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(Continued From Page 6) of existence was not «o hard down there; he might be wholly able to hoki Virginia's respect and love, and make her happy, Such was Bill's last prayer, They were nearing the cabin now. ‘They saw the candlelight, lke a pale mMost, m the window, Virginia was atill up, reading, perhaps, before the fire. She didn't guegs what happt Bese Bill was Dringing her across the ano Fl could fancy her, bright eyes tent, face a little thoughtful, per haps, but tender as the eyes of an. gels. He could see her hair burn. ished in the candlelight, the soft, gra cious beauty of her face, Her lips, too—he couldn't forget those lips of hers. A shudder of cold passed over his frame. He strode forward and put his hand on Harold's arm. “Wait.” he com. manded. “There's one thing more.” Harold paused, and the darkness was not so dense but that his face was vaguely revealed, sullen and Questioning. “There's one thing more.” Bill re peated again. “I've brought yo here. I've given you your chat tor redemption. God knows if I ha My choice I'd have killed you first She's not going to know about the squaw, unless you tell her, Nor about the filth you lived in. Those tters are all for you to decide, I E won't interfere.” _ instruction. file son of the forest—and no man He paused, and Harold waited. And his eager ears caught the faint throb of feeling in the low, almost muttered tones, “But don't forget tm here.” he went on. “I work for her-—umtil she gots out of my charge I'm her guide, her protector, the guardian of her happiness, That's all I care about— her happiness. I don't know wheth tr or not I did wrong to bring a squaw man to her—Ddut if you're man enough to hold her love and make ber happy, it doesn't matter. But I give—one warning.” Hils voice changed. It took on a quality of infinite and immutable propheey. In the darkness and the silence the voice might have come from some higher realm, speaking the irrevocable will of the forest oda “She'll be more or leas in your pow- er at times, up here. I won't be with you every minute. But if you take one jot of advantage of that fact @ither in word or deed——Ill break you and smash you and kill you in my hands™ He waited an instant for the worl» He was @ strong man, deny the trait—but he could bimself to see that first aight of the girl, fluttering epraptured tn Harold's arma, the loveliness of ber lips om bis, was than he could bear. on in,” he said, “She's wait- you." And she was, She had waited atx years, dreaming all the while of his Harold went in, and left bis winter forest, the darkness that ha crept into Rie heart, and the hush that might have been the utter st lence of death itself had it not been for the image of a faint, enrapturel! cry, the utterance of dreams come true, within the eabin door. XVI When Virginia heard the tramp of feet on her threshold she didn't dream but that Bill had returned a day cartier than he had planned. Her heart -gave a queer little flutter of relief. The cabin had been lonely tonight, the silence had oppressed ber; most of all she had dreaded the long night without the comforting fraswurance of his presence. She @ouldn't have admitted, even to her: if, that her comfort was #0 depend it upon this man. And she spring joyously as a bird «pringing from & bough, to welcome him. The next instant she stopped, ap Palled. The door did not open, the steps did not cross her threehold Instead, knuckles rapped feebly on| t door. Even in a city, it ts a rather Ais. comforting experience for a girl ne in a home at night, to answer & tapon the door, Here in this awful silence and solitude she was simply and wholly terrified. She hadn't Greamed that there wae a stranger within many miles of the calGn. For an instant she didn't know what to @o. The knock sounded again But Virginia had acquired a cr. tain measure of self-discipline in these weary weeks, and her mind at once flashed to her pistol. Fortw nately she not taken It from her belt, and she had full confidence in ber ability to shoot it a@eckly and well. Besides, she remembered that her door was securely boited Who's there?” she asked. “In it you, Bir’ “It's not Bill,” the answer came. “Rut he’s here.” The first thought that came to her Was that Bill had been tnjured, hurt some adventure in the snow, and en had brought him back to the fabin. Something that was like a Sickness surged thru her frame. But fn an instant more she knew that, had he been Injured, there wonld have been no wayfarers to find him and bring him in. There wan only one remaining posstbility: that this Man was one whom Bill had gone Out to find and who had returned With bin ‘The thought was so startling, #0 fraught with tremendous poswibitities that for a moment she seemed to Jone all power of speech or action. “Who in it?” she asked steedily as she could and the answer came strange and Stirring thru the heavy door. “It's {—Harold Lounsbury. Bill told me to come.” Virginia was oppressed and baffled as if in a mysterious dream, For the moment she stood still, trying to Quiet her leaping heart and her flut- \ elleve nen Fi time they fatter themselves they are his home—and he would trust love|for the joke I had played on Mec-|fluenza, Ia grippe and bronchial eirguewer, ony inte’ emet ee Sunk yg eagle ocho ony fr I resolved to keep onty the finest Weeds crowd flowers In a garden| putting something over another /to take care of itself, | Masters was ‘not a story he could | troubl It Is unwise to negtect et find out whether this volee me you were here—I've been trap. | conceptions of love before the public. |if they are left alone. False love, | woman. ‘There wouldn't be much sense in | Share with the boys, the slightest cough or cold, Meseo.) 9 spoke true—whether or not it was ping over toward the Yuaw. -And| And they would he the trimat counterfeit love, will crowd the deli-| At last Thad a purpose in my | explaining my new ambition to Cisay,| ‘The more I knew about Cissy, the|F. A. Gibson, 1547 College Ave, Rae oll her lost lover, returned to her at /now—we're towether at lant 1 would t to show women that|cate and f varietics of affection | playing. Up to this time, I had|I might as wel try to teach Me-| better I liked him. So 1 told myself | clae, Wis. writes: “Voley's Honey < lowt Rut curiously these last few worda|they must preserve their ideal of |out of existence unless all women |acted for my salary and my pleasure | Masters. |daily. Sometimes 1 almost decided|and Tar has never failed in giving: Yet there could be no mistake. The | cont her her self-possexdon, Instantly |love--or it would be killed out of the | work together to uproot the coarse, |in the work But If T persovered—some day both |to marry him on his own terms, pro-| immediate relief ond Tam evens ® voice wan the same that she remem. he was iil at ease. The re-establioh id b neh mens as MeMasters|strong growth from the hearty of) Mrs. Polly had laughed at me andlof them—and thousands of other | vided he would pormit ine to keep on | without it.’ Chidren like ita bered of old. It was as if it hadi ment of their old relation could only ,and Hutcheson Colm idge. |sume men, unless Uey prove to meni (righteued me out of telling her my! men might get Whe idea that honor iniin the movies, | ver tisemont, again, | spoken out of the dead years, Her hands clasped at her breast, then she walked (© the threshokl and opened the door Harold Lounsbury etepped thru Dlinking tn the candlelight. Instin tively the girl flung back, giving him full right of way and staring jas if he were a ghost, He turned to her, half apologetic, “Bill told me to come,” he said } The man stood with arms Nmp Die aide, and a great euree of m emotions swept the girl as tn a flood She was pale as a ghost, and her hands trembled when she stretched them out. “Harold,” she mur uneteadily, She tried to smi it really you, Harold?" | “It's I," he answered, “We've come together—at last.” The words seemed to Boattered faculties, The dre quality of the, scene at once dix solved. Utter and bewiklering sur prise is never an emotion that can} Jong endure; its very quality makes for brevity. Already som | cool sense within ber had begun o| } her mike rally levelin | accept the fact of his presence. Instinotively |} face and form. this man was unc } Yet she was sec | shocked, Her first impression was} jone of change: that the years had | some way altered him—other than | the natural changes that no living| creature may escape. | In reality his face had aged but | ttle, He had worn just such a mus | tache when he went away. Perhaps jhis eyes were changed: for the ment ehe thought that they were, and the change repelled her and es. | tranged her. Hix mouth was not quite right, either; his form. tho powerful, had lost some of its youth | ful trimness. her eyes swept All doubt was past eutionably Harold, | tly and uely | hie | “Its 1" Harold enawered, “We've come together—at last.” ‘ Tt evemed to her, for one instant, that there was « brutality im his expreesion that she had never geen before. But at once the reac tom came. Of course these | forests had changed him. He had fought with the cold and the snow, with all the primeval forces of na | tare: be had simply hardened and! | matured. true that the calm | "e face was not to be} Nevertheless ne was wart, and his embarrass. | | ment Was a credit to bim rather than a discredit | ‘Thin thought was the beginning of | the reaction that in a moment] |erauped her and held her. The truth |suddenly flamed clear and bright | tha Harold Lounsbury had returned | [to her arms. Her reh Was over.) She had won. He stood before her. | alive and weil. He i come back [to her. Her effort had been crowned [with success. . ' |, He was her old lover, in the flesh. | Of course she would experience some | | shock on first meeting him changes; but they were nothir should keep her from hi jber hands in Both of his “Virginia, he cried. “My God, I can't believe} lit’s you!" | She remained singularty cool in the didn’t you! | writ he asked jeome home?” The questions, instead |rassing him further, put lidn't you | of embar- | Harold at [his ease. He was on safe grounds now. He had prepared for just these | uerics, on the long waik .to the cabin. “I did wrt he eried. “Why |didn’t you answer?” j The words came gilb to his tips, | She stared at him in amazement You did—you way you wrote me he asked him, deeply moved. | | “Wrote! 1 wrote a dozen times, | And I never received a word—except from Jules Nathgn.” “But Jules Nathan—Jules Nathan is dead? | “He ts But Harold's surprise |was feigned. This was one piece of news that had trickled thru the | Wastes to him—-of the death of Jules Nathan, a man known to them bot! It was safe to have heard from him The contents of the latter could ne |be verified. “He told me—after I | written many times, and never got an anewer-—that you were engaged to be married—to a Chicago man. 1 thought you'd forgotten me. I thought you'd been untru: ! Virginia held hard on her facultie and balanced his word: She hed known Chicago men during the six years that she had in the most exalted social of her own city. The story held water, even if she had been inclined to doubt tt She knew it is always easy for an engagement rumor to start and be carried far, when a prominent girl was Involved. “T didn’t get your let circles ay ters,” she told him. “Are you sure you addressed them right “I thought so And.you didn’t get mine “N mot after the first few da I changed my addrese—but I told you of the change in a letter, { never heard from you after that.” “Then it's all been rofwunder: And you Mtanding—a cruel mistake thought I bad forgotten “I thought you'd marrind some one expreanion on his face. His eyes | were glowing, the color had risen in —— his chebks, he was curiously eager gE and breathlons. tefore he comes : —_ he urged, “We've been apart 50 : a } this stalwart for THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN RT SPIDER GARAGE HAS _* ! $7 \T] BEEN PART OF “TH’ INTERIOR EL) ff DECORKTION FOR A YEAR! | ] —— BUSTER MADE TH’ LAS TASPER CROSBY /f NERS WAY\| ATTEMPT TO SWEEP IT SELF CuO /& BIT MR. HOYT \\ DOWN, AND HE SLID THATS PART OF “THE ( “THROUGH A CANE GRAPE-VINE DESIGN IN Sp. seateD cHaIR} THE WALLPAPER You'Re} | BRUSHING = THERE “pwow! “THATS FIN THERE, THATGETS THAT \ {WEB = Y'KNOW MRS. HOOPLE, . WAS “THE SHORTEST ONE POTTER WATCH REPAR NW OUR FAMILY = “THEY HAD TO LOWER ALL THE KNOBS \ON “HE DOORS SO L A\COULD GET IN AND \ ouT! Sc ~ You SAY WE WILL NO-NO- ISAY FRED WILL HAVE HIS JOKE! The. cov-wees = S=— WOULD STILL BE THERE = \F 'SHORTY' HOYT HADN'T OME TO BOARD ==- FRED ANDERSON SHOWED BILL PARSONS HOW HIS FAMOUS HUNTING DOG ATTACKED A SIKUNK LAST NIGHT. Give and Take HERE, HELPLESS, IT WAS RIGHT BEA DETECTIVE In THE SAME TO FIND ANY— PLACE 17 ALWAYS) THING AROUND WAS THIS HOUSE come gradually: altho she had 1 anticipated it, the six years of sey aration had wrought their changes She felt that she nee to by come adjusthd to him—just as a mi who has bb heeds become adjusted to bis visu at once their proximity cabin YOUD HAVE To HEY, DANNY, DON’T CRACK THOSE NUTS WITH YOUR TEETH WAIT, |’LL GET You A NUT CRACKER! HELEN, OH HELEN, WHERE 1S THAT NUT CRACKER “THAT WAS IN HERE? DETECTIVE ? WHY YOU WOULDN"T EVEN MAKE A Goop BuRGLAR! ed time DIG in was oddly embarrass “Where's BUT" she i. She turned to the door and called. “Bill © are your" His voice seemed quite his own when he answered from the stillness of the night. “I'll be In in a moment Just getting a n't true. He ha and inert in the he began hastily to fill his arms wi fuel. Virginia turned back to her new-found lover She was a little frightened by the ad of we Catching Up On His Head St- BY BLOSSER * T WANT TW DONT YouTWINK Tar” FRECKLES IS ENTITLED oO THE BeGEST DIECE ONCE rg ‘ W AWHILE Ke ? JZ a His hands reached out and seleed hers, He drew her toward him didn’t resint: she felt a deep selfan ance that she didn’t cra vie Kies, She fought away her unwonted fear: perhaps when hin tips met everything would be the mme again and her long-awaited happiness would be complete, He crushed her to him, and his kim was greedy Yet it was cold upon her ipa. she strucgied from his arma and he looked at her tn startied amazement. | In tact, she waa amazed at herself When she had time to think it over. atone in her bed at nigh ahe decided that her desperate «truggie had been merely an attempt to free herself from his arms before Bill came in and w them. She only knew that he djdn't want this comrade of hers. er. her in Hut in the second had known a blind nlmnest 4 repulsion. and an over. whelming desire to escape (Continued Tomorrow) NO! HE WAS EATINY PIE A COUPLE YEARS BEFORE T WAS to see Harold's embra of the act fear ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS vattle + r ..ByMabel Cleland» ar. * OF * By Ma Clive Roberts Barton = Page 575 THE SPEECH 1 DIDN'T MAKE (Continued) rom the moment Mr.j “After things had quieted down, Himes continued, “that that boy| my nam was cal but by the reached his place, the little time I had got to the plgtform I addience sat up and took notice.| had lost all memory of my “We had a rough lttle plat. | spesch. form about a foot high, and the} “When I started to speak, the front row of guests was but a/ only thing I could think of was, very short distance away. “I had noticed ft; had thought ‘The lark is up to meet the day.’ “I cleared my throat bed r fearfully of thove faces so near me! "The lark is up to meet the ’ Nothing remained but the boots themselves when I should have to speak, but be * 1 thought, ‘The sun is in the A wky j N and Nick went home after, Buskina had teen shrinking into || ‘* ‘n't bother the youngster who | «1 knew every word of the little (77 a, the visit to ap Bubble Land with his high boots all the time he was was saying the poem. You mever! orator’a piece, but mine was @ fi juskins, because Buskina said that talking and now nothing remained heard a Fourth of July orator put! gone / he had an important engagement and but’ the boots themselve with more fire and voice into a speech | “I tried my best, but no words mS i would have to leave them. “But if a little shake they were gone, too thks he tes and in ¢ ) grief and shame Tt CAN'T TE, you come out to the orchard tomor The Twins didn't forget what the ns urned to my sea row.” he promised them, “f shall little fairyman had said, #0 bright Tee We Oe oe Ge IPTY YEARS LATER. ee meet yon under the apple-tree and and early next morning they were | 9: he roared | “After I had been long in Port we'll take a ride up into the sky in out under the apple-tree. The Magi “The sun is in the sky. | land I heart that he was coming our little elevator and see more won-|cal Mushroom appeared wit us ““The bee is on the wing, | to the city for some event and ders, Altho, dear knows, you may kins, and bringing the Green Shoes The ant ite labor tae hesun, Bete speak see nothing at all, because the place “And 1 think that I'd better “Phe woods with mutte ring’ “TI went to meet him 1 wish to take you to next is some. you another language charm, kid “At which he raised both arma “Mr, Dougherty,’ I said grave times called Emptyland. But some-| dies,” said thelr dear old friend. and jumped lightly and surely | 1%. ‘before you go into the hall, I times it is also celled the Land of “Here you are? And, as he had done into the lap of the lady in front, W#nt to settle a little matter with Everything, depending entirely upon |a long time before, he gave the chil of him. | you.’ Whizay Tornado, If Whizzy has been |dren another plece of the pink lining Weil, the audience went wild;| “He looked alarmed, at his tricks, blowing things sky high |of his round hat. When they clapped and they clapped, “*Yes,’ I said, ‘you spoiled my off the earth, you may see every he was gone, the Twins|f and they laughed and cheered and | Aer as an orator,’ and I told thing from milk bottles to barn|wished themselves up into the little clapped , and I was next on| him about that long ago day at doors. |elevator-house at once, followed in-|] the program | sehool.”* . “That's where Tam going now, to|stantly by Buskins, As before, "I was next, and I wasn’t little| Mr. Himes’ laughed. “And to nee if there plenty of room for |little car rose smoothly up between and cute; I was 11 years old and| this day IT don’t know what itt the poor things to come to when|clouds of pink and white " Le platy reg wah 1 was. going 40 3 hizzy gets after the Ye fairies | right into the n.% } (Copyright, 192 Star) Cissy was very curious about what |S@6% & cutin would | remit n@. new ambition Motherde how they cheat themselves when they T wanted to get bu grasp at handfuls of cheap glass | to id explain, k She} jmo that Cissy, like McMasters, adored the exquisite polished surface « had happened on Broadbend. When I told him how I raced Me- "i 6% beads in preference to a single valu: | would un |Masters up the height and down | ex sence. . 6 pen 7 * a . é Whethe ic Confessions of a Movie Star} """ cover, Cimy's propowal must be |againtike the king of Rance wich | yAneer he could eee that beat And I would show the treapassers | answered. might sc imes abide beneath ugi twice 10,000 men—Cissy laughed un: | 4, ape . Ho wanted me on any terms, My til he nearly fell out of his ham. |" mi ere ae ea | Influence over him--upon that he de. mock. As he wiped his eyes be said | ae ppl pended, he had said, My beauty, my|he simply would have to have his|FOLEWS HAS NEVER FAILED =” They choat themselves every! esprit, my gayety, he must have in| Mirth over and done with at once,| January is a bad month for ime (Copyright, 1921, Seattle star) in Jove, the women like.Ginette, that | when they trelp a man to He to hia wif@, they teach him to lie to them selves CHAPTER LXV—I RESOLVE TO TEACH LOVE THRU ACTING