The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 9

i MONDAY, FERRUARY 14, 1921. Cynthia The Wreckers|| Grey ¢ Fieals Lynde | (Copyright, 1920, by Chartes Berth were Mune) Girl Moping Life Away Over Mistaken Love— (Continued From Saturday) ’ ; The boss sat back in his swing Needs New Lease om chair ana t could just imaging that ‘ he was trying to get some sort of Life, Proper angie on this young fellow who, in addition to his other seoun Dear Miss Grey: Tam deaper- | dretisms, big and little, had wrecked Gtely in love with a man who has ithe life of Sheila Macrae I knew| gemed to care deeply for me But what he was thinking. He had a| T have been very {li for a number |theory that no man that was ever of months, and siace then he is die-| porn was either all angel or all tant. He always has an excuse when I |devil, and he waa Minting for the redeeming streak in this one. call him up and ask when he is/ when you looked right hard at Coming over. He says he can never/ine haggard face you could see feel toward me as before something sort of halfappealing in Please, Miss Grey, tell me how to! it: something to make you think win him back. I feel as tho I would that perhaps, away back yonder be happy, if 1 could see him just/nerore the spoiling began, there once, UNHAPPY. | used to be @ man; never @ strong Ne man worth loving will treat 4) man 1 guess, but one that might who (2 il in this manner. |nave been generous and freeheart firat duty is to get well and) cg maybe 1 got a fleeting little! strong again, duf you cannot do (M9) cinnse of that back-number tan Atle thinking adowt this MAN 80) Wien he turned suddenly and said muck | “On | Yne night a few weeks ago when Way not eccept his version of the!) 44 furl up, Hatch got hold of me matter and give him up? Dwelling aE pend acts OM unhappiness never docs any pood. on A = a Recap hi oon i He Bay to yourself that you will be |" praia. tatiana . a ;‘ Rappy, in spite of evergthing, You|™sl¢ me belleve that I ought to| lSennet Rete lived a prest many|#° oUt there and kill you, and 1 foera, dee ‘you would bnew that |*tarted to do tt Do you know why | there are real men in the world who |! ns ey Gk Pa. * foe the friendship and towe | ou ~ sold the chief, mighty of @ worth-while gir There's muon |!" q lice ter and. cou wilt find your}, “Well, TU tell you. One night ighere of happiness you look con. {st spring up at the Bullard you Réently for i. med me one in the face and ® . dragged me off to my room to keep me from making a bigger ass of Picture aa myself than I'd already made, I Writing haven't forgotten that. In all these Dear Miss Grey: Who Is the best |crooked years, nobody has ever | MBformed man in the United States taken the trouble to chuck me de | Om the Chaldean alphabet or picture ? J. & D. The U. & National Museum states that Prof. Pawl Haupt, of Jghns Hop-| Bins university, Baltimore, Md, ts one of the dest known experts on cently out of sight and give me a chance to brace, Drunk as I was, I remembered it that night when I was climbing up to a window in the major’s house and trying to get a shot at you.” | o pictographs in the United) Mr. Norcross shook his head, 4 hare more than half aympathetically, I thought Halibut Not “Let that part of f go and tell ‘Missing Link me about this other trouble.” he lsaid. “How badly are you tangled Dear Miss Grey: I have heard that the head of the halibut resem- Dies the human head. Is this so? MIKE. ‘The halidut dears no resemblance te @ human hecd cee Work in Dept. of Interior up im this politioal business? “I've given it to you straight on the bribing proposition. Uncle Breck used me as @ money carrier because—well, maybe It was be cause he couldn't tryst Bullock. I didn't know definitely what Bullock was doing with the checks I cashed for him, tho I supposed, of course, Dear Miss Grey: How may I ob-/it was something that wouldn't ‘tain @ position in the interior do |stand daylight It was only a side é Partment for gathering statistical issue with me, I was coming out R F. D. Ali clerical positions of this char- @cter im the United States govern- ment service are under the civil ser- lee commission, which conducts ex- Gminations for various positions here anyway. I knew Sheila had made up her mind—God knows she's had cause enough; but I had @ crazy notion that I'd like to be| jon the same side of the earth with her again for just a little while. time to time. Address a ict-|'Then thie—" he trailed off in a 4 8. Civil |padbie of maledictions poured out} Bervice Commission, Washington, D.| upon the man who bad trapped him and used him. | The boss straightened himself tn his chair, but he still was speaking to take examination, and in- ion and proper blanks will be to you. gently when he said: fs sey a “You are not asking my advice, | Gift Boz for Little and I don’t owe you anything, per-| 'Sick-Abed Folks sonally, Mr. Collingwood But I'ti/ say to you what I might say to a , peing eas Lg ying chi |better man in like clroumstances. | dren. You have done all the @arm you Tt takes se little to please « chiid,|%>- Ut as 1 see It, there doesn't | Phat one can well afford to remem-|"**™ to be any feed of your stay-) Ber small people who are iil. Getting |! here to suffer the consequences | things thru the moll is always a| WY don't you go back to New great event, s0 even a line or two| York, taking your wife with you, | toritten on attractive nursery or|!t she will go?” paper will change the com-| Collingwood's smile was a mere of @ whole day. teeth baring grimace. | @ card is better then moth-| “Shella made her wedding journey | is something very en-|With me once, when she was just | mere opening of an eighteen. The next time she rides | with me it will be at my funeral. | Oh, I've earned it, and I'm not) kicking. And about this other| jthing: I can’t duck. You know/ what Hatch is holding me for. He told me just a little while ago that | if I stepped aboard of a train, I'd be arrested before the train could pull out.” It was a handsome Iittle precau - tion on the part of the chief of the| The knowledge that there ts some-|stafters. If a fight should be pre | thing new coming out of the gift bor |Ciplitated—if the boss should try to| mo will stimulate the imagt-|checkmate the C. S. & W. gobble— | end go a long away toward|the arrest and indictment 6f Prest-| keeping the actively inclined Uttle|dent Dunton’s nephew would serve | Body quict. bully good and well as a dramatic | pe bit of side play to keép the newspa- | A BUSINESS ASSET “If you really want to go, I think eT dln Me etek manners i can be arranged in some way, in | lepite of Hatch and his bluffing, fm the public schools is being agi | see yy, put in r- > . Norcross quietly, “So Nated in the state of New York | ta: as our railroad) troubl | ubles are con: by Dr. John H. Finley, state com-| ommeq it will neither help nor hi missioner of education. siggy then? der for you to stay on here, now.” “Good manners,” he declares, “not/ As if the helpful suggestion had only lead to added friendships, social been a lighted match to fire a hid-| Standing and progress in business,|4en mine of rage, Collingwood not only are one of the keys to sprang to his feet with his dull the gates of wealth, but practice in/eyes ablaze. Manners is the most valuable kind| «No, by God” he ewora “I'm of spiritual discipline.” going to make him come acrons Dr. Finley goes on to explain/ with those affidavit papers first! that training in good manners has) you wait right here, Norcross. You @mabled more than one person toltnink I’m all cur, but I'll show retain his self-control in a trying|/you, There isn't much left of me Situation. but hound dog, but even a hound “And self-control,” he says, “is the | dog will bite if you kick him hard @dge you have on the other fellow." | enough. Lend me a gun, if you've —~|\ of one and I'll——” “Hold on—none of that! the bons broke in sternly, jumping out of his chair to enforce the command But before he could make the grab |bing move the corridor door slammed |nolsily and the madman was gone CHAPTER XXVIL. The Denerter Mr, Norcross chased out and tried to overtake Collingwood, going as © gift bow is one Grove s is the Only Genuine Laxative far ax the foot of the stair. I went, too, but got only far enough to |meet the boss coming up again rom There was nothing doing. The sta -= tion policeman had seen the crazy rounder jump into @ taxi and go spinning off uptown | That settled the Céllingwood bus: tness for the time being, but there Quinine tablets was another jolt waiting for us when we got back to the office The first and original Oold and While we were both out, Mr. Van Grip tablet, the merit of which Britt bad blown in from his room| is recognized by all civilized nations. Be sure you get at the foot of the hall and we found | him lounging comfortably in the chair that Collingwood had just va-| cated. | “I thought maybe you'd turn up again pretty soon, since you'd left the doors all open,” was the way jhe started out, Then: “Sit down, Se Graham; I want to talk a few ‘The genuine bears this signature | lines.” Mr. Norcross took bie own chair land twirled it to face the general | superintendent. “Say it,” he com-| LSenr WHAT DID wow P WE'S UP STAIRS HIM ‘To MIS Room! Come OUT HERE | WANT ‘To SHOW you Page 286 COMING WEST 30 YEARS AGO A little more than 30 years ago, her soft hair waa cut short, she back in New York, a young girl) was slight and small, her eyes Agreed with her auntie and her| were wide and innocent, and she friends that it was time for her| looked like a dear little girl made to go West and help make a home to be taken care of. for her father, who had been in| Now ft happened that there had the Puget Sound country already | been no letter from her father Jumt before she left New York, but she had written a letter to him, many years. ‘There were trains by that time, of course, and a girl of 15 could travel comfortably all the way from New York to Seattle, but it was not Seattle as you know !t, which she found when her train} reached the terminus, We will onll the girl Aton, Well, Alice started off a tittle bit afraid of her long journey | ane, but all the time her mind kept running ahead to the won- erful country her father wrote about; the new city, which was a real city*now, and the scenery and the Indians and the flowers which Krew so easily, and Alice felt her- self a sort of Allce golng to j¥on Gertdnd, and she held her little head high and felt excited and im. portant and eager to get to Beat tle and her father, and being the “head of & new home and her auntie had written so that he would be very eure and moet her when her train drew into the Seattle station. Tt was night when she came, and the Uttle wooden station look- |ed bleak and dingy, not at all like the busy big etation tn New York with ite brilliant lights and pusb- | ing crowds, : | But po father came tn to greet her as she stood and waited in her car, her grips all strapped, ber coat buttoned close, and her heart pounding away In her throat, | She waited, and waited, and walted, Just as Auntio had said she must, but presently the con- Guctor came thru and sald, “I guene there's nobody*to meet you, Miss. I'l help you off with your things.” And he picked up her Pen — rtd et ngprtinors lugeage and started out of the ve guemel ‘Wi = Ou Alice followed him with « were going on in her little head, | sinking heart and a growing fear. for she looked like @ little girl; (To Be Continued) aearan ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton “TO THE STAR” One bright star kept staring and staring. Finally it spoke. “Say, little children, what's wrong?” ‘The eagie, or rather, the wicked) "We still have our magical shoes, Robadil Jinn, for he it was, Mew) but as the Jinn said, they are of no away leaving Nancy and Nick alone| use to us now, née are any of our on top of a bare rock above the|/charms. Above the clouds, here, we clouds. cannot tell north from south.” “What shall we do, Nick?" shtvy-| It grew darker and the stars came ored Nancy. “It is getting dark, and|out. They seemed quite near up 1 am gold and hungry.” |there on the mountain top, and the Nick put his arm around her pro-| Children felt comforted. One bright tectingly. In the other hand he stili| Star kept staring and staring. Final held his magic box of charms, “I'll|!¥ it spoke. “Say, little children, have to think, Nancy,” he answered. | What's wrong?” ~ And the children told It about their in his armholes, journey to the South Pole after the “I've Just been figuring a bit on | lost toys. the general outlook; you have a de| “cGoodnenn,” maid the star, “come cently efficient operating outfit} yp here and I'll help you. Your here, what with Perkins and Brant| magical shoes will bring you safely. and Conway handling the three di-| Hurry, for I can see the eagio re visions as self-contained unite, You/turning. The wicked Jinn may have don't need a general superintendent any more than a monkey needs two tails.” “What are you @riving at?” was changed his mind about the and he may take them aw ‘The star was right, for at that very instant Naney smelied hyacinth, and harms, the curt demand, | knew that the Jinn was near. No “Well, suppose we eay retrench-| matter what form he took, he always ment, for one thing. As I size it) smelled of his favorite perfume, up, you might Just as well be eav-| ‘will you do me a favor?” asked ing my salary, It would buy @ good the star many new crossties in the course | ortainly,” said Mick, politely. of @ year.” “Then pull me the little white “That's all bunk, and you know) mountain flower growing out of the it," snapped the boss. “The organt-| snow beside you, please, It looks #0 zation as it stands hasn't @ singl¢| much like a star I think it must be stick of dead wood in it. You know| related to us.” very well that a road the size) Nick plucked the flower, and hold. of the Short Line nt run with out an individual head of the oper- ating department.” Mr, Van Britt laughed a little at ing it tightly tn his hand, spoke to |the magic green shoes, Instantly Price 30c. manded briefly | Mr. Van Britt hooked his thumbs the sky. they were in the air, traveling thru (Copyright, 1921, N. I A) | that. (Continued Tomorrow) By ALLMAN LOOK AT THAT CAKE! 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Tell me—about her brains!’ I said, “if THAT is the gist of your story! “You must remember that Kath erino did some good detective work in the war.” “It turned ont to be good be cause no one ever suspected her of being @ secret service employe,” I averred. “Just wo! You've bit ft, Jane!/ For the same reason, Morrison asked her to go @round to some of the hotels and prove them good | or bad according to the vice cru- saders’ standards—of course she had to be up awfully late nights. And of course, she couldn't run around to such places alone! “And equally, of course—you eacorted her?” I asked bitterly. “She asked me tom” I raised my eyebrows, and set my Ups Now that I had Bob's secret, I wasn't as relieved as I had hoped to be Bob guenned my horrid suspicion and tried to end it with: “I don’t want to talk about that woman any more, Jane. She bores always bored you, friend husband?’ I gigeied from pure hysteria, a fatal mistake, as many @ distressed wife has dis: covered. “See here, Jane! 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