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tarts on Page Six) I've only seen him declared, 1 He's the sort of chap who’ ~ tt game: , ae T know—but I can't stand E pe think’s he coping to look . Kathy at all . . + Oh, I've hd 9B ged him UF | “a ym turned away to hide a smile, | Fyre shan't see much of her when | rt if she ever is,” he} +4 oer a sullenty. “You mark my| . wy ani cut her off from her peo} Mpon't be 80 ridiculous, Don") voice was sharp with a little of fear; this side of the ques fad net occurred to her; she fad to laugh it off, “Kathy would gerer allow him to do such a thing caren it he wanted to.” eRathy's as weak as water he'll do as he tells her he main ars ih did not answer; there was a ile worried line between her eves ibe Weean to cut the bread and fatter, and fear at her Don was right a vague when he called) fathy weak, she kntw; she bad al ays nn. cont y influenced; it had} (ways been Jill who took the lead ing. Of course, they would fa everything: Jit who planned and qentrived, and managed; Kathy who flowed meekly and uncomptaining-| fy along the pathway laid down at fer feet. And Kathy loved Hillyard Git was quite likely therefore that Such nonsense!" said ev Seen SRESeTSSSrry 258 me. . @M again vigorously; she pulled a) y @air up to the table and tried to eat something. But she was not a bit hungry;; hen she looked at the thick cups nd saucers she thought of the inty china from which she and Jallentyre had had their tea; when Be looked at the bread and butter, ge thought of the diminutive sand- wiches and sugared cakes, and a Hille sigh rose in her throat | Bhe wondered what had made him @& ber to go out with him'—she Wis quite sure that he would never gk ber again: that this one small Pep of the open sea was all she| Would be permitted; already the lit @ boat of her life had been sent fick to harbor igainst the shore. “You're not eating anything,” said es. He had been watching her ross the table; those beautiful eyes! @ his saw a great deal; the little dhtrustful gleam, filled them again| she started and colored. “rm not hungry . . fest—thinking!" “That's what I have to do all tay,” he said with a touch of weary impatience. “All day—with nothing @ do, and no one to talk to.” fi¥s eyes filled with tears, “Kt will be better when we get chair, dear—I shall be able to you out every evening then I come home and it will soon ht quite late . we can to the park, or to see the “Shops” he said disgustedly.| "When we haven't a penny y - Pesta e? £BEF65 FRET ErEPS | I was} SFr end? _ She did not know how to answer she tried not to feel resentful;| Bet to remember that if she not had to save so hard for his; chair there would have been shabby gloves for Tallentyre to J seen that afternoon. | Bhe had done without so many i things she wanted in order to life better for, Don; she had and saved miraculously out her small salary; if only he had @ little grateful. ‘Tye dohe my best,” Don frowned. i “I don't say you haven't; . . . Kathy who's so beastly. selfish spends all her money on her- ‘s always wearing some new. | she said “Wel” Ji defended her warmly. Would look like a princess if had the opportunity He laughed sneeringly. not very likely to have ih Hillyard for a husband. Two rooms in a back street all the work to do—good looks yt brought her much of a have they?” averted her face to hide a What would he say when he she asked herself'—what he think of Ralph Hillyard) he knew that he was a rich an, and that Kathy could have ls and a motor car, and Werything else she wanted es She lost herseif in introspective ions as to Kathy's dife! A & big’ house when they were Married; and as Hillyard and Tal- Teena WAS, SELCHERTS ~DABHTER n, Wis. —** My young daugh- been troubled for several months with back- lache and @ feeling in her stomach. She did her. One day I was reading a little hte and it ae me that was a youn, i! se hotties of” Lydia bape neg mpound. she wen hal store and got a bottle, and Alter ing the second one ghe could petgnd has no®had backache since. Tall she took six bottles of it. She to school and on Saturdays helps the housework. She is a normal, 1 now and we recommend ‘Your medicine. You have my per in to ies sie toe as @ vet or legetable Compound, FRANK fatcuent, 10 Larabee Hl once the ecrmzy nabs all over the coun Vv . Pinkham’s Vegetable d to be a most reliable rem- Such conditions. i By RUBY M. AYRES Copyright by Dobba-Merrill S8ggeseeesssesstests | breaking the wonderful news to her } al anchored once more} | again. Be chews new things ott ol DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WHY IS IT, WHEN A MANS WIFE IS AWAY EVERY BODY (5 BUSY OR HAS AN ENGAGEMENT? GVESS | MAY AS WELL GO HOME AND ReaD! GEE THIS HOUSE SEEMS BIG AND EMPTY WHEN YOU'RE HERE friends, ‘Tallentyre and then—then lentyre would were visit them. “I may see him again—#ogne day!” she thought hopefully She sang as she washed up the tea things and tidied the room; she felt. wonderfully lighthearted; she promised herself that she would go that night #o that she Tallentyre and with him. to bed early could think about her wonderful afternoon Don was glad to go early, too; he had bad very little sleep all the we it was barely 9 when Jill back from saying goodnight and sat down for a minute the dying fire, She glanced at the clock; wondered where Kathy had gone came to him by | she it The Matter Rested Solely With Mumsie! was not often that she stayed out | 7 Tperhape even how be wea! telling GEE, T GET TH FRECKLES, MARCH RIGHT |}; DIDNou HEAR ME? KIDS ARE WAITIN' FoR ME To COME OVT AN’ PLAY HOW MANY TIMES MUST T TELL You ABOUT was BACK HERE AND PUT Your CLOTUES WHEE THEY BELONG. WOW MANY TIMES MUST T TELL You now he perhaps even they would not be poor after that as his wife she would be one in the workh—that their love-story Was areal romance after) allt If only it had been she to whom| this thing had happened! Jill's cheeks glowed as she thought of what would do Don should have the most wonderful suite of rooms in the house, and a servant to walt on him ‘all the people who had been kind to! © when they lived at Acacia Ter-| race should have a present . . . even the squalling baby downatairs, | She came back to earth from her} dreaming with a very unpleasant} shock when she heard the down-| stairs door open, and Kathy's step on the stairs, | She turned with eager eyes; did Kathy know?—she held her breath with excitement. | ‘The door opened slowty—as tf be- neath the push of a listless hand; Kathy came into the room with dragging steps. Jil had risen to her feet; for a moment the two girls looked at one another silently—the one all. eager questioning, the other-—- ‘Ma Jill made a little rush foeward— “Oh, Kathy . Kathy..." She put arms around her sister- she held her fast to her heart; her froxen with horror. “Oh, is kT" she whis that JusrT my wuck! HERE 1 GET ALL RUN OVER, AND MY Ou STRAW SHINGLE wire's DOINGS =! SHE'S BEEN ON MY EAR FOR A MONTH To GET A KEW STRAW CANOPY + MBec iS OLD WAY HELMET vow es were what ix it, what pered over and over. Kathy submitted to her sister's! arms; she began to sob j “I shall never be happy again | Oh, I knew I was too happy for it to leat Jill's cheeks famed. ; “He hasn't he hasn't dared to to throw you over™ | Kathy ‘raited her teardrowned! Se ae eyes. | ates “He's deceived me . . . he tet, EVERETT TRUE “BY CONDO me think he was poor, and all the} i | ceno_o the tte + + be's rich!| eR aa iil ASV ENTURES . “Is that all?” asked 3m blankly;|] SVORETT, CAST NIGHT] THAT's Ance, w she Was unutterably relieved; ahe| |{ FANISHED Reaoing |, EnJor ‘ OF AE TWIN sone to laugh. “Why, you slly||a miGMty Qoob AREAOING GOOD chicken— ht be sh li ‘“§ Sar win auaae wee imply) lsrorr. | THE JOURNEY To be rich! to! bave everything you want why it's just too wonderful.” “But I don't want to be rich er I thought we were going to! be so happy—I wouldn't have mind- ed how hard I had to work . . . Kathy broke into bitter sobbing “Oh, the dear littie home! I thought we were going to have!” she mourfied, =| stoRIcS. MYSELF, Page 448 IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA | “And we made soundings,” the, coast near the Farallones islands. |], admiral continued his explana-| “But all that you can read fof tions to Pegxy, “to find out how| yourselves. We made that cruiso deep the water was. safely. In 1889 I was again sent “People knew about what sort| out to the Pacific. We were on of fish and living things were in| our way to Port Townsend when the depths of the Atlantic, but up| we noticed a glare in the sky to that time they had never| which grew as we watched. found out about the Pacific. “ ‘Forest fire,’ said someone. “So the Albatross was fitted “But as we watched it glow with deep-sea dredges which/ and spread and figured, out its lo- swung out from the ship and| cation, we\realized it mtst bs dipped down deep and deep all the Si Tula STORY (3 4G0UT A CeERTAN GIRL ANO 4 YOUNG FELLOW. THGRE'S AN ANNO The GIeC HO4RsS THE te ISLANO. SHE DECIDES TO In THES SECOND CHACTE Low HEARS CHAPTER VI There was a little blank pause, during which Jill stared oft into) the room with amazed eyes. It took her some time to realize that Kathy was crying. not because of the little house and the «mal! in | come with which she had believed she had got to face the future, but because a magician’s wand had) swept them out of existence and/ raived instead a falry prince and a) house in Park Lane. | o TH#CRG- Se, XOUNG ®& “Weill!” she said at last helpless: | Mr, Woodchuck said to Mra.Jeasily discouraged and he wasn't either Seattle itself burning or the : & | | Woodchuck “We may start at going to let a little thing like dis way to the very floor of the! forests around it. a Kathy looked at Ji) resentfully fonce on our vacation, my dear, for|(ance spoll IMs vacation, And he'd ocean, then swung up again and “We put back to see if hels “You're not a bit sorry*for me—l| Mr. Sprinkle-Biow has promised to say, “Oh, well, our trip will last all spilled into the waiting vats their] were needed, and when we reach- belidve you're laughing at me,” she keep the weather dry. We shail go | the longer. But.I do hope it doesn’t |] burden of sea life. I think a little accused her. | L SAID LE ENJOY [Jin ine airection of blue mountain, |rain! Speaking of rain reminds me |] jock ts in sour public. livraries | 04 What had been the docks a few that I'm thirsty, Mrs. Woodc Let's hunt @ spring.” hours before, we found blackened ruins, The entire waterfront was and I may as well tell you that you huck. were right about it being cake, as a ‘I'm not—of course I'm not, but— well” Jill subsided into a chair. “t which tells all about that. It is called ‘The Cruise of the Al- READINESS. soon} should have thought you'd be pleased he says the white top that we see) Mrs. Woody said that she was batross.” ” she said after a moment. “If it STORIES !! is frosting.” ‘thirsty, too, so they hunted ona “We found that halibut and cod- ay nee at Ge Lg were me, I should be half mad with} - || “My! My?" exclaimed Mrs, Woody.|They found it, back a little way|] fish were here just as on the At- ns ae delight; if it were me—" eae nd | |‘‘Let's be off at once. 1 have the/from the road, trickling out of a/} antic coast, but the oyster» were| te little city. Already thieves “I wish it was you,” sald Kathy,| satchel all packed.” hillside, “Um, yum!" exclaimed | not so good, and there were no} and thugs were thick, plundering desperate “I hate big houses and — ee a Bo they started, | Wally, drinking his fill. “That's | lobsters. and pillaging, lots of servants; they frighten me a Sprinkle Blow kept his word and awfully good! Mrs, Wally thought | “It was a chef In California “The railroad terminals { Not to death . I've told Ralph! |made the weather fine, ®/it was, too, and drank HER fill. who made the first oyster cock. that it would be far better if 1} as ttt hs Nuisance Fairy around anywhere— | They were great drinkers, tail, trying to dress up the West- gone and the docks, and we found didn't marry him—I've told him {nobody but kind Mr, Sun and some! ‘Then back to the road they went ||} ern oysters so they would be difficulty in getting in at all, beautiful | blue little winds and a few fluffy white clouds in @ very sky. “This ts certainly great!’ Wally fine as the Eastern kind, and now East and West, North and South oysters are served in cocktails, that I can't entertain his friend» I. oh, I wish I were dead. said Kathy, with a fresh burst of ain and picked up their satehel. I hope it doesn’t rain,” said Wally | | asain. “IT hope Sprinkle Blow does “But for three weeks we patrolled the shore; and what I think of as I see Seattle now” ore is | sobbing, not forget his promise.” “Sole we found on the West Jit was all sympathy tn a mo said every now and then ns they (To Be Continued coast, and you know that par.| cfter 32 years is—what you would ment; she took Kathy off to bed; she laughed excitedly. “If it had|“Think what a lot of good you'll be nt along, mostly in gutters by the ticular fish is found in no other | call the spirit of the place. Pep, ¥ (Copyright, 1 | , by Seat think of what you!r Je where the high weeds threw ry Seattle Star) waters except along the English have been mad|able to do now she petted her and tried to comfort been me, I should guess. Anyway, it’s wonderful to her, while all the time she was! with joy—-I should have been stand | can do for Don, for instance.’ * a shad “We must be nearly half | coast. utterly at a loss to understand the|ing on my head with delight—i| Kathy did not answer way there!" Minnows are to be im into “So we felt much interest when | ™¢ to see how your people storm of emotion thru which her| should ... well, I don’t quite know “At any rate Jill went on for a) But when they stopped and looked |Spain from Georgia to /eradicate |] we discovered it off the California | wouldn't be beaten.” sister was passing. Surely they had| what I should have done,” she) moment. the mountain seemed to be as far| mosquitoes which carry malaria into BRRED away as ever, But Wally was not man had enough of small incomes and! added. “When are you going to see) “You must be glad to be getting districts of the country. poverty all their lives! surely this| his people—when are you going to be|away from this awful place—you| - was a cause for rejoicing and not! married?” can't really have liked ving in for tears. But she honestly tried to “I don't know—I'm not sure if 1) Acacia Terrace—nobody in their} I had wanted somehow to help him last night when it seemed so im. possible, Perhaps, after all, I could. senses cold! You can’t lke having had to screw and pinch on nothing & week, and bread and sympathize—she tried hard to look} shall marry him at all now, I don’t at things from Kathy's point of| want to see his people. His sister is) sure to be stuck-up; she'll look down WHEN A WOMAN TELLS view, and failed utterly. “Why— “ “pea 4 e living a » d So 5 kept theddaugh out ee a> why on earth didn't he tell you be-|on me and make me miserable. cheese half your life, and cheap mea’ ‘ > me ra " she asked blankly, : “She may be exceptionally nice,”|the other half. I don’t believe any By RUTH AGNES ABELING Mae when I said, “I'm glad, Mrs, She was sitting up in bed now,| said Jil “Why shouldn't she?/body could really be sorry because mes, that you have found some her arms folded round her knees,| Ralph is, isn’t he?" she asked whim |they had suddenly come into money (Gopyright 1931 by Seattle Btar) thing to make you happy.” and her eyes, dark with smoldering | «ically Es too silly to Abtek of # “Tm. going to éreas mow-—THh ee citement, st. across the| No answer. “I never wanted a lot of money: = > = > Ing out this evening.” She cs sy oe al ¢ “only one sister?” Jill asked|T've always beeA quite contented CHAPTER XxV—I LEARN TOM STILL CARES FOR MB tig HebUy Open ern Kathy wad lying with her face| again. you can’t say that I have ever com-| #7 thought at first 7 bape = : & wanted $6 be oui’ toa ie half buried.jn the plillow—her beau “xen.” plained, oan your" dante God. it aoe Seg ah woe a! pated feel ge bag i iy I approached the lower hall phy iful hair streaming around her. “Any brothers?” gilt snags bey dame be gate The sun was coming brightly thru| who wants to keep her freshness!” | «yg Mich rdanecateap be tat heard my name spoken. “[ don't know—he was afraid of| “No.” moment #he had to admit that shel sq resttlgsatae vapid a son Aby 0 7 ty 5 x they're what you'd call ‘big pots'| “A mother—his father died this|past, she knew that it had always! dinow for the note which had been {unusual about her eves in the hall, but as 1 told you in the |Minute with your’ | 1 know I shali hate them| morning . . . that—that's why he/been she who had been ambitious} mung thru my window last night. | “It in boo ane G. ponent Inst | D°Sning, I'm not afraid of other (vo Be Continued) ry and they'll hate me -|told me; it was his father hé was|and sighing for things md her! 1 yeaa it and then read it over|night.” I could hear the artificiality | Wome, and I liked you and that was io Be Cention Oh, {t is @ shame—just when I was| afraid of, I suppose.” reach: Kathy had seemed happy and] , oi here waa no mistaking who |in my voice, why Tlet you stay. For French Pastry look up Boldt’s. ape g hel ” Bea pip Im to marry | contented enough, especially since | s+’ was from and what it meant, I| We finished the meal tn silence,| “But we are more to each other] —A ivertisement. “Of course they won't hate you!| “Yes—they wanted him to marry|she had met Ralph Hillyard; it was) ena a eertain pleasure in know-| It was after lunch, and a number | ‘an ever—he and I—since last they'll be ever so proud of you;, someone else.” an amazing truth ng that Tom was still interested |of letters had been disposed of, that |™8ht. We came to understand each think how beautiful you'll look when| “Oh.” Jill rested her chin on her) “Of course he has lots of swell | 6 1 vin et my|Mrs, Ames referred to the night be. | ther better afd to know that, we you've got heaps of clothes to wear,| knees | friends, ule aaked after | tee ee ay or well_but 8 wanderan tare Jean't give up." The words were and diamonds, and. . .” She was looking ahead into the fu-|a me hat had brought him to the Ames! “I hope you weren't disturbed, last |{UMbling out with a nervous speed. “I bhate ddiamonds,” Kathy| ture and trying to see the wonderful] “1 don’t know," Kathy evidently pc ong inte inet SiMe chat ‘be. Diener” nxlously, aS" | “He isn't like other men, he under. sobbed. “I don't want lots of!change this would mean in all their/did not care either; presently she | °°! a de ‘ ; és ; _, [stands a woman and-" clothes; I told Ralph #0, and he fretines, Of eoures, Kathy. would| cried herself to sleep paw, What haDpenee Sara 'o." My monosyllable was Inad-}" 1 giant hegr the rest. So It was didn’t believe me—he said that no| look after them and see that Don| Jil! turned over and looked at her.|, 1 intended to keep that little note, | equate, I Philp Ames whom tha teeant. She woman hated money and all the|had everything he wanted; her mind| She had never seen anyone so pretty somehow it seemed to mark @| Then after a allence— ° thought I, Helga Sorensen, cared fo~ things it could buy, He—he was|already leaped to a day when she|as Kathy, she thought, with a litde|™/lestone of my existence, “De you really care for him? I'm | Philip Ames! And all these days she quite grows with me because 1| would meet Tallentyre on his own|thrill of pride; she would look lovely| In it I could near Tom say, with |sorry—it you do, -because—-he is|had believed that the scene in the cried.” level; when she would no longer feel| with diamonds in her hair and on} that deep indrawing of breath, which | mine! It was Mrs. Ames’ voice, 1| hall that first day was a mutual ex- “1 don’t wonder,” said Jill bluntly.| miserable and self-conscious in his/her white throat; lovely in siik|is characteristic of him, “Well,| was too thoroly startled to speak.|pression! I wanted to laugh and tell She gave a big sigh; she looked] presence because of holes in her| frocks, and Vrench shoes, you're safer" And I felt a little bit) Could John Ames have told her what|her to take him, and welcome! down iinpatiently at her sister’ pros-| gloves, and work-soiled hands; she} “Oh, how I wish it were met” she | proud. happened last night, but told it in-| The words were framing on my trate figure. lay down beside Kathy with a long|told herself, then was ashamed.| When 1 reached the breakfast | correctly? Or was it Tom whom she |lips when suddenly the thought of “L think you're one of the luckiest | sigh of contentment. “But I'm glad it’s Kathy—" she has-|room, Lila Ames was there wlone|moant? Still I knew that it was |\The.Man-With-the-Tired-Voice,” as 1 1221-Third Ave gifts in all the world,” she said slow-| “Well, I think it's Just too wonder-|tened to add. toying with fruit and some notes. | Philip Ames’ head 1 saw bending|imd ‘come to think of John Ames, oes jah ly. “Lf it bud been me instead... "Iful to be true,” she said simply (Continued Tomorrow) “I'm afraid you didn't sleep welljabove her while they stood below stayed them, "COR UNINIERSITY