The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1921, Page 9

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GN To pe Taw’ Asour! “THeaTee TexreTs AnD Tau Ker TO oe Cynthia ¥ w rey Francis Lynde ~_ nema 1 aomtend hp ‘About Two Girls Whol k=——= —= Committed a Rash Act} (entinued From Yestertar) Because of Thinking in| “tt dave tt," he directed, ° ,, Ripley briefed the general #ftua Circles; And a Warn- on as tt stood on the night of the to Others in Similar engine mot in a few tore ~~ jtences, Aside from the fight on roumstances. \ Tower Consolidated, the new ral) roe policies were threatening to BY CYNTHIA GREY upset all the time-honored politioa Ie scapning the daily papers print- (traditions of the machinesoverned @@ Phreout the country, two news state, An election was approaching ‘Re startled ma partioulariy, One and the railroad vote and influence PE i ef @ young girl who commilted must be whipped into ling As the Decause she was aooused of erafters viewed it, the threatened ; the other of @ girl whe took revolution was a oneman govern Whe because she felt sure of fail- ment, and if that man could be re fm college examinations for which moved the danger would vanish. Rad overstudicd. | Beyond that, he gave the story Tt seems almost indelicate to 03!) of tine tuote, eo far as they had been Attention te any ruiotd ferreted out by Tarbell. The orders feo pitiful tragedion hold iad apparently come from political ty for scores of other disheart| veadquarters in the atate capital, oiris, {but the ution details had been} Bverybody reoltees that this RM iocncg ove to Clapahan, the polith| Serld containe many dscowrseed | ou) bows of Portal City, Clanahan's Bersons, but perhaps it ts only §T4| cnestors and crooks had been at could discover 4 eons © frat amv ORS OOS ee ety [And were thus enabled to Intercept wenn © “| our messages and keep in touch, the exact phrese whicn The plot iteelf was simple At a) dosens of letters from|certain hour of @ given night an) women of all ages, It sci-|Anonyinous letter was to be sent to} happens that the writers really Mr. Norcross, telling him that & weed advice, What they should have | fang of noted train robbers was ds @ new light on their troubles and stealing an engine from the Portal of sympathy The ten | City yard for the purpose ef run Ditterness often brings |Digg down the line ani wrecking | Many @ sad, confi-|the Fast Mail, which often carried Dullion express car, If the boss GO TOA MATE, GHe'D Drop _ peao! FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Raving written you this letter.” |the time came—and go in person to [} was “off her mind,” literally, and|stop the raid, he was to be over P abe “cheered up” im mediafely. |pewered and spirited away, a forged | haps the very beat thing te do|letier purporting to be « tine of) ease of melancholia ts to tell his resignation was to be left for ly a}t about # Mr. Van Britt, and a fake telegram, ery eften the morbidness which|making the same announcement, the suicidal mania t af was to be sent to President Dunton mothing more than thinking in in New York. Nothing was eft cl It t not always the suf- indefinite but the choosing of the of her soul which inclines the | night. woman fo take her own) 1 suppose Hatch was te give the . altho she invariably thinks it is. word. said the boss, who had been The cause often has nothing $0 2°) jtoning soberly while the lawyer Ih soul af oll, but ts some form iaiveg this there is no better cure than| “That ls the inferenon, Any night one, which costs nothing Wht® yoo were in town would an thme and the will to take it. *¥*F: The engine *to be stolen was Aeur @ day with the friendly *P* one which brings the Strath ‘ rh onc’s feet, in the SODA Accommodation in at 599 each tender the light of the sun, *YOoiNs, and whieh always etands the most wretched of wo. OV*F pisht in the «ame piace—on get Wife's values in the order “he Spur below the coal chutes (Hence it, was siwaye available ly gaye the word afier u | i : ; nd end pound from Mr. Danton, both ef which diasy and falls they doubtiess intercepted by means thinks im circles, Of the tapped wires” Mr. Norernss looked up qnickty, “Ripley, did Dunton kp what TTACKS FORMS OF was going to be done to met LE. E FOR YOUNG “Ob, I think not It wasn't at all rey: If you will kind,| Recemary that be should be taken me @ Little space in your @ om it He has been opposing ‘wish to express a few Your Dolicies ell along, and had remarks regarding the | Just sent you @ pretty savage call- ~ How often do we|towa. fle didn't want you in the Question asked: “Is the ‘fet plact, and he has been anxious ‘ing better or worse™ In|‘ get rid of you ever since. The we can truthfully exy| plotters knew very well what he better, but are we pro|Would @o if he should get a wire ample protection for our|which purported to be your resigna- ladies? {ruly, we have|tion. He would appoint another institutions in our larger|man, quick, and all they would whieh provide for the homeless|have to do would be to make sure jena girls of today, All this|that you were well off, stage, and tal iis ot Page 257 A BREMERTON STORY LL the time David was beap|man had fust started, and the ting the boys telling their| father had work to 40, and the thrilling stories, you’ remember | mother cooked for the mill hands Pegsy was off with the little girls, And for her litte girla and they told her the sort of sto | “It wae 4 busy fife, but che was ries they thought @ litte Peggy | much happier there girl would Uke-—the kind whien| “You wouldn't think anyboty glint a i £ z Very well, but have owe entirely| would stay off until the other man wouldn't frighten her, or make could make good things to eat out MISTER CRAce AS AMS US THe STeUGCT. the fact that the amuse |could take hold 2 her feel md while Daddy was Of Just bacon and potatos, and a Just aes nonce’ Gorn the Hor te 5 Oe Meta 6 J jody yng away from ber, | Uuings like that, but they my that (YOvRG DELIVERY WAGON WERE DowN RLAT ON ‘ “1 haven't been talking much about Milaabeth sald, “Once wpon a | she did, and she was happy. || THe SyiPPcRY "= 1 readers, let us stop and the details, partly because I wanted || time @ mother and father who| “Once ® month a man brought PAVEMONT. for a few minutes, the class|to find oyt if this young fellow, Tar. ople who frequent these dances | bell, was as good as the major’s 1 say at this time that I have| recommendation ef him, and partly mueh of the society, as well |8\ because I'm honestly ashamed, Rip Bnderworld life in our cities, and./iey, Any man of my age and ea I belong to no seprate church | perience who would swallow bait, @enommation, I hold tn high re| hook, and line as I did that night all forms of Christianity. deserves to get all that i» coming | often have I wached young) ¢o him.” | and mere girls wasting and| ‘You can tell me now, can't you?” some of the most precious mo | queried the attorney, ments of their lives, dancing with|” «oh yee; you have tt al-—or prac Some illbred, evilminded men, tically all, I fell for the anonymous Is kt any wonder that so many of jeter about the Mail hold-up, and| Sur girls have gone astray? Is it) white 1 don't ‘rattle’ very easily,| Wonder that our charity inett-| ordinarily, that waa one time when | crowded with tatheriess!1 jost mys head, Just for the mo-| poten In doubt a8 t/ ment. The obvious thing to do—if moewer, re ag Ged gd o> a0y attention whatever was to be we Jadge for YOUr| waia to the anonymous warning— was to telephone the police and the the mike of thove dear and der before you rownd-houge. I did neither because Myed in Oregon decided that they them mail, and if anybody needed would move to Washington, shoes, why they told bim, and where there was lots of land not when he came the next month he yot settled un | brought eho from Spokane —if “So they put a cower over thetr he could get anyt big wagon, put all the beds and| “One time both little girls need things inte It, hitched four horses ed shoes and the ground was cow onto it, and started off, the red with snow, but st the end of mother and father, their little girl the month the postman came named Ethel, and a baby sister. | without thelr abo, “It was a long, slow trip acroms | “Then the litte gtrts had t the country to Washington, and | play on the sawdust the mill it took a long, long time, but | threw out, and they had one won after a while they came to the erful place to play. A big pine Big Bend country, and then the tres bad branches clear down to father mid it looked pretty good the ghound, ang they were so to him; so thay stopped right thick int, no matter how it there and bullt a little house just! pained or snowed, the ground big enough for four, and™ beman | ae eat tree was alynye bare # KI | Low mound of ice and snow like the head of a large mushroom att oh 213} aN I thought it might be too slow. The etr livin, the traps set for you. thetr re } Nick looked at the map he had/ing to a beehive. Dropbing on their DRIVING 4 letter was urgent, of course; it said “Rut before tong the «nows 8nd dry, and they had potators Bx | . | all Christians ret tometer and pron) that Miack Tke Bradley and his gang || eame and the whole world seemed |" ten partion therm Jon ther trig to’ ces Oresh Pole. |imnee, teting toumoniven ta @ ext CARSLESS Owmse suet | Vide ether means of enjoyment and|**? Sirtady in the railroad yard,|] buried im it, and the mother was| “And thelr dinner wee 8 || “Phere should be a hut here,”|of hallway cut out of solid oe, at NGITHGR HoR SS WAS #o homesick and lonesome that big circular mw, and they pound she couldn't stand ft. ed on ft with a big stick—they “Bo in the spring they moved | were hapmy as kings, too, and love © pleasure for youn my |preparffig to steal the engine.” ONE pm oa WORLD. “So you made a straight shoot for —— the scene of action™ “T did; down the back streets and |he mid. “It's marked “The House of | the far end of which was # thick cur PREPSRLY SHOD = i Isbtu the Exkimo.’ tain of walrus skin. ql "Why, there it is” eriea Nancy,| “Please may we come int called FOR THS SGASon tt! | wp the mountain te a sawmill a |to tell about it all.” jpointing ahead to where a low|Nick, as he decided that as there |aecross the lower end of the plaza. |mound of ice and snow pushed up | was really no door, it was useless to fc As it appeared—or rather as it was aennee from the flat ground like the head | knock 4 i 8 is made to appear-—I was barely in/|line The rail connections were all;hill to the commiseary, When they! of a large mushroom. | “Sure, come tn,” called a cheery i gees an far with » woman / @@ @ little masculine remorse. ‘There were men al the en-|jn place, and I knew from this that|took the wag out I waid a few! That's, qu sald Nick, “It voice in Eskimo, but of course our |gine, and when I sprinted across! preparations had been made before | things and asked them what they| wasn't there a minute ago, because | little friends understood as easily as +4 the yard they were ready to move/hand At the mill step they untied| were going to do with me They |after we had come thru the golden if it had been American, because rami it out to the main line, I yelled at/my legs and made ine walk up the| wouldn't tell me anythiie except|door in the ice wall, I looked as har@| Nancy still carried the charm that them and ran in.” that I was to be locked up for a/as I gould ip every direction and|the Magical Mushroom had given | few days.” there wasn't a thing.” |them when they left the Fairy “You knew what that meant™ | “You must have been dazzled by | Queen's Palace, the charm that help- “Perfectly. My dropout would be| the ioe,” remarked Nancy, “for there | ed them to understand all languages, made to look as if I had jumped /it is, And I'm hungry, and a Uttle| They lifted aside the heavy, stiff | the Job, and Dunton would appoint | cold, and I think we'd better find the | curtain and entered, | a new man. After that, I could | door and ank if we may get warm.” At first they could scarcety see at | come back, if I wanted to. What | ir Green Shoes piloted them all for the emoke, and the only leht | fi ever I might do or try to do would|#afely over the ice to the “igioo,” | was coming from a vessel of burning | cut no figure, and no explanation | Hiskimon call their houses, and| grease, ‘Then they made out the fig: th. I sould make would be believed. 1/ they soon found the little low door jure of a man. | St had most obligingly dug my own | way that looked almost like the open (Copyright, 1971, N. FA) ot enough more of them, Hefore I usually " ope i by using this well. | ficial srave, and there could be no | 2 ea sicily ‘airty realized what was happening,| nown old recipe { ) | Pewurrection,” they had me truged up like a) «ru Te i imple and. cheap but i “What then? Pressed | Ripley: ( ION a ESSIONS O K A BRID BK e e e THE BOOK strnas turkey, gagged with my| ae equal for It | keenly interested, as anybody could) |own handkerchief, and loaded into| ‘skes right hold o see, . ee « OF MARTHA the cab of the engine. From that} ‘mmediate relie “You must have been beautifully rattled; to go up against a gang of thugs that way, alone and un- arnied,” was the lawyer's comment “I was,” the bors confemied sober. Ted vausenold eellance top| 1; “Of course, I didn't have @ ghost of a show, Three of them tackled me the moment I came within reach. I got one of the three on the point of the jaw, and they had| Thousands of housewives ha to leave him behind; but there were (Continued Tomorrow) “I saw Marion Sprague manyjher tn birds and thelr waya That/ture I refer to tt only to show jand the child, and remained happy eg ati ania ordinary eough ‘ ¢ ; om, it was ali plain safling. phy Bf pecs times,” Martha went on, “and final.|was his excuse for the many walks! why Marion Sprague was #0 obeti-}in the ordeal. But now, her state is “Then they took you to the old ist,” pour a pint bottle,| ‘There are 100,000 girls between! iy coaxed her story f her, At/they took in the parks! Meanwhile, /nate about him, I tried to disillu-|terrible, and sometimes I can't par lumber eampt” , an plain lated sugar syrup | the ages of 12 ahd 18 in the Girl#'\tirst Evan had taken only askind| Lorrie was sick, and I was nursing |sion her but she said I didn’t r don myself for my part in her trag- “As ist aw the engine could be| to make a full pint. If you prefer, | Reserve Corps of the Y. W. C. A. in |interest in her, she explained. He|bim!" j'ze what a wonderful man he was! |edy.” made to turn her wheela. They ise clarified molasses, honey, or corn | the United States and Honolylu wan like @ dear good uncly to her.| “How you've, been hurt, Martha | At least, not for a jgng time. Final (To Be Continued) were running against the Mail, and ‘ : Ie og Poids ode, ~~ ee | He paid her way at an academy for|deart Why, Fvan never knew or|ly I oonvinced her, but—did I do|————— 1 keep * - stage dancing. Bhe was tired of|cared a penny about birds until you |right? | J Sor humdrum office work. He bought|bought that bird-book, years ago,| “Surely. ‘Truth t reality. Lies | ALGIA | or headache—rub the forehead jubstitute. oothes and heals the membranes, and es ewe Coney om , po i they knew it. Arroyo has no night ta a family a long time. < CG er outfit for her. Do you see,|with your first earnings! It was an|are illusions.” STIFF NECK | ny | mi - ~ y are used in the privacy of in the crook of his arm, at the tele-| vraduall n have Pe eed hice To enth operator, and when we sneaked truly ast ing how quickly Jane, that such expenses accounted |eyent-—I remember it, because we| “Some persona never know what melt and inhale the vapore for his inability to save any money?|four, you and Bvan, Bob and 1,/lfe is because they prefer lies and 1 but surely the annoying The worst of it was that he used to take your book along on | illusions, But Marion Sprague | S$ ir wen pea pa My graph table in the bay window @s| ‘hroat tle le and dreaded cough dis- | footing ber bills even while he our little "bacon bats,’ the year we|found out the truth, finally, and the oe, pias Be sending, 7g0r Dame we passed,” arpear entirely. Nothing better for planning with me to buy bonds for|were both engaged. I can see it|obange in her was dreadful Aa VARPORU et a 60¢ box thru the Banta yard and past the penetrating through every air r store anywhere station, the operator there was| jessage of the ‘oat and lunge— Or tnta® Dut do not asicep, I saw him, with his head| 0osens and raises the phlegm Perot Sides Marshall "Miac | Ripley grinned. “We've been gty-| hronchitie, spasmodic croup, hoarse: —s { Lorrie, bonds which would mature |atill—we girls would spot the birds,|long as she believed that my hus Over 17 Million Jara Used Yearly ng that young fellow the third de| "mor bronchial aqthma nist ANALGESIQUE , |anout the time our son goes to col/and Kvan would identify them in|band was in love with her, she was gree—Van Britt and I, He claims! ventrated compound of gennine Nor. lege.” your bird-book!" cheerful and defiant. Disiflusioned,| 4 moat for your that he was doped; that somebody | way pine extract known the world over What a grand way to provide for! “I know, Just #0 he sold out all|she grew depressed and melancholy. |money. the best for BENGUE dropped something inte his supper| for ite healing effect on membranes. a child's education!” the intellectual interests I * ever|I saw her fade and droop. I knew mouth, — the coffee at the station lunch counter.) Avoid disappointment by asking . “Evan considered tt ® wonderful aroused in him, all the mental sym-|it was, in a way, my fault’ Had I atthe Pi His story didn’t hang together and| VOUT druggist for “2% ounces of -C. - |plan--but he put his own extra|pathies we cultivated in the first | left the man a hero in her eyes she iven by Yours for Comfort . nex” with full directions and don't a sy , Van Britt fired him. But go on. weept anything else. Guaranteed to jmoney into that girl's ‘career.’ Evi-|years of our marriage, He sold me|would have accepted her disgrace in| pR. RDWIN & dently be took entire charge of out for thep rice of an uneducated) (he ‘good’ old way, and concealed his BROWN higher education for when the | girl's admiration. He posed before} part in the affair; she would have| Seattles Leadis spring came be began to interest jher, you see, as @ man of vast cul-j protected him at any cost to béfself| yes Columbia Bh “We ran out to the Timber Moun ve ut ti | "Y'" the hose resumed, "and! Sromethy vefustet from that on up the old sawn Fe Keep a Tube Handy Thos. Leeming &Co.WY. on OF MoI y refunded. The Pinex ne,