'd Uke to ride, if you mind.” K. turned the automobile toward the country roads. He was remem. | bering that other ride after Joe in| his small car, the trouble he had had to get a machine, the fear of he knew not what ahead, and hin ar- rival at last at the roadtiouse, to find Max lying at the head of the/ stairs and Carlotta on her knees be side him. “K | don't | “Was there anybody you cared| about—any girl—when you home?” H “I was not in love with any one, | if that’s what you mean.” | “You knew Max before, didn’t/ you?” | “Yes, You know that.” “If you knew things about him that I should have known, why didn’t you tell me?" “1 eouldn’t do that how “Yes?” “I thought everything would be all right. It seemed to me that the meré fact of your caring for him—" That was shaky ground; he got off it quickly. “Schwitter has closed up. Do you want to stop there?” ” tonight, please.” They were ni the white house | now, Schwitter’s had closed up, in deed. The sign over the: entrance was gone. When they had left the house far behind, K. was suddenly aware that! idney was crying. She sat with her hb turned away, using her hM@mdkerchief stealthily. He drew the car up beside the road and in a masterful fashion turned her should: | ers about until she faced him. “Now, tell me about it,” “It's just silliness, I'm—I'm a lit-| tle bit lonely.” "Lonely!" “Aunt’s Harriet's in Paris, and vith Joe gone 1 everybody—” | “Aunt Harriet!” He was properly dazed for sure. If she had said she was lonely be-| cause the cherry bookcase was in Paris, he could not have been more| bewildered. And Joe! | “And with you going away and| never coming back—"* “I'll come back, of course, How's this? I'll promise to come back when you graduate, and send you flow-| could I? Any ers.” | “I think,” said Sidney, “that I'll become an army nurse.” I hope you won't do that.” You won't know, K. You'll be back with your old friends. You'll have forgotten the Street and all| of us.” | Do you really think that?’ | “Girls who have been everywhere don't know a T bandage from a figure eight!” “There will never be anybody in the world like you to me, dear.” | gasped. | medicine tray, I His voice was busky. “You are saying that to comfort tea” “To comfort you! I--who have wanted you so jong that it hurts evew to tink About It Evér since the night I came up the Street, and you were sitting there on the steps ‘ob, my dear, my dear, if you only cared a little! Because he wae afraid that he would get out of hand and take her in his arms—which would be Idiotic, since, of course, she did not care for him that way—he gripped the steer. ing wheel. It gave him a curious appearance of making a pathetic ap- peal to the windshield. “I have been trying to make you way that all evening’? said Sidney. “I love you so mich that—K., won't you take me in your armsT’ Take her in his arms! He almost crushed her. He held her to him and muttered incoherencles until she It was as if he must make up for long arrears of hopelessness. He held her off a bit to look at her, as if to be sure it was she and no changeling, and as if he wanted her eyes to corroborate her lips. There was no lack of confeasion in her eyes; they showed him a new heaven and a new earth. “Tt wae you always, K.," she con fessed. “I just didn't realize it. But now, when you look back, don’t you see it was?” He looked back over the months able as the stars, and he did not see it. He shook his head. “I never had even a hope.” “Not when I came to you with everything? I brought you all my | troubles, and you always helped.” Her eyes filled. She bent down and kissed one of his hands. He was 80 happy that the foolish little ca reas made his Reart hammer in his ears “I think, K., that {» how one can always tell when it is the right one, and will be the right one forever and ever. It in the person—one goes to in trouble.” “IT shall love you all said shakily. His arms tightened about her. ‘The little house was dark when they got back to it Kati heard the car, and now she came heavily along the ball “A woman left this for Mr, K.," she said, “If you think it's a beg: ging letter, you'd better keep it un- til he’s bought his new suit tomor row. Almost any moment he’s like- ly to bust out But it was not a begging K. read it in, the hall, with Sidney's shining eyes on him. It began abruptly “lm going to Africa with one of my cousins, She is a medical mis. sionary. Perhaps I can work things out there. It is @ bad station on west coast. I am not going » I feel any call to the work, ause I do not know what else my life,” to do. “You were kind to me the other day. I believe, if I had told you then, you would still have been kind I tried to tell you, but I was so terribly afraid “If It caused death, I did not mean to. You will think that no excuse, but it is true. In the hospital, when I changed the bottles on Miss Page's did not eare much what happened. But it was differ ent with you. “You dismissed me, you remember. | I had been careless about a sponge count. I made up my mind to get back at you, It seemed hopele: you were so secure. For two or d failed.jand have lovely clothes, and who| three days I tried to think of some way to hurt you. I almost gave up. Then I found the way. “You remember the packets of gauze sponges we made and used letter. | AND A HALF — | (Tew wo eer YOU'RE A HORSE, We W YouR in the operating room? There were | twelve to each package. When we counted them as we got them out |we counted by packages, On the night before 1 left, I went to the operating #room and* added one [sponge every hete and there. Out of every doren packets, perhaps, 1 \fixed one that “had thirteen. The | next day I went away, | “Phen I was terrified. What if |nomebody died? I had meant to give you trouble, so you would have [to do certain cases a second time I swear that was all” I was #0 frightened that I went down sick over it, When I got better, I heard you had lost @ case and the cause was being whispered about. I al most died of terror. | “I tried to get back Into the hos | pital one night. I went up the fire escape, but the windows were locked. Then I left the city. I couldn't stand it. I was afraid to read a newspaper. “I am not going to sign this let ter. You know who it is from. And I am not going to ask your forgive: ness, or anything of that sort. I don't expect it. But one thing hurt me more than anything else, the) other night. You said you'd Jost |your faith in yourself. This is to/ | tell you that you need not. And/ |you said something else—that any | |one can ‘come back.’ 1 wonder!" | Late September now on the Street, | left} when she had seemed as unattain-| With Joe gone and his mother eye ing the postman with pitiful eager-; ness; with Mrs. Rosenfeld moving heavily about the setting-up of the |new furniture; and with Johnny driving heavenly cars, brake and clutch legs wéll and strong. Late September, with Max recovering and | [settling his tie for any pretty nurse | |who happened along, but listening| eagerly for Dr ® square tread) in the hall; with Tillie rocking her| |baby on the porch at Schwitter’s| and Carlotta staring westward over rolling with Christine taking | up her burden and ¢ laying hers | down; with Joe's tra young eyes | growing quiet with the peace of the | tropics La September, with ~the nurses Jon their knees at prayers in the lit ltle parlor, and the Head reading |her voice weary with the day and j with good works. “The Lord is my reads. “I shall not want.” I walk thru the valley dow of death, I will evil.” shepherd,” she “Yea, of the fear no Sidney, on her knees in the little | parlor, repeats the words with the others. K. has gone from the Street Jand before long she will join him. | With the vision of his steady 3 before her, she adds her own pray Jers to the others—that the touch |of his arms about her may not make | her forget the vow she has taken, | of charity and its sister, service, of | 1 cup of pr to the thirsty, of open arms to a tired child. THE END. ENGLISH WORKING GIRL | CAN AFFORD U. S. EGGS BE O., May 31 | Mrs. C humacher, living near |this city, sold a crate of eggs last | spring and on one of the eggs she name and address, She has received a letter from Miss Ber Rameden, 22 years of age, of vue, Wakefield, England, The h girl said she was working in a munitions factory at the time she purchased the autographed egg “The Day of Days,” = rapi@action | story of adventure and romance, | packed with humor, begins in The | Star Monday, PICKPOCKRTS AT WORK ! MAW — — Are You sure You Wave THEM ALL arte You? WHY, THERE'S A BOLSHEVIK OVER THERE WITH A BOMB AN’ HE‘S YOU GOT YouR WIRES CROSSED PROF. ~~ IMA |UNCLE SAM IS ASKED TO ANNEX MT. ARARAT NEW YORK, May 31.—Now the principality of Nakhichevan, at the | foot of Mount Ararat, to which Noah is said to have descended when the Ark grounded, comes forward to ask the United States to become its man- datory. Its prime minister, Joffer Koolis Khan, a Tartar chieftain, has ad- dressed such a request “to the impe- rial representative, the supreme president of the United States.” “From the depths of our hearts,” says Joffer Koolis Khan's letter, “we applaud the advance and increase in glory of the American republic, and ber manifest faithfulness and sin- cerity in the pathway of humanity's progress. We are confident, also, that in the future America, the serv- ant of humanity, will extend to our state a guiding hand to help us.” IS CRY OF HAMBURG HAMBURG, May 31.—"Gtve us back our ships! We didn't know you were going to keep them.” That's the wail of the Hamburger Nachrichten. “The English got these ships of ours by a mean de- vice,” it says. “We, thought they were only to be ‘interned,’ and that in a neutral port, But the Eng- lish claim that we have surren- them for good, Let every t German join us in the cry, e us back our ships.’ Their re- |(urn must be one of the conditions jof peace.” BUCKING |“SUICIDE” 1S BROUGHT HOME IN THE “BRIG? NEW YORK, May 31.—William Lustgarten, former New York ¢ man, who disappeared two years: leaving a suicide note and an all shortage of $700,000 in the acoo of a tax lien company of which he was president, was brought ‘ from France aboard the tran Mongolia, which arrived here a days ago. Re Lustgarten enlisted in the 309th sanitary train, at Leavenworth, © Kan., under the name of Allen H. Wilson, while the search for him was on. He came back a corporal in — the ship's brig. 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