The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 5, 1922, Page 13

SESDAY, APRIL 5, 1922 STAR PAGE 13 ATTLE 4 | OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY. f | “ro 7 OH A LETTER FoR MR. WILKY FROM SOMEONE NELLY GIVING: WN CLARKSBURG *MAYBE HE [| THe MAIL THE H A POST CARD =KDS | KNOWS OF THE WHEELER \ ' WRITTEN IN ae \ ia 4 Rn a ARABIAN LINGO, | ‘ FAMILY “THERE * LAST WEEK TWONLy L WE GOT A POSTCARD FROM| SHE EVER GOT ie | asl! SHELL GET MORE i WRINKLES WHER . : , A a H at Kata. J eek HARRIGTOWN SHOWING THET] WAS ON “TH! Normal. WATER-TOWER AND FLows | CORNER OF A [BROW "THAN A WAGH- } soe 4 “ ; ai ince | Pm \ BEDS~ T WoNDER wHo / \WANDKERCHIER) \ BOARD, Tat TO ron, THs | ae Me te} yl to make ©1944 ASMHUTCHINSON eee HE KNOWS THERE ? our! -~ neg rer —- ot nant hey (Qratinwed From Page 6) j@ash it, I like ¢ You didn't ex-| owas ee oat Ei ab ie } peopte thought « ttle leas /4etly implore me to." { iid duty towards the poor| She yawned, “Oh, well, I knew <i Bae re about their duty | Yeu woukin't care about It She eM Hpemaaives, they would be |Yawned again, “Oh, dear, I'm tired. | DL aie deal fitter state to help) We must have walked miles, to and | N : ie qreatures, poor or rich, /{." She put down her hands to| Q i wat the Garden Home la take up her magazine again. She } Js a Me ge those who live in it, and clearly Was not interested by his tn. a ool ‘ up bat the Garvien Home ts terest. Rut he thought, “Well, of | fo i > course she's not, For her it's lke| bp ‘a ffaibed sharply with the butt | eating something after it's got cold. a) i gnife on the dessert Dinner was the time.” Ne i ; Wakch Dad Just been placed be | He said, “I expect you did—walk EG: The piate split neatly into Miles, Bagshaw all over it, I bet.” \ halves. Ho gazed at them She did what he called “tighten! | 4 them aside, drew an-/herelf." “Well, naturally, he's i ? “ia (pate before him, and re | pleased—enthusiastia. He's = done te Mabel: more than any one else to keep the ‘We are moving into the | ea going.” are giving| Sabre laughed. “I should my eo! eek. You| Marvelous person! Wha's he going | to do about not weartng clerical dress ; un tnctuded hia| When he has to wear gaiters?* Be was intensely celibate, | “What do you mean—gaiterst™ % vu Signa of flying up. What on earth aims ended [na blazing row, |f0F? “Why, when he's a bishop. afternoon Mr, Boom Bag | Den't you" off Mabel to view the| She Mew up “I suppose that's ‘ef the Garden Home dered ge ‘ ay galled the lunch Y mean chap table, apa portal for | UK Bagshaw's not going to be a par te be gone. Mabel, operat-|/#% Priest all his life. He'e out to Dehind the bine|O* ® Bishop and he'll be a bishop. a wir lamp, Low Jinka|‘* De changed his ming and wanted ground in well-trained aco- | to be w Judge or a Cabinet Minister, nea, eaid, “Now I rath. | 20 De a Judge or a Cabinet Ain. ister, He's that sort.” yet on ey Seti om | "98 holier oa. een ae , Boom Bagsha li a . “Mabel, don’t be silly. I'm not Dimsetf at least as much on wy i ae 8 ever" “You say he's ‘that sort. That's PASTE “THE PAPER. THREW OUT WASN'S SOUR AS HE THOUGHT- SOME JOKERS RAD PUT HARD CIDER IN 1T— BY ALLMAN i ' ties, replied by sulkily e ‘The vision of his dark anger broke ae 4) at his waich ; papa ediner onug. 4 Sahar pagers haved hersatt| 2°87. Mute while he watched it,| ae . } Ht | a — eee ates © ove. ree SE ito sit upright. Bhe spoke with ex.| seca ig 1 iifted ite bead and |] Bs ) { AM\ SEEING WHY DIDN'T You ANSWER. Hee | Basia wer~ a schoolboy bidden '0 | traordinary intensity. “Nearly every-| ne terse: and stomped. “haok here.” ee 2 ~ ) (THINGS OR THE DOOR BELL? 1STOOD re} TiGtanteentt, and culkily re-| ‘12s YOu say to me or to my friends | “y ed eon eon ee" ) OUT HERE RINGING MY HEAD | Y Te lig eneer. There's always some |"* “id more quietly, “don't begin 1. HEARING THINGS | T must £0. thing Dehind what you say. Other | ‘Mat abeu"d, pusiuens again’ SHE SAYS NOBODY | OR WHAT! OFF WITH MY ARMS FULL i aot se ths este Pot people notice f= Rh ge 15 ON TWE LINE! I Dn; ne Aan he | ener Becple.” Sho drew in her fost as if to artse, BAWL HER out! D5 ie A wanted to resume his of remedying his S3te, with Mabel and the | d better than “oy } | Other <peeptn' Ehey AY | ves, and I ; n think it's funny. All of | bat Wire sarcastic. That's just a polite) 1 think you've been funny all day today. Coming beck lke that!” Not sarcastia Tewear ne one thinks} ,,f,t0Mt you why 1 came back. To I'm 1 nK® | have w day off with you. Funny day “lott it's been. You're right there! ‘of course it was un- =A ‘Upeetting of her house “Yes, it haa been a funny day off.” a fool, A complete fool. Look at! we thought, “My God, this bicker 3 but the unexpectednewa | juncnr the letter incident over, | ene eid ws tee pine! Why don’t I get out of the iat thanks to her guest. de-|iy angry. “Yea. Look at tunch. |r, P f mooded. Good, therefore. | That's just. what I xi aed ome back for a day off with me 1 When the dick-| that comes to the hi pitas df jit's a funny thing you came back ae tl cotng? trend, anything P erape Se pe Boos just in time to get that letter! Be} = rising: we, always take differently, always argue fore ne was delivered! There! Now come up ve 4 “ ‘| you know!" ° about. That's what I call mneering—" |" te was purely amazed. He thought, | ithus far seen. That the unexpectedness of Ho, flatly, “Woll, that isn't aneer- animatediy, “I'd Wke\ing Let's drop it.” and his amazement was such that, { pat’ cterintics ‘ fo Sabre, “You won't care). She had no intention of dropping|he tought. “Well, of ail thea it “It is aneering. They don't know “No, T won't." = But she otherwise interpreted hts Ix Peer ee astonishment. She thought she had Ginner—Mabel retrrned made an advantage and she preaned el ————— SiWmme $0. fet Pandy. for| ocnea nti renee nee lit "Perhaps you knew it was com-| examined with dimpas- | one beast calling defiance to anot! "= j the exercise of try-|t¢ this wdieaek: And be or “Hew on earth could I have known ie i certain words and being! want it to arise. He had sometimes |'* Wa" Comins? Le them. They conversed |thonght of anger as & savage beast | ,_sne “med to pauses, to be consid-| a 5 fietheir usual habit. chained within man. “Tt haa nempea | °7™S "She might Rave told you. | & M him sftting at the table nim to eontrol rising fil-temper. ‘He| * 1, "nt eve seen her.” } Lig ‘ ‘There came sudden | thought of it now: of her anger. He| He said, “Aa it happens, I aid see P & pognere abreast of the | nad a vision of it prowling, asa ged Not three hours before I cam i Office that had | po. ps | back.” i him home, & realization of prong Berry Ra the rege Se She seemed dim ppotnted. She said, | We | uation such as he had had | vision. His own anger, prowling also. 7 Meee S6., Wem leet Ty i ij tight together in the house, | would not reapond while he retained | °*" H | before; there she was in|ihe picture. It was prowling. It wae|_ "4 he thought, “Good tora! She} i ee Eieom, alone. She had/ suspicious. It would be mute while | “"% ‘"7'ne to cajch me.” | Ker father's home for his|his waiched {& While he watched | She went on. “You never told me | 4 h share she was: a happy |it, , , rt So you'd met them, Wasn't that funny?" | ind her and no one to| —~tWer ° : “It you'd just think a little you'd | i R with. Just because ihisaat tik eka cae oe there was nothing funny about | } how was the| my unfortunate pes 9 2 it You found the letter so amaz i i We.sheundbidede den, aan ingly funny that, to tell you t Til its tends te bis ‘pocket eee truth, I'd had about enough of th Hie ly and strode into] down at ber. | Tybare. And T've.hed about enough q foom: “Well, how was, gho gai “ jof them.” if Home looking?” His| with youe felenes ites Gitterent| “1 dare may you have—with me. \ b¥as bright and interested. With your friends” Perhaps you'll tell me this—would | i 3 ae eting & magazine. he! He caught x glint in her eye as she ett ee ae re Le | eyes from hadn't seen you get it?” 1 De warp noes. vi Ape repeated the words. Its meaning 4i4| if thought before ho answered sind | farther and farther tnto nimeett, He re | about it.” | he bantered, “Ob, T'm not es. bea |, SMewered Cut of hie thoughts. He lived in his —_ hoage gl dik ‘ | yi . asall that. And anyway, the friends |"*"7, *wly, “Toons eer yeeeti oe) | Rout things, hie attitude (>. le * i } the _ . would, I wouldn't. I wouldn't . | ie! ee Ir lap and looked up. “The| ‘Then that quick gfint of her eye |‘"*t 70u'd have Cousht H-funny, arene aould oat eaprtee ber. tating’ | * i ' or ye | at o could not exp jeetings i It's inaghens ae i a ml No answer he could have siti | words. She ex pirnepeebaigen + i it to have come.” “Perhaps your friends are could have more exasperated her. “1|tion. She arose violently aha len * Sd Hi Te Eisele tn 0 be chetr| countas tech dhe enid~ “Lot yon —don't—believe—I—would.” — Delth.|the room. | ‘The Reagan’ esgic te Me inughed. “wen, | tare” 4y TY-| eration! Something incomprehensible | tions she put into the slam , iy i 3 | beer, to her going on In his mind, and as|400r behind her. Tho ornaments * C e nel at ¢ la result of it a statement that no|*hivered. A cup sprang off a brack _By Mabel Cleland _ i i ADV ENTURES Jone on earth (ahe felt) but he would |¢t and dashed itself to pieces on the He | oF |have made. Any one else would have | oor. GEND Hi # |naid boldly, blusteringly, “Of course | xIt ui afte, TW NS T wou | have told you about the let-| Sabre regarded the broken cup There were guests from the) sing, and lonlines because man We ee Roberts B: : ter.” She wow ave liked that,| much as Sir Isaac Newton presum East, and the kiddies were being | was without companion. 2) it She would have disbelieved it and | ably regurded the fallen apple. He allowed an extra hour of staying | “Far up in the moon there dwelt vet she could have said, and enjoyed may: | “worked back” from the cup thru | ‘: ) ion |e oe ereait, Oe any one|the events of the tay, and tira thei} Up ster éinner tonto them, | maidens, beautiful maidens, but } else would have said furiously, >, events of the day returned to the Peggy had just snubbed a yawn | the moon was very, very far | Et lim damned ff 1’d have shown you|cup. It interested him to find that || before anybody saw tt, and David | away, and no tree was high iB i the letter.” She would have tiked|the fragments on the floor were ax |] was beginning to think staying up | enough to reach it | ! lthat, It would have affirmed her| logical a reault of the movements of | spe pas # |guspicions that there was “some | the day as they would have been of wasn’t quite as much fun as it ‘Now, among these lonely, i re thing in it?" and whe wished her aus. {getting the «mall hand axe out of || Was cracked up to be, when one silent men was one—Hada-allt— # | pictons to be affirmed, It would have | the woodshed, aiming a blow at the | of the guests said, “I’m simply | who was loniier than all the rest. i Hi] been something definite. Something | cup, and hitting the cap, | |justifiably incentive of anger, of re-| He thought, “I started to break | | xentment, of jealousy, Something she| that cup when I rustled the news | could understand | paper at breakfast. 1 went on when For she did not understand her|1 suddenly came back and got into husband. That was her grievance | that niggling business over why 1| |against him. She never had under- | had come back. Went on when 1} | stood him. ‘That den incident in the| walked off to my room after that very earliest days of their marriage | letter business, Practically took up| had been an intimation of a way of | the axe when I couldn't enay, ‘Well, | looking at things that to her was en-| how's the Garden Home going on? | fascinated with your Indian h-| Hadaalit was a tall man with fends on this coast. They are so | straight shoulders and piercing different from our Atlantic coast | eyes, and he was very brave, and legends. I'm just wondering if | very strong, and very loving. He there isn’t one connected with the | loved the little animals which he phospherous trail which follows met In the forest and he loved the our dnalei® birds and he even loved the long stretche: salt water which Mother dear looked at daddy | seemed to shut him off from other if f and daddy looked at grandmother | men and other tribes, CET'sS SES IF YouU'RS AS TICKCISH if it { i i t “you haven't! Well, that’s| which he threw in a stick, and strange. There are several, I'm| sure enough the stick was borne sure, but the one I like best I've! up and floated away. never heard but once, “and that; ‘Then he cut down a small was when I was a child, and it| tree, and threw it In, and that, was told me in Chinook, I'll tell| tem, floated. Then he threw him- it as well as I can, after all these | self in, but he went plump! to the years, Bottom like a stone, “Long, long ago, when the| “And when the waves washed world was new, there was much] ashore, he lay out on the sand Polly and Paul—and Paris By Zoe Beckley (Coprright, 1922, by The Seattle Stary tirely and exasperatingly inexplic dinner, And smashed it when I “ te : : oo oe e —and granmother began to say He said, ‘I believe if I only EAD AS A able; and snes, toes, esafee ly atted abont Bagshaw an hour ago that she had never heard one,| had a little more belief In it, the ON TOP OF SOUR HEA if LAM ON i et Z.) vee Fi siege Blany agony ye le ate gy tee ie ac business.” when Aunt Ellen looked over the | water would bear me up and carry Back. oF MY NGCK ... iy '" 0 follo e had re ee a on ° és j Ther stood the ugly little gnome called Crookabone ut ‘omorrow) rims of her glasses and sald,| me to the other shore,’ saying i Meret was out at last. |"I'm not bothering you. I don’t| We've got the right|Care & snap about your errand or| after all,” gaic ney, “It |*bout Twelve Toes or anything else ts iS Manenss it hed just now. I've got affairs of my own | inn ps os e wad &\ to attend to. | he Clot of Dreams a | Srotnd it. Now the poor WMS are All tangled can't ents on my way to the Money | Lendér’s to pay him some money I 4 when I heard somwone| CHAPTER LIV—THE SEARCH about a raveling trom the} ans, ents, up in it | borro’ talking sents ’ ny t » av nd ve | Cloth of Dreams | When the studio party had ah etay Ls gpa cm sho scorned anger at || stillness, and great lonliness all) tired and afraid but not discour y He “ont r tthe “I've been looking for one for 4/up and Polly, with a little engineer ra ate intere) in Paul over the earth, Stillness because | aged.” ie, meme | 8 mee | hundred years, Where ie ft Giveling trom Morme Bradley, had start! pauy should kane about it this time! |] the birds had net yet learned to (To Be Continued) to it we A a is 7 hand jt to the Money| 44 ahead with Barray, Violet watch-| puritan was quite capable or pen i stipe eis erttng| Lander nea ot hin moner so em un narod een. ‘Thra|eCae Gnn Wis aac gee | Se eS |x. Pride tad nt ce dpetd| Ate come ot te arene co he G [ ow ‘o him absence Jueen She jonec at C - | TOpe rt eo ¥ 4 . 4 5 I ofa did in the Boreer-! "But that isn't honest,” protested | wax neither moon nor glamour jn the! of the carnival, forsooth, to Barray's {effort of pride kept her from reveal-)as & frequent visitor. “Will madame tear ek pasereety perpen: ye) ‘later pasty Aieeionen he ta oy vated j se fn then we'll never get to | Nick | night for her, It was a novel exper-| king! Being sot on tables and kissed, |ing her humillation—and its cause, | wait?" | asdered the driver to. ge thiememt wenei|about Meal “She Soa’ Genes meal | t -ents § ‘* ~ Cings tf oon | Honest! I should say not. If it) lene ped ae “f "eee Bele tes wed on 4 agged off into the night, alone} She walked to a nearby boulevard| Violet glimpsed several familiar |the Bois, he. shr A taagel@lity, | ¢b@ush tor ber pita Pajares | | sen! othe ve What's that was I wouldn't do it,” said wicked | man’s atten ae te rte oot fate ge sme and wa until a night-prowling | faces among the dancers in the other | Being an old, old Paris cabman, he | the concierge of Polly's house. " Bix- { tag et ANd there stood |Crookabone. “Gnomes are neither |the insignificant bride of » mon to The more Violet meditated on. it | taxicab came along. room. They saw her. They would |was incapable of surprise ‘ Gilet BA: luat! Ace haice Yaa } le gnome called Crooka | truthful nor honest, Oh, there it is,” | food for her, a man who was devoted | all, the more bitter she grew. “To Narveau'st’ she commanded. | wonder. . . . The caretaker and wait-| Feverishly her thoughts tumbled | opened the ‘te 8s tex t re etn i » I Hie ecces pying the rave “it's wrapped jenly becouse “ih was the paride As the merry company fared forth | And when they reached there, Bhe |¢rs would speculate her coming... . lon, Her head ached, her brain {cate out with pail and ‘ay iy Messed Nancy, “plea | around these silly Squeediluma who |faxhlon for « husband to adore his from the Cassards’ Vioiet declined | pad the extortionate fare. abgenty,| 'No,”" she replied sharply ‘and| seemed hot and hed By a street| No—Mme. Dawson was not in, J es Y of your bad magic.| don't know anything.” wife—Polly Dawson had twice suc-|the escorts that offered in plenty, |while the driver smiled. She hur {hastened out, choosing one of the|lamp she looked at her watch, Halt|Had not, in fact, retuned, She had and| Crookabone gave it a jerk and dis-|ceeded in attracting Georbe Barray | joining first one group, then an.|ried into the gold-and-cream recep-|many cabs that waited along the| past four—and the first faint sray | probably stopped th wer ant with Det j 1. Mr.| appeared yy ae a ice oe es a jother, restlens, brooding. Finally] tion hail and asked the caretaker, |curb. Should she order the man to |of dawn was breaking; the dawn that |friend, Mlle, Bradiy. ee ; " sheet) Whe saveietn = dei sly jo mouse! Exaspera | shaking off Norma’s detaining hand, |“ snale “ 0 ? |drive her to Barray’s bachelor ap: 4 ed t « i} niauaed ad " " ~~ seat 5 gy 0 ed i lt Puritan with her gentle manners | she broke away on the pretext tnt eer Oren nia ompheiyry engage ri eubad ace Mogae Re reing Fesigh Soshaen' yh yl MMe ki ened itl sien . madame, pas ce soir,” he|ment to seo if he had at last gone|merrily at the door of the ss cael woh “I wonder.” © shortly.’ (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Jand ingenue eyes! So sure of her|Barray hud her purse, Only a sharp! bowed obsequiously, recognizing her! home? She dismissed the thought cafe, \ (To Be Continued, |