The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 9

i 8 art Ol ‘Racha el Sit KATHLEEN NORRIS - SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS COPYRIGHT BY aol Mreckonridge—young, beautiful and clever—te married to a man who cares more for his wine and hie 17 ) OA davenie: an he does for Rachael, Altho Rachael lives in luxury, she yearns for the more complete | Bappincas A to Carol, hia dawghter, Her nick © Billy, At the exetus Long I Country | tim everyone is mildly tnterested in the strained relations between et and Ser husband, At Xurious Brecken tides by Rachael alte alone, thinking of and of he P arried lite in Upetates Mreck Qnrhige, sick with overdrinking, la in Rombere the story ef her mother's age to Gerald Qh Ragtishman, and how her father and ta aged When one @ : Dad tived in a girte paradise, There she a beautiful young n, and wae ane back ¢ n= | fer in New York by Mrs ewer Pow Paris she met Breckenr @aughter, Then n Rie daughter and post was © ° | | friend of the r she intends to d lett the firet claim Rachar talking # Vreckenride: ine wha, ‘Turkish of war from 1914 to 1918, and a ectniee an. 0 and |leader of the Young Turk * car oy meet frequentiy thra » ment, has been crowned king ¢ Oe hl hE 0 Hl Ral 4 tan, the Turkish region ty Billy are encertaingd at tea by ® mother, who afterward irritates her son by saying that Rachael ought to b tween Mesopotamia and Per ghourd to make bir home conditions happy, and get Nor husband interested in ether things be 5 ia. Enver, who is accused by the mally goes to ber husband and tells him th: 2 intends te get a He makes no protest, and giver British o ce cS fem of money. She leaves b fe she takes up idence in a srmeall village of n fs ‘“ of being rewponsible for walt the return of Dr On his return, Dr. Gregory finds her there I Turkey's entering the war, fled to nd they arrange to be married the fo day finds hereelt supren hap ho the reall Herlin in disguine after the armis wing ea divorced woman who married at times seems coarse to a » to her busha . Ste ‘teras uch a statement ta tecllsh. tows at tana has wever < ce, wan arrested, and then escaped Upon her daughter-in-law, who hae taken up thd Mre” Gregory are|tO Transcaucasia, He han beer Grawn from their seclusion into the social whir » entertain with « mard!| condemned to death by a Turkin Sevtume ball, Clarence Breckenridge come Ken » hie dauahter, Carol. "| court-martial, but has #0 far eluded E but her bushand insite she go thru with It. People gossip poy con” “Finally she and hin purmuers: r& om On ccean trip. y ——— i ae (Continued From Yesterday) Jabout something else than Warren? ude and affection as she had en-| Ut crying instead, and clung to her “Lu him because I ike) Joyed few things in life, ‘This was a| husband's shoulder “Listen, dearest!” he said, on the) nimr anid, than| purely natural symptom, that was a ot him have his sleep out, Mine Test night of their stay. “Will you be| anybody else in the world!’ perfectly natural phase, she must do| Snow,” said the doctor, “and then & darling, and not trail round the) “nd he Iikes you better than any-|thia thing, get that, and avold a/*Ponge him off and try him with Maks if we play tomorrow?" | body else in the world, I suppose?| third. | fooar" “Why not,” asked Rachael, absent: | vivian said, idly The fact that she was not quite} “Oh—yes—yes—yes! the baby’s ty, fluffing his hair from her point of] «j1o says so," Rachael answered, | herself in soul or body, that she must | Mother said eagerly, drying her ey vantage on the arm of his chair. | with a demure mile. be careful, must be guarded and) "And you'll be back later, George? “Well, wouldn't you rather stay up Then that settles It! Vi saved, was a source of strange and Not unless you telephone me, and on the porch with the girls?” laughed. But she and several of her! mysterious satisfaction to her as the |! don’t think you'll have to," George “If you men want to swear at/ intimates fell into low conversation,| quick months slipped by. Her in.| Valentine aid, Rachael's face grew Your strokes, I decline to be a party land the oller women were presen creasing helpleawness shut her qi adiant with 4 to itt Rachael said, maternally interrupted by Vivian's voice agajn.| naturally away into a world that cor ‘Ob ow then he is better “I know. But, darling, it does|“pachael!’ she challenged, “Katrina | tained only her husband and herself She was breathless Ike a runner rather affect our game.” Warren | says that she knows somebody War and a few intimate friends, and Ka Better! I think he'll be himself tomorrow. Console yourself, my dear Said, uncertainly; “that is, you don't ren likes as well as he does you" Play, you see! And it only gets you “I did net! protested Katrina, hot and musay, and I love my wife) scartet-cheeked and giggling, giving chael found thie absolutely satisty- ing, and did not mise the » that hummed on as busily and ga tal world | Rachael, with the thought that you'll this a y|#o thru hundred times with © to be waiting when we come up. It) Vivian, who sat next her on the wide| as ever without her. every one of your children fen't that I don't think you're 4 tiled steps, a violent push Her taby was born in Marcha) “Oh, what 4 world! Rachael eald @ariing to want to do it!" he added.| «On you did, toot one of the beautiful boy, like his father even in| 58!f laughing and half sighing, But in hasty concern group exclaimed. the first few momenta of bis life.| ter she said to Warren, “Yet ban't No use. She was deeply hurt. She!” Katrina murmured something un. hacl, whose experience had been, | !t » while went to her dressing table and began | intetiigibie to her astonishment, described cor a 1 her to have her preparations for the night with a) wep the same thing!*| placently by physician and nurses as then they had F downcast face. Certainly she wouldn't) vivian a promptly, “She| “perfectly normal,” was slow to re-|Come back to the nursery, to see if bother Warren! She only did it be-j sys pow that Warren did like her| cover from the experience in body; the baby really would eat, He had cause she loved him so. A tear as well, Rachael!” perhaps never quite recovered in| ®Wakened, and had had his bath, and splashed down on her white hand. | “Well, don’t tell mo who it is, and| soul. It changed ail her values of| was crying again but, ae Rachac Next day she triumphantly accom | break my heart!’ Rachael warned life—this knowledge of what the com | S@serly said, It was a healthy ery ¢, Trembling and smiling, she took the d the golfers. Warren had petted them. But her old sense of humor little creature in her arms, and when ing of a child costs, she told A «nd coaxed her out of her sulks, and) so far failed her that | that she was glad of the change. © could not whe was radiant again. When they/ help adding, curiously, “If Warren| “What @ fool I've been about the | the busy little Ups found her breast had said their good-byes to Judy.|ever cared for anybody else, he'll| shadows,” she said. “This in the re | Machael felt as if she could hardly and were spinning into town in the | tei me Jality! This counts, as It seema to me | bea exquisite incoming rush of ar that afternoon, sh made him| ‘There was a general burst of| that nothing else I ever did in my confess that she had not spoiled the| taughter, and Rachael colored lifercounta watching her, amiied In game at all; he couldn't make her be No, it's nobody!" Katrina sa She felt nearer than ever to War nfa and Mime Snov Weve that Frank and Tom and Peter) nastity. “It's only idiocy!’ She and ren now nd mor end, ws 1, too, But before she « had been pretending their pleasure) the other girls laughed in a sup-|him. But a new dignity came into, *!f Up to the luxury oF ‘ at having her go along’ Pressed fashion for some time.| ber reiationship with him: husband | 'e mother's tears fell hot ¢ But later in the summer she re| Finally, to Rachael's secret relief, and wife, father and mother, they | Saby'# delicate gown and tiny alized that Belvedere Bay was small) Gertrude Whittaker energetically de-| Wore the «reat titles of the world,|®od from that hour Rachael loved ing quietly at her bridelike infatua-|manded the secret. More giggling | DOW! her son with the passionate and © tion, and she resented it deeply. The) ensued. Then Katrina agreed that| He found her more beautiful than | intense devotion she felt for his i her ever, and as the baby was the center | of her universe, and all her hopes} are later, looking at the pictures and fears and thoughts for the child, | “ey of him that summer, or gossip and iced drinks on the Parma for a second, then she laughed scorn. | the old bridal attitude toward him | perhaps stopped by the sight of lees’ porch. Rachael had been talk | vanished forever, and sho was the|*0me white-coated baby in the ing of the emeralds that Warren wa: more fascinating for that. His love | *treet, ay to herself, with discovery came about on & lazy *UM-| she would whisper it in Mra. Whit- mer afternoon when several women, | taker’s ear, which she did. Rachael! Rachael among them, were enjoy!n® saw Gertrude color and look puzzled she woul “ -— ” | Slippery Customer || A vast amount of work now remains to be dooe which the io necessarily delayed end eccumulated and the result is that © ° °° °°? very large capital expeoditures ought to be made to make up for the interruptions inevitably due to the wer and to prepare the rail- tervention of war by \ a 4 a | SL Work more— Produce more- Save more— But we can't continue increasing our pro- duction unless we continue increasing our rail- road facilities. The farms, mines and factories cannot in- crease their re beyond the capacity of the railroads to haul their products. Railroads are now near the peak of their carrying capacity. Without railroad expansion—more engines, more cars, more tracks, more terminals—there can be little increase in production. But this country of ours is going to keep ee nght on growing—and the railroads must grow a “What geese girls are! 1 never - 5 ‘ having reset for her, and chenced to! heard anything 0 silly! Gertrude|for her rose Uke a great flame, and|that little heartache ail mothers sandie np cenestahenannety the th with it. Observe that Tiffany's man had said/ aig Several hours later she told) the passionate devotion for which know, “Ah, but Jim wan darting sed traffic throughout the i a 7 elry was " tor | baby After the firat . orem s i that Warren's taste in jew Rachael. she had been wistfully waiting for r scare he ner : fi astonishing wine vivun| 88, id Rot Cell her without some monthe enveloped her now, when, loomed ike @ rose. © ‘splendid country . Tocommand in the investment markets the “Rachael.” yawned oe 4 hesitation. It was so « it wag shaken in body a ul, whe wished | square. rc t who laughed joy WALKER D HINES, yi iti Te Bartoris, “for heaven's sake, talK/ jase lke that scatter-brained Ka, only to devote Herself to the miracle | ously when ndmitted to the company en otaepatntiks flow of new capital to expand railroad facilities ; —| trina, whe said. Rachael, proudly hat was her child. of his family and friends, and lay —and so increase production—there must | : serting that nothing Katrina When he was but six weeks old | COntentedly dosing and smiling when * : i FRIENDS OF THIS seus{rste sur sltornce's fos samme waren trum Ueto te tua oer Guble confidence in Ute fibers ontaiies GLUE ; s4 urged the confidence the little circle of his family and | ht. ‘ound him the most 7 ‘oa a it’s nothing,” Gertr friends with a severe touch of aum.|@CHghtfully amusing and absort of railroads ti she sald that Warren ¢ was untimely hot a @ would break ecatatic laugh > . 4 pm vie naka Redes! td a rly peng ter at his ott Cetawiel Tad The nation’s business can grow only as fast ae he liked Rachael Gregory! That | from 2 in his airy nu ed. or pressed lit as the railroads grow. 3 was all. There were two hideous day i a against t bare of hb ¥ stpiion | Rachael looked puzzied in turn for h he would take no food, anc ergs Sete aoe ie y ja minute. Then she smiled pre when Rachael heard nothin g sey . F 4 “4 ~Was Almost Nervous Wreck Agee Sais ‘walinar wise tne bh od home, her eager IA Vine ate Begun akin | nn ee ane Me ni | Spi | This advertisement is published by the |? 4 ve neve t tt) he an‘event to her to meet bis coach} ounds eye eg lien = a ats aa lttle ae she heard the ¢ eth | + fe f teen Pi a man change at much since mar-| neg ‘remonstrance of the. nurse |'® the park, and give him her purse CASSOCLALON O ilies J 2 re Ul a per When day came she was hageard|or parasol handle with which to “gince I began taking Tanlac 1| miracle to him. He ays himacit that) ‘When day came she was haggard) (1 Mt oid Mary, the nurse have gained thirteen pounds in/he gets happier and happier Se ee eee . FT a ode ts ‘ a weight, and my general health has! “Oh, Rachael, you're hopeless!) Diy, Wave Net Maly. Ble en pair of tiny white ahoce tt ne reltvend sttuation may obtain th wed # } my frienda re Ge: ned, and Rachael col-| . impress! o tiny countenance ano information concerning the railroad ritual in tera. € fmproved so much al bg = | Cererude lnughed, a Ract bl cece sind and heare—her first > bore the imprint of ¥ ture by ortine The Association of Railway Kxrecwlives, 61 tray. New York mark on how well I look. Mrs./ored again. She flushed whenever ; teen and touch them to her 5, oF } Mal) B. M. Lichtenberg, who resides at | she thought of this particular visit, | (uv%. Upon whenw tulle fae 5 Ghlmnitiais Whit: Vedder ent Seeis tha 4 4420 Forty-first street, South Sea ato tee ie ah ae yay ah 7 drawer, and bury her f in It for Wash, recently, Continuing, | Far happier were the days they | #°re) Uke © Ment old. and th , momen said spent with the Valentines at Clark's "i > noe eet Te tng ‘tina | Hoven in hie tiny babyhood he was] - “For yedrs and years I have asiale Weck than oh Ge ee ane teen be: Gedy canlor to mother fered with nervousnes ant finally | from little Katharine to the big quiet| >.” ear eet ; eres mssnitig te the plas : . became «0 badly run down I was On| goctor; she was not misunderstood|"“" Come to " fe ‘ns a carr t Became so badly run down wat On| doctor; she waa eye: “toe vue MALOT, Thou ead, Finds li ME breakdown. The least little excite-| swam, trampe Oh, Warren ae ae a 5 ° > In § they were living in ment or noise out of the ordinary ect tation tiréten Pretty sick, ¢ ttle cha 7 . W, fi R d H R t n, where Hart was employed Rent, or nolne out of the ordinary |earda, and tlk trewsy Tees tad + gd tector ife Kemarried on His Return » ears Sort Sas ares hours before I could compose myself. rai, Fo | My darling, I don't kno ; LETT § ghaic ‘ 19 he failed to return for — — c To the ¢ atint: é down. bie car honked at the| EVERETT, Dec. ¥41.—Shanghaied, night of July 19 unable to get I could get but little stew nd. night tion of both doctors she and Alice| She turned desperately to rice hago cic had the baby injout of Aberdeen on a @lue-water sprctph nied ites aie ee rch for him fatto put after nigh | h begins ane iene fem to be devoted friends, and when| Valentine when that good friend | hoe ‘arms when ashe came to meet | Windjammer t 1 for the South | returned recently to learn that his! 4/0 be je - cian aye iy Be lies side of th Sadie other, and| Warren's holiday was over. Rachael) “rt — Seer 88) him ans: EtG: FESEN Se Hart, | friends had mourned him for dead | joan tt was identified es that of eo rt role ere we bee to ™ 4 | stayed on, for a longer visit, and the|® 0’cloc Sein u-wander hat eventful | ana is wife } arrie¢ ee hie ; oan fn OMA Z would get up in the morning feeling | "*¥ ton, for I meer tat and a |" ‘badge; therW/A; been. 'ehasign Hello, Daddy. Here we are! How r aa | hat his wife ha marri a On-| ee fe "Gas net GAPd EW HOtBRN Mamtaed, & great deal worse than when I went | nen nip me car on ET" l 1m sure of it. Look at t are you, Rachael ‘ aa es saaacel dive toscana years r that the strange ones to bed, and in spite of all I could do | MY You ought to take better care of| "2%: *é¢ing. before h 4 answer skp Ghat yt ag ‘sory In the sGperior court here Mon was straightened out. On ber birthday this year ber hue rou ough t ca f \ sant. 9 t he l her or ay int ate fall! » . Elliott 1698 I just kept getting worse and worse.|| ot aot Cede : your wife, Greg wan Dr. Valen. @ want you notice apriat tay Mrs, William Mills, wha had After three years of separation I was alvo troubled a great deal with | and ga hel Gregory, 4nd her)’ | ts quiet alinost amiling anew Itallan socks, Doctor Gregory;| when they were back in town: en Mrs, Hart before his stra a derelict on the beaches of the y heirs and assigns foreve vomy,| tine’s quiet alr ling answer te . . sis: my stomach. I had a very poor ap: |" sh rover, & F IY! thin, “You'll have her sick next ow's that for five months Take not Mar . asked | disappearance, secured a judic de- Antipodes, she the wife of another Ve petite, and when I did manage to plain old colonial farmhouse that)” iw is he Rachael whisperea,| Mi. Gre Go to Daddy, Little) placidly, putting a fresh, stiff dress) cree annulling her second marriage |on a Canadian ranch, Hart and his\{ 502 Wash. Bldg. force down a little somethin it | stood ma Alice's house, in a ring of ba the Howsomer Bent Svar the bat Mister!" jover Jimmy's head. ceremony, performed early in 1919,| wife will start the New Year to. 705 Firse Ave. ¢ would sour, and I would bloat ter. | reat : me whe 9g tg on the Where gprs F All very well, but how's my No, but I’m serious, my dearjand rejoined the husband she had | gether. 4 woul ve such | @reen level surface of th i wife arren Gregory might ask, |g arre dregory said sur aiibtiientioeal biiieciloati mms es ply from gas, and would have such | 6 peptide rap. Syst Well, my dear,” eaid Dr. Valen-| Warren Greg ight § K, | gir Warren Gregory id su intense pains in my stomach after |chael accep h e A vi ; kissing her over the baby’s bobbing | prised - ly h She loved the big, homelike halls. ne, as he straightened himself 1 m "i ders | each meal I could hardly stand them. | &, hom ME | ree thie ‘tefha chow ¢ head. I I don't understand you. I lost so much in weight, was so| the elmple fireplaces, the green biir seca a owl pods ad agg to) “Lovely! Do you know that your| What about Jim?” | } badly run down and became so weuk| that shut a sweet twilight into the|Temiin With twa little while. Very—| won weighs fifteen pounds—ian't that Why, leave him here with Mary. | min. Re I just had to drag myself around, empty rooms, Her own barns, her|™¥ch Detter’ hae amazing? Rachael would hang on| We won't be gone four week and it was with the greatest diffi-|own strip of beach, her own side|_! sel tried to smile, but burst) nis tree arm, in happy wifely fash-| Rachael smiled, but it was an un-| Uy aX (e] 1 I Car culty I managed to do my house-| yard where she and Alice could sit ion ey went pack to the house. | ea t an affronted, smile. | beg, > work and talK@ she took eager ponse i — Warren, we couldn't! I e I had read a great deal about Tar of them all. couldr I would simp worry my: inc helping others and decided I| She went into town for chintze : KI" H would try it, too, and I noticed an) wi bles and chairs. She brough don't see why. ‘The child would improvement in my condition almost | old Mrs. Gregory down for the hou be perfectly safe, George is right as goon as I began taking it. At) wa and had all the Valentines nere If a »penec | h f anything happened + time I took a trip East, and a8|to dinner on the August evening | | but orge isn't his! This la the Season of ilac had not been put on sale at) when all the Gregorys moved in | mother Rachael fell silent, biting | thet time where I was visiting, 1had| Ana late that same evening when | |her lip, @ little shadow betwe Her | ug hs r Colds - Gatarch the druggist order omens toes 8 | Warten 4 arma were about her, she | brows. “What is it—the | re fainees ond danger, r cturers, as id no! nt tO) told him the great news. There wer 7 tion?” she p tly od. ¢ | nics a single dose for fear of losing |to be little fect running about Home ; Reber ie Le ‘TAKE NO CHANCES. Protect yourself end t nefits I had already received v" d a little voice echoing thru ‘se ta . fomil: en, an le voice echoing thru | V't absolutely necessary,” ” { t. Well, I continued taking it} the n ‘ “eg ou te mas e e t ren a 4 Vettian totter ail the thne,| the new home. 1 you be glad, | eters Warren said dryly, But this was 1 rh Aiea einwatite and | Terns, fre ea ren teeee inl hes ° enough for Rachael, who opened the . petit eyes; “shall you be just a little jeal-| U t H TOILET PAPER ubject that evening when George oer 'y ining foley tag + ee | ous?” | nl ouse and Alice Valentine were there | fering any ba “Ftachael!” in a quick, It 1S the Roll George, does Warren have to go| never troubled with pains or gas and | so) the improvement in my nervous con. | en whisper, 1d to belleve her.| I build the first unit of two rooms that °. to this London convention, or what: imaprovem And Rachael, caught in his dear| ba ‘ “ ives you ever it is?" dition is «imply wonderful. I have pent yf jon my acre Little City Farms in | * megnined my strength #o that my|*r™s, and with his cheek against her! wast geattie, You pay me $100 ORE Not necessarily,” smfled Doctor DS pusework i simply a pleasure to| Wet lashes, felt a triumph and a con valentine, “Why, doesn't he want se yo rete ata | dence rise within her, and. glorious|cash and move tn, Payments $16 (IMM fop-your Money fe to: “The right remedy in the houne wil froqunatly ward ee tat only he ago yicontent that ft was so, monthly with 6 per cent interest.| “fT don't want him to go!” Rachael | tight remedy in nk that only a few months ag shen oe ; ’ | | off dangerous illness or maybe save a life, j yo almost a complete nervous and| When the happy suspicion was 4/pinish the place when you can. It i asserted | i J. BEF physical wreck. 1 think Tanlac in a | happy certainty #he told his mother,| wi 16 worth $4,000 when completed, | Ain Fi Fi 4 “It would be a senseless risk to! The advice of Father Time is cound—have Pe-ra- remarkable medicine, and tell every-| #4 entered at once into the world) (no iris, f take that baby across the ocean,”| na ready for every day ille. body I «et a chance about it.” of advice and reassurance, planni | . | Alice contributed, and no more was e Tanlae ie wold in Beattie by Bartel |@nd speculation that belor . | AMERICAN PAPER CO, | saia of the possibility then or at any | Drug Stores under the personal di-| women alone. Mrs. Valentip #| H. C. PETERS Bob hi istrib: |other Ume, to Rachael's great con 7 ' : ob White Distributers rection of a special Tanlac represen- | Iso full of eager interest and coun | tent, ineial dyertionmes sel, and Rachael enjoyed their solic: | 716 Third Ave. Seattle (Continued Tomorro->