The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1922, Page 11

STAR PAGE 114 1922. _—— x OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY | If Winter Comes | : Piss iDE : = & | [7 Now, THES A pritHerR Ae : Xe] WAH-HO-HO- GET 4 ‘Awl Weick UNCLE: oo Z n IS 4 Fw S &¢ AS , 5 j Hae Py OF BUSTER’ TAKEN WHEN A FLAGH AT THIS HUGO OUGHT "To BY A. S. M. HUTCHINSON | |i We WAG SEVEN MONTHS |] WHEN HE WAS |] ONE =o1! ‘BUS’ WHEN KNow BETTER Rat OLD= T WAS ATW’ STUDIO 1A BUD, EH? Gosill| HE WAS FIVE YEARS [{1o SHOW THEM OL We WAS A FAT H OLD, DREGSED UP fi] SNAPS OF ME CHOP WEN “Too. |) LIKE AN ALPINE = [170 “THoste Hawke TLL Ber KEPT] CLIMBER WITH A Pl THEY'LL KID HE A BEVVOF cows || FEATHER IM HIS uKT=/ \ LOPSIDED Now. WORKING OveR|| LOOK AT TH! ALPINE DAW GONIT= IMG “ KEP //CLUMBER’ Now = HE WIM WW Tue / (COULDN'T GET UP A RAFFLE! @entinned From Yesterday) _ | in 6 panic fever to\be off and etate Jat the Registrar's (hat he was going| [WHEN WE HAD CTTDOK, AN! to WE HAD A HARD “TIME TRYIN! TO GET TW’ LITILE RASCAL. BACK I HIS CLOTHES AFTERWARDS © WE “T managed to get him talking Shout the praction! side of tt That defend the action but normal | fe, 1 managed to make him listen igh for me to # Was all right While I talked, 1 told him the shop Of the business, Told him that the Papers had to be served on him per fonally, aa they had been, and on the girl, too. I raid I gueswed that the solieitor’s clerk I'd seen going Out had been down to Penny the previous day or the 4 And served them on Effie and got his address from her 1 told him the first step was that within eight days th over it. It wag horrible to hear he had to put in an appearance at/ "im. He sald he'd kill the chap if the Probate and Divorces Registry | %* Could ever discover. him; ground | nd enter a defense—just intimate | Di8 teeth and said he'd kill him, now that he intended to defend the ac. |” ‘after this, tion, d'you see? And that the git} “Well, be got thru bis business | Would bh to, too, After that ng| Shout twelve—just a formality, you} @dubt ho'd instruct solicitors, and! *80W, declaring his intention to de- that of course I'd be ¢ to take on | fend. Then «a thing bh ned, Can't © the job for him. [think now what it me We . . | wait ° ear th “Well, of all this Jargon—me being come tet ioe bho Pho ie lighty glad to have anything to Seep talking about, you understand | ™S *tPMsht on to the station. A cab ) Tatum: this Selgen there were onty Was just pulling in when a man came two bits he frome on to, and froze on | tn) A bap arid ee ae ae hard, I can tell you. I thought he! ‘ir gape? abre eita. ve aaigems Was going mad the way he went on.| (0° . ro a one T ati think he may. Thats why {tte chap sald very civilly, “Might I Dun frightened about him. He fust speak to you a minute, sir? fat there on the bed while I talked | Gnd Kept saying to himsett, ‘Aduiter | WF At them. T was watching a chap Ort Adhattecce!. Me. Avulterce® 1e{0% ® bike tumble off in front of « Snag |motor bus, near as a toucher run cena + over, Suddenly some one shoved) ‘What he caught on to was what} past me and there was old Sabre T told him about appearing at the) getting Into the cab with this chap (opted wes waengag 2 ad be the come up to him, I said, structing icitor aft: | "Hullo! Hullo, are you off? erwards. He said he'd go to the Reg-| “We'd arranged, d'you see, to part Sry at once—at once, at once, atithere, I had to get back to my a se - =. weer me pny chamber He turned round on me Poo: » that he'd instruct no In-/a face gray as ashes, absolutely dead fernal solicitors: he'd do the whole| gray, I'd never seen such @ color thing himself. He had the feeling.|in a man’s face, He said, “Yes, I'm I could see, that he must be spurning | off,’ and sort of fell over his stick LAST FOUR DAYS AT JIMS SHoP— this horrible thing, and spurning it! into the cab. ‘The man, who was al | ner baby, dead with her.” @t once, and spurning It himself, Ho! } g 6 ready in, righted him onto the seat! “pound dead? Found dead? Bt-| was lik chap with his clothes on | and said, ‘Puddington’ to the driver/¢ier and her baby? Found ead? | _ E==- THERE 1S NO USE IN for him to go st ight on home im mediately after and tell the girl what she had to do and all that, 1 told him, by the way, that it would pret ty well have to come out now, ultt mately, who the child's father was; |the girl would practically have to} | give that up in the end to clear bim, | | You know, I told him that tn the oab ing along down. He ground his “They went aside, | wasn't look () p ae THE PROFESSIONAL BALL GAME SEEN IN THE CITY BY JIM WATSON ‘THE BARBER HAS BEEN PLAYED OVER MORE THAN FORTY TIMES IN THE 28 Uncie > ee HUGO SHUFFLES =a UPTIHE FAMILY ALBUM —- fire, crazy only to rush into water) who was at the door, shutting it. + , Gnd get rid of it. The stigma of the| anid, thru the window, “Babre! ont | 2, our rae Mpesow — bo po = TRYING To KID YOURSELF thing was so intolerable to him that/ man, are you ill? What's up? Shall | 7 & ma rye All right, let me go. his feeling was that he couldn't sit/1 come with your i ene. enue eee a one Jet other people defend him|' “He put his head towards me andigesqr Mt S78 mean werd the business for him; he must | said in the most extraordinary pone td @o it himself, hurl it back with his | speaking between hie aunath | a Well, tr, thats rather for the Sen hands, shout it back with hi tho he was keeping himself from | fn" immu savlontw, have shot m throat. He'll calm down and get | yelling out, he said, ‘If you love n Stouts auaher bere” tga alr Teasonable in time, no doubt.) Hapgood, get right away out of it} “Inquest? Inquest?” @abre's! then I'll have another go at him|from me and let me alon te | put running the case for him; but} man happens to live at Taneeoast. po cag 5 nent po pe thine | — pemmey PEnyway, there was the one thing he|1 know him. We're going down to-| tn ci ‘ gay mgr eset | h 3 Could do pretty well there and then, | gether.’ obs. Spnyliondbeesogge Apr nite K ; MEA and that was enter his defense at} “1 said, 4 i Lath yoann at eine ] INE the registry So T took chy ye of “He yp Been got teeth eo they pte ce ~ Sonate wR oS eel i ' be : him to help him ease his mind that| were all bare with his lips contract: |tut Pojasuect?’ Pound dend? in 4 : much. ing. He anid, ‘Lot me alone. Let | duoat? Found dead? Goo’ God, can't “L took charge of him, He wasn't|me alone, Let me alone. | pou tell me serasthing? You comme up| capable of thinking of anything for | nd they pushed off. lgm mo tn tho otient poi all the tm Kimself. I packed bis bag and paid| “I tell you what I'm going to 40.) going round and round, and on an ile bill and took him round to our | I'm going down there tomorrow rm|fo me, ‘Found dead.’ Can't yea oy Lo and it wasn't far off then to frightened about him.” lanything enotet Woune dock? Coat} train my wife and I had fixed to mean, = back ced I told my wife what CHAPTER IV feat? Ent Cant your" ver happened and she played the 1 “Now | | Brick. You see, the chap was like| Hapgood had said to his friend of |; no’ thats for Bot ethearedengag fhe is if he was dazed. Like as if he| the effect on Sabre of Mabel's action | saiq best. And least you beat, | Was walking in a trance Just did|sgninst him: “He's crashed. The| sir t¢ you understand ty Toone a What he was told and said nothing. | root's fallen im on him.” And thatli¢ the young woman took poison, é So we played ft up on that, my mis. | had been Sabre’s own belief, But tt | rnat’s all I can say. Looks as if she #08 and I; we fust sort of took him|Wwas not so. There are degrees Of | took poison, Oxalie acid.” i Slong without consulting him or|calamity. Dumfounded, stunned) “Cxatto actaf seeming to take any notice of him.|aghast, Sabre would not have be| «now, see here, et, You've no It was too late to do anything that | lieved that conspiracy against him of | oar to say anything to me and I've Right when we got up to town. He'all the powers of darkness could con.| no cali to say more to you than I've made a bit of « fuss, lost his temper | ceivably worsen his plight They had told you. Ie that your cab, sir? Be And swore I was trying to hinder|shot their bolt. He was stricken | suse if so—* A im; but my wife managed him a|amain. He was in the crucible of |" they went te the ah treat; by Jove, she was marvellous | disaster and tn tts heart where the 7 | with him, and we got him round to| furnace is white. Questions ts commonly | our flat and put him up for the| But they had net ehet their bon. te tee TeaAae quttoeiones oy od night. I pushed him off to bed early,| The roof had not yet fallen on him. | ynocked senseless in a disaster. Tte but [ heard him walking up and|They had discharged but a petard.| covering consciousness, or recover. | down his room hours after and talk. | but & mine to effect a breach. The | ing his scattered wits, “What's hap- ing to himself—talking tn tones of/ timbers of the superstructure had| pened? he asks; or “Where am IT” | horror—Me! Me! Adulterer® , | but bent and cracked and groaned. | in the first shock he haa not known | “It wae rather dreadful, hearing| Their bolt was shot, the root|).was hurt. Ha recovers his senses.| the poor chap. You see, what was | crashed in, the four sides of his world| jie then tw aware of himaelf man. the matter with him was, being the | tottered and collapsed upon him, with | cica maimed, delivered to the tor-| frightfully clean, intensely refined |the words spoken to Sabre by that| " | of chap he is, appalling horror|man who approached and took him| ‘Ir ings ny and thru the night ia is at being thoveht, ia, Wn wite he ache white he stood to take leave Of| gare was numb to coherent thought, | tne . . i “ . numb to any realization of the mean- | Was 80 repulsive to his mind. He| The man sald, “T daresay you know ing to himself of this that had be| loathed the very sound of the word| me by sight, Mr. Sabre. I've seen | | Mies wethnbelnt bie. O By . fallen hima. The root had crashed in| Muieart ca catgeg t. ta wen us| car's sttiaer at: Tidterongh. You're] "enim: but he lay stunned. Aa} | i ten 3 ne! Se aad prea’ a er Ad od ‘a - ugh. You're | one pinned beneath scaffolding knows | past eleven) the inquest wae at! 4 ins ene Sieh an over keer aan lee rt 1 get Sg ta Tive been | not hig agony till the beams are be | twelve. | Site oc abd not.abtaite. dat ér| hore. ond 5 eee followed | ing Lifted from him, #0 atupefaction| He was able to notice things. For| OH, OU IKNOW BEFORE X TELL You, Do thy ” ‘0 eat or | here and just took lucky chance on | innipited his senses until, on the! years turning the handle and enter. Kout OH, You Kkwow Br” se ee sleep or think or do anything, but |finding you about this part. You're| morrow, he was dug down to in the| ing this house had been like entering | * , NTVITION go mad with 't. ‘That was how ff got) rather wanted down there. The fact | coroner's court and there awakened. |an empty habitation, It struck cold| Tew MG, MRS. TRUE, JST WHAT dO 7s... vo -# at 1 fo Prag iv cng ate been! jie could not think. Thru the day|now, It was like entering a tomb | MEAN BY “INTUITION” tae ander ne ot wan 6 ate pow then 5 Eoin ole coe page ane ie and thru the night his mind groped | He went into the morning room. No! . - “+ fog, RA > yee e 18¢ | with outstretched arm: one grop-| one was th: He went into the a mae poptore walle gard yaa oe Bap os are Hapgood had | ing in a dark room, or asa blind man| kitchen. No one waa there. He stood | } ‘ iitne hin up ond hor oye nade = i" tae co en | tapping with @ stick. He could not | stil] and tried to think. Of course| z - parrinty FG try a nat d einer | Waaser™ - found Gea?) think. He could attend to things;|no one was here, Effie had killed|| dy iit. More normal, you ar po “4 aad ig lrne Ser. Gat could notice things; he could per-| herself. Ie climbed to his room, still | a oe i" In your howse, Mr. Sabre, And! ¢,,, wary actions; but “Effie ix kward on stairs with his leg and | Page 667 dead Httie has killed herself.” | stick, and went in and stood before| 4 _ See . 7 £ ADV EMTURES “pttie han killed herself and her| his books and stared at them. He| A STRANGE LIFE PRESERVE > si . chiid—now what?’ In pursuit of | was still etaring when ft occurred to) Bearcely had Mra, Tod finish. to eat and see that she didn't get 7 i these hia mind could only grope with | him that it had grown dusk since he/ or robter story when the! overtired and do all sorts of care - ea her ry rot Ra B outstretched hands; these, in the first entered and stared. Effie had|} 1.410. pecan to question the| ful loving mother-things to help dark room of his calamity, eluded his| killed herself. , .. He went out and iter t t wtronget | mind. He groped and stumbled after| along the passage to her room and/ other ladies, And they found) her little girl get stronger, look (tr oP — |them. ‘They stole and slipped away. | entered and stared upon the bed. Ef-|] that two of them were grand.) “Well, you know, of courws, HERE'S THES In the train going down to Tidbor.| fie had been found dead. This was|] geugnters of that Dr. Whitworth | there weren't any ‘rries and 1 ough the man who had accosted him| where they had found her—dead. | velit: aan! DICTIONARY who founded the First Presby-| there weren't any steamers nor es permitted himself to be more com-| No, It was gone; he could not get/ 4 |municative. A policeman, observing |hold of it. He turned and stared |] terian church tn Beattle, any trains, so when peopie wen! Nene burning in the beuee a me about the room. Things seemed 0 Their mother was one of ita| from Oregon to Washlagton they lay on Sunday, ha nocked, an ave been taken out © Foot had a very hard time crossing the getting no anewer had gone in. He|The man had aaid something about || eharter members and her picture) had found the young woman dead|a glass and a bottle, But there waa|] ts tn the corner stone of the big) ©” ' on her bed, the baby dead beside her. or bottle here. They had First Presbyterian chureh which| “Zt was slow an‘ dangerous and A tumbler was on « small table and| taken things out of the room ANnd/1 stanay on the corner uf Peventh| terrifying. : f& bottle of oxalic acid, “salts of lem-| they had taken Effie out of the room ones “And the morning that the Mo on, as they call it,” sald the man. ——picked up Piffie and carried her out an a. Millins reached the river hank ft : J Sabre stared out of the window. |like aan orgasm of terrible emo It was Mrs. Millar, ove of these be |Eftie has killed herself. Effie has|tion surged enormously within him; i] granddaughters who told the| ¥%# cold besides, and a sharp Ea F | killed herself and her baby.” No, he|a bursting thing wan in his throat— sign MeMillIn, who} ¥!84 blew which seemed to chill could not fasten upon it. “Iffie has| No, it was gono, What phenomenon |} Story s Bis is py oh Me reritie wre con bas | eit.” 9 4 sudde: OF 7 Whi was afterward Mra, Whitworth, ‘ i | killed herself.” That was what thia| had suddenly possessed Bien What a “ter mother fooked anxiously QvUiek PER CEPTION OF TRUTH 4 man was telling him, It cireled and|was the matter? Effie had killed ‘One of the most interesting WITHOUT CONSCLOUS AT |epun away from him as from the| herself. No, he eould not get hold stories in our family,” sho began, | 8t her and felt her hands end sure ' R, tou ATTENTION or rushing train the fields circled and/of ft, He turned away and begun to waa ihech ike Shite. end the! @nough they were very cold, just REASONING 2 5 2 spun before his vision ‘ander from room to room. In some 9 abou ™ © aa ian hak deaue. ES “Will you tell us which of the buildings is King Verdo's|_ ¥® was able to attend to things /he lit lights bechuse you paturally|] matt “And she didn't know Just ex. 5 ?” Nick asle and to do things. At Tidborough he | lit lights when it was dark. All night “The MedMiiiine hed made the palace?” Nick asked one of the queer people. took @ cab and drove home, he wandered from room to room, pes actly how she could get her warm. ‘The white dove flew ahead and| “Yes,” anmwered the dove tn a| missing it at the gate was able to|rarely sitting down. All night -his/{ ons Journey across the plains to! ed up and she was much afraid ay Nancy and Nick followed along the|volce so low they could scarcely | lve normal attention to the require-| mind groped with outstretched hands|{ Oregon and were stil! not quite) 4 chia would have « chill and ‘ nice green path. The sky was blue | hear. ments of the morrow and Instruct} for that which all night eluded It. satisfied to stop, 6o they deter-| i. very 111, indeed. and birds were singing everywhere. Funny people began to appear on| the man to come out for him at hatt- (Continued Tomorrow) mined to go on into Washington 7 Oe eae It did not seem am tho the spell of |the rond—all of them aturing hard | ——emeeentsemnesnsnenentitnts ety MO a ‘an Os “The big, flat boats, clumsy, evil magic woven over the Twins by |at the strangers, with quoer, green re territory and take up land there.) nomemade thingy, were drawn up Twelve Toes, the wicked oid Sorcerer, | ish eyes, and having beards as green |} O R FIRS EAR “All the family had stood the| ty the tanding and the wagons was broken as wire-grass, ) | l Y trip pretty well except little Pliza } i*. werp just ready to be li At last they came in sight of «| “Will you tell us which of the| By a Brid Seite dk Ukeaye bere tee phd 4 y jonded on x city which was just as green as Co-| buildings !s King Verdo’s palace?” 7 & ayine end her mother had to coux her 4 (To Be Continued) ee balt Town had been biv Nick asked one of the queer people. ’ ; cater in Verdes Ville# ented] “Se the Randedmesr Maen ger CHAPTER I.—JACK’S FIRST NIGHT OUT Seeereenemnenreeres® 28 Fe, “Jim's In town’ laine’ my hi hg “ or - or serene ge “4 x ————— — explaine’ my hus; "Gq " ee: back the dove, “That is wovre King |the handsomest strect In the hand.| Jack was due for dinner, I looked) with an Impuls to Urighten up our|appreciation of the rest and comfort) 1 certainly needed a deen cush-| band, “Between trains.” 7 Bi pradth triple Fhe co et 4 Verdo of the green beard lives. All |somest city of the handsomest coun.|down the street, hoping tu ree him| living room, Asa young child, T had|#o obviously awaiting him, foned davenport tn that lorge room!| “Bring him homy with yout 1'd|preciate you, darll a > i of his subjects, called - « Kors |try in the world,” was the modest|turn the corner, then lo wave to|seen my mother build maay a fire in| table was set datntily. But considering how little furniture | love to have Jim Arnold foi our first} “Do I?” 1 Aeorsr E knotts, have green beards, too. It|reply. “Go right ahes You can’t|him as usual, then to run to my Iit-/an open grate to welcome my daddy| I Nehted the candies in my aflver | possessed, the effect was good. | guest!” “Well, if you don't, I'll convt Z shall soon be ded which ts the | mistake {t.”" |tle kitchen and put the Gnishing|on a dismal evening. candlestickhs—-wedding presents, could hardly wait for Jack to arrive| 1 was sincerely enthustastic. Jim/ you when I get home! { handsonrer, Kin erdo of che green| So the three of them kept on touches to the meal Rut new times and new ways of| The effect was pretty, bul T was/and approve. I pulled my sewing| Arnold was Jack's Wuddy overseas,| “I'm only living up to our e ard, k ¢ the Kors«notts, or Teauty i all a matter of opinion, A city mixture of rain and amoke|tutiding and new Ideas atout Hving | not satisfied, T moved my few pleces | chair close to the lamp and was won- {and is his fraternity “broiher’ as|ment, dearest one! P Goal luck te King Indig of the blue ha.c, king of but if any one had asked the Twing| spoiled my view. But the opaque|had deprived me of a grate, My|of furniture about, finally grouped |dering which book Jack would pick | well your game! Goodby!" Saal) the Diddyev ver : {what they thought of Verdure Ville|spring foe could not doproms me.| mother's waya aa a wife could not be|my one large chair, @ small table |to rend aloud after dinner. “But he goes out again @nthe| 1 blew a kiss into the phone and ‘ The Twins thought that the white|when they came to it, they would|Nothing could make me gloomy. I|mine, Nevertheless, I dectucd that |e r lamp consplouovely op And then the phone rang, ten-thirty! And he has a wew chess |sat down to face my husband's first * aa dove's voice was wadder than ever as) have said it was the ugliest elty in|had not finished my first month of|some attractive substitute for an|posite the entrance to tha suite, I} “You're not coming home to din-| problem, We're going to tne club to|night out, And to fortity myself 4 he spoke ce |the world and that King Verdo'a|wifehood. My three weeks’ honey-|open fire must be created in my|placed Jack's smoking set near the |ner?” I wailed in response to my|work on It," against loneliness, 1 freabed, ti x And tl e one who wins is to marry | palace was the ugliest house in it,| moon was over, but my first week as | fiat lamp, piled bright books on the/husband's plain statement. “Why, “Oh-b-b-ht In that case--" items of our strange prenu, ial “ beautiful ' rincess Therma, wn't he? | ji (To Be Continued) atl keeper was not ended, My husband, like my doJcy, must |table for color, then marclied to my/Jack! I haye @ steak! My first] In that case, I did not complete, | agreement. bys : asked Nancy (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stary I turned from the gathering gloom | pause on the threshold to smile his| “front door” to get the eftoca steak dinner! To surprise you!” but I decided not to say #0, (To Be Continued) Ne