The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1922, Page 11

THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN BY STANLEY ~ fas = RUN THE OLD HOME TOWN MARTHA, DEAR = THIS. HaA-HA=HE'S A V7 THERE ISN'T) | === a \S"THE PANAMA HAT AND | Z BEAU BUMMEL! ANYMORE | | : xen eo! APY TROPICAL SUIT T USED “TURT surr He's PANAMA HAY ~ ae Si > 11M THAT HELMET: ) THAN “THERE IS MUSIC IN A Es KS — a_i HOLD ER &f <a ad ees SHES TO WEAR W CLAMBAKI a WHEN T WAS CONSUL HMM INGTEAD\“| PERMANENT WAVE® | MERE ~ T INTEND OF THINKING | \’\ TH! MOTHS WON'T |WEARING THEM AGAIN /|/ HOW You'LL LoOK\\-rouUcH rr ‘caUSE MHIS COMING GUMMER || THIS SUMMER | (T MAKES “THEM How Do You “THINK // THOSE LOAFING \ Sua SICK GOING T WILL LooK? TOSS, I SHOULD OVER “TH! THINK You'D GETA \\ WRINKLES! BUSINESS Sur AND a aoa f WONDER HOW You'D Look IN A JOB! ¢ WEARING HAGA ToRacco Pom INDOOR. / YES GREE HW’ ae te MO OF an] PRET KID 1 f CATCH WITHA. SLINGSHOT IM GOIN’ TO SPANK AREARIN © (Continued From Saturday) ean do what TI like in it, I'm not, | frhen a door slammed. anyway, doing anything wrong. I'm Well, I ask y If I Aidn’t say | doing something more right than I've @o myself, “The plot thickens’ if I) ever done in my life, and yet every @idn't say ft, I can promive you 1) body's got the right to question me thought It. I aid. And it proceeded | and everybody's got the right to be fe curd The door that had/answered and— Hapgood, it's the @ammed opened and presently in | Most bewildering state of affairs @omes Sabre with the girl, And the; that can possibly be imagined. I'm girl with the baby in her arma, Sabre | up againat a code of #oclal conven ‘bald in his ordinary, easy volce-—he's| tions, and by Jove I'm absolutely | got @ particularly nice voice, has old down and out. I'm absolutely tled Babre— "This is a very retiring youn, Pp hand and foot and chucked away person, Hapgood. Had to be dragged Do you know what I am, fap: | im. Miss Bright. Her father’s in the | good—t | office, Perhaps you've met him, have| tie gave a laugh. He wasn’t talk ing & bit savagely, and he never did etl, T don't know what T eaid,! talk like that all thru what he told | eid man. I know what I thought.) me. He was just talking in a tone| Z thought just precisely what you're | of sheer, hopeless, extremely inter: | inking. Yes, I had a furtousty ested puxsiement bafflement | id shot of a recollection of Old! amazement; just as a man might talk at as I'd seen him a couple Of/t> you of some absolutely baffling | ra before, of his blazing look, of! conjuring trick he'd ». In fact, | kes ia gesture of wanting to hurl the/ ne used that very expression. ‘Do! cke @— Tables of Stone at me, and of bis| you know what I am, Hapgood? and o! L extraordinary remark about Sabre [he gave a lnugh, as I've said. ‘I'm ou 1 had that and I did what you're! what they cail a social outeast, A| a doing: I put two and two together | social out Beyond the pale. Un. | Lod &nd found the obvious answer (same | speakabie. Ostracizod. Blackballed. | &s you) and I jolly near fell down | excommunicated.’ He got up and t dead, I did. Jolly near, began to stum; } i p about the room, . “ee — was bigs Ao yggy~ hands in his pockets, chin on his col | and natural as you pl | lar, wrestling with it—and wrestling MARSMAL OTEY HAS STARTED on — — ite phe ne — jmind you, just in profoundly inter | WALKER wife while ‘as in nce, Now > | ested baffiement, HIS USUAL SPRING WAR ON SLING SHOTS he's staying here a bit. Put the out | Fc ga longs logge yg eth — municated. By Jove, tt's astounding, | MED iriehae. Hapgood Feary Deere nt | ts ama It’s Ike @ stupendous + | conjurtn I've done something | —. ates Cea ee ee ety wea’ ta | that Isn't done—not »mething that’s * wrong, something that © incontestab ood _ Forker nae be was #0} hy right But it ian't done, People P don't do it, and I've done it and “The girl smiled faintly, T put UD! therefore hey, presto, I'm turned tn napeakable,’ he sald. Excom } AND BEAN BLOWERS — no doubt was, She sald she'd g into terrible trouble. She'd got a lit Mie wae ert ‘on in evens || [J HELLO. WILBURP Sav THe | 7 You"L. Have To Go | ne a ee MAN WAS HERE TODAY AND AROUND TO “THE WE SHouLD HAVE INVITED An hysterical sort of squeak, end we eee nee eee outlaw. Amag. |#entence calling it ‘a little baby [eat down, The meal wasn’t precisely |) “POCO Mie |never a child, or just a baby, but || ff VARNISHED THE DINING ROOM BACK DOOR ON TOM OVER & banquet. We helped ourselves and ae oiitek: Ques eek told | S1¥aye a little baby,’ ‘my ttle baby AND LIVING ROOM FLOORS- | For DINNER! ‘ stacked up the solled plates Saks: aun thats wie be aa anes” He said it was awful, She said it SO WHEN You COME HOME used them. No servants, d'you see? |" " ‘ab bere th Decseber—you renetin You HAD BETTER BRING ‘That was pretty clear by now. | “When he was out in France this| er old max revious SOME. SANOWICHES AND March she’ and that ings with it pwife, no servants, no wedding hing but old Bright's daughter baby— Effie, as he called her, Effie Bright had come to live as companion to his wife. It appears he more or less / {got her > e o \ nn T talkea 1 heard my got her the job. He'd seen her at had started with didn’t jast | ee “ | See git hardly epeke 1 | Joy kid,’ that was the expression | @f her. She must have been uncom : Bev oe } a jolly little sinter. He got her some monly pretty in a vivacious sort of thing to do with her, and no one other job previously with some| way before she ran up against her! 4. or other, and then the old | YOUld have anything to do with her Brouble, whatever it was. I say What | 1.4, there died and the girl came to|—*° ne as she kept her little baby ever ft was. I'd no real reason to y ‘ | That was her plight: 1 ¢ would fuppese I knew; tho mind you, I was ie ave anything to do wit her while guessing pretty shrewdly it was ly whe had the baby. Her father was Ing there on the soft wrapped up in - what d'you call ‘ems—swaddling| clothes. Yes, uncommonly pretty, but now sad—ead as a young widow sie y THINGS FoR Our. Dimes} money t and was at Jespair and near she was being turn her wits’ end with ly out of her mind to w what+to do and all that k of thing. She said her father wouldn't have any: | his place while he was away, Some thing like that Anyway, she came She came somewhere about October ‘45, and she left early in March fol }lowing. just over a year ago. His/| | wite got fed up with her and got rid pe Hg bigger oN bal one = where she w y vere were tithe funeral. that sort of look. 1t|°% ber at 3 what Sabre says ES" | other pisces tb GGA wat her, bet ‘was her eyes that especially showed fea ps h her and got rid of Net. Tcutp, Om Of thems, & the Week dave ft Extraordinary eyes, Like two} And Sabre was at bome at the time. |up tha haley sili hak oe ant Ob win Mark that, old man, because it's im y p we igrent pools In a shadow. If T MAy/ portant Sabre was at home at the | Somewhere: and sho sald, and under @Quocte poetry at you, |time—about three weeks—on leave | ined it about fourteen times, Sabre “Her eyes were deeper than the! «very well. ‘The girl got the sack said, and cried over it eo you could Gepth and he went back to Franca she) S4rdly read, she sald: ‘And, oh, Mra Of waters stilled at even” | got another job somewhere as com | Sabre, I can’t, I can’t, I simply can ‘Dna ail the sorrow in them of all the| panion again. He doesn’t quite know | 20t Sie up my little baby: 1 Namen since. Mary Magdalen. All|where. He thinks at Bournemouth. |™!N" she sald. ‘He looks at me, and the time but once Once the baby| Anyway, that’s nothing to do with it. | Knows me, and stretches out bis tiny whimpered, and she got up and went | Well, he got wounded and dincharged | Ite hands to me, and I can't give $0 it and stooped over it the other| from the Army, as you know, and|"™ up. I can’t let my little baby Gide of the sofa from me, so I could|in February he was living at home|€® Whatever I've 4 Im his Bee her face. By gad, if you could| again with his wife in the conditions | ™ther and he’s my little baby and have seen her eyes then. Mother-|I described to you when I began. He I cao't Iet him go hood! Lucky you weren't there, be-j said nothing to me about the condt- |, it was awful. I can be cause if you've any idea of ever | tions—about the terms they were on; |'l@ve It was. I'd seen the and painting a picture called Motherhood, | but I've told you what I saw, It's| a seen her stooping « r baby you'd ba’ gone straight out and cut | (mportant becanve it was exactly tn to | Hike I told you) and I can well be your throat on the mat in despair. | the situation a» I then saw it that | eve awful was the word for it. Poor You certainly would |came to pass the thing that came|"8) “Well, anyway, the banquet got/to pass. Thiw | “And then #he sald—I can remem More and more awkward to endure| “The very week after I'd been es it dragged on, and mighty glad wn there, his wife, reading « let | Willing to take her home, and some kind people had offered to take her abre sa! ber this bit—then she sak in my terrible distress, 4 Was when at last the girl got up—j|ter at breakfast one morning, gave | Sabre, 1 -_ e Sowing sg ‘without a word—and picked up the/a kind of a snort (as I can imag pana A and begs BE he Baby and left us. Left us. We were it) and chucked the letter over to] ¥0™ [0 of fi |me and my and ine ere’s your won ho more chatty for being alone, I| him and said, ‘Ha! T can promisegrou. I absolutely could |derful Mies Bright for you! What Mot think of a word to aay, and any | did I tell you? What do you th k infernal thing that old Sabre man.-/ of th Har | Aged to rake up seemed complete and| “Those were her very words and Géne to death the minute he'd said it.| her very snorts and what they meant “Then all of a sudden he began. He |—what ‘Your wonderful Miss Bright | 1000 fished out some cigarets and chucked | for you’ meant—was, as he explained | ‘NInKs & Me one and we smoked like a couple |to me, that when he was home on| the bone for of exhaust valves for about two min-| leave, with the gi , ne, th ing she was a w ites and then he said, ‘Hapgood, why | were frequen jto t On earth should I have to explain all her, because work for }you and wasn't. Sabre said she worked her. | self up in the ed language eut him lk rst OO ‘ about the girl that 1 a knife—language like CPA Ce ort speaking of th by as ‘that brat i to| It made him wince. It know. | sort of chap he 1 t fit} the more she ral) nd fu he zed the on, and a “He described all that to me and! * QS By Mabel: Cl Cc le > WELL, SVE HEGARDO Some VERY BAD REPORTS ON THEIR STYFF, MR. TRYS, THE FACT 1S THEY'RE PUTTING OUTA VERY INFERIOR PRoDLCT ———- Jsomething « jthen this to you? Why should I” @ bit sharp wit i‘ “I said, « tiny bit sharply—I was|for her part, said hé was forever | of ng: @ ! i getting a bit on edge, you know—I| sticking up for her. or gpa ie lai speak, he stated bis case aid, “Well, who's aeked you to? I} “‘What do you think of that? He!" || “ wraa? ay Hpw ton inet | He sald to me, his face all twisted fo tiabel 664 haven't asked any questions, have I?'|an@ she chucked the letter over to/ Ais? She Saki tim telling yt - on PEE Sabre sald, ‘No, I know you/|him, and from what I know of her |™ iat Sabr old me, and he told m up t strain of trying to mak THE SLUICE GATE eine see what was so this bit deliberntet you might | some “Now, my sister Loa was a) words that it sounded like a cage n imagine her sitting bolt up haven't asked any, and I'm infernal " t 4 th he did: fect t he said i pape v1 ge srt doe Agr ne mnfirmed, watching him, | Want to pretend sh ore sinned | what I say to you, Hapgood, te just |] perfect mischief,” the indy pees] mi oe : Poca is 3 black t I science co’ ed, wate nant Riots he rs aS sees © oe pag tS % i “Up he ran, nis long blac ethe that hasn't: But I know| while he read ft | “e nat than sinning oy , ~ 18 ty ws shh “ : : 4 ‘y "4 ; f uned-to-be-Tobey continued. “she| ices, ‘cei Sie oes aig ‘mo! ha: H | Sabre knew the n she migh t the ad a clale Fi | y h ainied per You're thinking them—hard. And 1| “While he read It. Sabre said * : : a se ot anes naer| J Ld r les harshly and be m I she'd tur wasn't afraid of anything under! mio mopping, and flowing shirt isery for hed a ¢ know I've got to answer them. And/the letter was the most frightty I want to. I want to most fright-| pathetic document he could ever bh fully. But what beats me is this | imagined mudged, he said. Minfernal fecling that I must expiain | stained and badly ex; Ho you, to you and to everybody, | writer—this—girl—this Bi Whether I want to or not. Why | was crying and Should I? It's my own distress when #he wrote { of her own opinion of her ADVENTURES si OF THE TWINS i we ct } elp her. Yes, Sab heaven (nothing but robbers, of| gapping; acree hing and scream course) and she climbed the most} ing tn his bh Ipless rage. 1 right. Well, there was the trees and went) «py the time he reached the teous ap-| eer, It establish ree bly hi, impe |here was a human there Into the deepest holes, She used! gate, however, we were well out of to go way back and buck in thé! reach, and off in search of more crevices of those rocks till t fun, utterly overiooking the fact One human crack was so narrow she couldn't! that our ‘fun’ had cost the China by another human creat end who'd 6 picked out YouR Piem tS ALSO PUTTING INFERIOR PRODYC AT KNOCKS HIS COMPETITOR ! » girl, 4d n up in jus turn around, and vhe'4 eal! out to] man dear. ig the same alr, Sharin same mort us, and somebody smaller and) “an thru the woods round slimmer yet than she, would crawl! there (our home was about 10 in and pull her out backward. | miles from Shasta City at Horse hands, ‘Well, what are you going to|can't help yourself, You'r CIRCUS VALLEY OF THE do about it?" If you hear some one app “So when Lou got started any-| town) one could tind ugly, black The seventh valley was called the) choose T'll walt for you on the haw. “You can imagine his wife's tone.|any one ¢ you can scuttle out of where on a run, the rest of us| and colored false faces, hanging thorne tree across the vallcy. There| "Do about it Do about it! What | it Get awa Pasa by on the other ” J Van the Cirous. | ; ‘ii ’ on the lower branches of th - sel att i : is only one more valley after this,|on earth do you think I'm going to|side. Square It with your conacience | were apt to follow, Just to we) 1 hos Ae gg Be ig “There isn't a bit of use in me you know, until you reach the end| do about it? lany old how. But when that some|] what would happen next. Site ahd’. ies ae ras : Avent | to tell you not to stay here,” | oe your journey.” | “And Sabre said, ‘Well, I think we|one comes to you, you're done, x vey anted to id the dove who was guiding them PDE eyghiren > take the poor} you're fixed. You may hate it. You Well, 1t happened. , frighten the Chinamen into giving ! might just as well tell a fish Bite 5 Magad nbo = Bi & at ore a may loathe and detest the position “Up that hill she dashed, and,| UP thelr gold. stay out of the water.” . 4 ee t's what he enid; and I ecan| that's been forced on you, But it's netzing the gate of the China-| “You see, there was #0 much ; ‘ brass band. | 1a | the Foe 68 " of tt, The nid tracte “Why?’ asked Nancy. Hick had just been about to say, | 9% y imagine his face as he said|there. You can’t get out of it. Th man’s sluice box, she gave it a| £0! that It attracted roubere from “Because « circus stays here, when | ,, sane etal c it—all twisted up with the Intensity | same earth as your earth fs there at all parts of the country, and as I ft isn’t traveling around the earth,” oop nage pert bs wigs a * imploring you: and if|{ Mighty pull and the water rushed) gay those robbers were about the ne dove, and show nat those Gnswered the dove. “And Twelve Toes und Tricky Trixo and Eene of the struggle he foresaw and with| your fe tn full force, flooding everything! only things in the world that Lou | was afraid of. t 14 b the Intensity of his feelings on the| you've got a grain, a jot of hum: hree old sorcerers can't bous us any | sinsect: and I can perfectly well im-|{ty, you must, you must, out of the and searing the Chinamen almost | ¥' |more with their old magic” when ¥ r nea ¢ ou, respond Meena have all gone together to a music anmed 4 mtd - ve tae heard | very flesh « rac gok fo dan | to death. “And the day that we went into o of icked mic ni yu me him, by car as furi.|to that cry of this your brother ¢ n ‘00d and do Twin z H he mag tgp shag oe ‘m a) Inatead t of imaelt, | ous, Absolut Be hite . r \ h.|your sister made as you yourself are “Fortunately he gaw pe and, ud} Per bs nesta 34 a t hada ~ak ins will have to stop. You'll for-| gn, look! ‘Th Ie en ge olutely white apecc you } road | robber scare was almost too much || Mkt all about your journey to the! ion ahead of us. Let's go in” leas with fury; but not mpeechlens| made. {f the hill he dashed, fester even) for that mischief.oving girl. She leggy AR piggy 0s hee aon ne me Seay) ee ae iene Sabre anid, and 1 dare bet she! (Continued Tomorrow) |] than his tormentors, pouring out) was sober for me time after.” [| Flippety F such @ shrill jabber of Chinese | (Te Be Continued) a little fairy friend of lin her own little heart to do just Pine, happens to be here now, and | ' , what Nick had made up his mind to i wi Til have him speak to you after you IP Il) d P. l- d P. " you . ¥ peak to you af el eatanen ae ahalanlb-ratinad. thew thd ia cl accept the Indy's invitation? Best T was ever Invited to!” was iy seen the cat tema eet oe an ee ee © V a au, ‘a aris | ing ea i a bag e | Paul accepted it. And he and the! the true response, as he unlocked | | i ' ‘8 wanted to go on ona, Every. | lady, all rested and fresh, and dress: | their door and snapped on the light. things. Perha « the magie will have | aid delightedly: “Ob com rn By Z onid edly: “Oh, yen, come on y Zoe Beckley “Would you accept an Invitation | body y lisen off thes enough to. tet. you » | | be b n| body looks #6 happy Jed in her mauve organdie with “Hello—what' ? = = sath Ain es Ph pape (Comrrisht, 1941, by The Beattle mar)” |from @ Indy? | “But, dear, you're too tired. 1|floppy hat, had thelr boat ride on the| “Polly pushed tip fa Took, Maan wroter M thay. sitcnars Fae Tige: n{Debenda on the invitation—and | won't, you all frazzled and| friendly river. And there were girls ling. ‘They rend it tometien tale A } } don and a) 7 vee dibied SOQ ALIN mw Indy | frayee ss . ‘ | Kangaroo and his mother, and Gyp CHAPTER LXXVI—A MESSAGE “The Bastile day celebration tan't| He took her tn his arms again, hi ps; Deep Reape tamed egrematcied iy sup albase oF bin “i eye " dy. One i is e by . his|mammas and papas with supper bas-| “Congratulations < oa For Infa | the Giraffe, and all che others who| “Paul, let's promine each other) the ghost of @ chance to get you." |over yet, is It, dear? heart ing with love of her, oe oR ye a | sratulations un good wort OR OVER 30 YEARS| By that time they were inside the|tansle again! If you ace me getting | voice was muffled by a cont Inpel and | biggest You wee, Paul,” she went on, “I—| And it all happened Just. as. Polly| ‘They looked fi ays bea: gate. ‘The man had let them in for|aueer and grumpy, Just say ra necktie “Very well, then, I am the lady, |1 do love that old river. I onn't bear | wanted. Only better, For everybody leach thor ne NaPer Se nothing. and that will remind ine of the night ‘Not you, darling. But T ncted}and the invitation Is to spend the | to have a grim memory of it in my| seemed to smile at her. et cle enecean Wasn't old Twelve Tors a rascal? | mare of last night and I’! —" ike # heute and a barbarian.” Paul's evening on my private yacht. Lis-|henrt. 1'm happier today than I| “Wasn't It a dear, lovely party?” 26 Fe ee ee It was all hie doing, you know But J never ¥ to remind you| words were blurred by a soft check | ten You know those cunning|have—ever been, And I want to—|ahe asked Paul sleepily as later th here? cps ray yeast el bt aberese tart shalt hold son [seid aaesree ee Iitia elven eete that witictad up Mad natekonta 7 Wee Raaan CRA pily ay later they | “Yes, Paul, I realise tt—end, ohy k-|Jiggled up to the flat in the tiny |how good ‘home’ sounds” ‘Do! elevator, ' (Lo Be Continued wil have! “Paul—" after a silence, down the Seine in summer time? I'veling thru the mist in her eyes. berty theatre——Adv. (Copyright, , by Beatt.e Star) [#0 clove that no nig