The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1920, Page 8

By Kathleen Norris). i By! BY KHATHMLBEN NORRIS SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPT od of her, and ist to make the move tomorrow | Le eNO AR Nt as RAE Mr Oi RAR i te oartot R chael “Looks aa if we were going to tr ariteis It had been far/it!” Rachael answered with equal nation with today, and Alice /aplomb as the train ran thru Quake Sas hendact 7 am Pato inet it. But it! Bridge without stopping, and wer ce er ) formidable. To| on With only slightly decreased speed © eee her husband again -* 0B n town at ten, And @ moment later sh Of her ons was in t away and take the! gather her possessions t Ue her horror she felt + me-—this was no|the conductor remarked amiably Mi’. ery. She quic 1 8 ey had planned it.| “Here we are! But she surely | Tut it had proved to a frightful he added Well, we'v strain, Leaving Jim, and then/only got to run back as far as the ch./Catching that heart-rending glimpse|car barn—that's Seawall—tonight Biwhen It came she could not eat|f the changed Warren—Warren| My folks live there TH. and she was presently poking like a hurt child who must tachael did not mind the rain Without a book or magazine, Sear a punishment without under would be at home in five mir Pasting except for a hurried halt | st4nding it utes, 8 imbed into a closed mf tea, and every instant leas Oh, what are we thinking about,| surrey, amelling strongly of leather Ba lees able to resist the coming to act in thin crazy manner!” Rach-|and horses, and asked the driver of her tears asked herself desperately. “He| pleasantly how early the rain had EEAAM the long trip home she wept, loves me, and I—I've always loved | commenc evidently did not fuletly and steadily, one arm on the him. Other people may misjudge hear her 1 events made no an ‘ will, a Q pressed against | him, but I know! He's horrified and|swer, and she did not speak again her face. There we w other pas|shamed and sorry. He's suffering) ‘Where's my Derry? Rachael's in the train, which was too as much as IT am, What foole—-| voice rang strong anf happy thru ‘The winter twilight ut down | what utter f we are the house Mary--Mary eh § @nd at last the storm broke And sudder it was nearly six| added, stopping, rather puzsied, in & Violently, but with a stern ané k now, and they were within a/the hall. “Where is he? ly persistenc T windows minutes of Clark's Hills—she| How did tt come t r, by wh im rain, and ° blurred with | stopped « g. and began to plan | dee How a such news te a deluge. When the train! terrible not quite fear, to the at a station, a n of wet Y Bridge?" | dering avalanche of utter Mingled with the odors of mack: asked the ce in, and| Rachael never remembered beginning ts briskly | ward, never tried to remember, The thelr iron pivots, as one who ex.|moment remained the blackest of al ut to wes meetings ns} pected a large crowd to accompany |her life. It was n he mubtl Taincoats, umbrellas the run back changed atmosphere of © house if eager, rosy faces « Hille.” Rachael said, no| not Mary's tearewollen face, as she Would be clad to get home, she el hat she waa alone tn the train. | appeared, silent, at the top of the Bo horsett to her snugety lit Don't know as we can get over| stairs; not M who came ashen Derry. 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Lee, pres sald here to Director General nt for that mmittee and grand lodge of meet in Washington on the utly ficers to name day men are pressing us too hard hold off any longer,” Lee We wore liked to wgit a reasonab! ength of time before getting an an Wer to Our demands, with the ex pectation of a decrease in the cost of ving A time has elapsed and the cost has gone up reasonable ‘Tree sparrows, juncoes and king ets come from the north at the be ginning of winter and depart north ward with the arrival of spring not the sudden, wearly little moan that floated softly thru the hallway Ho one of all t © things Yet uw | knew—Derry was dy ing. She needed not to know how or why. Her furs fell where she stood, her hat was gone, she had flown upstairs as swiftly as she knew nor Nght she knew what she would She went down on her knees beside him. Hor Uttle gallant, reckless, shout ng Derry! Her warm, beautiful boy geod in these few hours to thin ning Uttle being lly crumpled and tortured wreck of all that had been gay and sound and confident babyhood and me In that first moment at his aide it had seemed to Rachael that abe muat die, too, of sheer agony of spirit. She put her beautiful head jdown against the brown litte limp jhand upon which a rusty stain was jdrying, and she could have walled | 4d in the bitter rebellion of her Jnoul. Not Derry, not Derry, so and innocent and confiding own ¢ her own flesh and d, the fiber of her being! Trust them, obeying them, and be ed—brought to this r first look she had thought dead; now back from him, and caught her self with a quivering breath, and hands together in the ob as she drew temple to chin, his mouth cut and swollen, his © half shut. His body was doubled where it lay, a great bubble of blood moved with his breath. He breathed lightly faintly, with an occasional de that invariably brought the heartsickening moan. They taken off part of his elothes, his shoes and stockings, but he still wore hin Holland suit, and the dark blue woolen coat had only been ly removed. Rachael, ashen-faced, rese from her knees, and faced Mary and Millie With bitter tears the story was told j He had been playing. umual, in the |barn, and Mary bad been ewinging him. Not high, nothing like as high as Jimmie went. And Millie came out to may that their dinner was ready, and all of a sudden he called lout that he could swing without holding on, and put beth his hands up in the air. And then Mary saw him fall, the board of the swing | falling, too, and striking him as he fell, and his face dashing against the old millwheel that stood by the |door. And he had not spoken «ince | His arm had hung down loose-tike, | as Mary carried bim in, and Millie }had run for the doctor, But Dr Peet woukin't be back until seven. jand the girls had dared to no more than wash off his face a little and ltry to make him comfortable 1 | wish the Lor@ had called me before} the day came,” said Mary, “me, that jwould have died for him—for any! Jot yo | “I know'thaf, Mary,” Rachae! anid. | | "It would have happened an easily with me We all know what you |have been to the boys, Mary. But| you mustn't cry so hard. 1 need you. | I am going to drive him into town.” | “Oh, my . im this storm?” claimed Millie | “There's nothing else to do.” Rach nel maid. “Ht | may die on the way will do what she Dr. Peet couldn't have kind as | a : ' Have you taken advantage of our Clearance Sale of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes? This is just a reminder that there are some unusual values here; Suits and Overcoats, beautifully made, that sold during the regular season at from $55 to $85, priced now at aonett 's ‘ $47.50 $57.50 $67.50 Men who appreciate the value of well-made, stylish clothes will like the styles and the excellent all-wool fabrics in these Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes. he ts. Doctor Gregory—hia father will know. It's nearly seven now | We must start an fast as we can | You'll have to pin something all eoceaacnies art Schaffner arx Clothes Sho it with comforters. We'll put his mattress on the seat—you'll make it snug, won't you?—and you'll ait on Corner Second Avenue and Seneca Street the floor there, and steady him al }you ean, for I'll have to drive We : Jought to be there by midnight, ever in the storm. > “~ "I'll fix it,” Mary said, with one great sob, and immediately, to Rach-| ‘The car came to the side door, and clear tunnels of} the Bar until the tide fell—it was not)ael, starting nervously as a man's nel's great relief, she was her prac|the little mattress came out, and the wr Jamps it|yet full, Rachael felt her heart/ figure came about the car out of the | teal self |muffied shape that was Mary got if ing level of restless | beating quick with terror. It began black night, in the next second saw, | “And I want some coffer, Millie,"|beaide it. ‘Then there was buttoning | water mitten under sheets of rain.|to seem like a feverish dream, with a great rush of relief, that it she waid, “strong: I'm not hungry.|of storm curtains by willing hands, Anything more desperate than an ef-| Neither maid — spoke, perhaps} was Ruddy Simms. He was a |but if you have something ready, I'liland many a whispered good wish to fort to find the little belt of safety | neither one realized the full extent of | mighty fellow, devoted to the Greg- eat what Tecan. Did Ruddy come up| fachacl as she al 1 in under the/in this t pread of me the calamity, With the confidence of |orys. He proceeded rather awkward- and get the car today, for ot) and! wh Millie was ide r, at the | se t would be hard to sagine.| those who do not understand the} ly to explain that he hadn't liked to ee ape aad Pelee ye: Bice pgitant ny dive ey rdinary high tide the Bar was| workings of a car, they waited to| think of their trying to cross the Ho did,” said Millie, eager to be! uae if whe might the sea; now,|have it start again Bar, and so had come with them ful There's just thie, Mrs. Gregory \ heavy rain| But both girls screamed when sud-|on the running board. eS ee chadi|eald Ruddy’ mimme nervously, when denly a new voice was heard, Rach-| (Continued Tomorrow) turned to look at the little ire on! the engine was humming, and Rach sel) “ Cre the bed. Her heart contracted with| acta gloved hand racing the accel a freezing spasm Of terror whenever | erator, “they say the tide’s makin her eyes even moved in that direc-|fast in all this rain! 1 don't know how you'll do at the Bar She a was plenty to do. Shela night lke this; what with the ba rung into dry, warm clothes. | eating one side, and the sea breaking |She leaned over her little charge,| over the other!” put the . car [Straightening and adjusting as best) “Thank you.” Rachael said, not) straight into the heart of it, moving | shifting she could gently the little bod as was possible to the amaller | |mattress, covering it warmly but lightly. As she did so she wondered | | wh one of those long, moaning | | breaths would be the last; when| would little Derry straighten himself and lie still? | No time to think of that. She tied on her hat and veil, and went} out to look at the car, The rear «eat | was lined with pillows, the curtain drawn, She had matches, her electric | flashlight, her road maps, a flask of | brandy—what else? | Millie had run for neighbors, and | the chains were finally adjusted. ‘The jcar had been made ready for the run and was in good shap The big shadowy barn |the garage full of shapes in the lantern-light splashed and spatte outside; a black sky seemed to have |closed down just over their heads. | She was in a fever to get away jowly the dazzling headlights 1 in the pitchy blackness, the wheels grated but held thelr own. that was dancing he rain incessantly wan “God bless you! aa the engine hearing bim Jas slowly permitted b ind sen¢ apprehensive he released the clutch The big) glances into the darkne as she car leaped forward into the darkness. | went The clock before her eyes said thirty At the worst, we can back out of five minutes past sever Rain beat) thi Millie said she | against the heavy cloth of the eur “Of course we can,” Millie said. tains, water swished and sple hed uppresaing frightened tears with pr othe wheel and above the | some courage ing of the engine they could! ‘The water was ‘washing roughly | the elf ing fall of the chain against the running boards to an] There was no other sound exeept or the car would have had the when Derry caught @ moaning ince of being afloat, hub-deep, breath | ark'’s Hilla passed in blackness. Slow! slowly, slow! they were the road dropped down toward the| still moving. The car stopped short Yi Hai Bar, Rachael 4 fool that Mary,|'The engine was dead, Rachael D d Biss teem "seek or genotan oot | ueevtad Nor sabreor; ouonel cali) ee ir Needs Danderine t Millie was praying be and again No uae The car had Her own heart rose on a w stopped, The rain struck in noisy! Save your nie and double its beauty. You can have lots of desperate prayer If they sheets against the curtains, The sea Saal A croms this narrow strip between the|qurgied and. rushed about them.| 10M, thick, strong, lustrous hair. Don’t let it stay lifeless, bay and the ocean, the the fortune of the road, she meet it, Telephones, at least whatever Derry moaned softly And now the full madness of the ittempted expedition struck her for thin, scraggly or fading. Bring back its color, vigor and vitality. Get a 35-cent bottle of delightful “Danderine” at any drug ot vuld were on the other side, resources of all first time had never! toilet — to freshen your scalp; check dandruff and falling sorts, But to be stopped here yught that, at we she could not 1 The look of the a ko back. What now? should they, 24t Your hair needs stimulating, beautifying “Danderine’ when they | reached it, struck chill even to Rach stand here on the shifting sand ot %@ restore its life, color, brightness, abundance, Hurry, Si ~