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

& ) their lives, by their situations (Wontinued From Yesterday) “And T say to you,” returned Mr Fortune fin, “and I may to you what I seem to be perpetualty forced to say to you, that Sour ideas are becoming more and more repug pant te There's not subject comes up between us but you adopt in it what 1 desire to call a stubborn and contumacious attitude towards me Whoot! He biew a scrubbing furtously at his swith a duster, cyclonic blast the speaking | tube nd Parker up bere, Park er! Send Parker up here! Parker! Parker! Parker! Pab! Pouff! Patt! Now it's all over the speaking tube! 1 am by no means recovered yet Sabre, I am very far from being yet Tecovered, from your remarks yee terday on the Welsh Church Dis establishment Bil. Let me remind only very painful to me in my pacity of one in Holy Orders also outrageously ditions and standing of We are out of sympathy, Sabre. We are seriously out of sympathy: and tet me tell you that you would do ca it was this firm. well to reflect whether we are not @angerously out of sympathy. Let me The door porter entered in the ven erable presence of the summoned Parker, much agitated Sabre began, “If you can’t see what I said about the Disestabtishment Bui" “I did not see; I do not see; not see and I shall not see. 1— Sabre moved towards door “Weil, I'd better be attending to my Work. If anything I've said an. Poyed you, tended And there followed him oom, “Pumice stone! Pumice stone! Pumice stone! Go to the chemist's and get some pumice stone... . Very ‘Well then, sir, don't stand there star img at me, sirt it certainty was not in- into his Iv ake living in two empty houses: ‘wmpty this end: empty that end. More frequently, for these estrange eats, appealed to him the places @f his refuge; the room of his mind, that private chamber wherein, re. Wired, he assembled the parts of hie @ solitary | opposed to the tra | | Me used to think. } Of course But while { make the effort to pre j ent it, while 1 do sometimes man age to wrench my mind away, I'm | ured words, j tenoe. you again that your attitude was not) | hh jminute in the doing, or tn | ing, | years he OUR BOARDING HOUSE / MARTHA, THIS ISM. “AH VES RAWSBURY OF “THE MRS. HooPLE! KAFRITZ MOTOR AGENCYs! <5 YoulRE No, I DONT! I HAVE ALL T CAN po vee RUN | / YT HAVE A GARAGE You'D BE WTERESTED || AUTOMOBILE ae i) BACK BUT I'M MW BUVING AN AUTO = | \ ' oi y~—“ | GOING “To MOVE MY I WAS OUT FoR A | HUSBAND OUT IN IT DEMONSTRATION | BECAUSE He's Al 5) RIDE TODAY AND | taking him to her But hie mind his mind turned to her: automatioal ly, when he was off his guard, swing door ever to its frame cally, when he would abate it prisoned animal against its bare day, by night, in Fortune's company jin Mabel's company, in solitude, his mind turned to b This refuge he kept locked, using the ex Pression and envisaging it “Of course I fall she's always in my ind. an a franti as a By \ ALWAYS RECOMMEND THE ] ROKE! CAR VERY HIGHLY! / \ — dt was the keeping fit; I'm able to go on putting UP some sort of a fight. I'm able to help her. | To help her! But helping her, um folding before her in his own meas as one pronouncing sen rectitude's austere asylum for their pains, watehing her while she ened, hearing her gentle acquie moe-—these were most terrible his governance upon himself. VI He said one day, this, Nona. You see, there's | Life's got one, We're in the thing. ‘All the time you've got | to go on, You can't go back one! single second. What you've done, | you've done. It may take only a the say but it's done, said, for your life, perhaps for the whe some one else's Life as weil, terrific, Nona. Nona, that's how lite there's just one way We and that's by thinkin fore we do a thing ing that always, What's one another, morrow ¢ it. ag — That's} gets us can get life rward be. remember m something | wrable to them as tho he brought th something very pi jand that they much wanted. r | tainly he, for bis own part, received |uch from them: a sense of warmth, |a kindling of the spirit, a glowing of all his affections and perceptions, — | His mind would explore curiously | along this train of tholght. He came | to determine that infinitely the most DUFFS DOINGS OF THE Ry it's going to be there for HELEN WANTS To COME DOWN TO DINNER AND THEN DRAG ME TO SOME KIND OF A MUSICALE TONIGHT ~ | DON'T FEEL LIKE GOING -1"M ABOUT HALF ALL in our hearts for jona, is no hurt to to fo next year or to twenty either to our own lives or to any one else's—no burt while! It's only there and not expressed, or acted on. I've never told you what's | 1° ae tae eregives peed IN= GUESS I"LL CALL HER in my heart for . toid | hing in life was a tuce} wets wate tn pe oy pad ont | ghting up with the pleasure of sl AND SEE IF 1 CAN GET must remain like that. Once that |*rendehip: in its apotheosis irradiat - goes, everything goes. it's only a} i# With the wonder of love. That [frequent idea of his of the “wantin: question of time before one of us looks back and wishes for the years | @™Mething™ look in the faces of half over again.” the people one saw: he thought that She made the smaliest motion of } the greeting of some one loved might dissent. el be a touching of the quality! Purties: that familiar garmedt in} Which, Invested, he sat among the! fraternity of his thoughts; the eve Ringy with Young Perch and Mrs. Peroh Fergus Most strongly of alt called another Fefuge, and this, because It called # strongiy. he kept locked. Nona ‘They met no more frequently than Prior to her two years absence, they Shad been wont to meet in the ordi Bary course of neighborly life: and | were Much detached. Northrepps was only Visited, never resided at for many Months together. His resotution was not to force en- the evenings with Me He said, “Yes. There's right and| that was to seek. The weariest and wrong, Nona. Nothing elwe in be. |" most wistful faces ous re TH’ MAJOR HAS MORE BRASS 'N A FIRE ENGINE" WHY SAY, HE Even BY AHE. RN CLEAN UP MONEY HIMSELF WITH SILVER A. % > ENING } \ S, . : MING AR BECAUSE 1 KNEW I> BuY AN (| IRM % Rus Ac HELEN, WOULD ‘You MIND CALUNG THAT STUNT OFF FOR | TONIGHT ~ I'VE HAD A HARD DAY AND FEEL ALLIN~ I'D RATHER SPEND THE EVENING The ‘MAJORS’ AUTO DREAM RUNS INTO A DETOUR==- He'll Get a Warm Reception | THE OLD HOME TOWN nee eno 1 — or AT HOME AND TURN IN tween, No compromise. No way of |‘T#eetigured by it. But we lo jetting round them or over them, |¥#* het entirely the secret. The must be either one thing or the |#Teeting passed: the light faded; the jother, Once we took a step towards | W*hting returned. But he deter | Wrong, there it ts forever, and ali ite|™iNed the key to the solution ta horrible things with it-—deceit, con. Within that ambit. The happiness ceaiment, falsehood, subterfuge, pre | ¥8s there. It was here in life, found tence: vile and beastly things like |‘ rowed loving mesting apres jthat, I couldn't endure them; and| found on stepping from shadow , I much less could endure thinking 1/'Pto the sun. The thing lacking was FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS had caused you to suffer them. And|*mething that would fix it, render { @ounters. Once, very shortly after that day of her disclosure, he had fid to her, “Look here, we're not Being ‘© have any arranged meet. fer. Nore I'm not strome enough —not strong enough to resist, I) eovldn’? hear it.” She answered. “You're too strong. Marko. You're too strong to do what you think you ought not te do; it isn't not being strong enough.” He told her she was very wrong “That's giving me strength of char Qcter. I haven't any strength of character at all. That's been my failing all my life. TI tell you what I've got instead. I've got the most frightfully, the most infernally vivid fense of what's right in my own per then on thru that mire to dishonor. |'t Permanent, establish it in the be It's easy, it sounds futher fine, to|!0e as the heart is rooted in the say the world well lost for love; but | body Something? What } |honor, honor’s not well lost for any.| He thought, “Well, why is it that} thing. You can’t replace it. 1/ children's faces are always happy?! coulda’t— There's something they must lose as ‘The austere aaylum of their pains, |*heY srow out of childhood. It's He looked back upon it as he had | 90 that cares and troubles come; unfolded it. He looked forward acroas | th absurd troubles of childhood are it as, most stern and bieak, it await. | J4*t @@ terrific troubles to them as ed them. He cried with a sudden | STOWR-Ups’ cares are to grown-ups loudness, as tho he protested, not be ‘0, it is that something | Weil, fore her, but before arbitrament in| What had f as a child that I have the high court of destiny, “But 1|7°t 4% & man? Would it be hope annot help you upward; Ican only | Would it be faith? Would it be be \e > TAG, TUL TELL You WHAT YOU MAY Do FoR MOTHER GO OVER To MRS BANDYS AND GET MY GRATER THAT T LENT TD HER lead you downward.” She said, “Upward, Marko. You! H* thought, “I wonder it they're help me upward all the same, those three—bellet Her gentle acquiescence! faith, hope? Belief in hope. Faith in There «wept upon him, as one reck.|hODe. It may be. Ie it that a ch knows no limitation to hope? It can lems in sudden surge of intoxication hope impossible things, But a man most passionate desire to take her ; , in bis arms; and on her lips to crush | hopes no further than he can see to fragments the barriers of conduct | wonder t And suddenly, in one week, life he had in damnable sophistries from its armor discharged two events (you SAY \irs ¢ CaN; { MUSH? |_| Hot De | SHES R) | lI ope \c NEW! ‘ | AREARIN JASPER JOHNSON, i HORSE COLLARS-NaTS Um AP S-@ SEWING MACHINE lan Be — HEN COOP WHITE WASAER_, HOOTS TOWN, HADA E BREAK DOWN JUS TURNED ONTO M THAT'S A FINE SUGGESTION~ HERE | AM ALL READY TO LEAVE-You PROMISED ME FOR THREE DAYS NOW THAT YOU WOULD GO~ BUT IF You DON'T “THINK YOU'LL LIVE,WHY COME HOME -!"LL GET Your DINNER - COME ON-WELL STAY Home! Goop BY! It Looked Useless to Tag fonal conduct Lot's of people (ed; and tn her to breathe, “You . haven't. I envy them. They can do| ate beloved to me! Honor, honesty,|UPOm him. In the next week one What they like. But I know what 1 virtue, rectitude— words darting, | YP the world ] Ought to do. I know It so absolutely words, words, words! Beloved, jet TB | It was delicious and it was, more that there’s no excuse for me when | the foundations of the world go «pin CHAPTER It hulle teeing. tn thous eniee dane I don't do it. certainly no credit if. ning, #0 we have love.” } 1 ig ite (e*.\ Litae Gey * I do. 1 go In with my eyes open He called most terribly upon him Towards the end of J there was | between the summoning of the Buc Or I stay out merely because my eyes | self, and his self answered him: but some particularly «plendid excite-|ingham Palace Conference and the are open There's nothing in that, | shaken by that most fierce onset he, ment for the newspaper-reading pul» an ¢ of the Nationalist guns, Con If it's anything it’s contemptible.” | said thickly, “I'll have this. If ever Ireland provided it; and the tinental events arixing out the Bhe said. “Teach me to be con-|it grows too hard for you, tell me—| newspapers, ax the events enlarged | stale Sarnjevo affair reared their tempt ids tell me.” one upon the other, could scarcely |heads and looked towards Great y vir |find type big enough to keep pace) Britain in a presumptuous and # In those words he had expressed It must be kept locked. In griev-/ with them. On the twenty first, the | ister why to which the British pub: 1 Cc >; his composition. What he had not ous doubt of his own strength, in| King caused a conference of British | lic waa not accustomed, and which it By Mabel Cl Lc AT Fevealed—that very vividness of | loneliness more lonely for his doubt,|#nd Irish leaders to assemble at nied Th British public had sense of What wan right (and what, more deeply, as advancing summer | Buckingham Palace. On the twenty. | never taken any interest in interna VPage —e ‘was wrong) in his conduct forbidding lengthened out his waking solitude, | fourth, the British and Irish leaders tional affairs and it did not wish to HECTOR it—wan the corroding struggle to pre-|he explored among his inmost | departed from Buckingham Palace | take any interest in international af Mra. Herritt looked out of the; thought up a scheme of my own. Serve the path of his duty. Because|thoughts: more eagerly, in relief|in patriotic halos of national cham | fairs, It certainly did not wish to be ndow at daddy's pice big car] Every time I wanted to catch of that struggle he kept locked the | from their perplexities, turned to the| pions who had failed to agree “in| disturbed by them, and at this mo snssngubelli notte wiaiied him I carried a lump of sugar in fefuge that Nona wi to him in hie | companionship of Fargus and the| principle or detail. Deadlock and ent of the exciting Irish deadlock parked in front of her house. o hand. Ewery time, ‘and he @ismays. He would have no meet-| Perches. How very, very glad they | Crisis flew about the streets in #tu-|the Wilhelmstrasse, the Ball Plats Then she looked at David and! was just crasy for that sugar. So ings with her save only such as! always were to see him! It waa the | pendous type; and tho they had been | the Quai d'Orsay and similar stupid. Pegay. And you wou'd almost! no matter where he was, if he thrice happy chance and most, kind | strong happiness they manifested in! doing #0 almost datly for the past | meaningless and unpronounceabie have thought there was sympathy | beard me calling him, he came up circumstance might apportion. That | greeting him that most deeply gave | eighteen months, everybody could | plac intruded themselves disturb nav Bane Uh . rentie us a baby, just to get the was within the capacity of his|the pleasure he had in their com.| ser, with the most delicious thrills, | ingly in British homes, much as the | or sadness or someth ia that | sugar strength. He could “at least” the| pany. He often pondered the fact.| that these were more firmly locked | writing on the wall vexatiously dis look and what she said was: | “£ petted him, too, and played used to think) prevent his limbs from! it was, in their manifestation of it,| deadlocks and more er | crises | turbed Belshasnar's foast and me “{ guppose you children don't) with him and we got to be regular | they were kept for the public enter. | dancers to retr chilly effect suppose you don’t even know how| 600d friend a little horse can be tainment Austria, and then Ger-| of the ste meanin, and wn they may be jogging along in the} “Well, it wasn't very long till many, made a not bad attempt on | pronounce writing, in the harness looking almost too tired| ¢ “id have the ne hi —_— {in | public attention by raking up #ome same way British public turned the neighborhood, Then, like any oo forgotten sensation over a stale ¢x-)with relief and with thrills to the to walk another yard, and the | other children, we begun to boast NOTHING OVER TEN lcitement at a place called Sarajevo; | gun-running and the shooting minute they feel the last buckle} 1 had taught Hector a lot of tricks | but on the twenty-sixth, Ireland mag 1t was characteristically intriguing] wip, they prick up their cars and| and T could count on him. One Nancy bought a doll with her dime jother fiveand-ten-cent-store appear-!nificently filled the bill again by the|in the nature of its excitement, It{ kick up their heels and tear off day 1 went up to one of the hired fn the fiveand-tencent store, and|©4. There it stood in all its tempting far more serious affair of National. was characteristically intriguing be- | iiinaahcahias maddie’: taidler sedi n and said Nick bought @ whisthe, It had taken |#F¥ of red paint and gold betters, | ist Volunteers landing three thousand |cause, like all the domestic sensa ? eee bet you can't ride my ysuiths jelose up beside the road | rifles and marching with them into| tions to which the British Public had can be | be adonpats | At the same time Nancy's pink | Dublin, ‘Troops fired on the mob, and | become accustomed, it in no way in kal ase Siesta. ( mtanl. CRLRE dais wninhinn Goin , It was Nick who suddenly remem: | tingers touched a hard object in her {the House of Commons gave itself | terfered with the lives of those not into the pasture to catch a horwe!| at me, ‘I can't?) Why can’t I ered their errand. “We'll have tO | pocket which she immediately hauled |Over to a most exciting debate on directly implicated in it, Like them) i “Cause you can't” 1 said hurry now, Nancy,” he said, stlc ing |roe sts oirrnnelley to’ 8 gfe nhnes the business: the Irish Party demand: |all, it entertained without inconven.|J Well. it's sometimes a pationce:| ie tiv vou couldn't stick the record under his arm and making | gime Jed a large number of brutal heads |jencing, They knew their place, the trying job, which takes » long.| on him, anyway.’ for t or. “We shouldn't have| of course Nick found ome, too, | to be delivered on chargers; and jdeadiock, the crises and the other|# jong time | 5 nikerwraig ga gg pte stayed wo long in here. We're not) Nick had been right. The dimes| Unionist politicians, Press, and pub nsations of those glowing days.} ‘Well, my Hector was juat}.to make fun of me. ‘Bring him on & third of the way over this MOUN-| were magic, They had the power |lic declared that the heads were not ed lo member of thelr a Pe ae cai ne te caten | and we'll nee bout it. tain yet.” to make people who owned them for. | brutal heads but loyal and devoted | dience to go without his meals, They | a * radiata ental nities wwaiaiid, ix “Wasn't it funny about the dimes, | o4+ time and everything else. |heads and should not be delivered;| interfered neither with pleasure nor and saddie you ever saw. He! wicpostod, ‘He's right there in the Nick!” said Nancy, trotting along te “Oh, this is different!’ said Nancy.|0n the contrary they should : |} Would let the men get almost up! pasture.’ side him. “How do you s'pure they «tv, 4 candy- store.” And she |Wreathed. It was delicious inued Tomorrow) to him, and just as a hand reach. “Now, that man was a runaway Got in our pockets?” ., | stopped to gaze at the pilee of pink > ed for his mane, up would go his! sailor, and he didn’t know much “Magic, I'll bet,” replied Nick. "No tery, salted peanuts and yellow | head, and with a snort and a about horses, and when he went More stores for me! I'll bet Twelve | i yog I'm dreadfully hungry. | whisk of his tail he was off, after Hector—you should have Matos” 4 Naney, thought! “go in they walked, Nick quite for- | By Zoo Beckley I watehed them try, and 1! (To Be Continued) wally * ord abou y yet i But no sooner had they got out-|Retting Hie fine words Bow dered | (Copyright, 1922, by The Meattio star es ly side and started along the poth over! +o. counter to counter, trying to| ' Bye the mountain again than 89°! make up their minds what to buy, | CHAPTER LXI~THE ABYSS Polly and Paul stood there, eye to! place of healthy spats? Well, she, at Pe —————" I from the counter with ‘hut bars to! , 80 close, yet with an abyns any rate, could not keep silent, Her | THE NEW the one with sunshine drops, from| At Polly's question, “Whore have {chilled ning between them that must anger against Violet burst forth CANDIED LAXATIVE {tne sunshine drops to the candy |you been?” a sudden resentment too, felt Polly, It was evident | have made the recording P. ana she n 8 ou her ver FOR CHILOREN OR ADULTS jkinwen, from the candy kinsen to the|came over Paul. He had come home that something was troubli Paul at, wan Paul wo Grane. he? teision sion of the Crassards’ patty ene | }emon sticks, and from the lemon |filled with clear-burning Ic Ity o mething he had got from ther . : sticks to the lollypops, Even then|his wife. The concierge’s we!l-meant | source than berself, her mind leaped /T've been to seo Miss Rand. Tve no’ the telling of a half truth can be a |they Couldn't decide, for acromm the | prevarication had been @ slap in the |to Violet, Of course, Violet. Always reason whateyer to conceal it” He lie! Whatever she has told you, it is 25 | nine were piled up perfect moun-|face. Polly's itation in clearing | Violet, Violet, Violet! — Incessantly d, went Into the bedroom and evident you believe a = of chocolate marshmal'ows and |up the matter was anoth nd she came between them, Forever | be a fussy hunt for his slippers. Why don't you me then? | Popcorn balla |aharper one. Now she was looking vexing and jeer peeing an, Hot it A 8 font ata, bie senile ' ul 3p sus. Grom, the other room vind ” 1 noyanes, if not sus |anger blazed in Polly's heart. She | away indiffe « , 0 need. ‘Wo nes 11er Lives amo sows Caeease a vr pio eet rie gent vaphgeee? yon ‘And sore |Siad badn patient long enough, ed the stage, Polly wondered bitter: | cepted her tale.” Pt Ata anon oacheae 7 pesaidl (To Be Continued) [thing within him hardeneg and! ‘Yes—where were you?" ly, where sullen silences tock the| “On the contrary—" be came back, now. tee y ta? CPA TCR Yet ued Ra RA ee You naye ac: | morning TAS HE AIN STREET TODAY. PAGE 13 BY STANLEY i —] n- SHOES “SADDLES CHURNS Be CAMERAS STE morg GENERAL" THERE Goes} ‘ Y ALLMAN & r\ ney GEE, NOW \’M AFRAID TO GO HOME: — Wer, BUT WHAT'S WE IDEAR 2 "\Dear’ ? “\DEaR”" 1s — SCE IF You CAN FIN® 'T IN we, Dictionary tl! standing close to her tho T were a child afraid of a whip. and speaking with strained distinctness, “there is ping, It is your place to defend me, all the more need for you to give me| Why did you Usten to vile insiiu the story in detail, Violet stated | ations from that woman? I'm dix what she said were facts. It is) gusted with the whole thing. I re strange you shouldn't want to tell fuse to defend myself!" me the whole thing without this| The tautstrung nerves were at the urging. Why, even your gocd friend, point of snapping. Polly pressed the plorge felt it necessary to in-| back her tears, rushed into the bed. {sist you had been at ome every om. shut the door and locked it, ngle night by 10 o'clock! ** *) Paul st a minute stering as If ‘ome, Polly, this has ,une far/to see it opin again, but * stayed enough. It's getting absurd. Why closed tight. He tapped sofly= don’t you tell me m how you ana to be out until + in are “Polly! But to his repeated ealling the|no answer came. He went slowly |to the couch and sat down, hig head “Because—" Polly was blazing | bowed in his hands... “I refuse to defend myself as (To Le Continued) ray ¢