The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1921, Page 9

MONDAY. “WINDS OF THE WORLD” By RUBY M. AYRES SSUSEEESEET1 All Nights Reserved tt (Continued From Saturday) J} wistful eyes—a man who was ask Tallentyre had been very good to) ing her to be his wife JU rose slowly to her feet; she kept a hand on the chair back to gorrow; in a quiet, unobtrusive Wa) steady herself—she asked him a he had lightened her burdens when | preathless question JM during those first days of her! ; fever he coukt; he had called at the | “Tou yeu are not—in earnest? or day to see her even fe smiled a little. office day bien ti ted tnt “Why not?—the thought has been if only for a few minutes ’ in my mind almost ever since you qheer her up; to take her @ Ute | came here. Iam not a young man, . but—I am very fond of you; I will . of herself. es during this last week he had | sive you a good home and make you don, and Ji had | DAPPY. 1 ire you—I know what Qeenfout of London, you Nuve done for your brother and erribly sister in the past 11 know tov miseed him torrib past—and now too Ghe thought he might have written | ho hesitated, and his voice hardened to her, she was thinking #0 4891) 4 little, “I kafOw, too, how your sl pow as she reluctantly put aside her tor haw treated you,” he added. Sorkin response to Mr. Sturgess’) Jil winced. sort ay | 4 not know where he had | yee arrates, she did or, once or twice, driven by ber | ¢ joneliness, she might have | vir Sturgess went on unconscious of PRSSss FeazesPeeeses § CFF 422 222% Ay % desperats deen tempted to write to him: she | her emotion, “He is a strange man DA Sas etarving for affection—for #0Me”| Hut he has good points, and he ts TH one to care for her and be interested | occeedingty kind hearted. He would her future: go 4 love was lost to her in the | niy settled down and provided for Hest sense of the word, she “age of course, you know that he himself bething would ever be the sme B lis shortly to be married?” qeren them again; already Ji Was) There was a long «ilence, Deginning to see small allusions te heen ny 9X ypes Aprcaperoy) Pestister in the soclety the newspapers Mfrs, Re eat circumstances nobody sate believe. She has money—and he pave been more pleased and Proud | hasn’t—to put the case in a nutshell, than Jit columns °F | mechanically, then “Who—who is he aiph Hillyard | going to marry?’ she asked. a wi Night after night she lay awak/y spendthrift lot—the Tallentyres fm the little room eyes th h tee gcalding tears she would not let dont want to discuss—his aftairs Al fall; night after night the sense ©f | 1 want to discuss my own.” He came hart humiliation would not let ber) over to where she stood. “Weill,” he sleep; it ihe be = . aeeie Kathy had everything she ed in all the world? 4 His voice was kind—so kind, that wanted ‘must move from here.” Tal-| sudden teara came into Jill's eyes jentere said to her once. “There)" "Oh, I don't deserve that you are heaps of other places YOu AN | should be so good,” she said brokenly A rovrin far ynicer neighborhoods.” |“1oh, 1 don't know what to may.” nutes neighborhoods are NOt] He patted her shoulder cheap.” Jil told him in & hard] an old man like me? Nn stay bere.” jet me know in a day or two. 1 4 He bad not argued with her! Per | promise you" his volee was very bape be bad realized its futility |earnest. “I promise you that if you white she waa in such distress; JIU} could so fur honor me, you shall se vandered since if he had really | never have catise to repent tt Because it was an obvious one “anil. rag tinlety thee tattaet™ Anyway he had been out of Lom @ritten to her—a whole week during | found herself making mistake after which she had tried not to think Of/ mistake; the very presence of Mr. him: tried to force herself to realize | Sturgess confused her and made her that after all frientahlp— reel tens nervous; at last she asked desper ip—could never be je between | ately if she might gp. oe ranentyre ah ra a totally He “an at povliy 4 t world to hers—and soon ‘er or later she knew that this ac! atraig I have behaved very selfishly which had begun °/_nut it was quite unintentional , . . gely, would have to end. Run away home. 1 think you want “She roused herself from her/a potiday—" added with a little @eaming with a sigh. to find Mrjiwinkie tm his grave eyes, “How Stursess looking at he: would you like a holiday—with me?” shine fell full on her face; sh@) tun “You've never been abroad, I 4 frock accentuated her pallor and the | too pleased and proud to take—my shadows beneath her eyes; her | wife!’ “mouth had dropped from its usually gmiling curve into despondency. ‘Bhe gave a little staftied ory when, ty Mr. Sturgess leaned lett Mo emiled whimstcally; hie kind) yi y eyes searched her face. “You are not afraid of me, are t—there la nothing to be afraid - JM shook her head; she tried to but her heart was beating fast own imagining. richest lawyers in London suddenty. from the office. His voice was very grave now, M4) And if she chose, all these things kind hand on hers tightened it#) might be hers. him to the hand resting on Der ; a strong hand—a broad, gen- hand. _“Why—why what do you mean?” the asked in a whisper. ‘Mr. Sturgess rose to his feet: he with his back fo the empty ce, his hands deep thrust into ‘Bis pockets.’ | “I mean that I should very much to marry you—if you could ever omg yourself to think of me,” he) non’, emptyMouch by the window. him by his Christian name. in ber thoughts. ning stretched before her uninvit hair; she could not believe that he Was speaking seriously; be seemed Alle at once like a total stranger. ordinary, rather stout employer the had seen and talked with harmed of having a crippled broth. erin-law; not impatient with his irri gone, and in his place was @/in. poy who looked at her with rather hard life more happy. Biss Ble 1 is for whom she most desired them no longer with her. they might have tried all the wonder. ful cures of which she had tong enjoy the life that had so often been only a torment to him. Then she thought of Pallentyre, laibalss 13 ‘I suffered very) her cheeks. He had never told her that he was tod Bis ‘nes Tw fq. out to tea, but he had never even al 3. And* all the time they had been between them baby , friendship had| her cheeks, in hia heart Tallentyre, oo 4 too, look Jehe was butwide the magic eirc it the lives of both men: it was no busi PURE terest to them to'tell her. . en since | began taking anne ME Medicine and did allot my own | ineluding washing, You may | down the room: it was a werm B this letter as a testimonial if you "nc. very stil! and breathlenw: D mee &condition as Mrs. Christy was ls directly to a deranged con- | & woman's system, and 1 Pinkham's Vegetable CAmpound, |interrogatively; Jil grew recklens, men may be relieved from eg not drive her to Regent's park, we heath ¥ wish, and drew her chair a little) «you know—who told yout” ir to where he sat | ‘Pallentyre.* Tallentyre had been away & week A faint Mush crept into Jil's face and he had not sent her a tine Of ranentyre had told him Talien:| tyre had talked to him of her and Jlentyre is interested In you,” | be glad to know that you were hap- | mata’ JIN | being pushed to the)” “Lady Blriea Hewing . . . it's beep | practically settled for some time, 1) 1: but now it merely filled} ang jew his only hope of ever recov: | ‘a burning resentment. fering himself, They've always been | in Acacia Terrace, | he broke off suddenly, struck by | ghtly closed to keep back | something in her expression. “But we | was unfalr—unjust: WY |asked gently, “Do you think you! 0 tonely and URhAPPY | could ever bring yourself to care for | “Don't aay anything now if you | yoice. “This ls as good as any other: | woulq rather not; think it over, and} cared it she stayed there oF not. oT | He did not give her time to answer ff he had merely made the sumgestion | he moved back to his desk. “Now| But Jill could not keep her don for a whole week and had net! thoughts on business letters; she “Certainiy—certainly . . . T am) ‘Where she sat, the spring SUT | he asked her half seriously, half in feoked pale and ill; the black of her) sunpose?—no, well, I should be only He opened the door for her, and) bowed her out as if she had been one of his most wealthy clients In- stead of just the little typist who her and laid his hand 0 | toox orders from him and wrote his Jil went home like one'in a dggam, she could not believe that what had Jast happened was anything but her Henry Sturgess was one of the ie knew that; she had heard the clerks talk a Nameless apprehension. about his magnificent house, had/ “I wonder how you would like 6) herself many times seen the luxur- an old man,” said HeOry) ious car in which he drove to and/ She tried to imagine herself mar. JM never moved; she thought she | req to Sturgess; tried to realize what be dreaming; she looked @way | it would mean to look after his) house, to spend his money, and cy “Henry.” A lttle hysterical giggle escaped her, and she checked it hur- riedly; it sounded as if she were be- [ing unduly familiar with him, even | She could eat no tea; the long eve ingly. She felt strangely excited: she | tidied the m, and sat down on What would Don think if he knew? Ji! had turned a little in her| sie wondered. Mr. Sturgess would | |have been a kind friend to Don, she | knew that; he would not have been table temper and sharp tongue: he Mery day of her life for weeks past | would have done all he could to make Tears welled to her eyes; oh, if only she could have Don back again! It seemed #o hard that now, when riches and all the good things of life were lying within her reach, the one If it had come month sooner Don's life might ha been saved: ingly heard and read; Don might) have been made sufficiently well to! and the tears dried as if by magic on/ during my, periods, and felt weak and |. cena to Lady Birica Hewing: she all run down. he remembered that they had spoken of | id many reme-| se that first day when he took her lowed her to guess that there was have to have ap vivthing but the mont ordinary | in *heaged... A burning blush stung upon her as Hillyard did; ot me wonderfully. I have had nese of here what they did—no in. | She rose and began pacing up and the house seemed to stifle her, and #he When she reached the corner of ithe «treet beyond the green railings. la taxi came slowly along the road Wing ber example taking Lydia | towards her: the man glanced at her Soon—if she married Mr. Sturgess and be restored to normal |--she could ride in @ taxieab all day str 1 if she chore, She hailed the hat Pap ka Pap daieers site got in and tolg him to ‘roDay! I'VE GOT A BIG WASHING -YoU KNOW WE JUST GOT HOME FROM OUR VACATION LAST weer! OUGEE <- Lookrr wuar YOU DONE, FRECKLES ! Y \ Ry: DOINGS OF THE DUFFS PANSY, ('h SO GLAD You CAME Ye PAGE 9 ey Coat MRS DUFF! ir Stick YouUR ADS IN THE NEWSPAPER, NOT ON MY WIND SHIELD | in full bloom, she knew; the gray breathlessness of the spring evesing | made her think of them with sudden | longing. She leaned back with a sense of | defiant luxury. ‘There was nobody to care how ehe spent her money, 60 what did !t matter if she threw aw one of her few half-crowms on @ ten minutes’ pleasure? Soon ehe would be as rich as Kathy —soon she would be able to show Kathy and her husband that theirs wag not the monopoly of the good things of life. A little bitter laugh escaped her. ‘At last she would meet Tallentyre on his own level; as Henry Sturgess’ wife he would have to treat her as he treated all the other women of hh net; it would no longer be a con descension for him to take her out to tea; she would be able to invite him to her Kouse*-to entertain bis wife... the Mhought ‘woe a stab, She bit her lip as she thought of | Lady Elrica HeWing, her beauty, her | clothes — no wonder Tallentyre wanted to marry her; she was a woman of whom wuch a man as he would be proud; she was @ woman his house. She glanced down at her own hands in their eheap gloves; she re membered the first day he had taken her out to ted, and the Hole in her glove that had cused her such agonies; of courwe, he had seen It even though he had pretended not to. of course, he had always thought of him, Tears ofrage and mortification rowe to ler eyes, and were brushed angrily away. When she wan mar ried to. Mr, Sturgess she would show Tallentyre what shé@ could be and do: ube would let hifh see that she could dress as well as Lady Wirica; her 5 ool ea ae pl her as someone infinitely beneath | ‘Vtyre. | stro when at last she would have |left the harbor of life for the sea, and the winds of the world that blow there, Already she seemed to | feet ther stinging her face—aiready } atte seemed to be drawing the free Jaom of luxury and riches deep, deep only a means to an end; he made a substantial foundation for the build ling of her dream castle-—nothing | more; she forgot that to reach that | castle she had first to exchange one |torm of bondage for another/ Poverty and duty had bound and fettered her all her life; in the foy |that at last she waa casting her fet ters aside she forgot that she was about to rivet fresh chains on her | wrists. She paid the driver of the taxt | generously before she dismissed him: she went on and Into the park | ‘The sun was setting behind the trees; birds were twittering con fidentially to one another in thelr} nests under the new green leaves; a bed of nodding daffodils looked like a pool of purest gold in the sunset | ight. | Jil watked-on, dreaming still; the| who would be a fitting ornament for | one fear in her heart was that she] | might wake up and find that nothing lof all this day's wonder had really happened. She longed for tomorrow, when she could go to the office and meet Mr, Sturgess and convince her | welf all over again that he had really | auked her to marry him, really asked | to be allowed to turn the key in the door of the world and let her thru Someone was coming along the path towards her, and she glanced up with vaguely disinterested eyes; then she stood suddenly still, nearly choked her own tempestuous heartbeats, for the man into whose Continucd Foworrow) WHY DO You SAY |——_<7_—- @ IM VERY HIGH SANSY ? SPIRITS ToDAY! . THAT, PANSY f . | DEYLAST “TEN DAYS F ) WF + JAS BEEN DE PLEASAA! IME O* MY LIFE! ANN, MOM, CAN'T You DO IT FoR BREAKIN’ 7 WINDOW ? PoP'LL WANE T’ LICK SoME- ‘WALID You, NOT BECAUSE You BROKE TWE WINDOW, BUT BE- CAUSE YOU BROKE YouR. PROMISE ‘Yo ME THAT You WOULD STOP PLAYING BALL NEAR THE ion aA vd BRIC-A-BRAC, VASES, wenn MID LAMP CROCKS wey 1). COME ON INI David and Peggy were waiting | for their outings In canoes or row: for the return boat from Bremer-| boats on the Sound. You know how they have al-/rowed out from shore thinking ways liked going over there, and/ and drinking in the beauty of the how many Bremerton and Man-|scenery and the marvelous clear- nette stories they have been told, and this last time, you re member, they went straight into the navy yard and on the great battleship and had the visit with Admiral Eberle, — * ‘Well, of course, one can't spend a whole afternoon visiting with an admiral, he just might ha) thing else to do, and it was while they were waiting for their boat interesting Bremerton lady told them about Bert. “Yes,” she said. “It's a mighty big thing, this navy yard. town itself looks big to me. You tee I've lived here since it was woods clear down Off he loped with his head low. ‘The best that Sprinkle-Blow could |loped with his head low, nosing his | do to please the folks was to fill|Way thru the grass and low bushe to the cornefield. On the edge he stopped. Aelicious fragrance met his nostrils | that it fairly made him dizzy with | the fragrance of sweet, juicy | roasting ears waiting to be picked. | his orders as they came, just as the grocery-store man does, . Xnd Cob! Coon and Chris Crow got in their Farmer Smith would | jorders first. |have to wait, So Mr. Moon was told! to hide Bis | sito |face behind a black cloud that night | and it was as dark as “Do you sme Moon will stay away for six weeks | |so that Don the Dog will have to} mind his own | |affairs. As for me, one doesn’t have | ee in the dark when he's got a nose like mine.” down the Inside of the hollow amore to his basement door opping popcorn!” he cried, “It's rk I can’t see the rings on my Sprinkle-Blow send such a night with no moon at 1 can taste that lovely -|juicy Yellow Bantam corn this min- ute, as well as though it were right jin my mouth.” And his mouth start | jed to water like everything, But he didn't lose much time try- jing to imagine the faste of Farmer Smith's corn when was hagging right within bis reach jnot a hundred yards away. into her lungs. Henry Sturgess was | remember once, when we were children, several of us were playing right down there,” (she pointed to a spot on the beach not far away), “when a queer thing trotted down the} corn rows to a place he knew about. | (To Be Continued) { 1, by Seattle Star) but just tne same to be out in (Copyright, 192 “It was a bright afternoon and Bert's mother got into her litle nd went out for a row. “People did that in the early days when there were few roads | \dmonished. “They'd upset the and fewer carrigges. ‘They went ' boat.” ee KKK, Cicero, the Latin orator, is said to have been the first authentic auto- gtaph collector. The secret of manufactaring as- to the ancient WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) CHAPTER XXI—GRACE CAMERON SAYS, “I’LL HAVE MY FLING” followed Grace] “I won't be here this afternoon— Cameron's revelation was tense, 1 was stupified by the story and She was holding in one hand her maid's "Going where?” “1 can't tell you," she said, and 1 don't know mys | world is full of pla And there is ne . for I should only be fired this even, perhaps, to where Tom Brad Bradford had had what must have been a big affair, and kept it a secret He must have c he had guarded it so, for it Is only those things which we cherish with d feeling that we keep es for women to use of staying “But what?" I asked. “Oh, there's no, use talking about it; it's all past now and I'm going Wouldn't you more of Lila Am she'd pull up the shades be filled, and for me anyhow.'? Her yolee was dull “What do you mean? I asked. I finally brought out the bad as those women I was with, only she is secretive about it. going to pull up the shades!” Don't! I begged rushed on in nervous, hard lttle sen “Because he never asked me to.” She was twisting a glove in her tone when she thought impatient self-reliant but almost child perhaps to where Tom Brad. buck from! Theve “There Isn't any use,” she repeat. thinking that the time won't even try to get an: of this little girl was not her own, |1 started tow: “Ll take care of my own room jford dragged me isn't anything for me! has one of the finest men who ever as a slave, and she's casting worth while has failed me, so I'm going to find out what I want! There BY ALLMAN HAINT You HEARD? MY MAN HAS BEEN IM DE HOSPITAL FER. Two WEEKS! at | BY BLOSSER* * “Well, as I said, Bert’s mother ness of the atmosphere, not notic- ing how far across she had gone, when something attracted her at- tention, “Can it be? she asked herself. ‘I must have been out for hours. There are no rocks sticking out of the water, except near the Seat- Ue shore.’ “The ‘rocks’ had appeared nearer to us before she saw them. And the ‘rocks’ moved, and disap- peared and came again while we looked, and—spouted. “Whales! we all screamed and Bert saw his mother calmly row- ing about. “‘Ma! he called. ‘Come on tn! Come on in, ma. Come on in? “And once ‘ma’ saw the reason she lost no time ‘coming in’ and laughed at the terror of her son, the middle of a school of whales is@’t very funny.” “But would the whales eat ber?’ iked Peggy, breathlessly. “Aw, Peg, don’t be silly!" David ness they think they see in us Others are lured by the depths they think no other man has plumbed. And as for ourselves—why, we're all alike! There is but one measure of us—that of our tailor's tapeline, Brains? We all have them, but what. have they ever brought me in last ing happiness? I am going to for get that I have them now. “Tam going to be the elusive blue- bird on some man’s skyline, and if life breaks my wings and crushes me, it will be in flight. I will at jleast have had my fling and leave behind no dim gray record of vain regret.” (To. Be Continued) Gee, but Boldt's Bread is good —Advertisement, this morning so you won't be late with your work, and then, face she looked was Cyrus Tallen-}MQ0M, won't yeu drop and we'll finish our talk?’ T paid, You are doing the same thing. And 1," the passion was dy- t to the depths for © lived kquarely fo: may be love and happiness for a few | women, like yourself, sen, but there isn't any for me—it r | Has been all the while only lure! Helga Soren. ope man and |