The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1922, Page 11

And only (he arm to the el ty Nor its position waa known, But he was absolutely certain it ( PGFose One day be might put bis band | pats CHAPTER IV i dage aud just past ber thirueth wdden laughter, rather loud, which ff and very heartily, at anything Smiling. or sumgesting by any sign that she was amused, And Game thus abrupuy out of a face expression was parwally rath pevere. | her habit of what Sabre called = Up.” She “flew up’ without PBher specch first warming up; but of know certain premonitory symptoms | 7 tm her face. Her face what he called | “tightened.” In particular he used t@ hotice a curious litle constriction @f the sides of her nose, rather as tho invisible (weesers were pressing | n | | She had rather a long nose and | this pleased her, for she once read | | somewhere that long noses were aris | toeratio. She stroked her nose as) she read. | Her complexion was pale, tho this | 7 perhaps exaggerated by her col ering. which was dark. Her features | noticeably regular and notice- refined, tho her eyes were the 5 leget little bit inclined to be promi. | Rent: when Sabre married the Dean | ef Tidborough’s only daughter, it said that had married “a looking girl"; also that he had “a very nice girl”; those | | BRIZGERA I i expressions used. She liked company of men and she was ed by men (the opinion of ous Hapgood may be re this connection). She very } ed the society of women of age or older than herself, i %e : very popular with such. | like girla, married or RF 232 m Mabel belonged to that consider. | able class of persons who, in con | | verwation, begin half their sentences “And just imagine—"; or “And fancy—"; 6r “And do you know—." These exelamations, deliv ered with much excitement, are tn treductory to matters considered ex- | | temordinary, Their users might there- fore be imagined somewhat easily astonished, But they have a com Pensatory steadiness of mind in re! : to much that mystifies other se 'To Mabel there was nothing mys fo birth, or in living, or in ith. One was born, one lived. one @ied. What was there odd about it? Nor did she see anything mysterious | the Intense preoccupation of an ct, or the astounding placidity of primrose growing at the foot of a ‘tree, An insect—you Liked it. A } flower—you plucked it. What's the mystery? SPOR A ee PEP RZITT or aS SESS we etA of her own class. Her measure of | ® man or of a woman was, Were! they of her class? If they were, she gladly accepted them and appear to find considerable pleasure in their society. Whether they had attrac tive qualities or unattractive qual ties or no qualities at all did not « fect her. The only quality that mat. tered was the quality of peing well bred. } She called the classes beneath hor | own standard of breeding “the lower} classes.” and so long as they left her| jone she was perfectly content to Jenve them alone. In certain aspects she Jiked them. She liked “a ctyil} tradesman” immensely; she liked a il charwoman immensely; and she | ged a civil workman immensely. It we her as much real ple Ure that she felt in all her emoti to rec civ from the classes that ministered to her clas#—serv ants, tradespeople, gardeners, car penters, plumbers, postmen, police men—as to mect any one in her own clase, The onty fact she knew about th Sowep classes was that they weve di tingly extravagant and spent ry penny they ear The wor @n actom the Green who did her washing had x children and « hus band who was an agricultural ta j borer and ea eighteen and six pence a werk hese eight lived f three rooms and “if you actually bought bel instanced it for years after she first heard it. The idea of that class of person spending money on any @ gras thing to make their three rooms live-| often told him by Mabel i S19U ASM NUTCHINGON { (Continued From Page 6) sty of an eve was scandalous to ME was to be seen thru the hole, | Mab heard of the gran: phone | & thru it, Not the shape of the | tnstancing ft in 1912, there. had no of sudden laughter. Mabe) was two years younger than | read. she saw or heard or read ex Sabre, twenty-five at the Ume of ber|actly as the thing presented iteecif. when the separate rooms |a piece of wood with a handle and Were first cocupied. Her habit of}a keyhole It may be argued that a door is merely a pleee of wood with SAbre first noticed in connection with) « handle and a phe hole, and that ts | heir differing Views on the mean} what Mabel would have argued. But te Vinit, was rather characteris | a door tx in fa Of ber. Her laugh came sudden. | mystery in the world because of what amused her and without her | of what goes on behind it Probably of the same mentality |oration in paint and was either a peer flying up, unlike her sudden eo jor merely music, A book was a burst of laughter, Sabre came to/story, and if it was not a story it Her life was living among people | « BE IN VIEW IN BACK OF BE IN TIWE CAKE BOx the Was sill im Mabel was not demonstrative. She enthusiasms and no sym Enthusiasms and sym in other people made her layeh with her charaetesistic burst Whatever she saw or heard or If she saw a door she saw merely the most Intriguing may be on the other side of it and A person oF a creature in pain wae to Mabel a person or a creature “laid up." Laid up—out ef action—not working properly: like a pencil with. ut a point. A picture was a deo pretty decoration in paint or a not pretty decoration in paint. Music was a tune, and was either a tune was simply a book. A flower was a decoration, Poetry, such as “While the still morn went out with eandals gray,” was simply writing which, obviously bad no real meanfhg whatsoever, and | pviously—well, read the thing-——was | iu not intended to have any meaning. This very matter of the bicycle A fine deed was fine precisely tn |ride, indeed, apart altogether from Proportion to the social position of | its effect upon his mood, supplied an the person whe performed it. Scott's |instance of the kind of thing Mabel death at the South Pole, when that/found it so difficult to understand Wag announced In 1913, was fine be-|in her husband. — ~~ sentieman. The dis-/ 19 made what she called a child-| ster of the colliers entombed in the] ish game of it, Kivery day on the| Welsh Senghenydd mine which hap-| ride home, Babre ceased pedaling at pened In the eame year was sad precisely the same point on the slope She was never particularly grate | Gown into Penny Green and coasted ful for anything given to her or done/uptil the machine came to & stand lor her; not because she was not| ; i within » few yarde of bis own pleased and glad but because she gate. @This point of cosmation was could invest a gift with no imagina-| never twice in a week at the same tion of the feeling of the giver. The | soot; and Sabre found great interest thing was a prevent just as a pound) i see: every day exactly where Of bacon was a pound of bacon. You | it would be, and by intense wriggling teas = tor ~~ present Just lof nis front wheel and prodigious bacon, feats of balancing, squeesing out of She reveled in gonstp, that Is tOling machi unto the last say in discussion with her own lass | sossibie fraction of an inch. There of the ae 4 a a Gomes of other | was & magnificent distance record people. She thought charity meant | Tian oa one single occasion only siving jolly and red flannel to the) a. naa peen deposited plumb in line poor; she thought generosity meant! wits, his own gat ad there was siving money to seme one; she!, divertingly lamentable shortage thought selfishness meant net giving | record, touched on more than one money to some one. occasion, when he had come to All that her senses set before her| OULG niumb in line with the gate she either overvalued or underval-|* , ted she was the complete and per of Mr. Vargus, his neighbor en that snob in the most refined aod|" pich of these records, tho marked purest meaning of the word. eee i ee Be marie ite Was muuch Hked, and she tke’ Sculy"marwed by & peg hammered : |into the edge of the Green. | id cso ‘This was childish; and Mabel mld I |tt was childish when her attention was drawn to the diversion. On the day the great distance record was created he came rather animatedly into the kitchen where she happened to be. “I say, what's happened to | hat «mall wood axe? Is it in here?’ Mabel followed the direction of t onvulaive mtart by Low Jinks jand produced the small wood axe SF l trom under dresser, aloo direct “ling at Low Jinks a glance which told Low Jinks what ehe well knew: namely that dremer was not the place for urious pleasure to him. Pn ae wena we There quke gumaeved te. hime ver as na vote, and theceafter bad per.| Want it for ail of @ sudden?” Mi per: | anked. sisted and accumulated, the feeling | “Tea the edge with bis thumt that, on the daily, solitary passage|.: esi tie eee wie toned tie ween Tidborough and Penny | iad persisted in the idiotic and inde con, he was mysteriously de | crouy names, and h tached from, mysteriously suspended | forous panves, Ane Ot between, the two centers that were » "Sl do you keep my axe for chopp his two worlde-—his business world |°0. 70 Vile And he addremsed | y ie ee Mabel. “I'm getting fat, I think. | y With its dally recurrence the) sont want the axe to cut lumps off thought developed: It enlarged to the | 00" ' Man! te nae Ie whimsical notion that here, on his bi- |? 1 marking peg. I've 10 a heavy eyele on the road. he was magically | echt world's record on that rua in excaped out of his two worlds, not rose j The Penny Green Garden House Development Scheme was begun in 1910. In 1908, the year of the measies and the separated bedrooms, | no shadow of it had yet been thrown. It never occurred to any one that & railway would one day link Penny | ., Green with Tidborough and all the| rest of the surrounding world, that a railway to Tidborough was sirable, Sabre bicycled in daily to Fortune, Hast and Sabre’s, and the daily ride to and fro had become a) atever do rm on belor to of respanaible to either OP SY is 1 Mabel. of his two worlds, which amounter me og Cae ype at Geligions detachment from. aj} the}, 494 when he had gone out into | w ne wood yard, Low Jinks etaring | y¢ universe riousty aloof, free, el : ct Fen th ‘ omnied 4 wate pide rare tude of ming was) ii, which both sisters, the «lum | w gr " and the grim nly received | t¢ the master’s “ways }the gently pained way whieh waa) th her admirable method of a aieter. ling rebukes in the kitchen The woodshed is the place for the small | tr Rebecea.” rompt neating in *¢ of detach. habit of y But he was ed. On ent his Penn en world on th turn home, or on entering his borough office world, on the out, he had sometimes a curious ng of descending into this odd rc e to which he did not re: tong. the few moments while the feeling persisted he some. aware of a fluence fre ment on th | wood axe. te tebecca unemirked her | 1, A little later the sound of loud hammering took Mabe Across the road, at the edge of the Green, Sabre was energ ing in the peg with the back of the times, more or less jously affairs a rather wh 7 axe, Hi " tow up t y pleased with himself and, sical attitude, as tho they did net! it, words implied, with her. "Come rea matter: an irritating attitude. |)’. a7 Good! How's that’ for an| did the worst o eftort, eh? Look here now. Yeater-|g partners; an tating attl tude——" “u really are ry difficult to understand sometimes”—it was towa Mr. | w uck his heel in| ¢h he walked some pa Fargus’ gate 4 |the ground and look Now, the Dream Seller lives at the fourth end of the earth, but he sells foe ~ams only, When one wishes a wicked dream he goes to Rena Mee he magician, who live: on « star. He boils all sorts of dreams—rmakes ‘em to order So Twelve Toes, the Sorcerer, de airing a specially territ dream, changed himelf into a bat 1 flew up to the star to old Kena “Heliot’ he said, f Kena Meena’s chimney, to 4 hat i Meena’s were ; the magician, “ at | wtart you gave me, Twelve What can I do for you?’ i “1 want two drea awful ones,” F for @ boy and a called Nick and aney, who are giving me a lot of trouble. They are on their way to the palace of the Princess Therma who lives between the kingdom of the Dida nd the Koruknotts given them by Lon d, the wiwe-} ADVENTU ate OF ENE TWN EENA MEENA—MAGICIAN ing. Absolute | va Jolly funny, eh?” cl - he opened the gate for him. “What you can # in it! she mur | mured Jo man, I don’t want them to get| He sald, “Oh, well™ | mL | But on the following day he was| pleased to there, because when they do the! pringess will marry either the king of one country or the other, and I surprised and intens | want her for myself grinned wicked Y AN-HA» SO BUSTER, You'RE HE MOUSE, E DONT TRY Tb HIDE You'b GILL ROUNDHOUSE = Now L KNOW How THAT PAJAMA BUTTON CAME TO y- to chop | eve Mabel #aid ip | Mabel'’s management was her rule smirk, “Yes, m'm.” of mine to the gate. | ogetically; “Well,*I thought it would ally driv: | drop was squatting and he looked | regular wimning-post. Jolly nice of day I only got as far as here,” and) cently been exettir at her, smil-| Low Jink ly the same condi-|Wargus’ gate just now, Worst I've tons, mind you, No wind. And I} ever done lwaya start from the top practically| Low Jinks was enormon con- | 6 at rest; and yet always finish up|cerned. “Well! I never did!” ex cycles aren't just things painting it” ¢ see his ehampion peg gleaming white | record to Mabel, THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN x ” ERGY BUS- DON'T “TRY “1b CROWD BACK ANYMORE = You'LL HAVE ME SQUEEZED OUTOF “UNE - OOF « G'WAN, GET UP AN TAKE TH’ EAR WARMING = I'LL CRAWL OUT AN’ MAKE A NOISE LIKE TH’ H2 A Pe | ~ f) oa | | ARDOR OF LOCAL. SPORT | | ENTHUSIASTS TO DAY |] MIKE BERGEN DAMPENED THE it STANLEY BY ALLMAN I THINK HE WEARS A I'D LIKE TO GET A CouPhe SIZE ELEVEN SHoE! OF THESE SILK SHIRTS FOR MY HUSBAND BUT | DON'T REMEMBER WHAT + SIZE_HE "TAKES - YW \WHaT 8126 SHOE Y DOES HE WEAR? | BOUGHT You Two OF Why It’s Impossible WAATLL You ON Mat" TAKE TM’ WHIDPING OFF YER MANOS? OU, TD ENE YA ARN THING YA WANTED ONLY — CH, PODS GoNRA WHIP AE WHEN HE COMES HONE - THAT AL. Y orning room, sewing. Hullo, sewing? 1 eay, aid you aint my How jolly nice of 10 looked up, “Your peg? What do you m™ ar That record distance peg of mina, ted it wh haven't you N I didn’t paint Who the diekens—? Wall, I'l! Just | nde. Not had tea, have | ? Good.” | ar. ¢ *» J * is OD OOK: # Page 636 THE OTHIgt DAVID (Chapter V) ash my by When Low Jinks came to his room th hot water-a detail of the per ct appointment of the house under at Kebocos always came to the r for the master’s bicycle, banded be the his shoes Mr, Neeley looked for a moment| “The mule stood like a statue; ouner 4 then took hot straight into the face ef our| Stood better than any horse in the | lot, and from the shelter he af, » his room—he asked her, “I say «| David, and said . Dw: pe nks, did you paint that peg | forded, father began to fire, know “If you had been there, my} ing full well that when it came bey, I think you would have| time to reload (reloading was heard, and maybe seen ‘t all, but] Ww work then), the savages would probably get him, for they were all around and their band now; not ervel things like that In. | was a big one, numbering some 20 dian massacre. | to one of the writes. “as 1 said, things were about| “They were mad, too, erasy finished for tt ttle ao mad with the lust of battle, and nished for the settlers when My) +16 awful success they had just father’s party of six got there, but! gchieved father saw that they must not| ‘The man nearest father had a only save themselves, but also | good gun, but he didn’t think fast te a enough—he got bis horse on the must give the savages such | sid next to the Indians and tried scare that they would rum away to pull the horse around in front and not follow the half of the! of him, but the frightened animal wagon-train which had gone| “idn’t turn quickly, reared a little, and with a blood-curdling yell, an ahead. | Indian sent an arrow thru his “No sooner had the atx piders| shoulder, appeared on the trail than the In-| “They've got me, hoys! he dian chief spied them, and’ with| Called out, ‘Don’t leave me here? then he crumpled up, dead on enultent war'wheep was call “Father dragged him back of ing his braves to fresh bettie the mule, and seizing the man's “Wather thought of the untrain- | fun, used ft to stop the savage e4, wild mule he was riding, and| Who had shot the murderous ar- wished he had « hore, but| vn lt was a life for a life Low Jinks colored and spoke apok now up better, sir. There was @ f whitewash in—' “By Jove, it does. It looks like a| we don’t tell children such things was the bicycle rd. This was r; the runs had re good; and Low Jinks came out to take » he greeted her; “I say, | I only got just up to Mr nthe afte urprising @ uimed Low Jinks, “If those bl You'll want r, Like you had | peg for that, @ for the beet “That's an idea, Low, What about “Oh, I will, sir?” | But he did not mention the new | | « inued Tomorrow) in the sunshine. Mabel was in thel na Meena. “You want dres Ii make them lose their way 1 of" croaked Twelve Toes. “They asleep now In the lovely By Zoo Beckley valley between the Electric Moun ‘eentins tain and the Eiderdown Mountain, . and they will start over the Elder down Mountain at daybre They CHAPTER XLVUI—TH have so much ma I'm | Paul had been ealled away toot afraid they'll get there.” “ri help you,” nodded Wenal|supervise an important installation Meena, gotmg to his cupboard and|in the North of France. It was in| h taking down bottles, cups and|an &@ where the few hotels that meamring # | had Then he went down cellar and|it was decided for I adtar a. whilk pattirned with all sorta | tha (otis flat Wah te a een rebuilt wer ’olly to stay in | fo 1 concierge | st of queer things at band “T've got everything now but seven feathers from seven green|too much lately,” announced Norma Polly and Pawl—and Paris 192, by The Seattle Mar) snips of sleeves. You're the only|on whieh half a dozen young folks a bit of zip and spar | «You've been moping In the house| woman on earth that’s got decent|were holding forth with guitar elbows!” Jukuleles, a wheexy zither and a “The battle raged on; the five ho didn’t waste any time on re} remaining behind thelr quivering greta, ‘Qluck! Men? he shouted, | fortress of terrified horses kept ‘Dismount and get behind your| UP & desperate steady fire of ° and he sprang off as ne | tie continuing to called his order, (To Be Continued) 1 ee NU hors E STUDIO PARTY | |shouted a weleome, and the painter; Rand and George Barray. my {riends the Crassards.” and his wife made Polly feel in-| “Why didn’t you tell me they'd be | Prick “But I'l be a fifth wheet! I/stantly at home, The studio's high here? “Come ven't any escort.” |north window had a bright red eur NO,| DIDN'T BUY You SHOES, BUT | DIDN'T REMEMBER THE SIZE SHIRT You WEAR AND | TOLD Him You WORE A NUMBER: Do You WEAR? [Soy pow’) be ELEVEN SHOS AND HE SAID THESE, TOM, | SAW A BARGAIN IN SILK SHIRTS TODAY AND THEM - WHAT SIZE SHOE _ |hands to greet suppress a flash us!" sang out “Because, silly, you might have | Norma. “Polly's queen o' the May Nobody has escorts, they just|tain drawn across it, against which | halked at coming. Now, listen, Polly |#2d I'm her lady in waiting.” so crude that|come. Put on that heavenly cerive| were great graceful branches of |darling, and do as I say, I'm a wise| “Doesn't take much urging to sit ulard with the wide neck and little| leaves and berries, Below it was a/hbird, if 1 am an old maid. Just you|at these feet!” rmured Barray,| “Queen, que-e-e-n’ WOULD FIT YoU~ \F Nou CAN'T WAIT THE THE SINGCSR REACHSS THE Fina NOT] jf CANYT her, she couldn't|The rest took up the ery, Vainglorious Hubbub ensued. Barray was dragged to the chair on the model's latiorm, Aypther was put beside i he clamor Broke out again, “Choose your queen# “Speech, speech!" raps at the shoulders, and the|broad couch heaped with cushions, |be a little niee to Rarray—you know, | flinging himself on a cushion beside| Polly never knew how it happened le—and you'll | Polly's meat have Vio eating out of your hand.” | King- ¥ “Biting it off more likely,” said | ne further "he eaid. “Wl find them in| Brad! in from the art The Crassardst home was In an| banjo with a eracked head | Polly, But she felt her spirits rising | phrase, which | schoo! You'rm booked for/anciont by-street in the student quar-| “Ah, here they are! 1 tmgan tolin thh merry atmosphere, and when | nival spirit Re Continned) \a/ party tor Oh, no protent ter, pleturesaue beyond words think they weren't coming.” Norma|Goorge Barray caught sight of herl “You are, you are! , 1922, by Heattic Star) ‘it's @ very nie party in the sludio| As the two went im, everybody nudged Polly wo look. Lt wae Mins /and wane over bulding ut both anauunously!” ‘ he begun to quote, but got The erowd enught the but suddenly she felt herself borne aloft and placed in the chair beside Barray, while the company eheered and pounded with glee, and the ‘king’ bent solemnly and plaged 4 You're elected | kiss of salute upon her cheek, (To Be Contimussd)