The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 10, 1920, Page 11

By i COPYRIGHT 1919 BY EMERSON — ~ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS | orn state wishes to correspond with a | en unbaknown te Sim Gage, the most stor | respectable young woman who wi Montana, " a good home and lovt Afiaine,” set Matrim Mot raid Mary War Is it, the? I don't fed as if t 4 it. That S salesgirt. Annte discusses the Advantages of marriage CHAPTER IV Out there worn Hearts Aftame en are scarce. It's supp ‘They rose the next morning and! mand, Sa same as in your @remed in the room without fire, | well, here's a man looking for ¢ shivering now as they drew on ¢ |So'm L I've been look him ove stockings, frenen stiff | their morning coffee tn a chilly) Chartie Dorenwaki as I might be, room downstaim. Even Annic’s| even if he’ 1an. Fle talks so buoyant spirits seemed tnadequate. | damn much Bolshevik, somehow, Of A trace of bitterness was in her tone | course, the country’s rotten, but ft's| when she spoke. ours! Stil and all I'l tell you what “I'm sick of tt." JIN do, Six, with your ‘es, Annie” sald Mary Warren She pulled her chatr up to the side | ~ "And it's cold this. morning, aw-/of her companion, fumbling tn her fully.” “Cotton vests, marked down -— to what wool used to be. Huh! Call} this America “What's wrong, A asked Mary Warren, wrap closer as she sat. “I'd go to the take before I'd go te the streeta, tho you mi think it. But how about it w the discarts tn Derby hats a teeth left? If we two a © did so: drew eut be taken and the maid she. shall be taken er left. Which Mary. Heads or t the ceiling before it ok Why. nonsense, Annie— No, 1 Heads tnetated around among the bargains—we cant be when we're hunt bargal peiling. 1 Whether it’s all off for you at the 1 ov he atrest wit store or not ain't for me to say, but| where neither of them at first « You might do worse th ten to| mee it me.” | “Tails cafled Mary Warren faint Mary Warren looked at her in a/ ly, suddenly sort of horror. “Annie, what do you| “Tails you win™ said Annie mean?’ she dema | Squires. “Well, what do you know ‘The real reply came in the hard | about thatT™ ’ Mite laugh with which Annie Squires They laughed tke girls, each with @rew from the pocket of her coat—|atightly heightened color in spite of in which she also was muffled at the|all the m Dreakfast table-—a meager Itttle| Annie, newspaper, close-folted spread | ing, drew it out before she pased It to her| fly “You couldn't blaine a fellow for “Hearts Aflame!* sid she. “While trying to forget things, Sin.” ma? you have to dry your own socks, she. “Look at me I'm on the while you break the ice in your cof. street, you might say—they canned feet Can't you feel your heart me yesterday! Yes! that's the truth fame? Anyway, here you are—bar-|I wasn going to tell you— you gains in husbands and wives!” looked last night. and you “Why. us girls over at the shop, with your ey what they are. It nly chang t down mood we read these t egular.” she | it looks like Chartie had a chance, rattled on in exp’ r mouth | eh?" taf. “Look at uid | Mary Warren looked at her for « she, chuckling lence. “You'll ne “Wanted: A Wife. A well-to-do to tous a copper for a husband and chivalrous rancher of abu mdant | sure of that. If I were as h es in a West-jas you" hing to my ear, | of his own to!“ for mynelf, because I ain't strong for | 1 held tt batanced I GETS MEDAL | “Oh, am I? maid her companion “Men bhi around — wha s it mes passes, Where ar oon? Men ain't all b “How much money you pot saved Jup, Mary? she asked suddenly ‘Just one hundred thirty-five dol said Mary pass book. | now.” | bea I can do for| my life saving eight dollary and seventy-five How long will that last you and me? u're dexpondent, Annie — you t feel blue-— why, tomorrow we'll both go out and see what we| can do.” | “About me? I ifke that! It's you! we got to bother about. My Lord! It ain't so far off, this ad in Hearta Aflame! What you really do need is a man who'll be kind and chival rous with you | t got to that yet," maid en, stoutly, Mer color When spring came above the tey| i «of the inland seas, Mary War ren had been out of work for more than three hs | She sat alone once more one even tle room which after all and Annie had a wir iaa oe etain Her ocullst had tak ) from her seanty store of! Against a field of children § held in her hand his | of all races, Miss Audrey 4 tho she had s. yet hor eve.| / Tipp, colored child, 3 years y gone. Her and 9 months old, daughter of | faiture*; and| Mr, and Mrs. Reynold Tripp, anced, whatever It was adjudged most nearly per- Yow she knew that there was) 67+ child of pre-school age, in no hope. reeted the homecoming e¢| Manhattan. Audrey was mmate each nighttal with| awarded a gold medal. Her Annie by this time had| favorite pastime is tree climb- found harder and worwe pakd work | ing, » another factory. Eh path. aoe —— with her hands scarred and torn, ber nails broken and stained. She had | 0f as ge to the keer to a man wn more reticent of inte lor to men.” said she, suecinetly “Look over the stock of goods that’s along, Sis?’ mid she this evening babe ee On on her return, after he had thrown pare | her wrap acrow: a chair back. “How| “What could I dom | much money have you got left?! “Suppane you got married te your You look to me Mke you was count-|gentie and chivalrous rancher out “e West. Maybe you'd be able to stand “Not very much, Annie—not very|tt after a while, even if he @yed bis much. The doctor—gou nee, I can't| hair, or had his neck shaved round take his time and net pay him.” Mostly they have false toeth—defore | “You're too thin-skinned. What/they’li advertise, Probably he's a Jare doctors for? | widower. Object: matrimony; that ‘But, Annie, I don't know what | mostly ts a widower’s main object in| to do. I'm scared. That's the truth | life; and you can't show ‘em nothing scared?” except when you bury ‘em.” jon smiled, with her| rq die before I'd answer that! »w and cynical smile. “Some|sort of thing™ said Mary Warren! eagern: Well, hew are things coming | 1 Where Value > The Store of Ji own hands” Ag: © cynical amie mon ee |] of Annte Squires, 4 ba Tell Choice \]| “Your own hand» 49 yon! mean by that? Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday only. every desirable texture, color and design. $ 5.00 shits $ 3.75 $ 8.50 shit $ 6 6.00 shirts 4.50 10.00 shirts § 9 i] . macisina nssuss 6.50 shirts 4.90 11.00 shirts 7.00 shirts 5.25 12.00 shirts 7.50 shirts 5.65 12.50 shirts 9. e 8.00 shirts 6.00 13.50 shirts 10. MENSS YOUNG MEN S WEAB ilk Shirt Sale—25% Of wonderful stock included in this sale (except Manhattans). him to take any chances unless he falls in love with you ‘for ‘alr, | - P 7 aoe Which I wouldn't wonder tf he did. This offering includes a superb array of silks and fiber silks in Seas a-anuk Wee Mann, Pot 38 66 99 “Am tho you could be anything a aes else, you poor dearf’ said Annie Squires, coming ever and throwing wept, for she knew what Mary War. ren's surrender had cost “And game! Game and square both, you sweet thing,” sobbed Annie Squires ot - | hotty | “You would” repfied Annin “I know that. I knew it all along | "That's why I bad to take it Inte my “I might as well ten yon ree! | been writing te him in your name! | I've sent him a picture of you -I got it In the bureau drawer. And he's | crazy over you!” | Mary Warren looked at her with | wrath, humiliation and offended dig |} | nity showing tn ber reddened cheek» | “You had the andacity to de that |Annie! How dered you? How could you? | I) "Well, 1 was afraid of the take for | you, and I knew that something had to be done, and you wouldn't do it I've got quite a batch of Ietters from j bir. He's got three ired and| |J | twenty acres of tand, etrht cows a horse and a mule He has a houre Jwhich Is all right except tt lack loving care of @& woman’ w stack that up against this room And we can't even keep this for very long.” H “I'l tell you.” she resumed sud-/| denly. “Tll tell you what let's do! A stenographer down at our office! does all thee things for me—ahe a bear, come to correspondence like that. Now, I'll have her get out a| letter from you to him Chat will sort |] | of bring this thing to a head one! || way or the other. We'll pay that you can't think of going out there to || marry a man asight-unseen maid Mary Warren. “The first.” She was wringing ber | her cheeks hot. | jut now, as & housekeeper—” | After a long and perturbed silence Annie spoke again. “That's the rea live idea, Bis! That's the dope! You ht think of froin at there as a wekeeper, Just to how things | looked—just so that you could look! things over, couldn't you? You wouldn't marry any man in a burry You could say you'd onty do your | best as a sincere, honest woman why, I have to tell that stenograph- er what to write all the time. She's loppy.” “Hut look at me, Annte—I wouldn't |] | be worth anything as a housekeep- | |Jjer” Mary Warren was arguing! | “As to marrying that way | | “Latter say you're not asking any pay at all, You don’t promise | anything. You don't ask him to| prom: nything. You don’t want an w You don't let him pay your railroad fare out—not at alk You ain't taking any chances nor asking | | Every silk shirt in our | pounds on you, and you'd be a honey, You are anyway. Man al-| ways look at you—it's your fgure, $14.00 shirts $ le part, maybe. And you’ good 15.00 shirts Jand you're a lady, Six diel | “Tell him,” said Mary Warren | suddenty, pulling herself together |] | with the extremest effort of will and in the suddenest and sharpest de cision she ha r known in all her | life, “tell him I'm square! Tall him V'll be honest all the time—all tho Umer 17.50 shirts 18.00 shirts 18.50 shirts 10.5 11.2 16.50 shirts 12.4 13.1 13 13.9 SOUNSNS a strong arm about Mary Warren's neck, as tho they both had done nothing but agree about this after a doven conversations. And then she (To Be Continued Tomorrow) As many as 9,000 immigrants in Jone have been coming to the | United States thru the port of New zi sae | York. | THE SEATTLE STAR OF COURSE HE SMILES! 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