The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1919, Page 14

THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST &, 1919 BiG TiMBeER (Continued From Yesterday) “Haven't you got the least bit of | tment, Jack, for all this trouble} T'¥e hetped to bring about?” she fal-| tered. Why, no.” he said, thoughtfully * PAM you did was to touch the fire orks of. And they might have Started over anything, Lord. no! Put that idea out of your head!” “I don't understand,” she mur _ Mured. “I never have quite under | | Stood why Monahan should attack | Fou with such savage bitterness. | 5 trouble he started on the Tyea, then this crimtna! firing of the) > woods. I've had hints, first from | your aister, then from Linda. T didn’t know you'd clashed before. I'm not ery clear on that yet. But you Knew all the time what he was. Why @idn’t you tel! me, Jack?" | “Well, maybe I should have,” Fyfe) BAmitted. “Hut I coulin’t very well. Don't you seo? He wamn't even an Incident, until he bobbed up and res. ‘ued you that day. I couldn't, then, ptart in picking his character to} as 4 matter of precaution. We & sort of an armed truce. He} Me strictly alone. I'd trimmed claws once or twice already. I was acute enough to see ‘opportunity to get a whack at me You. You were just living from | to day, creating a world of tb for yourself, nourishing your with dreams, smarting under a Tegret for lot you thought Ml passed up for good. He wasn't factor, at first. When he did finally in you an emotion I had failed to it was too late for me to do! gay anything. If I'd tried, at that age of the game, to show you your Clay feet, you'd have despised | ‘as well as refused to believe. I) "t do anything but stand back trust the real woman of you to) coPprrRian BY BERTRAND AVTHNOR OF “NORTH make him squirm more than for me|Monohan was a star athlete to checkmate him. That day I cuffed him and choked him on the Point re ally started him properly, After that, you—as something to be desired and possessed—ran second to his feeling against ma Hoe was bound to try and play even, regardiess of you. Wien he precipitated that row on th, Tyee, I knew it was going to be a@ fight for my financial life-—for my own life, if he ever got me foul And it was not a thing I could talk about to you, in your state of mind, then, You were thru with me. Re wardiess of him, you were getting farther and farther away from me. | had a long time to realize that fulty You had a grudge against life, and it was sort of crystallixing on ma. You never kissed me once fn all those two | years like you kissed me just now.” She pulled his head down and kissed him again. “So that I wasn't restraining you with any hope for my own advan tage.” he went on. “There was the kid, and there was you. I wanted to put a brake on you, to make you go slow, You're a complex tndivid- ual, SteMa, Along with certain fixed, fundamental principles, you've got 4 streak of divine madness tn you, 4 capacity for reckless undertakings. You'd never have married me tf you hadn't, I trusted you absolutely. | But. I was afraid, tn epite of my faith. You had draped such an idea) istic mantle around Monohan [ wanted to rend that before it came to a final separation between oa It worked out, because he couktn't re sist trying to take a crack at me when the notion seized him. “So,” he continued, after a pares, “you aren't responsible, and I've never considered you responsible for any of this, [t's between him and me, and it's bean shaping for years out what a quicksand you were | Whenever our trails cromed I purposely rel to let you go, when you want. @ to go away the first time—partly ei the kid's account, partly because could hardly bear to let you fo. tly because I wanted to make Doll over and show his teeth, on | chance that you'd be able to size your castle on. was bound to be a clash. There's al ways been a natural personal antag onism betweén us. It began to show j when we were kids, you might say. Monohan’s nature is such that he can't acknowledge defeat, he can't deny himself a gratification. He's a supreme egotist. He's always had plenty of money, he's always had whatever he wanted, and it never | mattered to him how he gratified his m to take for, (way from me a woman and that nothing would fou Need Not Suffer You Must Drive It Out of “The fret time we locked horns was in my last year at high school From Catarrh tack the catarrhal polsons, cleanse |ao that he OF FIFTY-THREE I beat hat irked him od and sneered, and generally made himself so insulting that I siapped him. We fought, and I whipped him. I had a temper that him in a pole vault. I hadn't learned to keep in hand) those days, and I nearly killed him I had nothing but contempt for him, anyway, because even then, when he warn't quite 20, he was a woman hunter, preying on silly girls, I don't know what his magic with women t-. but It works, until they find him out Ife was playing off two or three foo! iris that I knew and at the same time keeping a woman in apartments down town-—« girl he'd picked up on a trip to Georgia—tike any confirmed rounder, “Well, from that time on, he hated me, always laid for a chance to sting mea, We went to Princeton the same year, We collided there, so bard that when word of it got to my father’s ears he cated me home and read the riot act so strong that I flared up and left. Then I came to the Coast here and got a job tn the woods, got to be « loging bows, and went Into business on my own hook eventually I'd just got nicely started when I ran into Monohan again, He'd got tto timber himself. I was hand lor ging up the Coast, and I'd hate to ten you the tricks he tried. He kept ft up until I got too big to be har assed in a petty way. Then he left me alone. But he never forgot bis grudge, Tho stage waa all eet for this act long before you gave him his cue, Stella, You weren't to blame for that, or if you were tn part, it Goesn't matter now. In satinfied Paradoxically I feel rich, even tho it's a long shot that I'm broke fat I've got something money doesn't Day. And he has overreached him self at last. All his money and pull won't help him out of this jackpot Arron and attempted murder are ae riow business.” “They caught him,” Stella mid “The constables took him down the lake tonight I saw him on their launch as they passed the Water bug.” “Yoat’ Fyfe mld. “Quick work I didn’t even know about the shoot ing til? I came in here tonight about dark. Weill,” he snapped his fingers, “exit Monohan. He's a dead ievue, far as we're concerned. Wouldn't you like something to eet, Stella? Im hungry, and I waa dogtired when I landed here. Say, you can't guess what I was thinking about, lady, standing there when you came 1 She shook her head. “I had a crazy notion of touching ‘@ match to the house,” he maid, #0 berly, “letting it go up tn amoke with the rest. Yes, that's what I was "| thinking I would do, Then I'd take ‘| through your body and nature will |} soon restore you Overcoats Added to Big Clearance to health, you wit) be relieved of the droppings of mu the Panther and what gear I have on the scows and pull off Roaring lake. It didn’t seem as if I could stay. I'd laid the foundation of a fortune here and tried to make 4 »thome— and lost it all, everything day considered, the lowest in Seattle—always. When these already low prices are severely reduced, as in our Summer Clearance Sale, all that is really needed in our advertise- ment is the price list. Woolens Are Still “Going Up” Clothes are going to be still higher this Fall. We advise our old customers to take full advantage of this sale, for it may be years before we can give values equal to snaps of- fered now. Newest Styles Included The very newest Fall styles including a .big line of younger men’s smart waist-line effects, go at sale prices. Every Suit in our big stock is cut in price—no excep- tions, Panamas Reduced Excellent line of genu- ine South American Pan- that waa worth having. And then all at once there you were, like a vision in the door, Miracles do happen! Hee arms tightened involuntarily about him. “onr’ “Our Itttle white house! “Without you,” he reptied, softty, “it was just an empty shell of boards » something to make me $60 Suits Reduced to $48.75 $50 Suits Reduced to $38.65 $40 Suits Reduced to $33.85 $30 Suits Ww. SINCLAIR “But not now,” she murmured “It's home, now | Yes,” he agreed, emiling | “Ab, but it ten't, quite.” Bho! choked down a lump tm her throat. | “Not when I think of thone little feet that used to patter on the floor. Oh, Jack—when I think of my baby bey | My dear, my dear, why did all thi |have to be, | wonder?” Fyfe stroked her glonwy cotla of hati | “We get nothing of value without & price,” he said, quietly, “Except by rare accident, nothing that's | worth having comes cheap and easy. | We've paid the price, and we're) square with the world and with each other, That's everything.” “Are you completely rutned, Jack?” she asked after an interval “Charlie said you were.” “Well,” he answered, reflectivety, |1 haven't had time to balance ac counts, but I guess I will be The timber’s gone. I've saved most of the lorging gear, Put if I realized on everything that’s left, and squared up everything, I guess I'd be pretty near strapped.” “WI you take me in as a business partner, Jack?” she asked, eagerty “That's what { had in mind when I came up here, I made up my mind to propose that, after I'd heard you were ruined. Oh, it seems willy now. but I wanted to make amends that way; at least, I tried to tell mynelf that. Listen! When my father died, he left supposedly worthless oi! stock. But it proved to have a mar. ket value. I got my ahare of it the other day. It'll help ua to make a fresh start—together.” She had the envelope and the check tucked Inside her waist. She took it out now and pressed the green slip into his hand Fyfe looked at ft and at ber, « fit- Ue chuckle deep in hin throat. “Nineteen thousand five hundred,” he laughed. “Well, that’s quite a take for you. But if you go part- ners with me, what about your sing ine?" “I don't me how I can have my cake and eat It, too,” she maid, light. ly. “I don’t feel quite #0 eager for & career as I did” “Well, we'll see,” be enid. “That light of yours shouldn't be hidden under a bushel. And still I don’t ike the idea of you being away en me. which a career implies.” He put the check back tn the en Yeloms, emiling oddly to himself, and tucked it back in her bosom. She caught and pressed his hand there, againat the soft feah. “Won't you use it, Jack? she pleaded. “Won't it help? Don't let any silly pride influence you. There mustn't ever be anything like that between us again.” “There won't be." he «miled. “Frankly, if I need ft, I'M ose it But that’s a matter there's plenty of time to decide. You ere, altho technically I may be broke, I'm a jong way from the end of my tether. I think T'U have my working outfit clear, and the country's full of tim. ber. I've got a standing in the bust nese that neither fire nor anything else oan destroy. No, I haven't any false pride about the money, dear. “| But the money part of our future ia a detail, With the incentive ve got now to work and plan, it won't tke me five years to be a bigger tond in the timber puddle than I ever was. You don't know what a daynamo I am when I get coing.~ “I don't doubt that,” she sid, Proudly. “But the money’s yours, if you need it.” "T neo& something else & food deal | more right now,” he laughed. “That's jwomething to eat” Aren't you hun- | ery, Stella? Wouldn't you like a eup ot coffee?” “I'm famished,” sha admitted—the Nteral truth, The vaulting uplift of eptrit, that giad little song that kept lilting in her heart, filled her with age and contentment, but phys fealty she was beginning to expert- ence acute hunger. She recalled that |mhe had eaten scarcely anything that | day. | “We'll go down to the camp,” Fyfe suggested. “The cook will have some thing left, We're camping Ike ploneers down there, The shacks Were all burned, and somebody gank | the cookhouse scow.” || They went down the path to the y, hand in hand, feeling their way |thru that firebiackened area, under a black sky. A red eye glowed ahend of them, a | fire on the beach around which men [squatted on their haunches or lay WOMAN SNED MUGH SUFFERING By Taking Friend’s Advice | and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. West Plains, Mo.—"I was all run down in health, had indigestion and | terrible cramps | every month so I was unable to do anything. I had tried every doctor in West Plains, also every remedy I could think of, ache with loneliness.” | ip er stretched on the Diankets, sooty- faced fire fighters, a weary group. The alr was rank with emoke from the burning woods, The cook's fire was dead, and that worthy was humped on his bed roll) smoking a pipe. But he had cold| meat and bread, and he brewed a/ pot of coffes on the big fire for therm, | and Stella ate the plain fare, sitting | in the circle of tred loggers. “Poor fellows; they look worn out,” she maid, when they were again} traversing that black road to the bungalow, “We've slept standing up for three | weeks,” Fyfe said, simply. “They*ve| done everything they could. And) we'ro not thru yet. A north wind might set Charlie's thnber afire in a} dozen places. “Oh, for a rain® she sighed. “If wishing for rain brought {t,” he laughed, “we'd have had a second | flood. We've got to keep pegging Away till It does rain, that’s all. We can’t do much, but we have to keep doing it. You'll have to go back to the Springs tomorrow, I'm afraid, | Stella. I'll have to stay on the fir-| ing line, literally.” “I don't want to™ she cried, re Delliously. “I want to stay up here with you, I’m not wax! I won't melt!* She continued that argument into the house, until Fyfe laughingly | smothered her speech with kisses. 2. © © #© @ *@ | An oddly familiar sownd murmur. | ing In Stella's ear wakened her. At first she thought she must be dream: | ing. It wag still inky dark, but the/ air that blew in at the open win dow was sweet and cool, that choking smoke. Sho lifted her- self warily, looked out, renched a hand thru the lifted sash. Wet drops spattered it. The sound she heard was the drip of eaves, the beat of rain on the charred timber, upon the dried grass of the lawn. Beside her Fyfe was a dim bulk, sleeping the dead slumber of utter weariness, She hesitated a minute, then shook him. “Listen, Jack! she said. He lifted his head. without relief. “Rain!” he whisper: od night, | filtered of |_ — THE SWEETHEAR® the original toasted corn Kelloggs the importance-of the signature-on package of every - flakes with their fresh-from-the-oven goodness—light, crisp, toasted to a glint. Our wax-tite package this—and more, because it retains all the nourishing food ties as well as the Kellogg which everybody enjoys, 4 Ask your’ grocer for Kellogg’s) Notice the wax-tite package; see) the extra trouble we take to please you. You will know the genuine package by the signature above., | She’s Player in | “Take It From Me” | OE NEW YORK, Aug. &—"rney li never enforce a ‘visit and search’ law on my collaret,.” snid Edith Dale, who has utilized the former repository of spare change to hold a neat litte half-pint bottle. 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At the| healt without it? time Dr. Hodgson was capsized = Tiny bottles of ‘‘ Freexane’” cost but a few cents at drug stores For special advice, write Lydia 1. also lost a rifle and b are and employed a div e Pinkham Medicine Co, Lynn, M pail a Maple 3 to search for them