The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 13

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1921. THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 13 bes stesees erettsst “WINDS OF THE WORLD” || By RUBY M. AYRES Copyright by Bobbe-Merrit) steetstetetermsrsageetearey 2GIN READING HERE TODAY : WHO'S WHO IN STORY j JILL ATHERTON, who lives in Acacia Terrace, sur- ded by poverty. Near her home, she stops to listen to exhortations of a Salvationist, and accidentally bumps BY ALLMAN BZ ty Le WELL THE OLD HOME LOOKS PRETTY Good AGAIN! SHE PRETTY VACATION? BI man. The ma ,a stranger to her, is immaculately She wonders who he is as she begs his pardon, gad hurries home to get supper for N, her invalid brother. @ couch all day, impatiently Don lies alone, propped up on awaiting the arrival of Jill of tt THY, another sister. Kathy is betrothed to RALPH HILLYARD, Dor =. Jill is employed as a », made irritable by illness, | with disfavor upon the match, but Kathy is girlishly stenographer in the law of- of OTENRY STURGESS. There, while alone in a room, faints. When she opens faints. When she opens revived her, he introdu hehr eyes, the man she had her eyes, the man she had | ces himself as NRUS TALLENTYRE. She ‘recalls the name as that man to whom she had The letter indicated th written a letter for her em- at Tallentyre was in financial NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 4 Mr.” Sturgess opened his! jand called to Jill, she was sit-| idle, ber hands in her lap; she| up guiltily *[ want you to take down a letter| -.- { ihe fet absurdly nervous as she| him, into his room; she pot raise her eyes as she went to the chair he inditated: tho| did not Jook at him she knew Tallentyre was standing back Te fireplace; her hands shook as | began to write qt was perfectly ridiculous, she | herself angrily; as if it was any concern of hers who was} jn the room: of course he mot even given her a glance— | should he? She raised her eyes mickly and met Tallentyre's. | Tittle faint smile crossed Ris| but he looked away at once/ went on talking to Mr. Stur-) ‘Tit sat sflent—after a moment —| | that will do, Miss Atherton—| hing that to me to sign as quickly | can—l walt a mo-| crossed the room, and the door leading into the ‘office; he stood with hia back Ing to someone there moved a step nearer to JM sat— you come and have tea with this afternoon?” be asked in an sat very still; she thought she / dreaming: she was afraid to up. Did. you hear what [ aiid?" he a triffe impatiently. forced herself to raise her) then. ” she eald ip a whisper jell—will you come” * " ahe said again moved away instantly. and Mr. Sturgese came back, Jill) @iamineed. She went back to @esk hartty knowing what she; doing: her cheeks burned; her! was beating up in her throat. | was going out fo tea with this! _ She looked down at} shabby serxe frock. and sudden swam into her eyes | he could not really mean ttt} ‘must. just have been a sort of How could such a man as he Ie to be seen with her! asked her seriousty, j Rot go; she returned to her ‘the tried not to listen for the | of Mr. Sturgess’ door; she | to believe that Tallentyre) go out the other way. he did not: he eame thru the réom; he paused for a frac: second beside har... . Five o'clock?” he asked coolly. ‘tried to way “Yeu.” but her te seemed to die In Ker throat: not raise her eyes; when she did, he had gone. CHAPTER II! 10 minutes past 5 when Jill Gut into the gray evening. wan a fine driale of rain fing: the street looked very dreary depresuing. gianced hurriedly up and street; he was not there— he was noti—she had not expected that he would be. B hurried on. She felt ashamed ecause she had lingered to do afresh; because she had bor some powder from « typist in ‘Mtice below Mr. Sturgess’? Tal- did not mean to come—her felt hot and angry. at that moment she saw him | leisurety towards her, in a Pat with an upturned collar, M the Inevitable cigar between his tyr felt into step bewide ber— been waiting 15 minutes,” “I thought you were not img. It's raining rather fast—| better have a taxi.” Waited beside him mutely: he opened the door of the taxi Mood asile for her to enter first, (stimibidd and nearly fell over Men; she was horribly nervous— Shé WAM “riot come. Tal it on the seat opposite to! ~ ASPIRIN “Bayer” on Genuine ‘ ! Unless you see tne) Bayer” on package or on tab | YOu are not getting genuine! Prescribed by physicians for! pone years and proved safe! m5 is. Take Aspirin only as) the Bayer package for Colds, the, Neursigia, Rheumatien. b Toothac Lumbago and nm. “Handy tin boxes of Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost | prise ts also sell larger Pirin ie the trade ett Bayer Manufacture, of Mo Gdester of Salicylicacid. | jin alt jfor her; he had @hrownebia cigar away; JL saw a ragged®urchin scramble for it as the taxi moved off. “Where would you Uke to go to! teat he asked, “1 don't know anywhere ax a rule.” Her hands were clasped together to hide their trembling; ber cheeks burned. Tallerityre seemed unaware | of her discomfort “It's very good of you ta come out with me,” he said She looked at him quickly: she} thought he was laughing at her she did not know what to answer “Oh—not at ali," she raid stiffly She knew it waa not the right thing to say. She® looked down at her hands for inspiration; to her horror she saw that there was a large hule in the finger of one glove. She covered it up hastily with the other hand; she raised her eyes in an agony of shame; bué Tallentyre was looking at her, not at her worn gloves. “It am wondering & I may ask your name?" he said. °T have told you mine; and if we are to he! friends... .* | “Oh, but you can't eant to be! friends with me," anid Jill, breath: | leasly, “Ite-oh, it's too willy." Tallentyre's eyes wrinkled up into a& smile; for the moment his face no + T don't go | longer looked worn; he dropped hin monocte “Why fa tt silly?” he naked. “You interest me—you amuse me, and God alone knows how long it is since! anyone or anything—amused me He looked out of the window with Mttle frown, “So if you will allow me to take you out to tea sémetimes, 1 shall—T shal be profoundly gre tul.” he added after a moment now may I not know your name?’ “It's Jin Jill Atherton.” “Ji! ty Ji a nickname?” he to quired. “No—I don’t think so—I've always been called Jn. The tax! stopped, Tallentyre got out, turning to offer bia hand to JiU; she put out her own to take it, then drew it back swiftly — the hele in the glove tmd caught her eye; she stood beside him in misery while he paid and dismiased the taxi she followed him timidly into tea rooma, They were very grand, «he thought hrinkingly; every woman. in the! room except herseif wax well dressed: she kept as close as she could to Tallentyre; she tried to screen her self behind his tall firure. He seemed unconscious of her em. barramement; he put her into the most comfortable chair he could find and ordered tea and hot cnkes; he took off hix big coat and the Horn. burg hat and sat down beside her leaning a little forward. hin hands clasped loosely between his knees. Jill looked at his bands; beauti tuly kept they were, with mani-| cured nails; she towed up rapidly | in ber mind to decide whether gloves | with @ bole in they, or workworn | hands were the lesher of two evily,| when the tea was brought, she dragged off her glover desperately she wished for the twentieth time! that she had not come: she realized that it wa» no use trying to creep out of the harbor to the open sea,| ( if one was not properly equipped | the for the voyage; this experience left her dazed and breathless: she bad never felt so shabby and unhappy her life. “You are not said Tallentyre have some cake? “No—no thank yoo began to eat her toast hurriedly: wished she had not come! Oh, how} she wished that she had not come! She was sure that the waitress was eyeing ber superciliously; at 4 table opposite, a girl with won dertully dressed hair and expensive clothes had looked at her, and mad some laughing remark to the man at her side; Jill's cheeks burned. | “Have you been in Mr. Sturgess’ | office long her. “L don’t remember seeing y before. | mm “I haven't been there long—onty | of three weeks. I had to leave my last | m place because my brother was ii! and I stayed away to nurse him for two days...” “Your brother ts an invalid?” | “A cripple; he never has been able to walk—he can't do anything himself. Kathy and I look after him “Kathy!” a little reminiscent smile iit Tallentyre’s sleepy eyes. “That's the second Ume thin week 1 have heurd that queer little name. Is Kathy your sister.” "Yes and she's—oh, she's Just beautiful said Jill, her eyes spark ling. She had forgotten to be ner vous now: unconsciously he had put her at her ease by king of her family instead of hin “[ have a friend who ts engaged to a girl named Kathy’—Tallentyre went on. He took Jill's cup and refilled it; he had done all the pour ingg out himwelf; Jill wondered if he were afrald that whe would make a muddie of it. “It’s quite a ro mance. a genuine love story...” he looked at her “Do you like love stories?” he asked. “Yea,” said Jif, Her even shining; her face wan flushed: she looked very young and eager—like a child about to enter a room where | h there is a wonderful surprise wait- eating anything. “Would you rather she jis of bo) h a Ce ut lo of ar kn Sh ur at it ™ a were! | Tallentyre said again | where "* Tallentyre was asking | body, and she thinks that he t clerk, and that when they @ wag too interested have ali thowe things if them.” Gee-Tuere © Goes Tu’ DooR- BELL! , a EVERETT TRUE WHEN 1L_ WANT To Go OWT, You WANT To STAY HOMG, AND WHGN 1 WANT TO STAY HOME, YoU WANT MG To} co oT!! WHat AGovT tT, NOW CET'S HAVE IT @UICK — Owe WAY Het (TAS KoUR DESIRE To REMAIN At HOME THéHS GVSNING # OR THS OTHER Ih THERG'S A FILM RUNNING AT THE Mowe CALLED “DIPLOMACY” — Here's YouR HD BONNET — WE'LL Go DOWN THERE THIS EVENING AND Ov Gay StYUCY THE TITLE II! he | ing. this is a real love stor: “My very weulthy man~-the people, 1 don't km he met this girl—he has id me, thp be and I are ums; but apparently he fell in to “Well, a wealthy with ber at first sight—and he's going to marry her, I aswume from what be told me that she ix @ little Miss No jus ty arried, they will live in rooms, or #0, and be nt antically poor, wiile all the w ” he laughed, meeting Jill's a cou rested eyen ophetu “Ot 6 to be indigns “But how perfec he be rich the question. vely+—and will live in @ big house? “And have diamonds, and a mo’ car?” he finished for her with a trace cynicism. “Yes—she'll be able Jill drew @ long sigh “Oh—if it were only A curious little expression flash into his eyes and was gone instantly “You would like to be rich?” said quietly. “Oh, I should—I should} nd to live in a beautiful house, now everybody who was anybod 1¢ broke off, she looked at pologeti 1e wai. ot ” she laughed fa it's never likely a very noble one, atter, to co “Jt in the most unlikely things that uppen,” he told her She shook her head, friend eon | great “All the time it is the tory of King Cophetua over again Have you ever heard of King urse I have,” said Jill; she and she wants she said. to have heaps of money, and lovely clothes, | been speaking of; Ralph Hillyard his and him ly. “That's my ambition,” “But that doesn't “Not to me fe in- “The little I shall live all my y.” "she stopped barbor he said with a grim As our friend told jus last Sunday.” n't} Did he that? bert “He told us to turn from the trou blesome sea of the world, and find |rest ip the peaceful harbor - she laughed a little. “That's just what I don't want to do,” wail | eagerly © been tM the harbor all jmy life. , “Such an eternity! be sald whim ly. She shook her head. | “It seems a long time }to go out winds of the world on my. face He looked at her without speaking | for a moment ant{| “It's at tly | wrecke he Never in the re.” ate ow say 1 don't remem. ove ta she are pie ro me | si in and T want out to sea that her at they are sufe out sea boats told harbor len th tor but «0 dull,” whe said quick ly. flike thi | humdry uently He laughed lazily. “You ought to be gotng to marry | Hillyard,” he said. “How would you \like to be going to marry Hillyard?” “Hillyard!” Jill echoed the r sharply. be added to “he likes she to quiet impa ned he my friend—the man I have name % y!" | sudden | thing | heav not WM cheeks were ment It is” Kathy!" (Continued Tomorrow) is. attention in her he your sister He sat up struck by face, “Why—geod nelessly, “It's with #ome kughed — hysterieally with her me erimson excite she said, “It must be— | chuck. jour vacation and I came to ask you jand und feed the | athy thinks Tam mad to talk J ieetnelen Who Knows But That She Does? BY BLOSSER SUE'S DOWNTOWN, No MAAM= T GUESS, SUE AIN'T sue? AND WHERE DO You Ive? “, ey ADVENTURES | OF cbs Webeks Beton WALLY’'S PLAN “We're all packed to take a vacation and I came to ask you to make the weather nice, Mr. Sprinicle-Blow.” nodded Wally Wood. Sprinkle Blow’s eyes twinkled. re all packed’ to take!No.” he sald, “it's frosting “Frosting! exclaimed — Wally. [Then my missus was right. She's said that mountains were I'll have to tel) her that she was correct. We diall start right away on our vacation, You see we jalways wait until harvest is over be- «| fore We start, because we can’t bear easily expjained.”/to leave the nice, sweet wheat 'n We're toloats and things, while they're grow and how ing. But when they gone, we may as well live ‘there as here, or here as there, whichever you please “Yes, sirt to make the Mr. Sprinkle- Blow." “Wh: s the difference to Wally? asked Sprinkle Blow, “when you can travel by way as easily weather nice, jalways ake. as you can “Why, answered above ground.” that's Wally id under the ground Of course, at night it's dit- nt. We expect to hotel bills by digging in when it’s time to sleep. But Mrs. Woody and T don't} Jeep much these days, or nights, 1 should say, sleep our Neads tails nearly the winter But we expect to ‘oreus © country—dlso top country—and seo the sights, I've al-| wanted to go over and see that mountain over there with the white top. Would you tell me if its| At 18 months the baby | buckwheat blossoms that make it sofof the Chinese minister in white spoke both English and Chine going can we see the see the w nave like?” asked Nick. “Dry weather! answered }*Mud’s too hard to walk thru we like to run in the ittera road and gyhen it's. wet The automo. Wally Be “s we off in beside we g biles the time. daytime, raved tall splashed up: splash us.” (To Be Continued) blue London daughter Your MomueRS ) | GETTING To BE AN OUT, \SN’T. - —~ AWFUL GADABI “What kind of weather would you! < WELL- DON'T YA S'DOSE SHE GETS TIRED OF US KIDS SOMETIMES ? HOW DID YOU MAKE “THAT JAR OF BEAUTY SALVE DISAPPEAR 2 * Page are See a * 446 THE BASHFUL MAN (Chapter “All the way to Helen's house,” Daddy continued, “Will was mak- ing up little speeches to say to her, but no matter how he planned to say it, he was just scared stiff every time he thought of asking that girl to marry him. “He got to the house about sup- per time, and Helen and her mother wetcomed him nicely and Helen's father seemed very glad to see him. He took his horse out and fixed him up for the night, brought in his own blankets down at the foot | said David. Daddy answered, “nobody had stairs, The house had only one room, with a sort of loft above it; the big bed had! curtains around fit for the mother and father, Under that was the ‘trundle bed’ for the children, and over it a higher shelfJike bed for Helen “There was the big fireplace and before it, at either side, two rudé wooden benches. “After supper Helen's mother and father sat on one of these benches and Helen sat on the other her hhir and her face and looked very lovely, and she, course, thought Will would come and sit down beside her, but: he didn't “He stood first on one foot_and then on the other before the fire and when Helen's father said, ‘sit down, friend; sit down,* poor Will jumped and turned red as 4 poppy_and said, “Thank you, thank you, sir," and plumped him- self down on the little end of the bench which was left right beside the father. “Helen sniffed and. tossed her head, and just then someone came knocking at the door and when the door was open there stood another young man, who was alsp in love with Helen, and he was jolly and thought quite well of himself and wasn't bash- ful a bit. “Well, after a while the father and mother sajd good night and went to sleep if the curtained-off bed, “And there sat poor Will alone on the bench, more embarrassed than ever; so he twisted around a bit and then, without another word, said ‘Good night? and stumbled up the ladder. “Helen and her other suitor laughed and talked merrily and all was still in the loft. “But Will couldn't sleep; he } } ed down a The firelight flickered onj{ kept wondering if that other man was going to ask Helen to marry him. So he crawled across the loose boards of the loft and peep- tuem. He leaned far, far over the edge of the trap- door—too far—ker slam! went the board and down went William, | but not all the way. | “Somehow or other he caught on @ | nail and swung with hands, feet and | head dangling like a great spider right over Helen and her guest. “Help! he called, but the young folks were laughing #0 they couldn't take him down. “The father hooked him afte daylight the J out of the b climbed up and ui @ while, and befor t morning he stole e and was gone!” eu REED | WHEN A WOMAN TELLS Copyright 1921 by Seattle Sta CHAPTER XIII—l OFFER SOLACE ODAY START HE! Holga Sor Rrad only wait silently and fearfully naen br ngagement | i after pursuing him for | cial of Mra. John Ames. The ora brother-Intaw, m rounder, Inter a hhnse Alno he ts fgctionately attentive to Mra. John Ames GO ON WITH STORY After tea, of the fourth day of my employment, I sought the desk which I knew I should find the Mrs, Ames wanted taken care Dusk found r til busy As the shadows began to gather in |the garden below I saw Mrs. Ames jand Philip, rm in arm, moving the path toward the latt 8 at the end of the lilac hedge 1 stifyed there in the shadows, watehing the coming of night, for} perhaps an hour or more, when I be came ¢ lous of another ence | in the room. Hardly daring to move, 1 lirunk back further tmto the shadows of the near the wins; on, the bed was moving dow, and waited could get the outlines | 1 couldn't see anything, 1 couldn't| shimmering silk of hear anything. I could only feel|ment his hands had that some one else wa in the room with me. Finally the lights of an automo to To hia bile coming up the jhouse flashed for a second in ft in her most af | room. of light IT envisioned a figure hed, half sitting, and then the mer of Lila Ames’ flimsy gown shim dre | of. couldn't The door was at the other side of the room had to pass between the wud, the bed to leaves would have been discovered stayed on, clinging silently to th Ue desk chair until my ached and my knees felt stiff At leng an hour ‘There ut | se ard tir 1 faint movement was a corner Vaguely 1 ind Nee | Every sgnse alert, in that instant nm the ssing 1 wanted to slip out unseen, but 1 and T should have windows and thus By RUTH AGNES ABELING | weird, hill toward the} to. the the | my shoulders | have been something | sympathy which moved me, when 1] grant lotion after what seemed like | of sifk. The figure | which the} the foolish gur- en thing there, | He | that Jute and wonder Plain having stay him TO JOHN AMES was trailing on the floor in shimmering lines. He came and dropped sill, window his arms on. the was close to me, I knew min 1 how I should ex- 1 must be discovered any 1 and dared wateh walk, alone, thru his emane, I didn't wait to think it out. Involuntarily and it seemed that against my will and my own good judgment, I took his unresisting, cold fingers in} must | hands went out own my think of warm ones, I it the same 8 just a little girl, to feeding and rsing a sick prompted offer him me to that silent sympathy John fingers mine. There was a sigh, then John Ames| while out there And 1 could} straightened up, The frivolous silk- | night Ames didn't look up. | His tightened slightly around For a long time we sat in the perfumed his wife was spending the Geth. | | stray dog or kitten, | #0, | jhours with another man, | Finally he raised his head. “They are out there,” he said, “Yes. 1 knew there was no use of resorting to subterfuge. He peered out into the darkness. Then, “There isn't any use of tor. [turing myself—is there? 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