The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1919, Page 15

4 +. Tailoring Values UNION BIG TIMBER | BY BERTRAND W. SINCLATI AVTHOR OF SYNOPSIS — ‘To the lumber camp of her brother Charlie, Stella Ren In huxury of British Columbia, comes incame that has supported her beginner in the lumber business, and nm as in his neighh Jack Fyfe. ‘Th everyone to further his one xelf-cultured a . She bocomes camp-cook and general drudge, until Jack Iyfe offers her a w CHAPTER VIII Durance Vile By September first a growing un easiness hardened into distasteful certainty upon Stella, It hud become her firm resolve to get what money was due her when Charlie marketed |his logs and try another field of }laber, That camp on Roaring lake | was becoming a nightmare to her | She had no inherent dislike for work | Shé was too vibrantly alive to be| lazy, But she had had an overdose | o§% unaccustomed drudgery, and she | was growing desperate. If there had | been anything to keap her mind from continual dwelling on the manifold disagreeableness she had to cope with she might have felt different ly, but there was not. She ate, slept, worked—ate, slept, and worked again till every fiber of her being cried out in protest against the deadening round. She was like a flower striv ing to attain its destiny of bloom in soil overrun with rank weeds. Lone- liness and hard, mean work, day after day, in which all that had ever seemed desirable in life had neither | place nor consideration, were twin | evils of isolation and flesh-wearying labor, from which she felt that she must get away, or go mad. | But she did not go. Benton left to make his delivery to the mill com- | pamy, the great boom of logs gliding slowly along in the wake of a tug, the Chickamin in attendance. Ben- ton’s crew accompanied the boom: Fyfe’s gang loaded their donkey and | gear aboard the scow and went home The bay lay all deserted, the woods silent. For the first time in three months she had all her hours free, | only her own wants to satisfy. Katy | John spent most of her time in the/ |smoky camp of her people. Stella} loafed.' For two days she did noth- |ing which harassed her so when she THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919. a me = COPYRIGHT “NORTH pt) in the on, when her Adenty Roaring Lake region father dies ° ‘big thmber bis alter hardest in so doing her spirit hot rebellion against be deadening drudgery, shut away from all the that throve and trafficked beyond} the solitude in which she sat im-| mured, When Charlie came back, | there was going to be a change. She | ed that to herself with deter | tion, Between whiles she ram bled about in the littered clearing, prowled along the beaches, and pad died now and then far outside the bay in a flat-bottomed skiff, restless, | full of plans, So far as she saw,, she | would have to face some city alone, | but she viewed that prospect with | & total absence of the helpless feel: | rose in teeming life } first took train for her brother's camp. She had passed thru what she termed a culinary inferno. Noth tng, she considered, could be beyond her after that unremitting drudgery But Benton failed to come back on the appointed day, ‘The four days lengthened to a week. Then the Panther, bound up-lake, stopped to leave a brief note from Charlie, tell ing her business had called him to Vancouver. Altogether it was ten days before the Chickamin whistled up the bay. She slid in beside the float, her decks bristling with men like a passenger craft. Stella, so thoroly sated with loneliness that she temporarily for: | got her grievances, flew to meet her brother, But one fair glimpse of the disembarking crew turned her back. ‘They were all in varying stages of | liquor—from two or three who had to be hauled over the float and up to the bunkhouse like sack of bran, to others who were so happily under the influence of John Barleycorn that every move was some silly an tic. She retreated in disgust. When | | a capital B | rustle j was thru | memorable | limit before | afternoon OF FIFTY-THREE No, sir, it was straight business with I the time I was gone I've got a good thing in hand, 8) big money in sight. Tell you a | it later Think ou and Katy can grub for this bunch by six? “Oh, | suppose so," she said short dy. It was on the tip of her to tell him then and there that she like Matt, the cook, that afternoon completely ho-lutely thru,” She refrained There was no use in being truculent But that drunken crowd looked for midable in number How many extra?’ she asked me chanteally. “Thirty men, all told,’ Benton re turned briskly. “I teli you I'm sure going to rip the heart out of this! spring. I've signed up a six-million-foot contract for deliv ery a& soon as the logs'll go over Roaring rapids in the spring member what [ told you when you came? You stick with me, and you'll wear diamonds, I stand to clean up twenty thousand on the work.” “In that case, you should be able to hire a real cook,” she suge a spice of malice in her tone. “I sure will, when it begins to come right.” he promised largely “And I'll give you a soft job keep: ing books then, Weill, I'M! lend you a hand for tonight. Where's the Siwash maiden?” “Over at the comes now,” St you start a fir change my dress “You look like a thing.” He stood off mire. “You're some dame, Stell, when you get on your glad rags.” She frowned at her image in the glass behind the closed door of her room as she set ut unfastening the linen dress she had worn that Deep in her trunk, with much other unused fine had reposed all summer. T grained instinct to be admired. garbed fittingly and well, came back to her as soon there #1 ‘wn while I camp replied. harlie, peach in that a she was rested | And tho there were none but squir rels and bluejays aga occasionally Katy John to cast admiring eyes tongue | winter's | ted, | » | dietory a pace to ad-| [by to Roaring lake, ¢ bye I kitchen smells and flies and sixteen ; hours a day over a hot stove | en’s and She wondered why such a loath! Millinery of the work afflicted her; if all wh: ear their bread in the sweat | their brow were ridden with that feel ing-——-woodsamen chauffeur laves of personal service and the : . A industrial mills alike? Her it to them if they were that work| could be otherwise than repellant, | jenslaving. She recalled that cooks }and maids had worked in her father | | house with no sign of the revolt that] now assailed her. But it s her that their tasks had b ompared with the job of cooking in Charlie Benton's camp. cook she was quite sure Curiously enou while |changed her clothes, her thoughts a jumble of present things she disliked jand the unknown that she would) have to face alone in Vancouver, she found her mind turning on Jack) Fyfe. During his three weeks’ stay, | they had progressed less in the direc: | tion of acquaintances than she and "aul Abbey had done in two meetings. 'yfe talked to her now briefly, but he looked at |than he talked. Where his searching | | gaze disturbed, his speech soothed, it # 80 coolly impersonal. That, deemed, was merely another of his) odd contradictions, He was contra Stella classified Jack Fyfe as| of unrestrained passions. | She recognized, or thought she recog 3, certain domins primitive acteristics, pl thy did not ex imiration. Men admired| him—those who were not afraid of | him. If he had of more pol ished clay, she could readily hav e| grasped this attitude, But in her jeyes he was merely a rude, master |ful man,. uncommonly gifted with} |physical strength, dominating other | lrude, strong 1 by | The iron hand should fitly be | sheer brute! | for concealed beneath the velvet glove: and then her more she are Yet in spite of the bold look in his eyes that always confused and irri | tated her, Fyfe had never singled her | out for the slightest attention of the! kind any man bestows upon an at at merchandise of dependable character Special purchas and ual turning over new merchandise at all times and at prices as as it can be sold. Fraser-PatersonCo The Special Price Basement organized for the elling Wom Apparel and prices at which can be sold. s of goods are made at very low these are sold at extraordinary ‘low large volume of business and the contin of stocks assures you absolutely low ole purpose of ady-to-weat possible Children’s R the lowest A Splendid Collection of 69 Georgette and Taffeta Dresses « $18.50 Each —Another special purchase which will attract inter- } est Saturday is the sale of Georgette and Taffeta 7 Dresses for women and misses. } —Light colored Georgettes developed in the new styles, and trimmed with beading and embroidery. —Taffetas are made in many pretty styles. Colors navy, black, plum and gray. —Every dr%ss in this collection is-an.unusual value at the price. sa ek a Final Clearance of All Summer Trimmed Hats $1.95 —Saturday Millinery clearance will be a most-un- usual event in the Special Price Basement. TAILORS Reliable Woolens. Expert tailoring. Popular prices. —All Summer Hats, including black, white and col- tractive woman. Stella was no fool. | oe Tin P mM) 4 Ecngpietbeh eeepc ih geplbalen acodit son | ors, large and small, must go at-clearance-prices on and she knew why. She had Saturday. ing, gave herself up to a physical | Charlie reached the cabin, he himself torpor she had never known before.| proved to be fairly mellow, in the | She did not want to read, to walk best of spirits—speaking truly in the| about the beaches and among the | about, or even lift her eyes to the| double sense | dusky trunks of giant fir, a picture! prepared to repulse, and there bold mountains that loomed massive| “Hello, lady," he hailed Jovially.| of blooming, well-groomed woman. | been nothing to repulse. Or —We’ve made just-one-very low price *for - your CHOICE «6a. oo oic s nocciepee ctettaem ce vew states; $1.95 upon her, it had pleased her for a week to wear her best, and wander |across the lake. It was enough to| “How did you fare all by your lone-| hood. She took off the dress and|ing Charlie's ubsence he had come lie curled among pillows under the| some this long time? I didn’t figure| threw it on the bed with a resent-|in a rowboat, hailed her from the| alder and stare drowsily at the blue! to be gone so long, but there was 4 ¢4) rush of feeling. The treadmill | peac 4 ts . | ai iccare st, the DS act dan om each, and gone away without dis lot to attend to. But not for September sky, } |drone of a breeze in the firs, the |futter of birds’ wings, and the lap| | of water on the beach, | Presently, however, the old rest- less energy revived. The spring came back to her step and shed that | lethargy like a cast-off garment. And wa “All right,” she answered coolly. | You evidently celebrated your log | delivery in the accepted fashion.” | “Don't you believe it,” he grinned | amiably. “I had w few drinks with the boys on the way up, that’s all | gaped for her again long. She was thru with that. She was glad that Charlie's prospects pleased him. He could not call on her to help him out of 4 hole now She would tell him her decision to. night. And as soon as he could get a cook to fill her place, then good —Says Mr. -Wiseman HE man who fills his coal bins now isa WISE MAN. other city in America faces a coal shortage next Fall. He knows that the ranks of the coal miners have been thinned during war times by reduced immigration. He knows that thousands of foreign-born miners are returning to their native lands. He knows that crop movements in the Fall congest transportation facilities and prevent prompt fuel shipments. He knows how all these things increase prices. rather than He has read the news, and knows that Seattle and every diminish That is why Mr. Wiseman is ordering his coal NOW—filling his bins—preparing for the cold days to come. It’s the only sensible thing to do. Are Your Coal Bins Empty? BETTER TALK BUSINESS WITH YOUR FUEL MAN! jembarking when she told him Benton was not back. He was something of | jan enigma, she confessed to herself, | after all, Perhaps that was why he came so frequently into her mind Or perhaps, she told herself, there was so little on Roaring Lake to think about that one could not escape | the personat element. Ax if any one| i ever could. As if life were made up} they of anything but the impigning of one} personality upon another. That was| something Miss $tella Benton had yet | |to learn, She was still mired in the} rampant egotism of untried youth, as | yet the sublime individualist | That side of her suffered a distinct | shock later in the evening When } supper was over, the work done, and the loggers’ celebration was slowly subsiding in the bunkhouse, she told! Charlie with blunt directness wha t| she wanted to do. With equally blunt | directness he declared that he would | not permit it. Stella’s teeth came to gether with an angry little click “I'm of age, Charlie!” she said to} |him, “It isn't for you to say what | you will or will not permit me to do.| I want that money of mine that you used—and what I've earned. God| knows I have earned it. I can't} stand this work, and I don't intend! to. It isn't work; it’s slavery!’ | “But what can you do in town?” he countered. ‘ou haven't the least! idea what you'd be going up against, | Stell. You've never been away from home, and you've never had the least | training at anything useful. You'd be on your uppers in no time at all | You wouldn't have a ghost of a chance.” “I have such a splendid chance here,” she retorted, ironically. “If 1 could get in any position where I'd be more likely to die of sheer stagna tion, to say nothing of dirty drudgery, than in this forsaken hole, | I'd like to know how. I don't think | it's possible.”* “You could be a whole lot worse off, if you only knew it,” Benton re well made of chambray have Many charming models riety of colors. and some are semi-lined. the purchase. Women’s Khaki Union-Alls $3.25 —Women going camping will want one of these Khaki Union-Alls to romp about in. They strong afd will stand hard Convenient to w who are are and for mountain in the out-doors very practical you fishing trip or climbing 200 Wash Dresses for Girls 2 to 14 Years of Age —These delightful little Dress the smart touches which make them so popular with small girls. Priced specially for Saturday, each ............<s.$1.78 —There are vest effects and Dolman styles in the collection. chase of this collection of Capes makes this unusual low price for Saturda: —Every garment is a-new style and nearly all colors and.sizes are a 50 Tub Silk Petticoats —A new shipment has just arrived. Just fifty in the lot, but every one © of them isa most-unusual value. The | colors are. rose,.. green,. Pig and taupe. —All well made, and are-shown “for the first time Saturday. —Priced for Saturday,-cach.. $2.95 and gingham; in a wide va- I 50 Full-Sweep Capes Each $15 —A Saturday value of unusual interest is the sale of 50 ful-sweep»Capes*of wool serge, velour, silvertone and burella cloth. These Canes are-full silkslined — A special pur- A Wonderful Assortment of Summer Waists —These new white Voile Waists, trimmed with lace and embroidery are unusual values at the price. They are fresh and crisp and were just unpacked. They good looking cuffs and collars and the range from 36 to 46. Priced for Saturd New Georgette’® 3 . Blouses‘at $5.00. Are Remarkably Low — Priced —This shipment was just re ceived. Purchased especially for the Special Price Basement to be sold at this very low price. ~-There are roll or flat collars— some quite collarless — pretty neck lines in round, square or V effects; cuffs are neat and well fitting. —These are just the blouses women need for summer wear, Colors are pink, flesh, white, bisque, navy and red. have very sizes turned, grumpily. “If you haven't got any sense about things, I know what a rotten hole Vancouver or any other seaport town is for a girl alone, I won't let you make any! sanTA foolish break like that. That's flat!” | jong wharf, From this position she failed tO}jag been budge him. Once angered, partly by| strange her expressed intention and partly by the Outspoken protest against the mountain of work imposed on her Charlie refused point-blank to give her either the $90 he had taken out of her purse or the three months'| wages due. Having made her re quest, and having met with this—to her—amazing refusal, Stella sat) circling toward the # As they dumb. There was too fite a streak! flew they appeared to havé a third Jin her to break out in recrimination.| wing on. the their She was too proud to cry | While this wing did not appe So that she went to bed in a fer-| be as large {ment of helpless rage. Virtually | was plainly visible. The birds were |was a prisoner, as much so as if|about the size of a sea gull, but of a |Charlie had kidnapped her and held| dark red color, with long flat bill. |her so by brute force. The economic| One of them alighted on the end restraint was all potent. Without/of the pier for a short time and jmoney she could not even leave the! the third wing appeared to fold up lcamp. And when she contemplated | like a fan. When approached the the daily treadmill before her, she} bird and joined the flock, | shuddered which disappeared over the ocean. | At least she could go on strike.|The birds did not fly straight away | Her round cheek flushed with the bit-|like gulls, but made large circles in terest anger she had ever known, she | single file. sat with eyes burning into the dark} of her sordid room, and vowed that 30 lo re should die of slow star vation if they did not eat until she cooked another meal for them. MONICA, July 11 Monica, many been fur. north of responsible but they stories. 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