The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1919, Page 7

own house animal, Tocker, a pillow across her lap, and on that the little, Swaddled with cotton soaked in olive | ‘oil, the only dressing she Howe could devise to ease the pain All those other so racked her, ‘Tyee, the shooting of Billy Dale, they Was dying slowly _ @uished eyes. She sat numbed with BIG TI MBER | COoOPrYrRIGNT BY BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR AVTHOR OF “NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE » suffer like that. If herself liste body | “and we'll do our best, A child fre. | it's the end of everything for me.” .| for those pattering foots quently survives terrific 1t| Fyfe stared at her. The warm,| realize with a sickening pang that and Mrs. | would be a mistaken kind: me | Pitying look on his face ebbed away, | she would never hear them again to make tlebt of his con hardened into his old, mask-like ab-| The snapping of that la things which had/to spare your feelings. He has an| expression served to d and widen th: the fight on the|e chance, I shall stay until] he said quietly, “it would | between her and Fyfe, He went morning. Now, I think it would be] Only be the beginning. Lord God,| about his busines and preoc voice, “He's a sturdy little chap,” he said, tr e ing for that baby tortured link | on simply 4 grave a sob, a laugh that wa allow yourself to get in that very near unwilling acceptar where she could give nothing in re turn; that the original mistake their marriage would never be recti the Waterbug came driving | one.” | Five hours? And the skin,| ‘They laid Jack Junior amid downy | | pillows on Stell bed. The doctor | Free as the Wind | stood looking at him, then drew a| Stella sat watching the gray lines chair beside the bed. of rain beat down on the asphalt, CHAPTER XIX ake. achingly of| be thoroly in accord, or we have tall firs.| part. There's no chan inter-| fet back to the old w But Stella did not want to walk She did not want to eat. She was| the wind drone among the scarcely aware that her limbs were| A ghastly two weeks had cramped and aching from her long| vened since Jack Junior's le life] IT don't | vigil in the chair, She was not con-| blinked out. There had been wild| Never be complaisant and agreea | sclous of herself and her problems,)moments when she wished she| asain. We might as well come t |any more. Every shift of her mind| could keep him company on that|@ full stop, ‘turned on her baby, the little mite | journey into the unknown, But grief | Way.” the | seldom kills,. Sometimes it hardens. | ; | 4 st works a change, a greater of wills. There was none ever |W less revamping of the spirit listened to h never | was so with Stella Fyfe, altho | gus land window reminded her y of living want to; I can't. 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GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. | Glasses bd . Are you risking your vaca- THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, JULY 28, 1919. BURGLARS PUT | IN BUSY DAYS. Stores, Rooms and Resi- | dences Are Robbed {Continued From Yesterday) Jyes, even shreds of flesh, had come} patter across the floor again, thaty was not keenly aware of any forth.| H. PM #4 30th ave., re on only knows to what le } away in patches with Jack Junior’s| little voice never wake in the | right metamorphosis She was, for| turned hom ‘ fter an ab 7 she might have gone in reaction. clothing when she took it off e} morning erying “Mom-mom," drove} the prestn, too actively involved in| sence of th end found that P Was quivering under that self-inflict-| D€Mt Over him, fearful that every | her distracted | material chang {his bh had been robbed. A quan Ped lash, bordering upon hysteria | feeble breath would be his last She went out into the living room The storm and stress of that period| tity of Jewelry valued at several hun. When she reached the house. »| She looked up at the doctor, Fyfe| Walked to a window, stood there | between her yielding to the lure of | dred dollars was gone Could not shut out a too-vivid picture | Was beside her, his calked boots| drumming on the pane with nervous 1an's personality and the bur After an abi o of three week f Billy Daleslying murdered on the | biting into the oak flo fingers, Dusk was falling outside; a) ial of her boy had sapped her of! from her rtn 4 at the Pennin Tyee’s bank. of the accusing look| “See what you can do, doc,” he|@usk was creeping over her. She| all emotional reaction, When they!ton Hotel, Fourth ave. and Marion With which Fyfe must meet h said huskily, ‘Then to Stella. “How | shuddered had performed the last melancholy | st., Mrs. Inez Weaver returned home Rightly so, she held. She did not did it happen?” |. Fyfe came up behind her, put his| service for him and went back to| Sunday to find that her rooms had tty to shirk. She had followed the| “He toddled away from Martha,”| hands on her shoulders, and turned | the bungalow at Cougar Point, she) been ransacked and her jewelr line of least resistance, lacked the|she whispered. “Sam Foo had set| her so that she faced him | was as physically exhausted, as near] stolen. @our courage to pull herself up in|a pan of boiling water on the kitch “Lt wish I could help, Stella,” he} the limit of numbed endurance in] Prowlers entered the offices of the the beginning, and it led to this,|en floor, He fell into it. Oh, my| Whispered, “I wish I could make| mind and body it is possible! B, 1°, Goodrich Rubber Company, at She felt Rilly Dale's blood wet on| poor little darling.” | you feel less forlorn, Poor little kid-|for a young and healthy wom-|1110 EB. Pike st: Saturday night. A her soft hands. She walked into her| They watched the doctor bare the! ‘es—both of you n to become. And when @ measure! mail bag was rifled, but nothing is panting like a hunted| terribly scalded body, examine it She shook off his hands, not be-| of her natural vitality reassert s ‘The attempted robbery was listen to the boy's breathing, count| C®use she rebelled against his touch,| itself, she laid her course. § Sunday And she had barely crossed the| his pulse, In the end he re-dressed| @s@inst his sympathy, merely could no more abide the place where} The Bartell drug store at Westlake threshold when back in the ‘rear| the tiny body with stuff from the| use she had come to that nervous| she was than a pardoned convict] ave, and Pike st. was robbed Satur Yack Junior's baby voice rose in aj case with which a country physician | State where she searce realized what} can abide the prison that has re-| day night by prowlers who broke the Shrill scream of pain goes armed against all emergencies, | *he did | strained him. It was empty now of} jock on the front door cash Stella scarcely heard her husband | He was very deliberate and thought | ‘Oh,” she choked, “I can't bear it.| everything that made life tolerable rT was rifled and $10 taken d the doctor come in. Fora weary|ful. Stella looked her appeal when| My baby, my little baby boy, -The| the hushed rooms a constant re 1 or, of the Mystic Ho. Age she had been sitting in a low/he finished one bright spot that's left, and he| minder of loss, She would catch | te rst ave,, reported to the es entered taking $20 well [police Sunday that his room Saturday night la gold wateh and some «vie 20,000 Ponts at Big Alki Concert had vanished somehow into thin air| best to lay him ona bed. You must| PUt this na day cupied, They seldom talked to] arly 20,000 persons thronged the " before the dread fact that her baby tears Mrs. Fyfe. I can see that the He whirled about with a quick She knew that his boy had/beach near the bandstand at Alki before her an-| is telling on 1. You Sesture of his hands a harsh, raspy a lot to him; but he had his! Reach Sunday, during the band con t given by Carabba’s Band that deadly assurance, praying with-| abnormal condition. The baby is|left her, Twenty minutes later, | folded hands and think until thought| City officials say this created a rec Out hope for help to come, hopeless | not conscious of pain. He ts not suf. | when Stella was irresistibly drawn! drove him into the bogs of melan-|ord for attendance. The community that any medical skill would avail! fering half so much in his body as| beck to the bedroom, she found him | choly singing “ram was directed by G when it did come, So many ri you are in your mina, and you| Sitting sober and silent, looking at And so the break came. With). Chichester. There was a concert afternoon Band at and Park in the and another by Wagner's Volunteer Park in the evening. | of everything . * | | Fuse Blows; Street Car Catches Afire “Go and walk abgut a little, Mrs.|the muddy rivulets that stream Traffic was tied up at Third ave: Fyfe,” he advised, “and have your) along the gutter, A forlorn sighin, “What's the use, Jack?” she fin-|and Seneca st, for about 20 minutes | dinner. I'N want to watch the of wind in the bare boughs of a| ished. “You and I are so made that/at 6 p. m. Sunday, when an Ea a while.” gaunt elm that stood before her| We can't be neutral. We've got to|Union street car caught fire from a that had blown out, Little dam- and the fire was put Believed to have been caused by a lighted match or cigaret stub thrown on the rubbish beneath, ¢ sidewalk on First ave. at Sene caught fire at 7 p, m, Sunday, but was put out without much loss board a st back, I feel sure I can turn t unt. I should like to go to tle first and look 4 owed I have gone | or the other of us takes a} decisiv al step. | “That's simple eno he return Jed, after a mint ction. “Well, jit it has to be, r God's sake let's get it over with.” } And now it was over with. Fyfe remarked once that with them luck: | fly it was not a question of money. | But for Stella it was in dan eco-| nomic problem. When she left Roar-| her private ‘ount con-| over two thousand dolla | Her last.act in Vancouver was to edeposit that to her husband's credit, Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-| handed, without stultifying herself] in her own eyes. She had treasured | as a keepsake the only money she| had ever earned in her life, her| brother's check for two hundred and | seventy dollars, the wages of that} sordid period in the cookhouse She} had it now. Two hundred and sev enty dollars capital. She hadn't sold herself for that, She had given | honest value, double and treble, in| of her brow. She was here ne in a five-dollar-a-week |housekeeping room, foot-loose, free as the wind, That was Fyfe's last word to her. He had come with her} to Seattle and waited patiently at a hotel until she found a place to live. Then he had gone away with out protest “Well, Stella,” he had said, “I guess this is the end of our experi ment. In six months—under the State law—you can be legally free by a technicality. So far as I'm con cerned, you're free as the wind right |now. Good luck to you.” He turned away with a smile on | his lips, a smile that his eyes belied jand she watched him walk to the corner thru the ne sort of driv-| | ing rain that now pelted in gray lines) lagainst her window. | She shook herself impatiently out of that retrospect It was done. Life, as her brother had prophesied, | was no kid-glove affair. The future | rn now, not the past. Yet that immediate past, bits | of it, would now and then blaze vividly her mental vision. | 4 nly y nse against that lay in| action, in something to occupy her mind and hands. If that motive, the desire to shun mental reflexes that brought pain, were not suf-! ficient, there was the equally potent necessity to earm her bread. Never again would she any man's de-| pendent, a pam loll, a parasite | trading on her hey were hard names she called herself Meantime she had not neither had she come to § 2 blind impul She knew of a| singing teacher whose reputation was more than loc a vocal authority | whose word carried we heen idle eattle on ght far be-| yond Puget Sound. First, she meant to| him, get an im 1 estimate of | value of her voi f the train ing she would need. Thru him she} hoped to get in touch with some out let for the only talent she possessed. | And she had received more encour- | agement than she dared hope. He! listened to her sing. then tested the| range and flexibility of her voice. | “Amazing.” he said frankly. “You| have a rare natural endowment. If} you have the determination and the| of dramatic values that musi cal discipline will give you, you should go far, You should find your place in opera.’’ “That's my ambition,” Stella an swered, ut that requires time and training. And that means money 1} have to earn it.” | The upshot of that conversation meet the| | was an appointment to manager of a photoplay house, who] wanted a singer. Stella looked at her watch now, and rose to g0.| always money, if one wanted to get anywhere, she reflected cynic | ally, No wonder men struggled perately for that token of power. — | (Continued in Tomorrow's Star) | Copyright, 1916, by Little, Brown & | Money All rights reserved. SRebecko buy try. 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