The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1922, Page 9

4 e 7 MONDAY, APRIL 1 1922. THE SEATTLE TAR ri Winter Comes | (Continued From Saterday) » she had proposed, and «he told 1V j him what she had sald te Jones and No one in the office was pretend | what Jones Qadeaid to her, “Abom: ing to do work, Asin the street, | inably rude man, all were [n groups eagerly talking.| Then she asked him, “Waa that The clerks’ room resounded with x) Doctor Anderson's gate you came out etted discus « wanted | of just now to talk to « nt into] “yas. Mr, Fort ® room, Mr. Fortune} Whatever had you been to see and Twyning and Harold were gath: | him about ered round & map m a news | ushed, He never could invent paper, all talking; even young Har) an excuse when he wanted one, “I'd old giving views and being attentive | been asking him to have @ look at ly listened to. They looked up and) » greeted him cordially, Everybody Whatever for? was cordial and communteative to] “On, nothing particular.” everybody ‘Come along im, Babre.”| “you couldn't have been to see him He joined them and he found thetr! for nothing conversation extraordinarily reassur| “we, practically nothing. You ing, like the womdn who had suffi-| remember when I increased my life | ciently provisioned with three tins of | insurance some time ago they said fruit, a pot of jam and a bag of flour. They knew a tremendous tot about wt and had evidently been reading Military articles ys past. They! all showed what was going to be done, illustrating it on the map. And the map itself was extraordinarily reassuring: as Twyning showed-—hts fingers covering the whole of the bel ligerent countries—-while the Ger mans were delivering all their pow er down here, in Belgium, the Rus | nine o'clock sians simply nipped in here and) She assented, “Yen, bring home the would be threatening Berlin before | paper.’ those fools knew where they were!! He went into the office. The aft He thought, “Ry Jove, yes.” lerneen Sect bad Stout, Biter to ad granted,” sald Mr. Fortune—| his desk. He turned them over with Mr, Fortune wes grenting propost | out interest, then caught up one tlons right and left with an amiabil:| trom Nona. ity out of all keeping with his normal! “Marko, this frightful war! I have my heart was a bit groggy and made a@ bit of a fuss? Well, T thought I'd Just see again so as to get out of paying that bigher premium,” ‘Oh, that. What nonsense it was. What did he say ‘Said | had a murmur or some rot I say, if you're going back now, don't | wait dinner for me tonight. I'll get | something here, The Evening Times is bringing out @ speieal édition at for 4 stubborances ‘and = «ogrented that/thanked God on my knees for you Germany can put into the field the/ that last week you prevented me, If enormous numbers you mention. 1 had done it with this! Tony hi Twyning, what use are they to her? Nong. No use whatever, I was talk ing last night to Sir James Boulder, Hig son has been foreign correspond: ent to one of the London papers for He's attended the army maneuvers in Germany. France, Aus rejoined the Guards, he was m the Reserve of Officers, And you see | that whatever has been, and is, he's my man to stand by in this, it would have been too awful if I couldn't, and I thank God fer you. | *eain and again and again. Nona tria~everywhere. Ie knows modern; Twyning appeared. “Hullo, old military conditions thru and thru, as/ man, heard the latest? I say, you you may say, Well,-he says—and| look as if you're ready to take on it's obvious when you think of it-— that Germany can't possibly axe her | enormous masses. No room for them. Only the merest fraction can ever get into action. Where they're com. ing in is like crowding into the neck of a bottle, Two-thirds of them use Jessty jammed up behind. A mere bandful can hold them up—" Hareid put in, “Yes, and those the whole world.” CHAPTER V t The enormous and imponderable world awfully unbalanced. Upside down. Extraordinarily unreal, Furi ously real Lite, which had been a thing of the clock and of the calendar, became terrific fortresses, sir.” a thing of events in which there w “Precisely. Precisely. Liege, N&| no time, only events. mur, Antwerp—absolutely impreg. Things began one day very shortly able, all the military correspondents after the declaration of © when, Say so. Impregnabie. Weil. then. | rassing the barracks on his way There you are. It's like sending a thousand men to fight In @ street. Look here- He went vigorously to the window. They all went to the window; Sabre with them, profound ly Impressed. Mr. Fortune pointed inte the street. “There. That's what home, Sabre was accosted and taken into the Meas by Cottar, a subaltern of the Pinks, “You must come along in and have a cup of tea.” young Cottar urged “We've got a hell of a jamborino on site titers onsen year Gertaan arms |At,, est we shall bave tonight —nallo ¢ tah y feagegpe ¥ |We're just working up for it. | down thix way from the cathedral. | 2). jcan’t tel why. You can guess Choked. Blocked. Immovable mob. ee ee eee Sabre felt a sudden catch at his emotions, “Ie the regiment going? ‘They were at the door of the ante. The How many do you suppose could held them up? Thirty, twenty, q dozen. Hold them up and throw them into| room. Gottar swung it open hopeless and utter disorder. Pah!) room was full of men and tobacco Simple, isn't it? I don't suppose th@ | smoke and noise. A very tall youth. thing will last @ month. What d0/ one sikes, was standing on the table Soe re ae nea glass in hie hand. “Hullo, Sabre! 4 By. hs: Bay Dy g Aemmeapae 4 man, one of those very stiff that the first shock of the thing had| Shiels for Mr, Sabre go on Bales made him take an exaggerated view.| ou must. Because” “He had not <i don't see how it can.” he said. | Cottar's reticence. He bunit into ‘now I'm hearing @ bit more about | song. waving his glase—"Because— it. I was thinking just now what al" : Gramatic thing it Rare’ be if ft last |-We shan't be here in the morn @d—of course it can't—but if it last-| _ '?6—~ 4 Ul next June and the decisive; They all took it up, bawling up- battle was fought In June, 1915, just | roariousty: & hundred years after Waterloo. That | “We shan't be here in the morning. would be dramatic, ehT’ We shant be here in the morning. They all laughed, and Sabre, re} We shan't be here in the moror alizing the preposterousness of such ning, & notion, laughed with them. Twyn-| Before the break of day" ing said, xt June! Imagine it!| Otway came in, “Shut up. you At the very outside it will be weil) noisy young fools. What the—* over by Christmas.” Sikes from the table. “Ah, Papa And they all agreed, “Oh, rather!|Otway! Three cheers for Papa Ot v way in very discreet whinpers. Mens: man, one of those very stiff whixkies for Captain Otway.” It wes all immensely oveisetia:| and Sabre gathered up his bundle of Td like to wait for it.” | Marko, | OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN REMEMBER TH NIGHT WE WORKED ON A CLUB GTBAK «THAT WAS A TUSSLE © EVEN “TH! GRAVY HAD MUGCLEG. OW WELL, JUST SO LONG AS vr AIN'T THAT LAYOUT OF CALF’ LIVER WE COLLIDE WITH EVERY MONDAY NIGHT THAT'S SOME LIVER You CAN TLL BET WE'LL CHEW ON ry FoR AN HOUR, \| WIND UP"TH'ACT-TONIG THEN GET IT HALF SOLED*| with SOME oF THAT MRS, HOOPLE’S BUTCHER / | POUND CAKE AGAIN = OUGHTA TIE UP HIS MEAT / | ht Gee any OUNCE PACWAGES WITH A OF PREVENTION —— THIS “TIME ! ‘ bY SNIFF- GNIFFD ws TH’ AROMA OF FRIED CABBAGE GREETS MY BEAK = I'LL BET A HAT “THAT NOSE WARMER 1S | | WAFTING FROM OUR ou! | WIGWAM = WE HAD A | | | BOILER OF CABBAGE | || AM’ CORNED HOLS TEIN WH NIGHT PEFORE LAST, AN! WE'LL PUSH OUR CHING OVER TW’ REMAINS TONIGHT! } | Jought to have seen the battalion jon parade this morning! Hy God, they were magnificent. They're the finest thing that ever happened DOCTOR, | HAVE A TOOTH THAT'S BOTHERING ME! | There's nothing in the Army List to }touch us, When I think I'll be in Juction with them perk week-—1—" An orderly approached and spoke to him, “Right. Right. I'll come along at ones.” He was swiftly awey. “Pattersof, I want you too. There's a man in your company say* his wife—" And, ptilled during his presence, babel broke out anew with his de rorture, Some one, standing on 4 sofa, caught up Otway’s last word into @ bawling song— “I've got a wife and sixteen kids, I've got a wife a T've got a wife @ J wixteen kids, m) A cushion whised across the room into his face. A tag began. Sikes on the table was Ipying down laws of equipment at the top of hin voice “Well, I'm guing to take nothing but socks. I'm going to stuff my pack absolutely bung full of wocks. Man) alive, I tell you nothing matters ex cept socks. If you can keep on. get: | ting clean socks ¢very—I'm going to |wtuft in socks enough to last—" | WANNA SEE My DADIO Ser ALEK ? GBE.T iN wl ast Can oat on ek MESSAGES OUTA Tw oT’ wcon, in the pair he landed im. u ‘The bleswed gift in war was to be without imagination. The supreme trial, whether in endurance on the part of those who stayed at home. or ‘in courage on part of thoee who | took the field, was upon those whose | mentality invested every sight and every happening with the poignancy of attributes not present but imag ined. For Sabre the war definitely began with that visit to the Meas on the eve of the Pinks’ departure. The high excitement of the young men. their eager planning, the almost re.) ligtous ecstasy of Otway at the con xummation of his life’s dream. moved | Sabre, visioning what might await it jal, in depths profound end paintul Papers and went Inte his room, feel-| Otway Inughed pleasantly, * in tHelr intensity, Hix mind would ing on the whole rather pleasurably |chuck ft, I'm not drinking. Hood.| not abandon them. He eat up that excited than otherwise. But as he|1 want you; and you, Carmi 1.204) night after Mabel had gone t@ her read, colurnn after column and paper| you, Bullen.” He saw Sabre and | room How on earth could he go to! were «winging past him, file by file. | after paper, measures that had been! came to him. “Hullo, Sabre. You've| neg be hoggishly sleeping. while|Dooda! Dooda! Day! He scarcely | taken by the Government. orders to|heard now. We've managed to keep| those chaps were marching out? could see them. They were march: | Now, I DON'T WANT TO USTEN ‘TO ANY Army and Naval reservists, the im-!it pretty close, but it's all over the pending call for men, the scenes in| place now. Yes, we entrain at day the streets of London, and with these | break.” the deeply grave tone of the leading| articles, the tremendous statistics and | the huge foreshadowing of certain of the military correspondents, the; breathless news already from the| years ago? seats of war-—as his mind thus re-jts all u could hardly speak. can't realize it. “Good Lord. 1 wares. Sabre felt frightfully affected. He I say, Otway, do you remember predicting this nearly two You said this would find | vevertheless a few people stood about | You were one ot /tne High Street in the thin light of They | At two in the morn ing he went quietly from the house and got out his bicycle and rode down into Tidborongh. } | He was just in time, ‘The news had| knows what elne beside swung and been well kept, or in thone early days | rattled about their thighs. The worm | had not the meaning it came to have.!en with them were running to keep | up, and dragging children, and stretching hands into the ranks, and | He could not jng at case, their rifies slung. seemed to be appallingly laden with stupendous packs and multitudinous A equipment. A tin mug and MoRS You NEVER CAN TELL ANYTHING without GROSSLY EXACCERATING ITH iri ee a a ar. — 8 t * ceived there returned to it ite earlier | the people every one laughed at.” [the young morning, and when, al-! crying—all erying. | sense of enormous oppression and! (Precisely the same Otway who had) mont {mynediately, the battalion came ©, . Deodal Deodal | . “ ” tremendous conjecture, War, . . .| spoken with such extraordinary {n-| «winging out ef the Market Place,| rhe Camp Town races are five miles | Page 652 England. - The first sentence of | tensity outside the Corn Exchangé| many appeared flanking !t, mostly tong. | “TAKE MINE” his history, now greatly advanced./eighteen months before began to! women Dooda! Dooda! Day!” “1 think.” Mrs. Calhoun con-; when we got to LaConnor we came tremendously into his mind:! speak with extraordinary intensity| fers they comet } * ‘ : | no “Da at 1 4, * hildre: ts,| made a nest and the hen settled “This England you live in is yours,|now. “That? Oh, I don't give a! prightful words! Sabre caught! He thought. Oe tes a ‘ia tht nace res ahr aNbgde don} | k. How we . And now at war—challenged— | damn for any of that now. This i*|\tnom from a young woman epoken | @U#> oo Boag tome ¥ Deo-aa! and most children have pets of) down to her task. 0 | C th gpenee” ~ alta [oar show sem. Sabre. be yp pn to @ very old woman whose arm she | Toe ‘mt tee triehtful thing hap- |} some sort. But in a new country, | watched her, and how anxious we To ToUucH You WITH MY INDEX it sur; enormous!: thin him. | show. lon’t giv mn for what Ne 1 of ere | or | ’ bes ' one 2 e key He foe og He pans ge cat aie the | te at be Arh A, Mags wale fo oor | Unt, ® Sew, paote from oka cs nt | pened A voy broke out 6f the ranks ||| where there are fewer children, | were thone 21 days that she kept TINGSR LIKS THAT fp wane " stood.. Frightful words! He caught) 4 came running, all rattling and|— and no stores or movies or school | the eggs warm under her feath- streets and see what waa happening.| show. Sabre, you don't know what | his breath, and, more dreadfully upon | 1. ith swinging accoutre | | erst The day wore on. He felt ex-|this is for me, I've lived for this,| sis emotions, as the head of the col-|#neling with swinging | wccillle |} parties or anything of that sort, | ers traordinarily shy and self-conaclous | dreamed about it, thought about it. | umn came into right, the band, tak Fociend Haat os anaes asehnd ter end and no toys, pets mean almost! The hen got thin and raggedy, about the performance of a matter|eaten it, drunk it ever since I was! ing them to the station, burst into | Oui Bul Nit Clie vole, |f everything to the children, but I knew how proud she was go- that had entered hie mind with that|a kid at Sandhurst. Now it’s come.|+ne pinks’ familiar quickstep. |S ; - east surging uplift of his feelings. Mother! Mother! And a sergea “Now, all the time we had been| ing to be when all those egen It was | By God, it's come at last! ‘our 0 t , ! Positively the} oe ded | turned into fluffy baby chicks, so tour oclock in the afternoon before “a ease Otway! Positively the | Sone. and tawled with astounding ferocity, |} talking about those much-need | turned 'y baby wha rndaareancae Dr Neeru tin Signals be pom 8:7 pcg A uty: anigang--—ipnan Doo-dat Doo-da! leGet back into the bloody ranks!" || chickens, and trying to buy some, | I didn't feel sorry. Ing its place, he unexpectedly en-|shining about his nose. His eyes rows tecen are five tall . * ttl And - gon had been| + v1 countered Mabel. She was just going/scintillated an extraordinary light np To a | And the boy ran on, s me. P - my brother's little son had bee n| ‘At lost the time was up and I into the station. She had come in, He said, “By God, Sabre, you Beotat Doodal Dey! ia old wor yor yt on Dey listening. heard the mother-hen eluck-cluck } v0-da! Dood ‘a | the pavement nd the sergean chucking ne yard " | Gwine to run all night. Gwine toltho his amazing ferocity had been} “Time passed, and in a day or| Clucking in the yard and I ran | I bet my money on the bob-tail nag, / bent over the old woman and patted | ow home. John, my brother’s| ¥B4¢ do you think! Out of all s s jomebody bet on the bay!” e \ nd a hat | Necaedlle srg saltheressenta: > oer ro chic G OF THE TWIN Nee ey ee ere Lad expeth ean ne Maced dh tant, Mgih: stun bby; wes --very quist: tin: the] tiene Apis: Coty. RIM hee You'p Swear tHAX T HAD never in his life had expe it, Mother > i come. One baby rooste OU ove Bute a 4 anything #0 utterly frightful| look after him, 1’ll bring him back, |} Jast day, then he went to nis rasan One baby rooster and one Pusuco ¥ CLEAR R ; JES wS gined that anything could ba! Thi ll right, Mother.” And ran other and said, ‘Moma, Aunt! baby hen! | THREE. QUESTIONS pedbrve -! he fal. i ah ‘: : att ke nutiie, ci bai Dacéal Day! | onli . } sha < | ; | e0 utterly frighttt in ut fe , Jingling, Doo oo-da ! se a sichione “ners [ey d : ay tain-That-Wasn't‘There | right direction? We may be 10 miles | (0 my Te were filled. They Oenidaan Gensinvew) |] Mary needs some chickens aw:| “Well, that pretty bad, but J} in the silliest fashion. too far to the right or 10 to the left. |” : " ‘ willis i ol j y bad, doesn't she? Well, I've) three chickens were better than The Camp Town races are five’ miles | gigo rattling and clanking, dashed up stood on its head, then| There isn't any path to guide us| a thinking about It—-and | one, so we fed and cared for them after aw tiring of that, it spun | "ere: | ° ‘ I've decided to give her} anda all went well for several || | At that the mountain made a d eo around diz ‘or several minutes. al ris y You know, she wants to | srount diy tor savarat minutos |, At, a eme monies! Polly and Paul—and Pa my ben, You Know, she nants (| werk | put for a few seconds, then sudden. |!ke @ person on roller skates, or By Zoe Beckley ° ‘sot’ and-—and T guess she'll make| «ang downy feathars begun to {| ly, without any warning, it whissed | like an enormous express train. It (Copyright, 1922, by ‘The Seattle Star) » little chickens for ‘em diedppenn Ati Seal ehickee teathe Al by as tho it were on rollers and stood | / : ey : ; ee bay Bo gh | “go when we started, we carried | ers grew in their place and the lit whind the 1 lattened out in anothe ute like sei eany UEtRTO EWN Tit e pean . TYAS | r t i] Twins. ‘ leue fitio’ nanaében, airte 4 CHAPTER LXIV—“SWEET BELLS OUT OF TUN If John’s pet hen with us and @/ tle rooster began to he quite we're past it,” laughed) viene in front of their noses, not a ; I] doven eggs which had come a long! strutty when he pecked around, » must be in the King ‘The solitude, the whirligig of her way, was black with people, shoving ‘ | ‘ Diddyevvers at last. The) 787s S¥e7- . 4 tun dele t}to get in, Girls in bevies, their im way from soméwhere—I don't re-} then-—then the weasel came!" | asi genes { peontir » : “Are you frightened?” asked thé thoughts, the thirst for fresh air, at) °° & 1 Girls pe the “ I naid it was just beyond | ee en adenty. oy er ‘polly into the atrest, ‘To |RUdent short skérts blowing, absurd | member where—on a ship, and! (To Be Continued) | the Mountains and this is the ey - ” nae |e GROTR. A Se ae 7 fiilgh heels clicking on the pavernent, | 3 re Fe iot mean UE" AnEwered |. ceuer human beings, to read IN| iayghed more loudly than usual, mete S08 1S Sen “Cortainmen| -|and Paul, with his hat on, 4 a | Nick, bravely. " sere hr mer ae mm PUN a ae sieur shall not be made to wait.” He) out, They almost collided in the ‘test toe od NI alt aaa " # ‘aces their problenis and wor-| Young men and their sweethearts, ni ws . be {See y mages Monsey o> Are you mad?” asked- the moun-| their fine tie ihe gnawing of her|hands éntwined after the naive Paris |Paris trafflo—till drivers shouted at |climbed wearily into a taxi. The {said it with merry goodwill, It|tle hallway, The mountain had made a crazy tain. ene |manner, seemed uncommonly nu-|her and cabmen swore, swerving |chauffeur was a jolly old chap, rag-| would be inconceivable to a Paris| “Good God, so it's your F. circk and swung around tn front of Pixie o oe dhe stole past the ever-watchful | merous | their taxis at her very heel She tty, much mended and patched, his |cabman that anyone could be sad on/ words burst from him. “Where 4 proses Tie: ne ee eee ee eeiise ‘oh litt’ window of the conclerge that| A stab of loneliness came, #0 acute | stopped at a window, gazing In, to enamekd top-hat a priceless antique, | Bastille day, or ‘not be on joyous earth have you been—you're frigh! appear altogether ingPuzaledt® anuwered the little poy, | little wilhirwartment entrance. She|that Polly almost cried out, With |the wonderment of a youth who and his redfaced smile so fatherly |terms with “monsieur.” ened me half to death!” fe “{ wish the thing would stay We telah ¥ ve en your ae vt ri vt want to be stopped and ques-|the world about her at the climax tried to figure out why a pretty | that Polly longed to bawl upon his| Polly gaye him a generous “pour-| She drew back, as if struck, looky awny for goo grumtted = Nick T at's ‘ age ed a ne br ne! or even sympathized with. |of its gaiety, her heart must be | Young woman was looking pipes | shoulder |boire” and with lagging step went/at him steadily, then burst into © : fo You quppees fe BOneT” |sOuNIRIS TN ee Ue SL” Con OouiN hear slo thore leaden, her vplrit drowned in lonell. ‘and tobacco jars with her eyes full! “A beautiful night for the hotl-|up to her flat, What if Pal had [laugh that was like a sob, | ointed to a tiny speck in | lost my wits pa ae of al = ‘ ” ee heweet ‘and; atid’ On| nent of tears. He spoke r centative: day!’ he said. “All the world shall en-|not yet come? How could she bear) “Too bad—for me to have fri te ce. “There it in" she |here to try people's Pationey ana ich yellow sunset was gilding the| She walked quickly, not knowing | ly. aid at her sudden glare, shrugged | joy himself, You, tov, madomoiwelle, |the night? But, of course, Baul] ened you! What about me, T wong ait wna — noth ¥. rh fig samty oe streets, Homegoing crowds were|where, nor caring ne stared at|and passed on. n'est oe pas?” | would jme, mo, me!” The blaze died fy. | y?’ said Nick, suddenly. “When | the pe ». You may go safely over, thronging, in animated talk, In front|things without seeing them, blindly| ‘The “goneness” of hanger at last) “Oui, oul, moi aussi," she made an| As the lift stopped at the fifth|her eyes and she went lifelessly {| - thig of mountain ean move around |ehdren” ad) lor the opera the marblorailed en-[erossed streets that vere swarming|brought Polly to herself, Dusk—and leffort to say it brightly. “Drive|floor, the door of the apartment thelr rooms. he way it does how do we know we of the opera th ‘gore she | mya ch . the way it does how do (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star Itrance to the “Metro,” Paria’ sul-|with traftio—the rushing, pell-mell|she was far from home. She|quickly, please banged open, as if by a furious hand, (To Be Continued) were walking all that time in the