The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 15

Dne Woman's tency Cost Her Love of Lifetime — Can She » Make Reparation? Dear Miss Grey: About a year @go, I met a young man whom I @o0n grew to love deeply. He called nd, as our acquaintance grew, he Proposed to me, and I accepted. However, the whole affair took place im eo short a time that I convinced Myself that there must be a flaw somewhere, I have always laughed @t what people call love at first wight. After much thought, I told my friend that I could not marry him for at least some montha, This ‘was contrary to his wishes, so I had to tell him that if he couldnt wait a few months, we would not see each er any mora So ho kissed me gbye, and I didn't see him or from him for a couple of onths Then, one day, he called up and if he might call I readily ‘consented, and when he came, he ‘Baked me tf I was ready for him yet? Of course, I had considered the Ynatter closed before, and felt a Itttle Dart. I mid as much, and told him I didnt ever want to see his face He was a perfect gentieman, ‘Bnd mid I never should, and since time I haven't so much as pass him on the street. T cannot forget him, and I am tive his love was sincera He me with such respect and . that there ts no room @oudt, Miss Grey, I love this with all my heart, and can’t x to think what the future will © Bde without nim. * Don't think this ts a silty school ia letter; it fem’t I am past 21, have grown up long before I have, Please say something. A READER. contest of your letter ts a fair of your personality, I would that you are one of those young women who, when think they have a man securely the string, don't want him; but minute he becomes unattcinadic, Becomes attractive. What you Dest do ts to hold communion your innermost soul, and de- once and for all this ques the man should appear de- egein, ready and glad to to his life with open to the Union as states? MARY Wetther Alaske nor Hawcii has admitted as a state, Both are es territories, eee Jacob Astor’s ealth ‘Dear Miss Grey: What was John Astor’s wealth at the time of dgath? | It wes estimated et ; eee Definition of jue Sky Law Miss Grey: What ts a bine law? MM ‘The expreasion “blue sky law~ re- to the prohibition of the srlling stocks and bonds of doudiful Cc Tt. $20,000 000. ction of | Aviation Record _E An error was mace tn this eobemn f replying to a question on airplanc | records. The error came A meter is 3.23089 fert. altitude record was made by R. W. Schroeder, at Dayton, On October 4, 1919, with one ger, he reached aheight of feet. At the same place, on 27, 1920, with no passen- | the record was $6,020 feet. CYNTHIA GREY. eee ks About licker” Dear Miss Grey: Please explain principal of the stock broker's cker. JOHN. The fundamental princtple is the eas that of the Morse telegraph, is the making and the break- of currents by electrical mag- ta. There are also other electrical agnets which are excited when a containing @ Morse letter ts hed, causing the magnet to lenve imprint of a letter. A miccession these ‘mprinta forms the words. e subject of the ticker cannot be briefly, for it ts too compl. and its development ated, VIsSks Over 17 Million.Jars Used Yearly (Nearly Always your next door neighbor can give you an interest- ing fact-story about the efficacy of Scott's Emulsion It is tonic-nourish- “%y ment unsurpassed " (a in qualities that Mi give tone to the =" run-down system. & Bowne, Bloomfield, M.J. 20-42 Ral @ clerical comfusion of meters) has | over many years of invention, | Poor Man's Rock —or— BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyrteht, 1920) by Little, Brown & On tarts on Page One) “MacRae,” he supplied. “Captain MacRae wishes to see you." | MacRae wished no conventional jties, “I have just arrived home on leave,” he sald briefly. “I find my father desperately i. You have a very fast and able cruiser. Would you care to put her at my disposal jso that I may take my father to | Vancouver? I think that ts his jonly chance® Gower had risen At his first glimpse of MacKae's pink-patched eye, the uniform, he flushed slightly —recalling that afternoon. “I'm sorry,” he said, “You'd be | welcome to the Arrow ff she were here, But I sent her to Nanaimo an hour after she landed us Are }you Donald MacRae's boy?’ “Yes,” MacRae said “Thank you. That's all.” He turned to ga Betty Gower put @ detaining hand on his arm. “Listen,” ehe put in eagerly. “Ie |there anything any of us could do to help? Nursing or—or anything?” | “There ts a girl with him.” Mac | Rae shook his head. “Nothing but jskilled medical aid would hetp him at this stage. He has the flu.” “The flu, did you say?" the young man with the long cigaret lost his | bored air, “Hang it, it fen't very |eporting, {9 {t, to expose us—these |imdies—to the infection, I'l say it! | tan’t.* ] Jack MacRae fixed the young jman—and he was not after all, much younger than MacRae—with a steady stare in which a smoldering | fire glowed. A constrained ailenc fel in the room. “I would suggest that you learn how to put on a gas mask,” MacRae said coldly, at last, Then he walked out, When he reached home he found his father | dead CHAPTER Mt Inheritance Four days later Jack MacRae ent | | staring tnto the coals on the hearth. }On the table beside him lay a pile of note paper all closely written tn | | the clear, smal script of his father. My son: (MacRae had written) 1| |have a feoling that I may never see you again. Not that I fear you will be killed. I seem to have an unac-| countable assurance that having! come thru so much you will go on} safely to the end. But I'm not so’ sure about myself. I've been told my | »| heart is bad. And lately things have | gone against me, There ts nothing | new in that. For 30 years I've been | losing out. | Perhaps I didn't bring the ambt | tion I might have to my undertak- | ings. Until you began to grow up I accepted things more or less as 1/ found them. | And while T tried to gtve you an| education that would enable you to/ hold your own In @ world which | deals harshly with the tgnorant and | untrained, It was also my hope to Pass on to you something of material valna, | This land which runs across) Squitty island from the Cove re Cradie bay and extending a mile back—tm all a trifle over 600 acres— | was to be your Inheritance. Long ago this place came into my hands | at little more cost than the taking. | It has begun to grow valuable, In| years to come ft will be of far greater value. I had hoped to pass | it on to you fntact, unencumbered, an inheritance of some worth. But I must forego that dream and | you, my son, your inheritance. It! has slipped away from me. How this has come about I wish to make clear to you. If it happens that you come home while I am still alive, we can talk this over. But I may not be here. So I am writing all this for | you to read. There are many things | whic hyou should know—or at least which I should like you to know, | ‘Thirty years ago— Donald MacRae’s real communica tion to his son began at that point in the long afo when the yacht out sailed his sloop, and young Horace Gower, smarting with jealousy, struck that savage blow with a pike pole at a man whose fighting hands were tied by @ promise. Bit by bit jincident by incident, old Dona | traced ont of bitter memories all the | passing years for h m to unde and. He made Elizabeth Morton, Morton family, Horace Gower | and the Gower kin stand out in bold relief. Donald MacRae hi said to Elizabeth Morton t she would never have another chance. By |force or persuasion or whatsoever | means were necessary they had mar. ried her out of Gower. ” Jack MacRae pered, to himself, “that middle-ag woman with the faded ros at Lord, Lord, how things get twisted!’ Tho they so closed the avenue to} & mesalliance, still their pride must | |have smarted beonuse of that clan- | | destine affection, that boldly attempt led elopement. Most of all, young Gower must have hated MacKae— with almost the sme jealous inten. |sity that Donald MacRae must for a time have hated him—because Gower apparently forgot and never for; Certain things could not be otherwise | accounted for, Donald MacRae wrote to his son. Gower functioned in the salmon trade, in timber, in politics. | In whatever MacRae set on foot, he} | ultimately ed the hand of |Gower, implacable, hidden, striking | t him from under cover. And so by the time young Jack Mackac " island teach: nd must go to Vancouver for hich school and then to the Univer. ity of British Columbia, old Donald had been compelled to borrow money on his land to meet these expenses Whereas in the beginning MacRae had expected to meet easily the ob. ligation he had incurred, the end of it waa the lows, during the md | year of the war, of all the MacRae | lands on Squitty—all but a rocky jeorner of a few a hich includ Jed the house and gar All the} rest of past red and of fertile ground, r still uncut ov the ers n wed, stretche nlocks of noble th had wed thru the hands of mort ge holders, thru bank transfers, by | dev nd tortuous ways, until the title in Horace Gower—who had promptly built the showy sum mer house on Cradle bay to flaunt in his face, so old Donald believed and told his son. (Continued in Our Next Tosue) (Continued Tomorrow) | eras | bh ious rested THE SEATTLE STAR POM, LET ME RAVE TEN DOLLARS FOR A FEW MinuTest Youll SUAPLY WAVE To Do SOMBTUWG with FOECKLESS E'S BEEN ExctOnawauy Auveity/ oe “Yo-Day, Ao 2 —! So! +} Cle Page 302 THE BROKEN DOORKNOB “George fol exhausted after he had bolted the door behind him, and lay at the foot af the winding stair until his strength and spirits began to return. “Ho started on his regular round of duties—took up the sperm of}—" “What ts eperm off, Dad¢yT David asked. “Ol taken from the whales, son. That was the off commonly ured for lighting houses and keeping all the lighthouse lamps going. “He took the off up to the filter, and went climbing on up the stairs thru the trap Into the fron root. This was the room in which the keeper mat during his watch, when he waa not busy polishing brasa fittings, clean: ma chim: neya for the burners, lenses of the lantern and the great silver re «ox flectors which threw the beams of | the light far out to nea. “Ho found everything all right in this room, but noting the Jerky refiection on the wall, he knew that the keeper before him had forgotten to wind up the weights the clock work machinery h kept the ofl pumps at work «¢ sprang up the short flight of steps and into the lan tern, and fixing on the crank to the off clock, wound it up safe and snug for another two hours’ run. “Then he went to his next duty —polishing the heavy French giass prisms and reflectors with a soft chamois skin, and cleaning the inaide of the windows with! | tore which were kept for that | Purposes, * | “Usually after al! that was done he could rest awhile, but on stormy nights when the ealt spray | euthered on the giams, the keeper | bad to go thru the little door to |the balcony outside—400 fect straight up tn the alr on an tron | patcony with onty the little tron ral about breast high, between him and the fury of storm and ocean. | “Time | passed quickly, and George noticed that the storm seemed to have grown much quieter; indeed tt was almost |ealm. When he had entered the irom room the tower had rocked sickeningly, #o that he braced ¢ does on the cabin floor of a rocking ship, Now tt was afl still and the wind only “Gathering his towels ander hts armas, George turned the knob and stepped out on the narrow bab may “He noticed that he had not drop ped the old coat which they used for that purpone, into the erack of the door, #0 he let go of the door and started to take one of the towels from his arm to put fn the door so that tt might not fasten, when a great gust of wind struck the tower with a slam; the boy reeled, the door closed with a bang, the storm shrieked as if in devilish laughter, and George was alone—tocked out in the fury of the storm, with no help possible (To Be Continued) rr ADVENTURES OF THE Clive Robert truly | hand to Horace | TWINS 5 Barton Instantly there was a loud explosion! where's the frog? arked Nancy as she and Nick and the enchanted gowt stood In the burning sun right on the Equator. ‘The twins were so happy over not casting @ shadow, and of getting the goat's permission to continue thelr thru his cave, that they had forgotten thelr green which was wonder, was particu journey almost panion, Nancy get the frog outside, find out if were indeed the wit Jinn who had caused them so much trouble on their adventure. If he a riy anxior YOUR FRECKLES Need Attention in March or Face May Stay Covered Now is the time to take apectal care of the complexion if you wish to look well the rest of the year The March winds have © strong ter to bring out freckles that all ner unle Now time th to use moved Oth ‘This preparation for of freckles is usuall that it Is sold by rugel guarantee to refund the if it fails. Get an ounce of Othine double strength ne—double str the removal uccesyful ta under and even @ few ap- tions should show a wonderful improvement, some of the smaller freckles even vanishing entirely, , Were that person, the Equator would |put an end to his magic. Everyone |knows that no real magic can cross jit, altho tt may go safely under it | this iy what hag delayed the n bullfrog, and why he had not the opening to daylight outside, Ht had taken it off and laid it hig Box of Charma. ‘ an get my Wishing Ring the frog, “and can Key out of Nick's r into the Room inned the Golden box to unlock the ¢ of Sapphires, I shall be safe. They lean't catch me then. If I don't find it, and go out Into the sun and cast Ja shadow, the goat will send me | back.” | Little a he know that he was aye under the Equator. i} “Hal” he erled at last, “Here’r the ‘ring! and he #wallowed it at once. | But } “31 | They ‘ Htut in climbing up the ring turned and the frog came into plain view. Instan there was a loud explo Nancy was calling. just take a peep,” said the and see what they are doing. can't see me.” To Be Continued.) Women of Afghanistan are kept In more rigid seclusion and are more \« bother Moslem land |) HERE. WILBUR | OWE YOU SIX DOLLARS AND OLIVIA, Five? MUCH ID INDIANS BEARS lowed the twins and the goat thru | for his Wishing Ring. | lovely veiled than the women of any] Confessions of a Bride Copyrighted, 1921, by the Newspaper Eo om THE BOOK OF MARTHA WHEN A WIFE BROODS From butter to books, Bob demand jed the best, He was a man of fine | discrimination and judgment. Once I bad been flattered because he had |chosen me from the many lovely | | girla be might have asked to marry him. But since he so often had been | thrown, by fate or preference, with Katherine Miller, my pride bad tum | bled. Rob Iked his own ponseanions fust | | because they were his own. There | he should have preferred his | wife to all other women. But I had | to face the fact that only tn love did my husband doubt the wisdom of his | cholee. Surety he was old enongh and wise | |enough to know that the adoration | of two women—or more—does not | |enrich any man’s existenon. Rather, | jit destroys the unity of his life, dis turbs tts harmony, divides the man’s | lonergy and disorganizes his affairs. | | Of course I couldn't preach that = | fore my husband. By the time he discov ered the truth from hls own expert our happiness—which was my whole life but onty a part of his might have vanished as completely as the snows of yesteryear, Without touching my husband's face, I followed the outline of the fine profile on the pillow with the tip fof my finger. I loved him—and T needed htm. Never had Bob fafled to be kind when I needed him, but was he not also just as kind to the tawny-haired tiger wornan? To be sure, T @idnt always need Rob. In that I failed and gave him nis opportunity! Sometimes I fi more like his chum and pal than lik a clinging vine and then—oh, how} often}—my husband had been hurt! He a slumped into and silences because I asserted my real self, formed my own opinions, let my independence rule the hourt Bob was often most trritated when I was gayest and strongest { Well, I couldn't make myself over I couldn't weep and dépend, all of the time, and require the support of his strong arm, as Katherine Miller could whenever the attitude sulted her scheming. Just because she was such a hetp. niece of femininity, conld lenitch my Bob for some service, and not a soul would object! Had not the Lorimera and the Millers been good neighbors for years? Had not Kath erine made errands boys and cava |iers of Jim and poor Benjie as well Bob? 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