The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1919, Page 7

BIG TIMBER BY BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR {Continued From Yesterday) Bhe reached the Charteris Theatre & doorman acess dim interior. the operator’ ay gave her Phere was cage at the aded glow at the young, man with re plan h | [brushea ‘ sleekly back, chewed gum mtly while he practiced pi Accompaniments. ‘The pla desolate, with its empty sea WS bald stage front with the empty | Pleture screen, la sat down the manager. He car A few minutes; his manner w Nery curt, business-like, He want to sing a popular song, » & Verdi opera, Gounod's Ave Mar 89 that he could get a line on what p She could grasp the greater oppor p Pessimist in regard to singers. /* “Take the stage right there. } ted. “Just as if the spot w | OM you. Now then.” | It wasn’t a heartening process “Stand there facing the gum-chew! and the manager’ redly five rows back, a silent emptinesses beyond—mu Singing into the mouth of cave. It we Moment for Stella. But s! keenly aware that .she had good in a small way a lig! ar, bit from clgar more or less a before COPYRIGHT AVTHOR OF “NORTH }she could tunity best w | She had signed te a singer bit astonis’ graps the so she did her greater oppor best, and her no mediocre performance never sung in a place de how off—or to show up quality. “She was even hed herself to as ht X air She elected to sing the Ave Maria Her voice went pealing to the ceiling silver ynant When ic- | first ce | domed | bet r sweet 4s a a trumpet the last note died away, there momentary silence. Then the a companist looked up at her, frankly dmiring “You're some emphatically, * Behind him lost its glow ts, as te me as | od warbler,” he believe me the manager's He remained silent The pianist struck up “Let's Mur¢ Care,” a rollicking trifle from Broadway hit. Last of all he thump. ed, more or less successfully, thru the accompaniment to an aria that| had in it vocal gymnastics as well as melody “Come up to the office, Mrs. Fyfe, Howard said, with a singular chang, from his first manner “I can give you an indefinite en gagement at thirty a week,” he made a blunt offer. “You can sing, You're worth more, but right now I can’t pay more, If you pull business—and ja, | r he as to ng nd ch a he to FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE HE AND PINE STREET New Woolens for School Wear 40 Inches Wide At $1. 50 Yard ‘HE brighter colorings in plaids, so much ad- mired, by children, are well represented in | this new shipment, as effects in stripes, chec well as the more subdued ks and over-plaids. These ies are of a quality that will give good serv- under school-wear conditions. 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Tf STORE, said! cigar | OF FIFTY-THREE will—I ma Thirty a ing twice in the ever iefly JI rather think you J able to raise you and you'll have to afte dl twee Stella considered = b Thirty a week meant than mere living And it wa in the right direction they discussed certain did not care to court pub’ legal name hould be billed as enton——the Madame being gKestion—and she took Upon the Monday following | stood for the first time in a white glare that dazzled her shut off partially her vision of rows and rows of faces. on with a horrible slackness in her | knees, a dry feeling in her th and she was not sure whether [would sing or fi When she | finished her first and bowed herself into the wings, she felt her heart leap and hammer at the hand lapping that grew and ew till it was like the beat of ocean surf Howard came running to m | You've sure got laughed. Fine work give ‘em some more.” | In time these things to the failed to get that beat down tu cage, to the r, upturned | fa in the first Her fidence grew; ambition began to glow like a flame within her, She had gone thru the primary stages of | culture, and she was following now | a method of practice which produced results. She could see and feel that | | herself. Sometimes the fear,that her | voice might go as it had once gone would make her tremble. But that her teacher assured her, was a re | mote chance | So she gained in those weeks some |thing of her old poise. Inevitably, | | she was very lonely at times. But |she fought against that with the | most effective weapon she knew j incessant activity Sh was always busy. ‘There was a refited piano now sitting in the opposite corn from the gas stove on which cooked her meals. Howard | kept his word. She “pulled business,” anc he raised her to forty a week and | offered her a contract which she re fused, because other avenues, bigger and better than singing in a mo- tion-picture house, were tentatively opening. | December was waning when she| came to Seattle, In the following weeks her only contact with the | past, beyond the mill of her own | thoughts, was an Item in the Seattle Times touching upon certain litiga- | tion in which Fyfe was involved. | | Briefly, Monohan, under the firm name of the Abbey-Monohan ‘Timber | Company, was suing Fyfe for heavy | damages for the loss of certain |booms of logs blown up and_ set adrift at the mouth of the Tyce | River, There was appended an ac |count of the clash over the closed channel and the killing of Billy Dale. |No one had been brought to book for that yet. Any one of sixty men | might have fired the shot. It made Stella wince, for it took |her back to that dreadful day. She| |could not bear to think that Rilly| Dale's blood lay on her and Mono- |han, neither could she stifle an un Jeasy apprehension that something | | more grievous yet might happen on| | Roaring Lake. But at least she had} | done what she could. If she were the | flame, she had removed herself from the powder magazine. Fyfe had pulled his cedar crew off the Tyee before she left. If aggression came, | | it must come from one direction. | They were both abstractions now, |she tried to assure herself. ‘The | glamor of Monohan was fading, and | she could not say why, She did not know if his presence would stir | again all that old tumult of feeling. but she did know that she was |cleaving to a measure of peace, | of serenity of mind, and she did not want him or any other man to dis \turb it. She told herself that she dollars more meant to live A move | ieity under ugreed that Madame Howard her lea Stella flerce nd so the went he i | She she had song her ‘em going,” he Go out and she accustomed to she | grew applause to the white from the pic | never beam rows con volc he F idget and Weechi BY THORNTON (Copyright, 1919, b had left the low, | swampy place where grew the mons-covered trees, and on high ground was soon among a lot of young hemlock trees. These had no moss On them. From one of them a little black and gray bird with low cap, yellow and patch at the root of his tail across in front of Peter. It was| Fidget the Myrtle Warbler, one of | the two friends he had been looking for down among the moss-covered | trees. “Oh, Fidget!” d Peter, hurry ling after t restless little bird. “Oh, Fidget, I've been looking everywhere for you.” “Well, here I am,” retorted Fidget “If you had looked here before you would have found me before. What can I do for you?" All the time Fidget was hopping and flittering about, never still an inst “You can tell me whe is,” replied Peter, prompt! | 4 but I won't,” retorted Fidget ‘Now, honestly, Peter, do you think you have any right to ask such a question Peter hung hi honestly: you see, Sprite the I rbler told me you had away, and I've been look es of moss until I've got a yel-| yellow flitted your nest head, then r I don't, plied, idget ula t not | 1g at] a lame an far | bune | neck. “Bunches of Fidget. “What | you think I have lof me rt “Why—why—why--I just thought you probably had your nest in or the same as your cousin Sprite dget laughed right out. “Moss suit my cousin prite, but it me it all,” said he build my nest of twigs and gr and weed stalks, and hair, and r lets, and feathers, and if you want to know, I like a little hemlock tree to put it in, just like my cousin Weeehl, By the way, have you seen him this spring?" moss!" exclaimed under the sun do to do with bunehes | | | ¥ ma | doesn't sult | } morrow.” | unendurabi | "Who told you?” | thing to happen. | break betw jt | mean. | clear yellow THE ve wh STAR—TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919. never loved yfe «woman Jack ¥ She ‘ot that but there were m that had often ometimes frightened | d sometimes. what thought of her and c when she had been desperate struggle if gain it » he bh her go s¢ snized in him a to Vso quali tic baffled and admire in} her wondere he reall tions nerved fre¢ other easily After to nT w A her ©o 1 let all comes she und ue lasts. the ind, he point reflected but cynically Roe materi And she thought w long she of view, one is| driven to pur while life while in her m tain th wondered even took form would ré CHAPTER hoes: early days of February had an unexpected visitor landlady called her to the com telephone, and when she took up the ver Linda Abbey Ame OVE When c “IN be XX In Th mon the Na 8 voice he asked. here only today and to sy two-thirty.”” over,” Linda “I'm only about 10 minutes’ lla went back to her room, and sorry: giad to b friendly a 88 which sometime uation inve d som sur Planation to Linda t hurt But she was not prepared for the complete understanding of the mat ter Linda Abbey tacitly exhibited be fore they had exchanged a “How did you know Now sponded I'm free “Vil be if you like,” la re until right sald drive both @ famil-| this loneli seemed almost r sit of ex-| glad lar voc dozen Stella asked “No one. I drew my own conclu sions when I heard you had gone to Seatt| Linda replied. “I saw coming, My dear, I'm not blind and I was with you a lot last sum mer. I know you too well to be Neve you'd make a move while you had your baby to think of. When he was gone—well, I looked for any “Sull, nothing much pened,” Stella of bitterness, has hap. marked, with a touch except the inevitable na man and a woman when there’s no longer any common nd be yeen them. It's better so. Jack has a multiplicity of interests He can devote himself to them with out the constant irritation of an un responsive wife. We've each taken our own road, That’s all that happened.” far,” Linda murmured, “It's I liked that big, silent man I like you both. It seems shame things have to turn out this way just because—oh, well. Charlie and I used to plan things for the four of us, little family com binations when we settled down on the lake, Honestly, Stella, do you think it% worth while? I never could # you as a sentimental little chump, letting a, momentary aberra tion throw your whole life out of gear.” “How do you know that I have?" Stella asked gravely, Linda shrugged her shoulders ex pressively. suppose it looks silly, worse, to you,” Stella said. an't help what you think. My rea son has dictated every step I've} taken since last fall. If I'd really) given myself up to sentimentalism the Lord only knows what might have happened.” “Exactly,” Linda responded drily. “Now there's no use beating around the bush. We get so in that habit] S$ & matter of politeness—our sort of people—that we seldom say in| plain English just what we really | Surely, you and I know each other well enough to be frank, even if it's painful. Very likely you'll say I'm a self-centered little beast, but I'm going to marry your brother, | my dear, and I’m going to marry him| a pity of yours. if not “But I W. BUR Ss T. W. Burgess) y | i} by any: | “Na replied Peter, where around here “Right _ here replied voice, nd Weechie the Warbler, dropped down ground for just a second “Is he another | Magnolia | on the right in | front of Peter lz The | of his eye was cheeks of his k were top head and the ay. Above each white stripe, and his black. His throat was with a black band just] back were “Well, here I am,” retorted Fidget, From this black st across his yellow bre: of his tail he was yellow was mostly black top| underneath His wings | were black and gray, with two white | bars. He a little smaller Fidget and quite as restless, Fidget and Weeehi at to discuss their nests and the way of building them, Pete interested in seeing those nest bout them, finally stole | for them, but tho he looked, he didn’t find| below down the root His tail and white ks ran At st was than | once beg ial proper being more than away looked either. hearir to look and Next story: The Stranger With | the Beautiful Coat, | are the al advant le | marry Charlie in any | thing like s | for Charlie | husband, jana | would have Jing to | Of life, as | the | sort | don't | wife |be any CADETS PROVE EXPERT SHOTS Washington Men Win Rat- ings at Presidio ‘Two hundred and ninety-four of the 480 4 of the Pre officers’ training cory sharpshooter when the went recentl et mbe idio reser qualified mark to Mort either corp: t for tho: tar Among from the Northy who have qualified as Roy P, Turner, Virgil L Alfred G fleld, Edward 8 mstead, Fred J, Singer h M Culver and Philetus G, Cook, from University of Washington, Ase George W. Hanson, Rudolph J. Pau id Harold 1. Berry from the W man college and P L. Rielly ron H. Jennings, Edwin J. Fr Gronje and William P. from the college. sharpshor Ander Jaspi Sta Tilton in the face of considerable family op: position. I am selfish, Can show me any one who isn’t larg swayed by motives of self-intere it comes to that? I want to be I I want to be on good terms with my own people, so that Charlie will have some of the opportunities dad ean put Charli He hasn't anything, ac to the Abbey standard, but fair start, Dad's patronizing und mother merely because knows th se m 8 you tly in his wa rich cordin make as sin the ide she t or no opposition, 1 pressly to warn you, Na. Any undal now would b it would upset so many things Stella any won't © over ex well, “You needn't answered coldly foundation for scandal be.” don't know,” Linda Monahan came to § d of me. In fact, largely why I came." Stella flushed angrily “Well, what of that? “His movements be uneasy, “There isn't There attle a that she demand ed are nothing to me I don’t know,” Linda rejoined had taken off her gloves and was rolling them nervously in @ ball Now she dropped them and impul sively grasped Stella’s hands. “Stella, Stella,” she cried fet that hurt, angry loo 1 like to say these things to you, but I feel that I have to. I'm worried, and I'm afraid for you and your husband né@ myself, for all of u Walter Mon is as dan man who's unserupu lous and rich and absolutely self-cen tered can possibly be. I know the glamour of the man. I used to feel it myself. It didn’t go very far with me, because his attention wandered away from me before my feelings were much involved, and I had a chance to really fathom them and him. He has a queer gift of making women care for him, and he trades on it deliberately. He doesn’t play fair; he doesn't mean to. Oh, I know many cruel things, despicable things, he's done, Don't look at m like that, Stella, I'm not saying this just to wound you. I'm simply put ting you on your guard. You can't play with fire and not get burned. If you've been nursing any feeling for Walter Monohan, crush it, cut it out just as you'd have a surgeon cut out “Don't don’t together. gerous as any so isn't] opposition | returned. ! & cancer, tntirely apart from any question of Jack Fyfe, don't let this man play any part whatever in your life. You'll be sorry if you do. ‘There's not a man or woman whose relations with Monohan have been in timate enough to enable them to real ly know the man and his motives who doesn't either hate or fear or spise hi nd sometimes all three. “That's a sweeping indictment,” Stella said stiftl nd you're very earnest. word at its face value. If he's so im- possible a person, how does it come that you and your people counte- nance him Besides, it’s all rather unn Linda. I'm not the least bit likely to do #nything that will reflect on your prospective which is what it simmers to, isn't it? I've been pulled hauled this way and that ever since I've been on the coast, simply because I was dependent on some one else—first Charlie and then Jack for the bare necessities of life. When there’s mutual affection, companion- ship, all those iptimate interests that marriage is supposed to daresay a woman gives full for all she receives, If she dd she's simply a sponge, clinging to a man for what's in it. I couldn't bear that. You've been rather painfully frank; so will I be. One unhappy marriage is quite enough for me Looking back, I can see that even if Walter Monohan hadn't stirred a feeling in me which I don’t deny but which I'm not nearly so sure of 1s | was some time ago,—I'd have come to just this stage, anyway. I was drifting all the time, My baby | and the conventions, that reluctance most women have to make a clean sweep of all the ties they've schooled to think unbreakable, kept moving along the old grooves. It come about a little more that’s all, But T have bro away, and I'm going to live my own life after a fashion, and I'm go achieve independence of some Umr going to be any man’s ¢ again until I'm sure of myself and of him, There’s my philosophy simply as I can put it I don't think you need to worry about | me. Right now I couldn't muster up least shred of passion of any| IT seem to have felt so much| last summer, that I'm like a} down been me gradually ken sort ve since nge squeezed dry don’t blame you, dear,” Linda | wistfully, “A woman’s heart is] a queer thing, tho. When you com: pare the two men Oh, well, I} know Walter thoroly, and you You couldn't ever have cared much for Jack “That hasn't any now,” Stella answered and I respect him 1 stubborn sort of pride, There won't divorce proceedings or indal. I'm free personally to work out my own ec nic destiny. That right now, is sing enough for me,” Linda sat a (Continued in All right id, bearing on it “Pm still hi and I've got an 10 er minute, thoughtful. Tomorrow's Star) Littl & ¢ right own LAW LIBRARIAN QUITS JOB; WILL COME HERE C. 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