The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1922, Page 13

TH SEATTI STAR (Continued From Yesterday) J but that it was as an officer that he ning spun around from the | Would be going, and something chant om ward, “Eh? | Warned him not to correct her nse Sorry, I'm afraid T wasn't listening,” | sumptt He found with pleas ana a re has offered | UFPMise quite a friendly chat afc om Our exe a re. | DetWeen them only began to we dunve'f fall away fn interest when he, made cole jects : , | formettul by this mew quality in t pon Twyning said, “Have you, by Jovel| contact, allowed. his deeper feolings cen. Remy good. What bad luck being find voice, Once started, he the jurned down, What was away bef®re he had realized it, in 28 gabre moved acroas to his room. | how one couldn't help feeling about ‘out tear.” England and bow utterly glorious sof Was it, really? By Jove, and you! would be his own sensations it he om pox fit enourh, too, olf man. Fancy id actually get into uniform and ta jeart! Fancy—Jolly sporting of you. | feel that England had admitted him ook Fancy—Oh, I say, old man, do let's | to be « part of sher be we @ ook at your paper if you've! She looked at the clock. her ton you. I want to see one of| His face was reddening in te ngs things.” | tomary stenal of his enthusiasm. He oad Sabre was at his door, “What pa | noticed her glanct, but was not alto. - | Bether checked. He went on quickly, “Your rejection paper, Old man./"“Well, look here. I must tell you fre never seen one, Only if you've| this, I'l tell you what I'll say to it on you.” 4 haven't got one.” sNot got one! You must have, old man. fell, I haven't. I was seen pri tely. I'm rather friendly with Ihrem up at the barracks Oh, yes of course. Wonder they @an't give you a paper, tho.” Well, they didn't." “Quite so, old man. Quite so. Fun iy, that’s all.” Sabre paused on the threshold. He etly.well understood the villain- qs implication. Vile, intolerabie! fut of what service to take it up? To hear Twyning’s laugh and his as if I should He passed into The thought he had had Which had arrested his anger at Mr Pertune’s hints, revealing this inci Pet in another light, was [gant to get rid of me.” Vv Im August, the anniversary month the war, he again offered himeelf Dut this after a tiny: the standard was not at its height of perfection. Earnshaw, former friends, were gone to the it: Sabre subimtted himself thru ortinary channels and this time sived what Twyning had called is “paper.” He did not show it to ting, nor mention either to him to Mr. Fortune that he had tried “Again! ou, my dear Sabr “Again, have By Jove, that’s sporting Did they give you a paper fs time, old man?” No. Not [pech. Feeling as he felt about the partoers’ interest in the matter, that, Be frit, could not be borne, * But on this occasion he told Mabel ‘The war had not altered his rela tins with Mabel He had had the freling that it ought to bring them timer together, to make her more ptibie to his attempts to do the thing by her. rng them closer together: the ac lating months, the impercept increasing strangeness and ten and high pitch of the war at here increased, rather, her sus Wptibility to those characteristics of Re which were most impossible to ber. He feit things with draught too deep and with burthen too capacious for the navigability of her mind; and ® bere was an ever-present thing, this fm her phrase) most unsettling war, Phich must be taken (in her view) @ a high, brisk note that was a impossible to him as was his own at tute towards the war to her, The p etfect of the war, in this result, was But to sunder them on a new dimen- fon: whereas formerly he had Parned not to join with her on eub- Hts his feelings about which he had ing before her, Now the world con- tained but one subject; there was no ¢ and there was no upshot but ash of incompatibility. His fectings Were daily forced to the ordeal; his iteas daily exasperated her. The Mind her abuse of his feelings, Ie tried with some success not to Mind: but (in his own expression, fied her and he had nothing else to | fer her; they riled her and he had ft himself not to rile her. It was Uke desirmg to ease a querulots in- Yalid and having in the dispensary but a single—and a detested—pallia- five. Things were not better; they were Worse —But he made his efforts. The Matter of telling her (when he tried ® August) that he thought he ought fo join the Army was one, and it fame nearest to estabiiahing pleasant felations. That it revealed a pro Aothing. He blamed himself for using that side to appear. Her comment when, on the eve of Bis attempt, he rather diffidently ac uainted her with his intention, was, “Do you really think you ought to?” This was not Went ahead with it and made a joke, Which amused her, about how funny tt would be if she had-to start mak- ing “comforts” for him at the War Knitting League which she was at- tending with great energy at the Garden Home. He found, as they KING “Hello, there?” | King Indig stopped with one foot | fh midair as the Twins appeared in the doorway of the room where he as playing hopseotch on one of his Diliard tables. “Hello,” said Nick. “IT mean, how 40 you do,” he corrected himself When he remembered that he was Mddressing a king. Nancy dropped & curtey. The king put down his foot and f the table you?’ he asked amiably you play hot-seoteh?” Yes, your highness,” answered Nick gravely. “Then come on and play.” “Tm ia Niek, “out n't #tay re on # journey and M's only half over.” He was thinking that this was a Geer kine had nothing to do Whit play while others were working hard to make him happy. “Where sked the king Nick toid him about the record 474 Lonchend and all the rest of it The k laughed. “That's fine? he cried, Tint your jonrney's over. “They | enlistment and was again reject: | Jonger | | Rattray, all the remnant of | most creditable of | Dwar, acutely aware ax he was of the | But it did not! found difference of sensibility was} enthusiastic; but he} | myself first thing if I really do get |in. A thing out of the Psalms By | Jove, an absolutely terrific thing, Mabel. In the Forty-fitth. | Bag—has Boom Bagshaw told you | People up at the church what abso. jtutely magnificent reading the Pealmes are Just now, in this war?" She shook her head. “We sing them every Sunday, of course, Bu’ JI don't see how the Psalme—yo j | mean the Bible Prams, don't yout | “Oh, but they have. j tutely bung full of it. Half of them jare the finest battle chants ever written. You ought to read them, Mabel; every one ought to be read ing them these days. Well, this | Verse I'm telling you about. I say, | do listen, I won't keep you a minute. } it's in that one where there comes in & magnificent chant to some prin cess who was being brought to mar riage to some foreign king-—" Mabel's dispersing attention }arms, “To a princess! However can t be? It's the Psalms, You do mean the Bible Psalms, don't yout | He mid quickly, “Ob, well, never jmind that. Look here, this is it. I shall say it to myself directly I got im, and then often and often again. It ought to be printed on a card and }wiven to every recruit. Just listen | “Good luck have thou with thine honor: ride on, because of the word jf truth, of meckhess and of righ | teousness: and thy right hand shall show thee terrible things.” “Ian't that terrific? Isn't | mendous? By Jove, it—" | For the first time in her married life she looked at him, in thie hu Mor, not distastefully but curiously His flushed face and shining eyes! | Whatever about? He was perfectly ‘They're abso took it tre. } incomprehensible to her. She got | must see to; but never any resp - }up. She said, “Yes—but "Ride on'—|to her daily budget of gousip—"the of courwe you're not going in the|kind of news I know he likes to }eavairy, are yout’ j|hear’—or any news of himself and | | He said, “Oh, well. Sorry. It's | his doings. ! just @ thing, you know, Yes, it's| She once or twice maid, without | your bedtime, I'm afraid. I've kept/any comment, “But he is writing you up, gassing. Weill, dream goodjoften to Mra. Stanley and Lady luck for me tomorrow.” | His thoughts, when she had gone from the room, went, “A better eve. ning! That's the way! you see, if I try doesn’t matter. I was a tool to drag | that in he doesn’t understand Yes, that's the way!" He «at late, happily. If only he could get past the doctor tomorrow! t vi That's the way! But on the fol lowing evening the way was not to be reedptured. The old way was re | stored. He down by his rejection. When he got }back that night he went straight in [to her. “TI say, they've rejected me They won't have me.” His face was working. “It's that cursed heart." She slightly puckered her brows. een taught to shrink from/expos-|“Oh—d'you know, for the mimute I! can for her man couldn't think what jwere talking about | fected? Weill, I must say I'm glad [Up at the Knitting League Mrs Turner was saying her son saw you lat the recruiting office after you on earth you told me that. I must say I don” think you ought to have thought brooding in his mind's solitude) they about the ranks without telling me. | wouldn't have liked it at all. I think you ought to be very thankful you \were rejected. I'm sure I am.” | He said flatly, “Why are Thankful—good lord—you know—what do you mean, to be thankful?’ “Because you ought to be an offi cer, if yqu go at all. It's not the place for you in your position. And apart from anything else She gave her suddgm burst of laughter He felt arise within him violent and horrible feelings about her “What are you laughing at?” “Weil, do just imagine what you'd look like in private soldier's cloth ing?” She laughed very heartily again | He turned away you? don't I ought CHAPTER VII | 1 Up in his room he began a long letter to Nona, pouring out to her all his feelings about this second re. | fection. He was writing to her—and hearing trom her—regularly and fre. }auently now. It was his only vent talked, that it never ocgurred to her in the oppression of these frightful as i tose ° ae, T INDIG | You need not go over the Seven Val- leys to the Kingdom of the Kor» pknotts. I'll save you the trouble ‘right now by putting the record on a phonograph in the music [I'm 90 much handsomer than ugly ola King Verdo that there inn’t any dispute whatever. If the thousand years are up I'll marry Princess | Therma tomorrow.” | So saying, he took the record from Nick, strode past the Twins and out of the door. “You may come along if you wish,” be called over his shoulder. And he also invited all his servants and attendants and court iers to follow. “I want you all to hear,” said he, “that your master is going to be married. Tomorrow you shall have a queen.” He put on the record and started his phonograph, And this is what it sald ¢ only needle th make me talk Ja the third peg in the ih 1 of King Verdo's left boot.” | “On, @ehawt’ said King Indig \'vou children will have to finish your journey after all, So hurry lupe (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Has old | eah have anything to do with war.” | was enormously cast | Were you re| room. | t will | OUR BOARDING HOUSE HEAVENS, CALL HE POLICE ! § MY DIAMONDS ARE MISSING !! OH DEAH, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER “THAN “TO COME "TO THIS UNSCRUPULOUS/ | | days | After that letter of hers, at the Joutbreak of the war, in which she had said that she thanked God for him that he had delayed her decision te wnehain their claims and to join their lives, no further reference had been made by either to that pear touch of deaire’s wand. It was, as he had @aid it should be, as tho her hletter had never been written. And in her letters she always mentioned Tony. She wrote to Tany every day jahe told bin; and there were few of her letters but mentioned « parcel of xe kind sent to her husband. | Tony never wrote. Sometimes, she said, there came a scrap from bim relative to some business matter sh: Grace Heddon and Sophie Basildon and I hear bits of him from them land know he is keeping well. Of I can do it,| course, I pretend to them that their That other thing | news is stale to me.” Another time, finished my to wrote, “and bave sent him two sets of those patent rubber soles for his boots, Do you think he can get them put on? Every day I try to think of some new trifie }he'd like; and you'd be shocked, and think I care nothing about the war, at the number of theaters I make time to go to, You see, it makes something bright and amusing to tell him, describing the plays. I feel most frightfully, that, altho of course | my canteen work is useful, the real best thing every worman can do in |this frightful time is to do all she out there; and When this isall over oh, Marko, is it ever going to be over?—things will hurt again; but while he's out there the oid things jare dead and Tony's mine and Eng land's—my. man for England; that ts I've just Topy,” she | Tony's mine, Bath he had set himself was not to | were rejected and that it was into | my thought, that is my pride: that ad | the ranks you were going. You never | is my prayer.” And a few times farther on. “And he’s so splendid. Of courre you can imagine how utterly splendid he ts Lady King-Warner, his colonel's | wife, told me yesterday her husband | says he’s brave beyond anything she could imagine. He said—ahe's given |me his lettet—'the men have picked lup from home this story about an. gels at Mons and are beginnipg to believe they saw them. Tybaf says he hopes the angels were near him, because he thought he was In hell, the particular bit he got Into, and he thinks it must be good for angels, enlarging for their minds, to know what hell is like! As a matter of fact, Tybar himself is nearer to the superhuman than anything 1 «aw knocking about at Mons and His coolness and bis example are ja | my dear, with the solitary exception of the writ@r, entirely of heroes, In sticky places Tybar is the most won-/to the Red Crow derful thing that ever happened. I like to be near him because his im. mediate vicinity i# unquestionably a charmed circle near him because his is always the worst spot." “Can't you imagine him, Marko?” | ul | And always her letters breathed to |Sabre his own passionate love of | England his own poignant sense of | poesension in her and by her, his fown intolerable aching at the heart lat his envisagement of her enor | mously best. They reflected his own |frightful oppression and they suaged it, as his letters, she told him aswunged hers, as burdens are suaged by mingling of distrenn. i“There is no good news,” he told |her, “and for me who can do noth ing—and shmetimes things a little difficult with me here and If suppose that makes it worse as are (Copyright, 1922, | CHAPTER | walks tightly Paul and Bobby Sutton breaking a pathway rapidly to hind. hailed youth both he and Paul knew. saw a friend o' yourat bubbled “Old Barr with @ dame, too!’ He kissed his bunched lfingers and blew ecstatically toward \heaven to indicate his appreciation lof the “dame.”, “Bound for Simon's, no less. Gosh, wouldn't Barray pick a place like that tonight whirs"" were ahead, Norma, talkin ly, be Sommone utton—a he awell ust Kee | She said that it was hers, too. | | She was working ¢ His daring | 1 byword in a battalion composed, ; and I shudder to be} from her he there! Polly and Paul By Zoe Heckley by The Seattle Star) LXVIII—THE | an the throng that packed the side: | ask CALM Y'SELF MRS. HORNSBY MAYBE YOUR DAUGHTER 1S OUT FLASHING 'EM= NOBODY IN “THIS HOUSE WOULD FRISK ‘EM “TH! ONLY “THING THAT FOLKS HOWL ABOUT MISSING ~ AROUND HERE 1S MEALS! I'LL HAVE TO HAVE MY LEGS CUT OFF AT THE KNEES FIRST~ TWA-HA- \F ro wy | DIAMOND RING | SHE LEFT ON “TH WASH BOWL TH’ | OTHER NIGHT'SHE An’ Our NOTHIN! “MAT PEBBLE MIGHT SHINE IF \T WAS MOUNTED ON A LANTERN !/ BY AHERN | A BURGLAR 4 WOULD GET ll MUSCULAR || EVE TROUBLE }] LOOKING | VALUABLES | IN “THIS CooP | He COULDN'T EVEN STBAL A GLANCE. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS IF FEVER EXPECT To Touch THE FLOOR WITH MY FINGERS SAY, UTNE 1 GOT ARADIO SET AN You CAN HEAR PEOPLE [TALKIN HUNDREDS L, OF MILES AWAY n seems to be no way out. But your letters are more than good news and more than rescue; they are courage. Courage ix like love, Nono; it touches the apirit: and the spirit, amazing e»- sence, is like @ spring: it is never touched but it—springs!” y at a can teen at Victoria station, She had been on the night shift “but I can’t sleep, I simply cannot sleep days” and 80, shortly before wrote to her of hig second re she had changed on to the shift | and at night took out the car to run arriving men from one terminus to nowa tion, another. “And about twice a week wet ired and feel sleepy 4 nd the chauffeur with the car and ay at home and do sleop. It's splen- ai Northrepps had been handed over as a military how Mer answer to his letter tell ing of his second rejection at the re eruiting office—most tender worts his heart, comfort as transfusion of blood sickness maintains her ry told rtt ing his spt {from he to ith nated him that on that day fortnight she the ex body he} was coming down to say of hin dim appointment what she could so in adequately express in writing. She was going out to war work in| France—in Tony's name she had pre ented a fleet of ambulance cars to | ja Red Cross unit and she was going out to dri was m. ing down to look things at North repps before she left On the following day opening its newspapers, shook hands with itself in all its houses, shops and offices on its own special and most glorious V. C. Lord Tybar. (Continued Tomorrow and she and [Paris . STORM Sutton BREAKS innocently As he |spoke the girls pushed up and stood listening ly had not heard the mention of Barray’s name "Oh, It's @ place where a bunch of wild boys—sort of silkestocking upaches—get together and swap yarns, Some of them have mixed up a bit with artist crowds, and like to powe as being cultured, Onoe in a while they break out in the old-time apache, dances with their giria, like Most times yess they're harmless enough, ty tonight they'll be lit and you see in vaudeville up some | Tidborough, FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS xe he C'MON IN HOUSE AN’ TLL Siow ‘ar. ay OE NEV “1 didn't } Mrs, Calhoun went on how nearly you came to falling into the deep water! Poor little was up to something every min le 5 yt te when he was not jeep. | . . | Ste laughed as she recalled it “I dressed him as veual; as} usual I warned him to kee ay from the bank—and as usual he looked tp into my eyes like a little seraph, seenmed sure he would mind, and toddled out of the door. “I watched him go, saw him pause just an instant, look about him, then go straight o# a shot to his favorite position, and Ne | down with his little head and arms | hanging periously over the edge of th&t slippery bank | I did not call out to him, nf was my custom speak quickly a tly thru the door and I ran slipped up behind him, and with. sort of warning caught out any in my hands pushed anick and} be went, but, of hold of his feet his two feet firmly pushed and over and hard 1 caught him to me before his and ereat, ically, “My terror should too said, oh so ee VM like to answer for * By abel Cleland _» Page 656 THE OLD HOME TOWN Tho.o €R., \ NEWT SHES) | AREARIN’/ AS & OC Ke 5 ‘F 7K < Luh 1; DRESS GOOD HARDWARE B CANDIES opt Bay, WO-NO> k AN ARMFUL WAR: HAR” + TODD, FOR YEARS HOLDER THE LONG BEARD RECORD OF THIS COUN AS FLABBERGASTED TODAY WHEN A STRANGER APPEARED - Olivia Rolls Her Own | | nero , OLIVIA® | — Wear ir!! Now BELIENE IT, Seattle _ » | « Fe 99 y bo Sy SH SHOP A. COAL OFFUS, 3 Now You STAY OUT OF HERE UNTIL FF P/M THROUGH WITH MY EXERCISES! iF, BY STANLEY “iy } (wwon’:) (BAKED GOODS lid ASSORTED aaa NG) ance ome § \WANT T DWE ET “THAT YOUNG FELLER THAT SAYS HE ‘ * son AGAIN poor little bey, my poor little boy, “It worked,” didn't want to try that she conclude any mm the of He spent part “But ditch with the thing 18 next was about inches muddy water in it day calmly wading of every up and down in that “Libby and T had all we could do to keep him out of 't “Then we dug a well, and made a trough for watering the cows and horses. ‘Sam had a new game at once He would run out to that trough, ip up a tin cupfull of water, and looking at me over the brim, pre tend to drink, while he slowly poured the water down the front of ‘his dress “T think he was. “The limit,” David sug: ed. “Yes, the limit. Then e the when he did fall in,” awful day Mrs, Calhoun said. | again, want to'see him? It was preposter.} “3 NOTICE EEF es | st their ship into smooth waters —_ “ ‘Nou've Come To THEATER WITH A BAD COUGH WAVGS YWov ANY COVecH PROPS with You ? But the storm that had been brew “Be careful what you're saving, Polly, While we're on the subject of other people's rights suppose you Oh, do let's go! I'd rather go! ou: Her perverseness amazed |iN& Was not to be averted, It had Ve a thought to what Norma and there than anywhere else Polly | him. come slowly, held back by the friend. Sutton will think of us, quarreling looked from Paul to Sutton eagerly “Its too far, Bealdes, I wouldn't IY little winds that kept blowing ere on a corner in the midst of—* To her dismay, Paul stared back | Cross the street to & Lok like against diverted temporarily by | Polly drew in her breath sharply, unemilingly, as if she bad made|that.”” Paul's tone was sharp. this and that, but now it broke. . her breast heaved, ber ‘round, ehin ome vule faux pas, He didn’t] “Oh, I say,” put in Sutton amiably,| “It doesn’t seem to matter what 1, @uivered, know she had missed the remarks|“it can't be so very bad. Suppose | want.” Polly's wards came slowly,! “Oh—I had enough of this, I about Barr And he marveled at| we do go, what He wanted to|like the first big drops that precede | won't stand it! And with an din her lack of taste. Here they | please Polly |the downpour, “You dismiss me with. | articulate little sound, half choke, were, trying to forget heir wretched| Norma saw that his innocence of out consideration, The place is too half sob, she turned like a flash, quarrel over Bi posing that they ny, and she pro- go to the place the situation was leading to trouble. | far, is it Getting him aside for a moment. street to go to it! You and you wouldn't cross the ow - " have no Why, what sort of place is It?” |of the ugly ones—well, I wouidn't| where Barray was! How could she would give Paul and Polly time to thought for,anyone but yourself?’ darted into the crowd, and was lest to sight. (To Be Continued)