The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1919, Page 7

By COPY RIGNT fer opens with a dis (Continued From Vesterday) Clarence Breckenridge never was fm love but once in his life—no, T don't mean with Paula, I mean with Billy." And as a general nod. ding of heads confirmed this theory the speaker went on decidedly: © “Since that child was born she's been all the world to him. When he and Paula were divorced—ehe was the of fender—he fretted himself sick for fear he'd done that precious five Yearold an injury. She didn't get on with her grandmother, she drove gov: . for two or three years there was simply no end of trouble. Finally he took her abroad. for the excellent reason that she perhaps—and of course her father was dead, and Rachael was staying up until all night. Rachael moth. of course the child The funny a home. And I think ft was weeks, It was days Rot many days—liater, that realized what a fool she'd Clarence had eyes for no one bat the girl, and, of course, she was & fascinating little creature, and she's more fascinating every year.” | “She's not as attractive as Rachael feast, and Rachael ts neither. Any way, Billy's at the age now when abe ean't think of anything but herself. Her frocks, ber parties, her friends that’s all Clarence cares about!” “Selfish ass!’ said a man’s voice tn the firetight. _ “I know Clarence takes Carol and her friends off on weekend trips.” forme woman said, “and leaves Rach- at home, If Rachael wants the , the has to ask them their plane. she sccepts a dinner invitation, hy, Clarence may drop out the last it because Carol's going to dine @ione at home and wants her “Rachael's terribly decent about " said the deep voice of old Mra was chaperoning & ~excuse to be mn’ I breakfast up- because Clar to pour his coffee. Mer comes home Peter Pomeroy. Five nights a week,” the old lady nodding, “she makes him quiets the house, and telephones around generally that ‘Clarence has come home with a split ting headache, and they can’t come— a ty HERE i ONG L a | SYNOPSIS OF FIRST CHAPTER niry elub, at Helvedere May a BY KATHUBEN NORRIS he first wi club—a discussion of the Breckenri fdgon, [to dinner, or cards, or whatever it/with my niece, Barbara Olltphant,” |may be. But, of course tends to. took with which she goes about tt.” “Well, why does she stand itt" said Mra, Barker Emory, a hand |wome, but somewhat hard-faced |woman, with a manner curiously compounded of eagerness and un. certainty, “Y" know, that's what Pve been wondering,” an Englishman added tn- terestedly “Why, what clee would she dot” Miss Vanderwall asked briskly. “Rachael's a perfectly adorable and brilliant and delightful creature,” summarized Peter Pomeroy, “but she's not got a penny nor a relative) tm the world that I've ever heard off! } She's got no grounds for divorcing 1 don’t | antd claim that she Joves him, nor pro-| thing!—when Darbara was married I can Imagine the scornful | ° Peter Pomeroy. “And funny «a long stony, and fortunate | ly moved away from the previous tople; #0 that when It was presently interrupted by the arrival of two women, everybody In the group had cause to feel gratitude for a mere! non were Rachael and! THE SEATTLE STAR-.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919. nridge, who came tn a /f) little breathless, the throbbing engine of their motor car atill sounding faintly from the direction of the club | doorway. Carol, a slender, black-| eyed, dusky ekinned gir lof 17, took her place beside Miss Sartoris on the! fender, granting a brief unemiling not to one or two friends, and eyeing | the group between the loose locks of | | Clarence, and if she simply wanted to get out, why, now that she's! brought Billy up, introduced her gem erally, whipped the girl into some sort of shape and got her the right sort of friends, | suppose she might | get out and welcome!” | “No, Billy honestly tikes her,” ob | jected Vivian Sartoria, “She doesn't care for her enough to see that there's fair play,” Elinor Vanderwall said quickly “Why doesn’t she take a leaf from Paula’s book,” somebody suggested, | “and marry again’ She could go out West and get a divorcee on any grounds she might choose to name.” “Well, Rachael's a cold woman, and a bard worman—in a way,” Miss | Vanderwall said musingty, after a) pause, when the troubles of the Breckenridges kept the group silent for & moment. “Fut she's a good sport. She gets a home, and clothes, | and the club, and @ car and all the rest out of it, and she knows Billy and Clarence do, need her, In a way, to run things, and to keep up the) social end. More than that, Clar | jence can't keep up this pace long— he’s going to pieces fast—and Billy may marry any day-——" “1 understand Joe Pickering’s a ttle bit touched in that quarter,” sald Mrs. Torrence. “Yeoo—well, Clarence will never) stand for that.” somebody said. Little Miss Sartoris neglected the) Torrence grandson long enough to; | say decidedly “She woukin't loox at Joe Picker | tng! Joe drinks, and Milly's had enough of that with her father. Be) sides, he has no money of his own! He's impossible!” “Where's the mother all this time?” asked the Englishman. “I mean to say, she’s living, imn't she, and all that?” “Very much alive,” Miss Vander-| wall sald. “Married to an Italian count—Countess Luca d’ Asafo. His |people have cut him off; theyre Catholics. She has two little giris; they live, or what on, I haven't the remotest idea. I eaw her In a car on Fifth ave, not so long ago, with two heavy little black-haired girla: she looked 60.” | “Her sister, you know, was thick her smoky, eropped black hair with the inscrutable, almost brooding, ox pression that was her favorite af-| fectation. Her lithe, loosely built little body was as flat an a boy's, she! clasped her crossed knees with| slender, satinemooth little brown | hands, exposing by her attitude a frill of embroidered petticoat, a transparent stretch of ash-gray silk stockings, and smart ash«ray buck skin slippers with silver buckles. | She was an offective little figure in the mingled twilight and fireti¢ht but {t was toward her beautiful step mother that everybody looked ax Rachael Breckenridge neated herself on the arm of old Mra, Torrence’s chair and gent a careless greeting! about the circle “Hello, everybody™ she anid, tn a volce of extraordinary richness and sweetness, “Peter, Dolly, hello, Elinor! How do you do, Mrs. Emory?” There was an aside when | the newcomer said imperatively to a| club attendant, “We'll have some light here, please! Then she re | sumed easily: “I do beg your pardon. Mrs. Emory, I interrupted you--—" | ‘I only said that you were a little late for tea,” «aid Mra. Emory.| sweetly, wishing with a sort of futile | rage that she could learn to may ab most nothing when this other! woman, with her ineulting bright air of making one feel inferior, was about. The Emorys had tived tn Belvedere Hills for two years, coming | from Denver with much money and irrefutable credentials. They had! been members of the club perhaps | half that standing. But Mra. Emory would| have paid @ large sum to have Rachaei Breckenridge call ber) Vivian— |f) time, members in good |] “Delle.” and Rachael Mreckenridge ||| knew it. | ‘The lghts, duty poured tn a soft) | flood from all sides of the room, re | vealed in Mra. Breckenridge one of | [) those beauties that an older geners tion of diarixte and letter writers frankly spelled with a ae distinguishing her charms trom | those of & thousand of lesser degree | When such beauty ts unaccompanied | by Intellect it is a royal dower, and {ts possessor may serenely command half a century of unquestioning ado- | pital letter | ration from the sons of men, and all || the good things of life as well. 1 But when there is a sou! behind | the matchless eyes, and a keen wit animates the lovely mouth, and/ en cerenngg cern agence mM i! 7 Wait AT LAST “JUBILO”—Adapted from that popular Saturday Evening Post Story—Started Today l } ae The story of a hobo who stumbled nto rom: tittle the strange land of work and ance via a big train hold-up, A pathos, a wealth of smiles—a picture you'll want to see. Special Added Attraction “The Eternal Triangle” | Two howling reels of four-footed fun. You never saw anything like it. Every actor and actress—a dog. They do every- when the indication of the white fore | head ts not belied, it is a nice ques |[) ion whether great beauty be a gift of benign or malicious fairies. —s © wornan in this rodm or in any room | she entered could look at Rachact |}| pang; her #u- | y was beyond all argument or! And yet there was neither B complacency nor content in the love ly face; it wore its usual expreasion of arrogant amusement at a some what tiresome world. Both tn the instant tmpreasion tt|[) made, and under closest analynia. | Rachael Breckenridge’s beauty stood | aj} tests. Her colorless skin was as pure as ivory, her dark-blue eyes. | urrounded by that faint sooty color |} | that only Irish eyes know, were set far apart and evenly arched by per |[| ect brows. Her white forehead was! ow and broad, air was swept back from it with most startling simplicity, f her mouth was long, her lips a ving red. Her figure, ax she wat balancing carelessly on a chairarm. showed the exquisite curves of a woman slow to develop, who ts ap | proaching the helght of her beauty and from the tip of her white shoe to the poppies on her soft straw hat there was that distinction in her! lothing that betrayed her to be one of the fow who may be always in lividual yet always tn the fashion. he was a woman, quick, dynamic. mpatient, who vitalized the very at osphere in which she moved, chal nging life by endless testa and measures, scornful of admiration. snd ambitious, even in this recog. | nized ambition of finding herself beautiful. prominent, ahd a rich man’s wife. for something further ind greater, she knew not what. She was an important figure in this world of hers; her word was author ity, her decree law. Never was cen ure #0 quick as hers, never criti viwm so biting, or satire so witty No human emotion wan too ancred to form a target for her glancing irrows; nor was any affection deep enough to arouse in her anything but doubt and scorn. “I don’t want any tea, thank you. Peter,” she said now, in the aston: iwhingly rich vol that seemed to fill the words with new meaning. | “And I won't allow the infant to| h any—no, Billy, you shall not You've got © complexion, child; re «pect it. Besides. you've just had ome. Besides, we're here for omy two neconds—it's 6 o'clock. We're ooking for Clarence—we seek a hus band fond, a parent dear" | “Clarence hasn't showed up here ut all today,” sald Peter Pomeroy, | stretching back comfortably in his hair, appreciative eyes upon Clar onoe's wife. “Shame, too, for we had ome good golf, Course is in splen: | lid condition | up and two to play, but I don’t bear any malice. Here I am signing for | his highball.”” | “Well, then, we'll go on homo,” Mra. Breckenridge said, without, however, changing her relaxed posl- tion, “Clarence is probably there; we've been playing cards at the Par- malees', or at least 1 have, the tustréless black | the tine |]! 1 Katrina were playing tennis| briskly, “Why can't we take you | with Kent We go your child noon “Porter ridge entering into a confidential exchange George beat me three | of brevities with Miss Sartoris “Ti call bim out thru the liver,” said Peter Pomeroy, “the miserable catift! js, Billy.” rsty mecely smiled lazily at this; her eyes were far more eloquent than r tongue, as she was well aware. “Let her alone Billy | gerby!" FREDERICK &NELSON FIFTH AVENUE Bluebird Gowns Special $1.75 Sort pink lingerie elgth fashions these good- looking Gowns, patterned in bluebird and conven- tional designs. They are in slip-over > prettily shirred, an trimmed with ribbon rosettes. 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Men’s Work Gloves Special 35c Pair EN’S Gray Cotton Gloves in mixed effect, with clasp at wrist, good for driving and work wear, special 35¢ pair. —rie pownsTarrs sTORE. nd—who's the red-headed | home with us, Elinor? you were enslaving this after-| way.” will Minw rent ken-|rising. “You're dining at before | Chases’, aren't you, Billy? But Where are you dining, Rachael?" “Change at my house,” Breckenridge suggested commanded, “I'm dining room, | think, I'm all in,” ~inekard,”” ans indif and run him I'l brook no one. Clarence was Fascination Fled- said Mrs, Breckenridge “You may,” said Miss Vanderwall, 80 am I. | was going to change here. Mra. or rather in my But the clear and candid eyes deceived no misbehaving again, everybody decided, and poor Rachael could not bespeak five min- utes of her own time until this par- you're going, Bill! ticular period of Intemperance was] that he was dining in town, with a friend, talking business,” - “I thought it was the night of Berry Miss Vanderwall. “He wasn't there—I asked him not to go,” said Billy, “Oh——"" Miss Vanderwall began and then abruptly stopped. sald she mildly, cance. ‘They were sweeping thru the April roadsides so swiftly that it-was only a moment later when Rachael, reach- ing for the door, remarked cheerfully, teh ~where| ‘Here we are!’* over, Miss Vanderwall, setting her: self in the beautiful Breckenridge car five minutes later, faced the sit- uation boldly “Where's Clarence, Rachael?" “I haven't the remotest idea, my dear woman,” sai dMrs, Breckenridce frankly, yet with a warning glance at the back of her stepdaughter's head, Billy was at the wheel. ‘ didn't dine at home last night——' “But we knew where he was,” Billy said quickly, half turning, “We knew where he ws the older woman, He told Alfred A bachelor is given fair when a girl shows him a ph of herself when a baby, Stokes" dinner,” suggested Let's go ent at 1414 3d Ave.; downtown, 913 St. Paui Stove Repair & ete ra a % ue 608 PIKE A i “ont” in polite acquies- (Continued Monday)