The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1919, Page 7

cote Breckenridge—young, beautiful and a than he @ Treckenridge ts ad to ub everyone is mildly tate dee home Racha: one, @nridge, rick with overdrinking neliehman, and how her fa lived ina girl's paradise ter In New York by Mra, Couverneu Paria she met Rreckenri whore first ter his Gaughter and drink, bat not to arrival of Dr, Warren Gregory, the Suny Rachael that he ts glad to make the pro fen Gregory and Rachael are old, (rue intends to divores her hushand Jett the home refiecting on this stn frat claim on his devotion was visited by her kine ands unhappy * iscuss the danger of Caro ype. But when Rachae father, Dr pines. Hr * with Dr, that he mi together Billy are entertained ugh to make her home c ly goes to her busba: sum of money, She leaves him wait the return of Dr. Gregory storm hite the village (Continued From Yesterday) At midnight there came a thunder ing crash on the ocean side of the house. “Oh, God, it's the sea!’ screamed Emily Barwick. They all rushed to the door and flung !t open, and in a} second were out in the wild black ness of the night. Still the roaring | and howling and shrieking of the ele ments, still the infuriated booming of the surf, but—thank God—no new sound. There was no break in the flying darkness above them; the/ street was a running sheet of water | in the dark. Yet strangely they all went back | Into the house vaguely quieted. Ra chael presently said that no matter what was going to happen, she was) beach te in bed and mother had taken her to There she developed nto a be Vomeroy Then nad come the years of luxury his second wife, F and highly effictent dachelor physician and friend of the Hreckenridges. nd's fllness does not need a physician. him o have this wonderful woman for himaeit pother, And he was very sure that he loved the wife of Cl ater. « frierdehip with 2 to her husband happy 4 and tells him that she intend and goes to Us who has gone te Europe |to the shore, | scummy | bles behind. i “By Kathleen Norri BY KATHLEEN NORRIS lever—ta ma G achael, A tn nin daug f nickname is Billy A in the strained relations be » Rachael and of her girihood, and of her mother's m hacl remembers the story of Engtand {ful young w Her love affair with » wife had died. She married tm Amertoa, with the ar ehael's ca al real plation of yal call, but that her huat Js She unburdens her hea romory is swept by a desire Ne Ned how his Mra, Haviland, who warns Affairs in the Joe Pickering—« man . whe is curtly tol od there they inst a en an emby ptiate a div ther, w and ge ward Irritat husband tnt to et a seashore, wher Ia September, aber the new world. The fresh wind whipped a glorious color into her face; the whole of sea and sky and earth seemed to be singing. Trees were down, fqnees were down, autumn gardens wer all a wreck; and the ocean, when she came was still rolling wild Hut it was blue now, and sky above it was blue, and and high the pure there was utter protection and peace | dearest Landmarks) all in the sunny air along the shore were washed away and beyond the first line of dunes were pools left by the great tide, and sinking fast into the to leave only a fringe of bub Minor wreckages of all sorts lay scattered all along the poles and ropes, boxes and sand too cold and tired to stay up any| barrels longer, and went upstairs to bed.| Miss Stokes and Miss McKim settled | ing deep, swept out of herself by the} their chairs; Emily|fresh glory of the singing morning themselves in Barwick went to sleep with her head| against her husband's thin young | shoulder, Somebody suggested coffee, | Rachael walked on and on, breath Presently sho w¢ there would his telegram, or per’ uld go back, and ren’s letter, or ps himeeif, and be We and there was a genera! move toward. then their golden days would begin— the kitchen. . *_ ee © *} Rachael, a little jusntnenes, See fn heavenly sunlight in exactly the! | their happy time! But even Warren today could not intrude upon her mood of utter gratitude and joy tn just lving—just being young and position she had taken when she| alive in a world that could hold such fow minutes she lay staring at) the clock ticking briskly toward 9. ist she said then slowly to ask of the storm with thie oo) lestial reassurance flooding the room. But after a few moments she got up and went to the window. The pt into bed the night before. For | a sea and such a sky. A full mile from the village, along the bright old homely room, and at) the ocean shore, a stream came down from under a cliff, a stream, as Ra- “Dear Lord, what a thing sunshine | chael and investigating children had No need|often proved to their own satisfac tion, that rose in a small but emi nently satisfactory cave. The storm had washed several great smooth logs of driftwood into the cave, and er when shew man, tendia you! and atteme te home. he takes up residence nd hi | luxury, she yearns for the more complete | At the exclusive Long Istand © her husband, At the luxurte arried life in California, Upatatr mother's marriage to Gerald Fairfax 14 yoare old, There Racha and was brought back to epend a win Englishman ended when he died. To mother hia spoiled litt Hreckentides waa devoted t ended with the Me tells Dr, war declares | ne | had always held | ‘The next morning 1 that people a ieation that the past wae « tells of her unhappiness, and with whom he lived, nee Breckenridge divorce, and tella Rach During the conversation both wome) elder than hersetf, and a wortdly-wise 1d to leave the mat’ t lookin frankly mm the probabilit rane takes Carol at Rachael besides Arink 4 gives her a am at) village of plain folk © be is expected home, « violem y mying t ther things makes ne ly dete be, and that was beautiful enough!” “Oh, hush! she sald, laughing. her fingers over the mouth that praised her, his arms still holding her tight. “rll never hush again, my dar ling! Never, never in all the years we spend together! I am going to tell you a hundred times a day that you are the most beautiful, and the Oh, Rachael, Rachael, shal I tell you something? It's October! Do you know what you're gotng | | “Yes, I suppose I do! She laughed | and colored exquisitely, drawing her. | self back the length of their linked | arma, Do you know what that means?” — | to be in about 36 hours?” “Now—you embarrass me! Was was anything nettied?” | “Shall you like being Mrs. Greg ory?” “Gree “You don't know how much!" said in a whisper. ‘They mt down on @ great log, washed silver white with long years of riding unguided thru the seas, and all the wonderful world of blue sky and white sand might have been! made for them. Rachael's hand lay | in her lover's, her glorious eyes rarely left his face. Browned by his summer of travel, ahe found him bet- | ter than ever to look upon; hungry after these waiting months, every tone of his voice held for her a sop arate delight. Did you ever dream of happiness | | ke this, Rachael?’ “Never——never in my wiidest fights. Not even tn the past set ‘Tears came to her eyes she trees, battered and torn, were ruf- | beyond them today there was such a | months: fling such leaves as were left them | gurgiing and churning going on that gallantly in the wind, the paths eftll| Rachael, eager not to miss any effect | ran yellow water, the roadway was|of the storm, & muddy waste, eaves were gurgling, and everywhere w drip and eplash of water. sky was clear and blue, as soft as milk. As eager as a child Rachael drensed and ran down stairs, and was out ty} Blenheim Silver Made in Seattle With the spe eal intention of pleasing you by its unusual beauty and general utility At Your up the dentist. two evils. You're sorry you the pain may subside When germs of deca Procrastination mere Don’t allow yourself to be piles more in ten minutes at hands of our practitioners! Our men are considerate and the science of pain-prevention! their skill before the process COMPEL you to come! prices. com me- he could begin to stepped cautiously In and backwaters almost filled the cave | with their bubbling and swirling. Rachacl, with a few casual pushes of a sturdy little shoe, accomplished such surprising results in freeing and directing the stream that she fell upon it in “sudden serious earnest, grasping a long pole the better to push obstructing matters aside, and growing rosy and breathless over her selfimposed and senseless undertak ing. She had just loosened a whole tan gle of wreckage, and had straight ened herself up with a long, tri umphant “Ah-hi* of relief, as the current rushed it away, when a shad ow fell over the mouth of the cave. Looking about in quick, Inatinetive fear, she saw Warren Gregory stil ing at her For only one second she hesitated, all girthood’s radiant shyness in her face. Then she was in his arma, and clinging to him, and for a few min utes they did not speak, eyes and lips together in the wild rapture of meeting “Oh, Greg—Greg—Greg!” Racharl laughed and cried and sang the words together. “When did you , and how did you get here? Tell tell me all about it! But before answer her their eager joy carried them both far away After a Night of Toothache Suffering— After a night of suffering, you grab the telephone and ring You hate ta, but you do—because you think it is the lesser of He bids you “call at once” for pre said anything and #0 it ma get busy, victimized by Dentistry isn’t practiced the way home with be called upon to suffer thru whole DAYS of treatment gentle! They are masters of Come in and avail yourself of of decay and inflamed nerves Call us for an appointment TODAY! Modern methods — high-class dentistry — low These we offer you. Electro Painless Dentists Laboring People’s Dentists 4. R, VAN AUKEN, Manager Located for years at $.E. Corner First and Pike. Phone Main 2555 , until next timet they never let up! up trouble against tomorrow. your own foolish fears! it used to be. A me an aching tooth n suffers than he'd at the “What—didn’t trust me? “No, not that. But I've building, body and soul. I 4 oon re t think still | aide. of the future or the past was all the] The augmented Uttle river was) present.” i the| three times its usual size, and was “SVith me,” he enld, “it was all and the air/ further made unmanageable by the/ future. I've been counting the days impeding logs swept in b the high/| I've not dome that since I wan at tide. Straw and weeds and rubbiah| school! Rachael, do you remember of every description choked its| our talk the night after the Berry ~ | course, and little foaming currents | Stokes’ dinner? “Do I remember it?” “Ah, my dear, if any one had said that night that in «ix months we would be sitting here, and that you would have promised yourself to me! | You don’t know what my wife is go- jing to mean to me, my dearest. 1) Jcan’t believe it yett* | It is going to mean everything | in life to me," ahe said, seriously. | “I mean to be the beet wife a man ever had. If loving counts— | “De you mean that?’ he sald, eagerly. “Say tt~do you mean that! you love me } “Love you?” She stood up, press ing both hands over her heart as if| there were real pain there. For a| few paces she walked away from) | him, and, as he followed her, she! turned upon him the extraordinary beauty of her face transfigured with strong emotion. “Greg.” she anid, quietly, “I didnt know there was such love! I've heard it called fire and pain and restless ness, but this thing is me! It is burn ing in me like flame, it is consuming | ne! To be with you"—she caught his | wrist with one hand, and with her free hand pointed out across the smiling ocean—"to be with you and | know you were mine, I could walk straight out tmto that water, and end it all, and be glad—lad—giad of the “Love you?” he again the lips she asked, Ided claiming | ith such ja delicious widenin ” her eyes and} | quickening of breath | “You see, Warren,” sho said, pres. $12.65 Winter Suits $17.75 $24.25 $29.75 $8.45, $11.35, $ — »s and plaids of tourin in little Quaker Bridge, | from the gr liverled s door and his Dimmic k, an inc ear at Mra y got b when still gasping storm. ently, “I'm not a girl. { give myself} “Your car?” Rachael said, “You to you with a knowledge and a joy| drove down?” no girl could possibly ha I don't] “Yesterday. I put up at Valen- want to coquette and delay. I want| tine’s—George Valentine's, you know, to be your wife, and to learn your| at Clark's Hills. faults, and have you learn mine, and| “Oh, that’s my nice lady—gray settle down into harness—one year,| haired, and with th children?” five years—10 years married! Oh,| Rachael said, eagerly. Do you know | you don't know how I long to be 10| her?” years married, I shan't mind-a bit] “Know her? Valentine is my being nearly 40, Forty—doesn't it| eldsest associate, They meet us in sound settled, and sed@te—and that’s] town tomorrow; he's to. be my best what 1 want. J—I shall love getting| man You'll have, to have them to |gray, and feeling that 4 and I| dinner once a month for the rest of |don’t care #0 much about going | your li |places, don't you know? We'll like| The picture brought her happy |better just being home together,| color, the shy lopk he loved |won't we? We're older than most] “I’m glad, Greg! 1 like her im people now, aren't we?" mensely!"" He laughed aloud at the bright] ‘They were at the car; she must face #0 enchantingly young in its re stored beauty, He had expected to flush again at the chauffeur's greet- ema man | ngruous note | THE SEATTLE STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1919 FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE : The Clearance of Women’s and Misses’ Winter Apparel A Time for Saving Silk and Cloth Dresses Reduced to $15.75 Reduced to | The Clearance in Children’s Coats quotes greatly reduced prices on Coats in sizes 2 to 14 years, and in the popular materials — $3.75, $6.95, 14.75 and $19.85. 200 Blouses Reduced to $5.95 This clearance group includes Georgette Blouses with dainty lace and tuck trimmings, also Silk Blouses in Roman dark colorings. arply pa ate to $5.95. ALSO A GROUP OF 1 Mile | all wonderfully true: It was not a dream, married | Rachael seftied »o flying thru the soft summer sunshine, alone with eal “I'm glad she’s up to the standard | y,,. The linen shop, the milliner, down here,” Warren Gregory ob} dinner absurdly happy, and one of served Nobody seems to think|tne new plays—a sunshiny morning | much of her looks up in the elty!”" when she and Elinor breakfasted in Rachael laughed and leaned from} their rooms, and opened box yafter her place beside the driver to kiss) pox of gowns and hats—the hours the old lady again and to wave a gen-| goa py Nike a dream. eral good-bye to Florrio und Chess! vous Rachael?” asked Miss jand the group on the porch. As! .derwall of tho vision that looked |#moothly as if she were TnunChed in| econ eee oneal mal , . Jair the great car sprang into mo-| oUt from siseeseafacjeited tio he great, shabby trees over the “Not a bit! the wife-to-be an- little postoffice all swept by. They} Swered, feeling as she said it that| passed the turning that led to|her hands, busy with long gloves, Clark’s Bar, and a weathe rn| were shaking, and her knees almost | sign post that read “Quaker Bridge,|Unready to support her, this was Greg beside her, and they were going to be back against the soft cushions in utter content. to actually touch his big shoulder with her own, to command ih inter- $19.75 $24.35 $29.85 Women’ $14.25 Broken Lines of Shoes in a Clearance Women’s Hi: Women’s Low Shoes reduced to $4.85 and Growing Girls’ High Shoes reduced to $3.85 pair. Women’s and Misses’ Coats Reduced to $19.75 $29.25 $34.25 $42.50 Georgette Waists $6.95 Reduced to $8.95 $9.95 h Shoes reduced to $6.85 pair. oe ~—THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE, 100 Georgette Blouses Reduced to $1.95 Round neck Georgette Blouses with lace trimmings, in white and flesh-color, sizes 86 to 46. Reduced to $1.95. laughing in Elinor Vanderwall’s em- it was | “It must be wonderful to marry a man like Greg,” said the bridesmatd, thoughtfully, “He simply is every- thing, and has everything—” | “Ah, Blinor, it’s wonderful to} marry the man you lovet” Rachael turned from the mirror, her blue eyes misted with ‘tears under the brim go eat at Boldt's—uptown, at ult 39 Aves ¢ 13 2d Ave. Indian Greg, UNTRIMMED WINTER HATS REDUCED TO 25c —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE, from all the conversational land-| chance! ou yesterday—but | j marks, and again they had breath| what is y, when you have| find her charming, but in this new) cance, a certain acceptance, in his|will—after these lonely months it| of her wedding hat friend. “Kiss me, Elinor,.and only for monosyliables, instinct onty| kissed me, and held me in your| phase of girlishness, of happiness, | manner was a memorable and an enchanting; “You!” Elinor smiled. “That 1/me joy!” said she. to cling to each other arms!’ Her voies broke on some-|she was a thousand times more! “Wife and baby well, Martin?” experience, Their talk drifted about | should live to see it! You—in love “I don't have to! asserted “My girl, my own girl" Warren|thing like a sob, but her eyes were| charming than he had dreamed. It] ‘Very well, thank you, Mrs, Breck-| uncontrolled, as talk after long #i-| “And unashamed, and proud of it!”| Vanderwall, with a hearty Kiss, Gregory said. “Oh, how I’ve missed|#miling. “All my life I've been| was hard to believe that this eager) enridge. r | ence must: now it was a waiter on) Rachael said, with a tremulous! ertheless, “for it will be your ou—and you're more beautiful than | a#leer sald Rachael. “I'm awake! girl in a strip blue and y wand! “Still in Belvedere Hille? the n liner of whom Gregory | laugh. Are you all ready? Shall| fault entirely if there's ever the ever—did you know it? More beau. | no’ I'm awake now! 1 begin to| purple skirt, and rough white crash Vell, just at present, yea, madam.”| spoke, or perhaps the story of a|/ we go down? She turned at the/ tlest, teeniest cloud in the sky!” luitul even than I remembered you to| realize how helpless one in—to realize | hat, was the bored, the remote, the| You see, I am looking for eultable| small child's rescue from the waves,|door and put one arm about her (Continued tomorrow) _ __ a —_______ | what I should have done !f you| much-feared Mrs. Clarence Brecken-| quarters for all hands,” Dr. Gregory|from Rachael. They spoke of the|-————— ~ hadn't come—" | ridge. Something free and sweet and| said, bis laugh drowning hers, bis|roads, splendidly hard and clean My darling™ Gregory said, hin|virginal had come back to her, or| eyes feasting on her delicious con-|after the rain, and of the villages rms about her, “what elee—feeling| been born in her. She was like no| fusion. She was aware that feminine! thru which they rushed. | q # we feol—could T have done?” | phase of the many phases in which| eyes from the house were watching| 24: over their late luncheon, in a Held in his embrace, she restea|he had known her; she was @ Ra-|her, Presently she had kissed Mrs. oy |her hands upon his shoulders, and|chael who had never known the sor-|Dimmick good-bye. Warren had put |Tosdside inn, the talk fell Into deeper | looked wistfully into his eyes. |did, the disillusioning side of Hfe.) his man in the tonneau; he would| grooves, their letters, their loneli aig | “It is as we feel, inn’t it?” she| Even her seriousness had the confl- | take the wheel himself for the three/ ness, and their new plans, and when) | mata. I mean, it isn't only me?| dent, eager quality of youth, and her | hours’ run into town the car at last reached the trafic of | a 3 You—you love me |gayety was as pure a child’s.| “Good-bye, my dear!” said tho old|the big bridge, and Rachael caught} Looking down at her dropped, vel-| She had cast off the old sophistica-| lady, adding with an innocent vaculty | her first glimpse of the city under its vety lashes, feeling the warm strong|tion, the old recklessness of speech;|of manner quite characteristic of|thousand smoking chimneys, there | Th d ed Hate: dartiens Sealing, She warm crete, (8 Tete tad 1p the Susie eden MERC cee toee WNC End eet e damaged stock from the | close as he did all her glowing and| old associates. The world for her was/ the weddin's goin’ to be!" + la new sacred element, something |fragrant beauty, Warren Gregory|all in him and their love for & ach} “I'll let you know right now,” id|infinitely tender and almost sad, a s |felt it the most exquisite moment of|other, and she walked back to] Dr. Gregory, who, gloved and coated, | dependence upon each other, a one: Whiton Ha his life. Her youth, her history, her|Quaker Brid at his side, too/ was bustling about the car, deep in|ness in which Rachael could get a wonderful poise and sureness so in-| wholly swept away from all self-con-|the mysterious rites incidental to|foretaste of the exquisite communion | toxicatingly linked with all a girl’s| sciousness to know or to care that|starting. “It's going to be tomor-|go soon to be. | n ° ° unexpected shyness and adorable un-| they were at once the target for all| row!” intiay desedeiantene aiesoubavearetl recent fire is still on sale at certain ties, all the ae combined to en-| eyes. . har rrief!” bag a thru a city humming with the first| thrall the man who had admired her}* *© & ©& ® * * | mick, delightedly. “Well,” she added, | -,, breath of winter. They were ° sstonal attention. many years and loved her for more| A wonderful day fc 1, many|“folka down here think you've got an “af dye He shaete Hip Rp 1620 Third Ave. u reason, “If I stay away than one. | wonderful days. Dr. Gregory's great) awfully pretty bride Between Pine and Stewart All those who have been busy with Xmas shopping will find it to their advantage to come in now and see a stock in which every item is marked special. Open for business Friday morn- ing at 9:30.